Havoc at the Hotel Cavalier (Part 1)

0:00:00 Fantasy High: Sophomore Year Emily Axford as Fig Faeth; Zac Oyama as Gorgug Thistlespring; Siobhan Thompson as Adaine Abernant; Lou Wilson as Fabian Seacaster; Ally Beardsley as Kristen Applebees; and Brian “Murph” Murphy as Riz Gukgak Episode 3: Havoc at the Hotel Cavalier < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: Hello! And welcome to Dimension 20 live! My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan, I’m your humble dungeon master. The question is, with Riz and Fig missing, do we have all of our intrepid heroes here? Say hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:15 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:17 Brennan: Oh my goodness, back from Europe, it's delightful! Guys, this is Dimension 20 Live presents Fantasy High: Sophomore Year. This is a weekly actual play D&D show where we go into the recurring adventures of the Bad Kids, heroes of the Aguefort Adventuring Academy. Some business to clear up real quick up top. Number one, we just finished another season of our show that you can find on Dropout.tv about adventures in magical New York City. The Unsleeping City had its final finale this last Tuesday, so if you wanna watch us in a different world with different adventures, you go to Dropout.tv, make that happen. Another thing we wanna talk about is to clear up how the heck are you guys supposed to watch Dimension 20 Live, the continuing adventures of the Bad Kids, of our heroes from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy? It's real simple. Every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Pacific Time, we're live on Twitch. Then, what we do is we take that livestream, we polish it up real good. We make the sound real nice. We put captions and stuff on it for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing friends, and then, about six days later, we put it up on Dropout. So, for those six days, you'll be able to catch the stream if you missed it live 'cause it'll be free and available on Twitch while we're fixing it up. Once it's fixed up, it'll be on Dropout for you Dropout subscribers or it'll be on Twitch for our Twitch subscribers. So, the moral of the story is if you're a Dropout subscriber, you always get the best quality stuff, you always get the highest, glossiest, Dimension 20 Live videos with the captions added, and if it's not available yet, you just go watch it for free over on Twitch. It'll just be free there for everybody for a couple of days after it airs. If you're a Twitch subscriber, you can watch the backlog of stuff but only the backlog of Twitch stuff. So, you don't get all the extra cool content on Dropout, and if you're a free watcher, hello, and you can just watch it for free live or for a couple days afterwards. So, just letting you guys know how you're supposed to watch this stuff. Hopefully this is fair for everybody so you always get that good good stuff that you wanna watch, and nobody can watch stuff that other people can't watch, and you don't have to pay for more than one thing. Cool, if any of that's confusing, feel free—

0:01:19 Siobhan: @Brennan.

0:02:22 Brennan: Feel free to tweet @Dropout.

0:02:24 Siobhan: @Brennan.

0:02:24 Murph: @BrennanLM.

0:02:25 Zac: I'm hearing that the sound didn't work on that. Can you say all that again?

0:02:29 Brennan: All of that one more time? Last week on Dimension 20 Live, our heroes discovered that their friends Fiz and Rig were missing! [stops and realizes his mix-up]

0:02:34 Lou: Noo! Rig!

0:02:39 Brennan: Fig and Riz were missing!

0:02:42 Emily: I’m changing my name to Fiz! Fizeroth Faeth!

0:02:44 Brennan: Honestly, well, we actually met Rig which was Evil Riz.

0:02:48 Lou: Oh that’s fair. Rig.

0:02:50 Ally: A Rig that’s evil.

0:02:51 Emily: Rizzy.

0:02:51 Brennan: Yes! We had some stuff in the morning that ended up being that Tracker is coming along on our quest, it ended up being that we sort of- Gilear went and got coffee for people, we met Boggy the Froggy.

0:03:03 Emily: Did he or was he completely abused?

0:03:06 Brennan: Completely abused. [Ally laughs]

0:03:07 Siobhan: I did try, I really tried. Lou shakes a hand in a so-so gesture, Emily mimes an “I’ve got my eye on you” gesture.

0:03:09 Brennan: We also met wonderful Boggy the Froggy, “magic is real and so is my frog.” That wonderful shirt with that adorable frog is available right now. Dropout merch, I think there's some kind of promotion happening right now while the livestream is happening. Rep Boggy.

0:03:26 Lou: [laughs] Go to school, show your friends!

0:03:28 Ally: Brennan, can you explain a few more housekeeping things?

0:03:29 Brennan: A few more housekeeping things. Anyone else wanna do it? Or you got more stuff about how I’m doin’ it? So make sure to go check that out. But! Discovering that Fig and Riz were missing, they fought an [British accent] Evil Nightmare Riz [normal voice] in his office from a dispelled magical mirror, found out that Fig had apparently shattered magically an entire jewel store at the mall—

0:03:42 Emily: That wasn’t me!

0:03:54 Brennan: And taken a giant ruby, and we also discovered that in the photograph of Riz's dad from his office Sandra Lynn and Sklonda could both see a Tabaxi woman in an evening gown. You guys headed to Bastion City, and we ended on the same day, the first Saturday of your spring break, going into spring break, we ended in Bastion City outside of the Hotel Cavalier. But that's not where our first scene takes place.

0:04:23 Lou: What?

0:04:25 Brennan: No, no, no, no. Why wouldn't it? Why wouldn't it? So naturally, you would assume it would take place there. Instead, it takes place in Riz’s office, the night-

0:04:31 Ally: Noooo!

0:04:38 Murph: This will end well.

0:04:39 Ally: Yeah!

0:04:42 Brennan: Riz. You are in your office. You are getting ready for the adventure that awaits you. We've done, you know, you just had your day talking about the new funds that you have access to, and Aguefort was telling the six of you about your grade. You've got the huge info share with Fig and Adaine where Fig talked about the gossip of different people that live near the Forest of the Nightmare King because there's some people trying to like, resettle their lost ancient lands there. And also talked about rumors of something called the Shadowcat. Adaine talked all about Ri Aisling Olc and all the various legends of the Nightmare King and that nobody seemed to want to take ownership of this being. The undead believed that he was Fae, The Fae believed he was undead, and that Devils had referred to him as fighting on the side of the Demons. You have been pursuing the actual absence of the crown, and the fact that you had narrowed down the window of where it had disappeared. What do you think Riz is looking into back in his office? It's late at night you're not getting any sleep.

0:05:49 Murph: I think, trying to, I know I knew something about Shadowcat but I didn't know who that was or what it was so I think probably trying to find out the identity of Shadowcat.

0:06:04 Brennan: You start to find out the identity of the Shadowcat, an obvious alias, you know,  some sort of like, it almost sounds like mythological or folkloric to you. Go ahead, give me an investigation check.

0:06:16 Murph: Okay, man. Okay, 20. Not nat.

0:06:21 Brennan: 20, not nat.

0:06:23 Murph: No one get excited.

0:06:24 Brennan: You look through all the stuff you have. This feels weirdly more like something in Fig or Adaine’s wheelhouse. You're like looking for aliases or AKAs like modern living criminals called the Shadowcat and you're not finding anything really. And you're sort off leaning back on your desk and having a little cup of coffee and you look over at the Sword of Shadows which is sort of next to you. Obviously your main weapon is your dad's old magical arquebus, but you do have that sword you got from the arcade back in freshman year, and you remember a little bit of lore around the Sword of Shadows which is that was actually fashioned by Tabaxi ninjas in sort of ancient past. You start thinking about Tabaxi ninjas and you suddenly have a weird tug to that earlier hunt that it, sort of, appeared and flitted away in your mind of a photograph of your dad, which is not anywhere in your case files, it's in your personal effects, but you do have some of those here still, mixed in with your old KVX stuff.

0:07:37 Murph: Great, yeah, I go through it.

0:07:40 Brennan: You go through it, you find a photograph of your father at like a cocktail party with his arm— He's like making sort of a funny face and next to him is a tabaxi woman with black fur, she's wearing an evening gown and you see that she's raising an empty paw with a wry kind of like “I don't have a drink in my hand” expression.

0:07:53 Murph: Sure.

0:08:05 Brennan: Go ahead, make like a raw Intelligence check for me.

0:08:09 Murph: 13.

0:08:14 Brennan: Your dad didn't have an official partner working for the Foreign Service, but you know that he often, when he worked in tandem with other people, would work with partners, and you seem to recall something. You remember seeing this woman in, like, very early memories once or twice but it's hard, it's you trying to recall memories when you're like three or four years old, but she's a tabaxi woman. A lot of tabaxi in the world will look sometimes like big cats or larger cats, they’ll be a tiger or jaguar or something like that. She's notable in that she really does have the facial structure of like, a domestic house cat, like very fine angular features. It's worth mentioning that she's a little bit taller than Pok, which would put her probably like four or four and a half feet tall, right, so you look at all that. Give me an Investigation check with advantage if you'd be so kind.

0:09:16 Murph: Oh, yeah, that's a 25.

0:09:21 Brennan: You're looking at the photograph. The box that this was in was not filed away ‘cause it was personal effects. It wasn't work-related basically. And this photo is old, like, this actually predates your birth. This was when your dad was sort of like first starting out of the Foreign Service, but prior to you being born, so there's some significant sun damage, or just like sort of old photo damage, on this and as you're looking at it none of his partner's image is damaged or blurred in the same way that the rest is. It's very subtle and hard to tell because there is dust collected on the physical outside of the photo but you're looking at like, the chemical development of the actual image and it's not developed appropriately, like there has been no erosion or fading away of the quality of the image on the individual tabaxi.

0:10:17 Murph: So it looks like she's been magically superimposed on the picture almost?

0:10:22 Brennan: Yeah, you've had this photo forever when you were a kid and it didn't look weird.

0:10:23 Murph: Yeah.

0:10:25 Brennan: I mean, maybe you missed it because you were a child, but you're looking at it and you're like, specifically like, you have not like, necessarily kept this as mint as possible and just looking at the photograph it's like, looks perfectly, it would be almost like if a photograph had a person in it that was very much in the photograph but just the person, the image of the person had been like kept in like a temperature-controlled climate, under a frame, well-kept and the rest of the photo had been left like open on a windowsill that sometimes is like cracked open to let it breathe in for like 15 years.

