Due to some violent content. B Rental discretion is advised. In the year
to forty seven, in the Age of Judges, Fartan was summoned home after
the death of his father. Upon his return, Farten discovered something evil festering
beneath the city of Eterno. With the help of some very unlikely allies,
Farten works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end to the
nightmares of plagueist people. Welcome to Ethereal embrace. Hey, that's me Barten.
My mother being back is really messing with me. Me having first person
blooded man. This avatar business anyways, can't stop now. Day four,
the last style tavern and in all right, So what are you guys doing
with the wagon while you go upstairs? Oh? We're going upstairs. Oh
shit, we can ask Cody to watch it. Oh no, the doves
are down there eating breakfast. Doves are eating breakfast, all except for Sean
and Brie and Anelin. Obviously Sean is upstairs in the room with Robin because
that was the last you heard her orders from Brie. Brie is with Greystone
and Susan and the other doves are eating breakfast. What if we ask for
a to go container from Cody and just put the heart in it. Well,
that's it's a big heart. I'd be a little heavy for that.
Yeah, a full doggie bag. Let's get a doggy barrel to go?
How big? How big is the heart? Like? How big is it?
We carried it downstairs yeah Beforetan is like crazy strong. Yeah. Yeah,
so the chest itself is a bit it's a pretty happy sized chest.
The heart is probably a foot and a half long. And they can't touch
it. You can't touch the nails. Oh we can't. We can touch
the the meat mm hmm. Okay, could put it in my bag?
Yeah, just toss that sucker in There is a wet is that what you're
doing? Just stop carrying around the chest. Just put it in my bag.
I mean ask Can we ask for the bag? Yeah, if you
want. Yeah, he's got bags. Yeah, let's get Let's get a
couple of bags. Double bag it at least before we put it into your
back. You got any tater sex Cody, Yeah, he goes, yeah,
let meep. I'm gonna get a few of those and I'm gonna underneath
this tarp just like slide it into the sacks and throw it over my shoulder
and be all right, let's go yea. Make it upstairs, right up
to Robin Torman's room. You knock on the door and Dove Sean answers it,
and she opens the door and she says, oh, Bartan, Ah,
it's good to see you, Morgan. Now might not be a very
good time. Why well, Torman just realized that someone has stolen his chest
and he's very angry right now. Oh that's okay, Sean. Why don't
you go get some breakfast. I can take over watching the Robin. Shekavartan
up and down, get fully armed, you know, ready for battle,
and she's like, you're good you sure, yeah, yeah, it's all
good. Okay, I'll go get some breakfast. Torman. I'm going to
grab some food. I'll be back, and she skirts between the two of
you and heads on downstairs. Good morning, Robin, Good morning. What
can I help you with? I hear you've lost something? Yes, do
you buy a chance? Know who took it? What was the item?
It was a chest carrying a very strong, powerful magic item, that really
big one that we had a lug, Yes, the heavy one that everyone
complained about. It's been stolen maybe somebody just kicked it out the window.
I mean, I might be able to help you with that. But I
have a question first, Okay, why do you want to go in the
portal? Because there are things in the other worlds, things that belong to
this world. I think I can retrieve some of them, bring them back.
How do you know this? I have communed with our Lord. He
tells me that there are places that we can go, things we can bring
back for his glory. Is this is not sitting right with Morgan? Can
she do a check of some kind to kind of think back on everything she's
ever learned in the church? I mean religion? Is that's a fourteen?
There are priests who they say they can commune specifically with Greyhawk. You've never
really known him to be one of them, But he's also a little bit
more tight lipped than some of the other Robins, so it's it's not unheard
of for people to say that they can commune directly with Greyhawk. Robin Torment,
are you aware that that portal seems to go directly to a demon realm,
not a godly realm? Yes, that's why I commissioned a piteousness of
doves to come with me on this journey. You are aware that opening a
portal to a demon realm is a two way door, right, They can
come out if we can go in. If we go in quickly and get
what we need, then we can come back and close it from our end.
And you think that's easy. Seems easy enough. Be a lot easier
with my dragon hot wherever it is. How do you how do you plan
to close the portal? Well, after we leave there and come back to
this realm, we move the magic items off the rooms and they will no
longer be powering it, and that just closes the portal for good unless they
have something strong enough magic wise on there and to open it up, which
is all the more reason for us to go in and acquire whatever magic items
they have to ensure they can't open it from there. And I hate this
whole thing, but he's got a point, but it's terrible. It's like,
what if they have like five hundred magic items, we can't carry them
out? And do you think that if they had five hundred magic items,
they wouldn't have come through already. I'm sure they're scouring looking for magic items
right now to open the portal, they have happened. Why do you think
we're here? You got the letters? Yes, I think this Kurion person
is the one that opened the portals. At least that's kind of what Bestile
said. He was the first victim. Was he not listen? Robin?
