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Protect the Light
What happens
- 00:00:45 Cold open: Aabria could not come up with a new name for the cast and the count-down produces "vicious varmints" at 00:01:08.
- 00:01:37 In place of a recap, Aabria repeats the creed of Last Bast (the lore drop of the last episode).
- 00:03:32 Back in Last Bast with Bennett at the group's disposal; Viola asks for a tour; Bennett has reports to make and offers to send a friend; Ava tries to keep him with a Persuasion check (9) and her eye "gets a little stuck"; Bennett backs out through the hole of the rabbit pen.
- 00:06:09 Tula and Viola guess that Ava is partial to Bennett; Ava says she is too old but the girls could use "another dad"; Tula offers Lay on Hands for her 17 damage and Ava refuses.
- 00:07:54 Tula looks for a "den mom" type to explain the place; Thorn wants to see who uses the Blue; Tula sends Thorn with Lila and Jaysohn; Tula tells Lila to keep an eye on her brother; Viola talks to Thorn about improving the stoats' way of living; Ava joins Tula and Viola and invents a history of "burrow tours" and berries.
- 00:14:34 Perception/Insight 16 for Tula and Ava spots stoats who answer questions and have metal on their sashes; the sisters go to ask how to join.
- 00:17:02 Talia of Population Support explains the five facets of Last Bast, says the group will be given eight sashes, and quizzes them on diseases ("the toots").
- 00:24:11 Talia explains "technology", tied to scavenged "human remains"; Talia teaches the sash knot with a bunny rhyme; hands over a chip of blue paint.
- 00:28:33 Walking to quarters: leaders of the five jobs, the First Stoats, "20 winters", six-winter lifespans; Ava is thrilled to live 15 more winters and Tula screams; the family is shown a rows-of-nests sleeping hall at "10 up and six over".
- 00:36:06 Thorn with Lila and Jaysohn: the "read", a secret scouting task for Jaysohn, Thorn tries to walk on two legs (Lila succeeds with a natural 20); Teedles reports on jobs, Education and the First Stoats; yellow paint chip.
- 00:42:19 Teedles asks the kids how they are and gives Jaysohn a mint leaf from Olliver; the kids taste the mint; Thorn tries to pull it out of Lila's mouth.
- 00:45:09 Stoats use the Blue openly; Lila sees signs everywhere (Perception 11), reads the name Warren Peace Memorial Nuclear Power Plant and, with Arcana 23, understands it names a place that makes energy.
- 00:50:33 Education is found to mean a learning place; Lila confesses to Thorn she had pretended interest in the Lukura; she and Jaysohn fight; Thorn separates them (Athletics 5 against two natural 1s) and holds them in tonic immobility; Thorn comforts both and Jaysohn refuses to become a Beacon.
- 00:59:17 Lila apologizes to Thorn (his Insight 16 against her 3); paw-on-paw handshake; the kids want to go to Education to get secrets; Lila remembers her purpose, to kill the humans.
- 01:00:26 Ellen escorts the kids and Thorn toward Education; gossip about "Bryan"; Ellen: yes, the stoats will kill humans; Lila asks if a human killed her dad; the door says daycare; Thorn pushes the kids in.
- 01:07:06 Olliver comes to Tula, Ava and Viola, takes a sash from Tula, offers mint and says he and Teedles are in the yellow hallway, 19 by 3; Tula falls asleep at the table and wakes startled; Ava teases Viola about motherhood.
- 01:10:45 The sisters plan to take roles in the jobs; Tula does not want the children in Defense; Viola's Charisma check (18) sparks the idea that the sash fabric could be something else; Ava notes the children must leave the burrow someday.
- 01:14:14 Sybil appears at the cubby; she, Tula and Viola talk about how jobs work; Sybil on food in the big hall and Resource Allocation; Tula's Insight (natural 20) sees that Sybil is rattled.
