Fallinel

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 9: Fallinel < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

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

0:00:10 All: Hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:13 Brennan: Oh gosh, guys, this is our last live episode before the holiday break. We're gonna be off for the next two weeks for Christmas and New Year's. Happy Holidays to all of you guys at home and Happy New Year's, because we won't see you before the New Year's. We also are gonna be coming back January 8th, that'll be the next time. So make sure to tune in, 7:00 p.m. Pacific, on January 8th, that'll be the next time to come hang out. Also wanted to say that we still have that promo code NICE for 69% off your first month of Dropout if you sign up for Dropout.tv where you can catch all these many seasons of our fun, actual play show Dimension 20. We have Fantasy High, we started in season one, we also have The Unsleeping City and a bunch of other fun content on Dropout.tv. Also, we've got a bunch of merch. You can head over to our merch store and get stuff in time for the lovely holidays coming up. You got this shirt, 69 and Heal, a little polygon with 69 on it. You got the Ragh Barkrock special here, Check it out, I'm Gay.

0:01:15 Ally: [New York accent] ‘Ey, I'm walking here! I'm gay!

0:01:18 Brennan: I'm gay here! And then we also have this map. (group cheering) Isn't that fun? A map of the City of Leviathan. (group oohing and ahhing) Isn't that fun?

0:01:23 Siobhan: Oh it's so cool!

0:01:28 Emily: Ooh la la!

0:01:28 Brennan: Get your own map of the pirate city here.

0:01:32 Ally: That's really nice.

0:01:32 Lou: That's beautiful.

0:01:32 Emily: That's gorge.

0:01:33 Brennan: Last--

0:01:35 Lou: I'd like that for Christmas.

0:01:35 Emily: Yeah, me too.

0:01:36 Lou: If anyone's looking to get me a Christmas present.

0:01:37 Emily: What kind of hide is that on?

0:01:39 Brennan: What kind of hide is that on? Only the finest animal pelt, beast pelt, that Kinkos offers. [PROMOS END] [EPISODE BEGINS]

0:01:48 Brennan: Last we left off our intrepid heroes, they had teleported from the pirate city of Leviathan to the elven lands of Fallinel. You see our intrepid heroes are on their Spring Break mission to retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. Their adventure brought them to Bastion City and the Hotel Cavalier, to the pirate city of Leviathan, and has now brought them to the elven land of Fallinel where their companion and friend Adaine Abernant has been seized by elven authorities as the elven oracle and is being kept along with her sister, Aelwyn Abernant, in Calethriel Tower. We have not gone over to Calethriel Tower. We have instead gone to the lands of the Lomenelda, which is Fabian's mom's family, here in Fallinel. The quest continues with the crown of the Nightmare King and we venture back into the world of Spire. Ayda Aguefort raises her hands. Runes of fire sweep around you and the Hangvan, with the disanimated body of the Hangman still atop it. Ragh Barkrock, Gilear Faeth, Sandra Lynn Faeth, Tracker O’Shaughnessey, and Cathilda the Black, along with five of our intrepid heroes, oh and Boggy and Baxter, as- [to Siobhan] no, Boggy’s with you.

0:03:12 Siobhan: Boggy's with me, how dare you.

0:03:13 Brennan: -Baxter the Griffin, appear in deep and ancient forests. [speaking grandly] Tall trees of twilight bark glow deeply in the presence of the setting sun. The forest floor is soft with green grass and you see blossoms descend from the heights of branches far above. The blossoms float gently on the wind and are kissed by feet of butterflies that are light and disappear in motes of magic. Somber and solemn reflection of the beauty of the natural world fills this place. You notice there are no mud puddles or piles of leaves or twigs or brambles anywhere. The forest floor is kept stately and pristine with grass and there are no low branches on any of these trees. The trunks of the trees grow straight and tall for 100 or more feet up, which means that the visibility of the forest extends wide in all directions; you can see as it slopes, you hear the babbling of clear brooks. A single deer, eight-pointed antlers above its head, walks stately through the forest.

0:04:41 Fig: Okay, this is Aguefort's creature that he made me. Hi.

0:04:47 Brennan: A single tear from the cheek of the deer turns into a mote of stardust. The deer gazes and reflects upon it and the deer prances away into the forest.

0:04:59 Fig: Oh, sorry.

0:05:00 Gorgug: It's like that deer had a moment.

0:05:04 Fig: I don't know, I guess maybe I have to build up trust with it? Who was I, coming at a feral animal like that?

0:05:09 Kristen: Yeah, you should get it a gift.

0:05:10 Fig: Okay.

0:05:13 Fabian: This place is-

0:05:13 Riz: Our friend has been kidnapped.

0:05:14 Fig: Right! [claps]

0:05:17 Brennan: Ayda looks at all of you and says,

0:05:19 Ayda: This place is extremely beautiful. It is unsettling.

0:05:24 Riz: Agreed.

0:05:24 Fig: Yeah.

0:05:27 Brennan: You hear far off a few plaintive notes of a melody so deep and rich and sorrowful that it can only serve to stir your heart and almost freeze you where you stand with its unearthly beauty, set to a minor chord with like butterfly notes, sort of (mimicking flute music) sad, trailing, whisper song.

0:05:59 Zac: Gorgug takes out his crystal and starts Shazamming. (laughing)

0:06:03 Brennan: [apologetically] No cell tower here. [Gorgug gives a deep sigh of disappointment] You’ve got no data.

0:06:09 Ally: That's the worst thing that's happened because he didn't have any cell service.

0:06:11 Murph: I think it's Sufjan Stevens. (laughing)

0:06:14 Emily: Yeah, it is. Do you hear that, Michigan, it's Michigan.

0:06:19 Brennan: What do you guys do here in the woods?

0:06:21 Emily: Should we try to make a puddle?

0:06:22 Murph: Should we sneak up on whoever's playing that music?

0:06:25 Emily: Yeah, I mean, actually can I-- I don't know how, just like I'm gonna be doing this all the time. I've got Message and I can just point my finger towards, I just wanna point in every direction and try to message Adaine.

0:06:38 Fig: Adaine, Adaine, Adaine, Adaine, Adaine, Adaine.

0:06:41 Brennan: So this message cantrip radar starts binging nonstop-

0:06:45 Ally: Like a sprinkler.

0:06:46 Fig: Adaine, Adaine, Adaine, Adaine, Adaine.

0:06:49 Brennan: You hear that plaintive singing off in the distance and you move your way through the woodlands towards that place.

0:06:58 Zac: Am I- Are we in the van? We're in the van?

0:07:01 Brennan: If you want, you just teleported, so if you want to all get in the van, you can all get in the van.

0:07:04 Emily: I'm gonna walk alongside the van.

0:07:06 Zac: I'm gonna take some, I'm gonna look for like a couple of big leaves to cover the van.

0:07:14 Emily: A couple of big leaves to cover the van?

0:07:16 Zac: Where's Sandra Lynn? Does she have any survival skills that we could maybe like hide the van a little bit?

0:07:24 Brennan: Yeah, we see that she, Sandra Lynn can cast, she's just never prepared right now. See, she says,

0:07:31 Sandra Lynn: I don't know if we should be worried about stealth right at this moment.

0:07:35 Gorgug: Okay.

0:07:36 Fabian: The deer was crying stardust.

0:07:36 Fig: I know.

0:07:39 Emily: I'm gonna make a little mound as if an offering and place a clove cigarette and write in a circle around it, ‘To the many-antlered deer who cried stars. Love, Fig.’

0:07:53 Brennan: As you place that cig on the ground, or as you place that clove on the ground, and there's a sort of crushed little cigarette butt, you suddenly hear-

0:08:02 Emily: It's not used, it's fresh.

0:08:04 Brennan: It's a fresh cigarette.

0:08:04 Lou: Wow.

0:08:07 Brennan: You feel the wind kick up. (somber music) A tall elf with regal green robes and a silver circlet, he has sort of like a receding hairline like a widow's peak but there's a little jut in the front, this long, platinum-white blond hair. And he has this eternal youth of an elf, but you can see from the crinkle of his eyes, there are few signs of aging in that kind of Elrond way where it's like he has the look of a dude in his late 40’s, early 50’s who's kept it really tight and really taken care of his body. But you see, he looks off with shimmering blue eyes, and he appears as if by magic.

0:09:00 Elf: (measured, deep voice, British accent) Ah, I see your deposit, your cigarette here on the pristine floor of the forest.

0:09:08 Fig: Oh, it's not trash, it's an offering. I met my future beast.

0:09:19 Elf: I don't know what that's about, (cast laughing) but I'm pretty sure it's still trash. Please don't put cigarettes on the ground.

0:09:28 Fig: It's not a cigarette, it's a clove, all natural.

0:09:31 Elf: I see, you've come here just in time. I am Telemaine Lomenelda.

0:09:40 Fabian: Grandpapa?

0:09:44 Brennan: He looks at you and says,

0:09:46 Telemaine: Fah-be-ahn.

0:09:49 Fabian: I mean- [hems and haws]

0:09:54 Fig: That's catchy, Fahbiahn, it is.

0:09:57 Kristen: Fahbiahn Saycastair.

0:09:59 Fabian: We say Fabian.

0:09:59 Brennan: You see, he approaches you and as he moves, you see the hem of his robe as it moves perfectly only touches the very tips of the grass and his movements are so supernaturally graceful. He comes close to you and goes (taking quick breaths).

0:10:16 Emily: Ew, no, illegal, illegal.

0:10:16 Brennan: Touches your cheek. You see he says,

0:10:22 Telemaine: Can it be? My grandson.

0:10:28 Fabian: I've heard a story of you. You're my mother, Hallariel’s father, yes?

0:10:35 Telemaine: My daughter, Hallariel Lomenelda of Kei Lumennura.

0:10:42 Brennan: Chanting elven voices emerge from the air around him. (mimicking many whispering elven voices)

0:10:49 Murph: Riz just has his hand on his gun.

0:10:52 Fig: I can't believe I’m half this.

0:10:53 Brennan: You see, your Mom goes,

0:10:53 Sandra Lynn: (shaking her head) You’re not half this, these are high elves, these are not wood elves.

0:10:58 Brennan: You see, Gilear says,

0:10:58 Gilear: The beauty of the elven homeland. I think I can be of some aid here. Honored elder, I am Gilear Faeth, a diplomat and courtier of the elven folk. Well have you kept these woods. They are despoiled not by trash or stains or refuse of any kind.

0:11:25 Gorgug: I don't know why he would have to mention that.

0:11:27 Emily: I give him Bardic Inspiration and I also do Prestidigitation to make his cheeks look just rosier and more-

0:11:33 Brennan: Less sallow. He hasn't shaved in a few days because he's been on this adventure, so he is like, scruffy and dirty. He has big pit stains. So it's a 1d8 from your...

0:11:46 Emily: My Bardic Inspiration.

0:11:48 Brennan: Okay.

0:11:48 Zac: (suspiciously) What are all those dice?

0:11:51 Brennan: I'm gonna roll in the Box of Doom real quick.

0:11:53 Emily: What?!

0:11:53 Lou: What?!

0:11:55 Emily: Why?

0:11:55 Lou: Nobody asked Gilear to talk.

0:11:59 Brennan: In the Box of Doom super quick. Emily, Lou, Siobhan: [chanting] Nat 20, nat 20, nat 20!

0:12:03 Brennan: That's a natural 18!

0:12:03 Emily: Oh, okay.

0:12:06 Brennan: Plus 5.

0:12:07 Ally: Eyy!

0:12:08 Brennan: There you go, minus two for natural Charisma, but that's above 20. You see that Telemaine looks at you and says,

0:12:20 Telemaine: You are escorted to the land of the elves by members of the elven people. And you have brought my grandson. Tell me, (overemphasis) Fahbiahn Arai-ah-mai-is Seacaster. What has brought you here to Kei Lumennura?

0:12:43 Fabian: Well, so we're, I am in high school and I, we are doing our school project for our final grade for sophomore year, and- (stifled laughter)

0:12:57 Kristen: [encouragingly] He's tracking, he's tracking.

0:12:58 Fabian: And we, our friend has been captured because they're important and so we're doing reconnaissance to get them back.

0:13:12 Brennan: He reaches out without looking and a single blossom alights on his hand and he is weeping without moving his face.

0:13:19 Fabian: I'm so sorry.

0:13:21 Brennan: He brings the blossom up and says,

0:13:24 Telemaine: You, (whispering) my beautiful grandson, like this blossom, your human blood has brought mortality to our family. You will one day die. (blows in hand)

0:13:44 Fig: (swatting the flower away) Well, he got that on me.

0:13:44 Brennan: The blossom kinda goes into your mouth. Fig spits out the flower.

0:13:46 Fabian: Oh, okay, I mean, I was just telling you what we were doing here and your response was that I'm gonna die?

0:13:51 Telemaine: (strange, one-note weeping)

0:13:56 Fig: Again, illegal.

0:13:56 Riz: He's doing okay.

0:13:59 Telemaine: (weeping)

0:14:01 Riz: It's okay, you can move your face when you do that. Just move it a little bit.

0:14:06 Gorgug: His tears are thousands of years old.

0:14:08 Fabian: Grandpapa, are you okay?

0:14:08 Ally: This is such a weird cry. (weeping)

0:14:13 Zac: Can I roll just a Perception, an Insight check?

0:14:15 Brennan: Yeah, roll an Insight check.

0:14:21 Zac: Insight, I should know this by now, 14.

0:14:27 Brennan: What are you looking for here?

0:14:29 Zac: What is this? [gestures to Telemaine] (laughing)

0:14:32 Brennan: This is bad, but you think that you are in good, clearly he is like, Gilear said the right stuff and Fabian is much beloved by this old man who he has never met. You see as you look at him, you see he smiles and says,

0:14:51 Telemaine: (exhales) What do you see when you gaze upon my face?

0:14:57 Gorgug: Well, my first thought is just the idea of time and then sort of just the idea of going real slow. And then, kind of the idea of just sort of taking a nap?

0:15:15 Brennan: You see, he looks and says,

0:15:15 Telemaine: A nap. I don't suppose people of your kind can nap, your time is so short.

0:15:22 Gorgug: We can nap, anyone can nap.

0:15:24 Fig: We nap a lot.

0:15:27 Telemaine: To think you will live for only 20 years and yet you still-

0:15:30 Gorgug: No, no, no…

0:15:32 Fig: Okay, but you can live forever and you don't eat fast food.

0:15:36 Telemaine: What?

0:15:36 Fig: You can live forever and you don't eat junk food.

0:15:39 Telemaine: What is fast food?

0:15:41 Fabian: Hamburger.

0:15:42 Kristen: You get a cheeseburger combo.

0:15:42 Fabian: Or a French fry.

0:15:43 Kristen: Chicken nuggets.

0:15:44 Riz: Do you know of elves who are keepers of the Elven Oracle?

0:15:50 Fig: Yes. My best friend was taken.

0:15:54 Fabian: Our best friend, we're all good friends.

0:15:56 Fig: Yeah.

0:15:57 Telemaine: She is mortal and has died and has been taken across...

0:16:00 Fabian: No.. she's also a high elf.

0:16:00 Fig: No, I guess she's immortal. Or what do you call yourself? Most close to immortal?

0:16:09 Telemaine: Walk with me through the forest.

0:16:11 Gorgug: I live longer than 20 years.

0:16:14 Brennan: You see, he opens his arms wide and says,

0:16:18 Telemaine: Welcome, for what joy it may bring you, to Kei Lumennura!

0:16:24 Brennan: And you see that blossoms explode and an illusion parts and you see a vast grotto, there's like a crystal clear lake of rocks and this beautiful peach, alabaster, ivory elven villa of warm-looking stone, covered in trellises and ancient trees, overlooking streams over this grotto. And you see dozens or even hundreds of elven youths that are laughing and jumping into the stream and playing on blankets eating fruit and just generally looks like a sweet summer palace.

0:17:04 Fig: Where are the teenagers? Where are the grumpy, grouchy teenagers?

0:17:09 Telemaine: Tunaijaris. Tenijaris.

0:17:14 Fabian: Oh d-- you say--

0:17:14 Riz: He’s speaking the elven tongue.

0:17:16 Fig: You're not even reading it.

0:17:16 Telemaine: What? (laughing)

0:17:19 Gorgug: Teenagers.

0:17:21 Telemaine: Tanjarus.

0:17:22 All: Teenagers.

0:17:24 Fig: Tangerine, I'm looking for a tangerine!

0:17:26 Telemaine: I know not of this word you have-

0:17:28 Gorgug: Teen.

0:17:29 Telemaine: Tine.

0:17:31 Gorgug: Agers. (laughing)

0:17:31 Telemaine: Gaiger.

0:17:33 Fabian: You added a G, he said ager.

0:17:35 Telemaine: I'm saying what you're all saying.

0:17:38 Kristen: No, you're not.

0:17:38 Telemaine: The important thing is this. (cast laughing) Lomenelda.

0:17:42 Fabian: Hard pivot. Okay, sir.

0:17:45 Gorgug: I feel like we could say anything and you would just keep going on whatever.

0:17:49 Riz: Is he a recording? (laughs)

0:17:50 Fig: My name's Fig.

0:17:53 Telemaine: Figueroth.

0:17:54 Fig: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.

0:17:56 Gorgug: My name's Gorgug.

0:17:59 Telemaine: Jorjudge.

