Due to some violent content, Barental 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
fastering 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 Baya,
the private detective with Eterno's eyes or was it eyes of Eternal? Either way,
I'm watching you. Day two, Vartan's house. I believe I heard
something in the report about a demon attack. Is that accurate? And at
this point she waves more again up to be a part of the conversation.
Demon attack. Somebody should tell me about this demon attack. Yeah, there
were some buzzing demons. We're not exactly how sure how they got here,
but there were some buzzing demons that the noise was just unbearable to me,
to be honest, it was terrible. I think at one point I passed
out. Well, that sounds extremely unpleasant. Yeah, and tell me about
it. It was my good friend Ovic nudged me awake. So I think
they were. We found out that they're called sill. Have you heard of
those? Have I heard of zillm Oh my, my apologies, not zill.
So the buzzing ones were I think somebody called them chasmains, but I
think that they're called chasms. Yeah those yeah, those yeah, But also
we had those zill But they were really easy to take care of. You
just needed just a something sharp behind their back and I'm gonna flick the the
tip of my great hammer. Yes, I'm I'm familiar with with both of
those. Yeah, something definitely needs to be done. Oh no, we
already took care of him. There ain't anymore at all. Yeah, yeah,
they're all dead. Oh we haven't had any more showing up or anything.
Well, that's that's that's that's very good to hear. I have to
admit I wasn't very close to the conversation, but you were saying something about
murders or something that you're investigating. I do love to investigate. It's my
job and a hobby. Well, those those, uh, the murder,
I've investigated it myself along with my colleagues here and definitely ruled out another demon
attack. We do believe that the demon attack was isolated and we shouldn't have
any more problems with them. I hope you all don't mind that I tag
along on the investigations that you might have. Uh you said, it's not
really safe to travel alone anyway, and this seems like a good time.
Dove Bree says, Oh, Morgan, that is a wonderful idea. Now,
if you'll please excuse me, I'd like to meet brass Cane. Sean,
would you please accompany me? And you see her and another dove Dove
Sean move over to where brass Cane is looking out of his depth in a
conversation with Graystone, Torment and Bastial, and Morgan's just going to give a
quick head nod to Sean, just kind of little camaraderie thing and knowing that
we're going to meet up later. Oh yeah, yeah, you might as
well join us. Well, we'll show you around a little bit. Well,
I'm here to help in any way. Can I roll insight? This
doesn't feel very good? Yeah, go ahead. That one feels really good.
Yeah, yeah, it feels I'm your best friend. You feel like
it was forced, but you don't feel like there's any mal intent accompanied with
it. You feel like they are just new to town and probably awkward.
Actually, you know what, I first, Morgan, I do want to
apologize to you, and I'll apologize to the group later. I don't think
that we had the best I guess welcoming to our town. We could have
been a little bit. Yes, show Eier, I'm sorry it's been so
long since I've entertained, but yes, we did have a murderer. And
actually with can you tell me what your experiences with investigation? Well, our
piteousness kind of handles all kinds of things. We investigate all types of issues
across the lands, and I personally like to just really dig into it.
And I usually work with with Sean. With Dove Sean, we usually make
a pretty good pair. But what you guys are working on just seems so
interesting and I'd really like to assist in any way. I can't really talk
about a lot of the cases I've investigated in the past, but just know
that I have an eye for detail. I mean, I will say that
I, as I said, I am familiar with with the zill I did
have to investigate a not a huge zill infestation, but it was an issue
we had to figure out where they were coming from and destroy them. So
of course I am familiar with how to take them out as as you said,
with a little pointy thing to the back of the neck. Maybe not
so little. My preference is to you know, shoot a bow at them
from a distance if possible, because they are rather annoying. Oh that's great.
So more again also that we don't have a demon problem anymore, but
we do have a murderer on the loose, and I'm not necessarily well,
we are not necessarily sure that the murderers are still in town. But what
kind of murder investigation experience do you have? There have been murders that I've
investigated in the past, generally simply because of the you know, the bigger
town. There's a lot more people to talk to about it, many more
witnesses, I think than here. This is just such a small community.
But I am very good at talking to people. I'm familiar at looking at
clues and analyzing things, and and there's so many different ways to I don't
know. I guess you could put it as detect uh information and when doing
the investigations, since I mean, there's just so much that goes into it
because you you you find, you find tracks, and you find blood spatter.
And yes, I'm a nerd. What do you want from me?
I'm I'm a soldier nerd and I just I just I just really really like
the investigation piece. And yes I have been successful, but it's it's always
a group effort. So I can't say that I have ever single handedly solved
a murder, but I would really like to help on this one. Needless
to say, she's really, really really now I'm usually done the murder investigation
things. She's more in the demon thing and she's trying to impress them.
