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Someone on this train killed Egan Bakker, and the passengers of the Eberron Express are determined to track them down... but is the killer right in front of them? We'll see how the party fares one roll for initiative later.
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 second 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!
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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] and it is the last day of travel you've
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all retired to your rooms for the night knowing that you only have one more day
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with all of these people For Better or For Worse before you'll be in Fair
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Haven the morning arrives and you all hear a
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shout oh that's abnormal soia will uh since she's been
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up for quite a while since she doesn't actually sleep she just transes uh will exit her room looking
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Tastefully put together uh and go find out what the Ruckus
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is and and groly get out of bed still wearing my
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slippers yeah orchid's going to get up and she has one of those um dead husband
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robes you know the one with like marab cuffs yeah she's just going to tuck that
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around yourself and go see what's going on wake up wake up wake up I'm elbowing
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them wake up someone's yelling oh God okay someone's yelling oh
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God me head me head oh you got to get
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dressed right you since we're in the state of undressed we're in you see and
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no one else has seen this I have a house canth Dragon mark on my shoulder except it is much bigger than
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most would be it's if you know anything about Dragon marks it it looks unusual
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but it's definitely a dragon mark from house canth interesting you're the only one who can
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see this because you know I'm not wearing any clothing at the moment which is awkward notes but is discreet enough
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to not comment I get up and start staggering around looking for anything to wear like
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oh oh Lord oh Lord so yeah we I I I get dressed as fast as
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I can from hearing the screaming um so selia it sounds like you
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would arrive first likely because I think I'd be the one that would sleep the the least
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amount mhm and you go into the dining car where you see the
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conductor has shouted for help and one of the stewards has rushed in before any
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of y'all have managed to get here and Egan barara slumped over a
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table there's blood on his back dripping down his
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shirt oh well that simply won't do what
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happened here treyer runs up to him and shes his shoulder Egan
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Egan there is no response
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alysis slinked into the car like totally stuck
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like like numb with
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shock comes in and just like fullon stops and her eyes are just huge as
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she's like witnessing this was not what she expected to see this
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morning uh at this point the retainer has come in he's pulling on his jacket and trying very hard to look proper
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and just stops at the door looking scene the conductor said I was making I was
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making my rounds this morning and he was here there's a a bottle of strong liquor
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sitting on the table that uh it's you know half or 2/3 empty his pistol is
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sitting on the table I start looking at if depending on
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how close I'm allowed to get the blood is dripping so it's fresh um okay I I phrased that wrong
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it's there's a blood stain down his back that is okay ripped down his back so
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it's already started to coagulate it's already started to to yes okay so it's been a while and yeah um if anyone wants
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to take a look and give me a medicine check yeah I I stagger in the door at
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this point still pulling my jacket on and I'm like what in the oh bloody
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hell literally I that's that's not uh is anyone else
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here trained in medicine I am not I am I plus five no yeah can you do something
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is but she's too busy sobbing I look at the I look at the loyal retainer because
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they know who I am and I wait for the nod before I can go
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look he is he is shocked he is stock still but he does when you make
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eye contact he he looks at you he like locks eyes and gives a nod I move over
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quick tasty thing uh 16 + 5 is a 16 + 5
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21 okay you can tell that thear has been dead at least
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an hour but no more than 5 hours he's so it's it's been overnight he's
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died sometime in the night not too long ago but not five minutes
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ago how long would I estimate after him and I had our
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conversation um maybe how when do you think you had
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this conversation I would assume it's after dinner it was maybe be 10:00 yeah probably probably right
