Tavern Watch Plays Murder on the Eberron Express 1: It's going to get him killed one day

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[Music]
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Hello friends and welcome to the Tavern watch murder mystery hour there will be
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Thrills there will be chills there will be more than a little amount of sass but
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most importantly there will be
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murder join us as our Intrepid adventurers are in for the ride of their
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lives on the Eon Express
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[Music] hello and welcome to another Tavern
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watch plays today we are playing Dungeons and Dragons the 2024 Edition but we're playing a kind of unusual game
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we're playing a murder mystery titled murder on the Eon Express if you enjoy
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it you can pick it up yourself on the DM's Guild but as you might guess our story is set in Eon where we are
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traveling on the Magnificent Eon Express a lightning train that takes us from
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Char all the way to Fair Haven and we have an amazing cast of characters who
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will be joining us on this luxurious train all of you are currently Milling about on the platform waiting to be
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invited aboard by the conductor and uh I'd like everyone to introduce
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themselves at this point let's start with uh so tell me who you're playing
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and uh give me a description of what you look like let's start with an hi I am
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playing Orchid Valance she is a fling because I am nothing if not predictable
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she's got really dark brown glossy well
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coifed hair it looks like she had some kind of blowout if that actually exists in this world and it doesn't but she's
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she looks great right skin is like this dark Dusky pink that is leaning almost
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towards a muted red and she's got these startlingly green emerald green eyes
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very curvy very Buxom very aware of how good she looks at all times and if and
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if she catches anybody looking at her she makes sure that she's giving them the best possible angle because she's a
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prized and she knows it that's all okay let's go to Joan I am playing
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treya backer um she's got very dark brown skin skin um her hair is is short
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not quite military fashion but like she's been growing it out for a while and just kind of braids part of it to
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keep it out of her face she wears an outfit that sort of sort of has a
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military feel to it too but it's more it's fancier than that um and she has an eye patch over one eye oh she human or
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yeah yeah sorry she's hum cool and now let's go to Joe hi I Joe Perez and I
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will be playing cyia and uh she is a uh
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very frosty character with Raven dark hair pale skin eyes as blue as Ice uh
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she is wearing a very smart suit uh very Prim very proper very doesn't care what
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anybody else is doing uh she definitely has the Fay Heritage about her as you
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can see uh shot points of ears maybe tuck beneath the Raven Blackness of her
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head uh what her true nature is what she's doing here it doesn't matter she's not
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going to tell you anyway uh and Matt hi I'm playing Cal
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jarn uh it's very hard to tell at first what she is she's six and a half feet tall and extremely muscular but her
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proportions are a little weird like she looks mostly human like you'd think she was a human but she kind of has the
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slightly slightly slightly slight pointed ears of a dwarf and her build is
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more like a dwarf if you look long enough you're like you realize she looks like she's a six and half foot tall
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dwarf but it's but at the same time she looks human um her eyes are very bright
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green uh in her way she's Charming she's very empathetic like she cares about
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people more than she likes to admit but she has an extremely Gruff demeanor and
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she clearly spends a lot of time working this is somebody who has been spent most
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of her life in a forge uh she does have a bit of a military bearing she was a so she was in the army during the last war
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but mostly served as a blacksmith uh she didn't do a lot of fighting uh she looks very out of place
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here she's wearing green kind of a green leather jerking over a green top and I
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mean over a black top and black Leathers on like rotting Leathers on her legs and
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she's got multiple weapons like she's absolutely covered in weapons
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she has a sword an axe another axe uh she but she doesn't seem to be like like
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she doesn't seem to be like looking using them she's not wearing them because she's like loving to like attack
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people they're almost like security blankets like she she seems very furtive not furtive but like repressed or
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alarmed like she's constantly looking around like why am I here who are you know who are all these people how did I
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end up in this situation kind of look to her yeah you you're definitely a little bit out of place there is a second place
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uh car a little further down which but even there people getting in the train are pretty well to do it's not cheap
