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 Eterno. With the help of some very unlikely allies,
Vartan works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end to
the nightmares that plague his people. Welcome to ethereal embrace. I'm Baia,
and there's really nothing like some nice chilled watermelon wine to open up that conspiratorial
mind. Hum Day three, Timerans fought. I have questions. I have
many, many questions, and right now I couldn't relay anything if you wanted
me to that. First, you don't have a cemetery. Everybody dies.
You can't keep people from dying. Second, I keep hearing about the nature
of eternal. Nobody wants to leave. There's magic keeping people out. I
hiked for days to get here, and those rations were awful. Yeah,
I mean whenever I left here about ten years ago, it took me.
It took me an afternoon basically to leave, and I didn't even really think
about it till just now that it did take me, I mean over a
week after getting on the continent to get here. And I've been here before.
I mean I was born here. You were born here and you left
and you had trouble coming back. What is this place? All right?
Listen, Morgan, have a seat, Let's refill your wine, and she'll
give her a little like back massage, shoulder massage. Okay, we're okay,
this will fill you all in. Yeah, this is a lot.
There's a lot. It is a lot. Yeah, you're right, it
is a lot. Yes, this is bigger than the church. This is
bigger than anything. So you gotta trust us, and we damn sure need
to trust you. Tell me everything, well one moment, because that seems
like a long story, Vartan. I think whatever is doing this, whomever
is doing this, I think they're after the portal. When was the last
time you check that place out? We have it? What if they were
what if they were with your father in trying to uncover this demon place and
they're bringing more demons in. I'm gonna whisper to buyer. Should we go
check it out? Can we trust her? She's on a mission, and
I'm not sure exactly what it is besides following us around to see what we
know. It sure doesn't seem like she's protecting the robin by just following us.
So if we share a little with her, maybe she'll share a little
with us and we can form a trust to a point where we can go
together. Why don't we Why don't we go for that walk after all?
Morgan? And I'll fill you in all right? By the way, did
you just mention a portal? Take another glass of wine? I bring it
up because it could be problematic. Is this portal any cave? Yes?
Maybe? Then you need to tell me everything right now or we could have
problems. Can you tell me what kind of problems we might have? I'm
not sure, but I need to know so I can make sure I'm not
being followed. Can I roll an insight to see what her why she's doing
this? Is it for literally for her own protection or is it so she
could tell someone else? Yeah, you can roll an insight check and if
you're yeah, if you're being deceptive, roll a deception and we'll see.
We'll see where we land. Where is it? Phrazy? I got a
fourteen? I got a twenty. You get the feeling that Morgan thinks legitimately
that there could be issues if you don't tell her what's going on. But
maybe Morgan doesn't know exactly what the issues are. She doesn't have enough information
to defer what the negative thing would be. So that's why she wants more
information about where the cave is, where the portal is, so she can
come to a conclusion on her own to protect herself. You know what,
I think. I think that you just got a lot of information from us.
We need some information from you too. There's got to be more reason
than what we're being told by you and the Robin of the reason you're here.
You just got really serious about everything that you just found out about.
Why why are you here? What are the ulterior motives? And why did
your mood change? She takes a big, big pull of wine. A
piteousness is a team. We trust each other implicitly. We don't work for
the robins where guards. We're investigators. We were sent with the intention of
protecting the after information was received in a letter. I'm sure you're aware of
what it said. Yeah, the Robin has intentions of getting more information and
potentially taking a trip into a cave with a portal. So if this portal
is in a cave, and if I even half understand what I heard just
now, I don't know what that can mean for your town. So the
you, yourself, or the piteousness that you came with, doesn't know why
the Robin wants to go in the portal. No, he pulled me aside
this morning and thought that we looked a little more chummy than we did the
other day and wanted to me to get closer to you. Now. I
don't know what his intentions are. I mean, I'm all be honest with
you. I don't think his intentions are good, and we never thought the
intentions were good from before you even arrived. I don't I don't feel right
not telling my piteousness about this. But given the fact that Dove Bree privately
spend time with the Robin, I don't know what her intentions are either,
and I don't like that feeling. I only trust one dove at this point.
I am going to inside check, just just in case. Hopefully that's
another twenty one. I know why I'm here, and I think I know
why my fellow doves are here, But I have a couple of concerns and
what you're You're not like trying to deceive me or anything. You are.
Yeah, no, no, I'm not trying to deceive you. I'm trying
to be as legit as possible right now. And so yeah, it's like,
I know, I know why I'm here. I think I know why
my piteous piteousness is here. But I have concerns, and I I know
I I think we're here to protect everybody. I think we're here to save
people everybody. I'm gonna because what we got, what we heard was not
great. I'm gonna look at Bay and Timmering and I'm like, my gut
tells me to trust her, Yes, but we need to make sure that
she doesn't share this information with her piteousness, especially seeing as how one of
them is staying in the personal quarters of the robin. Oh yeah, I
agree with that. And she just said that she doesn't even trust Bri Dove
Brie. So we're going to share with you some information about this city and
the delicate situation and the delicate way that it kind of runs, and maybe
that will convince you not to share this information with anyone else. I'm listening.
