Due to some violent content, Parental discretion is advised. In the year two
hundred and forty seven, in the Age of Judges, Vartan was summoned home
after the death of his father. Upon his return, Vartan discovered something evil
festering beneath the city of Eternal. With the help of some very unlikely allies,
Bartan works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end to
the nightmares that plague his people. Welcome to Ethereal Embrace, I don't recommend
hangovers. On an unrelated note, Bloody Mary's for breakfast are awesome? Day
three the last tavern and in yep, yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes,
I will. I will try to be better. And she's gonna kind
of wriggle out of the grasp and go find Robin Torman. The Robin is
grabbing some food and stuff off kind of the little banquet area, and he's
filling up his plate, standing very like almost annoyingly to attention, like straight
back, slowly picking stuff off the counter and putting it onto his plate,
and then he turns to see you and says, oh, hello, Morgan,
how's your evening. It was very enjoyable Robin, how was your evening
m much the same as any other evening, giving thanks to gray Hawk.
I am excited for this morning, though. And it appears that you have
established a relationship with Vasin is not true? Yes, I do seem to
have earned his trust. It's a bit odd, but he seems to be
a decent person. So yeah, it's it's it's good, it's good.
I don't want to be too ahead of myself, but I do believe that
a trust rapport has been established. Very good. And oh, I'm sorry,
did you need something from me? Actually I was wondering if you had
seen dove Brie. I had heard she was going to stay in close proximity
to you for your safety. Oh yes, she's up in my room right
now, getting herself ready. She could not get herself ready in my room
while I was there, so she excused me. Well that that sounds appropriate.
I will make my way up there and see if she's ready to receive
people. Thank you, Robin. Yes, please do me a favor,
if by chance you can somehow persuade your new friend Vatan to escort us into
the cave, I would be very grateful to have him tag along with us
on an expedition into the portal. I would be more than happy to ask.
Our relationship is still in its infancy, so I will I will build
up to it, but I will definitely ask because I do believe that we
should be investigating that cave. My plan, just so you know, is
to go into the portal and find out what's on the other side. I
think it's the only way we can stop whatever creatures are trying to come into
this realm. And from what my reports tell me, Vartan is a very
capable warrior, extremely so in a way that almost seems unnatural. I was
privileged to see him fight yesterday, and it's unlike anything I've ever seen,
Sir, fascinating Hm, as you were. I'm going to eat some breakfast
and try to get my face on for the day. Thank you. Robin.
Torman's a turn before she starts laughing at him because she knows that that's
the face he always has on and he never changes it. And she's going
to start making her way towards the stairs to go see if Dove Brie is
available for speaking. I drink the Bloody Mary, Okay, I was gonna
say, maybe we follow her to see what she says to dove Brie.
But I don't think that I could follow and drink. Well, you don't
have to follow, it's up to maybe if we're there, we can help
explain to dove Brie what we're looking for. Yeah sounds good. Yeah,
hey Morgan, wait up, Oh yeah, sure, guys, but we
need to make sure that she's decent. First, she had to kick the
Robin out of his room so she could get ready this morning. I guess
that blows my theory out of the water, your theory of her not being
decent. Well, okay, Sean and I had heard the rumor that she
was staying with the Robin instead of with her assigned partner, and that's just
not usual. We had high hopes for her. Apparently they've been dashed.
Oh okay, okay, well, yes, let's keep going forward. Then,
I guess I'm sorry about your hopes. And she's just taking the stairs
two at a time, and I'm gonna go find the right door. Yep,
right, so you easily marked that door before, so you know right
where she's staying or right where Robin Torman staying, and where dove Brie apparently
is held up so you make your way to that door and knock, and
she says, just a moment. And after literally just a moment, she
comes to the door, fully dressed, armored, got her weapons. She's
like ready to go. Good morning, Dove bris Morgan. I trust you
slept well. Yes, yes, I slept quite well. Breakfast was delicious.
I've brought Bartan with me. He would like to see about us assisting
the city guard with some investigation of houses to look for these potential murderers.