What if the so the Avatar of Greyhawk would be in the Demon Realm?
What if he or they see you and try to fight you or something?
The Avatar of Greyhawks serves the same god I do. Why would he try
to fight me? That's nonsensical. If the avatar is there, it is
solely to scout out the underworld and tell us where the magic items are,
to guide us to our true treasures, that we may return them for the
glory of Greyhawk. I have a slight problem with stealing things from other people
for your own glory. However, there is one thing that was placed in
the Demon Realm that doesn't belong there that we do need to recover. So
thank you for the plan, and I guess I'll see you later, Alligator.
If you intend to go on there, I would advise you taking me
with you. No offense, Robin, But how helpful in a fight would
you be? I'd rather have my doves. I am terrible in a fight,
most assuredly. However, I do have the book that would guide you
to the magic item in the realm. What is this magic item? I
do not know, but the book will tell us how to get that.
I don't believe you can we see the book. No, the book is
mine. I just want to look at it for just a second. Is
this the book that he's been reading this full time? Hm? I'm going
to approach him closer and like bend over and get in his face, and
I'm gonna be like, I think you should let us look at that book,
and I'm gonna intimidate. You get advantage on intimidate because Morgan is already
already intimidating as well. So both of you are being mean. Fourteen I
rolled eleven on both. Yeah, so a fourteen. He does kind of
scrunch back from you, and he says, even if I showed you the
book, it wouldn't work without me. It's bound to me. Well,
that's fine, I just want to look at it. We're not taking it
from you. He pulls it out from his jacket. It's in a pocket
in his robe, and he pulls it out from that pocket and you can
see it, but he does not hand it over. Can we read the
title? There is no title on the book. Let's start thumbing through some
pages by it. You can read, open it up to some page.
He flips it open to one page, and you can see that there is
writing in there. Morgan, go ahead and make a perception role twenty four
okay, easily. Then you've seen this man write a ton of shit.
You could identify his handwriting from anyone else, like you know Robin Torman's handwriting.
The handwriting in this book is not his. But the page that he
opened it too, which is the most recent page, has writing in it
that looks like it is. It's freshly written, so the page is only
half full, and it's got some instructions. Huh, Robin, that's not
your handwriting. And yet you say this book doesn't work without you. Who's
writing in the book a celestial creature belonging to Greyhawk, our lord? Can
I roll inside on it? Yeah, I'm sure he believes it himself.
Possibly Oh on fourteen okay, so fourteen he believes what he is saying to
you. You also, as a pretty experienced, you know magician, know
that just because he believes it this way. You know, there are known
cases of warlocks that their patrons only speak to them through books, and there
are really high level wizards and sorcerers that can communicate to other people via books.
So he definitely believes it, but there's a chance he might be being
deceived. Is kind of what your role gets you. Okay. My concern
here is that sometimes what we may perceive as celestial or good may be evil.
So have you considered that? Of course I'm considered it, But sometimes
you have to rest on faith. Morgan's just gonna look over at Vartan,
not even knowing if he's ever seeing any of Susan's handwriting. Hey, Vartan,
Yeah, do you recognize that writing? By chance? Uh? Harryl
me let me get a closer look at it. You do not? And
also I will know that Baya would know the handwriting of Susan better than anyone
else, seeing that she knew Susan from before. Yeah, so do I
recognize it? No, it's not Susan. You you specifically recognize it as
not Susan's. That is not Susan. Okay, Well, okay, I
mean we take we can take him in there. Uh. That way,
we can also control how much stuff he takes away from the demon realm for
the glory of his god, and either something devious is leading him to slaughter,
or it will lead us to what we are looking for. Well,
Robin, you just might be getting your wish if you really want to go
in that portal, I really do, all right, So is that what
we want to do. Do we want to try to take some time to
gather the piteousness or do you want to just go? They're all downstairs.
They're supposed to protect him, so I mean, we're supposed to protect him,
Morgan. My concern is we may be leading your entire team to slaughter.
As I said, there's quite a chance that whatever celestial being is writing
in Robin Torman's book is not leading him to glory. And I agree with
you. However, we are here for his protection and rather than that fall
to U and Vartan, let us do our jobs. Well, can stop
buying, get Brie, maybe have one last little chat with Susan. I
mean, if she's even there. Still. If she is there, I
doubt Brie will come, but we can certainly try. Oh, we could
convince Susan that her thing was never broken. That might be helpful. Yeah,
may not have to destroy the well fuck, I don't know, but
yeah, all right, what we know is that we definitely need to take
this guy with us. So let's go downstairs. So you guys grab Torman.
