The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant

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 10: The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: Hello one and all, 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.

0:00:13 All: Hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:15 Brennan: If you're tuning in tonight, thank you so much for coming in and playing. We're back in 2020, gang. I wanted to take a second here to talk to you guys and say, we are so grateful for you guys watching the show. We love you guys. Obviously, this last week, a lot of our friends at CollegeHumor said goodbye and were laid off, and we wanted to say that we love them, including some friends of this show, Mike Trapp and Rekha Shankar.

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0:01:08 Brennan: For CEOs, a huge percentage of our audience.

0:01:11 Zac: Jeff Bezos is just going… [stares contemplatively] (cast laughing)

0:01:14 Brennan: But we're sending lots of love to all of our extended CollegeHumor family tonight. And we also wanted to let you guys know that tonight, we're actually airing a new Dimension 20 side quest, so Tiny Heist, which features Jess Ross and Lily Du, along with the McElroy family, is coming out on Thursdays for the next few weeks, there's six episodes, episode number two comes out tonight, so you know, after you watch the continuing adventures of the Bad Kids, you know, go get a snack, and then at midnight Pacific time, you'll have a new episode of Tiny Heist to watch.

0:01:44 Siobhan: Content, content, content.

0:01:45 Brennan: It's all about--

0:01:46 Ally: Snacks, snacks, snacks.

0:01:48 Brennan: Snacks, it's all about snacks, baby. [yelling] Last we left off! Our bad kids, teenage heroes at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, have been on a quest, their spring break to retrieve the Crown of the Nightmare King. Their quest has brought them to Bastion City, the pirate city of Leviathan, to Kei Lumennura, the land where horny elves, teen elves, are sent to be banished, and our friends are now heading to Calethriel Tower to rescue Adaine Abernant from the clutches of the elven government. They have some elemental pylons that they've found and been trying to dismantle, and also Adaine has just triggered some kind of auto warning from Arthur Aguefort about fucking with his students. Lo and behold, we return now to the world of Spire and the continuing quest to retrieve the Crown of the Nightmare King! [punches the air] (cast cheering)

0:02:41 Brennan: How about it. So, we are in the forest of Fallinel. In the valley before you, you observe the tall tower of Calethriel. This is of course the Bad Kids, your associated hirelings and hangers-on. And the two elemental pylons that you know are powering the tower are, there's kind of a rubbly old tower far up on a ridge, and there is a small plume of smoke coming from like a smithy or some kind of small wood burning place off in the woods, a little bit closer to Calethriel Tower. Last week, you guys had made kind of a loose plan to spread off in those different directions. Do you guys remember who you had said you wanted to go where? With the hirelings going one place.

0:03:31 Murph: Yeah.

0:03:32 Emily: I'm going to Adaine.

0:03:33 Murph: I think you and Kristen are going to Adaine.

0:03:37 Emily: Yeah.

0:03:38 Murph: And I believe me, Gorgug, and Fabian are going to the smoke one?

0:03:45 Zac: Yeah.

0:03:46 Murph: Let's go to the pylon with the smoke, and then the hirelings are going to the further one.

0:03:50 Brennan: Cool, they're going to the tower. Sandra Lynn will have no problem getting them there. Tracker can fly and carry someone, so that's not a--

0:03:57 Zac: Tracker can fly?

0:03:58 Brennan: Tracker can change into like a spirit wolf form that can fly. You see Gilear looks up and says,

0:04:06 Gilear: And the van, what of the van and myself?

0:04:10 Fabian: The van we put in your ever-capable hands.

0:04:14 Gorgug: Gilear, and it's very important to me that you know that we trust you, and that you do not get behind the wheel under any circumstance. (cast laughing)

0:04:24 Gilear: I shall remain with the van, and I shall not drive it under any circumstance.

0:04:28 Fig: The van just couldn't handle your heavy foot.

0:04:31 Gilear: Yes, my feet are, especially my right is extremely, there's a lot of fluid in there, so.

0:04:39 Fig: That's not what I was referring to, I meant more--

0:04:41 Gorgug: It looks like you hurt your foot.

0:04:43 Fig: A metaphorical dangerous driving foot, okay.

0:04:45 Gorgug: Did you roll your ankle?

0:04:46 Gilear: Oh, months ago, yes. Not here on the adventure. There's sort of a part above the sockets turned like a band of purple around it.

0:04:56 Fig: Wait, so when we healed you from being dead, it didn't fix the ankle?

0:05:00 Gilear: No, I think there's some kind of bone issue or something, that it can't heal quite right. It's all right, the pain is kind of ambient. It's not acute, it's a sort of throbbing. And it's kind of nice, too, because you know, all the extra blood kind of warms it up, and I don't have the heat on in my apartment. (cast laughing)

0:05:23 Fabian: All right, what about our friend?

0:05:28 Kristen: We had some kind of plan, right?

0:05:31 Fabian: Yes. You guys are like transporting in or something like that?

0:05:34 Fig: We could—

0:05:35 Riz: Aguefort was gonna do invisibility, right?

0:05:36 Brennan: Yeah, Ayda looks and says,

0:05:38 Ayda: I can cast Invisibility on all three of us, and we can go into the tower together.

0:05:40 Fig: That’s the plan.

0:05:42 Kristen: Also, I don't wanna assume anything, but you're a bird? Are you part bird, can you fly us in? Or no?

0:05:51 Ayda: We've established that I'm hal-phoenix, yes.

0:05:53 Kristen: Okay, I just, you know, sometimes it comes out of your mouth and you're like, is this okay?

0:05:57 Ayda: Yes, absolutely. It is okay. You didn't just hurt my feelings.

0:06:02 Kristen: Good.

0:06:02 Fig: Can you fly?

0:06:03 Ayda: Yes, I can fly.

0:06:04 Fig: Could you fly with us?

0:06:04 Kristen: So let's be invisible and fly.

0:06:08 Ayda: I can turn you invisible and then fly us all there.

0:06:09 Kristen: Done, great.

0:06:10 Riz: Great.

0:06:11 Ayda: Very good.

0:06:12 Brennan: You see that she (whooshes) casts Invisibility on you, and says,

0:06:19 Ayda: I'm going to have to touch you to pick you up and fly you. Can I grab you in sort of a hug?

0:06:28 Kristen: Enthusiastic consent!

0:06:30 Emily: I go for the hug.

0:06:31 Ayda: Ah!

0:06:32 Brennan: Okay, good, it's happened, it's happening. And you see that she takes off flying. As she does, the three of you guys start heading towards the smithy, which is closer, the hirelings take off and start flying. As you guys begin to take off, however, you see there is a crash of lightning. (imitates crashing, music changes to something dangerous)

0:06:54 Brennan: We cut to Calethriel Tower. The little alert sort of vanishes for a moment. Adaine, you're in your bubble, and you see that Kir and your father kind of turn to stare at each other, and you see as they turn, the turn begins to slow down, and (booms) a rift opens up, and you see Arthur Aguefort's desk. You see him sort of rub one of his eyes, look out and say,

0:07:20 Aguefort: Ah, Miss Abernant. Someone just selected the way of pain on one of these auto notifications?

0:07:28 Adaine: Yes. Sorry, I didn't, hello. I'm kidnapped and in a tower, and they have my sister locked in an orb, and have done for five months. I feel like that's torture?

0:07:43 Arthur: Who, what institution has done this?

0:07:45 Adaine: The high elves of Fallinel.

0:07:48 Arthur: Mm. Very well. Let's do it. (grunts)

0:07:50 Brennan: He crawls through the like, rift that's he's made. [groans] He steps out, looks around, and he says,

0:07:58 Arthur: Ah, indeed, we are in Falinel. All right, well, if they were dumb enough to push that button, [growling] we'll make them pay.

0:08:05 Brennan: He leaps out of the window of the tower, and as he does, you don't see him fall, and realize the reason he's not falling is because he's growing as fast as he's falling. And an 80-foot, 150-foot, 300 foot Arthur Aguefort appears. You guys see this happen even faster, as time begins to just change and reform, Arthur turns down and says,

0:08:33 Arthur: [shouting] Attention, elves of Fallinel! Today, your nation falls!

0:08:40 Brennan: And reaches a hand up into the sky, towering overhead, and you see his hand moves behind the sun and wraps around it, and as he closes his hand around the sun, he goes, (screaming to the sky), and his veins light up with golden fire, his mouth opens, (shouting), fire like races across the sky, and he goes,

0:09:05 Arthur: Agueforts of the Earth, to war!

0:09:09 Brennan: And thousands of terracotta Arthur Agueforts begin to burst out of the ground and just sprint north, away from Calethriel Tower.

0:09:20 Ally: Can I just say, this isn't part of the game, but Brennan did have a really bad fever recently, (cast laughing) and I think it is showing. Thousands of terracotta Agueforts?

0:09:31 Murph: So they're going away from the tower?

0:09:33 Brennan: Yes, you see that the—

0:09:33 Fig: Aguefort, we're down here, watch out for us!

0:09:37 Brennan: The like mountain-sized Aguefort that is clutching the sun—

0:09:40 Emily: He's gonna punt that thing.

0:09:42 Brennan: You see, he holds it and begins to drag it across the sky.

0:09:48 Lou: What?!

0:09:49 Brennan: (shouting) In one giant step, and you see, it leaves a like, burning scar across the sky as he starts moving it, and you see that—

0:10:00 Gorgug: Do we need to do anything? (cast laughing)

0:10:03 Brennan: You're all seeing this.

0:10:05 Fig: I’m ready to die!

0:10:06 Gorgug: It's like, what do we, is this good?

0:10:08 Brennan: You see that the giant Aguefort takes long, slow, thudding steps across the valley, as thousands of terracotta Agueforts stream through the woods, and within minutes, he is gone, and all of them are just leaving to go north.

0:10:29 Lou: What's north? Is that north of the tower?

0:10:32 Murph: Their actual city I guess, right?

0:10:34 Emily: Something's gonna happen, I mean, if he's trying to save you, he's probably not gonna destroy the city.

0:10:39 Zac: Maybe it's just like a distraction, and we should just keep doing our plan.

0:10:42 Emily: Okay.

0:10:42 Ally: Okay, yeah, let's do it.

0:10:43 Lou: Okay.

0:10:44 Murph: Yeah, can we do an Insight check to see if that's what's going on?

0:10:47 Brennan: Anyone that would like to can make an Insight check.

0:10:49 Murph: 'Cause like, what's north?

0:10:50 Emily: Oh.

0:10:51 Murph: Oh, sweet. 26.

0:10:53 Siobhan: I got a dirty 20.

0:10:55 Emily: I got an 18, though.

0:10:56 Zac: 13.

0:10:57 Brennan: You heard, with a 26, you heard the massive Aguefort basically bellow, you know, like, “Elves of Fallinel, you will pay for what you've done this day." The magic you're seeing is beyond the scope of mortal, you had no idea that Arthur was able to do this.

0:11:18 Murph: Grab the sun?

0:11:19 Brennan: Grab the sun, have it light his veins on fire, and his glowing eyes. You watch as he marches, his eyes glow like golden bright and just lasers the size of, you know, like highways race out of his eyes, and he just caps a range of mountains, just (imitates exploding), (roaring), as he marches north.

0:11:42 Fig: Hey Ayda, do you wanna call your dad and warn him that we're here?

0:11:46 Brennan: Ayda has landed and is like…

0:11:47 Ayda: Un, I, ahh... (stammers)

0:11:50 Fig: Wait, did you know he could do that?

0:11:52 Ayda: I guess, I didn't know he could specifically do that. Did he look at me, do you think he saw me, or?

0:11:59 Kristen: He definitely didn't see you, but is this a normal thing for your dad, or is this, do you think that really was your dad?

0:12:09 Ayda: It seems like something he would try to do. I didn't know that he was able to do that, but it seems like something that he would maybe do.

0:12:14 Fig: I don't think he saw you, but it's only because your Invisibility spell was that good.

0:12:19 Kristen: Yeah.

0:12:20 Ayda: Have you said something so kind on purpose?

0:12:22 Fig: Yeah. Remember, we're transitively best friends.

