White Bull Season 1 Episode 24 – transcript

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and welcome back to another episode of the Chaosium house
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Runequest campaign the adventures of the White Bull. I’m Jeff Richard and i’ll be your GM
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tonight i’m joined with by uh neil robinson linda borgen richard august philip glass
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and of course claudia loroth uh if you all remember uh last session
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we we stopped things off where you all had had a uh your introductions
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and preliminary gift giving to prince Kallyr Starbrow uh if i think we would all agree that
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that went just swimmingly well swimmingly well uh and today
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is the high holy day of orlanth so um rather than unless people have any
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really specific things that they want to do in this um you’re in you know you’re you’re
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there near the flame of sartar which is the center of the Orlanth rex
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rights um i’m just going to let people roll against their worship skill including even you
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gina and you Garan because you know there is so much cold activity
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going on on Orlanth’s height holy day Niskand Kulbrast if you guys are successful you get all
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your win points back so i’m going to keep my spell going okay so you won’t get those back
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i won’t get those back um but i think i’m going to sacrifice for another point so i can
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have one other point going on and when i sacrifice that i can learn another spell yes
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is lightning because that then completes i then have the four weapons of ormond then you have the four weapons of
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Orlanth awesome that then you so you’ve got the earth shield the lightning spear this the scarf of mist and the shadows
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the sandals of darkness that’s right in each one spell of a certain ability
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uh in Kulbrast you gonna sacrifice any room points or not this is like the easiest time to do that
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oh um sacrifice any points of power power points well the problem the thing
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is um i only have um
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12 12 of those we should also get a power gain roll right at the end yes and and quite a lot of
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spells are against power uh times five i think so yes it’s getting to a point where
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we’d have to you know roll like 50 percent excuse me uh was there a power power roll at the
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end of this entire shenanigan for two weeks or after tonight
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what we will do is we’re gonna do the high holy day we will make um skill and experience checks we’ll do
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any social gathering that you guys want to do um and have all that wrapped up before
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the sacred secrecy yeah okay so and secret time we will the sacred time is that’s when
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that’s that’s show time for you guys so you guys got 16 days before that
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which is plenty of time so let’s start with um is there anything
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specific be uh beyond this sacrificing another point of power
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uh that people are gonna try to do on Orlanth’s height holy day i cannot get any room points back on
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that day i’m gonna let everybody because this is
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uh this is the biggest set of ceremonies going on in the city and every cult is doing something on
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this this is you know this is orlanth’s town this is just like in uh in Nochet where on enough holy day
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everybody’s doing something right unless unless unless you unless
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gina you want to talk me out of it no no i i’m willing to be talked out of
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it no i’m gonna let why don’t everybody roll against their their uh worship
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skill and you get a big bonus this time philip a huge bonus yes
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um therefore which is good your bonuses um and then
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that is a good reminder is
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definitely for the orlanth cultists you guys get if you sacrifice
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nothing you still get um jesus
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plus 70 um to your your chance if you want to offer
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more uh a medium sacrifice would get you another plus ten uh if you
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sacrificed if you bought a sheep or a pig that would get you another ten or if you want to go all the way and buy a cow
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uh or or make some other major uh sacrifice of booty those are 20
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each so you could theoretically get yourself a plus 110 bonus that was good i’ll sacrifice
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two cows okay that’s 40 okay that’s um that will add
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plus 30 to your plus so that’s getting a 100 bonus to you
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okay so you’ll probably succeed odds are good yeah how about you ask you gonna make any sort of uh additional sacrifice
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yeah i think so um i think i’ll sacrifice the equivalent of a cow and some of the weapons that we had
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for the rest of you guys um you don’t get any sort of bonus like that except if you want to offer
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uh a living sacrifice or or sacrifice some of your war booty or whatnot to your gods but this is not
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the high holy day of your deities this is not the most sacred places of your deities
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i just did that at the high holiday for Storm Bull so i’m doing
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a regular just worship and i fail mine so okay well
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but you got your spells back here you’re right yeah i believe you’re already still max i got a 500 points yeah it’s not a problem like that yeah
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how much is two counts i mean how much do i pay for 40 lunars
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and a lot of money yeah depleting my funds slightly um
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the other question slightly
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the other question is we still have these figurines standing around i’m leaving
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the Orlanth temple in new Pavis yep and they give you back a point of power even if you don’t
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roll or fail or whatever correct okay okay that’s not for now that is for now for now oh okay you
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don’t but you don’t get a bonus one back and the nice thing on high holy day i believe is you can
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if you succeed you get all of them back anyway yes the room points more important for the other days or
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if you’re adventuring and you can’t worship at all and yeah you’ll get some back does that make sense okay so you’ve got a minimum
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co-breast of getting one room point back because of that a minimum so i roll i roll my worship
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roll your worship so that’s yeah 34 from 125 still
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yeah no problem so yeah okay you get all your win points back
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cool you get to yay yeah i’m i’m still wondering if i mean one
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more rune point would be nice because they wouldn’t always be depleted
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after uh using vulnerable thunderbolts
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and you will get i mean you do get a pow gain roll every year and you get a 50 chance of going up so
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it should go up and we could even go up yeah it didn’t work last year so the chances this year are much better
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you get some spells that you cast like demoralize because you do that you can get a skill
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check and so every season you can get a chance to get your pow up
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if that makes sense and of course you could learn that spell from your temple
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you just have to pay for it you may have one you have demoralized or anything or
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disrupt um no i have a photo or the funnel
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nope nope we we should have a week here called brass where i could teach it to
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you for free and we have some things we should we should learn you know aft after the whole thing is
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over we should make some more have some holidays in gold home if they still will have us here after
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that oh yeah we’re not going to be that popular here if this happens Niskmight become prince of boldhome
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the moral lies would cost 150 liners to learn but it takes a week right yes
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and we don’t have that time of you have 16 days oh until the until sacred time
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oh sacred time we rushed here for this day and so we came up with information we
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did that actually sounds like a good idea um okay i’ll i’ll do this
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okay i want Garan to roll for his worship uh will do that is
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17 against 60. very good well that would get you back
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um that would get you back 1d6 minus 1.