0:11:03 Murph: Hmm, well, I'm not much good at investigating magical things so I think I tuck it away to show Adaine in the morning.

0:11:11 Brennan: Oh, cool. Actually, do give me an Arcana check if you would be so kind. You can make this with advantage as well.

0:11:17 Murph: Oh, sweet. I'll take the first one. 20, not nat.

0:11:22 Brennan: You go, and you, it could be magical. You do have a little, like, chemistry kit here and you're with your new fancy digs and you could like, give a shot.

0:11:30 Murph: Yeah.

0:11:39 Brennan: As you go to do that you start to kind of just loosely circle around in a sort of little red chemical marker to like put a highlight on this image. As you do so you hear a creak of a door closing behind you.

0:12:00 Riz: Mom? Mom, I'll be home in a little bit, okay?

0:12:10 Brennan: The sound is not coming from the front door which is locked. You're up late in your office. It's coming from one of the side doors out in the main room, ‘cause you're in your back office, there's a little central room. You hear a little— [imitates creak]

0:12:26 Murph: Pull out my... gun. [laughs] [Emily and Zac laugh]

0:12:36 Murph: And I creep towards a corner, I guess.

0:12:40 Brennan: Cool, give me a Stealth check.

0:12:46 Murph: 27?

0:12:48 Brennan: You are deep in the shadows. You walk in, now give me a Perception check.

0:12:56 Murph: Nat 20.

0:12:57 Ally: [quietly] Yes. Lou and Emily do a little celebratory dance.

0:12:58 Brennan: A standing mirror from your file cabinet room is out in a corner of your room where you didn’t put it. [ominous music  plays]

0:13:16 Murph: I slowly approach the mirror. Lou is jokingly shivering in his seat as Zac partially covers his face.

0:13:19 Brennan: Are you approaching it in such a way that your reflection is visible, or no? You rolled a nat 20 on your Stealth. Lou balls up his hands into fists and covers his mouth.

0:13:29 Murph: I think I'd kind of like to walk to the side to see if I can see anyone else in the reflection, although I guess if I could see it it would reflect— Yeah, I, honestly I would probably look at it.

0:13:40 Brennan: So you walk out into the room to be able to look at the— Ally breaks down and covers their face.

0:13:43 Murph: I want to be able to like see if there's somebody else there.

0:13:46 Brennan: Oh so you're—

0:13:47 Murph: Yeah, I'm going by the side. Do you want me to say-

0:13:49 Brennan: Yeah, so you're trying to like use the mirror to catch other people. You get closer, closer, closer. You don't see anyone hiding. You are now right up to the side of the mirror, not in front of it still, but you're up to the side of it.

0:14:08 Murph: Is there anything behind it?

0:14:14 Brennan: You pass your hand behind it and you don't— Yeah, it just feels like wall behind the mirror. Um, you could go investigate the other room that you still haven't investigated, but you have to take a step forward.

0:14:29 Murph: Okay. [thinks for a moment] I'm going to... Lou pantomimes biting his nails.

0:14:34 Emily: [whispers] Jump in the mirror. [cast laughs] Lou pantomimes running and diving. Emily and Zac make diving motions.

0:14:40 Murph: I'm gonna try to, I guess kind of crawl behind— Is it like propped up? Can I like crawl behind it my little goblin body?

0:14:55 Brennan: Oh, it's, actually, there's not enough space between the wall in the standing mirror for you to creep behind it without moving it.

0:15:01 Murph: Okay, I think Riz doesn't know things that I know in real life so I think Riz is going to slowly start creeping towards the other room.

0:15:11 Brennan: You creep, as you creep you immediately know that your reflection is wrong. You, well, like the first thing you can react to is that something's wrong with your reflection. What does Riz do? It's only in your peripheral because you’re standing towards the other room.

0:15:35 Murph: I think I still have my gun out but I'm not gonna make any sudden movements.

0:15:41 Riz: [not looking at the mirror] What do you want?

0:15:45 Brennan: A voice colder than the grave echoes, from behind the mirror where you know there is nothing.

0:15:59 Voice: [terrifying whispery bizarre French Canadian accent] Riz Gukgak. What do I want? All I want is for you to look at me. Don’t you want to see me?

0:16:15 Riz: Who are you?

0:16:19 Brennan: You see the reflection moves even though you are not moving, and gets up against the glass on the other side of the mirror like it is looking through a pane of glass at an aquarium, and you can see it puts its hands up on the mirror, and you see the glass move as though there’s pressure from the other side. What you are looking at is a bone white goblin mannequin, its joints articulated into blackness underneath, whatever skeletal structure the mannequin rests on has black joints. It is capable of movement but it looks like it is made either of bone or ivory, except that it wears a white shirt, a little vest, and sort of gray pantaloons. It has a pure white wig in a kind of Lord Fauntleroy style, like a little princeling. You see that this thing, the face, the face has two nostril slits, two eyes that are matte black in the white ivory of its face. Instead of a mouth, it is just a carved dark line and as it speaks the lips don't move. But it has a little hair and it takes out, like a long white wand. And you see it says,

0:17:49 Mannequin: Riz Gukgak, you don't recognize me? I am your romance partner, Baron.

0:17:55 Riz: [struggling to speak] I have a confession to make: Baron’s not real. [nervous laughter]

0:18:05 Baron: You should be very careful about saying such hurtful things, Riz Gukgak. I am your romance partner, and if you demand that I am not real, I will have to drag you to the Baronies to see my stark father! Everyone is deeply unsettled.

0:18:27 Riz: Did I summon you by pretending to have— Baron tuts and wags his finger.

0:18:31 Riz: What are, what are you doing, you weird little skeleton boy!

0:18:38 Baron: That is the second hurtful thing you have said to your romance partner. Should you say a third, there will be grave consequences. I cannot control it. The things that are true about me are as follows: I am your romance partner, and I am from the Baronies. Thirdly, my name is Baron.

0:18:53 Emily: [high pitched, unbelieving voice] Oh my god, what? [everyone dissolves into nervous giggling]

0:19:09 Riz: What did we do on our first date?

0:19:14 Baron: Riz Gukgak, you have not been kind enough to give me that yet, but if you invent it, I promise I can make it true.

0:19:22 Riz: You’re born of lies?

0:19:25 Baron: It is not my fault I am born of lies. It is the fault of the deceiver, Riz Gukgak. Now, why don't you do what it is that you most want to do? [Ally laughs in disbelief]

0:19:42 Murph: I really quick try to shoot the mirror.

0:19:44 Brennan: The mirror shatters and you immediately open the gateway for this creature to lunge and grab you by the throat, and, [rolls a die] go ahead and give me an Athletics roll.

0:19:58 Murph: It's not good for me, gang. That's a 9.

0:20:02 Brennan: This creature throttles you by the throat and begins to twist your head so far that you can feel your vertebrae about to snap.

0:20:07 Murph: I tap, I tap out. [slaps his hand against the floor]

0:20:10 Riz: I give up!

0:20:12 Brennan: It starts to drag you towards the open mirror and it says,

0:20:15 Baron: [yelling] You have been naughty thrice, Riz Gukgak! Your romance partner deserves better treatment! Beat of silence.

0:20:28 Murph: [shaking his head] I’m just clawing at the floor. [laughs]

0:20:29 Brennan: Yeah, you’re just clawing at the floor! [laughs] Um, you suddenly realize that in your front pocket, the, the photo, the important piece of evidence—

0:20:37 Murph: I throw it out.

0:20:37 Brennan: It slides into a slit in the floorboards, you are dragged into the mirror, and you vanish from the world as we know it. You are turned around to gaze into the vacant eyes of your romance partner, Baron, and they look at you and say,

0:20:53 Baron: [whispering] Now it’s time for you to make up more things, Riz Gukgak…

0:20:59 Brennan: And you go unconscious. [laughs]

0:21:05 Zac: Can, can we be done?! [everyone talks over each other]

0:21:07 Siobhan: [to the camera] Thank you so much-

0:21:08 Ally: Can we go to In-N-Out?

0:21:09 Murph: Baron broke my neck, can we go home?

0:21:09 Lou: We need to talk through all of that!

0:21:17 Brennan: You guys don't like that? You guys don’t like— [crosstalk]

0:21:20 Lou: That was actually scary.

0:21:22 Zac: We used to fight like big rocks or something.

0:21:24 Siobhan: I would love a big rock to fight?

0:21:26 Brennan: I’m so glad you guys think I’m really scary!

0:21:28 Lou: People went to Hell and it wasn’t that bad!

0:21:30 Brennan: I’m a camp counselor, so if I can't tell scary stories, what good am I?

0:21:35 Lou: Oh, my god! [Emily and Zac yell]

0:21:41 Brennan: [pleased laugh] Fig!

0:21:43 Emily: Oh, not that vibe. Thank you though.

0:21:49 Siobhan: Hard pass. Fig just has a nice day, goes to the spa.

0:21:50 Brennan: Fig, you are in the deepest sleep of your life, having the most intense dreams of like, no— well it's like having a nightmare that you're enjoying, if that makes sense. It's like a messed up dream that you're like, into. It's a dream about you being so famous and successful as a rock star that you never need to talk to anyone ever again, and you are completely isolated because you need nobody. It is so much power. You begin to have kind of like a dream underneath this dream. You know when you're driving and you are like, thinking deep on a subject like, “Oh, I'm really thinking hard about this thing or whatever,” and then you look up and you're like, “I've driven 50 miles, like I truly have come to, and was on autopilot for the last 45 minutes of a long-distance road trip,” right? But you can remember kind of doing stuff even though you weren't physically present for them in your conscious mind. Your conscious mind is devoted to this dream of wealth, power, and fame. Your mind like, isn't paying attention, is kind of having a different dream, like a dream you're not paying attention to, and in this sort of unimportant dream, you're waking up, packing your bags, you're sending an email to Lola about getting a hotel room for the night. You're like getting your driver to take the tour bus. You make a stop by the Elm Valley Mall, it's sort of before working hours. You shred on your sick bass and blow up an entire storefront. You like, grab a ruby. And this is all just kind of the rote stuff— again, like driving when you're thinking about something more important. It's just like a rote thing. You get back in your tour bus and you head down to Bastion city with this sick diamond. Oh, right before you got in your tour bus, you do summon your dad because you do have that warlock connection with him now, and you do play this sick riff on the guitar that you don't think you ever played before, but it does bind him into the ruby and you carry it with you to Bastion, the city.

