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The Eberron Express is about to pull into the station, and when it does Egan Bakker's killer could vanish forever. Can the passengers solve the mystery before time runs out... and do they even want to?
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 last 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] so we are heading into combat with the
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Blue Shield as he gets up and grabs a bundle that was next to his chair
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holding it which had a great sword in it it was tied down but he rips it up off
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the floor now I you all do need to roll initiative and uh so give me a roll and
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wait until I call until I call for you and I want to know if anyone has rolled
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over a 20
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21 uh 20 to 15 I have a 19 I also have a
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19 uh which of you has the higher dexterity I have a zero so do
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I I roll another D20 and whoever gets the highest goes first
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18 please be 18 uh 18 oh my
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God three minutes later Phil Phil you can go first we're just going to
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determine it like that I I thought we could uh I thought we'd let the numbers have it but uh okay
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the numbers just apparently in lock step that's just how this is going today we're very in sync right now
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uh 14 to 10 Talis has
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11 uh 10 to five
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six
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seven I mean it could have been worse it could have been worse yeah it could be the
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retainer oh right I do have to roll for other people don't and I'm assuming he took some
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damage seems
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likely
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hey I guess the other question I have is I I need to start I I wonder what this thing's status immunities
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are or if it follows the old
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school and more which flew out of my
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dice tray because that's how dice work
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okay that does put cjar up
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first okay does that mean I go before he pulls the sword out or does he pull the sword out before I go no he pulled
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he threw the retainer aside and stood and Drew his sword so no you do not go
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before that he had a chance to do that but okay so he's holding it in his hand
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yes okay then I can't do that and I don't have a glaive even
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though I've got weapon Mastery in one so I'm going to have to go with I guess I'll go with the great Axe no I'm sorry
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I will go with the great sword all right he is how far away from
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me um well you had been looking around the cabin so he is in the center of this
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train car so you can tell me where you are in the train car you had been actively invested
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things moving so you could have looped around in any direction okay uh I'm
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going to say that he he basically there's no gate between him and everything else he was just sitting in a
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chair no so I he was yeah I'm going to have been behind the
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chair okay uh and I'm gonna say just because it makes my life easier that I was within 30 feet of him so I can get
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to him it would have been hard for you to be out of 30t of him because the train car is 20t wide and 60 ft long
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yeah so I literally do not think you could have been out of 30 ft then I'm going to take my my move to move up to
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him and I'm going to attack him with my uh great
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sword okay I'm going to assume that none of us had time to put on our
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armor uh no but you have your weapons mhm first attack is 14 + 7even so that's
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a 21 to hit uh yes that hits okay uh do you want
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me to do attack separately do you want me to do like roll see how many times I hit and then do the damage would you
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prefer I mean yeah roll however many attacks you have do it at once okay
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uh 13 plus 7 is in 20 that does not hit
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okay um then I'm going to I guess I'll roll the damage first
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yeah 2d6 plus four
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three four three and four seven 7 plus six is
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13 damage and I'm going to pionic strike on that first hit okay so
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it's 8 + 1 is nine so it's an extra damage of psionic
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damage okay and then I'm going to action surge
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okay no no you know what no I'm not I am not gonna action surge I am just gonna
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have hit him with a sword I hit him wait I missed him once right you missed him once I still deal
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damage I still he takes four damage on the Miss yeah I have grze he takes four damage uh of slice
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piercing whatever this great sword does it's slashing he takes an extra four slashing damage on the Miss because I
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basically miss him but then I twist and still manage to score him a little bit
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and I'm making sure he knows I hit him and I'm not moving away from him yeah he he knows
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yeah and that's it for my go although I do have some stuff I can do on his turn
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if he attacks me and hits me I do have some stuff I can do at that point but that's it
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uh so up next is going to be
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Ginder sure uh gindar did not grab his mace when give him the opportunity instead gindar is going to I don't I
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don't need a mace uh step forward and attempt to uh put hands on this guy to
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cast a shock and grasp on him uh
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15 uh if 15 does not hit does shocking grasp have a advantage on metal armor am
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I or is it does it just do more damage either does he have Advantage
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because I'm standing behind the thing I not I think that's I think
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that's only with weapon attacks am I correct there can someone double
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check I'm not sure they changed all the flanking rules yeah let me I'm pulling
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out my book oh miss fancy having a book I
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see oh yeah yeah yay new
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rules yay new rules which we now all have to learn and actually in the rules Glasser flanking isn't here so that's a
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that's a great question let's just say he doesn't
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rather than have to spend 20 minutes it up yeah I think so I yeah I thought spells did not do flanking
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uh just SEC yeah it's you know some I could see making the argument but
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I don't feel like I wanted to take up too much time here so we're we're all kind of like right around this thing
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right yes you are I mean everyone is at Le I the the the farthest away you could
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be is probably 25t okay um so yes a 15 does not
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hit and uh Sil you would be next cool uh
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I'm going to cast grease underneath the war forged um what is the radius of Grease 5
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foot okay uh I'm sorry it's 10 foot uh it is a uh 10t Square centered on a
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point within maximum range uh my range is 60 feet so that's fine um greasy me
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gindar and the the war unfortunately um I'm not sure she really cares that much
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collateral um if this thing is prone it's easier for it's easier for others so uh yeah I cast grease it's going to
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need to uh make a saving throw uh dexterity 15 or it will be knocked prone
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uh so will you sorry uh yeah gindar and cjar you also need to make that