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around there like that would be probably close to the people have started to go to bed and it's slightly quieter on the
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train type deal so that would seem about right and uh right now it's uh probably
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around 5 5:30 in the morning the conductor always makes his rounds very
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you know first thing make sure everything is in order on the train get every make sure everything is ready for the day when it gets passengers get up
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for breakfast and so on uh I yes you sorry go
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ahead he's probably died sometime between midnight and F and 4 to 5 in the
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morning I I'll relay this information out loud uh to everybody and I look at
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the conductor when was the last service for this
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car we lock down uh
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I mean he's a little frazzled looking down at the body looking around at all of you I I I catches
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attention now is not the time to be overwhelmed perform your duties what time do you lock
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down we locked down at 10:30 that's the last bar service
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though Mr B did take a bottle for his own use
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do I recognize that as this bottle uh yes you would have seen this
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spot while cirious doing this can Talis
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look around to see if he notices anything unusual um yes anyone who wants to look
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around give me an investigation check could to be 14
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so you kind of look at the position of the body how the blood has dripped down the
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back of his shirt you know where you know the direction the blood the blood pattern is
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few drops on the carpet you think he was probably passed out on the table when
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someone shot him in the back Orchid is um I rolled a 17 by the way on
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Investigation she's looking at not up close just close enough she's she's
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keeping her distance out to be respectful right but looking at the gun
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his gun on the table yes does it look like it's been fired like is there
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gunpowder residue or anything like that around it is it pointed at him did greo
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shoot first it it just looks like it's it's not pointed in any direction it's been
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tossed on the table just tossed on the table yeah it's it's tossed or set not
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like it was thrown but it's not carefully he was looking at it or
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examining it or anything like it's just on the table yes he wasn't cleaning his gun shot him in the
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back you never know with a bad enough roll that could be what you see I was gonna say I know does it look like he
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was shot in the back or in the front he was shot in the back okay all right I I
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was just uh telling Talis that it frankly it looks like he was shot in the
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back while he was already slumped over the table uh import important question
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Liz he so he's been shot does he still have a mouth uh yes he was shot in the
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back back of head say I have to ask because it's a
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requirement yeah I know what you're going to do this is perfect yeah I want to step over this man loved to talk
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let's see if he keeps doing it uh I'm going to brandish my holy symbol and cast speak with dead H hoay for oh boy
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oh boy okay
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okay is he about to spit some bars this is going to be fun only five of
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them so what what do you want to ask uh all right
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so first question will be uh what were you doing when you
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died I been
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drink his eyes are vacant the breath was like the last
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exhale he doesn't say so some more oh was there anyone here with you I
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have to check my notes I was having a drink with someone do have to check my
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notes I knew who it was in the original scenario it was but I I think we invalidated
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it I mean you might have gotten
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up oh wait it was you wasn't it it was me yes oh yeah you did invalidate it m but
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not be know it's funnier this way wow yes I was
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uh now I have to think on my feet go DM powers
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[Laughter] activate was supposed to meet gendi for
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a drink stood me
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up kind of laugh I guess I did well does anybody else
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have a question they want me to ask him yeah who killed him I guess that would be the easy one
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Egan do you know who killed you I saw no
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one was worth a shot am I actually his daughter or not
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what was the gun in his possess was he playing with a gun when it
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happened kind of hard to shoot yourself in the back yeah know if the gun like on his person
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yeah was Egan was your gun on your person when you died of
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course it was in its holster on my okay he knows