0:24:09 Emily: Again though, I'm like, elsewhere.

0:24:12 Brennan: The thing that's important is this dream you're having.

0:24:15 Emily: Okay.

0:24:16 Brennan: That's what's super important. As you are traveling, you eventually arrive— so it's called the Hotel Cavalier, and as you walk in, you see the lobby lined with beautiful full-length gilded mirrors. That's where we're gonna cut back to, much later that day. This is Bastion City. Spiring tall buildings all around you. As you see the buildings around you— hold on one second. [upbeat dubstep plays] It is nighttime. You see people moving through the streets, bright lights, skyscrapers, all these sort of fantastical inhabitants of Bastion City, and you go to the downtown harbor area. As you are down there you see these seedy types around here, it's the harbor, it’s Solace, but it's also where Solace interacts with the rest of the world, lots of magic stuff here. You arrived as the final bit of light in the western part of the sky has faded and it’s fully nighttime. The griffin Baxter lands with Sandra Lynn just as the Hangman pulls up, and Gorgug, you pull up in the van.

0:25:35 Gorgug: Oh, where am I going to park?

0:25:38 Siobhan: Can I, as we’re parking, can I cast Comprehend Languages as a ritual spell so that I can understand what everybody’s saying around me?

0:25:47 Brennan: Absolutely you can. You cast it as a ritual. Look around— the Hotel Cavalier is like an old stone workplace. It has this weird kind of theme around it of a mounted knight appearing in little like, frescoes, and sort of reliefs and cameos on things, but it's all these weird vines and floral patterns. It's almost like a knight going on a quest to a deep jungle. So there's this weird jungle theme to everything. The rugs are like a deep red with golden spiraling flowers and vines on them again, so it feels very old, kind of Art Deco in a way, but with a lot of stone and metalwork in these plant-like patterns everywhere. As you guys get out of the van, stretch your legs, look around, you finish casting Comprehend Languages. Sandra Lynn's got the bow over her shoulder. She looks at all of you and says,

0:26:41 Sandra Lynn: Okay, here's the deal. You have some adults here that have some adventuring experience, right, there's three grown-ups with you guys on this trip. You've got me, Cathilda, and Gilear.

0:26:51 Brennan: You see, Gilear says,

0:26:52 Gilear: I am not an authority figure to the degree that Fig’s mother or Cathilda are, you should really refer to them and not I.

0:27:03 Kristen: Actually I could really use a coffee right now.

0:27:05 Gilear: That would be preferable for me. I shall go do that.

0:27:08 Brennan: You see Sandra Lynn says,

0:27:11 Sandra Lynn: We're here at your discretion. We're here to give you advice. However we can't take point or it affects your guys’ grade, right? So we're here to support you and if you want to ask us for our take on something, we can. We are hirelings, we're not full adventurers, so we’ve got to take our marching orders from you guys, okay?

0:27:21 Kristen: Mm-hm.

0:27:31 Sandra Lynn: Okay, cool.

0:27:33 Fabian: Great.

0:27:33 Kristen: So should we check out the hotel first and try to find Fig?

0:27:36 Adaine: Let’s do that.

0:27:37 Kristen: Should we find the tour bus?

0:27:41 Gorgug: Hey, while I was driving, I kind of zoned out and had some thoughts. Could— I was just remembering that picture, and the fact that the arm was going around someone that we couldn't see.

0:27:58 Kristen: Yeah.

0:27:59 Gorgug: But then there's also no pressure of something touching the arm, correct?

0:28:04 Adaine: Yeah.

0:28:05 Ally: I take out the photo.

0:28:06 Gorgug: And there's no spells on the— we found— we’ve— [gestures to Adaine] You tried to put Detect Magic on the—

0:28:14 Adaine: I tried Dispel— I tried Detect Magic and Dispel Magic. I guess I could cast the Identify spell on it?

0:28:19 Gorgug: Well, my question is, what if there's no spell on that? There’s a spell on the people who see it, so since we don't see it, maybe there's a spell on us, or since Sandra Lynn sees it, maybe there's a spell on her.

0:28:32 Adaine: Okay.

0:28:32 Gorgug: I don't know.

0:28:33 Kristen: Huh. Yeah, who else could see it again? Riz's mom?

0:28:36 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:28:37 Adaine: Riz's mom and Sandra Lynn.

0:28:40 Kristen: I guess not to tangent, but Sandra Lynn, did you have any bad dreams last night? Any, like did you have a nightmare or anything?

0:28:48 Sandra Lynn: No, not really.

0:28:51 Gorgug: Would you mind if we cast Detect Magic on you?

0:28:55 Sandra Lynn: Yeah, by all means, go for it.

0:28:57 Siobhan: Detect Magic, I also would have to do as a ritual because I don't have it stocked, so it's gonna be 10 minutes.

0:29:04 Brennan: Sure, maybe we take that time—

0:29:06 Siobhan: And it would also would mean, it's a concentration spell so I'd have to drop Comprehend Languages. But that's fine. It wasn't important.

0:29:13 Brennan: Sandra Lynn says,

0:29:13 Sandra Lynn: Sure, that makes sense.

0:29:15 Adaine: I can cast it as we walk.

0:29:16 Kristen: So, should we walk around and look for the tour bus?

0:29:18 Gorgug: Yeah, you wanna start walking around downtown?

0:29:20 Kristen: Cool.

0:29:22 Brennan: Cool, you park yourself, the Hangman's there. You see the Hangman says,

0:29:26 Hangman: Master, do you wish me to accompany you to the hotel?

0:29:31 Fabian: Bike, that wouldn't be very, that's not how things go down here. I don't think you know, back in Elmville? You have free reign, but here in Bastion City, we gotta play it cool.

0:29:43 Hangman: All right, I will stay with the bird lion, and I will accompany the, I guess, van as well.

0:29:50 Fabian: Well, I mean, hey if you get bored, just chat, chat in our minds, like just hit me up.

0:29:56 Brennan: You see, that Sandra Lynn looks at you and says,

0:29:59 Sandra Lynn: Also, is this priority right now in this moment because Fig is missing as is Riz and time is of the essence.

0:30:06 Gorgug: Right, I guess—

0:30:08 Kristen: I think it's a good lead because right now, all we have is this photo. I mean, we can be looking for Fig.

0:30:12 Adaine: I mean, it takes 10 minutes. We can walk towards the hotel.

0:30:14 Gorgug: Let's go to the hotel.

0:30:15 Adaine: And then, once we get there, it'll be done.

0:30:17 Fabian: Great.

0:30:18 Kristen: Let's do it.

0:30:19 Brennan: Cool, so—

0:30:20 Ally: Is Gilear with us?

0:30:21 Brennan: Yes, Gilear's with you.

0:30:21 Ally: Cool.

0:30:22 Zac: Is he gettin' that coffee? Is that what you're—?

0:30:24 Ally: I was gonna check up on the coffee, and then, I decided ah, let's keep him here. [Emily laughs]

0:30:29 Brennan: Gilear nods. You see Ragh, he's got this big glaive. He's now fighting with a polearm.

0:30:34 Adaine: Sweet glaive, dude.

0:30:37 Ragh: Honestly, thank you. I think it's sick as hell. Let's just see what's up. Like, so, we're gonna go in there and just open up, just like hack and slash—

0:30:44 Adaine: No!

0:30:45 Kristen: No no no.

0:30:45 Adaine: This is like gonna be a conversation-based—

0:30:47 Gorgug: We might try to get a hotel.

0:30:49 Kristen: Yeah.

0:30:49 Adaine: Yeah. Yeah.

0:30:50 Ragh: Tight tight tight tight tight, cool cool cool.

0:30:53 Brennan: Great, so that's—

0:30:55 Ally: Oh, I— Oh, sorry.

0:30:58 Brennan: So, you see that you walk into the Hotel Cavalier. You open the doors. Very beautiful, luxurious inside. You see that there's a concierge desk. Just has a small lobby. Very lightly populated at the moment. You see that the concierge desk has this beautiful sort of powder blue air genasi working at it. You see that her hair is kind of like flowing up around her as though in sort of a wind at all times, and you see over by the elevators there is a bellhop that is like a vulture aarakocra. So, it's like a sort of vulture bird person, and you see that there are some porters also over by like the baggage area that are just, look like two enormous gorillas in like bellhop uniforms.

0:31:53 Kristen: Okay, Gorgug, do you think you can contact the manager and get her to tell you which room Fig is in?

0:31:59 Gorgug: I... can try. [laughs]

0:32:03 Kristen: Do you think she'd talk to you?

0:32:04 Adaine: Once I'm done with this spell, I can also cast Locate Person if that doesn't work.

0:32:05 Brennan: The concierge comes over to you 'cause the lobby's a little sparse for now and goes,

0:32:11 Concierge: [a very clean-cut customer service voice] Ah, sorry for recognizing, sir. Mr. Thistlespring, pleasure to have you.

0:32:14 Gorgug: Oh, hi.

0:32:17 Concierge: We spoke on the phone earlier?

0:32:18 Gorgug: Oh, yes, we did.

0:32:19 Kristen: Haha, yeah! And me too, Teddy.

0:32:20 Fabian: I was also—

0:32:21 Gorgug: This is Teddy Geiger.

0:32:22 Kristen: It's me, Teddy Geiger.

