Character progression
Level-ups, new abilities, items gained and lost — by episode.
BE E1: The Red Warren
- No level-ups; cards: all Level 4 except Ava (Barbarian 3, Fighter 1) — 00:04:56, 00:40:34
- Tula heals Jaysohn 11: "I'm going to heal you for 11 points of damage" — 01:29:15
- Viola 2 piercing damage from a thorn — 00:36:30; Thorn 5 damage — 01:21:41; Viola 4 and Jaysohn 11 from the dust — 01:26:46
- Jaysohn and others have blood at nose and ear: "a little trickle of blood at your nose and at your ear" — 01:28:46
- Inspiration: Aabria says "Incredible. Inspiration." after Ava's strawberry; who receives it is not said — 01:41:35
- Lasting effects of the dust: Thorn "Feels like my lungs are on fire." — 01:22:33; Aabria: "even though your lungs are burning, you feel them start to loosen up" — 01:35:47
- Tula keeps concentration on Bless while running — 01:25:59
- Home lost: Aabria: "you see nothing of your home" — 01:35:47
- Olliver and Teedles stand with Thorn; "a contingent, no more than eight or nine, of faces that you recognize" are seen "scampering back and away from them", and how many stay is not said — 01:38:27
BE E2: Bearing the Scars
- Level-ups for Thorn and Viola: Aabria: "You both come back up, you've both leveled up, but in fact all of you after this fight feel yourself, you know that, like, once you go to sleep and rest up, whatever happened in here, you are fundamentally different now." — 01:46:02. New levels and features: not said
- Jaysohn: "You're gonna level up." — 01:34:27; no new level or feature is stated
- Inspiration to Siobhan (Jaysohn): "I'm gonna give you inspiration for making the wildest ask" — 01:06:03
- Cards: Level 4 for Jaysohn, Lila, Thorn, Viola, Tula; Ava Barbarian 3 / Fighter 1 — 00:33:22, 00:38:06, 01:00:46, 00:51:43, 00:45:17, 00:35:57
- Resources: Tula "out of smites, I've used up all my juice" — 01:27:38; Tula spends 5 points of Lay on Hands on the bear — 01:28:37 and 1 each on Viola and Thorn — 01:45:52; Viola: "I gave you the last of my-" — 01:48:39; Viola's Sanctuary on Lila — 01:49:50
- Damage taken: Tula 6, 3 and 9 — 00:58:49, 00:59:57, 01:24:58; Lila 2, 3, 3 (cocked die) and 12, and "I have six hit points." — 01:07:37, 01:08:28, 01:09:27, 01:20:44, 01:22:47; Jaysohn and others 5 thunder — 01:04:09; Viola's "20 or so hitpoints to regain" — 00:23:52
- Conditions: deafened until the start of their next turn for those who missed the save by five or more — 01:04:13; Jaysohn prone after the cough — 00:43:16; Tula grappled by the proboscis — 01:00:25; Thorn and Viola unconscious — 01:39:13
- Blue effects shown on the characters: a sheen of blue on Viola's fur — 00:22:25; "that flash of blue again, this one shooting across your mom" — 00:49:31; Tula's hands and eyes go blue — 01:30:51, 01:32:19; Jaysohn's bite of flesh turned blue and he feels "a connection to the Blue, even behind your eyes" — 01:34:14
- Items gained: Lila keeps the chipmunk's face — 01:45:46
- Ava: no new features; the day she remembers is long past — 01:35:28
BE E3: A Second Sun
- Level-up: Aabria's recap: "you all have levelled up" — 00:01:25; Aabria: "You all leveled up, and it's different now." — 00:35:53; "You've all leveled up, and it is a new day in the woods." — 00:58:01
- Cards at the start show Level 6 for Lila (Rogue / Arcane Trickster), Thorn (Ranger / Fey Wanderer), Viola (Paladin / Devotion) and Tula (Paladin / Redemption); Ava Barbarian / Ancestral Guardians Level 5 and Fighter / Battle Master Level 1; Jaysohn Monk / Astral Self Level 5 and Rogue / Swashbuckler Level 1 — 00:04:04, 00:16:35, 00:18:06, 00:24:18, 00:38:42, 01:07:31
