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C1 Ep. 112 Rising Tides Chapter Four
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The party continues their preparations in Sharn while they await the arrival of Borrowed Time. Beric, Dex, and Booyah finish up their training and affairs before they head out to Xendrik.
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Introduction and Gratitude
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City of Sean: A Dangerous Place?
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Sean, Sean is one of the most dangerous cities you could ever live in. There's crazy stuff happening every day, killings, thefts, or even worse. But every once in a while, every once in a blue moon, there's a day in Sean where absolutely nothing happens. And those are the days you got to live for. An unnamed Sky Cab driver.
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Meet the Team
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Last, uh, real episode, yes.
Booyah's Obelisk Training
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Non-reduced episodes. Okay. We beat the crap out of Beric with a sword.
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Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes, he did. Um, not really. We trained, or well, I mean, Booyah trained Garnath, Gurnath, Ikletarn, how to defuse the obelisk, thus extricating ourselves from that particular distraction. Yeah. Um, yeah. Booyah is happy about that. I'm thinking not having to deal with that.
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Well, I think we're all pretty happy about not having to deal with true lady. She'll Sandra. And, uh, I got some dope boots. Uh, yeah, you can run, run long distances quickly.
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OK, well, that feels like it, right? Yeah.
Barrick's Monastic Insights
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So we're going to pick up right after Eberron reduced number five, which just happened where Beric is at the monastery having just completed a round of training. So since we got that kind of insight,
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Jeff, were you going to the Black Dog Inn during the downtime or what was your plan? I don't know that he's going to the Black Dog Inn this time. He's kind of gotten... He may go there and grab a drink just because he knows it and he feels comfortable there, but he's not. I don't think he's going there to meet with Solara.
Jeff's Dilemma: Black Dog Inn Visit?
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Solana.
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What's her name? Solara. I think he's going there to meet with her just because he's kind of gotten all those questions that he has right now answered and certainly isn't ready to move forward in the process. Doesn't have enough experience. Yeah, it's almost like I have it. He's waiting for something big to happen, if you will. Solana, I'm sorry. Solana, okay.
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So I hadn't put a lot of thought into what Dex is doing besides just being just hanging out there. Yeah. Sounds good. Wait. What's Booyah up to?
Booyah and the Silver Flame
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I would like to think that Booyah is spending... You're not aware of this, but you walked to Beric to the house-orian place with the teleportation circles, and then you left to go somewhere. After Beric met up with his contact. Does that mean that you did a Booyah impression?
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We did a very, we did as little Booyah impression as we could. We always very, because neither of us can do it right. I don't know if I do it right half the time myself. You do it wonderfully. It's your character, so you always do it right. Booyah, how long have we been here now?
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in this, uh, three, three, four days. I think three days. Cause it was two days when I met with Garnath and got the boost. So it's been, he trained for two since then.
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It's been three days total. I see Booyah continuing to try to deepen his understanding of the Silver Flame and revisiting that church with that priest.
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just trying to be a friendly guy and he takes his book everywhere he goes. He loves those stories and he just feels they've been such an impact on his life.
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that he's probably trying to share that. Okay. If possible. Gotcha. Um, one thing through your, uh, your studies of the silver flame and kind of deepening your knowledge in that regard, uh, something that you're discovering is that there's some similarities between the things that your, your old ranger friend taught you when he would come visit your village. And after in the aftermath, when you were traveling with him on your own,
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But there's some pretty fundamental differences. And so you're kind of having to reconcile like these teachings that started you down the path of good are now being contradicted by these other teachings. And so you're just having to do some soul searching in terms of like like the shadow in the flame, for example, like he explained to you the shadow in the flame.
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is a natural occurrence of the flame like every every flame has shadow within it and it's how we deal with that shadow that dictates how we lead our lives whereas with the silver flame teachings they still use the term shadow on the flame but it's a very external like
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demon that's trapped in the flame. So you're having to reconcile some of those teachings with what you maybe not believed, but were at least taught before. So yeah, that's kind of Booyah's journey right now is having a lot of conflicting information going on in the tin can.
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Barrick after your training since that was like an afternoon What are you up to? I? Think Barrick probably continues to stay at the monastery Doesn't you know other than Other than these guys and Ikyltar and he doesn't really have any other contacts in the city that he wants to I
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She wants to explore. Paula's in Rowett. We don't know. We know where Orianna is. On the ship is the last place you left her. So. So she's presumably on the ship. Presumably. Right. But you never know. Yeah. But you asked Paula to take her. Apparently Paula didn't. That's right.
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I'm just trying to say that you don't know the last place you saw her was on the ship. Right. And I said, hello. Did not mention Oriana in your communication. So, right. Yeah. Um. Not in any case, Barrick doesn't have any way of communicating with Oriana. So. Think Barrick remains at monastery training waiting on the ship to arrive.
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contemplating... contemplating what Benar said to him because it was fairly heavy. It was mostly things that Barak would have been inclined to write off due to his own beliefs prior, but on the other hand he really can't deny the effect. So
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Okay. Dealing with that. All right. As you all are doing your various things, everyone give me either a perception or investigation check. 11. Could it be passive? No. Then that would be 14. 27.
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I have a reliable talent. It's a 10 no matter what I roll and I have a 17. Okay.
Robbery at Morgrave University
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So I rolled four. That's why I looked at you that way because I saw your role and I was like, um, excuse me. I have proficiency in it. Okay. Automatically make it a 10.