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saving just made it what was the throw I rolled the 12
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plus 15 right yeah 15 15 is the
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save uh it rolled an 18 it's yeah it's a big guy he's got his feet set pretty let
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me double check because I might have something that can interact here because new rules let's see here oh yeah we're
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learning uh I'm going to spend a sorcery point to impose a D4 penalty on him give me a second I have bent luck I'm
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F we're going to take four points off that please uh okay that brings him down to a
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14 yay I did something I you've been doing a lot of
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things so yes he is on the ground cool uh and then I'm going to get
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the hell away from him so I am going to as my bonus action because I am Fay I'm going to Misty step uh and then it's
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also going to need to make a will save or be afraid of me because I can do that too and we're
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gonna do that are they susceptible to fear I don't know we're gonna find out hang on
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let me player characters I know were I don't know if the NPCs were so like it that's
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it's an odd spot in neon uh what was the save 15 wisdom
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uh H that's a 19 I'm sorry okay no that's fine he's not afraid of me I'm okay with that not but he's he's prone
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so yall y'all have fun I'm I'm going to be back here at the other end of the train or the room excuse
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me that's my dukes so I I will say that means attack rolls have
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Advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet otherwise they have disadvantage and I believe do spells
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still have disadvantage if you're in melee range I don't know I mean shocking grasp is is
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basically I don't think that would but I think maybe blast ones work I don't know
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I I think rang spells are all of these things it's always
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combat it's always combat um but if that's all you got then it is
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actually Blue Shields turn
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okay so let's see so it's prone it's going to have to use its movement to get up or
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half his movement yes so he pulls himself to his
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feet uh but I'm afraid he sees gindar on the ground next to
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him and he is going to try to hit you with his great
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sword I'm sorry but you're right there my GS that's a 20 to hit uh yeah that hits
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me even assuming I still have my armor on it that is 12 damage I eyes
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crackle okay and I spend one of my die to use my protective field ability and
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absorb seven of that damage okay he just doesn't take it
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five damage it is yes okay it's not nice you shouldn't
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be hitting people when they're down and he is going to action Surge and
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do that again I'm sorry I can I can only do it once that's a 16 to hit H yep that's a
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16 damage you're fine you have tons of hit points I mean come on F does I am
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however I am going to take my reaction to make him take d8 Thunder damage okay having for having the audacity to hit me
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one sec my backed out of my character sheet man you get so much cool stuff now
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with this as a sorcerer well and also everybody is level six so that is high enough that
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you get you've got two of your subass features which I think are all pretty cool and Powerful so he takes five
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Thunder damage uh as he hits me part of that storm giant ancestry I mean yall
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have he's he's got some scrapes on his armor at this point does he end his turn
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in combat with uh Matt's character and standing over uh absolutely they're uh M
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and I would like another deck safe please hey save that time is a 19 on the
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die so I'm pretty sure I made it no you don't have oh you don't have to M he does because
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he ended his turn there okay if you move out of it yeah good point good point you move out of it you don't have to I
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haven't moved out of it yet but it's not my turn yet so correct at the end of your turn if you're still here you'll have to he has you because he's still
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here uh and that is that's an 18 and I
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cannot use my reaction until after my turn has come back around so I can't take anything off of it so he's still standing sorry I tried okay uh so next
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next up is actually the conductor I've given myself too many NPCs and I have to
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fight myself oh my God what am I doing welcome to the dungeon Masters conundrum at least we didn't adopt a goblin yeah
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it is I mean for that matter the conductor doesn't necessarily have to fight he could just run out and leave us here at
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least you're not at the point of having a conversation with yourself yet or the point where you kill your NPC with your
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other NPC and then you're like how do I want to do this all right we've seen that happen
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before um before the Blue Shield ends its turn it it uh you know again kind of
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sets its feet and it Bellows my friend
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my friend is dead okay but why are you attacking us um I didn't kill him hell I
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might be his daughter for all I know this is a a terrible idea the conductor is going to go in and punch this
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guy yes yes wow make sure to punch him in the wood it's slightly less hard than
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the rock um and he is going to make sure that that he is flanking him see I'm not
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helping do this I'm turning around one of those is a natural 20 because this
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dice it either rolls 20s or it rolls ones that's the only thing this dice rolls um ah so that is that's 10 13
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damage and he will use a bonus action to flurry
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blows never mind I I rolled a second natural 20 Li Liz is just gonna kill
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herself this is fine yeah never mind the conductor's fine um yeah monks are nasty
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in this new version so well okay I'm not I'm that's another seven points of damage rolled really badly and flurry
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blows you get three attacks in a row and that is also a hit uh that's another 13
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points of damage the conductor after doing this bam bam bam bam bam just kind
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of shakes his fist like I haven't done that in a while so that was fun um uh
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next is Talis um Talis is going to very quickly put aside his surprise in
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watching just a conductor throw hands with a metal War forg be knuckle and
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he's going to summon Arcane energy in his hand and cast I ice knife at the war
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Forge that'll be please be something good that'll be 24 to hit uh 24 hits
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okay um and then for damage that'll be uh D and just quick question D and D
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Beyond doesn't add your it it should add everything for your spell oh okay that's
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okay uh that was just six points of damage then okay he's looking extremely
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bad and then it has to do a dexterity save tyus I interrupted you my bad oh no
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no he's he's looking bad a deck save that's a 16 that's Gonna Save okay
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that'll be talis's turn okay next up is
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uh trya Joan you with us sorry I turned my mic off because my kids are making
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noise okay so Trey is going to pull out Egan's gun that she still got in her hand uh but she's not going to fire it