0:18:00 Kristen: Jorjudge?

0:18:02 Fabian: Honestly I might start calling him Jorjudge. Jorjudge!

0:18:04 Riz: (crosstalk) I’m gonna start calling you Jorjudge.

0:18:06 Fig: Jorjudge.

0:18:07 Gorgug: Jorjudge is kinda cool.

0:18:08 Brennan: You see, he says,

0:18:08 Telemaine: You have come from strange lands beyond. You have come with your friends. To think my grandson has brought orc and goblin and human to this realm. And I see you have brought this iron- I don't—

0:18:31 Kristen: It's a van.

0:18:32 Gorgug: It's my van.

0:18:32 Fig: It's a van. By the way, do you have a gas station here?

0:18:35 Gorgug: We don't need gas. We have crystal in it that does-

0:18:38 Fig: Because we don't need one if you have it. (laughing)

0:18:41 Gorgug: We don't need a gas station.

0:18:41 Fig: Pop quiz.

0:18:43 Murph: You guys simply must stop talking to him. (laughing)

0:18:46 Emily: I like the way he says things.

0:18:48 Ally: I want him to say van.

0:18:48 Lou: Yeah, I just keeping hoping he says words back to us.

0:18:53 Telemaine: This iron fortress, this fortress wagon.

0:18:58 Kristen: It's a van.

0:19:00 Fig: It belongs-

0:19:00 Telemaine: Bahn.

0:19:01 Fig: It belongs to him, this guy. [gestures to Gorgug]

0:19:03 Telemaine: You have tamed this iron beast.

0:19:05 Brennan: You see he approaches the van and says,

0:19:09 Telemaine: You may pass in these lands for Jorjudge has brought you here.

0:19:12 Fabian: [weakly] Jorjudge. (laughing)

0:19:16 Brennan: You see, he looks at you and says,

0:19:18 Telemaine: How much longer do you have yet to live?

0:19:21 Gorgug: I think a pretty long time. I'm not close to dying. I’m pretty young.

0:19:25 Fabian: He already died once.

0:19:26 Fig: Have you been to the doctor recently?

0:19:29 Riz: (crosstalk) Do you know something?

0:19:30 Kristen: So have I, I died once and I came back to life.

0:19:31 Gorgug: I have died before.

0:19:31 Kristen: Jesus, Helio, and everyone involved are all bros.

0:19:41 Telemaine: Bross?

0:19:41 Kristen: Yeah, they're all bross.

0:19:43 Gorgug: There's gotta be some crossover in the words that we say.

0:19:47 Telemaine: What is bross?

0:19:47 Fabian: Brother, do you know brother?

0:19:50 Telemaine: Brother, yes.

0:19:52 Kristen: Our friend is the Elven Oracle and she got taken away by a bunch of sleek, sexy elves.

0:19:59 Telemaine: Ah, the elven people are all sleek and sexy, I’m afraid.

0:20:01 Kristen: So that... that landed.

0:20:03 Fig: No, but baddies..

0:20:03 Telemaine: What's that?

0:20:05 Fig: What does the elven oracle usually mean to the elvish people and how might the elven oracle be used in a bad way?

0:20:16 Telemaine: Without the elven oracle we are lost.

0:20:20 Riz: Do you know where the Abernant family lives here?

0:20:26 Telemaine: The (overemphasis on the r’s) Abernant family has had all of their estate and wealth reclaimed by the Court of Stars for their treachery and failure to prevent a war with Solace. The betrayal and treason of Arianwen has not gone without notice, however Lomenelda have long remained removed from the political strife of the Court of Stars. In the opinion of myself, the Abernants were callous and cruel, power hungry. To think that they would have left the immortal shores of Fallinel. Where else could you see this, for example? (gestures)

0:21:12 Brennan: And you see that there's a woman who's standing in a vined archway and the wind blows a diaphanous white gown and she just dances in the archway. (waves arms semi-gracefully) And he says,

0:21:21 Telemaine: She's been doing that for 300 years.

0:21:25 Fabian: Is that her career?

0:21:28 Telemaine: Caraare.

0:21:31 Fabian: Is that her job?

0:21:31 Telemaine: Jobe?

0:21:34 Fabian: Is that what she does for a living?

0:21:37 Kristen: Also where would we find (mimicking Telemaine) Ale-wine?

0:21:40 Brennan: You see he says,

0:21:40 Telemaine: Aelwyn Abernant, the sister of Adaine.

0:21:47 Fabian: Yes.

0:21:49 Telemaine: I know not, has your quest brought you here to the lands of the Lomenelda seeking without answer?

0:21:57 Fabian: We know where she is. She's nearby some sort of prison or fortress. I can check, I have the dossier that has information about the location itself.

0:22:08 Telemaine: Ah.

0:22:10 Fig: What do you know about the Abernant mother?

0:22:13 Telemaine: Arianwen.

0:22:14 Fig: She's the one that you said committed the great-

0:22:17 Telemaine: I know not what her crimes were, but I know that she fled to these shores some [uncertain] minutes ago?

0:22:25 Kristen: Minutes?

0:22:25 Riz: Probably longer. Probably longer.

0:22:27 Kristen: Oh, he doesn't know time.

0:22:28 Riz: He's doing some elves stuff.

0:22:28 Fabian: How long have we been here?

0:22:32 Telemaine: You just got here this very moment.

0:22:35 Fig: That's kinda true. We really have not been here for that long. I’m with you on that.

0:22:39 Riz: A solid 10 minutes or so.

0:22:40 Gorgug: Have you ever seen each other? Have you ever met?

0:22:42 Fabian: No?

0:22:42 Telemaine: My darling grandson.

0:22:46 Brennan: He was leading through the grotto, anyone here that wants to make Insight or Perception checks about this space that you're in? Feel absolutely free to.

0:22:52 Emily: I just wanna look for my stag again.

0:22:55 Zac: Nat 1.

0:22:57 Ally: 19.

0:22:57 Murph: 17.

0:22:57 Lou: 6.

0:22:58 Brennan: 17, 6, cool.

0:23:01 Emily: I got a 9 to find my stag.

0:23:04 Brennan: Cool. What are you guys who rolled about a 15 looking for in particular?

0:23:08 Murph: I guess trying to make sure that these people aren't all under a spell or something. I think Riz is pretty paranoid about that.

0:23:15 Lou: Rude, Riz.

0:23:17 Brennan: You look around, you see that there are some elves. You see that there are two elven youths that are just clad in sort of white linen shorts that otherwise are unclothed and are near this pool. And you see, one of them looks at another and says,

0:23:34 Elf: (standard Elf voice, posh RP British) Haldoren, have you seen my lute?

0:23:39 Brennan: And the other one says,

0:23:39 Elf: (Elf voice) I don't know, man, where did you leave it?

0:23:43 Brennan: And he says,

0:23:43 Elf: I heard from Threthraine that you maybe took it and that's a dick move.

0:23:50 Brennan: And you see that he shoves the kid and the other kid shoves him back and you hear a bit of that siren song you heard before. And the two of these young kind of teen-looking elves that were shoving each other both relax and you see that one of them says,

0:24:05 Elf: Conflict is pointless. New lutes are easy to make. I forgive thee, Haldorn.

0:24:11 Brennan: And walks away.

0:24:15 Brennan: Okay.

0:24:17 Ally: I was looking to see if this was a spell that we were seeing, this isn't really where we are, like our perception of-

0:24:23 Brennan: Do you use any spells to confirm that?

0:24:27 Ally: I just got a 19 on Perception.

0:24:29 Brennan: Cool. There's a lot of magical shit going on here. Telemaine actually looks and notices though. You see he says,

0:24:37 Telemaine: Are you gazing at the elven youths that abound here in Kei Lumennura?

0:24:49 Riz: I was more wondering where that music's coming from.

0:24:53 Kristen: Ooh, yeah, it's so great. Where exactly is it?

0:24:54 Telemaine: The Muse of Sorrow. She sings her song. I am Telemaine Lomenelda. I was gifted with this place after crafting a sword for the ancient king of Fallinel. I am the Smith of Fandrangor, Sword of the North Star, Blade of King Thristwin Eversong. 3000 years ago did I craft this blade, and I was gifted with stewardship of these lands. Throughout Fallinel, before elves come to an age of full maturity, but after the sweet spring of their infancy, there is a brief moment where they are gripped by a madness, where they become angry and horny and stupid and they are banished by their families here to Kei Lumennura where we kind of just sit tight on them for the briefest of moments.

0:26:07 Kristen: Wait, this is all horny teens and you're just here playing lute music at them so that they won't do anything bad?

0:26:15 Telemaine: Long ago in the lore of Fallinel, we found that there was truly just the briefest window of time where elves were not good to be around and we banished them here to Kei Lumennura.

0:26:29 Gorgug: So this is like a different school? This is a high school?

0:26:30 Telemaine: Haichole.

0:26:32 Gorgug: Come on. You know the word high, right?

0:26:35 Fig: Tell him, Jorjudge.

0:26:38 Telemaine: It's two words?

0:26:38 Gorgug: Yes, but-

0:26:40 Telemaine: The high chole.

0:26:41 Riz: Closer.

0:26:42 Fig: Yeah, the high chole. Yeah, you nailed it.

0:26:44 Gorgug: I think I gotta walk, I'm gonna take a walk.

0:26:47 Kristen: We hang out with an elf all the time who's in that age and she's lovely. Telemaine lets out a sort of strained laugh, then sighs.

0:26:55 Gorgug: She kinda brained someone with a…

0:26:57 Fabian: Ladle.

0:26:58 Kristen: Yeah, she broke a woman’s skull.

0:26:59 Riz: But who of us hasn't killed somebody?

0:27:00 Gorgug: Sure, yeah.

0:27:02 Telemaine: What?

0:27:04 Fabian: We're rather rambunctious. I'm a rambunctious young man.

0:27:09 Telemaine: Then eat of the grapes. Any grape you find is good to eat.

0:27:14 Riz: No one eat anything.

0:27:14 Kristen: No one eat a single grape.

0:27:15 Telemaine: Even if you find them on the ground, they're good.

0:27:18 Riz: No one eat anything off the ground.

0:27:19 Fig: (crosstalk) (holding up a hand) Thank you, no thank you. Thank you, no thank you. I’ll stay— I’ll stay miserable and horny, thanks.

0:27:20 Gorgug: (crosstalk) You’re telling me I can eat a grape off the ground?

0:27:21 Ally: (crosstalk) Can I find exactly where the music is coming from?

0:27:22 Riz: (crosstalk) Jorjug! Do not.

0:27:23 Fabian: It won’t have— It won’t have any germs…

0:27:24 Riz: Jorjug. Stop.

0:27:24 Gorgug: I’m just— I’m just trying to—

0:27:25 Fig: Jorjug!

0:27:26 Gorgug: I’m just saying like, eating a grape off the ground-

0:27:29 Fabian: I'll eat a grape and we can all, it’ll be a tester—

0:27:31 Kristen: Do not eat a grape!

0:27:32 Fig: (crosstalk) Fabian!

0:27:33 Fabian: It's my grandfather's legacy.

0:27:34 Kristen: We’re not hungry!

0:27:34 Fig: Don’t eat your grandfather's grapes. (Kristen pushes Fabian’s hand down)

0:27:35 Ally: I whack the grape out—

0:27:37 Zac: Jorjudge starts stomping grapes. [Siobhan bursts out laughing]

0:27:42 Brennan: You see that (laughing) this ancient elf turns to you and says,

0:27:52 Telemaine: So you believe that your friend Adaine Abernant and her sister Aelwyn were both taken by members of the Court of Stars.

0:28:02 Fabian: Yes.

0:28:02 Lou: Would we recognize Adaine's father from the previous battle?

0:28:09 Brennan: Yeah, definitely.

0:28:10 Fabian: Yes, we believe, I think the Court of Stars as well as her own father captured her, teleported away.

0:28:18 Brennan: He looks at you and says,

0:28:19 Telemaine: May I speak freely amongst your company?

0:28:24 Kristen: Yeah.

0:28:25 Fabian: Totally.

0:28:25 Fig: Okay.

0:28:27 Telemaine: Angwyn Abernant is a crass and small man. There is no nobility within his frame. His soul wants for only power. I believe there is no part of him that could behold the beauty of a single drop of water. (holds up a finger with a drop of water on it and stares at it)

0:28:51 Gorgug: You've been carrying that drop of water?

0:28:53 Telemaine: This whole time.

0:28:56 Fig: Do you want a tissue, or something? Telemaine has tears running down his cheeks again.

0:28:59 Fig: Oh, actually I was talking about for the drop of water, but, yeah, there's a lot more water being made.

0:29:04 Telemaine: (still staring at the water) How does it just do that?

0:29:07 Fabian: Grandpapa, we-

0:29:07 Kristen: Are you on mushrooms? Are you on some sort of psychedelic?

0:29:12 Telemaine: Would you like to be on mushrooms?

0:29:14 Fig: I would.

0:29:14 Kristen: Yeah.

0:29:15 Telemaine: There are lounging mushrooms in the grotto.

0:29:18 Brennan: And you see huge puffy mushrooms to sit on. [disappointed noises]

0:29:19 Fabian: I would love to sit on them.

0:29:21 Kristen: It's for the best, I've never done them, so.

0:29:24 Fabian: Grandpapa.

0:29:24 Fig: I do do them.

0:29:25 Fabian: We're worried about Adaine.

0:29:25 Fig: Yeah.

0:29:29 Telemaine: Yes.

0:29:29 Fabian: We'd very much like to, as incredible as this place is.

0:29:35 Kristen: This is a great place.

0:29:35 Telemaine: I'd like everyone to try and behold a drop of water just so you get what I'm talking about.

0:29:40 Fabian: Okay.

0:29:40 Gorgug: I thought we did.

0:29:41 Fig: I guess, okay, I'll try, but then you gotta point me in the direction of the prison.

0:29:46 Telemaine: What prison do you speak of?

0:29:47 Gorgug: A tower?

0:29:48 Fabian: Well, it's a tower.

0:29:49 Lou: Can I, what is-- ?

0:29:50 Brennan: Calethriel Tower.

0:29:50 Fabian: Calethriel Tower.

0:29:54 Brennan: The wind blows and his long, blond tresses sway in the wind.

0:29:57 Telemaine: Calethriel Tower lies immediately to the north of these lands. I didn't know that there was stuff going on with that.

0:30:14 Fabian: Well, I'm not sure, at least, I don’t know if there's a bunch of stuff going on, but there's stuff that’s particular to us going on there.

0:30:20 Riz: Was it previously abandoned?

0:30:23 Telemaine: Calethriel Tower is a place of mourning for the ancient widow Calethriel. Her husband sailed in great war against the humans of Highcourt. And he (sniffs, moans in fear) died, he died.

0:30:40 Gorgug: How long ago did that happen?

0:30:41 Telemaine: 500 years past. (moaning)

0:30:44 Fig: (crosstalk) So like, 3 million years ago?

0:30:46 Kristen: Oh, I’m so so-

0:30:46 Ally: I try to comfort this old elf.

0:30:50 Zac: Gorgug goes and lays down in the van. (cast laughing) There's a window cracked.

0:30:55 Kristen: Hey, we know it's north, let's just go.

0:30:59 Riz: We should get some-

0:31:00 Kristen: We should get some grapes.

0:31:02 Fig: I'm fine to not rest. Just put it out there, I'm fine just (hitting fist) Let's go get our girl.

0:31:08 Riz: I'm beat up, but I can take a short rest and be okay. How is everybody else doing?

0:31:11 Fig: I mean, I'm out of most things.

0:31:14 Kristen: I didn't really do anything last time.

0:31:16 Zac: I have a level of exhaustion from frenzy.

0:31:19 Emily: I'm out of most things. My hit points are pretty bad. I think I've got about one spell left.

0:31:23 Riz: They need Adaine, they're not going to do anything to her.

0:31:28 Kristen: I hope.

0:31:28 Gorgug: Could we just maybe rest for the night and then, or maybe some people-

0:31:32 Telemaine: Come. You shall be fed and brought to beds where elven sheets crafted by elven sheetsmiths in ages long past—

0:31:40 Gorgug: Sheetsmiths?

0:31:45 Telemaine: Would you believe 80,000 thread count?

0:31:48 Kristen: Whoa.

0:31:48 Fabian: No.

0:31:50 Kristen: That sounds like sleeping on cream.

0:31:52 Fig: More or way less.

0:31:54 Telemaine: Would you like to sleep on cream?

0:31:55 Kristen: Yeah, totally.

0:31:56 Riz: I feel like we should, we got, our friend is kidnapped, we shouldn't have too much fun. Do you have anything just like 100 thread count?

0:32:04 Fabian: Whoa, all right-

0:32:05 Kristen: Again, we’re not in mourning.

0:32:05 Fabian: — I'm going to sleep on an 80,000 thread count.

0:32:06 Telemaine: To think you feel you cannot even spend one night in sleep for your deaths so fast approach.

0:32:15 Fig: You're the one who just made us feel bad about napping.

0:32:20 Telemaine: What?

0:32:23 Fig: I don't know, I’m gonna sleep on mushrooms.

0:32:25 Kristen: Can't win with this guy. Should we sleep in the van and have Tracker do some sort of room situation?

0:32:30 Gorgug: We still have like our sleeping bag situation.

0:32:31 Riz: Yeah, I’m gonna sleep in the van.