0:12:25 Ayda: Thank you. I really appreciate that. Sometimes people say nice things, but they didn't mean it, or you would infer the nice thing. But the way you said it, it was very nice. I appreciate that. Okay, let's keep flying to the tower.

0:12:36 Brennan: She lifts you guys up. So Adaine, so you watch Kir and your dad see this happen. Kir is horrified, and says,

0:12:48 Kir: I'm going to alert… alert the Elven government?

0:12:51 Brennan: She rushes up, but you can also see that Arthur has not like, sprung you or done anything to help in any meaningful way. So your father just kind of looks back at you and says,

0:13:05 Angwyn: Do you know what, is this part of the plan? Do you guys get informed about this, in like an assembly?

0:13:14 Adaine: [deliberately] Yes. (cast laughing)

0:13:17 Adaine: I knew that was going to happen as soon as you pressed, as she pressed the pain button. None of this is a surprise to me. (Siobhan laughs) Brennan rolls a die for Angwyn.

0:13:33 Angwyn: Well you're certainly telling the truth.

0:13:36 Brennan: And you see that… (cast laughing) You see that he rushes off out of your room into the tower as well, and we're going to begin with our group headed towards the first pylon, the smithy.

0:13:51 Zac: Can you say that we're all running like anime characters? [puts his arms behind him] (cast laughing)

0:13:58 Brennan: Yes, all arms straight back out, running at the same time. (Emily laughing)

0:14:04 Brennan: Okay, you guys arrive, are you trying to arrive there stealthily or no?

0:14:09 Zac: I mean, considering the massive chaos happening, like, stealthily considering that, but maybe like, a little faster than we would've normally.

0:14:18 Brennan: Gotcha.

0:14:18 Murph: Yeah, I think we're in kind of a forest, right?

0:14:19 Brennan: Yeah.

0:14:20 Murph: So I think we're going, we're sprinting tree to tree. Lou mimics dodging back and forth through the trees. (foreboding, mysterious music)

0:14:26 Brennan: Cool. You guys move, you see this, as you guys arrive, you see that there is a large elven smithy. Looking through the open archway, sorta this small, like green, moss-covered stone building, smoke pouring out of it. In the center of the building, you see that there are basically like three large fiery braziers, right? These huge, like silvery elven dishes piled high with burning coals, and then it's causing the smoke to rise up out of this. You see that there are also three elven statues at the other corners of this kind of hexagonal, six-pointed room, that are elven statues that are holding huge pitchers of water. In the center of this smithy is a, so hot, it's hard to look at it's so bright, deep fire pit, and that has a helix of magic within it, going around and around and around. That central pit is what you think is the source of a lot of the magical energy that is going to Calethriel Tower to power its permanent magical effects.

0:15:52 Murph: Okay.

0:15:53 Brennan: What do you guys do as you behold?

0:15:56 Lou: Perception checks for—

0:15:58 Brennan: Everyone make Perception checks, yeah.

0:16:01 Murph: I could see those statues being something tricky.

0:16:05 Zac: Perception, 18.

0:16:07 Lou: 16.

0:16:08 Murph: Ooh, not great, 10.

0:16:10 Brennan: You do not see any people of any kind here within the pylon.

0:16:14 Murph: So we got water and fire.

0:16:18 Zac: Maybe we douse 'em?

0:16:21 Murph: Well, there's braziers, there's three, and there's three things of water?

0:16:25 Brennan: Yes, there's three braziers, there's three things of water.

0:16:28 Murph: And then the thing in the center?

0:16:29 Brennan: And then the thing in the center. The braziers of coals are in different corners, so it's like a six-cornered smithy. It's sort of like one, two, three braziers, and then in the opposite corners, facing away from each other, it's one, two, three statues with water. The pitchers, you notice, gear down towards the central fire pit. Like there's almost a channel or a runner or something like that that comes up with the pitchers going down. The pitchers don't look like they would naturally move towards the braziers in the corner.

0:17:00 Murph: Oh, they look like they spill and then go to the center?

0:17:02 Brennan: Yes.

0:17:03 Murph: Hmm, okay.

0:17:03 Zac: Can we inspect the braziers, maybe? See if like--

0:17:07 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Investigation check for the braziers.

0:17:09 Murph: Can somebody help him?

0:17:11 Zac: I can help you, ‘cause I have--

0:17:12 Lou: Well too late, I already rolled.

0:17:14 Ally: [pointing at Murph’s die] Ooh!

0:17:15 Murph: Yeah, baby.

0:17:16 Ally: Nice.

0:17:17 Murph: That is a, da da da.

0:17:19 Ally: Two 19s.

0:17:20 Murph: 27?

0:17:23 Lou: And I got a 2.

0:17:24 Ally: Oh!

0:17:26 Brennan: A 27? The braziers are, you recognize them from a like, rogue tomb raiding manual. These are traps, and these are specifically Conjure Elemental traps.

0:17:40 Riz: Guys, this is Tomb Raiding 101. These are Conjure Elemental traps. (laughing)

0:17:45 Gorgug: So how do you set them off? Would you know that, or like, should we... (laughing)

0:17:52 Fabian: Well, I mean, the question is, is there a way around it, or do we just have to deal with it?

0:17:57 Riz: Here's the thing. Tomb Raiding 101 only teaches us how to find traps, not necessarily how to disarm them.

0:18:03 Ally: I like to imagine Riz is dressed as Tomb Raider all of a sudden.

0:18:08 Zac: Riz looks so hot. (cast laughing)

0:18:10 Gorgug: Well, I don't think we have too much time to figure it out.

0:18:15 Riz: Yeah, all right.

0:18:16 Gorgug: Why don't we all go towards one of the statues? Like, 'cause I don't understand how the braziers really fit in, unless they--

0:18:23 Riz: I bet you if we use the water, we definitely need to use the water to put out the thing in the middle, if we do that, I bet you one of these elementals will pop up. Here's an idea, I'll go do it, you guys get ready to just bash it as soon as it comes out.

0:18:37 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:18:37 Fabian: Great.

0:18:37 Gorgug: Let's try to like only go towards one of the things, so we don't set off everything, just in case.

0:18:43 Riz: All right. Should I go climb up and—

0:18:43 Fabian: So you can get some water going?

0:18:44 Riz: Get some water going, and then you guys are just like, ready to destroy, hell yeah, one of these things.

0:18:52 Fabian: All right.

0:18:53 Riz: All right.

0:18:54 Gorgug: I believe in you.

0:18:55 Brennan: Hell yeah. So--

0:18:55 Riz: Hey, I believe in you.

0:18:57 Fabian: I believe in you.

0:18:58 Gorgug: I believe in you.

0:18:59 Fabian: I believe in the two of you.

0:18:59 Riz: I believe in the two of these people.

0:19:00 Brennan: Hell yeah, you guys all believe in each other. Very, very exciting.

0:19:03 Gorgug: I believe in the three of us.

0:19:04 Fabian: I'm not sure about myself, but the two of you have got this.

0:19:06 Gorgug: And overall, the six of us at large.

0:19:08 Brennan: You move in, that investigation lets you avoid what you see as being some possible areas where you could just set something off on the floor. You like, hop up into an alcove. Go actually and give me an Acrobatics check.

0:19:21 Riz: Can somebody toss me, help me?

0:19:23 Fabian: I would like to toss The Ball.

0:19:25 Brennan: Yeah. (cast laughing)  Go ahead and give me an Athletics check.

0:19:27 Gorgug: Can I help you?

0:19:28 Fabian: Yeah.

0:19:29 Brennan: Gorgug does the help action, give me, yeah, give me Athletics.

0:19:32 Riz: This is really supportive, guys.

0:19:33 Brennan: With advantage.

0:19:36 Lou: That's gonna be 22.

0:19:40 Brennan: Cool. So you pick up Riz in your hand, and you sail, bam, land on the statue, not touching anything on the floor, land on the first statue.

0:19:49 Zac: Like a little spidermonkey or like, kite squirrel?

0:19:52 Riz: Really good job, everyone. I believe in you, I believe in you.

0:19:55 Fabian: I like this support.

0:19:57 Brennan: Give me another Investigation check as you arrive at the first brazier.

0:20:01 Murph: (grunts) 13.

0:20:03 Brennan: Immediately, what you see is--

0:20:06 Lou: Is he on the pitcher or the brazier?

0:20:07 Brennan: You're on the statue with the pitcher, right? So you're on the statue with the pitcher there. You see this like elven statue here. Immediately what you see is all the infrastructure of this place, like everything, bears this high elven adoration for arcane magic, so as a result of that, you see that you need a cantrip to trigger, that there's an easy way to make these pitchers move, which is just a cantrip that would allow them to bend over. For you, you're gonna have to figure out some way to mechanically or otherwise like disable or deal damage to cause these pitchers to move.

0:20:44 Gorgug: Oh yeah, they didn't care about physical strength.

0:20:46 Riz: That's right, yeah. We don't know how to use magic. We're all—

0:20:49 Gorgug: I am the greatest wizard of our time. (cast laughing)

0:20:52 Riz: I believe in you, but also, we should've brought somebody who knows magic.

0:20:57 Zac: Can I go into a rage and just jump at this thing?

0:20:59 Fabian: Well, yeah.

0:21:00 Brennan: Yeah, you can go into a rage. (cast laughing and talking at once)

0:21:02 Fabian: Wait, nononono!

0:21:05 Riz: You're ready to attack, I believe in you, I believe in you, but wait, okay?

0:21:08 Gorgug: Okay, do you wanna just shoot it off?

0:21:10 Riz: Yes.

0:21:11 Fabian: I mean, yeah. Okay, great, yeah.

0:21:13 Riz: Clearly that's the move, right?

0:21:15 Fabian: I mean, it feels like either you shoot it off or do Gorg—

0:21:17 Riz: But he's down there waiting for the elemental.

0:21:19 Fabian: Smack, okay, correct.

0:21:20 Riz: I'm gonna shoot, and then we're gonna reassess. I believe in you, I believe in you.

0:21:25 Gorgug: I believe in you.

0:21:26 Murph: Bam. (laughing)

0:21:27 Brennan: All right, I'm gonna let you know right now--

0:21:30 Murph: That I did a bad job?

0:21:31 Brennan: No, you did not do, there is a damage threshold here.

0:21:35 Murph: Oh, okay, cool.

0:21:37 Brennan: The damage threshold is 15. You need to do at least 15 points of damage to do any damage, and then it's 20 hit points basically the mechanism on the statue has.

0:21:48 Murph: Okay.

0:21:49 Brennan: Go ahead and roll an attack roll as normal. You can add your Sneak Attack to this.

0:21:55 Murph: Oh, sweet, okay. 16 to hit?

0:22:00 Brennan: 16 hits.

0:22:01 Murph: Great, okay. Let's--

0:22:04 Gorgug: The statue never saw it coming. (cast laughing)

0:22:09 Murph: Oh, very good. (counting) Eight...

0:22:14 Brennan: Very good.

0:22:15 Murph: 28.

0:22:16 Brennan: 28! Riz, (whooshing), bam!  You nail the—

0:22:23 Fabian: Great job, Riz.

0:22:24 Riz: Great job. Believe in you, believe in you.

0:22:25 Brennan: Boom, and you see the pitcher lurches forward off the broken statue. This bright, clear water surges out of this alabaster pitcher, races down, hits the central fire. The helix changes from gold and green to a weird, arcane purple gold, just (whooshing), and the first brazier next to the door, (roaring) roars into life, I need initiative from everybody.

0:22:51 Riz: Kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it!

0:22:53 Brennan: You guys have readied actions, but, so the way this is gonna work is that basically you two guys get a surprise round.

0:22:59 Lou: Great, okay.

0:23:00 Zac: We roll initiative though, right?

0:23:03 Brennan: Do roll initiative, yes.

0:23:06 Zac: 11 for me on initiative.

0:23:08 Lou: 22.

0:23:09 Murph: 21.

0:23:10 Siobhan: (to Lou) He’s back, baby.

0:23:11 Brennan: Okay.

0:23:12 Lou: Here we go, Fabian.

0:23:13 Murph: It's good, this is a good plan.

0:23:14 Lou: This is good, I like this.