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yet um she's going to say blue stand down this won't bring him back he hang
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on uh make a persuasion check ready a 19
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since I was trying to do that before can she have Advantage from my attempt I can't roll much higher than that I
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mean really were you really trying to persuade him I honestly wasn't and you
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know there's no reason to try to kill us what the heck take your point a 19's pretty good
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I just don't want to kill the robot sorry the person the robot person the war forged I just watched the the
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wild robot so so the Blue Shield looks at you and
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it doesn't it doesn't have a lot of facial expression but its jaw is a little slack its eyes are not quite as
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bright as usual but but he's dead he's dead I know I know but hurting other
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people won't bring him back what what are we what what do I do if he's
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dead after we've put the weapons away I I missed that nobody in here wants to
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fight you yeah I just basically said he you could protect her he looks around kind of wearily he
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doesn't know most of these people but he lowers his sword who did this gun back
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away too that's funny cuz he does know me and proceeded to stab me oh he doesn't he doesn't know most people in
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here yeah and and you were kind of in in the frus so certainly he maybe would have seen me once I guess like one time
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maybe when he says when he did this when he says who did this Orchid is going to
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pipe up and say that's what we're trying to find out can you help us I can I'm good at hitting things well we may need
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you to hit some stuff are we done are we done with the trying to kill each other and stuff now he puts the great sword in
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a sheath on his back okay I reach up and use my aberant dragon Mark and cast
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mending on him does that it's used to work on war Forge if it doesn't now I apologize but
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they did uh well let's just go for it because War forged are not in the new rules yeah it used to work on them you
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you have cast handing on them instead of cure so uh yeah he looks really bad he got he got knocked up okay wasn't
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intending that wow this is such a strange game are you an artificer no I
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I've got a dragon mark on me shoulder from house Kenneth although it's oh yeah
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apparently I think your old man found out about it and that's why suddenly was interested that's why I see yeah he does
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things like that oh that makes so much more sense now actually at this point you can probably see it right I got hit
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by that thing didn't I so while everyone's working on the war Forge can I go look at the crumpled body of the
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Rotator yes I roll a medicine check we'll see
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how badly you do the uh Blue Shield there gets uh six HP back basically that
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doubles his hit points right now sorry I can't I can't do more I I
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will be well I am well enough to fight yeah I noticed you got a mean swing big
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man uh so Talis medicine check yeah he has six you need me to roll I'm
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also gonna try to help uh jum up I'm GNA I'm going to say not even a six can fail
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this he's breathing he you don't think he looks really good but he's he's
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definitely breathing I mean you kind of you put a hand right in front of his mouth you can feel breath okay okay you think you have got this you completely
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understand the situation he is maybe okay but he's he's unconscious I'm just
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going to pipe up I I need some help over here uh all right you hand medicine gree
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is probably gone at this point it only lasts a minute oh and I rolled a three so that's
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seven um what what are you attempting to do are you attempting to stabilize him
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yeah yeah is gintar still on the floor because if he has a help I was Orchid Orchid looks over at gindar
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and goes can you help him yeah this might be more my uh area I guess see how
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my medicine roll goes okay 23 on my medicine roll to stabilize him oh thank you for finally helping priest this poor
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smack so many rules okay um I'm gonna say you managed to pull him back up to a
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hit point so he is he is looking rough but he kind of pushes himself up and
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says oh oh it's never done that before but that was probably not the smartest
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thing you've ever said to it I think that was someone I think it was a war for showing grief we haven't seen a lot
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of that someone had to tell it it's no no use yeah but next time maybe tell tell
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somebody that from further away there's more tactful ways you could have done it old man I just I mean you know there's a
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reason I just had a feeling in me heart don't don't go and just wake the RO the robot man up and say your best friend's
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dead just right in his face I I don't I didn't feel like that was a good move orid is going to cut through all of the
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lasting of this poor man and look at the retainer and go are you all right can
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you stand up yeah probably he sort of he puts a hand against the wall and sort of
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pushes himself up a little unsteady but he's up
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right is he a willing creature other than me does she can it depends on what
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you're trying to do I can telekinetically move him to a to the chair if he would like to sit in the
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chair but he'd have to let me do it if he doesn't want me to do it I can't just yank him over um I think he would not
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really want anyone to yank him around just in general so then then I don't do
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it because he'd have to consent yeah he's he's not into having Strange Magic us on him right now it's been a bad day
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and it's probably only like 7 in the morning right well that was unexpected and uh leaves us still at the place
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where we don't know who the murderer is thoughts blue did anyone activate you in
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the middle of the night no I've slept seen no you seen nothing since you
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boarded them I've been here I was told to stay here I the car sh he said it
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would be safe it was said it was fine I wasn't it was supposed to be uh someone
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roll a D12 for me okay yes just a
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straight up D12 just a straight up D12 oh no the five ah five okay this is this
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is in fact the funniest number you could have rolled no I just rolled a dragon
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noon Pier no so you know in in this little fracas
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there have been swords swung there have been spells slung and one of them hit a crate which was barely holding together
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but just now it just say it kind of it it manages it its last bit of weight
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bearing and breaks open and out of the crate bursts 12 chickens swarming around
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and angrily clucking they're very they don't know what's going on oh dear
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chicken wrangling time do we roll addicitive
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again whole Initiative for chickens no no I'm just going to say now
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the now the hold is full of chickens and just going to back away from the chaos and go the retainer is definitely like
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leaning on the wall and like backing away from this noise and excitement
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animal handling 20 all right I'm going to I'm going to
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teach you all my chicken call from when I had chicken chicken