He grabs another five small boxes and puts them into his bag and then
slings the bag over his shoulder. He's not carrying any weapons, nothing of
the sort, just this bag with these little five boxes that are about about
eight inches by eight inches. They chucked in his bag and he follows you
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town of Eterno. Well, first, I'm gonna find Sean and because i'm
kind of I have to do this without Bree and I am assuming they haven't
heard about Annelin yet. Correct. So okay, Hey, Sean, how
do you feel about following the robin into a demon portal? It sounds like
a lot of battle I'm in. I knew you would be. We gotta
grab the rest of the Piteousness and there's some news I don't know if I
don't know if anyone's going to ask, has anyone seen Aneline recently? I
saw her last night on patrol, but you haven't seen her this morning.
No, there's a reason for that. The cultists we've been tracking used her
as the very first sacrifice, the very first hmm. Brie is very angry
and is currently I believe, holding their leader in custody. But we the
rest of the Piteousness has a job to do. We're probably going to stop
and talk with Brie. But my question to you, as my partner,
because I know this won't go any further than you. Should we tell the
rest of the piteous is now or should we wait until Brie makes the announcement.
I am not very good with people, but I will say I would
would not want to know personally if my orders but to go into a demon
universe portal something, because I would be pretty hell bent on seeking justice from
those cultists. I think it would be a distraction, So maybe wait until
Brie decides to let them know. I think you're right. I just needed
that second opinion. So let's gather the rest of the piteousness and go do
the job we were sent here to do. Fantastic, So we're going to
walk over to where the rest of the piteousness is and I'm just gonna be
like, all right, Doves, we're here to protect the Robin and we
are going to take him to his objective. Now. First and foremost is
his safety, because he just finished telling me he's terrible in a battle,
so we have to make sure that he doesn't die. And we're going to
stop on the way to uh speak with Dove Brie. I don't know if
she will be joining us or not. By the way, Vartan, where
are we going. I'm assuming they've moved her from where they were. Oh,
the guard station, I'm guessing. Okay, yep. They all get
up there. Most of them are wearing their armor and stuff already for the
day. I mean they're they're trained soldiers, right, They're they're trained warriors.
So they have their stuff good and ready to go. A couple of
them go up to the bar and grab some extra waters and stuff from from
Cody because they don't know how long it's gonna take. They grab some extra
dry fruit, dried jerky, that sort of thing, throw them in their
bags and they're like, all right, let's go. All right, I
will also do that, grab the fred stuff or dry stuff, okay,
and the normal five portions that he makes for him every day. He's already
got it ready, all right. So you guys gather up your force.
You have the Robin and all of the doves that are available. You head
to the barracks. You do find Judge Greystone and Susan and Dovebreath. There.
Susan is locked in a cell. The shackles are off her now,
but she's in a cell. Willingly, Susan, do you think that you've
gone mad? I don't think, so how would I know? I think
sometimes when you go mad, you have a little inkling that you're doing things
that you wouldn't have done in the past, or thinking in a way that
you've never thought before, i e. Ritually sacrificing people, or thinking that
you have to kill yourself in order to save a town, or leaving your
son and husband. I must be speaking with Baya now. Yes, my
greatest fear and motivator at the same time is making sure that it is not
Vartan who has to sacrifice himself to close the portal, and so I will
do whatever it takes, including sacrificing myself or five townsfolk, to make sure
he is safe. Okay, do you think that if we just remove your
poor from the demon realm, they will not have the power or the magic
to be able to open the portal from their side? Maybe? But what's
to stop some idiot lack Torment from opening it on this side? Well?
Can't we just kill Torment? The problem solved? Now you're beginning to think
like me, Yes, you may be right. So, Baya, are
you beginning to go mad? How would I know? Well? I do
plan to stay here and guard the portal if anything were to happen and you
were unable to close it. But I don't think that you're mad. Bia.
For what it's worth, I am sorry for what I did to you.
I hope you found my spear. Thank you for listening to this episode
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know, I don't know what my probably your voice, I guess I want
to punch out the face. I'm not sure what my problem is with your
plan. I just know it's wrong. I really do you really do give
off punch in your face, But how do you even do that voice without
holding your nose? I don't know. I I frequently have to mouth to
myself, Harry Potter. Potter, that's awesome. Nice