- Jaysohn's card now reads dexterity twenty, constitution sixteen, wisdom sixteen — 01:07:31
- Viola is starting a litter: "Our family's getting bigger. It's happening now." — 01:08:32; "It's not happening right now, but yes." — 01:06:44
- Lila can now read: "You can read." — 01:22:00; her eyes glow with a sheen of blue — 01:21:17
- Thorn: first time seeing through an animal: "No, this is very new." — 01:35:38
- Rest: everyone takes a long rest; Thorn counted as having one too — 00:39:46, 00:58:00
- Items gained: the carved wood is taken by Teedles and carried to the family — 00:53:38, 01:11:55
- Damage and conditions: Tula tells Lila "You're very hurt, sweetie." — 00:13:06; Jaysohn "covered in albumin and yolk" — 01:24:51; no hit-point numbers are said
BE E4: Last Bast
- No level-up this episode; the cards repeat the levels of the last episode (Lila, Thorn, Viola, Tula Level 6; Ava Barbarian 5 / Fighter 1; Jaysohn Monk 5 / Rogue 1) — 00:04:43, 00:06:23, 00:07:25, 00:09:31, 00:11:48, 00:13:46
- Viola is pregnant and acts on it: "As I'm with child and thinking, I'm a mother now." — 00:15:28
- Lila can read and shows it: Sybil asks "She can read? You can read?" — 00:57:32; Lila tells Bennett "I can read!" — 01:27:46
- Ava's Battle Master maneuvers used: Tactical Assessment on an Insight check — 00:38:47; "Rally" — 01:16:57; she also uses Action Surge (not a maneuver) — 01:13:59
- Ava is "hit and knocked down" in the crush and takes 17 bludgeoning damage (source not specified: "ripped or knocked") — 01:16:05
- Viola's Aid raises the target's hit point maximum and current hit points by five — 00:52:28
- Tula spends one point of Lay on Hands on Bennett's hand — 01:27:01
- Thorn's Guidance is on Ava for the hunt, "at the very end of your ability to use Guidance" — 01:13:01
- Jaysohn takes no damage from the rock: "you don't feel any pain and all your teeth stay in your face" — 00:09:50
- Thorn is noticed by the whole herd, "a stranger" in the eyes of the sashed stoats — 00:45:10
- Items gained: two rabbits, one from Bennett and one Ava killed — 01:45:00; no other items
BE E5: Protect the Light
- No level-up this episode; the cards repeat the levels of the last episode (Tula, Viola, Thorn, Lila Level 6; Ava Barbarian 5 / Fighter 1; Jaysohn Monk 5 / Rogue 1) — 00:17:27, 00:24:23, 00:30:00, 00:36:24, 00:45:22, 01:32:10
- Lila reads signs by passive effort and, with Arcana 23, understands the writing around her; Aabria: "as you're reading and scanning, it becomes easier to read" — 00:48:25; Lila: "I can read." — 01:03:37
- Thorn and Jaysohn become new readers: Aabria: "Both of my brand new readers and understanders of things, go ahead and give me just a general intelligence roll." — 01:04:56; Jaysohn reads the door as daycare, Thorn's outcome is not stated — 01:05:12
- Viola learns to read through a natural 20: "I can read!" — 01:28:06; Aabria: "You have the ability to read now" — 01:29:04; Ava refuses the spellcasting route and her 7 has no stated outcome — 01:27:43, 01:27:51
- Lila keeps her balance on two legs (natural 20), Thorn does not ("Back to four.") — 00:38:23
- Ava has taken 17 damage (source not stated here; Thorn guesses the elk for the eye) and refuses Lay on Hands — 00:07:09, 00:07:20
- Viola is pregnant: Lila: "So excited for the baby!" — 01:55:01; Tula to Thorn: "as a stoat that is about to be a father" — 02:21:42
- Jaysohn: a punch in the "baculum" and Aabria's gag that his voice drops ("Jaysohn's voice just drops" — Jasper, 01:37:38); Ava later: "Jaysohn here now has" testicles — 02:25:30 (a joke line) [?]
