Heartache On the Celestine Sea

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 4: Heartache on the Celestine Sea < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: Hello and welcome back to Dimension 20 Live presents Fantasy High: Sophomore Year. I'm your humble Dungeon Master, Brennan Lee Mulligan, with me as always are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:11 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:13 Brennan: Oh gosh, it's so lovely to have you back! This is Dropout's weekly game of D&D. We're here, continuing the story of the Bad Kids, a group of adventurers from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy in the town of Elmville, a kind of modern, 1980s-esque teen group that goes out into the world of Spyre, beyond the borders of Solace on wild adventures. For their Spring Break, and 60 percent of their sophomore year grade, the Bad Kids have been sent out to retrieve the Crown of the Nightmare King. [classical music plays]

0:00:48 Brennan: They find themselves outside the Hotel, sorry, inside a fancy restaurant in Bastion City called The Swan's Little Parade. And as they are here in The Swan's Little Parade, they've just dealt with the recovery of their captured friends, Riz and Fig, who they got back from the clutch of some demons. You guys stole a guestbook, you guys got your friends back, you made out with the chief of police, disguised—

0:01:16 Emily: By the way, did I get a name?

0:01:18 Brennan: Can you give me a quick intelligence check to see if you spotted his name?

0:01:22 Emily: Anyone want to give me a help action?

0:01:24 Murph: Sure.

0:01:24 Emily: Yes, yes! Did you say intelligence?

0:01:32 Brennan: Intelligence, yes.

0:01:34 Emily: 15!

0:01:36 Brennan: Police Commissioner Runce Buggins. [laughter]

0:01:41 Emily: Wow.

0:01:41 Siobhan: That's so hot.

0:01:43 Emily: Commissioner Buggins.

0:01:46 Ally: You always know how to pick 'em.

0:01:47 Brennan: You certainly do. However, we're not there now, we're actually over at The Swan's Little Parade. And The Swan's Little Parade is an extremely fancy, well-to-do dining establishment, the wait staff dance out with various foie gras and lovely little caviars. And we see that, here at the dining table, you know, Gilear is recovering from his, I would say near death experience, but it's actually just a full death experience. [laughter]

0:02:02 Zac: Coming back to life.

0:02:17 Brennan: And coming back to life. We also discovered that Ragh Barkrock is terrified and sees something in the photograph. Tracker has offered to do some kind of magic to hopefully help him and prevent whatever weird situation would occur here. And we also just received a text message, Gorgug, on his phone. [Zac sighs]

0:02:44 Brennan: From Zelda Donovan, his girlfriend, asking if he left Elmville without saying goodbye.

0:02:52 Gorgug: [sighs] I'm in the doghouse. [laughter] [barks]

0:02:54 Fig: You know, Gorgug, do you know what I think will get you out of the doghouse?

0:02:59 Gorgug: What?

0:02:59 Fig: If we write her a really good song.

0:03:04 Gorgug: [sighs] I don't, I, I probably should—

0:03:06 Kristen: Don't talk to her until you finish the song.

0:03:07 Gorgug: —talk to—

0:03:09 Fig: Yeah.

0:03:09 Adaine: Yeah, don't text her back—

0:03:09 Fig: Don’t respond.

0:03:10 Kristen: Spend a lot of time on the song and make it perfect.

0:03:12 Gorgug: Shouldn't I just—

0:03:13 Fig: Turn off your read receipts.

0:03:14 Gorgug: Reach out?

0:03:15 Kristen: No.

0:03:16 Gorgug: Read receipts are off. No, no, no, no.

0:03:18 Ally: What is he, a dealer? [laughter]

0:03:22 Zac: I think Gorgug, I like that idea, is just going to call Zelda.

0:03:28 Brennan: Just at the table?

0:03:30 Zac: Yeah. [laughter]

0:03:32 Lou: Good, this is the way we should do things.

0:03:33 Zac: I don't want to ask everyone to move, it's a booth, right?

0:03:37 Brennan: No, you're, there's no booths here. It's lovely like little banquet tables, there's—

0:03:41 Riz: It’s super loud here, Gorgug. [laughter]

0:03:44 Gorgug: Can everyone be quiet for a second?

0:03:47 Brennan: You see as you do that, the maître d' just appears next to you as the phone starts ringing and says, Maître d': [French accent] [mild tone] Monsieur, if you can destroy your phone?

0:03:57 Gorgug: Destroy it?

0:03:57 Emily: Can I cast Suggestion on him? [laughs] To allow this to happen? [laughs]

0:04:04 Brennan: What does, what does Fig say?

0:04:06 Murph: If we get killed by the staff of The Swan's Little Parade—

0:04:07 Lou: If we have to fight—

0:04:10 Zac: Total party kill.

0:04:11 Emily: I suggest, okay,

0:04:11 Fig: Phones are allowed now. [laughs]

0:04:15 Brennan: He looks at you, you have never felt a spell of yours more powerfully rebuffed before. [Emily laughs]

0:04:21 Brennan: He says, Maître d': Excuse me, please. Also do not cast a spell on me. The phone, you cannot make a call at the table—

0:04:29 Fabian: Monsieur, I'm sorry. These people are commoners, poor folk, who've just recently come into wealth. They're not accustomed to our—

0:04:35 Fig: I'm actually super loaded.

0:04:37 Fabian: Well you're super loaded now, all right? But you haven't been super loaded for as long as some of us have. Maître d': It is all right, we would like to brush the gentleman just to make sure everything is alright.

0:04:49 Fabian: Brush him? Maître d': Just brush him.

0:04:51 Fabian: But of course. They're going to brush you.

0:04:53 Brennan: About five waiters come over—

0:04:53 Zac: To me? They’re dusting me?

0:04:53 Brennan: With small, white feather dusters and just kind of—

0:04:56 Kristen: Is this a rich thing?

0:04:57 Fabian: This is a thing, yes, this is very much a rich thing. [swishing]

0:04:59 Gorgug: Am I, do I, I haven't heard anything about looking dirty. Do I look dirtier than— Maître d': [whilst brushing Gorgug] You made a phone call in the restaurant, so we just want to brush you to be sure.

0:05:07 Fig: To make sure, for fingerprints? Maître d': Exactly.

0:05:10 Gorgug: For fingerprints? Maître d': No, I mean, I did not hear what you said, what?

0:05:13 Fig: For fingerprints? Maître d': No. [swishing]

0:05:16 Adaine: Just step outside.

0:05:16 Gorgug: Should I go outside, is that okay?

0:05:18 Adaine: Do you have a phone area? Maître d': Oui, we have an area. It is downtown, it is but a—

0:05:23 Gorgug: Different place? Maître d': Five minute drive, and just to make sure.

0:05:25 Adaine: [to Gorgug] Just go outside.

0:05:27 Gorgug: Okay. I will leave.

0:05:30 Kristen: My parents always made a big deal of stressing that we were upper middle class, and I feel like that was a lie, for a long time. [Emily laughs]

0:05:34 Gorgug: Sometimes.

0:05:38 Kristen: We'd eat hot dogs with cheese in 'em when it was my birthday.

0:05:40 Adaine: Yeah, no, no, you were working class.

0:05:42 Fabian: That's pretty far, that's—

0:05:43 Kristen: I've never seen a brush like that before. Now, that's all I want to buy.

0:05:47 Adaine: No—

0:05:47 Kristen: Can you brush yourself?

0:05:49 Adaine: You don't buy it, you just have to inherit it. That's... Maître d': I'm so sorry, you mentioned that you have never seen one of these brushes before?

0:05:56 Kristen: No, but I— Maître d': If it's all right, we would just like to brush—

0:05:57 Kristen: What?!

0:05:59 Gorgug: Run, they're going to brush you! [laughter]

0:06:00 Kristen: I love it!

0:06:02 Fabian: Embrace the brushing!

0:06:03 Kristen: I love it, this is—

0:06:04 Fabian: This is one of the best things about money.

0:06:06 Fig: At this point, my curiosity is piqued. Please brush me. [laughter] Maître d': You are asking to be brushed?

0:06:14 Adaine: Please brush my friend. [Lou laughs] Maître d': [sighs] I'm afraid we are going to need to hose you down.

0:06:19 Ally: [laughs] Oh my God! Maître d': Nothing that has happened, we don't do it in the restaurant you're going to have to come in back of the kitchen—

0:06:26 Kristen: Oh my gosh, it's like in prison!

0:06:28 Fig: You know what? After everything that happened, I do feel dirty. So yeah, let's go do this.

0:06:32 Brennan: You see that Gilear looks and says,

0:06:34 Gilear: I was a diplomat for the elven people for some time. This is a level of wealth that—

0:06:40 Adaine: Is that true?

0:06:42 Kristen: Hey yeah, Gilear, I've always wanted to know more about your past.

0:06:43 Adaine: You were a diplomat?

0:06:48 Gilear: Yeah, I mentioned it before. Yes, I was, I worked, remember when I was applying for the guidance counselor position that ended up going to—

0:06:52 Fig: Jawbone.

0:06:57 Gilear: Jawbone.

0:06:58 Kristen: You were gonna be a guidance counselor?

0:07:00 Fig: I was trying to get him hooked up with the guidance counselor job.

0:07:02 Fabian: Those were the two jobs, yeah.

0:07:03 Fig: But then, in a twist of fate, possibly it shows you how life knows better, you became the— [laughs]

0:07:10 Kristen: [loudly] You were the Lunch Lad?

0:07:12 Adaine: And then the Vice Principal!

0:07:13 Gorgug: Who did you think— Kristen, where were you?

0:07:16 Kristen: What? I thought you looked familiar, that's why I was so glad you were our intern.

0:07:21 Gorgug: You just, you thought you didn't know him at all—

0:07:24 Riz: This does not represent how any of us—

0:07:26 Kristen: I really thought, that's crazy. You know, I want to get to know you more, man.

0:07:32 Gilear: We have spent an amount of time, I mean, a truly tremendous amount of time—

0:07:37 Emily: Gilear—

0:07:38 Murph: Riz takes a lap around the building, just. [laughs]

0:07:41 Emily: Can I palm some money to someone to brush down Gilear?

0:07:44 Murph: What is everyone doing?

0:07:46 Zac: I'm outside.

0:07:46 Brennan: You're outside. Gorgug, you are outside by yourself. [laughter] You, as you go outside, you basically, you know. The phone starts ringing. As it does... Rings once. [Lou exhales]

0:08:08 Brennan: Twice. Three times.

0:08:10 Zac: I hope she picks up.

0:08:13 Brennan: Fourth time—

0:08:13 Zac: And then she picks up?

0:08:15 Zelda: Hi, this is Zelda Donovan.

0:08:16 Gorgug: Hey, Zel—

0:08:17 Zelda: Thanks so much for giving me a call.

0:08:18 Lou: Ooh!

0:08:19 Zelda: This is a message. All you have to do is leave your name and number, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks so much.

0:08:24 Brennan: Beep! [sad ambient music plays]

0:08:28 Gorgug: [laughs] Hey, Zelda! It's me, Gorgug. I was just calling because I freakin' messed up. And there's a lot going on, Fig and Riz got kind of taken or something, and we had to leave town real fast, but that's not really a good excuse and, but yeah, I'm gone. We're in, we're out of town, in what's it called—

0:08:56 Brennan: [quietly] Bastion City.

0:08:57 Gorgug: We're in Bastion City. Call me back when you can or I'll try later. I'm really sorry. Bye. Goodbye. I hope you have a good day, goodbye. [laughter]

0:09:10 Brennan: Nailed it, dude.

0:09:10 Ally: It's definitely night time.

0:09:13 Gorgug: [quietly] Fuck, good night!

0:09:15 Brennan: Oh, does Gorgug immediately come back in, or no?

0:09:20 Zac: [sighs] What's around here? [laughs]

0:09:23 Brennan: Sort of an empty street. You notice fancy little restaurants, it's a very upscale kind of neighborhood. There's a few little restaurants around, but you know, 'cause it also seems sort of like fancy, sort of townhouses and things like that in Bastion City.

0:09:38 Zac: Maybe Gorgug just goes a little bit on a walk, just to clear his head, to see if he, it feels like, I think he thinks he wants to call her again, but that seems crazy as well. So he's just like, just walking. [Lou sighs deeply]

0:09:53 Brennan: You go on a little walk around the corner. [Zac laughs]

0:09:56 Lou: It's too real. [laughter] I feel like I've been in this position. [laughter]

0:10:01 Ally: Are you crying?

0:10:01 Lou: [wipes his eyes] A little bit! Stop!

0:10:06 Brennan: Cool.

0:10:07 Murph: I think if, I think if I see Gorgug walk away just 'cause people have been captured recently, I might sneak out and just kind of watch him from a distance.

0:10:16 Emily: I was going to say that I would like to maybe send, leave a note at the police station, so I might have also been crawling about.

0:10:26 Brennan: Okay. You go take a look at the police station.

0:10:33 Emily: Oh, but I don't want to, I'm just saying I might be sneaking out while Gorgug—

0:10:35 Brennan: While Gorgug is there. Cool. Each of, go ahead and give me a stealth roll real quick.

0:10:45 Zac: 19.

0:10:46 Brennan: Okay. I'm gonna need a perception from Riz and Fig.

0:10:50 Murph: Yikes.

0:10:50 Emily: Oh, I see.

0:10:52 Lou: Is there a roll to order more foie gras?

0:10:55 Brennan: For you, Mr. Seacaster, there are no roll to order more foie gras.

0:10:59 Murph: 10, I can't see him.

0:11:00 Emily: 7.

0:11:01 Brennan: 7. I'm gonna roll back here as well real quick. Okay. Gorgug, you head off on your own. So you guys finish eating here. As the meal's sort of wrapping up, you see Sandra Lynn looks around a little while. [to Emily] You leave to go to the police station?

0:11:24 Emily: Actually I'll probably wait 'til we go to bed.

0:11:26 Brennan: Okay, cool. So as you guys are hanging out here, you know, right after Gorgug kind of goes for a walk, Sandra Lynn looks up and says,

0:11:37 Sandra Lynn: All right, well, we'll have whatever Tracker's going to do tonight, but what's the plan after that, gang?

0:11:44 Fig: Jailbreak, right?

0:11:45 Riz: Yeah. Well, not necessarily a jailbreak. We should talk to her. She’s—

0:11:49 Adaine: Why do, why is it we think that she specifically will have information?

0:11:54 Fig: I think—

0:11:54 Adaine: We know that this thing's in Fallinel, and that we know that the Shadow Cat was an agent of Fallinel. Why does that mean Aelwyn? I don't see how Aelwyn is in any way connected to any of this.

0:12:07 Riz: I think your family might be involved.

0:12:09 Adaine: Well, I would rather talk to my parents than to—

0:12:12 Riz: Do you know where they are?

0:12:14 Adaine: No!

0:12:15 Riz: So...

0:12:15 Fabian: I feel like The Ball's making a great point right here.

0:12:18 Riz: Well, I'm saying no jailbreak. I'm saying we speak to her.

0:12:22 Adaine: Why don't we look in this hotel book—

0:12:24 Riz: Okay.

0:12:25 Adaine: And see what's going on there.

0:12:27 Brennan: Great, give me a, anyone that wants to check that out, give me an investigation check.

0:12:32 Siobhan: Can I have Boggy give me an—

0:12:33 Brennan: Yes, absolutely!

0:12:35 Murph: Does anyone want to help me? I have good investigation.

0:12:36 Ally: Yeah, yeah, I'll help you.

0:12:37 Murph: Okay, sweet, thank you.

0:12:38 Lou: 18.

0:12:38 Siobhan: Hell yeah, I got a 25.

0:12:39 Brennan: 25.

0:12:41 Murph: I got a 27.

0:12:42 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:12:44 Lou: Damn, I thought I was going to contribute. I thought I would help.

0:12:47 Siobhan: You helped us really effectively while—

0:12:49 Lou: Thank you, everyone.

0:12:49 Emily: Hit me with the contribute!

0:12:52 Brennan: Fabian, I'm gonna say that an 18 has to do—

0:12:55 Lou: Oh hell yes!

0:12:56 Brennan: I'm gonna say an 18 has to do with the fact that, as you're going along, you guys are moseying in the sort of registry that you guys have stolen from the Hotel Cavalier, you have to go months and months and months back. You see your father's signature.

0:13:12 Fabian: Oh! My papa stayed here.

0:13:17 Brennan: Not only do you see that, as you guys go and look back, Bill Seacaster's signature is here in the hotel book several times.

0:13:26 Fabian: Wow! Look at that, my papa.

0:13:27 Riz: It's not good, Fabian.

0:13:30 Fabian: What, I mean, [stammers] what do you mean? I mean, it's not bad.

0:13:34 Ally: Where did he stay?

0:13:34 Fig: It is sort of a den of criminals, and Mr. Seacaster—

0:13:40 Emily: [laughter] Have we ever said Mr. Seacaster?

0:13:41 Lou: I don't think, that feels like, that really felt new and weird.

0:13:45 Ally: Professor Seacaster was a criminal.

0:13:47 Lou: Yeah.

0:13:48 Emily: Mr. Seacaster was a criminal. Are there, is there any name in conjunction with, are we seeing it in tandem with another name?

0:13:54 Brennan: As you look for that, that specific question, literally that specific question, there is a name that appears in the room prior to his stay for every one of his stays.

0:14:10 Siobhan: Dang.

0:14:11 Brennan: And that name is Garthy O'Brien. Garthy is spelled G-A-R-T-H-Y.

0:14:17 Ally: That's real.

0:14:19 Brennan: Garthy O'Brien.

0:14:20 Emily: Can I Google Garthy O'Brien?

0:14:22 Lou: Do I have any knowledge of this person familiar-wise?

0:14:28 Brennan: Roll a charisma, like, roll a, umm. Yeah, roll flat charisma with advantage.

0:14:39 Lou: That's gonna be 15.

0:14:42 Brennan: Garthy O'Brien will not probably be findable on a Solisian search engine, because Garthy O'Brien is not Solisian. You know that they live out on the wide, open sea. This is another pirate.

0:14:56 Emily: Oh.

0:14:56 Siobhan: But we're in a sea port, right?

0:14:59 Brennan: You are.

0:15:00 Fig: Cathilda, have you met Garthy O'Brien? Do you know—

0:15:04 Brennan: She looks and says, oh, hold on one second.

0:15:09 Cathilda: Oh right. Well, Miss Fig, why Garthy O'Brien, I know them quite well.

0:15:14 Fig: It's Mrs.

0:15:15 Cathilda: What's that?

0:15:15 Adaine: Them!

0:15:16 Fig: Mrs. Fig.

0:15:17 Cathilda: Them, yes! I know them quite well. Garthy's a, well, they're a, how do I put this? A pirate. And they run the Gold Gardens, which are a series of houses of fortune and pleasure in Leviathan.

0:15:27 Fabian: Oh! [laughs]

0:15:38 Fig: Okay, I will go to a casino over a jail.