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taking a ride on the Eon Express and everyone on this end of the train is certainly pretty well dressed and
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carrying themselves like they're an important person so let's see who else is on the platform Nick would you
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describe your character yeah hi I'm Nick and I am playing Talis today Talis is a
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human with uh very very slight build kind of almost
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scrawny uh average height but he hides his scraw with a very well-dressed
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um wardrobe currently wearing a dark blue tunic with a black overcoat uh and
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trousers with a very nice set of boots on well groomed uh with a clean shaven
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face hair slightly tied behind his back uh or to the back shoulder the hairs
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about shoulder length if it's not tied uh very well to do and the attitude
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certainly while it's not overly entitled there's just a very very slight snobbish
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air about him and he is currently thumbing through a book as he waits on
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the platform and Phil sure um I am playing uh gindar who I believe might
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clock in is the biggest of the group at 7 foot7 uh gindar is a Goliath um I'm
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just gonna gush a little bit about the new Goliath lore from the 2024 Edition it's
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actually really nice they're finally not just vaguely gianti they are giant descended um gindar Bears the marks of
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having storm giant ancestry he has kind of a almost like Steely blue skin um
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kind of light gray tattoo who's looking like kind of like swirling clouds on his uh mostly on his scalp because gindar is
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uh his head is shaped bald but he has an extremely elaborate uh elaborately braided black um wears uh kind of a
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nondescript kind of a white and blue robe Ensemble um if he moves though you can kind of Hear The Telltale jingle of
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armor under and has a uh small symbol uh that say probably uh the dwarf would
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recognized the the dwarfish Rec those he is a uh member of a fraternal Soldier
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brother I do actually read giant there you go this case it was more your soldier background but got it cool so
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yeah all right then well the con and there is also one more person standing
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on this platform well sorry two more people on the platform one of them is
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Egan barar and all of you you're really here because of Egan for various reasons
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though not all of you may be aware of it Egan is a wellknown artificer and weapon
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Smith and he made his fortune during the last war but uh he's he's got some
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complicated relationships which we're probably about to find out more about and he also has his loyal retainer a
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slim man who uh keeps kind of he eats into the background so uh and the
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conductor comes out to the front of the train and starts welcoming you all aboard he's a tall orc with green gray
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skin and his hair has kind of started graying very neatly dressed in the livery of the Eon Express a dark blue
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uniform with gold brickade the train itself is a shiny blue ready to go he
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escorts you aboard and as he does he is going to search you for weapons and
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magical items and confiscate them they are not going to be allowed in the
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passenger cars but will be locked up for the duration of the journey now you all knew this this is part of coming on the
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train but if you want to sneak something on you can give it a try by Rolling a
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slight of hand check or tell give me a reason to roll something else for it uh
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let's start with you Orchid oh boy hang on one second
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here sorry I my sheet wasn't on um you said slate a slate a hand Check Yes it
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it's uh for any magical items or weapons you are carrying on board if you have a large weapon that can be obviously seen
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you're just I'm sorry that's just not going to work oh yeah no she's got a short bow that she hands over like
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immediately um she does have a really ornate um kind of looks like it looks
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like a hair pin but it's not it's a dagger and okay um she's going to try
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and get that past people and then she also has um it's a very pretty sparkling
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gem that's set in a necklace right on the deage right um that it looks like a
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fancy piece of jewelry um and that one she's going to um she's basically can I
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use deception to kind of like tell them oh yeah the rest of this is wobble uh you can are either of these items
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magical the gem is okay so make a roll for deception okay yes that's a 17 so
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you can keep the dagger but he finds the gym he waves uh a wand in the air which
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you may magically inclined may be able to guess that he has a wand of magic detection and he says pardon me ma'am
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but we do not allow magical items on and that includes the gym it will be safely locked up for the duration of the
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journey what are you talking about this is Magic I sorry Madame I am I am
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extremely sorry but we cannot allow magic items on the train but this is he
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gives he gives the wand a wave again this is clearly a magical object it will
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be kept safely stored in the cargo hold and locked away but what am I supposed