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Um, so as you're sitting on the Black Dog Inn having a drink, uh, talking to Solana, um, she, she has somebody else come up and needs, uh, need something. And so, uh, they, they step away and you're sitting there with your drink and you hear a couple of people behind you talking. Um, and, uh, the two gruff looking individuals and one goes, yeah, my, uh, my buddy actually, uh, is a hold up in a house, Drasko spot, trying to recover.
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Oh, is he one of the guards? Like, yeah, those guys came in, Morgrave University, roughed him up and ransacked the place. They're still doing inventory, but only one thing went missing and they left behind that white feather thing that that guy's been leaving behind. Birds and colors. I don't know what Morgrave University is, do I? It's Oxford. Yeah.
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Okay, in a sharn. It's in sharn. Yeah, it's okay. So he may have heard of it. But yeah, probably has heard. Okay. Um, I think I'm gonna go ask him what he's talking about. Okay.
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So it says two fellas at a table. Um, I'm going to go over, I'm going to ask them what they're drinking. Say, Hey fellas, uh, I couldn't help over here in just a bit of what you were saying. Can I, can I freshen up your drinks? Oh yeah, sure. I'm, uh, I'm got some wine. I don't.
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Some, some wine ale. No, once, once said wine cocktail, they make here wine ale. It's called a thick and gross. Um, so I, so I ordered, I got jokes, but I'm gonna, uh, so I order a drink for each of them. And I sit down and say, uh, I'm new here. I don't know much, but, uh, you say there's been a, is like a string of robberies. Uh, yeah.
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Um, the one that was doing most of the talking who had the buddy kind of sizes you up for a second says, yeah, there's a, there's been a, I mean, latest one happened just earlier today. Um, but, uh, there's been a string of robberies, uh, different hotspots, uh, around Corvair of, uh, notable artifacts going missing stuff like that. Yeah. Like what sort of things are they taking?
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I mean, a lot of the governments try to keep it hush-hush. The first big hit was in Carnath, I know. But at Morgrave, it was actually an old house-condirect, like, cipher kind of thing that was on display in the history of the houses, history of the 12th section, that, I mean,
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Presumably in the right hands might be able to break into a counteract vault, but, uh, in the, those would have to be very skilled hands. Am I insane? Haven't we gotten into a contract vault? Isn't that what's his names?
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No, it wasn't Merrick's. Yeah. No, I thought he I thought he had it designed by them. Because I was just gonna be proud of myself. No, remember, there were no locks in there. Condorak vaults have locks on locks on locks. That's really interesting. Well, yeah, and he has this calling card thing that he leaves behind a white feather after every hit. You know, I gotta tell you,
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I'm not from Sean. I'm from, you heard of Miss Marsh? I mean, that's what me and my buddies say when you're from nowhere, like. Oh, okay. Miss Marsh. Cool. Well, it's a real town. It's a real home. It's a real nice one. You're gonna have to tell Jerry that. The Lord of Miss Marsh is a real standup fellow. But,
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There's something in this city I've noticed and in other areas too, but birds and specific colors as calling cards.
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It's a weird thing, right? Like you've heard about that red owl, right? Yeah, red owl. And there was the there was the black one that right. No, wait, wait. We made a black one yet. I thought we had. Your Eurek was wearing a black raven helmet when Beric encountered her. That is true. Yes, that's true. Who was the one that we fought at the party? White Raven. The White Raven. OK, that's what it is.
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Well, that's yeah, that's good to know then. Cause I thought it was a black or even white Raven makes this even more interesting. You know, in fact, I had a, I had a run-in, uh, what fella called himself the white Raven. Is that who they're thinking is perpetrating these particular crimes? I mean, it's a white Raven feather. So hell yeah. And I'll tell you this, he was not shy. Uh, he seems like the kind of guy that would leave a calling card. Uh, but you say he's stealing old artifacts, huh? Yeah.
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I mean, it's not like they're schemas or anything that could be put together for some weapon. It's just old antiquities. Sure, but I think you'll agree with me when I say that none of us truly knows what is and isn't made more powerful by other things around here. I mean, we are in a
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Uh, magical place where all sorts of things that I'll be honest, I previously thought could not happen can and do happen. Uh, so just cause we don't see the connection between things doesn't mean there isn't someone out there who does, uh, who sees one, uh,
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Yep. Yeah. I mean, you know, this isn't typical bar conversation and I understand that, but I did buy you a drink and therefore you are somewhat socially obligated to put up with me at least until it's gone. We're still here, aren't we? Yep. Yep. Yep. Bye bye. Uh, no, Dex, uh,
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Dicks says, pause. I know what the specialty cocktail is. It's white wine, ale, and milk. It's called a white whale. Cool. No, it's gross. Don't say that. I don't like it. You don't point at me like this guy gets me. I don't get you. No, that was very clever. I think of a better cocktail name than thick and gross.
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I mean, you did succeed in that effort. Now, I think Dex just says, you know what? I know what Phillip's been doing during your conversation. What else am I going to do to this conversation? I got to think of a cocktail name for that.
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What else are you going to do to read this guy? I mean, I don't listen when he talks to him. I can listen. I can listen and think of names for a thing at the same time. My brain is that good. Ooh. Well. Well, la-di-da. Mr. College graduate. Anyway, Dex walked away. He just gets up and walks.
