Make Merry | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 11 Part 1

Summary

Critical Role: Campaign 4, Episode 11 Part 1 — "Make Merry"

Air Date: January 22, 2026
Summary by: Critical Role Podcast Summarizer

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the narrative of Campaign 4 continues as the party splits focus between two threads: the journey of Tysha and companions through the snowbound Dvalmar Pass, and the brewing political intrigue in the city of Dolmakyar. The episode dives deep into themes of grief, shifting power dynamics, personal transformation, and the precarious tension of rebellion. New dangers and hidden histories are unearthed as the group maneuvers through fracturing alliances, clandestine plans, and magical mysteries.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Dvalmar Pass: Journey, Mourning & Discovery (01:33–24:57)

• Setting: The adventuring party makes their way through the frigid, windswept Dvalmar Pass, moving east from dwarven lands into treacherous, storm-lashed mountains.
  • “Three days have elapsed as your band has made your way east through the Dvalmar Pass... the cold winds of Helvar that have whipped up across the vastness of the endless night. The cold frigid air of a land that does not know the touch of the sun.” — Matthew Mercer (01:33)
• Character Check-Ins:
  • Julian: Vigilant, exhausted, hiding his identity.
  • Tysha: Transiting from mourning to a more energetic self, seeking connection to the land and her companions.
    • “Every time she leaves Dol Makyar she has to put down the version of herself that was with Hal and her kids and the world and family and life that she knew... But right around day three... Tycha is becoming herself again so she's actually a little more chipper.” — Ashley Johnson (05:07)
  • Vaelis: Familiar with traveling alone, unease at companionship, maintains cautious distance.
  • Erinessa & Octys: Both internal, polite but detached, with Octys deeply preoccupied by his altered physical being, no longer feeling the cold as a normal person would.
    • “He knows it's cold but he doesn't feel cold like a person feels cold anymore... Just all these little things that keep popping into his head as he goes.” — Matthew Mercer (07:41)
• Historical Lore Drop: The pass is revealed to be an ancient dwarven-made road, first constructed for alliance purposes and now littered with statues, inns, and evidence of frequent travel. The group avoids areas marked by the banners of the revolutionary council and the Taconis family, opting for a longer detour.
• Poignant Moment: Tysha interacts with a devout dwarven woman amid shattered statues and lanterns — the site is revealed via a Natural 20 roll to be sacred and defiled ground, a holy site of Tehana, primordial of Earth, intentionally marred by statues devoted to Trojana.
  • “This wall was a holy site of Tehana... and that these statues were built to deface it.” — Matthew Mercer (19:01)
  • [Tysha storms away, shaken and silent, her pain and anger palpable.]

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2. Dolmakyar: The Scheme of Sundered Houses & Brewing Uprising (31:34–86:42)

• Recap & Stakes: After 48 tumultuous hours in Dolmakyar, the players meet in the aviary of the Seven Stars Tavern. Scheming abounds: executions, betrayals, thefts, and the unsettling movement of powers within the city hierarchy. The party faces a city reeling from enforced change, with the Revolutionary Guard dismissed, a new dean installed, and noble houses consolidating magical and political resources.
  • “They fired the police force and are going to absorb them into the Haylovar... They want to plunder a hundred year old weaponry...” — Taliesin Jaffe & Travis Willingham (41:58)
• Strategic Brainstorming:
  • Plans to siphon newly-available funds, form a shell mercenary company to intercept the dismissed guards, and to plant trustworthy spies inside enemy ranks.
    • “If we have access to funds, I think we need to give those that have been dismissed somewhere else where they can go... Pay them to not go to the enemy.” — Sam Riegel (39:44)
  • Shrewd suggestions to leverage artifacts, make replicas, and use the chaos of merging museum wings to their advantage (potential for fraud and embezzlement).
    • “It would be a shorter list. To tell you what I wouldn't [siphon off].” — Travis Willingham (43:26)
• Atmosphere of Paranoia: Trust is thin, with various members voicing how few reliable contacts remain. Everyone is aware the city is on the brink, and the opposition acts with almost reckless speed.
  • “Why are they moving so fast? It's borderline reckless.” — Marisha Ray (44:07)
  • “It is reckless, not borderline.” — Matthew Mercer (44:14)
• Planning Contacts and Moves:
  • Identifying allies within the revolutionary remnants and noble houses.
  • “Moles” and “eyes and ears” are recruited through social maneuvering, e.g., leveraging the gossip of a noble's wife with loose lips, and referencing connections to working-class and underworld figures.

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3. Social Intrigue & The Abandoned Palazzo Divinos (52:35–83:40)

• Social Setting: An impromptu gathering forms at the Seven Stars, as rich "peacocks" arrive, turned away from the canceled (or sinisterly altered) masquerade at the Palazzo Divinos.
• Revelations from the Nobility:
  • Camilla and Oras, minor nobles, recount their uncanny experience — an empty, enchanted party with food but no hosts, banners bidding farewell, and absent house members. Commoners search for loved ones, and a sense of unease pervades the revelry.
    • “Fireflies hanging in the air, some sort of ethereal music on the breeze, the parlor tricks of a house steeped in sorcery... a massive banner... ‘our final feast, hosted in the city of Dolmachio, may all have safe passage to the realms beyond. We await our brothers and sisters in Faerie.’” — Camilla via Matthew Mercer (65:12)
    • “There was a dwarven man who was screaming and crying at the gates, not being let in, who was asking where his daughter was, saying that she worked at the Palazzo over and over again. ... There were other working folk outside... And they dragged him off into the shadows and he was screaming. He punched one of the guards.” — Oras via Matthew Mercer (80:10)
  • Insight checks reveal the anxiety and paranoia among the guests — especially Oras, who holds and eventually snaps a magical glyph designed to reveal invisibility, indicating he suspects deeper dangers.
    • “There’s something kind of trustworthy about a paranoid person.” — Matthew Mercer (70:17)
• Party Moves: The group deftly mines the newcomers for information, plants seeds of rumor, and maintains their subterfuge.

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4. Investigation of Magic & Unsettled Events (83:40–86:42)

• Detect Magic: Murray (Marisha Ray) casts Detect Magic to investigate, discovering the fading of enchantments and the now-empty “glyph” once meant for Thiazi’s escape.
  • “The illusion on the glyph has faded. ... If it’s unbroken, how did thiazi [not escape]? Thiazzi died before he even tried to use this.” — Matthew Mercer (85:25)
• Realization: The piece is unbroken and inert — Thiazi never got the chance to use his hidden magical escape, implying last-minute betrayal or intervention, adding another layer to the party’s suspicions of how events transpired.
  • “Somebody else got to him and killed him in a different way before he died. In the public performed way that we saw.” — Sam Riegel (85:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Every time she leaves Dol Makyar she has to put down the version of herself that was with Hal and her kids and the world and family and life that she knew. But... Tycha is becoming herself again..."
  — Ashley Johnson, (05:07)

• "He knows it's cold but he doesn't feel cold like a person feels cold anymore. ... Just all these little things that keep popping into his head as he goes."
  — Matthew Mercer, regarding Octys (07:41)

• "This wall was a holy site of Tehana... and that these statues were built to deface it."
  — Matthew Mercer, revelation about the dwarven site (19:01)

• "It's going to go very quickly."
  — Travis Willingham, on the unraveling revolutionary guard (39:39)

• "Do you think it's about the control of artifact, or do you think it's about rewriting history?"
  — Marisha Ray (41:30)

• "I love a little fraud. I love a little embezzlement."
  — Marisha Ray (43:01)

• "It's like they're racing."
  — Matthew Mercer, on the pace of conspiratorial change (44:17)