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to wear I mean you I don't even know that what this do you know what it does
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because it's just a pretty like thing that I was given and it matches my
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outfit are you sure I can't keep it and then she like bats her eyes I am quite positive you look
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beautiful without it and he gives a little half bow all right she hands it over it will be returned to the end of
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the journey I assure you it will be kept safe just out of the passenger cabin all
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right uh have words with the person who gave that to me they didn't tell me with
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magic uh let's see uh Joe I don't know how to pronounce your character name
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Salia ciria okay ciria uh you are next on the platform uh I'll
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hand over all the weapons without problem uh the gem inset in my neck I'm going to try to uh kind of deceptively
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shield from whatever prye eye uh he has or is trying to do because I'm going to
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try the same Ploy uh which is funny that Ann was going to do that already cuz I had already had that thought in my head
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for this cuz I think we have the same item um so yeah I'm just going to just kind of not slight of hand it but just
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kind of move move uh in a way where it's kind of like out of a immediate line of sight or out of immediate notice trying
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to do like uh a deception check to sort of kind of get it past his eyes oh yeah give me give me a deception check NOP
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that ain't going to do it it was on an 18 then it roll over to a two of course of course uh yeah and I I have a dice here
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that is rolling very hot tonight I'm afraid so uh the conductor says I am
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sorry sir but magical gemms are included in the items that we do not accept
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aboard the train cabin and uh as he says that I stare at him who are you calling
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sir I'm I am very sorry Madame man Joe you're you're throwing me off
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tonight this affront will not be forgotten I will be having words with your employer and she very she very
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coldly hands it over to him and as she does so uh just a little bit of a nip of
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frostbite across her fingertips to his hand um since I can do that and I feel
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like it I'm going to just make him regret uh one misgendering me and two
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taking my item he sort of winces for a second but he covers it pretty well so
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next up let us see Matt with a kjar oh
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I'm so bad with names okay all the weapons I'm going to give away mm but
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you told me I had a jerk in which I'm assuming is my jacket yes is that Tech
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you want it if it is magical then yes okay I am going to attempt to Simply distract him by handing him all my
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weapons so I guess SL a hand or deception what do you want for that um let's do slight of hand gonna use this
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because I don't know where my dice are it's not rolling how do I make it roll seriously how do I make it roll you just
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click the thing you click the number like you the the plus over the plus modifier you should just be able to
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it's not doing it let me see if I've messed up the dice rolling I don't want to have to go get my
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dice I'm sorry guys I didn't mean to make this this complicated yeah everything's always complicated that's
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just how it is okay I think maybe hopefully this fixed it um it changed the size of everything so I'm gonna hope
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it did no it's still not rolling anything oh no wait it just did something sorry my computer seems to be
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having a hard time with their Auto roller yeah it looks like it's trying to resolve uh yeah I'll note that due to
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the way D and D Beyond does its dice go that's a yeah if you're on a less
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powerful computer it's going to be terrible to roll uh so yes the conductor
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you kind of shove all of these weapons at him and his hands are full and he's like yes thank you thank you
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he's he's I will be extremely careful with it extremely appreciate that thank
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you not do not be concerned by it I am extremely concerned by it it is the last
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thing thing I have of hers I understand it is will be kept safe and locked away
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and I just lean back and uh he hands all of this to a steward who is actually a
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fairly tiny gnome who sort of bows under the weight of it and then waves her hand and they're all pulled up in a
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teleportation Spell carefully held and she starts uh carrying them off to the
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cargo hold so next we have there are so many of you next we have Talis
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um Talis steps up and hands over it's not a lot it is just a Quarter Staff and
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two daggers but he is also in possession of his Spellbook and I would assume that
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that's inherently magical by Nature since it has a to with everything no I think I think he would allow you to keep
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your spell book it's it's not the spell book that's magical it's it's you you
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who have learned the magic okay and that'll it I will give him a polite nod
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as I step onto the train okay and let's go to gindar Sure uh gindar un uh
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unclasps the mace that has been very obviously hanging in his side and kind of sets it on the platform with a thump