- Spells and effects this episode: Sanctuary on the children, Bless on Tula, Viola and the children, Pass Without Trace by Thorn — 01:55:29, 01:55:42, 01:55:40
- Inspiration: Rashawn used hers on a Charisma check — 01:12:58; Brennan spent one on the Persuasion — 01:19:45; Siobhan holds one: "I'm saving it for a rainy day." — 01:02:50
- Items gained: eight sashes, a paint chip of blue, a paint chip of yellow (Thorn), the mint leaf (Jaysohn) — 00:26:33, 00:28:03, 00:42:03, 00:43:35; Olliver takes one sash and whether the second comes back to Tula is unclear — 01:07:41
- Lasting condition: Lila now knows that her mother's foundational statement about her life is a lie of omission — 02:29:00
BE E6: Reactor Charlie
- No level-up; the cards repeat the levels of the last episode (Tula, Viola, Thorn, Lila Level 6; Ava Barbarian 5 / Fighter 1; Jaysohn Monk 5 / Rogue 1) — 00:46:42, 00:02:45, 00:33:57, 00:32:42, 00:57:55, 01:04:08
- Ava keeps resisting reading: "I live to be illiterate another day!" — 00:09:45
- Viola takes 17 lightning damage and is healed to full by Tula's Cure Wounds (8) and Lay on Hands — 01:49:41, 01:57:20; Viola is pregnant (Brennan: "he just attacked my pregnant sister" — 01:54:28)
- Jaysohn takes seven thunder damage from the prod — 02:00:11
- Lukas's congestion is cured by Lay on Hands — 00:48:30; Lukas pledges to the family — 00:48:56
- The family is marked with a musk scent by Population Support — 01:17:37, 01:19:03
- Spells and effects: Protection from Good and Evil on Lila (10 minutes), Pass Without Trace on all (an hour), Bless on all (one minute) — 01:42:40, 01:42:53, 01:42:42
- Items gained: Sybil's map — 01:31:19; the main prod of the cattle-prod stoat is in Jaysohn's hands at 01:58:58 (who holds it after Tula asks for it is not stated — 02:00:51); items lost: the dead stoat's pack, pushed into the pool — 02:03:06
- Inspiration: Ava gets one for "the Carton twins" (00:17:49); Siobhan spends one on her Stealth (01:44:13)
- Thorn's Beacon Teedles agrees to join Population Support as a person on the inside (Olliver says nothing on it) — 01:35:58, 01:36:38
- Lila and Jaysohn gain the knowledge that Population Support is "population control" — 01:23:35
BE E7: The First Stoats
- The cards show new levels and classes: Tula Paladin / Redemption Level 8 (00:13:23); Viola Paladin / Devotion Level 8 (00:16:06); Thorn Ranger / Fey Wanderer Level 7 and Cleric / Tempest Domain Level 1 (00:07:04); Ava Barbarian / Ancestral Guardians Level 5 and Fighter / Battle Master Level 3 (00:07:52); Lila Rogue / Inquisitive Level 6 and Wizard / Bladesinger Level 2 (00:17:37); Jaysohn Monk / Astral Self Level 5 and Rogue / Swashbuckler Level 3, Wisdom twenty (00:05:37). The transcript does not announce a level-up.
- Tula casts Healing Word for the first time: "I'm going to cast Healing Word for the first time." — 00:34:42; she also has a new cantrip, Guidance: "I got a new cantrip." — 00:16:29
- Lila discovers she can cast: Izzy says "new abilities!" in character and casts Fog Cloud; Lila uses Bladesong, Mage Hand and Primal Savagery — 00:22:23, 00:23:06, 00:39:51
- Thorn's feature that turns a creature's success on a save into charm or fear works for the first time at the table: "The first time in the history of this game this power has worked." (Brennan) — 00:45:44
- Viola: "I've probably got a kick or something for the first time" — 00:46:49; Rashawn: "Honey, I felt them kick!" — 00:53:56; her blade of grass becomes longer and jagged with poisonous dew, later a whip — 00:48:19, 01:18:01
- Lila is reduced to two hit points by the wolf, then healed by Tula (five) — 00:58:06, 01:04:12; she later has seven hit points ("so she's got seven hit points") — 01:12:22
- Viola has 29 hit points at 01:21:32
- Tula spends all 26 points of Lay on Hands on the wolf — 01:00:25
- Ava stands up in the Blue with glowing Blue eyes and no heartbeat; "you know that she's not alive" (Aabria to Thorn) — 00:36:15, 01:32:59, 01:33:43
- Sybil is killed and revived by Tula's Healing Word: "for the second time, you have brought her back from the brink" — 00:34:47
- Slow (four fail the save; Ava, Thorn and Jaysohn act slowed, Viola's is not stated) ends with a concentration check of four — 00:50:26, 01:07:17
- Inspiration: Izzy gives hers to Siobhan (00:06:22); Siobhan had used hers already (00:06:18); Jasper has none to burn ("I don't have an inspiration." — 00:53:54), so Aabria lets him reroll one attack after Rashawn's shout (00:54:03)