0:15:40 Adaine: I don't think it's a casino, I think it's a whorehouse.

0:15:43 Fig: Well, I mean, anytime you have sex with a, you know, it could be a gamble, right?

0:15:47 Kristen: And you always win the bet!

0:15:48 Fig: You might lose your heart. [Ally laughs]

0:15:50 Murph: Riz takes another lap.

0:15:53 Adaine: How much experience do you have—

0:15:54 Kristen: Is this your Netflix special? [laughs]

0:15:55 Adaine: What happened to you on tour?

0:15:57 Kristen: We can't say anything anymore!

0:15:59 Fig: What happened to me was, I let some walls down, okay?

0:16:03 Adaine: No, you, no, all right.

0:16:05 Kristen: Leviathan, is that what you said?

0:16:07 Fabian: Oh yes. Leviathan. It's like, me and Papa used to go there sometimes, it's this incredible pirate fortress that sails the seas, and it's like a bunch of ships that smash together. It's honestly the coolest place in the whole world.

0:16:25 Kristen: Huh.

0:16:26 Fabian: And I'm total, I could totally get us in, because, you know, my dad is like a big shot there. Or was a big shot before he, I killed him.

0:16:36 Emily: Okay.

0:16:36 Fabian: It's honestly so cool, though. And I would totally love to go.

0:16:40 Fig: It’s like, like dinner theater?

0:16:42 Fabian: No, no, no, no. No, it's like a, we're talking like a city-sized place made up of ships that have all kind of broken wreckages of ships that have all been kind of put together, and you know, they've kind of built a city on top of this floating mass. And it's kind of like a pirate haven or like—

0:17:00 Zac: Sounds like Spring Break. I'm not here, but— [laughter]

0:17:02 Fig: It sounds like Spring Break.

0:17:03 Adaine: It sounds like Spring Break. Whoa, jinx.

0:17:06 Fabian: I don't know what that is a reference to, but yes.

0:17:09 Kristen: It sounds like the trash island off the coast of Texas.

0:17:13 Fabian: Don't know any of those specifics, but yes. [Emily laughs]

0:17:17 Siobhan: What did we find in this hotel book?

0:17:22 Brennan: In this hotel, well, that's what you guys found.

0:17:23 Siobhan: Oh, okay, great.

0:17:24 Brennan: Is this clue about the fact, the months that you see there line up for the several months at the end of your freshman year.

0:17:34 Siobhan: Ah, okay.

0:17:36 Brennan: When you guys were largely in jail and a little bit before that. This was during the time when you know that Bill Seacaster was supplying palimpsests to KVX Bank.

0:17:48 Siobhan: Interesting.

0:17:49 Ally: Do you think maybe this is how they got all the rubies that are in that bag that you have?

0:17:53 Siobhan: Maybe.

0:17:55 Murph: It's interesting, why would—

0:17:56 Siobhan: Is this guy, Garthy O'Brien, anywhere else in the hotel book, or only in relation to Bill Seacaster?

0:18:03 Brennan: Only in the room that Bill Seacaster was staying in, directly before he was—

0:18:08 Siobhan: So Garthy would stay after Bill Seacaster.

0:18:09 Murph: It seems that they wouldn't be able to meet with Bill Seacaster, you know, it's strange that one of them couldn't just check in, they couldn't meet. Why did—

0:18:20 Emily: They might have overlapped. Check out, check in.

0:18:22 Siobhan: You're leaving something in the room, and then—

0:18:25 Murph: Right, but why can't Garthy O'Brien just talk to Bill Seacaster?

0:18:29 Emily: Because that would implicate them.

0:18:29 Siobhan: Criminal activity.

0:18:32 Fabian: It's like a drop, the Ball. You know, it's like Garthy goes in—

0:18:36 Murph: But they're both— : Leaves a thing—

0:18:37 Murph: Everyone knew they were both pirates.

0:18:38 Siobhan: No because Bill Seacaster, once you become a citizen of Solace, they forgive all of your—

0:18:43 Murph: Got it. Right. Right.

0:18:46 Siobhan: Former crimes. So he's, he was living pretending that he was done and reformed.

0:18:52 Murph: Right. Also, not to accuse everyone's parents of crimes today, but Bill Seacaster's in hell, right?

0:19:00 Lou: Oh, big time.

0:19:01 Murph: And we just fought a bunch of devils.

0:19:03 Siobhan: Oh.

0:19:03 Sandra Lynn: Demons,

0:19:03 Brennan: says Sandra Lynn.

0:19:05 Riz: They were demons.

0:19:05 Adaine: Oh yeah, demons are different from devils.

0:19:07 Riz: Okay, they were demons, not devils—

0:19:07 Kristen: Can I see the ruby that you're, that you got?

0:19:12 Fig: Yeah.

0:19:12 Emily: I take it out and it's just,

0:19:12 Fig: My other dad.

0:19:15 Ally: And this looks crazy, right?

0:19:18 Brennan: Yes, the ruby is almost jet black with this roiling kind of storm cloud within it. You can see sort of billowing of smoke with—

0:19:27 Ally: Do we think it's cursed?

0:19:29 Brennan: I mean, you, eyeing it you would say almost definitely.

0:19:32 Ally: 'Cause I have Remove Curse that I could try to cast on that.

0:19:34 Emily: Yes! Anything.

0:19:37 Ally: Okay, yeah, I—

0:19:39 Brennan: Give me a religion check as you look at it.

0:19:42 Ally: Okay, cool.

0:19:42 Emily: You do that with advantage, right—

0:19:43 Ally: Yeah.

0:19:48 Emily: Already, okay. [laughter]

0:19:48 Ally: Kay kay, that's pretty good. Let's see. Oh yeah, 19.

0:19:55 Brennan: As you look at the curse on the thing, and you begin to cast the beginnings of Remove Curse on it, you see that there is a powerful contingency effect in this.

0:20:02 Ally: Ah.

0:20:09 Emily: Meaning if something's cast on it?

0:20:11 Murph: Like a—

0:20:13 Brennan: Meaning that the effect is not hard to get rid of, but there's an effect behind the effect you can't get to while the first effect is there, and if anything happens to the first effect, the second effect—

0:20:27 Ally: Triggers.

0:20:27 Brennan: Triggers, and you think quite possibly destroys or annihilates whatever is within the gem.

0:20:34 Kristen: Okay, hey, actually, that's too, I can't actually remove that curse. That's a powerful—

0:20:46 Brennan: Well you could, you couldn't do it without—

0:20:48 Ally: Dying.

0:20:48 Brennan: Without— No, you'd be fine. Gorthalax, something would happen to.

0:20:54 Ally: Yeah.

0:20:54 Kristen: I can't.

0:20:55 Fig: No?

0:20:55 Kristen: No.

0:20:56 Riz: Is Gorthalax a devil or a demon?

0:21:00 Brennan: Sandra Lynn says,

0:21:00 Sandra Lynn: A devil.

0:21:02 Murph: Okay.

0:21:02 Emily: Dang. Waffle? All right, girl.

0:21:06 Brennan: Gilear says,

0:21:06 Gilear: I'm going to go to the bathroom.

0:21:08 Adaine: But wait, hang on, Gilear, when were you in the, can you tell us about your work in the diplomatic corps?

0:21:15 Gilear: Well, again, I was a counselor, so I was not a full diplomat, you understand? But I provided counsel to the diplomatic corps about the inner workings of different cultures and how best to respond and the customs and formalities of other nations beyond Fallinel. I possessed an insight into the minds and hearts of other people that eludes high elves at certain times.

0:21:54 Adaine: Yes, we can be a little cold.

0:21:57 Gilear: Yes. And, there was something, I suppose, to the empathy that I was able to wield on behalf of other people. Yeah, sort of a foggy memory at this point. I, uh. You know, I helped, I helped out.

0:22:05 Adaine: What?

0:22:14 Gilear: You know.

0:22:18 Fig: Why did you stop?

0:22:18 Kristen: What do you mean?

0:22:20 Gilear: Hm?

0:22:20 Fig: Why did you stop?

0:22:22 Brennan: He looks at the ruby in your hand, and he looks over at Sandra Lynn and he's like,

0:22:26 Gilear: I don't know, you know, sometimes you hit a sort of inertia, right? It's like sometimes you just, you know, the wagon's stopped and the rest of the road is kind of uphill. It's not that much uphill, but no one's, no one's pushing. Anyway, I'm—

0:22:43 Siobhan: Can I cast Detect Thoughts on Gilear? [laughter]

0:22:47 Brennan: Sure, if you want to cast Detect Thoughts on Gilear, go for it! You cast Detect Thoughts on him. He certainly fails.

0:22:56 Siobhan: Great. Yeah.

0:23:01 Brennan: Cool. You see that his surface thoughts brim over with memories of himself, you know, a little happier, a little bit more confident. Looking a little bit younger. And you see him tendering his resignation in the diplomatic corps to move and start a life with Sandra Lynn. She had a promising career as a ranger. He had met her while she was adventuring as an Aguefort adventurer, Sandra Lynn went to Aguefort. Met her, fell in love, and kind of gave up his life to go be with her in Solace.

0:23:49 Siobhan: That's sweet, except it's weird that he was a grown man with a job who followed a high schooler back to Solace.

0:23:56 Brennan: No, sorry. She was not a high school student when she came, she was a full, she went to Aguefort.

0:24:00 Siobhan: Oh, okay, it was post-Aguefort. She wasn't like on her junior year abroad—

0:24:04 Brennan: No, no, she was a full-fledged adventurer. This is back in her days when she had her nose pierced, and was like a much, you know, she was sort of like a punk, and he was this sort of young guy working in the diplomatic corps, and he fell for her, and moved to Solace, and you see his sort of lost direction in his life. D&D, how's it going, gang?

0:24:29 Siobhan: Brutal.

0:24:29 Kristen: Do you think Gilear, that there's any reason that these demons would want to hurt you? Did you have any run-ins with any demons before?

0:24:43 Gilear: I think Riz would have established last time that they, they couldn't imagine that I was behaving so erratically in that combat, and wasn't casting a spell of some kind.

0:24:57 Kristen: Mm-hmm.

0:24:57 Gilear: So they went for me first.

0:25:01 Kristen: Chosen?

0:25:02 Riz: I think that they just want to kill people.

0:25:05 Kristen: You're the chosen one?

0:25:06 Adaine: He's absolutely not the chosen one.

0:25:07 Gilear: All right. I am going to go like I said I was.

0:25:11 Brennan: He heads off. Dinner concludes, you guys exit the restaurant. Sandra Lynn, after a few minutes, also sort of leaves and says,

0:25:18 Sandra Lynn: I don't know where Gorgug is. I'm gonna go check out for him real quick.

0:25:22 Brennan: She flies off. The rest of you go to the van. You see Tracker speaks up and says,

0:25:28 Tracker: Could we take the van maybe somewhere a little bit more secluded, if that makes sense?

0:25:34 Kristen: Okay, babe! [laughs]

0:25:34 Tracker: Cut it out. Also, it would be helpful if we could go get some, if we could get extra blankets and stuff.

0:25:43 Kristen: [laughs] Okay, babe! [Emily laughs]

0:25:46 Fabian: I'm sorry, just, are we, you're talking about sleeping in the van?

0:25:48 Kristen: Oh my God!

0:25:50 Tracker: What's wrong with sleeping in a van?

0:25:51 Fabian: [pained] Ohh, okay.

0:25:51 Adaine: I've always wanted to sleep in a van. This is actually very exciting for me.

0:25:53 Fig: Let's do it. Hey, I'm in a band, I sleep in a van all the time.

0:25:59 Tracker: Hey, I hear you. This is gonna be nice, hopefully.

0:26:01 Ally: How's Ragh doing?

0:26:02 Brennan: Ragh looks messed up. He's being very quiet, but sort of sullen. Gorgug, you're several blocks away, and you hear a, [mimics wings flapping] of this gryphon landing behind you. Zac looks up and holds his arm out the way a falconer would for their bird to land on.

0:26:14 Brennan: Oh, an enormous gryphon. You see that as you hold up your arm, Baxter starts to go for your arm, and Sandra Lynn goes,

0:26:22 Sandra Lynn: No, no, no! No, no! Zac laughs and lowers his arm but then raises it again.

0:26:23 Brennan: Pulls it up. She says,

0:26:26 Sandra Lynn: Don't do that, he'll try to do it. His depth perception on entry is not as good as it could be.

0:26:31 Gorgug: I just always thought it'd be cool to catch a falcon on your arm.

0:26:34 Sandra Lynn: He is the size of an, bigger than a Clydesdale. He's an enormous, enormous beast.

0:26:41 Gorgug: I thought maybe he could flap while he was hanging on my arm. [Emily laughs]

0:26:45 Sandra Lynn: Gorgug, what's up, buddy? [laughter]

0:26:47 Sandra Lynn: You kind of peaced out in the middle of dinner, there. Is everything okay?

0:26:50 Gorgug: Everything's fine, I just, I kind of screwed up things with Zelda a little bit. I forgot to tell her we were leaving with all the crazy stuff happening, and I feel [sighs] a little sad about that.

0:27:09 Sandra Lynn: I'm sorry, bud. That's, that's really hard. Well, you're a sweet, sweet boy. And I'm sure, even if her feelings are a little bit hurt that, you know, she'll... I'm sure you guys can work it out, okay?

0:27:27 Gorgug: Okay. I appreciate that.

0:27:29 Sandra Lynn: Yeah.

0:27:30 Gorgug: I was just kind of wandering around. I was fully lost, thanks for finding me.

0:27:36 Sandra Lynn: I'm glad I could find you. Well, let's head back together.

0:27:42 Brennan: You guys swing back and you pick up, Tracker picks up some blankets somewhere. You guys stop by a little, you know, convenience store. You head out in the van. Was there any business that people wanted to do before, you needed to go to the police station, right?

0:27:58 Emily: I just wanted to leave a note.

0:28:00 Brennan: Cool. [laughter] I'm gonna roll a luck check in front of the board. You guys want a high number. It's an 11. Cool. It's cool, you walk into the police station.

0:28:12 Emily: I think I, I think I just leave a note. I think I pretend to be [laughs] a citizen, but I disguise myself as just a really nice woman.

0:28:24 Brennan: The same woman, or—

0:28:24 Emily: A very old woman.

0:28:25 Brennan: A very old woman. [laughter]

0:28:29 Ally: So when you said just a very nice woman, you meant a very old woman?

0:28:31 Murph: [laughs] You're going to end his career.

0:28:33 Emily: [laughs] I’m just gonna say, “Old Woman” (Fig): [old woman voice] I found this on the front porch.

0:28:40 Siobhan: The porch of a police club?

0:28:42 Emily: And they give them a little note. And the note is just, to Commissioner Buggins. And it just says, Sorry I boarded away so abruptly. Here's my new number.

0:28:56 Emily: [laughs] And then I—

0:28:56 Ally: Wow.

0:29:01 Brennan: You see that the attendant looks at it and says,

0:29:05 Officer: You found this note on your porch, or our porch? [laughter] “Old Woman” (Fig): Yours.

0:29:11 Officer: Ours. “Old Woman” (Fig): Yours. Anyways.

0:29:14 Officer: Detective Decker left a written note changing her phone number on the steps of the police precinct? “Old Woman” (Fig): This sounds like drama I can’t get into.

0:29:24 Officer: Well, if her number's changed— “Old Woman” (Fig): I've gotta walk my dog.

0:29:26 Officer: No, we're in this now! Hang on a second! I'm interested. “Old Woman” (Fig): Uh-huh!

0:29:30 Officer: Hold on! Okay. So her number's different, but she only wanted to tell the commissioner.

0:29:36 Ally: Are we watching this?

0:29:38 Murph: No, we’re not there.

0:29:38 Brennan: Nope. Fig is just gone off on her own to do this. “Old Woman” (Fig): Yeah, it does seem strange. Yeah, maybe then whoever did it probably was having a hard day. Anyways, my dog is tied up outside.

0:29:51 Officer: Okay! “Old Woman” (Fig): Yeah.

0:29:53 Officer: Well. If you, all right. Did you see anyone leave this at your house? “Old Woman” (Fig): No, it was at your house, and also, I'm not gonna—

0:30:02 Officer: They left this at my house? “Old Woman” (Fig) [laughs] Your police house.

0:30:07 Officer: The police house? “Old Woman” (Fig) Yeah!

0:30:09 Officer: You mean the precinct? “Old Woman” (Fig) Yes.

0:30:11 Officer: Okay. “Old Woman” (Fig) I’m a very old woman—

0:30:13 Officer: I got it, well, we should take your information down. What's your name and address? “Old Woman” (Fig) Hilda.

0:30:18 Officer: Hilda, great, got a last name, Hilda? “Hilda” (Fig) Hilda.

0:30:22 Officer: Hilda Hilda?

0:30:22 Lou: [laughs] Oh man!

0:30:24 Officer: Great, what's your address, Ms. Hilda? [Lou laughs] “Hilda Hilda” (Fig) 22 Hilda.

0:30:29 Officer: 22 Hilda? [Lou laughs]

0:30:31 Officer: Okay, is that Boulevard or Street? We got two in Bastion City. “Hilda Hilda” (Fig) It's both.

0:30:36 Officer: Bo— You have two houses, your name's Hilda Hilda, and you live at 22 Hilda Street and 22 Hilda Boulevard? Which address was the note left on?

0:30:47 Siobhan: Oh no! “Hilda Hilda” (Fig) Yours, the police house!

0:30:50 Officer: Okay, the police house, I forgot. Thank you so much, great. Well, Ms. Hilda, we'll be in touch if anything else comes up, okay?

0:30:57 Emily: I use Prestidigitation to make a loud dog barking sound outside.

0:31:01 Officer: Oh, sounds like a dog— [Ally mimics barking]

0:31:05 Officer: Fittin' to get moving.

0:31:06 Lou: One loud bark.

0:31:07 Officer: Thank you so much for passing by. [laughter]

0:31:10 Officer: In the middle of the night. Wait, that dog goes on a long walk. We're pretty far from 22 Hilda Street. And we're across town from 22 Hilda Boulevard, so that's pretty wild! “Hilda Hilda” (Fig) He's the size of a Clydesdale.

0:31:23 Officer: Oh, that's a big dog, for sure! Well, this all checks out, I'm gonna update Detective Decker's information right now in our police database. Thank you so much, I appreciate it. “Hilda Hilda” (Fig) Okay, I think that was a personal note, that's only for one person to read.

0:31:38 Officer: Oh, she left a personal note for one person on the steps of the police precinct? [laughter]

0:31:45 Officer: Ah, you know what? That sounds like Detective Decker to me. Well, this all checks out, and thank you so much for being so helpful.

0:31:53 Emily: Okay, I'm gonna leave, and then come back in as Detective— [laughs]

0:31:55 Murph: What?

0:31:57 Ally: No! [laughs] [laughter]

0:31:59 Ally: Wait, where are we? We're nowhere near, in the van, waiting for her?

