Tyrant of the Dark Star 2.11 - Sabotage!

Episode 11 February 05, 2025 01:13:32
Tyrant of the Dark Star 2.11 - Sabotage!
Goblets and Gays - A Pathfinder 2e Podcast
Tyrant of the Dark Star 2.11 - Sabotage!

Feb 05 2025 | 01:13:32

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The Anathema have made their first big action as a group, fighting off the wayward automatons in Clockwork Halls. Gravewing checks in with Finnean, the leader of the Union to get more information.

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Cast: Game Master - Aubrey | Alouette (She/Her) - Farris | Eurideux (He/They) - Dusty | Gravewing (She/Her) - Aki | Nihil (He/Him) - Tick | Laeth (She/Any) - Alyssa | Alistair (He/Him) - Sparlock  

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[00:00:43] Speaker A: Waking up dreaming dark so long I cannot find meaning hold my hand let me stay by your side through this never ending night I can feel it now it holds me all the these demons always roam me in this red light because me he is reaching out, consuming. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Hello everybody, and welcome back to Tyrant of the Dark Star. I'm Aubrey, your gm. I'll introduce my players, who they are, who they're playing, and then we'll get rolling into things. [00:01:39] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Maki. My friend is a she her and I play Gravewing, the Nagaji sylph, vigilante monk slash air kineticist who also uses she her pronouns, and she is the party mom slash strategist of the Rebellion. [00:01:57] Speaker D: Hello, Hello, I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they, them, and I play Leith Idrisi iv, the matricidal, Dampier, dandy, rogue and spymaster who uses she. Any pronouns? [00:02:10] Speaker E: Hello, I am Dusty. I use they he pronouns and I'm playing Yurido, just Yurido. Still, they are our Nephilim cursed boy of a problem. They are going to be the party and the Rebellion's firebrand, and they also use they he pronouns. [00:02:31] Speaker F: Hello, I am Faris, I use she her pronouns and I am playing Alouette Valer, a totally normal Nephilim thaumaturge bard, having a very normal and good time learning all about her way more cursed family. She also uses she her pronouns and is the anathema partisan. [00:02:49] Speaker G: Hello, I am Sparlock, and both me and my character use he him pronouns. I'm going by Alistair Whiskerfield, wizard detective extraordinaire, heir to the fine distinguished family of wizard mice, Ratzerts, Esoki, arcanists. I swear I was always aware of it. I keep my whiskers to the ground to uncover the truth of the powers that be who subjugate us. By which I mean I'm our recruiter. [00:03:22] Speaker H: And hello to round off the group. I am Tick, I have he, she, they, pronouns. And today you'll be playing Nile, a flesh warp sorcerer who is just a totally ordinary cook and quartermaster for the group and definitely not a cannibal. Parentheses, he's a cannibal, but it's a dietary restriction, so don't be too mean to him. [00:03:40] Speaker B: So, who wants to tell me what happened last time? [00:03:44] Speaker H: So last time on Goblets and Gays, we went down to the clockwork district to meet not one of Yuri's exes and we kind of gathered into a secret room with a lot of secret codes and anti scrying devices to be like, hey, so, Leith, your sister's coming back, huh? Are we gonna kidnap her? Are we gonna fake her death? Are we gonna, like, in quotation, I was like, we gotta save her. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Right? [00:04:07] Speaker H: We're kind of planning what we're gonna do about Leith's sister, who is the other autistic person in this group. I'm just saying that now. Good for her. And as we're kind of plotting and planning exactly what we're gonna do. Oh, no. The robots attacked a lot of clockwork automatons that were being very quirky, kind of rolled up and were like, hey, we're gonna choose some violence today. And we beat them up. We killed them. We murdered the poor robots, which, honestly, worst thing I've ever done. I feel really bad about it. And so our first, I guess, heroic deed as the anathema has been cemented as we all wore cool maths and kicked the shit out of robots and saved everyone. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, we're gonna pretty much pick up right there. You have. The robots are down. You know, they're scrap metal at this point, so. And people are looking at you, and there are people, like, not in a bad way there. You just did save a bunch of people. [00:05:06] Speaker E: We should clean this up. Where do they come from? Where they do. They come from a specific location, just like, kind of like looking around. And I guess maybe we should describe what our masks look like also. [00:05:21] Speaker F: Oh, we can do that. First, the person who went through the window. I would like to check them out. [00:05:25] Speaker E: Good call. [00:05:26] Speaker F: I want to make sure citizens have not been hurt. [00:05:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't believe we have officially said out loud what our masks look like, so. Yeah, go. Everybody wants to go around and see what your mask looks like. Yes. [00:05:41] Speaker E: Since I'm already talking, I did give full creative control to Alessa Laith to make Yuri's mask, which it's basically like a luchador mask, so leaves, like, the. The mouth mostly uncovered, but where's. It's a lucid mask. It's red, right? Red with, like, gold trimming on it or something like that. And if you don't know what a luchador mask, it's like, think like Spider Man's mask, kind of how that goes over someone's head. But the mouth is cut up, so you can, like, see their mouth and their eyes don't have, like, the things over them, like visors or whatever. And it kind of like, ties on the top so it doesn't interfere with the horns. [00:06:32] Speaker H: Okay. Nile's mask is definitely more horrifying than every anything typically it has three mouth like shapes, almost tapered, like if a worm's mouth could open. And all you can really see at first is a mass of teeth and mouths. But once you kind of look closer, it looks like three individual mouths kind of placed in a triangle shape, pointing outwards. Almost as if those mouths are looking around in every direction. They're not moving or anything. It just looks kind of creepy. Also, it's kind of like purpley blackish. [00:07:06] Speaker G: Color, like Batman, like 90s era with the. [00:07:15] Speaker B: The full. [00:07:16] Speaker G: With the full body head tilt suit meshed with a Mickey Mouse hat. [00:07:25] Speaker I: Alouette's mask is a half mask. [00:07:30] Speaker F: Horizontal, not phantom, which has like a little bit of like a, you could call it like a beak over the nose and a lot of like swirly markings and then a little floof of feathers off of one side. [00:07:52] Speaker I: So it's a little asymmetrical. [00:07:55] Speaker F: Oh, and it's like red and other colors, red and black. And I don't remember the other color. [00:08:04] Speaker D: Lace. This is also half face covering sort of her eye region. It is gold and vaguely in the shape of a fox. But there are too many eyes and you can't really tell which ones align with her actual human eyes. [00:08:25] Speaker C: Lastly, moth. Moth. So Graveling had a look beforehand, but Graveling didn't have money. So a lot of