- The wolf gains a third attack and, after losing its head, a dragon-like one; items lost: the strawberry candy turns to dust in Jaysohn's hand — 00:42:35, 00:48:56, 01:26:44
- Deaths: Kiran (00:56:16), Silence (01:25:44); the Pope's throat is torn out (01:24:09); Speaker's throat is torn out (01:31:58)
BE E8: Five
- The cards show the same levels and classes as the previous episode (Tula Paladin / Redemption 8; Viola Paladin / Devotion 8; Thorn Ranger 7 / Cleric 1; Ava Barbarian 5 / Fighter 3; Lila Rogue 6 / Wizard 2; Jaysohn Monk 5 / Rogue 3); no level-up is announced — 00:24:04, 00:29:24, 00:42:38, 00:51:50, 01:06:51, 01:09:31
- Tula and Ava are named revenants by Aabria: "Both of them are revenants." — 00:06:35; Ava has no heartbeat (00:04:29) and Tula's heart is kept going by the Blue (00:06:35); Tula's return took place "a long time ago" (00:08:53)
- Viola wears the Pope's miter, then it is thrown into the pit and consumed — 00:04:00, 00:36:55
- Viola is "extremely pregnant extremely quickly" (Aabria's wording of the table gag) — 01:04:54
- A pulse of Blue Light follows Bennett's hand on Lila's shoulder and Aabria says she will get back 17 points — 00:39:22, 00:39:35 (source and unit not stated)
- Ava can read for the first time: Aabria "You can read now!" — 00:52:19
- Jaysohn asks for a weapon (when the family speaks of sharing the tapes): "I should get a weapon, because I really was good at it." — 00:49:26 (none given)
- Olliver is a police officer now: "because now I'm a police officer" — 00:59:51; wears a watch and copper on his sash — 00:58:11, 00:58:16
- MeatWolf is named by the table and follows Tula inside (00:21:46, 00:57:22); gives the Help action (01:23:27); carries Ava's voice: "This is a bone-mouthed dog, it's so loud now." — 01:24:54
- Information gained: Bennett offers the section heads' information and the recordings — 00:34:01, 00:50:22; Carter gives the account of the experiments and weapons — 01:38:50
- Item lost: the miter (00:36:55); no other item gain or loss is stated; the wolf refuses Ava's strawberry — 01:11:02
BE E9: Human
- The cards of this video: Tula Paladin / Redemption 7 and Cleric / Life 3 (00:10:42); Viola Paladin / Devotion 7, Fighter / Champion 3 (00:20:58); Thorn Ranger / Fey Wanderer 5, Cleric / Tempest 5, wisdom eighteen (00:05:42); Ava Barbarian 5, Fighter 3, Cleric / Grave 2 (00:29:34); Lila Rogue / Arcane Trickster 4, Wizard / Bladesinging 6, armor class fifteen, dexterity eighteen (00:30:17); Jaysohn Monk 5, Rogue / Swashbuckler 5 (00:37:48). They read differently from the BE_08 card extraction; no level-up is announced aloud (cards only)
- Aabria on the baptism by proximity to the corium: "you feel radically different and more powerful" — 01:04:24; Izzy: "I have Fireball now." — 01:05:06
- Thorn gets Last Bastion as a favored terrain and a favored enemy (humans) — 01:17:07, 01:18:31; first Healing Word — 01:41:16
- Ava hands out "a strawberry hard candy" from her storeroom raid — 00:33:09
- Teedles can read her name and "just learned to read" and "how to tell time" (00:24:25, 00:25:41); Viola gives her a Bless and her sash — 01:07:36, 01:08:04
- Viola: "I am about to be a mother" — 01:57:35
- Lukas joins the children as a "sidekick" and gives bardic inspiration — 00:41:32, 00:45:33
- Information gained: the First Stoats' logs, population 21,730, Phoebe's story, a lone human, Dr. Tara Steel's channel six — 00:51:47, 00:55:45, 02:04:05
BE E10: Evolution and Revolution
- Cards of this video: Lila Rogue / Arcane Trickster 4, Wizard / Bladesinger 6 (00:45:42); Viola Paladin / Devotion 7, Fighter / Champion 3 (00:46:53); Thorn Ranger / Fey Wanderer 5, Cleric / Tempest 5 (00:50:20); Tula Paladin / Redemption 7, Cleric / Life 3 (00:53:55); Jaysohn Monk / Astral Self 5, Rogue / Swashbuckler 5 (00:59:19); Ava Barbarian / Ancestral Guardians 5, Fighter / Battle Master 3, Cleric / Grave Domain 2 (01:03:48); no level-up is announced aloud
- Everyone gets a long rest's recharge in the chamber — "Everything but your HP." — 01:07:47
- Ava now has Mending: "I thought I'd pick up a little thing." — 01:33:58
- Viola: "Yes, I crit on 19s now!" — 01:16:46
- Viola gives birth to three in the epilogue — 01:39:01
- Lila: "the first Stoat to have a doctorate" in nuclear physics (Aabria) — 01:47:46
- Ava: "whatever brought you back, that keeps you here is under your control" — 01:46:14
- Jaysohn had four hit points before the blast and is dropped by it, then healed; Lukas rolls a natural one on a death save — 01:25:13, 01:28:01
- Thorn's Motivational Speech lasts one hour — 00:26:24