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anyway yeah say unless they slipped it out of his holster and killed him with it could be a very smooth motion well if
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he was drunk it's not like you could What could
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stop Bluster at them probably don't roll my
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eyes Egan do you know why someone in this train would have wanted you
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killed Jesus how much time do you have buffer
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overflow there's a strange rasp coming out of him
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that it you think it might be a laugh everyone is jealous
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or holds grudges or want
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something anyone I mean he's got a point right um
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I would like to also point out that his new invention I believe was on this train is it not it's right in front of
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him isn't it no the gun the gun was his the
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does it look like the original to me uh yes yes you've you've seen a lot
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of it so yes it does look like his usual pistol well we can summize that it
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wasn't for necessarily material gain if the invention is still here I mean maybe it wants to
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be never mind no spit it out child
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I mean I can think of two people here who could who could materially benefit from him dying and the gun being here
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without it being taken myself and his
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wife you I uh assume are accounted for and I look at the the the cleric I mean
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yes she has an alibi but still you know what I'm saying and there could be others I mean
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well I mean I just gave him why would I I'm not saying my husband I'm saying I could have done it as much as you could
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have done it or somebody might want to use the fact that we'd profit cirio is
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going to coldly just kind of look at everybody um is his wife's grief real I would like
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to make an Insight check I'll make an Insight check too but I want make an ins check what ciria is
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doing you can do D on that do a performance check or a
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deception check do not tell me which do not tell anyone which I'm going to tell Liz I'm G to tell Liz what I
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rolled let's see is
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there's guess can I also make an Insight check on her little moment of
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grief is that okay yeah okay let
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me I it should be a to the DM roll
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that's we're we're back to relying on D and D Beyond yeah I I'm not gonna use it
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again I'm sorry I tried to no no that's fine but but uh I got a 16 but I'm not
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checking her grief I'm checking the ice queen and why like why do I think the
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ice queen is sudden acting like they're the investigator what do I think is going on
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with that person because she seems to know me I got a 13 by the way um let's
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let's start with Joan I did not I do not see your role on D and D beond just tell me the
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number I'll send it to you in a direct message
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by ah yes digital ninja notes we've come so
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far I mean I mean it's easier than passing notes around the table uh so you
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can silia is definitely definitely on to what's going on here so you tell us is
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your grief real or fainted it seems pretty
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genuine and so who is next Matt was doing a Insight check on me yeah it was
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a 16 I'm sure you could probably beat that uh I choose not
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to like I I'm not uh why why do you seem to know who I
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am why do you seem to like be up on what everybody's doing I know you don't have to tell me everything but yeah the the
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why I know who you are that you're not going to get that from an inside check you're probably going to have to have a conversation but you absolutely know I
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know who you are uh you probably wouldn't be putting the pieces together that I've been watching you since we got to the platform and got on this train um
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you also know that I was inwin with Egan uh at some point uh the nature of that
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probably isn't apparent but you get the the sense that I am extraordinarily disappointed that
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he is dead there is no joy in this there is no this is not happy this goes what
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happened here is counter to whatever I want my my disdain is genuine okay I'm nodding to
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myself like I don't really care if the wife Mourns him or not I don't mourn him
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so why should she and Orchid you wanted to make a roll
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on something did I catch that yeah I was just rolling I was also doing an Insight
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check on Joan as far as the grief goes and I roll a
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13 okay then uh you actually see the same thing silia did I fig
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I'll look at Nick's character next uh when we were checking in uh our items
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soia would have noted that one of his items that he checked in was a gun or was that
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Joan I checked in a gun what did Nick check in I checked in daggers and uh