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oh well well good that is four so i got all my room points back
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and finally nest oh i rolled already i succeeded with uh 90. i get all of them back anyway and i
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was only down one that i could get back because the rest is carrying on the spell
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but my actually my actually but my skill you know my skill was over 200 right now thanks to the bonuses right so
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it it’s a big the the high holy festival for Orlanth is you know this is
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a a big day um feasts uh loads of people
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eating eating steak thanks to coal brass you know two cows worth of of of steak
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offered here uh lots of happy orlanth initiates
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yay cobrast hurrah for that wolf pirate yay he brings steak
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um you know and there’s dancing and there’s singing and and uh there’s
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public intoxication and all the sort of great things that you would associate
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from the uh the high holy day of a war storm uh type god
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so you know there’s there’s dances where people do where the initiates do war dances
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and and sword dances and whatnot and there’s other bits where they because there’s
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also a holy day for arnolda the aaron aldens you know go in and they they do their dances
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and and there’s not a lot of preaching that goes on to this mainly sacrifices dance and songs and
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drinking and intoxication so uh lots of lot way more music than uh
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preaching yeah i i must say i like this place
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it’s much more like home uh although the weather is totally opposite
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yeah the weather is it’s it’s uh you know the the one thing when you can
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always say about Orlanth’s high holy day is it’s pretty much well never great weather for that so it’s
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it’s windy it’s cold uh and it’s snowing but no one
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that’s the reason they break open there’s there’s they’ve got casks of wine uh
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in the city they’ve got that you know it it
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there’s a reason for all of that big fires being burnt all over the place uh uh lots of meat
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etc and then of course um the Orlanth initiates you guys don’t notice the cold
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at all not in the slightest you could throw your clothes off um
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and run around on the stove and wouldn’t feel a thing as far as you’re concerned it’s
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perfect weather because it’s it’s it’s orlan’s high holy day and a lot of folk are doing that
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yeah um storm Bull cultists aren’t doing that Enkala it’s cold
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it’s really cold for you because well you can’t wear a whole lot of protective garments can you
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i think are you muted in color or is she on the phone sadly she’s on the phone
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and you can’t take refuge and intoxication no i’ll wrap myself up in my cloak and
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look absolutely indifferent to everything going on around me i’m definitely not annoyed that i can’t join in
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yeah i mean you can eat right you can have steak have had something i can have some steak
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yeah for those of you all there are initiates of course you can see that on this day uh this is where
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the bold home and orlance palace the borders the boundaries between them
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blur and there’s bits where you can see spirits and gods
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uh you you can feel the presence of of um Orlanth himself here
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it’s it’s a high holy day being celebrated by thousands and thousands of
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your your cult members so so if one was going to sort of you know talk to all
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that uh this would be a good day this would be a very good day to cast a divination
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spell if you want to cast a divination spell okay um is it more powerful if i go into
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the temple or can i do that like you know you’re gonna get up plus you’re probably gonna get like a plus 100
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bonus on your chance to cast the spell so okay that’s good enough i’ll go in the
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temple anyway yes uh divination the way divination works and that’s just worth uh jeff
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you’ve gone silent oh have i gone silent no you hear me uh no we hear him so just me
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it’s just you can you hear us karen yeah can you hear me hear you yeah we
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can hear you everything’s fine okay all right so the way divination works is for
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each point that you cast you may ask a simple question and you receive an
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answer of up to 10 words or a brief vision it takes about an hour per point
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for each point that you um uh spend in uh in the spell for each
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point you cast you can ask either an additional question or you can let me have a
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longer answer yeah i think um it’s not intricate what i want to
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know but it’s not simple so i’ll probably need two points for that
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okay so yeah um what do i roll again sorry i i okay what
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is your air use magic or not mine aaron 72 okay you you have a 172 percent
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chance of casting this spell okay it’s pretty good
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getting crossed that yeah i did did you just get a normal success or did
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you get something uh it’s an it’s a normal success okay because i i might give you more answer more
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information if you’ve got a special or a critical should have told me before i rolled and would have much better
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[Laughter] interesting how that works um
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all right what is your question kobras what do you mean my question is uh to Orlanth very humbly obviously
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asking this um during the uh lightbringer quest
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was he was there any moment when he was in doubt that he could actually finish
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the quest and either a longer answer would be
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great or or the additional sort of aspect of the question would be
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why
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i take another swig of my wine keg obviously you know this is this is what your own
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cake this is what i love about this setting is i have now been posed with a deep
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complicated um theological and mystical question and
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i have a few seconds to figu figure out my answer to it so
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uh are you guys okay i just want to look up something in one of my reference books
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because i was just thinking about this earlier i will be give me one
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let me see if i can see this here
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um yes so kids the right answer
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for these sorts of questions the new version of king of sartar and i’m
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going to go right to the lightbringer’s quest because i believe there is a
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section that exactly deals with this
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okay let me see if i can put this to seven questions
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i could do a little splash and say on sale now at the chaosium website king of the thing of struggle discount
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and you get the pdf i think you also stand out to give me a vision obviously but that might not
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answer the question i think i think what indeed laws refers to it as the the rpg world
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invisible cities just if anybody wants a little blurb for it there
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which one is there it’s called um classic work where
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kublai khan is talking to marco polo and he’s giving them all these yeah it’s basically all venice but
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it’s fantastic
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one two three four five five six you know i mean it’s two points so
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it’ll be 20 um what
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without bothering to count because you’re casting two points i um
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my moment of doubt came when i failed
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the quest when irma betrayed me in the underworld
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and the laws of hospitality were shattered and my companions abandoned me
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i failed and was lost does that count as a moment of doubt
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and and the why uh irma betrayed me i was betrayed by my
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own companion uh and and i was betrayed by my own
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companion and i broke the laws of hospitality
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which is very tough given that Orlanth is the god who enforces the laws of hospitality but
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it does make it interesting that if we can talk to chick who has gone on a lightbringer’s quest
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before that you know this would be a good way for him to kind of if you think of a betrayal type it would
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be swapping the shield would be a good thing that and also um
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since he broke his own law does Kallyr have any of her own laws that she
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should not be breaking yeah the prince of sardar has all sorts of of laws and rights uh like any orlanthy
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king that that ceremonially enriched ritually binds them in you know they have to obey uh judgments
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they have to obey old agreements that were made by their predecessors
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they have to behave um you know they have to behave in honor
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they have to give out gifts um um you know they they they’re they’re priest kings
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and so you can imagine they are hemmed in with rules and laws
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you know caller didn’t give me a gift exactly that’s what i was gonna say it was nothing by the law of hospitality
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when she tossed us out yeah i thought she was she was definitely pushing
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those laws and there were there was definitely no gift giving to us despite us presenting her with
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an enormous amount of awesome stuff it is becoming obvious that her big flaw is her pride and there has to
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be i mean it should easily be messed with so one question obviously
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would be when she says oh you know i’m all lamp um we say so you know you’re like the god of
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farmers of the lowly peasants like you um what
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there are several orlans she wants the orlanth rex right it’s the one that she’s really
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after because it’s a ruling yeah is there a way to
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make her at least maybe not get Orlanth rex adventurous would be interesting but
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she would have to go out huh it doesn’t seem for adventurous
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no anyways but before you guys go down that
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path i want to make sure philip did that answer your question um yes uh i think that’s just fine
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we can we can work with that as basically now do you want to know that the rest a little bit more of it further on is
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irma then brings them all back together again that is a normal thing yes
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no no yeah but i mean the point is that he actually says that i mean it’s one thing hearing the tale
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of how he’s portrayed and you know and i don’t know lose his faith in
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requesting everything and it’s another thing him actually saying he was in doubt
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actually if you could finish the quest because that was the point we’re going after
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and uh if i i and so the question i have for cold breast is does
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is does kobras find this reassuring um of uh hearing his mighty god
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admit uh say that his that he failed the quest uh or is this something
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well my god is it there what a wimpy god no no he’s
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uh Kulbrast is very lenient in these things he said you know i i make mistakes all the time
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um is allowed one mistake so basically does this increase is this
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something that’s inclined to increase your devotion to Orlanth not really i think that he actually
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you know sort of bothered to show up and you know tell me this does actually
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um sort of you know change my view of him a bit to the positive i mean i was i was
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uh no that was argrath i was sleeping yeah 59 but i think yeah that’s sort of
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what is your you can you can do an experience check in devotion or lamp for this um that is 60.