0:32:32 Fig: I wanna sleep in the van.

0:32:34 Fabian: I'm just gonna take the sheets off one of the beds (laughing) and bring them back to the van. I'm not missing out on this.

0:32:38 Riz: Our friend is kidnapped, everyone, Tracker bedrolls.

0:32:42 Brennan: Yeah, Tracker's like,

0:32:44 Tracker: You can bring as many sheets and I'll use them to make the Moon Haven.

0:32:47 Riz: (to Fabian) Regular bedrolls!

0:32:47 Fabian: No! The Ball, no.

0:32:50 Fig: You guys have like a boyfriend pillow or anything like that? Like a body pillow, it's called a body pillow or a boyfriend pillow.

0:32:57 Telemaine: Joyjarant. Groyfriend.

0:33:00 Gorgug: Which word are you trying to say?

0:33:02 Telemaine: It's two words?

0:33:03 Fabian: Jorjjug!

0:33:04 Kristen: It’s three pillows!

0:33:05 Telemaine: Boy and friend.

0:33:07 Fig: Boyfriend pillow? Body pillow? Goes by many names...

0:33:08 Riz: Jorjudge.

0:33:09 Fabian: Jorjudge. (laughs)

0:33:09 Gorgug: I'm getting pissed. I'm getting pissed.

0:33:10 Kristen: (mockingly) Jooor-judge.

0:33:11 Riz: Jorjudge!

0:33:12 Fabian: This is my grandfather!

0:33:12 Riz: He’s a nice guy. He doesn’t like the—

0:33:13 Gorgug: Hey, can I cut to the point. (quietly, to Fabian) Your grandfather's pissing me off.

0:33:18 Fabian: Jorjug, you're being rude, all right.

0:33:20 Gorgug: All right, all right.

0:33:21 Fabian: Just because my grandfather says words differently.

0:33:23 Gorgug: I’m stressed out, I'm sorry, I'm stressed out.

0:33:25 Fabian: There's a lot going on.

0:33:26 Riz: Fabian, he’s a lot. He's really a lot.

0:33:28 Fig: He's going real slow and we’re going really fast.

0:33:30 Fabian: Oh, everyone's so excited to do my dad's snuff, all right, but then my grandpapa says a couple of weird words and we're all like, fuck this guy?

0:33:40 Fig: Adaine wasn't missing when we did your granddad's, your grandfather's snuff?

0:33:44 Fabian: Your papa's snuff.

0:33:45 Fig: Your papa's snuff.

0:33:47 Ally: Can I cast Detect Evil and Good?

0:33:47 Brennan: Sure.

0:33:47 Ally: I start casting that.

0:33:53 Brennan: You cast Detect Evil and Good. You detect sort of a lot of ambient fae/celestial energy. There's not too many active fairies in Fallinel, the elves would find fairies a little bit too chaotic. Fairies are usually not mournful enough for these elves. There's sort of a loose fae/celestial energy in the place, not any actual other-worldly beings, though.

0:34:20 Ally: Cool.

0:34:20 Zac: Gorgug is gonna put his headphones on.

0:34:22 Brennan: Cool.

0:34:23 Zac: Because he sees all these people reacting to this music in such a way and wants to just, I don't know.

0:34:30 Brennan: Ragh sits next to you in the van as you do that and is basically like,

0:34:32 Ragh: (blows out air) This place is a trip, dude, it's wild.

0:34:38 Gorgug: Yeah, yeah.

0:34:38 Ragh: It's crazy, these like dudes just running around eating grapes, so stupid.

0:34:46 Kristen: Oh, you love everyone here.

0:34:48 Riz: Ragh, do you love this place?

0:34:50 Ragh: [defensively] No, shut the fuck up, I don't fucking love this place!

0:34:53 Kristen: Go talk to someone.

0:34:53 Ragh: [angrily] Okay, thank you!

0:34:55 Brennan: And he walks off.

0:34:55 Gorgug: [yelling after Ragh] Don't eat any grapes!

0:34:58 Kristen: Sorry, I'm so sorry.

0:34:58 Gorgug: Don’t eat anything!

0:35:00 Riz: He’s gonna eat grapes. He's gonna come back and he's not gonna be horny anymore.

0:35:02 Emily: (crosstalk) You know what, I think— I gotta—

0:35:04 Ally: Can I talk to the crystal in the van? Can I talk to the Hangvan?

0:35:05 Brennan: Sure. The Hangvan is like,

0:35:07 Hangvan: Kristen Applebees! A little one on one, okay, what's up, homie?

0:35:15 Kristen: Did you know, we're in Fallinel right now?

0:35:17 Hangvan: I heard of it. About it.

0:35:20 Kristen: Similar vibe. Is this kinda your people?

0:35:24 Hangvan: You know, I feel like everyone's kind of partying, but they feel sort of sad about it. For me, I'm less like blossoms on the wind, like, diaphanous white gowns, and I'm more like, how about a couple of glass bottles of soda on the beach, our favorite tunes, and like, you know like, some kind of chill letter board game, you know.

0:35:45 Kristen: Oh, cool, okay, gotcha. Yeah, I actually know exactly who you are. (laughs)

0:35:54 Brennan: Tracker looks over at you and says,

0:35:57 Tracker: Hey, when we were teleporting, you mentioned something about Sandra Lynn and Garthy. What's up?

0:36:04 Kristen: (closes eyes and sighs) Are you done with the Moon Haven?

0:36:07 Tracker: Well, I should wait to cast until we're all ready to go to sleep, but yeah.

0:36:10 Kristen: Yeah, we should talk.

0:36:14 Ally: Can we like just go talk?

0:36:16 Brennan: Yeah, you can talk one on one, yeah.

0:36:19 Kristen: Yeah, Sandra Lynn I think slept with Garthy. I think they were into them.

0:36:26 Tracker: What?

0:36:26 Kristen: Yeah.

0:36:29 Tracker: Wait, when did this happen?

0:36:30 Kristen: When we were there the first night. After the octopus, when I took the octopus's beer and I had no idea. And I was trying to be cool and I was leaning a lot. During this conversation, Lou is doing a sort of awkward dance that brushes up against his mic.

0:36:41 Tracker: [facepalms] Oh, my god. [scandalized] Oh, my god!

0:36:43 Kristen: Yeah.

0:36:47 Tracker: When did you find out?

0:36:48 Kristen: That night, that night I went over there with Riz. At first we weren't sure if she was under a spell or something like that because it seemed so unlike her. Isn't she the one with your dad that's like, we have to be closed.

0:37:02 Tracker: My Uncle Jawbone, yeah.

0:37:02 Kristen: Oh, yeah, your uncle.

0:37:06 Tracker: Why didn't- You knew about this last night?

0:37:10 Kristen: Yeah, honestly, I don't know because I'm a little bit torn. She's like a woman trying to figure it out and I think that there's a lot going on there, so I didn't feel like I wanted to tell a whole bunch of people, even though I know it's really gonna affect you, but we didn't really have a good one-on-one time.

0:37:28 Tracker: You didn't want to tell a whole bunch of people?

0:37:31 Kristen: Yeah, no, but I just didn't want to tell you until I had even talked to her and then when I tried to talk to her she totally was like, we're not talking about this. I feel like she should tell you.

0:37:46 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Charisma check with disadvantage.

0:37:51 Ally: Oh, great. My Charisma is not good.

0:37:55 Zac: Did Ayda come with us?

0:37:57 Brennan: Ayda is with you, yeah.

0:37:59 Murph: [sees Ally’s roll, sucks in breath, eyes bugging out] No way!

0:38:01 Ally: [to Brennan] You can guess what that was. You can guess what that was doubled.

0:38:05 Murph: Two nat 1s. Two nat 1s.

0:38:06 Siobhan: Wow.

0:38:08 Kristen: I was supporting a woman's right to choose and trying to let her choose to tell you herself, babe. Was that a mistake?

0:38:30 Tracker: Here's your shot. Tell me the real reason why you didn't tell me. You are Miss Introspection and Self-Awareness, right? I'm not a lot of people. I'm your girlfriend.

0:38:49 Kristen: Right.

0:38:51 Tracker: So why didn't you mention something to me? And give me the real answer.

0:38:57 Kristen: I really think it, just so much was happening, I wasn't thinking to like let you know. Tracker growls.

0:39:02 Brennan: She turns and walks off into the darkness.

0:39:06 Kristen: Wait, was there another reason?

0:39:10 Fig: Kristen, what just happened?

0:39:11 Kristen: I don't know, but I told Tracker about your mom. She was really upset that I didn't tell her earlier.

0:39:18 Fig: Why? That's my mom's business.

0:39:20 Kristen: Kind of that's what I was thinking too, but I do get that maybe... yeah. Tracker might be really protective over Jawbone which I would understand.

0:39:30 Fig: Yeah.

0:39:30 Kristen: I just felt kind of like, not my family and I don't need to poke my head into the family and mix things up, but. I don't know, I guess, I could understand being really upset about this.

0:39:43 Fig: Hey, I think that, I honestly assumed that you told Tracker because she's your girlfriend, but I think it's kinda cool that if you protected my mom's, you know, whatever was going on with her. Whatever was going on.

0:39:59 Kristen: There's kind of like no right answer to that, but I do feel like that if I had to write a list of people that are important to me, Tracker would be ahead of your mom on it.

0:40:11 Fig: But that doesn't mean that's who you tell things to.

0:40:14 Kristen: True, true.

0:40:14 Ally: [to Brennan] Wait, can I go try to talk to Sandra Lynn?

0:40:19 Brennan: Sure, absolutely. You go find Sandra Lynn. You see that Sandra Lynn is like landed with Baxter. As you approach, Sandra Lynn says,

0:40:25 Sandra Lynn: Hey, Kristen, I just did a little loop up there. Calethriel's very close. It's probably only walking distance, probably a four or five hour hike north of here.

0:40:39 Kristen: Cool. So I wanted to let you know something, I'm gonna be really straightforward. I'm not being very good with words today. But Tracker asked what happened between you and Garthy. I told them that you and Garthy had a night. Tracker was very upset that I didn't share that with her before and now I feel like I fucked up, but just so you know, it's out there and maybe you should talk to her. Honestly, maybe you should talk to me because I don't totally know what happened either. Sandra Lynn sighs and covers her face.

0:41:14 Kristen: Do you still have whiskey on you? Sandra Lynn immediately hands it over.

0:41:18 Kristen: Thank you. [drinks and starts dancing] Oh, yeah, yeah, it's back. (cast laughing) It's back. I'm back.

0:41:27 Brennan: She snatches it back out of your hand.

0:41:32 Kristen: Aw, c’mon!

0:41:37 Lou: (snickers) Dancing.

0:41:38 Brennan: She says,

0:41:38 Sandra Lynn: I got drunk and made some stupid decisions.

0:41:47 Kristen: Speaking my language.

0:41:50 Sandra Lynn: (narrows her eyes) You pour beer out of beer cans and drink seltzer out of them.

0:41:52 Kristen: Yeah, that was the old me, the new me gets drunk real fast because I'm not used to alcohol in my body.

0:42:01 Sandra Lynn: Okay, you have to go to the van.

0:42:03 Brennan: You see, she takes you over. Gilear is near—

0:42:05 Emily: Actually, I have a question. So talking to Kristen about this, I remember, I have this memory that when I was watching this situation, obviously when I was watching it I was mostly just like holy shit, my mom is flirting, that's crazy. But I have this memory that at one point she said something and it looked like it changed the mood, but then the mood went back to normal or something like that. Am I misremembering that?

0:42:33 Brennan: Can you be a little more clear about what you're trying to remember?

0:42:35 Emily: I feel like there was a moment where it's like Sandra Lynn said something and it made the mood shift in a bad direction, like a hostile direction, and then something happened, someone touched someone's elbow.

0:42:48 Murph: I thought she just flirted with them and came on strong.

0:42:50 Emily: Oh, she was just like, really good flirting, okay.

0:42:53 Brennan: Yeah. So you see Gilear is near you and looks off at Sandra Lynn and looks over at you and says,

0:43:06 Gilear: Figueroth, my daughter, pretty cool digs, right? This is the way to live. High Elves, they're so high and they really do it right.

0:43:17 Fig: Do you wanna live in a place like this?

0:43:19 Gilear: I would ruin it, I know that about myself.

0:43:21 Fig: That is such a deeply sad thing to say, Gilear. You wouldn't ruin it. Honestly, you're thriving here.

0:43:30 Brennan: He unbuttons the top button of his short sleeve button up.

0:43:36 Gilear: Time to let loose.

0:43:38 Fig: Yes, Gilear!

0:43:40 Gilear: All right, I may go get a grape.

0:43:40 Fig: Yes, Gilear, pop them grapes.

0:43:42 Ally: No!

0:43:44 Lou: Pop a grape, Gilear.

0:43:44 Murph: It's probably fine if Gilear has a grape.

0:43:46 Emily: It’s fine. I mean, how much— yeah.

0:43:51 Brennan: You see Gilear. He says,

0:43:51 Gilear: What was the, uh… I wanted to ask you daughter, is there, I observed a strange interaction, my insight into the workings of the heart alerted me to a strange presence between your mother, Sandra Lynn, and our benefactor, Garthy O’Brien.

0:44:20 Fig: Yeah.

0:44:23 Gilear: Are you aware of any such... hanky panky?

0:44:37 Fig: (laughs) All I'm gonna say, Gilear, is that if anything, what may or may not have happened there is a testament is that what she did to you was maybe a pattern in her and had nothing to do with a failing on your part.

0:44:55 Brennan: Gilear nods.

0:45:03 Gilear: Your mother, I don't need to make excuses on her behalf. Or, you know, defend what she did. She's been very hurtful to me through her actions. Do you ever wonder, you know your mother graduated Aguefort, right, when she was a young girl, woman.

0:45:38 Fig: Yeah.

0:45:41 Gilear: Do you ever wonder what happened to her adventuring party?

0:45:47 Fig: No, actually, I hadn't really.

0:45:50 Gilear: The reason she took her job as just a member of the sort of Solisian Rangers, she was promising for much more beyond that for quite some time. She was taken as a replacement member for an adventuring party that was actually already active in the world. It was senior year she actually dropped out, got her diploma after the fact to join an adventuring party. I don't know everything, your mother's been very private about it, but there was a married couple within that adventuring party and they were older and more powerful adventurers and my understanding is that as a very young woman, fresh out of adventuring school, she fell in love with a member of that wedded union who did not treat her very kindly. And when everything came out, she was ejected from that adventuring party and her future as an adventurer was dimmed. I don't know that-

0:47:04 Fig: Her name got smeared because of what happened?

0:47:09 Gilear: Smeared enough. Adventuring parties are formed often at Aguefort and no one wanted her as a replacement and the person that had been her romantic partner that had been unfaithful in that group took great pains to smear her name so that no one else would accept her.

0:47:28 Fig: Do you know who it was?

0:47:32 Brennan: I do.

0:47:32 Fig: Have you heard? Who was it?

0:47:36 Brennan: He nods and says,

0:47:36 Gilear: Another time.

0:47:40 Fig: No.

0:47:40 Brennan: He says,

0:47:41 Gilear: It's your mother's information, not mine. I wanted to tell you what I knew, not to forgive, but only to say that Sandra Lynn has always been impulsive and guided by her heart, but maybe they're unrelated. Maybe she has done wrong by people and has also been wronged, and one doesn't excuse the other. But there is a fuller picture to understanding your mother, I think.

0:48:16 Fig: I absolutely agree. I was mostly trying to protect her feelings. I don't know how it feels for you to see her do what she did to you to someone else.

0:48:26 Gilear: Honestly, perhaps this is fucked up.

0:48:31 Fig: No, get a little fucked up. Come on, pops.

0:48:34 Gilear: It makes me feel like it wasn't something uniquely wrong with me.

0:48:38 Fig: That's exactly what I was saying.

0:48:43 Gilear: Maybe a tiny little W for Gilear. Not a big one.

0:48:47 Fig: No, no, capslock. Caps Lock on.

0:48:47 Gilear: No, it's a lowercase w.

0:48:50 Fig: Caps Lock on that W.

0:48:50 Emily: I give him a grape.

0:48:53 Ally: I try to pick a bunch of flowers, but hide them in a pocket or something and find Tracker.

0:49:00 Brennan: Go ahead and make a survival check for me.

0:49:04 Ally: Interesting, oh, it's okay. Yeah, 17,

0:49:09 Brennan: You fall out into the woods. You see resting on the grass in wolf form is Tracker, who's just, and has got her paws over her nose and she does that thing that dogs do when they're sulking where she just glares at you and doesn't move as you approach.

0:49:32 Kristen: Hi. I wanted to come say I'm sorry.

0:49:36 Tracker: [growls]

0:49:40 Kristen: You're so important to me and this had to do with your family. I'm really sorry, I should have told you immediately. I should have told you that night.

0:49:51 Brennan: Go ahead and make another Persuasion check if you'd be so kind.

0:49:53 Ally: Just normal?

0:49:55 Brennan: Just normal, no disadvantage.

0:50:00 Ally: Nat 1.

0:50:01 Siobhan: Throw it away!

0:50:01 Lou: No way. [to audience while flashing double peace signs] It's not just me.

0:50:06 Emily: Ally is the coolest roller ever.

0:50:09 Ally: Jesus fucking Christ.

0:50:13 Brennan: You see… (cast laughing) Tracker transforms into her humanoid self. She walks up to you and you can see her eyes tear up as she looks at you.

