Pirate Brawl

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 6: Pirate Brawl < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: [energetic] Hello and welcome back to Dimension 20 Live presents Fantasy High, sophomore year. I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan. With me, as always, are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:09 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:13 Brennan: Aw, shucks. Last we left off, our brave, Bad Kids were in the pirate city of Leviathan on their quest to retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. Their journey had brought them, along with three of Fig's parents, a griffin, two magical vehicles, a frog made of vapor, Fabian's maid, Cathilda,  and Kristen's girlfriend, Tracker O'Shaughnessey, and their classmate, Ragh Barkrock, here to Leviathan, a city surging out of the waves, made of a monolithic, behemoth of shipwrecks tied and lashed together with a big wooden pirate city built on top. The city of Leviathan was home to many adventures. They managed to get their van out of impound right away from the Warforged boatswain of Leviathan, Jamina Joy. They met Alistair Ash, the Tiefling, former street urchin and current warlock of Fabian's father, Bill Seacaster. They arrived at the Gold Gardens, where they ran afoul of Captain James Whitclaw, the illithid captain of the Crimson Claw, and met Garthy O'Brien, who's the proprietor of the Gold Gardens, a half-orc aasimar who gave them a lot of information about the crown passing through Leviathan previously, about their relationship with Bill Seacaster as a palimpsest supplier, about their bag of gems that had gone missing. And we ended last session with Fabian going up to the Crow's Keep to look at his father's old stomping grounds through the night, as well as seeing our friends get totally blasted, high as hell, get a bunch of tattoos, and ending on a very harrowing bit of mother/daughter complication, as Fig watched her mom go into the bedchambers of Garthy O'Brien, the proprietor.

0:02:14 Lou: Ha-cha-cha.

0:02:14 Zac: A harrowing bit of mother and daughter complication. [laughing]

0:02:19 Brennan: Yeah, I don't write these ahead of time. It is a full scrabble. It's just tiles hitting the board every time I open my mouth.

0:02:25 Zac: I loved it!

0:02:28 Brennan: So, with that all being said, we are gonna return now. By the way, we got some new emotes for you guys in the chat. We got Gilear yogurt emote. We got a Boggy The Froggy emote, if you're into that. And by the way, if you're like, "How do I get these premium emotes or whatever?" I literally just found this out today, if you or someone that has Amazon Prime, if that's like a service you use, it lets you subscribe to a bunch of Twitch channels for free. You get Twitch channels with your, I didn't know.

0:03:01 Ally: It's like one a month.

0:03:02 Zac: Yeah, once a month you get one Twitch Prime.

0:03:04 Brennan: You get one Twitch thing. So you might, you know, be not getting your g-dang money's worth, so if you wanna subscribe to us that way.

0:03:12 Siobhan: Take money from Bezos.

0:03:12 Brennan: Yes.

0:03:14 Siobhan: It's your money already.

0:03:14 Brennan: It's your money already.

0:03:16 Siobhan: Take it back!

0:03:18 Brennan: And I just wanna say, our apologies to Jeff Bezos, who was just surpassed today by Bill Gates.

0:03:22 Lou: Really?

0:03:23 Siobhan: Oh, R-I-P.

0:03:24 Lou: We gotta celebrate tonight, all right? [laughing]

0:03:26 Lou: My man, Billy Gates, is number one? Oh my God, yeah! That’s for you, Billy! [laughing]

0:03:32 Lou: He's watching.

0:03:37 Emily: Billy G.

0:03:39 Murph: [under his breath] Is that Riz music, or--

0:03:41 Brennan: We, this is a little bit of--

0:03:41 Murph: [whispered yelling] Is that Riz Gukgak's music?!

0:03:43 Brennan: That's Riz Gukgak's music! [jazz noir, detective’s office in the 1920’s style music fades in]

0:03:47 Brennan: We are actually going to return to a scene that we left off last time, which was Kristen and Riz doing a little bit of investigating outside of Garthy O'Brien's quarters. As you guys appear at this giant set of ornate gilded doors, these two half-orc pirate guards outside, large, sort of chambers here, you had perceived that little bit of a clairvoyance sensor.

0:04:01 Ally: Yes.

0:04:15 Brennan: It is now gone. You cast, Kristen, Detect Evil and Good. As you cast the spell, you perceive a faint, celestial aura, not only from this building, but from around the Gold Gardens entirely. Go ahead and give me a Religion check, which you do roll with advantage.

0:04:45 Ally: 21. [low plucking sitar music plays]

0:04:45 Brennan: Lovely. What you see here, effectively, is that amongst the buildings of the Gold Gardens there is this powerful aura of, yes, powerful aura of wholeness, wellness, celestial healing. When Garthy said that they were able to break curses and heal people, you see that in the place that is the most out of the ordinary here at the Gold Gardens, in terms of what you would expect at a pirate casino and brothel, is also how many places here are massage parlors, places with baths, which is not what you would associate with pirates. It appears that a lot of this place is also associated with healing. As you look at the layout of buildings in the Gold Gardens, you see that the entire complex is built as part of a complex celestial room and that all of this is connected with Garthy's quarters in the center that appear to create what, for like a sorcerer, would be called a sanctum sanctorum, what you might call a holy place. This place has been hallowed, effectively. And what you suspect is that because it's centered on Garthy's sleeping quarters, Garthy is probably a powerful, you know, powerful human, or a powerful half-orc aasimar, just in general, their power is amplified tremendously by being here in this place. Kind of like a caster that has devoted a lot of their effort to keeping one haven safe, as opposed to being able to do a lot of stuff in the outside world. And that's what you observe there. Riz and Kristen, what do you guys do standing outside the door? You've caught the attention of the two guards there, but I assume you haven't approached yet.

0:06:40 Murph: No, did we-- we saw we were being watched or something, right?

0:06:43 Ally: Yeah, the Clairvoyance blip.

0:06:46 Murph: Yeah. Okay.

0:06:54 Ally: So my Detect Good and Evil didn't really tell me if it was necessarily evil, or?

0:07:00 Brennan: Technically, Detect Evil and Good in fifth edition doesn't give you alignment information. It gives you information with planar and magical associations, right? So you are able to see whether, given the source of magic, or there's a given aura of undead, fiend, celestial, fae, right? You detect a powerful celestial presence here. You do not detect anything fiendish or undead.

0:07:15 Murph: Mm.

0:07:30 Ally: Okay, I pat Riz on the back, and I cast Protection from Evil and Good.

0:07:36 Brennan: Okay.

0:07:39 Murph: Huh. Yeah, I think Riz is starting to sober up a bit.

0:07:43 Kristen: Yeah, I'm worried about you. You're covered in bleeding tattoos and Saran Wrap.

0:07:47 Riz: Did someone draw on me?

0:07:49 Kristen: You did it, it's okay.

0:07:51 Murph: I try to get it off. Murph holds his forearm in front of him and scratches at it.

0:07:51 Riz: What, what is this?

0:07:54 Kristen: Oh, there's more, if you're worried about the forearm tattoo. [laughing]

0:07:59 Riz: Are we concerned about Sandra Lynn?

0:08:03 Ally: Yeah.

0:08:06 Riz: Okay.

0:08:06 Kristen: Let's do a kid thing. I guess let's play--

0:08:08 Riz: Do like a ding-dong-ditch?

0:08:10 Kristen: [chuckling] No! Well, like a, "We're scared." Or like, "I had a bad dream." Like some sort of, so we can talk to her.

0:08:17 Murph: Yeah, I guess I'll,

0:08:22 Riz: I think we, maybe we don't want them to know that we want to talk to Sandra Lynn. I think we should sneak up, maybe, and try to bang on the door.

0:08:34 Kristen: With the two guards there?

0:08:35 Riz: I'll sneak past 'em. I'm pretty good at sneaking.

0:08:37 Kristen: [disbelieving] Great.

0:08:38 Riz: Do you think you can distract them?

0:08:40 Kristen: Yeah, I can definitely distract them. [laughing]

0:08:42 Ally: I take a little ribbon out of my bag, and I tie it to a stick, and I make it a ribbon dance. [Emily laughing]

0:08:50 Murph: Can I hide?

0:08:52 Brennan: I'm a need a Performance check from--

0:08:56 Siobhan: Don't you have a minus 3 to Dexterity?

0:08:57 Ally: No, I have a--

0:08:58 Murph: Charisma, charisma’s okay.

0:08:59 Lou: Proficient in Performance. Ally throws their dice into the tray. It rattles around for a moment, and Murph, Lou, and Ally watch with excitement.

0:09:02 Murph: [soft] Okay!

0:09:02 Ally: Hey, 19! Ally holds their hands up and raises their eyebrows.

0:09:05 Brennan: [scoff] Okay. Okay! [Murph laughs breathlessly]

0:09:08 Murph: I almost threw up, but it was just a very quick laugh. Ally twirls their hands around themselves and shimmies in an amusing ribbon dance.

0:09:12 Kristen: Oh, it's like a snake. Ah! [laughing]

0:09:15 Murph: And then I’d like to hide.

0:09:17 Brennan: Go ahead and give me a Stealth check. I'm gonna say you do this flat. [Emily cackles]

0:09:21 Murph: Okay, cool. That is 23. Ally covers their mouth with their hands and Murph presses his fingers to his temples, looking down.

0:09:28 Brennan: Okay, so you watch these two guards, who kind of clocked you before. You sort of disappear into the shadows. Kristen begins ribbon dancing, and you watch these two guards that are leaning fully against the door kind of just chat with each other, both turn over. You've never seen people broadcast less through their body language or facial expressions. They stay leaning, but are completely still as they watch.

0:09:54 Ally: Can I do a Perception check?

0:09:54 Brennan: Yeah, go for it. [Emily is in a fit of crying laughter]

0:09:57 Emily: [wiping tears from her eyes] Oh my god.

0:10:00 Ally: Interesting. Okay, yeah, it's a 10.

0:10:04 Brennan: A 10? You are so deep in this ribbon dance that I don't think you can get what's happening. Ally resumes twirling and spinning.

0:10:15 Emily: Oh, Kristen Applebees, I'm taking you on tour. [laughing]

0:10:19 Brennan: Riz, as you begin to sneak, what do you attempt to do?

0:10:23 Murph: I guess I want to, I guess if I make too much of a thing, it's gonna put Kristen in danger. This is an ill-thought-out plan. I'm going to--

0:10:37 Ally: I thought you were gonna bang so that they run away.

0:10:39 Murph: I was gonna, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna go, and yeah, I'm gonna sneak around the side to a different area, and I'm just gonna-- I don't want them to kill me if they find me, so I don't wanna break shit or anything, I just wanna make a loud noise. Is there anything I could just kick or punch?

0:11:00 Brennan: Make an Investigation check.

0:11:01 Murph: This is stupid. What am I doing? Such a good investigation check. 26. Ally “ribbon dances” continuously.

0:11:07 Brennan: Yeah, you find a barrel on top of a little stack of barrels you can kick over.

0:11:11 Murph: Okay! I knock over some barrels.

0:11:11 Lou: [quietly] Barrel some barrels dude.

0:11:14 Zac: Wh-- What are we even trying?

0:11:15 Murph: I don't-- [laughing]

0:11:15 Lou: I’m into this. I’m--

0:11:18 Siobhan: I'm asleep.

0:11:19 Lou: I'm truly all the way into whatever is happening.

0:11:22 Murph: I think we're trying to make, I think we're just concerned about Sandra Lynn.

0:11:27 Emily: I can't stop laughing. Kristen--

0:11:28 Zac: I just don't understand what's gonna happen if it goes well.

0:11:30 Lou: That's the best part.

0:11:31 Murph: I'm hoping they run out.

0:11:33 Zac: Oh, okay.

0:11:33 Murph: I don't know.

0:11:34 Brennan: Okay, so you--

0:11:35 Emily: I'm into this, I'm very into this.

0:11:36 Murph: I knock over some barrels.

0:11:37 Siobhan: What do you think, they're gonna stop fucking and run out to where they have two guards?

0:11:42 Murph: Their guards might get concerned.

0:11:44 Emily: I think this is good, keep going.

0:11:45 Lou: Push through.

0:11:46 Murph: This is a real Axford move.

0:11:47 Emily: [offended] Oh!

0:11:48 Brennan: You find some barrels, and you kick them over. At 26, you're very good. Go ahead and roll Deception with advantage. You found a very good barrel to kick over. [laughing]

0:11:57 Murph: Okay. Deception. Oh, my deception's not very good. A 12.

0:12:02 Brennan: Okay, you see that both the guards turn over, hear the barrels. [imitating barrels clunking] You see a barrel crashes open. A bunch of, you see that there's a bunch of fine, sort of ale washes over the deck. So they sort of see the barrel punt off and crash, and you see one of them goes,

0:12:22 Guard: [over-the-top accent] Oi, man. Looks like one of the barrels fell off the top.

0:12:28 Brennan: And you see a very old, scruffy pirate janitor begins to, he's got two peg legs and a mop, [swinging back and forth] and begins to sort of waddle over and begin to mop up the ale that you can see down from your perch. [breathless laughter]

0:12:45 Ally: Fuck. We just made a mess for a person who's trying to get through work.

0:12:50 Murph: I just walk up to the door.

0:12:52 Riz: Can I talk to Sandra Lynn, please? [Emily cackles]

0:12:56 Brennan: You see that one of the guards looks and says,

0:12:59 Guard: [husky, British accent] Look, you're not allowed in, but we're more than happy to go get Miss Faeth for you. Just so you know, her daughter-- I'm so sorry, I just wanna wait for this to wrap up. Brennan points two fingers towards Ally, who is still “ribbon dancing.”

0:13:12 Riz: This is gonna go on for a while.

0:13:14 Kristen: Oh right, sorry. Ally twists their hands around each other and mimes tucking something into their front shirt pocket.

0:13:16 Ally: I wrap it up, and I put it in my pocket.

0:13:20 Guard: Miss Faeth's daughter had already come over here and um... interrupted the goings on inside. So if you would like to do that for the second time.

0:13:36 Kristen: Yeah. We understand, but, and this is kind of embarrassing, but I'm afraid of the dark. [laughing]

0:13:39 Emily: [quiet] Afraid of the dark?!

0:13:42 Kristen: And Sandra Lynn always tells me, and she just kinda helps talk me down a little bit. You know, anxiety, sometimes you're able to talk it through and have it dissipate a little bit, so. But you know what, there's one more thing that we could try before we have to interrupt her. Remember that blanket trick? We're gonna go try the blanket trick. Murph’s face is scrunched in a look of amusement and confusion.

0:14:05 Guard: What's the blanket trick? [laughing]

0:14:05 Kristen: But we might be back. It's really nice. He wraps me up like an egg roll, and then he says, “Egg roll to go,” and he puts me on a different surface.

0:14:11 Guard: But if you're afraid of the dark, wouldn't a blanket over--

0:14:15 Kristen: Not-- It's a loving wrap.

0:14:15 Murph: Not-- Yeah, it's like a baby thing.

0:14:17 Ally: Okay, so I'm trying to cast Zone of Truth right here while we're talking.

0:14:22 Brennan: Sure, okay. First of all, give me a deception check.

0:14:24 Murph: Oh god.

0:14:25 Lou: This is the new dream team right here. The Ball and Fabian are done, this is it. This is the future.

0:14:30 Ally: 17.

0:14:30 Brennan: 17, okay, cool. You disguise yourself.

0:14:34 Ally: Okay, so I'm casting Zone of Truth, [laughing] but we need 10 minutes.

0:14:37 Murph: It takes 10 minutes?!

0:14:37 Brennan: It takes--

0:14:37 Murph: Oh no, it lasts 10 minutes.

0:14:40 Brennan: It lasts 10 minutes.

0:14:40 Ally: Oh, sorry. Okay, got it. All right, good.

0:14:42 Murph: Thank god.

0:14:43 Ally: Okay, good, I cast Zone of Truth, and I say,

0:14:46 Kristen: Can we talk to Sandra Lynn?

0:14:47 Ally: 'Cause now that I know it doesn't take 10 minutes, we don't have to try the egg roll trick.

0:14:51 Kristen: We need to see her right now.

0:14:54 Guard: Okay, you need to see, all right, we're happy to go in. Emily holds her hand to her mouth to cover her laughter. Zac presses his hands to his face in exasperation.

0:14:58 Brennan: And so you see, one of them goes in. About a minute later, Sandra Lynn comes out, even more disheveled, shirt backwards, shorts backwards.

0:15:10 Ally: Shorts?

0:15:13 Brennan: Her crocodile hunter ranger shorts are on backwards.

0:15:16 Ally: On backwards?!

0:15:16 Brennan: On backwards. She comes out, and goes, Brennan runs his fingers through his hair and hunches forward with a crazed look in his eye. He looks disheveled and a little insane.

0:15:18 Sandra Lynn: [tense, feigning chill] Hi, what's going on, Kristen?

0:15:23 Ally: Great, okay, so what did we see? [reading from spell card] Until the spell ends they have to make a Charisma saving throw, or else they can't say a deliberate lie.

0:15:33 Brennan: It's a Charisma saving throw?

0:15:34 Ally: Mhm.

0:15:34 Brennan: Okay.

0:15:35 Murph: She wouldn't--

0:15:37 Ally: Yeah, so then we need Garthy to come out here, so that’s a-- you have to figure that out. [laughing]

0:15:39 Kristen: Hey Sandra--

0:15:43 Riz: Where's Garthy at? [Emily laughs]

0:15:46 Brennan: Okay.

0:15:46 Lou: Ooh, wild.

0:15:48 Brennan: So Sandra Lynn comes out, and says,

0:15:51 Sandra Lynn: Hey, what's happening?

0:15:52 Kristen: [pleasant] Hey, how are you?

0:15:55 Sandra Lynn: Kristen, what the fuck is going on?

0:15:57 Kristen: What?!

0:15:57 Riz: [whispered] Hey.

0:15:57 Kristen: Okay so--

0:15:57 Riz: I think we should go.

0:16:00 Kristen: We need to talk to Garthy.

0:16:00 Riz: I think all of us should go.

0:16:04 Kristen: [barely heard] Are you feeling okay?

0:16:08 Sandra Lynn: Guys?

0:16:10 Kristen: Mhm.