Graveling's looks have things that are similar. Like for example, she will always have some sort of orangey tinted, like orangey reddish tinted glass or something that would cover where the eyes are. That is like a part of her little staple. But in this case, because we got. We do have money and very nice resources for these masks. Grave Wing has asked for something that opens up in the middle so it could be worn three ways, one covering the entire face, the other the way it is right now, where it only covers the top half of the face. And if she were to remove the top half of the face, one that covers the bottom half of the face so it kind of collects together nicely. And as she kind of clicks up the bottom part again, so that way she's wearing the full mask in view. I think the best way to describe it is. It is. It looks very similar to the Firelights mask from Arcane, except the motifs are more like the full moth, like with the wings kind of coming a bit at the side, but stylized to be way more aerodynamic than it should be. So it's like if you see it from the side view, you can be like, oh, those are. Oh, it makes like wings kind of vibe. It's mostly it matches what a corpse moth's color should be. And I argue that is Volcarona, the Pokemon. And pretty much that's. That's what you. That's what you get right now. One of those fun ones. I feel like. I feel like, though Brave Wing has had a long enough steady career as a masked vigilante for people to pick up on. Oh, wait a minute. [00:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I think you're the only one they would recognize. And then there'd be a little bit of confusion because you're not running with your usual people. [00:10:55] Speaker H: You're a different squad for now. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Not a single fucking bug in sight here. [00:11:01] Speaker B: No bugs. Alouettes. Yeah. If you rush towards the window where the person was thrown through, you'll see the people inside are actively giving them first aid. [00:11:13] Speaker F: Okay. [00:11:14] Speaker I: Do they. [00:11:16] Speaker F: You know what? We're having a moment here. I think I'll climb through the window and also use the. The healer's touch from the healer's gloves. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:30] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Do you want to roll that real. [00:11:38] Speaker I: So that's gonna be. [00:11:40] Speaker F: Oh, a lot. [00:11:43] Speaker I: 16. 16. Vitality. [00:11:47] Speaker F: And it does not harm. [00:11:49] Speaker I: Undead. [00:11:51] Speaker F: This person was undead. [00:11:54] Speaker B: They. They start looking a lot better in this, like, you're guessing partner. Something. They seem to be very, very concerned over this person. They look up at you and they just go, thank you. [00:12:05] Speaker I: Of course she has to help. [00:12:13] Speaker B: You know, they turn back and they're, like, just checking on this person. Currently that's. They're. They want to ask more questions, but currently they're very focused on making sure this person is okay. What is everyone else doing during this time? [00:12:28] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm still, like, kind of, like, asking around, maybe closer to the shop owner. Like, where did they come from? Did they just. Because, like, they don't look like they are working here in this district. Right. Or, like, maybe, like. [00:12:41] Speaker B: No, they would be from this district. [00:12:43] Speaker E: Okay. [00:12:44] Speaker B: They're not like, patrol. They. These would, like, the. There was the brew robots. Those were. Probably worked in an inn somewhere. And then the other ones probably worked in one of the factories. [00:12:53] Speaker E: Right. I'm drunk. [00:12:58] Speaker C: I'm not. [00:13:00] Speaker E: You should talk. [00:13:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I. I think. I mean, I saw. I don't think I saw you. I didn't see you drink anything because you were, like, over there and I was on the other end of the field. But I think if I see you, like, stumbling and stuff, I will. I'll. I will get up from this automatom corpse. Sorry. That's not bad. I feel kind of. I mean, it's kind of a cool. Cool, like, cold Open. Not gonna lie, but I'll go over to Yuri, kind of. Kind of put an arm. Not necessarily in front of your face, but like, I don't want to. I don't want to touch you, but I will get your attention and just continue. Like. [00:13:50] Speaker I: One second. [00:13:51] Speaker C: I gotta think. I gotta think. How to formulate thoughts. [00:13:54] Speaker G: Well, they're thinking. I would like to spend a minute to investigate these corpses is not the right word, but I would like to pursue to help solve the case of these mystery evil automatons. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Give me perception check. [00:14:26] Speaker G: Absolutely. [00:14:29] Speaker B: And yeah, Grave Wing. There would be somebody in the crowd, actually. How much time would you have spent in Clockwork Halls? [00:14:42] Speaker C: Ah, that's tricky because I feel like unions. Great. Like, Grave Wing would support unions, but not be a part of it solely because she's freelance, basically. I. I don't. No, actually, realistically, I feel like. I feel like out of any of the bugs that would be here, it would have been Yellowjacket. I feel like he's way more the bug to be. But. But as a collective, the bugs have been all over this city. [00:15:24] Speaker B: So I was more of like, would you recognize the leader of the Clockwork Union, you think? [00:15:30] Speaker C: I feel like. Yeah. I feel like if it's like. For a leader is like a big face, I feel like the big faces I would recognize for sure. And then only in specific areas. Like Salvation wrote. I recognize the little guys because that's where I'm mostly at. [00:15:47] Speaker B: So, yeah. You see this gnome push his way to the front of this crowd? He is wearing a dirty apron and clothes covered in soot stains and oil. And he's got his bright purple hair sort of pushed back with a pair of goggles. And he sees you and he goes, oh, thank God you're all right. And you recognize Finian Schmidt, the leader of the Clockwork Union. [00:16:20] Speaker C: I give him a nod and be like, well, it's good to see that you're up and running. Sorry about the mess. [00:16:28] Speaker B: Oh, no. This is literally not your fault. [00:16:33] Speaker C: Do you know who it is? [00:16:35] Speaker B: No, we're still trying to figure that out. Yeah, the three points to the. Like the constructor bots and say those went missing from one of our factories last night. [00:16:49] Speaker C: Got any leads on that or just still on it? Working on it. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Working on it. Unfortunately, investigation isn't my purview usually. And I don't trust any of the actual guards to investigate it. [00:17:04] Speaker C: Lucky for you, I didn't bring cops. And I gesture to Alistair, the Great Mouse detective. You gotta trust me on this. He's a conspiracy theorist, but he's good. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So, Alistair, you rolled a 23. These. All of these have been obviously tampered with. Somebody has like removed the. Like the. Essentially turned this thing into a killing machine, you know, essentially removed any. If it were code protocols that would stop it from attacking people. Things put into place essentially saying that these things aren't going to attack people, you know, that they're just going to do their jobs. Anything that is of that has been removed. [00:17:58] Speaker G: I will announce this in a very grave way. [00:18:07] Speaker H: Mr. Great Mouse Detective. [00:18:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:11] Speaker H: Can you tell when they've been tampered with approximately? [00:18:17] Speaker G: Well, from listening to the gnome before last night, but can I tell from. [00:18:22] Speaker B: What I've seen, yes. Specifically, these would have been. I mean, not with that role specifically. It was recent. But, you know, the. The gnome did just say that the. The three of them were missing from the factory last night. [00:18:37] Speaker G: This is very complex work too. There's not. There can't be too many people in the city that are able to do this, even in the clockwork area. Do actually, perhaps Yerido might know a little bit better since you have the. You seem to know the area a little bit better than I do. Like I. I do some crafting, but less involved with automatons. Do you know anything about anyone with. I guess I'll actually generally ask the room since there's also that gnome who might have the expertise to do this type of work. [00:19:37] Speaker B: The gnome will look at you and just say, there's like a hundred of us in the district. It's hard to pin down. [00:19:45] Speaker G: A hundred is a whole lot less than however many people live in the city. [00:19:52] Speaker B: But we shouldn't have this conversation here. Just in case the guards come by. [00:19:57] Speaker E: We should get this cleaned up. [00:20:00] Speaker B: I'll have people clean it up. [00:20:02] Speaker E: Do you have a place we could talk? [00:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. There's a tea shop near my house. [00:20:09] Speaker D: Blaith has been sort of hanging back a little bit in the shadows. Can I look into the craftspeople or dallies and see if anyone has been either like, watching with like a more, I guess, intent interest, or has like, run away, led the scene? [00:20:29] Speaker B: Sure, yeah. Give me a. Give me a perception check. Does this person want to see their work, you know, play out? [00:20:38] Speaker D: Exactly. Because they were so intent on making it 22. [00:20:42] Speaker B: 22. Yeah. You don't notice anyone, especially because after the whole thing is done, you watch as people start like they're not necessarily dispersing. But there are other members of the union that are like, trying to get them to disperse because it's like guards will come by because unfortunately no matter what the union can do, there will still be guards in the district. So they, they definitely, they don't want any of this getting out. So they will clean up their own mess and you know, try keep as much of it away from guards because I don't want them to essentially get any excuse for any more observance. Yeah. And if you all follow, Finian will lead you to a. A tea house that's near his home. It's a graven. You've probably been there before. It's. It's a small little place, it's homely, you know, there are a lot of people drinking tea and coffee at the end of. End of a work day. And Finian will stop by and mention many people by name, like talk to them and shake their hand to make sure they're okay. As he leads you into a room in the back and closes the door behind all of you and says we'll be good to talk in here. [00:22:24] Speaker E: How we heard around and this was happening. How long exactly has this been happening? [00:22:30] Speaker B: For almost four weeks. Where we thought to just the first week or so, like once or twice a week. First ones are just built incorrectly, but you know, occasionally things. One is, you know, an accident, multiple or a pattern. [00:22:58] Speaker H: Did anything change before this started to happen? Anyone get a promotion? Get a demotion? Any potential motives? [00:23:07] Speaker B: I've been asking around trying to figure that out, but honestly I'm one person, you know, head of this entire union. We have hundreds of people who work under us, so it's. It's hard to say, but I don't know. [00:23:30] Speaker D: You said that some of them were from your factory. Is it the first time that your factory has been hit? Where are they coming from? [00:23:40] Speaker B: Yes, those were the first ones that went from my factory. I thought I had a security on it just to make sure nothing happened, but there's seven or eight factories here operating at any one time, so. [00:23:59] Speaker I: And the other ones, where did they come from? [00:24:02] Speaker B: I believe they were brewer bots from one of the. The nearby inns. [00:24:08] Speaker E: They definitely were. [00:24:10] Speaker I: Oh, not the ones today. I mean the ones from previous. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Oh, they came from different factories. [00:24:17] Speaker E: Two. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Two of them were actually are prototype guard models. Those hadn't even been shown to the public yet. We were gonna save those for the festival of invention next year. [00:24:35] Speaker G: How many people know about the secret models? [00:24:41] Speaker B: It's not really secret, but incredibly. But there's like 50 or 60 people have worked on them. [00:24:47] Speaker E: How many people have Access to. [00:24:49] Speaker B: To them. There were like 20 people who had access to them. 60 people worked on them. And I cleared everybody who. Who worked on them. [00:25:00] Speaker E: Where were those worked on? Was it your factory? [00:25:03] Speaker B: Not my factory. We had one of. My second in command had the proper facilities for was his factory. [00:25:15] Speaker G: How did you clear that? [00:25:18] Speaker B: We investigated everyone. I mean, background checks. Background. Background checks. Checked their homes, you know, interviewed people as much as we can. We're not investigators and we didn't want to get the guards involved. Oh. [00:25:37] Speaker I: Investigators either. [00:25:40] Speaker E: Sounds like someone is, you know, keeping a very clean plate for someone else is. What's the word? Sorry. One of those things maybe Drink a pint of beer in five seconds. [00:25:58] Speaker I: Cousins. [00:26:00] Speaker B: Some tea will sort you out. [00:26:02] Speaker E: Yes, please. Someone's the mastermind behind all of this. [00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it could be. All I know is that the senators and everyone have been upping their pressure for us to essentially dissolve the union. [00:26:26] Speaker E: Yeah, please, that hurts. From I heard around. If you want, for the time being, if you go talk to Steinhardt, the veter over a couple doors down, they can maybe get some more people to help keep an eye out for this. I would like to, if possible, go to the factories, even with someone as a guide, just so we could take a look. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Question. [00:27:06] Speaker G: Sorry, you. You say that they're pressuring you to dissolve the union. Are all of the factories that have been hit led by the union? [00:27:20] Speaker B: Every factory in this district is in the union. [00:27:24] Speaker G: And which of the senators are spearheading the pressure campaign? [00:27:31] Speaker B: The ones from essentially most. The ones on this side of the side of the city. The ones from Silver Court Point district, Emerald Reach, Twilight Grove and Ash district. [00:27:44] Speaker D: The Scriabin senator and also the people at the harvest festival. [00:27:49] Speaker B: Yeah, the nobles aren't exactly a fan of us. [00:27:58] Speaker E: Anything for them to get more power, right? [00:28:02] Speaker B: Of course. There's like a knock on the door. He goes over and he takes a tray of tea and sets it on the table for everyone. [00:28:14] Speaker F: Does video have anything like. [00:28:17] Speaker I: How is he dressed? [00:28:19] Speaker F: Is there anything about him that speaks to recent wealth? [00:28:26] Speaker B: No. He is wearing dirty old overalls that are stained with oil and soot. His shirt is also oil and soot stained. The apron itself has been mended in many places by hand. And you can see his tools all show wear. And you know, his is, you know, his hair is pushed back by a set of pair of goggles. [00:28:55] Speaker E: Has there been anyone within the workers saying that maybe agreeing with these senators. [00:29:06] Speaker B: We occasionally get people who think it would be better if, you know, they. Sometimes people get the Idea in their head they're going to earn more money. [00:29:15] Speaker I: Have other. Anyone who might have had access. Go ahead. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Some of them maybe. We always try to keep a good eye on them, but most of them, they run the businesses. [00:29:29] Speaker I: Is there anyone who has worked at all of these factories that is perhaps down on the luck financially? [00:29:37] Speaker B: Honestly, I'm unsure yet again. It's hundreds of people that I have to keep track of. I can give you all the information, but I. Unfortunately I'm pulled in eight separate directions on a good day. Yeah. [00:29:57] Speaker E: I think. Well, listen to all this. I think Yuri gets like a pensive moment. Is that them sobering up? It's hard to say, but definitely is like. Like more kind of like now to the. The group saying this is just me. I would like to. If anyone else had better ideas, but I think maybe we should check out a couple of these factories. I may try and go talk to. I know some senators I could talk to to see if there's anyone pushing for it and go investigate that we should look for. [00:30:42] Speaker G: We should definitely go in and check the investigators. I like where Lou's going. I wonder if there's anybody that recently came into some wealth. [00:30:55] Speaker H: I do want to check out the factories. It feels like you don't have enough information right now, but we also have. [00:31:00] Speaker E: A lot of different things going on. [00:31:02] Speaker B: I can have somebody show you tomorrow. We're all. They're all closed for the night. We're trying to make sure people stay out of them. [00:31:14] Speaker H: I mean, if I was to tamper with robots, what I would do is tamper with them in the middle of the night when no one's looking. Hypothetically, I. I'm not doing it. But hypothetically, if I was going to do problems, it would be when no one's there. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Yes, hypothetically, but do you have security around here? Yeah, we're. We're upping it. We have union members pulling double duty, you know. No, no guards or anything. [00:31:43] Speaker C: Any. Any obvious break ins is what I'm trying to ask. [00:31:49] Speaker B: The thing is. No, honestly. [00:31:52] Speaker C: So that means you have someone with enough clearance to get in. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:58] Speaker G: Or perhaps some sort of back alley way in tunnels. There's enough in the city. [00:32:09] Speaker D: I mean if they've moved on to robots from just public places as well. You said the two brewers were from the inn. Are there any other inns around or. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Most of the. There's several of them, several taverns here and most of them boast at least one brewbot. You know, it was our big thing at last year's Festival of invention. [00:32:36] Speaker H: I sip my tea. Interesting. [00:32:39] Speaker B: Any help that you can give would be invaluable. And I'd do anything I could to make these stop. I can give you. I will, but I think you might have better luck checking out the factories tomorrow. [00:32:52] Speaker H: Can we get some clearance options for going in at night, just in case? [00:32:57] Speaker B: I'll see what I can do. I would prefer not to. [00:33:01] Speaker H: I understand. I mean, I don't know how to. [00:33:05] Speaker B: Tamper with things, but I. No offense to any of the rest of you. I know Gravewing and I know the rest of them. I don't know any of you. [00:33:13] Speaker E: No, yeah, we understand. And that's. That's a good thing to keep up. [00:33:17] Speaker H: And if you just want to give Grave Wing permission, that's fine. She can handle herself. She's very strong. [00:33:21] Speaker E: We should just go tomorrow. [00:33:24] Speaker H: Okay. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Grave Wing has half of the bottom half of the mask off and was drinking tea this whole time. He just like, yeah, but I'm gonna finish my tea because if you pour me tea, I have to finish it and then put my mask back on. [00:33:47] Speaker B: It's a nice. It's a nice, like, strong black tea. [00:33:50] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, no, exactly. I'm perfect. I. Grave Wing adds nothing to it. Like, this is. This is how she's going to drink it. Steeped black. Perfect. And just like, she'll kind of sit up now. Sit up. She stands up. Just be like. So, are we good to go? [00:34:09] Speaker B: Hold on. [00:34:10] Speaker H: I have to write notes about this tea first. It's really good. [00:34:13] Speaker G: I think we should. I think we should do some rounds before calling it a night, maybe just case by the factories and workshops in the district to see if anything's going down. [00:34:33] Speaker E: Mm. [00:34:36] Speaker B: It is. It is getting late. [00:34:39] Speaker C: Yeah. And this place is pretty big for. [00:34:41] Speaker B: For a couple hours. [00:34:43] Speaker C: We can do it. We can do a very quick sweep of the. Of the general area, but unless you really want to stay all night, we do have other things to do and. [00:34:52] Speaker F: Isn't there a curfew in the city right now? [00:34:55] Speaker C: There's a curfew in parts of the city. I don't know if this part counts because. [00:35:01] Speaker F: No. [00:35:01] Speaker C: What part of the city trying to. [00:35:02] Speaker F: Get back to probably is. [00:35:03] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. No, the parts of the city we're trying to get back to are under curfew, so that means it's more dangerous. [00:35:08] Speaker B: Bridges will. Bridges will close at some point. [00:35:10] Speaker C: Yeah. We're in clockwork calls, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Basically got a couple hours before the bridges closed. [00:35:19] Speaker C: Yeah, basically, the poor sides are. Have a curfew wonder why Capitalism. [00:35:28] Speaker G: So yeah, I don't mean like a thorough search. I mean just kind of do around for as much time as we have just to see if we spot any unusual activity before heading in. [00:35:45] Speaker B: I mean you can do that, Finney. And also said this, this usually happens like once a week or something. It is not back to back events because. [00:35:56] Speaker E: Oh, keep going. Sorry. [00:35:57] Speaker I: Keep going. [00:35:58] Speaker B: I mean. [00:36:01] Speaker F: If, if we're just doing like a little like tour of the Clockwork district, then I think Lou might use that time to try to track down where some of her sisters can be found. Specifically the two with political leanings. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Are they in the Clockwork district? [00:36:26] Speaker F: No, but they might be in Silver District or Silver Court. She doesn't know where they are right now and so she's just trying to figure out where they are so she can get a message to them at some point. [00:36:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honestly. Silver Court, Emerald Re or Emerald Reach. Because Emerald Reach is where the, the actual senator Senate building is. [00:36:49] Speaker F: Okay. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Technically Finian is a senator. He just almost never goes. Oh, because he's, he is the representative of the district. [00:37:02] Speaker F: I gotcha. I thought they had a senator on top of the union leader. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he is because it's elected by district. [00:37:10] Speaker F: We have democracy here. Interesting. [00:37:13] Speaker B: It's just not doing what it should do. [00:37:16] Speaker F: Never does. [00:37:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:20] Speaker I: Yeah. [00:37:20] Speaker F: Then I think she'll find like a, like a messenger shop or something like that and just shoot probably Paloma a message because Paloma is actually in politics. I don't know if, if Mavis is or not. I know she is aiming at it, but I don't know if she's actually gotten there. That's up to you. I don't know how. How accomplished she is in her career. [00:37:54] Speaker I: Yeah. [00:37:54] Speaker F: And just we'll. Yeah, shoot a message to Paloma asking if she's heard anything about pressure in conflict among the senators. I might get something juicy out of that. That's unrelated. [00:38:20] Speaker B: Are you going to give her a way to contact you? [00:38:27] Speaker F: No, I'm just say send it home. Send it home. [00:38:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:30] Speaker F: I'll let her assume I'm still home. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Okay. [00:38:34] Speaker F: That's the only place she's ever known me to be anyway. [00:38:37] Speaker B: It'll be too copper for the descending the post. [00:38:40] Speaker I: Okay. [00:38:42] Speaker B: And anybody who wants to sort of take a look around the district and see what you notice, give me perception checks. [00:38:51] Speaker C: I have a question. Instead of doing that, could I talk to the people that might be around here? Because I have, I have street wise. So if in this case I would be like Trying to gather information from the people. It also means I could. I. I don't have to roll diplomacy for it. I can roll society instead. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Yeah, if you want to do that, you can. [00:39:17] Speaker G: 15 for Alistair. [00:39:22] Speaker D: 23 for Le. [00:39:25] Speaker H: Got a 21. [00:39:29] Speaker C: I used a hero point. Got a 20. Oh, one second. What I get. Get 22 for my society. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I got 20. [00:39:43] Speaker E: Being drunk this. Oh, I'm probably not drunk anymore. 28. [00:39:46] Speaker B: 28. 28. So anybody who's just here and you can tell that currently the district is on like, high alert, for lack of a better term, especially just post an attack. You see that there are people like, you walk past several of the factories and there are a bunch of the workers pulling an extra shift essentially just to make sure that nobody's going into these factories. You know, they're all sort of outside. You know, some of them are just sort of milling about, just making sure that nobody goes into these factories. It definitely is. There's. The tension is high. But engraving, you. You pick up that there are mutterings that people think that someone's been spreading word that, you know, maybe if Finian is deposed and they elect a new leader, you know, so they will actually be able to do something with it, spreading that Finian is no good at his job. [00:40:54] Speaker C: Oh, a smear. Like. Like a smear campaign. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Loki, somebody's been working on a smear campaign. [00:41:01] Speaker C: Could I fight? Could I maybe find out or attempt to find out who is maybe gunning for Finian's position or who the people are thinking, you know, like, if anyone's gonna get the job, it'll be like this person. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Figuring out who's spreading it is going to take more time than you probably have, but you can start because everybody's gonna. [00:41:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Like, I mean, more rather than spreading it, who do the people think is gonna like, is either like, oh, yeah, this. This guy's Phineom's op, you know, like, this guy's Finian's opposition. Or like, if Finian were to get demoted, who takes his place? Like, that's. That's what I'm looking for right now. Because I know I don't have time to find the rumor spreader. I just want to see if I can get more of a lead so I can make Alistair do it. [00:42:07] Speaker B: More of a lead? Yeah, you. So the person that they apparently is gonna be gunning for head of the Clockwork Union now, Alexander Scriavin. [00:42:31] Speaker C: Raven will thank whomever mentioned that to. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Her. [00:42:41] Speaker C: And then maybe like slide them a gold piece or Something like that to be like. And you didn't see me, you know, kind of. Kind of that thing and then dip out. So when we do reconvene with. With the group, I will let y'all know about our scabin tip. [00:43:04] Speaker B: All right? You all to dodge, you know, curfew and all that. Head back across the bridge and I'll pay a gold to head back. Not a gold, a silver to head back across the bridge. And where are you headed? Are you going to. Because you can. You'll pretty much be crossing directly into Darklight Bazaar. You could go to the. The shop or you go a little further into Salvation Row and visit the Bloody Blades. [00:43:43] Speaker C: Respectfully, I would say Salvation Row solely because we might be able to get the Bloody Blades help if we still want to intercept Nadia. I also was thinking that, yeah, Nadia comes in. Somebody correct me. Nadia comes in two days. [00:44:03] Speaker F: No, we don't know for sure. [00:44:05] Speaker B: We don't know. Two to three days. [00:44:06] Speaker C: Two to three days. [00:44:08] Speaker F: That the information we were given from Aubrey was. Indistinct. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Yeah, either way, that's really close. That's like really close. So I would rather. I would rather focus a bit more on the Nadia hook also because I am certain if we don't, Leif is going to do it anyways. So. So I rather just automaton stuff apparently happens once a week. There's like. And this is all. This is all probably Scrabin like circled anyways. So the more we do this, we can maybe shoot for rumors on that side and have scouts do it and focus more on what's going to happen in minimum two days. I'm healing Lathe. I'm healing Leith's mommy issues so hard right now. [00:45:11] Speaker B: So you. You head back to the. The safe house below the Crow and Hammer. It is. You know, this is peak time for them. So, you know, it's. It's a little crowded and plenty of people are enjoying after work food and drink. But you know, you can find a quiet part of the safe house and sit down to discuss things. [00:45:39] Speaker C: So I heard the person who would get Finian's job most likely should all of this implode is a very certain particular Scriabin. [00:46:00] Speaker D: Huh. Aubrey, what do I know about the senators of the Ash District? Because it seems like if the Scriabins are going for senatorial ness. Ash District. Where it would be at. [00:46:18] Speaker B: For the. The Ash District? It is currently not a Scriabin. [00:46:23] Speaker E: Right. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Who is the senator? It is one Amber Volkov, who is the senator for the Ash District. Yeah, it makes sense. But also the Scrivens are known. They're never been part of the Clockwork Union, but their family is known to invent and tinker and things like that. I mean, that's how they got their money. So, you know, this isn't like an entirely out of left field pick, but it is a little out of left field because it's not a member of the union. [00:46:58] Speaker C: Not really uni. A lot of unions formed on mafia related stuff. So I'm not saying the Scrivens are the mob, but I'm also not a Pope. Like if anybody was gonna be. If anybody was gonna be the bloodborne like mafia, it would be them. Like high key. Yeah. [00:47:25] Speaker D: Okay, so I guess my question was more like how like is Volkov super stable then in the Ash district? And that's why Scabbins are. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty stable. I mean there's no big unrest in the Ash district that they could use to their advantage, you know, currently. And there is one in the Clockwork halls. [00:47:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:47:58] Speaker I: How does. [00:48:01] Speaker F: Sorry to ask complicated questions. How frequently is the senatorial position a lifetime position unless you are otherwise deposed or is it. Are there re elections? [00:48:12] Speaker B: There are re elections. Every few years. Every five years. [00:48:15] Speaker I: Frequently five. [00:48:19] Speaker F: Is there a limit to how many times you can be real? [00:48:22] Speaker B: There is. There is not. There are people who have served there in most of their lives. Yeah. As we all nod understandingly and die a little inside. [00:48:34] Speaker F: At least it's not a lifetime appointment. [00:48:39] Speaker B: Anyway. Yeah, you will know a little bit. I'll go over a little bit of the. The EU senators that are currently running these districts that are definitely putting press on the Clockwork Union for the Silver Court. You have Victoria and Nikolaj Verta running, working as the senators. It's very strange to have two, but you know, it seems that wherever one twin goes, the other does swell. So they kind of share the. Share the responsibility. You have the Coin District and the. The senator for the Coin District, which is where Cold Iron Prison is. And most of the Cold Iron Prison, the Holy Blood Academy and many other things is Elias Core. Oh, I forgot. Yep. And for Emerald Reach it is. James Delaney is the senator for Emerald Reach and that is where The Council of 12 sits. And more just general like nobility and stuff lives and some of the general other like City hall and place where they keep records and stuff and so. And for Twilight Grove you have. You have Amalia Devlin, who is the senator for there. And the Twilight Grove is where the essentially where the lamplighters call home. The big temples are there. And that's also where Cygnus Strauss, the high priest, is. The high priest is kind of like an adjudicator for The Council of 12 will come in and break, like, ties, if there are any. [00:50:42] Speaker F: Would Volkov be part of this group of people? Most likely pressuring the union, yes. [00:50:46] Speaker B: More likely than not. [00:50:49] Speaker D: And the people on the other side of the river just have their own shit going on. [00:50:53] Speaker B: Or they have senators and stuff. Salvation Row has. Has a one Alice Moran as a senator, sure. No relation. You for Coffin Walk, you have Isaac Grimm For Dark Light Bazaar, you have an Achilles C. [00:51:21] Speaker F: But these ones are probably not involved in the Clockwork Union. [00:51:26] Speaker B: They're probably not. Okay. [00:51:30] Speaker D: Typical like that, people sort of focus on their side of the river or. [00:51:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of where all the money is. Like, the only. Only thing that really ever sees money and attention on that side of the river is Ravenswood Academy. And it's just because that's, you know, so old and, you know, such an establishment, they can't. It's not like they can move it. They would if they could. [00:51:57] Speaker F: Ravenswood Academy. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yes, it is Ravenswood. [00:52:01] Speaker F: Incredible. Incredible. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Or it's just called the Ravenswood district, usually, but. Because technically, The Council of 12 is a bit of a misnomer because technically only 11 people sit on it right now. Because the 12th district is the whole. [00:52:16] Speaker F: Yes, that does cause problems. [00:52:18] Speaker B: It's a little frowny face, but, you know. Yeah, you've got all that information and, you know, something to work off of. [00:52:28] Speaker E: Well, that paints things in a pretty, maybe not crystal clear picture, but you're getting all the themes from it. What do you all want to do tomorrow? Should we split our focuses, get more things done? [00:52:48] Speaker I: That's nice be. Unless we have a really productive talk tonight about what to do about Nadia, I think we have more time to deal with the Clockworks situation than we do to deal with the Nadia homecoming. [00:53:16] Speaker C: I think our biggest thing is where are we gonna put her? [00:53:24] Speaker I: Ghoul Town. [00:53:27] Speaker C: You. Did you want to put her in Ghoul Town? [00:53:29] Speaker I: In the house. [00:53:32] Speaker D: She could stay with Juniper. They'd have a great time. Probably she's. [00:53:38] Speaker C: If she hides her face. Yeah. [00:53:40] Speaker I: Maybe there's less likely to be people looking for her in a district that is thought to be full of ghouls and is less school full than before. [00:53:54] Speaker E: Steinhardt says that they could help make an additional, like, concealing mask and also make this clockwork, like, communication device. I gave them the money to get the supplies. [00:54:12] Speaker C: How quickly can they get that done. [00:54:16] Speaker E: They said they're going to work on it as fast as possible, but I don't know how fast the suppliers will work with them. Hopefully a couple days, but I'll have to check in with them. [00:54:30] Speaker C: Sadly, we also only have a couple days for this body. It's