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um and leans into the connection say my good man do you have a uh ready Source
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on board of anointing for religious practices uh that can certainly be
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arranged that can certainly be arranged and he gives a wave to the steward who uh again the Little Gnome who runs off
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across the platform to go and fetch something well uh nod and lamb like good
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enough then unclasp the Alchemy jug hanging in my other waist and hand that to him as well before he figures out it
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magic and then that should be all the goods I need to declare okay well in everyone goes um
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all of you he you were directed to did you get didn't get I'm sorry and uh Egan and
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his retainer and of course uh I'm so bad with names
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todaya trya have been kind of Milling behind everyone and Egan uh shoes you
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ahead first trya Trea is armed I don't know I'm ask takes off the sling that holds her
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pistol under her coat and sits it down um there are some items that are
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supposed to be in my cabin which look like they're magical so I'm going to stick my other magic item in that I'm
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assuming it's probably l lead lined or something um okay give me a give me a
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deception check nine well I actually rolled really badly for that one so he he waves you
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along with your personal possession again a also I have some daggers that that are hidden inside my belt so
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nothing bigger with no long sword no battle ax nothing like that okay roll
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separately for the knives all right uh yeah just to see the belt sheath uh he does not find
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them in his search so Carry On You may go aboard and at last Egan a whom all of
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you know comes up to the comes up to the door of the train blustering uh e has a
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pistol on his hip and it's a very fancy thing and he talks to the conductor
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quietly whispered and is allowed aboard as he is he's followed of course by his
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retainer who is searched as well and walks in after him so each of you are
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given a cabin on the train I have sent you a map of the layout if you want to
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uh take note of of where everyone is positioned uh Matt you have cabin one
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then I am trying to keep every 's name straight there are so many of you an you have cabin
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two Nick you have cabin three okay Bill you have cabin four uh Joan you have
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cabin five with of course Egan and Joe you have cabin six and five and six uh
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most of the first class passengers were in their own cabin but there is a a second C uh second car that is half
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first class cabins and partially Galley and service area so the first four of
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you are together kind of in a in a large cabin not together in the same Cab in a
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in a car with separate cabins everything is ridiculously luxurious there's
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everything is gilded in Gold the upholstery is plush dark Rich blue uh
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the cabins are luxuriously appointed everything everything laid out perfectly
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and as as you all go to see your cabins uh the steward does come up to you Phil and
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and present you with a jug of oil thank you my good I'll uh I said I'll uh
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assuming it's probably about the same size as the Alchemy jug I'll just clip it to my belt where that one used to be
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yes and it it is a it is a small gnome who is kind of struggling with trying
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to I'll uh I'll tip The Gnome and they bow thank you thank you and uh vanish
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off into the rest of the train so here you are it is about 3 days of travel and
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the lot of you all have uh you've had whatever kind of conversations and
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relationships on this train that you would like you have been traveling for 2 days is there anything yeah this is this
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is going to be a little free form in this first two days of travel is there are there any conversations you would
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like to have is there anything you would like to do during this time Egan has been frankly kind of insufferable he's
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been a lot of Bluster he is heading here to try and get an acceptance into a
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house which he is sure will bring him Fame and acceptance that he has wanted he has also invented a new pistol which
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he loves to show off it is a demonstration of his great genius and it
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is going to bring him more wealth than anything he has made before which he he
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loves to brag about this is this is this is his thing so is there as as we are
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here is there anything y'all would like to do during these first couple of days of travel well I actually want to get
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him alone at some point when I can do this without too many other people seeing it I understand his wife will
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probably be there and his retainers and guards and all that sort of thing but I his wife basically sticks close to his
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side as often as possible yeah but I I still would want to try to get him at least alone enough to ask him the one
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question I want to ask him you do know that he has a bodyguard but his bodyguard is uh War forged and is
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actually sitting unactive in the cargo hold for the duration of the journey you
