Ep. 25 Night at the Gala Chapter Four (C2)

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C2 Ep. 25 Night at the Gala Chapter Four

—Reynard

The crew completes their job stealing the new eldritch machine. Reynard manages to avoid more jail time. They meet up at the Four Sails, get paid, and Hob has a very difficult conversation with Viggo about his treatment of their crew.

## Synopsis

Hob takes the remainder of the warforged he'd been fighting, sits them down, and reminds them that there's no shame in getting beat. However, there's one thing they need to remember: they didn't see anything. He punches each one in the face and runs to help Kath and Sigil with the skycoach. He's less successful with that, seeing as he doesn't know anything about getting a skycoach to go, and just starts ripping wires out. Eventually Erys and Milo come around with Tasha and simply hook it up to tow it out.

Reynard is escorted by three House Medani out of the party. He acts indignantly, and claims that the thing he had for Primofit was a drink, to replace the one he's spilled earlier. They buy it, and Reynard gets to be outraged at the way they treat guests.

After catching up with Sana, Reynard receives a punch in the chest, and a worried threat to never make her do that again.

They drop the machine off and are surprised to find Four Sails still open. Reynard and Sana arrive first and find Viggo having a meal. They hand over the arcane implement, and Reynard pours everyone drinks. The rest of the crew gets there; Viggo gives them each thirty-five gold pieces.

With most of the crew dispersed, Hob sits down to have a talk with Viggo—Erys glaring at them from the doorway. Hob lowers his voice so Erys can't hear. He explains to Viggo that the way he spoke to Erys put her off her game, and it they want to be working at full efficiency, they can't have that. Additionally, none of them are beholden to the clan and could walk away at any time.

Viggo does not take this well. He points out that an unregistered magewright(who messes with things she shouldn't be messing with), a Phiarlan exoriate whose house wants to put a bounty on his head, and a goliath with no rights as a citizen could not just walk away if they pleased. As for Milo, he's practically part of the family. He reminds Hob that he could have him killed if he wants to.

Hob gets up, grabs his gold, and tells Viggo he's going to do what he wants; he's the boss, after all. But Hob knows the crew, and knows what will make them be their best. Viggo takes a beat, and just gets up and leaves. Erys, standing in the doorway and having heard the last part of the conversation as voices were raised, glares at him with pure insolense as she steps out of the way.

She waits until Viggo gets in the skycab and suggests that it'd be really easy for him to just fall of a ledge.

End of episode.

## Locations

* Four Sails
* Gala

## Quotes

"I will turn this truck around! Once I get it started!"
*—Kath 0:16:37*

"Did you say rigging? I'm sorry, what?"
*—Jeff 0:17:27*

"What you said to Erys, the way to spoke to her today, it put her off her game. And we can't have that if you expect us to work at full efficiency, and I assume you do want us to be as good as possible. I also want to remind you that none of us are beholden to working for you. We enjoy working for the Boromar, but each of us can go find another job. And if you want to keep this team together, you need to speak to us in the way that we're comfortable being spoken to, and threats are not something that motivates us. I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything, but I feel like you should know that there's much more effective ways of dealing with our crew."
*—Hob to Viggo 0:27:12*

"I didn't do anything to Erys. I didn't do anything to any of you, except provide you with an opportunity to make good money. More money than most people in this city make. And all I ask when I walk through the door is everybody come to sit at the table, and someone who wanted to keep her head tucked away and claim that she could hear just fine from where she was, that's not acceptable to me, that's not acceptable to anybody in this clan. In this family, and we don't treat each other that way. I don't know how Grum ran this ship, and I don't care, frankly. But Hob, you're bigger than me, you're stronger than me, and I could have you killed in an hour, so be careful."
*—Viggo to Hob 0:31:26*

## Trivia

* The recording for this episode was split into two parts, due to it running longer than intended. This is the second part of their recording.
* Everyone got 20 experience. Reynard got an extra 5.
* Milo's obligation is triggered for the next arc.