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okay so i’m just going to give it a checkpoint that’s a five no you don’t roll it now
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you do it all right sorry when we get when we have the experience checks yeah okay because normally people who
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lead actually worship is leadership so sorry for interrupting you on that but
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that’s the the the that’s the information you get from your god then uh beyond that then what i
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my plan was is to kind of free form the next two weeks and something the main
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questions i had was you guys decided where you guys were going to stay yep
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with a big debate about you did i have you guys already paid for it or not we bought we’re we’re camping in land
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remember oh you’re camping in our Morokanth giant thing
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all right there’s a little reference at the moment obviously which will have to kick out to actually be able to you know
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sleep there better [Music]27:37
cook cause you’re traveling and we can cook that’s not a big deal oh god probably i would i would imagine
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he took everything else i think he’s kind of in a shelana roy
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hospital or something right now i believe so i believe that was the one thing that gina
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uh that gina did there so what i what i’ll do is let’s kind of reform
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household we can make sure that we can even if we have to hire some local people here to help cook for us we can arrange that
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that’s a very definitely hiring some local people would probably be a good way of hiring information and calling us
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if we hire some people in maybe do any of them know of any other laws
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or or uh duties and obligations of the king at the prince that um callier
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might have broken any rumors anything like that but we could we specifically should recruit people
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with experience of cooking in a royal in the household i think i think the ask is different
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i think we investigate and servers but we do go to the collingwood tribal
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house we we have an appointment with the um the representative of the um
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feathered horse queen those are margeron i know that uh gina
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or margaret go and visit with the um that the on all the temple one of our goals is
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for her to approve and take you know as a priestess rule for that
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[Music] and we want to get uh chipmunk bing to help us with some shenanigans
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during the holy rites um i need to uh i want to find out i’m
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not i can’t read or write so i need to hire some blank or my or something to do this
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uh loss written by Kallyr while she’s been prince uh and also the life of Kallyr
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and mistakes of color i want it all
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it’s three volumes yes thousand pages one two three i i don’t have to read them
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because i don’t read but they can give me like the excerpts the good stuff
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thanks i love this um okay throw um i can have a rush
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by the way
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how good are you at reading uh right now i am at um 35. okay
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and what’s your library use skill all my life
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all right so the bold home um knowledge temple is
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uh one of the two big guests in sartar i i suspect it actually is the biggest
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in sartar um but you know that the johnstown library
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has for whatever reason thanks to that compendium it just has
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international uh acclaim and reputation but the bold home knowledge temple is actually a bigger
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collection of records because it’s the it’s the library and uh
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uh scribe center for for the house of sartar and is
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patronized by them it’s inkhala it’s so much bigger than the one in pavos
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so much bigger if books impress me i might be impressed right now
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books don’t impress me it’s filled with them it’s got thousands of books thousands
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and and and and hide parchment loads of parchment and paper
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and all means absolutely nothing to imkala i know there’s words on them but someone
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else can do the reading and give me the excerpt it’s perfect yeah there’s there’s dozens of scribes
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for yeah yeah so just throw me some money i’m not even going to bother
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looking um well maybe i will let’s let’s look i think i even wrote down somewhere in the price sheet yeah
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uh for how much you talk oh yeah i did for sages and scribes nice all right what do we cons consider
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this um common knowledge no no
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uncommon knowledge rare knowledge or very rare knowledge we want the
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very rare knowledge don’t we we want them to really seek deep huh i think we can afford it okay it
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depends let’s see i have my money right here i’m not gonna say okay it’s gonna cost the scribe cost you
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15 lunars a day for that scribe to be hunting around
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through the the restricted parts of the library of trying to compile things
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together that to really do serious right work what Enkala how much money would you
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like oh well i how much time do we need can
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we hire him for like three days to see what he comes up with and see if it’s worth it yeah yeah yeah okay so three days first
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45 um i’ll give you that right now i don’t really know how to
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do anything but like intimidate people so i have no way of drinking
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i can bargain with him if you like although yeah
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well me not right you do me a big favor and so you’re trying to part with him whatever you do hey
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um it didn’t work it didn’t work so it costs you actually a little bit
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more than 15 a day you actually agreed to more money than that because you didn’t know 15 times
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three was 45.
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15 a day for three days okay that’s 60 gold okay okay of course then later
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and this didn’t give me enough money he can’t count yeah exactly you end up giving
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uh instead of 45 i’ll make it a little bit easier there instead of
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uh 45 lunars you end up agreeing to give him
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56 lunars yeah that comes out of my mom money
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because Niskdoesn’t know how to count this knows how to count it didn’t give me the right amount though
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that’s easy but but that’s that’s you can explain this over later i’m sure
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it’ll work great
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[Laughter] a little bit like this doesn’t know how
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to count you’re in a headlight yeah and you always seem such a smart
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guy didn’t you yeah what isn’t caller’s into anyways
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no it’s actually not it’s not bad um i have a oh no i’m actually quite
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intelligent i have 15 in it’s just not spent on reading and writing and counting and stuff
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you know i never bothered with that you know Kulbrast did you’d gone here
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it would have gone totally different oh sure
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all right i’m not gonna give the information yet because i need to figure it out because uh but i wanna jump
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to a couple of the meetings that you have i’m set up uh let’s start with
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um margaret earthshaker a young maran gor
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priestess from old tarsh from um the wintertop area and
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uh she wanted she and she’s got her her grayslander bodyguard
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kenstrel turtle and if you recall they wanted to
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meet with you to
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if i recall they wanted to talk to you about the white ball sure and they did
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not want to meet at the talk at the temple correct correct so uh
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there is a uh the grazelanders have a a embassy you know basically a villa
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or a palace that was built by sartar for the feathered for the first feathered horse queen um
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and they um are basically you are invited over for
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a a banquet a a to to eat with them and to drink with