- 01:18:49 Tula consoles Sybil for her lost brother and persuades her (19); Sybil: names are taken away from the dead to make the loss easier; Viola urges her to say the name; Sybil only repeats Kenji (Viola's father), then says "He was my brother"; Tula hugs her.
- 01:26:56 Sybil promises a secret and leads them through colored hallways; Intelligence checks for Ava and Viola to read (Viola natural 20); signs lead to the lab.
- 01:29:57 Education: Lila, Jaysohn meet teacher Simon and Lukas (Sidekick with sinus struggles); a map is read; Lila punches Jaysohn mid-roll; the teacher lets them go; Lukas joins them, mint clears his sinuses.
- 01:40:34 Kids bring Lukas to Thorn; hierarchy talk; the attempt to send Lukas back (7 and 5); Simon grabs him by the scruff; kids and Thorn head for the lab.
- 01:46:00 The adults and the kids meet in the hall outside the Technology lab's heavy steel door; Sybil on Simon; Tula pulls Lila away from the door; Sybil explains Technology and "weapons"; the raccoon bone story; Lila says "you're lying" to Tula.
- 01:52:04 Sybil pries open a vent grate into the lab; Lila's speech about the Blue; Tula's deal that Viola decides; Viola (Charisma save 10) is won over.
- 01:55:29 Viola casts Sanctuary on the children, Thorn Pass Without Trace, Tula Bless; Tula talks with Sybil and with Thorn; Ava has already gone ahead.
- 02:00:03 Sneaking through the lab ventilation behind Sybil: stealth rolls, Sybil carries Ava, the family crosses a 60 foot open stretch to a chewed hole in a cabinet, in sequence; Ava's stealth ties Aabria's Perception 17 and a second roll is made, after which she freezes, waits for the buzzing and goes in.
- 02:08:47 Lila crosses with Sybil's help; Tula crosses last and tumbles into the cabinet with Sybil.
- 02:11:34 Sybil plays two reel-to-reel tapes of Dr. Robert Wenabocker about a loss of coolant accident in reactor Charlie; the places marked reactor are sealed.
- 02:15:03 Sybil: the humans are coming back and Last Bast prepares; Tula realizes it is a "monster warren"; argument; Ava: the "not bear" (truck) took her Ken; Lila asks what killed Dad and Tula answers that she does not know how the monsters killed Geoffrey; Tula says they should run.
- 02:23:20 Sybil pleads that there is nowhere else to go; Ava's speech on embracing change; Jaysohn does not want to keep running and the children want to stay; Viola wants to see the technology, the weapons and the First Stoats.
- 02:27:19 Tula asks Lila what her heart says; Lila answers; Aabria asks for an Insight check (Lila 16 against Tula's 11); Lila realizes her mother is lying to her about something foundational.
- 02:29:56 Session ends; the cast riffs on what the lie could be (Chicago jingle); the "next time" clip follows from 02:30:31.
