Due to some violent content. Brintal 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 fester in
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.
Oh yeah, that should have scrambled it up real good. Is anybody else
craving eggs as much as I am? Well, better flip this one on
over day three the bricks, brass Kane, have you had any strange injuries?
You might as well put that out there now. Nope, clean as
a whistle. Well, if he's the impersonator, he wouldn't have the injury.
That's true, Bartan. Maybe you should pick him up in check.
Oh, Vartan, you've known brass Kane for a long time. Maybe ask
him a question that only you two would know from your childhood or something.
Hmmm, maybe his favorite chili. Oh, yes, that is one thing.
Maybe you did discuss how your chili brass Caane. I mean, we
ate a lot of chili growing up, How do I lack it? Memory
serves? I think you liked it with meat, beans and cheese on a
bet of oyster crackers. That's a oh yeah, Morgan, you should probably
ask Sean my but uh the uh before bras Cane tells us his chili preference,
should probably ask Sean if she knows your chili preference. It's hard to
say that with a straight face. Hey Sean, yes, do you remember
how I eat my chili? I don't think you like it a specific way,
just without onions, right, yeah, exactly, She's good. All
right, we need to know their chili preferences. Well, I know it,
but yeah, Brascanne is the same as yours. He just likes something
called asimar peppers and his to spice it up a little bit extra. Yeah,
and Sean just hates chili altogether. Thinks it's disgusting understand why anyone would
eat chili? All right, Well, we're good here, we know that,
and then we could relay our chili preferences to them so they know the
that we're who we say we are. We don't have to say it.
They she didn't know now because I don't even remember already knew. They know
now there's gonna be a secret log of everyone's chili by the end of this
campaign. They know bias now though, Yes I do. I like my
chili with peanut butter and pickles. Man, I'm hungry now, right,
no meats. Pick up more dripping rotten demon flesh loaded onto the cart.
Get the Morsey on there too, be like, we just need to take
them all. You got another fireball or out? Well, I mean,
if we hurry, it'll still be on fire. I think we did give
a lot of fuel. It's probably still burning now. Well, I hope
nobody's gone to check. Well with the one thing that they needed from the
Morisi, there's no point. We can still burn him, but yeah,
and get rid of it. And they may need his heart next. If
the demons have hearts, yeah, it has to. Maybe they're not alive.
I don't know how demons work. Yeah you can. You can definitely
rip a heart out of a demon. Okay, Yeah, I just tried
to crush this one. Well, let's let's let's burn this this guy here
and maybe we can catch Cody before he closes up for the nights. I'm
kind hungry too all this chili talk. Yeah, maybe gray Stone will be
there, man, so much for a long rist. I guess we'll get
it after this sleep when we're dead, right, Yeah, I don't know
about that, all right. So you take a couple different trips in and
out, but the fire still going. Brass Cane recommends throwing some old wood
that they had there in the barn on your trip with the Morsey out to
add to the fire to keep it burning. So you add some wood and
the demon and takes a couple of trips on the wagon to get all the
demons out there. But go ahead, and I don't know what you guys
are looking like for inspiration right now, but get one inspiration for disposing of
all the demons, hey, all right? And then you go to the
last stop tavern and in all of you or yeah, okay, So you
get to the last stop tavern in in and you do find as you walk
in, Cody is seated at a table with Greystone and with Timmerin and they're
in a close conversation. Is there anyone at the bar? Magno's at the
bar? How late? Is it at this point it's late. Yeah,
I mean they'll there's still the scent of food in the air, and there
are in guests with all the doves and the robin here, so they can
still make food for you should you choose. But there aren't any other real
patrons in the bar, like townsfolk have all gone to wherever they're going to
go tonight. All right, I guess go up to Magno. They're like,
hey, Magno, what what's what's left for for food? You got?
Hey, Vartan, we still have? She leans over. It looks
like we've got this meat pie and veggie pies left pretty much, just kind
of dough balls with meat in some of them and with veggies in the other
some gravy on top. I lack all of that. All right, Just
take some water please, all right? I will get that around. Any
drinks for you tonight, or you got any good fruit juices left? Or
is that just a breakfast thing? Oh we've got fruit juice. I'll grab
some. I'll grab a picture out of the back and bring it to you.
Excellent. Yeah, I don't think I want any wine tonight. Hey,
what's going on over there? Do you know? I'm pretty sure that
they sent a messenger to find Vartan at his home they wanted to have conversation.