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them who always coming along yes for sure
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i’m going as nisk’s bodyguard and call a troublemaker in cold breast
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uh excellent excellent and maybe gina will show or not gina
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missed not appearing in this episode so far the uh the the uh
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the food at the the uh that the Grazelanders throw for you wall
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is it is a it’s a big feast they’re they’re they’re trying to to show off um a bit it is
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lots and lots of meat particularly horse meat
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which is good um i also bring gifts i bring some armbands i get i bring up obviously because it’s marin gore and i
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bring a battle axe which is acts of the weapon of the earth and ones that we had taken from the um
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our our friends the eyeless ones and such oh yeah some of the battle x’s that you
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took is uh war plunder yep that’s the sort of stuff i brought okay they are uh they they accept these
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um uh gifts and [Music] um
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give me a moment here give me a moment i need to
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i’ll give a suit of bronze armor too because i our pack animals pack the loot that i’m
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using for gifting although i’m assuming we’re hopefully bringing back just as much although
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being slighted by calories interesting but i’m not mentioning that yet that’s something to say
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it’s her really unhealthy pride there it’s she can be triggered into
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really bad actions possibly generosity is a trait of
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romance by the way okay i just need to look up something
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this is a a
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here we are awesome okay let me i’m pretty sure
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a quick second i will give a quick description yes
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there is [Music] um
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yes margaret um you know she is uh marked with
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most prominently with the ruins of earth death and disorder
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she is
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she is a high charisma high power um
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uh priestess of of marin gore you know what you would expect expect
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from this she she is so i want to have a who’s the one who’s giving this
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the gifts i am yes
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and i’ll use the you know i’m trying to use i am not a wind lord so i don’t have this obligation but i
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will definitely operate in that fashion of giving to the treating a priestess as we were supposed
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to with your massive charisma well that’s right is it
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doubled anymore or not it’s still double oh my well that’s kind of terrifying to
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have a uh would you roll against your charisma what do you mean just base yeah no
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double zero nine well you are doted upon
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by uh this this priestess of the the earth shaker the
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dark devouring mother uh but she’s very she’s very goating on
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um on nesquik it’s it’s you know it’s uh marin gore is she’s
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uh arnold’s twin evil sister you know where arnold is the mother that
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gives life marin gore is the mother that takes life um
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and you know often depicted you know there’s i’m sure there’s a shrine to marrying gore here because this is a
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grazer uh center and it probably depicts uh marin gore dancing on a on a hill of
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skulls because because that’s how marin gore is she’s just that kind of happy goddess
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uh but she dotes on on Niskand accepts the gifts and they’ll be a
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counter gift but i’ll figure that out afterwards i don’t wanna you guys are loading me with cool
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concepts here so uh margaret uh you know she makes sure that you all
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are being provided with food and drink and basically this would be if
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this was pendrigan this would be where we would have a uh indulgent check but i’m not gonna
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require you guys to check on this i’m just gonna um ask how you guys are
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about this um margaret herself you know she drinks the the full bowls
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of of barley beer um as do the grazelanders
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and the the grazelanders being you know from a warrior culture they they drink
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pass it around drink pass it around and they they they you know they they drink like it’s
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stalin’s party you know everybody
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drinking fully except with one exception yeah what was that
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may you smoke Garan i never asked why i asked you all intoxicants
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how did you do that in Argrath tent i mean it was dense with well that’s that was the
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problem he lost his watch and that’s why um
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got in there i have no tolerance you can’t live that down anymore can you that’s you know that’s your honor here
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didn’t we get some interesting mushrooms from chipmunk we did yes you did yeah yes we did well
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not right now i don’t want to do anything with those right now
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um kenstrol turtle is a also
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a Humakti um but he drinks with the rest of them he is he is a
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follower of the the um grazelander whom octa
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one hand uh who is the great one-handed warrior of whom mocked
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who didn’t need to have a a left arm because because he was just that good
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i think kestrel likes coal yeah in fact the bodyguard he takes a shining to you
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uh and and he said and he mocks Garan a little bit
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not intensely but a box of a little bit say is saying that yes who mocked in our lands
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does not deprive us uh of drink and as your friend has said
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that he he might deprive many of us of their left arm but
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your companion shows that that is unnecessary
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i take this in as good a part as i’m able because i am basically there as an is
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what a godzilla i just kind of incline my head and say nothing
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well margaret uh once everybody is suitably intoxicated i’m just having an
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idea here and this does what kestrel or what was his name ken strong castro
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does he want to earn some money because i’m looking for a weapons master
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who trains one armed combat oh great idea well he is
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a rune lord of the high uh one arm cult so if who mocked uh
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sounds perfect yes and you are a lay member of whom act are you not
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uh yeah no not of whom i know that lay members of many different cults
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including easter eggs but it sounds like in order to pull this off you will have to become
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at least a lay member of Humakt and that means that Garan gets to mock
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you but you can still drink and get drunk oh well okay oh yeah
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so i mean you still win basically i wouldn’t i would he said slight with us like bitterness
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to his voice yes i would obviously not want to you know deprive darren
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of the opportunity of mocking me so yeah that sounds like a like a fan you’ll drink on that right
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yeah ness are you also a who mocked lame member or not no my strength of my
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fertility is way too high so it’s just the only the only the
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humacity now so we’ve got all these overlapping lay membership don’t we
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yep let me just look this up it’s actually
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pretty easy to be to be a lay member of uh who mocked
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um do you have honor um
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yeah sure i mean come on well not on my cat not not on my
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character now it should be the top left you don’t have it you don’t have it uh honored
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oh there’s nothing there i probably just forgot to sort of fill it in you can take the
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honor passion at 60 points because that’s one of the things you have to promise to
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to become a late member you have to swear to the code of honor infringe my
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lifestyle but you can get training in your you