a good investment, though. It's a good investment, but we just can't. We cannot make our plan on the idea that we will have these. [00:54:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:49] Speaker E: I mean. [00:54:53] Speaker H: Just to clarify for the crowd and also for me, because my brain is a mashed potato, we're just kidnapping her, right? We're not faking her death. [00:55:05] Speaker C: We are straight up just kidnapping her. I'd love to hear how we could fake her death, but I would rather not right now. [00:55:17] Speaker E: I mean, what we could do during this is we have a group that gets her. Gets away. And we have a group causing a huge mess that gets everyone's attention. [00:55:32] Speaker I: Like an enormous monster. [00:55:38] Speaker E: I was thinking more like firecrackers, explosions, maybe me running around and yelling at people. Not necessarily. A giant monster would. [00:55:49] Speaker C: Would appreciate less civilian damage. [00:55:54] Speaker E: Yeah, exactly. Giant monster, more civilian damage, more me damage. That should hurt. [00:55:59] Speaker I: Forgive me. I thought we are doing this in the woods, but if we're near civilians. That makes no sense. [00:56:05] Speaker E: Yeah, I think. Well, the best place would be get them closer to the city. [00:56:10] Speaker I: I see. I was thinking near the very border of the woods in the city. Because there are less people to witness anything in the woods. Only the ones who may be guarding her. [00:56:22] Speaker D: I agree. For people to notice that she's come into town at all. [00:56:27] Speaker E: Exactly. [00:56:28] Speaker I: That's as well. [00:56:28] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:56:29] Speaker C: And your sister is. [00:56:32] Speaker B: You go, Aubrey, and you hear the. You hear the voice of Lorelei and say. And you know people who know all the smugglers tunnels in the city. [00:56:43] Speaker C: Either way, word of your sister, a very prominent noble figure going missing, not showing up when she is supposed to is going to cause a lot of buzz. So we will still need some sort of distraction. [00:56:58] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to do that. I mean, we're. This is a problem. Left or right, up or down, I. [00:57:07] Speaker I: Think, and I could be wrong, but I think that as long as she does not make it to the city, as far as anyone in the city is aware, then they can assume that her disappearance happened sometime before that at whatever her last known sighting was on Zoro to the city. The watching woods are thoroughly dangerous. Maybe she got eaten by a beast. It's. It's happened before. [00:57:32] Speaker F: I mean, that's what happened to my mother. [00:57:35] Speaker I: So. [00:57:37] Speaker H: I mean, the big reason for kidnapping Nobles is like, if you keep them alive, it's to get a ransom or something, Right? I don't know actually a lot about kidnapping Nobles, but at the moment, the. [00:57:51] Speaker I: Only people who will know this happens for sure, the only people who see it happen, depending on how we do it, are the people who are guarding her, whomever they may be. [00:58:02] Speaker C: Do you plan on killing the guards? [00:58:04] Speaker I: No, I'm just saying that is the problem we have to work around. We will have witnesses. [00:58:14] Speaker H: I'm just saying, if we go silent and we don't give any indication about what happened after, they might just draw their own conclusion. As you did. [00:58:21] Speaker I: Oh, yes, that too. [00:58:24] Speaker D: The guards would have been hired by my mother. It's not. I mean, it's improbable to us, but it's not improbable to them, perhaps that she would meet Nadia at the border of the city. We have that scarf. [00:58:50] Speaker E: With Nadia. Nadia has to know plenty of people in the city. Is there someone that she would. No, that's a dumb idea, because then their mom would know them. Never mind. Keep talking. [00:59:05] Speaker D: My mom does not care. Well. [00:59:10] Speaker C: If she wants. She clearly wants your sister back, so. She would care if your sister goes missing. [00:59:20] Speaker D: I meant that she wouldn't care enough to identify her friends beforehand, but she did actually hear about the influences on Nadia. [00:59:30] Speaker I: I. I think that your idea is a. A solid one. Then we don't have to do any kidnapping. They simply enter off to your mother and her personal guards, and if they. [00:59:45] Speaker D: Put up a fight, then we deal with that. But. [00:59:49] Speaker I: And. And if this is so important to your mother as to fetch her back so quickly, then meeting them on the road just. Just slightly outside the city would make a lot of sense. [01:00:01] Speaker E: I guess then we would just need to stop your mother from reaching the border woods. [01:00:06] Speaker D: Point of order for me, Aubrey. [01:00:11] Speaker H: Is. [01:00:12] Speaker D: Nadia being fetched back? Like, as far as she knows, she is being fetched back into town because she is the heir apparent of this family and her mother is dead. [01:00:33] Speaker B: As far as you know. You're not sure if she's been informed on your mother's miraculous survival recovery, right? Yeah. Just the fact that she is the. You were charged with murder, so she has to come. She would have been sent for to essentially come back and settle your family's estate, being the last, you know, living Idrisi. [01:00:59] Speaker E: Lys, Would you be comfortable disguising yourself as your mother? Nadia is gonna know any cues that will indicate it's you, right? [01:01:17] Speaker D: I'm not sure if that will help at this point. In time, seeing as she thinks that I murdered our mother. [01:01:26] Speaker E: That's fair. It sounds like maybe I'm just gonna throw it out there. The plan that may be the fastest and hopefully the most secure is that we stop whoever is supposed to meet them at the border woods from meeting there are getting there and we have a clue. Get them for to go towards either disguised as the late Yetzel Alai be or getting rid of the guards and going through the smelling dunnels. [01:02:06] Speaker D: I mean, we don't even know that anyone is set to meet her. [01:02:10] Speaker E: Yes, but we can always keep that in my back pocket. And if no one does, then we all are able to delegate to the situation. [01:02:27] Speaker I: So then the. It seems like what we need to know is when for sure she will be arriving. Somehow potential disguises to disguise the RC group as guards of the authority house or any guard she might have hired. And a way to get into the tunnels if we need the back. Back door plan is that everything? [01:03:04] Speaker B: Sounds like everything. [01:03:05] Speaker E: I could talk to someone. Get some fireworks or something. Something loud. [01:03:09] Speaker B: Something boisterous. [01:03:12] Speaker I: Not destruction. Noisy. Distraction. [01:03:16] Speaker E: Distraction. No destruction right now. [01:03:19] Speaker F: No, no, you've done enough. [01:03:20] Speaker I: The backup for the backup. [01:03:25] Speaker G: I have a signal skyrocket. [01:03:31] Speaker E: Maybe I. The access I could get is pretty easy. You should hold on to that. You want a little bit more? [01:03:42] Speaker I: I feel like it would be fairly easy to get uniforms of some kind if we just hit up a laundry. [01:03:51] Speaker B: That services