• "You have more experience eating ass than kissing it."
  — Sam Riegel, in a sly encouragement to 'play the part' (78:06)

• "He meant something to a lot of us in this city. He meant something to a lot of us. ... There was a dwarven man who was screaming and crying at the gates, not being let in, who was asking where his daughter was, saying that she worked at the Palazzo over and over again. ... And they dragged him off into the shadows and he was screaming."
  — Oras (via Matthew Mercer), describing the Palazzo's aftermath (80:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Start of the Journey – Dvalmar Pass: 01:33
• Tysha’s Poignant Encounter at the Shrine: 15:03–19:42
• Schemer’s Table Political Update & Intrigue: 31:34–44:23
• Party Discussion of Mercenary Plans: 39:17–44:39
• Arrival of the Party-Goers at Seven Stars: 52:35–55:03
• Camilla & Oras Reveal of Palazzo Divinos: 62:09–66:40
• Tysha Casts Detect Magic on the Glyph: 84:22–85:30

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Tone & Style

The episode balances somber moments of grief and personal reckoning (especially in the Dvalmar Pass) with caustic wit, sly banter, and brisk plotting in Dolmakyar. Characters swing between weariness, cynicism, and resourcefulness, often lacing their strategical talks with dark humor and camaraderie.

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Conclusion

As the party “makes merry”—if only for a moment—they are beset on all sides: personal loss, the threat of oppressive new powers, and the lingering unknowns of arcane tampering in the city. The episode ends on unresolved tension: the realization that deeper plots underlie public tragedy, the city's fate hanging by a thread, and the companions poised for decisive (and dangerous) action in the episodes to come.

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Next Episode: Part 2 of this adventure will be released Tuesday.

Transcript

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[Matthew Mercer]

Why hello there. I'm Brennan Lee Mulligan and welcome to Campaign 4 of Critical Role. Thank you for joining us on this journey as we explore Ahriman, a world of fractured kingdoms, tumultuous rebellion and sorcery that rises from the graveyard of the gods. You're listening to Part one of this adventure, with Part two arriving at this upcoming Tuesday. Our episodes typically arrive on the Critical Role Podcast network a week after our initial Thursday night streams on Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch. But if you'd rather listen to a full podcast episode of Campaign 4 Right When it airs without any ads, consider becoming a Beacon member. You'll receive access to exclusive content discounts at all our online Critical Role shops, pre sales for live events and so much more. Start your seven day free trial today at Beacon tv. Now, without further ado, let's begin this episode of Critical Role. Three days of travel have elapsed as your band has made your way east through the Dvalmar Pass through the ancestral dwarven lands of Kavros to tall mountains peaked in snow. The wind whips through the mountains especially as you begin your descent from the summit of the pass high in the middle of your journey. It's three days across the pass and descending now the cold winds of Helvar that have whipped up across the vastness of the endless night. The cold frigid air of a land that does not know the touch of the sun. And of course the storm rack to your south, hearing endlessly the fall of eternal rain on mountains that have known a ceaseless storm for 70 years. Towards the eastern edge of the pass. What state do we find our adventurers in, making their way under heavy cloaks, some of you disguising your noble lineage, unsure what dangers possibly await you here on the road. Julian likely looks, I mean not quite as rough as you probably in realistic sense, but. Too soon. I know. But I'd say at the very least he's not gotten much sleep in recent days. Trying to remain as vigilant as possible for a number of folks within this grouping and is showing a bit of wear on his face. As the cold wind hits, he bundles up heavily. He's kept himself quite heavily obscured from any recognition. His markings of his house all removed and kept away from any passing eyes. He's also been, I say along the ride probably helping keeping vigilant eye on the road ahead and helping Scout where need be. Though likely probably challenged at times by other capable people. Not probably, not.

[Ashley Johnson]

At this point. I think we just kind of let him do it a little bit because he's got to have something.

[Matthew Mercer]

How's Tysha looking?

[Ashley Johnson]

I think the first two days were Tyche's mourning period. Every time she leaves Dol Makyar she has to put down the version of herself that was with Hal and her kids and the world and family and life that she knew. But right around day three, especially with the storm and the cold and how uncomfortable she is now, this is the opposite of home and Tycha is becoming herself again so she's actually a little more chipper. She's whistling birdsong for local fauna that's here and occasionally wants to go and help scout ahead. But you're doing a very good job so she's gonna let you continue to do that. And mostly will stay tight to Erinessa and will help keep an eye on her because she knows the other travel companions are a little more self sufficient out here on the road.

[Matthew Mercer]

How's Velis looking?

[Marisha Ray]

Vaelis sort of takes up the back of the group and is constantly Scanning. Just never stopping. Very much used to traveling these parts and going on long journeys like this alone. So having companions here is weird and new and different. But the few days that I've spent with these people and seeing what they've been going through. She's trying very hard to maintain distance and not get close.

[Matthew Mercer]

Erinessa bears the name of a house that rose up against the God of the sun. And I think that she keeps a polite distance as well. I think maybe she's offered you to pour your goblet one of these nights at a roadside inn. And that's about the extent of the warmth that she has shown. Very nice octys.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think everything around octys is in.

[Matthew Mercer]

Soft focus right now. These last couple days as he's internalizing and trying to understand what happened to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Him in the best way he can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which is intellectualizing it. And so unless someone directly speaks, speaks.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To him or he has to do.

[Matthew Mercer]

Something, he's constantly dealing with what's new. The fact that he knows it's cold but he doesn't feel cold like a person feels cold anymore. He's not worried that he's going to die from exposure because he's not going to. Just all these little things that keep.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Popping into his head as he goes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Where his hands are cold. He doesn't see his breath in the storm. Things like that. Looking down. The Dvalmar Pass is an ancient Dwarven made highway. It runs over the top of the mountains and is of sort of a strange type in that it is a gift. The dwarves roads ran deep beneath the mountains. They needed this path for nothing at all. But in sort of ancient times created this road such that there would be a way for the Obra Demian Empire to come and aid them. At the western edge of their border. It was made for the human might of the old Obra Demian Empire to come west. And thus this ancient part of it is much grander and filled with these sort of ancient Dwarven statues. The last 30 or 40 miles of it are kind of newer because it terminated far in advance of the ancient walls of Dolmakyar where countless mountain battle sites watched Dwarven and human allies crash against the Orcish shield wall of Dolmakyar for countless ages of war that occurred over and over and over again. So interesting to take that first day's travel through the new pass built by the Revolutionary Council when the peoples of Ahriman were united against the gods. And here you find the old pass for a different purpose and a Different chapter in history. As the mountain pass winds down, you see dwarven statues. These ones less grandiose than the ones at the Guardian Wall in Dolmakyar. These ones are a little bit more stout and made of blocks placed together, but of Dwarven soldiers that mark the way to the wall. And you see at the base of the statues is the Dwarven word for courage. Over and over again, looking down, snow gripping the road here, you see that, like the pass has in many places, small inns, general stores, you can't really go more than an hour's journey, even through parts of the wilderness. You'll travel for an hour or two and another shop will be there. Something because all of the wealth of Kahad and the sundered houses funnels like an artery through this pass. Looking down here, you see that there appears to be a snowfall or some kind of collapse in the mountains that has momentarily blocked the road. And you can see that there is a few dwarven guards that point up to an attendant pass off the mountains, directing people around the landfall. Some people are moving through. It seems that there's still enough space for the main pass to be useful. But you do see some banners down there. Anyone who wants to can give me a perception check.

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[Matthew Mercer]

Take it as inscrutable. We're back. Okay. We're okay. We're okay. 17.

[Ashley Johnson]

16.