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could get one-handed sword training yeah you know when needs more okay
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what what will he teach wind but whisper now when whistler win whisper on the trading
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thing because if honor comes into this it’s probably good that he doesn’t do that
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i know that that was just a philosophical discussion of different you know views of
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um doing deals every lay member must take the honor
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passion they must swear to uphold the code of humont which is the code of honor
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the code of honor requires
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no more ambushes right no no no it’s not quite that it requires that members one
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always fight other members right you see a big loophole here
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yep must always fight other members fairly two
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must honor the fallen and
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three um maintain truth and confidence with
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each other again no obligation to maintain truth and confidence with
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non-members of the cult of who walks yeah that that sounds um sounds okay probably good because you
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really don’t want to start dipping up and cheating and cheating homicidal murderers maybe x with guest magic so i don’t think you
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lose much by trying to yeah yeah it’s actually maybe sort of a bit of a way of you know not
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making that mistake by mistake actually
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not that i would cheat anyone obviously combat between members follows rules if you want to fight
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another person who is at least a lay member of who of whom act you must swear to continue
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to um fight only first to fight fairly second to fight only to the first fallen
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not to the death and not to the first blood but until one or the other has fallen
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and the loser must surrender a prize to the winner
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okay so it’s that but the main benefit of being a
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member of the cult of whom act is they are the best weapons trainers uh in your culture so
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you may you may gain training with any form of sort of sword at half price so
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um yeah we will come back to that okay
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we shall come back to that um and the particular subcult high a strong uh
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strong blade can even teach oh it’s a shame uh just for what it’s
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worth the spell that he teaches is a rune spell so you would have to
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become a full initiate which i don’t think you want to that’s a level of commitment higher than it sounds like you wanted to go for
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but he teaches the spell strong blade which makes a bladed weapon
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unbreakable which is really nice for parenting
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because it has infinite um the shield of around spell yes it’s the
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same thing the other thing that it teaches
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the is the um the spirit magic spells the big things that it teaches of the
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spirit magic spells blade sharp and carry
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and the perry spirit magic spell uh phillip is basically just like blade sharp
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except it applies to defensive actions but it’s a bit weaker yes
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all right so my main goal is just to get this guy to train with me and with my
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bit quiet philip for a sec okay do you hear me now
53:43
we hear you now the main the main goal is to get him to train with me with my
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sword shield so i can you know get going on that with you
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well we will have time to do that you’ll be able to to to jump straight into that but instead i
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think what we want to do is is is jump into the main purpose of the the banquet which is uh
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margaret wanting to find out from you all about the plans of our grath white ball
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and um you all trying to find out anything that it is that you want to
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know from margaret about the um
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the lightbringer quest um how caller’s doing the lunars all those sorts of things um
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i don’t think we’re going to talk because i don’t know that if Argrath is going to come to pat to um
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to starter but i will say that Argrath goal is to if i
54:49
remember is to drive is to basically tear take down the lunars wherever they are he’s gone great quests he’s allied with
54:56
dragons to do this and um and doesn’t
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and jeff you can probably correct me but does have plans to come disarter at some point is that true well
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you guys fought a battle right outside when he tried to mark sean paul tom martin if you remember
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that yeah the free bolt home uh what what i would and he has claimed
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to be a lawful heir to the um house of sartar yep you guys were
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there when he made that pronouncement yep so what i would love from you is
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how good is your truth run NiskNiskyes yeah nisk’s true throne is as
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good as his other rune that’s associated with it i think it’s 350 15. now let me see
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yep tooth and illusion are both the same okay um you can have basically two approaches
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onto how you try to hand um actually you have three approaches one
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is if you have the insight skill well enough you can use that to
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basically try to um get useful information out of her while blocking probing
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questions um that you might not want to answer i’m pretty good at it okay about the same yeah you could try
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to use either your truth rune to basically say only what is true but fulfill you
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know be as narrow as possible about what you say lie with my illusion
56:40
or lie with your illusion role however all of these social skills because you guys are a bit drunk
56:48
are going to be at a penalty okay so you tell me the approach you
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want to get i think he’s going to use insight he’s not he’s not trying to hide a lot per se i don’t think there’s much
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to hide but he’s also not going to be you know he’s with all these humanity he’s not going to start lying all the time it
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doesn’t make sense he knows that marin gore is not have the um the truth rune but i know she gets
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pissed if she gets insulted and i don’t want to do that um he’s obviously aware of the hospitality does that make sense
57:18
works for me okay hey roll that is a failure not a fumble or
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anything but a failure you and her she both drunkenly
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tell each other um the broader view
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of what your bosses are up to um she makes it clear
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that um she thinks with the the new feather there’s a new
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feathered horse queen and this new feathered horse queen uh is ambitious um
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uh ambitious and uh determined uh to
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assert her rights and authority throughout dragon pass uh the previous
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the the uh the the previous uh um uh feathered horse queen betrayed
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everyone to help raise the dragon may have freed it may have broken the
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lunars but uh but she awoken she helped awaken the dragon which
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everybody agrees was a bad thing and the feather chorus queen before her was little
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better than a uh a lunar puppet this new feathered horse queen um
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i believe her name that she is called she is uh the feathered horse queen always takes a a
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regal name when she becomes queen and so they don’t refer to her by her
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birth name after that her regional name is oregano
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name is reach’s furthest
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which margaret thinks is a um uh gives an idea of her ambitions i
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don’t think there’s any question um i will say and i believe because this is true is Argrath in many ways as a
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traditionalist but willing to take on learn new things and adapt new magics as he always does
59:34
and that is certainly what um our guys she wants to know if our breath is going to be if your white
59:41
bow is going to be content sitting in his desert city surrounded by
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uh animal barbarians uh uh i need me to answer that question do
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you she wants to hear so wants to know which that that’s the side of that is i don’t think you need
1:00:02
me to answer that question do you because he doesn’t think she eats she does i mean i think it should be pretty
1:00:09
damn it should be pretty clear um Argrath cannot deal with the lunars as
1:00:15