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Quarter Staff daggers and Quarter Staff okay uh so I've already done the inside check on Joan so I don't have a reason
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to really look at Nick yet um
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H this is a
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conundrum well I believe well I'm just going to put it coldly cuz I really don't care about
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your emotions I believe her grief is real at least I have no reason to believe that it is not
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genuine you have an alibi and I point to to Matt's character point to the like
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you have an alibi I look at at Orchid I look at uh what Nick what's your
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character's name again Talis look at Talis and I look and I even point out
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myself the rest of us simply do not I will admit that I had a conversation with him about 10:00 in the evening
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regarding personal matters between us and he left I assume that directly after that he went to this car grabbed a
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bottle of booze and decided to drink himself silly I would not have known as I started my trance shortly thereafter
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that however of course I have no way to collaborate or corroborate that so think what you
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will what of the rest of you I was in bed I was sleeping I did go
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for a little walk but the little walk was oh was probably about 10:00 or so
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and made it down to second class was just checking out the train and then came back went to bed oh is that so is
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that why he didn't come back to bed last night I didn't see him last night I would like
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to make an Insight check orid okay
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um that's only a 14 make uh and Orchid roll persuasion or
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deception whichever you prefer and tell me the number but not what you've rolled
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and gindar is going to kind of move to standby tra is kind of a calming influence kind of Pat her on the
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shoulder we figure out that's the that's not my
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role there we go I was just like trying to make it privately um and you said it
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could be what or what deception or uh
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persuasion 7 + 8
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15 okay and sorry what did you roll Joe
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14 okay then uh which is funny cuz my passive my passive Insight is higher
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than what I rolled I you're you're just not sure there's so much emotion in this room
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everyone is at least a little bit stressed out genuinely like horrified I've got a 22 insight for
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trya um so yeah what does tra see what does trya figure out about
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Orchid Orchid looks genuinely horrified like this was not what she expected to
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see this morning at all and she is telling the truth she did not see him
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last night as far as you can tell she's 100% honest on that as well as she took a trip through
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the train and came back like that part all of it everything she just said is
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true oh yeah Tre is definitely going to get um Witnesses on that one
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though oh yeah there are people in second in the second class card that would have seen
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her uh at this point the retainer who has been just staring this whole time is
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going to speak up we should get the Blue Shield that was his bodyguard to he might he might if
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there's someone on the train who did this he might be able to keep us safe so the war forg
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then yes I mean they're not going to let you activate a war forged
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he he I mean by means you go ask him I mean it's not my deal he he looks at the
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train conductor who's still in the middle of this we need protection from whoever
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from whoever did this well as he mentions that uh I will use a meta magic
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feet to subtly cast detect thoughts uh okay so
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I uh activate one of the effects below until the spell ends you can activate either effect as a magic action on my
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later turns I want to sense thoughts so I'm sensing the presence of thoughts with 30 ft of your belong to creatures
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known language of telepathic blah blah blah I don't read the thoughts but I know what the creature is thinking at
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present um everybody in this room is going to be uh viable to it this does
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not require a saving throw only when I probe deeper will it so I'm
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very surface thoughts I get surface thoughts what people are immediately thinking
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yeah so I'm so from sorry go ahead uh from the retainer you uh do see
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he's he's he thinks he's worried he's worried that someone might do something else
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that maybe we do need this kind of protection what about everybody else in the
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party and I will say the train conductor thinks that might be a good idea to
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prevent any more violence maybe they should do this and yeah let's go down
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the list let's see Orchid what is kind of the one thought on your mind right
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now just the the basic thing that's on the surface of your head I mean technically I was in