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Thank you Meed. We truly appreciate your support. Now back to the town
of Eterno. We're gonna share with you some information about this city and the
delicate situation and the delicate way that it kind of runs, and maybe that
will convince you not to share this information with anyone else. I'm listening,
Vartan. I know robins are very very powerful people, and if anyone can
close down a portal, it is probably a robin. But can we really
trust someone from the Church of Greyhawk. What happens if they learn about our
city, they will want to come here. The nest could move here,
and then we would have one one Church of Greyhawk to rule for all eternity.
You cannot see this as a good thing. This is folly. Well,
yeah, I mean I think that's what we're trying to get down to,
is from what he told Morgan here, is that he wanted to go
in the portal, right, is that what I hadn't actually said that,
but that's a good inference. Yes, he wants to know what's on the
other side. Yeah, do you know what's on the other side. I've
not been on the other side, so I don't know. I need to
know more. Otherwise I have to take this information back right now, this
looks like a giant threat. I do have my concerns, but if this
is a true threat to the rest of Euphray, to the rest of the
world, I have to protect it at all costs. Well, what were
you saying by because I mean we were afraid that. Exactly what Timberin is
saying is what all of us we're afraid of, is that the Robin was
going to come in and the Church of Greyhawk is going to use it to
basically dominate this world. Yes, that was our concern when we heard that
Bastille was writing to the Robin in the first place. Unfortunate Lee, the
Robin is currently here, and we need to keep him away from that cave
by any means necessary. I think that we should use your scroll. But
how much information do we need to tell her so she doesn't go run and
telling telling the piteousness about it. Well, maybe we can take a walk
to the cave and on the way there I can explain I guess she's whispering
to Vartana. Yeah. I was gonna just say, does Bart hand and
Baya all of a sudden, No, people can't hear them sometimes. Oh
yeah, no, no, totally totally like bugged over, like physically bend
over and whisper where I see Baia? Okay, all right, yeah,
yes they are whispering. We tell her about the roots and how they're encircling
the city. She doesn't need to know where the cave entrance is, though
we can teleport there. We can't teleport there, and we can close it,
but then she'll know where the entrance teleport is in your that's the last
place we can go into the cave. Yeah, that is true. I
guess my question is for the mold or earth spell. Could the Robin just
unmold earth and reopen the cave? I imagine he can with the with how
powerful he is, Like, there's probably nothing to him. He is.
He is a very powerful person. But to be able to unmold earth,
I mean you are essentially making a cave entrance into the rest of a mountainside,
so like he would have to first be able to identify where it is,
and so far as you know, no one in town is willing to
tell him. Yeah, but you saw how eager Best Steele was to please
him, especially at dinner or yeah, yeah, and we had dinner the
other day. I don't fully trust Best still, I never did. Yeah,
sorry, I mean he was very eager to please, but he's also
very eager to please us. So it's it's a can't trust the bigger carrot.
Yeah, well, I mean we can walk. We could walk Morgan
into the cave, and then we leave the cave and mold earth and then
walk her around in some circles, and then she might not remember where it
was. I mean, she's not dumb. Yeah, but I don't think
she's familiar enough with the cave to remember the mountainside to remember exactly where a
cave is. That we maybe she maybe she would be able to you know
what, M fuck, I don't know. I honestly don't know. I
do not know how to approach this. I think to get her on our
side to not tell the other Robins or the other Doves. Yeah, we
have to show her. We have to. Yeah, we have to give
a little. We have to. Yeah, and I think that this would
be a good opportunity to do that. It could backfire on us, but
showing it to it okay, but showing it, but showing it to her
could give her more reason to be afraid, like like fearful of the safety
of the Robin, the world, this town and tell the other Doves.
That's that's my only concern. We got, I mean, we got to
be able to trust her though, if we for us to move forward,
it's a tough one. I've looked into her eyes many times and I think
that she is true and true, genuine. She's misled us in any way
at all. And if she runs off to tell the Robin. We can
just try to block him from entering. Blocking as in, we gotta kill
him. I didn't want to say it out loud, whisper it out loud,
all right, if it comes down to that, I guess that's what
we gotta do. All right, Well, we'll go with it. Vatan,
are you all right? You seem to have spaced out in the middle
of our conversation. Oh yeah, sorry about that, and it's been a
while. I uh, we just had a little bit to discuss there,
and uh yeah, I think it's time to take a trip out into the
woods and see if we can find any more cost and give Morgan here a
little bit more information so she can trust us and we can trust her.
That sounds like a great plan. Thank you for listening to this episode of
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