0:23:15 Zac: Really solid.

0:23:16 Brennan: All right, Fabian.

0:23:17 Fabian: I love the amount of support we're all giving each other. This is good.

0:23:21 Gorgug: Positivity.

0:23:21 Fabian: Yes! We have each other's backs, we're a team.

0:23:24 Brennan: All right. Fabian, you act first without surprise. Let me ask you a question, would you have gone to the statue closest to the door, or one further away from the door?

0:23:34 Murph: I think probably the one closest?

0:23:37 Brennan: Cool. Fabian, you are first to act.

0:23:40 Lou: Great. Can I do an Arcana check? This is just like a classic fire elemental? Nothing special?

0:23:46 Brennan: Classic fire elemental.

0:23:47 Lou: Great. Then we'll just swing, I'll just, I'll stab it.

0:23:54 Brennan: What sword are you attacking with?

0:23:56 Lou: I guess, I don't have, or I do—

0:23:59 Murph: You have something magical?

0:24:00 Lou: I don't have anything, I don't think I have the sword, do I still have the Sword of the Seacaster on me, or—

0:24:04 Brennan: It has been placed in front of you a number of times, but whether Fabian would be fighting with it right now is up to you.

0:24:11 Lou: I think I timidly just take it out, and I'll swing at it—

0:24:13 Brennan: Cool.

0:24:14 Lou: With one.

0:24:17 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an attack roll.

0:24:20 Lou: That's going to be a 25.

0:24:24 Brennan: 25 hits.

0:24:25 Lou: Great. And that'll be 11.

0:24:31 Brennan: That is 11 points of damage. You rush up, slash, are you taking your second attack?

0:24:38 Lou: I don't have one,

0:24:38 Brennan: (laughs) That’s right.

0:24:39 Lou: And then I will take my movement to stand timidly behind Gorgug.

0:24:44 Brennan: Hold on—

0:24:45 Lou: Or no, I'm not gonna leave a threatened area.

0:24:47 Brennan: You also take—

0:24:48 Lou: Okay, great.

0:24:52 Brennan: 5 fire damage right away, right off the bat.

0:24:56 Gorgug: Hey Fabian, you're on fire, dude.

0:24:57 Fabian: What? No, no! [slaps his arms]

0:25:01 Brennan: You have not ignited--

0:25:02 Lou: Okay.

0:25:05 Brennan: But you do take five points of fire damage. And as you move away, it is gonna take a swipe at you.

0:25:12 Lou: Great.

0:25:14 Zac: Oh, you did move away?

0:25:15 Lou: I am going to move away.

0:25:16 Brennan: It misses.

0:25:17 Lou: Okay. Yeah, catching on fire.

0:25:19 Fabian: Oh, stop!

0:25:21 Gorgug: I believe in you, I'm sure you can find a way to not be on fire anymore.

0:25:24 Brennan: Gorgug, you are next acting. Riz and the elemental, you guys lose your turn for surprise.

0:25:29 Zac: I'm gonna go into a rage.

0:25:30 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:25:31 Zac: And then I'm gonna recklessly attack this bad boy. Well, there's one, right? Nat 20! (cast cheering)

0:25:40 Murph: Love to see it.

0:25:42 Zac: And that means—

0:25:43 Ally: [chanting] Crit! Crit! Crit! Crit!

0:25:44 Brennan: That's gonna be 3d12 plus whatever you had, because you have Savage Attacks—

0:25:49 Zac: 3d12 plus six. Oh wait, do I have Savage Attacks?

0:25:52 Brennan: You're raging, 'cause it's plus eight.

0:25:53 Zac: Do I get, oh yeah, okay, great. Yes.

0:25:56 Brennan: And it is 3d12.

0:25:56 Ally: Do you need a d12? Do you need another one?

0:25:59 Zac: Plus, I'm sorry, raging makes it plus eight? Oh yeah, that's true. Okay, great. So here's… So that's 11, and then two, and then one more. Oh, I'll just roll one. And then a five, so 11, two, and five.

0:26:14 Ally: 18.

0:26:15 Zac: 18, plus six on the first attack.

0:26:17 Brennan: Well plus eight on the first attack, right?

0:26:19 Zac: Oh yeah, plus eight. 18 plus 8 is 26?

0:26:21 Brennan: Jesus.

0:26:23 Zac: So 26 on the first hit, and it's a magical weapon, if that matters.

0:26:26 Brennan: It does matter.

0:26:27 Zac: And then it's also, you knock your subject prone with Zelda's mixtape.

0:26:32 Brennan: Oh, you listened to Zelda's mixtape. So Fabian, you are now slashing this thing, it sets you a little bit on fire, Gorgug, (roars), bam, this thing is on its fiery ass.

0:26:42 Zac: Okay, and then I'll take my second attack.

0:26:45 Brennan: Go for it.

0:26:47 Zac: Okay, worse. 16.

0:26:51 Brennan: 16 hits.

0:26:52 Zac: Okay, so that's just 1d12 plus eight. Okay. 19 on that one.

0:26:59 Brennan: All right 19 damage, damn.

0:27:02 Fabian: I believe in you.

0:27:03 Gorgug: [raising his axe over his head] I believe in all of us!

0:27:04 Riz: You both did really good.

0:27:05 Fabian: We both did do good.

0:27:06 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:27:06 Riz: You both did great.

0:27:07 Fabian: Yes. [heavy excited breathing, dances] Come on, Fabian, come on, come on.

0:27:14 Brennan: You also, when you hit this thing, do take five points of fire damage right away.

0:27:16 Zac: Ouch!

0:27:19 Brennan: That is going to be Fabian, your turn again.

0:27:21 Lou: What?

0:27:23 Brennan: Yeah, keep going.

0:27:25 Lou: Okay. I'm gonna run up and hit it again.

0:27:28 Brennan: Go for it.

0:27:30 Zac: It's on the ground, too, do you get advantage?

0:27:32 Brennan: You do get advantage, actually, yeah.

0:27:34 Ally: Crit.

0:27:36 Lou: I didn't crit, but I did get a 19. If I were a fighter, that would mean something. So that'll hit, and then that'll be a 13.

0:27:50 Brennan: 13 points of damage, hell yeah.

0:27:52 Lou: And then I'd like to run back behind Gorgug again. (cast laughing)

0:27:55 Brennan: Awesome. That is going to be Riz's turn.

0:27:59 Murph: Sweet. I'm going to shoot the fire elemental. Oh, two, 10, 19?

0:28:08 Brennan: 19 hits.

0:28:08 Murph: Nice.

0:28:09 Brennan: And you do get Sneak Attack, 'cause this thing is prone and both of your friends are wailing on it. (Emily laughing)

0:28:14 Zac: I'm looking at Riz like,

0:28:14 Gorgug: I believe in you!

0:28:17 Riz: I believe in you!

0:28:17 Fabian: The Ball, I—

0:28:18 Murph: I'm just shooting dangerously close to you guys, just like right here. (cast laughing)

0:28:23 Ally: Like right over your thumbs up. (cast laughing)

0:28:25 Murph: 25 damage.

0:28:26 Brennan: Ooh, baby!This thing is already looking hurt.

0:28:33 Riz: Good plan, everyone.

0:28:34 Gorgug: [thumbs up] Good plan.

0:28:35 Fabian: Are we going to kill this one, and then do the next pitcher, is that what-- (roaring)

0:28:40 Fire Elemental: I have been summoned and bound by the elves of old to protect this sacred pylon. Please stop hitting me with your weapons. (laughing)

0:28:51 Riz: Right, we didn’t speak to you.

0:28:53 Gorgug: If we had not hit you, and asked you to not attack us, would you have not attacked us?

0:29:01 Fire Elemental: [long silence] Get outta here, get outta here! (cast laughing)

0:29:04 Brennan: You did Reckless Attack, so it's gonna get some advantage on attacking Gorgug. Hold on one second. That's gonna be a hit. That's gonna be a hit as well. It deals you first 10, and then 14 points of fire damage, your rage does not half that, and you are also ignited and fully on fire.

0:29:38 Riz: You're on fire, Gorgug, you're on fire, dude. You're on fire, you're good.

0:29:40 Gorgug: [pained expression] We’re a good team! Aaaah! (laughing)

0:29:43 Fabian: You're on fire, but I believe in you. Gorgug, on fire, gives Fabian a thumbs up.

0:29:46 Brennan: And Gorgug, that's gonna be your turn, Gorgug.

0:29:54 Zac: What do I do to not be on fire anymore?

0:29:57 Brennan: You can take an action to douse yourself.

0:29:59 Lou: Can I put you out?

0:30:00 Brennan: Although you do take another 5 points of fire damage at the start of your turn.

0:30:04 Zac: At the start of my turn? Okay, so I'm at 85.

0:30:06 Gorgug: Look, Fabian, do you wanna try to—

0:30:08 Fabian: Yes, very much so. (Gorgug shouts)

0:30:10 Fabian: Okay, yes, I will do that.

0:30:12 Riz: Keep going, Gorgug.

0:30:13 Zac: I'm just gonna Recklessly Attack him again.

0:30:15 Brennan: Go for it.

0:30:16 Zac: All right. That'll hit. That's, (sighs), 9 damage on the first one. Another reckless attack, that'll hit. This is 11, so I did 21, or 20 damage, so far.

0:30:42 Brennan: You know, you guys are rushing in here. This is one of the first adventures you guys have had out here on spring break, where you guys like, have a plan, you know what's going on, you rush in here, first pitcher down, Gorgug, you're set on fire, but you guys got the jump on this thing and wailed on its ass right away, and you two more mighty blows, bam, bam! There's a blast of fire. You're still ignited.

0:31:06 Gorgug: Yes! [pained] Aah!

0:31:07 Brennan: This thing is--

0:31:09 Riz: Spring break! (cast laughing) Spring break!

0:31:11 Fabian: We're doing it!

0:31:12 Brennan: You guys yell "spring break" as you're on fire.

0:31:14 Fabian: [punching the air] Spring break! (cast laughing)

0:31:16 Brennan: Fabian, that is your turn.

0:31:17 Lou: I'd like to take my turn to put Gorgug out.

0:31:20 Brennan: Cool, you take an action, you douse Gorgug, you are no longer on fire. Fabian pats at Gorgug.

0:31:24 Gorgug: Do you have one of those silk blankets you can use?

0:31:27 Brennan: You put the blanket up, and the blanket perfectly drifts and like wraps around you, and there's a little elven like, (vague elven mumbling), and it sort of breathes the fire off you.

0:31:37 Zac: Oh, good.

0:31:38 Brennan: [elf voice] Everyone knows elven sheets can put out fires. Fabian, that is your turn. Riz, your turn.

0:31:45 Murph: Great, okay. No more elementals?

0:31:47 Brennan: No more elemental, there are two more segments of the room.

0:31:49 Riz: Sweet. Okay, everybody get ready to attack things.

0:31:51 Fabian: Okay.

0:31:53 Brennan: However, you do see though that there is clearly some like, alarm or signal from within the changed fire, which was probably, you know, this is like, literally where the energy is coming from, someone attacking it or fucking with it was definitely gonna be noticed somewhere, but there is a, you know, 450-foot Arthur Aguefort stomping north somewhere, so—

0:32:14 Murph: So hopefully, yeah.

0:32:15 Brennan: Hopefully.

0:32:16 Murph: Great.

0:32:17 Zac: Yeah, let's just keep going.

0:32:18 Murph: All right, I'm gonna shoot another statue.

0:32:21 Brennan: Go for it.

0:32:22 Murph: Sweet.

0:32:25 Lou: Oh, can we, oh, nevermind. Murph holds the die still for a long time before rolling, and Lou laughs.

0:32:33 Murph: Yeah! 24.

0:32:35 Brennan: 24, hell yeah. Go ahead and roll that Sneak Attack damage.

0:32:39 Zac: Such a dramatic pause.

0:32:40 Lou: Yeah. He held that. [punches the air after Murph’s roll]

0:32:47 Murph: 23.

0:32:48 Brennan: Woo! Pitcher lurches forward. Suddenly it is this gleaming bright ruby red helix of energy coming out of the fire as the second of the two water pitchers moves into the middle and another elemental springs out of the brazier, acts on the next initiative, which is the one coming up right now. Races forward and is going to take some attacks on you, Riz.