[Matthew Mercer]

16. On a 16. On a 16. Tycha. You look down and see some banners of what looks to be the revolutionary council down there. Octys. You see one banner of your house flying down there.

[Ashley Johnson]

We don't go down there. They shouldn't go down there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why? Family?

[Sam Riegel]

Who?

[Marisha Ray]

Why on earth would that be a problem? I'm just kidding.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is that the first joke I've ever heard?

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, make jokes all the time. We don't know each other that well yet.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right, you've been in the back.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do you recognize any. Any family present?

[Ashley Johnson]

Not that I can see, but I.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do see the banner.

[Ashley Johnson]

Down, boy. Mm.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Mm.

[Ashley Johnson]

Too soon.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know what you want. If they were there, I'd tell you. I hope you would just be vigilant.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I will as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do any of you read Dwarven speak or read Dwarven? Do I.

[Ashley Johnson]

No.

[Matthew Mercer]

No. You see some words. I know you see some words in Dwarven as you pass by and you see, riding around, there's a small village, Adzar, Dwarven village, that has a pass that joins the Dvalmar here, and then a longer mountain pass that goes around that is not moving a little bit Faster. Essentially it's a little detour to get around the collapse away from where this Taconis banner is flying. It will only add probably two hours to your trip, but it'll get you away from where you need to go. Moving through Odzar, which is a small little dwarven trading village and has some views of these storm wracked southern mountains. It might have been beautiful once upon a time. Now it's sort of a grim visage. You see here in this place facing the stormwrack, a massive dwarven cliffside that has several shattered statue bases around facing to the south here and you see that hanging, some of them are more than 100ft up the cliff wall. This place by the village is filled with lanterns, silver, tin, some gold, bronze, made of various different metals, some glass, some open. And there is dwarven writing all over this place. You see one phrase repeated over and over and over again. But there is a ton of dwarven writing all over the cliff and many written on the base of the shattered statues.

[Ashley Johnson]

Are there any people in this little trading spot?

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that there is an older dwarven woman who comes up and you see lights one of the lanterns and is praying at the wall.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, I'm going to splinter off. I want to go talk to her.

[Matthew Mercer]

You go and talk to her. Are you wearing any indication of being a member of the old path on you?

[Ashley Johnson]

I think when she lowers her hood she will have something around her forehead, knowing that she'll probably only show her face in cold weather and very specifically has her cane out.

[Matthew Mercer]

Gotcha. So these are some symbols of the old path, but not any super recognizable ones. You walk up to the old dwarven woman. Give it a second.

[Ashley Johnson]

I just realized I came in the middle of a. Oh, it's like watching jump rope where you're like, I don't know where to jump in.

[Matthew Mercer]

She turns to you and goes.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm so sorry, I didn't want to interrupt.

[Matthew Mercer]

She speaks to you in a sort of broken orcish, a broken kahadi. She goes, yes, you are lost to the past collapse.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, Olive, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

This path will lead you back to Dvalnar.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thank you. My name is Tysha. I'm a druid of the oldpath.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? She moves back for a moment.

[Ashley Johnson]

Can I insight check her?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, give me an insight check.

[Marisha Ray]

Same thing.

[Matthew Mercer]

1616. She withdraws. And you recognize that you are looking, looking at someone of the faithful. Cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

Then I'm going to try to flag her. Sorry, I was just Wondering what the phrase. And I want to point at wherever I see it repeated enough so I can point out the pattern. I mean no disrespect.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come back. You see, she looks up and what does she see on Tysha's face as she says come back?

[Ashley Johnson]

I think it's very quick, but it's not perfectly schooled.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's discussed.

[Ashley Johnson]

And then quickly trying to look. It's almost condescendingly neutral, I think is the COVID for what is a massive aversion.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. She recognizes it and she points to another line of poetry and says, not rain but tears. And she turns to leave this place. Give me perception with advantage if you'd be so kind.

[Ashley Johnson]

Natural 20.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Ooh.

[Matthew Mercer]

These shattered statues of devotees of Trojana, goddess of the forge, were shattered. And you can see that there has now been writing and these lanterns have been left here as a mark of contrition, atonement, sorrow on a NAT20 perception in the shattered basis of the statues. There's something hidden. You look and see behind this wall that where these statues. And it looks like these statues are centuries old and were shattered about a little 65 years ago, something like that. You see behind the. There is something in the base of this wall. And on a 20 you see a bit of writing in Druidic, in a Dwarven dialect of Druidic. And recognize that this wall was a holy site of Tehana, who was the primordial of Earth, and that these statues were built to deface it.

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[Ashley Johnson]

I don't think Tysha even acknowledges this woman anymore. She is going to storm back to the horse. I don't want to talk, D. All right, that's fine.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I just.

[Ashley Johnson]

I can hear you breathe. I used to hear you breathe.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Doesn't really happen anymore. Well, I mean when I talk, I do have to breathe air across the vocal cords, which cause the sound of. Nevermind. Fuck. What's wrong?

[Ashley Johnson]

And I explained what I saw.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's not your fault.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's not even her fault. She's just so desperate to go back.

[Matthew Mercer]

To what.

[Ashley Johnson]

They remember, even if it was worse.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

My eyes flick over in the direction that I last remember Vaelis being.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just staring. This whole time have been watching this whole exchange with Tysha, never taking my.

[Matthew Mercer]

Eyes off of her. Give me a perception check. You can do so with advantage.

[Marisha Ray]

That's pretty good.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right.

[Marisha Ray]

24.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go. You look at Tysha, you're not taking your eyes off her. At all. You realize that a village that cannot force. You realize that a village that cannot help but be forced to see the stormwrack would attract a certain kind of person. These are people that do not want to let go. You can recognize that. And I think, hop off my horse. You hop off your horse.

[Marisha Ray]

I would like to walk through some of the shattered statues and sort of peek over to where Tysha was looking.

[Matthew Mercer]

Can you speak Druidic? No. Can you speak Sylvan? No. You see a script that you cannot recognize. You remember the shape of the letters. It is in a different script than the dwarven written here over and over again. But you point your attention to it. Some kind of writing, probably. It was part of the tradition. I mean, that would make sense, wouldn't it? What are you looking at, Do?

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know. There's something here, but I. I can't read it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hmm.

[Matthew Mercer]

I read something reading Sylvan. You see, it's written in a different language than Sylvan, but it's close enough that you can get some kind of. The words around it are words, but there's a name here, and I think you recognize the name Tahana. Tahana. In some ancient. You know, you had a noble's education. Tahana was the wife of Trojana, the Titan of Earth. I think you look at it and see it only was revealed from the destroyed statue here. Erinessa calls out, I think we'd best go. And she looks out and sees the old woman dwarf speaking to what looks like a granddaughter, says, best not to tarry. She looks at you, Tycha, Erinessa, and goes, If people have chosen to live in this moment, then we do them a courtesy and a respect by letting them live in it. And she gets her horse moving along. And you continue down, bypassing the Taconis banner, making your way to helvar old Obrademia, the birthplace of the sundered houses. And we will see you next time as we begin the journey of the Seeker's table. See you on the next episode of Critical Role. Hello and welcome to the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse. Resh, you're up.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, wow. You should tune in live. That's right, live.

[Matthew Mercer]

Live.

[Marisha Ray]

Like actual live. Next Tuesday.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I love it.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. We're back, baby. January 20th for the first installment of our new talkback show, Tailgate.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Matthew Mercer]

It is.

[Marisha Ray]

It's spelled like the tales that we tell and then gate.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Marisha Ray]

Like Watergate, exactly like that. It is hosted by Whitney Moore.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hot damn.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Matthew Mercer]

I think that concludes our announcements of the Announcement Playhouse. Let's get back into Arama.

