Leviathan Rock City

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 5: Leviathan Rock City < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: Gang, this is Dimension 20’s fun weekly liveshow! You tuned into Twitch to watch us play some D&D. The continuing adventures of the Bad Kids, a group of teenage adventurers from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, who are on their spring break quest for 60% of their grade to find and retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. Last we left off our heroes, there had been some shenanigans with strange nightmare forces they got some hirelings including two of Fig Faeth's parents. And the third is trapped in a gem with her right now. And they had set out to Bastion City it was a fight with some demons at the Hotel Cavalier. They made an extradimensional space in a celestial van, headed off on the ocean, and have arrived (pirate accent) at the pirate city of Leviathan. (normal) A massive city made of a titanic amalgamation of shipwrecks lashed and built upon together, as a floating metropolis on the waves. Have I left anything out with our recap from the previous weeks? Or does that catch us up to speed?

0:01:05 Siobhan: I don't think so, but I do have a question about money.

0:01:08 Brennan: Mm-hm?

0:01:09 Emily: Oh yeah.

0:01:09 Siobhan: Are we just each of us carrying around 20.000 gold pieces on our person?

0:01:14 Brennan: No, I don't think you are. It is up to you to decide how much money you would've chosen to convert into gold pieces, prior to your expedition. The amount of weight. (typing into laptop) How many gold pieces in a pound? We will find out, about, 50 gold pieces to a pound. So I'll let you guys figure out how many pounds of gold coins you guys would've wanted to bring in this van. But you also got The Ball's briefcase, which is a bag of holding.

0:01:29 Murph: Yeah.

0:01:45 Siobhan: Bag of holding.

0:01:46 Emily: Oh, yeah.

0:01:46 Siobhan: But the bag, is the bag of holding heavy?

0:01:49 Brennan: No, 'cause it does not gain weight as you put more stuff in it.

0:01:52 Siobhan: Okay, great.

0:01:53 Brennan: I'll let each of you make that decision privately to yourself how much money you converted before leaving.

0:01:58 Siobhan: Great.

0:01:59 Brennan: So we don't have to spend time coordinating. But you guys do have to convert some amount of your wealth into actual specie before you head off to sea. Lou raises his hand.

0:02:09 Brenan: (calling on Lou) Yes.

0:02:10 Lou: Why'd you leave out Hilda Hilda? I mean I feel like that was—

0:02:12 Siobhan: Oh, Hilda Hilda. Key plot point. (laughing)

0:02:14 Lou: I feel like that's going have massive—

0:02:17 Siobhan: And the Night Yorb, which also you—

0:02:19 Emily: Yeah, you didn't mention the menace of the Night Yorb.

0:02:20 Brennan: For sure, for sure.

0:02:21 Siobhan: Like that's all I have written down from last week.

0:02:23 Emily: Yeah. Honestly that's all I've been able to write since. (laughing)

0:02:28 Brennan: Yes, a little bit of housekeeping. Shoutout to all of our fans making awesome fan art.

0:02:33 Siobhan: Yeah, we love it.

0:02:34 Brennan: Not only the incredible artists who've been drawing incredible art of the characters, including the van boat, the Hangvan, as it is sometimes called.

0:02:44 Lou: The Hangvan?

0:02:45 Brennan: The Hangvan. (laughing)

0:02:47 Siobhan: They're smarter than us, goddammit.

0:02:49 Brennan: But also--

0:02:50 Zac: I think Van Boat's a great name. (laughing)

0:02:51 Emily: I stand by Van Boat.

0:02:53 Brennan: Well also we've got a lot of musicians making awesome music.

0:02:55 Emily: Yeah.

0:02:55 Zac: That song is amazing.

0:02:57 Brennan: Zac and Emily made awesome music, we just had Reddit user Semjax make one specifically talking about the Night Yorb. You all love to talk about the Night Yorb, even though we've been told over and over again, speak not of the Night Yorb. Also, make sure to check out, we got awesome shirts and stuff, I think we have one of the Hangvan itself, up on the site now. So make sure to check that out. (dramatic voice) We return now to the world of Spyre. Lou is loudly chomping some celery.

0:03:26 Siobhan: It's so crunchy.

0:03:28 Brennan: That celery is crunchy.

0:03:29 Murph: That's the worst food you can have.

0:03:31 Emily: Why now?

0:03:32 Lou: I'm eating before we get into it. I can’t eat in the middle. (laughing)

0:03:37 Emily: Eat it string by string.

0:03:38 Lou: Sorry. (pirate music)

0:03:40 Brennan: We return now to the world of Spyre. As we do so, you hear (whooshing) the crashing of water against the hull of Leviathan, the huge wooden behemoths of structure surrounding you. You hear the laughter of pirates, the playing of music and suddenly, (whooshing) coming up out of the water, you see ropes surging up into the heights around you, as a colossal trawling net (whooshing) picks up the van and you are all flung around within the van, but with the blankets cushioning most of the blow, and you feel yourself being surged upward into the maw of Leviathan.You see a massive wooden plank, covered with pirates that begin to put huge hooks (wild laughing) and pull the net over to a giant platform. What do you guys do as this is happening?

0:04:36 Fig and Riz: (crosstalk) Fabian, is this normal?

0:04:38 Gorgug: Hey Fabian.

0:04:38 Fabian: Yes, yes. Alright everyone, everyone be calm, these are classic pirate shenanigans.

0:04:45 Gorgug: As a skipper I just wanna say a couple things before we go up here. Maybe the skipper and the king of boats and the captain and the first mate could circle up and talk about?

0:04:55 Kristen: Yeah let's go.

0:04:55 Fabian: Of course.

0:04:58 Gorgug: So what do we do?

0:04:59 Kristen: Yeah, I don't really know.

0:05:00 Fabian: It's Leviathan. Don't worry, my father has, his name will get us all the way here, so you let me do the talking. Everyone just be cool, alright? This is like a cool place.

0:05:10 Kristen: I'm nothing but cool.

0:05:12 Fabian: 100%, so just--

0:05:13 Pirate: (stereotypical pirate accent) Looks like it's Solisian, boatswain! Some sort of magitech, something of the like. Should be able to fetch a pretty penny! (laughs)

0:05:22 Fabian: Also, be mean. Always be mean. (yelling) Hey, you scurvy dogs!

0:05:28 Pirate: What? I'm not scurvy!

0:05:33 Fabian: Yes you all are.

0:05:34 Brennan: This pirate on the deck full bursts into tears, is clutched by a number of other pirates.

0:05:37 Gorgug: Oh no. So sensitive.

0:05:41 Brennan: You are lowered onto this massive deck, you guys see a wooden platform piled high with flotsam and jetsam, the wreckage of ships that are devoured by the city and pulled up in these nets. You see that farther away, there are other piles of just looted goods, staying here on the deck. Of the goods that are looted here, you see very little in the way of gold or diamonds and those sort of rich rare items. You see a lot of like, wood, materials, sailcloth. It looks like this place is a giant intake for all of the things the city would need to stay afloat and stay alive. With a swirl of a long, blue captain's coat, you hear thudding as the van is lowered slowly, (slamming) onto the deck. Still with like the netting around it. You see a Warforged approach. This is a pirate that is a living automaton. Made of stone and rusted steel and wood. You see that in her head, there is one gleaming, bright lantern eye. Some sort of like a golem magic robot kind of look. The other eye has fully like, short circuited and you see the little like tungsten like, wire that would normally be lit is frayed up under there. She is a good eight and a half feet tall, and approaches. Under the sort of blue coat you see just a normal like, dirty white sailor's shirt, striped pants that go down to her like, her feet are sort of like, tri-clawed. They look more, they don't look as approximated to humanoid features, they're kind of like more robotic down there. She does not carry a sword at her side, but you do see that her right hand is three stone fingers that kind of close like a claw. And her left hand appears to be a four barrelled rotating cannon.

0:07:52 Emily: I hold out a cigarette.

0:07:53 Fig: Can I get a light?

0:07:55 Brennan: You open the van door to lean out and say this?

0:08:00 Emily: Uhhh…. (sheepishly) No!

0:08:03 Ally: I stop Fig.

0:08:04 Kristen: (stammering) Let's, okay.

0:08:04 Fig: Sorry.

0:08:06 Riz: Fabian, you seem to have—

0:08:06 Fig: I'm a people person.

0:08:07 Riz: —offended them. Are they usually this sensitive?

0:08:11 Fabian: Things must have changed since my father was here. Uh. (loudly) Hello!

0:08:16 Brennan: You see that the person who you recognize, actually go ahead and give me an intelligence check to see if you know this person.

0:08:25 Lou: It's gonna be a 7.

0:08:27 Brennan: You don't know who this person is. You look up and you see that the Warforged (whizzing) sort of eye looks down. You see that the Warforged speaks to everyone and goes,

0:08:40 Warforged: (low, raspy, stilted) Looks like you may have caught some fish in this can.

0:08:44 Brennan: (banging) and bangs on the side of the van.

0:08:47 Warforged: Best to let them out.

0:08:49 Brennan: The door is flung open by one of the pirates. The net dropped, and you guys are free to exit onto the deck as the pirates here give you some leeway and this Warforged stands in front of you.

0:09:00 Zac: I whisper to the van,

0:09:02 Gorgug: Hey, just pretend to be a dumb van. Not like you're a person.

0:09:07 Van: What?

0:09:08 Gorgug: Just don't talk.

0:09:09 Van: Far out, I'll keep it hush hush. For right now, I'm a normal van.

0:09:15 Gorgug: Okay, cool.

0:09:17 Brennan: You see that the Warforged steps out, and I assume Fabian steps to the front?

0:09:21 Lou: Obviously.

0:09:26 Fabian: Hello. I'm Fabian Seacaster. Son of Bill Seacaster. Bill Seacaster. The Warforged’s eye shifts in her head with a whirring noise.

0:09:41 Jamina: (breathes heavily) You speak now to the Boatswain of Leviathan, Jamina Joy is what I am called. You say you’re the son of old Bill?

0:09:55 Fabian: (laughs) That's right.

0:09:57 Brennan: Give me persuasion check if you would be so—

0:09:59 Zac: Jamia what?

0:10:01 Brennan: Jamina Joy.

0:10:04 Lou: That's gonna be a modded 20.

0:10:08 Ally: Dirty 20?

0:10:08 Lou: Dirty 20.

0:10:11 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

0:10:16 Jamina: (growls) You are not dressed like a pirate. Rumor on the wind is that your father is slain.

0:10:24 Fabian: That's right. And I'm the one who did it.

0:10:27 Brennan: All the pirates around go,

0:10:29 Pirates: (gasping) Oh, that be very piratey indeed.

0:10:33 Adaine: Also he's wearing that very cool eye patch which I feel is pretty piratey.

0:10:37 Fabian: Yes, and it belonged to my father along with this sword. Having slain him I took them off his body, assembled a crew of my own—

0:10:43 Adaine: Ahoy!

0:10:44 Fig: Ahoy!

0:10:45 Fabian: We're very different.

0:10:46 Brennan: You see one of the pirates leans down and says,

0:10:48 Pirate: Notice how they've all said ahoy to us, and that's quite piratey indeed!

0:10:55 Fabian: We're well versed in the culture and ways, taught by my father himself before I struck him down.

0:11:02 Adaine: Also Cathilda is here and she's a mighty pirate.

0:11:04 Fabian: Also, Cathilda, the maid.

0:11:07 Brennan: Cathilda looks out, and all the pirates take full two steps back. You see that (laughs) Jamina kneels down on one knee and says,

0:11:22 Jamina: (gasps) Cathilda the Black, terror of the Celestine Sea.

0:11:26 Brennan: And she goes,

0:11:26 Cathilda: (chuckles) Oh, you are being a darling. That's alright. Up, up, with you, there's no need for that.

0:11:32 Fabian: I'm sorry, are you kneeling for me, or for my maid?

0:11:36 Jamina: I kneel out of respect and a desire to prolong my life.

0:11:42 Fabian: I mean I wasn't going to kill anybody.

0:11:45 Brennan: You see Cathilda pats you on your leg and says,

0:11:47 Cathilda: They're worried that I'm going to kill them, Master Fabian.

0:11:50 Fabian: You're a maid, maids can't kill!

0:11:52 Cathilda: Oh, sweet, cheeky boy!

0:11:54 Brennan: And she pinches your cheek.

0:11:56 Cathilda: That's alright, Fabian. You know, it might be best here in Leviathan if you don't call more attention to me than is needed.

0:12:05 Fabian: (quietly) I mean, but, I mean, you're a maid, so it's not like you'll be at the front of anything anyway.

0:12:11 Fig: Cathilda, I think you make a fearsome presence, and I have a disguise kit, I'm willing to help you disguise yourself.

0:12:16 Cathilda: Oh that might be for the best, darling.

0:12:18 Fig: Okay. What are we thinking, blonde, brunette, redhead? Ombre?

0:12:23 Cathilda: Ooh! A nice ombre.

0:12:26 Fig: Okay, then. (laughs)

0:12:27 Ally: We dip dye Cathilda's hair.

0:12:29 Siobhan: It takes five hours.

0:12:32 Gorgug: What's an ombre?

0:12:33 Kristen: The half.

0:12:33 Fig: It's that, which is like—

0:12:35 Gorgug: Oh, kind of like this? (pointing to his bangs)

0:12:37 Zac: Gorgug has a little like—

0:12:38 Siobhan: Oh yeah! (laughing)

0:12:41 Adaine: And if anything happened, if we need to I can cast Greater Invisibility on you, it only lasts for a minute, but if there's a moment where we need to.

0:12:50 Cathilda: Very kind of you darling, that would be alright.

0:12:53 Brennan: Jamina stands and says,

0:12:56 Jamina: Well. What metal can have we pulled out of the sea here?

0:13:03 Fabian: This belongs to my skipper, Gorgug. It's some kind of van that's a boat.

0:13:11 Gorgug: My van is a boat and my boat is a van. And this is it. Sort of floats like a boat, and has a propeller in the back. And then also can drive on land. Does the two things. So.

0:13:26 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Persuasion check for me, Gorgug.

0:13:31 Fig: Hey Gorgug? Look at me real quick.

0:13:33 Emily: I wink at him, give Inspiration.

0:13:38 Zac: What do I add to that?

0:13:39 Siobhan: A d8.

0:13:40 Lou: Oh wow.

0:13:41 Emily: Yeah, roll a d8. (die rolling)

0:13:46 Zac: It's persuasion? It’s an 11.

0:13:49 Murph: Wow.

0:13:50 Emily: No no no, it’s 15! Persuasion, plus 4.

0:13:50 Zac: That’s Perception.

0:13:51 Jamina: So this is not your vessel, but the skipper's.

0:13:55 Fabian: I mean well, I, yes, it belongs to the skipper.

0:13:57 Jamina: The skipper. Then I am afraid skipper, your vessel has been seized by the Maelstrom's Maw as raw materials.

0:14:06 Gorgug: I hear you. I hear you. Could… Could we talk about this—

0:14:11 Fig: I'm so sorry to do this.

0:14:11 Gorgug: —some more?

0:14:12 Fig: I'm so sorry to do this, I am a famous rock star.

0:14:16 Jamina: What is that?

0:14:18 Fig: Well.

0:14:19 Jamina: (confused) You are a rock star?

0:14:23 Fig: You don't listen to any music? (whirring)

0:14:25 Brennan: She grabs you and lifts you up—

0:14:27 Fig: Not even techno?

0:14:27 Brennan: to inspect you.

0:14:28 Jamina: You are not made of any rock that I have ever seen.

0:14:31 Fig: I know. That's 'cause I don't have my guitar in my hand. Then you'll see.

0:14:36 Jamina: (groans) Guitar, made of rock?

0:14:39 Fig: Yeah.

0:14:40 Jamina: Would surely sound awful to the ear, no?

0:14:44 Fig: No, it sounds awesome.

0:14:45 Adaine: Careful. It might be too powerful for them. Remember.

0:14:48 Fig: If I can get you to dance, will you let us keep our van? (laughing)

0:14:52 Jamina: (whirring) I do not dance. I can only judge the incessant beating of the music for the pounding of its rhythm. It does not move me for in my chest of stone and wood, there beats no heart to keep in time.

0:15:15 Gorgug: I don't really like dancing either.

0:15:17 Jamina: (surprisingly casual) Good, yeah I don't really get it.

0:15:20 Gorgug: Yeah, should we just try it?

0:15:21 Adaine: I like it when there's rules but when there aren’t it stresses me out.

0:15:23 Riz: Yeah, same.

0:15:24 Emily: I'm gonna plug my bass into my amp, and try anyways.

0:15:29 Gorgug: Two, three, four. (humming)

0:15:31 Brennan: I'm gonna need a performance check from you.

0:15:35 Emily: Okay.

0:15:36 Zac: From both of us?

0:15:38 Brennan: If you wanna give a Performance check to give the help action, you give me just a DC—

0:15:41 Emily: I already have advantage.

0:15:44 Zac: Oh.

0:15:44 Brennan: Oh, okay. Where'd you get advantage from?

0:15:46 Emily: Actor. Performance and deception.

0:15:48 Brennan: Performance, Actor only gives it when you're impersonating another person.

0:15:51 Emily: Oh, okay.

0:15:52 Brennan: So if you wanna give me a DC, you just give me a DC 10 Performance to give advantage to Fig.

0:15:57 Emily: Okay.

0:15:57 Zac: Okay. (laughing)

0:16:00 Emily: We were just, okay!

0:16:01 Zac: 10!

0:16:03 Emily: (rubbing dice in her hands) I really need a nat 20.

0:16:03 Brennan: Wonderful. You can roll this with advantage. I'm gonna say you need at least a DC 20 to make the type of impression we need here.

0:16:09 Siobhan: What do you have as a mod?

0:16:12 Emily: We'll find out. I got a 23. Brennan lets out a startled exhale. (Murph clapping)

0:16:16 Brennan: Okay! So you plug in your amp. All these pirates have kind of gathered round. Is anyone like, keeping an eye on the pirates while Fig sets up?

0:16:24 Ally: Yeah, definitely.

0:16:24 Siobhan: Yeah, for sure.

0:16:26 Murph: Yeah.

0:16:26 Brennan: Cool.

0:16:27 Siobhan: I don't trust these pirates. (coughing)

0:16:29 Brennan: Anyone that wants to can give me a Perception check. Or Insight, whichever you'd like. (dice rolling)

0:16:35 Murph: 24.

0:16:35 Brennan: 24.

0:16:37 Lou: 3.

0:16:37 Brennan: 3.

0:16:38 Ally: 11.

0:16:39 Zac: 18.

0:16:39 Brennan: 18, cool.

0:16:40 Siobhan: 21.

0:16:41 Brennan: 21. What are Riz and Adaine paying attention to at this moment?

0:16:45 Siobhan: The back of the boat. I'm gonna like, 'cause I think that we're standing on the roof, right? 'Cause we were...

0:16:49 Brennan: You were standing—

0:16:51 Siobhan: Up on the roof beforehand?

0:16:52 Brennan: So to give you an idea of perspective, this is effectively a wooden platform made out of driftwood that is the size of like an aircraft carrier, where ropes and nets from the jutting neighborhoods of like, shipwreck that come out of here. This is basically like a pincer at the front of the city of Leviathan that swallows up, pulls out of the water, and just chop shops anything the city can catch.

0:17:19 Siobhan: So, can I cast, it takes a minute, but we've been chatting. Snare, and set a trap at the back of the, the back doors of the boat?

0:17:30 Brennan: At the back doors of the van boat?

0:17:32 Siobhan: Of the van boat.

0:17:33 Brennan: Sure.

0:17:34 Siobhan: Just to make sure that nobody breaks in some other way.

0:17:38 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:17:38 Siobhan: Great.

0:17:40 Brennan: You cast Snare back there. So you're (Adaine) keeping an eye on the back of the boat. So you'll notice if anyone goes there to mess up, what's Riz keeping an eye out for?

0:17:50 Murph: I think I just wanna get a feel for if this automaton is the, you know, big leader here, or if like anybody else is coming, or like how the pirates are acting, if they're like, seem like they're cool with us or if they're just acting that way, so that they can attack.

0:18:11 Brennan: You see the Warforged is definitely, she's the highest status person here.

0:18:15 Zac: Is a bosun just in charge of a deck? Or is that like—

0:18:18 Brennan: In a ship, a bosun is in charge of like, the rope, the rigging, like a lot of the material goods on a ship. So for her to be the bosun of Leviathan, Leviathan's political order is something you guys probably could ask Fabian about. But it doesn't really, you can imagine that a pirate city doesn't run super well.