Oh yes. She looks around the room that she's in and says, probably
shouldn't have this conversation in the torment's room, and she steps out and closes
the door. What do you have in mind? Bartand do you want to
go over this or do you want to have Baya go over it? Yeah,
sure I can go over it, so Dovebrie. Basically, what we
are asking is if we can use a collective of your doves two or what
do you call them, a piteousness, if you will, a smaller piteousness
of your doves to kind of just check out some of the empty houses around
town. We had a murder or a suicide possibly in or maybe a sacrifice
in one of the abandoned not abandoned, sorry, in one of the empty
houses. So we would also like to have our city guard go talk to
some of the citizens, just doing like a wellness check. So if you
can check out the empty house, will have the city guard check out the
citizens. I think that's doable. I trust that there is someone in town
who can identify which houses we should be looking into. Brasskane, is that
a question, I'm I'm thinking sorry, oh uh, yeah, what do
you think, Braskane? Or do you have somebody else in mind? Maybe
bestial Steel, Graystone Magnow I think I think we need multiple people on it.
Yeah we can. We can grab some people from town to a company
your doves. Now, they won't be trained necessarily. We do have a
few people who are, but most of them that will accompany your doves will
not be trained. So if you can just you know, make sure that
they don't get sacrificed to an elder god, that would be great. Okay,
I will let four of my doves know and I will send them to
brass Kane's office to the city guard to wait to meet up with whatever individuals
you wish to send along. Does this work yes, thank you, we
really appreciate it. We really are here to help. I'm gonna bend over
and whisper to Baio. Do you think we should ask about the Children of
the Dead Gods? They might know something we don't. Yeah, see what
they know about them? I did roll an insight on when Dove Brees said,
we're really here to help. Oh yeah, and I got a sixteen.
Okay, it was a half fly. They are here to help,
but only only if it doesn't impede their current mission of protecting Robin Torman.
Hello, what do y'all know about the Children of the Dead Gods? Not
much? Unfortunately, that seems to be a cult more localized to the continent
of Isan. All right, I just figured y'all might have some knowledge about
it. I think that they're in they're the ones that are involved with this
this murder. Like Morgan was saying, they sacrifice themselves, but they're doing
it in a very odd way, and they're also murdering innocent people too,
So they really could be anywhere or anyone. I didn't suspect that it could
be anybody, what a citizen of this town. It does seem like they're
all from out of town, but they may sacrifice one of our own people.
Now, when you say they could be anyone, do you mean they're
shape shifters or illusionists? Can they take the form of one of us?
I haven't seen any We haven't seen any signs where that could be the case
yet, so we don't know. Okay, well, I appreciate you letting
me know about them. We'll be on the lookout, and I swear it
to you if we find one of them, we will attempt to take them
into custody and notify you as soon as possible. They will try to commit
suicide if you take them into custody, so bind them. Maya holds up
the red potion. This is what they use to kill themselves. It's around
their neck on a string. I will be sure to let the doves know
so they don't make that error. We need to also let them know that
they have to be completely bound if they're conscious. We wanted to question one
that we brought back with us into town. He bit off his own tongue.
How did he do that? He chomped down on it between his shit.
Yeah, like he used his chin and his shoulder and just chomped through
it. That is I had to stop the bleeding horrifying. You know,
now that you bring up possibly shape shifters or illusions, maybe we should all
come up with a word or tell each other something about ourselves that nobody else
would know, so we can check and make sure that you know you're not
a shape shifter unless you're a shape shifter. Right now? Are you a
shape shifter? I am no shape shifter. Yeah, she was being very
she didn't want us going in the room. Well it's the Robin's room.
Hm. Okay, I'm sure this is This is Bree, trust me,
it's her. I'm gonna sniffer, okay, all right, Yeah, you
don't smell anything off, make a I mean, I guess i'd be probably
investigation to sniff someone I mean, or or nature like we could do nature
check. Yeah, handling. Do you smell like normal bo or demon bo?
Yeah, that's what I'm going for nineteen oh nineteen Survival. Okay,
so yeah, she smells like a normal She does not smell demonica at all.
You are confident that she is who she says she is? All right,
what if we I think she'll be all right? What if we tell
each other how best we like our chili, all three of us right now,
then we'd all know, yeah, all four of us. Uh huh,
that's not going to be confusing at all. No, I think that's
a great idea. How do you like your chili, Morgan? I like
mine with meat and beans and a little on the spicy side, with lots
of cheese on top. It's my favorite way. No onions. No,
I like onions, but I can't actually eat them. They give me headaches.
