Due to some violent content. Baruntal discretion is advised. In the year two
forty seven, in the Age of Judges, Fartan was summoned home after the
death of his father. Upon his return, Fartan discovered something evil fester and
beneath the city of Eterno. With the help of some very unlikely allies,
Fartand works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end to the
nightmares that plague his people. Welcome to Ethereal, embrace Hey, that's me
Bartand stick to the plan. Stick to the plan. Stick to the plan.
Wait what did by just say? I wonder if this is gonna make
us miss Breakfast. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to greet them. Here we
go. Day two. Morgan rides toward the rear of the party. Her
horse, a beautiful white painted mare, has carried Morgan for three weeks of
travel across the continent of Isan. This is our first visit to Isan,
but it's a pretty beautiful, temperate continent. Her party is made up of
one priest of Greyhawk, a robin that goes by the name Torman, and
eight doves, including Morrigan. The doves do not have designated ranks to define
the group, but instead the party elects a team lead for each individual assignment.
Ahead of Morrigan rides Dove Bree, the elected leader for this assignment.
Next to Bree is her pair Dove Anelin. Doves always travel in pairs for
security and strength. Morgan's own pair is Dove Sean, and she rides to
her left. Of all the Doves in this piteousness, Sean is the quietest
in the group. With that said, she's also a fantastic fighter. All
the Doves are great fighters, but Sean maybe one of the finest. Morgan
has ever sparred. With the four remaining Doves trail behind Morrigan and Sean,
but not far bringing up the rear. The party did not send anyone to
scout ahead, as they were promised. These specific roads were typically banned it
free. The knowledge of demon attacks in the city of Eterno was the deciding
factor in Dove Bree's decision to stay in a group. Demons are not likely
to set traps along a highway. They are more aggressive and violent, so
they're more likely just to charge ahead into a group to fight them. Bree
calls back to Morgan and asks you to join her. At the head of
the line. Yes, can I Can I help you? Yes. I
was just speaking with Robin Torman earlier this morning. He mentions that there are
maybe two divisions of some type of law enforcement in the city. He mentioned
a fur bog that is new to town. His name is Vartan. He's
the son of Kyrian, the man who died. I've been thinking about it
throughout the morning, and i think I've decided that I'm gonna split you up.
I want you to keep an eye on Vartan when we get there,
and I'm gonna have Sean keep an eye on this brass cane character who seems
to lead the city guard. I figure you two are my best investigators and
you'd be the best suited to tail these people. I would like you to
to debrief with each other each night whenever you get a chance, and then
you can decide who will debrief me every every day or so whenever it's convenient.
Does this work for you? That sounds fine, ma'am, Absolutely very
good. I believe I'm going to have Anelin and myself stick with Robin Thorman
while we're there, and I'll separate the other four to police the city or
at least shadow the city guard and make sure everything is on the level.
Very good, ma'am. Do we know where I will find this Vartan?
I am not certain, but I have heard he's good friends with brass Kane,
at least from one of the letters that Robin Thorman read to me.
I will do my best to get you connected with him at some point.
Very good man, All right, as you were, she dismisses you.
Back to back. Robin Torman rides next to you, and you can see
him trying to fumble around with some with a journal, and he's trying to
dip his quill in to a little ink jar while he rides. But you
guys are moving at a decent walk on your horses, like you're not running
or anything. But it's not very comfortable, and he's getting very frustrated.
But he looks up to you and gives you a head nod as you fall
back into line. The Doves do not report to Robin Torman by any means,
so while he is technically higher than them in the church, you don't
take orders from him. In fact, you only take orders from Dovebury,
and only because your piteousness, which is the group of doves have elected her,
all right, and back to Eternal Baia and Vartan. You come out
of the woods and just as you get through the tree line, Amber,
the city guard that works for brass Cane, she comes running out to you
at the woodline and she's completely out of breath and she goes Farton Gray gray
Stone, hold on one second, geez, yeah, catch your breath.
Gray Stone sent me to find you. Who the robin is here? The
doves, they've arrived and they're waiting at your stable. All right, Yeah,
we gotta hurry, all right, you hurry. I'm I'm gonna stay
here. I'm gonna take a second. Who running in armor is not easy?