0:16:12 Sandra Lynn: Go back to your room.

0:16:13 Kristen: But we need you back there too.

0:16:15 Sandra Lynn: Hey Kristen?

0:16:15 Kristen: Yeah.

0:16:17 Sandra Lynn: You're not hearing me.

0:16:18 Kristen: No, but... egg roll time. [laughing]

0:16:26 Kristen: Do you not wanna come back with us?

0:16:32 Sandra Lynn: I'm gonna go back inside. If there's an emergency, come get me. If there's not an emergency and you try to come get me again, we're gonna have a very long conversation.

0:16:40 Kristen: What's your middle name?

0:16:43 Sandra Lynn: My middle name?

0:16:44 Kristen: Mhm.

0:16:45 Sandra Lynn: Lynn.

0:16:46 Riz: Is Garthy clothed right now?

0:16:49 Ally: I push past her. Lou flaps his hands around with a wild look in his eye. [laughing]

0:16:49 Brennan: You push past her?

0:16:52 Murph: I specifically didn't sneak in there, 'cause I was like-- I don’t sneak! ‘Cause, yeah.

0:16:55 Brennan: So you say “Is Garthy clothed?” You push past her. Go ahead and give me an opposed Athletic's check. Zac’s mouth is open in a comical expression of shock and amusement.

0:17:03 Murph: Oh my god, Kristen.

0:17:08 Ally: [high-pitched] It's an 11.

0:17:11 Brennan: You get rocked in the dome, hard.

0:17:15 Ally: Mhm. Great.

0:17:15 Brennan: As you attempt to push in and Sandra Lynn reflexively puts the butt of her hand into your forehead and knocks you on your ass.

0:17:22 Kristen: [strained] [groans] I'm okay.

0:17:22 Riz: Okay, we're gonna go.

0:17:24 Kristen: What? You traitor!

0:17:24 Riz: I'm not a traitor! This is, I don't know what to do. What if I sneak in and like--

0:17:31 Kristen: [to Sandra Lynn] We're worried about you, because you're not poly, but you're acting poly!

0:17:35 Brennan: You see, go ahead and give me a persuasion roll, if you would be so kind.

0:17:42 Ally: Great.

0:17:44 Lou: [fanning himself] [strained] What happened?

0:17:45 Ally: Ay, bitch, that's 25. [laughing]

0:17:49 Murph: Dear lord.

0:17:51 Brennan: You actually saying the thing-- and also being on your ass, you see Sandra Lynn looks out for a second, puts a hand down, immediately casts Cure Wounds on you, and says,

0:18:05 Sandra Lynn: Are you okay?

0:18:05 Kristen: [quietly] I'm fine.

0:18:07 Sandra Lynn: I'm sorry, I didn't know. You just rushed me, and I--

0:18:11 Kristen: I was trying to be Bolt. I was trying to be a hero.

0:18:15 Riz: [under his breath] We don’t know what we’re doing.

0:18:15 Sandra Lynn: I'm gonna come back to the room right now. I have my things still in the inside. I'm gonna go get them, and I'm gonna come right back, okay?

0:18:24 Kristen: Okay.

0:18:24 Riz: [nods] Okay.

0:18:24 Sandra Lynn: I will be right back.

0:18:26 Kristen: Are you, okay.

0:18:26 Riz: Yeah, that's good.

0:18:28 Kristen: Yeah, okay, definitely.

0:18:28 Brennan: Sandra Lynn goes in, the door closes. Guards both look at you. One of the half-orcs-- give me an Insight check, both of you.

0:18:41 Murph: [giggling] I got 1. We're so stupid.

0:18:45 Ally: [high-pitched] I got a 3.

0:18:48 Murph: I think we’re-- I think our characters are five years old.

0:18:48 Ally: The first one was a 19, and then I tried to be honest and re-rolled.

0:18:52 Murph: I think our characters are actual children right now.

0:18:54 Brennan: Yeah, you see that the two half-orcs give each other a look that you guys can't begin to decipher.

0:19:03 Murph: Yeah. We're first time drunk high schoolers.

0:19:07 Brennan: Yep. A minute later, Sandra Lynn comes out. She's got her bow, she's a quiver with arrows. She comes out. You see that she's still a little bit tipsy, but it's worn off somewhat. She looks and says,

0:19:28 Sandra Lynn: [ashamed] Did, what did Fig say when she got back? Did she talk to you guys?

0:19:37 Kristen: What did Fig say?

0:19:38 Riz: [hesitant] I think she doesn't quite know how to feel.

0:19:49 Kristen: Yeah, I think she was embarrassed for interrupting you at one point, but she was also—

0:19:53 Sandra Lynn: This is-- I don't wanna have a whole conversation about this. I'm still, honestly, a little bit fucked up right now. What I need from you guys is this. I just need you guys to head back. I'm gonna walk back with the room to you, and I would appreciate, just like, we're adventuring together, I would appreciate a little bit of privacy, okay?

0:20:20 Kristen: Like, right now, or... in the future?

0:20:20 Riz: I would love to never speak of this again.

0:20:25 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks at Riz, and doesn't echo that sentiment, but certainly feels it.

0:20:31 Kristen: Cool.

0:20:31 Riz: It's cool with me.

0:20:33 Kristen: That's cool with me too, 'cause I, I respect any sexual choices that you wanna make.

0:20:39 Sandra Lynn: Kristen, you have to stop.

0:20:40 Kristen: You can have as much sex with as many people back to back as you want.

0:20:44 Sandra Lynn: Kristen, I'm gonna reorient how you think about this interaction. I work for you.

0:20:48 Kristen: Right.

0:20:50 Sandra Lynn: At this point in time. Do you understand? And I'm your friend's mother, okay?

0:20:55 Kristen: Mhm. Yeah.

0:20:58 Riz: [low] Kristen, we should go.

0:20:59 Kristen: I'm just saying.

0:20:59 Riz: We should go.

0:21:01 Brennan: Sandra Lynn walks off towards--

0:21:02 Kristen: Kink shamed me a lot, so...

0:21:04 Sandra Lynn: I did what?

0:21:05 Kristen: You kink shamed me quite a lot.

0:21:05 Riz: We're going!

0:21:09 Kristen: We're still in the Zone of Truth, I can’t help it, okay?

0:21:12 Ally: I ask one of the guards if they believe in god. [laughing]

0:21:16 Murph: I drag Kristen back.

0:21:17 Zac: One of these celestial gods.

0:21:19 Murph: With all of my minus two Strength, I carry Kristen back.

0:21:23 Brennan: Do you guys, does anyone else do anything in the little Moon Haven room, prior to going to bed that night?

0:21:30 Emily: No, I'm sleeping flat on my face.

0:21:32 Zac: Gorgug is gonna go look for Sandra Lynn. [laughing]

0:21:38 Zac: I'm joking, Gorgug is fully asleep, maybe like under a bed or something.

0:21:42 Siobhan: I think I am gonna set some snares by the window.

0:21:47 Brennan: Cool.

0:21:48 Siobhan: And then once these guys come back, by the door.

0:21:52 Brennan: Mhm. Anything else? No? You guys go to sleep. We're gonna cut over now to--

0:22:01 Lou: [quiet] The wildest thing, I’ve ever seen. [Emily cackles]

0:22:05 Brennan: We're gonna cut back to our good friend, Fabian Aramaris Seacaster. Fabian, you are being lifted aloft by a group of about 20 robed warlocks. You see that the dark robes cover a series of striped pirate pants and sailor shirts and bandanas, and various hooks and flintlock pistols and things of that nature, as these pirate warlocks sort of throw you up into the air on your hands, and you're crowd surfing down this quarry.

0:22:38 Fabian: [crying out] Oh, wow! Okay.

0:22:40 Pirates: [singing] For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow!

0:22:44 Fabian: All right, put me down.

0:22:46 Brennan: And you see that they arrive in a sort of abandoned sort of ruin at the edge of Crow's Keep. Obviously, Leviathan is not built up to code.

0:22:51 Lou: Yup.

0:22:56 Brennan: There is no code. So there's kind of a ruined building where half of it just fell away, and the other half of it has an exquisite dining room. So picture a beautiful wooden manor house that just half of it fell off and crashed into the city below. So there's a dining room that is very well-appointed, except for where it shatters and splinters into open air with hundreds of feet dropping down below it. And there's a smaller table pushed way up against the wall to get a little bit farther away, and an impromptu banquet has been set up here.

0:23:31 Fabian: I love-- I'm all about this, everyone. Is this for us? Are we celebrating?

0:23:39 Brennan: Alistair looks and says,

0:23:39 Alistair: [high-pitched British accent] We thought we were celebratin', Master Seacaster, this is incredible. I'd like to do the pleasure and the honor. Everyone, as I have said, the good Captain below, Captain Seacaster has seen fit to send his envoy, his son, Fabian Aramais Seacaster, to deliver us in our moment of doubt, so--

0:24:03 Fabian: [stuttering] Oh, wait, look. I'm an envoy, I'm a delivery? There was just a lot more going on in that than I, what do you all think I'm, am I, what's happening?

0:24:17 Pirates: [singing] For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow!

0:24:20 Fabian: [clapping along] Right, yes.

0:24:21 Alistair: I'd like to introduce you to some of the lot.

0:24:23 Fabian: Okay, yeah.

0:24:23 Brennan: So you see he starts glad-handing, people are getting food and eating. You see that all of these warlocks seem extremely excited to eat, and are eating very fast, as though coming by food is a big deal for a lot of these warlocks.

0:24:31 Emily: [sadly] Oh.

0:24:39 Brennan: You see Alistair says,

0:24:39 Alistair: This is Creaky McBarrel.

0:24:44 Brennan: And you see that a parrot aarakocra, and it goes,

0:24:48 Creaky McBarrel: [squawks] Ah, pieces of eight and pleasure.

0:24:51 Fabian: [hesitant] Hi, nice to meet you.

0:24:53 Alistair: This is my best friend, Old Young Benjamin.

0:24:56 Fabian: Oh!

0:24:57 Brennan: You see that there is what you recognize as a Banderlog, which are a sort of unusual humanoid. He's like a monkey person. There's a lot of them that live up in the rigging of the ship. But he reaches out a hand. He's like six and a half feet tall, but probably weighs like 90 pounds. He's very long-limbed, gawky. He's like,

0:25:15 Old Young Benjamin: [youthful, exaggerated Cockney accent] Oh, I'm charmed to meet ya. I'm Old Young Benjamin.

0:25:18 Fabian: Nice to meet you. Are you old or young? [laughs]

0:25:21 Old Young Benjamin: [laughs] Well, my father, Old Benjamin, died.

0:25:24 Fabian: Okay, oh, so you're the Young Old Benjamin?

0:25:26 Old Young Benjamin: Yes, but there's a newer Young Benjamin.

0:25:27 Fabian: Delightful.

0:25:30 Brennan: And you see that there's another person there who truly is this gnomish pirate with a crazy, his beard has been shaped into six distinct mustaches, so he has a multi-level, huge mustache. He has a bunch of snaggle teeth, all of different materials, like wood, silver, gold. He looks up and goes,

0:25:55 Gnome: [grunts] Brennan hunches down a bit and scrunches up his face. He has a feral look in his eye and a contorted, turned down mouth. [noises of disgust and surprise]

0:25:58 Chungledown Bim: [gruff pirate voice] Chungle-Down Bim.

0:26:00 Fabian: [amused] I'm sorry, Chungle-Down?

0:26:02 Chungledown Bim: Chungle-Down Bim.

0:26:02 Fabian: A pleasure to meet you, Fabian Seacaster, son of Bill Seacaster.

0:26:07 Chungledown Bim: [hoarse, near unintelligible] I pay your father for spells.

0:26:10 Fabian: Oh you, yes!

0:26:10 Chungledown Bim: [vague noises of agreement]

0:26:10 Fabian: It seems that many people here do. That's very exciting.

0:26:16 Chungledown Bim: [groaning] Argh, me guts in a fire.

0:26:19 Fabian: Alistair, can we move on? [laughing]

0:26:22 Brennan: You see Alistair says,

0:26:22 Alistair: Sorry, right--

0:26:22 Fabian: No, it's fine.

0:26:24 Alistair: It’s just that people are very excited. We're not a very old cult, and there's not a lot of people, so--

0:26:31 Lou: Can I climb on top of the table?

0:26:32 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:26:32 Fabian: Hello, everyone!

0:26:36 Pirates: [singing, clapping] For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow!

0:26:39 Fabian: [clapping along] Alright, enough, enough. Anyway, rather than glad-handing everyone, that seems like it'd take a lot of time. I just wanna say, hello. I am Fabian Seacaster, son of Bill Seacaster.

0:26:52 Pirates: Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!

0:26:54 Fabian: Yes, yes, my father is fantastic. It is a pleasure to meet all of you, and I'm not sure what I can do for you, or how. I mean, Alistair suggested that you might all follow me, and oh, that I might be able to use you, make use of your services.

0:27:15 Brennan: You see Chungle-Down says,

0:27:15 Chungledown Bim: Yes, wherever he goes, I go.

0:27:20 Fabian: You mean wherever I go?

0:27:21 Chungledown Bim: Ah!

0:27:22 Fabian: Bill or me?

0:27:22 Chungledown Bim: Aye! (laughing)

0:27:25 Fabian: Chungle-Down, (laughing) you gotta meet me in the middle, all right?

0:27:30 Chungledown Bim: Aye, we meet in the middle of Leviathan (chuckles).

0:27:34 Brennan: You see he scoops a bunch of pasta into his coat.

0:27:37 Ally: Into his coat?

0:27:37 Brennan: Into his coat.

0:27:40 Lou: Pasta in the coat?

0:27:41 Brennan: Yeah, there's just a big bowl of pasta as part of the feast, and he just scoops them into his coat, underneath his robe. You see that Old Young Benjamin says,

0:27:47 Old Young Benjamin: Right, well we're very excited, because you know, you've been sent here by your father to deliver us.

0:27:55 Fabian: Well, no, not 100%. That's not 100% true. I came here of my own free will. I'm, you see, on a quest with a crew of my own to write my name upon the world, much as my father did before me.

0:28:08 Creaky: [screech] Your father? Tell us, how did you kill him?

0:28:11 Brennan: You see all of them go,

0:28:11 Warlocks: (gesturing like excited children) Yes, tell us the story of how you killed your father!

0:28:15 Brennan: And you see they all crisscross applesauce and sit on the ground looking up at you.

0:28:19 Fabian: Well, so there was this dragon, his name was Kalvaxus and he was trying to take over Elmville where me and my papa lived and then all this crazy stuff happened and Kalvaxus unleashed his armies on Elmville and they were attacking everybody and I hopped on my motorcycle and I was vroom, vroom, I was rushing home. I have a motorcycle. A motorcycle is like a ship on the land with a rudder and a sail but there are circles and they're underneath. Anyway—

0:28:44 Brennan: In unison, they all go,

0:28:44 Warlocks: Got it.

0:28:48 Fabian: And we are rushed home and I killed a bunch of people and I saved my mother and I told her to get her life together, and she did. And then I ran upstairs and a beam fell on me and I fought a man and he cut my eye out and then a beam fell on me and then—

0:29:00 Brennan: You hear about half the people with eye patches go,

0:29:02 Eyepatch Pirates: (laughs) I've been there.

0:29:04 Fabian: It's fine, I like it now but in that moment, I'd prefer to have my eye, if I'm being honest. I just like my face better than, I feel like my face, anyway, I'm sorry. I'm just nervous. I've never had this many people...

0:29:17 Warlocks: (laughing) Can you believe it, the son of Bill Seacaster (airquotes) pretending to be nervous?

0:29:25 Fabian: I am nervous. I'm Bill Seacaster's son. But then yeah, I ran into the room and my dad was there and he was all manacled and we talked about how he stabbed a bunch of people in the ass and it was great. And then he was gonna die and I was like, well instead of just dying, I'm gonna kill you. And so he was manacled and I stabbed him and then his coat exploded and I jumped off of the railing and then I Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf is a reference probably none of you will understand, but I Teen Wolfed and I landed on the motorcycle. It was like surfing on a surfboard which is probably a reference you won't understand, but that's about it and then I rolled off and I killed a dragon with my friends. I mean I didn't kill it, Riz killed it but I helped killed it. I did like a cool, anyway, how—

0:30:02 Brennan: But wait, you can see some heads turning around and be like,

0:30:08 Warlocks: But you did defeat your father in combat, right?

0:30:13 Fabian: Well, he was actually handcuffed to a bedpost when I found him and so I just uncuffed him and then I carried his body out to the balcony, well, not his body, he was alive, but he couldn't walk 'cause he was so injured. And then in a moment kind of of calm between the two of us, I drove my dagger into his heart. But we weren't actually engaged in combat. I mean he's my papa. I love him. It was more like a thematic choice, just of like he killed his father so it felt right for me to kill him.

0:30:52 Warlocks: (hands to their heads in despair) Oh, we're all doomed, we're all doomed. Oh no, we thought that you were a swordsman capable of defeating Bill Seacaster.

0:31:05 Fabian: I mean I probably am. I mean I'm as good--

0:31:12 Warlocks: We told Captain James Whitclaw that you would kick his ass.

0:31:17 Fabian: I mean I'm gonna, but my father always made him sound like a real loser. So I assumed it wouldn't be, I tried to kick him in the ball the other day and thank God Gorgug was there, or else I probably would've pooped myself. Anyway—

0:31:33 Brennan: You see that one of the warlocks says,

0:31:35 Warlock: We're all gonna die!

0:31:36 Brennan: And he flings himself—

0:31:39 Fabian: Stop, stop, nobody else jump. Nobody else jump.

0:31:42 Brennan: That guy casts Feather Fall on himself, on the way down,

0:31:44 Fabian: (wiping sweat off his forehead) Oh, thank god.

0:31:46 Brennan: And as he does, he gets out some gold and starts to put it on his little parchment and the gold starts flying around.

0:31:49 Warlock: No!

0:31:52 Fabian: I am perfectly capable of leading an army, all right? I'm my father's son through and through and I am as good as he is.

0:32:02 Brennan: Make a Perception check for me right now if you would be so kind.

0:32:07 Lou: Six— uh, excuse me, 4.