0:50:44 Tracker: I think you didn't tell me because you didn't know the right way to do it and it would be a hard conversation.

0:50:57 Kristen: Totally right. Totally right.

0:51:00 Tracker: That sucks.

0:51:02 Kristen: I know, I'm so sorry. It's just so many moving parts in your family. Part of me kind of psychotically thought that since Jawbone is like very open that maybe he wouldn't care about this, but of course he would because she is so closed about this. It's so hypocritical.

0:51:29 Tracker: I… Jawbone's a whole other, look, Jawbone's gonna be fine. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I have to talk to him or Sandra Lynn or somebody. That's a whole other, look, grownups and their relationships aren't our business and I do understand that like it sucks, it's weird, I don't wanna have that conversation with Jawbone. I don't feel comfortable going to Sandra Lynn and talking about it. But Kristen, like, it just really sucks, it really hurts.

0:52:04 Kristen: Yeah, totally.

0:52:07 Tracker: I feel like you obsess over what the right thing is and you kind of like, in this… Obsessing over the right thing all the time, if it leads you to inaction where you're like, I don't have a good option, so you just like stall or delay or don't do something, that's also a wrong choice.

0:52:37 Kristen: Yeah, I think you're right.

0:52:45 Tracker: I love you.

0:52:46 Kristen: Yeah, I love you too, I brought you these flowers. I was gonna give them to you when we were fully made up, but it's like that's probably not gonna happen so here's this while we're still in a fight.

0:53:00 Tracker: While we're still in a fight.

0:53:01 Kristen: I picked these flowers, they're gonna wilt in my pocket.

0:53:04 Tracker: And when we made up?

0:53:07 Kristen: I was thinking I would come over and just really woo you with my heart-felt apology, but it didn't go that way and I understand, it's not that easy.

0:53:18 Tracker: [clearly irritated] Well, if it's so inevitable that we're gonna make up, why don't you just hang tight and I'll let you know when it happens.

0:53:24 Brennan: And she throws the flowers on the ground and walks towards the van.

0:53:29 Ally: I pick up the freakin' flowers!

0:53:29 Kristen: They're really good, I picked the best of each bush. I picked the best of each bush!

0:53:35 Tracker: That's as good as mind control, Kristen. I'm so over it.

0:53:37 Brennan: And she walks off towards the van.

0:53:42 Ally: I'll obviously follow her.

0:53:42 Brennan: (laughing) You follow her.

0:53:42 Ally: At a distance.

0:53:46 Kristen: You can have your storming away, you can have it.

0:53:53 Brennan: [laughs] Awesome. Who all is in the van getting ready for bed right now?

0:53:58 Murph: Riz.

0:53:58 Zac: I’d probably be in there.

0:53:59 Ally: I’m on my way.

0:53:59 Lou: I have two levels of exhaustion and pneumonia. I get those sheets and I head back.

0:54:06 Emily: You’re gonna sweat on those sheets.

0:54:07 Ally: You’re wrapped in milk.

0:54:10 Lou: Great, been sleeping on cream.

0:54:10 Brennan: Go and give me a Constitution save if you'd be so kind.

0:54:14 Lou: 8.

0:54:18 Brennan: Cool.

0:54:22 Lou: [to audience] They bought me a new dice and I rolled with it and I'm still doing okay.

0:54:24 Emily: 8 is better.

0:54:26 Ally: 8 is better.

0:54:26 Siobhan: No, he rolled a 3, he has a high Con modifier.

0:54:28 Emily: Those dice are bad.

0:54:32 Brennan: You see that--

0:54:32 Lou: These hands, baby. These hands are cursed. [wiggles them]

0:54:35 Siobhan: We're gonna get you new hands for Christmas.

0:54:37 Brennan: Your grandfather, Telemaine, approaches and says,

0:54:42 Telemaine: My sweet grandson.

0:54:42 Fabian: Grandpapa.

0:54:46 Telemaine: Do you wish for me to seek healing for your illness? There should be no disease within Kei Lumennura.

0:54:57 Fabian: Yeah, I’d appreciate being healed. That'd be lovely.

0:55:02 Brennan: You see, he beckons to one of your aunts who approaches. This is your Aunt Vanlerial.

0:55:08 Brennan: She approaches and says,

0:55:15 Vanlerial: [soft breathy voice] My nephew, Fahbiahn.

0:55:19 Fabian: Hello, aunt. I'm sorry, what is your-?

0:55:21 Vanlerial: Vanlerial.

0:55:23 Fabian: Vanlerial, nice to meet you.

0:55:30 Vanlerial: The illness grips your body.

0:55:30 Fabian: Yes.

0:55:33 Vanlerial: Disease should not come to these shores. I shall banish it henceforth. (mimicking flute music) [Ally covers face to hold back laughter]

0:55:47 Vanlerial: How is that? How do you feel after that?

0:55:50 Fabian: I think I'm still pretty sick.

0:55:54 Vanlerial: Weird, okay. Let me- (singing high notes)

0:56:03 Emily: I roll up the van window angrily.

0:56:06 Fig: Shh! (closes a crank window)

0:56:10 Vanlerial: Now, did it?

0:56:10 Fabian: Not really.

0:56:13 Vanlerial: (singing higher notes)

0:56:15 Fabian: Is it just the song? Is it just the song or is there going to be a-

0:56:18 Vanlerial: It's the song.

0:56:20 Fabian: Is it going to be-?

0:56:20 Brennan: She speaks in elven to Telemaine.

0:56:21 Vanlerial: We have never seen an illness of this strength before in Kei Lumennura.

0:56:30 Fabian: I've gotten this sick, I've never gotten this sick before, but I've seen people get this sick before.

0:56:37 Brennan: You see your aunt says,

0:56:39 Vanlerial: [gravely] I must use my greatest song of all. [holds out hand]

0:56:42 Fabian: You know you don't have to. (singing the highest-pitched notes)

0:56:48 Kristen: Get in the van!

0:56:49 Fabian: Hold on, they’re doing an Elven healing.

0:56:53 Fig: How's it working?

0:56:54 Vanlerial: I have failed and I shall fade.

0:56:57 Brennan: Your aunt looks up into the sky, turns into starlight-

0:57:00 Fabian: No, no, no!

0:57:00 Brennan: -and vanishes.

0:57:01 Fabian: Come back!

0:57:01 Brennan: Telemaine looks and says,

0:57:05 Telemaine: I think I've seen her do that before so we should be-

0:57:08 Fabian: She'll come back?

0:57:08 Telemaine: Sure.

0:57:12 Fabian: I'm sorry that we're not meeting under circumstances where I can spend time with you. You seem great and like an interesting person.

0:57:25 Telemaine: In another life I would have kept you here until the icy fangs of death came and arrested you from my arms. What horror that would have been to witness. Perhaps it is best that your human father took my daughter away and that you should grow up in those wild lands beyond these shores, my darling grandson.

0:57:55 Fabian: Can I get those sheets?

0:57:57 Telemaine: Yeah, yeah for sure.

0:57:59 Brennan: He comes back with the sheets. He says,

0:58:02 Telemaine: Is it normal that you're missing an eye out of your head?

0:58:08 Fabian: No. It got cut out in a fight.

0:58:15 Telemaine: I could speak and send word on the wings of the white dove.

0:58:17 Fabian: No.

0:58:19 Telemaine: There is an elf that lives in the high mountains at the heart of Fallinel who crafts eyes from songs and whispers and beams of moonlight, jeweled edges of the blue of the sea, shimmering poems pulled from the ether itself, if you like.

0:58:37 Fabian: Like a real, like an eye, like a real?

0:58:41 Telemaine: As real as song and whispers.

0:58:44 Fabian: Sure, I'll take it. I'll take an eye. Just don’t, you promise me you won't turn into stardust and disappear. (laughing)

0:58:55 Telemaine: (laughs) As you wish.

0:58:56 Brennan: You see, he turns into silver sand and floats away on the wind.

0:58:59 Fabian: No!

0:58:59 Emily: Wait, before he goes, I just put it together,

0:59:02 Fig: This is Gilear's future father-in-law.

0:59:04 Siobhan: Ha!

0:59:06 Brennan: You see the sand comes back and goes,

0:59:06 Telemaine: What?

0:59:09 Fig: I just realized, hello. Hi, I'm Fig, we met earlier. I put cigarettes on your ground. (laughing) My dad is dating your daughter.

0:59:23 Telemaine: You are also the child of William Seacaster?

0:59:27 Fabian: No. Gilear was the man who spo-

0:59:30 Brennan: See Gilear comes back in. He has one more button done and he comes over and he's got a huge silver tureen of cream with floating berries in it. And you see he's like,

0:59:41 Gilear: This is the most similar thing I could find to yogurt. It's like a clotted cream, it's like a sweet clotted, it's like a butter, kind of a sweet butter.

0:59:51 Fig: Gilear, this is your girlfriend's dad.

0:59:53 Brennan: You see he looks over and goes,

0:59:53 Gilear: Right. [quietly] )Daughter, did you bring that up? I was kind of gonna slow roll that.

1:00:00 Fig: Oh, he doesn't know yet. He's none the wiser.

1:00:03 Brennan: He puts down the tureen and a big gob splashes on his shirt and a little on his face and walks over and says,

1:00:07 Gilear: Telemaine Lomenelda of Kei Lumennura, I, Gilear Faeth, am, uh... involved romantically with your daughter, Hallariel. We are not, um, I, it's unclear to— she is definitely my partner and I sleep in her garage.

1:00:34 Brennan: You see Telemaine squints his eyes and goes,

1:00:36 Telemaine: Gargagé.

1:00:38 Brennan: And you see he says,

1:00:38 Gilear: Garage.

1:00:38 Fig: This is going really well.

1:00:41 Gorgug: He can pronounce the G sounds, I don't understand what's going on.

1:00:46 Brennan: You see he says,

1:00:48 Telemaine: If you, a Wood Elf, are to marry my daughter, let us walk in the midnight orchards and recite our favorite poems to one another.

1:00:58 Brennan: You see Gilear goes and goes,

1:00:59 Gilear: Shit, shit,

1:01:01 Brennan: And walks off with Telemaine and you see Telemaine says,

1:01:08 Telemaine: Well lands the evening swan of dusk, The midnight blossoms bloom and grow, And peaks of mountains far away descend on crystal glint of snow. And wheresoever songs are sung and elven magic fills the air, Kalai thrandiel dhra dha dhra dha... A prayer I whisper now, a prayer.

1:01:34 Brennan: And you see that Gilear goes,

1:01:37 Gilear: (in a similar cadence) How much wood... (cast laughing)

1:01:43 Gilear: Could a woodchuck chuck,

1:01:43 Brennan: and he walks off into the orchard with Telemaine—

1:01:51 Emily: I do have one second level spell left. Can I use Phantasmal Force, just to make it, make Gilear look a little more, just like make him look hot.

1:02:03 Brennan: Cool. You make him look hot-

1:02:03 Emily: Or even if I have to use the second level spell to just hide the yogurt stain on his shirt.

1:02:09 Brennan: It will take the whole spell to hide the yogurt stain, so he is stainless as he walks off into the night. Yes?

1:02:15 Zac: Can I talk to Ayda real fast?

1:02:16 Brennan: Yeah, Ayda has been in the van the whole time. She looks over at you and says,

1:02:19 Ayda: (briskly) What is it?

1:02:22 Gorgug: Hey, I feel like I've overheard like 30 sad conversations already, but do you have the Sending spell as well?

1:02:33 Brennan: Hold on one second. I actually think there's a chance she would have prepared it. I'm gonna roll an open luck check in front of the board. I'm gonna call even/odds, 11 or higher, she's got it prepared. 10 or lower, she does not. 12!

1:02:46 Ally: Eyy!

1:02:59 Lou: That's all it takes.

1:03:01 Brennan: You see she looks and says,

1:03:01 Ayda: I do. Why?

1:03:06 Gorgug: I just kinda have to send my girlfriend a message. There's been a lot of crazy stuff happening and I feel like I've done a bad job of communicating with her and I just wanted to let her know where we are and that we're safe and that I'm trying to figure that out.

1:03:28 Brennan: You see that she looks and says,

1:03:28 Ayda: You've done a bad job?

1:03:34 Gorgug: Yeah, I was trying to, well, I told her that I would get this cell tower figured out before we left and then I just let it fall to the wayside when a bunch of other stuff happened.

1:03:46 Ayda: Why?

1:03:47 Gorgug: Well, there was a mo- I just feel like... Why? I guess I just didn't prioritize it and I didn't think about it as well as I could have. My friends were kind of in danger and I'm not exactly an organized guy and I kind of forgot until it was too late.

1:04:19 Ayda: (sighs) Wizards of the ancient past committed many such errors. Oversights, moments of hubris. They paid for it dearly, trapped in crystal caves, sent amongst the stars, destroyed or unmade. How have you paid for this crime?

1:04:37 Gorgug: How have I-? Well, she seems kind of mad at me. Last time we talked she was cutting out on the crystal and she said, she was like, “you said you were gonna put the tower up.” That was pretty bad, I've been feeling pretty-

1:04:53 Ayda: That's terrifying.

1:04:54 Gorgug: I've been feeling pretty bad since then.

1:04:56 Ayda: If people are mad at me about something that I've done, that's terrifying to me.

1:04:59 Gorgug: I don't like it either.

1:04:59 Ayda: I can't be in there, in the room when that happens.

1:05:03 Gorgug: When people are mad at you?

1:05:03 Ayda: No.

1:05:06 Gorgug: Okay. Yeah, I don't like it either.

1:05:08 Ayda: Are you mad at me right now?

1:05:08 Gorgug: I'm not mad at you.

1:05:10 Ayda: Okay.

1:05:11 Gorgug: I think you're doing a good job.

1:05:12 Ayda: Thank you.

1:05:12 Gorgug: And I appreciate-

1:05:13 Ayda: I think you're doing a good job as well, though you just admitted a great failing to me.

1:05:16 Gorgug: Yeah, yeah.

1:05:16 Ayda: What I've seen you do has been good.

1:05:17 Gorgug: Oh, good.

1:05:19 Ayda: Obviously the failures have been kept from me, hidden.

1:05:21 Gorgug: Well, I don't know if I was hiding them from you specifically.

1:05:23 Ayda: I didn't see them and I see a lot.

1:05:24 Gorgug: Sure, okay, well. (stutters) Can I use that spell?

1:05:26 Ayda: Can you?

1:05:31 Gorgug: I know I'm gonna be the greatest wizard of all time, but for now I don't know how to do it.

1:05:38 Ayda: You're asking me to do it for you?

1:05:40 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:05:40 Brennan: She leaps forward and pins you to the ground with her talon and puts a finger in your face and says,

1:05:46 Ayda: Do you remain now in my debt, Gorgug Thistlespring, wizard of Solace?

1:05:52 Gorgug: Could I just like pay you some gold?

1:05:54 Ayda: 150 gold.

1:05:57 Gorgug: [sighs] Yeah, sure.

1:05:57 Ayda: Great. (holds out a hand)

1:06:00 Zac: I give her 150 gold.

1:06:03 Brennan: She casts the Sending spell. What does Gorgug say? You got 25 words, curses not included.

1:06:10 Ally: Oh, yeah, definitely cuss her out.

1:06:12 Lou: Call her the B word. You could say-

1:06:12 Siobhan: Yeah, and the C word.

1:06:15 Emily: You just end with some real raunchy promises.

1:06:20 Zac: I think Gorgug just says,

1:06:20 Gorgug: Shit, I'm sorry. I fully should have set up… Hold on. Zac starts to write his message.

1:06:32 Brennan: You take a second to think of that. As you do, Tracker makes the Moon Haven and, Kristen, she looks over at you and says,

1:06:45 Tracker: Maybe we crash in separate places tonight.

1:06:47 Kristen: I understand.

1:06:47 Ally: I get some cream.

1:06:49 Brennan: [laughing] You get some cream. Creamy sheets.

1:06:51 Ally: I get some cream from Fabian.

1:06:53 Brennan: Who's other room do you kind of go into?

1:06:56 Ally: Fucking Gilear.

1:06:59 Brennan: [laughs] Gilear is like,

1:06:59 Gilear: Umm. Maybe not mine.

1:07:02 Brennan: Oh wait, Gilear is actually out with Telemaine right now.

1:07:04 Ally: I take Gilear's bed.

1:07:06 Brennan: You take Gilear's bed! (claps)

1:07:10 Ally: I write a quick note so when he comes in late at night, it says

1:07:13 Kristen: Oops, sorry.

1:07:13 Brennan: Sorry, as you go to Gilear's room, you see there's already two people in here. You walk in and Ragh is in there and there is this young lithe elven lad who looks like about seventeen, eighteen, who looks up to you. Ragh goes,

1:07:28 Ragh: Oh! Uh. This is my buddy.

1:07:33 Brennan: Hold on a second. He looks and says,

1:07:36 Ragh: This is my pal, Fathethriel.

1:07:39 Lou: Fathethriel (laughing).

1:07:41 Ally: Can I do a quick Perception check on Fuflefriel?

1:07:44 Brennan: Sure.

1:07:46 Ally: There we go. That's a 12.

1:07:50 Brennan: Blond like mop of hair, kind of covering one eye.

1:07:54 Ally: Is he trying to kill Ragh?