he needs to where he is yet he has gathered his allies and they have already
1:00:20
um sent the lunars packing from prax their tails with their tail between their legs um
1:00:28
[Music] slightly intoxicated enough what’s what was so wrong with the dragon rice
1:00:35
and what why was the feathered horse queen there that was Argrath wasn’t it i’m a little bit
1:00:42
drunk okay she claims isn’t it interesting how everybody seems to say that they were
1:00:49
involved one way or another and the uh the dragon rise she claims and let me
1:00:55
just look this up here we should stop claiming that too because it’s almost true
1:01:03
you think of i thought we won that great battle and in many ways that is could be it where everybody takes part
1:01:09
and drives it but and then we all win or the dragon just made everyone think that they were helping raise it and
1:01:16
she’s waited its time she says the previous for uh feathered
1:01:21
horse queen was with bitter heart um for she sent her own
1:01:29
son to avenge the tribe upon a vile foe she helped him become warped in shadow
1:01:36
and the deserted him within his task was done she encouraged war bands and was the
1:01:42
first to send um the vendor of clans away in migration she fought against her
1:01:51
own uh sister but was betrayed by the worm within herself
1:01:58
um and when the dragon uh when when the the dance and the dragon
1:02:03
began uh she was slain when it ate itself
1:02:08
out of her womb she was alone without prayer or weeping of the people
1:02:14
yet the goddess came for her that’s what they say about she says about the previous feathered
1:02:20
horse queen she says that dragon rise was um
1:02:28
that was her meant it was done by her rights in her ritual but at a terrible cost
1:02:36
but she’s she’s a marine corps priestess so terrible costs that’s their yeah they’re
1:02:42
fine with that that’s par for the course right par for the course you don’t worship the goddess of earthquakes
1:02:48
and not expect a little bit of collateral damage
1:02:54
so i will ask you how’s the um i said in traditional in tradition the great kings of um of
1:03:01
starter to gain that kingship married the feathered horse queen
1:03:08
it’s true right yes she says she says that uh furthest wouldn’t she find
1:03:14
it interesting that if there is that the curry person who some call princess
1:03:19
um is there who is seems to be the smug um
1:03:26
whose lover is that of a of a star
1:03:32
she um uh she says that uh
1:03:40
that that three feathered horse queens uh before have uh performed the marriage
1:03:48
contest and each received great gr great riches and great power from having done
1:03:55
so uh and uh
1:04:00
uh reaches all or reaches farthest is ambitious says
1:04:08
ah she says and there are many who might uh try to claim uh claim it but it would
1:04:14
seem uh that uh star brawl would be beginning at uh something of a disadvantage in the
1:04:21
con in such a contest
1:04:28
for it was Orlanth that married arnold if i reque uh remind or remember the
1:04:34
stories not his daughter yes
1:04:41
now as the side she’s not saying it’s not possible for for her but it would seem that that
1:04:48
would be something of a a a handicap
1:04:56
but it’s obviously not impossible pedestrian exactly well it’s not impossible because
1:05:04
the gods are gods yep um but the um
1:05:12
is there any other info that you guys are trying to gather around here um um yeah i guess the questions are you
1:05:18
know it’s a she’s doing a lightbringer have they heard anything because she’s gonna be doing the lightbringers quest
1:05:23
and it’s the first time doing that since the lunar occupation um there must be concerns and
1:05:28
divinations about that happening and she says that yes um uh
1:05:37
she expects that um all will be gathered at the hill of Orlanth victorious to begin it that
1:05:44
is where we will give gifts we have um there are gifts from wintertop
1:05:50
um that that we are offering as well she
1:05:57
she says she is not entirely sure why she is performing uh she is
1:06:05
um choosing this as the time to perform such rights if she was the ruler of sartar
1:06:12
smashes her hand on the uh on the table clank she says she would not be uh
1:06:20
wasting time so much time and resources in in in performing
1:06:27
um such a hasty ritual she would march on tarsh
1:06:34
uh and march aren’t harsh before tarsh marches on her
1:06:42
that’s what she thinks she thinks that that uh now is the time to strike
1:06:51
now the old tarshites a lot of that is that is that free or is that under lunar occupation still
1:06:56
it is autonomous okay she will say that the empire has
1:07:04
always feared the shaker temple ever since we um
1:07:09
uh we destroyed a lunar army uh that that tried to take our freedom
1:07:18
because he’s from that temple the main temple of she’s from the main temple
1:07:24
earthquakes drunken that is that’s what your battle plan
1:07:31
should really be about earthquakes and dinosaurs with enough earthquakes and enough
1:07:37
dinosaurs no one can stand against you
1:07:42
i don’t know if i physically was true enough no is that philip true enough yes
1:07:51
dinosaurs are horrible i mean she she she uh
1:08:00
do you say dinosaurs are horrible yeah fearful you should say fearful again
1:08:07
terrifying terrifying even even wolf pirates are scared of
1:08:12
dinosaurs you’re the only riding beast that actually impressed me beside the
1:08:17
practicing ones so writing down i believe this is the point
1:08:23
that she and some of the other old tarshites they demand the musicians perform the
1:08:30
brontosaurus uh dance where uh they get out and there’s a
1:08:36
bunch of drums and and and hordes and the uh priestess and
1:08:41
her followers they perform some sort of strange lumbering dance that sounds uh probably
1:08:48
surprisingly like a heavy percussion version of what is it henry mancini’s
1:08:54
uh the elephant dance [Laughter] i take out i bring out my drum and i try
1:09:01
to join them okay well i’ll let you play your instrument but i think this is
1:09:07
this is probably hit your diplomatic uh that this is the point where that limit in that we certainly
1:09:12
haven’t insulted anyone [Music] after the how did you your your drum
1:09:18
plane go incredible i succeeded barely so you can write that you you drummed
1:09:25
the brontosaurus dance that’s so cool
1:09:31
gina probably dances oh i’m sure everybody can do their that this is the point where there’s been
1:09:38
enough barley uh barley beer passed around and and food that that loads of folk because
1:09:46
this apparently is a favorite of the shakers the brontosaurus dance as they dance
1:09:52
around uh uh in some sort of happy drunken smash and kick things around to dance
1:10:00
who else participates in that and call us drumming to it sure no my dad
1:10:06
cold breast roll against your dad since darren you were just your character is looking exactly like you are right now
1:10:14
just watching
1:10:20
and everybody all my all those under my protection are properly watched i’m probably also having a little
1:10:28
conversation when i can with any of the other bodyguards around see if i can pick up any gossip
1:10:35
your dances most of the bodyguards are uh Humakti yeah the who mocked cold is very
1:10:41
important amongst the Grazelanders your dance is so nist you get to do the lumbering brontosaurus dance with the
1:10:46
priestesses it’s very fun [Music]1:10:52
or the dinosaur dance it’s the same thing it’s a dinosaur i’m going to do the brontosaurus
1:10:59
big hair yeah i’m doing the stegosaurus by mistake i mean did you fail yeah
1:11:07
cobra asked at some point inexplicably even though everybody tells you that brontosauruses do not spin around
1:11:15
you decide this is the point to do some sort of whirling dervish kind of dance yeah and then follow her i could have
1:11:22
augmented probably with my movement room but i was too drunk
1:11:29
and after this i don’t know what goes on for the rest of the feast but it is a happy drunken
1:11:34
feast and we move forward uh a few days the next vignette
1:11:40
is training at the humacht temple
1:11:47
where kobras is you are you are training uh kenstroy is is
1:11:53
willing to train you Garan are you gonna spend much time at the humac temple it’s a big
1:11:58
fine this is the biggest in sartar definitely and the most
1:12:06
prestigious the leader um he may not not be the leader of the
1:12:12
temple who runs the temple what not but with the the humacity there that everyone agrees is the leader
1:12:20
you know maybe it’s not what they call them but that’s certainly the impression you know it’s it’s you know
1:12:26
he got this guy comes by and everybody just gets quiet um
1:12:32
and the who gave his quotes to being fanboy is a can it is it is the the legendary rune lord
1:12:41
sarah stip one eye or sarah step cold eye better known nowadays as sarah
1:12:48
stipp prince slayer he is the Humakti who killed temurtain because the previous prince of
1:12:57
sartar this is the previous prior to Kallyr there was the lunar prince of sartar and sarah steph
1:13:05
killed him went into his palace with a bunch of humokti i believe
1:13:11
including one of the one of your followers one of our character followers is there uh and sarah taker
1:13:19
she yes as well and she’s silent and and referential towards uh sarah’s step
1:13:24
sarah stephen is a living legend in the who mocked cult he should have been king of the milani but he didn’t
1:13:31
but he refused kingship in order to serve who mocked
1:13:38
so he and he it’s he wears a patch over one eye
1:13:44
which um he is said to have torn out and offered the gods of death in the
1:13:51
underworld offer them his die and people say that if he lifts up his
1:13:59
patch and if you look at his eye you’ll die well i’m going to need to get
1:14:07
me one of those [Laughter] so we’ll be in the underworld pretty
1:14:13
soon but this guy this guy is an expert on the underworld he has been on
1:14:20
multiple hero quests uh uh into the underworld and and
1:14:28
whatnot and was part of the original sartar high council in 1613 along with
1:14:34
chipmunk bing and Kallyr starbrow and he’s in your temple
1:14:43
and we have it in because nostalrius can go and introduce you
1:14:51
so Garan what do you guys think is this something
1:14:57
you’re going to prep Garan with some questions and and ideas well i get a glass of
1:15:02
water and maybe a cup of wine can we just pause for a moment and yes then start that
1:15:09
pause recording back
1:15:14
okay so Garan have you been prepped by your associates now that you
1:15:20
have an in with um uh the mighty
1:15:25
sarah stipp cold eye well we’ve discussed it somewhat
1:15:31
and mainly the reveals it needs to be be careful
1:15:36
don’t know we don’t know what his relationship is like with color so right and then also you’ve gotta the
1:15:43
other piece you’ve gotta do is don’t ask him you know donate obviously and you won’t do this although i may do
1:15:48
this don’t do anything to speak your speech his honor right of where he is of that but he could certainly give you an ideas of the
1:15:54
underworld to talk about that and he requesting things like this
1:16:00
has he do we know if he’s tried this particular hero quest he won’t have done will he
1:16:05
well no one not on this scale certainly not on the scale he might have done a version of it well
1:16:11
there’s elements possibly it’s possible
1:16:18
um right okay so okay off you go you know
1:16:25
pushing nudging or you’re with your own people where we are
1:16:30
just show your big right right behind Garan okay this is what everybody knows about him
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and just in case that it’s uh useful serious dip cold eye born in 1572