Oh well, I guess I'll be taking this pile over there. I
come with you, all right. I'll be right back with that picture too.
And so she leaves to get the picture, all right, and she
brings it back, drops it off, and you guys go sit at the
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Now back to the town of Eterno. Judge Graystone sees you walking up
and nods his head to you, and Tim Maren says, hey, Vatan,
id is good to see you. Did you get the message that we
sent to you? No, I don't. I didn't. I didn't get
the message. I haven't. I went out and uh took care of some
stuff and I came here to we came here to eat and uh hopefully catch
y'all. Uh just a coincidence. Oh well, good thing that you did
pop in. Please have a seat. We wanted to have a disc rush
as the leaders of the community. Yeah, sit down. We were talking
about the exodus or whatever we're calling it, that Tel Nika is trying to
ramp up for tomorrow. Yeah. I tried to diffuse that and get people
back in, uh, well back in your barn actually. So whenever,
just like when the demons were just so it's easier to keep an eye on
everybody and keep an eye on around the area, so nobody nobody hurts.
Uh, nobody tries to elect burn the building down or anything like that.
Keep keeping an eye on on all the citizens because we don't want them wandering
off and not able to get back in. I agree. I believe that
we could potentially keep everyone here and do it without lying to them or trying
to force our will upon them. I just don't know if myself or Graystone
have it in us to encourage them to stay. I'm wondering if it might
be better for you to have a chat with the townsfolk tomorrow, let them
know maybe how the investigation's going. Yeah, I think we could do that,
maybe put their mind at ease. I mean, well, our report
on the investigation put anyone's mind ease. Are you asking us to lie?
I'm asking you to be diplomatic about your narrative to this townsfolk. Oh,
while this conversation is happening, Morgan's gonna take the opportunity to kind of glance
around the table at everybody, anything that's visible and see if anybody has healing
wounds or anything that is out in the open. Okay, So is that
perception or is that investigation? I'll let you choose whatever one is better.
Okay, in that case, it's a twenty one. Okay, you don't
see any open wounds that would you know, there's nothing visible that would constitute
a good loss of blood that would fuel a magic item. Okay, I'm
just gonna lean over to Vartana and be like, so, there's nothing visible
on any of them, but that doesn't mean they're not covering it up with
clothing or something. Yeah, maybe we can get them to do jumping jacks.
I mean you could just pat them on the arm. I guarantee that
would make something bounce if it's got to cut. Oh yeah, we could
go handshake. We could also just ask them and fill them in on the
stomach sack. What if they're that sounds like a good way to get killed.
If they're we're just having a we're just whispering to each other at the
table totally because because as far as they're concerned, I'm hoping, crossing fingers
that we're just talking about our strategy for what you're going to say about our
investigation tomorrow. What if they're one of them, Well, if they're one
of them, they already kind of know, right, they would already know
about the stomach sack. If but then they would know they're the one that
took the stomach sack, right, But do we want them to know that
we know? Because that sounds like a bad idea. So we don't trust
anybody. Again, I was, by the least paranoid at this point.
Well, how about this man? Why don't we ask them just a generic
question? If they answer it's kind of weird. Maybe we say, hey,
Greystone, how is your sister Pam doing? And obviously Greystone does not
have a sister Pam, and he will be like, what are you talking
about? And if it's not Greystone, he'll say fine, And we can
ask Cody how it feels, you know, like, is he fitting in
with the town after just moving here two weeks ago? When we know he's
been here longer than two weeks? How about that? Go for it?
This saw you? All right, Cody? How how how are you fitting
in after being here for two weeks? Is everything going fine in this town?
He scowls at you quickly and raises an eyebrow and says, everything is
going fine. You know that I've been here for much longer than two weeks,
though, Are you okay? Oh? Yeah, sorry, I didn't
mean two weeks. I meant the amount of time that you've been here.
You know, I had that really long sleep that I wasn't aware of.
Time is fleeting at the moment. Oh, okay, Judge Greystone, how's
your sister Pam doing? I have no sister Pam. What are you talking
about? Ah Timmerin, how's your crop of wordy wingles doing? Most hand?