0:32:09 Brennan: 4, cool.

0:32:12 Lou: I thought it was plus one, I have minus one.

0:32:13 Murph: It's just a bunch of idiots.

0:32:16 Brennan: Incredible. So you see that the warlocks do start to look around at each other and you can tell that they feel a very real sense of panic.

0:32:26 Fabian: Why is everyone, I killed a dragon with my friends, a big dragon!

0:32:33 Brennan: You see that they look around, Alistair, says,

0:32:34 Alistair: Really? Well, all right, but mostly it was you right? I mean, how impressive are your friends?"

0:32:42 Fabian: My friends are incredible. They can do, well I think Riz actually killed it. He like disappeared up and dropped in and then Gorgug was at his feet and just like chopping. And there was a werewolf.

0:32:56 Brennan: Old Young Benjamin goes,

0:32:56 Old Young Benjamin: Ah, we're dead, we're all dead, we're all dead, we're all dead.

0:33:00 Fabian: Nobody's gonna die. I'll fight one of you. I'll fight one of you right now and I'll show you how incredible I am.

0:33:07 Brennan: You see that Chungle-Down stands up and says—

0:33:10 Emily: Oh no! Save Chungle-Down. (laughing)

0:33:14 Lou: (through laughter) I'm scared of Chungle-Down. I feel like of all of you here, Chungle-Down is terrifying. (laughing)

0:33:26 Brennan: You see that Creaky peeks his ear up and turns around, or his little bird head and goes,

0:33:30 Creaky: (squawks) Looks like it's a company coming.

0:33:35 Brennan: And you see indeed that the warlocks go to the windows facing the interior neighborhood Crow's Keep. As they do, you see a crew of about 30 pirates and at the head of them, Captain James Whitclaw.

0:33:51 Lou: And they're headed towards where we are?

0:33:54 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

0:34:00 Lou: (sighs) Insight?

0:34:00 Brennan: Yeah, Insight.

0:34:02 Lou: 14.

0:34:04 Brennan: They don't look like they have eyes on this house at the moment but they are advancing. With a 14, they're either coming here in a very relaxed way or they're heading deeper into the interior of Crow's Keep.

0:34:23 Fabian: Oh boy, all right. All right, everyone, gather round. I believe that Captain James Whitclaw is on his way to where he thinks I am which is the Gold Gardens. We're going to get the drop on him. We're going to sneak up and jump on him and his crew and murder all of them.

0:34:46 Brennan: You see, they look around at each other and you see this—

0:34:49 Siobhan: This is worse than the ribbon dance.

0:34:53 Brennan: I'm gonna need a Persuasion check from you right now.

0:35:00 Lou: 24.

0:35:03 Brennan: Ooh, you see they look around and you see that Alistair says,

0:35:04 Alistair: All right, look, Captain James Whitclaw has sworn that he will kill every last follower of old Bill in Leviathan. He said the streets would run red with our blood and that it would be an end to all of us. Now, is the story somewhat different than we had anticipated, yes? Has this been very sad for all of us here? Absolutely, it has. But I do not believe that old Bill would have deserted us after all that we have given to him. Nearly 350,000 gold pieces across the cult.

0:35:45 Fabian: 300 and what?

0:35:48 Alistair: Yes, yes, 300,000 across the cult.

0:35:53 Fabian: That's unbelie— ... oh papa.

0:35:54 Alistair: Now, I say if we have his back, then old Bill will have our back.

0:36:01 Brennan: And you see all the warlocks cheer and are ready to rush out in the street with you.

0:36:05 Fabian: Great, all right, everyone, follow me. (raises fist) We're gonna (through laughter) jump on 'em and we're gonna murder 'em!

0:36:15 Murph: RIP Fabian.

0:36:17 Ally: Yeah, wait, what do we do?

0:36:19 Murph: We don't know.

0:36:22 Brennan: (laughing) Everyone else is— asleep—

0:36:22 Zac: Gorgug is fully asleep.

0:36:27 Siobhan: We've just slept through this whole lane.

0:36:27 Lou: Also my Persuasion check was for Creaky to give a better speech than I could? That's what I rolled for?

0:36:33 Brennan: That's what you rolled for. You were convincing Alistair to give that speech. Incredible. So all of these war— see, right before you get to the door, you see that Chungle-Down goes,

0:36:49 Chungledown Bim: What are we wearing, robes or no robes? Which do you prefer, robes or none?

0:36:54 Fabian: (with conviction) No robes!

0:36:54 Brennan: The robes all come off. There's a bunch of pirates.

0:36:58 Zac: Are they naked, what do you mean?

0:37:00 Brennan: No, they just have robes over their pirate clothes.

0:37:02 Ally: He's just naked with pasta on his body.

0:37:06 Fabian: That's right, a proper crew.

0:37:09 Brennan: How far away do you want James and his crew to be before you charge out into the street? Lou tries to answer, but is laughing too hard to form real words.

0:37:21 Ally: Are you laughing about how you're about to die?

0:37:23 Lou: Yeah. The entire cast is laughing over this, some to the point of tears. Lou has gone very high-pitched.

0:37:31 Emily: (wiping away tears) His laughter is beautiful.

0:37:35 Brenan: Lou has fully fucking lost it.

0:37:41 Ally: You did this as a bit and now you're stuck.

0:37:44 Lou: (still laughing) No, this is a not a bit. I'm fully in character, this is what I believe Fabian would do.

0:37:50 Zac: Don't these warlocks suck?

0:37:52 Murph: Fabian does think that he rules though.

0:37:56 Brennan: This is all deeply in character.

0:37:58 Lou: Oh man, all right. So you're asking me like, so they are like heading deeper into the city. I mean I do think I want, I do think I'd like, I think that they are headed to Golden Gardens. So I think I'd like to get the drop on--

0:38:14 Brennan: I will say this, Crow's Keep is raised high above the city. So if you're in Crow's Keep, you're pretty much only going to somewhere in Crow's Keep. Like it's a neighborhood raised like a skyscraper's distance up into the sky.

0:38:28 Lou: Got it.

0:38:30 Brennan: So he doesn't seem like he's on, on that 14 Insight, you don't think he's on his way to the Gold Gardens.

0:38:33 Lou: Great. I mean, let's get him in Gibbety Square.

0:38:41 Brennan: Okay, so you want to get him in Gibbety Square.

0:38:46 Lou: Sorry, what is the question you're actually asking me? I started laughing too hard (cast laughs) and I forgot what you actually want to know.

0:38:53 Brennan: Okay, on that 14 Insight, you think that Captain James is going to somewhere, either this house you're hiding in, or going somewhere in Crow's Keep. Because he's coming from like one of the staircases or like pulley decks that gets you up into the Crow's Keep.

0:39:13 Lou: Okay, so I think we're gonna, I'd like to wait for him to be, I'd like to jump on top of him.

0:39:19 Brennan: Cool, awesome. So you're gonna like charge at the door? Are you gonna be leading the charge as you rush out?

0:39:27 Lou: I- Of course.

0:39:29 Brennan: Incredible, okay.

0:39:31 Siobhan: It's been really nice knowing you then.

0:39:34 Emily: I believe in you, Fabian.

0:39:36 Lou: I've got this.

0:39:36 Emily: You've got this.

0:39:38 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna need just Lou to roll initiative if you would be so kind. Ally, Zac and Emily are all doing identical poses with their hands covering their mouths and faces in a mix of amusement and horror.

0:39:47 Lou: That's 19.

0:39:50 Brennan: Okay. Hold on.

0:39:54 Emily: Okay, now I'm really scared.

0:39:54 Ally: Yeah. I do believe in you, I do believe in you. (battle music starting)

0:39:58 Lou: How many men do I have?

0:39:58 Brennan: About 20.

0:40:01 Siobhan: How many men does he have?

0:40:03 Brennan: He's got about 30.

0:40:06 Lou: Where is the Hangman?

0:40:08 Brennan: Back at the stables.

0:40:10 Lou: Can I communicate with the Hangman?

0:40:12 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:40:13 Fabian: Hangman, you can't join me because I don't think you can climb all the way to Crow's Keep but I'd like you to know I'm about to engage in a combat that you would absolutely admire.

0:40:25 Brennan: Incredible. You see the Hangman says,

0:40:27 Hangman: Why have you done this? Where are you, what battle?

0:40:31 Fabian: It's Crow's Keep, we're gonna, Captain James showed up here and everyone was making me feel bad that I didn't kill my dad properly and so was like, I gotta really kill him. So I said, we're gonna jump on him and murder him. So we're gonna sneak up on him and get him!

0:40:48 Brennan: You see that, okay, you see the Hangman says,

0:40:51 Hangman: Please, wait for me, wait for me to arrive to be your steed.

0:40:57 Fabian: I mean if you could get here, please try.

0:41:00 Brennan: You hear through your mind's ear the breaking of chains and smashing down of a door and James is right outside the door. What do you do?

0:41:09 Lou: He's right outside the door?

0:41:10 Brennan: Well, he's like 20 feet out into the road from the front door of this manor house that you're in.

0:41:15 Lou: I open the door and walk out,

0:41:18 Fabian: (relatively calmly) Captain James.

0:41:20 Brennan: Okay, so you're not rushing and just unloading, you walk out and say Captain James?

0:41:23 Lou: All right, yeah, I kick the door down and I say,

0:41:26 Fabian: (aggressively) Captain James!

0:41:26 Lou: I stab him.

0:41:29 Emily: (squeaky) No.

0:41:31 Brennan: Go ahead—

0:41:34 Ally: You better stab and run.

0:41:34 Brennan: Go ahead and take—

0:41:34 Siobhan: That is so fucking good. Oh my god.

0:41:39 Brennan: Go ahead and take your attacks please.

0:41:42 Zac: Is the Hangman with the Hangvan?

0:41:46 Brennan: The Hangman is with the Hangvan.

0:41:48 Zac: [with careful emphasis] Would the Hangvan have noticed the Hangman running away?

0:41:52 Brennan: Gorgug, in your sleep, you get a,

0:41:52 Van: Hey, broski, wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.

0:41:59 Gorgug: Is it morning already?

0:42:01 Van: No, it's the dead of night. (Ally laughing)

0:42:07 Van: Looks like old skull and bones just scootaloo’d on out of here pretty toasty.

0:42:14 Gorgug: What's that mean? What's all that mean?

0:42:17 Van: The Hangman just popped a wheelie and smashed the door down. Just wanted to give you kind of a heads up.

0:42:26 Zac: Okay, I think Gorgug wakes up and relays this, probably still a little drunk, like,

0:42:33 Gorgug: Who's here?

0:42:36 Adaine: I think we're all there.

0:42:37 Kristen: We’re all here, except for Fabian, right?

0:42:38 Fig: I am unless my mom's asking in which case I'm not here.

0:42:40 Gorgug: Okay, skull and bones has got a little upset and skidoddled, I think the Hangman is running to help--

0:42:49 Kristen: Go back to bed, Gorgug.

0:42:49 Gorgug: No, no, no, no, no, Hangman is going to help Fabian do something. Where's Fabian?

0:42:57 Brennan: Yeah, you see that Sandra Lynn looks around and says,

0:43:01 Sandra Lynn: (panicked) Where is Fabian?

0:43:04 Fig: Oh, hey mom.

0:43:05 Sandra Lynn: (awkwardly) Hey, sweetie.

0:43:07 Brennan: And cool, you guys just start to run.

0:43:10 Siobhan: I think that we had four hours, have I tranced for four hours?

0:43:15 Brennan: No, you have not had four hours.

0:43:17 Siobhan: Okay.

0:43:17 Fig: Who wants to go on a ride with me?

0:43:21 Emily: I grab Gorgug's arm and Dimension Door to the Hangman.

0:43:25 Zac: Whoa.

0:43:25 Kristen: I've got heals though.

0:43:27 Brennan: Cool, you Dimension Door as far as you can. That gets you a lot of the way out of the Gold, like into the sort of outside building of the Gold Gardens campus. Leviathan is the site of a city. So right now, Fabian is about like three quarters of a mile horizontally away and then about a quarter of a mile up into the air.

0:43:49 Ally: Do we know where he is or do we have to find the Hangman to find him?

0:43:52 Brennan: You have to find the Hangman to find him.

0:43:54 Siobhan: Okay, can I cast Fly on, (to Kristen) you're fairly strong, right?

0:43:57 Ally: Er, yup,

0:44:01 Murph: I can Investigate.

0:44:03 Siobhan: Great, so can I cast Fly on Kristen and then can Kristen carry me and Riz?

0:44:10 Emily: So just for the record, Dimension Door, it can be a place that you can visualize. So I am gonna visualize the Hangman when I Dimension Door.

0:44:18 Brennan: Okay, so actually as you visualize the Hangman, Fig doesn't close the distance but does give you an exact compass direction towards where the Hangman is headed.

0:44:29 Emily: Awesome. And I grab Gorgug and I say,

0:44:29 Fig: Follow us.

0:44:32 Emily: And then we disappear.

0:44:32 Adaine: What?

0:44:32 Kristen: Jesus Christ.

0:44:35 Riz: That’s not how this works.

0:44:36 Lou: (raising his arms over his head proudly) I’ve thrown this group into chaos!

0:44:37 Murph: Can I just run to the van I guess?

0:44:39 Gorgug: Yeah, go to the van.

0:44:39 Riz: Come on, let's go.

0:44:42 Siobhan: Yeah, we're flying.

0:44:42 Ally: We’re flying. Hop on, I grab both of you.

0:44:45 Brennan: I'm gonna resolve at least the first round of this combat because it will be, even for those of you flying, it will be multiple rounds to get to where you're trying to get. So Fabian, let's hear it.

0:45:00 Lou: 26.

0:45:02 Brennan: 26 hits.

0:45:04 Lou: Great. That's gonna be 9.

0:45:11 Brennan: Great, you do 9 points of damage. You lash out with the sword of the Seacasters. Go ahead and take your second attack. (exciting battle music)

0:45:24 Lou: (nervous noises) 27.

0:45:26 Brennan: 27 also hits.

0:45:29 Lou: I think that is the plan. That'll be 10.

0:45:37 Brennan: Ooh! You slash at him again.

0:45:39 Lou: I'm gonna Action Surge.

0:45:39 Brennan: Okay.

0:45:43 Lou: That'll be 20?

0:45:47 Brennan: 20 hits, yes.

0:45:51 Lou: That'll be 12 damage.

0:45:54 Brennan: Okay.

0:45:59 Lou: And then last one's only gonna be 14.

0:46:03 Brennan: Last one's only 14. 14 misses. You kick the door down, yell Captain James, rush out and slash three times into a completely startled and surprised Captain James Whitclaw.

0:46:12 Fabian: (high-pitched battle scream)

0:46:21 Brennan: It is now Captain James' turn. Okay, you see Captain James springs back goes,

0:46:32 Captain James: (growl) Hey there, boyo— (terrifying mindflayer burbling)

0:46:37 Brennan: And leaps forward as this crystalline cutlass comes out from his belt. He's gonna make two attacks right now. That's two misses. Okay, this next one, he's gonna make another attack. That one's a hit. You take immediately,

0:47:06 Murph: This was balanced for 1v1, right?

0:47:07 Lou: Yeah.

0:47:09 Murph: This'll be fine, this will be a normal amount of damage.

0:47:12 Brennan: You take 19 points of psychic damage and are grappled. I need an Intelligence saving throw.

0:47:22 Siobhan: Can I use my divination rolls if I'm not there?

0:47:24 Brennan: You cannot.

0:47:24 Siobhan: Dang.

0:47:26 Lou: So first off—

0:47:27 Siobhan: Oh, I don't even have them because we didn't get a full night's rest. Ah, this is horrible!

0:47:33 Emily: Tomorrow will be great though.

0:47:35 Siobhan: Tomorrow will be really good.

0:47:37 Lou: You need an Intelligence?

0:47:39 Brennan: Mmhmm.

0:47:42 Lou: (calmly) That's a nat 1.

0:47:42 Murph: Good Lord. You deserve this.

0:47:50 Brennan: Okay, hold on one second. I'm gonna narrate what happens next.

0:47:54 Emily: Oh no, narrate? Why would we need to go into narration? (fearful laugh) You don't need to!

0:47:59 Zac: Probably like got confused for a second, right?

0:48:03 Brennan: Okay, you are stunned, which means that you are incapacitated, you cannot take actions or reactions, can't move and can speak only falteringly. Captain James swings you twice with his sword and then leaps forward, grabs your arm and his tentacles wrap over your face and you can feel his beak begin to slide along the top of your skull.

0:48:27 Emily: Oh, he's gonna eat your brain.

0:48:29 Brennan: As he attempts to eat your brain. You are stunned.

0:48:39 Ally: And we're three rounds away if we get there fast?

0:48:43 Brennan: What I'm gonna do right now is this, so the fastest way to get there would be to fly.

0:48:50 Murph: We also have Baxter, right?

0:48:50 Siobhan: But Baxter's in the, yeah.

0:48:59 Brennan: Sorry, you have Baxter with you. I'm gonna look at Baxter's speed very briefly. (laughing a little) This is completely wild. Baxter's fly speed is 80. Does your spell go faster than that?

0:49:14 Siobhan: No.

0:49:14 Brennan: Okay.

0:49:15 Siobhan: But if I cast fly on Riz, Riz as a rogue has dash as a bonus action.

0:49:22 Brennan: That's correct.

0:49:22 Siobhan: So I should do that, right?

0:49:24 Murph: That'd be great.

0:49:24 Siobhan: And then you can get, it's 60 feet of flying and then you have three movements—

0:49:29 Brennan: You'd be able to do 180 a round, which means that Riz would actually be able to get there the fastest. So what we're gonna look at right now is you go 180 feet a round. I'm going to say that just because moving diagonally in 5E doesn't cost more than horizontally, we're just gonna do three quarters of a mile moving 180 feet per turn. So this is fun math— 5280—

0:49:55 Siobhan: If we did this in metric, it would be much easier. I'm just saying.

0:49:57 Zac: This is not the time. It's just not the time.

0:49:59 Murph: It's just fully not the time, yeah.

0:50:01 Brennan: So three quarters of a mile is 3,960 feet divided by 180 feet per turn. Riz, you'll get there in 22 rounds.