Like who? Who does this? And yeah? Is it starting to
be morning now? Yeah? Yep, Okay. As we start running away,
I'm gonna ask By. I was like, hey, should we send
her in there to that camp? She might be able to see something we
couldn't during the day. Yeah, you know, before we head to the
stable, why don't we tell her about the camp, tell all of them
about the camp. Yeah. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stop and yell out
to Amber like hey, Amber, yeah, Fartan, Oh yeah, can
you see our trail in the woods there. She takes a few steps towards
the woods and readjusts her armor and pulls a little bit on the neck of
the breastplate to give her some breathing room, and says, yeah, I
think I can make it out. You trampled through this brush, going to
be pretty easy to follow. Oh yeah, heading there. There's a camp
in there. See if you can find anything. Now that is daylight a
camp? Okay, of course, take take your time. I don't mean
right this moment. Catch your breath first, get some water, but just
don't lose that trail that we made. And I know it'll be hard,
but just you know, just in case, as soon as you feel up
to it, go check that out, because that's the camp where we believe
the murderers of the family state what. I'm not going to go back there
alone. Then I'm gonna grab a couple more of the guard first. Yeah,
catch your breath, get get some help. All right, thanks,
I guess yeah, I'll grab two more and we'll go check it out.
Was there anyone there when you were there? Yeah? Amber, I do
think that they're long gone. They they have they were gone as soon as
they got back to the camp. There's no sign of where they went after
they arrived at the camp, but they are not there. Okay, all
right, well that makes me feel a little bit better. Yeah, I'll
grab two more guards and we'll have that way right now. I won't dally,
of course, we'll take off right and again. So you run through
town, you pass through the bricks, and you get on the main road
and right back to your house and you see there a robin is dressed in
full grayhawk priestly garb. You see eight doves standing outside your stables on on
your property. With them is Bastille, who looks very apologetic, just sorry,
so sorry that they're even here. Tell Mica, who looks excited to
see them. Timarin brass Cane and Judge Graystone, who brass Cane and Judge
Graystone are doing their best to put on their business face. Graystone says,
ah Vaultan, please make your way over to help me greet our guests.
Yeah, that sounds lovely. Has anybody spoken to them yet? They have
just arrived. Okay, so they're they're like in the middle of dismounting right
now. So it looks like they probably it looks like amber or someone kind
of ran through the town and gathered up everybody, and all the main people
went right to the house. But they maybe beat you by a couple of
minutes. Okay, okay, And what did we call ourselves again? The
city? The eye? What did we call ourselves again? The eye of
Eterno? What Eterno's eye? Eterno? Private eyes? I don't I think
it was just I don't think because we don't want to be Yeah, because
we don't want to be private. We're sanctioned by the situation. Yeah,
do we want eyes eye of Eterno or Eternos? It turns eyes? Yeah,
I don't know. That sounds kind of cultish. I mean, I'm
here for it. It turnos eyes. It sounds like some sort of like
creepy CCTV kind of it. Does. I kind of like it? All
right, it turn those eyes. We're the official investigators of the city.
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Eternal, so so Vartan, I think that what we spoke about, and
I'm bias saying this as we're running up, is that we are officially Eterno's
eyes and we are the city investigators, and they have come at a very
terrible time. We're smack in the middle of our investigation, and everything that
they do here in the city is going to be an inconvenience. I don't
think we should word it that way. That's not very nice. Maybe,
you know, just make sure that they don't, you know, go anywhere
without us, just so we can make sure that there's no clues or something
that we overlooked or missed without like, you know, they can go places,
but just have us accompany them. That way, it slows them down
significantly and they leave. Yeah, I agree. I guess nobody's welcomed them
into town yet. Yeah, like gray Stone waived you to join him as
he was walking up to them, so he kind of slowed his gate for
you to catch up so you could all arrive as a group. Okay,
all right, I think we talked about us being the ones to greet him,
so he knows that we're kind of in charge. All right, Oh,
hey there, Robin Torman. Correct, Yes, that is correct.
I am Robin Torman, and these are the doves. And who am I
speaking with? Oh? Well, first of all, welcome to a turno
Vartan. Oh thank you art. It seems that you've come at a very
unfortunate time, Robin. I don't see how that could be, considering I
sent a letter saying that I was coming, you had time to prepare.
No, well it's not that. Well, last night there was a murder.
It wasn't a demon or anything like that, it was humans, and
we just started an investigation. I've been up all night, I haven't even
slept, so, uh, we want to make sure that you're taken care
of while you're here, and I'm Eternos. I'm part of Eternos, as
we are the the investigation team here an Eternal and we uh. I can
assure you we will have somebody to help guard you for your entire time here,
and I will do my best to accompany you as much as I can.
I please ask you to not go you and your party to not go
wandering around without being accompanied. Right now, we'll get to the bottom of
this, and I'll assure you that you're doing a great job. Far to
good job. It sounds as if we have actually come at the perfect time
to help you out. You see, I come with a piteousness of doves,
gray hawks, finest soldiers, and they can help you with your investigation.