0:18:41 Murph: Sure.

0:18:42 Brennan: In all likelihood, Jamina might be one of the only elements of the city that works how it's supposed to. Because she looks very powerful. And you see that her job, if she's the boatswain of Leviathan, would be probably to keep the city intact on a fundamental level. And like, looking at the city, you see that she's got her work cut out for her. Like the city is not… There is like, you're looking around and you're like, yeah, this could stand a fair bit of work, this is a fixer-upper for sure. Probably it takes all of her time and energy just to process the Maelstrom's Maw, and then keep the most pressing existential threats to the city's structure patched up, fixed, and worked with. That being said, with that 20, is that more of an Insight or a Perception would you say?

0:19:32 Murph: Insight. I think too, I'm trying to see if anybody reacted to Fabian being Bill Seacaster's, like if there's anybody staring at him, or if there's anybody who's like, I'm kinda looking for this Garthy O'Brien character, if they're like in the crowd.

0:19:48 Brennan: You notice a bright red tiefling in the back of this cluster of people. A pretty young boy, they look about teenaged as well, but obviously not with the guy, they don't have, this young Tiefling probably hasn't grown up in a culture that has teenagers in the way that Solace does. But you see that they've got like, a scarf, and a lot of you know, jangly jewelry on. They look extremely sort of curious and malnourished. The main thing is that they don't look like someone who spends all day dragging flotsam out of the ocean. Like everyone else here looks like they work on Jamina's crew. This kid looks a little scrawny to be in this number. And when Fabian announces himself, his eyes light up, this young tiefling kid. With a 23 insight… you see that there is a kind of stunned, starstruck quality to this kid.

0:20:53 Murph: Okay.

0:20:55 Brennan: In any case, you plug your amp in, you get drumming. You had a 23. Jamina looks and says,

0:21:03 Jamina: Your guitar, there is no hole in it, no cavity to create sound.

0:21:10 Fig: Yeah, the amp does that. You have a lot in common with an amp.

0:21:14 Jamina: What?

0:21:15 Fig: Yeah.

0:21:15 Brennan: You begin to play. And you see as you start to play, Jamina goes, (heavy rock music)

0:21:26 Jamina: I… (groans, yells) The power! The power!

0:21:31 Brennan: The music just—

0:21:31 Siobhan: Is she pregnant?

0:21:32 Brennan: You see--

0:21:33 Emily: Is she?

0:21:35 Brennan: You see that one of the pirates in the back goes,

0:21:39 Pirate: Oh, right, well I'm not sure this type of music's for me, it doesn't, what's happening to me hips? Me hips!

0:21:47 Brennan: And he just starts like--

0:21:48 Ally: He starts grinding?

0:21:49 Brennan: Just starts grinding with the other pirates.

0:21:51 Fig: Now do it together, if you guys get together.

0:21:53 Brennan: And you see one he says,

0:21:54 Pirate: Walter, what are you doing? Oh, I'm doing it too!

0:21:58 Brennan: And you see that one of the other pirates, this sort of old, bearded, toothless guy, just starts full windmilling, just… (imitates mosh pit arms) (laughing) (screaming)

0:22:08 Brennan: And they just scream, you see one of them grabs his eyes and he goes,

0:22:12 Pirate: I can't behold it any longer!

0:22:17 Brennan: They begin to just scream and run around. You see that as the amp (booming) sort of just power chords slam out of the amp over and over. You see that Jamina falls to her knees. Her eye is kind of like flickering. And she starts to crawl over to the amp slowly, being buffeted back by the power of pure rock n' roll. Gets to the amp, unplugs it. (groans)

0:22:44 Jamina: (quietly) What have I beheld?

0:22:48 Fig: I don't mean to be presumptuous, but if you ever wanted to experiment, if we plugged into you, you could be an amp. The music could run through your body.

0:22:58 Jamina: A vessel for magic this powerful is more than my core could withstand. (Fig laughing)

0:23:06 Jamina: Your crew harnesses powers vaster than I can comprehend.

0:23:13 Fabian: (laughs) They are very very mighty.

0:23:17 Jamina: If this vessel belongs to your skipper, where then, does your vessel lie?

0:23:23 Fabian: Mine is up top. Hangman!

0:23:26 Brennan: You see that the Hangman (buzzing) comes down, and goes,

0:23:30 Hangman: Sire! This terrible (stuttering) van, we should let them chop it up!

0:23:37 Fabian: Well how will we get home? We've gone—

0:23:40 Brennan: You see that Jamina looks at it and says,

0:23:45 Jamina: (groaning) is this thing a steed or vessel?

0:23:50 Fabian: Both. I am predominantly a pirate of the land, and thusly my vessel suits me accordingly.

0:23:59 Brennan: Go ahead and give me another Persuasion check.

0:24:02 Lou: That's gonna be--

0:24:03 Zac: Can I help him?

0:24:05 Brennan: If you like, give me a Persuasion check yourself. Beat a 10, you can help him. (rolling)

0:24:10 Zac: It's kind of cocked, but it was a 10. (rerolls) 14.

0:24:14 Lou: That's a 16.

0:24:16 Brennan: Okay, and you have advantage.

0:24:18 Lou: With Gorgug's help, it's a 16.

0:24:19 Brennan: Gotcha, cool, cool, cool. You see that she says,

0:24:23 Jamina: Very well. You then, young master Seacaster… Well, as I have said, this has been seized for Leviathan. But, if you wish, we can make an allowance in this case for you to purchase back that which has been taken by the city.

0:24:51 Adaine: Can we pay in kind?

0:24:54 Fig: I've got VIP tickets.

0:24:56 Jamina: What do you mean, to pay in kind?

0:25:00 Adaine: Well is there anything that we could do to work off the debt instead of paying you money?

0:25:10 Jamina: If you wish to work for a year and a day.

0:25:13 Adaine: (alarmed) A year and a day?

0:25:14 Kristen: Okay.

0:25:14 Fabian: How much, just name a price.

0:25:17 Fig: Okay, okay. (holds up a hand) Don’t—

0:25:17 Siobhan: No, no, no. That's not how you haggle.

0:25:21 Riz: What kind of pirate are you, Fabian?

0:25:23 Fabian: I want us to get our boat in a van back, or a van that's a boat, alright? Anything under 100 gold pieces and it's yours.

0:25:30 Fig: Why don't you just invoice my manager?

0:25:33 Jamina: What?

0:25:34 Gorgug: How much is it?

0:25:38 Brennan: Go ahead, make a little haggle check here. Whoever wants to make a Charisma check, flat Charisma check.

0:25:44 Riz: We refuse to be pushed around unless it's cheap, then that's fine.

0:25:47 Emily: Nat 20!

0:25:48 Brennan: Nat 20?

0:25:50 Brennan: You see that Jamina looks at it and says,

0:25:52 Jamina: Given that I have never seen whatever this thing is before, yeah, 100 gold sounds fine, sounds totally fine.

0:26:01 Gorgug: Can we circle up and talk about it maybe?

0:26:03 Riz: Feeling insulted but that sounds fine.

0:26:05 Fig: 100 gold is kind of a lot. We honestly got this for 20 gold. So giving you 100 gold is...

0:26:14 Gorgug: It's a reverse haggle? (laughs)

0:26:16 Brennan: You see it says,

0:26:17 Jamina: You are talking down from your previously stated price?

0:26:23 Adaine: No, no, no, we have to give them 100 gold.

0:26:26 Riz: Yeah, Fig is just trying to get it even lower.

0:26:27 Fig: I'm just trying to get it even lower.

0:26:28 Riz: Honestly kind of pushing it.

0:26:30 Fig: We're starting at 100. You don't just take the first price.

0:26:33 Kristen: You don’t— I feel like you don’t—

0:26:33 Ally: Can they hear us?

0:26:35 Brennan: Yes! (laughing)

0:26:37 Brennan: You're fully talking in front of them.

0:26:39 Ally: Okay, I close the van door.

0:26:40 Kristen: Hey, you guys. I feel like we can't just walk into a bunch of pirates and be like, we have tons of money, 100, name your price.

0:26:47 Fig: That's what I'm saying.

0:26:48 Kristen: You can't say name your price.

0:26:48 Fig: That's what I'm saying.

0:26:49 Kristen: They're gonna take all of our money.

0:26:50 Fig: Act the part of the pauper.

0:26:52 Kristen: What?

0:26:53 Fig: We have to act the part of the pauper, and act like--

0:26:55 Kristen: Definitely we have to act the part of the pauper.

0:26:58 Fabian: You offered them VIP tickets, you said you were a rock star, it's literally the very first thing you said, is that I am a rock star.

0:27:04 Gorgug: Just trying to get them a little lower.

0:27:05 Adaine: Invoice my manager.

0:27:06 Gorgug: Let's just try to get them a little lower.

0:27:07 Riz: Let's just do 100.

0:27:09 Fabian: I wanna pay them, it's my money. I'm a very rich man.

0:27:13 Kristen: Stop saying how rich you are, we're gonna get killed!

0:27:15 Fig: For the record, invoicing my manager was to try to tie them up in paperwork. (laughing)

0:27:20 Zac: Alright, I'm opening the door.

0:27:23 Brennan: Cool, you open the door up.

0:27:25 Kristen: (weirdly high-pitched) Hey!

0:27:26 Adaine: Hi.

0:27:29 Kristen: (again) Hello!

0:27:30 Adaine: Ahoy.

0:27:32 Gorgug: Ahoy again.

0:27:32 Ally: I stuck my face in a pie that Cathilda made—  (laughing)

0:27:36 Kristen: (singsong) Hello!

0:27:38 Murph: Good lord.

0:27:39 Brennan: You see as you fucking clowns pile out of the van. You see that Jamina is talking with the young tiefling. The tiefling talks with her a little bit.

0:27:50 Emily: Have I seen lots of other tieflings before?

0:27:52 Brennan: Not really.

0:27:52 Murph: Oh yeah, I pass along the info to you guys.

0:27:55 Riz: Hey, just, the tiefling's a little out of place, and also they were super interested in Fabian. Like Fabian mentioned that he's Bill Seacaster's— Fabian raises his eyebrows and looks smug.

0:28:00 Gorgug: Does the Tiefling—

0:28:04 Fig: Sure they weren't, maybe, like recognizing me?

0:28:08 Riz: Yes.

0:28:10 Fig: Oh.

0:28:11 Gorgug: Does the tiefling look like it's mixed with, does it seem like, related to Fabian in any way? (laughs)

0:28:15 Adaine: (realization) Ohhhhhh.

0:28:20 Fabian: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm an only child, alright?

0:28:26 Adaine: There's no way you're an only child. Under no circumstances—

0:28:28 Fig: The second you said,

0:28:29 Adaine: —are you an only child.

0:28:29 Fig: I'm an only child, in a desperate voice, you stopped being an only child. (laughing)

0:28:34 Kristen: Or you doubled down in being an only child.

0:28:37 Fabian: I mean--

0:28:38 Adaine: Yeah, on your mother's side. Not even then, your mother is an elf and has lived for hundreds of years.

0:28:45 Fabian: Alright. Everyone is ganging up on me.

0:28:48 Brennan: You see that Jamina is handed a bag by the tiefling. Looks over, and says,

0:28:57 Jamina: Master Seacaster, farewell. Your voyage has brought you here, to Leviathan. Your father trekked these boards, the greatest pirate to ever live.

0:29:12 Fabian: Well he's dead now. And someone has to take his place.

0:29:14 Jamina: Hmm.

0:29:16 Brennan: She stomps away. And you see that the tiefling looks up to you guys, and he says,

0:29:20 Tiefling: (higher voice, cockney-ish British with some New Zealand accent) Hello there, sorry to intrude. But I've settled your debt with the boatswain.

0:29:32 Emily: I wanna brush my hair back from my horns.

0:29:33 Adaine: Oh, you've settled the debt?

0:29:35 Alistair: That's right, I've given 100 gold pieces. But we should abscond quickly, because they will only be 100 gold pieces for another 10 or so minutes.

0:29:47 Adaine: Oh, but they're gonna figure that out, and then they'll take the boat.

0:29:51 Alistair: What?

0:29:52 Kristen: Oh. Let’s go.

0:29:53 Adaine: No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna go pay the boatswain the 100 pieces.

0:29:57 Riz: We should just go.

0:29:58 Kristen: We should just go.

0:29:58 Adaine: No! As soon as we leave the boat they're gonna take it.

0:30:01 Fig: I side with Adaine on this.

0:30:01 Riz: (points to the tiefling) What's your name?

0:30:02 Alistair: I'm sorry, hello, my name's Alistair Ash.

0:30:06 Riz: Alistair Ash?

0:30:06 Fabian: Alistair Ash?

0:30:07 Riz: AKA...

0:30:09 Alistair: (smiling at Fabian) Hey! Alright!

0:30:11 Riz: Alistair Ash. Do you know a Garthy O'Brien?

0:30:15 Alistair: Oh, well everyone knows Garthy O'Brien. They're the impresario of the Gold Gardens!

0:30:21 Gorgug: Is this like a place where I could drive the van on these boards?

0:30:25 Alistair: This thing moves?

0:30:26 Kristen: Yes.

0:30:26 Adaine: Yeah, it's a van.

0:30:28 Alistair: A what?

0:30:29 Adaine: A van.

0:30:30 Alistair: Wow! Solisians, you know, they talk about you all the time, but you really, you know, you play music that sounds like how my hips feel when a woman dances, and you know!

0:30:42 Adaine: It's a cart that moves on its own.

0:30:44 Alistair: What? A cart that moves on its own! (deep breath) Gulls alive in coin, I've seen everything, haven't I? How does it move without a dolphin at the front?

0:30:55 Riz: So you tricked those pirates to help us, and now you're just gonna let them kill you, I guess?

0:31:01 Alistair: Why would they kill me? (gasps, with a look of realization) Because they'll be mad when the gold turns back to rocks.

0:31:07 Emily: Is this my first other tiefling I've ever met?

0:31:09 Brennan: Yes. You are seeing—

0:31:11 Emily: I sink into a deep depression. (laughing)

0:31:14 Riz: Can you lead us to Garthy O'Brien if we take you in our moving cart?

0:31:18 Alistair: You'll do that?

0:31:19 Kristen: Yeah.

0:31:20 Alistair: Please, yes, oh god, I've gotta escape! You know it's funny, because you think like, this lie is perfect and it's gonna work no problem. But then you're like, if they find out the truth, my problem with lies is I always forget that the other person has a mind and feelings. And keeps existing after I've lied to them.

0:31:38 Adaine: Right, that's so...

0:31:39 Fig: Yeah. I side with Adaine that we should just pay.

0:31:43 Adaine: Really interesting.

0:31:44 Fig: I side with Adaine that we should pay.

0:31:46 Fabian: Alright. I'll track down the Boatswain.

0:31:50 Riz: We need the information that this person has.

0:31:53 Fig: We could say, thank you so much, you have done a great magic trick for us, that's so cool, we're gonna also pay them.

0:31:59 Alistair: Oh, okay. How are you gonna broach the subject of just wanting to double the cost of the—

0:32:03 Riz: Yeah. We should leave.

0:32:05 Fabian: Actually...

0:32:06 Murph: Riz gets in the car.

0:32:06 Adaine: This van is so obvious.

0:32:08 Fabian: Let's do the pirate thing and just run. Come on!

0:32:12 Fig: Okay. So is sort of thieving and lying sort of a sign of like, respect in this town?

0:32:17 Fabian: I mean, I thought so, and then I said, I called a man a scurvy dog and he was crying. (laughing)

0:32:22 Riz: They're gonna be so mad.

0:32:24 Alistair: You can't be upset, he's extremely sensitive.

0:32:28 Fabian: Okay, well--

0:32:29 Gorgug: I think he has scurvy really bad.

0:32:31 Fig: He does have scurvy.

0:32:31 Fabian: He must.

0:32:32 Adaine: Eat some oranges.

0:32:32 Alistair: People in the Maelstrom's Maw get scurvy a lot.

0:32:35 Brennan: Okay so you guys pile into the van, are you going to pay the boatswain the extra or no?

0:32:39 Adaine: Fuck yes.

0:32:39 Kristen: Can you Mage Hand 100 gold pieces as we run away?

0:32:42 Gorgug: If we bring it up, we'll get in trouble again.

0:32:44 Fig: Why, this is, someone else did this to us.

0:32:47 Adaine: I'm gonna say hey, this guy that we don't know lied.

0:32:49 Kristen: How big is Leviathan? (crosstalk)

0:32:49 Fig: I side with Adaine in this.

0:32:52 Brennan: Leviathan's an enormous metropolis, there's probably about a million and a half people.

0:32:55 Kristen: Let's go. Let's just go.

0:32:56 Adaine: Our van is the only van! It's so obvious!

0:32:59 Fig: We're getting ourselves into a situation that the boatswain comes and messes us up.

0:33:04 Adaine: Yeah.

0:33:05 Riz: Alright. Throw 'em 100 gold. I think it's just gonna raise more questions.

0:33:08 Brennan: Cool. So you Mage Hand 100 gold.

0:33:10 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:33:11 Brennan: Cool. The boatswain grabs the gold as the van speeds away and says,

0:33:16 Jamina: I don't exactly understand, wait, I have some questions. (laughing)

0:33:20 Brennan: But you guys peel off. You see Alistair, goes,

0:33:22 Alistair: Oh lord, so, it's very nice that you all did that. (chuckles) Skin of my teeth alone.

0:33:30 Brennan: You start the van, as the van peels off, Alistair just goes, (screaming) and screams, as the van moves.

0:33:38 Fig: I'm sorry. I don't know which side of you is demon, but what demon are you from?

0:33:45 Alistair: What demon am I from?

0:33:46 Fig: Yeah.

0:33:47 Alistair: Well. (leans back in his seat) Rumor has it that on my mother's side, I come from the stock of Geryon, and on my father's side, I also have infernal blood from Dispater himself. So...

0:34:00 Gorgug: Don't know those things.

0:34:01 Emily: I turn on the radio.

0:34:01 Riz: Don't know what you're talking about.

0:34:03 Fabian: Very cool, very cool.

0:34:06 Murph: Really cool. Um, can I do an insight check, just on Alistair?

0:34:11 Brennan: Yeah.

0:34:11 Murph: (rolling) Alistair's talking about how much they love lying.

0:34:12 Lou: Do I recognize this name? Can I do an Intelligence check?

0:34:16 Siobhan: I got a nat 20 insight. (dice rolling)

0:34:18 Murph: Yeah, I got a 26.

0:34:19 Brennan: 26, nat 20.

0:34:21 Lou: I'll give it a shot.

0:34:24 Lou: I got an 8.

0:34:24 Zac: 12.

0:34:27 Lou: 13 intelligence to remember this person.

0:34:28 Emily: I'm not gonna waste a roll on this.

0:34:31 Siobhan: Okay, alright, okay.

0:34:33 Brennan: 13.

0:34:34 Emily: On hand.

0:34:35 Brennan: This guys smells familiar to you.

0:34:41 Lou: Literally.

0:34:41 Brennan: Literally smells familiar, he smells like, like embers and brimstone a little bit, but also there's a smelling of like, some, wait, maybe like a, like a beard oil that's familiar to you, even though he's clean shaven and very young and scrawny. With a 20 Insight, you see that this guy has some kind of crush on Fabian or something, he's like…

0:35:06 Siobhan: Oh, alright, okay.

0:35:08 Brennan: But it's a weird, it looks like hero worship or something.

0:35:10 Siobhan: Okay.

0:35:12 Brennan: You see that, and even with your Insight as well, you can get a definite vibe and he says,

0:35:16 Alistair: Well, first of all, let me just say (laughs) Fabian Aramais Seacaster, oh my lord. (laughs)

0:35:27 Fabian: Yes. It's a pleasure to meet you. Were you a friend of my father's? Or a...

0:35:34 Alistair: Oh. I am more than a friend of your father's.

0:35:39 Fabian: Oh.

0:35:40 Riz: You were his best friend?

0:35:42 Alistair: Well. Hopefully when I die I can become an even better friend of your father's. But… Is all of your crew safe to speak in front of, my lord Seacaster?

0:35:55 Fabian: Of course.

0:35:59 Alistair: (dramatically) I am a follower of old Bill. I have sworn myself to his service. He, the destroyer and descrier of the nine hells. He who aloft in a ship made of dragon carcass, pillages and raids the princes of the devil folk. He is my patron.

0:36:23 Adaine: You're a warlock to Bill Seacaster?