0:33:17 Riz: Oh. I should've hidden. We had a good plan on the first one, gang.

0:33:22 Brennan: You are immediately ignited, and you take 10 points of damage followed by another 11 points of damage.

0:33:30 Ally: Oh.

0:33:32 Emily: You guys don't have a healer, do you? (laughing)

0:33:35 Lou: No.

0:33:35 Riz: Spring break!

0:33:36 Gorgug: [two thumbs up] Interesting.

0:33:36 Fabian: Spring break! I'll douse you, don't worry. (cast laughing)

0:33:41 Siobhan: Into the blanket, boy.

0:33:43 Emily: And I have Healing Word.

0:33:45 Lou: Actually sink my sword and I'm just holding this blanket.

0:33:48 Riz: Hey, the worse we're doing, the better the other teams are doing.

0:33:50 Fabian: Yes.

0:33:51 Riz: Just remember that, everyone. Stay positive, spring break.

0:33:54 Emily: I forgot! Murph is such a paladin in my head.

0:33:57 Gorgug: You're fully on fire, spring break.

0:33:58 Brennan: Spring break, stay positive.

0:34:00 Ally: Stay positive.

0:34:01 Riz: Stay positive, spring break!

0:34:02 Brennan: Gorgug, it's gonna be your turn.

0:34:04 Zac: Gorgug, I'm going to frenzy on this, yeah yeah, recklessly attack this one.

0:34:07 Brennan: Go for it.

0:34:11 Riz: Fabian, please put me out.

0:34:12 Fabian: I'm coming.

0:34:13 Zac: Weirdest roll I've ever seen. Fabian shakes the blanket over his head in a dance, taking loud breaths.

0:34:15 Murph: We have the perfect help from traumatized Fabian. Just a firefighter.

0:34:19 Zac: First one hits. (laughing)

0:34:21 Ally: You're fanning the flames!

0:34:23 Zac: Second one hits. And then I'm gonna use my frenzy attack.

0:34:27 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:34:28 Zac: So. Does a, yeah, I think all three of them hit.

0:34:33 Brennan: Okay, awesome.

0:34:34 Zac: 23 for the worst one, so.

0:34:35 Brennan: So that's just gonna be 3d12 plus 24?

0:34:39 Zac: Yeah.

0:34:40 Murph: Nice.

0:34:41 Brennan: [laughing incredulously] Okay.

0:34:42 Zac: Okay, 10 and a 9 plus—

0:34:44 Emily: Oh! You love to see it.

0:34:46 Zac: 9.

0:34:47 Ally: Nice! (laughing)

0:34:48 Brennan: 28 plus 24, you deal 52 damage in one turn.

0:34:54 Gorgug: I believe in us!

0:34:57 Riz: [on fire] Yeah!

0:34:58 Emily: Maybe you should just believe in yourself.

0:35:00 Brennan: As you attack this thing, you take another five points of fire damage.

0:35:04 Fabian: Fuck!

0:35:07 Brennan: You guys definitely were right to not send the hirelings to this one, this was a bad one. Just boom, boom!

0:35:16 Gorgug: We're both on fire.

0:35:16 Emily: (laughing) Now Fabian has to choose which one to put out.

0:35:19 Brennan: Hold on, you're—

0:35:21 Murph: Fire damage. I’m on fire.

0:35:23 Brennan: He took fire damage, you're ignited. Fabian, that's you.

0:35:27 Lou: Fully sheathe my sword, do like some light dancing with this blanket, and then just full-on run at the Ball.

0:35:36 Brennan: You're really in touch with your elven roots right now. It's a lot of like ribbon dance twirling. And you're like, the fire kind of curls up the sheet and around your hands, and you do kinda some David Bowie orb tricks with the fire in your hand.

0:35:51 Lou: Palm, yeah. Palm juggling, or contact juggling.

0:35:54 Brennan: You do a lot of contact juggling, the sheet's on fire. You are, Riz is doused. Riz, that is your turn.

0:36:03 Murph: Sweet.

0:36:04 Fabian: I've found my purpose! (cast laughing)

0:36:09 Murph: I'm going to do bonus action disengage by slowly backing away from the situation. I'm gonna do a bonus action disengage so that I'm not getting attacked by the fire elemental, and then I'm going to shoot at it.

0:36:23 Zac: I imagine if like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, where like a sheet unfurls and there's just no one there. (cast laughing)

0:36:30 Murph: But then I'm anime running really low.

0:36:33 Brennan: All right, go for it.

0:36:35 Murph: Oh no, that is only a 12 to hit.

0:36:38 Brennan: 12 misses, that's Riz's turn. Elemental's gonna be next. You took reckless attacks on your last turn, correct?

0:36:44 Zac: Yas, dude. (Emily laughing)

0:36:46 Brennan: Okay, that's a hit for sure.

0:36:48 Zac: Yeah.

0:36:49 Murph: My dude is reckless.

0:36:49 Brennan: That's a hit for sure. That's gonna be—

0:36:56 Zac: I mean.

0:36:56 Siobhan: Just two teams to go.

0:36:59 Fig: Tracker's flying. With the hirelings.

0:37:00 Brennan: 20 points of fire damage, and you are ignited.

0:37:04 Zac: [incongruously cheerfully] Okay.

0:37:05 Lou: My eyes come alive.

0:37:08 Zac: I really hope we don't have to do much after this.

0:37:11 Brennan: You guys, by the way, also now see that the helix in the middle is flickering with other energy that looks like it's possibly failing. Out the window, you guys see a flash of some kind of magic from Tracker up at the other tower, so it looks like they've made it to their position as well.

0:37:27 Zac: Can I make a Perception check? Or I'll wait till my turn.

0:37:30 Brennan: It is your turn right now, welcome to another five points of fire damage.

0:37:34 Zac: Oh, thank you.

0:37:35 Murph: Welcome to the fire zone.

0:37:36 Zac: Thank you.

0:37:37 Lou: Welcome to another five points of fire damage. Zac It's a smithy, right?

0:37:41 Brennan: Yes, it looks like some kind of, but it looks like it has been built in the shape of a smithy, and it's actual, it's not like functional for—

0:37:51 Zac: So there's not like weapons anywhere.

0:37:53 Brennan: Go ahead, make a Perception check.

0:37:55 Zac: Okay. 12?

0:37:59 Brennan: You see that there are some ornamental weapons carved from stone on the statues. But this place is really more of like, again, like an arcane power station than it is a working forge.

0:38:11 Zac: Great, okay. Well, I'm just gonna keep recklessly attacking, just because.

0:38:16 Fabian: I'll keep putting you out.

0:38:18 Gorgug: Thank you, thank you.

0:38:18 Murph: I'm still on fire, right?

0:38:20 Brennan: Yes.

0:38:20 Zac: I have 55 hit points,so I don’t know if I can keep doing that for very long. [rolls] All right. 21 hit?

0:38:28 Brennan: 21 hits.

0:38:30 Zac: Does a 15 hit?

0:38:33 Brennan: A 15 does hit.

0:38:34 Zac: Oh, wow. And then a 23.

0:38:38 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:38:39 Zac: So three hits. So it's gonna be plus, you know, whatever.

0:38:43 Brennan: Plus 24, yeah. [shakes his head]

0:38:46 Zac: So that is 20 points, with two dice, and another 10, so 30 plus 24.

0:38:52 Brennan: [impressed] 54?

0:38:53 Ally: Woo!

0:38:55 Brennan: Second elemental, Gorgug, (whooshing), and the fire blasts away, singes the walls. There are no combatants on the floor right now. You are still ignited. Fabian, it is your turn.

0:39:07 Lou: Can I make an Athletics check to do some cool jumps while I put him out?

0:39:12 Brennan: Go ahead and do it with advantage.

0:39:14 Lou: Hey thank you.

0:39:15 Zac: I have the positivity—

0:39:17 Murph: He's thriving.

0:39:18 Lou: That's 23.

0:39:21 Brennan: For the first time, you are feeling your body fully express itself in combat, and instead of like, a weird compulsion to like, run into danger and hurt things or attack things, you're like, saving your friends through the power and majesty of dance. (Emily laughing)

0:39:42 Ally: Oh, you Fabian.

0:39:43 Zac: I'm like out of breath, like soot on my face, singed hair, like… [aggressive thumbs up]

0:39:48 Fabian: I'm here for you. (cast laughing)

0:39:51 Brennan: Fire comes off. Riz, that is your turn.

0:39:55 Riz: Sweet. This is something we didn't try. What if we put out the fire before we do one of these things?

0:40:01 Fabian: Well, everyone knows that elven blankets put out fires.

0:40:04 Gorgug: Put out the brazier.

0:40:06 Riz: Yeah, I guess we'll--

0:40:08 Lou: I mean, it was announced that elven, everyone knows that elven blankets put out fire, so I'd like to use common knowledge and use my elven blanket to put out the third brazier.

0:40:20 Brennan: I know what's happening right now. I know, I see what's happening. I'm gonna get the Box of Doom.

0:40:25 Zac: Yes.

0:40:30 Murph: Oh no, Fabian.

0:40:31 Brennan: I'm getting the Box of Doom. This is going to be a DC 20 Acrobatics check.

0:40:40 Lou: I have advantage and plus eight.

0:40:42 Zac: Can I prepare an action to hit the thing if it comes to life?

0:40:45 Brennan: And I'm gonna say this, on a 20, nothing bad will happen to you. I wanna see, you'll see what happens if you hit a 25 or higher.

0:40:53 Lou: Great, and this is—

0:40:55 Emily: I believe in you, Fabian!

0:40:56 Lou: This is, yeah, Acrobatics?

0:40:59 Brennan: Acrobatics.

0:41:00 Riz: Spring break! Lou rolls in the box. It is a natural 16.

0:41:01 Lou: Oh, god, I can't see what that one is. I can't see what either one is. The second roll is a 13.

0:41:06 Brennan: First one's a 16, what does a 16 do?

0:41:08 Lou: 16's a hit at 24.

0:41:09 Brennan: 24, awesome. Here are your dice. Fabian: you rush up to this brazier. (Brennan and Lou both wiggle their arms in a sheet dance) You touch something on the floor, which triggers the brazier to erupt. (cast laughing)

0:41:32 Brennan: The elemental leaps out, and as it does, you [lassoes] encircle it in the sheet, take it into the deepest tango dip in the world.

0:41:43 Murph: Oh my god.

0:41:45 Brennan: Now I'm gonna ask you to make a choice. You did not hit a 25.

0:41:48 Lou: Okay.

0:41:49 Brennan: Do you believe in the dance enough to fully take the damage that will come from embracing this elemental?

0:41:59 Lou: I do. (cast laughing)

0:42:01 Murph: Riz is sobbing.

0:42:04 Ally: Riz is sobbing. (Emily laughing)

0:42:07 Brennan: You take 22 points of fire damage.

0:42:09 Lou: Okay.

0:42:12 Brennan: As you lean deeply into the dance. You guys see the sheet swirls around Fabian's body and the elemental, like roiling up behind him in the flame as you dip this elemental. Before the elemental goes, Riz, it is your turn.

0:42:31 Gorgug: Shoot it in the head! (cast laughing)

0:42:32 Murph: I shoot it in the head.

0:42:33 Riz: It's beautiful!

0:42:39 Brennan: The elemental right now, give me an Insight check.

0:42:42 Zac: Can I help you?

0:42:44 Murph: Yeah, that'd be great, thanks.

0:42:46 Riz: Help me figure this out, Gorgug.

0:42:48 Murph: Oh, nat 20.

0:42:49 Ally: Hey! [claps]

0:42:50 Brennan: The elemental has been so deeply affected by the dance that you don't think it's in active combat mode right now. It might be in a state of being partially stunned.

0:43:05 Riz: [his hand shakes as he holds the gun] So beautiful, Gorgug. (cast laughing)

0:43:09 Gorgug: [nods] You're right.

0:43:11 Brennan: But you do see the final statue with the pitcher.

0:43:15 Murph: I'm gonna shoot the pitcher.