0:32:23 Gorgug: And my friend, Fabian.

0:32:25 Adaine: I hung up.

0:32:27 Concierge: Rude, okay, yeah, absolutely.

0:32:29 Fabian: Well, we're here, and you know what we want.

0:32:33 Gorgug: We're just, we're looking for—

0:32:35 Kristen: You. No, I'm just kidding. I do have a girlfriend though.

0:32:38 Gorgug: This is one of T—

0:32:39 Brennan: Tracker looks and goes,

0:32:40 Tracker: Babe.

0:32:41 Kristen: Babe.

0:32:41 Tracker: What's up?

0:32:42 Kristen: I was trying to get an in, you know?

0:32:45 Tracker: I guess.

0:32:48 Adaine: Please just let Gorgug speak.

0:32:48 Gorgug: Teddy, cool it.

0:32:49 Kristen: I'm so sorry.

0:32:52 Gorgug: So, we're just looking for, you know, we got a show later so I'm looking for Fig 'cause I think we, you know, we have to do our show and so I am here doing that. I'm looking for Fig.

0:33:02 Concierge: Well, excellent, so I guess you know, text your bandmate.

0:33:07 Gorgug: Awesome. Well, my question is I know that Fig has this thing where like, she rocks out so hard that she breaks her crystal a lot, and so, I think she broke her crystal.

0:33:20 Concierge: Oh no!

0:33:21 Gorgug: So, if you could just, you know, come on, that would be, that'd be so nice. I mean, and if you wanna go to the show, we could probably swing some tickets.

0:33:32 Concierge: Wow, thank you. Sure, we'd be happy to call up. What room do you want us to call up to?

0:33:37 Gorgug: The room that she's in. [players laugh]

0:33:40 Gorgug: Whichever one she's in.

0:33:42 Concierge: Great, well, we can't give out guest information so if you can give me a room number, I would be so happy to—

0:33:45 Gorgug: Let's try 101. [Emily laughs]

0:33:49 Gorgug: Let's go for 101. Brennan rolls a luck check in front of the players.

0:33:56 Concierge: One second. [holding a phone receiver] Hi, hello, is Fig Faeth there? No, that's not who you are? Okay, great, thank you so much.

0:34:08 Kristen: Oh duh! She was 102!

0:34:09 Gorgug: 102.

0:34:10 Kristen: You were one off.

0:34:11 Fabian: Teddy, thank you, Teddy.

0:34:13 Kristen: I'm so sorry, I have the itinerary right here.

0:34:15 Concierge: Okay, so, Fig Faeth is in room 102, great.

0:34:18 Gorgug: Teddy's our...

0:34:19 Siobhan: Is my Detect Magic spell ritual done yet?

0:34:23 Brennan: You see that it goes,

0:34:24 Concierge: [on the phone] Hello, okay, hi, is Fig Faeth there? You're not that person? [to the Bad Kids] Okay, great. So, it looks like you have bad information.

0:34:34 Kristen: That's so crazy. She definitely said 103, and that's what I just said.

0:34:38 Gorgug: No, you said 102.

0:34:40 Kristen: No, I didn't.

0:34:41 Gorgug: Oh, so…

0:34:42 Kristen: No, I didn't!

0:34:43 Gorgug: You see what happened here. How many rooms are in this hotel?

0:34:48 Brennan: You see that [laughs]

0:34:49 Emily: I call down to order room service. [players laugh]

0:34:56 Brennan: Incredible, [to Siobhan] you cast Detect Magic, right?

0:34:59 Siobhan: I did. And it's a 30-foot radius. [reading spell card] That's 30 feet in front of you, and you sense magic in this way, you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its school of magic if any.

0:35:15 Brennan: The concierge has a transmutation effect on them.

0:35:19 Zac: Transmutation?

0:35:23 Siobhan: Oh my god. Are they doing magical plastic surgery on themselves?

0:35:27 Zac: What do you mean?

0:35:31 Siobhan: Can I cast Dispel Magic on the concierge?

0:35:38 Brennan: You absolutely can—

0:35:40 Ally: Her cheekbones just sink.

0:35:41 Brennan: And I believe Dispel works on anything third level or lower, right?

0:35:44 Siobhan: Yes.

0:35:45 Brennan: Cool.

0:35:45 Siobhan: Yeah, that's correct.

0:35:47 Brennan: Cool, so [laughs] You cast Dispel Magic, and the concierge transforms into what looks like an extremely intense looking tiefling, but with full scaly red wings and a long wicked barbed tail wearing insane looking like abyssal armor, And you see that the concierge goes, “Concierge”: Oop. Um, kill them! Kill them!

0:36:18 Brennan: Everyone roll initiative!

0:36:20 Ally: What?

0:36:21 Lou: Sick. Sick.

0:36:21 Gorgug: Room 104! Room 104!

0:36:31 Brennan: Cool. Great. Everyone, go ahead.

0:36:33 Siobhan: But I didn’t see any auras around us or around Sandra Lynn?

0:36:37 Brennan: When you cast detect magic?

0:36:38 Siobhan: Yes.

0:36:39 Brennan: Sandra Lynn didn't have any aura other than the magic you guys are all aware of and accustomed to.

0:36:42 Siobhan: Dang.

0:36:46 Brennan: That one you would definitely have. Rad as hell. Let's go on the table and tell me what you got.

0:36:56 Emily: Do I get to roll—

0:36:57 Brennan: I would actually like Emily and Murph to both roll as well if you’d be so kind.

0:36:59 Emily: Ohh!

0:37:01 Murph: 24.

0:37:02 Emily: 13.

0:37:04 Brennan: Riz, 24. What did Fig get?

0:37:06 Emily: 13.

0:37:07 Brennan: Fig got 13, wake up. Gorgug.

0:37:10 Zac: Nat 1 so I got a 2.

0:37:13 Brennan: You got a nat one—

0:37:15 Zac: Initiative roll plus my—

0:37:17 Brennan: Do you roll advantage as initiative as a barbarian?

0:37:18 Zac: As a barbarian?

0:37:19 Brennan: Maybe not as a— I mean that's a 9th level ability.

0:37:21 Zac: Okay.

0:37:22 Brennan: Umm, 2. Adaine.

0:37:23 Siobhan: I got a 20. Not nat.

0:37:25 Brennan: Adaine got a dirty 20. Fabian?

0:37:27 Lou: 14.

0:37:28 Brennan: Fabian gets a 14.

0:37:30 Ally: 10.

0:37:31 Brennan: And Kristen with a 10. Awesome. You guys have a moment as Adaine is casting the spell and while I finish doing all of your hirelings’ initiatives right now. Go ahead and, what do you guys sort of start doing or— right before that moment that Adaine does that, does anyone, has anyone else been doing any investigation or anything else like that?

0:37:53 Ally: Yeah. I would like to Investigate.

0:37:55 Siobhan: Yeah, is there like a book in front of her that has room numbers in?

0:37:57 Zac: Did you have advantage on your initiative?

0:38:01 Siobhan: Oh yeah, you do because of Tracker.

0:38:02 Ally: Because of Tracker.

0:38:03 Brennan: Yes, you have advantage on your initiative.

0:38:07 Ally: 19. Uh, but then that makes it a, uh, 16.

0:38:11 Siobhan: So bad.

0:38:12 Brennan: Incredible

0:38:13 Ally: Horrifying Dex, yeah. A -3 to Dex, it’s crazy that I’m alive.

0:38:18 Siobhan: Adorably clumsy. You’re just dropping baguettes and oranges all over the place.

0:38:23 Lou: I’ve got eyes on that gorilla and that vulture.

0:38:27 Ally: Oh, yeah, good call.

0:38:29 Brennan: Incredible. I want everyone here to know that Gilear Faeth, on his first initiative roll of Fantasy High, rolled a nat 20. [Emily cheering]

0:38:40 Lou: It's gonna be a good year!

0:38:42 Ally: Can’t wait to see his first move.

0:38:44 Zac: Gilear, can people know what Gilear’s health is?

0:38:49 Brennan: Well, he may go first, so we'll wait for his first turn, then we’ll show,

0:38:51 Emily: I’m so proud of him.

0:38:53 Brennan: What his stats are. Truly insane. Hold on one second. Yeah go ahead describe what you're trying to investigate in the room.

0:39:04 Siobhan: Yeah, I want to see if there’s a reservation book on this counter of the tiefling that we're talking to.

0:39:13 Brennan: Right before you cast the spell— yeah, give me an Investigation check.

0:39:15 Siobhan: Great.

0:39:15 Lou: With a 4 Investigation I'd love to know if the gorilla or the vulture seem to be moving with this fiend or tiefling.

0:39:28 Brennan: Seem to be mo— You see that the, yes, the other the bellhop supporters of the hotel immediately leap into action.

0:39:33 Siobhan: I got an 18 Investigation.

0:39:35 Brennan: Uh you look at the guestbook. You see the guestbook does have Fig’s signature in it.

0:39:38 Siobhan: Dope.

0:39:42 Ally: Does it say room number?

0:39:43 Emily: It looks uncertain, right? It’s like, not really Fig.

0:39:46 Brennan: Not really quite Fig, exactly.

0:39:48 Siobhan: Like, it’s even fancier than Fig’s?

0:39:49 Ally: Can I look over Adaine’s shoulder to see if Fig’s room number is next to her signature?

0:39:56 Brennan: What are you trying to see?

0:39:57 Ally: Fig’s room number next to her signature in the guestbook?

0:40:01 Brennan: Fig’s signature next to her room number… Oh, you see that the room number next to it is a, it says LPH for lower penthouse.

0:40:11 Emily: [gasps] That is so awesome.

0:40:20 Ally: I shout that to— wait, can I Mind Link? I forget what I have.

0:40:24 Siobhan: No, that’s—

0:40:26 Brennan: That’s—

0:40:27 Siobhan: That’s Pete.

0:40:27 Ally: Different season.

0:40:28 Lou: Different season. Different season, different powers.

