Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to Explorers. Elsewhere's Alicia Risings new segment.
I'm dubbing this faction actions.
So we know that the players and the gang that they are a part of is a living, dynamic entity. But the city of Alicia is just as dynamic and living, and it is full of factions, of shakers and movers who want to do all sorts of things whilst the player characters aren't looking.
And because I need to know for planning upcoming episodes, I thought we could make a little thing of it, just so we could all see together, sort of like what's happening in the background that will hopefully have a direct impact or indirect impact on the players in future episodes.
So what we've got here is pretty much everything that all the stuff for the various various factions, 15 in total.
Down the left here, we can see the reputation trackers for the players with the respective factions themselves.
So off the back of the last mission, which saw the players going up against the Shield of Alicia, we can quite happily say that the faith is somewhat less happy with the players.
And in fact, their reputation with the shield of Alicia specifically has now dropped to minus one, which makes them adversaries.
In other news, at the same time, they have successfully done a job for the underworld. So we can go ahead and put that up to plus two, as they haven't currently tried to screw anyone over and they have made Mustovan a very happy, sweaty little goblin. So their reputation with the cobbles goes up to plus two.
Right? So, yes, in the same way that the players have downtime, so to do all of the factions. Now, as you can see here, it's a relatively empty page. As you can see, it's just currently a bunch of names in black with the faction names in black and one action in purple from the shield of Alicia, which is investigate the attackers. So in the same way that the players have long term projects, so too do some of the factions. So off the back of the last mission, the shield of Alicia will be investigating the attackers on the warehouse which saw Alicia's very first ghostly breach.
That was a thing that happened.
And the shield of Alicia are going to see if they can get to.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: The bottom of who it was that did it.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Now, the shield of Alicia are a tier two faction. Normally two dice on this fortune roll to see how well they manage to look into it.
But given the nature of the attack which caused the ghost, one of their numbers killed by ghost, there's a lot more eyes, there's a lot more effort being put into finding out who it was. So we're going to give them an extra dice.
We roll a five. Okay, so that is two segments on the clock to investigating the attackers.
Cool. So, elsewhere.
Elsewhere at the end, in episode two, Magpie was able to Earwig in on Musto, who, quite handily, was kind of giving the lay of the land in terms of the city after the death of Tavarian.
So, in actual fact, there are quite a few clocks that are in play at the moment.
And off the back of Magpie's earwigging, there are a number of things that she's heard that the other factions are up to, which are these. So she's overheard that the city watch.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Are, in fact, rounding up sanguivar.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: The chainbearers are trying to recover items from beyond the veil. The children of Aya are being much more zealous in their spreading of Aya's word. And the cobbles are currently looking at moving into old Town with the demise of the leader of the tellers.
So we'll quickly roll through all of these. So, the city watch are a tier three faction. They were hampered by being hampered by the players. We're going to reduce their fortune. Roll down to two.
Let's see how they got on. So, they got a five. So they get two segments to rounding up small sanguivar.
The chain bearers attempting to look for their void touch items. The chain bearers are tier three as well. No one has been opposing them as such.
They roll a six. That is three segments of the clock.
Children of ire, they are a faction, a tier four faction. Again, no one's really been stopping them. So they roll a five. That is two segments.
And last but not least, of the known agendas the cobbles are attempting to push into Old Town.
So they are tier one at the moment.
No one that the player characters haven't specifically helped them in this endeavor. So they roll a five. Oh, they're doing quite well.
That is two segments. Okay, so we have some clocks that are starting to tick away separately. There are some other things happening among the other factions, but their goals aren't public knowledge or they're not known to the players. So, as such, a lot of these clocks will go up in privacy.
So what I'll do is I'll go ahead and roll all of these, and.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: Then we'll see what the clocks look like after.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Okay. And after lots and lots and lots of rolling, this is what we're left with. So some of the clocks are heading, moving up, some achieving more than others. As we can see, the faction known as the Marionettes have actually managed to complete one of their clocks, unbeknownst to the player characters.
That's partly off the back of a critical fortune roll, boosted by the player characters actions. They've actually managed to tick that box up, so that's something that will come into effect sooner rather than later, I suspect. So we've got updated reputations with the shield of Alicia going down and the cobbles going up, and we have an idea of what they're all up to. So with all of this, I can then put some new plans into action as to what's going to happen to the players going into episode four. If you're liking the series so far, make sure to hit the like button and comment down below on what you think is going to be a particularly juicy clock when it ticks over, or what it is that the Marionettes are up to that the players have unwittingly helped them achieve.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: The Black guard are close on their heels.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: They've only got one segment of their clock, so maybe some comments on what you think the black guard are currently up to.
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Cool. That's it. Thank you for watching, and we'll see you in the next book.
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