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maner and then you hold something like like you hold your hand like you're holding something and they'll come
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running okay I'm going to say you you have successfully gotten the chickens attention they quiet down and they come
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up and all right is the is the crate like salvageable or do we need to
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some place mending on the crate as a can that that that would do it yeah it's
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kind of the crate yeah that Crest mened really
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good grab a handful of feet or something Chuck it in there and you managed to
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seal them back up with a judicious application of mending from three people
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using their magical abilities to best effect crate is better than it was
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before good job everyone that
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was we fixed one problem it was let's just all get off
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the train and go about our lives now oh wait murderer yeah I do have a
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suggestion I want to bring up to everyone but the Blue Shield at risk of it going berserk
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again um want to ask if we let it look around the cabin maybe or where we found
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Egan's body maybe it'll tell us something but we might have to move the body so that it doesn't get pissed again
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yeah well is he a particularly perceptive War
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for that's a good question um kind of sounds like he's specialized
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in hit he really is though he he does war within saying to every NPC ma'am I
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just hit things I mean I was I was really I was really feeling that Vibe with the with
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this guy um he does have a plus five to perception so you know he's he does keep
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an eye out on threats at all times he may not be the most perceptive person here but would making an investigate
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check up there be useful in any way um I mean are y'all y'all are going back and what are yall do I assume we are um yeah
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we got our stuff we got the war Forge we should probably go back it just occurred to me that I have a plus4 in
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investigation so I could have done that well when I rolled an investigation earlier to look around I saw just
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muddled Footprints but I didn't look at any of the walls or anything so yeah I mean if you're if you're are you looking
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for something specific that's the real question well we know at least it looks like he was killed with his own gun and
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we know there's a sleep there was I guess I don't know that never mind I don't know that part no you don't know that from my perspective he was drunk
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off his butt and someone walked up on him and shot him with his own gun how he had said that he made that gun easier to
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shoot um like what was the spec he bragged about that thing to end and gone so I feel like I would know oh yes you
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would he he loved to talk about how great he was and how awesome his
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adventures was deliberately encouraging him on talking about how now here's the next thing is I have the Artisan
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background and I have multiple crafting abilities uh let me look at the specific things I'm good at yeah yeah I have
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artisan and I've got I've got like Forge tools uh Tinkers tools and leather
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working tools you know so I can make I do blacksmithing tinkering and yeah and so
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could I figure out by looking at the gun how it works um I mean not I'm not
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necessarily going to be as good as he was I'm not necessarily going to be level leg oh I understand this but to figure out how hard would this thing be
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to shoot okay I'm going to say it is just a pistol he designed it to be easy
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for anyone to shoot he designed it to be a new kind of firearm that was quiet and
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did not require Arcane training he has definitely talked about this gotcha I
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will note that uh tra has the pistol right now I know yeah because I saw her
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pull it out she was holding it yeah yes she had even said she wanted to bring it down here so I knew that too yeah and I
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I will also say the pistol holds four rounds and you no two rounds have been fired so there are two rounds left in it
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in case you feel like murdering anyone I guess are we back we're back in the dining car right yeah yes you if you so
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desire so that bottle that was next to him it does it still have liquid in it yeah it's maybe a third or fourth of the
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way full it doesn't have much or kid's GNA pour herself a glass okay and go I
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need a drink okay I'm not sure that's the wisest idea why oh well I'm not
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saying anything I mean is anyone doing anything
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I'm I'm currently while she's pouring herself a drink of the Dead Man's uh booze uh I'm going to like walk around
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I'm going to look he's got two slugs in him yes and the gun has been fired twice
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yes okay I'm going to look around for If he if the did the Slugs stay in his body
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can I tell I'm not a I'm not a medicinal person I'm not a doctor you already right you would have to move the
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body to see if where they hit because he is slumped over the table you cannot see
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the table you know you can't see the surface I can go under the table and look to see if anything is going through
34:12
it uh nothing has gone through the table okay I will say is is anyone doing
34:20
anything about and drinking this drink my character doesn't know anything
34:27
wrong with it no know but any wait Phil said
34:34
something I wouldn't Rec he said I wouldn't recommend that and she turned and looked at him and said why uh I mean
34:40
it could be evidence there could be something in it why would there be something in it he was shot yeah but he
34:46
was shot with his own gun with his own gun which means somebody took the gun that he had strapped to his own body and
34:52
shot him with it twice which meant he was probably pretty insensate he points at the bottle three qus of this is gone
34:59
that's enough to knock anybody I'm sorry but that man was my was possibly my
35:04
father if he was my father and he drank that little and he got drunk enough that
35:09
somebody could shoot him in the back after literally decades as a somewhat
35:14
despicable arms dealer I'm sorry I don't believe that for a second well then maybe we should test this for poison
35:21
then you're going to drink it to do that no well I don't know if any way to test it for poison puts the glass down and
35:26
says no but we should probably does anybody have any way to test it for poison just like are you drink it to Do
35:33
complete silence I mean I don't I'm going through my stuff I'm like furiously looking I
35:39
don't have it detect poison do I have detect poison come on no like I don't have any yeah no Alchemist no nothing uh
35:47
do but I took detect evil and good today instead because that'll be useful yes
35:53
well you never know who here is you don't even need to cast it you were
35:58
there in the room you know I know but I'm trying not to implicate his
36:04
wife all right I'm I'm just gonna do this at this point then uh Mr Robot I'm
36:09
sorry Blue Shield Blue Shield's your name I don't want I don't want to touch him because he was your friend and I
36:15
don't want you to be upset I do want to look to see if the bullets went through him is there any chance you could lift
36:21
him just so I could check on that without disrespect on his body he looks down at the
36:26
body just sort of Grunts and goes over and carefully lifts him up and holds him
36:33
in his arms does he have and the wounds are on his back yes yes does he have any
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on front yes you can tell the bullets are lodged in the table beneath where he
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was Ling and there's two of them there yes all right gonna look around now at the walls okay else what are investigate
36:52
Jack I'm looking to see any other gun gunshot wounds any anything else did somebody a wall are there any holes
36:59
anywhere there shouldn't be you go and look all over the cabin you try to use
37:05
you do not I'm not I'm definitely not seeing anything with that role uh but yeah this why I hate it it takes this
37:12
damn thing forever to tell you that you failed it's still not telling me okay there we go there's a seven telling me I failed uh but we we doubly failed
37:19
because it wasn't anything anyway but all right thank you um you can put them down now if you
37:25