guards or, you know, you're in the den of thieves. [01:04:01] Speaker F: I don't want to bother them all the time. [01:04:03] Speaker I: They do a lot for us. [01:04:06] Speaker F: We ask so much of them. It seems like one thing too many. And also we might need them. [01:04:11] Speaker I: They might be the best chance of figuring out when she will arrive. I'm talking to the ceiling right now. [01:04:18] Speaker F: But you know what I mean. [01:04:19] Speaker B: I mean, Lorelei is here. She's. She's sort of snuck in and like is listening in on your conversation. [01:04:26] Speaker I: Oh. [01:04:29] Speaker E: Oh. They've been talking. [01:04:33] Speaker C: Ow. I know. [01:04:34] Speaker H: It's the only thing. [01:04:38] Speaker C: The only thing I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring up just in case is let's avoid the monsters. [01:04:45] Speaker E: I really. Yeah. I don't. [01:04:47] Speaker C: That's just gonna. Yeah, I. I feel like that's just gonna draw in more attention. [01:04:53] Speaker E: Absolutely. [01:04:54] Speaker C: Or worse. So let's just. Let's just avoid that. [01:04:59] Speaker E: Yeah. I've kept it under wraps for years at this point. I don't really don't want showing it off. It's been 10 years, I think. [01:05:13] Speaker C: See, I wasn't actually mentioning you, but now that you bring it up. Yeah, that, that too. I meant like the actual, like the actual puns. [01:05:27] Speaker I: In the wood. [01:05:28] Speaker C: Like you know, maybe let's not like fire a bunch of firecrackers. Really bright shiny things that will alert actual ones to this. Very nice. [01:05:39] Speaker E: It wouldn't be that side. It'd be the other side of the city. [01:05:41] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Either. Either way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Either way. Just in case, you know, people get antsy when things go down wrong. [01:05:50] Speaker E: The monsters over there are tend to, if I remember correctly, don't tend to like loud things. Regardless. There's mostly scent based for the. The hunters over in that way. Predators. Historic term and very even worse. [01:06:08] Speaker C: Everybody shower. [01:06:09] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:06:10] Speaker I: I have a backup plan that I just thought of. Just in case things go. We reach. If we meet resistance of some kind. If it is, if, if it is done cleverly, we might be able to get Nadia out of the way very easily and let her escort think that she is still going with them. Like I can change images. [01:06:51] Speaker E: Oh, it's good. Good back pocket. [01:06:56] Speaker I: Just, just as a backup for a backup for a backup. [01:06:59] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. You don't. If you make too many plans, you're going to be sitting here writing a textbook. [01:07:04] Speaker F: No, no, no. [01:07:04] Speaker I: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just trying to think of at least some contingencies. But we still have not solved the biggest problem, which is when will she get here? Because if we miss it or are lit or our timing is off. [01:07:24] Speaker E: We could spend tomorrow trying to figure that out. We could talk. I mean, my family may know. [01:07:31] Speaker D: I mean, is there a way to gauge that? Are there like guards in the woods or watch points or anything? [01:07:40] Speaker F: We send like a messenger on like a hester hunder to like the nearest like waystation. [01:07:46] Speaker B: You do have a Hester Hinder. [01:07:49] Speaker F: We could just go personally. One of us can take the hester hunder run through the woods. [01:07:56] Speaker B: But there are way stations between things like that. There are smaller villages and towns along the way. There are not many, but there are a few places where essentially like little encampments are where they would pass messages. So if somebody was to be expected in a certain time that you could at least gauge when and probably what time of day. Not like down to an hour. It would be like morning, afternoon, evening, night, you know, and as long as nothing waylaid them. Usually if you keep to the path in the watching woods, you'll be all right. [01:08:38] Speaker F: And a messenger would move faster than a group anyway. [01:08:43] Speaker B: You have, you have a hester hunder. You could send a message out to one of them. [01:08:49] Speaker F: Oh, I'M sorry, we have to provide the Hester hunder for message sending. [01:08:54] Speaker B: You could also pay for somebody. You could pay to send a message. [01:08:58] Speaker C: I was gonna say, did we even smuggle our headstone out of hanging out with Juniper? [01:09:05] Speaker F: We got in Juniper safe. [01:09:07] Speaker C: They were never at Dark Light. They were in Starlight. [01:09:11] Speaker B: You could have asked somebody to like one of the bloody blades or someone to go and just check on them. You also have your two tier. Two people who. [01:09:21] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It was literally, that's what I was thinking. It was just like them at this point, taking care of. [01:09:27] Speaker B: You know, because we have. [01:09:29] Speaker C: We actively have. No, Juniper's at the shop. Yep. [01:09:35] Speaker F: I thought she went to the manor because it was close to Talus's, so she could. Because she was gonna investigate his creepy basement. [01:09:41] Speaker B: She was at some point. She just hasn't had a chance yet. [01:09:44] Speaker I: Gotcha. [01:09:45] Speaker C: Also, we haven't established hunters need stables. The only place we have the stable fully established is in Starlight. [01:09:53] Speaker I: Yeah. [01:09:54] Speaker C: So, yeah, that's where I was. Like, we didn't even smuggle them out yet because we don't got anywhere to put them. Objectively. Salvation objectively here might have a stable, but, like. Yeah, like, that's what I meant. I was like. [01:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, it certainly sounds like you have plenty of ideas to go on. And a formation of a plan. Many ideas for a plan. And we'll figure out exactly what that plan is next time as we roll over into the next. [01:10:25] Speaker H: Dare I say. [01:10:30] Speaker B: I was avoiding trying to say that. [01:10:33] Speaker F: Wait, what? [01:10:37] Speaker E: Anyways, I think. Yeah, no, I think they just didn't want to say that. [01:10:43] Speaker H: Yeah, yeah, we have, like, the idea of a plan. [01:10:47] Speaker E: Yeah, that's what I said. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Take us out. Yes. Take us out, Tick. [01:10:54] Speaker H: Thank you everyone, for listening to a wonderful episode of Goblets and Gays. If you like what we did here, feel free to follow us on Twitter, on Instagram, on all of our social media, support us on Patreon. And remember, stay safe, eat your people. And why did everyone go silent? Actually, I'm kind of worried you're doing the outro. [01:11:11] Speaker C: Doing the outro? We're waiting for you to finish, bro. [01:11:14] Speaker H: Okay. That is your outro. That's all you get. [01:11:26] Speaker A: Through this Never ending night I can feel it now it holds me all these demon's hall in this red light because me he is reaching out consuming there's a dash we must face it again. [01:13:20] Speaker E: Sa.

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