0:36:26 Alistair: In the flesh! (laughs) And there's a lot of us. A great lot of us who have sworn ourselves to his service. He has seen fit in all of his hellish princedom to grant us spells.

0:36:39 Fabian: (laughs) This is incredible. Are you saying that my father's some kind of, like, lord of Hell now, who can give magic to people here in the material world?

0:36:49 Alistair: Very recently.

0:36:51 Fabian: Wow.

0:36:52 Alistair: About five months ago I think he killed some kind of devil prince, and I don't know, ate or consumed some part of his infernal essence and lo and behold. But it's the best, I mean, pirates are a superstitious lot, so if word got out that I was a warlock, I mean, they'd string me up for sure, they'd hang me in Gibbety Square. But I'll tell you this right now. Bill is the greatest patron a warlock could ask for.

0:37:19 Fabian: I believe it. I mean, his maybe first patron.

0:37:25 Gorgug: What's Dippity Square?

0:37:28 Adaine: Gibbety. Gibbety.

0:37:29 Alistair: Gibbety Square!

0:37:31 Adaine: Where the gibbets are.

0:37:32 Alistair: Oh, if youse don't know your way around Leviathan, I'll be happy to show you.

0:37:35 Kristen: Can I ask you something Alistair, do you know anything about the Nightmare King and its crown?

0:37:42 Alistair: (overblown dramatic gasp) The Nightmare King?

0:37:43 Kristen: Yeah.

0:37:44 Alistair: No. (laughs)

0:37:46 Riz: Sounds scary though.

0:37:47 Alistair: Scary king of nightmares?

0:37:48 Kristen: Sounds scary, right?

0:37:49 Fig: That was pretty good delivery.

0:37:51 Alistair: (shudders) I don't like that one bit.

0:37:53 Riz: What is Bill Seacaster—

0:37:53 Ally: Can I do an insight check and see if he was fucking with us? (dice rolling)

0:38:01 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:38:03 Fig: Show me some of your warlock spells.

0:38:05 Ally: 27.

0:38:08 Brennan: Oh, 27? You do not think he was fucking with you. You think that this kid, listen, being a warlock, warlocks are a Charisma based spellcasting class, they are not an Intelligence based spellcasting class, you don't need a lot of smarts to work out a deal. You see, he looks and says,

0:38:25 Alistair: Oh, I would be happy to show you a spell. Do you think you could front me some money to show you?

0:38:43 Fig: Oh, you need it as a spell component?

0:38:46 Alistair: No. Well… um…

0:38:51 Siobhan: I pull a rock that has been turned into a gold piece out of my jacket of holding. (laughing)

0:38:58 Brennan: He takes it and says,

0:38:59 Alistair: Alright, might as well show you what I mean. I guess this is worth it. What kind of spell do you wanna see?

0:39:05 Fig: Your favorite.

0:39:08 Gorgug: That doesn't mess up the van.

0:39:09 Alistair: My favorite that doesn't mess up the van, oh alright.

0:39:12 Brennan: You see that he (whooshes) disguises himself as a human pirate woman. You see that he's like, an extremely overdone, like, he looks like a pirate serving girl Halloween costume you would see. He's got like, enormous cleavage and he's like,

0:39:32 Alistair: Yo ho, yo ho, I'm a lady! (laughing)

0:39:37 Fabian: Not bad! Not bad at all.

0:39:39 Kristen: Game recognizes game, welcome to the club.

0:39:41 Brennan: He shakes your hand and says,

0:39:42 Alistair: Could we pull over in this alley real quick?

0:39:45 Gorgug: Why?

0:39:47 Fig: This is getting...

0:39:48 Riz: Why did you need gold to do a spell? Does Bill Seacaster…

0:39:50 Kristen: We've gotta get out of here.

0:39:52 Riz: Does Bill Seacaster charge you?

0:39:54 Brennan: You see, he looks at Riz, Riz, can you repeat what you just said?

0:39:57 Riz: Does Bill Seacaster charge you?

0:40:01 Alistair: Look. It's a better deal 'cause you don't have to sell your soul.

0:40:05 Riz: Brilliant. That's brilliant.

0:40:07 Brennan: You see he says,

0:40:07 Alistair: So, basically, well here's the thing right? It's that all the other patrons are always like, your soul, your memories, or, Bill Seacaster's very up front. It's 25 gold to lease a cantrip for one month. And it's 100 gold pieces a month for five. So if you get it in bulk—

0:40:26 Riz: Alistair, you’re getting—

0:40:27 Fig: Just cantrip? That's as high as he'll go for?

0:40:29 Riz: You're getting ripped off.

0:40:29 Alistair: Well that's the thing, no, it's magic! It's magic! I don't even have to give a soul!

0:40:34 Gorgug: How much money do you have?

0:40:36 Alistair: Well I have to get a lot, 'cause I don't keep it for very long.

0:40:39 Riz: What is in this alley you wanna take us to?

0:40:42 Brennan: You see that he reaches into a little satchel, and he pulls out—

0:40:43 Fig: You're a mess! (laughs)

0:40:44 Alistair: I am not a mess! Listen, I was an urchin riding around Leviathan and now I knows magic. Alright? And I didn't have to give up me soul or nothing.

0:40:55 Adaine: You're a bit old to be an urchin.

0:40:58 Alistair: (offended) Alright, what's your whole fucking deal? What's your situation?

0:41:00 Adaine: I do good magic.

0:41:02 Alistair: Oh la de dah! You do good magic. (air quotes) Did you learn your magic in a book?

0:41:07 Adaine: Yes, I did!

0:41:08 Alistair: (mockingly) Oh, hello, I can read!

0:41:13 Gorgug: Hey. Are we pulling over to rob someone?

0:41:16 Alistair: No.

0:41:17 Adaine: Are you pulling us over so you can rob us?

0:41:19 Riz: What is in the alley?

0:41:20 Fig: What is in the alley, before we pull over?

0:41:20 Alistair: I need to do a ritual, and it's better if you do it sooner, because if you forget, it's bad.

0:41:27 Adaine: What's the ritual?

0:41:28 Fig: Is this the ritual to pay Bill Seacaster?

0:41:30 Brennan: He pulls out of a satchel, like a leather skin infernal roll of parchment. And he pulls it out and unfurls it and you see an infernal pentagram sort of hex on it. It looks lined with soot and smoke. And you see he says,

0:41:48 Alistair: Basically, when you sign up for your first package of spells, you get one of these. And you sort of have to, you know, when you cast a spell, end of the day, whatever, like that, you spread it out, right? And then you put the gold in the middle, you say the incantation, the gold bursts into flame and disappears.

0:42:05 Fig: I need to ask you—

0:42:06 Riz: Do you have to hire other people?

0:42:07 Fig: That's what I was gonna say, is this an incentive based thing that you get more spells if you recruit other people?

0:42:13 Riz: Is this MLM? You can get upgraded?

0:42:14 Alistair: You can get a tremendous amount of spell slots through the referral program. But it's all about, because you actually end up making money and spell slots—

0:42:22 Riz: You're kind of a, you're a business owner.

0:42:23 Alistair: Yeah, in a very real way. Because Bill's empowering me to take my life into my own hands.

0:42:29 Fig: Do you host like, mimosa brunches where you try and get people to become patrons?

0:42:34 Alistair: I do Bellinis. (laughing)

0:42:38 Kristen: You do what?

0:42:39 Alistair: I do—

0:42:39 Fig: (laughing) Bellinis.

0:42:40 Alistair: A lot of people do mimosas, it's kind of hack at this point, I do Bellinis.

0:42:45 Riz: Do we have to stop in a pirate alley to do this or can we just do it here?

0:42:50 Alistair: Well I have to spread it over the seat in the van.

0:42:53 Riz: I'm just worried about getting killed or robbed.

0:42:55 Gorgug: Alright I'm gonna pull over. (laughing)

0:43:00 Fig: Okay, I'm gonna case the alley like a German shepherd, make sure no one comes after this.

0:43:04 Kristen: (laughs) What?

0:43:06 Gorgug: Do you have any conversations with Bill Seacaster?

0:43:09 Alistair: Oh. No.

0:43:13 Kristen: We're in a real dead end.

0:43:14 Gorgug: Was gonna say if you can talk to him now.

0:43:15 Fabian: I would like to speak to my papa.

0:43:16 Adaine: Can we just leave this guy? Can we just write off—

0:43:18 Alistair: If I tell the other followers of old Bill, you'll, master Seacaster, lord Seacaster, you'll have an army at your beck and call!

0:43:27 Fabian: I mean I'll have a army at my beck and call.

0:43:29 Adaine: Do you need an army? Do we need an army?

0:43:30 Fabian: Would you turn down an army?

0:43:33 Adaine: We need one guy.

0:43:34 Fabian: I would take an army over anything.

0:43:36 Adaine: I don't think I would be good at armies.

0:43:38 Fabian: Alright, well I think I would be great at armies.

0:43:40 Adaine: Okay.

0:43:41 Fig: Adaine, I think you'd be killer at armies.

0:43:43 Adaine: (sincerely) Oh my god thank you so much.

0:43:44 Riz: I don't think anyone who says I'm good at armies wouldn't be good at armies.

0:43:47 Adaine: I assume you're right.

0:43:48 Fig: Adaine is the best at armies, can we all agree?

0:43:50 Fabian: Riz, you bite glass, alright?

0:43:52 Adaine: You bite glass.

0:43:54 Kristen: You bite glass!

0:43:55 Fabian: I was being Riz..

0:43:57 Gorgug: Hey guys? I think we lost our minds.

0:44:02 Kristen: Okay, can we go to Grady? What's this person's name?

0:44:07 Riz: You know where Garthy O'Brien is?

0:44:08 Alistair: Garthy O'Brien, yeah.

0:44:10 Riz: So why don't we stop for a second so that Alistair doesn't lose their soul here.

0:44:15 Alistair: No. You don't lose your soul, there's no soul stuff with Bill. It would just be a financial incentive for the other warlocks to find and kill me.

0:44:23 Gorgug: Great. Let's pull over.

0:44:24 Fig: Yeah, let's pull over, we'll let you do your business.

0:44:27 Alistair: Great, thank you, I appreciate it.

0:44:30 Brennan: You guys pull over. He gets, he goes into this little alley. He's like, little tiefling tail whisking around, he's got his hooves. Kneels down, spreads the thing open, spreads his little infernal, like, skin-stitched pentagram open. Reaches in, and you see he's going, like, he takes out a couple of gold and then some silver and then you see he's like scrounging for copper pieces.

0:44:51 Alistair: Seven. Eight.

0:44:52 Fig: Kind of cute, I think we should adopt him.

0:44:55 Alistair: Oh no.

0:44:56 Adaine: How much do you need?

0:44:57 Alistair: Just two silver and five copper and I'm settled.

0:45:01 Siobhan: Can I take those out of my coat? It's less than 10 gold pieces.

0:45:04 Brennan: Absolutely. You hand it to him, he puts it in, and he says, (grunts) his eyes go red and he says,

0:45:11 Alistair: Greatest pirate who ever lived or died. Scourge of the Nine Hells and captain of the infernal wastes. This should cover my use of Minor Image today, and also a Disguise Self spell, hopefully that's settled. (demonic growling)

0:45:31 Brennan: You see that the gold disappears in an eruption of flame. Soot scatters across the alley, partially covering Alistair, he sort of wipes himself off. He rolls the thing up, slides it into his thing.

0:45:42 Alistair: Right, so we're all settled, then?

0:45:45 Gorgug: Great. Let's find Garthy O'Brien.

0:45:46 Adaine: Great.

0:45:47 Kristen: Let's find Garthy.

0:45:48 Brennan: Ah, he says,

0:45:48 Alistair: Great! Garthy O'Brien.

0:45:50 Brennan: So, you guys get in the van. This, Leviathan doesn't have too many carts or animals. So, you see Alistair says,

0:46:01 Alistair: Leviathan's gonna be more easily traversable on foot at certain points, but, if you'd like, I could, you know, maybe we like, park the van somewhere. Or we could also go the long way around to get to the gardens, but, you'd have to go under into the Cannon Court or you'd have to round to try and get to, what would it be? You could try to go through the Sternwood, but I don't recommend it.

0:46:29 Riz: Should we just send the van out into the sea, away from this, and then have it come back to pick us up?

0:46:34 Gorgug: Are we like, pretty high up, would it just like, fall off a cliff essentially?

0:46:38 Adaine: Van, can you fly? Oh. Mm. Can the van fly?

0:46:43 Gorgug: I don't know that it can fly. I don't think it can.

0:46:45 Fig: Fabian, do you know if there's any sort of parking—

0:46:47 Siobhan: Can I, wait.

0:46:47 Fig: —lot situation?

0:46:48 Fabian: Oh I definitely don't think there's any sort of parking lot situation. I'm sure that a nicer part of town, that the van might be, oh, it's all pirates. I really am not sure.

0:46:59 Adaine: Can we disguise it? Can we roll to disguise it?

0:47:00 Riz: Can we leave our hirelings with it? And Sarah Lynn can always fly back on the griffin if there's trouble.

0:47:06 Fig: Sarah Lynn, or Sandra Lynn.

0:47:08 Brennan: You see that Sandra Lynn says,

0:47:09 Sandra Lynn: I think it might be a wise course of action. I and Baxter can stay here along with Gilear, and it sounds like Cathilda maybe shouldn't be seen walking around?

0:47:19 Fig: Although Cathilda, if someone does try to come, shows who she really is, and then they'll be scared away.

0:47:26 Kristen: That's true.

0:47:27 Brennan: So you see she nods. Ragh and Tracker both look and say,

0:47:34 Ragh: Should we come with you guys, or should we stay here with the van, just to make sure it's safe?

0:47:40 Fabian: They roll with?

0:47:41 Kristen: Yeah, come with us.

0:47:42 Gorgug: Can I try something? How do you talk to your motorcycle when he's not there?

0:47:48 Fabian: Through, I guess some version of an attuned Message spell is my best guess.

0:47:56 Gorgug: I will, hey Van?

0:47:57 Van: Yeah!

0:47:58 Gorgug: I'm going to try to reach you with my mind later. We'll see how that goes.

0:48:04 Van: (smiling) Okay. That sounds so good, dude.

0:48:06 Gorgug: Awesome.

0:48:06 Brennan: Awesome. You guys head on on foot. Alistair starts leading you around. As you guys begin to journey through Leviathan, you guys see that the fog begins to clear, as the sun comes out. You begin to walk through the neighborhood away from Maelstrom's Maw which is called Four Castles. Alistair starts to describe it to you. Four Castles is raised up higher than a lot of the city, and as the fog parts under the sunlight, you guys begin to see the actual bulk of Leviathan. You guys can take one.

0:48:26 Lou: Did you make maps? (cheering)

0:48:46 Emily: Oh, maps, maps, maps!

0:48:48 Brennan: Maps, maps, maps! (paper passing sounds)

0:48:49 Ally: Maps, maps!

0:48:50 Lou: Homeboy's out here making maps. Gorgeous.

0:48:56 Ally: So cool.

0:48:57 Ally: Poop City. (laughing)

0:48:59 Lou: I got it.

0:49:01 Brennan: You guys see the vast bulk of Leviathan. There is a huge central mast that is like a skyscraper in the middle of the city, with a whole neighborhood up in the rigging up above it. Sort of the nicer parts of the city are on the other side from where you are right now. The neighborhood you're going through, you hear like shouts of violence in the distance, and can smell smoke. Alistair begins to bring you through here, basically saying like,

0:49:26 Alistair: Well, the place that we're in right now is called Four Castles. And this is where a lot of, you know, there's a lot of fighting that goes on here for control of these neighborhoods.

0:49:35 Adaine: Oh, I get it, it's a pun.

0:49:37 Alistair: What's that?

0:49:37 Adaine: It's a pun!

0:49:38 Alistair: Well there's four castles--

0:49:40 Adaine: Yeah, it's the fo'c'sle.

0:49:42 Alistair: What?

0:49:44 Adaine: It's a pun, it's a ship pun.

0:49:46 Alistair: Oh! Well congratulations!

0:49:50 Kristen: Alistair, can I ask you about the Sternwood? Why wouldn't we want to go through the Sternwood?

0:49:57 Alistair: Sternwood's full of beasts and other various terrible things. There was a time where people thought that Leviathan shouldn't steal as much and should make its own food, so a group of sea druids tried to make a place where there would be arable ground and such. And a whole terrible forest grew and it's cursed and full of monsters, so I'd avoid it.

0:50:18 Fig: That sounds awesome.

0:50:20 Lou: That sounds cool.

0:50:21 Riz: A dark forest?

0:50:22 Kristen: I mean we're going to another forest soon.

0:50:25 Fabian: Might be good to get some forest prep in.

0:50:27 Kristen: I was kind of thinking that.

0:50:28 Riz: We don't need a forest prep, we need to find Garthy O'Brien!

0:50:30 Kristen: Maybe Garthy's in the forest.

0:50:32 Fabian: Something to think about for later. Forest prep.

0:50:34 Riz: We're not just gonna swing by a cursed forest.

0:50:36 Alistair: Why don't we get out of here, 'cause if we go straight down into the mess, we'll actually be going through Cannon Court, which is a little bit more of a safer place.

0:50:44 Riz: Okay.

0:50:44 Adaine: Great.

0:50:45 Brennan: So Alistair leads you effortlessly through this side of Leviathan.

0:50:50 Emily: Can I peek down the Sternwood just to the cursed forest, just see what I might see?

0:50:54 Brennan: A forest growing out of the debris and rot of shipwrecks. Every tree is more twisted and cursed than the last. A lot of them naturally, the trees just form into skulls growing out of the wood. There's a, you also can just hear weird cawing of crows and other carrion birds.

0:51:13 Murph: Just hanging onto Fig. Riz grabs the back of Fig’s shirt to keep her from running off.

0:51:14 Ally: Can I roll to see if there's anything in there that's like, nightmare adjacent?

0:51:20 Brennan: Sure. (dice rolling) (laughing)

0:51:23 Ally: Interesting, interesting.

0:51:27 Fabian: You're looking for nightmare adjacent things.

0:51:29 Ally: 7.

0:51:31 Brennan: 7, you do not find, 7 doesn't show you anything--

0:51:34 Ally: Oh actually can I cast Clairvoyance and send an orb into the forest?

0:51:38 Brennan: You cast Clairvoyance. (laughing)

0:51:40 Brennan: You see that—

0:51:41 Ally: I'm looking for a crown.

0:51:44 Brennan: You look into a forest.

0:51:45 Kristen: This could all be over.

0:51:47 Fabian: What? We just break it.

0:51:50 Brennan: I love making mysteries for you guys, 'cause it's like, hey, we're going to a forest, this, also a forest. (laughing)

0:51:58 Murph: It's like trying to solve a murder by trying to solve a different murder. It's like, you know what, a lot of people get killed in Chicago, we should go to Chicago. But they died in Seattle! But, murder.

0:52:06 Brennan: But, think about it. Solving this Rubik's cube, Rubik's cube, colors, colors, this box of crayons.

0:52:13 Siobhan: It's all about connections, man, the human brain's all about connections.

0:52:16 Fig: I genuinely just wanna see some cool shit.

0:52:20 Riz: We're in a pirate city!

0:52:21 Fig: Can we just like, watch the clairvoyance orb

0:52:22 Riz: Everything's cool!

0:52:23 Fig: like it's Netflix?

0:52:24 Brennan: Now, you guys go down into Cannon Court. Cannon Court is weirdly a like, subterranean neighborhood, but it's subterranean in a place that's not made of natural stone, but artificially created ships. So, you see that this is weirdly a neighborhood that is modeled like a dwarven city would be, where there are like, subterranean areas shaped out of old shipwrecks, but built as like, civic spaces, the way that dwarves build like, large public caverns and chambers under things. So you're walking through the like, hollowed out holes of ships that have like, dwarven gunpowder markets. You see there are these sort of pirate dwarves and gnomes running through and pinching things out of barrels and like (slurping) eating little bits of gunpowder. You guys get weird fucking looks as you walk through here, by the way. A group of just like Solisian teens in like non pirate garb.

0:53:18 Adaine: Ahoy!

0:53:20 Pirate: (suspicious) Right, ahoy.

0:53:21 Gorgug: This is the safer part of town?

0:53:23 Alistair: Oh yeah. If you're up in Four Castles in the wrong part of there, you'll get killed just for walking down the street.

0:53:29 Fig: Isn't that where we parked our van?

0:53:31 Alistair: (high voice) Oh, yeah, that's right. Well.

0:53:33 Gorgug: Oh boy.

