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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9818379" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Just finished watching the Cooldown for episode 9, which ended with a lot of open questions about what’s happening in the town the soldiers are in (I forget its name), so I had to come here to post my speculation.[ISPOILER]So, the town has a Candescent Creed run hospital, and a the duke’s castle. House Tachonis has been bringing in several wagons to the town, all of which have been going to the hospital first, then continuing on to the castle. Through some sleuthing the group figured out that the Tachonis are probably bringing something into the town and unloading their wagons in the hospital, probably something fairly heavy since one of the wagons was reported to have gotten stuck in the mud along the way to the hospital. But the group didn’t end up getting to the bottom of what was going on there because they got wind Sid was probably being held at the castle and decided to prioritize rescuing him over solving the mystery. But in the Cooldown Robbie mentioned that was a character decision, and as a player he was more curious about what’s happening at the hospital. But regardless, they snuck into the castle and made their way to the basement where they thought Teor was being held, found a secret door that lead to a pretty long tunnel, and when they got caught, Tyranny made the mistake of trying to disguise herself as Occtis. The bad guy brought a basilisk out of a cage and the episode ended on Tyranny failing her first save against its petrifying gaze. There was also a mention of her seeing “more soldiers than you can count in the darkness” in the same room where the bad guy and his pet basilisk caught her.So, here’s what I think is going on. The secret passage the group found actually connects the castle to the hospital. The heavy stuff that the Tachonis are bringing in on their wagons is soldiers, who they’re smuggling into the town by intentionally petrifying them for transport, unloading them at the hospital where the priests are able to cast Greater Restoration to un-petrify them, and then using the secret tunnels to get from there to the basement of the castle.It’s also possible that the petrified soldiers might not have been intentionally petrified, but that it happened via some sort of accident, or maybe they’re ancient soldiers discovered in some ruin, terracotta warrior style. But either way, I’m calling it now that the wagons are full of petrified humanoids who they’re bringing in large numbers to be restored at the hospital and then brought to the castle. I think it will also be revealed pretty quickly at the start of the next episode that the “too many soldiers to count” are still petrified (how many Greater Restorations can one priest even manage per day after all), so this fight isn’t going to be as impossible as Brendan implied with that quote, and even if Tyranny gets fully petrified, there will be an NPC there at least capable of restoring her, if they can be convinced, tricked, or leveraged into doing so.[/ISPOILER]</blockquote>

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