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it doesn't you know I'm not concerned about that kind of I just don't want to have a big audience yeah I'm uh maybe
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roll stealth to see if you can kind of sneakily approach him when he's alone I
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went and found my dice cuz I'm not doing that again it almost broke my computer okay
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and would you roll perception to see if you can beat that uh that's going to be
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a 26 natural 20 on the rooll well also natural 20 but only a 21 total oh boy
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this the dice are hot at the table tonight okay so um calar does manage to
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kind of sneak in at a moment when Egan is on his own and pull him aside for a
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conversation I don't even need to pull him aside like I'm not trying to drag him out of the way I just don't want like a million
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people staring at this you you found your moment how tall is he uh average
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human height probably about six feet he's so he's a head shorter than me that's fine I just wanted to know Excuse
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me yes yes why am I here you didn't believe me when I came to see you and
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then suddenly I'm invited on this well I wanted to get to know you a little better to
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see what kind of relationship we might have and then for two days we don't talk
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it's kind of difficult to get to know someone that way isn't it well there's always dinner there's always
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opportunities to talk and I I will say that everyone does have dinner in the
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dining car together and back card does tend to try and
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dominate the conversation there are a lot of conversations that are more about him and you get the impression he may
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not really he may not actually notice that well then since we're currently one
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onone like to ask me I please you decided to join me I think there may be great opportunities for both of us in
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Fair Haven I start scratching up my shoulder while he's talking where the Mark is although it's hidden it's
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underneath the jacket the jerkin do you know about this I do suspect I do suspect and possibly possibly there is
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uh there are things we could do together you know I served in Chara when it when
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when the war was high I saw canth Crafters working I even spent a turn in
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what's now the mland indeed I have seen your record have you thought about having a workshop or Smithy of your own
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one day something beyond beyond the war something what are your plans after what
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are your plans now I I had thought to switch to something a little less aggressive
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there's not a lot of call for uh plow shares in Char we will see how it develops won't
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we but I'm sure it'll develop in a way that'll suit you if you stick with me
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there there is certainly room for opportunity and he's I strug a little like I like my whole body kind of shifts
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backwards I'm like I I'll take no more of your time I mean whenever whenever
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you've tried to talk about talk to him he's been a little Cy he's you have
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noticed that he's been keeping an eye on you and just sort of watching your
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reaction and interactions with everyone but whenever you whenever you've managed
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to talk to him whether his wife is there or not doesn't say much yeah he doesn't say much he talks a lot but he doesn't
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always say a lot oh he's yeah one of those people I understand yeah he's exactly one of those people I'm going to
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Bow slightly to both him and I'll make a point bowing slightly to his wife uh to
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indicate that I acknowledge her as his wife and then I she nods politely in return I'll take my leave so I guess
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I'll see you at dinner and then I head off uh anyone anyone else want to jump
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in something you have done in the last two days on the train I actually have two other people I want to talk to but I'll like wait to see if stuff let's do
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a circle around I think go ahead ahead oh okay I was gonna say Orchid takes
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every opportunity to basically um get as much information from like just ask him
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endless questions about this weapon that he's built and how it works very impressed by it and wants to all of the
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he is thrilled to talk about it it is a pistol very compact but it uses magic so
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that it is almost completely silent it is a miracle of technology and he
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believes that he's designed it in such a way that even people without any kind of magical abilities can harness this power
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he thinks it will be it is it is certainly the defense for the future and
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he kind of hints that you know maybe maybe the peace is not as set as it
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might seem and people will always you say set like as finished as it could be
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or yes I mean still a prototype that peace is tentative no yes the the peace
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in this nation in these nations is a little peace yes is a little tentative
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and you you never know when you might need a or a good weapon Smith he meant
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like the piece as in the gun is a piece anyway sorry okay cool yeah sheas hang on yeah
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yeah and then trya is just giving you this icy stare the whole time she is
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flat out ignoring you it's like you don't exist that's