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[Matthew Mercer]

We return Tal said big titty Pikachu with a pika at we return I narc. I say I let the people know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are you allowed to say the things we throw at you before we start?

[Matthew Mercer]

Is that all the problems are saying I'm a servant of the people, okay? And you need to know what's happening to me back here. We return to the City of Dolmakyar as our wonderful schemers have gathered around a table in the aviary of the the Seven Stars Tavern. A lovely house of recreation and refreshment here in the rookery at the eastern edge of the city. You have had quite a last 48 hours. In the last 48 hours the azzy Fang was executed by the authority of the Chamber of Lords Advisory of the Sundered Houses here in the city of Dolmach. What followed was his Farav, an orcish funerary custom where treasures and prayers were gathered around his body. And you discovered that the plan to spring him at the last minute had been ruined by a betrayal from even within one of his criminal contacts and a former brother of the Torn Banner. The Soldier's Table headed north after the treacherous Kasimir Gavandale and looking for Cid Pridesire, Teor's brother. Your in the past 48 hours also, not only did the young Lord Wakandra Haylevar discover that there is a monstrosity of a Celestial chained up in his basement and then flee the city house to Konis, slaughtered all of the inhabitants of the Palazzo Divinos, declaring that the houses of Royce and Davinos would fall. And Octus Taconis was slaughtered on a table, his heart ripped out of his body and replaced with an elven artifact known as the Stone of Nightsong. That stone was removed by him in the afterlife and by Murray Magnussen and Baler Lothalia here in Dolmakyar in the grounds of the loy Estate at 4 o' clock in the morning after way too much shit had happened. How I read it. Witnessing. Witnessing. Since the death of the gods, there has been no resurrection. And that remains true. Young Anctistaconis was not brought back from the dead. But he walks Ahriman as something seemingly under his own control. You are left with several questions hanging overhead. What did your brother get you all into? Why did he tell you that Baler had paint or to look after Murray at the Pentevral? Why did he send your former life partner and still close loved one Tysha Loyola, off to retrieve a cobbled together coffin of a deceased halfling celestial from Fanatus in the East? How long has a sentient mask been interested in your theater company? All of you look at a city. Strange goings on of whatever Thiazi Fang was up to that rests increasingly under the thumb of the sundered houses. A new dean presides at the Pentevral. The Cormorays are asking about changing Wings at the Archenaud. Moving the loyewing from its primacy here at the Revolutionary Museum House. Einflam has relieved more than 60% of all of the Revolutionary Guard within the city of their duties as some mercenary company of the Candescent Creed waits with signup papers outside. And Hal Fang has just sent his eldest daughter to go live with her half sister as he wears a liar's blade on his side. Busy couple of days here at the table. All of you return and have much to discuss. Lockmir, the proprietor, leans his head in and says, we'll have plenty of privacy up here and feel free. Hal, if you need to send word to anyone, there's some pigeons over there and all their cages are labeled. So feel free.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But could you do me a favor, Lochner? Could you bring up equal amounts of whiskey and coffee?

[Matthew Mercer]

Ah, the night begins in earnest. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. I'll bring up some fresh brewed. A fresh brewed pot of coffee and some I'll get. Are we looking for taste or are we looking for volume? As concerns whiskey? Both.

[Marisha Ray]

Ooh.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, I'll start a tab. And he retreats downstairs.

[Travis Willingham]

Suppose I'm paying a tab now?

[Marisha Ray]

You can afford it.

[Travis Willingham]

I certainly can now.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, good.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm exhausted.

[Sam Riegel]

I think I'm still on adrenaline. The exhaustion is going to catch up eventually, but here we are, running out of time. The walls closing in, the rug being pulled out from underneath us, and I made a list of things that I'd.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like to bring up.

[Marisha Ray]

Maybe we should just leave. Maybe we should just abandon the city. Abandon ship. Just run for the hills.

[Sam Riegel]

Mary, you know you would never do that.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Where would you go?

[Marisha Ray]

I'm too stubborn. Ah.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, before the exhaustion actually does catch up to us, I'd like to at least report what I observed today.

[Travis Willingham]

This is the most organized I think I've ever seen. You all right?

[Marisha Ray]

Talking so fast?

[Travis Willingham]

No, you're just listening so slow. Although, yes, you are speaking quickly.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll try to slow down.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Lists are good. Proceed.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, it occurs to me that I should have probably made copies of the list and handed them out. But I guess maybe for next time.

[Travis Willingham]

Let's get on with it.

[Sam Riegel]

So, earlier today, when I arrived at the Brethren hall, what I witnessed was Lord Einfasten dismissing the majority of the Revolutionary Guard, all of them angry at this sudden dismissal. And as a result of that, in protest, another number of the Revolutionary Guard resigned. Waiting outside was a mercenary group under the Candescent Creed banner waiting to recruit them. A very convenient way to poach The Revolutionary Guard that's meant to protect the city. Do we have access to money?

[Travis Willingham]

Strangely, I believe we do.

[Sam Riegel]

Can we siphon that money?

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, very much so.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Go over the number for me again. How many of the protectors of this city have been cut loose?

[Sam Riegel]

The majority of them? Absolutely. More than half? Maybe three quarters?

[Marisha Ray]

I told you, this is exactly what I said, what would happen.

[Sam Riegel]

It is.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It is.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is.

[Marisha Ray]

I just didn't expect it to happen as quickly. Immediately.

[Sam Riegel]

It's happening immediately.

[Travis Willingham]

It's going to go very quickly.

[Marisha Ray]

It's going to unfold over the course of weeks, maybe even months.

[Sam Riegel]

No, it's happening faster than any of us could have imagined. But we need to staunch the bleeding. And I have an idea that I want to propose. If we have access to funds, I think we need to give those that have been dismissed somewhere else where they can go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Like a.

[Sam Riegel]

Another mercenary company? Like a shell mercenary company that can be at least held there temporarily. They're desperate. Their livelihoods have just been ripped from them. And of course, the Candescent Creed is waiting to recruit them.

[Marisha Ray]

What would we have them do? Outside of just paying them to not go elsewhere?

[Sam Riegel]

I think at the moment, that's enough. Pay them to not go to the enemy, and then we can figure out what else we can do. We have to set something up, and I.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

One second, one second. I don't have deep pockets to pay for a militia. I don't think you do, Belair. I don't think.

[Marisha Ray]

Well.

[Travis Willingham]

Things have taken an odd turn in my reality. You remember that terrible interruption we had earlier with Lady Amara? Well, your family's wing of the museum is going to be destroyed and folded in to another wing. They want the entire collection moved.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To what purpose?

[Travis Willingham]

In my estimation, to steal. To take. To make it more difficult for people to know what's missing, what isn't. To gain more control over every bit of magic that exists in this city. It's violent.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you think it's about the control of artifact, or do you think it's about rewriting history?

[Travis Willingham]

Why not both?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I mean, we're talking about a coup here, right? Clearly, Hailovar's rammed through the execution of my brother. Taconis pulled the movie it pulled last night. We're learning about what the Halovars have in the basement.

[Travis Willingham]

They want to plunder a hundred year old weaponry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

They fired the police force and are going to absorb them into the Haylovar.

[Travis Willingham]

Mm. There's only one.

[Marisha Ray]

They've already planted one of their own into the college.

[Sam Riegel]

I Think that we. They haven't just dismissed Revolutionary Guard Murray at the Pentevral. They must have dismissed other professors. Other students have lost their position. I think that right now, while people are being dismissed, we need to act. We need to provide some way to organize them, because what we're doing right now is we're beginning a movement, at least continuing one, perhaps reactivating it.

