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Episode 3: The Snipping of Shears

At a broad table, here in the banquet hall of the Villa Aurora (the Halovar estate), Teor, you are seated on a exquisite, velvet-lined and cushioned seat as a small, white velvet sack of coins lands with a thunk in front of you. The woman speaking to you says,
“And, of course, for any accoutrement needed for your service as a guardian errant of the Lord Wicander Halovar. The Mercanaud Couturier will be happy to fit you and your gear to our station. We attempt to make clear that violence is always a regrettable, tragic, and final resort; that the weaponry, armor, and tabardry of our various vassals and men-at-arms bear the symbol of the Candescent Creed, but we would shudder to think of you going out of your own pocket for that.”
Teor:“Oh, that is most understood. I think, if I might suggest an alternative, perhaps for an extra level of security, perhaps I could stay as I am, plainclothes, to not draw attention to anything that needs to be done on behalf of the Candescent Creed. A more covert security force.”
“A splendid suggestion. It is such an exciting proposition to imagine, that by wearing the symbol of the Candescent Creed, you may attempt to be covert in proudly wearing the symbol of the order.”
Close behind you, you hear dogs barking as the door flies open and on these sets of silvery-white chains, this massive knight walks in, heavily-armored, gray-bearded, human knight. He’s got gleaming, luminous tattoos all around his neck that curl up around over his eyes. He walks in and goes,
“Ah, you’re the former Bannersman, yes?”
Teor:“That would be me, Teor.”
“Well, Teor, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I am Sir Filoneus Halovar. These are my dogs Wrath and Judgement. I can’t tell which one is which, but then again when it comes to wrath and judgment, who can?!”
Teor:“Indeed. Both beautiful companions.”
You see one dog snarls and it has a dull glow from the back of its throat. You hear a sort of faint humming from its vocal chords, almost like it can’t stop whining. This whining is sort of beautiful, ethereal, almost angelic.
Teor:“Such a beautiful noise they make. I have never heard the like.”
Fil:“Oh, yes. They can’t stop singing, these dogs. The song confuses spellcasters. They’re good dogs. Glad to have you aboard! Well you’re best on your way to the couturier. We expect you back first thing tomorrow.”

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    • 02:36:34 Bolaire protests Olgud’s fruit leather.
      Bolaire:“That was supposed to be a gift shop, not a concession stand.”
      Olgud:“Gift shop museum ass.”
      Hal:“Shadia, we’re moving, come on. Don’t eat the paint.”
    • 02:41:31 Liam mimes a “facehugger hatchling” alien jumping from an amphora
    • 02:43:42 The prize for a nat 1 roll.
    • 02:46:07 High quality box wine
    • 02:46:52 Marisha’s idea for an episode title:“That’s not Great”
    • 02:47:42 Murray and Azune finally meet
    • 02:50:14 The illusion of intimacy provides privacy
    • 02:50:35 Cat Lady Crazy
    • 02:53:35 Murray’s Frog Boiling story
    • 02:55:08 Travis:“I cast xanax.”
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    • 02:57:20 The guard is into it. “It’s interesting when you can’t touch.”
    • 02:58:20 Scary music starts at the Couturier with Teor
      BLeeM:“This is what they’re playing at Abercrombie & Fitch.”
    • 03:01:24 Lore Drop Moment Teor recalls the smell from a summoning star ritual from battle long ago in the incense burning at the shop called Sapphire Orchid
    • 03:04:37 Taliesin makes an Exorcist reference by requesting a young DM and and old DM to cleanse the table of the curse affecting the low rolls.
      Travis:“Your mother is in here with us.”
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      The Lion looks like he’s “about to get Silence of the Lamb-ed”
    • 03:07:32 Wicander:“Go in ahead and announce me, please.”
    • 03:08:00 Imagine such a wonderous world without such obstacles as doors.
    • 03:10:14 Wicander:“Oh, please, ‘Your Radiance’ is fine.”
    • 03:11:52 Liam names the “long vest” design, The Mercier
    • 03:15:11 Wicander is obvlivious to the conversation.
    • 03:17:17 Tyranny temporarily takes Teor’s flail
    • 03:18:35 The Couturier’s shears were cutting Teor’s shadow itself.
      “You would’ve had quite a ride come sunrise.”
      [Travis and Aabria exchange ‘WTF’ looks.]
      Liam:“Did they take the ballgag out?”
    • 03:21:11 Teor’s Poisoned condition is lifted
    • 03:22:28 Suggestion Boxing

    What a hoot.