You know there's no such thing as a wordy wingle? Right, we
don't have crops of wordy wingles here? All right? Are you at some
kind of game right now? You know what it's It's fine, it's fine,
you know what I think? Twenty questions is over? Okay, right
right? Yes, this this chalk it up to the investigation. It's been
a really weird day. Actually, this is by a. I asked you
all those questions because and she tells them about the stomach sack. They all
listen, very very engrossed in every word that you say while you're describing it
and talking about it. They wait till you're finished, ask you a couple
questions about stuff that you saw during that time. Dove Sean comes in and
says good night to the table and says she's going to her room, to
her and Morrigan's room to call it a night. Says she's exhausted and goes
to bed, and yeah, yep. Then you wrap up your explanation of
what's going on, and Graystone says, I do not like the idea that
there is someone in the town again guised as one of our citizens. Do
we have a plan in place to flesh out this individual? This was the
first part of the plan. Honestly, we were coming to see you.
There's so few people who had access to that body. Do you know of
anyone that brass Kane might not have known of that had access? No,
I believe Brasskane gave an accurate accounting of who had access. You said there
was a trinket that would have to be involved. It wasn't like the Morizy
just biting someone right, correct? Do you know what this trinket would look
like? Baya opens the book. Does she see anything about what it looks
like? The trinket kind of looks like a sketched out pocket watch with twelve
eyes on the face and a room carved on the back. So there's a
drawn out sketch of it front and back. There's twelve eyes on the front
and a roun on the back. What does the roun say? The room
says false? Okay, she shows them the picture of the pocket watch.
Grayson says, So whoever are person of interest is will be wearing this pocket
watch. Yeah, Fartan, tell them about our chili plan. Oh yeah,
I mean I've had chili with all of y'all. You know my chili.
I know you're chili, but everybody else needs to know your chili,
your favorite chili. Cody likes his chili a little spiced and with diced up
spicy peppers in it. Graystone likes his chili extra salty, with just beans
and tomato paste and and and the meat in it sausage, not any kind
of burger. Timmern likes his chili specifically. I mean he'll eat most kinds
of chili, but he prefers it with spiced sunshrooms in it as well.
Baya is keeping bia is keeping notes like physical notes in her bag. Cool,
good, awesome, So don't let her bag get stolen. So we
have no clue as to who would have stolen this sack. We don't know
who could have gained access to that vault because brass Kane seemed as himself,
and Judge Greystone seemed as himself, and Vartan is himself, so no one
else had a key to get to get in there. Could it have happened
before the body was locked up? So Cody, Cody was there, and
as was Bastille. Mm hmm hmmm. Cody, do you have any jewelry
on? He pulls out a necklace that has a ring on it. I
don't know unless we want to like start patting people down. Does anybody want
to pack Cody down? Not really? Well, we've we just verified already
that, Oh Cody didn't know your favorite chili. Well, yeah, but
he knew about the the liue. Oh yeah, questions yeah, yeah,
Hm. Cody will say, if it puts your mind at ease, I
will gladly let you pat me down. I have no problem with that.
Okay, pat down Cody. Yeah. So he's got some he's got his
you know, gold coins in his pocket, and uh, he's got a
couple of rags in his back pocket that he's you know, a bartender,
always wiping stuff down with. But aside from that and his key chain on
his belt, you don't really come across anything else, kay, Cody.
Everybody comes in here at least once a day, right, Yeah. It's
basically the best place to get food and drink. Yep. Have you noticed
anyone acting weird, being more protective of personal belongings, being paranoid anything.
Honestly, the biggest thing that I find weird in the establishment today is the
fact that Dove Bree keeps sleeping with Robin Torman in his room and not with
Dove Anelin. Yeah, that's weird, does too, Yeah, but that's
the only thing I've seen that's different. Have they come back yet, Yeah,
they're up in their room. Well, they're up in Robin Torman's room.
Oh did you fix the door? They did logical plaint about the door,
and I did go get it fixed, all right, Yeah, I
mean we were just walking around in the hallway. It saw it. Next
time, if you see a door that's been broken, maybe let me know
you got it. Thanks. Did they lodge any other complaint, No,
not to me. No stolen goods, nothing missing, not that they reported
to me. All right. Did you talk to Brasscane it all the night?
He might have known. I didn't mention it. We did. We
just came from talking with him. Yeah, seems like a thing you would
mention if it did happen, all right. I was just curious, I
mean, staying the door open. We were in a hurry, you know,
so, yeah, okay, sure, well maybe it's time. Then
we're gonna wink it weink at him While I'm saying, well, maybe it's
time that we wink. I'm not gonna say wink though, you're just going
to wink. Yeah, I'm gonna wink. After I said that, well,
maybe it it's time that we walk Moregan to her room before heading home
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