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Human
What happens
- 00:00:38 Cold open: Aabria is "out of them", the "little guys" (table banter, to 00:01:14).
- 00:01:17 Recap (recap): after defeating the First Stoats in Phoebe's Heart, Sybil returned with Bennett; "Things nearly came to blows before the family managed to win him over to their side"; Bennett "asked for an hour to gather some of the remaining leadership of Last Bast and left for the lab"; in the interlude the family "licked their wounds" while addressing "grief, fear, and the pressure of raising children ready to survive in a harsh and dangerous world"; Dr. Wenabocker's tapes raised questions; the stoats are on the hunt for the lair of the First Stoats.
- 00:02:11 In the lab Lila, Jaysohn and Ava go to fetch Lukas (00:02:14); Thorn jokes about Beacons and Conduits (00:02:26); Viola decides to take the temperature of Population Support through Teedles (00:04:01); Thorn goes to Quentin (00:04:09); Tula stays with Thorn, Ava goes with the children (00:05:09).
- 00:06:11 Thorn and Quentin: footage and photographs of humans; Tula's insight (31) on the photograph (00:09:35); the humans seem like stoats (00:10:36).
- 00:11:33 Tula and Thorn work out that the stoats speak Human (00:13:21); Quentin is sick (00:13:24); Thorn and Tula argue about talking to humans versus defending (00:14:34); Bennett pats Tula on the shoulder and brings water (00:16:03).
- 00:17:05 Thorn proposes tying a human to a chair; Tula: "Don't tie your children up." (00:18:29); Bennett interrupts (00:18:07); leash and "daycare ropes" (00:18:38, 00:20:22); Bennett sends an allocation squad to see how far away the humans are (00:19:52).
- 00:20:47 Viola goes down to the yellow corridor to Teedles; persuasion 15 (00:23:07); the kerchief (00:24:15); Teedles on Population Support and the coppers (00:25:21); Teedles: "Walmer's here!" (00:28:44).
- 00:29:26 Ava and the children go toward Education; Lila's history check 17 shows an unmapped wing (00:30:34); Ava's investigation 10 (00:31:42); Lukas leads the pandemonium in Education (00:33:59); Lukas joins them (00:37:25); survival checks (00:39:40).
- 00:41:57 A d100 roll of 10 and 1 means 11 minutes of search (00:42:10); they reach the lair of the First Stoats (00:43:11); Jaysohn's perception (00:44:14); the trapped false door; Ava's 23 to hit and 30 damage (00:45:40, 00:45:50).
- 00:47:04 Searching the two-desk lab: pages of human numbers and the personal logs of the four First Stoats (00:48:19); initiative (00:50:03).
- 00:50:35 Kiran's pile (1982; "if she comes back, we'll be ready", 00:50:37); Speaker's pile (Jomei; population 21,730, 00:51:47); Ava's investigation 9, 14 with Tactical Assessment (00:53:35); Silence's pile (Hester) and the story of Phoebe (00:55:29, 00:55:45); Stoat Pope's pile (Uri) (01:01:52); the baptism by proximity (01:04:24); Izzy: "I have Fireball now." (01:05:06).
- 01:05:19 Bennett sprints into the lab, Thorn and Tula follow him out; Viola, on a box before the masses, puts her sash on Teedles for the speech (01:07:36, 01:08:25) and follows her family (01:06:44).
- 01:10:26 Above ground: human camps on the fringes (01:10:26); Bennett panics (01:11:28); Viola reports Walmer is alive (01:12:59); Tula's talk to Bennett (01:13:11); Thorn's survival check 25 and favored terrain (01:17:00); a single human 200 meters behind Last Bast (01:18:31).
- 01:21:52 Back in the lair: the door, perception checks (01:22:42), the stoat stack (01:24:23), Lukas's natural 20 (01:24:52); the room of dried blood (01:27:18); Tula arrives with MeatWolf (01:29:06); Tula's speech about speaking Human (01:30:10); Ava's report on Phoebe (01:30:49); the next door and the hallway (01:32:26).