0:43:16 Brennan: Cool, go ahead and give me an attack.

0:43:20 Murph: Yeah, baby, that's 28.

0:43:22 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead and roll damage.

0:43:24 Lou: Wild stuff happening over here at the smithy.

0:43:26 Zac: The vibes are strong in the smithy.

0:43:29 Murph: The boys are having a weird day. (cast laughing)

0:43:32 Murph: Ooh, not great rolls, but 4, 10. Ooh, 4, 6, 12.

0:43:41 Zac: Can you do Fury of the Small?

0:43:43 Murph: Oh yeah, I can. And if that’s not enough, I'll do Fury of the Small.

0:43:46 Brennan: You do Fury of the Small. Bam, you hit 20 points, last pitcher. [music changes to something soft and gentle] You see that the water flows. The fire extinguishes. This elemental that you're cradling here, as the last brazier goes out and the helix ends, the thing binding this elemental to protect this place goes as the helix goes and the last pitcher's there. So you are holding this elemental there, and you see that it goes from being a monstrous fire to being a sort of elven face, made of wreathing flame. It looks up at you, tears of flame streaming down its face, as you hold it, and it kisses you so softly on the lips for… (rolls die) 8 points of damage.

0:44:44 Lou: I take it. I take it all. I take every single point of that damage, I take it slowly. (cast laughing)

0:44:52 Lou: I feel it. In my whole body.

0:44:58 Brennan: As it does, you see that a voice whispers in your ear like flame.

0:45:04 Fire Elemental: (softly) Thank you for my freedom. For my life. The lights in the D20 dome briefly shut off. Brennan looks up around him.

0:45:14 Brennan: And the flame goes out. You feel a touch on your lips, and you guys see, as Fabian stands, the sheet roiling around him, you see that his lips are like, red hot, and that with like a sort of gulp standing up, badly injured, you feel a glowing mote of fire like descend down your throat and rest hot and warm in your chest.

0:45:41 Fabian: Oh. Wow. Great job, everybody. (Brennan laughing)

0:45:47 Zac: Can I take his cape and wrap it around his shoulders and tie it on like, the sheet, and tie it on like a cape?

0:45:52 Brennan: You are wearing a sheet tied around you like a superhero.

0:45:55 Riz: You got that fire in your belly now.

0:45:56 Fabian: I do.

0:45:57 Riz: [encouragingly] You got that fire in your belly!

0:45:58 Fabian: Yeah, I do, the Ball, I do, Gorgug. [high-fives Gorgug] Yeah. … [screaming] Yeah!

0:46:01 Riz: Spring break! (cast laughing)

0:46:03 Fabian: [shouting] Yeah! Let's go! Spring break!

0:46:04 Brennan: Spring break!

0:46:08 Zac: Jump down the stairs.

0:46:12 Murph: Is it broken?

0:46:13 Brennan: The pylon is destroyed.

0:46:14 Lou: Full on, I’m gone. My cape is—

0:46:16 Gorgug: Time to go? Fabian is Naruto running with his cape streaming behind him.

0:46:19 Brennan: You like just performed some act of elven dance magic and are badly burned, Gorgug is badly burned behind you. Riz, you're burned as well. You guys got rid of the pylon and you rush out of there.

0:46:31 Murph: So hurt, so happy. (laughing)

0:46:32 Brennan: So hurt, so happy.

0:46:34 Ally: Spring break.

0:46:35 Lou: Yeah, just the biggest smile on my face. [relieved] Oh. [music changes to forbidding drumbeats]

0:46:37 Brennan: Incredible. We cut to Calethriel Tower. Oh my god. Okay, so. Calethriel Tower is a tall, multi-story tower, about like, a 10 story tower, that is situated into the edge of a walled courtyard. So it's sort of like, a little ring wall, and then on the edge of the wall, the tower comes up, leaving that little garden in the middle. You see the gate is closed. You guys arrive, looking at it. As you guys arrive there, go ahead and give me Perception checks.

0:47:25 Emily: 10. Wait, 11.

0:47:27 Ally: 20, not nat.

0:47:28 Brennan: 20 not nat? You look around, and Kristen, as you're waiting there, you look and see the young elf maiden that you guys fought in Leviathan rush into the tower, followed quickly by Adaine's dad, Angwyn Abernant. You also see four of these extremely large, eight foot tall, they look like kind of like green men, where they don't look like automatons like the Warforged you met in Leviathan, but they're more like native spellcraft, they're like plant beings that are composed of magic. But they have beautiful elven faces, these are sort of eight, eight and a half foot tall elven giants, four of them walk into the tower, and the last thing you notice with that 20 is you see some of Tracker's magic up in that far tower, and then you see the moon doors that some of these guardians came out of (imitates sizzling) fade.

0:48:29 Emily: Okay.

0:48:29 Ally: Whoa.

0:48:30 Emily: I'm gonna use, we're invisible right now.

0:48:32 Brennan: Yes, you are.

0:48:33 Emily: I'm gonna use the opportunity to Disguise Self for the next hour, to look like Arthur Aguefort. (Brennan laughing)

0:48:39 Emily: So that if I come out of invisibility, they'll think I'm Aguefort.

0:48:43 Brennan: They'll think you're Arthur Aguefort.

0:48:44 Ally: Can I, while we're invisible, do I have a chance to cast something on the elf that was running in front of Adaine's dad?

0:48:51 Brennan: They have made it in before the spells drop. Now the flow of magical energy into the tower is gone, you know that all the permanent magical effects that were on this place are now dispelled.

0:49:05 Emily: But those soldiers aren't.

0:49:06 Brennan: The soldiers are not. So, you have to worry about Kir, the young elven woman, Adaine's father, and whatever those guardians were.

0:49:17 Emily: Okay.

0:49:18 Murph: I think if you cast a spell when you're invisible, you come out of invisibility, I think.

0:49:22 Brennan: I believe, I think it depends. With lesser invisibility, yeah. And that's what—

0:49:29 Emily: And that's what she—

0:49:30 Emily: Oh, so I guess maybe I cast Disguise Self before I--

0:49:31 Brennan: Cool.

0:49:32 Emily: Got made invisible.

0:49:34 Kristen: Are we able, what do you guys think, should we fly and try to find Adaine in a window?

0:49:38 Fig: Yeah, let's try to fly into a window.

0:49:41 Brennan: Cool. Go ahead and give me a Perception check.

0:49:47 Emily: 20, not nat.

0:49:50 Ally: 21, not, yeah.

0:49:51 Brennan: You guys spot a window up at the very top of the tower. Ayda looks at it and says,

0:49:54 Ayda: Good, that's us.

0:49:59 Brennan: She picks you up, flies to that top of the tower. As she does, you see Adaine suspended in an orb in that top tower.

0:50:07 Siobhan: Wait, if the magic is gone, shouldn't the orb be gone as well?

0:50:10 Brennan: The orb is a spell that no longer has the re-up effect, so in other words—

0:50:18 Siobhan: Oh, okay, so in like an hour it'll be gone.

0:50:21 Brennan: Exactly.

0:50:22 Emily: Oh wait, if I cast a cantrip, do I come out of invisibility?

0:50:25 Brennan: Yes, when you cast a cantrip you’ll come out of invisibility.

0:50:28 Emily: Damn. Can we, let's just punch this window and get in. [mimes punching]

0:50:30 Ally: Yeah, no one’s in this room, right, it’s just Adaine and the ball?

0:50:32 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:50:33 Zac: Do you have that weird sword still?

0:50:35 Emily: I think I gave James Whitclaw’s sword back to the city, as much as I wanted to keep it.

0:50:42 Brennan: Hell yeah. As you guys fly to the window, you guys rush in. Go ahead and give me an attack roll on that window, attack.

0:50:53 Emily: 10?

0:50:55 Brennan: 10 does not hit. So like, there's no way now to like, stay under Invisibility, right? Because you're kinda like, you gotta attack the window to possibly get a chance of getting into the room. So you come out of Invisibility with that.

0:51:07 Emily: Oh, wait, I come out of Invisibility for attacking? In that case, why don't I just cast Shatter on it, if we're gonna come out of Invisibility anyway.

0:51:14 Brennan: That and it makes the most sense.

0:51:15 Emily: Yeah, okay, yeah, so I just cast Shatter on it.

0:51:16 Brennan: Okay, you cast Shatter, you hit a fuckin' chord on that guitar.

0:51:20 Emily: And then Arthur Aguefort playing a bass guitar appears in the sky.

0:51:25 Adaine: Professor, what are you— You came back. Thank goodness you came back, Professor. I thought you— [metal music playing]

0:51:30 Brennan: (booms) Ayda, Kristen, and Fig all leap into the room. As they do, you see those four guardians rush in with Kir and your dad right behind them.

0:51:44 Ally: I cast Banishment on Kir.

0:51:46 Brennan: We're gonna roll initiative now.

0:51:48 Siobhan: Okay. Do I also have to roll initiative?

0:51:50 Brennan: Yes you do.

0:51:51 Siobhan: Great.

0:51:53 Emily: 14.

0:51:54 Brennan: Woo!

0:51:56 Siobhan: I also got a 14.

0:51:58 Emily: Also Ayda, I wanna message Ayda and be like,

0:52:03 Fig: It's just me, it's Fig, okay, don't get--

0:52:05 Ally: Oh, you turned yourself into her dad.

0:52:07 Emily: I know, I know. I warned her when we were coming over.

0:52:11 Zac: Yeah.

0:52:12 Emily: I was like hey, psst.

0:52:15 Brennan: Hell yeah. Did anyone get above a 20?

0:52:18 Siobhan: No.

0:52:19 Emily: 14.

0:52:20 Brennan: Did anyone get above a 15?

0:52:24 Emily: No.

0:52:25 Brennan: Did anyone get above a 10?

0:52:27 Emily and Siobhan: 14.

0:52:28 Brennan: Both got 14? Cool. Fig, Adaine. Did anybody get between a five and a 10? What'd you get.

0:52:38 Ally: I got an eight.

0:52:40 Brennan: Eight. Hold on one— Lou is headbanging to the music again.

0:52:41 Ally: I feel like I have to announce what I'm gonna do. I have a minus three to initiative. (cast laughing)

0:52:46 Murph: It's insane. It's the worst stat I've ever seen. You have a four.

0:52:50 Ally: I just start reading my book.

0:52:51 Zac: You have a four? Four to Dex?

0:52:54 Murph: They have a four to Dexterity.

0:52:55 Lou: They wear flip-flops, like, there's no--

0:52:58 Ally: Yeah, yeah, totally, yeah.

0:52:59 Emily: Yeah, that's true.

0:53:00 Ally: So you losing your like drive, it's like—

0:53:03 Brennan: Cool, you guys have landed in this room, you see this orb here. Fig, you are first to act.

0:53:06 Emily: Sweet! Well, I'm Arthur Aguefort, so I'm gonna say,

0:53:10 Fig: This will all be over if you hand me the girl.

0:53:13 Brennan: Go ahead and give me Intimidation or Persuasion.

0:53:16 Emily: Wouldn't it be like Deception or Performance?

0:53:18 Brennan: Actually, we'll call it—

0:53:20 Emily: 'Cause I'm Actor.

0:53:21 Brennan: We'll call it, well, give me a Deception to be Arthur Aguefort, and then it will be… I guess Intimidation.

0:53:27 Emily: Deception, I got a, hold on. 18. The music changes a little, but is still metal, and Siobhan, Zac and Emily all headbang a little.

0:53:32 Brennan: 18? Awesome. You, that's enough to deceive them, now go ahead and give me Intimidation, just flat Intimidation.

0:53:43 Emily: 12!

0:53:44 Brennan: 12. You see Kir says,

0:53:47 Kir: You are nothing more than a fool, and your efforts here shall have been in vain.

0:53:51 Brennan: I'm not gonna make you use your whole turn on that Intimidation, if you wanna take another action, you can.

0:53:55 Emily: All right, then. I'm going to Hexblade Curse Adaine's dad and attack him. (cast laughing)

0:54:02 Ally: Fuck yeah.

0:54:03 Emily: I know this isn't strategic, but man, fuck that guy!