0:50:12 Siobhan: No, what?

0:50:15 Ally: With flying?

0:50:18 Emily: So the Hangman isn't even gonna make it there any time soon.

0:50:20 Murph: Nothing's gonna make it there. We're just running, or flying. Try to get there as fast as I can I guess.

0:50:26 Siobhan: Does Garthy have teleportation? They’re a cleric, right?

0:50:28 Brennan: Does someone want to wake Garthy up?

0:50:31 Siobhan: No.

0:50:31 Murph: I mean yeah.

0:50:33 Ally: Would Sandra Lynn be able to do that maybe?

0:50:34 Emily: I'll go wake up Garthy.

0:50:35 Siobhan: I'll go wake up Garthy.

0:50:37 Murph: If I can go fast, I'll go grab Garthy.

0:50:42 Siobhan: Yeah, fly and wake up Garthy.

0:50:45 Brennan: Okay, so you're gonna go wake up Garthy.

0:50:50 Siobhan: 22 rounds?

0:50:50 Ally: And we're like Fabian is missing. That's all the info that we have?

0:50:55 Murph: We know that the Hangman left in a—

0:50:57 Siobhan: If it was three-quarters of a kilometer, it would be so much—

0:50:59 Fig: Gilear, do you have teleportation?

0:51:05 Gilear: [shouts] I cannot be held responsible!

0:51:09 Emily: Can I slap him to see if anything magical jostles inside him?

0:51:15 Brennan: Okay, the moment you slap Gilear.

0:51:18 Zac: He dies. (laughing)

0:51:23 Fig: Gilear, you are the chosen one!

0:51:25 Brennan: Yeah, Gilear collapses to the ground, immediately begins weeping. So now what's gonna happen is this—

0:51:35 Siobhan: This is a nightmare.

0:51:36 Zac: I have a pretty good question.

0:51:38 Brennan: Cool, give me the question.

0:51:39 Zac: So this is like a big ship, right?

0:51:41 Brennan: Mmhmm.

0:51:42 Zac: And on a pirate ship, regular size pirate ship admittedly, when you grab a rope and you go like this, you fly to where you want to go almost immediately!

0:51:55 Siobhan: That's a great question.

0:51:55 Emily: That’s a really good question.

0:51:55 Zac: Is there a big ass rope that they could cut?

0:52:00 Brennan: Go ahead and roll an Investigation check to find a rope that you could cut.

0:52:05 Emily: I'm with Gorgug so can I also do that?

0:52:06 Brennan: Cool, yeah, give me an Investigation check.

0:52:08 Zac: Okay, come on.

0:52:12 Emily: That is 17.

0:52:14 Zac: Ehh, 6.

0:52:16 Brennan: You guys find a rope that appears to go up from the Gold Gardens up towards the Crow's Nest. And it seems to be attached to some kind of weight.

0:52:25 Gorgug: Fabian! (jumps)

0:52:25 Emily: I jump onto it.

0:52:28 Brennan: Awesome. This rope has a move speed of 90. So you're gonna fly through the air at 90. You can take two move actions a turn, which is about 180. So you guys should be there in about 20 rounds. You begin to, but you're holding and and they're literally (screaming) just streaking. Gorgug's going here like, Gorgug is screaming aggressively while holding onto the rope.

0:52:46 Brennan: I’m gonna need Constitution saving throws from both of you.

0:52:49 Murph: Maximum velocity through a city.

0:52:52 Siobhan: Your mouths just flapping in the wind.

0:52:54 Murph: You’re dead. You're both dead.

0:52:56 Emily: I lose my voice halfway through.

0:52:57 Brennan: Gimme, gimme con saves, both of you.

0:52:59 Zac: Good Lord. Oh con, I've got a 14.

0:53:03 Emily: 12.

0:53:06 Brennan: 14, 12, okay. 11, 12, you guys each take 18 points of damage as your arms dislocate from the force of the rope. You've never felt like, [mimics yelps] things are changing so fast, you can't see through the tears streaming out of your eyes. [laughing] You are rocketing through the air with this rope—

0:53:34 Zac: Can I go into a rage?

0:53:35 Brennan: Yeah, you go into a rage, yes. As you both hold on for dear life.

0:53:41 Siobhan: This is so bad.

0:53:43 Brennan: The moment that you guys go from on the ground to a lethal distance in the air if you let go is less than a fraction of a second. This is how fast you are moving through the city.

0:53:55 Zac: Can we just start this session over?

0:53:56 Siobhan: Please.

0:53:57 Lou: Honestly, honestly.

0:54:00 Brennan: This is why we do this live.

0:54:02 Siobhan: This is why we should get one mulligan, Brennan!

0:54:03 Lou: I did not know what I was getting into. This all happened so fast.

0:54:08 Ally: Does Revivify bring a brain back?

0:54:11 Brennan: Actually, Revivify does not work if the person has lost an organ.

0:54:15 Murph: Also it only works within a minute and we're so far from him. Garthy!

0:54:19 Ally: Dude!

0:54:23 Brennan: You guys are flying through the sky. You're flying to go get Garthy, the Hangman is rocketing away, Sandra Lynn is flying to Crow's Keep as well. Sandra Lynn can have taken, probably Kristen with her. Adaine, you're maintaining concentration, are you doing anything else or no?

0:54:40 Siobhan: I'm gonna go with Baxter, if I can.

0:54:40 Brennan: Yeah, so you're gonna jump on with Baxter as well. Tracker is flying in wolf form next to you guys. Gilear's crying on the ground. Ragh—

0:54:50 Emily: Can I do Blade Ward so I take only half damage from that arm pain?

0:54:53 Brennan: Sure, you can do that, yes. And you see that Ragh just starts running through the city after the van.

0:55:01 Ragh: (grunting) Hoot, growl, hoot, growl, hoot growl!

0:55:04 Adaine: Good hustle, Ragh.

0:55:04 Ragh: (yelling) Thank you!

0:55:08 Kristen: Sandra Lynn, I know you don't want to talk about it. Emily screams a little.

0:55:13 Adaine: We cannot have this conversation right now. Absolutely not.

0:55:19 Emily: You have the most shit eating grin, oh my goodness. I'm gonna save a piece of this rope for you.

0:55:26 Ally: We have no idea what's really happening.

0:55:27 Siobhan: I cast Tasha’s Hideous Laughter on Kristen.

0:55:29 Ally: I pull out my ribbon. (various cackling)

0:55:36 Brennan: Now what we're gonna do is this. How many hit points is Fabian at right now?

0:55:42 Lou: How long does the hit points from Inspiring Speech last?

0:55:46 Brennan: We will assume that these have lasted.

0:55:48 Lou: Then I am at 78.

0:55:51 Brennan: Okay, cool. Fabian goes, James went. The warlocks go next. So the followers of Old Bill are going to rush out onto the deck. There are four warlocks in this number that have taken Repelling Blast as an invocation. There are four of them. The four that have taken Repelling Blast, when a creature is moved against its, so Repelling Blast moves a creature 10 feet when it gets hit with an eldritch blast. When a creature is moved with that, its grapple automatically ends because your stunned condition cannot end unless the grapple is ended.

0:57:00 Lou: So one of these four dudes needs to hit? (holding up four fingers)

0:57:02 Brennan: One of these four dudes needs to hit. We're gonna roll them in front right now.

0:57:08 Lou: What do they need to hit?

0:57:10 Brennan: Captain James's AC. I will let you know right now that this is very hard to do.

0:57:22 Ally: Man.

0:57:22 Murph: Nat 20.

0:57:24 Siobhan: One in four?

0:57:24 Emily: Nat 20, nat 20. Crit.

0:57:27 Brennan: Right now, they are gonna hit on a 14 or above, okay? That's an 8. That's a 12.

0:57:41 Lou: What?

0:57:45 Brennan: 19. [screams]

0:57:47 Siobhan: Okay!

0:57:47 Emily: One more, one more.

0:57:50 Brennan: 18, cool.

0:57:52 Siobhan: Two hits.

0:57:53 Emily: 20 feet, 20 feet. Lou is shouting and groaning in relief/fear.

0:57:57 Murph: This still stuns.

0:58:01 Zac: Does the stun not end if he gets—

0:58:03 Siobhan: If you're grappled.

0:58:04 Lou: I think the only way it can end is if he's ungrappled—

0:58:08 Brennan: You see that as your warlocks rush out of the deck and see you goggle-eyed as Captain James’ jaw begins to distend and he slips a hand into your leather jacket and says,

0:58:19 Whitclaw: Oh, I have so many of your siblings’ brains in me stomach already. Say hi when you— (exploding).

0:58:33 Brennan: And you see that Chungle-Down Jim, sorry, Chungle-Down Bim comes rushing out and goes,

0:58:43 Chungledown Bim: Bit your bob ye squid!

0:58:48 Brennan: And shoots out his hand as this Eldritch Blast comes out. You have not seen really, all you've seen is illusion magic so far, which of course, looks like whatever it does. You see that this magic is a pure stream of gold coins that vanish in flames as they hit the target. And it sounds like a slot machine at Vegas, just brring! (mimics explosion) and Captain James is repelled 10 feet back.

0:59:15 Lou: I still can't, I'm still stunned?

0:59:16 Brennan: You are no longer stunned immediately.

0:59:18 Lou: Can I speak?

0:59:18 Brennan: You can speak.

0:59:20 Fabian: (yelling) Spells are on me, go, go, I’ll pay for anything, go, go. Unlimited money, I will pay for all your spells, go!

0:59:34 Brennan: (laughing) Incredible!

0:59:37 Emily: Any celestial warlocks among them?

0:59:40 Siobhan: Well, see you in 19 rounds dude.

0:59:51 Emily: I've got a plan, I've got a plan.

0:59:51 Brennan: Okay, hold on one second.

0:59:51 Ally: You have one arm, one working arm.

0:59:51 Emily: I've got a plan.

0:59:51 Lou: (laughing so hard he can barely talk) You've got a dislocated arm.

0:59:55 Ally: We're all so fucked and we're not getting any rest. Oh man.

1:00:00 Siobhan: I have so few spell slots.

1:00:02 Murph: Even when you get there, are you just gonna hit the wall at maximum velocity?

1:00:03 Emily: I have a plan.

1:00:07 Lou: Oh my God, (fails to finish his sentence due to laughing too hard) Zac squishes his cheeks apart and yells.

1:00:14 Siobhan: You just wrap around the post like a fucking cartoon character.

1:00:21 Emily: Oh my goodness gracious.

1:00:24 Lou: (high-pitched laughter) What have I done to my friends?

1:00:28 Zac: This is fucking chaos.

1:00:28 Ally: This is wild.

1:00:30 Murph: I've taken my glasses off in just pure disgust with us probably 14 times. This is slightly exaggerated but mostly true. His glasses are off as he speaks.

1:00:35 Siobhan: Yeah. I cannot look at what’s happening.

1:00:37 Emily: I've done like nothing, okay? This is not my fault this time.

1:00:40 Lou: This is entirely me. I made all of these choices.

1:00:43 Murph: Me and Ally set the mood.

1:00:47 Brennan: I by the way, had a session prepped for tonight, but this is what the game is. The game is not about what you prepare, it's about what happens.

1:00:54 Ally: There we go.

1:00:56 Brennan: So now you see your warlocks all unload on Captain James. And you hear, so they all shout like, you hear Alistair say,

1:01:07 Alistair: Save the son of Bill!

1:01:10 Brennan: And all Captain James' pirates turn, open up with flintlock muskets as they start to cunning action dive behind barrels and take cover. Six of your warlocks are dead immediately in their first round.

1:01:21 Lou: Cool, that's out of 20?

1:01:21 Brennan: Out of 20.

1:01:24 Ally: So that's the end of the first round?

1:01:26 Brennan: That's the end of the first round of combat. Only 19 more—

1:01:31 Ally: 19 more till we get there to help.

1:01:33 Brennan: Cool! Fabian, it's gonna be you.

1:01:36 Lou: (unhappy about it) Oh, we're back to me?

1:01:36 Brennan: Back to you.

1:01:39 Lou: Okay, so, how many, can I make an Insight check as to how Captain James is doing after taking some hits?

1:01:49 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Insight check.

1:01:53 Lou: That's gonna be a 6.

1:01:56 Brennan: Okay, you've got a six?

1:01:56 Lou: Yeah.

1:02:00 Brennan: He looks fine.

1:02:02 Lou: Truly fine?

1:02:02 Brennan: He looks fine.

1:02:06 Murph: With a 6.

1:02:06 Lou: With a 6. In terms of space, how much space, with where we've decided to have this combat is the battlefield large, small? How much room do I have to like maneuver around?

1:02:25 Brennan: The street is about 30 feet wide across between the manor house that's partially destroyed right behind you. So you guys are fighting in the middle of the street. You've got about 10 feet of distance between you and like the wall behind you. And then another few feet on the other side of this horde of Captain James' pirates.

1:02:43 Lou: How much space is there between me and Captain James?

1:02:46 Brennan: Only about 10 feet.

1:02:47 Lou: 10 feet, okay. Oh man. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, I'm going to run and attack Captain James again.

1:03:10 Brennan: Great, make your two attacks.

1:03:12 Ally: I loved it when you said run! Siobhan lets out a long, disappointed sigh.

1:03:14 Lou: There's 12.

1:03:16 Brennan: 12 misses.

1:03:17 Lou: Great, I'm gonna dart back 20 feet.

1:03:22 Brennan: Okay, you take one of your two attacks, you dart back. He's gonna get an attack of opportunity on you. Hold on one second.

1:03:31 Zac: This is like Gangs of New York but stupid. (laughing)

1:03:39 Brennan: He hits. I am going to need a Intelligence saving throw from you.

1:03:47 Lou: Oh my God. Oh my God.

1:03:52 Murph: Nat 20.

1:03:54 Emily: Nat 20, nat 20, nat 20.

1:03:57 Lou: (very quietly) So 4.

1:04:00 Brennan: What's that? Natural 4? Okay.

1:04:02 Lou: It's a natural three. It was a modified four.

1:04:07 Murph: It's a dirty four.

1:04:07 Brennan: Dirty four. (laughing)

1:04:12 Ally: I feel drunk from anxiety.

1:04:12 Emily: I know.

1:04:15 Ally: The anxiety has reached, it's pickling my brain.

1:04:21 Zac: Is Fabian just dead? Is that what's going on?

1:04:23 Ally: Do we get like a guest star for the rest of these streams? Like what the fuck?

1:04:28 Lou: It's just the end of me, I guess.

1:04:30 Zac: Just run.

1:04:32 Ally: Literally you said the word run and then you said attack.

1:04:36 Brennan: Fabian takes 39 points of damage as Captain James slices across you with one stroke of his cutlass.

1:04:43 Lou: And then?

1:04:45 Brennan: Nothing else happens. His attack of opportunity happens with his sword, not his cutlass.

1:04:47 Lou: Great, I take that much damage?

1:04:49 Brennan: Yes.

1:04:49 Lou: Great. I scream—

1:04:52 Brennan: You feel a psychic resonance off the blade. You are making Intelligence saves because his sword when it touches you floods with a more powerful hatred than you have ever felt. You think his mind is capable of feeling hatred so powerfully that it can disrupt the tissues of your body.

1:05:11 Lou: Cool, with that information, I say,

1:05:11 Fabian: Forward men, forward!

1:05:16 Lou: And I would like to run and hide behind as many of them as I possibly can.

1:05:19 Brennan: Incredible.

1:05:19 Emily: Good.

1:05:20 Zac: Sacrificing all his warlocks...

1:05:21 Brennan: Okay, so go ahead and run. You've taken one attack. Now you've doubled back another 20 feet which can get you kind of to the doorway.

1:05:30 Siobhan: Do you have a crossbow?

1:05:32 Lou: I do. Can I shoot him one time and then hide?

1:05:38 Brennan: You don't have cunning action.

1:05:39 Lou: Great. And then just be as far away as possible.

1:05:42 Brennan: Sure you can get into the doorway.

1:05:46 Lou: Great. I'm going to attack him again and then I will Second Wind.

1:05:50 Brennan: Cool.

1:05:53 Lou: That's gonna be 20 to hit.

1:05:56 Brennan: He casts Shield. Great.

1:06:03 Lou: And I heal for seven plus eight, 15.

1:06:10 Brennan: Okay. I am going to, you see Captain Whitclaw holding his saber here. Says,

1:06:25 Whitclaw: Running so soon, boyo? That's no captain that abandons his crew! I'm so sorry, crew! (hand to his temple, does some psychic attack)

1:06:41 Brennan: And he, I'm gonna roll some saves in front of the board right now for the other 14 of your men. We'll do the 10 unnamed ones first.

1:06:57 Ally: I need CBD.

1:07:00 Siobhan: A nice hot bath after this.

1:07:00 Emily: Can we have turns during this?

1:07:02 Brennan: Yes, absolutely. Hold on one second. I'm just gonna resolve this. This is only the second round really. Hold on one second. Whoo! Okay. All of these guys need a 15 or higher to survive.

1:07:25 Lou: Survive?

1:07:25 Brennan: Survive, these are the unnamed warlocks that are still alive. (rolls several d20) Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, one unnamed warlock is still alive. We're gonna roll for the other four. Hold on.

1:07:46 Siobhan: Chungle-Down Bim, that is definitely an anagram. Fellas in the chat, figure it out.

1:07:55 Emily: And fellettes.

1:07:57 Siobhan: These are genderless fellas.

1:08:00 Brennan: So Captain James Whitclaw raises up to his head. Pure malevolence made of psionic force flows from him and rends the bodies as though an invisible spectral force was gripping them and shaking them so fast they simply came apart. Like you see through haze of like heat coming off of a grill on the hottest day of summer. They just shake and come apart. All of them except one warlock that you did not get a chance to meet, Chungle-Down Bim is alive, Alistair Ash is alive and Old Young Benjamin is alive. Creaky McBarrel is dead. So your father's cult has gone from 20 to four warlocks in 12 seconds.

1:08:46 Zac: What happened to the guy who Featherfalled off?

1:08:48 Brennan: Oh sorry, there is a fifth warlock of Old Bill that yet draws breath. Let me make a note.

1:08:57 Ally: And they all watched you run.

1:08:59 Lou: I didn't run away, I just hid and then I shot him.