1:07:56 Brennan: What did you roll for your Insight?

1:07:57 Ally: 14.

1:07:57 Brennan: You don’t think he’s trying to kill— He looks at you and says,

1:08:00 Fathethriel: [lazy voice with thick consonants] I am Fathethriel.

1:08:00 Brennan: You see Ragh says,

1:08:00 Ragh: Yeah, Fathethriel is actually, it's cool because I was talking to him about bloodrush and like, sports and Fathethriel bakes elven waybread, so that sort of like something we have in common.

1:08:15 Kristen: [really fast] Yeah, you have so much in common. Okay, cool, I'll leave you to it.

1:08:21 Brennan: Fathethriel calls out and says,

1:08:24 Fathethriel: Do you want some elven waybread?

1:08:28 Kristen: No, thank you. Is Ragh eating it?

1:08:32 Brennan: You see he looks up and says,

1:08:32 Fathethriel: I don't know, he's a hungry boy.

1:08:36 Brennan: And you see Ragh goes,

1:08:36 Ragh: Ha ha ha, you’re- this fucking guy, [turns to Kristen] [quietly] I'll see you.

1:08:40 Kristen: I'll see you, absolutely.

1:08:43 Brennan: And we see you walk away. As you head off--

1:08:52 Ally: I guess I take Adaine's bed.

1:08:54 Brennan: Oh, you take Adaine's bed, that makes sense. You go crash in Adaine's bed.

1:09:00 Kristen: It's so neat.

1:09:00 Brennan: So neat in here. Speaking of Adaine, while Zac is still putting his Sending together, we're actually gonna cut over, not too far, just a few leagues away, over to Calethriel Tower. Zac does appear to be still writing, and he counts some words with his pencil.

1:09:16 Siobhan: Brennan, I got you a little Christmas present. [pulls something out of her pocket]

1:09:18 Brennan: You did!

1:09:18 Siobhan: I did.

1:09:20 Lou: Oh, wow.

1:09:20 Brennan: [genuinely excited] Oh, my god!

1:09:22 Zac: What is it?

1:09:22 Brennan: I didn't know anything about this, for real. Oh, my god, it's wrapped!

1:09:26 Ally: It's a weighted die for nat 1s.

1:09:33 Brennan: [reading the package] Sugar and dice, edible dice!

1:09:35 Siobhan: Yeah, so you can eat your fucking dice, dude! [cast laughs] I'm gonna make you eat your goddamn dice. [slams table]

1:09:44 Brennan: Truly incredible and if I get whomped, I will.

1:09:47 Siobhan: Great.

1:09:51 Brennan: Incredible, my god, that is amazing!

1:09:54 Emily: That's so cool.

1:09:55 Brennan: [squealing] Sugar and dice, that's amazing. [smiling] Thank you, Siobhan.

1:09:58 Siobhan: You're welcome, merry Christmas!

1:10:02 Brennan: [staring threateningly into the camera] I will always win.

1:10:05 Siobhan: You can win at D&D.

1:10:06 Brennan: You can win at D&D! High atop Calethriel Tower, spinning in a giant floating orb, it is extremely soft, it does not hurt you to be moved around it, and in fact there are places where you can kind of slide with the orb for a moment as it's moving, so you're never injured, you cannot be still in here. As it slowly rotates, you see that Boggy is there with you who has his [frowning] “not so sure about this” face on, but you see that he ribbits softly under your arm as you kind of move around this space.

1:10:51 Siobhan: Can I cast spells in here?

1:10:54 Brennan: You can, you absolutely can cast spells.

1:10:56 Siobhan: Will they get out of the orb?

1:10:58 Brennan: You believe that there might be a magic circle that's preventing you from doing stuff in here, but basically the elves believe that you've run out of spell slots and you're not gonna be able to trance in here. So at the moment, you are unguarded. Give me an Arcana check to see if there's any kind of like spells that happen in here.

1:11:24 Siobhan: A 10.

1:11:27 Brennan: There might be some shenanigans in here, it's hard to say. You notice what bums you out is there are a lot of artifacts in here, the walls are kind of glowing with runes. There is something pumping through this place that looks like raw elemental power. One of the things that you know about is that permanent, like one of the hardest things to do with magic is have a permanent effect. It's really hard to make something last forever. But there do seem to be a lot of permanent magical effects here and as you're looking at it, it's very clear that whatever wizards or artificers crafted this stuff, didn't wanna burn their own internal resources, like the equivalent, in world you guys wouldn't know what experience points are, but life energy or whatever, these wizards didn't wanna expend that. So there appears to be something pumping through this place and so you're like, oh, they might be able to do some real wacky shenanigans with like prepared directional Counterspells or whatever. And have it be powered by some force that you can't glean on 10. You're not really sure what it is. But you think, obviously they seem, you think that they would have prepared to counter cantrips, which they know you'd be able to cast, you would never run out of cantrips. They're not based on spell slots.

1:12:57 Siobhan: [looking through her spell cards] There's so little I can do. Can I cast Detect Magic? It's a ritual spell?

1:13:02 Brennan: Yeah.

1:13:02 Siobhan: And Identify?

1:13:04 Brennan: Unfortunately your jacket and spell book and stuff has not been left in here with you. So it's like you and Boggy basically are in here. Other than that, there is not that much, you can't ritual cast any of your higher level spells.

1:13:21 Siobhan: Okay. Well, I had a short rest, so I have one third level spell. Can I cast Counterspell towards something?

1:13:33 Brennan: Sure.

1:13:33 Siobhan: I guess I have Dispel Magic, can I cast Dispel? Oh, I don't have my, I have it as a prepared spell, is that--

1:13:40 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely, you have Dispel Magic. If you want to attempt to nix this orb out, you would at least have a little bit of time to be able to do that. Dispel Magic, the DC equals for each, okay, so you're gonna roll a d20 plus your Intelligence modifier. The DC you're trying to hit is a 15.

1:14:09 Siobhan: Okay. [two peace signs] I got a 19.

1:14:15 Ally: Yeah!

1:14:16 Brennan: So you managed to get back one spell slot that they didn't know was there, the orb [vwoom] vanishes. As it vanishes, a few Counterspells ring off for a second, and an alarm immediately goes off so you know that they know you're here.

1:14:32 Siobhan: Okay, great. There's a window?

1:14:42 Brennan: There is a window, yes.

1:14:45 Siobhan: How high up am I?

1:14:47 Brennan: You're probably about 160 feet up.

1:14:53 Siobhan: Okay. Do I have any idea where it was that my spellbook was left?

1:14:59 Brennan: It was taken away to another place in the tower.

1:15:01 Siobhan: Dang. Can I then just look for a place to hide?

1:15:09 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely. You see also Boggy looks at you and looks out the window and you see that Boggy can turn into mist and might be able to make a run for it to have your friends be able to know where you are.

1:15:28 Siobhan: Mmm, I think that there's actually rules against that.

1:15:31 Brennan: Oh, there are?

1:15:31 Ally: Do you have like send message or something?

1:15:32 Siobhan: I hate to kill myself. And maybe I'm wrong, but I think that Find Familiar only, they have to be within a certain distance from you. I don't have the full spell on this spell card, I'm sorry.

1:15:47 Brennan: No, it can go farther away, but you lose the ability to communicate telepathically when it's beyond 100 feet.

1:15:52 Siobhan: Oh, okay, that's what it was. But I have no idea where my people are.

1:16:03 Brennan: You don't, so Boggy would just be heading off into the wild.

1:16:04 Siobhan: Right, exactly, and the chances of him finding them, I'm assuming that they're still in Solace?

1:16:10 Brennan: Or still in Leviathan.

1:16:11 Siobhan: Or still in Leviathan, sorry. So I think I'm gonna keep him with me for now just because I think that that makes the most sense. I think that he can help me most.

1:16:22 Brennan: Cool.

1:16:22 Siobhan: Here.

1:16:22 Brennan: Cool.

1:16:28 Siobhan: Can I, here is where I would like to hide if possible. Let me know if you think it's possible because I would like to see if I can go and hide in Aelwyn's room. I feel like it's just the least likely place for them to look for me.

1:16:44 Brennan: Sure, absolutely. Go ahead and give me a Stealth check. Boggy can give you advantage on this.

1:16:50 Siobhan: Great. Rolled a 2 and a 4, so I got a 6.

1:16:58 Brennan: You run in there to hide. You rush in, Boggy's with you, you hear people coming through the towers. Give me a Perception check as you're running.

1:17:10 Siobhan: 15.

1:17:13 Brennan: As you run by these towers, you see down in the courtyard, remember the courtyard when you tried to make your escape, mages kind of appeared out of nowhere.

1:17:20 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:17:22 Brennan: You see them step out of doorways that don't have doors in them and are built into the stone of the wall. And as they trigger, you see the rooms and these elven archways are the same that you saw in the protections around your orb upstairs, as they appear, you see the same there where it's like, oh, this place doesn't have like dozens of elven mages guarding you, but the second anything happens, a bunch of elven mages appear through these doorways. You see that they come through. You go into Aelwyn's room. I'm gonna make a little search check. Cool. You go in there, hide behind a corner.

1:18:08 Brennan: Aelwyn's long blond hair is matted, her face looks dry and desiccated. Her lips are completely colorless and chapped. She is crawling on hands and knees. You can see that clearly she is at five points of exhaustion and only magic is keeping her from going to the sixth and dying. She moves through to you. Your roll is low enough that she sees you come in and sees you hide. She moves through. You see that in, there's (mumbles) room. You see these tall, they almost look like green men, where they have like leaves coming from their faces. They're about eight feet tall and you immediately see that these are spell crafted like magecraft, automata. Not mechanical though, made of pure magic, but almost like elemental plant-based things. Soldiers rush in towards your chambers. You see the young maiden Kir, looks up, and communicates something sort of telepathically to Aelwyn and you can almost hear the Message cantrip going back and forth between them. You see Kir basically says,

1:19:34 Kir: Where did she go?

1:19:37 Brennan: And you see that Aelwyn responds and says, Adaine shakes her head with a finger to her lips.

1:19:41 Brennan: She doesn't look at you make that motion. She looks, her response to the Message cantrip is,

1:19:49 Aelwyn: [soft, shaky] However should I know? I see nothing.

1:19:53 Brennan: And Kir moves to investigate your quarters. Aelwyn makes eye contact with you and casts a Message cantrip. She looks at you and says,

1:20:11 Aelwyn: Do you have any spell slots left? Anything to get out?

1:20:14 Adaine: I have four first level spell slots. No spellbook and a frog.

1:20:23 Aelwyn: It's an alright frog.

1:20:25 Siobhan: [laughs] I cast Tasha’s Hideous Laughter. I don't, I don't really do that. It would waste one of my four spell slots.

1:20:33 Ally: Can you Message us?

1:20:35 Emily: (crosstalk) I was trying to...

1:20:36 Siobhan: It's only 120 feet and it's within, you have to see the person to...

1:20:42 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

1:20:47 Aelwyn: Anything dangerous like a spell book or something like that would have been left in the vault on the first floor. It'll be locked down by now, the alarm would have triggered it. The vault will be one of the first things that has to go. Does anyone know you're here? (soft piano music)

1:21:08 Adaine: [shrugs and holds her hands up in an “I don’t know” motion] They know that I was taken. I don't know if they know that I'm here. I only had one spell and I used it to get rid of my orb. Maybe I should have told my friends, I don't know.

1:21:27 Aelwyn: Did Mother find you?

1:21:31 Adaine: Briefly.

1:21:41 Brennan: She looks at you for a long time, shaking under the effort of continuing movement.

1:21:50 Aelwyn: It's rather hard to gather one's thoughts in here.

1:21:59 Adaine: Aelwyn, nobody deserves this. This is wrong. What you did is wrong, but what they've done to you is barbaric.

1:22:12 Brennan: What limited moisture is left in her body forms tears in her eyes. She looks at you and says,

1:22:19 Aelwyn: Adaine, I'm very sorry, I hardly remember anything anymore. I know I have behaved dreadfully and not, I know I behaved dreadfully to the world, and I know I behaved dreadfully to you. And that was barbaric and undeserved. I am very sorry that our… [long pause] I feel a very broken person, that it took months of torture to make me exposed enough to say what I always should have said and didn't have the strength to. There's no apology that makes any of it all right. And the truth is that I feel so strange and addled that I can't even give you a better apology because I don't remember at this point what's real and what's imagined.

1:23:27 Adaine: I think our parents- I used to think that them treating you as an untouchable favorite and me, who could never do anything right, I thought that I was the only one that they were damaging, but I think that they damaged you too. I think that that's as damaging. They're bad people, both of them.

1:23:55 Brennan: You see that she shivers a little bit and says,

1:24:00 Aelwyn: Well, I think in certain ways they tried the best they could, didn't they?

1:24:06 Adaine: No, I don't think they did.

1:24:12 Aelwyn: I don't really remember. I, I, they expected quite a lot of us, but isn't that what, isn't that, didn't that make us great?

1:24:27 Adaine: Expectation without love, what's that?

1:24:36 Brennan: You, you watch her kind of go,

1:24:39 Aelwyn: Right. Sorry, how did this conversation begin? Are you to get me out, or not?

1:24:49 Adaine: Yes, I'm here to get you out.

1:24:51 Aelwyn: Oh.

1:24:51 Adaine: I can't get you out yet because I'm out of spells.

1:24:56 Aelwyn: All right. Well, how many spell slots do you have?

1:24:59 Adaine: I have four first level spell slots.

1:25:01 Aelwyn: All right. Where is your spellbook?

1:25:03 Adaine: I think it's in the vault on the first floor.

1:25:06 Aelwyn: The vault is on the first floor, that's right.

1:25:09 Brennan: And you see she starts to go over the first part of the conversation again.

1:25:16 Adaine: Can I hide in this room? Is there a closet or something that I can crawl into?

1:25:21 Brennan: You see a couple moments later that these guards come in. There's about four of them and Kir is here as well. She waggles her finger at you and she takes you into the room again. Adaine rolls her eyes and holds out her hands for the handcuffs.

1:25:41 Brennan: What you see as you walk back to your room, however, is that your room is not outside of the range of the message cantrip from Aelwyn's quarters.

1:25:53 Adaine: [sighs] Great.

1:25:54 Brennan: You are placed back in the orb. A few moments after the guards leave again, you hear a voice in your mind say,

1:26:04 Aelwyn: Hello?

1:26:09 Adaine: Aelwyn?

1:26:10 Aelwyn: Who's this?

1:26:10 Adaine: It's me, Adaine.

1:26:13 Aelwyn: Adaine, are you here in the tower?

1:26:15 Adaine: Yes, I'm here to rescue you.

1:26:18 Aelwyn: Adaine, you deserve an apology.

1:26:21 Adaine: Thank you, but we don't have time for that. Can you tell me everything that you know about the tower?

1:26:25 Aelwyn: Tower.

1:26:29 Adaine: The tower that we're in.

1:26:30 Aelwyn: There's a vault on the first floor. That's where everything special's being kept. [shaky] Adaine, I'm scared.

1:26:39 Adaine: I am too.

1:26:42 Brennan: Your sister does her best to help you without being able to remember really what you've said or talked about to each other. And we are going to move back from Calethriel Tower to Kei Lumennura in the south. You guys awake the-

1:27:06 Emily: [delighted] Doesn’t he have a message to send?

1:27:08 Brennan: Oh, that's right! You have a message, my friend!

1:27:08 Zac: Scratch...

1:27:09 Emily: I'm watching him write it and rewrite it.

1:27:12 Zac: It’s impossible, 25 words. It’s not a very good-

1:27:15 Lou: Did you use your curses?

1:27:16 Emily: I've gotta say, you had some bad drafts and they got better.

1:27:21 Zac: You gotta just get the bad draft out.

1:27:24 Brennan: Okay, let's hear it, let's hear it, Jorjudge.

1:27:26 Lou: Jorjudge.

1:27:27 Gorgug: Zelda, safe in Fallinel. Gonna finish cell tower soon. Sorry about everything, but hope your break is going well in spite of this. Miss you.

1:27:40 Zac: 25.

1:27:44 Emily: See, you didn't have ‘miss you’ in the early drafts.

1:27:46 Zac: Yes.

1:27:47 Ally: Yeah, that's a good one.

1:27:48 Lou: That's central.

1:27:49 Brennan: That's a beautiful message, but it is also a message of like a handful of words, you're limited by the text there so I'm gonna ask for a Persuasion check with disadvantage.

1:28:00 Zac: Okay. This goddamn game. (rolls, then flips page) To the sheet! Persuasion? 12.

1:28:14 Brennan: Cool.

1:28:14 Lou: It's not less. (depressing piano chord)

1:28:21 Lou: With the sad music still playing?

1:28:21 Ally: Yeah, we just see ‘read’.

1:28:25 Zac: Seems like he should change the music.

1:28:27 Lou: Yeah, why don't we play like a fun rock and roll guitar. Where's the metal, my guy?

1:28:30 Emily: Ooh, sexy Marvin Gaye.

1:28:35 Lou: Play sexy Marvin Gaye.

1:28:37 Brennan: Cool. You wait for a while. I'm gonna say that in the van both like different points because you have to get out of the van, go use the bathroom through the night and stuff, but at different points in the night, actually, Fig, Fabian, Kristen, and Riz give me perception checks.

1:29:01 Emily: 17.

1:29:01 Ally: 25.