0:32:03 Emily: I'm gonna quick turn into Detective Decker, and then run by the window. [laughter]

0:32:08 Brennan: Run by the window? Okay, hold on. [laughter]

0:32:10 Brennan: Hold on! Hold on. Okay. You see, you see that the older sort of like, receptionist police officer sees you run by and goes,

0:32:22 Officer: Detective Decker!

0:32:25 Brennan: And vaults over the desk and begins to sprint down the street after you.

0:32:28 Officer: Detective Decker!

0:32:29 Emily: I keep running—

0:32:29 Officer: Detective Decker, wait! Wait, Detective Decker!

0:32:32 Emily: I get on my skateboard! [laughs]

0:32:36 Brennan: Hold on one second.

0:32:36 Lou: What!

0:32:37 Emily: Okay.

0:32:38 Brennan: Cool, you get on your skateboard.

0:32:40 Emily: I botched this, I’m going to have to cross out Runce Buggins as one of my love interests.

0:32:45 Lou: Botched this!

0:32:51 Brennan: Well, miraculous, incredible. [laughs]

0:32:55 Emily: Back to Dr. Asha for me.

0:32:55 Murph: I just never know what angle you're coming from. [laughter]

0:32:56 Ally: Yeah, totally!

0:32:59 Murph: Running by the window.

0:32:59 Ally: I run by the window!

0:33:04 Emily: I thought, I thought it would be like—

0:33:05 Murph: This establishes that she's in town or something?

0:33:07 Lou: She's dropping notes.

0:33:08 Emily: Yes!

0:33:08 Lou: There it is. I get it! I see the vision.

0:33:11 Siobhan: You're gonna get this woman fired—

0:33:13 Ally: Oh my God.

0:33:14 Murph: You're ruining lives.

0:33:15 Emily: Look, I crossed out Runce Buggins, okay?

0:33:17 Ally: You know, you could have done it as her and said, “Can you make sure—”

0:33:21 Zac: I don't know how crossing it out is any better. [laughter]

0:33:24 Emily: I crossed it out, okay.

0:33:27 Brennan: You head out, about, you're all the way back to the van where everybody else is. As you're on your way, you get a little blip on your cell phone, saying

0:33:34 Runce: Decker, this is Runce. Is this your new number? You're texting me on your old number saying it's not your new number, but the front desk just said you dropped this note off. Is this some kind of prank?

0:33:49 Emily: I throw my phone into the river. [laughter]

0:33:50 Ally: What?!

0:33:52 Siobhan: No!

0:33:53 Brennan: You throw your phone in the river! As you throw your phone in the river, about a minute later, you begin to hear police choppers. [mimics helicopters]

0:34:00 Emily: No!

0:34:00 Brennan: And you see spotlights on the river where your phone is located. You look back in the distance and you see cruisers pull up, and you see that Chief Buggins comes out, says, looks and sees someone say,

0:34:13 Buggins: Phone's at the bottom of the river.

0:34:15 Brennan: And you see him drop to his knees and go,

0:34:17 Buggins: [screaming] No!

0:34:20 Emily: He did love me. [laughter]

0:34:22 Emily: I skateboard away. Skateboard away.

0:34:24 Zac: A horrifying short film. [laughter]

0:34:28 Fabian: What's up, Fig? We bought blankets!

0:34:31 Fig: Cool! I think I'm actually gonna go to bed like right now. [laughter]

0:34:35 Emily: I take Gorthalax and I cuddle him in fetal position and go to sleep.

0:34:39 Kristen: I think, well, I just think on that, this is such a scary curse on this gem. I do think we should, and myself included, always saying I'm Teddy Geiger, keep our lies to a minimum.

0:34:54 Fig: Oh, I completely forgot! My whole thing is lies.

0:34:57 Kristen: Right, 'cause you were saying that they're being used against us.

0:35:00 Riz: I don't know if it was just one attack on me to be creepy, or if—

0:35:05 Adaine: Yeah, we should—

0:35:06 Riz: Baron was that—

0:35:06 Kristen: 'Cause I am wondering, we definitely can't have a character named Teddy Geiger come after me, 'cause we'll get sued, but you know. [laughs]

0:35:16 Siobhan: We'll get sued?

0:35:17 Ally: What, nothing.

0:35:17 Siobhan: Is that a real thing?

0:35:18 Ally: That's a real person.

0:35:19 Fig: But as someone who operates in shadows and deceit, I can't exactly turn my back on lies.

0:35:27 Kristen: Interesting.

0:35:27 Fabian: I feel like it's more like when, choosing more carefully when we lie and how we lie. Just maybe not being so casual—

0:35:34 Adaine: Maybe making up people is a problem? Whatever, maybe—

0:35:40 Gilear: I'm sure my—

0:35:40 Adaine: Shenanigans you got up while we were—

0:35:43 Gilear: I'm sure my daughter wouldn't have come up with a lie frivolously for next to no reason. Fig, what aim of the quest were you advancing with your deception?

0:35:56 Fig: I don't know, Gilear. What aim were you advancing?

0:36:00 Gilear: Hm?

0:36:00 Ally: Honestly—

0:36:01 Gilear: I've only ever tried my best to help and failed incredibly, so I have— [Ally laughs]

0:36:03 Gilear: I'm not going to sit here and defend myself, it's the last thing—

0:36:08 Ally: I'm wondering, do you think, do these, this bag of gems, does it look like those people will be coming after it, or that there's a way to track them?

0:36:17 Brennan: Hard to say.

0:36:19 Riz: Why don't we make sure we take shifts? Just in case people have crazy nightmares.

0:36:22 Adaine: Yeah.

0:36:24 Brennan: Tracker looks at you guys and says—

0:36:25 Fig: Oh, yeah.

0:36:28 Tracker: Well, if everybody wants to back away from the van a little bit, I'm gonna try something that hopefully will maybe—

0:36:38 Kristen: Babe!

0:36:39 Tracker: What! I'm not even doing anything flirty right now!

0:36:42 Kristen: Oh sorry, I misread all of that. Sorry, what are you doing, what?

0:36:47 Tracker: You'll just have to wait and find out.

0:36:48 Kristen: [laughs] Okay.

0:36:48 Adaine: Oh my God.

0:36:52 Murph: Riz takes another lap. [Ally laughs]

0:36:54 Murph: Everyone's insane.

0:36:56 Siobhan: Me and Riz are just like—

0:36:56 Murph: Yeah.

0:36:56 Siobhan: Really talking about the book, but in a way that's so intense that we can't fuckin' pay attention to anything else that's happening.

0:37:04 Kristen: Oh you mean you and Ragh. Okay.

0:37:05 Tracker: No, I'm gonna try to do something to —

0:37:08 Fig: Protect—

0:37:08 Riz: Protect the van.

0:37:09 Tracker: Honestly, my plan is, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to turn the van into a Moonhaven. Normally it wouldn't work on something that's like, purely mechanical, you know what I mean? But because there's the celestial that's in the van now, it felt like maybe there's a shot that it would work. Do you want to talk to...

0:37:31 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:37:33 Tracker: The van a little bit, just to see?

0:37:35 Gorgug: For sure. Moonhaven is a place where moons hang out?

0:37:40 Tracker: No, well, good guess. A Moonhaven is a place that, well, it can comfortably fit a lot of people, and if I burn a little bit more spell energy, I can create a magic circle within it that should be able to repel fey or dream entities and stuff like that.

0:37:59 Gorgug: Cool.

0:38:00 Tracker: So I can only do it up to about nine people, so we would, so Baxter couldn't fit, and we'd have to have some people find a way to stay outside of the, outside of the van, but it would be a safe place to sleep, and if we did it right, I think it would stop—

0:38:17 Adaine: Well, I don't need to sleep.

0:38:20 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks over and says,

0:38:21 Sandra Lynn: Me and Gilear don't either.

0:38:23 Adaine: Great, so we can stay outside.

0:38:25 Kristen: I worry about Gilear. But okay.

0:38:28 Fig: I do too.

0:38:29 Zac: I'll go talk to the van, then.

0:38:31 Brennan: Cool. You walk over and start to, so the van is parked. You guys are near a little copse of trees, you're kind of like near a roundabout where the highways that sort of circle the larger city are, and there's a little copse of trees and a small field, there's a dust little turnoff from the highway. One of those places that's just like, a forgotten little stowaway of a larger industrial place where nature has kind of started to come back a little bit. And the van is parked over there, sort of rusty old van. As you approach and turn the van back on, you see gleams sort of blue a little bit. And you see, as the van glows blue, you hear the voice come over and say,

0:39:21 Van: Oh, what's up? Gorgug!

0:39:25 Gorgug: Hey, Van. How you doin'?

0:39:28 Van: I'm doing honestly so good right now. I've been trying, and I think that the systems that your folks put in place in the van keep the driving and stuff separate from the main CPU. So I don't think I can actually control the steering and the gas or brake or whatever. But the radio, the AC, all of the van's other stuff. We should be honestly good to go.

0:40:00 Gorgug: That's awesome.

0:40:00 Van: Yeah! And if you wanted to tinker around with the van or whatever to try to reconnect some of the stuff, I bet we could do that.

0:40:09 Gorgug: That's awesome! I think I definitely want to do that. Long term, I might have to call my parents to get them to help me go through some of the steps of, I guess I'm okay at it. I would never say I'm kind of a master of that sort of thing. But I'll give it a shot. Oh, but I was just coming in here. Well, I had two things. First thing, we were trying to figure out how to do a Moonhaven in here. And we were just wanting to run that by you and see if that was cool, and see if maybe we can do it 'cause of your celestial energy, and also, have you ever beefed it in a relationship real hard?

0:40:51 Van: I tell you, dude. I sure did. Relationships are super hard. I was a planetar of the plane of Elysium. My purview was harmony, relaxation, being in tune with just the chill forces of the cosmos. And there was another planetar that I loved very deeply, and they were sort of my superior, and they had set a clarion trumpet call for us to embark on a crusade against the forces of fiends and evil, and I just got deep in a nap, and I just didn't show up.

0:41:46 Gorgug: Hmm. Yeah.

0:41:47 Van: And I was, and I was cast out from paradise.

0:41:49 Gorgug: Sure.

0:41:49 Van: So, you know.

0:41:52 Gorgug: I feel a similar, like, I didn't take a nap. I don't think I took a nap.

0:41:55 Van: Mm-hmm.

0:41:57 Gorgug: But yeah, I feel like my, my planetar's all mad at me because if, I forgot to check back in.

0:42:05 Van: Totally.

0:42:05 Gorgug: And I get it. But, yeah. But would the, would it be cool if we did the Moonhaven?

0:42:15 Van: Yeah, absolutely. If you want to do some magic, I can help maybe elongate the duration or funnel some celestial energy into it. Honestly, look. I'm not about confrontation, and I'm not about violence, but this van should be a safe place. And I am comfortable if demons or spirits try to come in here and be harsh in the van, to be like, dude, with only love, that's not this space, you know?

0:42:54 Gorgug: Cool. You know what? I'll give it a shot. Let me tinker around in here.

0:42:57 Zac: Can I try to—

0:43:00 Brennan: Yeah!

0:43:00 Zac: To tinker—

0:43:00 Brennan: Give me just a flat intelligence check. We'll say that there is some modest improvement on a 15, and on a 20 or higher, you can attach the celestial to the driving column.

0:43:11 Zac: Okay.

0:43:14 Siobhan: You have a minus one to intelligence.

0:43:20 Zac: That's a nine.

0:43:20 Brennan: Nine?

0:43:21 Siobhan: Maybe you want some help with this—

0:43:22 Brennan: Cool. You guys see Gorgug kind of banging around under the hood.

0:43:25 Emily: Some other time I can give you some inspiration. [Ally laughs]

0:43:29 Brennan: Lovely. So you see, Gorgug, you sort of don't fix it in time. And the van says,

0:43:38 Van: Dude, honestly, I think that's an A for effort, my man, but let's give this a shot another time. Maybe we'll keep an eye out for some tools or a garage, 'cause I bet this would be easier to do if we had the full rack of gear, you know?

0:43:52 Gorgug: Yeah, I don't have any, I'm just sort of grabbing pipes with my hands, so it might be a good idea.

0:43:57 Van: Hey man, at least you got hands, dude.

0:43:59 Gorgug: Right. [laughs] We're gonna find you some hands.

0:44:02 Van: Oh what! Look out! Here comes a van with hands! [laughter]

0:44:09 Van: Oh man!

0:44:10 Emily: Terrifying, instead of wheels— [laughter]

0:44:16 Lou: Four hands, just—

0:44:19 Siobhan: No thank you.

0:44:19 Lou: Crawling—

0:44:19 Zac: I guess I come back to the group.

0:44:22 Brennan: Cool. You see Tracker says,

0:44:28 Tracker: Cool, I'm gonna give something a shot.

0:44:31 Brennan: She steps forward, kneels down.

0:44:37 Kristen: Babe! I'm sorry, that was a bad joke.

0:44:42 Brennan: She kneels down, the clouds part overhead, and the crescent moon shines down on Tracker. You see that as she prays, [mimics whooshing] white, spectral energy spirals around her, and a pure, ghostly white wolf moves out of her, you can see her projecting her own soul out of her body. The wolf grabs the pile of blankets in its mouth, picks them up, and the sort of trails of sparkling energy with almost, it's like, not liquid, it's like a smoke, but it does flow down out of the wolf's mouth.

0:45:24 Gorgug: Put that down. [wolf growling]

0:45:26 Gorgug: Put it down!

0:45:27 Brennan: The wolf bounds off towards the van. [laughter]

0:45:30 Brennan: And you see that the wolf jumps with the blankets into the van and begins to throw the blankets over the seats and up on to the sides of things, and there's some cushions that it throws around, and you see that the wolf, this spirit wolf starts digging in the van, and you see that it's creating an extradimensional space, like a wolf burrow inside of the van, so that there's a place to squeeze through blankets and pop down into a little bed area, it's basically this nest of blankets and different, almost like a spectral extradimensional pillow fort crammed into the back seats of this van.

0:46:13 Ally: Sick.

0:46:13 Brennan: And you see that runes surround the van in a magic circle, and the van glows with this light of the moon, this bright, celestial energy. The wolf returns. [mimics whooshing] Slowly leaps over the field and [gasps] back into Tracker's chest, and she stands up and says,

0:46:35 Tracker: All right, should be good to go, if we want to go talk in there, it should be safe.

0:46:38 Kristen: That was so cool!

0:46:40 Fabian: Was that your soul?

0:46:42 Brennan: Yeah.

0:46:42 Kristen: Wow! Babe. Day after day, I just get more and more impressed. [laughs]

0:46:47 Tracker: Stop!

0:46:49 Kristen: I just, I wrote you this note while we were at dinner.

0:46:55 Brennan: You see she goes,

0:46:55 Tracker: While we were at dinner?

0:46:56 Brennan: She opens it, what does the note say?

0:46:58 Ally: “Fuck me.” [laughter]

0:47:04 Brennan: She writes something in it real quick, and you see it's just the word, “when.” [Ally laughs]

0:47:09 Brennan: You see—

0:47:09 Ally: I just, I can't!

0:47:12 Brennan: Cool!

0:47:13 Fabian: All right, shall we talk in the van?

0:47:15 Riz: Yeah, let’s.

0:47:16 Brennan: You guys walk into the van, it looks like a combination of sort of a Leomund's Tiny Hut spell, and a Magic Circle spell have been cast here in the van.

0:47:26 Fig: Can I smoke in here?

0:47:29 Tracker: Yeah, that should be totally fine.

0:47:29 Brennan: You see that—

0:47:30 Adaine: Actually, I'd prefer you didn't smoke.

0:47:32 Riz: I would prefer if you didn't.

0:47:35 Emily: Can I Prestidigitation so it looks like nothing's coming out of my—

0:47:38 Zac: Poor Gorgug's just next to you, just. [lightly coughs]

0:47:43 Brennan: You see, so Sandra Lynn says,

0:47:47 Sandra Lynn: Just lifting that unburning clove to your mouth over and over again while we all smell and can feel smoke?

0:47:55 Gorgug: Maybe it's psychosomatic, but it's making me cough. [multiple coughs]

0:47:56 Riz: This is a small room, just so you—

0:47:59 Brennan: You see—

0:47:59 Kristen: All the pillows are smelling like smoke!

0:48:02 Fabian: We could, we're going to be sleeping in here all the time?

0:48:04 Adaine: This is absolutely not the place to smoke. [laughter]

0:48:08 Kristen: A magic wolf just made this for us, and you're smoking in it?

0:48:12 Brennan: So you guys all squeeze into the van, the Hangman is outside going,

0:48:15 Hangman: Under no circumstances will I enter.

0:48:18 Fabian: No, but well, of course you won't, all right? Honestly, Hangman, you have the most important job, right? You get to keep watch. And if anything comes anywhere near us, I want you to ram the van as hard as you possibly can.

0:48:32 Hangman: Sire! If a drifter or some young teen walking from a gas station holding on to a little portable plastic canister—

0:48:43 Fabian: All right—

0:48:43 Hangman: Dares to walk by, I will destroy this van.

0:48:48 Fabian: Hangman—

0:48:48 Hangman: I will sunder it—

0:48:50 Fabian: Hangman—

0:48:50 Hangman: Bolt from nut!

0:48:51 Fabian: You can use your judgment—

0:48:52 Hangman: I will send this van straight to the bottom of the night pit!

0:48:57 Fabian: No, I mean, it's more like teens are cool, and drifters I guess are sometimes cool. We're talking more like demons, like, you know, the big ape men and the vulture guys. Like red dudes on fire. Normal just kind of people having a hard time, they can stroll by. But if you see those other guys, you smash this van asunder—

0:49:17 Hangman: I will destroy the van!

0:49:20 Adaine: Hangman, did you just eat a bunch of bees? [laughter]

0:49:25 Hangman: I'm feeling pretty lonely. [laughter]

0:49:29 Fabian: My van, my vehicle's allowed to eat, all right? If he wants to chew, he's more than welcome to. He consumes gasoline or souls, or whatever he runs on. However he damn pleases.

0:49:40 Brennan: You leave the Hangman outside. You see that Baxter the griffin does that lanky kind of cat lying down on the roof of the van and just kind of goes to sleep on top of it.

0:49:52 Ally: Can I give Ragh the Teddy Bear of Helpfulness to hold?

0:49:56 Brennan: He takes the Teddy Bear of Helpfulness, he's got his little magical spoon from Adaine. He looks at you and says,

0:50:03 Ragh: Okay. This is honestly messed up, and I'm really sorry that I didn't tell the truth. And it's messed up. I'm sorry.

0:50:14 Fig: That's fine. Some of us made, we all made mistakes today. Let's just chalk it up to a bad day.

0:50:22 Ragh: [sighs] I see that lady in the photo. I see the lady in the photo.