1:09:02 Brennan: Okay. And then Captain Jim is going to take his movement to get next to you but he's already taken his action, he's just setting himself up for another attack of opportunity. How many hit points you got right now?

1:09:19 Lou: (petulantly) I'm not telling you.

1:09:19 Brennan: Okay. That is now—

1:09:25 Lou: I'm at 63.

1:09:27 Brennan: That's now going to be the warlocks. I'm gonna roll, go ahead and give me—

1:09:36 Lou: Did he, never mind.

1:09:38 Brennan: Can you go ahead and give me three, give me three Charisma checks with disadvantage if you'd be so kind. Actually, no give me four charisma checks with disadvantage. So you have to roll them one at a, 'cause you can't roll them all because you won't know which ones are low and which ones are high.

1:09:55 Lou: I'm gonna roll these three, give me a fourth dice. I just need one. I'll roll these four twice and the lower of the two on each of the dice.

1:10:01 Brennan: But you gotta pair them so you know which is which.

1:10:04 Emily: I think it's gonna be them abandoning you so--

1:10:05 Lou: 3.

1:10:06 Brennan: Okay.

1:10:12 Lou: 13. 7.

1:10:18 Brennan: Okay.

1:10:22 Lou: 3.

1:10:27 Brennan: You see Old Young Benjamin leaps as high as he can, leaps up into the rigging, disappears. The unnamed warlock simply vanishes into the night. Chungle-Down Bim turns to you and goes,

1:10:46 Chungledown Bim: Ye ain't no pirate and Bill would spit in your eye.

1:10:50 Brennan: And he's going to cast Eldritch Blast on you. And he misses. Gold just fires off,

1:10:58 Chungledown Bim: I'm gonna shit in your mouth. I'm gonna make a toilet in your mouth boy.

1:11:09 Lou: Fabian honestly is fighting back tears.

1:11:15 Brennan: Alistair Ash rushes up and says,

1:11:20 Alistair: Don't worry, Master Fabian, I'm still loyal to the end!

1:11:26 Brennan: And is going to rush up and attempt to grapple Captain James.

1:11:30 Siobhan: Oh Alistair.

1:11:30 Emily: Don't.

1:11:30 Ally: Don't die, Alistair.

1:11:36 Brennan: That's a natural 1 on Alistair's grapple check.

1:11:39 Murph: Yikes.

1:11:42 Brennan: Alistair collapses in a heap,

1:11:45 Murph: Instantly judo-thrown.

1:11:45 Brennan: Instantly is like thrown off of Captain James’ shoulder effortlessly.

1:11:50 Zac: One of his tentacles, like— (mimics one tentacle doing a small flick)

1:11:53 Brennan: I'm gonna, actually yeah—

1:11:55 Lou: So it's just me and Aster?

1:11:59 Brennan: No, that's the warlocks. I'm gonna say you are partially obscured in the doorway. So you have cover from the pirates on the street. Now, for everyone else, what are the turns you guys are, we return to you guys in front of the air. You've got about another nine rounds.

1:12:18 Emily: Okay, but I would like to, I'm gonna Disguise Self and become Jamina Joy and then I would like to look as we're soaring through I need to look for a—

1:12:26 Siobhan: This was your plan?

1:12:28 Emily: What else do I have to do here?

1:12:30 Ally: Amen, I believe in you.

1:12:32 Emily: And then I want to look for a wizard. So do I find a wizard? I look like Jamina Joy. Tell me whether or not I find a wizard. Brennan puts both hands over his mouth, but he looks considering.

1:12:42 Murph: This is the worst— we have no plans. We have no plans.

1:12:46 Brennan: No, no, no, no, no, this is not him, this is not Hilda Hilda, this is good this is good, this is good. I love this.

1:12:51 Ally: Hilda Hilda on Hilda Street.

1:12:52 Brennan: Hilda Hilda on Hilda Street. And Hilda Boulevard.

1:12:53 Zac: Can I give you a help action?

1:12:54 Brennan: Here's the important thing, you disguise up as Jamina Joy, you are Jamina Joy throttling through the air faster than you can intuit on an emotional level, right? You are looking for a wizard. I'm gonna say please take a Perception check with disadvantage.

1:13:11 Zac: Can I help?

1:13:11 Brennan: No, you may not. (laughing)

1:13:15 Emily: Okay.

1:13:15 Zac: Sorry.

1:13:19 Emily: I got a four.

1:13:19 Brennan: Okay, you are miraculously with a dislocated shoulder able to disguise yourself as the boatswain of the Leviathan. You begin to look for a wizard. You see a shape that looks a lot like a wizard until you realize it is a screaming nebula of lights and fog as you shoot through the sky.

1:13:38 Emily: Okay, I don't need to find a wizard, I just shout,

1:13:39 Fig: [as Jamina Joy] “People of Leviathan, teleport me to Crow's Keep for the sake of Leviathan!”

1:13:46 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna home rule something right now. I'm gonna need you to give me a Persuasion check with quadruple disadvantage. That's where you're gonna roll four D20 and take the worst of the four.

1:13:57 Zac: Can I help?

1:13:57 Brennan: No, you absolutely may not and in fact, 5 damage. (laughing)

1:14:05 Zac: Halved or?

1:14:08 Brennan: Yeah so four D20, the lowest.

1:14:08 Emily: 15.

1:14:09 Ally: Wow!

1:14:10 Brennan: No, four D20.

1:14:10 Emily: I did four D20.

1:14:13 Brennan: (standing to look at her dice) The lowest you got was a 15?

1:14:14 Emily: I get plus 11 persuasion. This. Is. My. Shit. This is what I do.

1:14:20 Brennan: So you scream down, you see to your credit a bunch of people come out looking helpful to their balconies. Your cry fills the city of Leviathan and there are several people here that would teleport you. However, the issue is that what they effectively hear is (lengthy mumbled screaming) and you are gone.

1:14:54 Murph: Simpsons style, “yeai!!”

1:14:56 Emily: Truly, what else— this was my best plan.

1:14:59 Ally: Good plan.

1:14:59 Lou: It was a solid effort.

1:15:01 Brennan: It was perfect, it was perfect.

1:15:04 Murph: There's nothing we can do, yeah. We keep flying in the direction that we can. I'm still trying to get to Garthy.

1:15:12 Zac: Do I see him? Captain—

1:15:14 Brennan: Captain James, no! (primly) Under no circumstance.

1:15:17 Zac: We'll have to throw a hand ax at him.

1:15:19 Emily: We started at 3,406, but then we got 90 for the, we've probably gone two rounds with this rope, so 100 minus 180.

1:15:30 Brennan: Yeah, for sure, absolutely.

1:15:32 Zac: Can I throw a hand ax?

1:15:32 Brennan: Yeah, you want to throw a quadruple disadvantage hand ax there? You could roll 4 nat 20s.

1:15:41 Siobhan: Why not, what do you have to lose?

1:15:44 Lou: I have put us in this position. I have made these things happen.

1:15:48 Brennan: No, great, for sure! Sometimes we forget what we do.

1:15:52 Zac: We're coming, Fabian! Nat 1.

1:15:56 Brennan: Statistically high probability yeah of rolling a nat 1 there. Cool, you hurl an ax up ahead. I'm gonna roll a saving throw for the rope directly ahead of you that is sustaining you in the air real quick.

1:16:10 Siobhan: What if we get a total party kill from this?

1:16:12 Fig: People of Leviathan, I will now fall with an orc, catch me!

1:16:18 Emily: I do not remember what Jamina sounds like.

1:16:19 Brennan: Okay, that's a natural 16. You do not sever the rope. You are flying through the city on. Congratulations, great, cool.

1:16:24 Zac: I'm so stressed out.

1:16:27 Brennan: Would anyone else like to take actions?

1:16:28 Murph: Just fly.

1:16:30 Ally: Fly.

1:16:30 Brennan: Cool, so you can fly into one of the upper, if you're flying, you can fly into one of the upper levels and try to find Garthy.

1:16:34 Murph: Sweet, yeah, yeah.

1:16:36 Brennan: Give me an Investigation check, see if you find him, or find them, excuse me.

1:16:38 Murph: Good Lord. Dirty 20.

1:16:44 Brennan: Dirty 20, you find them right away.You smash through a window. You see that Garthy is literally like playing a harpsichord and they look kind of relaxed like they've just had a bunch of sex—

1:16:58 Riz: Garthy, I'm really sorry, I know we've done this a lot but this time it's real. Fabian's in trouble. He never came home and then his motorcycle just flew off and went somewhere. I think he's in trouble. We can't get there fast! Do you know how to get there fast? Do you know how to get places fast?

1:17:13 Brennan: One second, go ahead and give me a Persuasion roll if you'd be so kind.

1:17:21 Murph: (slams the table) That is a 26. (Ally clapping)

1:17:25 Brennan: Oh my God.

1:17:25 Emily: Was it a nat 20?

1:17:27 Murph: No, I got 19.

1:17:29 Siobhan: I really love these big dice. I can see them from here.

1:17:31 Ally: A nat-teen.

1:17:35 Brennan: Okay. You see Garthy looks over at you and says,

1:17:47 Garthy: Lovey, calm down, it's all gonna be all right, come with me. Grabs you and walks down the hall, just walks 30 feet down the hall.

1:17:58 Siobhan: Walks?

1:17:58 Brennan: Yeah.

1:17:59 Riz: Can we run?

1:17:59 Brennan: You see, says,

1:17:59 Garthy: Lovey, running is not gonna make a difference now. You understand?

1:18:06 Riz: (small voice) Okay.

1:18:08 Brennan: Cool.

1:18:10 Siobhan: Can I?

1:18:10 Brennan: We-- Adaine, yes?

1:18:11 Siobhan: I also have nothing that I feel like I can do but I would like to--

1:18:14 Emily: You gotta try, maybe the rolls.

1:18:18 Siobhan: Pray to the gods of the jacket and reach into my jacket of usefulness and see if there's something in there. I just ask for something that will get me there faster. (music stops for a moment)

1:18:29 Brennan: Okay, something that will get you there faster. Go ahead and roll an Arcana check for me.

1:18:36 Siobhan: Okay. 22.

1:18:41 Brennan: Ok. A Razor scooter comes out of your—

1:18:44 Siobhan: But I'm--

1:18:45 Emily: You're on a griffin.

1:18:45 Siobhan: I'm on the back of a griffin.

1:18:50 Emily: Maybe it's for the griffin.

1:18:52 Siobhan: Is it a Razor scooter of teleportation?

1:18:56 Brennan: Again, the jacket cannot produce items in excess of a certain gold piece value.

1:19:00 Siobhan: Hey, man, I don't know the value of teleportation Razor scooters.

1:19:05 Zac: Just keep it.

1:19:05 Siobhan: I'm gonna keep it, it's cool.

1:19:08 Brennan: Absolutely you should keep that scooter. Great, so--

1:19:10 Ally: I'd like to cast Bless just on us on the griffin.

1:19:11 Brennan: Cool, you cast Bless, that's wonderful. Fabian, that returns to your turn.

1:19:16 Lou: Okay. So it's Aster laying on the ground next to me?

1:19:21 Brennan: Alistair is laying on the ground next to you.

1:19:24 Lou: James is—

1:19:24 Brennan: Standing in the doorway within five foot reach of you.

1:19:29 Lou: So if I move, he will get an opportunity attack?

1:19:31 Brennan: He will get an opportunity attack with his sword.

1:19:33 Zac: Unless you disengage.

1:19:33 Lou: Unless I disengage. So I'm in the house?

1:19:35 Brennan: Mmhmm.

1:19:38 Lou: Half of the house is gone?

1:19:38 Brennan: Gone.

1:19:43 Lou: What is the quality of that? What would I be— What's on the other side, just a pit?

1:19:53 Brennan: It's the edge of the Crow's Keep. So it is a quarter of a mile drop to the neighborhood below which is Mast Hearth.

1:20:01 Siobhan: Are there ropes?

1:20:01 Lou: Are there ropes?

1:20:03 Brennan: There are so many ropes. There is so much rigging on the way down.

1:20:08 Zac: Be careful. Be careful with those ropes.

1:20:10 Siobhan: Thank God that you have such a good history of athletically jumping.

1:20:17 Lou: If I were to run and jump for ropes, what would-- Ally starts eating a banana.

1:20:20 Siobhan: Ally.

1:20:24 Brennan: (like a disappointed parent) Ally.

1:20:26 Lou: Honestly, this is a great time to do it. It honestly brings the intensity down. I'm breathing better because this banana is being eaten. Murph has taken off his glasses in disgust again.

1:20:35 Murph: Just a banana with peanut butter… Some of the peanut butter Ally is eating spills a bit, and they turn and fiddle to clean it.

1:20:37 Lou: Can I do an insight check that-- Do I see ropes that I think I could reach on a jump?

1:20:43 Brennan: Give me a Perception check.

1:20:46 Ally: There's a lot more oil in that pack than I thought.

1:20:49 Lou: Yeah, it's made with palm oil and I wasn't about that.

1:20:52 Murph: Good Lord.

1:20:52 Brennan: What's the perception check?

1:20:58 Lou: (reluctantly) It's a nat 1.

1:20:59 Brennan: There is a rope directly in front of you that you are certain you could grab onto and would sustain you down to the ground.

1:21:07 Zac: Don't look at me.

1:21:08 Ally: Don't look at me.

1:21:11 Brennan: You have never in your life been more certain that a rope would completely bamboozle your foes and get you safely to the ground.

1:21:20 Lou: (smilingly) Fabian runs and jumps for the rope.

1:21:24 Brennan: Okay, does Fabian do anything else before running?

1:21:30 Lou: I guess I'll disengage if it's within 30 feet.

1:21:36 Brennan: Cool, and again, pirates out there, Chungle-Down Jim, you got Captain James there, Alistair crumpled at Captain James’ feet. You're standing there. It's literally like 20 feet through the house to the edge where you can jump. Cool, so you are going to disengage, run, jump—

1:21:53 Lou: For the rope.

1:21:53 Brennan: Great. You disengage, run. As you do so, give me one more Charisma check with disadvantage.

1:22:11 Lou: That is a 9.

1:22:14 Brennan: Alistair looks up at you completely heartbroken and says,

1:22:17 Alistair: Captain, why?

1:22:19 Brennan: And you run, grab the rope. The rope is attached to a laundry line above you that completely cannot support your weight. You yank down, a bunch of giant silk bloomers cover your body. One goes over your head and you begin to plummet towards the ground a quarter of a mile drop to the city floor below. [defeated sighs]

1:22:42 Brennan: What's going to happen now is this.

1:22:50 Ally: We all wake up 'cause this was a crazy dream and like—

1:22:54 Siobhan: We've had the craziest Nightmare King-induced dream…

1:22:54 Emily: We take a pill that transports us back in time to before my mom did what she did.

1:23:03 Ally: So the Nightmare King made all of this feel so real (looks into the camera) for everyone watching also.

1:23:09 Brennan: (counting something, ominously) 192.

1:23:11 Zac: Seems like we're gonna figure it out in the next 10 minutes or so.

1:23:16 Siobhan: Yeah, you have a few rounds to fall. You can grab another rope on the way.

1:23:22 Lou: I'm hoping for more ropes on the way down.

1:23:22 Siobhan: (in sync with Lou) A lot of ropes on the way down.

1:23:25 Lou: This man won't stop talking about how much rigging there is.

1:23:27 Siobhan: He's counting a lot over there. Just quietly counting.

1:23:29 Zac: Can you parachute with the bloomers?

1:23:30 Lou: Yeah, can I use the laundry?

1:23:33 Siobhan: Make some kind of parachute.

1:23:35 Brennan: So, it takes a second to get up to terminal velocity. I've done the math, a quarter of a mile is 1.320 feet. A body falling reaches terminal velocity at 32 feet per second, which is 192 feet around. It will take Fabian seven rounds to reach the bottom, which means that no one else will be within range to help Fabian but you will have seven rounds of chances to attempt to slow your fall. Okay? So we're gonna start with a little counter of rounds. We're gonna roll luck checks to see if there's rigging. I'm gonna say that you need an 11 or higher to have available rigging and we're gonna need a DC20 Dexterity saving throw. Okay? Cool.

1:24:32 Emily: This is just so not how I saw tonight going.

1:24:34 Siobhan: No.

1:24:35 Brennan: 8, so there's none on that round. 2, none on that round. 17. Go ahead and give me a Dexterity saving throw to attempt, so you gotta get a DC20. Lou rolls, looks at it, then puts away the specific die he used. Murph groans.

1:24:52 Brennan: Nat 1?

1:24:52 Emily: Another nat 1?

1:24:54 Brennan: You pass through some rope, ah boom, and now you are partially tied, your legs are tied up as you pass through some more ropes.

1:25:01 Zac: Your legs are tied up?

1:25:03 Brennan: Yeah, you go through ropes that you don't manage to catch so you get wrapped up in some more ropes, you're covered in underwear. 10 is on the lower half, Four, nine, six, some bad rolls, 10, not enough last chance to attempt to slow your fall. 15. This is your last chance to not take full falling damage.

1:25:32 Siobhan: What do you need to get?

1:25:32 Ally: DC 20.

1:25:34 Lou: I need a 20. I get plus seven, I need a 13.

1:25:39 Brennan: Let's see if you roll this 13.

1:25:40 Murph: You got it.

1:25:40 Zac: You got it, you got it. You absolutely got it.

1:25:43 Emily: Everyone think positive thoughts! Lou rolls his save. Siobhan and Emily scream in happiness, and Lou himself puts his face in his hand in relief.

1:25:44 Ally: Yes! 16.

1:25:46 Siobhan: 25.

1:25:49 Zac: Oh, this fucking game!

1:25:52 Brennan: Okay, we exit from combat. Because a lot of people were not present in that combat, I'm going to just narrate how we all arrive at the following scene. So we have Baxter with Sandra Lynn, Tracker nearby, Kristen and Adaine. You guys arrive after, you guys arrive, Garthy takes you into a room in the Gold Gardens. They kneel down, touch a silvery pentagram in silver chalk in the center of a shrine room filled with red and pink and orange candles, touch it. A pair of neon red, and when I say neon, I mean it literally is just the outline, as in like a neon sign. So these neon wings just made of outlines of light erupt from Garthy's back and they touch a warm hand to your shoulder and you begin to see buildings and streets move past you as though you were stationary and the city were rushing past your vision as you begin to move through the city. Ragh and the Hangvan are the slowest and having the hardest time getting here. Oh wait, Ragh's clearly driving the Hangvan as the Hangvan can't drive. So you guys all—

1:27:28 Zac: What happened to us?

