EP. 28 Family Matters

[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part, such as, like comment rate. And don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave? [00:00:35] Speaker C: Ah, yes. [00:00:37] Speaker B: The party successfully infiltrated the Ayrdson's masquerade ball and spread out to gather information. After some time, Uber attempted to gather the team to compare notes, but Hamir Neros had other plans. [00:01:00] Speaker D: Masquerade da da da da da da. [00:01:03] Speaker C: Da da da da. [00:01:04] Speaker D: Masquerade I've got a mask on my. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Face and you don't know who I am. [00:01:10] Speaker B: We fade in from black on a view of a clock tower as the minute hand moves to 15 715. And the camera zooms down through a window in an unnecessarily dramatic transition as we see Hamir walking up to Neros, both of them still in their masquerade attire. [00:01:30] Speaker A: Neros, Neros, Neros. [00:01:32] Speaker E: Yes, yes. [00:01:33] Speaker A: I need your help for a second. [00:01:35] Speaker E: With. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Who are you talking? [00:01:38] Speaker D: Freya. It took me a minute. [00:01:43] Speaker B: I was just sitting here embodying the spirit of all of the people, and it locked in a conversation with Freya. And then somebody comes up and like Nero, so she looks over. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Let me start. [00:01:58] Speaker E: Okay. [00:01:59] Speaker D: We walk away a little bit. What do you. [00:02:02] Speaker A: That staircase. The one southeast. [00:02:05] Speaker D: The one in the bottom right corner? [00:02:07] Speaker A: Yes. The southeast of the building, next to the library. [00:02:10] Speaker E: That's not the library. [00:02:12] Speaker A: I was told that was a library. [00:02:14] Speaker D: Is that the library? [00:02:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:02:15] Speaker D: I thought it was on the side. [00:02:18] Speaker A: I'm stupid to the piano. [00:02:20] Speaker B: Somebody walks out of that room carrying a book. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Nerds. [00:02:27] Speaker D: Let us all look in the mirror for a minute. [00:02:29] Speaker C: You hear a message from the distance. [00:02:31] Speaker F: You're being so loud. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Quick question. Are there guards stationed at that, or is it just cordoned off? [00:02:38] Speaker B: Just cordoned off. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Are there any guards that would see me if I started going up? [00:02:41] Speaker B: There's one nearby. He's not staring at the stairs. But you would run the risk of. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Being seen at that guard near those stairs. I need you to make sure he's not watching me go up. And if you could distract anyone else in the area to not see me as well. [00:02:57] Speaker E: In the area? [00:02:58] Speaker A: I mean, you don't need to make a scene necessarily. [00:03:00] Speaker D: Then how do you want me to distract everyone in the. Making a scene is sort of my thing. [00:03:07] Speaker A: I mean, if that's what you want to do, you're welcome to make a seat. But the others might at least just see me go up there and assume I have a reason for going up there, whereas the guard would be the one who would know for sure that I shouldn't be going up there. [00:03:21] Speaker D: And if they see the guard not caring. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:25] Speaker D: Potentially they won't carry. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So if you could at least focus on that guard. I need to get up there. [00:03:30] Speaker E: All right. What do you. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Know? She might have. [00:03:41] Speaker E: You mean Datha? [00:03:42] Speaker A: Is that what her name was? [00:03:44] Speaker D: It's not Darth. [00:03:46] Speaker A: Okay, well, Data lady might have my daughter know where she. [00:03:52] Speaker E: Oh. [00:03:52] Speaker A: So I'm going to go up and ask her. [00:03:54] Speaker E: Okay, so you have a mission. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Yes. [00:03:56] Speaker E: Okay. [00:03:57] Speaker A: That's why I'm here. [00:03:58] Speaker E: Nero's. [00:03:58] Speaker D: Don't screw it up. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Who? [00:04:01] Speaker E: Freya. [00:04:01] Speaker D: Don't screw it up. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Great. [00:04:04] Speaker B: All right. [00:04:05] Speaker D: I am Freya. [00:04:07] Speaker A: Yes, you are. All right. [00:04:11] Speaker B: This guy is just walking by and notices the two of you. Just like. He's just, like, gives a little wave and keeps walking. [00:04:19] Speaker A: Keep walking, keep walking, keep going. [00:04:23] Speaker D: All right, so I will go approach the guard that is closer to the staircase. [00:04:30] Speaker B: He looks really bored. [00:04:35] Speaker F: That sounded like the start of a poor thing. [00:04:38] Speaker B: It such a demeaning. [00:04:44] Speaker D: Not having any fun roll diplomacy. Are there anyone. Wow, that's a really bad start to that. Is there anyone that's walking by with a tray of drinks? [00:04:59] Speaker B: If you wait, like, half a second, half a minute or something, somebody's coming by. [00:05:06] Speaker D: So she'll grab two of the drinks off of the tray, and then I'm going to walk up to the guard and hand him hold out a drink. [00:05:19] Speaker E: Be like, do you need a refreshment or something? You look bored. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Not supposed to drink on the job. Sorry, miss. [00:05:28] Speaker E: I mean, would anyone find out? [00:05:30] Speaker B: He looks around the rest of the hallway full of people. [00:05:33] Speaker E: They're all on their own conversations. I mean, I feel like you're here. [00:05:38] Speaker D: Doing a job, and it's going to. [00:05:40] Speaker E: Be a long night. You might as well enjoy yourself a little bit. [00:05:45] Speaker B: He looks up the hallway. He looks down the hallway. Make a diplomacy checK. [00:05:53] Speaker D: Okay. That would be cutting it really close. [00:06:01] Speaker C: Would this be something a preparation point could. [00:06:04] Speaker D: Or. I have three hero points that I could just turn in to reroll this. [00:06:09] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Hero points worth spending. Get that account. [00:06:12] Speaker F: Use a hero point and still fail. Can we use a preparation point? [00:06:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:06:16] Speaker D: That's a good question. [00:06:17] Speaker F: Okay. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Yes, because the preparation points are specifically you. Tell me how you prepared in advance so that you don't actually fail. [00:06:24] Speaker A: Here they are. The most meta. Of metacurses. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Yes. [00:06:28] Speaker D: Okay, I'm going to reroll that. That's better. [00:06:34] Speaker E: 19. [00:06:35] Speaker B: The guard takes the drink and quickly downs it and hands you the glass back and he's like, it's the spot. [00:06:44] Speaker D: Good. And I'm going to stand on one side of him where if we were talking, like, face to face, he'd have to turn his back to the stairs. Does that make sense? [00:06:58] Speaker E: Okay. [00:06:59] Speaker D: And no. [00:07:03] Speaker E: Yes. [00:07:03] Speaker D: No. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:07:05] Speaker F: Do it, Abby. [00:07:06] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:07:07] Speaker F: Release your inner demon. [00:07:08] Speaker D: Oh, my. [00:07:09] Speaker A: Get out of here. There's a tentacle lady in the ball. [00:07:16] Speaker D: No. [00:07:18] Speaker E: Would this be a good time to. [00:07:20] Speaker D: Describe what she's wearing? [00:07:21] Speaker F: Yeah, you're good. [00:07:22] Speaker D: Do it. Because he reminded me of her arms, because they're black. Very noticeable. So she's got this fancy schmancy pant suit. I guess because she doesn't like dresses. Dresses are not a thing for her. But attached to, I guess the top of it are like gloves that come all the way down to her finger. So it's like one piece, I guess you're wearing onesie. It's like a onesie but not fancy suit onesie. It's a very fancy one. [00:07:56] Speaker B: I am just picturing a fancy morph suit. [00:07:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like a morph suit. Like morph suit with a suit. [00:08:02] Speaker A: It's a suit that's all connected. You just slip in. [00:08:05] Speaker C: It's like an attached onesie collar. [00:08:10] Speaker D: Multiple layers, but fancy. [00:08:13] Speaker F: There's a zipper on the back and. [00:08:15] Speaker D: It has, like, multiple layers. Okay. It's not. Anyway, I regret my decision. [00:08:20] Speaker A: Oh, you're fine. [00:08:21] Speaker D: No, I regret my decisions wearing a. [00:08:23] Speaker G: Pantsuit over a morph suit. Like, we get it. [00:08:25] Speaker F: It's very. [00:08:26] Speaker D: It's cool in my head. [00:08:27] Speaker A: I think it sounds cool. [00:08:29] Speaker G: It sounds cool in its description. [00:08:30] Speaker D: Even though it's nice in my head. And she's going to try to get. [00:08:35] Speaker E: Him to talk to her, I guess. [00:08:38] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:08:39] Speaker A: You're going to schmooze with him? [00:08:40] Speaker D: Schmooze? Compliment him a little bit. Get his guard down. [00:08:45] Speaker G: No pun intended. [00:08:46] Speaker A: Ask him what his greatest weakness or strengths are. [00:08:49] Speaker D: Greatest weakness. [00:08:50] Speaker B: Well, if this were a job interview, I would say my greatest weakness is that I'm an overachiever. [00:08:55] Speaker D: Oh. [00:08:57] Speaker C: One of those questions. [00:08:58] Speaker F: He critically hits too often. [00:08:59] Speaker G: One of those answers. [00:09:01] Speaker D: All right, then. What's your greatest strength? [00:09:03] Speaker B: Well, my greatest strength is that I have a strength score of 18. [00:09:09] Speaker C: That's helpful. [00:09:11] Speaker D: He's buff. [00:09:12] Speaker B: He's pretty buff. [00:09:13] Speaker D: I'm going to reach out and touch his arm. He is like biceps. [00:09:18] Speaker B: He's now distracted from the. [00:09:21] Speaker C: Does he look like Henry Cavill? [00:09:25] Speaker D: No, we did not need to bring him up again. [00:09:28] Speaker B: I'm reserving that casting for later. [00:09:32] Speaker G: We don't have the budget for him. [00:09:33] Speaker C: I look like a tiny Henry Cavill. [00:09:35] Speaker B: Season two. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Season two. [00:09:37] Speaker F: He looks like Liam Hensworth. [00:09:40] Speaker D: The discount Henry Cavill. [00:09:47] Speaker C: Great value Cavill. [00:09:48] Speaker D: Great value Cavill. Sorry. [00:09:52] Speaker G: You're good. [00:09:53] Speaker C: He's distracted, we're distracted. [00:09:55] Speaker D: So, yeah. She reaches out and touches his arm. [00:09:58] Speaker B: And he's like, oh, yeah. It is one of my best strengths. I spend a lot of time working out and training and drilling with the other guys. And someday I'm hoping they get hired by the city for protection. But right now I'm just working small time stuff, protecting roads. Nothing big. [00:10:17] Speaker D: I see. [00:10:18] Speaker E: But you have your eye on higher matters, I guess. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And someday they're going to see how worth it I am. And they're going to acknowledge me. [00:10:31] Speaker E: Oh, I'm sure that they will. [00:10:32] Speaker D: With arms like those, you look like someone who could. No, I'm not going to say that. Never mind. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Beat someone, throw me several feet. [00:10:45] Speaker F: My brain just went to, like, choke a goat for some reason going there, but okay, just choke out a goat. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Only if they deserve it. [00:10:59] Speaker C: Oh, they deserve it. [00:11:01] Speaker D: What does a goat do to you? [00:11:03] Speaker C: We don't like goats here. [00:11:06] Speaker B: So while you're discussing the morality of choking out goats with large biceps. [00:11:15] Speaker D: You. [00:11:15] Speaker F: Get them in right there. Then just. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Hey, Mirror. [00:11:19] Speaker A: I'm just going to try and look like I belong and know where I'm going and start going up the stairs without drawing much attention. [00:11:26] Speaker B: I'm going to need a stealth check. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Are you sure? [00:11:30] Speaker B: Pretty sure. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Are you positive? Congratulations. Congratulations. [00:11:42] Speaker F: Nice. [00:11:42] Speaker A: That's a 19 on the die. [00:11:44] Speaker E: That's beautiful. [00:11:44] Speaker A: That is a 27. [00:11:46] Speaker B: So at some point during this conversation, Neros. You don't even notice when it happens. But Amir is upstairs. [00:11:53] Speaker D: Okay, I'm just going to keep talking to the guard. This is a good conversation about the. [00:12:00] Speaker F: Other choking out goats. [00:12:03] Speaker A: The others are huddling up, and then. [00:12:04] Speaker B: You'Re just chatting with Amir. You are now on the second floor, which appears to be mostly, like, living quarters, bedrooms, storage space, stuff like that. There don't really seem to be a lot of people up here. [00:12:18] Speaker C: Now. [00:12:18] Speaker A: I know there are two guards on this floor. [00:12:21] Speaker B: Four guards. [00:12:22] Speaker C: Four guards. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Four Hagars. [00:12:24] Speaker B: Four guards on every floor. [00:12:25] Speaker F: Four guards, four. Oh, no. [00:12:28] Speaker A: Looking over the blueprints on our way here, do I get a sense that if she's working on a project they said is what they were calling it, like an experiment or something, that it would be on the third or second floor, like, room for that? Because I know there's a common area on the third floor. [00:12:46] Speaker B: So looking over the blueprints, there is a large open space in that common area on the third floor. Other than that, it would just be larger bedrooms and it would be difficult to tell. Are they using the common area for the project or would it be in a bedroom? [00:13:00] Speaker A: I feel a little more confident in third floor having space for whatever she's preparing. So I'm going to move up to the third floor. [00:13:07] Speaker B: As you reach the third floor, you can hear talking before you start coming up. And your head would be visible at the top of the stairs, but you hear talking up ahead. [00:13:19] Speaker A: I will try and peer. [00:13:22] Speaker B: That was really quiet. [00:13:23] Speaker A: I will attempt to peer. [00:13:28] Speaker B: Make a perception check. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Lucky I can perceive things. [00:13:32] Speaker E: Can you? [00:13:32] Speaker A: I can perceive clearly now. 18. [00:13:38] Speaker F: Nice. [00:13:39] Speaker B: So as you're kind of like sitting near the top of the stairs, but you haven't quite come up yet, you can hear voices up ahead, and it sounds like theRe's two servants who are just discussing and coordinating while they're moving furniture. It sounds like not like super heavy furniture, like, not like they're moving pianos, but maybe like a sofa kind of degree of coordinating, of like, oh, hey, you lift that side, that kind of thing. [00:14:03] Speaker F: Okay. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Since they're just servants, I think I'm going to try and just push through. [00:14:09] Speaker B: And you're just going to just walk through or how are you pushing through? I don't understand that bit. [00:14:15] Speaker A: So I'm just going to try and keep it sneaky. Kind of just the same thing I was doing when I've been going try and just kind of cut around them if I can. Because if they're moving furniture, I can just use that to my advantage to slip around. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Okay. And as you slip on by, you see the two servants, and they do seem to be, like, arranging furniture in that main common area up there. There's like a ring of nine chairs, kind of like just in a circle through the room. They seem to be too focused on what they're doing to pay any attention to you, and you're able to slip by them unnoticed. [00:14:52] Speaker A: All right. Awesome. [00:14:53] Speaker B: Where are you going? [00:14:54] Speaker A: So she's not in the common area. This is mostly servants quarters on this floor, isn't it? [00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah. The whole western wing of the third floor is all servants quarters. [00:15:04] Speaker H: Okay. [00:15:04] Speaker A: I want to swing by the bigger bedrooms and kind of listen in to see if there are people in them, if I can. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Which one do you start at? [00:15:11] Speaker A: I think I'd start at the north one because it looks biggest. [00:15:14] Speaker B: Okay. [00:15:15] Speaker A: And again, room to stuff in so. [00:15:18] Speaker B: As mentioned previously, with the stealth check that you made getting up here, you're able to slip past the servants as they're setting up the furniture. And as you walk up to the door of the bedroom on the north side, we're going to cut back down to the first floor again. [00:15:37] Speaker C: Jordy, you said slip pie. And now I can only think about pie. [00:15:42] Speaker D: I like pie. [00:15:44] Speaker F: Oh, no. [00:15:46] Speaker C: Oh, wait. [00:15:46] Speaker F: Is this us? Yeah, this is us. [00:15:48] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker F: What you want? [00:15:55] Speaker A: What a party. What do you want? [00:15:56] Speaker C: Where's the others? [00:15:59] Speaker H: So, have you. [00:16:05] Speaker F: Or not? Uber? [00:16:07] Speaker D: Lycos. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Lycos. [00:16:08] Speaker F: Are you okay? [00:16:11] Speaker H: Yes, just gathering my sauce. [00:16:12] Speaker C: I saw you drinking pretty hard for you. [00:16:16] Speaker F: Wait, you were what? [00:16:19] Speaker H: It's only one. Was a vodka, but Zofara stuff are more virgin. [00:16:25] Speaker F: What? You called us over here to tell us that you're not getting drunk? [00:16:34] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:16:35] Speaker F: What are you doing? [00:16:37] Speaker D: What is this conversation? Only one had alcohol. The rest were non alcoholic cocktails. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Did something to his brain. When he was coughing up outside, he. [00:16:49] Speaker D: Coughed into another person. Well, are you okay? [00:16:54] Speaker B: Wait, did anybody hear the ice cream truck? When Sven went outside. [00:17:00] Speaker D: He went out in the guys of meeting to cough, but really, he went to get cocaine laced ice cream. I'm sorry. [00:17:10] Speaker G: We got into this moment. I realized I completely forgot everything that I learned in the last episode. So I took a moment. [00:17:19] Speaker F: I learned that most people who aren't from Joel have no idea what's going on. [00:17:25] Speaker H: There is talk of this oracle that only the people here in Joel know about. [00:17:33] Speaker C: They have really good quiche. [00:17:35] Speaker F: Did you do nothing? [00:17:37] Speaker C: I patrolled the buffet. [00:17:40] Speaker F: Did you learn anything while doing that? [00:17:43] Speaker C: The guards don't like it whenever you message people. They also have cultists in a blanket. [00:17:50] Speaker F: If I die tonight. Because, really, cultists in a blanket? [00:17:55] Speaker C: Smothered in what they call sacrificial blood. It's actually barbecue sauce, but I'm going. [00:18:01] Speaker H: To have to get some of those anyway. Where's the other two? Where is Freya and Howard? Freya? [00:18:12] Speaker F: I'm right here. [00:18:13] Speaker H: Not Howard. [00:18:15] Speaker D: Balder. [00:18:16] Speaker H: Balder. [00:18:16] Speaker F: Freya is over there caressing a man's arm. [00:18:21] Speaker C: Is she really schmoozing someone up right now? We came here for a reason. [00:18:28] Speaker H: Where's Balder? [00:18:29] Speaker F: I don't know. [00:18:31] Speaker B: I would like to point out that Neros is currently holding two empty glasses. [00:18:35] Speaker D: Oh, I am. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Because you're holding yours and the guards. [00:18:38] Speaker D: That he handed back. [00:18:39] Speaker F: Okay, maybe we should interject. She's had two drinks. [00:18:49] Speaker A: I don't know anything. [00:18:55] Speaker H: I'm. [00:18:56] Speaker F: I'm worried she's taking this. [00:18:57] Speaker H: What was your name again? [00:19:00] Speaker D: Rafez. [00:19:01] Speaker C: Rafez Ray. Fez. [00:19:03] Speaker H: Rafez. Perhaps you can message her and figure out what she's doing. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Well, if she says anything back, the guard's going to hear her. [00:19:13] Speaker H: He won't hear what you say. [00:19:15] Speaker C: That's a good point. I messaged to NeroS. I'm saying her real name because this is out of game. I messaged to near us. Put one drink down if this is all part of the plan. [00:19:31] Speaker A: Down where she's holding them. [00:19:35] Speaker F: Also, she's holding empty glasses, not drinks. [00:19:38] Speaker C: I just saw her. [00:19:40] Speaker D: She's not like, holding them up like this. [00:19:44] Speaker G: No one is definitely doing this while. [00:19:47] Speaker A: She crests the gun. [00:19:48] Speaker D: No. Are they like stemware? Yeah, so she has both of them in one hand. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Stem. [00:19:55] Speaker G: Okay. [00:19:55] Speaker C: Fancy words. [00:19:57] Speaker D: I know my words for alcoholic glasses. [00:20:00] Speaker C: Dang. [00:20:01] Speaker F: I have a small rant I can go on about stemware. [00:20:03] Speaker A: My glasses are just octagonal. [00:20:06] Speaker C: Mine are really thick. And help me see. [00:20:10] Speaker D: Anyway, is there a table nearby? [00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah, there's like a. [00:20:15] Speaker D: Like within standing. Well, I can just reach over and. Yeah, okay, so I'll just reach over and put down one of the glasses. [00:20:23] Speaker C: Okay, so it looks like this is all part of the plan. [00:20:27] Speaker H: So if that's part of the plan, where is Balder? [00:20:31] Speaker C: I don't know, but I trust her. [00:20:33] Speaker H: Is that the staircase next to him? [00:20:35] Speaker F: Yes. [00:20:36] Speaker C: No, that's actually a door. [00:20:38] Speaker F: Oh, no, there is a staircase right by there. [00:20:41] Speaker C: No, I meant the thing that looks like a staircase is a door. What, you people don't get sarcasm? [00:20:47] Speaker F: Maybe he's just bad at it. [00:20:51] Speaker H: No, from what I remember of the plants, there is a staircase. You don't think that he went upstairs, do you? [00:20:57] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sure he did. [00:20:59] Speaker F: If he did, we don't know him. [00:21:02] Speaker C: He came with us. [00:21:03] Speaker F: If he gets caught. [00:21:05] Speaker H: That is a very good point, but I hate to. We can rescue him later, right? [00:21:09] Speaker C: We could all act like he's my old grandpa or something and say, old man, where you been? [00:21:13] Speaker F: That's true. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Uber just looks at you like, how. [00:21:20] Speaker H: Can you be his grandson? [00:21:22] Speaker F: He's like 80. [00:21:24] Speaker C: I don't know. He looks like he's had many, many scars. He could be. I don't know, what's a random race that I could call him? [00:21:35] Speaker H: Maybe you can be his God grandson or Godson or something. That would make more sense, I think. Or he could be my godson, and I could say he has mental issues, which he does. [00:21:52] Speaker C: Memory runs in the family. How did I get here? I'm sorry? [00:21:59] Speaker H: How did I get here? [00:22:00] Speaker F: What were you doing by the stairs, by the way. Yeah, you said something like, you went to the stairs and sat there for a bit and then went, oh, that's a good point. [00:22:09] Speaker C: I just closed my eyes. What do I hear? Like, you guys don't know what's going on. I just closed my eyes. [00:22:23] Speaker A: See those three weirdos sitting in a circle? [00:22:27] Speaker F: We look like we're just talking like everyone else. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Lycos doesn't look the same as he did last year. [00:22:34] Speaker B: That's the first thing you hear is just somebody like, man, Lycos gets shorter every year. [00:22:41] Speaker C: Lycos is shorter. That's what I was doing. [00:22:47] Speaker F: You were insulting Lycos. [00:22:50] Speaker B: What? [00:22:51] Speaker C: That's rude. Wait, who's Lycos? [00:22:53] Speaker A: Wait. [00:22:53] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it was you. There's a mark over there that I can spy on people. [00:23:05] Speaker F: Not to be rude or point out folly in your plan. Can you put that mark on anything? [00:23:12] Speaker C: Anything immovable? [00:23:14] Speaker F: Oh, okay, never mind. [00:23:15] Speaker C: That must be like a wall or something. Otherwise it could just drift away. [00:23:19] Speaker F: Yeah, because you could have just put it on a rock or something and then give the rock to. [00:23:23] Speaker C: No. Yeah, then it would drift. [00:23:26] Speaker F: I don't know that spell. [00:23:29] Speaker C: It's an interesting. [00:23:29] Speaker F: It goes. [00:23:34] Speaker B: So, Neros, you've been talking to this guard, having a good chat. Zafir messaged you with the know if this is part of the plan. Put the glass down. You put the glass down. And the three of them, just for the last, like, several minutes, have just been sitting there having a hush conversation. Do you react to this, or do you continue talking to the guard? [00:23:55] Speaker D: No, I continue talking to the guard. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Okay, just checking in with Neros. Presume. Gentlemen. [00:24:01] Speaker F: I'm going to go to the library, see if I can find any books about anything. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Are you allowed in there? [00:24:06] Speaker F: I mean, a dude just walked out with a book. [00:24:09] Speaker C: Well, he could live here. [00:24:10] Speaker A: I got this book. I'm a guest. [00:24:12] Speaker F: See? He's a guest. [00:24:15] Speaker C: That answers that. [00:24:18] Speaker H: I'll be honest, I don't think that they're going to have anything incriminating into library. [00:24:23] Speaker F: You'd be surprised. [00:24:25] Speaker C: They could have a secret forbidden section. [00:24:28] Speaker F: Ooh, that would be fun. What if they have a secret forbidden section? [00:24:32] Speaker C: Would we all like to go to the Forbidden library again? Not that again. Actually, I just remembered. [00:24:39] Speaker H: To be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd want To go to a forbidden library again. What lost library? [00:24:45] Speaker F: I guess it was. [00:24:46] Speaker H: Well, you can look in the library, but we're not going to get a lot of information, more information down here. I think we've gotten everything that we can. [00:24:55] Speaker F: I can't go upstairs. [00:24:57] Speaker H: Or somebody did. [00:24:59] Speaker C: Did anyone find out when they're going to be making this announcement, by the way? I have no idea when they're going. [00:25:05] Speaker F: I wanted to. [00:25:06] Speaker C: There's a big ominous clock on the outside of the building. We kind of passed everything before I. [00:25:12] Speaker F: Could bring that up. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Anybody who'd asked about that and it would be a totally normal question at a social event to be like, hey, when is this happening again? And anybody who'd asked about that, they'd quickly get the answer. [00:25:25] Speaker F: 08:00 so not too long from now. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Someone should have swiped an invitation from one of these people so we could actually read it. [00:25:35] Speaker D: That would have been smart. [00:25:37] Speaker H: Well, we can check the library. [00:25:41] Speaker F: I'm going to go to the library. [00:25:43] Speaker C: But did anyone check to see if the people that we took the names of are actually coming? [00:25:50] Speaker F: Yes, I did my research. [00:25:53] Speaker C: Are they dead? [00:25:55] Speaker F: I think his is and mine is. [00:25:58] Speaker C: Well, then how do you know mine's not going to come up? [00:26:03] Speaker F: I'm going to be honest. I made yours up and just sort of hoped you'd be on the list. [00:26:09] Speaker C: That's a weird name. I don't know where you'd gotten it. [00:26:13] Speaker F: There was one tome that I couldn't read in the thing, so I just sort of filled in the blank. [00:26:18] Speaker B: We cut back to the guy outside and his list is like, really neatly written. And then where there would be Rafez is just like, weird handwriting, and he's like, I'm really glad I found somebody to stand in for that name. [00:26:34] Speaker A: I can't read it. [00:26:38] Speaker C: So I've got about. What time is it? [00:26:41] Speaker B: 815 720. [00:26:43] Speaker C: My mark will only last for an hour. [00:26:45] Speaker F: It'll last right when the announcements come. [00:26:47] Speaker B: I'd say like 710. So you'll have like ten minutes after the announcement starts where it's still active. [00:26:52] Speaker C: Okay, that's what I needed to know. So I've got about ten minutes clearance time for my mark. It'll disappear. So what say we go around and have some fun? You go to the library, oBviously, don't. [00:27:09] Speaker F: Have too much fun. [00:27:11] Speaker C: Well, no, I just mean, like, go around, eat some quiche. [00:27:14] Speaker F: Oh, I need to go try the cultist in a blanket. I'm then going to mage hand cultist in a blanket and a drink to me and then go into the library. [00:27:25] Speaker D: You're the one who said not to use magic. [00:27:28] Speaker F: No, he's the one who used. Hamir is the one who said not. But after entering, apparently magic is okay. [00:27:34] Speaker A: The ghost of Hamir insults you. [00:27:38] Speaker C: Hear it echoing in your mouth. [00:27:40] Speaker G: And now we knew that Hamir died. [00:27:45] Speaker B: No, speaking of Hamir died, are all three of you going to grab some food and go to the library? Are you still splitting up? [00:27:53] Speaker C: I'm just going to go around and. [00:27:54] Speaker G: Uber is going to grab some light cultists in a blanket and go hang around the library, kind of mingle in that area, especially where Neros is and where Alward is going. And, yeah, that's what he's going to do. [00:28:16] Speaker E: Just don't bother me. Leave me alone. [00:28:21] Speaker D: I mean, I am working. [00:28:23] Speaker G: That is something certainly that Uvair would not want to interrupt in the first place. [00:28:30] Speaker B: So Alward and Uvair. Alward's in the library. Uvair, you're at the library door, just in the area. I need perception checks from each of you. [00:28:42] Speaker F: I don't know my perception. 22 for me, 13. [00:28:49] Speaker B: So Uber does not notice, but Alward does notice that a youngish woman comes into the library and has just kind of periodically gone around to everybody else in the Library and said something quietly to them and then left, and one by one, everybody in the library is leaving. She did not come up and talk to you. [00:29:09] Speaker C: It's your sister. [00:29:11] Speaker F: What's she look like? What mask? [00:29:12] Speaker A: If she like Leonard in a mask. [00:29:17] Speaker B: She'S wearing like, a blue mask with, like, a reptilian, kind of like a lizard design. [00:29:24] Speaker C: So what I take from that is she's wearing a mask. [00:29:26] Speaker F: Did it seem like she specifically skipped. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Me with your perception check? Yes. She talked to everybody but you. [00:29:34] Speaker F: I'm going to leave the library and try to follow them like I was invited, if that makes sense. [00:29:45] Speaker B: We're going to cut back up to the third floor. [00:29:46] Speaker A: It's crazy this lady invited us all along, isn't it? [00:29:50] Speaker G: Surely nobody noticed that I didn't get talked to. [00:29:53] Speaker C: Yeah, everybody knows that I'm here for a reason. And we all know where we're going. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Hello. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Back on the third floor. [00:29:59] Speaker F: Sneaky, sneaky. [00:30:00] Speaker B: Hey, Mir. [00:30:00] Speaker A: Yeah? [00:30:01] Speaker B: You were about to enter that northernmost bedroom on the third floor. The door is locked. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Oh, I break it down. It's locked. [00:30:11] Speaker E: It's locked. [00:30:13] Speaker A: Does it sound like there's anyone in there? [00:30:18] Speaker B: Make a perception check again. I like to ask for checks to determine how much information you get. I hate binary checks. [00:30:28] Speaker A: It's ten. [00:30:29] Speaker B: So just as you're leaning up against the door to, like, listen. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Sorry. Eleven. [00:30:34] Speaker B: In that case, as you're leaning up against the door to listen, you're like, just kind of getting in the right position when you just hear this thud from behind you in the common room, and one of the servants is like, oh, that was my foot. And they're like, having a loud conversation about how one of them dropped something and you're just not quite able to make out any noise through the door from all of the noise in the room around you. [00:30:57] Speaker A: I'm going to try the other door. It's not too far away from me. Is that other bedroom also locked? [00:31:02] Speaker B: That door is unlocked. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Hamir is going to circle back and try and pick the lock of that locked room. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Go ahead and make a thievery check. [00:31:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:31:16] Speaker D: How's your thievery? [00:31:17] Speaker A: As good as my stealth. [00:31:19] Speaker D: I don't know how your stealth is. Eight. [00:31:25] Speaker A: I'm trying to decide if a hero point is worth it. [00:31:28] Speaker F: That one might be worth it. [00:31:30] Speaker A: Or I could use a prepared point. [00:31:32] Speaker D: Are we that desperate? [00:31:34] Speaker A: I don't know yet. I could be. This could be really important. [00:31:37] Speaker F: Well, if you use a prepared point, I would just verify if you failed or not first, because that's what we're allowed to. [00:31:43] Speaker A: Yeah, but at that point, it's too late for me to use a hero point. Yeah, right. [00:31:47] Speaker F: The only concern that I would have is if you failed too poorly, you might, like, snap the pick and that makes noise. [00:31:53] Speaker A: That's, like, a lot of worried about hero point. It is 15. [00:32:02] Speaker B: So as you try the lock with your lock picks, nothing breaks and it remains quiet. You learn it is a relatively simple lock, but you weren't quite able to get all the pins to line up, and the door remains locked. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Can I just try in then since there's a regular fail? [00:32:18] Speaker B: You can't. [00:32:20] Speaker A: There we go. 22. [00:32:21] Speaker D: It's much better. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Click, and everything falls into place. [00:32:26] Speaker A: And I will slip in and lock the door behind me. [00:32:29] Speaker F: There's someone just sleeping. [00:32:31] Speaker B: There's just somebody standing there. Just like. Excuse me. You lock the door behind. [00:32:35] Speaker A: Okay. Is this like, it requires a key to lock, or is there like, a switch on this end? [00:32:43] Speaker B: This would be a requires a key to lock setup. [00:32:45] Speaker A: Then it will remain unlocked because I do not want to take the time to relock the store and I'll move further into this room. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Inside, there seems to be, like a workshop set up. Like, there's no furniture or furnishings that would designate this as a bedroom. Even though on the room plans and everything on the paperwork, it was supposed to be a bedroom. There seems to be like, a bench set up with tools and equipment and various, just like, sparkling crystals and stuff. I would like you to make me a crafting check. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Ten. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Yes. Somebody's making something here. [00:33:24] Speaker A: I'm untrained. That was a zero. I had a plus zero. But she's not there. Is there any notes? Journaly kind of things? Is there anything indication someone's been in here super recently? Like if she was working on stuff just not long ago. [00:33:44] Speaker B: The window is open. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Oh, what's out the window? [00:33:49] Speaker B: Just like the outside. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Is it just straight down to the grounds? [00:33:55] Speaker B: Yes, but more like the shutters are open, like somebody was letting air in. And you might assume that someone had been in recently and possibly might be coming back soon. Intruder window. [00:34:11] Speaker C: Yes. [00:34:12] Speaker A: The question is, do I wait? Do I stay here and wait for Daisa to come back? [00:34:18] Speaker F: You can try to hide. [00:34:20] Speaker G: You also don't know if this is her room. [00:34:22] Speaker A: I mean, the way that they talked about her, this sounds like where she set up working on stuff you could hide in. And it's not 08:00 it's 720 ish. Yeah, so she wouldn't be going to make the announcement. [00:34:37] Speaker G: What a first impression. [00:34:39] Speaker A: I'll give it till 730. [00:34:40] Speaker B: All right. [00:34:41] Speaker A: But I'll try and kind of hide so I'm not Just standing in the middle of the room. [00:34:45] Speaker B: So you're going to hide yourself like in the workshop, or are you going to try and slip into that adjoining closet? [00:34:49] Speaker A: I guess the adjoining closet. [00:34:51] Speaker B: Okay. The adjoining closet has still like clothing and stuff like you would expect in a bedroom, but it's all been like jammed into the corners and there's just like crates and supplies in the forefront of the closet. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Cool. [00:35:04] Speaker B: So it is easy to find something to hide behind. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Awesome. And I'll wait to see if she doesn't come back by 730. I'll start moving around some more. [00:35:14] Speaker B: We leave Hamir hiding in the closet and we'll cut back down to see Zafir. What are you up to? [00:35:20] Speaker C: So Zafir has really no plans or anything in his head except to eat every once in a while. Eat comma, every once in a while, listen to his mark and just kind of sense what's going on. I don't know if it's like a. I don't think it specifies how many times I can focus on it, but just every once in a while, just tune in, see what's going on. The mark radio on atomic tide. [00:35:50] Speaker B: The third time that you tune into the mark radio, you overhear someone mentioning that mother is getting ready. And it wouldn't have stood out except for the way that they said it. It's more like a mother's getting ready. [00:36:10] Speaker C: You guys just vibing somewhere? [00:36:12] Speaker G: I'm over by the library. [00:36:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, the library. [00:36:15] Speaker C: I forgot. Yeah. I'm going to message to you. I just heard someone say, mother's getting ready. I don't know who Mother is. And you can respond if you want. [00:36:26] Speaker B: You can reply to this message. [00:36:28] Speaker G: And you can see Uber kind of turns away from whatever group that he was in. Like, he's going to go get something to eat again. And he kind of turns away. And as he's walking towards the buffet table or one of the other drink things, you just hear a reply. [00:36:44] Speaker H: They said that Mother is getting ready. I will tell our. [00:36:51] Speaker C: I'm not going to reply. I don't need to. [00:36:53] Speaker G: Yeah, that's okay. And he's going to after he grabs something innocuously, kind of pass by. Nero's not paying attention to Nero's. [00:37:06] Speaker C: You've been over there for a while. [00:37:07] Speaker G: She's smoothing up that guard real well, but distracting him from me and kind of walk into the library. [00:37:15] Speaker F: I've already left the library from. I don't know that I'm shocked. Oh, yeah. [00:37:19] Speaker C: He went somewhere. [00:37:20] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Was it in the library for Alward on that point? [00:37:24] Speaker F: Yes. [00:37:26] Speaker B: As everybody is one by one leaving the library. Are you waiting to be the last to leave or are you leaving somewhere before everyone does? [00:37:35] Speaker F: It's a good going. I don't want to be last because I feel like that's a bit too much. But I'm definitely probably going to wait a bit to maybe the people who are leaving don't remember if I was spoken to or not. And then I'm going to exit shortly following one person. [00:37:58] Speaker B: So you follow the last person who had left out before you did, and they just walk out into the main area, get some snacks and join a conversation. And as you look around with the result of your perception check from earlier, you notice everybody else who was in the library is just in the common area talking. [00:38:17] Speaker F: Now with the result of my perception. Could I overhear what the person was whispering? [00:38:21] Speaker B: No, not with what you'd rolled. [00:38:23] Speaker F: I'm going to try and join one of the others that I recognize in the library in their group to see what they're talking about. [00:38:30] Speaker B: So you come up to one of these members who have the people who had left the library, they've fallen into a conversation and the topic is just about the price of wheat and how has it been affected by the weather this previous year? [00:38:42] Speaker F: Can I roll a society on that? Something doesn't seem right. [00:38:46] Speaker B: Sure. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Like if it's message or coded. [00:38:48] Speaker F: Yeah. That's still really high. [00:38:54] Speaker A: I'd take it. [00:38:56] Speaker F: I need to know if this is going to pass or fail, what I want before I can do this, because the ability specifically says, after failing. [00:39:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:39:06] Speaker F: That is a 20. [00:39:08] Speaker B: That will be a success. [00:39:10] Speaker F: Okay. And I will keep it. [00:39:11] Speaker B: So you're confident that the conversation is actually just being held at face value. The person you've followed in doesn't seem to be particularly engaged in the conversation, but seems more like they've just walked up to just be like, hey, what are these people talking about? [00:39:25] Speaker F: Okay, like me. Then I will just fall out. Try to tell somebody else. Get a hold of him. Or him. [00:39:32] Speaker B: Meanwhile, or Nero's Uber, you've stepped into the library to talk to Alward just as the last person is stepping out of the library. So you walk into an empty library. [00:39:45] Speaker A: Just how you like it. [00:39:48] Speaker C: Last I have time. [00:39:52] Speaker B: He's been playing the long game. [00:39:54] Speaker C: His glasses fall off. [00:39:55] Speaker A: It's not fair. [00:39:57] Speaker G: He just looks around and kind of under his mask, kind of squints a little bit. [00:40:03] Speaker H: Like, I saw Tatsa. He was in here. [00:40:05] Speaker G: And he turns back around outside the library because he doesn't see anybody in there. [00:40:10] Speaker D: Right? [00:40:10] Speaker C: Right. [00:40:11] Speaker B: The room is empty. [00:40:12] Speaker G: Empty. [00:40:13] Speaker B: Nothing but books. [00:40:16] Speaker G: Tempting. Is there any desks or anything? [00:40:20] Speaker B: Well, yes. There's also furniture. There's a desk. There's a couple of armchairs over by the fire. There's actually a really nice bare skin rug in the middle of the room. [00:40:29] Speaker G: On any desks, are there like, open books or whatnot? [00:40:34] Speaker B: There is a book open on one of the desks. That's, like, about natural history. [00:40:38] Speaker G: Any particular time period? [00:40:41] Speaker B: No, like natural history. Like geology and creatures in the area. [00:40:49] Speaker G: Yeah, I misheard that. Or misunderstood that. Any particular focus on the subject? [00:40:56] Speaker B: No, it's more like an encyclopedia. [00:41:00] Speaker G: Literally no focus then. [00:41:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:02] Speaker G: But nothing else? No. [00:41:05] Speaker B: Make a perception or society. [00:41:08] Speaker F: Check. [00:41:08] Speaker H: I know which one I'm using. [00:41:12] Speaker G: 23. [00:41:13] Speaker B: So during your research and preparation for this whole escapade and heist here to the ball, you'd noticed that it was somewhat difficult to find much information on the Aeridson family and about Erid himself, that historical figure. This library has a lot of books. On both of those. [00:41:40] Speaker G: Uber is actually going to get distracted. [00:41:43] Speaker F: Then cut to 5 seconds ago. What will you find in the library? [00:41:50] Speaker H: Uber has learned to accept that sometimes he is wrong, especially very recently. [00:41:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:58] Speaker G: He's actually going to go to books that are directly in line or look like they could be in the same type of books as the two that he had in the forgotten library. [00:42:11] Speaker B: And as you are perusing those books. Neros. You're still talking to the guard? [00:42:17] Speaker E: Yep. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Alward and Zafir. What are you two doing? [00:42:22] Speaker F: Well, I was looking for either Uvair or Zafir so I can relate to them the info. [00:42:29] Speaker B: Gotcha. So I imagine that you've already caught Zafir up on that information and both of you are like, where's Uver? [00:42:37] Speaker C: Where's Uvair? [00:42:39] Speaker F: If I had to take a guess and I just sort of gesture to. [00:42:42] Speaker C: The library, I thought he was the one to say, what are you going to find in the library? [00:42:49] Speaker F: You know he can't. Did you find anything in the library? [00:42:52] Speaker C: Yeah, you already told me. [00:42:53] Speaker F: I just told you. That's why I'm not in the library currently. [00:42:57] Speaker C: Well, let's see. What time is it? [00:43:02] Speaker B: Time sense 725. [00:43:04] Speaker F: It's been five minutes. [00:43:06] Speaker B: It's been five minutes. And it's five more minutes until Hamir either finds something or moves on to something else. [00:43:12] Speaker C: Should we go get Lacrosse? What was his name? Lycos. [00:43:18] Speaker F: Yes. Especially since the lady specifically told everyone basically, to leave the library. She didn't tell me, though, which is disturbing. [00:43:31] Speaker H: Okay. [00:43:34] Speaker C: Yes, I think only one of us should go because a group of us going at the same time could raise suspicions. I believe I'm going to. You can go ahead and go get him. [00:43:49] Speaker F: I've already been in the library. [00:43:51] Speaker C: I don't know, stick your head in and be like, woohoo. Or something. [00:43:56] Speaker F: I've already been in the library. And then everybody left the library. [00:43:59] Speaker C: Do I look like the type of person to go into a library? [00:44:02] Speaker F: Your mask says yes. [00:44:04] Speaker A: He can't read. It's intimidating. [00:44:11] Speaker F: Are you intimidated because you can't read? [00:44:14] Speaker C: I will neither confirm nor deny that allegation. Fine. Just stay here and do nothing. [00:44:24] Speaker F: I mean, I'm going to go talk with other people, but see if we can't learn anything about, like, who was the person in the. I want to say chameleon mask. [00:44:35] Speaker B: A blue scaled lizard mask. [00:44:38] Speaker F: In the blue scaled lizard mask. [00:44:40] Speaker C: If it was a chameleon, we could have other problems. Yes. I'm going to go get him. I was going to go get Nero's, but I mean, Freya, she seems like. [00:44:53] Speaker F: She'S preoccupied at the moment. [00:44:57] Speaker C: Don't want her to fall in love. This is a scary time. [00:45:01] Speaker F: What little I know about her, I don't think that's going to be an issue. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Scary time for the best times. [00:45:12] Speaker G: There's a word for that. [00:45:15] Speaker C: Trauma. I jaunt off. Jaunt. Jauntily. [00:45:19] Speaker F: He jaunts jauntily Library. [00:45:22] Speaker B: As you enter the library. [00:45:24] Speaker C: Towards the library. [00:45:25] Speaker B: As you. Towards the library. You are now near the library door. Are you continuing to approach the library? [00:45:36] Speaker C: I poke my head in. Do I see Uber at that point? [00:45:39] Speaker B: As you poke your head in, I would like you to make a perception check. [00:45:42] Speaker C: Okay. 24. Cool. [00:45:48] Speaker B: So you look in through the door, and you see Lycos. He's got a handful of books, and he's got one open on the desk in front of him. Already got, like, papers set up, like he's settling in to do some research. And on the ceiling over his head is a stone figure that's just starting to let go and drop towards him. And that's where we'll end this episode. [00:46:12] Speaker F: I fully know why I wasn't asked to leave. [00:46:16] Speaker G: No more jaunt. [00:46:17] Speaker C: No more. [00:46:21] Speaker D: I noticed that. [00:46:25] Speaker B: All right, Sam, you received the hero point for this episode due to your sneakage upstairs. What does your new card do? [00:46:32] Speaker A: Oh, it's healing prayer. Not something Haymare would do. But during my turn, I can select myself or an ally and regain hit points. [00:46:40] Speaker E: Nice. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Thank you all for this second hero point. I feel like I'm going to need it, even though you're about to die. But that's okay. You're used to it. [00:46:51] Speaker F: The people listening are about to die. [00:46:53] Speaker C: I switched your name, and that's what happens. [00:46:55] Speaker A: I'm going to head out. I think I'm going to. I don't know. I've been going to the movies a lot. Maybe I'll go see another movie. Have a great night, and we'll see. [00:47:03] Speaker B: You all in the next episode. This has been an atomic broadcasting production. Pathfinder, Galerian and the Lost Omens world setting are copyright of pizzo More [email protected] music in the show is from Monument Studios collection as well as assorted artists with some original tracks composed by Jordy Hake. More details in the description. If you enjoyed the show, please remember to share with a friend, and we'll look forward to seeing you again next time. [00:47:37] Speaker D: So she'll grab two of the drinks off of the tray. [00:47:46] Speaker B: The servant just motors. [00:47:50] Speaker D: They have a motorcycle going hiking. [00:47:54] Speaker F: How do you think they get around so fast? How do you they get around so fast? [00:48:01] Speaker D: They're on their little motorized powered rollerblade. [00:48:03] Speaker B: So the servant's there, his engine idling, and he's like, do you need. [00:48:07] Speaker C: They're all on Segways. Okay.