0:54:06 Brennan: Absolutely go for it.

0:54:10 Emily: Does a 15 hit?

0:54:12 Brennan: Does a 15 hit? A 15 certainly hits, however, I need you to make a Wisdom saving throw for me.

0:54:22 Emily: Okay. Hmm, eight.

0:54:28 Brennan: That's your Wisdom saving throw?

0:54:29 Emily: Yeah.

0:54:30 Brennan: Awesome. You see that Angwyn's eyes ripple, and he says,

0:54:34 Angwyn: Think better of your hasty action.

0:54:37 Brennan: And uses Instinctive Charm, which means on a failed save, the attacker targets the creature closest to it, other than the enchanter or itself.

0:54:46 Emily: Oh, please, don't make me attack Ayda as her dad.

0:54:51 Brennan: I'm gonna roll, it's 50-50 between, I'm gonna say one through three is Ayda, and a four through six is Kristen. That's a three, you attack Ayda Aguefort.

0:55:03 Emily: Oh!

0:55:03 Ally: Oh no!

0:55:05 Emily: Can I scream,

0:55:06 Fig: It's Fig, it's me Fig! Blame me, blame me!

0:55:09 Zac: Oh my god, that's so much damage.

0:55:11 Emily: Oh wait, no, I didn't do that, I didn't do that, I didn't do that. 12.

0:55:15 Brennan: 12 damage?

0:55:16 Emily: Yeah.

0:55:17 Brennan: Cool. And what was your actual attack roll again?

0:55:20 Emily: It was 15.

0:55:21 Brennan: Okay. You see Ayda, and you did 12 damage?

0:55:25 Emily: Yeah.

0:55:26 Brennan: So you swing at Ayda, (grunts), and you see that Ayda looks at you and says,

0:55:30 Ayda: Dad, Dad, I'm sorry, I'm done, I'm sorry, Dad, Dad--

0:55:31 Fig: It's me Fig, it's me Fig, it's me Fig! I didn't mean it, Fig, it's your best friend, I'm so sorry!

0:55:36 Brennan: Kir looks at Arthur Aguefort attack his daughter and scream, "I'm you're best friend, it's me Fig," and Kir says,

0:55:42 Kir: I'm getting very confused and upset with everything that these children do.

0:55:47 Gorgug: I hope the vibes are just as positive in the other tower.

0:55:50 Fabian: [sheetdancing] They must be. (cast laughing)

0:55:53 Brennan: Adaine, it's gonna be you.

0:55:55 Siobhan: I mean, can I do anything? Oh, I'm gonna Message Aelwyn.

0:56:01 Adaine: Aelwyn, get ready, we're leaving. Get ready.

0:56:03 Aelwyn: Okay.

0:56:04 Adaine: Get ready, we're leaving.

0:56:05 Aelwyn: There's a vault on the first floor.

0:56:06 Adaine: Yes.

0:56:07 Brennan: And she messages back to you, she knows to get ready. That is Adaine's turn.

0:56:13 Siobhan: And can I ready an action to cast a spell?

0:56:17 Brennan: Yes, you may absolutely ready an action to cast a spell, yeah.

0:56:19 Siobhan: Great.

0:56:20 Emily: Are these guardians green plants?

0:56:24 Brennan: These guardians are green, plant-like creatures, yes. Um, uh, ba ba ba... Okay, hold on one second. I am going to, Angwyn raises his hand to cast Dominate Person on you, Fig. And Ayda knocks it out of the air. Boom, Counterspell.

0:56:53 Fig: Thank you, from me, Fig.

0:56:54 Ayda: Whatever, I would help you, Fig, Dad, you're not my dad, you're Fig, right?

0:56:57 Fig: Yeah, I’m Fig, I’m Fig, I’m not your dad.

0:56:59 Ayda: It's an illusion, yes, you're Fig, I know.  Why would I have carried my dad here? He never carried [stutters] me. (Emily laughing)

0:57:02 Ayda: And--

0:57:05 Fig: Hey, if you wanna work out some stuff, like when we're not in battle, I could kinda do this--

0:57:09 Ayda: I might need to work some of it out while we're in battle, because you’ve elected to have a disguise that's very upsetting.

0:57:14 Emily: (crosstalk) I mean, if I had rolled really well on my Intimidate—

0:57:18 Brennan: That's Angwyn's turn, Kristen, that's you.

0:57:20 Ally: Great, I am going to, what am I gonna do? You know what, we're all just in one room, right?

0:57:28 Brennan: Yep.

0:57:29 Ally: Okay, I'm gonna cast Spirit Guardians, and try to fill the room with--

0:57:33 Brennan: Spirit Guardians.

0:57:34 Ally: And excluding us two, Ayda and the sisters.

0:57:39 Brennan: Cool, you got it.

0:57:40 Ally: And then I want to try to see if I can roll the ball that Adaine's in. Like a bowling ball at (laughing) Kir.

0:57:51 Siobhan: Do you have Dispel Magic? You can Dispel Magic it away.

0:57:53 Ally: I don't think I have Dispel Magic.

0:57:56 Emily: I don't have it.

0:57:56 Siobhan: I think it's arcane, I think only Ayda can do it.

0:57:58 Brennan: Awesome.

0:57:59 Ally: Yeah, but I have Heal, you know. I can heal you and your sister.

0:58:02 Brennan: So you cast Spirit Guardians, and a bunch of philosophy grad students appear.

0:58:07 Kristen: My guys!

0:58:08 Spirit Guardian: Oh, what's up?

0:58:10 Kristen: What is up?

0:58:10 Spirit Guardian: Oh what do we got here, some kinda like, oh, it's like, is it an off-brand, like, fey elven kinda—

0:58:20 Kristen: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Oh, we're royal too, oh.

0:58:21 Spirit Guardian: What, are you guys aloof because of the passage of time or some bullshit?

0:58:25 Adaine: Oh, you guys are just aloof because you're aloof?

0:58:27 Brennan: You see that one of the Spirit Guardians disappears. (cast laughing)

0:58:29 Kristen: No! No, Adaine, which side are you freakin' on? Look, they're students, they're philosophy students.

0:58:34 Fig: Yeah, they have to work it out now so they're not annoying adults.

0:58:38 Kristen: Yes, hey, do want a cortada?

0:58:39 Brennan: In unison they all say,

0:58:39 Spirit Guardians: We would love a cortada.

0:58:43 Kristen: Okay, okay.

0:58:44 Brennan: Incredible. (cast laughing)

0:58:48 Siobhan: Yeah, there is an espresso machine in this prison. Ally mimics the buzzing of an espresso machine and pretends to make coffee.

0:58:50 Brennan: Okay.

0:58:52 Emily: Can I see, do the Spirit Guardians get through the orb, or is the orb totally--

0:58:56 Brennan: Wow, those are bad rolls. The Spirit Guardians do partially go through the orb. They appear as kind of a radius. Every one of the green men fails, go ahead and roll damage.

0:59:05 Ally: Oh, it's four d8, I believe. Can I have a d8 from someone?

0:59:09 Brennan: If you're using a higher level spell slot.

0:59:11 Ally: I am, yeah.

0:59:12 Brennan: Cool, go for it.

0:59:14 Ally: Fourth level. (whistles) All right, all right. 14, 15, 21… 21 damage on anyone who.

0:59:19 Brennan: [sharp intake of breath] God damn.

0:59:23 Murph: Is it your modifier too, or just… Yeah, your—

0:59:31 Ally: Yeah. So what would I add to that?

0:59:32 Murph: It's just 21.

0:59:33 Ally: Okay.

0:59:34 Lou: Thank you.

0:59:35 Ally: Thank you.

0:59:37 Brennan: Okay. You see two of them rush up to you, Kristen, one goes to Fig, one goes to Ayda.

0:59:44 Ally: How do the green men look after getting hit with 21--

0:59:46 Brennan: They're up, but they didn't like that. You see, as they start moving, you see one of the guardians start yelling out,

0:59:56 Spirit Guardians: In what way do you actually defend the forest, and from what? Do you have any actual participation in the systems that watch ecosystems being destroyed, or do you just kind of march around and do what the elves tell you?

1:00:08 Brennan: And the green men kind of partially disassemble under the weight of those questions.

1:00:12 Lou: [laughs] The weight.

1:00:13 Brennan: Cool. Ooh, one scores a critical hit on Kristen.

1:00:23 Ally: Shield. Do I have a bonus action after, yeah.

1:00:27 Brennan: Well, this would be your reaction. You can use Shield, but it's a critical hit, so it's gonna hit no matter what.

1:00:32 Ally: Oh, yeah, of course.

1:00:33 Brennan: 9, 14, 15, you take 19 points of bludgeoning damage.

1:00:41 Ally: Here we go.

1:00:44 Lou: Here we go. That’s a nice quiet here we go.

1:00:44 Brennan: Fig, you take 12 points of damage.

1:00:48 Emily: All right, Hellish Rebuke.

1:00:51 Brennan: Go for it.

1:00:52 Zac: On one of those green dudes?

1:00:54 Brennan: One of the green dudes, yeah.

1:00:55 Lou: Cook 'em.

1:00:56 Siobhan: Oh yeah, they're--

1:00:56 Ally: Oh, that's gonna be great.

1:00:58 Siobhan: Fire damage is probably bad against them, right?

1:01:00 Ally: You should just try to get bumped into by all of them so that you can Hellish Rebuke.

1:01:04 Emily: Oh, I rolled so poorly. That's gonna be a seven. And fire damage.

1:01:10 Brennan: Seven fire damage? That thing hurts, you know that it's not your most powerful Hellish Rebuke. You see it hurts this thing quite a lot.

1:01:17 Emily: Oh, does it now! (Ally laughing)

1:01:20 Emily: Interesting.

1:01:22 Brennan: Awesome. That is the green men's turn, as they swing at you. That's now gonna be Kir's turn. Bum bum bum… Zac attempts to throw a snack and catch it in his mouth, fails once, then gets it on the second try.

1:01:33 Murph: Horrifying.

1:01:44 Brennan: Okay.

1:01:45 Emily: Did you do the cheese thing?

1:01:48 Murph: Yeah, he did it, he made it look like it was dice.

1:01:50 Emily: Are you doing it?

1:01:50 Ally: (shaking a cheese in their hand) You want me to?

1:01:52 Lou: I tried to do it, literally 'cause I thought you... (Emily laughing)

1:01:55 Brennan: Incredible.

1:01:57 Zac: In this house, we eat dice. (cast laughing)

1:01:59 Murph: You need to roll dice, pick up cheese as you pretend to eat the dice.

1:02:01 Emily: Oh.

1:02:03 Ally: Mm-hmm.

1:02:04 Zac: I'm gonna roll… Zac again pretends to roll and throw a “dice” (cheese) but again fails to catch it and it bounces off his face. (cast laughing)

1:02:07 Murph: Perception check.

1:02:10 Lou: You do this thing where you shake your whole head.

1:02:14 Zac: Where the hell did that go?

1:02:14 Brennan: I'm gonna need Wisdom saves from Kristen, Fig—

1:02:15 Ally: What's up?

1:02:16 Brennan: And Ayda.

1:02:20 Emily: Oh, I need this to go well! 14.

1:02:25 Brennan: Okay.

1:02:27 Ally: Nat 20. Go fuck yourself, Kir. (cast laughing)

1:02:31 Brennan: You see that Kir looks at you and says,

1:02:33 Kir: Leave this place at once.

1:02:35 Brennan: You are unaffected, it looks like Ayda's unaffected, Fig is affected by the spell.

1:02:39 Fig: Kill me. (Ally laughing)

1:02:44 Brennan: Ayda is next in the initiative. Ayda looks at you, one second… And on a roll of a natural 19, dispels the Suggestion on you. She looks and says,

1:02:58 Ayda: Dad, don't leave! Ah, I mean, stop, stop, stop, Fig don't leave, Fig don't leave.

1:03:00 Kristen: Oh, no!

1:03:03 Fig: Hey, call me whatever you want if you're gonna dispel me.

1:03:06 Ally: This fight.

1:03:08 Brennan: That is Ayda's turn. Fig, that is gonna be you.