1:29:03 Murph: 4.

1:29:04 Lou: Nice.

1:29:05 Brennan: 4. Cool. Kristen, in the middle of the night you notice that a light is still on in Gorgug's room.

1:29:12 Kristen: Hey, what's going on man, you should sleep. We gotta get our strength back.

1:29:16 Gorgug: Yeah, I was trying to sleep. Just trying, yeah, I'm going to bed soon.

1:29:23 Kristen: Everything okay?

1:29:25 Gorgug: [stutters] I talked to Ayda and I was able to send a message to Zelda and I think probably there's some sort of time difference situation.

1:29:38 Kristen: Between us and the Red Waste?

1:29:41 Gorgug: Yeah, I don't know what the conversion is on that.

1:29:44 Kristen: [whispers] I think it's the same time zone. Not to mess with your theory, but.

1:29:47 Gorgug: Gotcha.

1:29:49 Lou: Damn, Kristen. Kristen eating it today. (laughing)

1:29:52 Brennan: Gorgug, gimme a Perception check with advantage real quick?

1:29:56 Lou: Eating it.

1:30:00 Zac: 15.

1:30:02 Brennan: Kristen came out of Adaine's room.

1:30:08 Gorgug: [perplexed stare] How are you doing?

1:30:09 Kristen: Not good. I'm kind of in the dog house because I didn't tell Tracker about her dad getting cheated on. I just kinda sat on that like an old egg.

1:30:22 Emily: (laughing) What?

1:30:22 Lou: Specifically.

1:30:24 Gorgug: Sometimes don't you feel like, I feel like a lot of times I am not good at saying the right thing and I feel like that makes me a slow and bad communicator. And then I'm also just a little bit of a mess on top of that and it makes me angry, I think it was unfair to Zelda that I didn't do a good job of talking to her before this trip and during the trip.

1:30:57 Kristen: Yeah, yeah.

1:30:57 Gorgug: Forgot to make a cell tower.

1:30:59 Kristen: That sucks. Being in a cell tower-

1:31:01 Gorgug: I got some sticks together, like.

1:31:05 Kristen: You're almost to the structure of it, yeah.

1:31:09 Gorgug: Do you know how to make a cell tower?

1:31:12 Kristen: I don't think I do.

1:31:12 Ally: Do I?

1:31:15 Brennan: You're asking me if Kristen Applebees knows how to make a cell tower?

1:31:19 Gorgug: Kristen, you don't happen to know how to make an entire cell tower, do you?

1:31:22 Kristen: I think I do. (laughing) Let me take a crack at it.

1:31:23 Brennan: Cool, go ahead and give me a Wisdom proficiency check with, I'm sorry this will be an Intelligence proficiency check, not proficiency, so just raw Intelligence, disadvantage, go ahead and give me a roll.

1:31:40 Ally: Hey, two 14s. 15.

1:31:43 Brennan: Cool. You don't know how to- (laughing)

1:31:47 Kristen: [puzzled expression] So maybe actually, you know how you have the base? Maybe you need to flip that up on top.

1:31:52 Gorgug: The base goes on top? So the big pile of sticks at the bottom goes to the top.

1:31:56 Kristen: I've been getting in a lot of trouble for saying the wrong things, so maybe I shouldn't help you with this, you know. Crazy. Yeah, I'm just sleeping in Adaine's room.

1:32:09 Gorgug: Well, I'm sorry.

1:32:11 Kristen: We should probably both get some sleep though, man.

1:32:13 Gorgug: Okay. I don't know anything about how this spell works, but will it wake me up?

1:32:20 Kristen: I don't know, either, actually.

1:32:23 Gorgug: And you don't know, okay.

1:32:25 Kristen: With Message? You didn't send it, right?

1:32:29 Gorgug: Sending? It’s a Sending spell. It's Ayda. Maybe it goes back to Ayda.

1:32:32 Kristen: I think it would go back to Ayda and then Ayda would let you know.

1:32:36 Gorgug: All right, I'll go to sleep in a sec.

1:32:40 Kristen: Yeah, but, I think you're really great. You're a really great friend. You've never let me down.

1:32:47 Gorgug: Thank you.

1:32:47 Kristen: So that's good.

1:32:48 Gorgug: You've never let me down.

1:32:48 Kristen: Hey, thanks. If someone was cheating on your mom or dad, I would tell you immediately to your face.

1:32:55 Gorgug: [earnestly] And if you asked me, or if you forgot, wait, no, if you asked me to build a cell tower, I would do it immediately and I would know how.

1:33:07 Kristen: I love you, man.

1:33:07 Gorgug: Love you too.

1:33:08 Ally: Big hug. (laughing)

1:33:10 Brennan: You give each other a big hug.

1:33:12 Ally: Then I go back to Adaine's room and my milk sheet.

1:33:15 Brennan: Cool. And your milk sheet.

1:33:16 Lou: Yeah, how good are these sheets?

1:33:18 Brennan: You go on these sheets, these sheets give all of you guys the benefit of a full long rest. Even though you failed your Constitution saves, these are gonna give you an additional Constitution save with advantage. Elven sheets made of cream silk.

1:33:37 Lou: That'll be mod 20.

1:33:41 Brennan: Your exhaustion is removed.

1:33:41 Lou: [punches the air] Yeah!

1:33:45 Brennan: [Elven voice] These sheets were forged in the silk forge of Elven... Times.

1:33:51 Ally: Sheetsmiths in silk forges, gorges.

1:33:55 Lou: 80,000 thread count. (laughing)

1:34:00 Brennan: Make this rest and I'm gonna say Adaine gets this as well, even though you are not taking a long rest. All of you guys from the previous battle in Leviathan, and I'm going to pump this up with some roleplaying awards as well, get 3,500 experience points each.

1:34:19 Zac: So we're level nine?

1:34:23 Brennan: I don't—

1:34:23 Siobhan: We're at 44,100. Right?

1:34:26 Brennan: Let me go ahead and check that real quick.

1:34:28 Zac: I truly don't know at all.

1:34:29 Siobhan: We went from 40,600 plus 3,500. Right?

1:34:36 Brennan: You guys, how much XP do you guys have right now?

1:34:38 Siobhan: 44,600.

1:34:38 Murph: 44,100.

1:34:40 Siobhan: So it's 45,100.

1:34:42 Brennan: 44,000. No, nine is 48,000.

1:34:44 Ally: Hey, we're almost there.

1:34:47 Zac: Can we get about 5,000 more?

1:34:48 Lou: For sleeping?

1:34:50 Emily: I asked this before we started playing, can we just like beat each other up, like back and forth. Get the XP for that.

1:34:54 Lou: Yeah, can we farm?

1:34:54 Siobhan: I’m happy to beat each other up.

1:34:55 Brennan: We're gonna move right along.

1:34:56 Ally: I take a big swing at Fig.

1:34:56 Siobhan: I have four first level spells and I'm willing to use all of them.

1:35:00 Emily: I say,

1:35:00 Fig: [hypothetically] Heal me and I'll do the same to you.

1:35:01 Ally: I hit you with my staff.

1:35:02 Brennan: The following morning, you guys awaken to a choir of all of the youths here in Keil Lamennura, singing and dancing under the morning light and doing kind of a strange dance yoga.

1:35:16 Lou: Can I join them?

1:35:17 Brennan: Yes, go ahead and give me an Acrobatics check.

1:35:19 Kristen: Where's Ragh?

1:35:19 Fig: Adaine is in prison!

1:35:22 Fabian: Everyone's waking up!

1:35:22 Emily: I go look for that stag! ...Just kidding.

1:35:27 Lou: Uh… 20, mod 20.

1:35:28 Brennan: You do this beautiful elven dance yoga. It makes you feel good, it's like good.

1:35:39 Fabian: Maybe I'm not supposed to be a fighter. Maybe I'm supposed to be a yoga dancer.

1:35:45 Ally: Oh, no.

1:35:46 Brennan: Someone comes up to you and says,

1:35:50 Trethrenren: Fahbiahn, I am Trethrenren. Take this, it's a grape.

1:35:57 Lou: I take it and pocket it.

1:36:00 Brennan: You see he says,

1:36:00 Trethrenren: Take this, let me put it in your mouth.

1:36:04 Fabian: No, no.

1:36:04 Trethrenren: With my hands.

1:36:05 Fabian: Stop.

1:36:06 Trethrenren: Fahbiahn.

1:36:08 Fabian: Give it to me, I'll eat it later. I'm going to go eat it. I have to go, my friend's in prison.

1:36:11 Brennan: You see a number of like young elven youths come over, lithe and dancing, reveling in their bodies, (waves arms around his head) and have long diaphanous silk scarves, like 40, 50 foot scarves.

1:36:24 Ally: Ooh, I'll take one of those. [ribbon dances]

1:36:27 Brennan: They like dance around you and wrap you, the wind blows, it's sort of like buffeting by scarves.

1:36:36 Trethrenren: You dance so beautifully.

1:36:36 Fabian: Thank you.

1:36:39 Trethrenren: You dance fearlessly and bravely, unafraid of the death that awaits you.

1:36:46 Fabian: All right, everyone needs to stop talking about—

1:36:48 Brennan: You see this deep brown hair, bright blue eyes, young elven woman touches your cheek and says,

1:36:57 Elven Woman: Would you dance with me on this beautiful morning?

1:37:02 Fabian: For a quick moment, then I really have to go save my friend from prison.

1:37:06 Elven Woman: For a quick moment, for a quick moment is all you have.

1:37:08 Emily: I'm getting my coffee to go, being like— [taps wrist where a watch would be aggressively]

1:37:11 Riz: [whispering] Fabian, what are you doing!?

1:37:12 Fabian: Just one more dance!

1:37:13 Brennan: You see that Telemaine comes back. He's been walking all night with Gilear. You see they round the corner in the midnight garden and you see that Gilear looks and says,

1:37:24 Gilear: There once was a man from Bastion City...

1:37:30 Brennan: And you see that Telemaine looks and says,

1:37:36 Telemaine: What's your deal?

1:37:38 Riz: My friend is kidnapped. And my other friends are just dancing and eating grapes.

1:37:45 Telemaine: Have you had a grape?

1:37:46 Riz: No.

1:37:48 Telemaine: You have a harsh energy.

1:37:50 Riz: I'm a harsh guy.

1:37:53 Brennan: What's that metal tube on your hip with a little handle on it?

1:37:57 Riz: Just a metal tube. I think it's beautiful.

1:38:02 Murph: Then I do a dance. (mimics scarf dances, but aggressively)

1:38:05 Riz: [Very Sarcastically] I think it's beautiful and everything's fine here. Everything's fine and good, isn't it? (cast laughing)

1:38:10 Telemaine: Fahbiahn.

1:38:15 Fabian: Yes.

1:38:15 Telemaine: Your friend’s a little dick. (cast laughing)

1:38:19 Fig: He's just very, very--

1:38:20 Kristen: So you know that word.

1:38:22 Telemaine: Mm? He's reminiscent of a little dick. No?

1:38:28 Riz: Yes, I’m a little dick.

1:38:29 Fabian: Honestly, I like my grandpapa.

1:38:30 Gorgug: Coming back to Jorjug. You got the end part of it right which is the same as the middle and the front part.

1:38:34 Telemaine: Bodad.

1:38:37 Gorgug: Sure.

1:38:40 Telemaine: Brojuj.

1:38:42 Kristen: Brojug.

1:38:42 Fabian: Brodaje.

1:38:43 Kristen: Brojatas. Murph has his glasses off in disgust again.

1:38:43 Zac: Gorgug just starts running. (laughing)

1:38:47 Brennan: You guys just take off. The rest, you're heading north.

1:38:49 Zac: (to Ally) Can you give us an Inspiring Speech?

1:38:51 Brennan: You see Ragh, as you guys head off, you see that Ragh is over, like the van has Gilear, Sandra Lynn is in there, Tracker goes into wolf form to move to the forest, Cathilda is like geared up for battle. You see sort of at the caboose, at the edge of Kei Lumennura before you guys leave, Ragh is talking to Fathethriel and you see that he's going like,

1:39:15 Ragh: Oh, man I had such an incredible time.

1:39:20 Brennan: And you see Fathethriel has one of like the ribbon scarves kind of around him and is like playfully moving it and stroking his arms. And Ragh is kind of like trying to disentangle himself and looking around, panicked like,

1:39:33 Ragh: (wiggling) Ah, can someone—

1:39:36 Kristen: Ragh, come over here. I’ve something to say to everyone, actually.

1:39:41 Brennan: You see he says,

1:39:41 Ragh: Fathethriel, I have to save one of my friends, but I will for sure be back and it was awesome. [makes two metal hands]

1:39:50 Fathrethreal: [stroking Ragh’s skin] Green skin like the boughs of a tree, leafy, my leafy man.

1:39:56 Brennan: You see that Ragh goes,

1:39:58 Ragh: Okay, don't talk about my skin.

1:39:59 Brennan: And he runs off and he kind of gets away. He says,

1:40:05 Ragh: Ooh, what's up. We gotta go.

1:40:08 Kristen: Yeah.

1:40:08 Ragh: We gotta go, we gotta go.

1:40:10 Kristen: I have a little thing to say just to kind of gear us up, y’know. We've been through a lot. We were on Leviathan and we got through everything there, there was a lot of crazy stuff that happened. We met Garthy.

1:40:26 Gorgug: It's gonna get inspiring pretty soon.

1:40:29 Fig: Yeah.

1:40:29 Kristen: It got kinda weird. I guess we don't want to get into that. Some of us made some mistakes.

1:40:34 Fig: Feels more personal than inspiring.

1:40:36 Kristen: I guess this isn't some sort of big public apology, but Tracker, I am really sorry. (everyone laughing)

1:40:44 Kristen: There are things that I won't get into here.

1:40:46 Riz: This is brave. This is inspiring me. I'm feeling inspired.

1:40:50 Kristen: Yeah, sure, Fabian got his ass handed to him by a lot of people. But he was alone, so it's like, that's fine. It would have happened to me. We're all kinda weak.

1:41:03 Fig: Can you be so uncomfortable that you get more hit points?

1:41:07 Kristen: I just, I messed up once.

1:41:08 Fabian: It feels like that's about to happen.

1:41:09 Kristen: I might mess up again.

1:41:09 Gorgug: Her body protects itself and secretes hit points.

1:41:12 Kristen: I had a little whiskey earlier because I was just chatting about something hard with Sandra Lynn. Sandra Lynn, you know what I'm talking about.

1:41:22 Sandra Lynn: [frustrated] What's your point, Kristen?

1:41:26 Emily: How did Kristen get a microphone from a wedding?

1:41:31 Ally: “Yeah, we went to college together.”

1:41:32 Murph: The paper shaking. [grabs and shakes his character sheet like he’s nervously holding a speech]

1:41:35 Kristen: Anyway, what I'm trying to say is friendship is thicker than water and we need water to live.

1:41:45 Fabian: Let's go out on that. (clapping)

1:41:47 All: [chanting] We need water to live, we need water to live!

1:41:49 Kristen: [punching the air] Let's get outta here.

1:41:53 Brennan: Wonderful.

1:41:54 Ally: So we all just got some temp hit points from that Inspiring Speech.

1:41:56 Fabian: Truly insane.

1:41:59 Brennan: How many is it, 11?

1:42:03 Ally: Let's find out.

1:42:05 Brennan: It's not under spells, it's an ability.

1:42:06 Ally: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good call.

1:42:08 Lou: Level plus Charisma.

1:42:09 Ally: Hey, there we go, that's 11.

1:42:09 Murph: Sweet.

1:42:11 Brennan: Cool.

1:42:12 Riz: Thank you, Kristen.

1:42:12 Fig: Thank you so much.

1:42:12 Kristen: No problem. I can recite that any time.

1:42:16 Brennan: You see, you arrive at the edge of the lands where the allusion begins to fade. You see that Telemaine appears here at the edge of the land and goes,

1:42:32 Telemaine: You have taken your leave so soon. I'm sorry for how horny and stupid the youths of this place are.

1:42:41 Fig: Yes, you'd be stupid not to be horny.

1:42:43 Riz: I actually agree, I kind of agree with you. Your whole idea here, my friends are way too horny.

1:42:50 Fabian: Do you want a grape? I stole one.

1:42:51 Riz: I don't want a grape.

1:42:51 Fabian: Okay.

1:42:53 Brennan: You see he says,

1:42:53 Telemaine: Careful. Some of the grapes, when they are removed from Kei Lumennura turn into song.

1:42:59 Fig: [disbelieving] Turn into song.

1:43:00 Riz: Can you reach into your pocket and see what happens? Fabian takes the grape out of his pocket. The grape sings a high-pitched little song as it flies away.

1:43:06 Riz: Okay, those are gonna be bad for stealthing.

1:43:08 Fabian: I only have one.

1:43:10 Kristen: If anyone has a grape that they stole, put it out of your pocket now.

1:43:14 Lou: Throwing lots of grapes. Gorgug is removing grapes from his pockets as well.

1:43:17 Kristen: Ragh, do you have any grapes? I feel like that guy was giving you grapes all night.

1:43:23 Brennan: He goes,

1:43:23 Ragh: Yeah, I ate a lot of grapes.

1:43:27 Fig: What did it do?

1:43:27 Kristen: So you're just gonna start singing when we leave?

1:43:28 Brennan: He burps and a musical note comes out. (singing high pitched notes)

1:43:33 Riz: You guys remember Goldenhoard? People poison us sometimes. They're bad people.