0:53:35 Riz: It's fine, Gilear's there.

0:53:36 Kristen: Oh no. Gilear!

0:53:40 Fig: Do either of you have any 24-hour protection spells that you could cast on--

0:53:43 Adaine: I have nothing.

0:53:44 Fabian: As long as he hides in the van.

0:53:45 Riz: They’re fine. They’re fine. There's a griffin there.

0:53:46 Adaine: Greater Invisibility lasts a minute, so I could protect him for that long.

0:53:52 Brennan: You guys continue along through the Cannon Court. Go ahead and give me a group Charisma check as you travel. A group Charisma check. (dice rolling)

0:54:03 Emily: That's gonna be a 23 from Fig.

0:54:06 Murph: That's a 4 for your boy.

0:54:07 Ally: 25.

0:54:08 Lou: An 8.

0:54:09 Zac: A 10.

0:54:10 Siobhan: Charisma saving throw or Charisma check?

0:54:11 Brennan: Check.

0:54:12 Siobhan: 15.

0:54:14 Brennan: Okay. Four out of the six got higher than a 10.

0:54:17 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:54:18 Brennan: Cool.

0:54:19 Murph: I’m saying hi to too many people.

0:54:21 Riz: (tips his hat) Hello, good day!

0:54:23 Brennan: Actually I'm gonna say, Riz, as you walk along,

0:54:24 Ally: Great.

0:54:25 Brennan: You see that there is a, there is a dwarf with a huge double beard, double braided beard with firecrackers all through it, who's got huge anchors on each arm. As you're walking along, you see he grabs you and goes,

0:54:40 Dwarf Pirate: (Scottish) In the wrong part of town, gobby! (Riz stammers)

0:54:45 Dwarf Pirate: Looking to eat Dwarf flesh, are ya?

0:54:47 Riz: What? No, no, no, no—

0:54:48 Brennan: Takes a flintlock pistol out.

0:54:50 Dwarf Pirate: Open your mouth if you're hungry.

0:54:52 Emily: I disguise myself as him and I say,

0:54:52 Fig: Stay away.

0:54:55 Brennan: As him? (laughing)

0:54:58 Brennan: (disbelieving) You disguise yourself as the Dwarf doing this?

0:55:02 Ally: I come up and go,

0:55:02 Kristen: You're dead. You've been dead for days.

0:55:06 Riz: I already ate you.

0:55:07 Gorgug: You've been freaking dead this whole time.

0:55:09 Riz: I already ate you man.

0:55:10 Brennan: (interrupting) No, no, no, no, we're not gonna move past it, I'm not going through another Hilda Hilda. Your first thought to get this guy to stop was to be him? (high-pitched) Him as well? (clearly losing it) Is it just me?

0:55:26 Murph: Is anyone around?

0:55:26 Ally: Grab Riz and say, I got it from here.

0:55:29 Emily: I wanted to be, I wanted to be someone of this world and he's the first person I've really met. (clapping)

0:55:37 Murph: Logically sound.

0:55:38 Brennan: Okay. Alright, you disguise yourself as him. You say, you've been dead.

0:55:44 Kristen: You've been dead for days.

0:55:45 Brennan: Go ahead and give me a Deception roll.

0:55:49 Ally: What about me?

0:55:50 Brennan: Actually yeah. You give me a Deception roll, if you beat a 10, it'll give a help action here.

0:55:54 Emily: Well I already have advantage.

0:55:54 Ally: Yeah.

0:55:56 Brennan: Okay. You already have advantage, so you give me the advantage roll.

0:55:58 Emily: Okay. That's going to be a 25. Brennan looks away from her, down, and puts his face in his hand, defeated.

0:56:05 Murph: They're a superstitious bunch. (laughing)

0:56:08 Zac: What's this sad dwarf with firecrackers in his beard gonna do about that? Brennan sighs and shakes his head. (adventurous music)

0:56:14 Zac: Brennan?

0:56:14 Riz: I already ate you, man. You already got eaten.

0:56:18 Brennan: You— you, you see he looks at you saying, you've already been dead, looks at him, what does Fig do disguised as him when Kristen says, you've been dead?

0:56:30 Fig: (affected pirate accent) Let this life go.

0:56:32 Brenan: He turns, sprints through the marketplace. There is a porthole overlooking the side of the city like a giant glass portal. He dives through it and kills himself.

0:56:42 Kristen: No!

0:56:48 Brennan: (screams) Screams, falls into the ocean, (snaps) dead.

0:56:50 Ally: No, I cast--

0:56:51 Riz: Wait no, he was bad, he was gonna kill me for being a goblin, don't save his life!

0:56:54 Kristen: Are you sure?

0:56:55 Adaine: He's bad and racist!

0:56:56 Fabian: Killing people here is normal and cool.

0:56:58 Riz: He was bad. That was fine.

0:57:01 Ally: I jump in after him.

0:57:03 Zac: I tackle you before you do it. I tackle you.

0:57:07 Brennan: You see Tracker grabs you two, and goes,

0:57:09 Tracker: (holding on desperately) Babe, babe, I know your family's super racist, you're projecting! This is about your shit! This is about your shit! That's a racist bad pirate, it's good that he's dead.

0:57:17 Riz: He put a gun in your mouth and said, are you hungry?

0:57:21 Gorgug: He called him a gobby.

0:57:22 Kristen: Okay, okay, you're right, you're right.

0:57:25 Tracker: Babe, it's alright, it's okay.

0:57:26 Kristen: That person was not my parents.

0:57:28 Tracker: No.

0:57:29 Kristen: That person was not my parents and neither am I.

0:57:31 Tracker: Okay, okay, shh. (kisses) Shh, shh.

0:57:34 Riz: That was a crazy 30 seconds. We've walked about five feet into town. (laughing)

0:57:40 Fig: Riz, do you maybe wanna walk on the inside? I can stand on the outside.

0:57:43 Riz: Yeah, yeah.

0:57:45 Brennan: Yeah, you guys are realizing you are extremely not in your progressive homeland.

0:57:50 Siobhan: I pull a tricorn hat out of my coat. (laughs)

0:57:54 Brennan: You pull a tricorn.

0:57:56 Ally: So you look in your prep school uniform, but you have a tricorn hat.

0:57:58 Siobhan: No, I have a denim jacket and a tricorn hat, which is much more regular.

0:58:04 Brennan: Incredible.

0:58:06 Emily: I'm just gonna keep on this man as my disguise.

0:58:09 Brennan: Cool. You guys continue to walk through Cannon Court.

0:58:12 Ally: I cast Light on my tie-dye shirt so it glows.

0:58:15 Brennan: It's glowing. You see Alistair says,

0:58:17 Alistair: Wow, you guys are a whole lot!

0:58:21 Kristen: Let's go, baby. Let's find Gerby.

0:58:22 Riz: Buddy? Let's keep going.

0:58:26 Brennan: You head through the rest of Cannon Court, and you emerge from underground, in the neighborhood of Galleyard. You look out and see, again, the huge spiring, craggy shipwrecks of Leviathan all around you. Gulls. You see there's also like aarakocra flying around, like way up, like skyscraper's length up above you. Leviathan is like, filled with like, the incredible wealth of all these different seafaring, different ships and different makes and stuff like that. The nicer neighborhoods further away you can see tend to have actual buildings built on them. So like, the ships have been flattened or like had wooden platforms put on them, so there's like flattened level neighborhoods. Whereas like, the jankier parts of town are like literally built into like diagonal rounded ship's hulls and things like that. You walk through Galleyard, and as the late afternoon sun begins to fill the city with golden red light, and you see people come out sort of, this place is sort of chaos by the way. You hear laughter, occasional pistol shots. There's just drunkards who have openly soiled themselves sleeping in the street in a lot of places. Galleyard is sort of the heart of the city, so it's the big, like, party neighborhood, it's the downtown. You see that there's a lot of that kind of New Orleans architecture of like, external second story balconies where people are like, waving to each other in the street and drinking, a lot of public houses here. You begin to approach a place that is not just one building, but you see instead it is like, coracles and frigates and schooners and junks that have been turned into a renovated campus of theaters, casinos, brothels, like, all these buildings that form this hub of places to go and lose the money you just got as a pirate. And as you open the door, you see the liveliest show of your life starts up. You see that there are pirates all around various corners. There is a giant barrel of ale that is just pouring into someone's mouth. People laughing, (laughing) (imitates gunfire) someone fiddling over in the corner. And you see that there are huge alabaster hookahs all around here that people are enjoying as they talk to themselves. Alistair, as he approaches, looks at you and says,

1:01:07 Alistair: Right, so welcome to the Gold Gardens. This is sort of the place. Do you know Garthy O'Brien? (cheery string music)

1:01:15 Fabian: He's a friend of my father's.

1:01:18 Alistair: Oh, well, in that case, you see they’re right over there.

1:01:21 Brennan: You see he points over to the corner where you see there's like kind of the “owner's table” vibe. Over in the corner, you guys see what must be Garthy O'Brien. They're a tall, muscular, half orc aasimar. They're shirtless with a few accents of thin lined, geometric tattoo work around their wrists and biceps, as well as some floral tattoos on their midsection. They wear no shirt, but elaborate fabric-heavy harem pants and fine boots with like a myriad of like belts and straps and all that kind of stuff. Their head is shaved at the sides and back. Little flop of black hair on top. You can tell that they're aasimar because both their pupils and the whites of their eyes are black. So like, the external and interior of their eyes are black. The irises are shimmering metallic gold. So it's like a black halo superimposed on a jet black eye.

1:02:24 Zac: Did you say half elf or half—

1:02:26 Brennan: Half orc. So they're like a celestial heritage half orc.

1:02:32 Zac: Damn.

1:02:33 Lou: Damn is right. (someone whistles)

1:02:36 Brennan: They also have accented that by, they have a little accent of like, metallic silver makeup on their lips and a little around their eyes. You see, near them, they're talking to a bunch of other people that are working here. Anyone else here can also make Perception checks or Insight checks if you want. (dice rolling)

1:02:57 Siobhan: 13.

1:02:57 Zac: 18.

1:02:58 Ally: 21.

1:03:00 Lou: 16.

1:03:01 Emily: 9.

1:03:02 Murph: I just got a 12.

1:03:03 Brennan: 12. So you see a couple things. Number one, they have immediately clocked all of you and you can see that they have a concentration spell on. You also—

1:03:18 Emily: On themselves or on us?

1:03:19 Brennan: They're just holding concentration on a spell. You see that they have a massive two handed scimitar behind them that has a lot of like, gold rings, sort of stamped into the back of the blade, so like, as it curves, there's the sharp edge on the curve. And there are gold rings jangling on the back of it. You also see that, shoutout to Pete the Plug. They have scars on their chest,

1:03:33 Ally: (nodding in approval) Cool.

1:03:48 Brennan: As though they have gotten some kind of surgery, that they have like, disguised a little bit with some of those geometric celestial tattoos.

1:03:57 Ally: Cool.

1:04:00 Brennan: You see Garthy O'Brien look over at all of you as you approach, and smile. And beckons you over to their table.

1:04:13 Siobhan: I bow with my tricorn hat.

1:04:16 Brennan: You see Garthy leans back. They look just so languid and comfortable. You see they go,

1:04:24 Garthy: (London accent, calm and confident) Oh lovey, Alistair, my darling boy, come here for a moment.

1:04:32 Brennan: You see Alistair says,

1:04:32 Alistair: Oh! Garthy O'Brien knows my name! See? The spells are worth it, you pay for the spells, and then people start to know your name.

1:04:43 Brennan: You see Alistair walks over to Garthy and Garthy gives them a familiar sort of squeeze on the arm. And then looks up at the rest of you.

1:04:56 Garthy: Well, well, well. Welcome one and all to the Gold Gardens. If I can be of any service at all, I trust that you will let me know, loves.

1:05:06 Kristen: Serve alcohol here?

1:05:08 Garthy: Oh darling. We serve far more than alcohol. We serve snuff powder, dragon spice, whatever you could desire.

1:05:15 Riz: What's the dragon spice do to you?

1:05:18 Garthy: Dragon spice is snuff powder cut with pure ketamine.

1:05:23 Fig: I'll take a dragon spice,

1:05:24 Emily: As I say that I shake my head and stop being a goblin and become Fig again.

1:05:32 Fig: Hi, Figueroth Faeth.

1:05:33 Brennan: You see (laughs) they look over at you and go,

1:05:35 Garthy: Oh. Well, it seems that we have some more like young Alistair here. Now, if I didn't know better, I would say I was looking at a group of Solisian teens.

1:05:49 Fabian: We're far more than that. I'm sure you know me.

1:05:55 Garthy: Oh darling, I would know you anywhere. Young Fabian Aramais Seacaster. Thank god you've got your mother's looks, my boy.

1:06:04 Fabian: What is that, some kind of dig at my father's looks? I particularly, I believe my father was a very handsome man. And I would be lucky to have his features, if I had gotten them. (laughing)

1:06:19 Adaine: He's dead, dude, you don't have to suck up to him.

1:06:22 Fabian: Alright. I love my papa. Nobody--

1:06:24 Gorgug: Fabian, quit saying you love your papa.

1:06:26 Fabian: I love my papa.

1:06:27 Riz: You're allowed to look up to your dad without thinking he's super hot.

1:06:30 Ally: I grab the biggest beer nearby and just take a big sip.

1:06:32 Brennan: Ahh.

1:06:34 Riz: That's someone's beer, Kristen!

1:06:36 Kristen: Is this mead?

1:06:38 Brennan: You see they just look at you and say,

1:06:40 Garthy: Well yes, that is mead, but also darling, it's not yours.

1:06:45 Gorgug: Who's is it? Who are you drinking?

1:06:47 Brennan: You see a, hold on a second. Give me a luck check to see whose mead you just grabbed.

1:06:56 Ally: That was a 3. I'm leaning kind of back a little bit as I chug this giant mead. (squeezes their eyes shut) It's very sweet.

1:07:08 Brennan: You grab this mead.

1:07:14 Ally: I'm proud of it. I'm proud of the choices I made.

1:07:17 Brennan: You see, turning around from the bar. You see a glaring, terrifying presence turn around. You see that a six and a half foot tall mind flayer turns around, you know what a mind flayer is? Kristen continues to nonchalantly drink the mead during this description.

1:07:38 Ally: Yeah. Yeah.

1:07:41 Zac: You do?

1:07:42 Ally: Yeah.

1:07:43 Brennan: Yes. A mind flayer, for those that don't know, is an Underdark humanoid. They have a squid-like face with like, beady eyes, and tentacles that come out of the bottom of the heads so you can't see the beak underneath. They eat brains. That's what they do.

1:08:04 Ally: So, Stranger Things.

1:08:06 Emily: They eat brains but also drink beer?

1:08:09 Brennan: This mind flayer turns around, and it's wearing a bright scarlet coat, blue shirt, an intense looking crystalline saber at their side. (groaning)

1:08:23 Adaine: Don't drink that, drink this!

1:08:26 Siobhan: I pull a 10 gold piece worth of mead bottle.

1:08:29 Murph: Hitachino.

1:08:32 Siobhan: out of the— I get a Hitachino.

1:08:35 Brennan: Give me a Persuasion with disadvantage.

1:08:38 Siobhan: Oh no.

1:08:41 Emily: If I give the help action—

1:08:42 Siobhan: Actually I'm gonna use my divination roll, and so I get a 16.

1:08:48 Brennan: You get a 16?

1:08:49 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:08:49 Brennan: Cool. Awesome. You… Oh how does portent work with disadvantage? Yeah, I guess that works. You get a 16. What does that get to with your persuasion?

1:09:01 Siobhan: It's a 15, which I added--

1:09:04 Brennan: Plus one to.

1:09:05 Siobhan: I don't have high Persuasion.

1:09:07 Brennan: You see that this Illithid mind flayer captain turns around, and the entire bar goes silent.

1:09:16 Mind Flayer: (deep, growling Scottish) Well. I see you've helped yourself to a drink there, lass.

1:09:26 Kristen: Oh. Oh! (laughs)

1:09:31 Ally: I lean so far back that you, I'm almost laying on the ground of this bar.

1:09:38 Kristen: (drinks) I thought maybe these were on the counter to grab, like… I thought... (snarling)

1:09:47 Mind Flayer: Oh, are things in the bar just for grabbing?

1:09:51 Brennan: And you see that amongst his face tentacles there is one little tentacle that is a peg leg, it's like a wooden one. (slurping)

1:10:01 Brennan: And that one he uses to caress your face. And you see that Tracker, you see he goes,

1:10:06 Mind Flayer: (deep Scottish accent) Well, lass, I,

1:10:08 Brennan: And Tracker goes,

1:10:08 Tracker: Under no circumstances,

1:10:11 Brennan: And swats his tentacle away. 30 people at the bar draw swords. Shing! You see, Garthy stands up and they say,

1:10:21 Garthy: (gently) Alright. Everyone's being, frankly, and I do hate to use harsh language, ridiculous. I'm going to need all of you to kindly abscond. You've drawn weapons here. So if you're drawing weapons,

1:10:34 Brennan: And you see that they reach back and grab their scimitar.

1:10:36 Garthy: Then I will have to draw weapons as well. So how do we wanna play it, lads and lasses, how do we feel?

1:10:44 Brennan: You see that the Illithid turns to look at you, turns to look at you and says,

1:10:53 Mind Flayer: I wouldnae drink in the same bar as the son of a coward.

1:11:03 Fabian: (scoffs) You talking to me?

1:11:06 Mind Flayer: (intensely) Bill Seacaster died on land! He died more than 100 miles from the sea. He's come here to tell those of Leviathan how to live their lives. I say, Bill Seacaster was a scurvy dog.

1:11:29 Brennan: Give me an intelligence check. (dice rolling)

1:11:33 Lou: 12.

1:11:35 Brennan: You know this man. This is the captain of the Crimson Claw. This is an Illithid pirate who your father fought with time and again during his life. This is a Captain James Whitclaw. He looks at you and says,

1:12:00 Whitclaw: Aye. I say this. Your father was no true pirate! When he made his fortune he turned and ran, dragging the high men out of the sea. I've come back to Leviathan to let it be known there will be a new order. Do you have anything to say about that, landlubber?

1:12:29 Fabian: I'm no landlubber. My father is the greatest pirate that ever lived. You, James, are the captain of a two bit piece of shit stick of wood that dare never sail again. You've come here to make a fool of yourself, and I personally consider myself lucky that I will have the pleasure of laughing along with the rest of Leviathan!

1:12:58 Lou: And I kick him in his fucking chest. (cheering)

1:13:01 Riz: Ahoy!

1:13:02 Adaine: Ahoy.

1:13:04 Ally: I down the mead. (laughing)

1:13:08 Brennan: Incredible. First of all, go ahead and make an Intimidate check with advantage.

1:13:18 Lou: Two 13s, for 18.

1:13:18 Ally: Here we go.

1:13:21 Lou: Oh excuse me.

1:13:21 Brennan: 18.

1:13:21 Lou: Yeah, 18.

1:13:21 Brennan: 18. Go ahead and make your attack roll to kick him in the chest.

1:13:27 Lou: Great. Nat one.

1:13:30 Murph: Ooh! Lou hides his face in his hand, Zac puts his head on the table, and Murph takes off his glasses.

1:13:32 Emily: That is cruel, fate you are cruel!

1:13:36 Ally: That was such a good monologue.

1:13:39 Emily: That was a beautiful monologue, and you ruined it!

1:13:41 Siobhan: Fabian's ability to fall on his face after saying something cool.

1:13:45 Zac: Can I throw Fabian in the air? Make him do an Acrobatics check?

1:13:50 Brennan: I'm gonna say, make a, you wanna throw him in the air?

1:13:53 Zac: Just to give him the Acrobatics to maybe like, redirect something.

1:13:58 Brennan: I'm gonna go ahead and, so you've rolled a nat 1. Gorgug attempts to throw you in the air. Go ahead. You're gonna need a 25 acrobatics to do something here.

1:14:08 Zac: I need a 25?

1:14:10 Brennan: In order to extemporaneously--

1:14:12 Zac: Can I do a strength check?

1:14:14 Brennan: Sure, give me a DC 25 athletics.

1:14:16 Zac: Can I go to a rage and just throw him?

1:14:19 Brennan: Cool, go into a rage. If you don't hit a 25 here, something even worse is gonna happen for you trying something.

1:14:24 Zac: Hell yeah. Oops. Oh, ff—

1:14:28 Brennan: It's cocked.