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Oh, okay. We'll see you later. We feel safe out there. You do? Don't go to the cogs. Yep. I think I'm imparting wisdom. Don't fall off the side. Okay, so anything else you all want to do or just want to hang around and wait for the ship?
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I mean, I think that, uh, Dex has definitely been practicing his double strike. Okay. Just maybe alongside Barrick against, uh, was that word? Appell. Appell. So you, and I'm like, Barrick, do you hear that?
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So you go to the monastery where Beric's practicing. Sure. I would say give me a perception check, but you just take a 10 on it. Yeah, I would. Hey, I didn't write these rules. Yeah, I know. Go ahead and roll for me so you can feel good when you roll a one and you can just take a 10. I got a nine, so 27. I think if you roll a one, it always fails. Yeah. I think that's the rule. That's technically the rule on combat checks only, but we house roll to mean skill checks also.
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Um, so you noticed that, uh, based on the state that you last left Barrick when you first get there in her practice and next to him, you don't look as good as you thought you would next, next to a blind swordsman. So I look exactly as good as I thought I would. My performance is lacking. Uh, when you arrive, uh, Barrick is not in the practice yard. Barrick is in the,
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main room of the monastery. Meditating along with presumably a number of actual monks, since I assume there are actual monks who live here. Oh yeah. And this is not just a, not just a martial arts dojo. They're very annoyed on the number of times that they, uh, they keep getting dismissed from the training yard. Bear doesn't do that. Yeah. I assume Dex wouldn't interrupt that. I might just go to the training yard and start
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swinging around, assuming that if you return to it, you'll probably notice me. At some point, uh, after you've been out there a while, uh, Barrett does come out. Um, and he, uh, he just stands in the doorway for a while. Uh, and then he walks over and says,
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You look good. Oh, hey. Uh, uh, thanks. Hey, check this out. Tell me if, tell me if this, uh, is a little different to you. And I swing and you hear two impacts with one swing. You're heading twice. Yeah, pretty cool, right? I'll, I'll show you again in a half hour.
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Where have you been up to? What have you been up to? Um, well, I, uh, had a couple of drinks, walked around a bit. Uh, I guess we haven't spoken since the meeting with Gurneth, have we? Nope. I did meet with Gurneth, Iqltarn, and, uh, you know, kind of imparted upon him the importance of this stuff. Uh, he had a couple of things, um,
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He had this, uh, circlet where on your head, uh, shot. So was it sickness? Ray sickness? Yeah. Ray of sickness. Uh, did that thing that some people can do, make somebody sick. Right. Didn't take that one, but he had these boots. I got some new boots. I don't think I need to tell you they're white dragon skin or silver dragon skin. Uh.
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they make me faster considerably, but only when I want them to.
Dragon Skin Armor Disappointment
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Oh, that's good. Yeah. So that's pretty cool. Uh, so are they made from the same dragon? I have to assume cause remember when he had to actually, yeah, there was a lot left over. Yeah. So I assume the same dragon, which we have any extra. Well, that leads me to something.
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He, he, he said he'd already earmarked most of the extra, but he gave me this little scrap and I pull out the strip of how big did we say it was? Like, like a thick ribbon, basically inch and a half wide or so. I pull it out and then I realized that I have to explain what it is and say, uh, it's just basically just a little thin shirt reaches out and takes it. Okay. Okay. It would be magical. Wouldn't it put off an aura? Yeah. Okay. Uh, but I say, uh,
00:21:48
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It's the same stuff, right? I was thinking, if you hold on to this, let it darken up. And then I kind of try to hack at a little bit. I bet I could determine a way to see if it's still as strong as it was once. And then maybe we can do my whole, I won't look so. Garish is the word I would have used. I mean, it's the word I was going to use too, but I was trying to think of something that didn't hurt me.
00:22:17
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So like this, I wouldn't look so much like this flamboyant. Yeah. They're all good. It's under all words. Uh, what I'm saying is I'd like to not be wearing bright white clothing anymore. And this might be a way to fix that. So if you could just hold onto that for a while, I'll let you know when it's gone dark and take it back for you and figure it out. Uh, how about you? You're in there. Uh,
00:22:40
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Meditate and again, gee, I don't know how that works really. Did you just clear your mind or did you hear something back? I mean, I know that you could hear something back at any time. Cause the connections you have to the, even so how's it going? I don't really, um, I remember really being, you don't really speak to the flame unless you're the keeper.
00:23:09
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I mean, people pray to the flame, I suppose, but it's not. It's been a long time since I've been talking to the flame and I don't, uh, I've spoken to Erebus a little bit. Someone, someone took a pact somehow and I got it.
00:23:41
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I've heard that story. Yes, right. Did I tell them? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Cause you showed us the right. I don't know. Ooh. Yeah. I told you, I figured out what he did. It's let me summon a spirit to fight for me from the shadow fell. Oh, duller, duller the shadow fell. I'm sorry. Do you mean duller? Pull up for the 40 handbook. It says duller the shadow fell. Okay.
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Well, that's, I mean, that's interesting. I suppose convenient. It's interesting. The one I summon didn't really seem useful. He mostly seemed startled. Not much of a fighter. Well, yeah, I suppose I would be too at first. Yes. So I'm not entirely sure what. So maybe like one of those things like summoning them was if I needed to speak to some, but then I wouldn't, I don't seem to have control over who.