0:50:30 Brennan: And he looks over at Tracker and says,

0:50:31 Ragh: Nothing can get to me right now or hear me, right?

0:50:36 Brennan: You see she says,

0:50:36 Tracker: Hear you? Are you worried about saying something?

0:50:42 Brennan: And he's like,

0:50:42 Ragh: Yeah.

0:50:44 Adaine: Okay, why don't I... Why don't you think it, and I'm gonna cast a spell on it, on you, and I'm gonna— Oh! Actually, I can just message you. I'll message you, and then you can message me back.

0:50:57 Kristen: And then you can message it to each of us?

0:50:58 Adaine: And then I can message it to everybody else.

0:50:59 Emily: I also have Message.

0:51:00 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:51:00 Brennan: Cool. Ragh imparts to you that on the night of the Prompocalypse, he saw this person.

0:51:13 Siobhan: Where?

0:51:16 Brennan: Being relayed to Adaine and then to the rest of the group, Ragh mentally says, without having to physically say, so,

0:51:22 Ragh: After the fight, I was pretty amped. You know, it was a lot of emotions, like, I had my old toxic thing with Dayne, and I kind of, after a lot of talking to Jawbone, I had kind of relapsed into a lot of self-loathing stuff, and then you guys were so awesome, and Gorgug, you know, we had a moment that meant a lot to me, and then we fought Kalvaxus, and afterwards, I was just kind of pumped, and I was, I ran into the school. And I went and I saw there was this conversation, and I was going, 'cause a lot of the teachers had been trapped in the crystals and had come out again. And I saw Jace, the sorcery teacher—

0:52:12 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:52:13 Ragh: Talking to this woman that I didn't recognize. She was an elven woman, she was wearing sort of like black, dark robes, it looked like, they were very light. She was blonde, she had glasses.

0:52:33 Adaine: She looked like this? [points to her face]

0:52:36 Ragh: She looked like you?

0:52:36 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:52:37 Ragh: I mean, yeah. Yeah, she looked like, yeah, she looked like you. But older. She didn't look like—

0:52:46 Adaine: Right.

0:52:48 Ragh: Um, you know, I mean, elves never look that old, but she looked like, you know, not a high schooler. Um. Jace and them were talking, and they were talking to somebody else who I couldn't see. I just assumed somebody was like, invisible. Um. Later, um, Jace and Porter came and talked to me. And Porter—

0:53:15 Siobhan: I don't relay that Porter was involved in this.

0:53:18 Emily: I'm eavesdropping via Message. [Siobhan laughs]

0:53:23 Brennan: He's like,

0:53:26 Ragh: Porter was still somewhat injured after the fight with Kalvaxus, and Porter, I didn't feel that injured, honestly, but they did some healing on me. Not Jace, Porter did some barbarian healing stuff with me. And after that, I was like walking home, and I saw this cat woman, this tabaxi. And she came up, and told me all this stuff about my mom, and she said if I ever talked to anyone about it, she would kill my mom.

0:54:13 Adaine: Oh my goodness! What about? Do you feel comfortable telling us about your mom?

0:54:23 Ragh: My mom fuckin' slaps. She's hardcore as hell. She's a half-orc like me, which means that my dad, wherever he is, was probably a half-orc too, or he could have been a human or orc and I just like, you know, but—

0:54:40 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:54:44 Ragh: Her name's Lydia. She was an adventurer, and she was a barbarian like me. And they were out on this mission in the Red Wastes, and there were these soul gems, honestly, kind of a lot like the one in the van, and there was—

0:55:08 Fig: Like this one?

0:55:10 Brennan: She, you see that Ragh looks at it, and nods, and you see he says,

0:55:11 Ragh: But this one was fractured, and the thing in it was leaking out and was going to escape, and she basically took it, and plunged it deep into her heart so that it couldn't escape.

0:55:30 Adaine: Your mom did?

0:55:32 Ragh: Yeah.

0:55:34 Gorgug: What does that do?

0:55:36 Ragh: Well, she didn't die. She's just like sick, really. She's really sick, and she's been really sick for a long time. There's, you know, there's, they're figuring out stuff that they could do to try to remove it, but she has turned down a lot of the experimental stuff because none of the people have ever been able to guarantee 100 percent that the threat wouldn't come back, and she's just basically like, I knew what I was doing when I did this.

0:56:08 Fig: What did she say she was doing?

0:56:11 Ragh: Saving the world. She was a fuckin' hero.

0:56:13 Kristen: That's really cool, man. Do you know if she knew who specifically was trying to escape from that?

0:56:23 Ragh: It was some devil, I think. I'm not sure which one, but—

0:56:27 Riz: Was it a devil or a demon?

0:56:30 Ragh: She always said devil, but I don't know that I'm super up on the difference between those two things.

0:56:36 Kristen: Yeah, I just learned them myself, too.

0:56:40 Adaine: But you, you had a, you had a nightmare when everybody else had a nightmare, right? That was true?

0:56:47 Ragh: Yeah.

0:56:50 Adaine: But you can still see the Shadow Cat?

0:56:55 Ragh: Yeah.

0:56:57 Kristen: Okay.

0:56:58 Fabian: What exactly did the Shadow Cat tell you?

0:57:01 Fig: Yeah.

0:57:02 Ragh: She told me if I ever mentioned to anyone what I had seen about that elven woman—

0:57:10 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:57:10 Ragh: That she would kill my mom.

0:57:12 Adaine: Oh, that is messed up.

0:57:13 Zac: So Jace is in on whatever, on something?

0:57:16 Siobhan: Well, Jace is a high elf, right?

0:57:18 Emily: Porter is as well.

0:57:19 Murph: No, Porter’s later.

0:57:19 Kristen: [to Adaine] Do you think that person was your sister or your mom?

0:57:22 Siobhan: Yeah, Porter's made of rock.

0:57:23 Brennan: He looks and says,

0:57:23 Ragh: I want to say—

0:57:25 Adaine: I think that might have been my mom, yeah.

0:57:28 Ragh: I don't, Jace and Porter—

0:57:31 Emily: Yeah, I was going to say—

0:57:32 Brennan: He's like, he says,

0:57:32 Ragh: Jace and Porter were super nice. I don't know. The conversation I saw them having, the reason I walked up to them was that it didn't look secret. I don't know, like Jace—

0:57:45 Adaine: Yeah, Jace is an open guy—

0:57:48 Ragh: Yeah.

0:57:48 Adaine: Who seemed nice.

0:57:49 Riz: She could have just been speaking to them so that she could get to the office.

0:57:53 Adaine: Yeah.

0:57:53 Riz: To take the crown.

0:57:54 Siobhan: Is there a picture, do I have a picture on my crystal of my mom?

0:57:58 Brennan: Yes, you do.

0:57:58 Siobhan: Great, so I show that picture—

0:58:00 Ragh: That's her!

0:58:02 Adaine: Okay.

0:58:02 Kristen: Okay. Okay.

0:58:04 Fabian: Okay.

0:58:05 Adaine: Yeah, that's for sure my mom.

0:58:07 Brennan: [to Siobhan] And you remember that faint teleportation that night, the residue that was at the house that would have been months gone if it had not been so recent.

0:58:15 Kristen: And your mom's in Solace now?

0:58:18 Ragh: Yeah, she lives in Elmville.

0:58:18 Kristen: Cool.

0:58:20 Ragh: And it's just me and her, and I take care of her.

0:58:23 Kristen: That's cool, man.

0:58:25 Fig: Who's taking care of her now?

0:58:28 Ragh: The school. They have caretakers come in to take care.

0:58:30 Fig: Oh, okay. Cool.

0:58:30 Ragh: She was like, when I first started going to Aguefort, I was really not about going on field missions, and she was basically like, that's like the end of your life, you're not going to stay in Elmville your whole life taking care of me, and so I was like—

0:58:44 Adaine: Wow. Your mom rules.

0:58:46 Kristen: Yeah, your mom rules.

0:58:46 Fig: She does slap, you're right.

0:58:48 Riz: Does she ever—

0:58:48 Brennan: Ragh just starts,

0:58:49 Ragh: [sniffs]

0:58:50 Kristen: You can cry, man. That's cool.

0:58:50 Riz: Yeah, it's fine to cry.

0:58:53 Adaine: Hey, do you think that you'd want to move into Mordred Manor with us? I think that there's a couple extra spooky rooms.

0:58:58 Fig: Yeah, the living room isn't taken anymore.

0:59:00 Brennan: [laughs] You see he looks and says,

0:59:05 Ragh: Yeah, I mean, is the rent good there? We were actually really, we have a second mortgage on the house, so like—

0:59:15 Kristen: You've gotta move in, man. You gotta move in with us.

0:59:17 Adaine: Yeah.

0:59:17 Kristen: You got to.

0:59:18 Brennan: He's fully crying. [Ally laughs]

0:59:19 Fig: There are rules about nighttime partners for teens, but other than that, no rent.

0:59:22 Kristen: No one follows them.

0:59:25 Ragh: I was such a dick to you guys! You guys are so nice to me, these days—

0:59:30 Kristen: Yeah, dude. You're the best, man.

0:59:32 Adaine: Yeah, you do have to be nice to Zayn.

0:59:35 Ragh: Tight, yeah! I'll be chill. Yeah. Zayn was honestly very mean to me when, before he died.

0:59:42 Adaine: Right, yeah.

0:59:42 Ragh: Is it wrong to speak ill of the dead?

0:59:42 Adaine: I feel like, no, I feel like both of you—

0:59:44 Fabian: No, it's totally cool. Honestly, so chill.

0:59:46 Adaine: Had some issues that made you aggro in a way that was toxic to everyone, including yourselves.

0:59:52 Ragh: Buh, fuckin' hurt people, hurt people, dude!

0:59:55 Kristen: That's true, man.

0:59:57 Riz: Ragh, did, did your, does your mom ever lose control? Like, besides just regular barbarian rage, like from the—

1:00:06 Ragh: Well, she hasn't—

1:00:06 Riz: Gem that's inside her?

1:00:08 Ragh: She's medically been in a prolonged state of rage for years.

1:00:13 Adaine: Oh wow.

1:00:14 Fig: And—

1:00:15 Adaine: She has to stay raging or—

1:00:15 Fig: Putting her in that to protect her?

1:00:20 Ragh: Yeah, she's, it's medically necessary. But she's, it's not, it's like, it's not like when you rage in combat. It's just like she's, 'cause part of rage is you quicken your pulse, your muscles grow, she's just like, she's very sweet. She's honestly, you couldn't tell she's raging. She's, really, she lost a lot of weight, she's lost a lot of muscle mass. She's sort of like, she can't walk. You know.

1:00:47 Riz: Can she sleep?

1:00:49 Ragh: She doesn't, she doesn't, really. She'll go out for a few minutes here or there, but she, it's not like us where you're walking around for the whole day, and you get tired and go to sleep for a lot of hours a night.

1:01:03 Riz: Right. I wonder if she can't sleep. Because if she sleeps—

1:01:07 Fig: Then she'll be taken control of.

1:01:15 Ragh: Yeah, sorry to unload all that stuff on you guys.

1:01:18 Kristen: No, it's really helpful and brave.

1:01:18 Fig: Yeah.

1:01:18 Fabian: It's good stuff.

1:01:20 Adaine: Yeah, better out than in.

1:01:21 Kristen: [to Adaine] Okay, so we know your parents are involved. Should we go to Aelwyn or should we try to find your parents?

1:01:29 Riz: We can probably stop at, try to find out what's up with Garthy O'Brien, maybe on the way to Aelwyn, 'cause it's all in the sea, right?

1:01:38 Fabian: Leviathan is definitely in the sea.

1:01:39 Fig: I mean, definitely if we went down to the port, we could try to hear, we could try to ask some people about Garthy O'Brien.

1:01:46 Adaine: Hey Fig.

1:01:47 Fig: Yeah.

1:01:47 Adaine: Can you call Dr. Asha?

1:01:50 Fig: Yes.

1:01:50 Adaine: And see if they know anything?

1:01:51 Fig: I did the same move that I did tonight, but it worked.

1:01:53 Zac: Do you have your phone?

1:01:55 Emily: I don't have my phone.

1:01:56 Lou: But you have Dr. Asha's number memorized, right? I'm assuming you—

1:01:59 Emily: Yeah. It's a tattoo. [laughter]

1:02:03 Brennan: Sandra Lynn goes,

1:02:03 Sandra Lynn: Ah, oh. Sweetheart. Who is Dr. Asha?

1:02:10 Kristen: He's just a 40 year old doctor.

1:02:14 Fig: I love middle aged men. Who work honest, middle class jobs.

1:02:21 Sandra Lynn: Sweetie, a doctor is not a middle class job.

1:02:23 Fig: He works in the emergency room, it's different, he's not a specialized doctor.

1:02:28 Sandra Lynn: [sighs] Okay. Does he know that he's dating a minor?

1:02:33 Fig: We're not dating. And there's nothing minor [laughter] going on between us.

1:02:42 Sandra Lynn: My daughter is a rich rock star, and I have, I feel that I've lost complete control. As a mother, I feel I've lost complete control.

1:02:52 Brennan: You see that Gilear goes,

1:02:52 Gilear: Up top. [raises his hand for a high-five] [laughter]

1:02:58 Brennan: And Sandra Lynn says,

1:02:58 Sandra Lynn: I'm not gonna up top that, Gilear.

1:03:01 Fabian: I will! Ba! [Gilear cries out in pain]

1:03:03 Ally: I whisper to Fig—

1:03:04 Kristen: [quietly] We're gonna get them back together on this trip.

1:03:06 Fig: [quietly] I want, I want Gilear to join Jawbone and my mom.

1:03:10 Kristen: That's a great plan.

1:03:12 Fabian: I would love that.

1:03:13 Fig: He, you know, I think he's not good one on one, but I think joining a party, he can really—

1:03:18 Kristen: I think he's not good one on one.

1:03:20 Fig: Yeah.

1:03:20 Kristen: But I think—

1:03:22 Gorgug: [at a normal volume] Is he good with any number?

1:03:22 Fig: A great compliment.

1:03:24 Adaine: We're in a small van.

1:03:25 Kristen: [normal volume] Whenever a relationship isn't working, add a third. That's what I learned from this binder that I found.

1:03:32 Gorgug: Should I add a third?

1:03:33 Kristen: [laughs] Yeah!

1:03:35 Brennan: Cool, is there business before you guys all go to bed that night?

1:03:39 Emily: I just want to apologize to Gorthalax. As privately as I can.

1:03:45 Brennan: You apologize to Gorthalax. You cannot hear a response. But you feel—

1:03:52 Fig: You know, apology isn't about getting an it's okay. It's about saying it 'cause they deserve it.

1:03:58 Brennan: You feel your warlock spell slot restored in your body.

1:04:06 Fig: [whispers] Thank you! [soft laughter]

1:04:10 Fig: [normally speaking] I think he's okay, he's in there, everyone, he's in there!

1:04:12 Kristen: Is there any risk of that accidentally falling on your chest while you're sleeping and it sinking in and consuming you, or not to be, you know.

1:04:22 Fig: Yeah, I would maybe—

1:04:22 Kristen: Too blunt, Ragh, I'm sorry. But did she have to cast a spell and shove it into her chest?

1:04:30 Ragh: She was, her, the rest of her adventuring party bit it, and they had done the spell work already to break a lot of the curses on the gem, so she was just kind of the last step.

1:04:40 Fig: I think also, not to be, you know, too much of a disservice to myself, but I think that half orc barbarian is gonna have a lot more oomph to the thrust than a bard.

1:04:53 Kristen: Okay, cool. Good to know.

1:04:53 Fig: I think I couldn't even if I tried.

1:04:55 Fabian: Good.

1:04:56 Brennan: You see that the—

1:04:58 Emily: Inspiration.

1:05:00 Brennan: So you cuddle up with the gem. You see that Sandra Lynn looks over at you, Adaine, and says,

1:05:10 Sandra Lynn: Well, Madam Oracle, you want to take the first watch?

1:05:15 Adaine: I would love to take second watch so that I can get my long rest in and then I will have spell slots.

1:05:22 Brennan: You see that she says,

1:05:22 Sandra Lynn: Oh, if you need to be doing rest, you, we need you at your—

1:05:27 Adaine: But I only need four hours of trance.

1:05:29 Sandra Lynn: Well, unfortunately, sweetie, there's 11 of us and only nine can fit in the van. So that's as—

1:05:35 Adaine: Well, but I can trance outside the van, 'cause I don't need protection. From—

1:05:40 Sandra Lynn: Okay!

1:05:40 Adaine: 'Cause I—

1:05:41 Sandra Lynn: Sure! You'll be outside the van, maybe in that case, I'll get one more pair of eyes, no, you know what? That's fine. I'll, you know, 'cause I can let someone else ride— [Emily coughs]

1:05:51 Sandra Lynn: Or sleep in the van.

1:05:51 Emily: I'm sorry.

1:05:52 Sandra Lynn: That's fine. I'll keep watch.

1:05:54 Adaine: Thanks.

1:05:55 Brennan: So snuggling up, you see that, there really are, you know when the crease in between the back and the seat of a car seat, there are blankets in that, and if you push through, there are literally little rooms made of folded blanket that are very warm and swaddling. There's snacks in them and stuff like that.

1:06:14 Ally: Cute.

1:06:16 Brennan: Tracker and you cuddle up in one, Riz, you're in there as well. Fabian, you find a little spot in there. Gorgug, is there anything you do as you're—? Yeah, right, you see Ragh, Cathilda, find a little space as well.

1:06:31 Zac: I think Gorgug just kind of sleeps on, across the front two seats. Like uncomfortably.

1:06:37 Brennan: Cool.

1:06:37 Zac: Just like, just like, in case I have to, you know, it's like, he's like, likes his stuff too much.

1:06:44 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:06:44 Siobhan: The handbrake is sticking right into your ribs.

1:06:48 Brennan: Give me a perception check.

1:06:54 Zac: Nine.

1:06:56 Brennan: The van's gonna give you advantage on that one.

1:07:01 Zac: 19.

1:07:03 Brennan: You see the van is talking to you, and going,

1:07:07 Van: Dude, sorry to interrupt, I know you're trying to catch some Z's, but check it out. I just found a setting in here that waterproofs the van. And we can, like, there's like—

1:07:24 Brennan: You see the van pops out a little gnomish single engine propeller, like a little water propeller on the back.

1:07:32 Gorgug: What? So the van's a boat?

1:07:34 Van: Dude! Amphibious mode unlocked, bro!

1:07:38 Gorgug: I think we just found your last name.

1:07:40 Van: What's my last name?

1:07:41 Gorgug: Boat. [laughter]

1:07:44 Emily: Van Boat! [laughs]

1:07:47 Van: Toot toot, Van Boat on deck! On deck?

1:07:50 Gorgug: On deck, man! [laughs]

1:07:52 Van: Dude, check it!