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    • 03:33:04 Matt and Brennan exchange roll information confirming a successful Stealth roll
    • 03:33:46 Kattigan plays Slap Ass
    • 03:36:40 The young Tachonis boy who walks away from you is of a family that for generations (even when the God of the Sun still lived) they were a family of shadow (of the journey through night to the next day; gifted with the rites of funerals/cremation/etc). The Halovars were the priestly family of flame. Though that young man is not a sorceror, he has wielded a strange gift to make a little dead creature that regarded you with kindness. Is it possible that dead things can still love us?
    • 03:37:59 Kattigan:“Heh, Nerd!”
    • 03:38:44 Occtis:“All the time.”
    • 03:41:39 Occtis:“Yeah, he[Pin] was supposed to be scary and then I made him and he absolutely was terrible at it…”
    • 03:42:54 Julien:“You are a name that has come up as of late, possibly tied to a dangeroud crux.”
    • 03:46:31 Fan Art Moment Vaelus cradling Pin while walking with Julien and Occtis.
    • 03:47:34 Robbie’s accidental ASMR “Hell yeah” in Whitney’s ear shortly followed by Brennan’s.
    • 03:50:57 Thaisha turns into a massive wolf.
    • 03:53:43 Azune finds out about Vaelus killing two Crow Keepers. It’s likely that reports of “a dangerous elven murderer wearing the garb of the Shapers” will reach what is left of the Revolutionary Council to pursue it.
    • 03:54:54 Too much of the Halfling’s Leaf! It makes you paranoid, Gandalf.
    • 03:55:52 Hal:“…I feel like my brother’s death has set off a lot of dominoes falling and I can’t see the board.”
    • 03:57:54 Teor, Wicander, and Tyranny make it back to Hal’s house.
      [Thimble is pointedly ignoring Wicander]
      Wicander:“Oh! Look at that (pointing at the passing light).”
      Tyranny:“We haven’t met. Hi. You’re so little. Hi, I’m Tyranny.”
    • 04:01:07 Kattigan joins Murray laughing at Wick and a ship sets sail.
    • 04:02:44 Kattigan compliments Thimble?
    • 04:05:34 So, you’ve got two friends downstairs that have day jobs and are okay and everybody else stinks to high heaven.
    • 04:08:38 Lore Drop Moment The Liar’s Blade crafted by the infamous Lloy family.
    • 04:10:20 Thimble:“I didn’t do it. I was just going to chop somebody’s balls off.”
    • 04:12:06 Kattigan:“If you’re going to go up north, you’re going to have to sleep outside.”
    • 04:13:51 Wicander:“In the shadow of the death of another man, I humbly ask for protection, shelter, friendship, loyalty, love and, uh…I don’t know where to go or what to do. I don’t have anyone and I’m very scared and could someone take care of me for a while?”
    • 04:15:35 Murray:“You can’t go, Hal. We got work to do. We gotta stay here.”
    • 04:17:44 The value of an apology.
    • 04:19:49 Stormhold?
    • 04:21:21 If you had a rich kid in your pocket to help pave the way, that is not a ticket you throw out.
    • 04:22:00 More Murriggan flirting
    • 04:24:54 Kattigan’s update on the Wild World of Timmony
    • 04:26:10 The story has taken a life of its own and Brennan can’t narrate, yet.
    • 04:28:02 More Murriggan flirting
    • 04:30:10 Lore Drop Moment Five brought together head north. A brother in danger, a life turned into chaos, and maybe (if you’re lucky) vengeance. We’ll see you five (Teor, Thimble, Wicander, Tyranny, and Kattigan) at the Soldier’s table.
    • 04:30:54 Subtitle Correction Sam Liam:“I’m a real boy!”
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    • 04:33:41 Matt employing some DM magic as a player to keep the party together and maintaining narrative flow.
    • 04:38:30 Vaelus senses a wolf moving swiftly, somewhere far away. Her powerful ears detecting that it is not even on the ground. Something wild and magical is moving on the face of the world…That wolf needs to get into this garden.
    • 04:43:50 …this door will be open when that wolf arrives.
    • 04:45:34 …the realm of death is so choked with is so choked with souls that cannot move to an afterlife because we killed the gods. That energy burst into our world and almost struck the heart of Faerie, killing it forever. [Our families] each have a castle not in this world.
    • 04:50:11 Cormorant (Cormoray) wine is an unfined, unfiltered wine made in an Old World style.
    • 04:56:41 *Julien is cursed. As Vaelus reaches out with Divine Sense, something more troubling than that curse is discovered. The garden of House Davinos is filled with hundreds of spectres of the restless dead just on the other side of the Veil.
    • 04:58:10 General Davinos is killed by an assassin from House Tachonis just before saying something kind to Julien for the first time in memory.
    • 04:59:35

    Put him on the table. Open him up, and we’ll put the stone where it belongs.

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      • 03:36 Travis:“You ever not trusted a lion?”
        Taliesin:“He’s grrreat!”
      • 04:13 The twins were the tailors and the wigs cover a translucent back part of their skull that has an infernal fire in it.
      • 06:22 Aabria:“No nobles. No cats.”
      • 07:25 Whitney:“I thought that I was going to be the one making his life hard. No.”

        (by leetle-bloo-tiefling)
      • 09:01 “You look warm.”
      • 10:19 Because you have a letter for Murray that says “Bolaire” on it from Thimble.
      • 10:45 Aabria rocked the “momma stuff”
      • 12:40 Boxed hooch
      • 13:36 Azune staying behind, reading the names of the lost from the wars, as his compatriots have to flee from the wave of evil in the city.
      • 15:29 I’m everybody’s friend and I’m clean, and now I have a Liar’s blade on my back.
      • 21:58 Soldiers have an episode off
      • 23:23 Aabria with shade for Aranessa