1:43:37 Fig: I wasn’t gonna eat them.

1:43:37 Fabian: This is my family, Riz.

1:43:40 Brennan: You see, Telemaine looks and says,

1:43:40 Telemaine: My grandson, I have sent word to the fabled eyesmiths of the far mountains. They now craft an eye for you if you wish.

1:43:56 Riz: How long will that take?

1:43:57 Telemaine: Briefest moment.

1:43:57 Fabian: Like it will be here now?

1:43:59 Telemaine: No!

1:44:00 Riz: Does that mean in a couple days or like?

1:44:03 Kristen: He doesn't know time.

1:44:03 Fabian: For you, yes, that's right.

1:44:04 Telemaine: I don't know, couple years, 100 years.

1:44:07 Fabian: 100 years?

1:44:09 Gorgug: The briefest moment is 100 years.

1:44:12 Telemaine: For my immortal elven life.

1:44:16 Brennan: You see he says,

1:44:16 Telemaine: You go now to make war on Calethriel Tower.

1:44:19 Fabian: Hopefully not war. Violence will be avoided if possible.

1:44:24 Brennan: He says,

1:44:24 Telemaine: Violence is what awaits you if you descend on Calethriel. The moon doors of the elven folk will bring mages of the third ring, the Court of Stars upon that place should you attack it. Enchanted men, oak warriors of the forest will be summoned to the air. It is a fool's errahnd for you to attack. What are you smiling about?

1:44:52 Riz: Not smiling about anything. I think this is all normal.

1:44:54 Telemaine: Right, it's a fool's errahnd. (laughing)

1:44:57 Fabian: Do you have any tips or tricks?

1:45:00 Riz: Do you know any way to disenchant?

1:45:02 Fig: We don't want to attack it. We just want to get our friend back.

1:45:06 Gorgug: Should we tell these horrible teens that there's a party at the tower?

1:45:11 Fig: Party at the moon tower.

1:45:12 Telemaine: Teens have been banished. No teenjija may exit from-

1:45:18 Gorgug: What'd you say?

1:45:18 Telemaine: What's that?

1:45:19 Fabian: Teenjija. He said Teenjija. He's trying to say teenager.

1:45:22 Kristen: Can I ask you a question, sir?

1:45:24 Telemaine: Yes.

1:45:24 Kristen: Do you have the photo?

1:45:26 Fig: Oh, yes.

1:45:27 Kristen: Do see someone in this photo besides a smiling elf?

1:45:32 Gorgug: A smiling elf?

1:45:33 Riz: A goblin.

1:45:35 Kristen: Look, I’m a human, guys, I'm sorry.

1:45:37 Riz: (offended) What, you don’t know that I’m a goblin?

1:45:38 Kristen: No, I know that you're a goblin, okay!

1:45:39 Brennan: Gimme a Perception check.

1:45:43 Ally: 21.

1:45:45 Brennan: He hands it to you and says,

1:45:45 Telemaine: I see only a strange painting of a goblin in odd costume.

1:45:53 Brennan: You see the cat.

1:45:53 Ally: Me?

1:45:56 Brennan: You.

1:45:58 Emily: What?

1:45:59 Zac: Can I make a Perception check? And look at it?

1:46:01 Emily: Can I look at it?

1:46:01 Brennan: Yeah. You guys look at it. You guys don't need to make, if you just wanna look at the picture.

1:46:06 Emily: Yeah, look at the picture, what do I--

1:46:06 Zac: I wasn't sure if that was a—

1:46:08 Brennan: You don't see it.

1:46:08 Kristen: [shocked] Um… um… um..

1:46:09 Fig: It's when you lie about something. Sandra Lynn lied and the next day she could see Shadow Cat, right, could Sandra Lynn see Shadow Cat?

1:46:18 Brennan: Correct.

1:46:19 Kristen: I never lied about anything, though.

1:46:20 Fig: Okay, well you got in a fight with--

1:46:21 Kristen: [shrugging] Yeah.

1:46:22 Gorgug: [to Riz] I think you're the tallest person I've ever seen. Kristen holds the picture up to Gorgug.

1:46:27 Brennan: You do not see.

1:46:27 Kristen: [panicked] You guys, I see the cat, I see the fucking cat. I mean the cat touched me and now I can see her, was she in Adaine's bed? Was I spooning the cat? All night in the milk?

1:46:39 Fig: Were you spooning anyone?

1:46:39 Fabian: You weren't spooning the cat all night in the milk.

1:46:41 Kristen: The cream comforter was so soft it felt like someone was spooning me.

1:46:47 Fig: But it must be something that we do in our life because remember Tracker started to be able to see—

1:46:53 Kristen: Fuck.

1:46:53 Fig: Shadow Cat.

1:46:55 Kristen: [scared] Tracker, I know we're in a fight, but can you please hug me?

1:46:59 Brennan: Tracker looks at you and gives you a hug, pats you on the back.

1:47:02 Kristen: [whispering] I can see the cat.

1:47:05 Tracker: Okay.

1:47:05 Kristen: We can both see the cat now.

1:47:07 Tracker: We can both see the cat now.

1:47:08 Kristen: Did you sleep it off, are you still mad at me?

1:47:10 Tracker: Did I sleep-? Fuck you!

1:47:10 Brennan: And she removes you.

1:47:14 Kristen: This is crazy.

1:47:17 Riz: Kristen, I know nothing about relationships, but I also know that was the worst thing you could have ever said.

1:47:21 Kristen: What the fuck.

1:47:24 Fig: In my opinion, that was actually your first real misstep.

1:47:27 Kristen: That's crazy. “Did you sleep it off?” was…

1:47:29 Fig: Not good.

1:47:32 Kristen: Tick tock.

1:47:33 Brennan: Ayda looks up at you and says,

1:47:33 Ayda: This is a bad time to bring this up, but I don't know when times are good to bring things up.

1:47:41 Fig: Ayda, be you. We love you, however you wanna be, we love you.

1:47:45 Ayda: Thank you.

1:47:45 Kristen: What do you have to say?

1:47:46 Ayda: I love you too. Is that normal?

1:47:48 Fig: Sure.

1:47:48 Ayda: Okay.

1:47:49 Fig: Should be. If it isn't, it should be.

1:47:50 Gorgug: What's going on?

1:47:53 Ayda: Your message has been returned.

1:47:55 Gorgug: Oh.

1:47:56 Brennan: You see that she relays Zelda's message. Says,

1:48:00 Zelda: Sorry, was at a party.

1:48:07 Brennan: You see she says—

1:48:07 Fig: That's manipulative. Use those 25 words to say that, come on.

1:48:13 Brennan: You see she says,

1:48:13 Zelda: You don't have to build a cell tower, that's crazy. It's all whatever, Gorgug. I don't blame you.

1:48:28 Fig: She said your name right.

1:48:30 Gorgug: Yeah, yeah, at least she said my name right.

1:48:34 Fabian: Sounds like you're off the hook.

1:48:36 Brennan: You see Ayda looks at you and says,

1:48:40 Ayda: Why do you react to that first statement that way?

1:48:42 Fig: Oh, because when people are in a relationship and they're not in the same place, sometimes they can make them feel insecure to find out that the other person was out having, socializing a bunch and being around a lot of people who could be potentially alluring to them. And so when you're limited to only 25 words—

1:49:03 Kristen: To use a bunch of them.

1:49:03 Fig: Yeah, to use a bunch of them to say “I was with a lot of other people who could’ve—”

1:49:08 Ayda: She should have said that she was completely isolated.

1:49:10 Fig: She should have just not mentioned it.

1:49:11 Ayda: Not mentioned.

1:49:11 Fig: I think it was a choice to mention it.

1:49:14 Ayda: Of course. Yes, much information has been left out, so social information is intentionally hurtful.

1:49:17 Fig: Yes.

1:49:20 Ally: I put my arm around Gorgug, kinda. [mimics putting arm around someone who is a lot taller than them]

1:49:22 Brennan: Ayda looks and says,

1:49:24 Ayda: This Zelda woman has hurt you, Gorgug. If you want, I can exact terrible vengeance.

1:49:29 Gorgug: That's okay, it's not like that. I think it's fine.

1:49:32 Ayda: Okay, I don't know what it's like, so just thank you for putting bumpers up and letting me figure out.

1:49:35 Gorgug: Sure, thank you.

1:49:36 Fig: Ayda, do you know Plane Shift?

1:49:39 Ayda: I'm afraid I don't know the Plane Shift spell. But I am powerful enough to research it.

1:49:46 Fig: Will you?

1:49:46 Kristen: Oh, yeah, right, will you?

1:49:47 Ayda: I would have to return to the Compass Points in Leviathan, perhaps after we rescue my friend Adaine, my best friend. Is that strange?

1:49:53 Kristen: No.

1:49:54 Ayda: Have I made myself vulnerable?

1:49:56 Fig: That's awesome, but she's also kinda my best friend.

1:49:57 Gorgug: It's good to be vulnerable.

1:49:57 Ayda: Yeah. By the transitive property, are we best friends?

1:50:02 Fig: Yeah, you know what, that's a nice way to take it.

1:50:05 Ayda: [monotone] Fantastic. I grow richer by the day. I am emotional.

1:50:09 Brennan: She starts crying.

1:50:09 Ayda: I am emotional.

1:50:13 Brennan: Fire growing on her face.

1:50:13 Ayda: I'm gonna fly away.

1:50:16 Brennan: And she flies off.

1:50:18 Gorgug: What? What do we need to do to get into this?

1:50:22 Fig: Wait a second. The elf that was with Ragh last night, that's someone that you interacted with that the rest of us didn't interact with.

1:50:28 Fabian: Fromfethriel?

1:50:34 Kristen: Ragh's always been able to see her.

1:50:36 Ragh: I don't know if we should go back and talk to Fathethriel.

1:50:40 Fig: No, no, no, I'm not talking about going back.

1:50:41 Gorgug: Are you okay? What happened?

1:50:41 Kristen: Yeah, what happened? Was it good or was it weird?

1:50:44 Murph: Can I do an Insight check on Ragh?

1:50:47 Kristen: It's probably good but, he just doesn't want the--

1:50:48 Murph: 17.

1:50:50 Kristen: Drama.

1:50:52 Gorgug: Sounds like your personalities didn't really jive.

1:50:56 Ragh: No, I'm not the type of dude who would like bang somebody that I had fucking nothing in common with. When we were talking, he was like, I don't know, there's just this stuff he said. He kind of made a lot of comments about me being big and beefy, which was hot in the moment and then it sort of kept happening. I was sort of like what do you do? And he was like, your legs are like the mighty trunks of trees, and I was like, we can just, we already, we banged, we can just truly chat.

1:51:27 Fig: Once you're finished it's like don't touch me for a little bit.

1:51:31 Ragh: Yeah, exactly, right. I actually punched one of the seats in the van pretty hard. It's wild because I didn't really know that if you do finish, it's like, get off of me! (laughing)

1:51:46 Fig: It was like that, okay.

1:51:46 Ragh: I was that.

1:51:48 Kristen: Get away from me.

1:51:51 Ragh: I raged right at the end there. I punched one of the van seats and he got into it in a way that made me feel self-conscious and I punched it and I was like, get off of me.

1:52:01 Gorgug: Cool.

1:52:01 Riz: So no shadow magic or anything, just talking about your tree trunk legs.

1:52:05 Ragh: The only shadow magic is, chaboy lost his V card. Hoot growl, hoot growl.

1:52:11 Kristen: Oh, wow, I didn't know that you were a virgin, that's great, man.

1:52:16 Ragh: Yeah, not anymore, sayonara, so. He was a super nice chill dude who has maybe led like a sheltered life and has not met like half-orcs before. And also just like, afterwards, like when we were lying in bed and he like, sang a lot.

1:52:35 Kristen: I could see that happening.

1:52:39 Ragh: I feel like an asshole. I'm judging someone that I was intimate with. It's just like don't sing. I'm sorry, I'm an asshole, I'm an asshole. Don't sing in bed.

1:52:50 Fig: You're allowed to not get along with someone.

1:52:51 Gorgug: There’s a lot of singing going on here.

1:52:52 Riz: Everyone's a lot.

1:52:54 Fig: Yeah, this place is like, what if every, no good.

1:52:56 Gorgug: We gotta rescue Adaine. (laughing)

1:53:01 Kristen: Why do I see the cat all of a sudden? I really don't-

1:53:03 Gorgug: I don’t know that we’re gonna figure it out.

1:53:04 Riz: We'll figure it out another time.

1:53:06 Fig: It's on my mind as well.

1:53:12 Brennan: Telemaine looks at you as you guys are prepared to leave. Ayda comes down and flies back. You see that Telemaine says,

1:53:25 Telemaine: Calethriel is defended magically from all forms of arcane and spellcraft. Any wizard or sorcerer would be hard pressed to find their way through its defenses. They are prepared for every magical eventuality.

1:53:46 Gorgug: What if I just hit everything pretty hard with my ax? I got so mad about it, that I was hitting it harder than normal.

1:53:55 Telemaine: Well, I'm sure the elves would not have stooped so low to defend their fortress from an ax.

1:54:03 Fig: I've infiltrated a lot of places.

1:54:06 Zac: Gorgug just starts running. (laughing)

1:54:09 Brennan: You see that he looks and says,

1:54:09 Telemaine: But it will also, the moon doors and everything else will be powered by elemental pylons, so those will be—

1:54:21 Riz: Is that something we can destroy?

1:54:24 Telemaine: They will be protected from any magical attempts.

1:54:26 Riz: What if I shoot it with a gun?

1:54:26 Murph: I pull out the gun.

1:54:29 Brennan: You see he says,

1:54:29 Telemaine: [sarcastically] So there is a name for the tube.

1:54:32 Riz: Yes, it's a gun.

1:54:32 Telemaine: [sassy] There is a tube name. You're a little dick.

1:54:35 Riz: I like this side of you.

1:54:39 Telemaine: Oh. You are a strange, green mouse thing. (laughing)

1:54:45 Fabian: He grows on you, Grandpapa. At the beginning you're like, that's a lot. But by the end—

1:54:50 Brennan: He says,

1:54:50 Telemaine: Well, I don't know, if it's a spell, the pylons will have been protected. If it's not a spell, the arcanosmiths who crafted the pylons will not have stooped or sullied themselves to defend the pylons from, what is that, does a little ax come out of that?

1:55:12 Riz: No. It’s—

1:55:12 Murph: I shoot the gun.

1:55:15 Brennan: He looks at it and says,

1:55:15 Telemaine: What just happened?

1:55:19 Riz: There's like a little explosion inside there and it rocketed this little ball. It's a gun. Telemaine starts retching.

1:55:27 Fabian: Grandpapa, are you okay?

1:55:27 Telemaine: That's gross. (throwing up) That's gross, that's like some dwarven, no. No, no, no.

1:55:33 Kristen: To the concept of a gun?

1:55:38 Brennan: (throwing up) He throws up.

1:55:39 Telemaine: I've soiled myself for the first time since the Second Age of the Moon.

1:55:43 Fig: Gilear, this is your chance, he's low status.

1:55:46 Brennan: Gilear says,

1:55:46 Gilear: I would like to marry your daughter! (laughing)

1:55:50 Fabian: What?

1:55:51 Gilear: Fabian, this is my only shot.

1:55:52 Fabian: What?

1:55:52 Gilear: Fabian, you gotta relax, it's my only shot…

1:55:53 Fabian: What? Do not, wait, not right now...

1:55:55 Gilear: Fabian, when am I gonna have another shot?

1:55:56 Fabian: I'm so low, I'm so in the pit right now.

1:55:59 Brennan: He grabs you and says,

1:55:59 Gilear: [surprisingly aggressively] You're low. You're low and he's low, it's Gilear's day, baby! It's Gilear's day!

1:56:07 Fabian: Literally, do not!

1:56:09 Fig: [cheering] Yes! (laughing)

1:56:10 Brennan: Gilear walks in and says—

1:56:10 Emily: Bardic Inspiration.

1:56:13 Brennan: All right, Box of Doom. Hold on.

1:56:14 Murph: I wanna give Gilear the help action.

1:56:18 Brennan: All right, Box of Doom! (cast laughing)

1:56:19 Murph: By climbing up on Fabian and holding his mouth.

1:56:22 Brennan: Holding his mouth. You jump up on Fabian. Let’s roll here. Rolling with advantage. (rolling dice) Okay, that's a 12. I'm gonna say he needs to be a 20. He needs to be at a 20, he’s got proficiency, but minus 2 as well, so he's gotta roll an 8. He's gotta roll an 8. Gotta roll an 8 in order to make it.

1:56:36 Lou: My heart is racing right now.

1:56:38 Emily: He's also gotta roll high with her.

1:56:42 Zac: I--

1:56:47 Brennan: What's that?

1:56:49 Zac: Never mind, never mind.

1:56:52 Brennan: That's a 1.

1:56:52 Emily: No.

1:56:54 Brennan: He goes up, you see he goes and says,

1:56:57 Gilear: Lord Telemaine of Kei Lumennura, I like you, am (throws up)

1:57:03 Brennan: He makes himself throw up.

1:57:05 Gilear: We get it, we both get it. We're the throw up boys.

1:57:08 Brennan: And he passes out.

1:57:08 Kristen: What?