00:24:35
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Well, and if you said they're here to fight for us, maybe the thing would be, if we know we're about to get into something, summon them, give them a moment. Give them instructions. Yeah, maybe so. And then turn them loose as opposed to in the middle of the heat of battle. That's fair. Summoning them. I mean, they're just having, enjoying a quiet evening at Delir. Right. Reading a book and probably not that. Right. Probably not that, but. Wandering in an aimless wasteland as you do down there. And then suddenly they're in the middle of a battle. Yes. It would be jarring, I would think.
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Um, as someone who was yanked out of dollar, I would say it was jarring.
Pursuing the White Raven?
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Fair. I mean, I will take your firsthand experience. In any case, uh, how's this looking? Oh yeah. It's, it's efficiently darkened. I'll take it back from him. Hand it back. Yeah. I mean, we can resolve this now or we can keep talking. I can do this tonight in my in room. Okay.
00:25:33
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Booyah, are you still hanging out at the church? Are you headed to the monastery? Are you headed back to the inn? What are you doing? Um, Booyah would probably head to the monastery. I think he pops in occasionally just keeping an eye on. Okay. So it's around this time after you all exchange the dragon skin that Booyah clinks into sight. I don't clank.
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Whenever you walk on and off the scene, we all go clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank. All right. So Booyah walks up and, Oh, Dex, you're here too. Yep. Hey, Eric. Oh, and I haven't seen you guys since I changed back to looking like Lyle. So you wouldn't know obviously, but you would have noticed, but you saw Lyle. So what are you to do?
00:26:33
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I was just speaking. Um, I'm glad you're here though. Um, I did hear something interesting in the bar. Uh, apparently there's been a string of robberies, uh, all over the place. They said there was one up in Karnath latest one happened at the more grave, you fighting and, uh, they're stealing like artifacts, like historical stuff.
00:27:03
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What is of particular interest is that every scene of the crime, they leave behind a calling card and, uh, you weren't with us yet. Uh, they're Booyah, but you might find this interesting. They leave a white Raven feather. Like the white Raven. I mean, exactly. That's interesting. Yeah.
00:27:29
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I don't know if that's something that we need to concern ourselves with, but I found it interesting. At this point, ancient artifact theft for me just sounds like gathering strong ancient magic. Isn't that just what we do anymore? Ancient artifact theft, isn't that what we do now? I mean, yeah. Isn't that our line of business? They are stepping in on our turf. That is fact. But no, I mean. We're in very niche, I think. We specifically steal ancient giant weapons, but
00:28:00
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We steal them for a specific larger purpose. Certainly. And I'm not saying, I'm not justifying our actions. I'm saying perhaps also is the white Raven. Oh, I see. Why, why, why person leave feather? Like give, like give clue. He dumb thief. We've met him before and he has a flair for the theatrical. It's true.
00:28:27
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He's the kind of guy that thinks he's, he can't get caught. Therefore, why not announce that he did the crime? So he liked boast. Exactly. Yeah. So we gone catch guy. I mean,
00:28:48
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I don't, I don't, I don't know that he's going to hit Sean again. He may already be out of town. I mean, he was in Carnath not long ago. And maybe the next one will be in, uh, another place. Roat or Zinger. Do you say he take old, old thing, old stuff, what he take all this last time, uh, an old, uh, con contract, contract cipher.
00:29:19
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And presumably planning some sort of theft on a dark vault. That's how you'd get in, right? I suppose. Presumably you might be able to work your way in with something like that. So it's one of those things that happens sometimes that seems really interesting, but I'm trying to figure out if it's something that is worthy of our distraction right now. Kind of like the obelisk last time and the, uh,
00:29:48
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the various other thing breaking of people out of jail in the past we've talked about there was the big guy that was of wanted we kinda pass that up it does seem like really couldn't do it we really couldn't do anything that might than in the ship a black anytime now I'm
00:30:21
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We really can't do anything that's going to take us out of town and, or more than about a day. We all want to know Raven though, about packed. I have no reason to believe so. I wouldn't imagine. Do you know anybody at more grave or do you have any connections over there? You got family who knows people who know people. It's not where I attended.
00:30:49
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Well, I didn't go to school, but I know you. So we have a connection where you attended. So what I'm asking is, do you know anybody or a connection? I probably know some people. I'm sure, I'm sure Barry knows some people who attended more grave. Um, Barrick went to seminary, so he's not going to have
00:31:09
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faculty connections for a particular reason. Vore got his poli sci degree there. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure he did. Don't give the people more. Vore lore. This has been vore lore. Uh, don't give it a jingle and expect it to be a recurring thing. If you give it a jingle, that jingles not canon. Very true.
00:31:38
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Well, I mean, we could also enroll it. So what's in row for my, my half brother, right? He went there, but he'd be in row it. I'm pretending none of that conversation happened. Uh, anything about him. I mean, so basically it comes down to, do we look into these thefts or do we sit here with our, uh, thumbs in our ears and wait for a ship to show up?
00:32:06
Speaker
Why would we sit with our thumbs in our ears? It's an expression. It's going to be, it's taken off. It's an expression in Sarlena. That's always your fallback. Oh no, this is definitely what he's trying to coin here. Okay. Maybe Knuckle, what's his name? Knuckle, Knuckle Ears? Knuckle Dragger. Knuckle. Oh, you don't need to bother him. He may have info, but I think maybe.
00:32:37
Speaker
But well, if he has info, he's with the Citadel. So wouldn't he be investigating using Citadel agents? That makes sense. Booyah. I mean, if you guys think you need to talk to him, I guess we can go talk to him.