Frames
Key quotes
- “Before the beginning, there was darkness.” — Aabria 0:02:00
- “I'm extremely functional!” — Ava 0:14:21
- “Doesn't it get so tiring to make your own decisions all the time.” — Viola 0:30:29
- “I've not always been honest with you.” — Lila 0:53:09
- “Do you think a human killed my dad?” — Lila 1:04:51
- “I lost my father, Kenji.” — Viola 1:22:56
- “I like to listen to what adults tell me to do.” — Lukas 1:35:54
- “we call that technology weapons, and we don't talk about weapons.” — Lila 1:49:57
- “something bad happened there” — Sybil 2:14:28
- “Tula, there's nowhere else to go.” — Sybil 2:23:20
Who and what appears
Player characters
NPCs
- A stoat of Population Support who brings sashes
- A stoat with a leathery tool pack
- Bennett
- Bryan
- Carter
- Curtis
- Dr. Robert Wenabocker
- Ellen
- Geoffrey
- Humans (Burrow's End)
- Kenji
- Last Bast's section heads
- Lukas
- Lukas's mother
- Malin
- Olliver
- Quentin
- Simon
- Stoats in the lab
- Sybil
- Talia
- Teedles
- The spiny elk
- Walmer
Locations
- A field of clover at the edge of safety
- Colored hallways
- Education
- Last Bast
- Reactor Charlie
- Sealed places marked reactor
- The Red Warren
- The big hall
- The catwalk above the general population
- The hallway toward the lab
- The hole by the rabbit pen
- The lab
- The sleeping hall
- Warren Peace Memorial Nuclear Power Plant
Items and artifacts
- Ava's strawberry candy
- Berry wine
- Lamps
- Lukas's bindle
- Metal tools
- Mint
- Paint chips
- Sashes
- Screws from the grate
- Signs and the emergency exit map
- The "not bear
- The prods
- The sash knot rhyme
- The tape recorder and tapes
- Truck
Factions and organizations
- Defense
- Population Support
- Refit
- Resource Allocation
- Technology
- The First Stoats
- The Lukura
- The five jobs of Last Bast
- The humans' plant staff
- The stoats of Last Bast
- Thorn's Beacons
Creatures
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll | Result | DC / AC | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:04:58 | Ava (Erika) | Persuasion (advantage and disadvantage) | "double thirteens", total 9 | — | Bennett leaves anyway |
| 00:14:41 | Viola (Rashawn) | Perception or Insight | 12 | — | outcome not stated |
| 00:14:41 | Tula (Brennan) | Perception or Insight | 16 | — | sees the copper-sashed stoats |
| 00:14:55 | Ava (Erika) | Perception or Insight | 16 | — | sees the same |
| 00:21:08 | Talia (Aabria) | Persuasion or Deception | natural 20 | — | Tula's Insight "a three plus-", total not said |
| 00:38:18 | Thorn (Jasper) | Acrobatics (walking on two legs) | not said | — | "Back to four." 00:38:23 |
| 00:38:23 | Lila (Izzy) | Acrobatics (balance on two legs) | natural 20 | — | Aabria: "You've got a hang of it now." |
| 00:46:32 | Lila (Izzy) | Perception | 11 | — | signs everywhere; the plant's name |
| 00:48:25 | Lila (Izzy) | Arcana | 23 | — | understands the name and what the place makes |
| 00:51:25 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Wisdom saving throw | 21 | — | grasps what Education means |
| 00:53:25 | Thorn (Jasper) | Deception | 27 | — | Aabria does not make Lila roll against it |
| 00:53:42 | Lila (Izzy) | Insight (Ear for Deceit) | not said | — | not 27; she feels nothing unsafe |
| 00:55:42 | Lila (Izzy) and Jaysohn (Siobhan) | grapple each other | natural 1 each | — | the siblings wrestle |
| 00:55:54 | Thorn (Jasper) | Athletics (against both) | 5 | — | holds both by the scruffs |
| 00:59:34 | Thorn (Jasper) | Insight | 16 | Lila's 3 | Lila says "I'm telling the truth!" |
| 00:59:36 | Lila (Izzy) | Deception or Persuasion | 3 | — | — |
| 01:00:48 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Persuasion | 12 | — | Ellen introduces herself |