1:57:12 Riz: Gilear just called himself a throw up boy?

1:57:14 Gorgug: Trying to bond with someone by making him throw up.

1:57:17 Ally: I try to run after Gorgug, I got your back, man.

1:57:23 Murph: I track Gilear into the woods.

1:57:24 Brennan: Cool. You see that Sandra Lynn shakes her head, picks up Gilear with Riz, puts 'em in the van. You guys all head north. Telemaine—

1:57:32 Fabian: Bye, grandpapa.

1:57:33 Brennan: You see that Telemaine turns his vomit into a flock of white crows that fly away.

1:57:38 Fig: No one interact with those crows!

1:57:41 Brennan: He says,

1:57:44 Telemaine: Fahbiahn, may the wind ever carry your (vaguely elven mumbling).

1:57:53 Brennan: Sand.

1:57:57 Fabian: Wow, my mom's side of the family is weird as hell.

1:58:01 Brennan: I never thought we would take a full episode of this show to just dunk on elves. (laughing) Full episode. You guys head north. Go ahead and make Perception checks. (rolling dice)

1:58:13 Lou: Oh, yeah.

1:58:13 Ally: Hell yeah, 27.

1:58:16 Murph: Terrible today.

1:58:17 Emily: Oh, dammit! Ooh, I'm sorry.

1:58:17 Murph: It's a big 4.

1:58:20 Emily: 11.

1:58:20 Lou: Mod 1.

1:58:22 Brennan: 4, mod 1.

1:58:22 Ally: 27.

1:58:24 Zac: 12.

1:58:24 Brennan: (shocked) 27?

1:58:25 Emily: 11.

1:58:25 Brennan: 11, cool. You arrive at the lip of this valley. What you see as you approach is that Ayda looks out for a second. Sandra Lynn says,

1:58:37 Sandra Lynn: Okay, so what's our strategy for the approach here?

1:58:42 Fig: Are we just going after the literal mechanic that will summon the guards?

1:58:49 Fabian: He suggested that none of the things are defended against physical attack due to the elves’ thoughts on physical violence.

1:58:58 Ally: So no spells from here on out because that might trigger them knowing that we're here?

1:59:06 Fig: I guess if they're completely protected against spells I shouldn't even try anything, because I could disguise myself to look like Adaine's mom and maybe they would all come after her and then you guys could run in.

1:59:16 Riz: I mean, if they kill you, that doesn't help us very much.

1:59:19 Fig: They wouldn't kill her though.

1:59:20 Gorgug: They would maybe catch her.

1:59:21 Brennan: With that high Perception check, you see what you think are the elemental pylons around Calethriel Tower. Here's the issue though. There are probably multiple miles away from each other. You see a tall tower on the corner of a ridge and off in the corner you see a little bit of smoke as it's coming from like a smithy or forge or something like that. That 27, you can just sense magical energy moving through this. You guys are not privy to Adaine's Arcana check, but these are the things that are allowing permanent magical effects to stay standing, almost as like power stations or sources. Looking at it with that high Perception check, it's basically like there's a couple of almost like our equivalent of like electrical power transformers that if you were able to knock them out, you would be able to--

2:00:16 Emily: Basically shut down the magic.

2:00:17 Brennan: Yeah, basically only the people that were already physically at Calethriel would be there. You think that probably, looking at it like you wouldn't have enough time to hit those pylons and then go the miles it takes to get to Calethriel and win before somebody knew some shit was going on. Just like an electrical grid, if you knock something out, someone's looking at that grid somewhere and goes, “we just lost power in one of our prison centers.”

2:00:48 Emily: So we need three teams. One team to go to one, is it called a pylon, those electrical things?

2:00:54 Brennan: Yes, they're called elemental pylons.

2:00:56 Riz: There's two pylons.

2:00:56 Fig: There's two, right. We need one team to go to one, one team to go to the other and then we need an Adaine retrieval team.

2:01:03 Fabian: I like that a lot. The goal's not to fight.

2:01:08 Riz: Ayda, could you teleport?

2:01:11 Brennan: Ayda looks and says,

2:01:13 Ayda: I have one remaining teleportation.

2:01:14 Kristen: And how many people can you take with you?

2:01:16 Fig: Would we need the pylons to be out in order for us to use our magic?

2:01:22 Brennan: You see Ayda shrugs and says,

2:01:24 Ayda: I don't personally know the defenses of this place, but if it is as Lord Telemaine has said, then it's reasonable that there will be arcane runic magical defenses at this tower. However, they require some form of power source and it seems to be these pylons are that.

2:01:39 Kristen: So we could do two teams, but the third team is waiting until we knock them out to teleport in.

2:01:45 Fig: The third team basically gets a message.

2:01:47 Gorgug: We need to teleport off from Fallinel.

2:01:48 Fig: Gets a message that the pylons are down, then we can cast whatever spells we want without triggering...

2:01:53 Kristen: Right, we can't teleport into there because we have to use that teleportation to get out.

2:01:58 Gorgug: Yeah, this is teleport to get out of Fallinel.

2:02:00 Brennan: And you see that Ayda also, Sandra Lynn actually speaks up and says,

2:02:03 Sandra Lynn: Also, we're all separated, I don't feel great leaving the two of you at an attacked elven facility without an ability to teleport off to somewhere because the Court of Stars is going to be coming after you. So we need to somehow, I don't wanna teleport away with Adaine and leave whoever hit those pylons.

2:02:21 Riz: What if one group went in to save Adaine, another group went to one pylon with Ayda, destroyed it, immediately teleported to the other one and destroyed that and then heads off to the woods to meet Adaine's team.

2:02:37 Kristen: But then how do we get out of Fallinel?

2:02:38 Gorgug: Do we need to teleport to get out of Fallinel?

2:02:41 Riz: We would all need to meet up anyway.

2:02:43 Gorgug: But if they're teleporting already--

2:02:46 Fig: I think we need to hit the pylons at the same time if we can.

2:02:49 Gorgug: My understanding was that the teleport was how we all get off of Fallinel.

2:02:53 Fig: Because if one pylon goes down, then the other pylon that still has the energy to detect that something is going on. So we wanna synchronize it.

2:03:02 Siobhan: I'm just casting a Ray of Frost inside my orb to make it a fun little slip and slide because I refuse to be broken by these people. (Brennan laughing)

2:03:11 Gorgug: You have Dimension Door, right?

2:03:13 Fig: I do have Dimension Door.

2:03:13 Brennan: Adaine, go ahead and give me a Constitution save. (rolls dice)

2:03:19 Siobhan: 12.

2:03:19 Brennan: You do not have a point of exhaustion. Your willpower funnels through you even though you have not been able to trance this night as you make a slippery little thing for yourself to slide around on.

2:03:32 Fig: So I have Dimension Door, but that only allows me to bring one other person, so I could be a one woman Adaine retrieval team, considering I can disguise myself.

2:03:42 Riz: I'm good at stealthing too. Why don’t—

2:03:43 Fig: But that couldn't get you out.

2:03:46 Brennan: You see Sandra Lynn sort of thinks for a second, she says,

2:03:50 Sandra Lynn: Baxter can clear a lot of ground, so if we're trying to meet at a middle point, we do have a griffin. The woods are not gonna be great for the Hangvan. Maybe the Hangvan is our meeting point.

2:04:05 Brennan: She taps and is like,

2:04:06 Sandra Lynn: And you have Dimension Door, right sweetie?

2:04:07 Fig: Mm-hmm.

2:04:07 Sandra Lynn: Okay, so that could be a jump some significant distance, right? We might have enough time to make it through the woods, we just don't have enough time to leave people on Fallinel, I think.

2:04:27 Kristen: Do you still wanna rescue Aelwyn if she's in there?

2:04:31 Fabian: Oh, yeah, that was, yeah.

2:04:33 Fig: This is what we originally came here to do.

2:04:35 Fabian: That was a big thing and then a bunch of stuff happened. Yeah, that would be cool if we could do that.

2:04:43 Kristen: Yeah, let's do it.

2:04:44 Fabian: But if it didn't happen, that'd also be fine.

2:04:48 Kristen: No, we gotta save her, she's so hot. Siobhan makes a grossed-out face.

2:04:52 Fig: Fabian.

2:04:52 Fabian: Yeah, I mean I’d love to get some smooches in, I mean everyone's getting their V-card taken, so that'd be.

2:04:56 Kristen: [shudders] Taken.

2:04:59 Fabian: I'd love to have mine removed.

2:05:05 Riz: Fabian, lose yourself in the dance again. I saw that was the only way you were free. You're the only one I wanna see dancing right now. Fabian does in fact dance.

2:05:15 Kristen: Who will be able to destroy these pylons?

2:05:17 Fig: Whoever does the damage.

2:05:17 Riz: Anyone with a lot of damage.

2:05:19 Fabian: [still dancing] I think anyone with physical— I can, I still have—

2:05:21 Fig: Ragh is gonna be able to go to town on one, Gorgug's gonna be able to be on one, Cathilda, anyone who's doing brute force and not spells.

2:05:33 Riz: So should we send hirelings to do one of the pylons?

2:05:36 Kristen: I can be on a retrieval team just in case Adaine is hurt and I can heal her.

2:05:39 Fabian: I don't think I should be on the retrieval team.

2:05:42 Riz: You're gonna be really bad at Stealth though.

2:05:45 Kristen: Oh, I'm horrible at Stealth. But if we're ruining the pylons, isn't that fine?

2:05:51 Fig: I do have Healing Word, so I can heal her, but I think Ayda will probably--

2:05:56 Riz: Ayda, do you have the Invisibility spell?

2:05:59 Ayda: Yes.

2:06:01 Gorgug: But you're casting a spell--

2:06:04 Fig: Once the pylons go down, Ayda casts Invisibility.

2:06:07 Riz: And then we bring Kristen with us.

2:06:09 Kristen: Let's do it.

2:06:10 Brennan: Ayda nods and says,

2:06:10 Ayda: Once the pylons go down, the magical defenses of the tower will be diminished.

2:06:15 Kristen: Great, we have a plan. We have a plan and we have a dance.

2:06:18 Brennan: Cool.

2:06:20 Fabian: I feel much better.

2:06:20 Kristen: [joins Fabian in the dance] Really?

2:06:20 Fig: I think I'm actually getting my temporary hit points from this.

2:06:24 Gorgug: Who’s going to which….

2:06:26 Riz: So I say hirelings to one pylon, just to keep it non-complicated, right.

2:06:29 Fig: Yeah.

2:06:32 Fig: Then the three of you.

2:06:35 Fabian: Are we a pylon squad?

2:06:37 Riz: Are you going to the pylon or are you going to the--

2:06:39 Fig: Oh, no, you're stealthing, yeah.

2:06:42 Fabian: I feel like myself, maybe Cathilda...

2:06:45 Riz: Why don't we do this. Why don't I go with you two. Hirelings go to one pylon, I go with you two to the other pylon then that way I can scout ahead with my good Stealth because we don't have any magic and I can maybe give you guys help by getting ahead. And then these guys can go in with Ayda invisible. And then we can all meet back at the van.

2:07:08 Brennan: As you guys are sitting here discussing this very fun, covert op, hitting multiple power stations and doing this big coordinated attack, we're gonna move to Calethriel Tower. Adaine, you look up and see Kir and your father both enter the room. Kir approaches you and she smiles and sort of boom, boom, hits her staff into the ground and as she does so, she comes right up to the orb and says,

2:07:48 Kir: We have discovered, I believe, as much useful information as we can from gleaning your thoughts. And I wanted to come in one last time before we make a final assessment of what is to be done. Your father wished to have a word with you, if he could.

2:08:11 Brennan: She smiles, leaves, Angwyn is standing there.

2:08:18 Angwyn: Adaine, you can't honestly believe that there is anything to be gained from your stubbornness. I don't… You have made it crystal clear that you do not think very highly of me. I can assure you that though I have made decisions you disagree with, I do not wish to see my daughter executed for treason.

2:08:53 Siobhan: Is he speaking to me in Elvish?

2:08:54 Brennan: Yes.

2:08:55 Siobhan: I'm going to respond to him in Common. I'm gonna say,

2:08:59 Adaine: You don't wanna see me executed for treason, but you're keeping Aelwyn tortured and alive?

2:09:11 Angwyn: How is Aelwyn being tortured? She's proven herself a threat. She can't be allowed to regain access to her spells. She's not being harmed or injured.

2:09:24 Adaine: She… [stammers, then crosses her arms in frustration]

2:09:30 Angwyn: Do you see her bleeding out on the floor? Is there a torture rack that her bones have been broken on?

2:09:38 Adaine: How am I being treasonous? I didn't ask to be the elven oracle.

2:09:44 Angwyn: No, Adaine, you didn't ask, but occasionally some people see fit to execute their responsibilities.

2:09:52 Adaine: Show me in the law book where it says that me staying in Solace is treason.

2:10:01 Angwyn: [sighs] You know—

2:10:01 Adaine: I demand a lawyer.

2:10:05 Angwyn: Well, I'll bring that to the Court of Stars. This is not some higgledy-piggledy democracy with an [air quotes] encoded constitution of laws and rights. This is a civilized nation, governed by seven immortal dancers who exist on a spindle and sing to the various phases of the moon, Adaine. [getting louder] So if you wanna ask one of them to stop their immortal singing to give you a lawyer, they will conjure up some kind of, I don't know, tree spirit, okay.

2:10:39 Adaine: I curse you in the name of the seven seas and of the face of the moon and in the shining of the stars and in the brightness of the sun, I curse you. You are not my father.

2:10:53 Brennan: You see he says,

2:10:53 Angwyn: Well, those are very hurtful words and if you had a spell slot, I'm sure that I would be very injured.

2:10:58 Siobhan: I cast Tasha’s Hideous Laughter on him. Brennan rolls a die for Angwyn’s save and laughs.

2:11:04 Brennan: He goes,

2:11:09 Angwyn: Ha ha ha ha ha, ow, my face, it doesn't do this. (coughing, attempts to clear his throat)

2:11:18 Brennan: And you see that Kir comes back in says,

2:11:22 Kir: Ah, Mr. Abernant, you've humiliated yourself.

2:11:27 Brennan: Kir looks at you and says—

2:11:29 Adaine: I demand a lawyer.

2:11:34 Kir: Very well, I shall bring that.

2:11:36 Adaine: I'm a minor. I'm underage in prison.

2:11:42 Brennan: Kir sort of squints and looks up at Angwyn. She dispels the Tasha’s Laughter on him and you see he says,

2:11:46 Angwyn: So a lawyer is basically somebody who is sort of a, they use a hidden language to prevent state actions from happening to people.

2:12:03 Adaine: I demand to see the Ambassador of Solace.

2:12:06 Brennan: You see Kir looks at that and says, that affects her, you see she goes,

2:12:10 Kir: You are not a Solisian citizen and so therefore-

2:12:15 Adaine: I am an underage student of the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.

2:12:21 Brennan: You see she says,

2:12:21 Kir: Oh, the Aguefort—

2:12:23 Brennan: And you hear (blowing trumpet sounds) and a scarlet A appears in front of you and you see an illusion hologram of Arthur Aguefort appears. You see as it does, Arthur says, (mysterious wizardy music)

2:12:35 Aguefort: Hello and greetings. I am Arthur Aguefort and if you are watching this recorded message, one of my students has claimed—

2:12:46 Adaine: He's a very serious man.

2:12:49 Aguefort: —has claimed diplomatic need of my help in foreign affairs. Now,

2:12:55 Brennan: You see that he repeats that in a couple different languages very quickly, and then you see he says,

2:12:58 Aguefort: In this instance you should know that this student has been apprehended unlawfully and is under the protection of not only my academic independence, but also the laws of the nation of Solace. If they are harmed or injured in any way, [suddenly growling] ruin will be brought down on your heads, ninefold! [boom]

2:13:20 Brennan: The screen zooms out and sees him on a seaside cliff summoning storms and you see he says,

2:13:27 Aguefort: [threatening shouting] I shall bind you to the center of the earth. I shall put you into the center of the sun. I shall summon one thousand, thousand dragons to devour you for endless days and send your soul back to the dawning of time to live as a mote of worthless scum across vast eons! The students of my school shall not be fucked with!

2:13:55 Adaine: Yeah!

2:13:57 Brennan: You see he says,

2:13:57 Aguefort: [low growl] Even now, doom moves upon you. If you wish to avert this doom, [normal voice] press yes! If you wish to welcome your doom, press no.

2:14:14 Brennan: [bing!] These two things appear. Kir looks at you, presses no and you see Arthur Aguefort says,

2:14:20 Aguefort: [pleasantly] Very well, you have chosen the way of pain, good-bye!

2:14:25 Brennan: And the thing disappears and at that moment alarms sound and you see the sort of movement of the rooms react. And what it reacts to is something we will have to discover on January 8th when we come back.

2:14:50 Adaine: You're in for it now.

2:14:54 Brennan: Guys, that's all for this episode of Dimension20 Live! Presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year. We'll be back January 8th. Have a very happy holidays and happy new year. Check out dropout.tv use promo code NICE for 69% off your first month. Check out the Dropout store for a bunch of fun merch and that's all. It's been so awesome doing this live show with you continuing the adventures of the Bad Kids. We'll see you guys next time, bye-bye. They all wave.

2:15:19 Siobhan: Happy Holidays, everybody!

2:15:19 Emily: Happy Holidays! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 10: The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant]

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