1:27:28 Brennan: Oh yes, sorry—

1:27:31 Emily: I'm still Jamina Joy for now.

1:27:34 Brennan: I'm so sorry, I forgot. Incredible.

1:27:44 Murph: We're all just gonna arrive and Fabian's gonna crumble down. Fabian's alive and you guys are dead.

1:27:49 Zac: This is the dumbest session of, this is the dumbest.

1:27:54 Brennan: Okay, and you guys see that indeed Fig and Gorgug, you guys fly up and eventually come to rest. As you approach the Crow's Keep, you see another rope that can get you down to the bottom and the Hangvan is already telling you in your head like come down here. You guys see Gorgog and Fig who truly look as though they've been in a cold temperature dryer for 45 minutes. (laughing)

1:28:32 Brennan: Fabian is hanging about, his head is probably about like seven feet up in the air, dangling from his feet partially cocooned in underwear and ropes, badly injured with blood running up his face and dripping through his silvery hair onto a puddle in the ground underneath him. And that is where you guys find Fabian.

1:28:59 Adaine: You can't sneak off on your own.

1:29:01 Riz: Did you kick his ass?

1:29:01 Adaine: What are you doing? He's wrapped in underwear and ropes, I don’t think he kicked his ass.

1:29:05 Murph: I run over and try to use a Healer kit to kind of wake him up.

1:29:08 Emily: (crosstalk) I start doing Healing Word. Healing Word. Healing Word.

1:29:10 Ally: I start casting Prayer of Healing. It takes 10 minutes but I can get us all a lot of heal.

1:29:16 Emily: I'll just use some Healing Words on you. Tell me when you don't need 'em.

1:29:20 Lou: How much damage do you want me to take?

1:29:24 Brennan: No, you successfully saved. You slowed your fall, you grabbed some rope, wrapped yourself up in it like an aerialist. So you did it.

1:29:34 Lou: I have 63. (stuttering) I'm fine.

1:29:38 Brennan: Do you want to take some damage?

1:29:40 Lou: I feel like I'm cheating this if I don't.

1:29:44 Emily: 13 more.

1:29:45 Brennan: 10, 13, 13, 20, 30. You take 32 points of damage.

1:29:54 Lou: Great, 63 minus 32—

1:29:57 Emily: Well add the 13 that I gave you.

1:29:57 Lou: Plus 13.

1:30:04 Emily: And another 14.

1:30:05 Murph: I guess, yeah, I'll cut him down.

1:30:07 Brennan: Tracker begins to do kind of like a soothing ritual healing as well. So all the party's healers are, y’know.

1:30:14 Riz: Fabian, who did this, what happened?

1:30:17 Fig: Were you ambushed?

1:30:21 Fabian: (quietly, shaky) No.

1:30:23 Gorgug: You were in a situation where you just couldn't get out, huh?

1:30:27 Fabian: (strained) Something like that.

1:30:28 Kristen: Yeah, they bust down the door and they found you where you were and they said “Fabian!” and attacked you right away?

1:30:33 Adaine: Incriminating personal information.

1:30:36 Fig: All on your own.

1:30:38 Fabian: (not making eye contact) No, no, no, no.

1:30:41 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks at you and says,

1:30:52 Sandra Lynn: We're just gonna put Fabian in the van and we're gonna head back to the Gold Gardens and we're gonna sleep, okay?

1:30:56 Fig: Yeah, that's all I want to do.

1:31:02 Brennan: (laughing) Tracker comes over and heals your dislocated arm.

1:31:06 Fig: Oh, I wouldn't mind.

1:31:08 Gorgug: Don't cut the ropes, just for FYI, don't cut the ropes. You go too fast.

1:31:16 Brennan: You guys return to the Gold Gardens. As you guys return to the Gold Gardens, Tracker looks up and says,

1:31:33 Tracker: So because we kind of didn't like bed down sort of like right away, there's gonna be like a little period of time where this magic is not gonna be fully protecting us. (hesitantly) I don't know necessarily what to do with that but I just thought I'd let everybody know.

1:31:52 Fig: Should we take a day and sleep in shifts?

1:31:56 Tracker: Well, maybe, but also like even if you're sleeping in shifts, if you're sleeping outside of the protection of the Moon Haven, I just don't know.

1:32:08 Adaine: I mean we need to sleep.

1:32:08 Fig: Yeah, we don't have a choice.

1:32:11 Kristen: We just take the risk I guess.

1:32:14 Gorgug: Can you give people Bardic Inspiration?

1:32:16 Fig: I only have a couple left but I will give it out. I think I have two left. So who's feeling weak and vulnerable? Fabian, I'm gonna give you one. Fabian nods, unspeaking.

1:32:26 Siobhan: It's a Wisdom saving throw normally, am I making?

1:32:27 Brennan: Yes.

1:32:28 Siobhan: I have pretty high Wisdom.

1:32:28 Ally: I have high Wisdom as well.

1:32:30 Siobhan: Yeah, I have 6 Wisdom.

1:32:31 Fig: Okay Gorgug, take a little Bardic Inspiration, huh?

1:32:33 Gorgug: Thank you.

1:32:36 Murph: My Wisdom's only plus one.

1:32:39 Emily: Oh, I already gave it out, I'm sorry.

1:32:40 Murph: It's okay.

1:32:44 Emily: I have bad Wisdom too.

1:32:47 Murph: It's okay. We all have things we're bad at.

1:32:52 Siobhan: That's a lot of unwise decisions that have been made today.

1:32:54 Brennan: As you get put in the van, Fabian, you see that the Hangman comes up and says,

1:33:00 Hangman: Sire, are you all right?

1:33:03 Fabian: No, Hangman. It's all bad.

1:33:09 Brennan: You see that the Hangman, the light in it dims a little bit. You hear a (sighing) it backs up and (mortorcycle bumping into van sounds) drives into the van and to the closest of your ability goes into the little aisle of van seats next to you and tips itself over onto your side.

1:33:33 Fabian: Oh, it's very sweet of you.

1:33:37 Brennan: You see that Tracker looks over at you, Kristen and says,

1:33:41 Tracker: All right, well let's try to get back as soon as we can.

1:33:45 Brennan: Garthy looks over at Sandra Lynn, Sandra Lynn looks at Garthy, there's a look shared with the rest of you.

1:33:50 Emily: (crosstalk) I don’t look at either of them.

1:33:55 Brennan: You guys all get back, you see, by the way, that when you get back, Cathilda comes and tucks you in, gives you a little piece of kippers and kisses you on the head.

1:34:06 Fabian: I don't deserve kippers.

1:34:09 Ally: Can I talk to everyone other than Fabian?

1:34:11 Brennan: Yes, absolutely. Cathilda kisses you on the head and says,

1:34:18 Cathilda: (pinching his cheek) My sweet boy, Master Fabian, it's not about deserving kippers, it's not a test or a trial. I made them for you 'cause I love you.

1:34:33 Fabian: (sounding on the verge of tears) You should give your kippers to everyone else. They're just so delicious. I'd hate for them to be wasted on me.

1:34:43 Brennan: She sighs, pats your shoulder and leaves you there to sleep and the Hangman has come into your corner of the Gold Gardens suite as well.

1:34:56 Lou: White noise from the muffler— Brennan imitates a stalling motorcycle engine.

1:35:00 Emily: Just getting so high on fumes.

1:35:02 Murph: I think I'm gonna go into Fabian's room.

1:35:06 Brennan: Cool, you go over to Fabian's room. Tracker seems super like hungover and fucked up from all the revelry still. Give me an insight check, Kristen.

1:35:20 Ally: Sure. 10.

1:35:25 Brennan: Cool. But obviously you know Tracker well enough, you know that she probably can't remember anything from last night, that she's like hungover. She's like fucked up, basically. What did you want to say to everybody when you got back?

1:35:37 Kristen: Oh yeah, you guys, do you think that we should hide Fabian if this person is like really after him?

1:35:46 Gorgug: Well, he knew where he was earlier. Is Garthy here?

1:35:51 Brennan: Garthy is here standing with you to make sure everything's okay.

1:35:54 Fig: Gorgug, is there an invisibility shield or anything for this van?

1:36:00 Kristen: Well, I was thinking I could Banish Fabian 'cause then it puts you unconsious, if you're native to the plane that I'm Banishing you from, you go to a harmless demiplane where you're incapacitated. So he could—

1:36:14 Riz: I think it only lasts like a minute though.

1:36:16 Kristen: Oh okay yeah.

1:36:17 Gorgug: Garthy, I'll ask the van in a sec, but considering what's gone on, do you think the Captain would try to come here? 'Cause it seemed like he was hesitant to fight here earlier.

1:36:32 Garthy: Lovey, I don't think Captain James is liable to start anything here in the Gold Gardens.

1:36:40 Fig: All right.

1:36:40 Garthy: I've taken great pains to ensure that at least here, amongst this home I've made for me and mine, that no one's gonna try anything.

1:36:53 Ally: Can I do an Insight check on them?

1:36:54 Brennan: Sure, go for it.

1:36:59 Ally: Oh so close to a 20. Yeah, that's pretty high. I got a 22.

1:37:04 Brennan: They seem sad. They seem a little bit sad.

1:37:08 Ally: Can I tell why or? Which thing that they were saying seemed to make them sad or was it something else?

1:37:20 Brennan: On a 22, let me roll a little Deception check here. They seem sad in relation to both Tracker and Fig.

1:37:34 Ally: (looking faintly confused) Okay.

1:37:38 Brennan: Tracker goes to just collapse into sleep. Gilear, Sandra Lynn, the rest do as well. Do any of you immediately go to sleep or do some of you like shaking things off?

1:37:46 Emily: Can I,

1:37:53 Fig: Adaine, I have a private favor I need?

1:37:56 Adaine: I'll see what I can do.

1:37:58 Fig: I need you to tie me up. (laughs a little)

1:38:01 Adaine: You want me to tie you up? The person with minus two Strength?

1:38:04 Fig: Well I was gonna ask Riz but Riz left.

1:38:06 Adaine: I mean I'll do it.

1:38:09 Fig: I think the Nightmare King found a capable pawn in me and I just feel like they're gonna come after me again.

1:38:18 Adaine: Why don't I set a Snare around you and if you move, then you have to do a successful Intelligence or Dexterity saving throw? Or you’ll be hoisted in the air.

1:38:31 Fig: That sounds good, in addition to tying me up.

1:38:32 Adaine: Well that basically is tying you up. I wrap you in a rope that, it's just a magical trap.

1:38:39 Fig: Okay.

1:38:39 Adaine: So if you get up to leave—

1:38:42 Emily: Okay, yeah, that's what I do.

1:38:44 Siobhan: Great.

1:38:46 Emily: And I also avoid eye contact with my mom.

1:38:50 Brennan: As you are about to get tied up, Tracker's already out but before you're tied up, Garthy O'Brien comes over to you and they look at you and say,

1:39:02 Garthy: (gently) I'm so sorry to bother you lovey, would you mind if I spoke with you for a moment?

1:39:11 Fig: (uncomfortably) Absolutely. I don't know anything about my mom's personal life and I actually can't really be sort of like a messenger for her. So I don't know what the situation is. I don't know what she told you but I also don't know either so—

1:39:30 Garthy: (sighs) Darling, I—

1:39:32 Fig: If you want to shoot your shot though, shoot your shot.

1:39:34 Garthy: No. Lovey, I doubt you're a worse messenger for your mother's personal life than your mother, if you catch my meaning. Listen, I just wanted to do this properly because I did not want to make you and your young friends uncomfortable but my deepest desire, as always, is to make sure that everybody that comes to the Gold Gardens has the best possible time that they can, yeah? And I'm not one to apologize for enjoying myself or helping others enjoy themselves, but if I've done anything to make you uncomfortable--

1:40:19 Fig: No, not at all. It has nothing to do with you. It just has to do with, I just think my mom might've hurt someone's feelings and I'm feeling conflicted about knowing that and what to do about that. Nothing to do with you though. You, your hospitality was great. I'm gonna leave a five star Yelp.

1:40:38 Garthy: I don't know what that is but I do appreciate it. (frowning a little) I also wanted to say that look, I'm a pirate, yeah, so I try not to be too preachy or moralistic but also I'm descended from angels, yeah? So this kind of comes with the territory. So I wanted to say that there's a plethora of ways in which I enjoy getting down. I don't enjoy getting down when it involves someone breaking a promise. And I hope you understand that anything I did, I did in the confidence of a good faith that may not have been present. Do you understand what I mean?

1:41:18 Fig: Yeah. I do, I do. (stilted) I'm sorry if you also got hurt by Sandra Lynn's (clears throat, wiggles shoulders awkwardly) fun. Sorry, I'm really awkward in this kind of situation. I've just been having a night.

1:41:38 Garthy: These are the types of events that force us to grow up, yeah, and it's painful.

1:41:44 Fig: Yeah.

1:41:46 Garthy: I'm not hurt, lovey.

1:41:47 Fig: Okay.

1:41:48 Garthy: I have been through much worse many times and the only thing that would've been a risk to me would've been to have such young enterprising adventurers as yourself leave this place with a lower opinion of its humble host.

1:42:06 Fig: No, right now, it's kind of just my opinion of my mom is oscillating between “that's not my business” and “how could you do that to Jawbone?” Sorry to put a name to—

1:42:15 Garthy: (a little startled) Jawbone O'Shaughnessy?

1:42:21 Fig: Yeah.

1:42:24 Garthy: (takes a breath, shakes their head) Life is complicated, I'll tell you that right now! All right—

1:42:29 Ally: They know Jawbone?

1:42:29 Siobhan: Of course they know Jawbone.

1:42:34 Garthy: (breathes out loudly) Jawbone's been to Leviathan many times, lovey. This is wild. I need to go sit down.

1:42:41 Fig: Yeah no, see, this though it could've just been a good situation, you know, if she'd just shot a text—

1:42:46 Ally: Can I roll Insight to see if they've slept with Jawbone?

1:42:49 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

1:42:49 Emily: (nodding authoritatively) They definitely have.

1:42:53 Ally: Let me see. Oh, that's a 17.

1:42:58 Brennan: 100%.

1:42:58 Ally: (laughing a little) Yeah, okay great.

1:43:01 Brennan: You see they go,

1:43:04 Garthy: (sighs) That werewolf has some of the most insane stories I've ever heard and I run a pirate brothel in a moving city.

1:43:12 Fig: Yeah, yeah. Yeah!

1:43:15 Garthy: All right, well that makes me feel even worse and—

1:43:19 Fig: Sorry, I shouldn't have given a name.

1:43:21 Garthy: Not at all. Listen, I'll be honest, I think that monogamy is a prison, yeah, and that there is no version of that type of fidelity that is not somehow based in ownership over bodies. But that being said, a promise is a promise and Jawbone is someone very near and dear to my heart. So that makes me feel even worse. Lovey, I know it's painful and awkward right now.

1:43:49 Fig: Yeah, skin's crawling, phew.

1:43:53 Garthy: I'll stop making you uncomfortable, lovey. Have a good night's rest.

1:43:56 Fig: No, no, it's not you. It's my mom. Anyways, I'm gonna go get tied up.

1:44:02 Garthy: What?

1:44:03 Emily: I leave. (laughing)

1:44:08 Brennan: You leave. Cool, I am going to need Wisdom saving throws from everybody.

1:44:16 Siobhan: Can I have Boggy give me help?

1:44:19 Brennan: Yes you can.

1:44:19 Ally: You have—

1:44:20 Murph: Oh, you gave me Protection from Good and Evil? How long does that last?

1:44:22 Ally: Ten minutes, dang.

1:44:24 Murph: Okay.

1:44:26 Zac: D8 is added to this with Bardic right?

1:44:31 Emily: Yeah, D8, yeah.

1:44:31 Murph: I got a 10.

1:44:33 Siobhan: I got a 24.

1:44:33 Lou: I got an 8.

1:44:35 Brennan: We’ll go around… After rolling his Bardic Inspiration die, Zac slams the table and leans back, groaning.

1:44:35 Ally: What is this, Wisdom?

1:44:38 Siobhan: (looking at Zac’s roll) Rough.

1:44:38 Emily: I got a 6.

1:44:41 Ally: Nat 20.

1:44:43 Siobhan: Kristen and I… have a beautiful night of sleep.

1:44:44 Murph: Congrats Kristen.

1:44:45 Lou: Plus 8 wisdom.

1:44:47 Ally: Plus 8 Wisdom, 28.

1:44:48 Emily: I knew it, I knew this was gonna happen.

1:44:52 Brennan: Hold on one second.

1:44:56 Siobhan: Can I, because I only need four hours, can I go to sleep an hour after everybody else?

1:45:03 Brennan: You actually can survive, because the Moon Haven lasts for eight hours, so you can fully trance in that time.

1:45:10 Siobhan: Right, but everybody's going to sleep now. ..Oh, so it’s after—

1:45:16 Ally: So he's saying there's still four hours left.

1:45:17 Siobhan: Oh yeah, okay so great. So I will trance and then I will be awake for the time when people are—

1:45:22 Brennan: Yes, exactly. Cool. What are the rolls we got again? We got?

1:45:26 Emily: 6.

1:45:28 Brennan: 6.

1:45:30 Zac: With Bardic Inspiration, 4.

1:45:34 Murph: (shakes his head, looking pained) Truly incredible.

1:45:34 Brennan: And you, you're good.

1:45:37 Siobhan: I got a 24 so—

1:45:37 Brennan: Yeah, you're fully, fully good.

1:45:40 Siobhan: Also I didn't need to roll.

1:45:42 Zac: Oh I guess with my modifier, 5.

1:45:44 Siobhan: Oh wait, they're rolling this after I wake up?

1:45:47 Brennan: Correct, yes.

1:45:49 Siobhan: Mmm, interesting. What does everybody, yeah okay, I'll hear what everybody gets.