No murderers can hide long when a piteousness is around to investigate. I
personally cannot speak on our behalf, but I'm sure dove Bree, who is
their lead, would be happy to assist you. And dove Bree steps up
and says, yes, I am well versed in murder investigations. I can
have a couple of my best investigators assist and as for the rest of us,
we will adhere to your guidelines to the best of our ability. Obviously,
the robins protection is our utmost concern, but aside from that, we'll
do everything within the limitations of the city. Listen, pre beautiful name.
By the way, as much as we appreciate your offering of help, no
one really knows the city as well as the residents. No one knows the
people as well as we do. And unfortunately no offense. But I think
that your assistance will be more of a hindrance and possibly a danger than helpful.
You understand right, I think I understand perfectly. Bree has dismounted.
She was saying that stuff as she was like getting down and stuff. And
she turns around and walks back to two other doves and go ahead and give
me a DC thirteen perception check, Baya and Vartan. Okay, and can
I also roll insight on? When she said I understand that perfectly? M
yeah, she was being like, okay, you're bad guys. Nine I
got a twenty six. Okay, all right, So by you don't hear
it, but Bartan you do. So let's figure out how that works.
But let's resolve the insight check as well. Go ahead and make an insight.
Six. Yeah, as far as you can see, you think that
she feels a little out of place being put in her place. She's used
to being the pinnacle of authority, but it seems like she'll adhere to the
rules that were just laid out in front of her. Bartan you hear.
However, she walks over to two other Doves and says, Dove Sean,
I believe that they are not going to want our direct support, so I
think you're going to have to shadow your target, Dove Morrigan. I will
give you free reign as to your target on how you'd like to proceed.
But it seems like they don't want to play nice with us. I can
be persuasive. I'll go talk to them. Yes, I think that would
be best. I am going to have Dove Winter and Dove caldbraid. How's
the horses? Let me see if I can get that resolved real quick.
And she will turn around and walk back. While she was having that conversation,
Torment says, I can see why you wouldn't want to have assistance from
outsiders, but I beseech you to think it over. Maybe they could be
of use to you. Maybe not Man anyway, Volton, I've heard of
you and letters. You are much bigger than I had imagined. Oh yeah,
I mean I ain't never seen it for a bow before I've I've not
not really. They aren't very prominent in my area of the world unfortunately.
Oh yeah, Well now you've met one and this is their normal size,
so mostly normal. So you know, good job for you for being a
little bit more cultured. Now, Oh, thank you. Yeah, and
I agree. I think that you kind of made a point. If we
have more eyes on, say clues or information or looking at stuff, maybe
someone else can see something that we don't. But the most important thing that
we want to make sure happens is that nobody goes somewhere without either myself,
Vartan or brass Cane or Magno or Judge Graystone. And I hate to be
a nuisance, but which one of you are brass Cane and Judge Graystone.
Well, I'll let them introduce their selves. Yeah, but Bastille actually hops
up to stand in front of Torment and introduces everyone and says their station.
While he's going through introductions and being very formal about it, Dove Bree comes
back over to you and in a much more hush tone, says, I
believe this is the stable we were instructed to use when we got to town.
Is that accurate? Yeah, it is accurate, And I kind of
want to apologize for how well. I'll save it for later, okay,
but yes, there's the stable. Sure, how much are you charging per
day to stable the animals? And do you have someone to care for them?
I'm gonna lean down to buy and be like, how much you think
we didn't talk about that? I was thinking free if they take care of
them themselves, that makes sense, right. I feel bad. I mean,
I know, I know we want them to leave, but I just
can't. I can't. It's different if Cody's, you know, overt charging
them. But it feels weird me making a decision to overcharge someone. I
mean, just tell them donation donations to the city or the church or you
well, I don't know. I mean I would say I would say that
it would be silly. Yeah, I say it would be silly for like
anything like I feel like ten silver a day would be standard for horses,
you know, I mean an average drinks like five silver? Yeah, I
need not here? How much gold spend on a full breakfast. It's expensive,
Nico. Yeah, you know what, if you take care of the
horses yourself, we'll let you stay here for whatever you feel like donating to
the city. Oh that's very kind of you. Yeah. She clicks her
fingers together and looks over her right shoulder and one of the doves that is
leading the horses towards the stable unhooks a small money bag from her belt and
chucks it to Dove Bree. Bree catches it and then hands it over and
says, there should be thirty gold pieces in here. I think that might
be a good donation to start us off. Yeah, sounds good. I
appreciate it, and I'll have two of the doves take care of the horses.
So, yes, is there feed in the barn that they can use?
Will that gold help take care of that cost? Yeah? This should
be plenty of stock right now. Yeah, very good. Now, I
believe I heard something in the report about a demon attack. Is that accurate?
And at this point she waves Morrigan up to be a part of the
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