Tavern Watch Plays Murder on the Eberron Express 1: It's going to get him killed one day
Feb 15, 2025
Famed artificer Egan Bakker has invented a new weapon, and it's going to get him killed one day. As Bakker boards the luxurious Eberron Express, an unusual group or passengers joins him on the three-day route to Fairhaven... and because each of them have their own grudge against Bakker, the trip isn't likely to end well.
Join DM Elizabeth Harper on this trip across Eberron, with colorful group of characters:
* Nick Marino as Talis, a scholar that Bakker publicly humiliated, and neither of them have forgotten it.
* Phil Ulrich as Jindaar, who was Bakker's business partner until he was squeezed out of the business... just before Bakker made it big.
* Anne Stickney as Orchid, a mysterious figure who has recently been seen hanging off Bakker's arm.
* Joan Albright as Treya, Bakker's neglected wife who — despite Orchid's presence — still stands by his side.
* Matt Rossi as Kaltjarn, Egan Bakker's long lost heir, who has spent most of her life not knowing her father.
* Joe Perez as Cylyeira, who knew Bakker a long time ago, before he found success.
This is the first episode of a three-part D&D murder mystery called Murder on the Eberron Express, written by Orla ní Dhúill. You can buy this unconventional adventure on the DM's Guild to play it yourself! It includes pre-generated characters (though our group created their own) and requires very little prep, and the format is sure to keep players on their toes — we certainly had fun with it!
Note: this episode contains some NSFW language. Blame Matthew.
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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
31:44
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
35:21
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
36:06
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
36:27
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
36:50
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
37:27
Talis I guess Retreats uh and goes straight to the bar and he'll buy um
37:34
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
38:13
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
38:25
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
38:32
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
38:46
fair enough uh yeah so how about yourself I scarn some uh did some work
38:52
in Seer before it wasn't sear anymore obviously afterwards I didn't uh mostly
38:57
smithing you know repairing patching not a lot of actual making this that's what
39:03
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
39:15
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
39:22
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
40:03
bartender responds to this question um the bartender there's a a chef that's been serving on this trip uh fire gasi
40:11
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
41:00
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
42:16
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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