1:45:54 Brennan: You wake up. What did we roll on the die? (pointing at each person)

1:45:57 Murph: 10.

1:45:57 Brennan: 10.

1:45:58 Ally: 20.

1:45:58 Brennan: 20.

1:45:59 Lou: 6, plus Bardic, minus 1, 8.

1:46:04 Zac: On the actual dice, 2.

1:46:06 Brennan: 2.

1:46:07 Emily: 4, plus 2 which makes it a 6.

1:46:09 Siobhan: Okay, I'm gonna give Gorgug a nat 20, Brennan, who has been reading something offcamera, snaps his head around to stare at Siobhan when she says ‘nat 20’.

1:46:17 Siobhan: And I'm gonna give Fig a nat 20 because I rolled two nat 20s on my divination roll.

1:46:23 Ally: Isn't that insane?

1:46:26 Brennan: (slowly) Holy shit.

1:46:26 Ally: Before the show started, she rolled two nat 20s for portent.

1:46:31 Brennan: Insane. Okay, double nat 20s. So Fabian rolls low.

1:46:35 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:46:35 Murph: I roll, I mean, 10 is--

1:46:39 Brennan: And 10 is the full score you got?

1:46:42 Murph: Yes.

1:46:43 Siobhan: And I'm awake watching also what's happening. So I can--

1:46:47 Brennan: You're awake watching, fully watching things happening.

1:46:50 Murph: I'm grumbly, asleep in a chair in Fabian's room, just like standing guard but like instantly falls asleep. (laughing)

1:46:59 Emily: You're also tatted up.

1:47:01 Murph: Yeah, and I'm super tatted up, just a tiny bouncer falling asleep.

1:47:05 Ally: I bet it looks cool. A tiny bouncer. [sings] Hold me closer, tiny bouncer~ (laughing)

1:47:13 Brennan: Cool, so there's a separate room with just Fabian, Riz and the Hangman in it.

1:47:18 Siobhan: Oh no. Sorry.

1:47:18 Murph: After all this—

1:47:21 Zac: That's a tough room.

1:47:22 Murph: After all this Fabian just kills me.

1:47:24 Zac: Lot of tough energy in there.

1:47:25 Siobhan: Man, a lot of teen boy smells. (Emily snickers)

1:47:27 Brennan: I'm gonna ask for you two to actually roll initiative for me if you'd be so kind. We're not gonna go to a battle but we're just gonna roll initiative just to see which of these things we do first.

1:47:40 Murph: 21.

1:47:40 Lou: 11.

1:47:43 Brennan: Cool, okay.

1:47:46 Emily: Fabian, throw out your dice. Throw them out. Lou shakes his head.

1:47:50 Brennan: Adaine, as you're awake, you see Ragh get up sort of earlier than other people and go,

1:47:55 Ragh: (yawning) Hey Adaine, I'm just gonna go get some food, I'm kind of hungry, I'm having a hard time sleeping.

1:48:03 Adaine: Okay, are you good?

1:48:03 Ragh: Yeah, I'm good. I kind of feel stupid 'cause I ran through a lot of the city and didn't get there and caught you guys—

1:48:11 Adaine: Yeah, no, no, we didn't get there either. Hey, you're awake right now, right?

1:48:17 Ragh: Yeah.

1:48:19 Adaine: Who was your first kiss?

1:48:21 Ragh: Who was my first kiss?

1:48:21 Adaine: Yeah.

1:48:25 Brennan: Hold on one second. [sucks teeth] I'm going to need Adaine to roll initiative.

1:48:33 Siobhan: (smiling) Damn it, 9?

1:48:42 Brennan: Okay.

1:48:45 Ally: These dice suck. These dice suck.

1:48:48 Brennan: What is your Dexterity modifier?

1:48:53 Siobhan: It's 3, oh modifier, plus 2.

1:48:57 Brennan: Plus 2, okay cool. We are gonna go to combat.

1:49:03 Siobhan: Rad.

1:49:04 Brennan: Okay.

1:49:05 Zac: This is crazy. What a crazy day.

1:49:05 Siobhan: Adaine versus Ragh.

1:49:09 Lou: What have I done?

1:49:09 Murph: The Bad Kids’ no good very bad day

1:49:12 Emily: Would this wake us up though?

1:49:13 Brennan: Yes, for sure.

1:49:15 Ally: Well, did we get a full?

1:49:15 Emily: I don't think so, right?

1:49:18 Brennan: Hold on one second.

1:49:18 Ally: Sleep when you're dead which might be this episode. The cast all laugh, but it’s strained. Lou’s laughter is particularly fake-sounding. It’s followed by some nervous groans.

1:49:27 Brennan: 13 plus 14, Adaine, you take 27 points of damage as Ragh looks at you and goes, [screeches] and rushes and gores you.

1:49:40 Siobhan: Shield?

1:49:42 Brennan: Ooh! That's gonna make your armor class 18?

1:49:45 Siobhan: Yes.

1:49:45 Brennan: Bypasses. Ragh muscles through the Shield and deals that damage.

1:49:50 Ally: And we're all awake now.

1:49:50 Siobhan: How much damage was that, 11?

1:49:53 Brennan: What's that?

1:49:53 Siobhan: How much damage was that?

1:49:54 Brennan: 27 points of damage.

1:49:54 Siobhan: Woof, okay.

1:50:00 Brennan: That is, everyone's gonna wake up. I'm gonna say that everyone wakes up, everyone go ahead and roll initiative. Not you two (Fabian and Riz), just Kristen and the rest.

1:50:16 Zac: With Feral Instinct, would I have woken up when he started attacking or?

1:50:20 Brennan: Potentially.

1:50:24 Emily: I got a 5.

1:50:26 Brennan: 5?

1:50:27 Zac: 12.

1:50:27 Brennan: 12.

1:50:28 Ally: 0.

1:50:29 Brennan: 0, okay.

1:50:31 Murph: (laughing quietly) Phew.

1:50:33 Brennan: I'm gonna have Adaine, you're going to go. The rest of the house wakes up. Ragh is gonna get one last set of attacks and then it's not necessary to run the rest of the combat because once you're all awake you will easily be able to overpower Ragh as a group. But Adaine's gonna take an action, then Ragh's gonna get one more round of attacks.

1:50:55 Ally: You got all your stuff back.

1:50:57 Siobhan: Yeah, I've got all my stuff back. He's not very wise is he? I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on Ragh. It's a Wisdom saving throw.

1:51:17 Brennan: (rolls) You see Ragh goes (laughing evilly) and just starts billing over the side.

1:51:24 Siobhan: And I yell,

1:51:24 Adaine: Ragh is possessed, he got Nightmare Kinged!

1:51:30 Brennan: Everyone rushes out to—

1:51:30 Emily: Wait a second, I'm tied up. (laughing)

1:51:36 Siobhan: (giggling) You have to pass an Intelligence saving throw or Dexterity saving throw, sorry.

1:51:40 Emily: Okay. 18?

1:51:45 Siobhan: My spell save is 15, so that passes.

1:51:49 Brennan: You escape the bonds. Not very good bonds I guess.

1:51:53 Fig: Okay, next time Adaine I’m gonna ask someone else

1:51:55 Adaine: Yeah, ask Gorgug, I’m—

1:51:56 Brennan: You see that bunch of people, Gorgug, you've already tackled Ragh, everyone just starts attacking Ragh. Tracker has gone full werewolf. Yeah you once again are underneath Ragh in the same position. (imitates holding Ragh in a chokehold)

1:52:06 Gorgug: Chill.

1:52:06 Brennan: Chill. We're gonna go, we immediately leave combat as soon as we got into it. And we're gonna go into the dreams of, actually, Fabian Aramais Seacaster. There’s a moment of silence. Lou looks down and to the side, shaking his head, and Emily laughs at him.

1:52:26 Zac: Just miserable, look at him.

1:52:29 Brennan: What do you think Fabian's dream is about now?

1:52:34 Lou: (sighs) I mean I'm probably just appalled, I feel like it's just me, the feeling of a beat crawling over my head by Astar's, what's his name?

1:52:40 Zac: Alistair.

1:52:46 Brennan: Alistair Ash.

1:52:48 Lou: Alistair's face before I jumped like over, and the man I liked the most whose name I can't— Gumbry? (stutters)

1:53:01 Brennan: Chungle-Down Bim.

1:53:01 Lou: There it is. Sorry, I was too sad to remember any of their names.

1:53:06 Brennan: (staring straight into the camera) Chungle-Down Bim is spelled c-h-u-n-g-l-e, dash, d-o-w-n, the word down, and then Bim, which is short for Bimothy.

1:53:16 Lou: Just the feeling of, and yeah Chungle-Down Bim saying I'm not a pirate and spitting on my face, just over and over again. (dark, foreboding music is playing in the background)

1:53:31 Brennan: Fabian, you have a dream throughout all of this. You see fire surrounding you. It's your burning home from the day that your father died. But you also see that this home is on a blasted hellscape of Avernus, the first pit of hell. And you see dead burning warlocks, these pirates gazing at you as they walk out of your house into the plane, look at you, shake their heads and say,

1:54:23 Warlocks: What will we tell the captain when we see him on his ship?

1:54:29 Brennan: And they march off into the fire. And you can feel the weight of your father's head resting on his hand (facepalms) in the captain's quarters of his ship. You hear a voice behind you say,

1:54:52 Voice: (Gilear’s accent) It's all going to be all right.

1:54:57 Brennan: And a soft, sort of papery, but like a little bit wet, hand touches the back of your shoulder and says,

1:55:10 Voice: I know it seems so very far off but there is a way for you to be happy.

1:55:19 Fabian: Really?

1:55:20 Voice: Yes. Yes, absolutely.

1:55:24 Brennan: You experience the exact same feeling that Adaine experienced, which is, you know if you look at this thing's face, something horrible is going to happen to you. You see it says,

1:55:38 Voice: Come, I want to show you what I've been working on. Would you like some yogurt?

1:55:55 Fabian: No, no I wouldn't.

1:55:55 Voice: No, trust me, you'll like it if you try it.

1:56:01 Fabian: I will?

1:56:01 Voice: Yes, yes, try some.

1:56:03 Brennan: And you see a delicious little cup of banana yogurt is handed over to you.

1:56:06 Siobhan: Oh my God, don't eat things in hell.

1:56:09 Lou: Can I take the yogurt without looking at him?

1:56:11 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:56:11 Lou: I take the yogurt.

1:56:15 Brennan: You take it. Eat a little spoonful, it's delicious, it's nice to not have to use your teeth. You can just kind of suck it down.

1:56:27 Fabian: It's pleasant.

1:56:28 Voice: Yes, it is pleasant, isn't it? I want to show you what I've been working on.

1:56:34 Brennan: And the form leads you, you can see out of the corner of your eye that it's like there's a wisp of a combover and like a button up shirt, some slacks. You go through the burning building and a door opens, and as you move through the door, all of a sudden, you are in a beautiful place. (music changes to jaunty, happy strings) There's sunny fields everywhere and you see that there are, like a beautiful estate. There's a giant marble statue of Bill Seacaster who's being revered, people are like taking pictures, there's tourists with their Solisian cameras and you hear the voice say,

1:57:18 Voice: I built this place. It's a memorial to Captain Bill Seacaster. It's a beautiful memory. It's my greatest achievement, the best thing I could've ever done. This is how I find my self worth, is curating this place. This is my life's work to build this memorial to the greatest pirate that ever lived.

1:57:50 Fabian: Well, job well done, the statue is gorgeous, really shows off all his finest features.

1:57:56 Voice: Have some more yogurt. It is good.

1:57:59 Fabian: It is good. I'll have some more yogurt.

1:58:03 Brennan: It actually does make you feel really good to have this yogurt. It goes down smooth, it's great. You walk through wing after wing of all of your father's accomplishments. Give me a Perception check and an Insight check.

1:58:18 Lou: Perception check nat 1. Murph breathes out loudly and pulls his shoulders to his ears in sad sympathy.

1:58:18 Emily: What?

1:58:24 Lou: Insight check 9.

1:58:26 Brennan: Cool. You walk through. So it takes a long time, and eventually you realize that you start seeing a lot of pictures of Hallariel. You see Bill's house. You see Seacaster Manor. You see all this stuff. You don't see any pictures of you anywhere in here.

1:58:51 Fabian: Is there a reason you chose not to include any more family-oriented photos or those sorts of things? [ominous music]

1:59:09 Voice: Look at me.

1:59:11 Fabian: I can't.

1:59:13 Voice: You can.

1:59:16 Fabian: I shouldn't.

1:59:17 Voice: Look at me. I need you to look at me

1:59:22 Brennan: And you feel a slightly wet papery hand underneath your chin.

1:59:26 Voice: I need you to look at me now.

1:59:30 Fabian: I feel as if it wouldn't be--

1:59:33 Brennan: The yogurt curdles in your stomach and you feel yourself convulse and you are spasming and losing control of your body. This kind of sad doughy middle-aged yogurt-eating man pulls your chin until your face is an inch or two away from his face. You look at a middle-aged Fabian who says,

2:00:09 Older Fabian: Why would I put pictures of myself here? I don't deserve them, very cocky. Papa wouldn't like it at all. [creepy laughter]

2:00:24 Brennan: (claps) And you wake up, I'm gonna need you to give me a Stealth check real quick.

2:00:34 Siobhan: Don't use my dice.

2:00:34 Ally: Don't use yeah, exactly, get a nat 1 now.

2:00:36 Siobhan: No! Oh, that's cocked.

2:00:39 Ally: That’s cocked.

2:00:39 Lou: Great. Stealth check 12.

2:00:47 Brennan: Okay. So you, actually roll that with advantage for me if you'd be so kind 'cause you're in a separate room.

2:00:58 Lou: That is 15.

2:01:02 Brennan: 15, okay. You awaken in the middle of the ocean swimming (mimics difficult breathing and swimming) as waves billow up around you in the darkness. We are gonna cut from Fabian. Lou puts his head on the table.

2:01:28 Emily: We're gonna fail. We're gonna fail school.

2:01:34 Zac: We're gonna die.

2:01:35 Siobhan: Yeah, and more importantly we're gonna fail school.

2:01:41 Ally: (to Siobhan) I healed you for 13.

2:01:43 Siobhan: Oh, thank you.

2:01:45 Brennan: Riz, (coughs) you awaken in your room in a state of like night paralysis, like your body can't move. You look and see that the window has been slid open in your room. Fabian is gone. The sword of the Seacasters has been plunged through the engine of the Hangman and it is on its side leaking oil onto the floor. You not only can't move but you feel a tremendous weight on your chest. Materializing there, coiled up sitting on her haunches is a black tabaxi woman. (coughing) She looks at you and says,

2:02:35 Kalina: (friendly) Hi Riz, how're you doing?

2:02:40 Murph: Can I speak?

2:02:42 Brennan: Mmhmm.

2:02:43 Riz: What did you do to Fabian?

2:02:49 Brennan: Your voice comes out in a croak, a whisper. You realize you couldn't shout in the state that you're in. She looks at you and says,

2:02:57 Kalina: Oh, I can't take any credit for that. I didn't do anything to Fabian. That was the boss.

2:03:06 Riz: You work for the Night King?

2:03:09 Kalina: Yeah, kid, I work for the Nightmare King, that's right. You have grown. You're, I mean like the spitting image of your mother and your father, a perfect combo of the two.

2:03:26 Riz: What, my parents trusted you. Why would you, what are you doing?

2:03:33 Kalina: What am I doing? You've said it, Riz, come on, I work for the Nightmare King.

2:03:41 Riz: But why?

2:03:42 Kalina: Is that an honest question, why? He grants me unlimited power. All that I am and all that I'm capable of doing he gave to me. Do you really not understand why a person might do things that benefited them? I know that you only do things to kind of distract yourself from how deeply sad you are that your dad is gone, I get that. The maidens, and then you find the maidens, and then it's onto the next thing and the conspiracy boar and you don't sleep and you're digging, digging, digging. It's like when you were in that palimpsest. You will dig until your own hands are bleeding because the second you slow down, you will have to deal with the fact that he's not coming home. Sorry, bud. So we got to talk about you and your friends coming for this crown because that's gonna be a no go from us.

2:04:45 Riz: What do you...?

2:04:45 Kalina: What do I want?

2:04:47 Riz: Yes.

2:04:47 Kalina: I just said it, pack it in and go home. This one's not you, chief. Now, I know that I'm talking to the most obstinate one in the group, I do get that for sure. And I'll admit, I've been having a hard time breaking through whatever these little runes are but you guys seemed to have fucked up badly enough so whatever spell was keeping me out wore off and now we're back here.

2:05:20 Riz: So it's not the Nightmare King, it's you that's, you can come into our dreams?

2:05:27 Kalina: Are you dreaming right now? You want to pinch yourself? Oh, you can't, you're paralyzed, I'm sorry. Well, I just want to see if we can talk reason. You guys want to get this crown back, that can't happen. Where do we find compromise here? 'Cause they're restraining your buddy Ragh out there and while they're doing that, Fabian slipped out the window. So I would say cut your losses at one dead friend. That would be me. But we can go for more if you want.

2:06:08 Murph: All right, so I'm paralyzed, right?

2:06:09 Brennan: Mmhmm.

2:06:11 Murph: Is my Sword of Shadows near me?

2:06:16 Brennan: Let's roll a luck check, okay? You're very paranoid, so I'm gonna say that on an 11 or higher, it is literally in the bed with you while you sleep. We'll say that on a 6 through 10, it is like two or three feet away resting on the side of the bed. If it's a 1 through 5, it's gonna be farther away than that, like elsewhere in the room. Go ahead and give me a D20 roll.

2:06:47 Murph: 15.

2:06:47 Brennan: Cool, it's in the bed with you.

2:06:56 Murph: I think I just try to crane my head to look intimidating or confident and I say,

2:07:08 Riz: How 'bout no dead friends?

2:07:11 Murph: And then I want to use my Sword of Shadows to Misty Step out the window to try to find Fabian.

2:07:17 Brennan: Cool.

2:07:19 Emily: (concerned) You're gonna Misty Step into the water paralyzed.

2:07:21 Brennan: You step out, you take 10 points of falling damage.

2:07:30 Murph: Okay.