00:32:59
Speaker
Or you all can just wait for the ship. Booyah's not wrong. That probably would be the best move if we want to pursue this. Oh sure. But you don't have to pursue it if you don't want to. Just let me know. Sticking it to the white raven again does sound nice. Is he really someone we have grudge against? You know what he is? You know what he is? It's like sometimes you go back and beat an easy level in a game for confidence.
00:33:27
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Cause we didn't really beat him last time, right? He, I mean, he retreated. Yes. But we stopped. We thwarted a robbery. Yep. I don't count that. I mean, all the things that happen in storm reach, that's the thing we need to go back and avenge. It's the one that presented itself. I mean, didn't we just have a meeting with curious sales? You know, I don't like it when you bring in all these facts. Is it too much worse? She's very much worse.
00:33:57
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No, that's not good. No, we, we, we, we, we put the police on her. We did. Yeah. Super competent. Those guys, uh, Oh, no, we put them more. Whoa. Oh yeah. No, those guys, they do that. Thorne seems like a standup. Bella talks weird. Um, yeah. So we can wait for the ship, I guess. That's, that's fine with me. I,
00:34:27
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don't know that we really have jurisdiction to be. It seems like every time we try to poke ourselves in, put ourselves in to business with the law, some extremely sarcastic and condescending law enforcement officer comes along and tells us to stop it. Uh, send all your letters to fill up a letter. Uh, yeah, I mean, but you don't really need your, but by their very nature, vigilantes don't have jurisdiction. Is that what we are?
00:34:57
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Well, not Miss Mark. I want to know about Vigilant. Vigilant? What? Vigilant might say much. Vigilant. Take law on hand. Thank you. Yes, exactly. Your mastery of context clues is impressive. We are learning. Credit to goblin kind. Language.
00:35:21
Speaker
All right. Well, if we're just going to wait for the ship, I'm going to go back to my room and futz around with this, uh, with this piece of dragon leather here. Okay. Booyah pulls out his rapier better. You ready? Go for it. I, um, I don't think so. Don't be afraid Booyah. I'm going to go back and, uh, and, and actually I need to, um,
00:35:50
Speaker
Well, I need to see a man about a bit of blacksmithing or leatherworking or something like that. So. OK. Let me know if you hear anything important and I'll be here. OK, Booyah. Sounds good. Where are you heading, Booyah? Hmm.
Exploring the City
00:36:15
Speaker
Booyah is going to walk around the city, just kind of exploring, just kind of take it all in. OK. He's not going to wander far, but, you know, just in the vicinity of where they're staying and. Just kind of sightsee for a goblin. OK. Fair enough. Yeah, I mean, you're you're staying in the middle district of the city, so not opulent or rich or anything, but
00:36:44
Speaker
Well to do. A fairly even mix, racially pretty representative of the overall city population. No real crime or anything going on. It's the middle of the day. So, Barrick, what are you doing?
Beric's Helmet Transformation
00:37:04
Speaker
Going to see a man about. So, my face is horrifying to look at.
00:37:14
Speaker
Feel like we need to do something about that. Okay. So. Barrick needs to. Now you're making me do it right now. Trying to think of what.
00:37:35
Speaker
Eric is trying to find a solution to that where he can walk around without ever without either looking like a thief by having his hood pulled all the way down over his head. Yeah. Or everyone going, ah, not even know how Booyah feel. You could get some goggles and just wear them over. I mean, that's true. That's that's that's true. Are Dex's sweet shades. Some glasses with eyes painted on them.
00:38:08
Speaker
I'm not doing that.
00:38:13
Speaker
Okay. Describe for me again, the helmet Borenel gave Beric. Um, it is very similar to the helmet that you saw Yurik wearing where it is a, uh, metal helmet, uh, fully enclosed in the back and the top with a movable face mask that bears the visage of a Hawks face, uh, with slats where the eyes would be shaped like this is like game of thrones. It's shaped like a Hawks head. Yeah. Okay.
00:38:45
Speaker
I don't want to ask around for a leather worker. Okay. You mean an investigation check. Can I ask on his behalf? Four. Four? Okay, so you're asking around. And I asked around, I really meant I want to go to the head of the monastery and say, Hey, when you need leather working done, who do you go to? Okay.
00:39:16
Speaker
That would not require a role saying you ask around. All right. Fair enough. Um, so, uh, yeah, he, uh, he points you in the direction of, uh, a leather worker that is actually a couple of levels below you.
00:39:32
Speaker
Um, and, and kind of a seedier part of town, um, little rough and tumble. Uh, but he exclaims it does the best work I've ever seen and he does it quickly. Um, it does cost a little bit because he is so fast, uh, and the quality is so high, but, uh, he would be the one that we use. Okay. Go to Dex's thing. Dex, you're futzing around. Yeah. I've been thinking about.
00:40:02
Speaker
What Dex is probably gonna do is he's probably going to take that strap of the blackened leather and try to find a way to kind of hold it taut, okay? And then just take his dagger and tell it hello, and then he's sorry he's been neglecting it. It's fine, it's fine. I really am. You're kinda not known for the reliability, so.
00:40:30
Speaker
Well, I'm not gonna stand against you on that one. And I take her, I'm gonna put the tip of the knife against the leather and just kinda push until it gives. I think the best way I can figure out the strength of it is. Okay. So yeah, you've found a way to pull it taut. Maybe there's a drawer where I just kinda loop it around.