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Abed no I mean what are you what is thinking right at this moment that's her
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thought [Laughter] okay uh
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trya trya is furious that the conductor wouldn't let The Bodyguard hang out
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around Egan during this whole time um let's see
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cjar God the big man's ass I've never seen an ass like that oh the the old
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man's dead I suppose oh well oh my
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God also little annoyed that that he's over with with treya kind of feels kind
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of feels bad I don't like thinking feeling like that um Talis is
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thinking that while everyone's arguing are we are we just glossing over
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the fact that someone just killed somebody
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like they could still be around and we're here arguing that's
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the yeah I was gonna say last last but not least the
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priest yeah this a gender's thought right now that he's moved over to uh Tre
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is that this is probably the best outcome for her in the end anyway and also oh no I'm never going to
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get that 100 gold though
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H I know where my suspicions lay
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um I would like to attempt to probe deeper into the thoughts of orchid
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Orchid would have to make a saving throw wisdom 15
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okay oh that's a six oh uh I learn I I'm going going deeper
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uh I'm going to uh fail save you discern the target's reasoning emotions or something that
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looms large in its mind such as a worry love or hate um so you did not make a save
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so basically I'm going to start probing to see if you have actual uh feelings for what just
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happened here if you've been telling the truth and what's looming and this is to
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me I don't know if I will share it with everybody depending on how this goes
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oh do you want me to send you a message yeah you know what why don't you send me
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a message and then uh we'll go from there and then people can do stuff while you're messaging but you you notice that
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salaria is just like her eyes are maybe just a little bit brighter uh in color a
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little bit lighter in blue as she's like looking at all of you while the discussion with the conductor is going on this is all happening
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simultaneously can Talis look around the car while they're doing that
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uh sure uh what what are you looking at or
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looking for anything that stands out comings
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goings disturbances if it if since we're up early is has some something had to
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have happened or something had to have moved there's got to be a sign of something and I rolled a
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25 oh boy okay so you investigate the car it was um I mean this is only the
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first class passengers have access to this car the uh second class passengers
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are all in dining are all in a car a couple cars back they have meals brought
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out on a cart to them they don't get into the galley they don't get into the dining car so the traffic here is really
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just all of y'all um you look at the plush carpet I mean with a roll like
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that you know it gets cleaned every night to keep it to keep it fresh but
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you do see some and of course there are a bunch of people who have rushed in here but you do think you see a sign of
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some Footprints passing in both directions I'm sorry that doesn't really
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help you but uh you there's been a little too much
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commotion to be sure of what's going on but you think right okay you think
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there's some markings in the carpet that might have indicate that someone or someone's passed in both directions
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through the car earlier but I'm guessing that because of
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all the traffic since then it's harder to yeah okay beyond that and and it's
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not really a a place where you could like you know it's soft carpet it's hard
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to see footprints in the first place but with a role like that it's like you do see some
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signs under all of this but it's not it's not a lot to go on all right not enough to take further
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okay all right I think o that is a cat that mled onto my desk hello cat
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um I know those I think I'm going to have to cast
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detect thoughts again and this time I'm targeting uh the
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wife okay okay so again uh dc15 wisdom saving
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through all righty that's a
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three I am going to say the same thing that I said to to Orchid to you
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essentially is you can private message me tell me what your deeper thoughts are is there something looming uh basically
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I'm not necessarily going to share this with the class I'm just very curious
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mhm okay I think I've got the right person I'm m in
