Episode 6: Who Gets to be a Hero?

**Episode 6: Who Gets to be a Hero?** (1x06) - Who wants to be a Hero? What’s it really take to be one? Just enough patience to wait in an epic line apparently. In the wake of The Near Miss, which no one gathered at the Sacred Temple of Inns and Taverns seems to even be aware of, an open call for Heroes has gone out, and the would-be adventurers have come in droves, encircling the Tavern in mile long lines that the Nearlies decide to patiently wait their turn in… yeah just kidding, they decide to bust through however it takes and as they size the place up, spot a very unlikely Hero applicant in a bit of distress…

### Related Content

Sirque's Corner
 Queen's Journal

## Cast

### Nearlies

Josh | Xenator Brisbane
Kathy | Lavaleen Crest
Andy | Martin Sirque
Amanda | Gwendylyn Cloot
 Robbie | The Speaker
 Aaron |  Production & Sound

### NPCs

APPEARING
 Sarah
 Dodderfell
Todd
 Jlor

## Summary

Not content to wait in line, the Nearlies search out an alternate entrance into the Sacred Inn. In the process they protect a troll from unprovoked attacks and adopt him into the group.

## Synopsis

### Prologue

The burning of the sacred grove.  Abbot did it to protect them for the Red Riders. Gets killed for his trouble.

### Episode

The group has finally reached the Sacred Temple of Inns and Taverns, but there is a long queue due to the open cattle call for heroes. Waiting in the line is a long horned trolls, who is occasionally attacked by other would be heroes. Lavaleen strides up to put a stop to the unprovoked attack.

One of the would be heroes starts fangirling with Valeriana for ‘repping red hide’ (Referring to the Damsel Red Hide). Gwen is friendly to this individual to get some information.  She offers to heal Gwen’s blown off finger.  Although she succeeds with creating a new, solid silver, finger, the strain is too much for her and she passes out.

The group convinces Lavaleen that she should do reconnaissance on alternate entrances, while they stay and intervene on the ongoing troll attacks.  She isn’t happy, but does so, turning into a swan and flying towards the inn.

The group continues towards the troll.  As they get closer to the front of the line the crowd gets more hostile about the perceived cutting of the line.  The group approaches the band of fighters that are clearly getting ready to begin to battle against the troll, in an attempt to talk them down.

Lavaleen lands on the inn roof and goes through the hole that Todd spotted earlier.  There is a creepy doll that she intelligently avoids.  She returns to human form and looks down upon a raucous common room. There is a lot of noise, and a lot of people.  Three of the men are holding up hero badges that they clearly just acquired.  They head towards the back door and leave.  As soon as they are gone, everything else in the room just disappears.  In the newly silent tavern, Lavaleen can hear humming from behind the bar. A small goblin, Jlor Scumpit, is cleaning up.  Lavaleen convinces Jlor to help, so he tells her that there’s a spot on the wall that is hidden, allowing us to climb over it without being seen.

While Martin attempts to reason with the Paladin of the group, Lavaleen returns to the rest of the Nearlies.  Xenator succeeds in frighting most of the group, but the Paladin is immune, and the Ranger succeeds the check.  Gwen casts Spirit Fire on the Paladin.  The fire is invisible and starts burn the Paladin.  As the spell is undetectable the group convinces him that the burns were resulting from him betraying his oaths and turning into a blackguard.  She burns “I shall not hurt innocents” into the Paladin’s arm.  Fearing that he was betraying his Goddess, he immediately reverses and starts to protect the troll.

Lavaleen approaches the troll to calm him down. The troll, Dodderfell, wants to become a hero so other peoples’ mothers don’t get eaten in the future like his was. The Nearlies adopt Dodderfell into the group and they head towards the back wall.

### Epilogue

Sarah Lynn, the woodcutter’s daughter had saved the world.  She stands back observing the Nearlies approaching the attacked troll.  They had saved the world; she had thought it would have last longer.  She calls the Guildmaster with an update.  “Are you prepared?”  She wasn’t, it wasn’t fair.

## Notables

Episode 6

 Objects Acquired

 Spells Used

 Metamorph Attempts

## Quotables

Val:  “If that’s something you like, then that’s what I did.”

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