00:40:59
Speaker
I mean the amount of pressure required you get a sense that maybe it's a little bit weaker than in its natural state if there were some kind of point system maybe two or three points weaker so weaker than before I had it so
00:41:20
Speaker
Um, so yeah, basically any, any innate bonus as leather armor that it got is diminished. Um, so yeah. Well, Elton's sticking around for a while because it's only a plus two armor and I just lost three by darkening it. So he lost three. I said two to three. So, Oh, so it'd be even. Yeah. And I gave my armor to.
00:41:50
Speaker
What's her name? What is your name? Wait. To whom did you get your wrong? Vanira. Oh, that's right. I'm stuck with this stuff. Stuck with? You begged me for dragon armor. I didn't beg you. I made the proper machinations to get dragon armor. That's fair. And you decided it was a jumpsuit.
00:42:15
Speaker
I decided it was awesome, if that's what you're saying. And I also gave you some sweet matching boots and some awesome goggles, so. And I gave you a nice white cloak, so. I took the cloak. I know. I mean, you put it in our path, but I took it, like, you couldn't have projected that. Okay, so.
00:42:45
Speaker
Anybody else got anything before we? Um, actually, since I've got her here, uh, Hey, uh, Hey Lana. Yes. Um, how, how old are you?
00:43:05
Speaker
Oh, it's hard to keep measurement of such things. I have existed before the first king of Galliphar.
00:43:20
Speaker
So old. All right. Yeah. I mean, that reference means nothing to Dexby. He's just going to keep talking. Uh, well, let me tell you, uh, well, actually tell me this. Do you like retain like a lot of your memory? Do you kind of remember a lot of things that happened? Major stuff? At least I'm mostly just aware of what's, what is happening around me. So, all right. No, I'm not saying you're listening in on conversation and stuff, but when you're unsheath, when you're out like you and me are right now.
00:43:46
Speaker
in a hundred years, are you going to remember when I had you? And if we get into some major scrape together, are you going to remember that time that you shot a fireball at a vampire? Um, potentially. I mean, you use me so infrequently that it's hard to, uh, to really have any lasting memories. Uh, here's why I'm asking. We're up against a thing called the dream thieves, also called the quarry. Uh,
00:44:16
Speaker
They're there last time they were a big deal. Um, and a real problem was back when the, uh,
00:44:25
Speaker
I guess the giants in the, uh, how was that word? He calls them the dalkier and their minions. I guess we're kind of having a fight. Is any of this ring a bell to you? Something might happen before dream thieves, quarry, uh, purple crab monsters and obelisks. No, honestly, nothing, nothing like that, uh, rings true.
00:44:50
Speaker
All right. I just thought it would be an interesting avenue for narrative exploration, but you're right. I guess you're right. You don't know who they are or any of that. I apologize. It's almost as if I have an established story that if somebody were more inquisitive about, they can learn more about me, but I see that you just want to use me as a narrative tool for yourself. So whatever. Yeah. I mean, duh.
00:45:13
Speaker
Fine Lana, tell me what's your whole deal. So back in negative 45 YK. Uh, some stuff. Okay. So what Barrick ends up with double eye patch. That's it. That's just the solution. He comes up with a double eye patch easily enough in short term, but it's effective. Right. Yeah.
00:45:42
Speaker
Uh, Barrick ends up with, um, basically he ends up at a blacksmith. Ultimately he asks around ends up at a blacksmith with the helmet and he says to the blacksmith, I have a specific need.
00:46:06
Speaker
that I'd like you to not ask a lot of questions about because the explanations are difficult and private. And he sets the helmet on the on the on the counter and says. I don't want this. I don't wear a helm. I would like it to become a face mask. I don't want it to look like I'm wearing the face of a bird.
00:46:35
Speaker
Don't want it to have a beak. I just want you to use the metal and make something entirely different. That is a, just a face mask, uh, and embossed perhaps with a somewhat feathered motif to it rather than actually being the face of a bird.
00:47:06
Speaker
Um, I'd like it to have some protection to it, but it does not. Um, meanwhile, in your little hotel room lately, I'm not saying I was crafted at the behest of somebody named Connath to celebrate the birth of his first son, Galliphar. And you're very annoyed and listening to her drone on about something that you do not care about.
00:47:34
Speaker
But now I understand how she knows she predates Gallifar. Okay. More often to chat. It's true. She's a fascinating, sweet person. We don't know any, we don't know any of that yet. You're a monster. Actually I'm a monster. Oh wow. Wow. I'm going to get Michael's secret stuff.
00:48:00
Speaker
Reference. Reference. Michael's Secret Stuff. So what Berwick ends up with is a, as having gone to the blacksmith and gotten this description, ends up with a face mask, a full face mask.
00:48:18
Speaker
Uh, that is etched with sort of a, a feather motif to it as very narrow isolates. Cause I'd rather answer, why do you wear a mask? Then Oh gods, what happened to your eyes? Sure. Right. Um, and kind of, I mean, kind of in the style of.
00:48:40
Speaker
fictional representation representations of medieval Japanese ninjas, right? The sort of hard face mask that you've got going on there. So that's what I want to end up doing. Oh, all right. I think I can accomplish this. Um, custom job like this, uh, probably going to run about, uh, 35 gold pieces.
00:49:05
Speaker
I think I actually have barracks money written down somewhere in here. Anyway, yes, I'll accept that. And you can keep the rest of the metal. I don't need it once you've done. OK. Well, thank you. This is very well crafted. Thank you.