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awesome yes and certainly Egan is is happy to have Orchid hanging on his arm
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occasionally he does certainly acknowledge his wife he doesn't ignore
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tra uh but there's definitely a coolness there and he doesn't do a lot to hide
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that he's that Orchid is some object of his current affection so I think uh uh
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salira would sort of just be mostly people watching at this point and trying
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to keep an eye on Egan um seeing what his current obsessions are seeing what
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uh is currently occupying his focus and seeing if there's any glint of recognition of what he owes her um and
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then I think maybe when he when she sees the coolness towards uh his wife that I
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believe cyria without saying anything would have a a cocktail or something
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special uh whipped up with uh an extra Frosty appearance and scent to his wife
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now certainly over over dinner and conversations Egan has been not shy to
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talk about how he's heading to Fair Haven to meet with the baroness of house
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canth Jana deth and he will certainly be
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accepted here be welcomed into the house something that he's strived to do back
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in Char unsuccessfully and there have been rumors swirling about this swirling
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about why he can't get the attention or the acceptance of the baron there some
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of you get the impression that maybe he's a little self-conscious about this but he does he does like to brag about
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how he's going and he will be certainly part of this grand house oh ciria knows
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him yeah she knows what type of man this is and I will say anyone who followed
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politics in Charan kind of the politics of the houses knows how disliked he is
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by the baron there uh real quick just wanted to get in on over the few days
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while I think Talis would have spent a majority of the time on the like in
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Egan's orbit just far enough out of acknowledgement range to not get drawn
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into the conversation but something about Talis is that he always has his
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book with him but he's always writing something down as well or at least whenever people on the train see him um
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and there are times where as Egan is talking about himself and you know
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boasting like and bragging as much as he can the the the mask slips a little bit
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and where the contempt uh of whenever Egan speaks is very apparent on talis's
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face and Egan certainly recognizes you though a little contemptuously but Egan
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is good at holding kind of that air of charm and geniality so he doesn't he
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never attacks anyone or is cruel outright but he he's he's not exactly
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nice to you he does recognize everyone on the train and uh certainly wonders
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why some of you are here but he hasn't asked or Pride he does keep an eye on
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what everyone is up to though I think if at some point during those three days maybe after she sends a drink to the
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wife uh Jinder has a chance to uh approach uh Salia he'll just kind of
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Sidle up maybe drink in hand I'm picturing like at the train bar maybe and just kind of looks at cuz do pardon
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me Madam if I don't mean to True do I know you from somewhere you just look so familiar I thought it was really good
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role playing me the coldest of shoulders she she just kind of glances at you and
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doesn't say anything and just goes back to her drink see it was really good role playing it was uh after an awkward pause
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hinder I will just kind of Nod and say my uh my apologies I must be mistaken although it isn't too common to see a
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face like yours around but you know just kind of TAPS his head and says guess my memory is getting fuzzy so is there is
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there are there any other things y would like to do conversations you would like to have things you would like to ask
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Egan or do around the train yes yeah go ahead an let Jo um yeah so trya seeing
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that Egan is sort of unfriendly with Talis here is going to go and introduce
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herself and and ask what his name is and what book He's reading
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politely uh but not it's a step before outright um dismissiveness is he'll
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introduce himself I'm Talis and he'll give like a slight bow um and just
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explain as I'm not much reading this book more this is just my own personal set of notes I like to write things down
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it helps me remember that sounds fascinating what sort of things do you write about well every
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anything that catches my attention I do have a strong interest in the magic or
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anything magical uh but scholar of the magic Art well um and just the the
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vanity a little bit gets to him and blushes um kind of says no thank you for
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noticing um I don't want to brag too much but there's still so much to learn
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right is going to look like she's having the most amazing conversation and and
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just kind of make sure that Egan notices Hees can I roll performance to yuck it
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up like really yuck it up how much she's enjoying oh yeah I'll