want uh need blood stains elsewhere I guess she
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didn't really get a chance to look around before sorry okay um I will say there are no blood stains except on this
37:37
table on some of some blood has dripped down onto the carpet underneath the table you all look all over the room and
37:45
you do not see any further blood stains we're missing a little something
37:52
here I think I mean I mean Nick Nick rolled like a 25 earlier on invation and
37:58
didn't find anything so yeah it's it's been pretty thoroughly searched so the
38:04
gun could be fired by anybody you I think the part that we're missing though as as well and we should remember is
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this car was locked at 10 um the the galley half was locked there's like you
38:18
could still come in out of the car so the dining the dining room was not locked but the there's like the booze is
38:25
in a cabinet that was locked away the gley gley was locked up which is the
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G is the next car down well the G this car was not let's let's clarify that
38:36
because the galley has two cabins next to it one of which is mine yes it has like there's like a panel between the
38:43
cabins in the galley that was closed un locked so that that area was closed off
38:48
and he was found in the dining car correct in the dining car yes sitting at one of the tables sorry hold on I fig
38:55
who had the wand that did detect Magic that was the conductor okay I'm gonna ask him when when you guys are done you
39:02
do what you're doing I'll I'll ask after um I just I don't think we I asked earlier the the map of the car is it the
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train structured basically going from left to right top to bottom so car one is engine car 2 First Class Car 3 dining
39:18
car car 4 Galley yes okay um well damn that I'm not going to lie I'm at a loss
39:26
I said we have ask the conductor are there any staff that would have had a reason to walk around or is who else
39:33
does rounds other than you and of the staff uh the the chef locks up the
39:39
kitchen I make the rounds at the end of the night and in the morning the staff has cabins in the
39:45
engine well no one the that means that the murderer would have had to go by
39:52
first go through first class to get to the dining car unless they jumped off the end of the gate or jump through the
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galley or unless the motor is one of us yeah are the the train Windows openable
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uh yes yes the train windows can be open if you want to a breeze from the outside
40:09
do any of them look like partially opened or anything anything unusual uh
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no I mean Nick Roll a 25 there's yeah other than the dead body you don't see
40:22
you don't see any signs that someone has come in stomped through escaped they're
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footprint Nick saw footprints that seem to go both ways but it's there's been a lot of movement in this car since no
40:35
presume is the conductor is the conductor in the room with us right now yeah he he's just talking to us orchid's
40:41
going to like gonna look at the conductor okay while Orchid is looking at the conductor I had been meing to ask
40:47
him a question so I'm going to go ask him it now well she's she's going to ask him a question okay ahead maybe it's the
40:53
same question I don't know um but she's going to go you you took everybody's weapons right that's procedure okay but
41:01
why did you let him bring his gun on he's Egan varar he's very
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persuasive yes he is isn't he but that doesn't make any sense you
41:14
wouldn't let any of us take any of our weapons you insisted they were locked up so why if he didn't have that gun he
41:20
wouldn't be dead right now pressured me into letting him bring it aboard how is he going to pressure you it's procedure
41:28
it's Thea who has the letter right now right yep I I'm not saying anything unless you say anything I'm gonna pipe
41:36
up and uh just say that from as Talis I mean we all know Egan can be very
41:42
persuasive and even more deplorable so I wouldn't have put it past him to persuade the conductor okay um kind of
41:51
nods it Salia oh I this old thing and I throw the blackmail letter down on the uh
41:57
the table what's that uh a will note go ahead that this is a letter from the
42:04
conductor to Egan mhm telling him please
42:10
let him go let him let him live his life he's done enough I it seems that our
42:17
dear uh Egan was blackmailing the conductor really I mean to be fair I was
42:23
blackmailing Egan so there's only so much you can expect really oh at this
42:29
point why not I always want something whenever I come through Char it's he looks at the
42:36
conductor and goes well then where were you cuz you've got a reason to kill him don't you just like the everyone else
42:43
does you have something to gain out of this he wouldn't be king you anymore would he points of order I actually
42:50
gained nothing from his death in fact I actually lose quite a large sum of money so just throwing that out there talking
42:56
about the inherent and not you it's fine I'm talking to him right now and she's
43:02
looking at the conductor again and going and going where were you what's
43:08
your Alibi I was in my cabin and we had locked up the kitchen and the galley or
43:15
the galley and the the bar Egan was here Witnesses drinking I the other staff
43:23
would have seen me come in okay so where are they let's see you would know that
43:29
the probably the Ste has been through the stewards The Gnome pretty agitated
43:36
and the uh Chef would certainly have come through by now what are their opinions on whether
43:43
the conductor could have slipped into the room or not I I'm actually now thinking when would they have come in
43:49
and would they have just come in to find a dead body because no one had told them about this yeah it's like because yeah
43:58
went for a walk yeah he went for a walk and he's been dead yeah through the chef would have come
44:05
through to uh make breakfast for everyone and just been like last
44:10
customer yeah yeah so this is this is a movie it's fine that didn't happen we
44:16
just move on with our lives whilst we're all doing this I'm going to make the Insight check that it will not succeed
44:23
and will be useless but uh okay like how how confident do I feel that he's
44:29
currently telling the truth about his whereabouts I'm G try to use the computer thing let's see what happens it's probably not gonna work and even if
44:36
it does I can't even tell what it rolled cross fingers it's a four so I get
44:42
nothing he's he's just I guess he's hard to read that guy look sincere to me can
44:48
can I do an Insight check on him to since orchid's the one who's questioning him at the moment yep okay I'm that's a
44:55
22 no you believe he did go and he locked up and he went back to his cabin um so
45:03
while this is all going on was thinking to himself trying to connect the dots
45:09
and I guess the question that now appears is who would have the most to gain other than the conductor what would
45:14
I need to roll to myself to like think that um think to others that might be a
45:20
history check actually is it history or Insight history or Insight yeah let's do
45:25
history or insight I mean the the problem here is that that's going to be a matter of opinion but I'll I'll see
45:32
what I can do for you well at least if he does the history at least it would know who amongst these people is closest
45:39
to it and if it does it with Insight then it's you know just getting a feeling well 17 well I I I think as I'm
45:46
watching this unfold that just noticing that we have a the conduct uh a letter
45:52
from the conductor that you know yes now has appeared uh uh a grieving wife that
45:59
has now inherited a vast uh arms I guess Empire would be yeah and then I mean a
46:07
very cold calculated um Arthur Pim
46:12
fixer you actually found out one other thing too go ahead I mean you found out
46:18
that I might or might not be his daughter that I have an aberant I have an aberant house canth uh dragon mark on
46:25
my arm which would make make me valuable to house canth well I wouldn't know about the mark but you did say I you
46:30
knew about the mark because I said it out loud yeah and I even used it you saw me use ability yeah I'm I I'll pipe up
46:38
this one perhaps we should just go around the room and fill in the gaps yeah that at this point I don't think it
46:45
really hurts anything more so yes I was black Ming Egan I'm the one that well
46:51
and I look at uh Matt's character I'm the one that well I guess you call me
46:57
your Fairy Godmother in a in a way uh the money that your family had that came from me that was Egan's way of keeping
47:03
your mother's mouth shut little and and I'm like like you
47:10
are his I am a absolutely certain of that oh that's that's great uh the thing
47:17
that I'm laughing about is that whatever money you think you gave him to give to us he didn't we lived in the slum sure I
47:26
lived under the under style in in Sean you think he gave us any money my
47:31
concern no no I'm not saying it that's just why I'm laughing he took your money and he did something else with it oh I'm
47:38
not even remotely surprised but that makes me wonder something what's
47:44
that yeah he called me back I I went to
47:49
see him and he was like completely uninterested he rejected me out of the out of the plate and then 3 days later
47:56
suddenly he wants to get to know me and I've never figured that out and how long ago was that it was just before this
48:02
this whole trip so at this point of week he uh you remember me coming to the house um I saw you you saw me um he
48:11
shuffled me off into the servants quarters we had a brief conversation he looked at the photo the image of my
48:16
mother and him and he told me it was nothing and I didn't feel like begging
48:21
so I left and then a few days later I get a note from him to come to the this
48:27
well he didn't tell me what his intentions were uh he it'd been lovely if he told me what his intentions were
48:33
but that didn't happen relatively confident it was to get in house kth's good graces you bear the mark don't you
48:40
child I guess I take off the jack at this point and show my you can see my shoulder it's right there it's huge
48:46
you're bigger than most yeah figas you you were you were very clearly his