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here if it's an icon that looks like a really squat totem with a face like a man you got the right
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guy's going to look over at Talis you you know spells don't you
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yeah depends on the kind of spell but enough do you have anything where you
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could tell who touched that last and she points at the
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gun H going through my
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spells I don't know anything about magic but I thought
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her
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thought okay interesting Saria [ __ ] and eyebrow at
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you at that with with at that
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Revelation but also I don't think the people I I don't are the people aware
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that you have done this if they failed the throw nope I don't think so no yeah so you don't you don't know this has
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happened yeah it's it's just a thing that happened um yeah but she's thinking about the
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thing that she's thinking about she's kind of looks a little bit
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pale I think Saria is going to Glide over to you and put her hand on your
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shoulder it's a little bit cold uh is already shaking so she'll she will
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lean over and ask if you would like to step away for a moment and collect
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yourself and she will accompany
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you let me send you a DM real quick yeah yeah yeah anyone can send me a DM if
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they want something off the Record Trea eyes the the bottle um but
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doesn't object I think I will uh to everybody else
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we're going to I'm going to take the grieving Widow back to her
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cabin and if anybody would like to accompany that's fine the word Widow just makes her SOB even
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harder I I'm sorry even though like her face does not even remotely reflect the the
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emotion of of sorry or pity um yeah if you uh gender if you don't as a longtime
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friend of the family I would like to come along uh I also feel that that would be fine for accountability at this point
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three people it would be very difficult for the murderer to do anything in that
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situation without a Ruckus so that will be accountable for all of us
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please and uh I'll lead you back to to the cabins and take you back to your
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room sit you down I will actually get you a cold glass of water um as is my my
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theme I will frost it over with the the the frostbite touch because I can cuz it's cool and I'm a magical creature and
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I just feel like it he knows how to do [Laughter]
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it g give poor Talis performance anxiety he's never going to cast spells again public and she'll she'll sit down
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politely across her Mew she'll cross her legs and I understand that you're grieving dear and I apologize for the
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hurt you must feel but we both know there's something deeper on your mind would you like to
36:29
express it out loud what what do you mean oh darling I know
36:37
about the bottle she just kind
36:42
of freezes up oh one second is is gindar
36:48
in the room when youall are having this conversation or did you okay absolutely 100% like I Jinder can be here this is
36:57
this is f this is I salaria realizes that out of all the people here she is
37:02
the one that does not have a concrete Alibi and so anything she does is going
37:08
to involve a witness for at the very least plausible deniability
37:14
because again if I were to just take the Widow back by ourselves and then one of us dies later well that makes it pretty
37:21
obvious this murky is the water which is much more fun for gameplay um
37:26
yeah I I flat out I'll just tell you dear and I'm sorry to do this to you but
37:31
uh time is going to be rather limited we don't have much more time before we reach our destination and then this is
37:36
going to get incredibly messy I don't believe you killed your husband but I do believe that you had some sleeping
37:43
drought poured into his bottle why he just kind of STS again and it
37:50
takes her a while to to um recover herself like I didn't I
37:58
didn't want him going in that that woman's
38:05
room I thought if he were too tired he'd come
38:15
back I can see you genuinely cared for him which is
38:22
unfortunate do you know any do you know anybody here that would have had a motivation to murder him and not take
38:30
anything you inherit the estate I don't even care about the
38:36
estate she thinks about it for a minute and then she or she says uh she says no
38:41
no I don't and and then she pauses and she's like
38:46
wait the conductor he slides a an envelope out
38:53
from under her mattress he he was blackmailing the
39:01
conductor
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interesting I look at uh I look at J hand over the letter I'm flabbergasted
39:11
by this Revelation ah seems there was lots of negotiations going
39:19
on I mean this does maybe I knew was well off but is that
39:24
how he got this many people he personally knows was into the first
39:30
class I mean to be fair he was rather loaded he had made quite a name for
39:35
himself and was about to come into a whole lot more money let's be perfectly
39:42
honest at least he thought he was oh he was dear who do you think put the word
39:47
in for him at house kth who are you an old business associate of your
39:54
husbands uh the uh I forgot what the retainer name is uh
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Savon Savon would have known me um since it's so loudly proclaimed and this is a
40:08
well I look at the cleric and I was like perhaps a confession I don't know these
40:14
things are foreign to me um I'm the one that paid off the bastard child's mother
40:20
for Egan when he had nothing I'm the one that made your problem go away is he really is
40:27
oh 100% darling cost me a pretty
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penny I'm telling you this because I realize that I'm the only one that does not have a solid Alibi but I don't get