0:40:30 Ally: I miss Pete.

0:40:31 Siobhan: We all miss Pete.

0:40:32 Zac: I don't think— I’m trying to think if Gorgug had anything he would have done but I don't think he would.

0:40:40 Murph: Truly sweating telling so many lies.

0:40:42 Ally: We both lean over and look at this guestbook. I turn to you and I'm like,

0:40:45 Kristen: It says lower penthouse—

0:40:48 Gorgug: Underground? Or just the penthouse under the top penthouse?

0:40:52 Brennan: Ah, Adaine you are first to act in the combat initiative.

0:40:53 Siobhan: Umm....

0:40:54 Brennan: Hold on one second. As combat begins you see that the concierge, this demonic thing goes, “Concierge”: Kill ‘em, kill ‘em, kill ‘em!

0:41:02 Brennan: You see that the two gorillas come rushing at you. You see that the vulture aarakocra over by the elevator swings the elevator in, jumps in, and begins to motion it to go down.

0:41:11 Zac: Kill them?

0:41:20 Brennan: You actually don’t know what “kill ‘em” refers to. Adaine, you are first to act.

0:41:34 Siobhan: Can I, there— This aarakocra’s pulling on a lever, to—?

0:41:37 Brennan: It's an old-timey Art Deco elevator with the sliding chink of interlocking metal, and it looks like the aarakocra is going in, pulling it down. As you look, you see with that Dispel that there is some, you can see with you Dispel Magic very Minor Illusion disguising these gorillas and this vulture aarakocra.

0:41:55 Siobhan: Okay. Can I. Um. Mm. Okay.

0:41:57 Zac: What do they look like?

0:42:00 Siobhan: How far away is the elevator?

0:42:03 Brennan: From you, it's about 30 feet

0:42:04 Siobhan: Great, I would like to cast Greater Invisibility on myself and I would like to run into this elevator please.

0:42:11 Brennan: Ooh awesome. Bam, that's no sweat. You rush right into the elevator alongside this creature. That is now going to be [dramatically] Gilear Faeth. You see Gilear Faeth look around at everything happening. He takes fifteen feet of movement back to the door, ten feet of movement back to the desk, five back, and then five over laterally to the side, hunkers down and covers his face with his hands, taking the dodge action. [laughter]

0:42:49 Lou: That’s my guy.

0:42:50 Brennan: That is Gilear Faeth’s turn.

0:42:52 Siobhan: Does he have like a -3 to Dex?

0:42:56 Ally: ‘Cause if he rolled a nat 20! [Applause]

0:42:58 Siobhan: ‘Cause I got a 20...

0:43:01 Brennan: Gilear Faeth has, I'm gonna go through these modifiers real quick: Strength, 0, Dex, 0, Constitution -1 Intelligence, +1 Wisdom, +1 Charisma, -2  Gilear Faeth has an armor class of ten and five hit points.

0:43:19 Lou: Let’s go!

0:43:20 Siobhan: Again, we don’t have to bring him.

0:43:22 Emily: [through laughs] Why have you created such a cursed creature?

0:43:24 Brennan: [yelling] He's not cursed, he's just a guy! Some people have to be normal!

0:43:31 Zac: So, if someone does 10 hit points, his damage to him, he's permanently dead.

0:43:34 Siobhan: He's fully dead.

0:43:35 Brennan: Full dead at 10 points of damage.

0:43:37 Ally: Okay, great.

0:43:38 Brennan: Do you know that most people, if you stab them with a sword, will die right away?

0:43:44 Ally: I guess. [players laugh]

0:43:46 Siobhan: Only if you pull the sword out of them, technically, if you just put it in there, maybe they'll stay alive, so?

0:43:52 Brennan: Incredible.

0:43:52 Siobhan: If anybody stabs him, make sure the sword stays in there.

0:43:55 Zac: Leave it in there. He's gonna be like one of those people who goes on a Vespa and gets impaled by a pole.

0:44:00 Siobhan: Oh no, that's so embarrassing.

0:44:02 Brennan: Oh my god, you guys see Cathilda Ceili leaps into action, reaches into like a sort of athletic band underneath her sweatshirt to take out two daggers. As she does so, she is going to rush up, and take a bunch of swings at our friend, and you see she viciously slashes with one of her daggers across the demon's chest behind the counter.

0:44:33 Lou: I elbow, Kristen—

0:44:35 Fabian: Pretty good for a maid, right?

0:44:37 Kristen: Yeah.

0:44:39 Cathilda: Ah Master Fabian. You are too cheeky.

0:44:41 Kristen: Wait. I thought you said mage. No, pretty good for a person!

0:44:44 Fabian: No, no. She's not a mage.

0:44:46 Murph: Well, it would also be good for a mage.

0:44:47 Fabian: But also, incredible for a mage. Pretty good for a maid.

0:44:51 Kristen: [laughs] God.

0:44:53 Brennan: As you do this, Kristen, that is going to be your turn.

0:44:57 Ally: Okay, great. I am going to, I think I look at… I think I cast Sanctuary on Gilear. [laughs]

0:45:09 Brennan: You cast Sanctuary on Gilear? Okay, incredible.

0:45:12 Zac: We're all gonna die. Except for Gilear.

0:45:15 Ally: You ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets Gilear will have to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save they have to pick a new target. [laughing] And then, I think I run, I think I… [groans] I feel like I know where Adaine was going 'cause we had just figured out where she was. So, I think I do try to run towards the elevator, but not where that person could see me. So, maybe some sort of like duck and cover?

0:45:49 Brennan: Okay, you won't be able to be hidden from the vulture aarakocra inside of the elevator.

0:45:55 Ally: Totally, yeah yeah.

0:45:56 Brennan: But you could like—

0:45:57 Ally: I wanna wait, and maybe take the next one down.

0:46:00 Brennan: Oh, gotcha, cool cool cool. Well, these are old timey elevators so you could like, wait to jump on top of the elevator as it goes down.

0:46:03 Murph: That's rad.

0:46:06 Ally: That's what I do.

0:46:07 Brennan: Cool. Kristen, that's your turn. So, you're like holding your movement until such a time as that. You use Sanctuary on Gilear. That is your turn, and that is going to be… Ba ba bum.

0:46:19 Ally: Yeah, the Sanctuary's a bonus action.

0:46:25 Brennan: Awesome, hold on one second. You see, cool.

0:46:37 Lou: Good on you for taking care of Gilear. He needs it, he needs.

0:46:39 Ally: I know.

0:46:40 Lou: I like that now we're just gonna be giving a turn to Gilear protection, and then, we'll engage.

0:46:46 Murph: I know there's no saving him. He just needs to not fight. He just needs to hide.

0:46:50 Emily: I know, I'm starting to think we need to renegotiate this situation.

0:46:53 Murph: He stays and watches the car. : Yeah.

0:46:54 Brennan: You guys—

0:46:54 Zac: Put him in a metal chest in the car.

0:46:55 Brennan: You guys see that these sort of like, and I'll just go ahead and take the tarp off this bad boy. The cambion, which is the type of demon you see behind the concierge desk, these are, by the way, not devils, these are demons. These are chaotic evil entities, not from the nine hells but from the abyss. Points two fingers, erupt in jets of flame. Cathilda streaks underneath them. When she fights, by the way, it just sounds like a racquetball court. It's like squeaks of her, her sneakers are so squeaky. [Brennan squeaks] And she like ducks under the fire, and you see this cambion looks at the two gorillas and says, “Concierge”: Hold 'em!

0:47:40 Brennan: And vanishes in a thing of flame. Anyone here can make an Arcana check that wants to.

0:47:44 Adaine: Can I, or am I still hidden away?

0:47:48 Brennan: You're hidden under. You don't have a [mumbles] : Great. : Cool.

0:47:50 Zac: 10.

0:47:52 Lou: A hot 10.

0:47:53 Brennan: A hot 10, cool. Cambion vanishes.

0:47:57 Lou: Yeah, I was really dreaming of a nat 20 in that moment. I was like maybe this is Fabian's moment where he's like I understand magic.

0:48:04 Zac: You're just watching your maid move around in a way that [mumbles]

0:48:07 Lou: Damn, maid!

0:48:08 Brennan: Fabian, that's gonna be you.

0:48:09 Lou: All right, so, the fiend, or the cambions—

0:48:11 Brennan: The two gorillas are still charging.

0:48:13 Lou: Great. Let's do it! I'm gonna, can I use Gilear as, can I just?

0:48:19 Fabian: Gilear, launch me!

0:48:21 Lou: Can I use him as some kind of trampoline?

0:48:23 Ally: You're gonna kill him!

0:48:25 Brennan: Great, go ahead and make an Athletics because you are jumping, you get advantage, but because you're using Gilear, that advantage cancels out. So, this is going to be a flat roll.

0:48:35 Lou: Nat 20!

0:48:36 Ally: Woo!

0:48:37 Lou: Let's go Gilear! Let's go Gilear!

0:48:42 Brennan: You see that at the perfect moment, Gilear goes from here, and goes,

0:48:45 Gilear: Huh?

0:48:47 Brennan: Presents his face for your foot to land on, you spring off in this perfect, perfect like pirouetting shape towards the two charging gorillas. As they charge, the illusion totally fades, and then, you see these are [growling] barlgura, these insane tusked, bright red purple-skinned like ape demons from the deep depths of the abyss charging at you. Massive fists and forearms. You have advantage on as many attacks as you make this round.

0:49:20 Lou: Great, fantastic. We'll start with a normal two. Great, that's above 20. Specifically 22.

0:49:29 Brennan: That's a hit!

0:49:30 Lou: And then, that's 26.

0:49:33 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:49:36 Lou: And I'll, no, we'll cut it there. Great, and then, that's 14 for the first hit and 12 for the second one.

0:49:47 Brennan: Oo, 26. You leap at this thing, and [grunts] two huge stabs, getting the sword of the Seacasters pretty much to the hilt both times. This towering, like 10-foot tall monstrosity [growls] roars out and looks hurt, but not down for the count by a long shot.