2:07:34 Brennan: You clatter to the ground and you like, your arms are paralyzed so when you hit, something breaks as you hit at an odd angle. Without seeing her move, Kalina walked out of a little alleyway and you're in the campus of the Gold Gardens right now. She looks out and says,

2:07:55 Kalina: Ah, bud, yeah he's been gone, I'm sorry. I should've given you a timeline on that, that's my mistake. (sighs) So we definitely clocked some kind of eye contact when you were about to get sacrificed right?

2:08:16 Riz: Yeah.

2:08:18 Kalina: You seem like a guy that likes information. Is there any kind of information I can offer you?

2:08:28 Riz: What do you want in return?

2:08:32 Kalina: Buddy, we're just talking right now. I'm trying to help you see reason.

2:08:36 Riz: I want to know where the crown is. I want to know where Fabian is. I want to know why people are coming for us in our sleep.

2:08:43 Kalina: Why do you assume I know where the crown is? [ominous music]

2:08:57 Riz: (blows air into his cheek, nods a bit) You don't know where the crown is. Oh boy.

2:09:07 Kalina: That's not what I said. I asked why do you think I know where the crown is? I would correct you, but I don't think you're gonna believe me.

2:09:17 Riz: I think I know where the crown is, and you have handily defeated me even after I said my cool one-liner. So I assume you also figured it out.

2:09:36 Brennan: You see she looks at you and says,

2:09:43 Kalina: What do you see happening from here? Because I do want to get this sorted out but I am, look, (holds hands up) I think you can see I have no tricks up my sleeve, right? I'm not doing anything, I'm not casting any spells on you, I'm not murdering you right here on the ground, right? I want this to be resolved amicably. The issue that I'm feeling right now is I want to know what needs to happen for you guys to give this up. And if you don't give it up, then I just guess I want to say this is gonna get so much worse.

2:10:37 Riz: (shaking his head) We can't give it up.

2:10:42 Kalina: What, you can't take an F? You can't repeat the year? (scoffs) Buddy, what are you talking about?

2:10:53 Riz: We can't give it up because it would be wrong.

2:10:58 Kalina: (low voice) It would be wrong? Well okay. Well what's right about you and all your friends dying? Seems like Arthur Aguefort's got everything figured out. He's got a bunch of kids going out there and putting themselves in harm's way, getting their lives taken and for what? What do you care what happens in Sylvaire, the forest of the Nightmare King?

2:11:22 Riz: It's not gonna end there. If we don't stop this, then you'll do this to the next adventuring party that comes after you.

2:11:33 Kalina: Well, you seem pretty set in your ways. Do you know who I am?

2:11:45 Riz: I know that you worked with my father.

2:11:51 Kalina: Pok Gukgak, was a good man.

2:11:57 Riz: What went wrong between you two?

2:12:02 Kalina: (widens her eyes a bit) Nothing went wrong between us. How 'bout this? Let's do a little information swap. You ask me a question about your dad, you answer a question of mine?

2:12:28 Riz: (long pause) I don't think now is the time to get nostalgic. I want to know that my friends are okay. My father's already gone. If you want information, you have to, I would need to know that they were safe.

2:12:56 Kalina: Know that who was safe? Riz doesn’t answer.

2:13:04 Kalina: You want me to help your friend Fabian out? I can make sure he doesn't die, it's not too late. But I'm gonna need everything. I'm gonna need everything you know. [dark piano music]

2:13:25 Riz: (bites his lip) All right.

2:13:29 Kalina: What do you know?

2:13:35 Riz: How do I know that if I tell you what I know that you can help me?

2:13:43 Kalina: You don't.

2:13:54 Riz: I'll tell you where I think the crown is going. You bring Fabian here. Once Fabian's here, I'll tell you who I think has it.

2:14:11 Kalina: Kid, I don't need to know where the crown is going. I want to know what you know about me.

2:14:18 Brennan: And you see that her eyes narrow into these two twin slits as she looks at you.

2:14:27 Riz: I know that you're working with demons. Kalina nods.

2:14:40 Riz: I know that you worked with my father at one time. I know that you're trying to… (hesitantly) sacrifice people to make something come about?

2:14:58 Kalina: All right. That everything?

2:15:03 Murph: Out of character, do I know anything else?

2:15:05 Siobhan: It was a dream.

2:15:08 Brennan: You know about the glass in the hang, the photograph, you know that she was seen the night that the crown was taken, that Ragh saw her. You know the um, you know that Ragh saw her, you know about Adaine's mom talking with Porter and all that stuff as well.

2:15:33 Murph: I guess I share, yeah I guess I share everything, I guess I share everything I know. I think I'm in a pretty bad position here.

2:15:43 Brennan: Cool. You see Fabian out in the void, go ahead and give me three constitution saving throws real quick.

2:15:56 Lou: Nat 20.

2:15:56 Ally: Hey!

2:15:59 Lou: (calmly) Nat 20.

2:16:00 Ally: Whoa!

2:16:03 Lou: And a 10.

2:16:03 Brennan: Cool. You see, you manage to swim and swim and swim for your life. And you see that as you begin to go under for the first round, you feel that you are lifted up and feel the flapping of horrible dark wings. It's like too dark for you to see. Do you have darkvision or no?

2:16:29 Lou: I do.

2:16:30 Brennan: These like horrible imp-like things are like bearing you aloft towards Leviathan and just drop you in like a slum of the city at the edge. What do you say specifically about the night that, about the stuff on the night that the crown was taken from the school? What information do you give?

2:17:00 Murph: I think I don't mention Adaine's mom. I just say that it was the night of prom. I give all the information except Adaine's mom.

2:17:16 Brennan: All the information, so--

2:17:16 Murph: That we were there, that we knew the crown was there, did the fight during prom night, it disappeared.

2:17:23 Brennan: Would you say the part about Ragh saw Jace talking with Adaine's mom, that you leave out? Do you do the part later where Ragh was talking with Porter and Jace and then saw Kalina.

2:17:34 Murph: I think I try to not bring other people into it.

2:17:40 Brennan: I'm going to ask right now, I'm gonna roll this and tell you the number that you have to beat.

2:17:44 Brennan: Okay. You have to beat a 13 on a Deception check. Kalina rolled very low.

2:17:55 Murph: I don't have very good Deception.

2:17:57 Brennan: What do you have to roll?

2:17:59 Murph: I have to roll a 12.

2:18:01 Brennan: 12 or higher. Let's see it.

2:18:05 Zac: (nodding) You got it.

2:18:07 Murph: (slams table) That's a 2.

2:18:09 Brennan: (rubbing his hands together) That's a 2.

2:18:16 Ally: (shaking their head) I need a drink.

2:18:16 Emily: (laughing) I do.

2:18:18 Brennan: You try not to bring other people into it. You have one momentary slip-up where it's not that you, you don't fuck up so badly that you like say Ragh's name or anything but you just mention like a, something like on the lines of like a student saw you and her eyes narrow flicker again, those are like side eyelids, she goes,

2:18:42 Kalina: A student saw me? Wow, okay. Well, Fabian's alive, he's at the edge of the city. If you want to run, (smiling) little goblin around and find him you can do that. I appreciate this. Don't keep looking for the crown or we are going to kill every last one of you. But you do have some time to talk it over because I'm gonna head out and kill Lydia Barkrock. So take care.

2:19:15 Brennan: (whoosh) She vanishes.

2:19:20 Murph: I run back into the room to tell you guys what just happened.

2:19:28 Zac: Is Garthy here?

2:19:31 Brennan: You can go find Garthy but Fabian's also missing.

2:19:35 Ally: Is Ragh in the room when you told us?

2:19:39 Brennan: You see Ragh just like, so Tracker has dispelled the Dominate Person on Ragh. Ragh is fine again. You see that Ragh runs out of the room just kind of like shout, he just looks like totally distraught, runs out of the room and you see that you guys go try to find Garthy?

2:20:06 Fig: We need to call people back in.

2:20:09 Riz: I'm gonna call—

2:20:10 Adaine: We don't have any way to do that.

2:20:12 Riz: I'm gonna call my mom and tell her—

2:20:14 Zac: Let's just try, is Garthy here? Can they send a spell or like?

2:20:21 Brennan: Hold on a second. In the background, a police siren goes off. Ally says something about it, and Zac mimics the noise and laughs.

2:20:27 Brennan: You see that, Garthy looks and says,

2:20:33 Garthy: Darlings, I'm so sorry, I don't have any sort of Sending or anything like that but it's possible, if you're a proficient wizard, Adaine, there are Sending spells in the li— I mean, Leviathan is on the move all the time. If you don't have one, there might be one in the library up in Crow's Keep.

2:20:49 Adaine: Yeah, I'll go, yeah.

2:20:52 Brennan: You see that a moment later Ragh comes back and is just weeping and you see Ragh looks at all of you and says,

2:21:08 Ragh: (sniffing) She's dead. I just got a call on my crystal, she's dead.

2:21:15 Gorgug: You got a call on your crystal?

2:21:17 Ragh: Yeah.

2:21:18 Adaine: Our crystals aren't working here.

2:21:20 Ragh: No, I have bar, no, (staring at his phone) I can make a call.

2:21:29 Brennan: You see that he holds up, calls someone, rears back, he says,

2:21:36 Ragh: Someone's just laughing at me on the other line.

2:21:39 Brennan: You guys look at his—

2:21:41 Murph: Yeah, can I do an Insight check?

2:21:43 Brennan: You look at it, Riz, and you see that, Garthy comes out, by the way, they're also here. So all of you are just like out. You've had a rough night. You for a second see a flickering of like five bars on Ragh's crystal and a call from what looks like a family caretaker number, like some sort of like hospice service and it flickers for a second and is gone. Sandra Lynn also looks at you and says,

2:22:15 Sandra Lynn: (pointing) I saw it too.

2:22:20 Brennan: You see Tracker looks up and says,

2:22:22 Tracker: I saw a flicker of something on it too.

2:22:26 Gorgug: Wait, so only the people who can see Shadow Cats can see the—

2:22:30 Brennan: Tracker just saw it too.

2:22:32 Gorgug: Tracker, can someone, does anyone have the picture?

2:22:35 Adaine: Do you have the picture?

2:22:35 Murph: Hold up the picture to.

2:22:39 Tracker: (alarmed) I can see her now.

2:22:39 Riz: What happened, what changed?

2:22:42 Gorgug: Did you see her tonight?

2:22:42 Fig: Did you see her tonight?

2:22:45 Tracker: No, I've never seen, (puts hands up to her temples) that's so creepy.

2:22:49 Zac: Earlier today, didn't Garthy regard Fig and Tracker with some kind of sadness?

2:22:58 Brennan: They did. Garthy looks at it and says,

2:23:03 Garthy: Oh, I don't care for that one bit, darling.

2:23:06 Ally: Oh now Garthy sees it?

2:23:07 Garthy: That bloody cat is in that photograph.

2:23:09 Gorgug: What cat? Do you know who that cat is?

2:23:12 Garthy: I've never seen that woman before in me life.

2:23:14 Adaine: But didn't we show Garthy the photograph before?

2:23:15 Garthy: You did and it wasn't there.

2:23:18 Fig: Have you had any strange dreams?

2:23:20 Garthy: No, not as I can remember.

2:23:22 Ally: Can I do an insight check on Sandra Lynn?

2:23:24 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

2:23:27 Ally: Yeah that's like 26.

2:23:35 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks confused and looking around just like what the fuck is going on? Two people that didn't used to be able to see the Shadow Cat in the photograph can now see—

2:23:46 Kristen: Can I talk to you really quick?

2:23:47 Adaine: Yeah, yeah.

2:23:48 Kristen: Can you cast Dispel Magic on Sandra Lynn?

2:23:51 Adaine: Yeah.

2:23:51 Gorgug: Didn't we try that before?

2:23:53 Adaine: Not on Sandra Lynn.

2:23:55 Kristen: Something's up with her. Something's different and weird and now everyone she's been in contact with--

2:24:00 Adaine: Yeah okay.

2:24:02 Fig: She's very suggestible right now.

2:24:05 Brennan: We're gonna cut over, Fabian, what do you do when you get back to land?

2:24:09 Lou: So I just get dropped off by a couple of imps on the? Am I wearing my Owlbears jersey?

2:24:17 Brennan: Yeah.

2:24:17 Lou: I rip it off. And I take off the eye patch and pocket it and I just slowly start to walk.

2:24:29 Brennan: Just with a messed-up scar, just walking without a coat in the freezing, go ahead and give me one last constitution check.

2:24:38 Siobhan: Fabian's no good very bad day.

2:24:40 Lou: (calmly) Nat 1. Ally puts their face in their hands.

2:24:40 Siobhan: Oh no.

2:24:41 Murph: Good lord.

2:24:41 Emily: What?

2:24:43 Brennan: You contract pneumonia and can feel yourself shivering as you just stumble through the streets of Leviathan. The sun—

2:24:52 Lou: (laughing disbelievingly) I have pneumonia, just pneumonia. I have the pneumonia condition?

2:24:58 Brennan: I'm gonna say that you are just shaking with fever, sick, you vomit a couple times. You walk through this--

2:25:07 Emily: Is there any banana yogurt in his vomit?

2:25:10 Brennan: There's no banana yogurt. No banana yogurt.

2:25:10 Lou: Yeah, I check my— I just get in there hands and all.

2:25:16 Brennan: But you see, yeah, Garthy looks at the photograph, is very troubled, Tracker's very troubled as well. You see that Tracker is like,

2:25:34 Tracker: Okay, Riz, wait, where's Fabian?

2:25:38 Brennan: You see Ragh just went,

2:25:38 Ragh: (in tears) Is my mom dead or not?

2:25:42 Riz: I think your mom's in trouble but I think we were just tricked. I think that was the Shadow Cat calling.

2:25:48 Fig: If you get bars on your cell phone though, try to call home.

2:25:53 Brennan: You see Garthy looks and says,

2:25:55 Garthy: Lovey, listen, I'm going to write a note for you. You're gonna go to the woman who is in charge of the Compass Points Library in Crow's Keep, okay?

2:26:01 Adaine: Mmhmm.

2:26:07 Garthy: I'm gonna give you a note. She's gonna get you a spell, all right?

2:26:09 Adaine: Yep.

2:26:09 Garthy: Okay, lovey.

2:26:11 Siobhan: I go there now. Can I take Gorgug with me?

2:26:13 Zac: I can go.

2:26:15 Brennan: Cool.

2:26:15 Riz: Yeah and you guys can also call my mom. She could have the police there or something to make sure that—

2:26:20 Gorgug: Let's call Aguefort.

2:26:20 Adaine: Yeah whatever, I don't know how the spell works. I don't know how the spell works. I just need to go and it takes two hours per level to learn it.

2:26:28 Emily: Have I had a night's sleep? Have I had a night's sleep? Do I have my Bardic Inspiration back?

2:26:31 Brennan: Yes, you do.

2:26:31 Emily: Bardic Inspiration. (to Adaine)

2:26:33 Siobhan: Thank you.

2:26:34 Brennan: You guys get, the time it takes you to get your gear together, do all your shit, Cathilda by the way is gone and a moment later you see that as you're stumbling through Cathilda appears at your side, throws a blanket over you and begins to walk with you back through. As you guys are heading on your way, Fabian, you come with Cathilda and see the Hangman strapped to the top of the van with the Sword of the Seacasters in it. And Cathilda just takes you, shoves you bodily in the van, and puts a hot water bottle, opens the hood, takes out a hot water bottle from the engine block, puts it on your head.

2:27:20 Ally: I think I have my arm around Ragh.

2:27:22 Brennan: Just shaking,

2:27:25 Ragh: (quick, strained breathing, through tears) Thanks.

2:27:29 Brennan: Riz, Garthy cures your paralysis, by the way, the second they find you and you guys all in the early dawn light begin to head towards Crow's Keep and this library. You have a small note that you haven't looked at yet but Garthy waves goodbye to you at the edge of the Gold Gardens. And you have this little note that you haven't looked at yet.

2:27:52 Siobhan: Can I look at this note?

2:27:53 Brennan: You see it says, “Please bring this individual with safe passage and a favor owed to Garthy O'Brien to the librarian of the compass points, one Ayda Aguefort.” This gets a variety of startled and confused reactions from the cast. Siobhan looks perturbed and Lou shakes his head.

2:28:10 Zac: (whispering) Ayda Aguefort.

2:28:13 Brennan: You begin to head off to the Crow's Keep again in the early dawn light.

2:28:23 Ally: Are they with us?

2:28:25 Brennan: Garthy? No. Garthy stays at the Gold Gardens. They're not gonna go with you. Garthy does not like to leave the Gold Gardens. You begin to head off. You've got an arm around Ragh. Sandra Lynn looks at you and puts a hand around you.

2:28:37 Fig: Mom, are you okay?

2:28:43 Brennan: Bursts into tears, starts walking next to you and is like,

2:28:46 Sandra Lynn: (strained) I don't know, kiddo.

2:28:50 Fig: Are you under a spell or is this maybe just a mistake on your part?

2:28:58 Brennan: When you see that you pivot to talking about that, you see that she like steels up her back and goes like,

2:29:09 Sandra Lynn: I… I'm a fuck up. Let's worry about Ragh and Fabian right now.

2:29:15 Fig: I absolutely understand. I only had to ask because I didn't know if you were under some sort of spell and if you were, then we would need to get that sorted out.

2:29:25 Sandra Lynn: (shaking her head) I wish I had that excuse.

2:29:29 Brennan: You guys head off.

2:29:31 Siobhan: I somberly Razor scoot.

2:29:33 Brennan: Somberly Razor Scoot. This like bedraggled war torn group of adventurers and Adaine in the lead on wooden planks going, ratatattata, ratattata. Adaine rides her Razor scooter over the bumpy ground, shaking violently.

2:29:50 Brennan: That's all for this week in Dimension 20.

2:29:52 Ally: Oh my God. Murph has his glasses off and is rubbing his eyes.

2:29:54 Murph: What a twist. What a— (various groans)

2:29:55 Brennan: (clearly knowing what he did) What did I do? We'll see you guys next time. Tune in next week. Woo!

2:30:04 Siobhan: Don't divide the bounty. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 7: The Friendship Section]

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