[Travis Willingham]

Walk before you run. I know we're going quickly, but. So I've been given a blank check to move everything to the other wing as quickly as possible, which is just going to be chaos. And they said they will give me whatever I want, which, at the speed they want this, I will be capable of hiding a lot of funds.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What are you sitting on over there?

[Marisha Ray]

You said a blank check. Ooh, I love a little fraud. I love a little embezzlement.

[Travis Willingham]

I already do a bit of fraud and embezzlement. And trust me, even with this chaos, we have to be careful and frugal.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Is there anything in the collection that you would mark for siphoning off?

[Travis Willingham]

Honestly, it would be a shorter list. To tell you what I wouldn't.

[Marisha Ray]

How quickly do you think we can make replicas? Hide the real ones?

[Travis Willingham]

They already. But they'll know, obviously. We have two wings that are being folded into each other, which means that it's going to be very political. I'm going to be fighting an entirely different curator who wants to keep their job, wants to make sure they're sucking up more. And I assume it's whoever's more malleable to this situation will be the one who doesn't get removed.

[Ashley Johnson]

What I'm.

[Marisha Ray]

A little confused about. Why are they moving so fast? It's borderline reckless.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is reckless, not borderline.

[Sam Riegel]

It's like they're racing.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I think before we.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's the question.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Raise an army, we might try to find out what's going on. Let's talk about who we can ping. Who do we know? Who do we trust? Who can we talk to?

[Travis Willingham]

I don't trust anybody, but let's say.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have a few people who work.

[Travis Willingham]

For me that I at least know that I know that they know what side of their bread is buttered and want to make sure that the wing still exists. I have a couple of fence contacts for moving arcane artifacts illegally, either to me or from me, thanks to your brother.

[Marisha Ray]

We should cross reference our list a bit. We have a few of the same people on there, I'm sure.

[Travis Willingham]

And then we have the donors, but of course. And just to put it to you is I can get them in the room where they're going to want to meet you. You are right now just candy to people who give museums money. You are an artist. You're hot shit. And now you are the brother of a traitor. Everyone's going to want people to know that they had dinner with you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

[Travis Willingham]

Sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

What else was on your list?

[Sam Riegel]

Well, it's unavoidable, I know. I don't mean to suggest that we raise an army, but I just want to give them an alternative because the enemy is going to absorb them. But also, in addition to that, I think that we should make contact with some of those former Revolutionary Guard that hopefully we can use to our own eyes and ears inside of their organization. I know somebody that I trust that I think can help us hand pick some of those that have been recently dismissed. Not to recruit ourselves, but to. Well, I guess to recruit in a sense, to have them be moles for us.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I like this.

[Travis Willingham]

I hate trust.

[Sam Riegel]

But we have to.

[Marisha Ray]

But Azune, he's very well liked. You're a very respected person in the Revolutionary Guard. You're going to have to flex that.

[Sam Riegel]

I know. I have a couple other things on my list that I need to immediately take care of, and that's one of them.

[Travis Willingham]

I would hire them as a pretext to having security for moving all of the objects around, but I have a funny feeling they're going to want their own people who will turn eyes away if they take anything.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, maybe we can do a little.

[Ashley Johnson]

Bit of both there.

[Marisha Ray]

That's actually not a bad idea. Maybe Izune can recommend some people from the Candescent Creed. Whatever this new mercenary group is, maybe we can kind of double dip there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm a little hesitant to suggest it, but I might have someone inside the Einfasten Machine as well. Well, there's someone in the company whose sister is an attending maid in one of the houses here and she is easy to miss and hears a lot, but I don't want to put her in danger.

[Marisha Ray]

I think it's a little late for that. Oh my God. We really are so alike.

[Travis Willingham]

I hate it.

[Sam Riegel]

Are you ready for this?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How? No. No, I'm not. I also know that one woman, Bettine, who visits our salons on occasion from House Taconis. This woman likes to hang out with bohemians from time to time and visits on Valere and my little social club. And she is a terrible gossip. Excellent. And a horrendous flirt. I like the gossip.

[Sam Riegel]

Spread some rumors.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

She's already told me more about her Taconus husband than is probably decent. So that is maybe another possible inroad.

[Travis Willingham]

You also have a family name that you can lean on for quite a while. It's going to get you into some doors. And with everything that's happened to your family in the last 48 hours, my God.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, that's also a question because I'm known throughout the city. But I don't know what these people think now of the Aussie's brother.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know.

[Travis Willingham]

You won't until they talk to you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Right?

[Marisha Ray]

I think Baulaire's kind of right. It's exciting for them to rub shoulders with someone who's a bit of an outlaw.

[Travis Willingham]

And on the lower end, they'll be wondering, the people who did work for your brother will know that you had nothing to do with it. He made that very clear to anybody who would listen.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

People are gonna be wondering where my.

[Travis Willingham]

Sympathies lie very much. And if they're not wondering, it means they know.

[Marisha Ray]

Thing about rich people too is they kind of get their rocks off by rolling in the mud with the rest of us pigs.

[Sam Riegel]

Troublemakers.

[Travis Willingham]

I literally have a mud bathroom back in my apartment. I don't, but it would be hilarious if I did.

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[Sam Riegel]

This person that is married to a Taconis. I think we can use that. There's already word traveling around that something has happened, potentially to those that at least work at the Plaza de Vitos. The people that work there haven't come home. There's some word on the street a little bit about wondering where they might be. Of course, there's no way that Takonis would let something spread about what they've done. Unless they have a leak in their own family. With a wife that has a big mouth.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

I can't wait to meet her.

[Sam Riegel]

It doesn't matter whether he said anything to her. I think that we need to start to get them to question who they can trust within their own ranks, within their own families.

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[Matthew Mercer]

As you do you see that there are a few people down in the main area of the seven Stars that are dressed in a lot of finery that appear to be excitedly telling a story to some friends at the bar. You see that they're dressed up. One of them has a porcelain and emerald studded half mask on a wand larger very frilled evening gown and next to her swallowtail silvery epaulettes on a blue coat orcish gentleman who you see is wearing a long black wig with several strands of metallic gold hair throughout the throughout it falling down are both speaking to one of the servers behind the bar, shrugging and looking excited as Lockmir walks up with a big tray of whiskey and coffee.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Far more finery than we're used to seeing in this place.

[Matthew Mercer]

Inappropriately dressed for this place even for being a little bit closer to this dial. These are people that are dressed for a gala.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh God they're pre gaming. Oh no.

[Marisha Ray]

Who are the peacocks down there?

[Ashley Johnson]

Lochmare?

[Marisha Ray]

Who are you entertaining? Who are the birds?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well I know the gentleman as Oras, but the young lady I haven't met appears to be a recent paramour. Oris comes from a wealthy merchant family.

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[Matthew Mercer]

Apparently they just got turned away from something to do with a party tonight.

[Marisha Ray]

Forgot about that party. It's not happening anymore.

[Travis Willingham]

I never forget him at a party.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So it's pre game, not post. Post, not pre.

[Travis Willingham]

It's awake for a party combined.

[Sam Riegel]

Have you heard anything else after prom? What are they saying?

[Matthew Mercer]

Let me go ask and get some information for you. Yes, please. You see, he deposits the drinks, turns around.

[Marisha Ray]

We didn't ask, though. It's not from us. Just be curious. Just be casual.

[Matthew Mercer]

Who asked?

[Marisha Ray]

Correct.

[Matthew Mercer]

And he walks.

[Travis Willingham]

He's not an actor. Don't confuse him.

[Matthew Mercer]

Mm.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I will say I do think it is important if we have a few eyes and ears inside some of these rich people's houses.