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syracuse is a sort of humoct and part of the ruling dynasty of the milani tribe
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sarastip abdicated all clan and tribal offices and severed himself from his kin so that
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he might carry out a terrible deed without his kin suffering the consequences in 1624
1:17:04
on humac’s high holy day sarah stipp led a band of fumati from the melania and
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other tribes and killed the lunar puppet ruler the lunar puppet ruler of sartar tamartaine the
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philosopher sarah stipp led his killers along a secret path in the hero plane
1:17:22
to gain entry directly into these prince’s stronghold after killing timmertain sarah steps who
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cut their way through the lunar priests telmori warriors and sartarite bodyguards of temertain
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killing any that would defend the prince siristip was a member of the sagar high
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council in both 1613 and in 1625 and now serves on the city
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ring of johnstown he is widely seen as the leader of the who marked cult in
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sartar he is often away um from johnstown and
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speaks for the but still speaks for the malani tribe at johnstown he is a renowned weapon master and is
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quested deep into the underworld on behalf of his god on one such uh quest
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he gained his ability to kill with his left eye at the cost of sight in that eye he is
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known to have pledged loyalty to prince Kallyr starbrow and has a well-known rivalry with the
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terror link clan of the Colymar [Music]1:18:30
so with that
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but he is the the senior rune lord uh here at the temple you are an
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initiate in very good standing uh with Humakti Garan you could easily
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meet with them oh and you have you could even part in the in that event
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with you who should who can introduce you while she’s there and she’s also initiated
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yes we’ll get you in no problem you could even spar with him that’d be pretty cool
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in fact that’s how this conversation is going to take place it’s going to take place as you spar all right
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so what do you um you get to spar with um
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with sarah step cold off hi tell me are you just going to spar
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you can actually say anything to him i’m going to uh
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what is it what is it like to plunge yourself into the
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underworld in service of the god of our god okay
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for each one of these each time you ask a question i’m gonna ask you to roll against your
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sword skill so basically as long as you’re doing a
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decent job of of being of of using your sword you’ll be able to keep
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asking and don’t humiliate you humiliate yourself in the sparring he’s happy to continue
1:20:10
conversing with you can i augment you can but how good is your sword uh 100 okay you’re going to want to
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augment because you’re going to get a big minus okie dokie because he’s but his base is going to be
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quite a bit higher than 100. oh just 79 against 85.
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all right so you that’s your argument right yes my augment yeah you have a 70 effective sword skill
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okay let’s roll
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first one fine 62. 62. um
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you can ask your question what’s your question again what do you keep in mind keep in mind
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you’ve got a 70 chance at some point you’re not going to be able to ask them
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questions anymore so you you may want to be you you need to decide you want to be subtle
1:21:10
and indirect or not okay your call i’m just
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i’m just letting you know mechanically if you’ve got a 70 and he’s got 100. what do you what do you think
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calais chances are of venturing into the underworld successfully you’ve been there yourself
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do you think she has the the the the abilities do you think she will be uh able to fulfill her
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should be able to enter the underworld all eventually one way or another enter the
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underworld you think she will come back
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he he says that is an entirely different question um
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well another sword exchange however he gets up because i wrote a very good
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uh success he gets a question to you and his question to you is
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um uh what is your interest in this garen
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of pavus i am a loyal and devoted servant of the white
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bull and he has an interest in all those who would attempt
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to style themselves king of surfer okay you can ask another question if you
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succeed and i do 41.
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okay what’s your good question
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well while he’s imagining what he’s thinking of the question here i want you guys to imagine what this has going to
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be like this is like one of these you know in the movies yes the classic and the movies sparring here
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and here’s the other bit cold breast you get to watch this yep aaron is a good swordsman right
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he is ken strong is a good swordsman i just noticed yeah ken straws good swords man he is
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painfully outclassed by serious okay so he’s just turning with him isn’t even
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bothering he’s not bothering to do stuff like augment yeah i’ll just i’ll just you know keep
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that somewhere in the back of my head for future efforts be careful one hour
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um i’m not sure i doubt he’s using his iron sword um i think he’s just using a wooden
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stick with a little handle um
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it’s what is it mister probably he’s probably using a reed oh yes it’s probably a really classic
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i’m thinking of asking something about um how she’ll fare against uh death or like
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some maybe going as kind of straight in as what do you think will be her greatest
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challenge do you think that seems reasonable or is that pushing it too far
1:24:50
that’s reasonable okay everyone everyone will want to know that
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what will what will present color with her greatest challenge in the quest i uh excellent now i have the idea that
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sarah step uh called i is he’s mr miyagi with with a patch
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with an eye patch demanding that you you you uh you soap up and clean that
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cadillac uh okay what was that a guy from remote
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williams so darren uh his answer to that is
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is that um she will face um uh
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many challenges in the quest uh she will have to to um
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prove she will have to to prove her worthiness uh to pass
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uh through the gates of boldhome and will be confronted by um be confronted by the the
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deities of death and the underworld true enough but we have met with cali
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and she seems she possesses great pride do you think that will
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uh inconvenience her
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tyler’s pride um Kallyr’s pride and uh
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her ambition has always been greater than her honor
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this this chimes with with my experience now he wants a follow-up
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here he says um [Music] uh which is um
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you continue to ask these questions Garan follower of the white ball
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what is your interest in this
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is your interest um that of of Argrath or do you have an independent
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one and he hits you with a reed i come to serve to to do my duty
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to my thing esque and to my king but i i confess i
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look forward to standing in the stead of my god in the realm of death when color enters
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okay roll your dice
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i failed 89 hey uh he he he uh
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after you say that he manages to swoop down with the reed
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trip you so that you fall with the with the reed and smacks you on
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the back of your head and he says uh you wish to stand in the uh in the place of your god
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all you need to know is honor truth and loyalty
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no he says that is all you need uh and smacks you on this
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i thank you for the lessons and bow my head and leave the uh leave the sparring