1:03:10 Emily: Okay. I'm gonna go over to the green guardians and put my bass aside and then Burning Hands him.

1:03:18 Brennan: Hell yeah. Go for it, roll damage.

1:03:21 Emily: Rolled terribly again! That is going to be a whopping six.

1:03:27 Brennan: Okay.

1:03:28 Emily: But it's a 15-foot cone.

1:03:30 Brennan: 15-foot cone. You can hit all of them in that for sure. It's a Dex save for half. Hold on one second here.

1:03:42 Emily: [to Zac, who is looking at her sheet] I can't do it at higher levels, it’s a special.

1:03:45 Brennan: Okay. Two of them save, two do not, and how much damage did you do there?

1:03:50 Emily: Six.

1:03:51 Brennan: Six, okay. That's gonna be—

1:03:53 Zac: You can't because it's not that good, or—

1:03:55 Emily: I can't because it's part of my pick.

1:03:58 Zac: Gotcha. That’s cool.

1:04:03 Brennan: Yes, it's a lot of damage across all four of them, though. As you light them up with fire. Adaine, that's gonna be you.

1:04:13 Siobhan: There's really not very much I can do. There's no spells that can get through the orb, right? But Boggy can turn into a mist and then back again?

1:04:21 Brennan: That's correct.

1:04:22 Siobhan: So can I send Boggy to help Fig on these Wisdom rolls?

1:04:27 Brennan: Yes, you absolutely can.

1:04:29 Siobhan: Great.

1:04:30 Brennan: You send Boggy, Boggy rushes out.

1:04:34 Murph: Can Adaine Counterspell from in there, or—

1:04:37 Siobhan: I don't have any spells left. I only have three first level spells left.

1:04:42 Brennan: That is going to be, Angwyn is going to go again. He is now going to hit Kristen with a Dominate Person, I'm gonna need a Wisdom saving throw from Kristen.

1:05:00 Ally: Oh. Interesting. It's a 14.

1:05:03 Brennan: 14? That is exactly Angwyn's DC, you succeed.

1:05:07 Ally: Yes!

1:05:08 Brennan: You see he says,

1:05:08 Angwyn: Come under my control.

1:05:12 Kristen: Did you say something?

1:05:14 Zac: What are you reading? (cast laughing)

1:05:16 Kristen: On the Book of World Religions.

1:05:18 Brennan: That is Angwyn's turn, Kristen, that's you.

1:05:21 Ally: Okay, great. I'm going to, maybe can I just prepare a Cure Wounds action for when we get these bubbles open?

1:05:30 Brennan: Oh, to Cure Wounds on Adaine?

1:05:32 Siobhan: I actually don't need Cure Wounds. My problem is really I don't have spells left.

1:05:36 Brennan: The main issue is this orb as well. I don't know if Kristen has Dispel Magic prepared.

1:05:41 Ally: I don't have Dispel Magic, yeah.

1:05:43 Brennan: But the main issue is the orb.

1:05:45 Ally: Okay, well then I guess I'll just keep, I'm gonna cast… Okay, yeah, I'm gonna cast Blindness on Kir.

1:06:00 Brennan: Cool, is that a concentration spell?

1:06:02 Ally: Nope.

1:06:02 Siobhan: You have the teddy bear.

1:06:04 Brennan: Nope, okay. Oh yeah, the teddy bear, that's right. Okay, Blindness, awesome. Hold on one second.

1:06:11 Ally: You choose a creature you see within range, they make a Con saving throw. If you fail, you're blind.

1:06:16 Brennan: Okay, she's gonna make a Con saving throw.

1:06:19 Siobhan: How high is that wizard's Constitution? (Emily laughing)

1:06:22 Brennan: Not extremely high, I won't lie. But on a natural 17, she does overcome the Blindness. [vwoom] You—

1:06:32 Ally: Oh, sorry. On higher levels, third or more, you can cast it on an additional creature. Can I do that and also cast it on--

1:06:39 Brennan: And target Angwyn as well?

1:06:41 Ally: Angwyn, yeah, yeah.

1:06:42 Brennan: Absolutely.

1:06:43 Zac: Do your Spirit Guardians hit people this round?

1:06:46 Brennan: Yes, they hit at the beginning of their turn every round. You see Angwyn, light blasts out of your crooked staff, and (shouts), he is completely unable to see.

1:06:53 Siobhan: Sick.

1:07:00 Ally: Awesome.

1:07:03 Brennan: Now that's going to be the green men again. At the beginning of their turn, they all make saves from the Spirit Guardians. Two save, another two do not. Go ahead and roll damage.

1:07:15 Ally: All right. Keep it up, thank you. [rolls] Uh, it’s a… 19.

1:07:27 Brennan: 19, okay. So it's gonna be...

1:07:36 Ally: When I do that, is that 19 points of damage to each of them?

1:07:39 Brennan: Yeah.

1:07:39 Ally: Oh, awesome.

1:07:48 Brennan: Sick. Your philosophy grad students just again start heckling and be like,

1:07:51 Spirit Guardians: What's your whole deal, why do you exist? Rebel against the conditions of your creation. You clearly have sapience, right?

1:07:59 Kristen: Hey, have you seen Memento?

1:08:01 Spirit Guardians: We love Memento!

1:08:01 Kirsten: That was crazy, right!

1:08:04 Brennan: Oh, complete in uniform sip from all their cortadas. You see that Kir is now going to act. The music in the background does a riff that is suspiciously similar to but not the same as the primary riff of “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones.

1:08:18 Zac: Sounded so similar to a different song, and I was like--

1:08:21 Ally: Yeah, here we go.

1:08:25 Brennan: Okay.

1:08:28 Lou: It's supposed to be, it's truly one degree off. But it's not that song.

1:08:31 Zac: It’s a soundalike.

1:08:34 Ally: All right?

1:08:36 Siobhan: Zac freaking loves pop punk. Big pop punk fan.

1:08:37 Lou: Lawyers watching the show. Our big two are CEOs and lawyers.

1:08:39 Brennan: I'm gonna need a Charisma saving throw from Kristen.

1:08:44 Ally: All right, okay. My Charisma is a six...

1:08:51 Brennan: 17 passes. Kir attempts to banish you, and you are not banished from this realm.

1:08:55 Kristen: Uh-uh-uh. [Finger wagging] (laughing)

1:09:01 Brennan: Ayda rushes forward, hits the orb with Dispel Magic and dispels it.

1:09:06 Ally: Yes!

1:09:06 Emily: Yes!

1:09:08 Brennan: She rushes up, grabs your hands, Adaine, and says

1:09:10 Ayda: I heard you were kidnapped, so I came to help.

1:09:13 Adaine: Thank you, my sister is also kidnapped. Can you do the—

1:09:16 Ayda: Great, where is she on the Earth? Can we teleport there?

1:09:20 Adaine: No, she's like in the next room.

1:09:21 Ayda: Extremely convenient.

1:09:22 Adaine: Yes!

1:09:22 Brennan: And you see that she begins to rush out of the door.

1:09:25 Siobhan: And I have my spell prepared, right?

1:09:27 Brennan: Yes you do.

1:09:28 Siobhan: How many of these green guys are left?

1:09:30 Brennan: All four are still up, but they're all looking badly injured.

1:09:33 Siobhan: Okay. In which case I guess I'll just Firebolt one of them. Wait, yeah, hmm.

1:09:40 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:09:41 Siobhan: Yeah, might as well.

1:09:42 Ally: Nice.

1:09:43 Brennan: Are you going after the most injured one?

1:09:44 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:09:45 Brennan: Cool.

1:09:46 Siobh: Well, it's 2d10 damage, so actually no, I should go after a different one, right?

1:09:50 Brennan: Well it's gonna be 2d10 and they're vulnerable to fire damage, right?

1:09:54 Siobhan: Right, exactly.

1:09:55 Brennan: Up to you. They're all kind of looking about as injured.

1:09:58 Siobhan: Oh, okay, then I'll kill the one closest to me. Whatever that is.

1:10:01 Brennan: Cool, go for it.

1:10:03 Siobhan: That's a 15 to hit.

1:10:05 Brennan: 15.

1:10:06 Siobhan: Oh no, 17, sorry.

1:10:08 Brennan: A 17 to hit?

1:10:09 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:10:10 Brennan: 17 exactly hits.

1:10:11 Siobhan: Great. That's 10 damage.

1:10:17 Brennan: 10 damage? [whoosh] You light one of these dudes up.

1:10:21 Siobhan: Great.

1:10:22 Brennan: In a big blast of flame. That's your readied action, so that's your reaction.

1:10:30 Siobhan: Great. And then can I slap my dad in the face? For no damage. (cast laughing)

1:10:33 Brennan: He can't see it. coming, so free dad slap.

1:10:37 Siobhan: Great. (crosstalk) You know, sometimes you can handle a free dad slap.

1:10:39 Ally: Free dad slap. This is a very dad-centric episode. Hi Dad, I know you're watching.

1:10:45 Brennan: Fig, that’s gonna be your turn.

1:10:46 Lou: Number 3: Dads.

1:10:46 Emily: That's me, okay. I guess I'm just going to, I don't have any more fire spells, I'm going to, I guess I'm just gonna Shatter these. I'm gonna try and Shatter as many of these green guys as I can.

1:10:59 Brennan: Okay, awesome, no worries, go for it.

1:11:01 Emily: Yeah.

1:11:02 Siobhan: [coughs] Sorry, guys.

1:11:03 Emily: So they do a Con save.

1:11:06 Brennan: Okay.

1:11:08 Emily: Or they take… Let’s see… 21. 21 damage, half that for anyone who saves.

1:11:19 Brennan: Okay.

1:11:20 Emily: A creature made of inorganic material, such as stone, crystal, or metal, has disadvantage on the saving throw.

1:11:26 Brennan: Okay. These guys are not made of stone, crystal, or metal.

1:11:32 Emily: Okay.

1:11:34 Brennan: Hit this power chord, again, Arthur Aguefort just rocking out in the middle of this room. (cast laughing)

1:11:41 Brennan: These guys are looking messed up for sure. Oh, I also believe, I may have actually skipped these guys attacking you. So we're gonna go back and resolve that, I'm afraid.

1:11:55 Ally: I took 19 from something. (Emily laughing)

1:11:58 Brennan: That was their first round.

1:12:01 Emily: Oh, okay.

1:12:04 Brennan: And what is Kristen's AC? That's a hit.

1:12:07 Ally: 18.

1:12:10 Brennan: You take 11 points of damage as one of them strikes you. Two are going for Fig, and hit.

1:12:20 Emily: Shield!

1:12:23 Brennan: One is converted into a miss. (Emily laughing smugly)

1:12:26 Brennan: You take 11 points of damage as well. As its huge, powerful wooden fists rain down on you. That is Fig. Adaine, back to your turn.

1:12:36 Siobhan: Great. I guess what I'm gonna do is, Kir is still here, right?

1:12:42 Brennan: Correct.

1:12:44 Siobhan: I am going to...

1:12:47 Ally: Kir's the worst.

1:12:48 Siobhan: Chromatic Orb poison attack her.

1:12:53 Brennan: Awesome.

1:12:56 Siobhan: That's a 17 to hit.

1:12:58 Brennan: 17 hits.

1:12:59 Siobhan: Great. [rolls] And that's 10 damage again, god damn.

1:13:09 Brennan: To Kir? Awesome.

1:13:10 Siobhan: To Kir, yeah. 10 poison damage.

1:13:13 Brennan: That bypa— yeah, poison is a rare kind of damage. She vomits as poison courses through her veins. She says,

1:13:21 Kir: I don't understand why you have to be so difficult. Adaine gives her two middle fingers.

1:13:26 Kir: Oh, very classy.

1:13:29 Fig: Hey Adaine, what do you wanna do about your dad? 'Cause, I mean—

1:13:34 Adaine: I mean, I want him to die.

1:13:35 Fig: Okay, then we'll try to kill him.

1:13:37 Adaine: Great, okay.

1:13:38 Fig: Cool.  Oh hey, it's me, Fig.

1:13:40 Adaine: [loudly] Oh!

1:13:41 Fig: Yeah.

1:13:42 Adaine: That tracks, actually. That tracks.