1:14:28 Zac: A cocked nat 20. (rolls again, smugly) 26. (laughing)

1:14:36 Brennan: Okay, you may roll this attack with advantage.

1:14:42 Lou: That is a 19.

1:14:48 Brennan: Cool. A 19. You do not collapse and fall into a pile. A 19 does not hit. You go to kick for his chest. And Gorgug like, slams into your back to send you forward. You see that as you go, your foot comes up, and James grabs your foot, pulls you towards him, gets in close, and for a second, all you see is beak and tentacles splaying out, coming right for your face. And you hear, probably what would sound like 10 or 20 of Garthy's voices at the same time, this like, susurrus of voices. And they say,

1:15:34 Garthy: (yelling) Enough! (whooshing)

1:15:37 Brennan: And there is a blast of air, everyone is knocked on their ass. You see that, Garthy stands up and they say,

1:15:47 Garthy: Alright loves, that's the end of the party, Captain James, you and your friends have drawn steel, you know that's against the rules, mate, so (waves) off you toddle.

1:15:57 Brennan: James looks at you. You have ended in a draw here where no one was cut, no actual blows were exchanged. He looks at you and says,

1:16:12 Whitclaw: It's not over, boyo.

1:16:13 Fabian: Not at all.

1:16:16 Brennan: Captain James and his crew exit.

1:16:19 Riz: See you, James.

1:16:21 Adaine: Bye James, nice to meet you.

1:16:23 Ally: Can I flick like, just a little piece of bronze at him and be like,

1:16:28 Kristen: Here's for the beer. (laughs)

1:16:32 Brennan: You see that one of his tentacles whips out, grabs it. And you see Tracker yells out,

1:16:37 Tracker: I know we're all being glib, but don't fucking touch women without their permission!

1:16:42 Brennan: And you see that as the pirates leave, Tracker looks over to you and says,

1:16:47 Tracker: I don't give a fuck if we're in a pirate city. I don't give a fuck.

1:16:49 Kristen: Yeah. No one's touching my hips and trying to get by at the bar.

1:16:52 Tracker: If I see a fucking hand or a hook or a fucking peg leg go for the small of someone's back, it's on.

1:16:58 Kristen: I say, would you touch a man like that? Men aren't walking around touching the smalls of each others' backs to get around, no. You just move around.

1:17:05 Fig: You guys need to get Hellish Rebuke. 'Cause literally any time someone touches me, I just spit flames.

1:17:11 Kristen: (gasps) I like that.

1:17:12 Brennan: You see Garthy snaps their fingers, and the music kicks up again. Garthy looks over and they say,

1:17:21 Garthy: Well, that was a little bit of a party, we almost swooned for ourselves, wasn't it? You certainly have some spark. (cheerful fiddling)

1:17:31 Fabian: I mean. Yeah, I'm my father's son through and through.

1:17:38 Garthy: Well, I understand that your father passed away. I'm very sorry to hear that.

1:17:46 Fabian: It's fine. I killed him.

1:17:49 Garthy: I heard that as well. I didn't know the man as a true close and personal friend, but I can't help but think that's how he would've wanted to go. So lovelies, what brings us to Leviathan and the Gold Gardens?

1:18:05 Riz: We were actually hoping to speak to you.

1:18:09 Garthy: Speak away. (jubilant music)

1:18:13 Riz: Is there anywhere we can speak to you in private?

1:18:17 Garthy: Absolutely, the Gold Gardens are home to all sorts of, would you like to play some cards, take in a show? Smoke some hookah?

1:18:26 Fig: I think we're just looking for privacy so we can have some words.

1:18:29 Riz: Yeah, we just wanted to talk to you about any—

1:18:32 Garthy: Okay, well I'd like some hookah. So I'm gonna go to the hookah room.

1:18:35 Kristen: I would like some more mead.

1:18:37 Garthy: Absolutely.

1:18:38 Kristen: This time I can buy it.

1:18:38 Garthy: Darling, of course!

1:18:40 Fig: I will take the dragon spice.

1:18:42 Brennan: You see that they snap their fingers, some dragon spice and some mead come over. And they lead you guys into this plush, lovely little hookah lounge in this like, it's effectively like a pirate Moulin Rouge, like a multi building, entertainment, gambling, sex work. You see there's like some health and wellness. You see like these sort of crusty old pirates getting like massages and acupuncture over in the corner. This place looks like the fucking best. They lead you into this hookah area and sit down and go,

1:19:18 Garthy: So, loves. You've come all this way, and I can't help but notice you're coming with young Mr. Ash here.

1:19:28 Brennan: And you see that Alistair nods. You see, says,

1:19:32 Garthy: So you've heard that your father has not truly abandoned the city of Leviathan.

1:19:40 Fabian: I'm sorry, how do you figure?

1:19:43 Garthy: Well, his acolytes and followers are still very present.

1:19:48 Fabian: That's right.

1:19:49 Garthy: Though they are extremely destitute.

1:19:52 Fig: It doesn't seem like a good situation.

1:19:55 Brennan: Alistair says,

1:19:55 Alistair: I think it's great, I really like it.

1:19:59 Fig: I mean, intellectually yes, it's very fun, I enjoy the idea of it, but I worry about the followers getting caught in some sort of trap.

1:20:08 Alistair: If any of you are interested, I have a small presentation.

1:20:12 Adaine: Do we get anything if we watch the small presentation, regardless of whether we join or not?

1:20:16 Fig: A Bellini.

1:20:18 Alistair: Yes, you do get one Bellini, but if I could, I'd need one of you to front the money for me to be able to buy the Bellinis.

1:20:26 Fabian: Alright, well we'll do that later at some point.

1:20:32 Brennan: Garthy looks up and says,

1:20:35 Garthy: So, you understand that Leviathan is in a precarious situation? I think our friend Captain James, who arrived here only this morning, wants to undo some of what the late great Bill Seacaster did when he was the terror of the Celestine Sea.

1:20:58 Fig: What precisely did Bill Seacaster do? Just his presence, his name, his representation, James wants to undo?

1:21:07 Fabian: If what James is saying is true, he means to. My father was, you know, as much as he believed in the nature of captainship and the whole captain, crew, and no democracy sort of thing, was not a fan of the idea of a pirate king. And I guess there was one before, but then my father came and killed him, and then was like, never again. So as far as I understand, there hasn't been a pirate king in Leviathan since my father.

1:21:41 Garthy: If you get a chance, it's sort of touristy. But you could head over to Gibbety Square, and see the old pirate king's head, which has been artificially preserved with magic, stabbed through the tongue with a dagger and hangs from the mosque in the center of Gibbety Square.

1:21:59 Riz: Gibbity square?

1:22:00 Fig: Dippity square?

1:22:01 Garthy: Gibbety. With a sign hanging from it that says, no kings for a captain.

1:22:09 Fabian: That's my papa!

1:22:11 Adaine: That's touristy?

1:22:13 Garthy: There are tourists. Like, oh, let's go to Gibbety Square and take in the sights.

1:22:17 Fig: It's in the (not sure what she said)

1:22:18 Gorgug: We're tourists. I'm not gonna apologize for wanting to look at the city.

1:22:22 Adaine: We're travelers, we're not tourists.

1:22:24 Gorgug: I'm kind of a tourist.

1:22:25 Adaine: We're adventurers. We're not here on vacation.

1:22:26 Gorgug: I'm an adventurer?

1:22:27 Fig: What were you meeting with Bill Seacaster about in the Hotel Cavalier?

1:22:33 Garthy: Oh I see that you know a little more of my business than I had anticipated at first. Well. (laughing)

1:22:43 Siobhan: So drunk.

1:22:44 Ally: I'm two thirds of the way through this second mead.

1:22:47 Siobhan: Mead is so strong, it's stronger than wine.

1:22:49 Kristen: It just tastes like I'm just drinking honey.

1:22:53 Brennan: Tracker goes,

1:22:53 Tracker: Babe, are you okay?

1:22:54 Kristen: I think I'm more than okay.

1:22:58 Brennan: You see that they look at you and go,

1:23:01 Garthy: So, I was supplying your father with palimpsests. I trade in a lot of fine goods and especially those that are magical in nature. So I was able to provide Captain Seacaster with a certain measure of palimpsests, as well as other gems and artifacts of the like. I had a regular meeting with him. The last time I went to Bastion City, there was, how do you say it? We had always scheduled that I would go to the room, there was a secret compartment, I would drop it there, he would come in. Because part of his general amnesty with Solace, was that he couldn't be seen with any active pirates. So, we had to work that out, right? Now, the last time I went, the staff had all changed up. Different people were working there. And I made the drop. And the staff came and said to me basically, you know, “hey, we need to work something out here, because Bill's not coming.” And I said, likely story, I'm gonna fuck off, and not have anything to do with this. And then they all transformed into demons that sort of—

1:24:19 Fabian: Hm, yes.

1:24:21 Garthy: They took a velvet pouch of mine that had some goods that I was selling to some other buyers, and also some things I had bought to bring back here.

1:24:30 Riz: Gems?

1:24:31 Garthy: Gems, that's right.

1:24:32 Fig: Do you ever get gems from the Red Waste?

1:24:35 Brennan: You see, says,

1:24:35 Garthy: From the Red Waste? No, not particularly. I mean, occasionally. But you know, not as a rule.

1:24:44 Adaine: Do you know anything about the Shadow Cat? (Brennan rolls)

1:24:52 Garthy: ...Shadow Cat.

1:24:53 Adaine: Kalina?

1:24:55 Garthy: I don't know the name Kalina, darling, but the name Shadow Cat does ring a bell.

1:25:02 Emily: Can I show the picture?

1:25:05 Brennan: You show them the picture. You see they look at it and go,

1:25:11 Garthy: Just a rather cute goblin holding onto nobody.

1:25:14 Ally: Can I do an Insight check to see if they're,

1:25:16 Brennan: Sure.

1:25:17 Ally: If they're telling the truth.

1:25:17 Emily: Called your dad cute.

1:25:19 Zac: Is there any way to tell what spell someone is concentrating on without actually casting magic?

1:25:25 Siobhan: I can cast Detect Magic as a ritual. It'll take us 10 minutes, and it'll be obvious that I'm sitting here casting a ritual spell.

1:25:34 Brennan: Anyone that wants to can give a—

1:25:36 Siobhan: I can do an Arcana check.

1:25:37 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Arcana check.

1:25:38 Ally: I have 26 on my Insight into them.

1:25:40 Siobhan: 14.

1:25:41 Brennan: Cool. 14... You think that they are maintaining concentration on Detect Evil and Good.

1:25:51 Siobhan: Oh, okay, hmm.

1:25:53 Brennan: They're just trying, they just hang out at the bar and keep an eye on—

1:25:57 Murph: Great.

1:25:58 Riz: Did you have, the gems that you lost, did you have a celestial trapped in one of them?

1:26:05 Garthy: I did, it was a rare find, I was bringing it back.

1:26:07 Fig: Cool.

1:26:07 Riz: Interesting.

1:26:08 Fig: I have a question.

1:26:09 Kristen: We've been learning about that in school.

1:26:11 Fig: Have you ever encountered a gem in all of your gem dealing that looks clouded over?

1:26:21 Garthy: Clouded over. Some gems have imperfections or flaws. Small cracks inside them make a sort of cloudy look, but--

1:26:30 Fig: No, something like this.

1:26:32 Brennan: You see their eyes go wide, those golden irises literally like, rotate, (whirring) and they look and say,

1:26:41 Garthy: Oh dear. That's a flawless ruby. May I?

1:26:48 Fig: You can touch it while it's in my hand.

1:26:52 Garthy: Cautious.

1:26:53 Brennan: Touches it.

1:26:54 Garthy: Darling, that's holding onto a powerful fiend, I'll have you know.

1:27:00 Fig: (quietly) It's my dad.

1:27:02 Garthy: Oh. Lovely, I'm so sorry, how long has your pa been in there?

1:27:08 Fig: Couple days.

1:27:10 Garthy: Oh.

1:27:11 Fig: Yeah. We have a relationship, yeah. But it's all clouded over, isn't it?

1:27:17 Brennan: You see they look and, hold on one second. They nod and say,

1:27:26 Garthy: The demons were trying to grab gems there. I think, honestly, in my escape, I think I had set up, at the Hotel Cavalier, because they had found some clue that I was going to be there. So they were just trying to find their way to get a hold of these gems like that. So, the one they were most excited about was that one. But, they couldn't use it, because it already had a celestial bound into it, so, it was rubbish by the time they got it, right? Any of the gems that were empty in my pouch weren't big enough for what they were looking to bind. So they had to start looking further afield. These demons, by the way, were… They hadn't gotten to the Prime Material by honest means. They'd been summoned and bound here, and detecting what I could, I mean, you know, a studied magician by any means, but, they had sort of a, what would you call it? The summons that had been placed on them had been there for hundreds of years. They were fulfilling some debt or obligation to a being capable of binding an extraplanar being for centuries.

1:28:38 Adaine: The crown of the Nightmare King can do that.

1:28:40 Fig: Yeah.

1:28:41 Garthy: What'd you say, the crown of the Nightmare King?

1:28:43 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

1:28:44 Riz: Are you familiar with the Nightmare King?

1:28:47 Garthy: It passed through the Gold Gardens not long ago.

1:28:49 Adaine: What?

1:28:49 Fig: When?

1:28:50 Fabian: I'm sorry? (laughs) The Nightmare King?

1:28:52 Riz: The crown, or the Nightmare King?

1:28:55 Garthy: (scoffs) Not the Nightmare King, darling, that would've been an apocalypse.

1:28:57 Fig: The crown.

1:28:59 Garthy: I mean if the Nightmare King were--

1:29:00 Riz: Somebody had the crown? It was here?

1:29:02 Fig: Where did it go to?

1:29:04 Garthy: An elven woman came through the Golden Gardens.

1:29:07 Adaine: Was it this woman?

1:29:08 Siobhan: I show a picture of my mom.

1:29:11 Garthy: Lovey, it was. Do you know her?

1:29:14 Adaine: Yeah, we've met. Garthy narrows their eyes at Adaine for a moment.

1:29:20 Garthy: Ah. Family can be challenging, that's for sure.

1:29:24 Adaine: Well, but also I don't trust the Nightmare King to not create something that looks like my mother to mess with us.

1:29:35 Garthy: (sighs) She came here with the crown, after… She came here with the crown to have some curse breaking done on it. I'm a bit of a touch with curse breaking just naturally. I handled it for her. And she had put some sort of Nystul's Aura on it, and so, I didn't know what I was breaking a curse on until after I'd broken it. And after that point I said, you need to get that out of my fucking place of business. Post-haste.

1:30:10 Kristen: What kind of curse were you breaking?

1:30:13 Garthy: A curse placed on her. The crown of the Nightmare King is a powerful talisman, yeah? So… She had been fighting a curse that had been put on her just by handling the crown to begin with.

1:30:31 Fig: Oh.

1:30:32 Garthy: And by breaking that curse, she was able to handle it more freely.

1:30:37 Fig: Hmm.

1:30:37 Riz: Do you know where she went?

1:30:41 Garthy: After she came here, well, she talked about, she was frustrated that she couldn't get to where she was trying to get to by honest means. I don't think she could teleport there because she had never been there before and didn't have a description of it.

1:30:59 Kristen: The forest, maybe?

1:31:00 Riz: Has she been to Fallinel?

1:31:01 Fabian: That's where she's from.

1:31:02 Siobhan: She's from Fallinel.

1:31:04 Fig: Yeah.

1:31:04 Riz: Okay.

1:31:04 Kristen: So maybe it was the forest?

1:31:06 Riz: So she's… So she's not headed towards Aelwyn?

1:31:11 Kristen: Did she say anything about like, her kids, or anything like that?

1:31:15 Garthy: I didn't ask. People come here to get away from family for the most part.

1:31:20 Gorgug: So when you say you can naturally break curses, do you think you can break the curse on that ruby? It's sort of a trap, I guess, but we were just wondering.

1:31:31 Brenan: They look at it and come up with the same conclusion that Kristen came up with which is that there's no way to break it without getting to the contingency inside of it that's going to destroy Gortholax.

1:31:42 Fig: What does it feel like for him to be in here?

1:31:48 Garthy: (sighs) Well.. I could tell you a very sweet lie, which is more my style.

1:31:58 Ally: I put my arm around Fig.

1:32:01 Fig: Give me the truth.

1:32:04 Garthy: It probably hurts a great deal. But, if your pa is as powerful as he feels, I imagine that pain is not something that he's unable to withstand, darling. He's from the Nine Hells after all, pain's kind of their thing.

1:32:24 Gorgug: This is sort of a change in subject that, as the gears are turning in my brain,

1:32:27 Fig: (whispering) Rude.

1:32:29 Gorgug: I'm worried that people are gonna get mad at me when I say it out loud, but… What's going on with your tattoos?

1:32:39 Adaine: I was actually thinking that as well, they're beautiful.

1:32:41 Garthy: Oh darling, thank you, I do like them. Well, they're, the tattoo's in Celestial. They mean something. I am descended from the Zajiri, do you know what that is?

1:32:59 Gorgug: Zajiri? No.

1:33:02 Garthy: So it's kind of funny yeah, because there are the gods of the upper planes, Helio and the like. And those gods have attendant angels and such. Beings that serve them. And then they often have fiends that live in the lower planes that oppose them. But it's kind of funny, right, because the fiends are actually a part of the same pantheon, yeah? They're a part of that beliefs system, so in a weird way, even though they're opposed, they are in a similar faction, yeah? It's like, the devils of the Nine Hells that are fallen angels of Helio aren't the servants of dark gods, they're actually just opposition to the gods of light. Now what most people don't know is that the same is true of the gods of darkness. So, the orcs, yeah, have their god. God of, you know, Gruumsh One-Eye, god of slaughter, right? And Gruumsh has his attendant servants, yeah? But they're actually celestials that exist like fiends in opposition to that dark god.

1:34:14 Fig: Are any of the celestials fallen from Gruumsh?

1:34:18 Garthy: Yes, my ancestors. The Zajiri are the reverse of a fallen angel. We're like...

1:34:25 Adaine: A risen devil?

1:34:27 Garthy: A risen devil you might say. My ancestors, the Zajiri represent, in the Orcish belief system, which is all about war and stuff like that.

1:34:36 Adaine: Really sharp leaves.

1:34:38 Garthy: Really?

1:34:38 Gorgug: Yeah. I died once.

1:34:42 Brennan: You see that they point to the floral tattoos on their side and there's some sharp leaf designs there. They look and say,

1:34:49 Garthy: Basically, the Zajiri represent everything in life that is soft and beautiful and wonderful. Things that are pleasing and pleasurable, right? But they represent that in a bad way, it's temptation, yeah? So the Zajiri are kind of like holy succubi. The job is to fuck people into being decent, basically.

1:35:11 Adaine: Oh, cool.

1:35:11 Fabian: Wow.

1:35:13 Gorgug: That's a job?

1:35:14 Fabian: About that.

1:35:15 Fig: I would watch a show about that.

1:35:16 Adaine: That's cool.

1:35:18 Riz: So did the, you had a gem with a celestial in it.

1:35:23 Garthy: Yes, that's right.

1:35:24 Riz: And was that celestial an evil being?

1:35:30 Garthy: Was that celestial an evil being? No, the celestial was not an evil being. That celestial's name I believe was Zaphriel. They were a celestial of hanging out and having chill times.

1:35:41 Fig: They were a planetar right?

1:35:41 Riz: Just making sure.

1:35:43 Garthy: Yes, that's right, yes, absolutely.

1:35:45 Fig: What is a planetar?

1:35:46 Garthy: A planetar is second in the angelic order underneath the solar.

1:35:50 Fig: Cool.

1:35:51 Garthy: Little bit of cosmology. So! You've come here chasing the crown of the Nightmare King, yeah?

1:35:56 Kristen: I have a question. Wait. Would the Nightmare King have like a risen devil equivalent of it? Or that's more like...

1:36:08 Riz: We don't know where it's even really from, I think.

1:36:11 Garthy: Well that's sort of the issue, isn't it? Is that the Nightmare King is an abomination. I mean, he defies categorization, you know. I know that he has in the past allied with demons, which is part of why, and the Shadow Cat says, you haven't encountered this Shadow Cat at all, have you?

1:36:33 Gorgug: I think we did.

1:36:33 Fig: We have people on our party who have.

1:36:37 Riz: We've seen the Shadow Cat.

1:36:39 Garthy: Okay.

1:36:40 Adaine: The Shadow Cat is in this picture. But you can't see it and we can't see it, but some people can, and we haven't figured out how yet.