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space uh not not shamefully but you know kind of
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mulling over what i’ve been told
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so that is your ability to ask him questions in the sparring uh
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you could try to uh
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have him teach you and maybe that would get you and and it basically tried to be taught
1:29:10
by him and see if that gives you definitely going to try and get some training from him
1:29:16
all right what is the reason why he should train you that would be his that will be his his
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question to you why should he i am a honorable and
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noble humanity and i wish to dedicate myself further to the
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service of the sword and to the god
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and there is none there are known few or any with the with your skill
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and it would be foolish of me not to to ask to learn at your feet sounds like
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honor has been the main thing pulled up what do you what do you guys think so graham i want you to make an honor
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roll against your honor don’t screw it up
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uh that is a what’s the term it’s not critical special the special
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okay that’s good enough he’s willing to train you he’s willing
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to train you based on the grounds of of of um honor alone
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and the first thing he tells you to do uh very mr miyagi style here
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is he wants you to um he he insists you do things like put
1:30:41
your um uh weapons away and he wants you to
1:30:46
stand you know stand in the sparring ground or actually with your weapon and
1:30:52
more likely he has you there with your weapon having you hold it out directly in front
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of you stand there don’t say anything and don’t move
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i’m not yet absolutely fine i’m not going to be i’m not daniel larusso i’m just going to
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shut up and get on with it questions fine
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and a lot of his training basically is about uh self mor uh mortification it’s
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it’s it’s all about uh any time that you try to to to move it towards something
1:31:33
he wants to make sure you can do the most important things which is uh
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have your your will be greater than uh your body that your honor
1:31:50
is is mightier than this pathetic um uh physical shell of yours and that what
1:31:57
he tries to get through and make a cult lore see if any of this get uh hammers through to you okay
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okay uh yeah that is a zero three against wow
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so your colt laura gets to go up here but what he hammers through is that
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uh humacht is death he is severance he
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is um yes yes this is this is kumakt is
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death he is severance he is the god of ends he is he is more than some
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than a mere um uh war god more than a mere
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fighting god uh who mocked kumak has no um
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who mocked himself has no ambition other than to be that weapon
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and what matters is that that weapon it doesn’t matter who uses death
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death is coming for for everyone what matters is is death is done with honor
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and as long as honor uh death is is is wielded with honor it doesn’t
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matter what it’s wielded to do
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and does Garan get this point does he agree with us he certainly does so i’m gonna get out
1:33:41
of this you’ll get a he’s gonna train you in your sword but you’re also gonna get an experience
1:33:47
check on cult lore honor and um uh the death rune
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but i’m also going to let you get a chance you will get a chance to have at least a a short friendly
1:34:00
conversation with sarah stipp and this may be you may want to talk with everybody else because this is the last thing we’ll do tonight
1:34:06
here is if you want to pump him for any information i’m going to give you one chance
1:34:12
guys what do we want what do we want need to know
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well
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he’s do you know if he’s done the lightbringer’s quest or something like that i mean i don’t know if he has i don’t think he has
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but i i think it’s more a matter of um oh how to put it um
1:34:42
you know you’ve got to think of how you would play your role because your role needs to be when we go
1:34:48
down there and do this your role is doing it is not doing it for Argrath your role is doing this for the honor of
1:34:54
um for honor sake for honor to prove that Kallyr has that right i mean her goal here is to prove
1:35:00
she’s worthy it’s not to stop her if that makes sense yeah um in terms of what to ask him
1:35:07
about that um i mean you have not tried you have you have not done the hero
1:35:13
quest and trended into the underworld is that true yep is there something that you could
1:35:19
say from someone who has traveled that has sacrificed to do it um to you know if there’s
1:35:26
is there someone who can um try to put it um is there someone who
1:35:33
can you know is there something you can get i don’t know that’s what i think of as opposed to asking your direct him directly about calories but basically
1:35:40
you could ask him about you know his guidance on how to do hero quest is that you know that’s something very
1:35:46
general but i don’t i don’t think it goes against what his honor is stuff like that
1:36:01
you should be watching out for like how you know or what what point do you
1:36:07
repower to your eye and give it to someone
1:36:13
i mean it’s pretty clear what the tests for humans seem to be they seem to be a lot more direct than for other religions and you
1:36:20
know how can yeah so what if i go with something like how can i best serve the god
1:36:28
how can i best serve whom act during a hero quest
1:36:38
but it’s not your hero question i mean we’re gate crashing somewhere else and see real quick no but i mean
1:36:44
even yeah but in any in any case i am standing in don’t you know that
1:36:51
all you need to know is honor truth and loyalty yeah you need to ask
1:36:58
you know is what you’re you know how do you do it with honor are you doing it how do i yeah how do i how do i embody
1:37:05
these qualities that’s probably that that’s good that’s fair i think
1:37:13
yeah so go we’ll go with that question how do i properly embody
1:37:18
honor truth loyalty
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he well well you asked that he he manages to whack you on the head with
1:37:33
his little reed uh uh for each one of these
1:37:39
um while you’re sparring do you see i assume you’re using a weapon uh i i assume it’d be a practice sword
1:37:46
okay still completely humiliating i don’t even think it’s a read uh
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philip i think it’s a fly swatter it’s one of those little you know those
1:37:59
african fly swatters
1:38:05
and he’s hitting you with the fly swatter because he’s that good garrett yeah he’s still racking what
1:38:11
else here that would happen but that’s part of our
1:38:24
uh must be with every breath and even when you have no breath left
1:38:32
honor is um honor is uh the
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uh that is what a Humakti is made of
1:38:50
you do not ask how i can be honorable you know how to be honorable
1:38:57
you are on a you are honor or you are not Humakti
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is his very nuanced view of this
1:39:12
i think he’s just saying you’ll be fine loyalty and then when it comes to
1:39:18
loyalty he manages to get you to to trip up and fall he says loyalty
1:39:24
who are you loyal who do you serve and serve who you are loyal to
1:39:35
what i say the third one was truth truth truth um
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uh that that uh
1:39:50
truth and death are inextricably linked if you avoid
1:39:57
truth you are trying to avoid um you are running from death and only
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uh only cowards [Music]1:40:10
run and fear the truth uh fear uh run from truth and seek to seek to twist it twisted
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truth is as useless as a twisted sword
1:40:26
i thank you for the lesson service yep sarah steph has uh it
1:40:33
he says it matters not what your loyalties to so long as you are loyal
1:40:44
it matters not what you do so long as it is done with honor
1:40:51
it matters it does not matter so much as what you say as long as it is said with truth which
1:40:58
you say and do is long and so basically very much a a bit of it really doesn’t matter you
1:41:04
know that all this political [ __ ] all this uh you know oh am i on the right side
1:41:12
of this or or what not he he really he tries to hammer home to you in
1:41:17
this two weeks that is totally irrelevant for a humakti
1:41:24
you know your your function is to kill things with on uh and to kill things
1:41:31
while being constantly honorable truthful and to loyal to what loyal to whatever it is that you’ve
1:41:37
given your loyalty to
1:41:43
of course then you have to decide what you’re loyal to niskanagrath and humx
1:41:51
i have already chosen on that front um yes i think that’s pretty much well a pretty
1:41:58
succinct uh uh summary of the humacity world view from somebody who
1:42:03
who who does a pretty good job of embodying that
1:42:10
with that guys um it’s it’s time where i would like everybody to do before tweet now in the
1:42:16
next session is to make your experience rolls and i’m going to let everybody make a
1:42:22
power gain roll we might still do um i i i don’t think we have time for another
1:42:28
vignette here um but uh i’m happy to do one
1:42:33
offline about the old the Orlanth temple okay and then we’ve still got chipmunk b
1:42:40
and chipmunk bing yep and then next session will be chipmunk bing and then the hero quest
1:42:47
okay okay they’re Kulbrast yep you and chipmunk bing
1:42:52
so i hope you’re fine yeah i’m excited i know this was a short
1:42:57
session everybody but um i hope it was amusing and i had a good time but with this i think it is
1:43:05
um it is a school night here in berlin and that means it’s an early morning
1:43:11
tomorrow so with that uh i say goodbye to everybody until next week
1:43:16
thank you all for watching thank you

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