| 01:01:56 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Insight | 7 | 19 | misses that Ellen is pumping them |
| 01:01:59 | Lila (Izzy) | Insight | 22 | 19 | notices Ellen's questions |
| 01:05:09 | Thorn (Jasper) | Intelligence | 10 | — | outcome not stated |
| 01:05:11 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Intelligence | 10 | — | reads the door as daycare |
| 01:13:14 | Viola (Rashawn) | Charisma check with inspiration | 18 | — | idea about the fabric |
| 01:17:45 | Tula (Brennan) | Insight | natural 20, total 30 | 21 | Sybil's hidden bad day |
| 01:20:18 | Tula (Brennan) | Persuasion | 19 ("plus nine") | — | Sybil speaks about names |
| 01:27:51 | Ava (Erika) | Intelligence (reading) | 7 (first said 8) | — | outcome not stated |
| 01:27:59 | Viola (Rashawn) | Intelligence (reading) | natural 20 | — | "I can read!" |
| 01:32:17 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Perception | 12 | — | looks for the popular kid |
| 01:34:45 | Lila (Izzy) | Investigation | 22 | — | the map of the hallway |
| 01:36:56 | Lila (Izzy) | interfering Help (Performance, disadvantage) | natural 1 | — | she punches Jaysohn |
| 01:37:06 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Acrobatics, disadvantage | 14 | — | "You do the roll perfectly" |
| 01:42:59 | Lukas (Aabria) | forward roll | 4 on the die | — | faceplants |
| 01:43:11 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | forward roll | 19 | — | "Just like that." |
| 01:43:29 | Lukas (Aabria) | forward roll | natural 20 | — | "the saddest forward roll" |
| 01:45:21 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Deception or Persuasion | 7 | — | Lukas will not go back; Thorn's Help, recipient not named |
| 01:45:22 | Lila (Izzy) | Deception or Persuasion | 5 | — | — |
| 01:55:14 | Viola (Rashawn) | Charisma saving throw, disadvantage | 10 | — | won over; casts Sanctuary |
| 02:00:20 | Viola (Rashawn) | Stealth with Pass Without Trace | 20 ("Dirty 20", a total) | — | "just a big old seven" unexplained |
| 02:00:22 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Stealth | 21 | — | — |
| 02:00:27 | Tula (Brennan) | Stealth | 17, 27 total | — | — |
| 02:00:28 | Lila (Izzy) | Stealth | 26 | — | — |
| 02:00:30 | Ava (Erika) | Stealth, outside the aura | 10 | — | goes ahead alone |
| 02:00:41 | Thorn (Jasper) | Stealth | 33 | — | — |
| 02:03:59 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Stealth | 21 | — | crosses first |
| 02:04:01 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Acrobatics | 9 | — | drops a screw |
| 02:04:32 | Thorn (Jasper) | Stealth | 34 | — | crosses second |
| 02:04:36 | Thorn (Jasper) | Acrobatics | 20 ("14 plus", dirty 20) | — | across |
| 02:04:51 | Viola (Rashawn) | Stealth | 31 | — | across |
| 02:04:51 | Viola (Rashawn) | Acrobatics | 7 | — | kicks the screw |
| 02:05:19 | Ava (Erika) | Stealth with disadvantage | "a 19", "a 15", then 17 total with the plus 10 and her own bonus | 17 (Aabria's Perception) | Aabria asks for a second roll |
| 02:05:54 | Aabria | Perception | 17 | — | — |
| 02:07:26 | Ava (Erika) | second stealth roll (Aabria's extra die) | 10 (die or total not said) | — | she freezes and waits, then goes in |
| 02:09:43 | Lila (Izzy) | Stealth | 28 | — | across |
| 02:09:49 | Lila (Izzy) | Acrobatics | 15 | — | across |
| 02:10:16 | Tula (Brennan) | Stealth, disadvantage | 31 | — | across |
| 02:10:40 | Tula (Brennan) | Acrobatics | 8 | — | tumbles in with Sybil |
| 02:28:57 | Lila (Izzy) | Insight against Tula's lie | 16 | Tula's 11 (Deception) | learns her mother is lying |
Natural 20s: Lila 1 (balance 00:38:23), Tula 1 (Insight 01:17:45), Viola 1 (reading 01:27:59), Aabria 2 (Talia 00:21:08, Lukas 01:43:29) · Natural 1s: Lila 2 (00:55:42 grapple, 01:36:56), Jaysohn 1 (00:55:42 grapple).