0:49:58 Lou: Great.

0:50:08 Brennan: That is Fabian's turn, ba ba bum. We move along from there. Next one is Sandra Lynn.

0:50:21 Lou: Aw, hell yes!

0:50:23 Emily: Oo, we get to see her in action!

0:50:26 Brennan: Hell yeah. Sandra Lynn is going to take some shots right away at the one that you just injured, and that's going to be, that is one definite hit. Cool, you see [grunts] arrow thuds into its neck for another eight points of damage. And you see that Sandra Lynn also rushes over at Kristen with you to use her movement to jump on the thing as it goes down.

0:50:43 Ally: Cool.

0:50:59 Brennan: That is going to move from Sandra Lynn to the, these massive [growling] barlgura. You see the first one, actually sorry, they're gonna make some wisdom saving throws first.

0:51:19 Siobhan: Oh no.

0:51:23 Lou: No!

0:51:26 Brennan: You see both of these barlgura race past you, even the one you injured. Go ahead, you get an attack of opportunity on one if you want.

0:51:35 Lou: Great, and I have the Sentinel feat so if I hit, they stop moving. Does a 15 hit?

0:51:44 Brennan: 15 hits.

0:51:45 Lou: One of them has their speed reduced to zero. And that is going to be a la la la la la 15.

0:51:56 Brennan: 15 damage. This guy's now looking hurt. This is the injured one.

0:52:01 Fabian: You'd really go for him over me?

0:52:04 Brennan: The other one barrels past you to Gilear.

0:52:07 Fabian: What?

0:52:08 Brennan: And he hits—

0:52:10 Lou: Fabian is hurt.

0:52:14 Emily: What about, what did Sanctuary do?

0:52:16 Brennan: They both bypassed the Wisdom check for Sanctuary. So you see Gilear goes,

0:52:23 Gilear: Get them, Fabian! [yells]

0:52:24 Brennan: And you see both of them go right for Gilear. One of them just rains, boom boom boom! Gilear, immediately dead. Full dead.

0:52:29 Ally: [screaming] What?

0:52:33 Lou: What?

0:52:33 Brennan: Full dead.

0:52:34 Lou: What?

0:52:35 Brennan: Gilear is—

0:52:36 Zac: Why?

0:52:38 Emily: Wait, he's dead?

0:52:38 Zac: But he even took the dodge action, didn't he?

0:52:40 Brennan: You're right, hold on one second. He did take the dodge action.

0:52:43 Lou: Everyone at home, please pray right now.

0:52:44 Murph: Pray for Gilear.

0:52:45 Lou: We need all the energy in the world right now.

0:52:46 Emily: By full dead, you mean just he's—

0:52:47 Murph: Prayers for Gilear.

0:52:48 Brennan: Hold on, I will—

0:52:50 Siobhan: And also, will you tell everybody to send him home after this bad fate.

0:52:52 Lou: Call your family. Ask them—

0:52:53 Emily: Call your representatives.

0:52:55 Lou: We need Congress behind Gilear right now.

0:52:58 Brennan: Here's the thing, even with disadvantage, these two hit him on a roll of three or higher so we need a one or a two. I'm gonna roll it in front of the board.

0:53:06 Murph: Guaranteed two. Guaranteed two.

0:53:08 Lou: Guaranteed two.

0:53:09 Murph: Guaranteed.

0:53:09 Lou: Oh, it doesn't count, come on, man.

0:53:12 Brenan: It's gone. I'll roll again because it's off the board..

0:53:13 Lou: Yeah, damn right it is.

0:53:14 Emily: It doesn't count.

0:53:14 Brennan: One or two. That's a 19.

0:53:17 Siobhan: Well.

0:53:19 Brennan: So, you see that Gilear immediately looks up [yells] he just sprawls back on the floor, blood. [players laugh]

0:53:25 Ally: Jesus Christ.

0:53:31 Zac: No death saves, full dead.

0:53:33 Brennan: No, we can bypass death saves. The minimum damage from this thing is enough to put him way, way under.

0:53:39 Ally: Fuck.

0:53:41 Zac: Okay. Emily looks outright devastated, holding her hands together.

0:53:43 Brennan: Gilear's immediately dead. I will remind you that Kristen does have the Revivify spell.

0:53:47 Zac: We have to get to you in a minute.

0:53:49 Brennan: That's 10 rounds of combat.

0:53:51 Ally: Yeah, but I need a really expensive diamond to do it.

0:53:55 Brennan: I will assume that because you're going on a very dangerous adventure, you've stocked up on those diamonds. It is 300 gold pieces a pop for those diamonds.

0:54:01 Kristen: We're all splitting it, okay? [Brennan laughs]

0:54:04 Fabian: We can have this conversation after—

0:54:05 Kristen: And Gilear is going home.

0:54:06 Siobhan: Gilear is going...

0:54:07 Fabian: No.

0:54:08 Kristen: Gilear is going home.

0:54:10 Murph: I think we just have to be—

0:54:11 Fabian: He's just gonna be an intern. Like a straight up like—

0:54:14 Murph: We'll just keep him in the car.

0:54:15 Lou: Yes. [players laugh]

0:54:15 Siobhan: Yeah, unless somebody kidnaps him from the car.

0:54:15 Murph: Just like face completely turned around?

0:54:20 Brennan: A like 10 and half foot tall gorilla socked him as hard as he could in the back of the head.

0:54:25 Zac: After he ran around and just sat on the ground.

0:54:26 Fabian: Keep one of them alive. I need to know why he wouldn't attack me who was halfway through killing his friend.

0:54:34 Brennan: Give me an Insight, give me an Insight check.

0:54:36 Fabian: Truly, truly.

0:54:36 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

0:54:37 Emily: Yet another person in your life choosing Gilear's needs over yours.

0:54:38 Lou: Oh my god, I mean, this is insane. Well, I'm offended. Minus 1, 13.

0:54:44 Brennan: You sense that there is something in them that felt ev— you don't think that they registered Gilear as a threat, and you know that they knew, they would be risking bodily harm from your attack of opportunity by moving past you, but there was some internal calculus where they felt it was worth it to kill this person even if it meant endangering themselves.

0:55:07 Emily: Wait, maybe—

0:55:08 Lou and Emily: That means Gilear—

0:55:09 Emily: Gilear is like the chosen one.

0:55:10 Lou: Yes, exactly! He must be very important. I mean, they didn't attack me.

0:55:15 Murph: Or they're just evil and just wanna kill people.

0:55:17 Zac: I don't know, y'all.

0:55:17 Lou: No, Gilear must be the chosen one. That's the only…

0:55:20 Emily: We can't send Gilear home.

0:55:21 Ally: I'm so shocked.

0:55:22 Murph: Brennan is teaching you a lesson right now.

0:55:24 Lou: No, I'm honestly—

0:55:25 Ally: I'm shook.

0:55:25 Emily: No no no, the lesson it taught me is that Gilear has a part to play yet.

0:55:28 Fabian: The takeaway— yes. Me and Fig are 100%, me and Fig, who's not there, are 100% on the same page. Gilear is the chosen one and must be kept safe.

0:55:36 Zac: I'm gonna strap Gilear to my back. [players laugh]

0:55:42 Murph: Because of Fabian's ego, he probably does actually think that Gilear is the chosen one.

0:55:46 Lou: Oh, he must be at this point.

0:55:48 Murph: Yeah, you must be Aragorn and he must be Frodo.

0:55:51 Lou: After this, I'm going to have a long talk about it with everyone about the importance of Gilear.

0:55:54 Emily: Guys, Gilear is Frodo!

0:55:57 Murph: Gilear is Frodo. #gilearisfrodo. [players laugh]

0:56:00 Lou: Wow.

0:56:01 Murph: Please @ Brennan.

0:56:01 Ally: Wait, do they get life, do they get points back for killing someone? Do they just see an easy kill?

0:56:08 Zac: I think—

0:56:08 Murph: It might just be chaotic evil demons.

0:56:12 Emily: They've seen the future. They've seen the future, and they're going after the greatest threat in the room.

0:56:15 Ally: I don't think so.

0:56:16 Lou: Inside of Gilear is a golden light. There's some kind of orb or treasure.

0:56:20 Ally: Inside of Gilear is yogurt. [players laugh]

0:56:23 Lou: Well, then, the yogurt—

0:56:24 Ally: Old yogurt.

0:56:24 Siobhan: Inside of Gilear is nothing because you made him shit himself. [players laugh]

0:56:28 Brennan: Okay, hold on a second.

0:56:31 Lou: Jesus. I knew there was something special about that boy.

0:56:34 Brennan: You see Tracker full transforms into her werewolf form. [growls] Leaps at the most injured demon. Ragh comes, swings, injures that demon as well. It is looking extremely hurt as Tracker and Ragh go through it.

0:56:52 Lou: Hell yes!

0:56:54 Brenan: Ba ba bum, that is now, that is going to be the vulture aarakocra slams the elevator. Starts to go down. You and Sandra Lynn are going to make a group Stealth check so you give me Stealth as long as it's not a nat one, it should be okay.

0:57:19 Ally: 16.

0:57:19 Brennan: Cool.

0:57:20 Lou: That was the hardest miss.

0:57:21 Ally: Oh, sorry 13.

0:57:22 Brennan: 13.

0:57:22 Ally: Yeah.

0:57:22 Brennan: Cool, Sandra Lynn grabs you. You both jump boom on top of the elevator as it goes down. Adaine, you see this sort of thing go [screeches] Its illusion fades, this nasty vulture like skeksis kind of looking thing, and you see that these weird skeletal arms kind of [screeches] This is a vrock. It's another type of abyssal demon. Comes down, tattered, mangy bellhop uniform on it. The elevator goes down. As the door slides open, and this thing pushes out, you see in a wreath of flame, the cambion appearing down here. There are six more barlgura down here and another vrock as well in a massive satanic penthouse. You see an altar with Riz spread out on it chained up.