Yeah, I was gonna say, do a do a persuasion check to see
how well. I was gonna say that Baya had already just rolled a one
on insight on Morgan, Oh, I got a seventeen. Uh all right,
So as you awkwardly fumble through this presentation, some of the things you
said hit home with the two of them. So Morgan, number one,
yes, you are really good at talking to people. I can feel that
from you, that vibe that energy. And number two, do you want
to hug and she opens her arms wide and like does the little pats on
her own front of her shoulders, like bring it in, Come on,
bring it in. You've had a long ride. So Morgan just kind of
tentatively steps forward, just kind of leans into it. All right, So
in the hug, I'm going to roll intimidation. Our heroes will be right
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your support. Now back to the Town of Eternal. I'm gonna roll intimidation
while he's doing that. Dove Sean is over talking to a brass cane and
gives you a very puzzled look as to why you're hugging this giant fur bag.
So while while Baya is hugging or I'm gonna say with a with a
dirty twenty intimidation like, maybe squeeze just a little too tight. Well,
I'm not hugging her. I'm pretty perceptive myself. Who's your buddy, Sean
Taylor? Oh? Tailing? Well? I mean, I'm sure Dovebury has
her assisting someone else. I believe one of the other people over there.
Sounds like you're lion. Oh, I believe she's supposed to be assisting the
brass cane fellow. I don't believe she's tailing anyone. She's just gonna go
help, all right, I'm happy with that. You can let go over
By, and Morgan's just gonna kind of back away as the hug let's go,
and just kind of glance over at Shawn, like, what have I
gotten myself into? If Morgan has long hair? Bya does want to just
do a little flip of her hair as they pull away? Yeah, so
what does Morgan look like? Okay, so Morrigan is a human female about
five foot five, athletic, wearing the garb of the gray Hawk Doves.
She has kind of dark hair, black hair with like purple ash streaks through
it, and she wears a set of grieves, And even though she's a
monk, she does wear armor as she is a soldier. She wears Elvin
chain, tan skin, toned blue eyes, and just she doesn't look like
she should be as awkward as she is because she knows how to fight more
than she knows how to talk to the people, as much as she tries
to say otherwise, boll, I'm kind of hungry. Oh, let's say
we have a proper discussion and get about to eat. We can lead your
party over to Cody's where you'll be staying, so you'll know exactly where it
is. Sounds like a plan. I could always eat you hear torm and
say, I believe I heard someone talking about food. I am famished.
Oh yeah, Cody makes some good breakfast. Breakfast sounds wonderful, much better
than these trail rations I've been eating. Not to complain, dove Bree,
but I could deal with a warm cooked meal that wasn't reheated over a fire
three times she just rolls her eyes at him and goes to disgust with the
other Doves. What the plan is, lead the way, volunt and if
you would be so kind, Yeah, yeah, come on this way,
I'll lead him. Graystone and bass Steel stay back for a second, and
brass Cane says, I'm sorry, but I've got a couple of things I've
got to attend to. I don't think I'm gonna be eating breakfast this morning
for quite some time. Gray Stone and I have got to look at a
couple of things. And you hear dove Sean say, yes, I had
hoped maybe I could accompany you and look at the corpses of those demons,
And brass Kane says, I'm sorry, but we burned the bodies of those
demons. It was bad luck to keep him around here. No, we
got rid of them, And dove Sean says, that was incredibly foolish,
But I guess that's what you get with simple small towns superstitions. Brass Cane
and Dove Sean seem incredibly annoyed with each other right out the game, like
they're just glaring at each other. Well, it looks like those two are
going to be having a great time, doesn't it. I can't wait to
talk to her later. I don't think they're going to have a great time,
did you. I think they just argued she's an acquired taste. He'll
get used to her. He called or she called him simple and foolish.
I don't know. I mean, did you get acquired to being called simple
and foolish? We don't talk that much. We mostly spar and I mean,
honestly, she's an amazing fighter and matches my skill perfectly. I don't
think we've actually ever said harsh words to each other. Yeah, so I
can't imagine somebody wanting to acquire a taste to being called names unless they had
zero self esteem, which would be terrible. You know, you wouldn't want
to be friends with somebody with zero self esteem, and you also I wouldn't
want to have zero self esteem. So I don't I don't see positive things.