40:44
paid now that he is dead his debt does not transfer to you unfortunately for
40:54
me is not really sure what to think about that but she does seem to be kind of starting to pull herself
41:05
together and I I I'll sit there listen I know that this is going to be hard for
41:11
you dear I'm not very much for the flowery of the warm that's sort of antithetical to
41:17
me but I will tell you that perhaps now is the time to find your steal at least
41:23
for a little while there'll be time to grieve later for now
41:28
what do you say we find your husband's killer and make them pay he gets this almost bloodthirsty
41:36
grin do l oh I think I'm going to like
41:44
you uh Salia and gindar you hear a noise in the
41:51
hallway I'll you back first yeah I figur I was sitting I figur I was probably standing near the door uh poke my head
41:57
out the hallway and see if I uh see what's up just a second we're rolling some dice
42:05
over here
42:32
uh So Cal jarn what does gindar see when he looks out into the hallway a tall
42:37
woman looking like she's trying not to get seen and
42:43
going you are gifted in many ways but stealth is not one of them what are you
42:48
doing it actually is however um I wanted to hear I wanted
42:53
to use a drop everybody seems to know what's going on but
42:59
also I don't like you hanging out with my X step
43:04
thing now at this point I'm audible at this point anyone in that room can hear me because I I I went from
43:11
quiet to like you know piked up there a little bit at the
43:18
end so I guess the question is did Matt hear what I was talking about or no no I
43:24
didn't get close enough you didn't okay that was man I did not even get the I did not get
43:30
a chance to EES drop I wanted to EES drop but I didn't get a chance to
43:36
unfortunate now I'm out in the hallway kind of you know it's all good roles and
43:42
bad roles with not much in between I will I think we I would Usher us back to
43:49
the rest of the group the conductor has gone right no so while you have been having
43:56
this conversation uh is anyone in the room with Egan doing
44:01
anything because the conductor and the retainer will have possibly just the
44:07
retainer actually has gone and gotten a cloth to drape over Egan and is still
44:13
saying we should we need to get the Blue Shield just in case just in case and
44:22
he's made a compelling he seems to he seems to have won the conductor over who has been saying
44:27
okay I have the keys to the cargo hold we can go fetch it and
44:33
uh we'll see what
44:38
happens uh earlier Orchid asked me if I would have a spell that would be able to
44:44
determine anything and yeah yes no
44:51
okay uh so yes Orchid and tellal us is there anything you have been doing while
44:56
this uh conversation has been going on with treya in the other
45:03
room um so well orchid's like number one
45:09
she wanted to find out if he he uh had a spell that could do the thing and when
45:14
she finds out that he doesn't that's fine but when they start talking about we need to get the dude out of the cargo
45:21
d d she's she she says what about the rest of us how are we supposed to feel safe
45:28
uh the retainer looks at you and says Blue Shield will not let anything
45:34
happen I want my things man I wish I wasn't in the room I wish wasn't out of the room yeah oh well that was that was
45:41
your call I know want to e here it is I know I know I'm just
45:46
saying uh make a persuasion check me and uh yeah and Nick if you
45:54
wanted to assist her or try to help with this you can either both roll persuasion
46:00
or one of you can assist the other to give them
46:06
Advantage um I'll I'll assist so she can have Advantage
46:17
okay 26 the conductor looks down in size he
46:25
he looks weary yes perhaps this is a good idea I
46:31
just more weapons does not always solve the situation glares down at the gun that's
46:38
still on the table but yes I I understand people
46:44
might be concerned at these happenings I have
46:50
the keys to the cargo hold we can go we can go now all right thank you
46:58
I would like to put this there and she reaches for the gun assuming no one
47:05
objects oh a property yeah we we would have probably walked the tail end of this conversation I don't know okay I
47:11
don't know how much that I did hear so but yeah uh make an investigation
47:18
check for me me
47:24
yeah we got a 15 as you pick the gun up you look at it
47:31
and you can tell it's definitely been fired you open it up and you see that
47:36
two rounds are missing I mean he has he has two bullets
47:43
in his back so okay
47:51
okay so who is going down to the cargo hold
47:57
is everyone is anyone okay wait I since I wasn't there I don't think I know necessarily what we're doing going to
48:03
the gargo hold I mean you would have walked back while you know the conductor
48:08
is pulling out his keys and getting ready to to head out or kid's going with because she wants her
48:15
stuff I just follow still getting glares because I don't know what's going on I'm gonna actually go up to no I won't I
48:23
don't have anything to say to my somewhat stepmother right don't even understand
48:32
that um you you would catch kind of a a look from trya
48:37
like there there are words that need to happen but yeah I didn't hear that so I
48:43
don't know anything about it I'm actually since she's looking at me I guess I'll stop and go for what thth I'm
48:49
sorry he's dead not not for me but for you you seem to like
48:54
him she said the hand onc On's shoulder and she's
49:00
like I I want you to have what you didn't
49:07
have if I can make it happen well okay
49:14
um I I guess we could talk about that later I
49:20
think right now probably not the best time I agree I I give you like the most
49:26
confused look in that moment I look like I'm five like I seriously have no idea
49:32
what the f is going on but I'm like okay that was
49:38
weird I Trope after them because if nothing else I will feel better with my mother's
49:47
sword uh so is everyone's going I
49:52
mean I don't know that I heard from Talis or silia oh Orchid okay I'm gonna kind of stick
50:01
with treya I think at this point because okay one selfishly there is an invested
50:06
interest in the future since technically she Now controls the estate um and I might be able to get something out of
50:12
that later on um but also because I think that she would be the next likely
50:19
Target if any and at that point I'm going to
50:24
because otherwise I'm standing with a dead body and that looks
50:30
weird I mean it's it's covered up it's probably fine yeah they put a whole they
50:36
put a tarp over it we're good tar over a tarp it's a sheet oh well whatever it's a sheet it's pet rolls
50:43
once the once the tarps on it you don't know it's there it's fine yeah it's a
50:49
matter I me just a really squishy table I mean we could make a stealth
50:56
roll for the the corpse maybe I don't know um he's got he's got Advantage cuz
51:01
he can hold his ber now that's how was the killer is get an
51:09
EG I'm still alive that's this worst Egon impression I've ever heard look I
51:15
only barely knew the man that that' be an interesting way to
51:21