1:36:47 Fig: I think it's if they've met, if someone's met the Shadow Cat.

1:36:50 Adaine: But then why would Riz's mom have met the Shadow Cat?

1:36:52 Kristen: Have you met the Shadow Cat?

1:36:53 Garthy: (to Kristen) No, darling, I haven’t.

1:36:53 Riz: (to Adaine) 'Cause she worked with my dad.

1:36:55 Adaine: No but, why would Sandra Lynn then, have met the Shadow Cat?

1:36:57 Gorgug: Because worked in the, like people in the, that worked in the Celestine Sea had crossed paths possibly with Shadow Cat?

1:37:05 Adaine: I mean maybe, that seems so random.

1:37:08 Gorgug: I think that's what was described last time we talked about it.

1:37:13 Garthy: So, you've come seeking the crown of the Nightmare King. The only thing I can give you is the information that's, you know, I effectively was doing business with Bill Seacaster. That alerted these demons to my location, they came finding gems and such. And when they… They needed the gem for some kind of ritual. There was something involving like a sacrifice or something along those lines.

1:37:43 Riz: Right.

1:37:44 Fig: Yeah.

1:37:44 Riz: They tried that.

1:37:47 Garthy: On you?

1:37:47 Riz: Yeah.

1:37:48 Garthy: (genuinely concerned) Oh! I'm so sorry, love.

1:37:51 Riz: I'm okay.

1:37:52 Garthy: Are you sure?

1:37:53 Riz: Yeah.

1:37:54 Fig: It was me who did it.

1:37:55 Fabian: And then saved him.

1:37:55 Fig: Not of my own accord.

1:37:57 Adaine: The Nightmare King is… He's bad.

1:38:02 Fig: Someone came to me in my dreams and controlled me and had me put my own dad in a gem and try and kill my friend.

1:38:08 Garthy: You've been through an awful lot, love, I'm sorry to hear that. Well. If there's any help you need now, what I can tell you is that the woman that I kicked out of here made her way back out to a ship in Hullcliff. And I believe that ship may have been bound for Fallinel.

1:38:30 Riz: Okay.

1:38:32 Kristen: That makes sense.

1:38:33 Riz: So perhaps she's trying to free Aelwyn.

1:38:36 Adaine: Do you know the name of the ship?

1:38:38 Garthy: Sorry love, I didn't catch it.

1:38:40 Fig: If she had the crown, would that make it easier for her to free Aelwyn?

1:38:46 Gorgug: I would bet.

1:38:46 Adaine: I mean who knows.

1:38:47 Fig: What a length to go to, though, I would think she would have diplomatic means to free Aelwyn that she wouldn't need to resort to...

1:38:53 Adaine: Well, but they're no longer, my father isn't an ambassador any more.

1:38:58 Fig: Yeah, but…

1:38:59 Adaine: They're just disgraced in Fallinel, maybe?

1:39:02 Gorgug: Well. We could just head that way and see what we see.

1:39:07 Fig: What flavor hookah is this by the way?

1:39:10 Garthy: What's that?

1:39:10 Fig: What flavor hookah?

1:39:12 Garthy: Oh, it's peach mint cucumber.

1:39:14 Kristen: Whoa.

1:39:15 Fig: Okay, there was a lot going on, so it was hard to guess just one.

1:39:17 Garthy: You know, I don't like it too sweet, I'll be honest.

1:39:19 Fig: Try passionfruit.

1:39:21 Garthy: I like it a little more, yeah, I like it, you know, I want to, it's like solving a puzzle, you know? Keep it interesting.

1:39:28 Siobhan: I try the hookah and just cough so much.

1:39:29 Ally: Can we ask Alistair if he… who he sees in this picture?

1:39:34 Brennan: Alistair looks at the picture. You see he says,

1:39:38 Alistair: Oh. Right, well there's a goblin, right? Looks kind of like you! That's nice!

1:39:48 Ally: It was worth a try.

1:39:49 Alistair: Is this a painting? It's really good.

1:39:52 Riz: It's a really good painting.

1:39:53 Adaine: A really good painting. You don't see another person there, you just see one person?

1:39:57 Alistair: I'm sorry, am I making a mistake?

1:39:59 Adaine: No, no.

1:40:00 Fig: No.

1:40:00 Fabian: You got it right.

1:40:01 Emily: Can I message Fabian and say,

1:40:03 Fig: Should we try to pay (mispronounced) Garthy for their silence, on everything, 'cause we just,

1:40:09 Siobhan: Garthy?

1:40:10 Emily: Garthy.

1:40:11 Fabian: I mean, they seem to be quite the business person, and it's bad business to talk about business you do with others, we could pay them, but, I don't know, it feels like they can be, I mean, they did very quickly tell us they'd seen Adaine's mother, so...

1:40:28 Fig: Yeah, I guess I was just, I mean I don't think, I wouldn't mean it in like a rude way I would mean in sort of like a respect, like I know that money is what greases the wheel.

1:40:37 Fig: I feel like offering can't hurt.

1:40:37 Gorgug: Garthy. I can't figure out how to… Would it be crazy if I got a tat?

1:40:44 Garthy: Would you like a celestial tat?

1:40:46 Gorgug: I don't know. I think it'd be kind of cool.

1:40:48 Adaine: I think you should.

1:40:50 Brennan: You see they look at you and say,

1:40:52 Garthy: Oh, maybe a little sort of Zajiri reverse demonic celestial script on you.

1:41:00 Brennan: Says,

1:41:00 Garthy: Well. It would be a lovely celebration of your Orcish heritage. And it would sort, I mean, it's kind of the Orcish version of being a satanist, but you're also a good guy, so it's kind of like a win win.

1:41:14 Gorgug: It sounds awesome.

1:41:15 Fig: Can I get just pain in Zajiri on my inner wrist?

1:41:19 Brennan: You see that--

1:41:21 Fig: To sort of remember that's what's going on with Gorthalax?

1:41:23 Brennan: Garthy looks up and says,

1:41:24 Garthy: You know that you get a free tattoo with a room here.

1:41:27 Fig: We'll get a room as well.

1:41:28 Adaine: Can we get the room without the tattoo?

1:41:31 Riz: I will also not take the tattoo.

1:41:32 Garthy: Listen. No one's gonna force you to get a tattoo, but, you do get one and we can't waive that, so, you can give it to someone else, you can hold it in a tab.

1:41:43 Riz: Fig can have my tattoo.

1:41:45 Kristen: I'll definitely get a tattoo.

1:41:46 Fabian: Of course.

1:41:48 Brennan: Cool. You—

1:41:49 Fig: Yeah I'll get pain here and pleasure here.

1:41:53 Kristen: The duality!

1:41:57 Brenan: You get a little ping, Gorgug, from the Hangvan, going,

1:42:01 Van: Hey, hey, come in.

1:42:03 Gorgug: What's up?

1:42:03 Van: Over and out.

1:42:05 Gorgug: Hey. I can hear you!

1:42:06 Van: Whoa, awesome!

1:42:07 Gorgug: Whoa.

1:42:09 Van: (incongruously cheerful) So we've been discovered by bandits. And pretty much they are rocking me hard. While—

1:42:19 Gorgug: Where is everyone?

1:42:20 Van: Hmm?

1:42:20 Gorgug: Where's everyone else?

1:42:22 Van: A lot of people are hiding inside me. Gilear is either dead or unconscious.

1:42:29 Fig: Okay, who wants to Dimension Door?

1:42:32 Adaine: I think we're too far to Dimension Door, aren't we?

1:42:35 Riz: Yeah we're like halfway through the city.

1:42:38 Van: I feel like I can motor through these guys pretty easy, should I head to where you're all at?

1:42:45 Gorgug: Might be pretty disruptive. Uh… yeah. (laughing)

1:42:52 Van: Okay. I'm gonna… Beep beep, hey everybody, get out of the way, or I'm gonna run over you, so sorry.

1:43:02 Brennan: You hear a voice coming over the radio saying,

1:43:07 Gilear: (groans) Cathilda has brought me back to life with some kind of potion. I'm going to do my best to drive the van. Oh.

1:43:16 Adaine: The van drives itself.

1:43:17 Gilear: No it specifically doesn't, oh god! I'm responsible for what I'm doing! (laughing)

1:43:25 Adaine: Did you tell him his name?

1:43:26 Gorgug: Who, the van? Your name's Van Boat.

1:43:29 Adaine: No! (laughing)

1:43:31 Adaine: His real name!

1:43:32 Gorgug: No I think it's Van Boat.

1:43:35 Brennan: You guys, for rooms here, there is a, the most basic is two gold pieces a night. You can go up to 10 for a little bit nicer and some amenities, and there's like, a 50 gold piece premium pass, which is like—

1:43:51 Siobhan: Will that fit all of us?

1:43:52 Emily: I'm getting a 50 gold piece for Gilear. And a two gold piece for myself.

1:43:57 Siobhan: What are you doing?

1:43:58 Kristen: You think Gilear's gonna make it here?

1:44:01 Emily: I'm The Secreting it.

1:44:04 Siobhan: How big is the 50 gold piece room? Is this like a suite situation that we could all comfortably stay in?

1:44:11 Brennan: Oh, 50? If you guys want to get multiple suites, you totally can, you wanna be in the same place, or like, chip in and like—

1:44:17 Siobhan: I just feel like it would be safer for us to all be in the same place.

1:44:20 Ally: Yeah, maybe I'll talk to Tracker and say,

1:44:21 Kristen: Can we keep doing that?

1:44:22 Brennan: You guys can get the full benefit of like, the entertainment and food for everybody and then just one big suite together for a round price of 300 gold pieces.

1:44:33 Ally: Okay.

1:44:34 Riz: Pricey, but--

1:44:35 Fabian: Sounds great.

1:44:36 Fig: How are we dividing it up amongst us?

1:44:39 Fabian: I'll get this one and you guys can get the next one.

1:44:40 Adaine: Yeah we'll figure it out.

1:44:42 Fabian: In the next city, great.

1:44:44 Adaine: I feel like we should each chip in money into a pool that we can just pull from the pool.

1:44:51 Fig: Pool our money.

1:44:52 Gorgug: I think Fabian's got it.

1:44:54 Fabian: I do have got this. I do have got this, guys, I do have got this. (folk music)

1:45:01 Adaine: Thanks, Fabian.

1:45:02 Fabian: Are all of our loved ones and hirelings currently hurtling here?

1:45:05 Riz: Driving through bandits?

1:45:09 Fabian: Being driven by Gilear through the Sternwood? Do we need to do something about that, or are we just going to—

1:45:12 Fig: I kind of think I should disguise myself and run out and like, just be backup in case they like, run into a store.

1:45:19 Adaine: You wanna fly?

1:45:21 Fig: Yeah. (laughs) I do.

1:45:24 Siobhan: Great. Can I cast Fly as a fourth level spell on both me and Fig? Fig puts her arms forward like Superman.

1:45:30 Brennan: Yes, you actually can. (laughing)

1:45:33 Siobhan: 10 minutes.

1:45:34 Brennan: You guys fly over the Sternwood in the evening--

1:45:36 Murph: Can I hang onto somebody's back?

1:45:37 Emily: Yeah.

1:45:38 Siobhan: Yeah, for sure.

1:45:40 Riz: Look out for arrows. (laughs)

1:45:43 Siobhan: Oh yeah then maybe I should cast it on—

1:45:46 Emily: But I can also cast Darkness on us. So we're just a flying—

1:45:50 Siobhan: Okay, and I have Darkvision because of Boggy. (laughs)

1:45:54 Brennan: Incredible. So, you take off flying into the night sky. You see the headlights of the van moving through Four Castles. Just (bumping) running over pirates, yarr! (crashing) Beep, beep! Gilear going,

1:46:10 Gilear: I'm crying so hard that I can't see!

1:46:15 Brennan: And just tearing off down these wooden planks. What do you guys do as you arrive here?

1:46:21 Emily: I think we're just there to like watch the—

1:46:25 Murph: Just wanna, you wanna make sure the van gets through.

1:46:26 Emily: Yeah.

1:46:27 Brennan: You guys see that, Tracker actually is gonna come with you guys too.

1:46:31 Siobhan: Great.

1:46:32 Brennan: She transforms into a, like again, she fully becomes that spectral wolf, and flies by running alongside you guys. You see that where she runs, where her like, ghostly glowing translucent feet touch, a forest path appears in the air briefly underneath her and fades as she lifts her feet. (whooshes) Rushing through the air. As you guys arrive over at the van, what do you do as you approach the van?

1:47:06 Emily: Let's just maybe like, hop on top of it.

1:47:08 Siobhan: Yeah, I was thinking I could maybe just take over for driving from Gilear because he seems very...

1:47:12 Emily: That's true too.

1:47:14 Murph: Yeah, let's just fly into the--

1:47:16 Brennan: You guys see that Cathilda, just a little bit different music here. (the music changes to something adventurous) You see that as you guys go, you see Cathilda is leaning out, hurling daggers at people just, (whooshing) (grunting) arrows are raining down from Sandra Lynn up above flying over with Baxter. As you guys approach, you see that Sandra Lynn goes,

1:47:35 Sandra Lynn: (yells) Just in time, thanks for coming!

1:47:39 Brennan: You guys (whooshing) fly in. Tracker rushes in. Gilear is in the driver's seat, you see that Ragh has been fighting, like, tremendously. As you guys rush in, just you guys roll initiative. So Riz, Adaine, and Fig. (dice rolling)

1:47:56 Lou: Are we just smoking hookah?

1:47:57 Brennan: You're smoking hookah, having a ball!

1:47:59 Zac: Am I getting a tattoo?

1:47:59 Emily: 7.

1:48:00 Murph: 19.

1:48:01 Siobhan: 3. I rolled a nat one.

1:48:03 Brennan: Awesome. What's the first thing that Riz does as he approaches? They're like, just a horde of about like, blasting at the Hangvan as Gilear drives it.

1:48:16 Murph: I think I'm gonna, like, hop in Gilear's lap as I like, push him out of the way, and I go,

1:48:22 Riz: Get out of the way Gilear, I've killed people before, it's fine.

1:48:26 Brennan: You are like, jumping. Give me an Acrobatics to leap in there.

1:48:31 Murph: That is 15.

1:48:33 Brennan: Cool. You leap in. Do you, as you leap in, give me a Dexterity saving throw. DC, I'll call it a DC 15.

1:48:42 Murph: Oh no. Oh, 15!

1:48:44 Brennan: Oh hey! You do not hit Gilear in the head and knock him unconscious. He goes,

1:48:48 Gilear: (grunts) Very well! Young Riz, thank god you're here. I've taken so many lives, I can't stop crying.

1:48:58 Riz: You're an adventurer now, Gilear.

1:48:59 Gilear: Oh, why?

1:49:02 Brennan: After Riz goes, you see Ragh fully bleeding out. Or no, I'm so sorry.

1:49:13 Siobhan: Ragh was with us in the--

1:49:15 Brennan: Ragh was with you guys, my mistake.

1:49:18 Lou: He's currently hitting that hookah real hard.

1:49:21 Brennan: Cool. You guys see that Tracker flies up to where Sandra Lynn is. That's next, what did you guys get over here?

1:49:33 Emily: I got a 7.

1:49:33 Brennan: 7.

1:49:34 Siobhan: I got a 3.

1:49:36 Brennan: Fig, you're next to go.

1:49:37 Emily: You said there's groups of pirates coming at us?

1:49:40 Brennan: Yes.

1:49:41 Emily: Okay. I wanna target the group of pirates that I can target the most with a 10 foot radius sphere, and Shatter them. Ideally if they're like under an awning so that then the awning collapses on them.

1:49:52 Brennan: Awesome. You can get four of these pirates with one Shatter.

1:49:56 Emily: Okay, cool. I'll do that, then. And I'm gonna do it at a third level.

1:50:01 Zac: Do you just roll damage for that?

1:50:03 Emily: Well they do like, Constitution save. And they get (clears throat) 21 thunder damage.

1:50:11 Brennan: Woo, 21 thunder damage? Damn.

1:50:14 Emily: Or, I mean half if they save.

1:50:16 Brennan: Okay. Hold on one second, I'll roll for these four. (intense piratey music)

1:50:25 Brennan: You see, ooh, those are bad rolls. You see that as you (blaring) on your bass, you're like a flying rock star. Two of these pirates turn around and say,

1:50:38 Pirates: What be this? (screaming)

1:50:41 Brennan: (blasting) And you see that they just fully explode. And the other two are grievously injured.

1:50:48 Pirates: (screams) It feels like metal, somehow!

1:50:53 Fig: It's rock, baby! This is what I've been telling you all about!

1:50:57 Brennan: (screams) That is Fig, that is going to be Adaine.

1:51:01 Siobhan: Yeah, I'm gonna cast Lightning Bolt out in front of us. So it's a 100 foot line. Anything in front of us takes 8d6 lightning damage on a Dex saving throw.

1:51:12 Brennan: Awesome. You can catch another four of these pirates with that Lightning Bolt.

1:51:17 Siobhan: Okay, so that's 10… Ooh, 20. That's 30 damage.

1:51:23 Brennan: Oh. Three of the four are gone in an instant, and the last one is half dead. You've killed five of the ten of them right away.

1:51:32 Siobhan: Oh by the way, also, anybody who tries to get in the back door, my Snare spell lasts for eight hours, and they have to do an Intelligence saving throw to spot the trap, spot the...

1:51:45 Brennan: Awesome.

1:51:47 Siobhan: Snare.

1:51:49 Brennan: These pirates are gonna go. One takes a shot at Fig and misses. (Emily laughs) Another takes a shot. Adaine hits.

1:52:01 Siobhan: Shield.

1:52:03 Brennan: (laughs) Misses. (whooshing) A little abjurative shield goes in front of you. Pirate misses. Most of the ones you see are dead on the ground with arrows through them. A bunch take shots at Sandra Lynn who's been working these guys for a while. Sandra Lynn, flying, says,

1:52:26 Sandra Lynn: Hell, yeah, light 'em up!

1:52:28 Brennan: And you hear (blasting) from flintlock pistols, and a pistol ball goes under her arm, into her ribcage and she falls onto Baxter.

1:52:37 Fig: No!

1:52:41 Brennan: Sandra Lynn begins to fall. Gilear is in the back. Cathilda… quickly finishes off the two that were injured by you, now there's only three left. That's gonna go back to the top of the order with Riz.

1:52:59 Murph: Yikes. Okay. So, Sandra Lynn is falling out of the air. How many more pirates are there? Are they just like—

1:53:11 Brennan: About three of them that have just shot flintlocks.

1:53:14 Murph: Got it. Okay. I am going to, I guess I'll shoot at the ones that are shooting Sandra Lynn.

1:53:23 Brennan: Go for it. Cool.

1:53:26 Murph: Unless I can hit them with the car.

1:53:28 Brennan: Actually, feel free to, give me a, just a Dexterity check.

1:53:33 Murph: Sweet. Nat 20. (claps) (Emily cheering)

1:53:40 Brennan: I was gonna say, this is 4d6 slamming damage, go ahead and throw 8d6. (cheering)

1:53:45 Ally: Yes, crit with the Hangvan!

1:53:48 Murph: I wanna say like, as I push Gilear out of the way who's been super hesitant, I lean out the window like shooting in a direct line so they have to move and get in the way of the van and then I crush them. (laughing) (dice rolling)

1:54:05 Murph: 5, 8, 16… 29 damage.

1:54:13 Brennan: Jesus! The last three pirates go, you see one of them hit Sandra Lynn and he goes,

1:54:17 Pirate: Yar har! (screams)

1:54:19 Brennan: Headlights. Beep, beep! You see the van says,

1:54:20 Van: (cheerful) Far out! (violent rumbling)

1:54:26 Brennan: As you just feel bodies under the wheels of the van. You see that Gilear goes,

1:54:32 Gilear: The shocks on the van are not strong enough, you can feel the bones crunching even while you're inside.

1:54:37 Siobhan: I pass Boggy to him.

1:54:39 Gilear: I need the frog?

1:54:40 Brennan: (laughing) You see, that is Tracker's turn. Tracker flies up, catches Sandra Lynn. And as she catches Sandra Lynn in her mouth, you see Tracker flies down, lands with Sandra Lynn on a rooftop, transforms… And you see that Tracker does this like, insane healing spell, where she changes, her mouth has fangs, goes like (snarls) bites into her own wrist to tear open blood. Bites Sandra Lynn's wrist, and puts them together, and you see the blood gushes out her body, into Sandra Lynn's body, and Sandra Lynn (gasps) is basically almost guaranteed fully healed.