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[Marisha Ray]

However, I think it is gonna be important to tap the other side of the caste system. And I think that that's something that I can tend to. You know, here's the thing. Rich people have all always thrived off of the backs of the working class. That's not gonna change. They can't do any of this stuff without a few working hands. So can reach out to some of my contacts and the underbelly, the Thieves Guild, black market. They're gonna need resources, right? So there's going to be some sort of movement of whether it be magical items, whether it be money, there's going to be something going on they can't.

[Travis Willingham]

We don't know what we're going to need. Which means we need every option available.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Who is the man who wanted to talk about skulls at the Aussie's wake?

[Matthew Mercer]

I got you.

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[Marisha Ray]

It's somewhere in my note. Let's see who can get it first.

[Travis Willingham]

What an interesting idea, too, I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

Was this Davrazzi Gaunt? I believe it was.

[Marisha Ray]

De Vrazi Gaunt.

[Travis Willingham]

I am putting whiskers in my coffee while this is happening.

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[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. You see, Lockmir comes up a moment later and says, appears there's been some very exciting news from the Palazzo Divinos. Oras and his companion, a young Camilla, were invited to their first had their dance cards already were headed to to the palazzo, which is absolutely enchanted with no sight of the Divinos or more to the point, the Royce anywhere. Fairy lights all throughout the castle. And perhaps a feast laid out for everyone saying, help yourselves. A goodbye feast courtesy of the Royces on their way to Ferry. Perhaps the doors have reopened.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Perhaps it's a banner day.

[Sam Riegel]

So it appears they're planning to host a party in celebration of their leaving.

[Matthew Mercer]

The city and didn't announce it as such. Apparently the invitation was one Simply of them being in a state that they were in residence at the Palazzo Divinas, which is not typically normal, nor indeed for a member of the Royce family to be in attendance. They don't even have a manor here in Dolmarchiar. But I suppose they came as part of the trip to Faerie. It was exciting.

[Sam Riegel]

So the party's on.

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know. It sounds like perhaps this is a version of being sent to a farm in the north. I think they may be gone. Gone? This is a lot of drama. People are going to be very interested. This is a terrible, terrible idea. If you're trying to not raise suspicions of why.

[Matthew Mercer]

They did mention that there were lights, that food was laid out, but there was no representative of their houses, of the house empty.

[Sam Riegel]

And is the public partaking, did they.

[Travis Willingham]

Or not, of something like this?

[Sam Riegel]

Are people there having a party?

[Matthew Mercer]

The food was laid out. My understanding is that the Lady Camilla wished to stay and that Master Oris left. He seemed to think it was an unusual time. Some commoners arrived and caused a bit of a ruckus.

[Marisha Ray]

Sure.

[Matthew Mercer]

Searching for. There was a man outside the plaza, shouting through the gate, being asked to, apparently looking for someone.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I want to hear this from the horse's mouth.

[Travis Willingham]

I was about to say.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Stream out the door. Head down there at the bar.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sir and lady, I will buy you the this round and the next if you'll take me to wherever it is you are going. Because it is better than here.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that Lady Camilla turns to you and says, my goodness. Pleasure to meet you. My name is Camilla Blushthris.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Charmed. Charmed, I'm sure. And this handsome devil, Oras Blade.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's nice to meet you.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm peeking around the corner to watch this. I want to see. Was there a moment of recognition? Do either of them know who this is? And they're just. Just being polite.

[Matthew Mercer]

Give me insight.

[Travis Willingham]

I don't require this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Where's my.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yay.

[Travis Willingham]

Everything's working.

[Matthew Mercer]

There we go.

[Travis Willingham]

Insight.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Come on, don't be a jerk.

[Travis Willingham]

Natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Camilla knows exactly who he is. And you see, it's every little sign within. Basically, in the moment that she clocks him, her ring studded hand finds itself resting on the outside of his upper arm.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If I'm going to be honest, you're a little overdone for the Seven Stars. Not that we're complaining.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do you think I would have had two handmaidens straining away at this corset to come to the Seven Stars? No, not at all. Our night's been Absolutely ruined.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Ruined. Do tell.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, all I'm going to say, I think if you're secretly planning to have a party on the other side of the doors to Faerie, the least you could do would be to invite me.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Lockmare, line them up, please.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have it, Mr. Fang. And she goes, would that be Mr. Hallendil Fang?

[Sam Riegel]

There we go.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It would indeed.

[Matthew Mercer]

I have been watching the shows at the Lyceum for years, and I hear tell that there is to be truly a grand theater in at the old abandoned amphitheater at the bottom of the city.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You know, believe it or not, you must be coming to my shows a lot, because I thought I recognized you from across the room. You are a lover of the arts and I thank you for it. Pat her hand.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, normally I would say guilty, but these days that seems like something that shouldn't be said too loud.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, Jesus.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? Oras is just sort of, you know, staring off into the distance. I will say too, as she sort of refers to the place at the bottom of the hill. She is a young human woman and Orys is the last name. Blade. Orys is either local or from west of here in Kahad. Yeah, I'm gonna make a tone deaf.

[Travis Willingham]

Human at this point. I think this is a moment to plant a seed. I'm going to to as drunkenly with as much attempts to hide flare while giving flare as I can make my way over to you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hal, if you have a say, we.

[Travis Willingham]

Have to come back. I know that everything's a mess, but we really need to make sure that everything opens. If you need to make changes to the script, that's fine. We can do it, but we have to.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, I'm so sorry. I see you're busy. We have to talk about this. This is just too much much to deal with.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Belair, this is a patron.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, I'm so sorry. You heard nothing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Please.

[Travis Willingham]

We'Ll discuss this later. Everything's fine.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? She looks at you and says, are you one of Mr. Fang's performers?

[Travis Willingham]

I wish I had such a talent. No, just a very big fang.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, you see that? She looks down at the mask in her hand and looks at you and says, you're not a but you. And you see that? Orra says, camilla, this is one of the masters of the Archonaut in the silk and leather. You see that? She says, this is. Is this one of the most cultured taverns in the city. I thought the rookery was a little bit of a hodgepodge, you see, Orys shakes his head side to side and says, the rookery is home to some of the city's finest eateries and establishments. It's just a hike to get up here, you see. He nods and says, the locals like it that way. Less thoroughfare, less people on their way somewhere else.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If you know what makes it worth the journey.

[Travis Willingham]

I am so sorry I let you both get back to this. We will discuss this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As much as I love telling stories, I. I love hearing stories. Where are you going tonight?

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? She says, well, lovely to meet you, Master. Oh, Belair. Hello. Yes, pleasure. You see, she says, you really do know everybody.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That one is an artist through and through, believe you me.

[Matthew Mercer]

She said, I should think so. The work on that mask is exquisite.

[Ashley Johnson]

You see that?

[Matthew Mercer]

She says, well, where are we headed? I certainly don't know myself. We were to spend the night dancing at the Palazzo Divino's.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What happened?

[Matthew Mercer]

Wouldn't you want to know? And don't we all? We arrived thinking that there would be a chance to dance and enjoy the hospitality, some fine Telmoran wines, and instead we found ourselves with walking through. Fireflies hanging in the air, some sort of ethereal music on the breeze, the parlor tricks of a house steeped in sorcery.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sure, sign me up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Found the banquet tables laid out and a massive banner flying high above some tapestries saying, our final feast, hosted in the city of Dolmachio, may all have safe passage to the realms beyond. We await our brothers and sisters in Faerie. They've done it. Now, what I want to know is this. Why say you're having. I mean, just either do it or wait for us all to get there and do it in front of us so we can at least see it. Do it at the end of the party capstone. A reward for those that have been burning their heels in these ridiculous shoes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Help me understand, and were you alone.