35:44
do it too watch me bomb this rooll 15 you want to talk about bomb a r and that one is a six so to oh
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no Cody yes we're having fun uh so
35:58
I guess in this to really try and show off I'll try to cast a spell and it'll fail miserably oh oh no I poke myself in
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the eye uh I get what kind of spell tace will try and conjure um the drink that
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she has in her hand he'll try and conjure a very slight Ray of frost to cool it with one of his
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fingers just around the like the base of the glass and unfortunately for some
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reason when he calls upon the Arcane it has flat out ignored him oh I was hoping it
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just shattered the glass just blasted across the train oops well I don't know what what is
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funnier does it expl ice oh man sure if you if you destroy it
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that would actually give me a perfect entry jump in here I so natural
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one I Joan would you roll perception for me all right 11
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that1 okay uh okay you don't notice anything okay you you do all notice that
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Egan is watching this out of the corner of his eye and when Talis fumbles the
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spell he just has this the corner of his mouth quirks up I'm sure it will work perfectly next time dear I don't
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understand this never happen took the words right out of my mouth um well I'm
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Talis I guess Retreats uh and goes straight to the bar and he'll buy um
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gindar a drink as well and toast him here's to striking out that's actually
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interesting to make of that toast uh I wanted to talk to gindar so
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that that's funny that the the interpretation of social interaction was that I was being hit
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on yeah I think it J or a second to realize that cuz he was definitely not hitting on the ice que oh that is what
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it looks like he just Downs his drink he says young man I've not even begun to
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swing yeah at this point I were walking over and uh basically stand slightly
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behind gindar and Clear My Throat turn around uh ah so where did you serve big
38:18
Manon uh served in scarn originally but uh initially after that uh after active
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service kind of all over and he kind of gestures it and says we used to we used to work together in a more uh M was in a
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more I guess uh wide ranging capacity um I'm uh kind of indicates this little su
38:38
he says priest of the three faces if you follow I know of but never prayed much
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fair enough uh yeah so how about yourself I scarn some uh did some work
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in Seer before it wasn't sear anymore obviously afterwards I didn't uh mostly
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smithing you know repairing patching not a lot of actual making this that's what
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they had the big boys for I was just you know I would go with the uh forces went
39:08
I was mostly serving scan still good honest work somebody has to keep everything running may not be may not be glory in
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it but it's it's good work all the same it was better than it was better than where I came from so and Jenner kind of
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takes a drink and looks at everyone around he says how it seems a lot of us are acquainted with our uh good friend
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uh Mr Baker how do you know him he [ __ ] m m and then abandoned us in the
39:34
uh lower parts of Scar of Charan sorry nearly chokes on Dr that extremely
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straightforward answer ah well then when I finally found out who he was after she
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died I went to see him and he didn't seem much interested in uh getting to
39:52
know me which I was fine with I I just not like I wanted to be friends or anything I just was interested s in
39:57
where did I come from I turn to the bartender and go you got anything that i' knock a dwarf out I don't know if the
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bartender responds to this question um the bartender there's a a chef that's been serving on this trip uh fire gasi
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with dark skin who uh of course of course I can make anything you would
40:17
like and uh turns around grabs some bottles and you know kind of arch
40:24
tumbling them very fancy pours a drink which she hands to you I drink it I
40:30
basically try to like take it anyone go I'm sure it is actually probably way stronger than I'm used to um give me a
40:38
constitution check okay or Constitution saving throw let's let's do that okay
40:43
give me one second to find me okay well keep in mind I'm also I'm a I have dwarf
40:49
resistance to poison so uh well it's not
40:54
poison no I would say no all just but you did you did ask for a you did ask
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for a drink that was G to knock out a dwarf so she okay 10 follow your orders
41:06
exactly 10 + 6 uh straight con save it's a 16 you know you think this fancy
41:15
drinks are just not doing it for you because this this actually feels kind of
41:20
weak I mean she clearly did not understand the request it it tastes good
41:26
but it's not H I just put I put it down nod and say thank you and then I turned
41:31
back to jendar so um I'm not good at talking to people uh I gathered that one
41:38
go ahead okay uh you're huge you're not badl looking and I have Daddy Issues how
41:45
would you like to spend some time together in my [Laughter]
41:52
cabin can Orchid hear any of this I'm not being quiet about it I'm not being
41:57
loud about it either but uh assuming you were in the dining car I mean the dining car is it's a it's a good siiz train
42:05
each car is about 60 feet long but it's not like no she's in the dining car
42:10
everybody else wall here yeah if you're if you're lounging in the dining car and people are lounging at the bar it's it's
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not like you can't hear them unless they're trying to be quiet yeah I'm not she was not facing this conversation
42:24
she was sitting in a chair facing the other way but as soon as that came out
42:30
of her mouth you see her straighten up and like glance over her shoulder like
42:37
wow okay what's going this is Juicy yeah even even even cyia uh [ __ ] an eyebrow