1:55:36 Ally: Whoa.

1:55:37 Murph: Damn, Tracker.

1:55:38 Brennan: Yeah. As she like, exchanges blood with Sandra Lynn for a moment and Sandra Lynn is fully healed. The bullet is pushed out of the wound in her chest. And you guys are, almost as soon as you started it, out of combat! (music stops)

1:55:54 Ally: The whole time we're smoking, like,

1:55:56 Kristen: I'm almost too full of mead. You know when you drink a lot, it feels almost like you ate?

1:56:02 Fabian: Yes, yes, like you don't need dinner any more. It's like mead was dinner.

1:56:06 Gorgug: Calories wise, you're probably around the same boat.

1:56:10 Brennan: You guys see your friends all come into the Gold Gardens.

1:56:12 Siobhan: I'm starving.

1:56:15 Fabian: Honestly, drink mead.

1:56:16 Siobhan: I can't drink mead, I'm on meds. (laughs)

1:56:19 Fabian: Okay, fine.

1:56:20 Fig: I'm also straight edge.

1:56:22 Adaine: You just had ketamine.

1:56:22 Murph: Straight edge except drugs. Straight edge except drugs, remember?

1:56:27 Kristen: What does that get you?

1:56:29 Fig: It's just a lifestyle.

1:56:30 Kristen: Isn't straight edge like virginity as well? Isn't it like, no sex?

1:56:35 Fig: You know that's personal, huh?

1:56:36 Kristen: Oh okay. (laughs)

1:56:37 Fabian: I thought you were working on opening up.

1:56:41 Fig: (crosses her arms) Well look what good it did me.

1:56:45 Brennan: You guys walk in. (jaunty folk music playing)

1:56:48 Adaine: This bar is so jaunty.

1:56:50 Brennan: It's extremely jaunty. But there's like, other places around here, there's like, the very raucous place. There's also like a more chill, laid back, they might have better food, and—

1:57:00 Siobhan: Yeah, let's go there.

1:57:02 Brennan: Cool, cool, cool. You guys head over to the more chill place. You see that there's cool shows going on here, there's like dancers and acrobats, but they're kind of farther away so you can like relax, there's not like pressure to watch the show. You guys are enjoying this like incredible fare, of sort of like hearty pirate stew, along with sort of a garlicky flatbread, there's mead and wine and liquor and whiskey flowing. You see Sandra Lynn comes in and goes,

1:57:32 Sandra Lynn: Whew! I almost died.

1:57:35 Fig: Yeah, are you okay? Do you need any more hit points?

1:57:38 Sandra Lynn: Sweetie, I'm good. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do though. I'm gonna get fucking drunk.

1:57:42 Kristen: Do you wanna shot? (slurps)

1:57:46 Sandra Lynn: Let's do another.

1:57:47 Fig: Okay, if my mom’s doin’ it, I’m doin’ it.

1:57:48 Kristen: Yeah!

1:57:48 Murph: You're straight edge except for drugs!

1:57:51 Gorgug: You drank last time we played.

1:57:53 Fig: I know, with my mom. That’s my rule. My mom—

1:57:55 Ally: I hug Tracker in a weird way where I kind of like shift, and then all of a sudden I'm riding on her back, like a piggyback ride.

1:58:02 Brennan: She transforms into like a full wolf, and begins to like, sort of just prance around.

1:58:09 Kristen: Whee!

1:58:11 Brennan: You see Tracker, even in wolf form, she's shaking her head.

1:58:13 Kristen: This is so fun, babe!

1:58:15 Tracker: You are a lightweight.

1:58:17 Brennan: You see she heads off.

1:58:20 Kristen: I need a hat.

1:58:21 Fabian: The Ball, let's do snuff for the first time. Alright?

1:58:24 Riz: Come on, let's do snuff. Remember my father offered you guys all--

1:58:27 Ragh: The Ball, do snuff.

1:58:29 Fabian: Come on, The Ball.

1:58:30 Ragh: Do snuff, The Ball.

1:58:31 Fabian: Do snuff with us, dude.

1:58:31 Riz: I'm not gonna do drugs.

1:58:32 Fabian: The Ball, come on, do snuff, it's, we're in Leviathan. For the rest of your life, you wanna say that you were in Leviathan and like, not doing snuff?

1:58:42 Ragh: I just wanna say something. For real, if you don't wanna do drugs, you don't have to, but let me just say that like, you know, when I do snuff, it's like, oh, like, it's not just about partying, it's like, you know your mind is like this, (makes a narrow shape with his hands) and then you, you know. But then it's like this. (throws his hands wide) You get it?

1:59:03 Riz: Alright, now this is convincing.

1:59:03 Fabian: How about that?

1:59:05 Riz: I'll do a little bit of snuff.

1:59:05 Fabian: Yes! (laughing)

1:59:07 Riz: The Ball is gonna do a little bit of snuff!

1:59:09 Kristen: That was good!

1:59:10 Adaine: Don't get The Ball on a drug that will focus him more.

1:59:14 Brennan: You see that Gilear looks up and says,

1:59:16 Gilear: I think someone has spiked my stew with drugs. (laughing)

1:59:22 Gorgug: Your stew?

1:59:24 Gilear: Yes, there's something in it that's—

1:59:25 Adaine: I think it's just because it's the first food you've eaten that's not dairy based in about 30 years.

1:59:30 Gilear: No, it's burning my mouth.

1:59:31 Adiane: Oh, it's spicy.

1:59:33 Fig: Gilear, that's just spice.

1:59:35 Gilear: It's burning my mouth like drugs.

1:59:36 Ally: I pat Gilear on the back and cast Warding Bond. (laughing)

1:59:41 Gorgug: I think a little coil from the hookah fell into your stew. (laughing)

1:59:47 Gilear: I've terribly burned my mouth. Alright. I'm going to go to the bathroom to run cold water. Do they have plumbing here?

1:59:56 Gorgug: I don't know. I have not gone.

1:59:57 Adaine: I very much doubt it.

1:59:59 Fabian: You can go up to one of our suites. We have luxury suites.

2:00:02 Fig: We do have the best money can buy.

2:00:03 Ally: For the next hour, Gilear's AC goes up by one and any damage he takes, I take instead.

2:00:10 Brennan: He looks and says,

2:00:11 Gilear: I'm going to go try to find a bathroom. And he walks around the corner. Almost immediately you begin to start taking damage. (laughing)

2:00:18 Kristen: What's happening?

2:00:21 Fabian: Gilear is living, alright. I don't know what to tell you.

2:00:24 Kristen: Did he fall in the bathroom?

2:00:26 Riz: He's just scrubbing his tongue too hard.

2:00:30 Brennan: You see that Gilear comes back out with a black eye and says,

2:00:37 Gilear: Someone in the bathroom called me their hearty. And I asked, I apologized to them and they punched me in the face.

2:00:45 Adaine: Why don't you go stay in the suite, Gilear?

2:00:47 Gilear: I think I should go to the suite.

2:00:48 Ally: How much damage did that take?

2:00:50 Brennan: You took one point of damage. (laughing)

2:00:52 Ally: Okay. One tenth of his hit points.

2:00:55 Gilear: Ah, the food here is completely inedible, and the people here are, honestly even without the violence, much too rowdy.

2:01:04 Brennan: And you see that he walks away.

2:01:06 Adaine: Is there some kind of non alcoholic grog that I could drink?

2:01:10 Brennan: You see that one of the servers of the Gold Gardens comes over and presents you a like, beautiful fizzing pomegranate juice in a little glass chalice.

2:01:21 Adaine: (raises glass) Ahoy!

2:01:22 Emily: I also will get one of those, and I do my dragon spice.

2:01:26 Brennan: You do some dragon spice. You guys are a bunch of fucked up children.

2:01:32 Emily: I guess I'll do a little bit of it. I'll save some for later. (exotic music)

2:01:37 Zac: Is there anyone who works here I could ask about, is there a bartender anywhere nearby, I just wanna...

2:01:44 Brennan: Yeah, let's do a bartender.

2:01:45 Gorgug: Hey. You guys got any like, kind of cell towers around here? Just sort of towers, for--

2:01:52 Bartender: (pirate accent) Sorry, what's that? A cell tower?

2:01:53 Gorgug: So this is my crystal.

2:01:54 Bartender: Oh, we do. We do have a cell tower.

2:01:57 Gorgug: Really?

2:01:57 Bartender: Yes, we actually do.

2:01:58 Gorgug: Wait, really?

2:01:59 Bartender: Yes, absolutely.

2:02:00 Gorgug: Really?

2:02:01 Bartender: Yes, we have a cell tower.

2:02:02 Gorgug: Where is it? What is it?

2:02:04 Bartender: It's in Aftward, near Poop City. (laughing)

2:02:09 Gorgug: So it's near Poop City.

2:02:10 Adaine: It's a boat pun.

2:02:12 Gorgug: No, I know.

2:02:13 Bartender: Poop City is perhaps the nicest neighborhood in Leviathan.

2:02:18 Fig: (pointing on a map) We're like, here. It's like right there.

2:02:19 Bartender: It's up on the poop.

2:02:20 Gorgug: Okay.

2:02:22 Bartender: Why do you find Poop City funny?

2:02:25 Gorgug: I don't find it funny. (laughing)

2:02:29 Ally: That was Zac talking.

2:02:32 Brennan: You see he says,

2:02:32 Bartender: Yes, absolutely. Do you need access to it?

2:02:39 Gorgug: I was just like trying to make a call, and we're so far out that it's like—

2:02:42 Bartender: Oh you're trying to make a call to somebody?

2:02:43 Gorgug: Yeah.

2:02:43 Bartender: Who are you trying to make a call to?

2:02:45 Gorgug: Someone...

2:02:46 Adaine: His girlfriend.

2:02:48 Gorgug: My girlfriend. She's in Solace, so, or she's on the mainland.

2:02:55 Bartender: Oh. Well then I don't think that a cell tower would be much help to you. If she's all the way on the mainland.

2:03:01 Gorgug: Really? What is a cell tower to you?

2:03:04 Bartender: The brig!

2:03:06 Gorgug: (quietly) Oh.

2:03:07 Bartender: It's a giant tower of cells. Prison cells. (laughing)

2:03:10 Fabian: You got got. That's getting got.

2:03:14 Riz: You have been owned, my friend.

2:03:16 Bartender: I, listen. You keep your tongue in your mouth, I haven't owned anybody here. Are you saying I'm trying to start a fight?

2:03:22 Fabian: No.

2:03:22 Kristen: No.

2:03:23 Fabian: We’re using colloquial Solisian teen slang.

2:03:25 Kristen: You razzed him.

2:03:28 Bartender: Who did I razz and how?

2:03:29 Riz: You razzed...

2:03:29 Gorgug: You razzed me.

2:03:32 Adaine: It was a good razz, we liked it.

2:03:33 Fig: He set you up for the razz and you took it.

2:03:35 Gorgug: A cell tower has a different meaning to me.

2:03:36 Riz: You dunked on him.

2:03:38 Gorgug: And also Poop City's funny. I didn't mean to say Poop City, so funny.

2:03:41 Riz: He doesn't want Poop City to be funny.

2:03:42 Gorgug: Oh okay. Poop City's nice?

2:03:45 Bartender: Everyone on the count of three, tell me whether Poop City's funny to you or not. One, two, three. (crosstalk)

2:03:49 Riz: Not funny!

2:03:49 Adaine: Yes! It's a very good boat pun.

2:03:52 Fabian: (sincerely) It's not funny.

2:03:53 Ally: I'm dying laughing. Riding on a wolf around the bar.

2:03:59 Kristen: Poop City! (laughing)

2:04:03 Brennan: You see that the bartender, so yeah, the cell tower he's referring to is the brig. You look over. You guys will have until, the only people that aren't here right now are Gilear, the Hangman and the Van Boat are both in the stables, along with Baxter, being cleaned and groomed and everything like that. So it's just you guys, Sandra Lynn, Tracker, Ragh. Cathilda has also adjourned to her room, she's not down in the main hall. So you guys have a table to yourself. You see that Ragh says,

2:04:38 Ragh: So, what's the play from here? What's the next move? Are we on to Fallinel?

2:04:44 Ally: I think we relay what we heard to the people who were in the van, so that they know about it.

2:04:49 Emily: Yeah.

2:04:50 Siobhan: Can I, just to make sure, cast Locate Creature on my mother, see if she's 1.000 feet?

2:04:58 Brennan: You cast Locate Creature on your mother, you do not come back with info on her.

2:05:00 Riz: Do you wanna try, I think the next move is probably to go to Fallinel, but also, I think ol' Captain James might try to stop us, do you wanna see if he's skulking around somewhere?

2:05:06 Fig: Yeah.

2:05:11 Adaine: Well I used both my fourth level spells, so I can't do Locate Creature, unfortunately.

2:05:17 Fig: I mean, I would be down to just sneak around.

2:05:20 Adaine: We're wasted. And by we I mean everybody but me.

2:05:22 Fabian: We just had snuff, alright?

2:05:25 Fig: Yes, that sounds like an even better of an idea.

2:05:29 Brennan: Cool. So you see, Ragh says,

2:05:32 Ragh: Honestly? Let's have a night where we party down, you know? It's awesome, like, we deserve it.

2:05:39 Kristen: Yeah, let's tie one on, and then let's go to Fallinel and let's get your hot sister off. Tracker, you think she's hot too, right? Is that cool if I say that, is that—

2:05:49 Adaine: Tracker hasn't met my sister.

2:05:51 Ally: I show Tracker a photo.

2:05:53 Fabian: Pretty hot, right? We're like a thing.

2:05:56 Tracker: I mean, not my type, but yeah, I can see it.

2:05:59 Kristen: Exactly. It's like, I can appreciate hotness, but if I talked to her in real life? (scoffs)

2:06:06 Adaine: Okay I'm gonna go read my book.

2:06:08 Zac: Can Gorgug have gotten a tattoo?

2:06:10 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

2:06:11 Zac: Can I get like a big tin flower on my shoulder? (laughs)

2:06:16 Brennan: You get a huge tin flower on your shoulder. You get some cool Zajiri like, Orcish celestial runes.

2:06:21 Ally: Can I get Tracker on my neck like right here? (points to the junction of their neck and shoulder)

2:06:24 Brennan: Yeah. You see that Tracker starts crying as you get the tattoo, she's holding your hand. She gets a tattoo that says Kristen on her neck.

2:06:33 Ally: Aww! I do get each other's tattoos and it hurts.

2:06:36 Emily: I do get pain and pleasure in Zajiri.

2:06:40 Brennan: Oh pain and pleasure in Zajiri? Cool. Everyone here make a Perception or an Insight. (dice rolling)

2:06:50 Siobhan: 16.

2:06:52 Murph: 20, not nat.

2:06:54 Lou: 18 insight.

2:06:55 Ally: 19.

2:06:55 Zac: Nat one.

2:06:57 Brennan: Nat one?

2:06:59 Murph: You barf and shit yourself. (laughing)

2:07:02 Zac: Ah! (vomiting) (groaning)

2:07:07 Brennan: Who here got below a 10?

2:07:10 Emily: I did. Zac raises his hand.

2:07:11 Brennan: Cool. I'm gonna need you guys to make a Constitution save with disadvantage. I need all of you guys to make one just regular.

2:07:17 Murph: Okay. Oh no. Constitution's not my thing.

2:07:20 Siobhan: Constitution's not my thing either, really.

2:07:21 Murph: 9.

2:07:23 Siobhan: I got an 8.

2:07:25 Ally: I got 20 but a dirty 20.

2:07:26 Emily: A 6.

2:07:27 Zac: I got 8.

2:07:30 Brennan: You guys are blasted. Just blasted. You've gotten tattoos. You are lit to hell.

2:07:38 Siobhan: I ain't drinking.

2:07:40 Brennan: You're not drinking so you're actually okay. What did you guys get for your constitution saves?

2:07:43 Ally: I actually got a 20, a dirty 20.

2:07:44 Murph: I got a 9.

2:07:45 Lou: 15.

2:07:47 Brennan: 9, 15. Riz. The snuff powder. Your body is so small, you don't metabolize this. You are coked out of your fucking gourd. You are solving so many mysteries right now.

2:08:04 Riz: Night Yorb. (laughing)

2:08:06 Murph: I feel like Riz goes and gets memento tattoos. (laughing)

2:08:11 Murph: He gets like a ton of tattoos of all of the clues that they've had so far.

2:08:15 Ally: You just get Night Yorb as a chest piece.

2:08:17 Murph: I get a bunch of different, like, yeah, everything that is on my board, I go up and I,

2:08:22 Riz: I need to remember it all, what if someone wipes my memory?

2:08:25 Fabian: (chaotic crosstalk) Hell yes. That could happen. That 100% could happen.

2:08:28 Riz: I wouldn't even know what I was doing.

2:08:29 Fabian: We're on the same page.

2:08:29 Riz: But, if I get it permanently on my life, then I will never forget.

2:08:33 Fabian: You'll never forget.

2:08:34 Riz: Any time I look in the mirror.

2:08:37 Fabian: Fantastic, so you'll get tattoos and you'll get tattoos.

2:08:39 Fig: And my body too.

2:08:40 Fabian: Hell yes.

2:08:41 Brennan: Fabian, what was your constitution?

2:08:42 Lou: 15.

2:08:43 Brennan: 15, great. You're totally solid, you can hold your liquor. You and Ragh, who's also okay, are both like, Ragh is like rubbing Gorgug's back being like,

2:08:53 Ragh: You gotta drink water bro, you gotta drink water.

2:08:55 Gorgug: (whining) I can't. (laughing)

2:08:58 Kristen: I can't?

2:08:59 Gorgug: I can't.

2:09:00 Ragh: It's okay, drink water.

2:09:02 Gorgug: It's salt water. We're in the ocean. Can't drink it.

2:09:05 Ragh: We got good water here. It's good water, it's good water.

2:09:09 Fabian: It's in a barrel. It comes out of a barrel. It's barreled water.

2:09:12 Gorgug: Where'd the barrel come from?

2:09:14 Fabian: That part I don't know.

2:09:17 Brennan: I'm gonna roll for Tracker. Ooh, Tracker is starting to get a little bit wasted as well. As Tracker gets more wasted, do you keep up, or do you start to like—

2:09:29 Ally: I probably kinda re… Re-orient myself, I start making some tea. I'm like,

2:09:35 Kristen: We'll take two mint teas, actually.

2:09:37 Brennan: You see that Tracker is just sort of leaning against you and going like,

2:09:41 Tracker: (slurred) I like being free. I like being covered in fur, but, you know. I don't know if I could do what uncle Jawbone does, I don't know. I don't know if I could always. Because people do treat you different. They do treat you different.

2:09:59 Kristen: What do you mean? Staying in your wolf form?

2:10:01 Tracker: Staying in wolf form.

2:10:03 Kristen: Totally.

2:10:03 Tracker: Do you think I'm a hot wolf?

2:10:07 Kristen: Both ways really hot, yeah.

2:10:08 Tracker: I think you're hot both ways. (slurs) 69.

2:10:13 Kristen: It's really, I don't have drunk sex though, remember? But this hot, maybe tomorrow morning.

2:10:18 Tracker: I'm so tired.

2:10:20 Kristen: Yeah, me too.

2:10:21 Brennan: You see--

2:10:22 Ally: I try to keep her awake, so maybe she can cast the rune circle later.

2:10:27 Kristen: You gotta stay awake actually babe, come on baby!

2:10:29 Tracker: (unconvincingly) I'm good, I'm good.

2:10:30 Brennan: What'd you roll for your Perception again?

2:10:33 Ally: Oh, Perception a while ago?

2:10:34 Brennan: Yes, a while ago.

2:10:35 Ally: It was like over 20.

2:10:36 Brennan: Over 20, cool. Fig, you're super drunk. But you're talking with your, your mom is there.

2:10:45 Emily: Well technically I did dragon spice.

2:10:47 Brennan: Oh dragon spice, cool, so you're rolling.

2:10:50 Ally: Was it ketamine? You’re like, barely moving.

2:10:53 Siobhan: You're just standing in the middle of the bar, not doing anything.

2:10:56 Brennan: You see that Sandra Lynn's there with you.

2:10:59 Siobhan: Not so fast.

2:11:00 Brennan: Sandra Lynn's sort of smiling. She's had a bunch of shots. She looks over at you. Your mom gets like, your mom's an angry drunk. She's like looking around like she wants to like, start some shit. But she looks and says,

2:11:13 Sandra Lynn: So, daughter of mine.

2:11:15 Fig: Mmm.