0:57:50 Murph: Hot.

0:58:17 Brennan: Fig standing over him with a curvy dagger. Her eyes swollen in her head, literally with goofy spirals on them, like [swirling motions with his index fingers] pew wew!

0:58:28 Emily: Maybe this is like one of those massages that hurts? [players laugh]

0:58:32 Murph: I'm trying to will myself to know magic,

0:58:35 Riz: Dispel magic, I dispel you, Fig! I dispel you! I dispel you!

0:58:41 Brennan: The vrock says,

0:58:43 Vrock: [screeches] Boss says we gotta come.

0:58:46 Brennan: That is the vrock's turn. That is going to be Gorgug.

0:58:52 Zac: Gorgug is still trying to figure out what room [laughs] No. [players laugh]

0:58:54 Zac: Gorgug probably just screams

0:59:00 Gorgug: [dramatically reaching a hand out] Noooooo!

0:59:03 Zac: For Gilear. [players laugh]

0:59:06 Zac: But then, also, there's so much going on. I think he's gonna go for the injured dude. Go into a rage, and then, I think I'm going to reckless attack this guy. So, that's…

0:59:14 Brennan: Awesome.

0:59:23 Zac: One attack with advantage, and that would be nat 20.

0:59:26 Ally: Yes! [players cheer]

0:59:28 Brennan: Oh baby! Alright, Savage Critical because you're a half orc. So, that's gonna be 3d12 plus whatever you add. [players cheer]

0:59:40 Zac: 3d12, eh?

0:59:41 Brennan: Yes.

0:59:42 Zac: Plus 6.

0:59:44 Lou: Oh god.

0:59:45 Emily: I have a question.

0:59:46 Murph: For Gilear.

0:59:49 Zac: Okay, nine, 10.

0:59:49 Lou: That's for Gilear for sure.

0:59:50 Siobhan: Sorry.

0:59:50 Lou: He's the chosen one.

0:59:51 Zac: I have 15 plus 6 on the first attack so 21.

0:59:55 Brennan: First attack does 21. The extremely injured barlgura, are you going for that or the uninjured one?

1:00:01 Zac: The injured one.

1:00:02 Brennan: You decapitate that one, woo! Ax goes through. That demon hits the floor dead.

1:00:10 Zac: And then, I guess I'll take the rest of my movement towards the other one just to.

1:00:14 Brennan: Ah yeah, it's right adjacent so it's no sweat. You're like the lobby smells with the stench of abyssal blood. You can feel the heat of this dead demon's body. The decapitated, the neck thing, just eels start to wriggle out of his neck stump. Horrifying abyssal magic. The next one [growls] at you roaring. Go ahead and take your next attack.

1:00:36 Zac: That's a 23.

1:00:38 Brennan: 23 hits.

1:00:39 Zac: Okay, and that's… That's only eight damage, and then, since I raged, I can't do frenzies.

1:00:48 Brennan: Eight damage, cool, no worries. That's now going to move back on top of the order. Riz, that is you. You see the elevator come down. You can hold your action if you want 'cause Adaine goes right after you, or you can attempt to do something.

1:01:03 Siobhan: I'm also invisible so you don't know I'm there.

1:01:05 Brenan: Oh yeah, that's true. Riz, it is your turn.

1:01:06 Murph: I think right now, oh you know what? Do I see my sword anywhere in this room?

1:01:15 Brennan: It's up against a far wall away from here, yes.

1:01:19 Murph: Oh god, okay. I definitely can't, I'm assuming I'm not going to be able to wiggle out. I think I'm gonna wait and hold my initiative thinking that I'll like move to out of the way when Fig stabs down with the knife.

1:01:32 Brennan: Okay, gotcha. So, Adaine, that is your turn.

1:01:37 Siobhan: Yes, can I see Riz's sword?

1:01:38 Brennan: You can see Riz's sword, and you can see a clearly dominated Fig.

1:01:43 Siobhan: Great. Is the sword within 30 feet of me?

1:01:49 Brennan: Yeah, it is within 30 feet of you.

1:01:51 Siobhan: Great, I would like to grab the sword? And then, I would like to cast Dispel Magic on Fig.

1:02:02 Brennan: Hell yeah, so this is over a third level spell.

1:02:06 Siobhan: I don't have any fourth level spells to cast it as. So, and this is my last third level spell, so.

1:02:10 Brennan: Gotcha.

1:02:11 Siobhan: Fingers crossed, everybody!

1:02:13 Brennan: Boggy can give you the help action here.

1:02:15 Siobhan: Yes, oh, do I have to roll? Is it my roll?

1:02:17 Brennan: I believe it's a raw intelligence check.

1:02:20 Siobhan: Oh yes, DC10 plus the spell's level.

1:02:23 Brennan: Correct. [players scream]

1:02:26 Siobhan: Oh, 2 nat 20s. [players yell]

1:02:31 Brennan: Are you kidding me? What, we, I promise the dice aren't weighted, guys. I—

1:02:33 Murph: That's insane.

1:02:34 Brennan: I fully promise.

1:02:36 Ally: That is so sick.

1:02:38 Lou: We're scary now.

1:02:39 Zac: Did that work? Did that work?

1:02:41 Murph: I'm so excited, but does that fucking do it?

1:02:45 Siobhan: Brennan, I'm so sorry, does that work? [mumbles]

1:02:46 Brennan: I'm gonna go ahead and say with... [laughing instead of speaking]

1:02:52 Zac: Just wondering.

1:02:53 Siobhan: Everybody dies, we win!

1:02:56 Zac: Cool, so, and you're still under your Greater Invisibility, right?

1:02:59 Siobhan: Yes.

1:03:00 Brennan: So, you hear Boggy just goes, you also, you can see through your own invisibility. Boggy, I should say does have one second mood. He does have another mood besides “happy to be here, gang”, because sometimes that mood would actually make you feel more anxious if your surroundings were too hellish and bad. So, right when the door opens, he does change to his second mood, which is he sort of narrows his eyes a little bit, and just gives a general like “I don't know about this”, which is his second mood.

1:03:33 Zac: One of two moods.

1:03:34 Brennan: One of two moods. The second mood is a kind of like a confused light disapproval. [players laugh]

1:03:41 Brennan: And but, as soon as you cast that dispel you see, he goes back to being happy to be here. I'm gonna say with two nat 20s, Riz's little bundle of stuff is Mage Handed across to Riz, and Fig, you move up in initiative order with the power of a one in 400 chance Dispel Magic.

1:03:53 Ally: That's insane.

1:04:06 Brennan: You boom come out of the spell! Suddenly remember all the stuff you did, but you remember it through that haze of like automatically driving and see yourself holding this dagger in the middle of this place with Riz here. Both of you, it is your turn.

1:04:21 Emily: Okay, what were we just, what was I just saying? Like so I remember everything, right?

1:04:27 Brennan: Through the haze of it all, you got here, gave them the Devil's Heart, the ruby, with your dad trapped in it. They have done some kind of spell to it. It is up in the like coat check room upstairs right now. So, the ruby's in the coat check room upstairs, and they told you to come down here because the final thing they needed to do in order for all this to happen was to have a human sacrifice, and Riz was the person they had. Riz, you remember something that I need to say now, which is this. You see a person that Fig doesn't see. As the cambion appears and says kill them, dressed all in black, but like face concealed, just two slitted yellow eyes, you see a figure look across the room, roll their eyes, walk into shadow and disappear.

1:05:30 Emily: I grab Riz, Dimension Door to the coat room.

1:05:34 Brennan: Oh, and you're out of your bonds, incredible! Awesome.

1:05:39 Fig: I mean, I don't know what your plan is, but I'm just like this is bad.

1:05:41 Riz: This is good, this is good, yeah.

1:05:42 Brennan: So, you have your stuff, you hit him, teleport [grunts] You see a room full of demons all go [groans] man, what? And most of them are downstairs. You guys appear in the coat room. So, that's your action, any bonus action or anything else there?

1:06:02 Emily: I'll wink at you and give you Bardic Inspiration, and be like,

1:06:05 Fig: Are we even now?

1:06:07 Riz: We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it later, you're acting really weird.

1:06:08 Fig: Just so you know, that was not my choice to do.

1:06:12 Riz: Yes, I know that, yes, of course.

1:06:13 Fig: Okay.

1:06:14 Riz: Yeah. We're cool.

1:06:15 Fig: I'm really sorry.

1:06:16 Riz: It's okay.

1:06:16 Fig: I didn't even wanna say sorry while I was doing it. It seemed really normal, but right now, it feels so not normal and I feel super messed up.

1:06:24 Riz: You totally don't need to apologize right now.

1:06:26 Fig: I need a cigarette.

1:06:27 Murph: Are we in the main room?

1:06:28 Brennan: No, you guys are off in the coat check. Everyone fighting upstairs, give me a Perception check.

1:06:36 Zac: 19.

1:06:36 Brennan: Anyone that beat a 15, here's Fig and Riz talking in the, like where the coats are.

1:06:44 Gorgug: [anguished] Gilear's dead!!!!

1:06:44 Riz: What?

1:06:45 Fig: What? [players laugh]

1:06:46 Murph: I guess I'll rush in—

1:06:48 Fig: Did I do that? I didn't do that, right?

1:06:50 Gorgug: No, one of these guys did.

1:06:52 Murph: I still have a turn, right?

1:06:54 Brennan: Yes, you still have a turn.

1:06:55 Murph: I guess I'll rush out into the main area.

1:06:59 Fabian: The Ball!

1:07:01 Riz: Hey, what's up, guys? We have a lot to catch up on. Oh m— Gilear! Hold my hand out, and is there anybody who's injured or anything?

1:07:10 Brennan: Gilear is dead. [players laugh]

1:07:12 Brennan: Other than that, I literally don't think they've done damage to you guys.

1:07:16 Emily: I actually do have a reaction if someone's died within 30 feet of me, I can capture their soul, and I think right now, I'm just doing it emotionally. I'm just like in a way that I'm like, I wanna keep everything of you that existed. So, I just capture a soul.