1:07:52 Brennan: And you look down. Your phone is open to the text from Zelda, and for a flash, a little ellipsis comes up underneath the text.

1:08:09 Ally: No!

1:08:12 Brennan: And then it goes away.

1:08:16 Gorgug: Aw, man. Okay.

1:08:21 Zac: I just put my—

1:08:25 Brennan: You hear a rumbling outside the window and you hear,

1:08:28 Hangman: Coward!

1:08:31 Fabian: Bike! Stop!

1:08:34 Hangman: Master! We've got to get, look, I hate this van, but if we're going to get girls onto or into vehicles—

1:08:43 Gorgug: You saw that?

1:08:45 Hangman: Mm, I was listening in. [laughter]

1:08:48 Fabian: My bike is very jealous, I was honestly going to say we shouldn't mention the fact that the van has an amphibious mode to him. He will be jealous.

1:08:57 Brennan: You see that the van says, says,

1:09:02 Van: Hey, man. It's up to you, you know? In matters of the heart, the best thing you can do is just move with kindness and try to be true to yourself.

1:09:14 Gorgug: Thanks, Van Boat.

1:09:16 Van: You got it.

1:09:19 Brennan: You see the last little scene in here is, Fig, you're holding your gem there, and you see, you're in the very back seat. And sort of moving along through the van,

1:09:30 Gilear: I don't begin to understand the extradimensional spaces created by the blankets in this van. [sighs]

1:09:38 Fig: Hi!

1:09:41 Gilear: Darling daughter.

1:09:41 Fig: Yeah.

1:09:44 Gilear: How are you feeling now?

1:09:48 Fig: [sighs] I feel like I had one of the worst days I've had in a while.

1:09:51 Brennan: Hmm.

1:09:55 Fig: And I still feel like I'm the reason that we're all here, and I know I'm the reason that Gorthalax is here, and I'm the reason that you died, and I'm the reason that Riz almost died. [sighs] And I'm also the reason that some innocent officer's probably gonna get fired.

1:10:15 Gilera: What?

1:10:16 Fig: We'll just ignore the last one. [soft laughter] I just can't believe that someone, I, I can't believe that once I was like, okay, I'm gonna try to connect with people more because I need to have a healthy relationship with someone instead of [sighs] tricking all these middle aged men, and as soon as I do, I get absolutely taken for a ride. And you, someone used my body. And there's nothing I could do to have stopped it.

1:10:53 Gilear: Figueroth, there are dark forces at work in this world. But even when there's not, control is often an illusion. I can never stop anything from happening. And I think most people come to terms with that, and I think only because you and your friends are so exceptional do you feel such a pain around failure. Failure is an anomaly for heroes of your status, but it is still an inevitability. There will be times when you are not strong enough. And I don't wish for you to add further injury to yourself.

1:11:45 Fig: But I just feel like everyone else resisted, and I was the weak one. I just feel like I let everyone down. Yeah, failure's inevitable, but I feel a lot more comfortable if we all failed together and it wasn't just me who failed.

1:12:02 Gilear: Darling, I love you very much. You succumbed to power of Nightmare, you were possessed for a short time. Your biological father, a powerful prince of the nine hells failed once again to not get stuck in a rock.

1:12:26 Fig: Okay, you don't need to cast aspersions on him just, this is not—

1:12:32 Gilear: And I, and I failed to not get absolutely rocked in the dome by a gorilla demon. [laughter]

1:12:37 Fig: Gilear.

1:12:39 Gilear: Failure is a part of life.

1:12:40 Fig: Gilear, listen to me. [whispers] You have a part to play yet.

1:12:45 Gilear: What?

1:12:47 Fig: [whispers] You have a—

1:12:47 Gilear: I know, tour manager, it's on my lanyard.

1:12:50 Fig: This is why you're the chosen one. 'Cause you're so innocent, and so—

1:12:55 Gilear: All right, you're, okay. Well, here's the thing. I care about you, your mother and I do talk and we are worried. The middle aged men, the tours. [laughter]

1:13:10 Gilear: It just feels like a lot of lashing out. And I wish, I don't know.

1:13:16 Fig: If I'm being honest, I think what happened tonight with Commissioner Buggins—

1:13:23 Gilear: Sorry, what? [laughter]

1:13:26 Fig: Oh. Nevermind.

1:13:29 Gilear: I mean, I can't just breeze over that one.

1:13:32 Fig: Fine, I think that, I think that, [sighs] I think that my imagination latched on to a fleeting moment I had with a police chief at a really respectable police station. And I think that I wanted to think about that instead of thinking about the fact that I got you killed and my dad trapped in a gem. So I might have leaned into the middle aged thing a little more than I should have.

1:14:06 Gilear: Okay.

1:14:07 Fig: Look, I'm on it, okay? I want to also have a healthy relationship with someone someday.

1:14:16 Gilear: And I know that you will. All right. I'm going to [sighs] head off to one of these little blanket pockets because there's one that does have some transportable yogurt. [laughter]

1:14:35 Gilear: You know, yogurt on the go.

1:14:35 Fig: I know, I have a—

1:14:37 Gilear: You don't need a spoon, it's just a tube.

1:14:39 Fig: I know, because it's on the rider.

1:14:42 Gilear: Ah!

1:14:42 Fig: For you.

1:14:44 Gilear: [laughs] Very good, my daughter. All right.

1:14:48 Brennan: And you see he toddles off. Adaine, what're you up to outside of the van?

1:14:58 Siobhan: Well, I see the van turn into a boat and I get very paranoid and cast Water Breathing as a ritual on myself and everybody else. [all laugh]

1:15:11 Siobhan: Up to 10 people. And then I'm gonna just I guess camp out under the stars.

1:15:22 Brennan: You see that without you even saying anything, while you're studying, Sandra Lynn hops down off the van and literally builds a tent around you as you study.

1:15:32 Adaine: Oh, can you, how do, I wanna, how do we, how do you do this?

1:15:37 Sandra Lynn: You're doing a thing I can't do. It's okay if I'm doing a thing that you don't know how to do.

1:15:43 Adaine: Okay, or you could teach me.

1:15:46 Sandra Lynn: You wanna know how to pitch a tent?

1:15:47 Adaine: Yeah!

1:15:47 Sandra Lynn: All right.

1:15:49 Brennan: And you see that Sandra Lynn sort of walks you through some Ranger basics of pitching a tent. And you see that she leaves you with a little lantern afterwards and says,

1:16:01 Sandra Lynn: Don't stay up too late, huh?

1:16:02 Adaine: Oh I won't, I'm gonna get my four hours.

1:16:06 Sandra Lynn: Great, I'll be up here on watch, you're good.

1:16:08 Adaine: And then I can take over from you if you want.

1:16:12 Brennan: Cool. I'm gonna need Adaine to give me a wisdom saving throw.

1:16:18 Siobhan: Oh, can Boggy help me with it? Or is that coming out of nowhere so probably not?

1:16:23 Brennan: I think that's coming out of nowhere.

1:16:25 Siobhan: A wisdom saving throw, eh? 16?

1:16:29 Brennan: Cool. You finally finish your studying. You turn off the little lantern. What's Adaine doing to snuggle down for the night? Where's Boggy, where's her orb?

1:16:52 Siobhan: I think Boggy is in the sleeping bag with me.

1:16:55 Ally: Cute!

1:16:58 Siobhan: Maybe I'm using his little—

1:17:00 Ally: As he breathes, he gets so small and then big again. [all laugh]

1:17:05 Ally: He's almost moving you.

1:17:08 Siobhan: And then the orb is probably right where I can touch it just in case if I get woken up I need to...

1:17:14 Brennan: Gotcha. You're settling down to sleep. You're in a trance. The runes of your spell books going over and over in your mind, capturing the spell slots you need for your new day, for your new rest. Give me a perception check.

1:17:49 Siobhan: 15.

1:17:54 Brennan: You open your eyes to feel Boggy's breathing stop very suddenly. And you see his eyes go wide and shift into his something's-happening-that-I'm-not-sure-about expression.

1:18:11 Siobhan: Can I see which way he's looking? Is he looking at a specific thing?

1:18:15 Brennan: You turn to look in your little sleeping bag. There is something in the tent with you.

1:18:28 Siobhan: Can I cast Friends on it?

1:18:32 Brennan: You do cast Friends, give me an arcana check real quick.

1:18:39 Siobhan: Not nat 20.

1:18:45 Brennan: Casting Friends right now at this thing will allow you momentarily to see its face with your elven darkvision because right now you see that its face is obscured because it is humanoid, clothed but you can't see in bright color enough so you're not sure what color the clothes are but there is something roughly your size sitting with its knees to its chest with its hand or arms wrapped around its knees, but the fold of fabric is obscuring everything from the chest up, like the actually natural fold of the tent. If you turn to cast Friends, you will be able to see this thing's face. Give me an insight check very quickly.

1:19:43 Siobhan: 11.

1:19:49 Brennan: [slowly] If you see this thing's face, something is going to happen to you.

1:20:00 Siobhan: Damn it.

1:20:01 Ally: We have to sleep tonight.

1:20:05 Emily: I'm so glad this isn't me. I would probably be like, "I wanna see the face."

1:20:10 Lou: Show me the face. [all laugh]

1:20:12 Emily: Show me the face!

1:20:12 Emily: I wanna see the face.

1:20:15 Lou: I'm ready to see the face.

1:20:16 Siobhan: Okay, I say,

1:20:16 Adaine: What're you doing in my tent? [Brennan abruptly stops the background music] Lou and Ally laugh quietly and hold their hands to their chests.

1:20:27 Brennan: There is no sign of movement or recognition from the being in response to that question.

1:20:39 Adaine: God damn it. Guys! Hello, is anyone awake?

1:20:49 Brennan: You hear Sandra Lynn up on the van call out to you.

1:20:52 Sandra Lynn: Adaine, everything okay?

1:20:52 Adaine: No!

1:20:56 Brennan: You see that, Adaine, you hear her jump down. You look back and the thing is gone.

1:21:01 Adaine: There's something here. I saw something, I definitely saw something.

1:21:09 Brennan: You see Sandra Lynn has arrow in the bow, immediately is looking around. You see that she, yeah she's looking around and says,

1:21:17 Sandra Lynn: Okay, can you cast any detection spells? Anything to try to find it?

1:21:20 Adaine: Yeah, I can cast, god, I don't have any, I have so few spells left. I used all my spells today.

1:21:27 Sandra Lynn: Is there any chance that's it—

1:21:30 Adaine: I could cast Detect Thoughts.

1:21:34 Brennan: She looks and says,

1:21:36 Sandra Lynn: If you think that would help, you can.

1:21:37 Adaine: Do you think that would help?

1:21:41 Siobhan: Okay, I'll cast Detect Thoughts.

1:21:48 Brennan: [exhales] You detect, give me a investigation check.

1:21:53 Siobhan: Can I use Boggy this time?

1:21:53 Brennan: Yes you can. DC is 20.

1:22:00 Siobhan: I rolled two 11s, which means I got an 18.

1:22:05 Brennan: [exhales dramatically] Spell doesn't hit any thoughts but you know that there's nothing thinking within 30 feet or whatever of the van.

1:22:11 Siobhan: Okay. [shouts] Can I look through Boggy's eyes and see anything using his dark vision?

1:22:26 Brennan: You look through Boggy's eyes, yeah give me another investigation check.

1:22:32 Siobhan: No.

1:22:37 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks at you and says, you see that she whistles, Baxter takes off and starts circling around. You see, Sandra Lynn looks at you. Give me an insight check.

1:22:53 Siobhan: Eight.

1:22:55 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks at you and says,

1:22:57 Sandra Lynn: Okay, Baxter's looking for it right now. I'm looking for it, you cast Detect Thoughts there's nothing thinking here. We can wake up everybody else in the van. I'm just gonna offer something to you right now. This is a really scary quest. Are you certain you saw something? I understand, I understand. If it was there, it's gone right now to the best of our knowledge. Maybe it would be best if you went into the van and maybe Gilear can come out, or Cathilda or somebody else.

1:23:38 Adaine: Okay, yeah. But I only need four hours and then I can come out.

1:23:44 Sandra Lynn: I know, Adaine, it'll be okay. It'll be okay.

1:23:48 Brennan: I will say for whatever Sandra Lynn is talking about, based on your perceptions and investigations and everything else like that, I don't know if Adaine would be left with a conviction that there was definitely something in the tent with her. She stewards you into the van where the protective moon haven that Tracker has created leaves a celestially-powered little extra-dimensional space. Boggy croaks comfortingly and you're able to do your spells not out on the hard earth, but in a soft little place of blankets. You see that Cathilda comes out in her trainers on her way up to join Sandra Lynn. A moment later, you see Cathilda pops into your little room and says,

1:24:40 Cathilda: Oh, Mistress Adaine, you have to forgive me but I noticed that you look a little bit of a pallor on you while you walked in, so here's a nice glass of milk and here's a little tray of fresh-baked cookies.

1:24:53 Adaine: When did you bake these? I mean, thank you, they look delicious.

1:24:57 Cathilda: What I did is I jerry-rigged a little grill tray on top of the engine so it heats up and you can bake cookies while we're driving.

1:25:03 Adaine: Cathilda!

1:25:03 Cathilda: Oh please! What kind of maid would I be if I couldn't bake some nice chocolate chip cookies on the engine of a moving van?

1:25:10 Adaine: You are so much more than a maid. Not that I want to dismiss the job of maid as not being important because that is a life-saving job for a lot of people.

1:25:18 Fabian: [yells] It's essential!

1:25:19 Adaine: Right.

1:25:21 Cathilda: Thank you very much, Master Fabian! My darling Adaine, I do appreciate your kindness and I am well aware that Master Fabian has some misconceptions about those of us in the custodial professions. The truth is, before I was a maid I lived a life that was much richer in terms of glory and risk and adventure and everything like that and honest can't say whether or not I am worse off for making cookies and cleaning up and things like that. At the end of the day, somebody needs to clean and cook and all that and I don't know. I did a lot of more grand things in my youth and I don't know that they did anybody, including myself, much of any good. But I do know that cookies do.

1:26:21 Brennan: She smiles and says,

1:26:21 Cathilda: Also, just so you know, Captain Seacaster set my salary at an exorbitant rate so I am—

1:26:28 Adaine: Oh good. That does make me feel better.

1:26:31 Cathilda: I'm not, this is not a bad gig for me.

1:26:32 Adaine: My parents actually, we did have unseen servants but they made me do a lot of housework as a character building. You have to be able to serve to know how to lead, that was my parents' attitude to everything.

1:26:50 Cathilda: Right, we got certain and there's a bit of wisdom in that to be sure, although from what I've heard, your mother and father were...

1:26:57 Adaine: Not great?

1:26:57 Cathilda: Not great. Well, I'll leave you to your cookies then. Have a good trance, milady.

1:27:04 Brennan: And you see that she leaves you with milk and cookies.

1:27:08 Siobhan: I have a little cry as she leaves. It's just the sweetest thing.

1:27:11 Brennan: And you hear her and Sandra Lynn. You haven't seen Sandra Lynn or Cathilda kind of hang out, you know, one to one. You hear a kind of pleasant humming conversation up there and realize that they seem to be getting along swimmingly up on the roof of the van.

1:27:26 Ally: Cute.

1:27:28 Brennan: The next morning arrives. You all wake, nobody in the van has to make any wisdom saving throws, no nothing. It looks like Tracker's plan worked.

1:27:41 Ally: Wow.

1:27:41 Emily: Great.

1:27:41 Gorgug: Glad we brought Tracker.

1:27:42 Fig: Yeah.

1:27:42 Kristen: Yeah, definitely.

1:27:45 Tracker: Shucks, thanks, guys, appreciate it.

1:27:47 Gorgug: [embarrassed] Oh, I said that out loud.

1:27:49 Riz: Adaine, you came into the van in the middle of the night.

1:27:51 Adaine: Yeah. I saw something I think in my tent. I don't know I might have just been paranoid or something.

1:27:55 Kristen: What did it look like?

1:27:57 Adaine: I didn't see its face and it didn't move and I tried to talk to it and it didn't respond but it was, maybe I just freaked out, I don't know. Maybe it was—

1:28:06 Fig: Hey Adaine? Seriously, we're working with an entity that is shielding itself from detection. You are not, like. This is a very logical conclusion that you jumped to.

1:28:20 Adaine: Yeah anyway, I stocked some spells that maybe can help us.

1:28:23 Riz: Did it have cat feet?

1:28:26 Siobhan: Did it have cat feet?

1:28:27 Brennan: No.

1:28:27 Adaine: No.

1:28:30 Siobhan: Did I see its feet? No.

1:28:33 Brennan: You saw its hands. It had, again you can't tell because your darkvision doesn't read color that well, but it didn't have claws or paws. It had humanoid-type hands. Honestly, its hands didn't look that threatening. They looked kinda dainty and fancy.

1:28:48 Riz: How dainty were they?

1:28:48 Fig: Was it your mom?

1:28:50 Murph: No, was it Baron? I describe Baron.

1:28:53 Ally: No.

1:28:56 Brennan: The thing you saw was medium-sized, not small-sized.

1:28:59 Murph: Okay.

1:28:59 Siobhan: Oh, okay. [Murph shudders at the memory of Baron]

1:29:01 Fig: Is it your mom?

1:29:01 Ally: Is Baron growing by the day?

1:29:03 Adaine: I feel like I would've recognized my mom.

1:29:04 Lou: [laughing] Baron is growing.

1:29:06 Murph: [laughing] That’s definitely—

1:29:08 Ally: Can I talk to Ragh?

1:29:08 Brennan: Yeah.

1:29:10 Kristen: Ragh, can you explain what you, were you hanging out with your mom before, the night before we left for this thing or what was she like the night before we took off on our big adventure?

1:29:26 Ragh: I mean, mostly good. She was happy for me 'cause I was probably gonna have to,

1:29:33 Brennan: He gets a little choked up. He goes,

1:29:34 Ragh: I was probably gonna have to repeat this year if nobody asked me on an adventure. But if our grades are good then I can graduate probably.

1:29:47 Fig: Do you have security on your house? Doesn't that seem—

1:29:52 Kristen: Cool, you probably don't need it.

1:29:54 Brennan: You see he says,

1:29:54 Ragh: Oh.

1:29:54 Brennan: He's like,

1:29:54 Ragh: Oh, you mean like,

1:29:59 Brennan: He's like,

1:29:59 Ragh: You mean like visible security?

1:30:02 Fig: I mean like any kind of security. It sounds like—

1:30:06 Gorgug: I think we're probably not talk—

1:30:07 Adaine: Professor Aguefort is looking after your mom right now.

1:30:09 Ragh: Yeah. No, she was an adventurer.

1:30:12 Fig: Professor Aguefort owes me a magical creature. [Ally laughs]

1:30:17 Brennan: You see that he looks and says,

1:30:17 Ragh: What?

1:30:21 Zac: We're all Messaging this conversation about his mom, right?