48:53
guaranteed way to get their attention in a positive way for his next big deal oh
48:58
that's so him I don't killing him maybe benefits people but it also disrupts
49:06
things doesn't it this whole deal with house Kenneth like that's out the window isn't it no not necessarily they they're
49:14
going to care very much about what his invention was and well the and I no
49:20
offense uh his widow still owns all of that now as well and you still exist
49:26
you're still interesting to them it doesn't really change the nature of their interests it just maybe changes
49:34
the parameters ever so slightly but what of the rest of you we we know that my
49:40
entanglement and the child's entanglement what of the rest of you now who are you looking at Talis again Talis
49:48
um bristles just a little bit but Egan and I know each other socially to my
49:56
regret oh child speak plainly what does socially mean well um Egan and I attended the
50:04
same social events and Gatherings parties of the upper class the last few
50:09
years um that's why I mainly got to know him he never sat right with me I think
50:15
that I maybe offended him but I didn't have a very high opinion of you nor he
50:21
of me then why are you jealous of him jealous oh no no no no no I don't think so I think that Egan was a money hungry
50:31
social opportunist looking to step on people at every chance he got and I'm
50:38
here not because of him but I know that I'm not here because of him directly but
50:45
I know that this train ride was important to him so what you didn't like this his no magic needed gun is that
50:51
what it is not necessarily though I do think think that the world would be better off
50:58
without another warmonger and then I'll look at the spouse and like just inoc
51:04
sincerely but smug sort of way just say respectfully of course um but no I was
51:12
not jealous of him I wanted to see him get what he wanted coming but I wanted him to be alive to so that he could be
51:19
aware of what was happening to him and how did you come to be on the same trrain uh can I do a either persuasion
51:27
or deception role and just not say which one's which Liz yeah don't don't uh don't tell me which which it is okay I
51:35
am going to okay so it's going to be a 16 and it is going to be I'm just going
51:40
to say well believe it or not I was invited uh roll and insight check to see
51:46
if you believe him yeah I would like to lend the help action since I'm sort of okay oh never
51:55
mind uh so yes tal us uh let us know whether you're telling the truth or not
52:01
I am indeed telling the truth by Egan or someone else someone else who um what
52:08
would I roll to just not say you not
52:13
say yeah yeah you just I'm not at Liberty to say I don't know if there's a role I can add to make it a little more
52:20
forceful you can do an intimidate role and just see if you can make them back
52:26
down but you do not have to say anything if you don't want 21 I'm not at Liberty to say so I guess he is pretty
52:33
intimidating I guess a question for you Liz one of the the character sheet things here I don't know if this is
52:39
still applicable so I just need to know um the loyal retainer did that conversation between
52:47
him and I still occur or did that not happen because of the decisions we made I just need to know double check see
52:54
what this says I would think it would have happened cuz in my mind if that still happened because he's the one that's been helping
53:00
me keep tabs on uh Egan him and I would have been on good terms yes you were on
53:05
good terms with him you did you did have this conversation okay so then I know for a fact that it wasn't him okay
53:14
making sure and I'll look over at uh Orchid you seem to be the odd one out a little bit
53:21
what was your entanglement with Egan I mean good choice I mean I think that's fair obvious to anybody that seen me
53:28
around over the past you know year or so how long he was sleeping with him no
53:34
actually I wasn't oh I believe that have a Truth Spell you can if you'd
53:40
like well if that's what it's going to come to and then I'll cast zone of Truth make it Christmas safe Christmas
53:47
sa can I just not make it my Charisma save is five my Charisma save is five
53:53
boy no no that's fine room has to make a Prisma save I voluntarily I voluntarily
53:59
fail yeah I'm not going to even try because yep so yeah sounds like a plan so it is a 15 foot radius sphere which I
54:06
think encompasses all of us while you're in it
54:11
yeah she's in the zone of Truth Orchid is in the zone of Truth you let me
54:17
clarify that you cannot lie but you do not have to you are not forced to speak
54:23
and you are not forced to you can be evive he looks straight at his wife and
54:32
says I never slept with him uh Phil's Phil's character would know if you saved
54:39
so did you not did you choose not to I rolled a five I did not save she did not
54:44
save no it is a if anybody would like to try to lie it is a 15 to save in the
54:50
zone of Truth uh the conductor did not save he gave me presents he gave me trinkets he' likeed to treat me like I
54:57
was somebody who is going do that with him but I wouldn't do that with him he
55:03
wasn't really my type I'm just gonna St up front I didn't kill him and I don't know who killed him why what I just
55:10
straight up jumped in and said that no didn't kill him I don't know who killed him what wait what did the wife say
55:16
sorry and why do you torment me I'm not here to torment you I'm just here to get
55:22
presents and shinies you have did you kill my husband no why would I do that
55:28
he's given me all kinds of wonderful wealthy little extravagances why would I
55:34
want to cut off my Supply well I think it might be prudent here just to go around the table and flat out stay the
55:41
statement I did not kill him I had nothing to gain from it and I assume the CLA can confirm that I have not tried to
55:48
resist his spell in any manner not it's true like I said didn't kill him don't
55:53
know who killed him Alice is gonna step in to this circle bit smugly stare at
55:59
everyone around I did not kill Egan and I definitely didn't kill Egan I mean
56:05
Kudos if you're did man that's you you wait a multitask well there's still two more that need to speak up and I and
56:11
unfortunately dear you're going to have to participate trya I did not kill my husband well Orchid you're the last uh
56:17
you've already stated it trya have you already stated an IO he stated it unless said sh I that was just going to say I
56:25
stare at the conduct the retainer by the way he has left the room did he leave did we see him leave
56:32
like he was left while we were in in this or he snu out he He Slipped Away while y'all were talking well that
56:38
settles that now doesn't it what about the retainer oh um I didn't kill him why
56:45
would I that leaves the guy who is being blackmailed let's go find him yeah the one who slipped out yeah and since he's
56:53
the one who knows how to run this well he's not the engineer here but I suspect he knows more about this train than we
56:59
do and we should probably go find him before he does something drastic yeah let's go find him though this kid
57:06
badly ah zone of truth I I had a feeling Phil took it and I was just waiting I came prepared for a
57:13
murder investigation I mean I I was already I was already leaning towards him I was just trying to get it because
57:19
like the the stuff that I got on the thoughts I'm like yeah this is this is yeah all right on the way out actually
57:25
as we as I'm passing um Phil's character sorry I can't remember his name at the moment which makes me feel really bad
57:30
for what I'm about to say gindar my man I wrote it down uh
57:36
nice also apparently I'm his daughter for real so who knows play your cards right you could get that money your Ro
57:44
back now I'm gonna try to find making friends and allies already he's
57:50
hot look at everybody else here he's hot the only one even remotely is hot is the
57:55
is the pretty girl and she's like just wants money I don't have any money yeah
58:01
do we roll investigation to see which direction he goes survival tracking does
58:07
anyone have survival for tracking because they can do that I'm also going to put the monocle to my eye and speak
58:13
the command word so I have true sight for the next 10 minutes okay and what does that give you I can see invisible
58:21
things okay that's you can see through Illusions can't you uh yeah yes true can
58:27
see in normal and magical Darkness the invisible creatures and objects automatically detect visual Illusions
58:33
and succeed on saving throws against them and perceive the original form of a shape shifter or a creature that is
58:38
transformed by Magic and also you can see into the Ethereal plane andless that change in
58:43
2024 because I'm I'm confident or has the same item yeah I was gonna say yeah
58:49
you you look around you don't see anyone invisible you do see you know what you
58:56
see about the retainer oh yeah I already knew that yeah you did and um you don't
59:03
see anyone there's anybody else in the next car is there anybody else in the next car though loc object on his key
59:09
he's like a set of keys that he was carrying around to let us in oh that's actually a good use of look object yeah
59:16
try that yeah I think so let me let me see if you have to know something about the object I mean he saw it it just say
59:23
describe name an object that is familiar to you and I watched him pull it out and I can the direction to the object's
59:29
location if it's within a th000 ft and if it's in motion I know the direction of its movement okay Bo cast uh the
59:37
spell can located spefic known to you if you have seen it up close within 30 ft yes at least once okay so I cast it
59:43
where's it where is it um yeah there's no saving throw it just happens the keys
59:49
are in the direction of the front of the train I knew he was going to go try and derilus yeah we're heading that way was
59:56
muted moving I'm assuming yeah yeah okay let's everyone's everyone's going that
1:00:02
way okay you move through the first class car and you get to the engine car
1:00:08
the door is locked is there a window I picked a look a cast
1:00:14
oh we we have three we have three different ways to get through this door I was just gonna I was going to Missy
1:00:20
step to the other side and open it do knock man you go to Missy step you do
1:00:25
the Misty step the door opens you're like use my Misty step man I can do that
1:00:30
will so it's the fine for me so so who is who is doing what are you are you all