42:43
at that one tace is much less uh much less uh obscure about his action and
42:51
quickly yeah cough his drink out of surprise at the straightforwardness oh man uh feel free to say no I understand
42:59
I'm not everybody's cup of tea it's just that of all the men in this place you are the only one I could imagine spending any time with yeah Fair yeah
43:05
jind just going to toss back the rest of his drink which I think was probably just whiskey neat just as well uh you're bold I like
43:14
that let's go all right this crowd is boring anyway I mean assuming he wants
43:20
to come along I'm heading to my car oh yeah okay on my way out um I by the way
43:27
on my way out I turn to the uh Talis there and go and don't worry little man I'm sure somebody sooner or later will
43:33
be Charmed by that thing he was doing that's because he of the cough and
43:39
stare thing he did K like turns away and her shoulders are shaking but her face
43:46
is like unreadable like she's laughing but like you can't tell she's being very polite
43:52
about it a dumbfounded look of I on talis's face I can't believe I of just
44:00
what I've witnessed here I I don't have any words as I watch them walk off to go
44:06
do whatever yeah I don't know uh I don't I don't know that that I think there would
44:11
have been like a hushed probably like momentary silence as everybody just kind of like watched as that occurred uh and
44:18
I I I think even a small smirk uh cracks at the corners of uh salia's mouth uh
44:25
and certainly ean's in the train as well and oh yeah he noticed oh yeah I mean it
44:30
everyone noticed he was the person he intended to notice let's put it that way so here's a question for the DM I know
44:40
who that is who Matt is does Egan oh
44:45
yeah yes um so yes uh we'll we'll not everyone will know this but uh Matt's
44:52
character is meta game stuff out of game out of character stuff yeah Matt is uh
44:57
the Lost Heir of Egan B who has recently
45:02
reemerged and uh Egan add initially kind of rebuffed her and pushed her aside but
45:10
recently has shown an interest and invited her on this train ride with him to Fair Haven he seems to believe will
45:17
be a place of great opportunity and success I think that cira would take
45:23
this opportunity then to try to catch Egan's eye mhm and mouth or at least indicate we need
45:31
to talk like as as demurely or as as nonchalantly as possible not trying to
45:38
draw too much attention to from everybody else very deir very mindful
45:43
yeah uh he he gives you a little kind of a slight a very slight head tilt of a
45:49
nod and late that evening I mean if you if you allow him to carry on and wander
45:57
off late that evening after his wife has taken her sleeping draft for the night
46:02
he comes out and knocks on your cabin door uh open it don't say a word turn around and take a seat wait for him to
46:09
come in and close the door mhm so I see you brandishing the child about now hey
46:14
well it might be of use to have an air of my own someone H she might serve a
46:22
role as does everybody my dear you do realize you realize that a
46:28
train ride does not clear your debt correct H so what is it you would like
46:33
well to put it bluntly I would like to be repaid while the child is blunt I'm
46:39
very confident that house canth would be interested to know the path with which
46:45
it took for that child to become your Heir I have it on good authority that they are very invested in you it would
46:54
be a shame it would be a shame if they were to to second guess
47:00
themselves she c coldly swishes a bit of of evening knac and a tumbler and just
47:07
just kind of Waits looks at him expectantly hey you're blackmailing me then oh dear that's such a horrible name
47:14
for it uh let's call it changing the stakes of our agreement one I would like
47:20
to remind you that has been many decades past due I've been very gracious
47:27
to this point I believe he he gives you kind of there's a half smile he's
47:33
certainly seems amused by the conversation in a way well once I am part of the house uh perhaps I'm above
47:40
this this machination oh you would love to believe so darling uh but getting in with a a
47:47
house is what is that to a Queen H double our original agreement if this
47:53
invention of yours is as wonderful as you say it is you should have no problem
47:58
with that whatsoever our original agreement our original agreement let's not forget where the the money for the
48:05
child's mother came from I certainly have not very well and he he seems you
48:12
know outwardly calm even kind of cocky about this but you have known him for a
48:17
very long time you have cleaned up a few messes he's left on his wake and you can
48:24
see there's there's a little nervousness behind this and need I not remind you
48:29
that making a deal with one of the Fay is well binding even without paper
48:35
please do be so kind as to remember that I need no reminder and one last thing H
48:42
treat your wife with a little more respect and kindness wouldn't you it's Unbecoming of a man that wishes to be
48:48
part of house Kenneth appearances darling appearances she will stand by my side as I need yes
48:55
but cracks in the armor you don't want others to know H he he gives you a hard
49:01
look and walks out and she smiles as she uses Mage hand to close the door behind
49:07
him so is there anyone else who wants to have some juicy dramatic moments before
49:12
we before we get onto the next day me um yeah the cab this conversation took
49:19
place Cabin Six which is back car M okay all right fine uh so just just for fun
49:27
uh orchid's going to see if she can get to the cargo are undetected okay give me a stealth roll 14 um so you can't um you
49:37
definitely cannot get through the second class cabin you would have to pass through the second class cabin to get
49:44
You' have to pass through the galley and the second class cabin to get into the cargo area you can't do so completely
49:50
unobserved because there are 10 passengers in second class well and they
49:57
all have large plush seats but they have been you know they've been they've
50:03
they've been uh here on the train sleeping not all of them are you know they're up and about okay so it is it is
50:11
hard to dodge everyone's eyes certainly a couple of them take note of you as you
50:17
pass but they don't she's basically acting like she's just taking a tour around the train yeah they don't they
50:24
don't try to interact with you and no one tries to stop you okay yeah when she sees how many people are in second class
50:30
she's going to kind of like give it a look like oh me and turn around and go back to her cabin okay and I don't does
50:38
she have to go by cabin 6 on her way back to her cabin she would walk by
50:43
cabin 6 but I will say the cabins are sound like they're sound proofed they're
50:50
you know they're not something you would just hear someone coming down the hall unless they're making a scene or yelling
50:57
or stomping or anything like that it's supposed to be luxurious yes there's there's Rich thick
51:04
carpet under your feet that muffles noise take walls and doors on all of the
51:10
cabins I mean as far as she knows everybody is sleeping in that area anyway so I unless she heard something
51:17
she wouldn't pay any attention and she wouldn't hear anything so that's fine she just goes back to her cabin possibly
51:22
gives a discouraging look at whatever cabin is making a lot of ruckus right [Laughter]
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