1:30:25 Ally: Oh, probably.

1:30:27 Emily: Nothing, I just have a letter to send. Strongly worded.

1:30:30 Kristen: But yeah, so she wasn't asleep or anything? She was still very much awake like she always is?

1:30:37 Brennan: You see he says,

1:30:37 Ragh: Yeah, she was awake and talking and stuff.

1:30:40 Kristen: Cool, cool.

1:30:42 Riz: Did she get worse after prom?

1:30:45 Ragh: No, not really.

1:30:47 Riz: Okay.

1:30:47 Kristen: Cool cool.

1:30:47 Adaine: Is there any way that we could talk to her? Give her a bell? Talk to your mom?

1:30:57 Ragh: I don't wanna tell her any of this stuff.

1:31:01 Adaine: That's fair.

1:31:02 Kristen: Totally fair.

1:31:03 Murph: I think we've got this boat and we should go—

1:31:07 Emily: Can I real quick, I just wanna look, this is a totally unnecessary but I just wanna look through that book that we found from the hotel and see if Goldenhoard or KVX ever was there.

1:31:20 Brennan: You did not, you guys rolled really high on that. You would’ve, I would've told you if you guys had seen KVX.

1:31:25 Siobhan: Can I do a Detect Magic as we're heading off?

1:31:29 Adaine: Are we going to Leviathan, is that our plan?

1:31:32 Fabian: Yes, well, we're on our way to Fallinel, by way of Leviathan.

1:31:36 Siobhan: Great, so as we're driving, can I Detect Magic as a ritual on this hotel book, just to make sure that there isn't anything magically hidden?

1:31:45 Brennan: Sure. You don't spot any magic here.

1:31:47 Siobhan: Okay.

1:31:49 Gorgug: Can I ask you guys something on the way to the harbor?

1:31:53 Kristen: Totally.

1:31:55 Gorgug: I've been feeling not, feeling a little down and I was just wondering if, when we get in the water, if you guys wouldn't mind calling me Skipper. [pause]

1:32:08 Kristen: Yeah, man.

1:32:08 Fabian: Absolutely not.

1:32:11 Kristen: I'll definitely call you Skipper, yeah.

1:32:12 Gorgug: You'll call me Skipper?

1:32:13 Adaine: Why?

1:32:14 Gorgug: Okay, it doesn't have to be a, I just kinda—

1:32:15 Fig: Can I call you Skipper outside of the water as well?

1:32:17 Gorgug: Yeah, it's just, you know.

1:32:19 Kristen: Hey man, why have you been feeling down? What's up?

1:32:21 Gorgug: Well it's just some stuff, you know. I'm just kinda sad about where I'm at with Zelda right now and I think it'd make me feel better to have, if you would call me Skipper.

1:32:28 Adaine: Do you want us to text Zelda—

1:32:29 Gorgug: No.

1:32:31 Adaine: And tell her that you didn't leave...?

1:32:34 Gorgug: I left her a message.

1:32:36 Adaine: Right but like—

1:32:37 Kristen: You haven't heard from her since?

1:32:38 Riz: Is she going to The Red Waste?

1:32:41 Gorgug: I… I think. Yeah. I think maybe her adventuring party is. Is that…

1:32:47 Riz: That’s where Ragh’s—

1:32:47 Fig: That's where the crystals were.

1:32:49 Kristen: And they were doing a whole crystal thing.

1:32:51 Adaine: Yeah, I think that we should call Zel— Do you want—? Can you do an unknown number call to her?

1:32:59 Fig: Why not just one of us?

1:32:59 Kristen: Can we just call her? Just give her a call straight from you.

1:33:01 Fabian: Yes.

1:33:02 Gorgug: I'll call her.

1:33:03 Fabian: Leave her a voicemail, one of those things.

1:33:03 Fig: I think Riz could call her.

1:33:04 Riz: Yeah, I'm really good at talking to people.

1:33:06 Kristen: Absolutely not.

1:33:07 Riz: What?

1:33:08 Kristen: Gorgug, give her another call.

1:33:11 Gorgug: [getting irritated] I, I’ll give her a— I can call her!

1:33:12 Kristen: She doesn't wanna be tricked into talking to you.

1:33:15 Fig: It wouldn't be tricked, Riz would just call because we have this information about The Red West—

1:33:18 Emily: Red West. [laughs]

1:33:18 Fig: The Red Waste and we need to—

1:33:20 Fabian: It is west.

1:33:23 Fig: The Red Waste in the west.

1:33:24 Gorgug: Maybe you call her and I'll just—

1:33:26 Riz: But if we share that information it could put—

1:33:29 Fabian: Ragh at risk.

1:33:32 Adaine: What we could do is send her a letter

1:33:36 Fig: In illusory script?

1:33:36 Adaine: using illusory script.

1:33:38 Zac: Can we text with illusory script?

1:33:39 Siobhan: Can we text with illusory script?

1:33:41 Brennan: Give me a DC 15 arcana check.

1:33:43 Siobhan: Great.

1:33:43 Zac: Can I give you the help action?

1:33:45 Siobhan: Great.

1:33:46 Emily: Can I give you bardic inspiration?

1:33:48 Siobhan: Arcana, oh I don't need it. I got a 19.

1:33:56 Brennan: One of your crystals has that little thing where you can stylus draw fading things on it. And as soon as you get that, you can apply the illusory script to it.

1:34:05 Siobhan: Amazing. So can I text Zelda the information that we got about Ragh's mom?

1:34:14 Kristen: How do we feel about Zelda though? She's like for sure—

1:34:17 Adaine: Zelda rules.

1:34:18 Kristen: I mean, obviously, Zelda rules.

1:34:21 Fig: Yes, but we all thought Goldenhoard ruled.

1:34:23 Gorgug: What are you even talking about? What are we talking about right now?

1:34:24 Kristen: I'm definitely not trying to insinuate that she, but I just, it feels like her adventuring party, maybe something was going on, I remember.

1:34:31 Adaine: Yes.

1:34:32 Fabian: I cannot help but agree with Adaine in that Zelda is a perfectly capable adventurer and it feels like maybe we don't need to enter this realm of risk for her benefit.

1:34:47 Gorgug: I don't wanna, okay.

1:34:49 Kristen: You should call her if you wanna talk to her about your relationship but I guess we don't have to tell her all of this crazy stuff.

1:34:53 Gorgug: I think that and separately we should maybe give them a heads up if they're gonna get in danger.

1:34:56 Adaine: Well but if they're investigating something—

1:34:59 R: They're investigating something at The Red Waste.

1:34:59 Adaine: Yeah and if they're investigating something that's tangential to ours we can help each other.

1:35:03 Fig: I think it's good to share the information. I just wanna, can we—

1:35:07 Riz: We should just maybe tell her to keep it a secret to herself.

1:35:09 Fig: That's what I was gonna say.

1:35:09 Adaine: Are we graded on a curve, because if we are, then we should avoid them but if we're not, then we should help them.

1:35:14 Gorgug: Adaine, come on.

1:35:14 Fig: Wow, that was dark.

1:35:15 Riz: That was tragic.

1:35:15 Kristen: We're not graded on a curve.

1:35:15 Fabian: I’m sorry, what?!

1:35:16 Fig: That was so dark.

1:35:16 Kristen: That was tragic.

1:35:18 Fabian: Truly the darkest thing that's been said so far.

1:35:20 Fig: Wow. Hoo! Can I smoke in here again? Adaine/Fabian/Kristen: No! [Gorgug coughs]

1:35:26 Kristen: You're doing it anyway! We can tell.

1:35:28 Fig: I'm not, I'm not.

1:35:30 Zac: Alright, so I’ll just start driving—

1:35:30 Adaine: Oh my goodness.

1:35:30 Siobhan: I cast Ray of Frost on that.

1:35:34 Emily: I cast Hellish Rebuke and light it back up.

1:35:34 Zac: I’ll just start driving into the—

1:35:35 Murph: Let’s drive, just drive into the ocean.

1:35:36 Kristen: That sounds good, Skipper.

1:35:37 Riz: Skipper, drive us into the ocean.

1:35:40 Siobhan: I cast Water Breathing on us again so that we're all safe.

1:35:42 Emily: If we have Water Breathing on us, can I swim and retrieve my phone that I threw into the river?

1:35:46 Siobhan: It's in the river. The police definitely already have that.

1:35:49 Brennan: You guys can take, yeah, you think that probably the phone would've been retrieved by the police at this point.

1:35:54 Adaine: We can buy you a new phone. We have so much money.

1:35:56 Fabian: Yes, we're rich.

1:35:58 Fig: I just had some pictures on there. Zac covers his face.

1:36:00 Adaine: Well they're definitely dead. They're not there anymore.

1:36:02 Fabian: [laughing] Wow, wow.

1:36:04 Brennan: You see Sandra Lynn just goes,

1:36:04 Sandra Lynn: [closing her eyes][grimacing] God!

1:36:07 Brennan: And Gilear goes,

1:36:11 Gilear: [groansp Oh dear. Yeah, this is another one right on the chin for old Gilear. This is, it just hurts so much to have failed this profoundly.

1:36:20 Brennan: You see that [laughs] you guys head off towards the water. Fabian, you're on the Hangman.

1:36:29 Fabian: I'm not gonna call him Skipper, alright? He's not a captain, he's never even sailed a boat before.

1:36:34 Gorgug: [singing] My van is a boat, my boat is a van.

1:36:43 Van: [singing] My van is a boat, my boat is a van. Fig/Kristen/Riz: The van is a boat, the boat is a van.

1:36:45 Brennan: The most Jack Johnson-y, just that's all the van plays.

1:36:47 Lou: Oh my god.

1:36:50 Murph: [singing] Making banana pancakes.

1:36:53 Brennan: You guys head off towards—

1:36:53 Murph: Making banana van cakes. [all laugh]

1:36:57 Zac: What?

1:36:59 Lou: What?

1:36:59 Zac: Banana boat cakes?

1:37:00 Brennan: As you all head off to the harbor, you see that Sandra Lynn actually does go. Sandra Lynn, you see that Sandra Lynn says, talks with Tracker briefly and Tracker's gonna go fly up on Baxter.

1:37:13 Ally: Cool.

1:37:14 Brennan: And Sandra Lynn's gonna take a little trance. You guys head off. You guys approach the harbor. You pull up, you see that the van looks at you, or doesn't look but the headlights flash on, the radio plays, and on the radio it says,

1:37:28 Van: Well, it's bon voyage time. Hangman, if you wanna hop up on the rack, then we can set sail for clear blue seas. That good ocean living.

1:37:45 Gorgug: Climb aboard, Hangman.

1:37:48 Fabian: [quietly] Hangman, it's your call.

1:37:50 Hangman: [quietly] I burn with hatred for this van. I would sooner drive into the sea and ride along the bottom of the ocean.

1:37:59 Adaine: Pleeease?

1:38:07 Brennan: Make a persuasion check with advantage.

1:38:16 Siobhan: 15.

1:38:16 Brennan: 15.

1:38:17 Kristen: Okay, Hangman, look we're going to pirate central. Isn't that your thing?

1:38:22 Fabian: He's a demon, not a pirate, he looks—

1:38:25 Ally: Oh, 19!

1:38:25 Brennan: 19.

1:38:26 Fig: Hangman, this is what Bill Seacaster would've wanted.

1:38:30 Brennan: Give me a persuasion with advantage.

1:38:35 Emily: I think I have good persuasion. 24.

1:38:37 Brennan: Whoa! So he says,

1:38:39 Hangman: Do you truly believe Captain Bill Seacaster would wish for me to strap myself to the top of this van?

1:38:52 Fig: You're making it sound bad but what he would want for you is to taste the salt in the air and feel the wind in your pipes.

1:39:00 Ally: Fig is really good, you guys.

1:39:01 Gorgug: [to Fabian] Do you wanna be the captain?

1:39:03 Fabian: I mean, there's already Skipper, so—

1:39:06 Gorgug: No, you can be the captain and I'll be the skipper.

1:39:08 Adaine: Isn't that the same thing?

1:39:08 Fabian: That's not really how a ship—

1:39:09 Gorgug: I don't know.

1:39:11 Adaine: It is.

1:39:11 Gorgug: No, I don't think so.

1:39:13 Riz: We can make up our own rules.

1:39:14 Kristen: Yeah.

1:39:14 Fabian: I guess, fine I'll [sighs]

1:39:19 Kristen: I guess I'll be first mate.

1:39:21 Brennan: You see Ragh goes,

1:39:21 Ragh: And I'll be king of the boat! [all laugh]

1:39:24 Kristen: Yeah!

1:39:25 Fabian: Hangman, I need you.

1:39:29 Brennan: Hangman looks at you and says,

1:39:31 Hangman: For the new Captain Seacaster, and the old.

1:39:36 Brennan: [imitates motorcycle engine revving] And you see he tires screech] rides, hits the hood of the van, goes up onto the roof, and gets tied up there. And you see that Baxter lands and puts one claw around the Hangman just to hold it in place. You see that Hangvan goes,

1:39:56 Van: All right, everybody pile in, all aboard!

1:39:59 Kristen: All right, let's do this.

1:40:00 Fig: And we're sure that this is sea-ready, this vessel?

1:40:04 Fabian: I trust the—

1:40:04 Gorgug: Got a propeller.

1:40:06 Riz: Not really. [Zac imitates water splashing]

1:40:07 Brennan: You guys drive, as you drive you see the [laughs] van boat begins to head into the harbor. It goes,

1:40:15 Van: Toot toot!

1:40:16 Brennan: And these big old gnomish pontoons inflate around the front and sides of the van. And you see he says,

1:40:21 Van: Get ready for the spring break road trip of our lives, gang. Heck yeah. [chill ukulele music starts playing]

1:40:29 Fig: Adaine, can I grab something from your Jacket of Many Things?

1:40:32 Adaine: Yeah, what do you want?

1:40:34 Fig: I need a phone that's my same phone number.

1:40:36 Adaine: That is worth 10 gold pieces?

1:40:39 Fig: It can be a cheap one, just the same phone number.

1:40:41 Fabian: Pre-paid.

1:40:42 Fig: Pre-paid.

1:40:42 Siobhan: I pull out a full 1980’s style brick phone.

1:40:48 Fig: Cool, great, thanks.

1:40:50 Adaine: Uh-huh.

1:40:51 Kristen: Hey, can I look at that bag of gems again?

1:40:54 Fig: Yeah absolutely, have at it.

1:40:56 Ally: Are there any gems in here that kind of look like the ruby that she stole from that jewelry spot?

1:41:05 Brennan: The only things you saw that were that large and flawlessly cut were the ones that had gone into the van here and the devil's heart it's holding.

1:41:12 Ally: Those were the only two? There's nothing that kinda looks like it?

1:41:15 Brennan: There are other nice gems but all of them are quite small or are not as finely cut.

1:41:21 Siobhan: But do they, they're all... Like, when I did the Identify spell, they're components of the magical jar? They all have things trapped inside them?

1:41:32 Brennan: Yes, they all look to have magical things trapped inside them. You see that Cathilda, by the way, comes sort of, the van is much larger for her, comes around. She apparently at some point bought little plastic coconut drink holders and starts passing out little coconut—

1:41:46 Ally: Oh my god, this is amazing.

1:41:47 Emily: Can I do a perception check on Cathilda?

1:41:49 Brennan: Make a what?

1:41:49 Emily: Perception check.

1:41:51 Brennan: Sure.

1:41:53 Murph: Is Cathilda the new Porter?

1:41:56 Lou: I love Cathil—

1:41:57 Emily: A dirty 20. Can we trust her? The cookies, I wanna know about the cookies she gave Adaine last night.

1:42:03 Brennan: You glare at Cathilda as she passes by. She looks at you and says,

1:42:08 Cathilda: Oh, Mistress Fig, would you like a virgin daiquiri?

1:42:13 Fig: Only if you taste it first. [Ally laughs]

1:42:17 Cathilda: You worried that I've poisoned your daiquiri?

1:42:21 Fig: Do I need to be?

1:42:23 Cathilda: I don't know. Maybe you lie so much that you're always worried other people are doing it.

1:42:28 Fabian: Fig, she's a maid! She can't lie!

1:42:30 Ally: Slam down!

1:42:32 Adaine: That's not true.

1:42:32 Fabian: Maids aren't allowed to lie. It's a maid law or something, I don't know.

1:42:37 Cathilda: Now, Fabian, you know that I made a joke about maid law many years ago and I've insisted ever since I made it that it's not true.

1:42:46 Fabian: It sounded very real. It feels like there would be a code that maids would follow, something that keeps maid society together.

1:42:54 Cathilda: I understand, would you like a virgin daiquiri?

1:42:56 Fabian: Of course I want one!

1:42:59 Fig: Yeah, okay.

1:43:00 Gorgug: No thanks, I'm driving. [Murph bursts out laughing]

1:43:04 Ally: Am I, on the subject of world religions, do I have anything that I can be reading about demons?

1:43:11 Siobhan: Oh, and the planetar as well maybe.

1:43:13 Emily: Yeah.

1:43:14 Brennan: Go ahead and make a religion check for me.

1:43:16 Ally: All right. Interesting. Okay, that's a 11.

1:43:24 Brennan: You don't find anything about, planetars are a very powerful type of angel, second only to solars. They're just a powerful form of angel.

1:43:34 Murph: Question, how do you, this is such a... I feel like Riz, as soon as he sees the open air and everybody chilling, is completely incapable of chilling and goes inside and starts spiraling into conspiracy theories. How do you spell Garthy?

1:43:49 Brennan: G-A-R-T-H-Y.

1:43:52 Murph: An H, huh? I immediately come out with a bunch of pins and papers put together and say,

1:44:02 Riz: Garthy O'Brien, I thought it sounded weird like a fake name. You can spell “night” in there and I don't know what the other word is but it's all mixed up and night… orby, maybe? What is a night orby? Have you thought about it?

1:44:15 Gorgug: A night orby?

1:44:17 Riz: I don't know what the second word is.

1:44:18 Siobhan: Is O'Brien O-B-R-I-E-N or O-B-R-I-A-N?

1:44:22 Brennan: E-N.

1:44:24 Lou: Fabian jumps in the water. [Murph laughs]

1:44:26 Lou: He's swimming.

1:44:28 Brennan: Just swimming in the beautiful sea. It's a beautiful day, you're swimming along, you're heading out, you can see the Solisian coast fading behind you.

1:44:35 Ally: Can I do a little something with the—

1:44:37 Fabian: The Ball, come down!

1:44:37 Ally: I'm gonna get a gem. They already have people in it, nevermind.

1:44:42 Adaine: Night bore. Night rope, no.

1:44:44 Emily: Are they people?

1:44:45 Ally: Or different spells—

1:44:45 Brennan: You see Cathilda and the other two adults watch a van full of children unable to sit still or be happy and just kind of hold their heads.

1:44:55 Gorgug: Night yorb!