1:00:37
doing this at the same time I was planning just walk in so once the door opens I just walk in yeah I think I
1:00:43
think I think I think uh I think it all kind of happens at the same time without uh because we didn't communicate with
1:00:48
each other probably the fastest yeah you're going to get the knock spell before you
1:00:54
can pick the lock so there a loud loud noise and the door pops open in the
1:01:01
meantime Celia has Misty stepped to the other side of the door um you are in the
1:01:08
engine compartment up to towards the front is a lot of machinery and there are two there are some small cabins on
1:01:16
either side do I see the conductor uh you do not but one of the cabin doors is
1:01:23
you might want me to go ahead of you yes indeed I'm going to go look in that room
1:01:29
I'm just going to make sure that concentration the concentration rules didn't change today uh no I don't think
1:01:35
so is you you need to maintain concentration on any spell that requires it but if you take damage it can break
1:01:43
your concentration and uh you can't cast another concentration spell while you're
1:01:48
holding concentration but you can cast other spells is Blue Shield still with us no blue no
1:01:57
no we left him holding a body okay yeah F did anyone
1:02:03
did I mean he don't need orders uh trya did you ask him to stay with uh Egan
1:02:10
okay then he's he's back there he's still holding the body kind of messed up because that's that's just what we need
1:02:15
a giant angry War forged that's why I'm asking in an room probably not the best
1:02:21
idea anyway so it's all good all right so what do we what do we see in the open room
1:02:26
yeah the conductor is sitting on a narrow bed there's a window behind it
1:02:32
the window's closed there's a little desk he's just sitting there his head in his hands who
1:02:38
was he was never going to stop he was never going to leave me alone probably
1:02:45
not there was there wasn't a way out he looks up at everyone there's always a
1:02:51
way going to find one now the problem is I mean I you know
1:02:56
somebody was going to notice You' killed him I mean what you think was going to happen you might you might have gotten away with it for a little while but
1:03:03
eventually someone was going to keep talking and asking and looking until they found you right I mean you knew
1:03:09
that there were plenty of people on this train who had a reason to hate Egan B and there are more off this train I mean
1:03:15
that's that's a fair point you invited Talis no no I invited tal why ever would
1:03:22
you do that why didn't you ask him who did it right front everybody I I I literally I literally say that they're
1:03:28
sleeping together obviously yeah we are who looks at tal
1:03:34
sorry dear dirty laundry at this point just at this point it's water under the
1:03:40
bridge I mean well we have options don't suppose I don't suppose there's anybody really bespa evil we could frame for
1:03:48
this I don't do we have any ma murderers no Trey Trey is GNA pull out gun and
1:03:56
make sure it's trained firmly on the conductor I cyia will actually put her hand on
1:04:03
your shoulder the suffering is much more if you let them Live dear oh I have no
1:04:08
intention of killing him unless he tries something Fair Point uh this is Way
1:04:14
Beyond me um I grew up in dirt girl in the in the slums everybody telling me I
1:04:20
wasn't a dwarf turns out I wasn't a dwarf by the way broke my heart um
1:04:25
that's a little obvious darling well except that my mom was a dwarf you're taller than I yes but my mom was a dwarf
1:04:32
and I didn't I had a growth spurt I didn't I looked like any other child until I suddenly looked like this
1:04:39
uh I know and I I turned to a a t um I know you loved him I know you did uh I
1:04:46
feel really bad I didn't feel bad before I would be completely honest with you if you told me like two days ago that him
1:04:53
being dead would bother me wouldn't have believed you I would like it noted that while this is happening my eyes are firmly on the
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conductor if you if you shoot him or do anything like that you know then people
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are GNA say you killed Egan too and I know's just sitting there and I know you don't want that and also I know look at
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him I don't think he's going to pose a threat or try to escape are you gonna try to escape I'll make a persuasion check if I have to what what the point
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be I don't know I could escape and fall onto the tracks there's nowhere to go oh
1:05:25
I wouldn't let you die I'd catch you and bar you back here before you die it again you're not allowed to die so you
1:05:31
going to let us tie you up and uh is there a brg on this train this is little room I'll stay in
1:05:39
the I'll stay in the room I'll watch him um I'll like walk over so that I'm blocking the window with my body if
1:05:44
somebody else wants to watch him fine I don't I don't think we need to the war Forge but I think they're
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probably the most likely want to kill him Forge is a very bad idea yeah right
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now you know that's why she looks at she she looks she looks at uh you car she
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looks at the dwarf the very very tall dwarf you know actually I I think you're
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probably the best person to watch over and I I understand feeling used by the
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man I'll turn to to trya perhaps we should go talk with blue shield and um
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that could get rather Messy as we leave the train I don't think he needs to know until after this man is proper in the
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hands of the authorities well done and it is getting close to time for the AR
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uh for the train to arrive in Fair Haven so uh the engineers are at the far end of the train at somebody go tell them
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since the conductor won't be able to yeah I'll I'll go ahead and CIO will go and and tell the rest of
1:06:46
them like tell them what happened he confessed basically that he confess and we're going to be taking them into the
1:06:51
authorities and they now are in charge of getting this train safely to the destination I mean they're they're
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pretty shocked they don't really believe it but also this is not their job they're here to drive the train and make
1:07:04
sure it's safe and stays on the rails and you know that the elemental driving it doesn't run away or whatever do I get
1:07:11
any point where everybody leaves and I'm alone with him depends on what everyone else wants to do yeah orid goes back to
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like her train car to actually put some clothes on and get out of like the robe that
1:07:24
she's been like change from her pajamas into real clothing I I don't I don't think I
1:07:30
really would leave I think I would be keeping an eye on it because this is this is leverage and this is something
1:07:37
that if anything happens to him uh it is worse for trya which is worse for me
1:07:44
because I'm going to try to broker a deal so I'm just kind of lingering when when you're lingering if it's just you
1:07:50
at this point or if tra and you I Turn to You and say no offense but I do not want want you to hear what I'm going to
1:07:56
tell him so move out on at his sight so I can delude myself into thinking that you don't hear it we we should ask we
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move as gindar and Talis where I should ask gindar and Talis what are you doing have
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you are you GNA leave them here uh I mean I don't care if jar stays yeah if it looks like the two of them are gonna
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stay this uh looks like it's neatly wrapping up Jinder is probably going to go get dressed for the day
1:08:25
go back to his own quarters um Talis is gonna go back to his quarters because I mean his his biggest op is dead and they
1:08:34
found the murderer so there's he's Joker without Batman and then uh as uh Matt's
1:08:43
character uh as uh K jarn says that to me you hear laughing like broken glass
1:08:50
uh which is probably like the most emotive thing you've heard for me it's like as you wish child as you wish and
1:08:56
I'll just kind of H like duck out a around from the door and just I'm leaning against the other side of the
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door jam oh look all right man I don't I don't I've been to war so I've SE I've
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seen people die a lot I don't condone you murdering them but if there's any
1:09:12
point in this whole sad thing where you get to get someone come up and say you
1:09:18
know they didn't do this just because he's he's an evil man he did this because of this if you need anyone who
1:09:24
can tell people to take it easy on you just tell him to call me get your get
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your Advocate to come find me I'll do that for you I I know what it's like to be used by this man thank you but I'm
1:09:36
not saying I can do much I I did what I did oh I know I don't I don't know that
1:09:42
I regret it he was he was a repulsive man I but even repulsive men leave holes
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behind you know I always wanted him I wanted him to be my da and he wasn't he
1:09:58
was he made me but he didn't ironic he made me house conth uh he didn't want me
1:10:05
I am really sorry I I am sorry that this happened to you I still can't say I'm sorry I I'm not not looking for that
1:10:12
unfortunately I got to go stand against the window now you can come in and and and act like you're not listening but I
1:10:17
know you heard all of it um window heard what my dear
1:10:25
uh so yes the train is gradually pulling into the station at Fair Haven um the
1:10:32
steward has run out way too rapidly probably while the train is still
1:10:38
slowing down to grab the authorities and deal with this they're uh more than a
1:10:43
little frazzled there's uh not usually dead bodies on the train there are stains on the carpet that they are