solve this conundrum but uh yes on we go the lot of you leave the dining car the
51:26
conductor with his keys out is in front um and you go through the pass a couple
51:33
of cabins go through the galley and into the second class car which is hm while we're traveling Liz and I
51:43
want to cast detect thoughts one last time but this time on the
51:48
conductor okay so I would like him to make a wisdom 15 saving throw
51:55
please okay what is [Music] WIS uh what was it 15 what was the save
52:04
he got a 15 he got a 15 ah interesting I don't think I have
52:10
any metam magic that I can do to manipulate that let me just double check I mean do you still get surface
52:17
thoughts I do but he knows I cast it ah okay so I I get his surface I get
52:23
his I get his surface thoughts but he knows I went probing I'm I'm I'm equipped because I have the
52:30
letters still yeah he he glances back at you
52:36
just briefly and uh surface thoughts you get just what
52:44
what is what will happen what I mean just there's confusion
52:51
mostly interesting what happens next
52:57
I'm going to keep that in mind so yes through the second class car
53:04
which there are a lot of eyes on you there are a couple of people still asleep but a group this large going
53:12
through the cabin uh it's certainly UN in her in her dead husband rope by the
53:20
way um yeah I I imagine I imagine that most of you are a
53:26
little shoveled maybe in pajamas so this is this is a very unusual site to see
53:31
the first class passengers yeah trumping through the uh second class car everyone who is awake
53:38
turns to stare and the few people who are asleep uh kind of Rouse and look at
53:44
you so the cargo hold is right behind the second class car you go through the
53:50
car conductor unlocks the door and you cross over see how he
53:56
unlocks it it's with a key okay where did he pull the key from uh
54:04
he has it in you know a little pocket it's it's on a little chain attached to his uh his vest okay
54:15
thanks um so inside the cargo hold y'all should have a map of what it looks like
54:21
it's the same size as all of the other cars it's uh it's not really lit there's
54:27
a couple of lanterns uh like ever burning light lanterns and the conductor Taps them to turn them on and make it a
54:34
little less dim but it's not this isn't designed to for inhabitants
54:40
really at the very back of the car there's a double door where cargo gets loaded in and there may be a dozen
54:48
wooden crates stacked around the car strapped in there is a
54:54
cabinet uh on the left hand wall with metal lock boxes that uh hold all of
55:00
your belongings uh the conductor says all right all right I I'll get this
55:05
first and goes pulling out another key unlocks several cabinets and uh presents
55:13
you with your things if you should desire to take them I will absolutely take my gem back
55:20
which is in the form of a like an opera monacle almost um I will take take that back
55:27
orchid's going to put her necklace back on and grab her short bow I hold out my
55:33
hand uh since it's just a straight up action and doesn't cost me anything to do this and uh my sword and great sword
55:42
great Axe both pop to my hand they just fly across my hands and the conductor like Dodges
55:49
Dodges out of the way Orchid like blink at that demonstration once those are
55:55
been placed I hold up my hand to again and the battle axe comes to me Talis is going to grab his quarter
56:02
stuff and both of his daggers MH while just looking amused at
56:08
the Flying Weaponry across the car everybody else is
56:15
rearming is not going to even bother going to her locker she's just going to go to The Bodyguard yeah there uh the Blue Shield
56:22
is a large War forged and you try and the loyal retainer both while this is
56:29
all going on I'm going to make an investigate check around the area to see if I see any signs of that thing having
56:36
moved that's a good idea scrape floor scrape dust anything like that okay um so it's there's not really
56:44
any dust make me an investigate check the I mean since it was loaded well make
56:51
an investigation check so I will say the Blue Shield he's large War forged it is a large War
56:59
forged okay I'll get to that in a second that's fine uh and it is sitting in a chair bolted to
57:07
the middle of the floor it's not bolted to the floor the chair is bolted to the floor it appears to be sitting
57:12
comfortably but its eyes are closed it's deactivated in some kind of rest mode
57:19
and you look around the chair for scrapes or scuffs you you don't see any signs that it has moved there are some
57:27
there are some scuffs and scrapes from the doors in the back where cargo was
57:32
loaded in but it doesn't look like anything has moved towards the towards
57:38
the the rest of the carriages does that make sense no I understand it there's no sign that this thing got up since last
57:44
night no okay so it was loaded in here and as far as I can tell it has been
57:49
here yes okay that's all I wanted to know anyone anyone else doing anything
57:58
yeah I'm going to ask it whether it saw anything anyone come back here or or whether it left this this
58:05
room uh so sorts things uh so who I'm gonna say it's it's
58:12
deactivated so someone's going to have to like wake it who is walking up to the
58:17
Blue Shield is it just is it just trya it Ain
58:23
me actually I'm I'm I'm G actually say oh oh hold on a second my lady
58:30
uh why don't you know Mr retainer why let's just say that
58:39
you AR of all the people in this room you are the most likely to be at a target of somebody who would have killed
58:44
your husband I suppose so I don't think you should put
58:52
yourself in a dangerous situation when your retainer is hit and this was his
58:59
idea I trust the Blue Shield it's up to
59:06
you you you know that the Blue Shield has always been fiercely devoted to Egan
59:12
he it fought in the War and Egan sort of
59:18
took it in afterwards for its service and it has remained devoted to him for
59:24
what perhaps it sees as a kind ever
59:31
since um and the retainer says I I know how to
59:37
I know how to wake him it's it's fine I can do that right what what is Savon looking
59:46
like right um Savon is nervous is
59:52
he he a little paler than usual I mean
59:57
and you know you frankly whenever you've seen him before he looks perfect he is
1:00:05
perfectly dressed he is the perfect sort of manservant with his hair very neat
1:00:13
and he's very disheveled this morning he was waking out of bed he has pulled on
1:00:19
his jacket and the buttons are off kilter you know he's trying to come out
1:00:25
looking his best and looking perfect and proper as is expected but he's he's not
1:00:32
he looks shaken all right fine I'll let him wake it
1:00:39
up uh so he he goes over and uh Taps the Blue Shield on the neck
1:00:48
there's like a a wake switch or something of that nature and its eyes
1:00:53
open with a blue light behind them the retainer says
1:01:00
Shield the car has been killed and there's a pause the retainer
1:01:07
says I hope you can keep us safe keep trya
1:01:13
safe and the shield
1:01:18
Roars and swings a heavy hand out and smacks the retainer who flies across the
1:01:26
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