1:44:56 Riz: Night yorb, that's what I have right now.

1:44:58 Brennan: You see the Hangman on top says,

1:45:00 Hangman: The Night Yorb. What know you of the Night Yorb?

1:45:06 Fabian: Is the night orb a thing, Hangman?

1:45:07 Riz: Yorb!

1:45:08 Gorgug: Night yorb.

1:45:08 Riz: It's yorb!

1:45:09 Fabian: Oh, yorb, I'm sorry.

1:45:09 Riz: You can't forget the Y.

1:45:12 Brennan: You see that the van goes,

1:45:14 Van: Oh man, yeah the Night Yorb is bad news.

1:45:17 Fabian: Wait, is it actually a thing or are you guys playing a joke?

1:45:20 Hangman: No, I would never joke about a being as terrifying as the night yorb.

1:45:26 Emily: You can almost spell Gilear. [Murph laughs]

1:45:29 Lou: This orb. Fabian gets out— [all laugh]

1:45:34 Gilear: How often in sleuth stuff does almost making an anagram come up? A lot?

1:45:41 Adaine: You tell us.

1:45:41 Ally: I have an idea. I would like to take all the gems. Is the bag decorative and memorable, that they were all in? Or is it just a bag?

1:45:49 Brennan: It's a lovely little velvet pouch.

1:45:51 Ally: Okay, I wanna take all the gems out and have you put it in something else. A sock. And then I wanna cast Glyph of Warding on this bag with exploding runes in it. Just in case someone comes back, yeah.

1:46:03 Emily: Oh so if someone tries to steal it.

1:46:06 Ally: They'll take a shitton of acidic damage.

1:46:06 Fig: Kristen Applebees, that is genius.

1:46:09 Kristen: So no one open this bag!

1:46:11 Ally: And then I go around individually to people and say,

1:46:12 Kristen: This is a fake bag.

1:46:15 Fig: Let's put it in the glove compartment. 'Cause that seems like a place that people would try to rob us.

1:46:20 Adaine: Nice.

1:46:21 Kristen: Yeah. Wait, actually I'm just gonna keep it on my person just in case. Gilear is always looking for yogurt.

1:46:27 Ally: I put it in my jacket.

1:46:27 Fig: He's like a squirrel. Okay, that's good.

1:46:33 Kristen: If we're ever running away from something, maybe I can accidentally drop it and they'll think that they got it back.

1:46:37 Fig: That's good.

1:46:40 Brennan: You, as you're heading out to sea, music's playing, having a little fun, Fabian's swimming out in the ocean. You get a call on your crystal in the front seat from Zelda.

1:46:54 Gorgug: Captain or first mate, please take over.

1:46:56 Lou: I, uh, yeah.

1:46:57 Kristen: Definitely, I outrank you. [grips the steering wheel]

1:46:57 Lou: I swim up, what? I cannot.

1:47:02 Zac: Gorgug tries to find whatever would amount to privacy on this.

1:47:08 Brennan: Cool, you proably, the only things on top of the van are The Hangman and Baxter.

1:47:13 Zelda: Okay I'll go up there.

1:47:15 Gorgug: What's up, y'all?

1:47:17 Brennan: The phone rings and you hear Zelda's voice.

1:47:27 Zelda: Hey, Gorgug.

1:47:27 Gorgug: Hey. Did you get my message?

1:47:38 Zelda: Yeah, I got it.

1:47:40 Gorgug: I just wanted to say how sorry I was because I don't really have a good excuse but it just felt, I, yeah I'm sorry. It was, like I said, I don't have an excuse but yeah, how are you?

1:47:57 Zelda: I don't know, you know? I'm okay. I spent last night over at Antiope's house with Katja, just kinda hanging out or whatever. Played some crystal games and… Yeah, I don't know. It just sucks, this doesn't feel good.

1:48:26 Gorgug: Well, I just hope that you know that I would never do something like that on purpose and I still really, you know, care about you and our relationship and it just, I'm excited to see you when I get back and I hope your stuff is going well.

1:48:48 Zelda: Yeah, I'm excited too. I don't know, I really care about you a lot and it just kinda, I don't know, Gorgug, it just kinda sucks because—

1:49:09 Gorgug: What do you mean, you don't know?

1:49:14 Zelda: Look, I'm so glad that Fig and Riz are okay. I know how stressful it is. And if we're gonna be a couple, like a relationship, these kinds of things are always gonna come up. This is what an adventurer's life is and I know that you were busy and it makes me feel bad that I'm even upset because obviously you were doing something heroic, but you did stop at the mall, right? You did swing by to get Cathilda. There were other things on your mind. It wasn't like you were just racing to get them and it's just, look, I just think sometimes you think that you're awkward or whatever, or you think that, you still think you're this loser guy, but you're a rockstar, literally a rock star. And you play on the Owlbears and you literally saved the world and it's not crazy for me to worry that—

1:50:36 Gorgug: I didn't think it was crazy that you were worried. You're right, I totally had the time to, I should've called you, I should've texted you. I should've seen you in person before I left. I know that, yeah, I guess maybe I have some confidence issues I need to work on but—

1:51:05 Zelda: But I think it's like your confidence issues keep you, like, from doing the— because you don't, like, realize how important you are to some people, you like end up hurting people. I don't know. But I don't know. We can also, [static] We can...

1:51:35 Gorgug: We can do what?

1:51:36 Zelda: We can talk about this more later. Did you hear me?

1:51:39 Gorgug: It sounded like there was a weird noise there for a second.

1:51:42 Brennan: She says,

1:51:42 Zelda: Oh, I, uh, well, I, [static] If you—

1:51:47 Gorgug: Hey, we're getting closer, we're going to Fallinel right now, if you can hear me. I'm maybe losing service right now, can you hear me?

1:51:56 Zelda: No, I can still hear you. Okay, but just give me a call tonight. Just give me—

1:51:59 Gorgug: I'll try to, I'm worried that we won't have service, but I will—

1:52:04 Zelda: Well, you said you were gonna get the generator right?

1:52:06 Gorgug: The generator?

1:52:08 Zelda: You said that you were gonna get a thing so that we could call each other.

1:52:11 Gorgug: I thought...

1:52:15 Zelda: [static] You said you were gon— Gorgug, you said you were gonna get a— I ca— [static] We're br— breaking up. The cast looks on, devastated.

1:52:24 Lou: Oh, damn.

1:52:26 Gorgug: Hey, what did you say?

1:52:32 Ally: Oh no.

1:52:35 Zac: Try to put Baxter on my arm.

1:52:39 Brennan: Giant claw on your forearm.

1:52:42 Zac: I just sit up here for a while. [Gorgug sighs]

1:52:47 Van: Everything good up there on top of the van, hombre?

1:52:54 Gorgug: I'm just gonna hang out up here. I think, you don't happen to have some kind of powerful generator in you, right?

1:53:04 Van: I'm generating, yeah, I have a powersource.

1:53:10 Gorgug: For cell service, so I can—

1:53:13 Van: Yeah.

1:53:13 Gorgug: Really?

1:53:15 Van: Yeah!

1:53:15 Gorgug: Can you turn it on?

1:53:17 Van: Sure, just plug in a cell tower and I can power that bad boy right up.

1:53:24 Zac: Gorgug tries to make a cell tower. [all laugh]

1:53:28 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an intelligence roll with disadvantage.

1:53:33 Gorgug: Hangman, can I borrow some pipes?

1:53:35 Ally: Double 20s.

1:53:37 Zac: Okay. 11.

1:53:40 Brennan: 11 does not allow you to make a cell phone tower.

1:53:43 Siobhan: Can I maybe pull one, how expensive is a cell phone tower?

1:53:47 Ally: Definitely 10 gold pieces. [Emily coughs]

1:53:48 Siobhan: Yeah, 10 gold pieces.

1:53:49 Lou: Exactly.

1:53:50 Siobhan: Or maybe 10 different components that I could pull out that then—

1:53:54 Lou: Slowly just start building.

1:53:55 Siobhan: Join together.

1:53:56 Lou: Bolt, bolt, nut, bolt.

1:54:01 Brennan: You guys head out to sea.

1:54:06 Siobhan: Oh, brutal.

1:54:08 Fig: Gorgug, just so you know, I also kinda messed up a sure thing yesterday too.

1:54:13 Gorgug: What kinda sure thing were you talking about?

1:54:16 Fig: I'm talking about relationships.

1:54:17 Gorgug: Yeah, who?

1:54:20 Fig: That I can't really talk about.

1:54:21 Ally: I kinda just grab Fig and pull you away. [laughs] I'm pulling you away.

1:54:27 Brennan: I will also ask for just insight checks from the party. Gorgug, you can just give me a flat charisma check.

1:54:36 Siobhan: Can I have Boggy help me?

1:54:37 Brennan: Yes you can.

1:54:37 Emily: I have bad insight. Can I give a help to...

1:54:41 Brennan: Sure, yeah you can give a help to Riz.

1:54:43 Ally: 21.

1:54:43 Murph: That's a 4. 22.

1:54:45 Siobhan: I also got a 21.

1:54:48 Brennan: What did you get, Riz?

1:54:48 Murph: 22.

1:54:50 Gorgug: Can I do an insight if it's better than my charisma?

1:54:53 Brennan: I'm actually asking you for a charisma check.

1:54:54 Zac: Oh.

1:54:59 Brennan: What'd you get?

1:54:59 Zac: 4.

1:55:00 Brennan: 4, what did Fabian get?

1:55:01 Lou: 2.

1:55:03 Brennan: 2. Okay so, and what'd you get for your insight?

1:55:05 Emily: Oh, I gave mine to, oh, I just got a nat 20 actually.

1:55:08 Brennan: Nat 20, great. So literally every single one of the Bad Kids can immediately tell what's just happened on the roof. You can hear it, except Fabian who assumes that everything is completely fine up there.

1:55:22 Fabian: Guys, this is gonna be a great spring break. [all laugh]

1:55:27 Lou: Then I swan dive back into the ocean.

1:55:31 Fabian: You guys gotta come swimming!

1:55:32 Brennan: You see Ragh goes,

1:55:32 Ragh: Cannonball! [Brennan imitates water splashing]

1:55:35 Gorgug: We're going forward, aren't we?

1:55:37 Fabian: Come back, come back!

1:55:40 Riz: Round number two!

1:55:40 Ally: I sincerely can’t.

1:55:42 Brennan: You see that Sandra Lynn goes,

1:55:42 Sandra Lynn: Oh god, dumbasses.

1:55:46 Brennan: And jumps up on her griffin and picks them out of the ocean to be like,

1:55:50 Sandra Lynn: Do you have any idea how bad it is to go overboard on—

1:55:52 Fabian: Drop us, no, drop us, drop us! [Brennan imitates water splashing] [Lou shouts]

1:55:55 Ally: I have my ice cream pouch, my ice cream sandwich pouch, so I think I take out an ice cream sandwich and give it to Gorgug, like,

1:56:01 Kristen: Man, that sucks.

1:56:05 Gorgug: Thank you.

1:56:07 Fig: I don't wanna push you in a direction you're not ready for yet, but—

1:56:11 Emily: I put the drumsticks in his hand.

1:56:13 Gorgug: I can't hold that right now.

1:56:13 Fig: If anything comes to you, 'cause a lot of times these are the feelings that we mine that turn into gold.

1:56:20 Gorgug: I guess.

1:56:20 Fig: Platinum.

1:56:20 Gorgug: Lyrics-wise, the first things that come into my head are, "I'm feeling really bad and my van is a boat.” [the other Bad Kids start to sing with him but stop once they realize the next verse is different]

1:56:29 Gorgug: “I'm feeling really sad and my boat is a van.”

1:56:31 Kristen: Oh okay, oh that's good actually.

1:56:33 Fig: “Feeling really bad and my van is,” okay yeah.

1:56:36 Riz: [singing] The Night Yorb is coming for us. [all laugh]

1:56:39 Kristen: The Night Yorb!

1:56:41 Riz: Is coming for us.

1:56:41 Brennan: You see that The Hangman goes,

1:56:42 Hangman: Speak not of the Night Yorb!

1:56:45 Fabian: Guys, don't talk about the Night Yorb! Ragh, stop pushing me over!

1:56:49 Riz: Van, is there something called night by OAR? Is there?

1:56:53 Adaine: Or Night Araboy.

1:56:55 Gorgug: Where's the Y?

1:56:58 Fabian: In Garthy.

1:56:58 Riz: [in unison with Fabian] Garthy.

1:57:00 Gorgug: Oh, okay.

1:57:02 Brennan: You see that the van says,

1:57:05 Van: [Bluetooth connection tones] Playing Night by Oar. [Murph and Ally laugh] Gorgug bites his ice cream. [soothing music]

1:57:12 Adaine: Oh it's very chill.

1:57:14 Riz: This song rules.

1:57:15 Kristen: Honestly, this song is great.

1:57:16 Fabian: Yeah.

1:57:16 Adaine: Sick uke.

1:57:18 Fig: I really wish the van would play a little more rock and roll.

1:57:22 Van: If you guys have music, you can just play it straight from your phone.

1:57:25 Kristen: Into an aux cord?

1:57:25 Fig: Oh, is that consent?

1:57:30 Adaine: I don't think that your phone, I don't think your phone has—

1:57:31 Kristen: Yeah your phone, specifically, is not gonna play anything.

1:57:33 Emily: I try with my brick phone.

1:57:34 Brennan: You put your brick phone in there. It says,

1:57:38 Phone: To add more minutes, press star.

1:57:42 Murph: Riz puts on a really old "This American Life".

1:57:45 Brennan: "This Solisian Life", yes.

1:57:47 Murph: "This Solisian Life".

1:57:50 Brennan: You put on a very old "This Solisian Life".

1:57:52 Radio: This week, wondrous items. Who makes them, and how are they created?

1:57:56 Kristen: Hard no. Hard no.

1:57:59 Riz: I love this one.

1:58:01 Murph: I put down the windows.

1:58:01 Kristen: It's like they purposefully look for a smaller and smaller story each episode. I don't wanna hear two hours about the bassoon.

1:58:11 Riz: “This week, cantrips, how do we cast them?”

1:58:15 Adaine: I love the cantrip episode.

1:58:16 Riz: Yeah, it’s so good.

1:58:16 Adaine: I learned so much!

1:58:18 Riz: You think they're not spells just because they're level zero spells.

1:58:20 Zac: Gorgug puts his headphones on.

1:58:21 Kristen: Gorgug can, oh.

1:58:23 Brennan: You guys see Gilear says,

1:58:24 Gilear: There's one I want to listen to.

1:58:24 Brennan: He pushes the button. You see it goes,

1:58:27 Radio: This week on “This Solisian Life,” 50 feet of hemp rope. Why do so many people seem to have this? [all laugh]

1:58:35 Riz: Why do they have the rope, Gilear? I don't know.

1:58:38 Fig: I like this. This sounds like a nice respectful middle-aged man. I could listen to this.

1:58:43 Brennan: Gorgug, you put your headphones on and Zelda's playlist comes on. Gorgug sighs and bites his ice cream again.

1:58:57 Brennan: You guys sail into the wide open ocean. I'm gonna need somebody here to make a... I guess Gorgug is the one driving, so go ahead and make a flat wisdom check for me.

1:59:08 Zac: Oh boy.

1:59:08 Siobhan: You have Boggy.

1:59:10 Fig: Hey, Gorgug? You've got this.

1:59:14 Emily: That means you have inspiration.

1:59:15 Zac: How many do I add?

1:59:15 Emily: A D8.

1:59:17 Lou: D6. Wow, a D8, damn.

1:59:18 Siobhan: Don't add it unless you need it.

1:59:19 Zac: So with the help from Boggy, Gorgug takes the wheel. That's 16. 21?

1:59:32 Brennan: 21, awesome. You sail the van over the wide open sea expertly.

1:59:40 Adaine: Sally Brown was a nice young lady!

1:59:42 Brennan: Weigh, hey, roll and go.

1:59:45 Riz: My van is a boat, my boat is a van.

1:59:48 Kristen: I'm sad~

1:59:50 Brennan: Cool, I'm gonna go ahead and let's see how many days you guys are at sea. You are at sea for two days. What I would like from you guys now is, who are the people that— Oh, is anyone planning on spending the night up on top of the van because only nine people can sleep at a time.

2:00:15 Emily: Can I do it? Can I go on top of the van but sleep? Do it for the experience of how nice it would be?

2:00:21 Siobhan: Yeah, can we take turns? If we're taking two days, we can take turns sleeping inside.

2:00:24 Murph: Basically all the kids can stay inside, right?

2:00:26 Lou: The hirelings should go on top of the van.

2:00:29 Emily: But I'm saying I think it might be nice.

2:00:30 Brennan: Yeah, night one, Fig if you wanna go there, you see your mom looks at you and says,

2:00:34 Sandra Lynn: Why don't we spend the night on the van together?

2:00:36 Fig: Yeah that sounds great. Hey, you trust Cathilda, right?

2:00:40 Sandra Lynn: Sweetheart, yes. Yes I trust Cathilda.

2:00:43 Zac: Can we give her Bless or Guidance or anything if you're gonna be on the top of the—

2:00:47 Ally: Yeah, let's do it.

2:00:50 Murph: It didn't target Sandra Lynn before. Is there something about—

2:00:54 Fig: Oh, Mom, do I need to be in the van or could I, 'cause I might need to sleep in the van.

2:01:01 Brennan: You see she says,

2:01:01 Sandra Lynn: Well you do sleep so if we're worried about that thing happening again, we can, or if you want, we could try to protect you up here.

2:01:11 Fig: I don't wanna put anything on you. I'll just go to sleep in there. I just thought it'd be nice to be under the stars but not.

2:01:17 Zac: We can hang out and then go to sleep for a minute.

2:01:19 Ally: It only lasts for a minute. Like less honestly.

2:01:22 Brennan: Cool, so the first night you guys are out there. She's like,

2:01:26 Sandra Lynn: If you wanna hang out for a couple hours "and then, you know.

2:01:29 Zac: You can maybe give them bardic inspiration if they're gonna sleep out here.

2:01:34 Emily: Nah, I'm not gonna sleep out here. I'll just hang out, enjoy the stars.

2:01:37 Zac: For whoever has to be out here, I mean.

2:01:40 Brennan: You see your mom looks at you, and this beautiful night on the stars, the night ocean. You're sitting on the roof of the van, feeling the wobble of the sheet metal underneath you. But also mostly pitched back with Baxter's enormous weight. So Baxter's become a furry feathery back sofa for you guys to lean against.

2:01:58 Emily: I offer my mom a clove cigarette.

2:02:00 Brennan: She looks at you. Sandra Lynn pauses and then takes a clove.

2:02:04 Emily: I knew it.

2:02:06 Sandra Lynn: What the fuck, right? We're adventuring.

2:02:07 Fig: Yeah, yeah.

2:02:11 Sandra Lynn: So what's up? You're making out with old guys?