- 01:33:00 Thorn and Viola scout the camps (intelligence 4, 01:33:42) and find the human woman (01:35:14); "Hey, girl, hey" (01:37:54); she falls (01:38:41); Thorn's Enhance Ability and Healing Word (01:40:08, 01:42:02); MeatWolf arrives (01:43:59).
- 01:44:03 The family gathers; Lila: "Did you kill my dad?" (01:45:03); Tula's insight 17 (01:45:33); she gives her name, Dr. Tara Steel (01:46:16); MeatWolf sits (01:48:16).
- 01:48:39 Dr. Steel's account: scientist with the military reclaiming the power plant (01:49:57); Blue dust and 14 soldiers lost (01:51:50); camp moves in the morning (01:51:04).
- 01:52:18 Tula casts Detect Magic on her (01:53:15, result 01:59:18); ages (01:53:38, 01:53:46); Dr. Wenabocker is in the camp (01:54:45); Zone of Truth (01:57:00); Ava accepts her into the community (02:00:06); Thorn's persuasion 19 (02:01:08); the walkie-talkie on channel six (02:04:05).
- 02:05:58 Dr. Steel flees at MeatWolf's bark; "That's where we're going to end episode nine." (02:05:58)
- 02:06:12 "Next time" card: [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 10: Evolution and Revolution]; preview only.
Frames
Key quotes
- “To have Beacons, you need to be Conduits.” — Thorn 0:02:26
- “We don't speak Stoat. We speak Human.” — Tula 0:13:17
- “This has my name on it! I just learned to read!” — Teedles 0:24:25
- “I'm allergic to pet dander.” — Lukas 0:34:52
- “30 points of damage.” — Erika 0:45:50
- “it never involves actually touching” — Aabria 1:04:24
- “Ava is eight inches tall.” — Aabria 1:23:00
- “Hey, girl, hey!” — Tula 1:37:54
- “My name is Dr. Tara Steel.” — Jaysohn 1:46:16
- “Well, we are people. We're just not people people.” — Jaysohn 1:56:20
Who and what appears
Player characters
NPCs
- Bennett
- Dr. Robert Wenabocker
- Dr. Tara Steel
- Ellen
- Humans (Burrow's End)
- Kiran
- Last Bast's section heads
- Lukas
- MeatWolf
- Meredith
- Phoebe
- Quentin
- Simon
- Soldiers of the human camp
- Teedles
- Walmer
Locations
- Education
- Last Bast
- Phoebe's Heart
- The blood room
- The hallway beyond the blood room
- The human camp
- The lab
- The lair of the First Stoats
- The main hall
- The open grass above Last Bast
- The yellow corridor
- Warren Peace Memorial Nuclear Power Plant
Items and artifacts
- A hazmat suit with a full visibility visor
- An inhaler
- Ava's baculum
- Ava's strawberry candy
- Copper sash of Population Support
- Dr. Steel's walkie-talkie
- Dr. Wenabocker's papers
- Embroidered kerchief
- Geiger counters
- Personal logs of the four First Stoats
- Photographs and a hazmat diagram
- Sybil's map
- The trapped false door
Factions and organizations
Creatures
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll | Result | DC / AC | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:09:35 | Tula (Brennan) | Insight on the photograph | 31 | — | humans have social groups like stoats |
| 00:23:07 | Viola (Rashawn) | Persuasion on Teedles | 15 | — | "With a 15, yeah." |
| 00:30:34 | Lila (Izzy) | History (instead of investigation) on Sybil's map | 17 | — | the map is incomplete: an unmapped wing |
| 00:31:42 | Ava (Erika) | Investigation (communications on the map) | "just a 10" | — | lines connecting rooms, not yet understood |
| 00:37:54 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Intimidation | an eight (zero bonus) | — | the kits do not obey; Lukas smashes a pipe cleaner |
| 00:38:34 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Persuasion | five (plus zero) | — | "they're not listening to you or me" (Lukas) |