1:10:50
probably going to have to get out and blood and easy man uh no it's
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not I mean come on and uh that wraps that up the conductor does not put up a
1:11:01
fight and there you have it that is our murder mystery I was actually concerned
1:11:08
that y'all weren't going to get there I had uh I actually made a number of very good roles with him yeah but you the
1:11:16
thing that tipped it is when I when I was getting the the thoughts and like I
1:11:21
like he shot up to the top of the list like what's going to happen next what's going to happen next that being the next
1:11:26
thought it's like it's like that is way too uncontrolled and I'm like okay but
1:11:32
how do I tip this how do I how do I push on it right with you think he was doing he was
1:11:40
the killer I had no idea I I realized that he had let him have the gun and
1:11:46
that was just kind of weird why started asking about it because I was like Egan
1:11:52
that was because of the blackan he yeah Egan had been blackma maing him for quite a while and
1:11:58
this black mail once the blackmailing becomes obvious then you know he does become a suspect so yeah yeah and then
1:12:05
he just got shade here I'm just sad that I didn't get my little epilogue where I could hit on gindar
1:12:12
again I mean if if you if you want to role play Walking Down the platform you
1:12:18
certainly may it's actually extremely funny that c TR did that like day one because that removed yeah in the little
1:12:26
background pack it's like the the business partner is basically suspect numero Udo because they would the last
1:12:32
person alive yep yep yep joh lito made you a nice Alibi uhuh it's like you know
1:12:41
it was either you or or Talis and Talis was not impressing me well tal Talis was
1:12:47
already entangled yeah I know but I didn't know that yeah yeah well I knew
1:12:52
he was entangled I just was I was bored lonely and as I said I was I said
1:12:58
something like I'm I'm I'm young I've got daddy issues and you're the hottest thing on let's go very good Jo Joan that
1:13:05
Insight check that they had treya make when you were um flirting with Talis was
1:13:12
because Orchid was glaring daggers at you it's really kind of funny because
1:13:17
you thought she was sleeping with your man and you were trying to sleep with her man no I wasn't trying I was trying
1:13:24
to make from her perspective she never slept in the car like very SLE didn't know that yeah it
1:13:34
was just a sugar daddy situation though it was just a give me all the goodies okay cool I'm not putting out for you
1:13:40
because you're repulsive frankly also also can we just we could just appreciate that Mitch's dice made it so
1:13:46
that you know the butler did it basically yeah I yeah I did well if the butler did it that would have been the
1:13:51
retainer but um who got smack I asked I asked Mitch I asked Mitch to roll for
1:13:58
the murderer because I figured that was the most hilarious way to decide who the murderer was and uh he kind of had his
1:14:04
cat roll the dice and uh that was fantastic it landed on it landed on the conductor and so I want to ask your
1:14:11
opinion do you think it was more interesting to have an NPC that had done it or to have a player who had done it
1:14:17
because I wasn't really sure honestly yes because I suspected allos frankly I was at first I was like
1:14:24
it has to one of us right so like the fact that it actually ended up being an
1:14:29
NPC was pretty entertaining yeah that that actually cost me off guard because I assumed that it would be one of us so
1:14:36
that's very because yeah the way this is set up is that there are eight character archetypes that your character can fall
1:14:43
into and any of those can be the murderer all of them have motives for murder all of them have suspicious
1:14:50
things about them anyone any of you could have killed him but uh the dice made the decision so I thought it would
1:14:58
have been interesting it would have been different if it were a player it would have been different also would be fun to
1:15:04
run it in the other scenario yeah this was like a really cool little scenario was this like a a a a booklet thing or
1:15:11
whatever you call it this this is not an officially published through Wizards of
1:15:16
the Coast this is a published Adventure though called Murder on the Eon Express that you can sear and find on yes there
1:15:24
there is existing structure that I have been working with and uh you can find it on the DM's Guild if anyone is
1:15:30
interested in running it I thought it was really interesting and fun and you could keep running it and it would be
1:15:36
different every time uh yeah yeah you could have accidentally
1:15:42
destroyed the train you could have there are all sorts of things that could have done there could have been a second murder depending on how things had gone
1:15:50
so I'm kind of going to be sad that we're not going to have any more adventures with these people
1:15:55
that's that's the thing you know ENT trya is totally going to adopt you as
1:16:02
the daughter that Egan never gave her and I'm gonna feel so bad for you
1:16:07
and I'm and I'm totally gonna and I and uh CA would totally try to be the new business partner and help trya uh you
1:16:16
know with the the cold calculated nature because she really like that bloodthirsty Vengeance want to get out
1:16:23
of the weapons business first of all yeah kid is going to basically try and
1:16:28
take Talis like keep Talis as because he's highly entertaining as far as she's
1:16:33
concerned right but go see if she can find another sugar daddy that's mutually
1:16:38
beneficial to them both I have to find someone tal has to find someone else to hate on there's
1:16:45
yeah the big the biggest hater that he devoted himself to being I really wanted
1:16:51
to be the one who did it dang well like the scholar he's perfect
1:16:57
he wants he it's he wants him to suffer but not him to die but in the eyes of most people that's more than enough and
1:17:04
it leans it leans in with Liz what you were saying earlier it's like is it more interesting that it was an NPC yeah 100%
1:17:11
because everyone's first interaction is going to be all right look at the across the table from you who done it which one
1:17:17
of you did it yeah wasn't any of us though I I still love that we went
1:17:23
down to get the robot and the robot yeah the robot the robot just straight
1:17:28
up slapping that what was that that was great you were saying something John um
1:17:34
oh yeah you all you all were very convincing in uh the fact that you're so
1:17:39
convincing when you were saying how you hadn't done it that I was actually start
1:17:45
I actually started to suspect one of the NPCs early on yeah fair point I I didn't
1:17:50
I didn't know I knew I didn't do it I was like you made your case I I really I really like the characters
1:17:57
too like I thought they were the archetypes were really fun I I enjoyed uh getting to do this a little bit more
1:18:04
and be that that sort of cold Steely stuff that was fun so I will say for the record that it never mattered if I
1:18:11
rolled deception or persuasion because I have a plus eight in both of them yeah mine are plus seven in both very nice I
1:18:19
don't know how good I am at those actually h no my persuasion is not bad my persuasion is like a
1:18:26
I like that Orchid is that pers in both of those and then just critically failed the zone of
1:18:32
Truth yeah so we're we kind of gone what gone over what everyone is doing next
1:18:38
but uh what about gindar what's gindar doing after former business partner is dead
1:18:44
well the thing is now Jinder can go into business for himself because the person who had the competing gun design is not
1:18:49
dead and the things stashed in gindar uh very carefully stashed in gindar is a
1:18:55
designed for basically the same pistol on the other hand there's always a possibility you could end up running
1:19:00
this one there is although treya sounds like she wants to get out of the weapons business but that's okay we can remain
1:19:06
friends you know I did I did go on and we all did Rolls about what kind of DCs
1:19:11
it would be for things that might be hidden in your cabin and we never searched a single cabin going to say
1:19:17
that was the other thing was like I I I had one of the scholars notebooks stashed in my cabin
1:19:26
there were a wide variety of incriminating or suggestive things in everyone's cabin that I went down the
1:19:33
entire list of players saying okay roll for how well you've hidden this and we
1:19:39
never searched a single cabin no oh yeah I had the hammer one thing that I rolled
1:19:44
poorly on I ended up pulling out voluntarily yeah the one the one that I
1:19:50
guess might have been incriminating was the one I hid and the one that was just a connection I left that out in the but it's a photo of j a picture of gindar
1:19:58
and Egan from back of the day with the ice queen visible in the background yeah I was uh I was going to
1:20:04
totally 100% try to uh play off not knowing you the entire time cuz you know
1:20:11
complications that's awesome but I think I think that's gonna do it right yeah I
1:20:17
think so that is indeed the end of our adventure um it was very fun it was a very interesting adventure and it's uh
1:20:24
you know I thought we would run an adventure to try out the new Dungeons and Dragons Rule and then I picked out
1:20:29
the least conventional kind of Adventure but at least we got in a short combat encounter there so uh it's been very
1:20:37
interesting to see how this plays and to play a game that's a little different even though it is on the stock D and D
1:20:44
rules I gota be up front uh before this I had no idea why anyone would play a
1:20:49
saror they were not very they really they're really cool in 2024 yeah they were not that good before but 2024 the
1:20:56
thing you can use them for you can do all these different things with it like do the shielding thing I can I can use a
1:21:01
second win charge to add a d8 to uh a skill role that I failed it's a lot
1:21:07
going on there now I'm actually I might play one in something at some point all right well I guess with that Liz why
1:21:14
don't you take us out well I want to thank all of you for playing it has been very fun getting to know all of your
1:21:20
characters it has been very fun running this murder mystery and uh I hope we can get back together
1:21:27
and do some more games yeah me too me too you are awesome Liz thank you that
1:21:32
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