2:02:15 Fig: Can we just smoke in silence? And not talk about that? I'm working on it. I know you and Gilear and definitely Gorthalax and probably Jawbone and every other adult in my life would advise me to stop doing that and I'm working on it. It's a bad habit, right? You know something about that. Cigarettes, I'm talking about the cigarettes.

2:02:41 Sandra Lynn: Yeah, that's what I thought. You're a piece of work, kid.

2:02:46 Fig: Well, you made me.

2:02:48 Sandra Lynn: Yeah, god, I guess I did. You're gonna be alright. It's hard, you know? Not even, there's so many fun mistakes. And I think sometimes for me, the idea of living for centuries gets daunting. You know the feeling of vertigo, right?

2:03:24 Fig: Yeah.

2:03:25 Sandra Lynn: It's like, because you can fall, you almost want to. I think when you got centuries staring you down, it's just this weight of, given enough years, aren't I going to fuck this up? And if so, maybe I should just get it out of the way. I don't know.

2:03:51 Fig: I guess I don't have centuries though.

2:03:53 Sandra Lynn: You might. Tieflings don't all live to be the same age. Some tieflings live hundreds of years. That fiendish blood in you is not human. It's not extra mortal.

2:04:03 Fig: I keep a pretty healthy lifestyle. [takes a drag]

2:04:07 Sandra Lynn: Yeah, real healthy.  All right, you wanted us to shut up so let's shut up.

2:04:12 Brennan: She reaches into her ranger pack and takes out a flask of whiskey and hands it to you.

2:04:18 Emily: I was gonna be straight-edge except for drugs but okay. If I'm doing it with my mom, yeah.

2:04:25 Zac: Straight-edge except for drugs.

2:04:27 Brennan: And you guys hang out looking at the stars that night. Lemme make some quick...

2:04:38 Emily: I'll give her a bardic inspiration if she's making wisdom checks.

2:04:39 Brennan: Wisdom saves, cool, great. That's good to know. Second night, who all is, the second night, you guys begin to see that it goes from sunny to overcast. Who's gonna be out there on this starless night on the sort of black ocean?

2:05:05 Siobhan: I will, just 'cause with Boggy I have darkvision.

2:05:10 Zac: I have darkvision as well.

2:05:12 Brennan: You see that Tracker looks and says… No, actually Tracker needs to get her spells back to be able to create the moon haven. Cool, so you are gonna go up there. Do you and Gorgug wanna go up there that second night?

2:05:30 Zac: Do we need two people to go up there?

2:05:32 Brennan: Yeah 'cause only nine can fit in the van and sleep at the same time. Sandra Lynn says,

2:05:35 Sandra Lynn: I will say this, I love being outside every night but one night of trance on a soft thing would be great.

2:05:42 Adaine: I also, I didn't use any spells the previous day and so I can...

2:05:46 Sandra Lynn: Yeah great.

2:05:46 Kristen: Do you guys want a healer up there with you? 'Cause I could do it too if you want. The three of us.

2:05:53 Gorgug: Sure.

2:05:53 Adaine: Yeah, okay.

2:05:53 Emily: 'Cause you guys could've presumably slept during the day.

2:05:57 Ally: Yeah, what're we gonna—

2:05:58 Siobhan: Well but who knows, if the Nightmare King...

2:06:02 Brennan: Cares about what time?

2:06:02 Siobhan: Cares about what time of night it is, it's just nightmares. It's not nightmares.

2:06:08 Zac: You have the ability to give us bardic inspiration.

2:06:12 Emily: Yeah I think I would just, as you guys were going up the spiral staircase to the top, I would give you all a little inspiration.

2:06:21 Siobhan: I love this crow’s next out there.

2:06:25 Brennan: Cool.

2:06:26 Ally: We all hold hands.

2:06:29 Brennan: Lovely. Tracker's also gonna cast a second level spell on Gorgug to give you advantage on wisdom saving throws.

2:06:38 Zac: Nice.

2:06:39 Brennan: Cool, you guys go kick it on top of the thing, looking—

2:06:42 Emily: I'll whisper,

2:06:44 Fig: Sandra Lynn left a flask of whiskey up there.

2:06:47 Adaine: Okay, I can just also...

2:06:49 Gorgug: Should I give it back to her?

2:06:50 Fig: Nah.

2:06:52 Gorgug: What?

2:06:52 Adaine: I don't need to steal anybody else's whiskey. I can just— [gestures to her jacket]

2:06:54 Fig: Okay, cool, I’m just trying to hook you guys up okay?

2:06:56 Adaine: I mean, no, look I have it in my—

2:07:00 Brennan: You guys look at endless black ocean. Less romantic than the starry skies that Fig and Sandra Lynn got to see. What do you guys, as you are up there before you're all going to sleep, what do you guys do up there on top of the—

2:07:17 Ally: I think that I'd, I don't really have anything that I can cast. Everything's a minute or something.

2:07:27 Zac: I'd like to think that Gorgug would have asked you this earlier, but,

2:07:30 Gorgug: Is there any way you could find a skipper's hat in that bag?

2:07:34 Adaine: Oh yeah, here we go.

2:07:37 Siobhan: I pull out a headscarf and put that on.

2:07:42 Kristen: Is there an eyepatch?

2:07:42 Adaine: Oh yeah, absolutely.

2:07:44 Siobhan: I pull out one that looks identical but slightly shinier than the one that Fabian has. It doesn't have any powers, it just looks cool.

2:07:51 Zac: And I think Gorgug's also trying to grab driftwood and stuff so he can try to make a cell tower.

2:07:57 Siobhan: Oh actually, we have a minute. Can I, hang on.

2:08:06 Kristen: You know what, I think I wanna talk to you guys.

2:08:06 Ally: Oh sorry, cast what you want.

2:08:10 Brennan: Actually, Adaine in real life, in game life, is looking through her spell books trying to find this while you're on the roof.

2:08:19 Siobhan: Can I conjure some minor elementals?

2:08:23 Brennan: Sure, you begin casting, it takes a minute to cast.

2:08:26 Kristen: I just wanted to say, and no one else can hear me, but I feel like they'll hear the vibe of what I'm saying but you know, Gorgug, we aren't gonna be good at our first relationships. I've messed up so many times with Tracker.

2:08:34 Adaine: Yeah.

2:08:42 Gorgug: You guys seem really good.

2:08:46 Kristen: Yeah, yeah, but it took a lot, you know? It's just like—

2:08:49 Gorgug: You guys talk about 69ing and stuff.

2:08:51 Kristen: Yeah and it took a long time to, at first I wouldn't talk about it at all. And then I did a hard swing the other way.

2:08:58 Ally: Is it, I want this to count as an inspiring speech to give everyone temp hit points.

2:09:02 Kristen: Yes yes yes.

2:09:03 Gorgug: I saw you the other day, it was like a playing card.

2:09:06 Kristen: What's that?

2:09:07 Gorgug: It’s like, have you ever seen a playing card? It has a head at the top and a head at the bottom.

2:09:11 Kristen: Yeah, that was us, totally.

2:09:11 Gorgug: I didn't mean to see that.

2:09:14 Adaine: Yeah, we did talk about you doing that in the van and you did say that you weren't gonna do it and just because it's a boat doesn't mean that—

2:09:21 Kristen: I mean, listen, everyone, I didn't come up here to be shamed. I actually came up here to to release us all from night dreams.

2:09:29 Adaine: I'm not shaming you, I'm just holding you to your word.

2:09:31 Kristen: I just, look, it was a private—

2:09:32 Adaine: Public.

2:09:32 Kristen: S'more pouch and—

2:09:37 Gorgug: It's gonna get pretty inspiring soon. [Emily laughs]

2:09:39 Kristen: Don't worry, here comes the inspiring part, okay? We watched relationships on TV and we're like, “I'm sure when I get there, I'm gonna nail it 'cause I've been obsessing about having someone to kiss for my whole life.” And then you get there and you're really bad at it. And you just keep being bad at it.

2:09:58 Adaine: Is that a thing that you've been obsessed with your whole life?

2:10:01 Kristen: Yeah, having someone to love, definitely.

2:10:04 Adaine: [unconvincingly] Oh right, yeah.

2:10:04 Kristen: What?

2:10:06 Adaine: What?

2:10:07 Kristen: Oh, well maybe not everyone but me specifically, always wanted it to happen and it finally did and Tracker's had other relationships so she's got a lot more stuff figured out than me. There's still a lot of things that I'm really not good at. Did you know for her birthday, I got her a toy? I got her, it's this fun putty that you can put on a newspaper.

2:10:35 Gorgug: And then it comes off and it looks like the newspaper.

2:10:37 Kristen: Yeah, and her birthday was on our one year anniversary so I thought, "I just have to get one gift. It's the same day."

2:10:43 Adaine: No, nobody likes a combo gift.

2:10:45 Kristen: But she didn't really like the pu— I just kinda still feel like maybe it's just—

2:10:48 Gorgug: If you get how it works, you put it right on the newspaper.

2:10:50 Kristen: You put it right on the news, and it's like you could throw that newspaper away, baby, 'cause you got it permanently here.

2:10:55 Gorgug: You got a putty newspaper.

2:10:55 Kristen: It's like, babe.

2:10:57 Hangman: But you have to read it in a mirror.

2:10:59 Kristen: What?

2:10:59 Hangman: What?

2:11:00 Kristen: Oh, The Hangman!

2:11:02 Hangman: Oh, I'm up here on the roof too.

2:11:03 Kristen: Oh yeah.

2:11:04 Hangman: You couldn't just read it right off the putty. It would backwards, you'd have to read it in a mirror.

2:11:08 Kristen: Yeah, totally!

2:11:08 Hangman: That putty rules, it's really good.

2:11:10 Kristen: Thank you so much!

2:11:10 Zac: Can I see if I found enough driftwood to make a cell tower?

2:11:14 Brennan: Yeah, give me a roll, disadvantage.

2:11:15 Emily: Maybe some putty would help with that.

2:11:16 Murph: Is this the "Are you my dad" of this season, this putty?

2:11:18 Emily: Oh oh oh, oh!

2:11:19 Siobhan: Oh, hello!

2:11:21 Brennan: Intelligence.

2:11:21 Murph: Okay, do you guys think there's any way you could do it without a 30?

2:11:23 Zac: 15.

2:11:25 Brennan: Hey, 15, you find, coming out of Adaine's jacket, a pipe. If you get a couple thousand more of these, you'll be in business, baby.

2:11:35 Gorgug: Let's get started.

2:11:38 Brennan: Adaine, you finish conjuring elementals. What kind of elementals do you summon?

2:11:43 Siobhan: I'm thinking, we're in the water so is there some kind of thunder lightning situation?

2:11:50 Brennan: Yeah, you could do like—

2:11:51 Siobhan: Sorry, I had a sheet and I can't find it. Oh, here it is.

2:11:56 Ally: Everyone has 11 temp hit points, by the way.

2:11:58 Siobhan: Amazing.

2:11:59 Ally: If you wanna add that to your sheet.

2:12:01 Emily: Ooh. Even me, downstairs?

2:12:03 Ally: Yeah, I think it would count for the whole party right? Inspiring speech? Or is it just anyone in the area?

2:12:07 Brennan: Yes, yes yes yes. You guys can all take that 11 temp HP.

2:12:09 Siobhan: This is not as useful as I thought it might be. Poison, fire...

2:12:16 Brennan: Probably the best thing is you could do maybe steam mephits.

2:12:19 Siobhan: Great yeah, let's do that.

2:12:21 Brennan: You guys see cresting off of the seafoam a group of four little skinny impish with, they have long pointed noses and long pointed chins and these little pointy ears, impish, they're made out of seafoam and vapor, fly up and circle around Adaine.

2:12:34 Mephits: [grunts animalistically]

2:12:46 Adaine: Hi, can you keep watch for us please?

2:12:48 Mephits: [grunts animalistically]

2:12:50 Adaine: Thank you so much. How do I make you look like cheerleaders? My sister was so good at this.

2:12:54 Mephits: [grunts animalistically]

2:12:58 Gorgug: It looks like they're cheerleaders.

2:13:00 Adaine: Yeah, okay we'll work on it.

2:13:02 Emily: I think they're cuter this way.

2:13:05 Mephits: [grunts animalistically]

2:13:07 Kristen: So have you not talked to your sister at all since homecoming?

2:13:09 Adaine: No, she's in prison I think. I don't know.

2:13:12 Kristen: Yeah but you can still definitely talk to people in prison.

2:13:15 Adaine: In Fallinel, I don't know. Also, just to remind you, she's not a good person. I don't even know if she would want to talk to me, honestly.

2:13:24 Kristen: I just feel like once we get there, you're probably the one who's gonna have to go talk to her.

2:13:31 Brennan: As night falls, Adaine, you don't have to trance at all. You have these little mephits that're flying around. You see they sort of circle around the van going,

2:13:38 Mephits: [grunting to the tone of “let’s go, sports team, let’s go!”] [claps twice]

2:13:45 Kristen: We didn't have to make them cheerleaders though, you know.

2:13:47 Emily: I wake up.

2:13:49 Ally: Everyone's awake the whole night.

2:13:50 Fabian: What's all that clapping? Who's clapping?

2:13:54 Brennan: I'm gonna need Wisdom saves from Gorgug and Kristen and Adaine. You may roll with advantage, Gorgug.

2:14:02 Emily: What about the Bardic Inspiration?

2:14:04 Brennan: And whoever has Bardic Inspiration.

2:14:07 Emily: I mean I kind of just gave it to everyone.

2:14:07 Murph: I think you gave it to all three.

2:14:08 Brennan: Yeah all of you guys can add—

2:14:09 Siobhan: Can I roll with advantage with Boggy?

2:14:12 Brennan: Yes, you may, yes.

2:14:12 Siobhan: Great.

2:14:16 Murph: Definitely use that bardic—

2:14:16 Siobhan: Thank goodness.

2:14:18 Ally: What is Bardic, an 8?

2:14:18 Lou: You roll a d8.

2:14:26 Zac: 22.

2:14:26 Brennan: 22, okay.

2:14:29 Siobhan: Dirty 20.

2:14:30 Brennan: Dirty 20.

2:14:30 Ally: What's the DC?

2:14:32 Brennan: I won't tell you the DC but go ahead and tell me what you roll.

2:14:36 Ally: Okay, I'm using Human Determination to reroll with advantage on this. Okay, good. This is a Wisdom?

2:14:46 Brennan: Yeah, Wisdom saving throw.

2:14:48 Ally: Very cool. Okay yeah, that's 26.

2:14:52 Brennan: Oh, damn, great. An uneventful night passes. The mephits keep you all awake. I wish I could say that day comes the next day but it kind of doesn't. Not thick, but drizzling rain, the kind which is just enough to churn up the sea and create a dense, thick layer of fog comes over you. It is cold as you journey further south and east out into Celestine Sea. You can see fog rise up and it's not super opaque. You could probably see 60 to 100 feet out into it but when you're used to seeing the horizon, can't see anything at all, right? And you venture out into the ocean. As you guys awaken, you see that the van comes on and says,

2:16:01 Van: All right, morning, broskis and siskies. Just wanted to give a holler 'cause I've been fiddly-iddly-ing around with these readers and odometers and whatnot and it looks like there's something on one of these doodads, like a radar or something like that?

2:16:25 Gorgug: Cool.

2:16:26 Kristen: Definitely let's turn that on.

2:16:27 Fig: Whales and submarines.

2:16:30 Van: Oh, like sonar! I could probably do whale song! [imitates whale calls]

2:16:39 Kristen: You're doing it.

2:16:39 Fig: Don't do it too good 'cause we don't want a school of whales attacking the ship.

2:16:44 Brennan: Fabian, give me a Perception check with advantage.

2:16:46 Zac: A pod of whales.

2:16:50 Lou: We're gonna go, perception?

2:16:50 Brennan: Yeah.

2:16:52 Lou: Ooh, that's an 11.

2:16:54 Siobhan: Oh no, you get a, you rolled a 17.

2:16:57 Lou: I rolled a 16.

2:17:02 Brennan: You look down into the water where it's clearer and you see the water churning with sharks. And you see that the sharks are all moving. And you can see crosswaves. There is something causing the water to move, not only with the tide. Something is competing with the tide to create changes in the sea.

2:17:29 Fig: A ghost ship!

2:17:31 Fabian: No, that would be incredible.

2:17:35 Riz: Night Yorb.

2:17:37 Hangman: [agitated] How many fucking times do I gotta say speak not of the Night Yorb?

2:17:39 Fabian: Speak not of the Night Yorb. I believe—

2:17:42 Brennan: You see the van speaks up and goes,

2:17:45 Van: [uncharacteristically harsh] Seriously, I am not an angry dude. You gotta fucking stop with that Night Yorb stuff, man. It's not a joke. Me and The Hangman don't agree on a lot. You gotta can it with that Night Yorb stuff, man.

2:17:57 Zac: What is it? We see rippling in the water?

2:17:59 Emily: Do we think it's Garthy O'Brien?

2:18:02 Fabian: I think we're approaching Leviathan.

2:18:06 Lou: I'd like to climb up on top of the van.

2:18:10 Brennan: Fabian, you climb up on top of the van. You look up into the fog and you guys begin to see that night is setting again and then you realize night is not setting again at all. Towering over you in the fog is the darkness of a ship. You see this ship is pushed up out of the water and it moves forward like it's not sinking. It's almost directly at a 90 degree angle, surging up out of the depths. You see behind it is another ship and another, a colossus of ships lashed and wrapped together, towering up into the sky. You hear the call of gulls, the jangling of music. You hear cries and see the vastness of not just a ship nor a fleet, but a city sailing on the surface of the waves. You look in front of you, and Fabian, you turn to look and see behind you, it looms as well. Each moving past you. Suddenly you realize, you are surrounded on either side by the city. Stuck in the middle of the sea as two, let's call them what they are, neighborhoods of shipwrecks, hodge podge and quilted together, move past you on either side and eclipse you as they move in the same direction. And you realize that the bulk of the city is not to your right nor to your left, but the bulk of the city is coming up behind in the pincher of these two arms that are swallowing you up. And as you turn to the third direction from whence these ships are coming, you see approaching you white froth and something swallowing the ocean up. You hear laughter and lashes and you hear

2:20:39 Pirate: [laughs] Get ready, me hearties! It looks like the sea's hungry for another meal.

2:20:48 Brennan: And that's where we're going to stop this week. This week, on Dimension 20 Live. Tune in next week as we meet Leviathan herself. Also, if you guys would like, check out, we have many seasons of Dimension 20 that're available on dropout.tv You can go check that out. We got a bunch of awesome merch. We got Boggy shirts, we have this from last week, Roemaence Partnaer shirts, which you can have if you like. Go check out our merch store where all this awesome stuff is and make sure to stay tuned next week when we continue the adventure of The Bad Kids. See you next time, intrepid heroes! [laughs] [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 5: Leviathan Rock City]

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