[Matthew Mercer]

How many people showed up at this, you see? Orys looks and says we arrived fashionably late and There were some 80 people already there by the time we left. There were some 2, 300, but many were leaving as fast as they are. The food was fine spread, but there were no servants, no anyone dancing. Scandalous, I think. So go ahead and give me an insight. Check yourself. Hal.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is really low. That is an 8 on an 8.

[Matthew Mercer]

Insight. You see? Oras just shaking his head seems put upon. Are Murray and Azune close by as this is happening, or. No, no, no.

[Marisha Ray]

I was gonna be maybe at the top of the stairs listening in, but I don't Want to be seen.

[Sam Riegel]

And I will have at some point, tugged you to have a conversation with you.

[Travis Willingham]

I definitely walked by a little bit. I'm still trying to listen.

[Matthew Mercer]

But either of you give me a perception or an arcana. Your choice.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

I was like, okay, you have exhaustion.

[Marisha Ray]

I do still have exhaustion, so this is a disadvantage. I'm able to do this too.

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If you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If I have to count on all.

[Matthew Mercer]

The way up, you can give me archon our perception.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Did you just drink an Irish whiskey, though?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. There you go. I don't think it helps now for 20. Where was this earlier?

[Marisha Ray]

I was gonna say my spider senses have been tingling. So can Murray. As I'm up at the top of the stairs with Azune, I pull out a little mirror compact, and I take the little. With a little sponge, and I'm like, oh, my God. The dark circles under my eyes, and I dab them, and I cast. See invisibility.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hell yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

So can I do this? Do this roll with c. Invisibility?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, you can. And that will cancel out disadvantage.

[Marisha Ray]

It'll cancel out disadvantage.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Cause you're specifically looking for hidden things, right?

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Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Or if anyone's being nosy.

[Matthew Mercer]

Being nosy.

[Marisha Ray]

Natural one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Natural.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, boy.

[Travis Willingham]

I give up.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a great time to roll a natural one. You do not see anything invisible. You don't see anything unseen. You don't see anything present in the space.

[Travis Willingham]

Did that 26 arcana do anything for me?

[Matthew Mercer]

It did a lot for you. Hell, yeah. Walking away. You see that? Oras. There are a number of names that are super duper common orcish surnames. Fang is one of them. Blade is another one. Klaue is another one. Basically a lot like shapers. War was 70 years ago, and prior to that orcish custom, under the horrifying tyranny of the conqueror of the God of war, meant that a lot of family names were basically just these short, guttural, like, warlike names. Claw, Blade, Fang. Looking at Oras Blade, you wonder if you. There's something about him you recognize because he got mentioned as a merchant. Mercantile. You recognize some of the stuff on his as being. You've seen it before. On your way to hold on one second to Pottersfield, you've seen it before, and you recognize Pottersfield' cause you realize his family is a huge ceramics merchant, pottery merchant family. Not that Pottersfield sells pottery, but just the name triggers something for you. And looking at Oras, you see him absentmindedly fidgeting on that NAT20, and he has a Breakable spell glyph in his hand, much like the one on Azune's person.

[Sam Riegel]

And I still have it.

[Matthew Mercer]

You still have it?

[Travis Willingham]

Can I tell what it does or.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just that it's a glyph on a 20 arcana. You can tell that it's a 26. 26 or NAT 20? 20. NAT 20. 26 on that. You see that? He's sort of moving it over and over again. Wouldn't you know it? It's. See, invisibility.

[Ashley Johnson]

Mmm.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shit.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, that's fine.

[Matthew Mercer]

But I'll say on that NAT20, even though that's arcana, I'll throw some insight on there just to reward that NAT20 as well. There's something kind of trustworthy about a paranoid person. The thing he's covering in his hand is that he's not as delighted as his date is. I think that he seems to you maybe a little bit rattled, Right? Yeah. Something's going on. Something's going on and you can see him speaking to you. How so? You get that on that nat 20. We get a perception check here as well.

[Sam Riegel]

That is a 15.

[Matthew Mercer]

15. You don't know what the spell is, but you. You see him moving some kind of spell glyph in his hand, but you can't from this distance, you can't see what it is.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just gonna whisper. Oh, go ahead.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, sorry.

[Matthew Mercer]

Go for.

[Marisha Ray]

You go first.

[Matthew Mercer]

I was gonna say to Hal. Yeah. Camilla just looks at you going, an absolutely devastating evening. And I'm in this dress that will take at least 20 minutes to get out of. And know where to get out of it in.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, you find yourself in good company. We're just rolling in. Why don't you spend the evening with us here?

[Matthew Mercer]

Lovely. Is there any band to strike up? Are there any enterprising bards that would like to play a merry jig for us? You're something of a musician yourself, aren't you, Mr. Fang?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, I'm not carrying this evening. Maybe if somebody put something in my hands.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that she looks around in the corner and says, or puts your hands on something. And she looks in the corner and sees, shoved into a corner, that there is a harpsichord. And she says, do you know how.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To play passing fair?

[Matthew Mercer]

And she says, well, you see that? She looks out the window, there's a couple bars on this block. And you see that there's some people outside. And she calls off and says, genes, Yulia, come inside. And you see that she calls out to some friends and turns around, you see Lockmir. Shrugs and points to it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sure. I head over and I look up at Murray as I pass and just mouth the words, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you do not have proficiency with this instrument, I will ask for instead a performance role at disadvantage.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sure. Cause no, I play many instruments and this is not one. Okay. Performance. Performance. You said performance, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Performance. Yes, performance.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's a natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Natural 20. Disadvantage, though. Disadvantage. That's tough, bro. Hate to do it to you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Come on, come on. What do we got? What do we got? That's pretty good. That's all right. That's a 19 total.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 total. You have never played a harpsichord before. So stuttering through the first keys, as you kind of find the scales out, you are able to pick out a very simple melody that it basically just alternates between a couple of notes over and over again.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's a little tavern ditty.

[Matthew Mercer]

A little tavern ditty. And she starts to dance.

[Marisha Ray]

Dear gods, what is he doing right now?

[Travis Willingham]

This is actually brilliant.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see that? Oras comes over to you and says, Mr. Fang, for as you finish the song, you see that he puts four gold pieces on the harpsichord, saying, not that you need it, but out of pure respect for the craft. I can't imagine any dulmachia orc has come up and asked you to play the harpsichord before. And you see this harpsichord is covered in dust with a blanket over the back half of it. Lockmir shrugs and says, I like it. And he goes, thank you for humoring Camilla.

[Travis Willingham]

The song is over.

[Matthew Mercer]

The song is over.

[Travis Willingham]

I want to walk in to make sure that this group hasn't split up quite yet.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, there are a number of different nobles, and I would say not even though it was like gentry. This is the weird place where these are the merchants that are looking to marry the fourth children of vassal houses. Of the sundered houses. Right. That weird blurred line where the money starts grabbing little fringes at the end of aristocracy.

[Sam Riegel]

Still room to climb.

[Matthew Mercer]

Still room to climb. For the rest of you, what are you doing?

[Marisha Ray]

I just dig out a little bit of talc powder on my eyes. I'm so tired. The magic's not even working. My eyes are so bloodshot.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do you look?

[Sam Riegel]

You have done so much. Do you need to take a break up here? There's clear that can be done down there. Looks like the party's here.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel like there's still more we have to talk about.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I'm heading down. Well, while this is happening, I'm getting into this conversation.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I have to tell you something. One of the things on my list that I was going to keep to myself is that I think that Einfasten is on to me. He knows my history with the Falconer's Rebellion. And I think that he, in not so many ways words, has made it very clear that my loyalty might be tested. I need you to remember this name. Varen. Cadorn.