Okay, Morgan doesn't like onions in her chili. I'm writing this all
down. Wait, maybe I shouldn't. I should just remember it. I
baya like to have my chili with beans, no meat, but I like
to have a peanut butter sandwich and pickles in my chili. Yeah, And
I like mine with meat, beans, cheese, but on a bed of
oyster crackers and very very spicy. And I in turn like mine with three
different kinds of beans, red beans, black beans, and pinto beans.
And then as far as the other items that go in, that's it's fine.
Whatever we want to put in onions, hot sauce, it's no big
deal. But the biggest thing is having a variety of beans from each bite.
Everybody has a different taste in chili, so well, No, chili
is very unique. And at this point, Morgan's just gonna kind of look
at Dovebrie and just shake her head, just like, don't don't question.
We'll talk later. She tilts her head to you just briefly, just to
acknowledge that this is a strange situation. Was there anything else I could help
you with? No, that's it for me. Do you know which of
the doves you're going to send Brie, I'll be sending amethysts, Seaul Winter
and Calbraid. You and Sean both have duties to attend to, and Anelin
and myself will be with Robin Torman. Excellent. Oh Winter, that reminds
me. Make sure you send some of them down. I know Winter Winter
was down at the stables maybe, but make sure they go and tell Penny,
who's working down at the stables for me, what the horses need so
she can she can help out with that. Oh. I will ask them
to do that and be part of their rounds. I will up our charity
contribution to your town as well for the act. Thank you, thank you.
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town of Eterno. All right, so you make it downstairs and I assume
outside of the tavern. Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll leave the glass.
Yeah. Oh actually yeah, we should probably go tell someone like, grab
four people to a company the Doves and tell Brasscane what we're wanting or what
the purpose of that is, so that way he can do wellness checks on
all the residents him and his guards. Yeah, because we didn't say the
people, so we definitely need to get Magno, yeah, we should go
tell we should go grab some people from the bricks. Well, there should
be there should be guards around. We can actually like stop a guard and
send the guard to go get those people and give them the message. Yeah,
is there a city guard around? Yeah, you can find one in
black one down. It's not Amber, is it? No, Amber is
getting medical attention. This guard will be Earl. Oh hey, earl,
Earl over here Barten, come on, Oh hey Bartaan, he's a half
work. What can I help you with? Well, we needed we needed
to get some people together to escort around with the with the doves to give
you all some help with with checking out all the houses and everything. I'm
sure brass Kane already talked to you about it, brass Kane said to distract
the Oh, he just realized there's a dove with you. Excuse me what
he's said to stay out of your way? Uh good, good, say
Earl. But we were just talking about it, bras Kane. I guess
he hasn't been able to make it to you yet. I'm gonna look back
over at Baya and uh Morgan, uh specifically more Bia. Yeah, we
should definitely get some of the bigger men and women that can probably handle themselves
better. H Who do you have in mind? Oh, Angie and Marcellus
could probably handle their own, the carpenters and maybe Fletcher. Yeah you know
where they are, right Earl. Yeah, they're in the bricks. I
can go talk to them. Yeah yeah, get them to meet up with
some of the doves and uh down here at Cody's and have them escort the
doves around picket some places out. Take the doves to the empty buildings,
right, yes, we don't want them to bug the town's folk, right,
yeah, we want you to bug the townsfolk in the form of a
wellness check. Okay, I will do this. Okay, we need one
other person. Do you know anybody else is your brother around? Earl?
Yeah? I could get a little Jimbo, all right, just have him.
Have those people accompany the doves. They're just going to check around the
house, make sure nobody's broken in, make sure there's nothing out of place,
and we'll go from there. Oh yeah, keep an eye out for
windows with blankets on them. Windows with blankets. Okay? Oh, well,
what happens if I find a window with a blanket? It on it
or broken glass window, you get brass cane immediately, or me or gray
Stone, whoever is the closest. Okay, sounds good, Thank you earl.
He'll start to turn around. Bye dove lady, Bye Vartan, bye
earl, thank you. Erin. Oh this is bye oh bye bye bye
bye, and he just walks off toward the bricks. I think he's got
I think he's got it. I have my reservations. Oh oh, we
were actually gonna go see Timmer and he's a good buddy of mine. He
left a he left a missive for me to go and talk with him.
So that's what we're heading next. I'd be happy to tag along. We'd
be happy to have you. I was going to insist thank you for listening
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