| 00:39:40 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Survival | 18 (plus nine) | — | the group finds the direction |
| 00:39:41 | Ava (Erika) / Lila (Izzy) | Survival | 8 / 13 | — | — |
| 00:42:10 | Lila (Izzy) | d100 for the search | 10 and 1 | — | 11 minutes to the lair |
| 00:44:14 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Perception | "I crit." (a player's word; no number) | — | Aabria: "Amazing."; the trapped grate is found by touch next |
| 00:45:40 | Ava (Erika) | Attack on the false door, Help, Lukas's d6 | 23 to hit | — | door opens |
| 00:45:50 | Ava (Erika) | Damage | 30 | — | the false door knocked off its frame |
| 00:50:15 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Initiative | nine (a finger raised, a transcript note of a natural one) | — | — |
| 00:50:16 | Lila (Izzy) | Initiative | 18 (13 + 5) | — | — |
| 00:50:27 | Ava (Erika) | Initiative | 12 | — | — (Aabria: "you're still up first", addressee not said) |
| 00:53:35 | Ava (Erika) | Investigation, then with Tactical Assessment | 9, then 14 | — | the Fifth is tied to references to Phoebe |
| 01:17:00 | Thorn (Jasper) | Survival, Rashawn offering help, Guidance by Brennan | 25 (after "Let's try that again") | — | favored terrain; the second sun and the human |
| 01:22:42 | Jaysohn / Lila / Ava | Perception at the door | 21 / 23 / 11 | — | nothing heard |
| 01:23:50 | Ava (Erika) | Athletics (Jaysohn boosts her) | 21 | — | still less than halfway to the handle |
| 01:24:23 | Lila (Izzy) | Acrobatics, climbing the stack | 25 | — | climbs easily |
| 01:24:27 | Ava (Erika) / Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Athletics in the stack | 14 / 23 | — | "You hold." / "You're fine now." |
| 01:24:52 | Lukas (Aabria) | Check at the top of the stack | natural 20 (Aabria's words) | — | grabs the door handle |
| 01:26:15 | Lila (Izzy) | Athletics to pull the handle down | 14 | — | the latch gives, the door opens |
| 01:28:00 | Ava (Erika) | Perception with advantage | 11 | — | blood 20 years old; "15 stoats" |
| 01:31:41 | Ava (Erika) | Animal handling | nine | — | — |
| 01:31:42 | Tula (Brennan) | Animal handling (Brennan's Guidance offer is cut off) | 12; then 12 again with Jaysohn's Help | — | Aabria: "no rolls required" |
| 01:32:31 | Jaysohn (Siobhan) | Survival (children together, advantage) | 26 (plus nine) | — | through the hallway to the double doors |
| 01:33:42 | Thorn (Jasper) | Intelligence on the camps' intentions | four | — | "they seem to be setting up a camp" |
| 01:35:11 | Viola (Rashawn) / Thorn (Jasper) | Stealth | 16 / 13 | — | reach the human unseen |
| 01:42:02 | Thorn (Jasper) | Healing Word on the human: d4 plus four | seven points | — | cuts closed |
| 01:45:33 | Tula (Brennan) | Insight on the human, unopposed | 15, "Sorry, 17" | — | unmitigated fear |
| 01:48:16 | Lila (Izzy) | Animal handling with Guidance | 16 | — | MeatWolf sits |
| 01:57:04 | Dr. Steel (Aabria) | Save against Zone of Truth | 14 | Viola's spell save 14 | "meets it beats it, and she feels a little pulse" |
| 02:01:08 | Thorn (Jasper) | Persuasion with advantage | 19 | — | she "clouds over" and resolves; she will keep the secret "as long as it does not threaten the lives of the people I care about" |
Natural 20s: Lukas 1 (01:24:52, DM's words) · Natural 1s: Jaysohn 1 (a finger raised, a transcript note, 00:50:08; the initiative total nine, 00:50:15). Siobhan's "I crit" (00:44:14) is the player's statement only.