00:49:22
Speaker
It's not magic, right? The helmet I'm giving him is not magical. It's not enchanted. I mean, I see magic, so... No. Okay. I didn't think so. I just wanted to make sure before I handed it over to be melted down and used for something else, that it was not enchanted. Enchanted with the memory of your mother. They will still have that. And now they will actually use it.
00:49:49
Speaker
Maybe that's what she wanted the whole time. I'm just glad you're using it. Next thing she's going to say to us, what did you do to my helmet? OK, so anything else before we hunker down for the night? It's starting to get lit in the day. I'm good. Good. Dex has a milkshake.
00:50:13
Speaker
Whatever the sharnian equivalent of a... It's probably a milkshake. Of a dessert drink. Yeah, they got an ice method hooked up to this machine that makes the cream from cows really cold. I mean, you can get whatever you want to go on the haul. I know that much for sure. Right. Except for that rib sandwich. Only once in a few years. Roll that thing out.
00:50:34
Speaker
That is patently untrue. That's the annual event. Is it annual? If not more often than, yeah. I want to say it's less frequently than here. Anyway, speaking of things that do not matter in the slightest. You take care of the exposition. I'll look up to make a rip. Let's just go over to McDonald's.
00:50:58
Speaker
next day. You all wake up and are having continental breakfast.
Preparing for Departure
00:51:05
Speaker
You you all get a ping in your ear as your sanding stones are hailing you. And then you hear
00:51:15
Speaker
Hey guys, uh, it's, uh, it's Jayce here. Um, where we're probably going to get into Char in mid afternoon today. Uh, so that's when we'll be docking. And then if you want to come on board to rest up, uh, like I said, I'm still gonna need a few days after that to, uh, rest up for the journey and get ready, but I'm almost there. Roger. Let me meet you there. Great.
00:51:45
Speaker
Bye. We don't normally, should we tell them that we don't normally say bye? Oh, like you guys promised each other. You never say goodbye. Like it's really sweet actually. No, we just are really not formal and kind of jerks. Okay. So you got, you got a few hours to kill. Um, anything you all want to do?
00:52:16
Speaker
I wish I had some gold burning a hole in my pocket. I'd figure out something, but I spend it all on these goggles. Uh, Barrick is fairly focused on doing the job at this point. So Barrick is, Barrick will happily attend on either of you if you want to do something, but Barrick is ready to go when the ship arrives. Well, that's not an option. Ready to go onto the ship when the ship arrives, give
00:52:47
Speaker
Yes, I understand what you mean. Yes. You understood what I meant. Quill. What's this? Quinn. Quinn. Jace Quinn. Jace Quinn. I feel like you're saying it with the wrong spirit. Jace Quinn.
00:53:06
Speaker
That's that's I mean this this thing we're going after it's the it's the spear of the desert winds right an anime character Like a cock obviously the spirit is the spear of the desert winds, right? Yeah, so can't you just see the dime store novel Jace Quinn and the spear of the desert winds? I can now yeah
00:53:27
Speaker
This podcast is stupid. Why aren't we playing that game? We're about to, in fact. Excellent. Yeah, I'm just gonna wait for Jace Quinn to show up and I'm gonna go to my boat. Okay. Missed my boat. Yep. So y'all are just hanging out until- This is an awesome episode.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yeah. This is great radio. We've been doing a lot of cool stuff this episode. No, but I do. Hey, this happens occasionally. I do. I do. Sure does. I do think that Barak, I would say Barak wants to sit down and just kind of go over what he knows about where we're heading and how accurate his ping is and say, Hey, what happened with the dragon skin? Oh, it didn't work. That's a disappointment.
00:54:12
Speaker
you're telling me. I mean, I'm still, I'm a little actively angry about it. I didn't think it was going to go that way for me. Right. Right. Yeah. Anyway, so we haven't really talked about it. You're... Which it? Well, that was the next, yeah. You're homing
00:54:33
Speaker
mechanism, I guess. Like, is it going to take us directly to it? Is this the thing where you, is it kind of like how it used to be with packed holders? That was my understanding. Yes. That was the understanding I was given, that it was essentially, I know the direction and I can sense when I'm close to it and that sort of thing.
00:54:51
Speaker
It seems to be roughly the same thing. I'm not sure. Do I know the actual distance? You know the direction. I don't really know the distance or anything like that, but I can sense when I'm getting close to it, I can sense the direction to it.
00:55:05
Speaker
All right. And yeah, I mean, it's kind of the same idea of whatever's between this and that. Let's fly over it. Yeah, fly over to fight through it. That's right. Actually, correction. When you were making the deal with Bella share, he did say that you could point to it on a map. So you do know the distance. I also know where it is on a map. If I could see a map. That's the beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they exist, but we don't have one.
00:55:33
Speaker
But it would still just look like a big wide. Also, it probably doesn't exist of wherever we're going in Zendric, because, you know, Zendric sort of defies maps. That's true. Yeah. Boy. Uh, anyway, so yeah, so we, uh, but I can, I can find a set, I can find a bearing for Jase. Right. And we can head that way. Right. And, uh, and we, I mean, we basically know the same sort of stuff about Zendric. It's.