[Marisha Ray]

Varen what?

[Sam Riegel]

Cadorn.

[Marisha Ray]

Cadorn.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. K, A D O R N. Okay. He is guard for one of the Sundered Houses. And he is a former Falconer's Rebellion fighter. He goes to the Falcon on a weekly basis. I see him there. He is very trustworthy. He is who I would approach to try to get some of the Revolutionary Guards that he trusts together to be our inside people. I want you to know his name in case I don't come back tomorrow.

[Marisha Ray]

You're gonna come back tomorrow.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We don't know that.

[Marisha Ray]

What do you have planned? Are you gonna go do something stupid?

[Matthew Mercer]

Probably.

[Marisha Ray]

You shook your head no and then said probably.

[Sam Riegel]

Just to confuse you. I hope it worked. There's a party to go to. Shall we join them? And I start to listen to him.

[Marisha Ray]

I was gonna say listen. Grab a cigarette.

[Travis Willingham]

We're probably heading back. Depending on. Unless you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I want to finish up with Oras.

[Matthew Mercer]

But I don't want to interrupt here.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

You and I are in the same boat.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Marisha Ray]

Dean. Cora is also very much onto me. And I think one of the first things that I'm gonna have to do as part of this grand plan that we're all planning is I might have to go and apologize. It's the worst. Worst thing I hate to do. So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna kiss her ass.

[Sam Riegel]

Mm.

[Marisha Ray]

So we're gonna have to be. We're gonna have to lay low on the inside. And it's. The only way any of this works is if we pretend to be one of them.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. I know. And that's gonna be really hard for you.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Sam Riegel]

But you could do it. Marie. One of the best things about you is that you're so you that they don't deserve to see that part of you. You don't show them the buttons that they can press.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're right.

[Marisha Ray]

You have more experience eating ass than kissing it.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

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Wow.

[Matthew Mercer]

As Hal finishes up the song Is preparing to return to your companions.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm doing a little thing once you're done because I want to plant one or two more. I want to plant a big seed.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

When you just say that as I'm winding down and Camilla is dancing with her friends in the middle of the tavern. And Orys has just handed me that coin. As I'm finishing and winding down the song. Hey, you know, I know we're making merry here, but the reality is it's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Getting hard out here.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I watch her dance around with her friends. Make mary while we can. Let me ask you, what do you think was going down at that place? Do you think they really moved on? Seems pretty abrupt.

[Matthew Mercer]

He shrugs and says with respect, Mr. F. Fang. Why are you asking me? Your brother, I mean, we all knew. Every orc that grew up in the city knew thiazi, that knew of him. He was married to the lady of the great house. Did she ever say anything to you? I don't mean to act like I know your business, but you've got a. You're a famous actor and your brother is even more. He was a war hero. So I'm sorry to know your business, but I have questions for you, frankly. Sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, my brother liked to keep me free and clear, but yeah, family and no, this is news to me. So it's given me a bad feeling and I'm just wondering.

[Matthew Mercer]

Two days after. I can't imagine what you're going through, but I'll let you know that I might have come into some money, but I'm not like. And he gestures to the sort of dancing, capering people and he just goes, they killed one of ours. I know he was yours, but he. He meant something to a lot of us in this city. He meant something to a lot of us. And we left because when they were trying to dance to that twinkling music or whatever it was, you couldn't dance to it. And everyone was just standing around laughing and continue just saying, I can't believe it, I can't believe it, over and over again. There was a Mac. More than a couple, but there was one. There was a dwarven man who was screaming and crying at the gates, not being let in, who was asking where his daughter was, saying that she worked at the Palazzo over and over again. There were other working folk outside who had come looking for people that hadn't come home. And they dragged him off into the shadows and he was screaming. He punched one of the guards.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Might not be my place to say, I know you just met me, but for my brother's sake, if you catch wind of anything, will you get word to this place to me?

[Matthew Mercer]

I can leave it here with Lockmir. Yeah, as you say that, you see, he suddenly Gets a look in his eye as he. You can just see it's very on his face. He's wondering if he's stepped too far. He's wondering if he can trust you. You just hear a little snap in his hand as he breaks this spell. Glyph azune. Give me perception with advantage here. Perception or arcana.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Perfect.

[Matthew Mercer]

What'd you get?

[Sam Riegel]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

15. As he snaps it, you see, he looks around and you see you paranoid. See if anyone else is watching. Says, I'll leave word here if I see anything.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I take his hand and tug him in closer to me. I'll listen for the falconer's call.

[Travis Willingham]

I see this ending and I'm going to gracefully glide in and break this up. Because we have work to do. We should say goodbye to the lovely young woman really quickly.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do your work.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, oh, pleasure. She's having a time for her.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah. Dear. Just say goodbye very quickly, you see, says Master Belair. Thank you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And Mr. Fang, I'll see you at the hallowed round.

[Travis Willingham]

And as I take you away a little too loud, we're going to have to talk about those edits. I'm not saying they're not great, but it's a bit controversial, don't you think?

[Matthew Mercer]

I know. You want to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You might be alone.

[Matthew Mercer]

You walk away and you see Oras looks at you, thinks about what it means that you said. And you can see leaves with some degree of perhaps resolve and trepidation mixed together. But then again, isn't that what you're feeling? You see, as you watch him snap that, hasn't he?

[Sam Riegel]

I see it.

[Matthew Mercer]

You have on a 15 perception, you see. He triggers the glyph, snapping it in half. Something's wrong. Something's wrong, Something's wrong.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll say. I'll whisper that if Buri's near me, something's wrong. I'm going to go for the glyph that I have.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm going to try one more time to do something. As he says something wrong, I'm just going to rub my forehead a little bit. And I take my fingernail with the quill tip and I just trace it around the corner of my temple and carve a little glyph under my head and cast detect magic.

[Matthew Mercer]

You cast detect magic. The magic looks out. The illusion on the glyph has faded. On the false glyph. The illusion on the false glyph has faded. And on that detect magic, you see the sea invisibility from Oras fade away into the distance as you guys return to the top of the stairs. Standing in the doorway to the aviary. Your smell of coffee and whiskey. Through the door here to this little garden hanging flowers and bird coops. You pull the glyph out. It's unbroken. If it's unbroken, how did thiazi. No, it was fake. Thiazzi died before he even tried to use this. What?

[Marisha Ray]

Am I getting any magic from it?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, nothing.

[Sam Riegel]

It's intact. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm replaying that in my mind. The sequence of events. As was expected, he didn't even get.

[Matthew Mercer]

A chance to use this.

[Sam Riegel]

It.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's supposed to break for it to work. And he never even got a chance to break it. And what stopped him?

[Sam Riegel]

Somebody else got to him and killed him in a different way before he died. In the public performed way that we saw.

[Matthew Mercer]

You know, hands behind his back where you scanned for it in his coat. The perforated. The perforated central line of the glyph. If he had pressed his wrists into the back of it, arched his back, pressed, this should have broken. So something stopped him from doing that.

[Sam Riegel]

Or he just never did.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's all for this chapter of the Schemer story. Oh, you sure do. You sure do. And we'll talk about it again another time.

[Travis Willingham]

Fuck. Bugger.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's where we'll take our break. We'll see you in the second half as we conclude our soldier's story. See you there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

God damn it.

[Matthew Mercer]

And that's where we'll leave our story for now. Part two of this episode of Campaign 4 drops this Tuesday. Thanks for listening and we'll see you soon for more critical role.

[Marisha Ray]

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