1:07:32 Brennan: A wispy image of Gilear appears in your hands, and he goes

1:07:36 Gilear: How did I do? How was I in the fight?

1:07:41 Fig: You killed everyone.

1:07:45 Gilear: I don't know my own strength. I'm so sorry.

1:07:48 Fig: No, I'm sorry—

1:07:49 Gilear: I can't feel anything. [Brennan laughs]

1:07:52 Fig: That's good.

1:07:53 Brennan: Riz, what do you do?

1:07:55 Murph: I guess, there's just this one big monster in here?

1:07:59 Brennan: One big monster in here, yeah.

1:08:00 Murph: Okay, I guess I'll take a shot at him. Yeah, but I guess I yell,

1:08:07 Riz: Once we've got everyone rounded up I think we need to leave. There's a lot of people downstairs.

1:08:13 Murph: Oh, geez. That's only a 13 to hit.

1:08:16 Brenan: 13 does not hit.

1:08:17 Riz: Great, sorry, guys! [Brennan laughs]

1:08:22 Brennan: Okay—

1:08:24 Murph: And then, I guess I'll hide as a bonus action.

1:08:26 Brennan: Cool, give me a stealth check.

1:08:28 Murph: 20.

1:08:29 Brennan: 20, cool. Cathilda is going to rush the last one there. That's going to be two hits. [counting]

1:08:43 Zac: I want you to use the nat 20 on that guy.

1:08:50 Brennan: Six, 10, 14, 21, 28.

1:08:54 Siobhan: So many numbers.

1:08:56 Lou: So many—

1:08:58 Brennan: Cathilda runs up and slits the throat of the barlgura. Blood starts oozing, it's still up, but she does a tremendous amount of damage.

1:09:06 Fabian: Yes, Cathilda, yes!

1:09:08 Cathilda: Right? Well, I do love to clean up a mess, sir. You know that. [players laugh]

1:09:13 Fabian: Maid humor.

1:09:14 Ally: I'm not there for this, okay? I'm not there for this.

1:09:17 Brennan: Kristen, you and Sandra Lynn are down. Sandra Lynn, both of you guys make a Perception check.

1:09:29 Ally: Sure. Yeah, high, yeah, 25.

1:09:33 Brennan: You both know that Fig and Riz are gone so you don't have to jump down into the elevator if you don't want to.

1:09:37 Ally: Right, yeah, okay, I have a question for you.

1:09:39 Brennan: Yes.

1:09:40 Ally: So, these are like Satanist devils.

1:09:43 Brennan: Yes.

1:09:43 Ally: And the only people I think more obsessed with the satanic than Satanists are [laughing] Christians.

1:09:51 Brennan: Sure.

1:09:51 Ally: So can I roll like a Religion check on this and try to figure out everything that's going on? Like what they were trying to do, maybe where that devil's heart gem is that got stolen.

1:10:01 Emily: It's in the coat check.

1:10:02 Brennan: Yeah.

1:10:02 Ally: Oh, cool.

1:10:03 Brennan: Give me a Religion check.

1:10:04 Ally: Okay, I get advantage on this because of my book. Oh, a 20 rolled away. Okay, this is a 16.

1:10:15 Brennan: These are a group of demons. They seem to be the staff of this hotel. You're not sure if that is a permanent thing or if that's a thing that happened recently. The leader is a cambion, the winged kind of more classically devil looking one that was the concierge, seems to be in charge. There's two of these vulture ones that appear more capable of speech, and then, there is the barlgura, which are the huge sort of gorilla demons. All of them are wearing like tattered nasty hotel garb for the most part, except of the cambion that's wearing like nice armor. You know that demons are different than devils in a really important way which is that devils administer the nine hells. It is a place of lawful evil things. What that ends up meaning a lot is they are there to like punish the soul of the wicked, and they are about like contracts where you sell your soul, tyranny, subjugation, lording over and conquering. Demons from the abyss are not about punishing the souls of the wicked, they're about being pure forces of destruction. They are chaotic evil. They're, the abyss is not like a part of the bureaucracy of how souls get punished or whatever. Like people do end up there, but the demons don't like, tend to the running of the abyss. That is like the inmates running a prison metaphor kind of place. Demons don't tend to have one modus operandi. What you do remember is Adaine's lore about devils saying that demons, that the Nightmare King had fought on behalf of demons before in the past.

1:11:59 Ally: Got it.

1:12:00 Brennan: What do you do?

1:12:02 Ally: Try to get back up, maybe climb back up?

1:12:04 Brennan: Cool, give me an Athletics check.

1:12:06 Ally: Cool.

1:12:07 Brennan: Sandra Lynn is going to use her turn to give you the help action.

1:12:10 Ally: Great, that's good. That's really good.

1:12:12 Lou: Thank God.

1:12:14 Ally: Let's see, that's a 14?

1:12:16 Brennan: Yeah, Sandra Lynn boosts you up and like gets you to pry open the doors and you can move out back into the lobby where this fight is going on.

1:12:23 Kristen: Cool, hey, guys!

1:12:25 Fabian: Gilear is dead!

1:12:27 Kristen: What?

1:12:28 Fabian: And he's special.

1:12:30 Ally: Okay, I sprint to Gilear with whatever remaining.

1:12:31 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:12:32 Ally: I have, can I do Spare the Dying or is he just too far gone?

1:12:37 Brennan: He's full dead.

1:12:38 Ally: All right.

1:12:38 Brennan: So, it's gonna be a Revivify or nothing.

1:12:41 Ally: Okay.

1:12:44 Brennan: So reluctant. Let's see, I guess, let me just find it.

1:12:48 Siobhan: All of your turns will be used for this.

1:12:49 Ally: I, yeah. Hey, I casted something on him to try to save him. Okay, I cast Revivify, and I spend a diamond, and I burn it.

1:13:02 Brennan: Cool, so that's 300 gold pieces if you guys wanna like trade off who does it, or.

1:13:07 Fig: I'll pay it off.

1:13:07 Kristen: Yeah?

1:13:08 Gorgug: Maybe we just put him in debt a little bit.

1:13:11 Kristen: Oh, yeah, let's keep a—

1:13:12 Fabian: We'll take it from his pay.

1:13:13 Kristen: We'll put it on his tab.

1:13:14 Fig: Yes, we're doing a layaway thing with Gilear.

1:13:14 Brenan: You reach down—

1:13:16 Ally: Can I reach down into his pocket, take out his wallet, and try to take the 300 gold pieces?

1:13:21 Lou: That's the first thing. You're not even trying to Revivify.

1:13:24 Ally: I'm checking the pockets of a dead man, but it's Gilear, it's okay.

1:13:27 Brennan: Dragon madness.

1:13:30 Lou: What?

1:13:32 Brennan: Nothing, you reach down. As you cast Revivify, in this new place of like absurdist, nihilistic doubt, instead of like wielding the holy light of Helio to perform a miraculous resurrection, instead you just feel a powerful feeling of like sure, why not this? Why not come back from the dead? Why would that not be a thing that could happen? And you hear [gasps] [yells] and Gilear comes back with 1 hit point.

1:13:49 Gilear: [yells]

1:13:58 Fig: Gilear!

1:14:07 Ally: Can you tell me what's in Gilear's wallet?

1:14:09 Gilear: I have never felt something as powerful as that demon hitting me in the back of the head.

1:14:14 Fig: What did you see on the other side?

1:14:17 Gilear: You! You grabbed my soul and talked to me. I was there for the whole thing.

1:14:23 Fig: [laughing] Sorry if that was invasive. I was just trying to remember you.

1:14:26 Gilear: No, I get it, [groans] it hurt. [groans]

1:14:29 Fig: I could sort of do like, you know when someone does a speech at someone's funeral, but I could do it as you. [players laugh]

1:14:37 Brennan: Kristen, that's your turn. In a blast of fire, the cambion opens a gate, and all of the demons from downstairs appear up in the lobby with you guys.

1:14:48 Kristen: We have to run, right?

1:15:00 Fabian: At least Gilear needs to escape.

1:15:04 Brennan: That is going to be Fabian.

1:15:07 Fabian: First off, Hangman, I need you now!

1:15:11 Hangman: Sire, I am on my way! [grumbles]

1:15:13 Fabian: Great, Gilear, my motorcycle will be here in a second. I know you're going to shit yourself, but just get on it, all right?

1:15:20 Gilear: [stressed] Okay, I'll do that right now.

1:15:22 Lou: Great, and then, can I run, use him as a springboard a second time?

1:15:26 Brennan: Cool, give me an Athletic.

1:15:29 Ally: He has 1 health point left.

1:15:31 Siobhan: It takes away your advantage to use him as a springboard. Lou rolls, then sighs, putting his hand to his face. Zac headdesks. Siobhan shakes her head sadly.

1:15:34 Emily: [screams] You deserve it! You deserve this!

1:15:36 Brennan: Is that a nat 1?

1:15:37 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:15:38 Brennan: Gilear is unconscious and making death saving throws.

1:15:40 Lou and Emily: No! [players scream]

1:15:41 Murph: You deserve it. You fully deserve it.

1:15:41 Ally: [pointing emphatically at Lou] You! After pointing at Lou, Ally covers part of their chest with their hand, then covers their face with both hands.

1:15:42 Brennan: You leap up, you think he's gonna give you his face again, but he remembers last time and turns it away. You fully crush his windpipe, leap off.

1:15:51 Ally: That made me so mad, it burst my stitches.

1:15:54 Brennan: [genuinely concerned] Oh no, are you okay?

1:15:56 Ally: I'll be fine! I'm fine, they're mostly healed, but the ones that aren't, are in trouble.

1:16:02 Lou: That's on me, yes. [players laugh]

1:16:04 Brennan: Cool, Gilear's—

1:16:05 Fabian: We had a good thing going!

1:16:07 Lou: And then, can I stand—

1:16:08 Ally: You, after I fucking cast the Revivify. [groans]