00:56:00
Speaker
dark and full of scary things and I don't want to go back. So let's go. And yet here we are. Yet here we are. All right, buddy, you need to rest up or anything? No, I feel I have. I have one thing to do, and then I think I'm ready to go. All right, well, do your thing. You come with you or you're going to
00:56:29
Speaker
Uh, no, it won't take long. I just don't think that's necessarily something I should do in the common room of the hotel. Oh, right. Got it. Okay. Well, uh, holler when you're done, we'll grab a drink before the boat gets here. Fair enough. Thanks. I'm good boy. I believe I like drink.
00:56:45
Speaker
All right. So I go up to one of their rooms, um, because that's faster than walking back to the monster. Uh, bear could go back up to the, to the room and bring out Erebus. Uh, and speaking to it, I appreciate you accommodating me. Um, while I needed it, but I think I've managed the,
00:57:14
Speaker
I don't need you to be a walking stick anymore. So if you'd like to resume your... Your previously preferred form. Oh. That's uh...
00:57:25
Speaker
Yes, I can do that. You just had him as a long sword, right? It was, I mean, it was a long sword mechanically. Yes, but it was, it's always been a long sword mechanically. Yeah, that's right. But it was shaped like a, like a Chinese john. That's right. So he reverts back to that form. Okay. And Berwick hangs that on his belt comes down. All right, about that drink. Yeah.
00:57:53
Speaker
Grab a, pull a chair out for him. Say, what do you want? Wine's fine. All right. I tried this new thing called a white whale. I've heard of that. It's terrible. Every time we've seen Beric, has he been using Erebus as a walking stick? Yes. Okay. So Booyah says,
00:58:21
Speaker
Uh, Barrick, you, you know, use, you know, you stick walk. No, I don't. It's not necessary. That good thing. Something happened. I was made to understand something that I didn't previously understand. Um, and that
00:58:55
Speaker
Uh, to say that I see is not quite reasonable, but that has, it's made the walking stick superfluous. That, that, okay. Come back with the drinks. Did I miss anything important? Berwick no need stick walk anymore.
00:59:26
Speaker
Oh yeah? Good thing. Right. Hard to explain though, Booyah lost. Alright. I'm gonna retcon that I asked your drink order too. I know you were with it until you started talking. Booyah's already got a drink. No. Fine. That's why you didn't ask Booyah. Yeah.
00:59:52
Speaker
Um, you know, I did, I did notice that you pretty easily took that thing out of my hand earlier. Is there like, uh, you're getting around better. That's what's important, right? Yes. Um, I'm not sure I understand it fully. So it's hard for me to explain, but Benar did your Benar, um, explain some things to me and helped me to understand that I have been.
01:00:26
Speaker
I've been handicapping myself in how I understood the world by relying exclusively on things from outside myself to allow me to achieve things. I've been drawing on the pact, which is bound to me, but it isn't me. I've been looking for answers in the flame and finding none.
01:00:55
Speaker
You have to understand that essentially the world and life and everything in it is magic, is miraculous. And if you understand that then you can see it.
01:01:22
Speaker
I mean, great. Um, that's, there was a lot of profound in there that I'm not going to work through right now, but the end result being that it's working for you. That's wonderful. Um, is it gonna continue to improve? You think? I don't know. All right. I guess we can all find out together. I think so, but I hope I will not be, I hope I will not be an impediment.
01:01:52
Speaker
on our next stage. I can't imagine that's the case. You'll be fine. Well, yeah, I say better to be just fine. I will not make that promise. I mean, the odds I've seen the odds don't really support our the odds don't our our record doesn't really support the assumption that I will be fine. But yeah, optimism, optimism.
01:02:16
Speaker
Yes. Booyah is optimism. Booyah up to optimism. He's up to that. Two things happen in rapid succession as you all wrap up your conversation and down your drinks.
Cliffhanger: A New Pact and Darkness
01:02:30
Speaker
As you're swallowing your drink, Barak, you feel intense energy pulse within you.
01:02:37
Speaker
Um, and you feel, uh, Erebus shake on your hip slightly. And, uh, it's, it's another, it's a familiar feeling of, and is that another one? Yes. Another would you have another one? Yes. No, I'm good. I don't need another one. I don't know. You're talking to your source. Yeah.
01:03:09
Speaker
Another pact. Yes. And another rune. Run out of space. This one feels simpler. I hear voices.
01:03:33
Speaker
That's unusual because I hear voices and it's your voice. Well, I could hear voices that you can't hear. What voices can you hear then? It just seems to be, uh, words of warning. Uh, basically it gains the guardian property whispers warnings to its bear, granting a plus two bonus to initiative. If the bear is not compact incapacitated. So, all right.
01:04:03
Speaker
Coming through the throne. A long time before I get there. And then, um, and the whispers are loud.
01:04:20
Speaker
You're saying something's happening. Um, you all see, uh, darkness kind of emerge a circle of darkness and you see gray haze as people start screaming and running about. Um, and you all see, uh, figure or two figures walk through that look like this fun, fun looking number. Do I remember that guy?
01:04:49
Speaker
You've never seen anything that looks like this. Well, that's not true. He looks kind of reminiscent of the guy that stole Barak that day. Reminiscent, but derivative, some might say. derivative. That's essentially how I think that was one of those. That guy sucked.
01:05:06
Speaker
Um, they just, uh, silently shuffle through balancing on the spike arm. Um, that, that they, uh, or spike legs, spike arm. Um, and they just shuffle towards barrack, uh, straight out of the portal end of episode.
01:05:29
Speaker
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