2:11:17 Brennan: Looking around the bar.

2:11:17 Sandra Lynn: Who looks, do you have any little crushes? Do you like any of the people here in the bar?

2:11:27 Fig: I don't know.

2:11:29 Sandra Lynn: You don't know? There's a lot. You know what we used to say, and I'm not saying this is okay. But me and my adventuring party back in the day, do you know what we would say? There's a lot of talent in this bar. (laughing) Lot of very talented people. You see—

2:11:49 Fig: I mean, yeah. And then, but like, how do you, if you don't have that talent yet, because you've only been carrying inappropriate relationships. What is it like? Like is it obvious?

2:12:05 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

2:12:07 Sandra Lynn: Do you wanna learn how to not, you know, without any illusion, do you wanna learn how to flirt, how to like make it work?

2:12:16 Fig: From you, yeah. Yeah.

2:12:18 Brennan: She nods. She scans the bar like a ranger. She literally is like, (sniffing) she takes a little bit of like, sawdust from the floor, throws it up, smells it on the wind. Puts a hand to her ear. And zeroes in at the bar on Garthy O'Brien. You see she goes, watch this. And stands up. Walks over to the bar. Elbows in, orders something, puts it in front of Garthy, and starts talking to them. She talks to Garthy for a little while. And you see that she at first is like exchanging drinks. You see she says something that's like, a little, you can't quite make out what she's saying. But she says something that is clearly very like, challenging, 'cause a bunch of people that work for Garthy, all kind of like react as though she said something kind of scandalous. Garthy smiles. They turn around and start like trading barbs with Sandra Lynn. You see Sandra Lynn, so fast you almost couldn't see it. Just in a way that's very interpersonal and seems very low key, touches Garthy's arm for a second. Touches the arm again. They talk a little bit more. Garthy orders two drinks and while they're turned around, Sandra Lynn looks, winks over at you. Garthy gets two drinks, says something, and you see that Garthy and Sandra Lynn both walk out of the bar.

2:13:48 Lou: Wow.

2:13:51 Fig: Whoa.

2:13:53 Brennan: Kristen, with that high perception, you're more sober than Fig right now, you notice all this.

2:13:59 Ally: Cool.

2:14:04 Kristen: Hm. Your mom just left with Garthy.

2:14:06 Fig: Yeah, she was kind of giving me a lesson in flirting without using any sort of charms or disguises. But then it, I don't know if I'm supposed to follow, if the lesson is continuing.

2:14:19 Kristen: I have a feeling no.

2:14:21 Fig: No? Okay.

2:14:21 Kristen: But what do you think about Garthy? Should we do something?

2:14:28 Fig: I mean… Honestly right now I feel a little like, in a weird way kind of jealous, right? You know, 'cause it's like, but I mean...

2:14:39 Kristen: Yeah I guess, yeah. Maybe like, if I was, yeah.

2:14:43 Fig: Oh you mean like, are they safe?

2:14:45 Kristen: Yeah, yeah.

2:14:47 Ally: You know what? I think what I wanna do is go with Tracker while we still have her. Set up this freaking rune circle, and then maybe go with Fig to follow her mom.

2:14:58 Fig: I feel like as her daughter, I really can't follow my mom into this situation.

2:15:04 Kristen: We don't have to like, stay and listen, we just have to like, hear the very beginning so we get the gist, 'cause I don't think there's gonna be like—

2:15:12 Fig: This is definitely traumatizing, but I'll come.

2:15:13 Kristen: Okay, you don't have to go.

2:15:14 Adaine: I'll come.

2:15:14 Fig: No, no, no, I'll go, I'm going.

2:15:16 Kristen: Maybe Adaine and I can go, and you don't have to go and hear your mom smooch that person.

2:15:24 Brennan: (rolls) Tracker goes,

2:15:24 Tracker: Who'd Sandra Lynn smooch?

2:15:30 Kristen: I think Gerty. What's that person's name?

2:15:33 Adaine: Garthy.

2:15:35 Kristen: Garthy.

2:15:36 Gorgug: Garthy.

2:15:38 Brennan: You see Ragh goes,

2:15:38 Ragh: Shh, it's okay. Just drink water.

2:15:41 Murph: I hold up my new forearm tattoo,

2:15:45 Riz: (pointing) Garthy.

2:15:45 Kristen: Wait, when did you get a tattoo?

2:15:46 Riz: I have a million tattoos now. All of the...

2:15:50 Gorgug: I'm gonna go work on the van.

2:15:51 Adaine: You have such small amounts of skin.

2:15:54 Kristen: Oh my gosh you guys, let's watch a movie in the room, right?

2:15:58 Adaine: We're doing a thing.

2:16:00 Kristen: Yeah, we are, but let's get everyone to go watch a movie in the room.

2:16:02 Adaine: Yes, let's go watch a movie in the room!

2:16:04 Kristen: Instead of going and working on the van at night--

2:16:08 Gorgug: I've gotta fix the van though.

2:16:09 Kristen: I think it's a great idea.

2:16:09 Adaine: The van is so good.

2:16:11 Fabian: You'll figure out how to get into that special room thing one day.

2:16:14 Gorgug: God, if I had spells, I could fix the van like that. (snaps)

2:16:17 Kristen: You guys, let's watch a spaghetti western, and I'll make a bunch of popcorn.

2:16:22 Adaine: I love spaghetti westerns.

2:16:22 Kristen: And you guys can eat chocolate, chocolate popcorn in a big bed. Tracker, how you feeling? Where you at?

2:16:29 Tracker: (barely coherent) I'm feeling okay, do you need, she's going, okay. Do you need me to go cast a spell?

2:16:36 Kristen: Yeah.

2:16:37 Gorgug: I can do it.

2:16:38 Brennan: Who's going with Tracker up to cast the spell?

2:16:41 Riz: I think--

2:16:42 Adaine: Well if we're going to...

2:16:45 Gorgug: Do you need me to watch?

2:16:46 Adaine: ...follow Sandra Lynn.

2:16:47 Riz: We can all go back.

2:16:49 Fig: I think now, if Sandra Lynn's maybe in trouble, I kinda have to go, and make sure she's okay.

2:16:55 Adaine: Alright, then I'll go with Fig.

2:16:58 Ally: I cast Bless on you two and Tracker.

2:17:01 Siobhan: Okay, great.

2:17:03 Lou: Can I slip away from the group?

2:17:05 Brennan: Yeah, make a stealth check.

2:17:10 Lou: Oh. Wow. 22.

2:17:12 Brennan: 22, that beats everyone's passive perception.

2:17:15 Siobhan: Passive perception?

2:17:17 Murph: I'm gonna say, in my paranoid state, can I follow Fabian?

2:17:23 Brennan: Fabian has bypassed your passive perception.

2:17:28 Ally: It’s like herding cats.

2:17:28 Siobhan: But his passive perception on snuff.

2:17:31 Brennan: But I will say that if, so I think, yeah, Fabian's tucked off on his own.

2:17:37 Ally: Goddammit.

2:17:39 Brennan: All the adults are gone. So Tracker, who's going to the room with Tracker to do these spells?

2:17:44 Ally: Everyone.

2:17:44 Zac: I'll go to, I'll help, I'm just trying to learn some magic, so I'm gonna go watch this.

2:17:49 Ally: Let's do it, yeah.

2:17:50 Brennan: You go, Tracker does the moon haven on the suite.

2:17:53 Kristen: Amazing!

2:17:54 Brennan: Immediately falls asleep.

2:17:56 Kristen: Aw, goodnight!

2:17:58 Brennan: Immediately falls asleep.

2:17:59 Ally: I put some water next to her.

2:18:02 Brennan: Cool. Then.

2:18:06 Zac: Gorgug's trying to cook in there.

2:18:07 Brennan: Gorgug's trying to cook, what's Adaine doing? Is anyone leaving?

2:18:10 Siobhan: I think me and Fig are gonna make sure that Sandra Lynn's okay.

2:18:14 Emily: Yeah, I'm going with the two of them, but I'm kind of following behind them, I'm letting them take the lead.

2:18:19 Brennan: So you guys go to the room first, and then Adaine, Fig—

2:18:23 Emily: Oh, no, we shouldn't go to the room first, this is precious time.

2:18:26 Siobhan: Yeah.

2:18:28 Ally: I think I went to the room.

2:18:28 Emily: Yeah.

2:18:29 Siobhan: Okay. Yeah, so it's just me and you.

2:18:31 Brennan: So it's just Adaine and Fig. Cool. We're gonna run these scenes this way, so Gorgug, Riz, Ragh, Tracker, Kristen, go to the suite. You can already hear Gilear is asleep off somewhere, Cathilda's asleep in a little corner. Fabian, where do you walk off to?

2:18:49 Lou: I'd like to climb up to the Crow's Keep.

2:18:52 Brennan: You head way off into the city. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead and give me a Wisdom check with advantage.

2:19:05 Lou: Okay. (dice rolling) Alright.

2:19:09 Zac: With advantage?

2:19:10 Lou: Yeah, 14. And 14.

2:19:14 Brennan: You find your way through the city. You walk along, you are not troubled on your journey. And you begin to climb up the vast masts of Rigabah all the way up to the Crow's Keep. Upon arriving, you're there for a long time. What do you do when you arrive there?

2:19:38 Lou: I just look out on all of Leviathan, and I don't know. I guess I speak to the wind, with hopes of it carrying my words to my father.

2:19:54 Brenan: You speak, looking out over the vast pirate city. As you do so, go ahead now and give me just a perception check. (dice rolling)

2:20:09 Lou: That's a 6. (blowing)

2:20:12 Brennan: The wind blows over Leviathan. You look out. The wind carries your words away. On a voyage that you cannot see the end of. For Fig and Adaine, that go to observe, cool. So first of all, give me an Investigation check.

2:20:34 Emily: Okay. I'm just gonna in general give you some Bardic Inspiration.

2:20:38 Siobhan: Okay, great.

2:20:38 Emily: Just things for—

2:20:38 Siobhan: And can I use Boggy to...

2:20:42 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely. (dice rolling)

2:20:45 Emily: 12.

2:20:46 Ally: Did you use Bless?

2:20:47 Emily: No!

2:20:50 Siobhan: Perception?

2:20:51 Emily: 14.

2:20:51 Brennan: 14.

2:20:52 Siobhan: 23.

2:20:53 Brennan: It's Investigation.

2:20:53 Emily: Oh, it's Perception?

2:20:54 Siobhan: Oh, Investigation. Oh, 25.

2:20:57 Brennan: Cool. You use Boggy, move around. As you do, you arrive at a huge pair of golden doors. As you arrive, you hear like, humming music in the back. This is clearly an off limits area. You see that there are two guards here. There are these tall half orc pirates. You hear low music coming from back behind the doors. As you guys approach, this is outside of the building that the bar you were at is in. You see they look at you and say,

2:21:40 Guards: (low voice, London accent) Good evening, young madams. Can we help you? (ambient music)

2:21:47 Adaine: (quietly) You're the charismatic one.

2:21:50 Fig: Yes, yes, you can help us. I forgot my watch in there.

2:22:01 Guards: You forgot your watch in here? Well, alright. We'll be sure to give it to you. What’s your—

2:22:07 Fig: Actually you know what, I'll just tell you the truth. My mom is in there. I feel a little homesick. I am a child. (laughing)

2:22:14 Adaine: We're both children.

2:22:17 Brennan: Give me a Persuasion check.

2:22:19 Ally: A pity check? (laughs)

2:22:24 Emily: It's gonna be a—

2:22:24 Siobhan: Bless.

2:22:25 Emily: Oh, right. (rolling) 18.

2:22:30 Brennan: They look at each other and they say,

2:22:31 Guards: Well, damn, alright.

2:22:33 Brennan: You see one of them dips into the door. You see, about a minute or two later, Sandra Lynn comes out to the door. You see that she is, how do I put this? You know when someone has put their clothes back on, very quickly?

2:23:00 Emily: Can I just do, real quick. Hey mom, just real quick, I wanna do a check to make sure she's okay.

2:23:07 Brennan: Sure, give me an Insight or a Perception.

2:23:10 Emily: Okay, that's gonna be five—

2:23:12 Ally: Bless.

2:23:13 Emily: Oh!

2:23:15 Siobhan: Can I do this also, an insight into if she’s okay? 18.

2:23:25 Brennan: She's not been magically swipswapped, she's not under a Dominate Person effect.

2:23:31 Fig: Okay, okay. I'm so sorry, mom, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to get in the way. People put ideas in my head that you could be in danger. This is just a really powerful person that we don't know much about. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. I don't even know what—

2:23:43 Sandra Lynn: Sweetie, it's okay, it's okay, you're okay. It's all okay, alright? Are you good?

2:23:49 Fig: I'm good, are you good? Do you need me to save you? (laughs) Just kidding!

2:23:53 Emily: I run away.

2:23:56 Adaine: I guess I'm also leaving, goodnight, have a nice night!

2:23:58 Sandra Lynn: See you in the morning.

2:24:00 Adaine: Ahoy. That means good bye here as well as I know.

2:24:04 Ally: Yeah, ahoy.

2:24:05 Brennan: She walks away. You guys get back, as things have kind of quieted down.

2:24:09 Emily: I'm mortified.

2:24:12 Brennan: You walk back. You get back. And you see, in the little suite, a lot of people are falling asleep or drunk or whatever. Gilear is up making some dinner for himself. 'Cause he didn't really get to eat anything. You see he looks over. He's got a bandage around the end of his tongue. (mumbles)

2:24:35 Fig: Hi, Gilear.

2:24:36 Adaine: A bandage?

2:24:38 Fig: How'd you get a band-aid to adhere to your tongue?

2:24:42 Gilear: (takes it off) It doesn't, really. You look like you've just seen a ghost, is everything—

2:24:49 Fig: No, I'm fine, I'm good, it's just the drugs.

2:24:52 Gilear: You sure?

2:24:53 Fig: Yeah. It's just the drugs, right Adaine? Just the drugs.

2:24:56 Adaine: (flatly) Yes, I have also taken drugs.

2:24:59 Brennan: You should give me a Deception roll. (laughing)

2:25:06 Siobhan: I got a 7.

2:25:09 Emily: I got a 25.

2:25:11 Adaine: Okay, I've not taken any drugs, I don't know why I was lying.

2:25:14 Brennan: You see he looks at you and says—

2:25:15 Emily: Oh actually I didn't add the Bless, I got a 29. (laughs)

2:25:19 Brennan: Gilear looks at you and says,

2:25:20 Gilear: Where have you just come from?

2:25:24 Adaine: Downstairs.

2:25:26 Fig: True. That's true.

2:25:28 Gilear: Adaine. Adaine. Know this. My keen eyes may be constant—

2:25:37 Siobhan: I cast Friends on Gilear.

2:25:39 Brennan: Okay. You cast Friends. Go ahead. He fails a save, go ahead and make whatever Charisma based roll you're gonna make.

2:25:48 Siobhan: Okay, great.

2:25:51 Emily: Remember we have Bardic Inspiration if you need it.

2:25:53 Siobhan: Right. I'm gonna, I guess… try and make a Persuasion check on him, to be like, he doesn't have to worry about anything. Okay. 18.

2:26:16 Brennan: Cool. You see he says,

2:26:18 Gilear: Oh, very good. I shall continue to heat up this yogurt.

2:26:23 Adaine: Oh, Gilear, come on.

2:26:25 Lou: God.

2:26:26 Adaine: Where did you get that from? They don't sell that here. Did you bring that with us?

2:26:29 Fig: It doesn’t become soup if it's hot.

2:26:31 Gilear: I stashed some in the van.

2:26:36 Adaine: So it's just been in the heat for three days?

2:26:39 Ally: Am I still awake?

2:26:40 Brennan: You are still awake, yeah.

2:26:42 Emily: Can I message Kristen, just in my mind, and say,

2:26:48 Fig: She was fine, I'm absolutely humiliated, I just knocked on a door and she came out with sex on her face.

2:26:58 Ally: I decide what I think that means.

2:27:00 Brennan: Kristen, give me an Insight check.

2:27:07 Ally: 16.

2:27:09 Brennan: You see Tracker stirs in her sleep a little bit, and she looks up at you. She's totally out of it but she goes,

2:27:19 Tracker: (slurs) So this is Sandra Lynn?

2:27:21 Kristen: What?

2:27:22 Tracker: Sandra Lynn's kissing someone?

2:27:26 Kristen: I think so, yeah.

2:27:28 Tracker: Jawbone?

2:27:29 Kristen: No.

2:27:30 Adaine: Isn't Jawbone poly?

2:27:31 Fig: Yeah, I think they’re fine.

2:27:32 Kristen: She's with...

2:27:34 Brennan: What you guys heard from last time that Jawbone spoke, is that Jawbone is poly, and that Sandra Lynn had asked him to be monogamous.

2:27:45 Fig: Oh!

2:27:47 Adaine: Ew.

2:27:48 Fig: (hands on her face) I thought this was all allowed.

2:27:54 Kristen: Yeah, she's, yeah, she's kissing someone.

2:27:57 Tracker: Okay. (howls)

2:28:02 Adaine: Maybe Tracker won't remember in the morning.

2:28:04 Kristen: Adults are more complicated than, you know, than we think that they are.

2:28:09 Adaine: Sandra Lynn is both more and less cool than I thought that she was.

2:28:13 Fig: (sighs, disappointed) Mom.

2:28:15 Brennan: You look at Gilear and he says,

2:28:16 Gilear: When you all stand in the middle of the room pointing at each other I know you're doing a message transfer.

2:28:22 Ally: Can I go back out to the door that they were just at?

2:28:27 Brennan: Sure.

2:28:29 Ally: And… Is there a way for me to hide so that the guards don't see me, 'cause I wanna cast something at the door.

2:28:36 Brennan: Gimme a Stealth check.

2:28:39 Murph: I guess can I come out, I'll go with Kristen.

2:28:41 Ally: Okay thank god, 'cause my stealth is negative three.

2:28:45 Brennan: Negative three? Incredible. I'm gonna say, you go to the door, I'm gonna need Perception checks from both of you. (dice rolling)

2:28:56 Ally: Interesting. 15.

2:28:58 Murph: Perception, I only got a 14. Can I do Insight, or Investigate?

2:29:03 Brennan: Yeah, you can do Investigate.

2:29:04 Murph: Investigate would give me a 21.

2:29:06 Brennan: 21, cool. You look up in the corner, Riz, and you see a flicker of light up at a corner of a building just for a moment, almost like a piece of glass adjusting, like an iris refocusing.

2:29:19 Kristen: Are we being watched?

2:29:22 Brennan: And a moment later it's gone.

2:29:25 Kristen: Was that Clairvoyance?

2:29:27 Riz: Yes.

2:29:31 Brennan: You know a moment later it was Clairvoyance. Someone was looking at you.

2:29:37 Ally: Can I cast Detect Good and Evil from the door to see what's going on over there?

2:29:42 Brennan: You cast Detect Good and Evil. We're gonna cut from you guys back to Crow's Keep. As we cut back to Crow's Keep. (dramatic music)

2:29:53 Brennan: Fabian. Looking out over the city of Leviathan.

2:29:57 Zac: Oh, shit.

2:29:59 Brennan: You hear footsteps behind you. And you see emerging in the darkness, figures, hooded and cloaked, as they move through the nest towards you.

2:30:19 Lou: Oh. Alright. I draw the sword of the Seacaster.

2:30:24 Fabian: Gentlemen. You best be on your way, lest we have a problem.

2:30:31 Lou: Great, I draw… Let's do it.

2:30:36 Siobhan: Oh my god.

2:30:38 Brennan: You hear a voice from within one of the cowls, a face you cannot see say,

2:30:46 Voice: (ominous breathing, deep growling voice, indeterminate accent) Oh, indeed, do we have business. You, son of the Seacaster. For indeed we have sought you, and found you. (music stops) We're all huge fans!

2:31:08 Brennan: And you see that Alistair takes his cowl off.

2:31:10 Alistair: I've brought 'em all here, we had to come say hello.

2:31:13 Fabian: Oh. One, you can't do that, but two...

2:31:17 Brennan: A bunch of weird warlocks take their cowls off, lift you up in the middle of the night and go,

2:31:21 Warlocks: (singing) for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow.

2:31:23 Fabian: Put me down.

2:31:24 Warlocks: For he's a jolly good fellow!

2:31:28 Brennan: That's all for this week! (groaning)

2:31:31 Brennan: Fantasy High, tune in next week, bye bye! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 6: Pirate Brawl] _____________________________________________________________

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