I think maybe we should check in on them after breakfast. I do
have I do still have any slice of the zill so maybe you know,
and I have some goo from the walls of the chasms. I think Sean
will be glad to see some of that. But I'm really hungry. Can
we go eat first? Yeah, So, while you guys are on your
way to the last stop tavern and in roll an insight check on the conversation
between brass Cane and Dove sean oh eight eight Jesus, you guys are just
crushing it tonight. Twenty two will do it all right? So bar Tan
he says that, and you think to yourself that maybe they did burn the
bodies. I mean, you are apparently asleep for you know, I didn't
know maybe they did burn the bodies, but you kind of I mean,
you've known brass Cane since you were kids. You grew up together, and
you can pull out when he's lying, and you know that they had them
in that warehouse, so you feel like he's lying to try and keep them
hidden away from the doves. But everyone else thinks that he burned them because
he's because that's what they did, because it was bad luck. Because that's
what he said. Yeah. So you get to the last top tavern,
you walk in. Cody has hired Magno and two other townsfolk to help around
the inn in preparation for the ambassadors of Greyhawk. So when you walk in,
there are for people and just upon opening the door, the smell of
breakfast foods, breads, meats, eggs, seasoning just wafts out of the
inn as you come walking in. And Cody has clearly just went to town
on food preparation, and he sees you walk in, he sees that you
have other people with you as well, so he doesn't do his normal you
know, wave, Hey, how's it going. It's more of an all
businesses business and waits for you to approach the bar or for you to take
a seat. I think normally we just order at the bar and then go
pick a seat. Right, Yeah, I was, I was gonna go
up to the bar. It's like, hey, Cody, mine throwing how
many people were there? Uh? So there was the eight Doves, the
Torman, you and Baya, Bastille still and gray Stone left, we left
and one of the doves left. Yeah, and one of the doves left
yep, So jesus what I just come up to you? So that's eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve if we count you and Baia as
the same or as two people. I'm gonna relay those numbers because I don't
remember already. Take Cody and we're like, hey, Cody, I think
most of the party's gonna be sitting over over at those the big table there.
Uh, we'll take our breakfast over in the booth. Okay, yeah,
that's what. What do you want by I'll just take some water?
Oh what you gotta eat? But running around the forest all night telling me
you ain't hungry, I have a very slow metabolism. Oh okay, well
we'll have three waters. Let me get three biscuits and gravy out. One
of them is just in case. And oh Morgan, right, Uh,
you can go ahead and tell Cody what you want. I will. I'm
gonna go ahead and sit down, but we'll be over in the booth.
Come on and join us whenever you're done. Okay, I'll be over in
a minute. Cody, was it? Yes? Yeah? What can I
get for you? Oh? I'm starving. We've been on the road all
day. And I'll be honest. Our Robin was actually quite correct. The
field rations are terrible. I understand. What do you recommend? Well,
I mean, the biscuits and gravy have really seemed to have been doing the
best around here. But I can make a mean omelet. Do you have
any dietary restrictions. I don't you know the biscuits and gravy does sound amazing?
And what do you have for beverages? Oh, we got beer,
wine, water. We have this watermelon juice. Ah, watermelon juice.
That sounds amazing. Biscuits and gravy and watermelon juice sounds good. I'll have
that right over. Fantastic. I'm gonna go sit with Bartan. Okay,
so you go sit with Go to sit with Bartan, and more people come
up and order their food. They get to the end of it, and
and Torman agrees to pay for everyone to have their own room. In the
end, the doves are slated to share a room for each one of their
pairs. So so Dove Bree and Dove Anelin are going to share a room.
Morrigan and Sean will share a room, and then the other two pairs
will share a room. And then and then Robin Torman will have his own
room. And you hear Cody charge what you can only estimate as three to
four times the standard rate for an end stay, and the meals like just
a ridiculous amount, and Torman doesn't even balk doesn't even pay attention, just
pulls out a big bag of golden, sets it on the bar and says
that should cover for three days. By whispers to Vartan and said, I
think we forgot that churches don't pay taxes, so they probably have plenty of
money. Yeah, yeah, And I was I was kind of thinking,
I mean, we gotta keep them away from the the demons. Brass Can
was. He couldn't have been right about that. We know they're in the
we know where they are in the bricks that warehouse, right, Yeah,
should I do you? I mean this slice of zill I have is pretty
dried up at this point, it's almost dehydrated. I don't don't get anything
from that. I mean, it's just a what'd you call it? A
slice? Yeah? Is Morgan close enough to possibly hear any of this?
Or am I still over dear the bar? You are deaf only close enough.
But when they whisper like this, it's actually internalized. They're not speaking
out loud. I was hoping I was watching him talk to himself. I
mean, he's so essentially imagine that he's not saying any words, but his
eyes just kind of stare off into the distance because he's having this conversation in
his head with the two of them talking back and forth. So it's this
weird, awkward just staring off into space while everything is happening around him.
Okay, so I'm just going to sit down and just kind of watch like
I'm watching a tennis match that there's no tennis ball. Yeah. So,
I mean, do you think that maybe we can satiate what was that other
one's name that was kind of rude, Sean Sean? Yeah? Do you
think we can satiate her desire for information with this? Yeah? I think
so, But we got to keep Morgan busy. I mean, how much
do we want to get her involved in the murder? She seems sincere right.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not getting any bad vibes from them other
than they're trying to lie about her friend. I heard him talking about it,
So I know everything well as much as they said, But I don't
know. We gotta investigate this murder, and I mean it's the only way
to keep her away from looking into the demon. You know what we could
do. We could go to the murder house and then I could be like,
oh, yeah, I forgot I meant for you to take this.
I meant to give this to Sean Morrigan. Can you take this still slice
to Sean and then we'll just leave? I mean, do we? Well,
we don't want to her going off on her own. We need her
to stay with us the whole time. Oh, I didn't realize you were
still here, Morgan. I didn't realize you were here for my food.
Cody said he'd bring it over you. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm
just really hungry, me too, totally get that. Thank you for listening
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