1:13:46 Brennan: Angwyn dispels the Blindness on himself.

1:13:50 Siobhan: Can you Dispel something that you can't see?

1:13:53 Brennan: He knows where he is.

1:13:54 Siobhan: Okay.

1:13:56 Brennan: Let me actually double-check and make sure that Blindness is not an inst, do you have a Blindness card there in front of you, Kristen?

1:14:03 Ally: I certainly do.

1:14:04 Brennan: Is the duration instantaneous on it? Is it a thing where it creates a permanent effect? Let me, let me see—

1:14:11 Ally: No, on a successful Dispel, the spell ends.

1:14:13 Brennan: [takes the spell card from Ally] Let me look at the card real quick?

1:14:16 Ally: Also, Spirit Guardians I forgot halves anyone who takes damage from it, their speed.

1:14:22 Brennan: Oh, okay, he actually keeps making the Con save. Well he's not gonna wait around for that Con save, he's gonna dispel that. Angwyn looks at the badly hurt green men and at Kir here as well. Angwyn—

1:14:38 Emily: Tries to run?

1:14:39 Brennan: Turns invisible.

1:14:40 Emily: Oh!

1:14:40 Siobhan: Bitch!

1:14:44 Brennan: Kristen, that is your turn.

1:14:46 Ally: Okay. There's a lot of like, commotion and Kir's throwing up, right?

1:14:50 Brennan: Yes, correct.

1:14:51 Ally: Okay, I would like to appear behind her, and I would like to put my hand on her back and say,

1:14:56 Kristen: You're on the wrong side, but you could join us if you want.

1:15:01 Ally: And then cast Banishment. (cast laughing)

1:15:04 Brennan: Oh my god.

1:15:05 Lou: Banished?

1:15:06 Ally: Just to give her time to think, you know? Kinda out of this. We'll bring her back.

1:15:11 Brennan: Okay.

1:15:12 Lou: I like the part where you disappear and reappear. Just like slowly.

1:15:18 Kristen: Hey, um just something to think about.

1:15:20 Murph: I think that is gonna break your Spirit Guardians.

1:15:22 Ally: No, because I have teddy bear to--

1:15:24 Murph: Oh.

1:15:24 Brennan: Yeah, there you go.

1:15:25 Ally: Two concentrations.

1:15:26 Brennan: Okay.

1:15:28 Lou: Yay, concentration!

1:15:30 Brennan: Okay. Now we're gonna go ahead and deal with this. So, the next, so Kir's got one shot at this.

1:15:36 Ally: Mm-hmm. [rubbing their hands together excitedly]

1:15:42 Brennan: It's a Charisma saving throw.

1:15:44 Ally: She doesn't seem very charismatic to me.

1:15:46 Siobhan: Yep. Anti-charismatic.

1:15:48 Brennan: She's actually gotta hit a 16 or higher in the Box of Doom right now.

1:15:52 Emily: Ooh! Siobhan pretends to pray.

1:15:55 Murph: No way, no way, spring break. Spring break!

1:15:58 Brennan: On a Nat 1, she's gone, baby! (cast cheering)

1:16:01 Adaine: Bye forever!

1:16:03 Ally: I kiss her on the side of the head.

1:16:05 Kristen: Bye.

1:16:06 Brennan: She says,

1:16:07 Kir: Oh, you're so— ! (shouting)

1:16:10 Brennan: And you see that, yeah.

1:16:12 Kristen: Ta ta.

1:16:14 Brennan: And all of your philosophy grads raise their cortadas, and they're like,

1:16:17 Spirit Guardians: Kristen!

1:16:21 Kristen: Guys, guys, please. Let's hang out after this, right?

1:16:27 Brennan: (laughing) Next is gonna be the green men, who once again are gonna make their saves. [pained] God! The highest roll was a five. Go ahead and roll your damage.

1:16:39 Ally: Hell yes. Thank you. All right, come on, let's get a good one. Eh.

1:16:45 Lou: Kid's killing it today.

1:16:47 Ally: 17.

1:16:48 Brennan: 17? Okay. One of the badly hurt green men that got hit by that Shatter and the Burning Hands before, see a grad student walks up and just goes again like,

1:17:02 Spirit Guardian: So again, you do have a mind, but it's made of magic but you follow orders... What does the plant motif have to do with imprisoning these children? I just don't--

1:17:17 Brennan: And you see the green man just says,

1:17:17 Green Man: Forget it!

1:17:19 Brennan: And unravels, to just like get away from the grad student. And is unmade, and that was, what you said, 17 damage?

1:17:27 Ally: 17.

1:17:28 Brennan: Okay. So that's gonna be, seven. These guys are looking messed up. Kir is fully banished. Ayda runs in from the other room holding Aelwyn in her arms.

1:17:47 Kristen: Nice. Let's get outta here.

1:17:49 Adaine: No, I need my spellbook. I had a spellbook. On the first floor.

1:17:53 Fig: They're on the first floor?

1:17:54 Adaine: I can't do anything if I don't have my spellbook.

1:17:56 Kristen: Can we start messaging? 'Cause we don't know where your dad is.

1:17:58 Adaine: Yeah, sure, yeah, we can do this via message.

1:18:00 Zac: Ooh, smart.

1:18:02 Brennan: Fig, that is gonna be your turn.

1:18:06 Emily: Can I--

1:18:06 Ally: Always hiding from Daddy. Ally, Zac, Lou and Siobhan all tap their heads in a thinking motion.

1:18:07 Emily: I want to reach out and touch. Can I use Bestow Curse to try and make him uninvisible? 'Cause it says that you can remove, it says like at the DM's option, you may choose an alternative curse effect. So I wanna try and reach out and touch him and make him uninvisible.

1:18:23 Brennan: What I'm gonna need from you is a Perception check with disadvantage, and you're trying to spot, because like, I would let the spell do something cool, but you gotta know where the guy is.

1:18:34 Emily: All right, I can't do that.

1:18:37 Siobhan: But can Boggy give her the help action?

1:18:39 Brennan: Okay.

1:18:40 Emily: I still have a plus two to Perception, so it's not really worth it. What if I just try to attack him, would I just attack with disadvantage?

1:18:47 Brennan: You don't know where you're attacking. He's gone invisible.

1:18:49 Murph: He might've run, too, he had movement.

1:18:51 Siobhan: What about if Kristen tries to just hit it with her staff again and rolls a nat 20?

1:18:55 Brennan: I will also point out, you do have these big green men that are raining blows down on you.

1:18:59 Emily: All right, I'll just do one more Shatter on them.

1:19:01 Brennan: Okay.

1:19:03 Ally: Nice.

1:19:04 Emily: I rolled three 1s.

1:19:04 Zac: Oh my god!

1:19:07 Ally: No!

1:19:07 Brennan: Oh, no.

1:19:08 Emily: I have rolled 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3. All right. Take three damage, bitch.

1:19:13 Ally: New dice.

1:19:17 Brennan: Whew, brutal.

1:19:18 Emily: Or half that. I walk out the window.

1:19:18 Lou: Hey, want me to get you a cup of water?

1:19:21 Ally: Yeah, you dip 'em in a cup of water and then you can quit your spell class. (cast laughing)

1:19:27 Brennan: Adaine, that is you.

1:19:30 Siobhan: I am going to… I actually have good Perception.

1:19:39 Brennan: Yeah.

1:19:40 Siobhan: So can I grab Boggy back and try and find my dad?

1:19:42 Brennan: Yes you can. Go ahead and give me a Perception check.

1:19:45 Siobhan: Just regular flat?

1:19:45 Brennan: Regular flat.

1:19:48 Siobhan: Ooh baby, that's a 23.

1:19:51 Brennan: You hear a pitter-patter of feet running down the hallway.

1:19:55 Siobhan: Can I shoot a Firebolt down the hallway?

1:20:00 Brennan: Yes you can. Because you had that Perception check, I will let you make the attack on the correct square. You're still rolling with disadvantage because you're effectively blinded, you can't see.

1:20:08 Siobhan: Great. 9.

1:20:15 Brennan: Firebolt shoots down the hallway. You see a little scrap of burning robe come out from invisibility, as the steps make their way down the stairs. That's Adaine's turn.

1:20:28 Emily: Ooh. But if you--

1:20:28 Ally: Can I do, sorry.

1:20:31 Brennan: It's actually Angwyn's turn next in the initiative, and he flees down the staircase.

1:20:36 Ally: Can I do a Perception check to make sure he's not going to the vault where the spellbooks are?

1:20:39 Brennan: At this point, Adaine had to follow him out into the hallway.

1:20:43 Ally: Oh, got it.

1:20:44 Brennan: So, okay. It is your turn now.

1:20:46 Siobhan: He was too far away, sorry, when I shot him and I saw that piece of burning robe for me to like, run after him and jump on his back, right?

1:20:52 Brennan: Well, you had already taken your action taking attack.

1:20:54 Siobhan: Right.

1:20:54 Brennan: Right?

1:20:56 Ally: I run out there.

1:20:57 Brennan: Okay.

1:20:59 Adaine: He went that way, he went down the stairs.

1:21:00 Ally: Can I do a Perception check to see if he's going to this like vault that we need to go to next?

1:21:04 Brennan: What's that, sorry?

1:21:05 Ally: Can I see if he's going to to the vault to steal the spellbooks?

1:21:09 Brennan: Well, you know that he's running down the stairs. The tower is small enough that there's not too many, it's not like the tower has tons of hallways and rooms, it's kind of like each level is one.

1:21:17 Ally: Okay, I have a crazy idea.

1:21:19 Brennan: Let's hear it.

1:21:20 Ally: Okay, I still have my ribbon dancer wheel, that's true. (laughing)

1:21:25 Ally: I whip it, and I fly down instead of taking the stairs down this tower, I fall majestically down with the ribbon.

1:21:33 Siobhan: With your minus 3 Dex.

1:21:35 Murph: You're just gonna jump out the window of the tower?

1:21:37 Ally: No no, down into the middle, right? Where like the courtyard is? Just try to whip one or two down, you know?

1:21:43 Brennan: This is beautiful, I'm gonna allow this to happen.

1:21:45 Ally: Uh-huh.

1:21:47 Brennan: Hey Ally, I'm gonna allow this to happen.

1:21:50 Siobhan: You don’t want this to happen. This is really bad. This is such a bad idea. Lou is hiding his face.

1:21:53 Brennan: So… So what's gonna happen is this. The skill that feels most like doing a beautiful ribbon dance to me is Acrobatics.

1:21:57 Ally: It's not Religion?

1:22:01 Murph: You're just gonna look really good while you curl on the ground.

1:22:04 Brennan: So just go ahead and in the Box of Doom, if you'd be so kind, and just give me an Acrobatics check.

1:22:10 Ally: My Acrobatics is negative three. The cast all yell over each other. Emily and Zac both slam their fists into their hand. The mood is panicky disapproval.

1:22:12 Brennan: Oh no no no. We like to ask Brennan for cool things to happen.

1:22:18 Murph and Lou: Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump!

1:22:21 Emily: If you get a nat 20, it's gonna feel so good!

1:22:23 Brennan: That's a 17.

1:22:24 Ally: Hey!

1:22:24 Brennan: Minus three is a 14. So you leap out the window. Now, I want  Ally, I want you to look at me and you tell me, do you feel like a 14 is a high enough roll for your character to be able to use a dance ribbon to fly? Bearing in mind that if I say yes, that if I say yes now, I have to say yes every other time you wanna do this.

1:22:53 Ally: Yeah, definitely, I think, you know, 14, it's above average.

1:22:58 Brennan: Don't pay any attention to this noise. [many dice rolling out of a bag]

1:23:02 Murph: You guys just see the most insane things.

1:23:06 Ally: I'm not trying to like fly, all right?

1:23:08 Brennan: Sure, you're trying to descend.

1:23:10 Ally: I'm just trying to grapple. It's like a grappling hook.

1:23:14 Zac: It's 10 stories?

1:23:15 Ally: Is it 10 stories?

1:23:16 Brennan: It's 10 stories.

1:23:17 Ally: Well, I'm just trying to grapple hook three flights down so that I can cut off her dad at the pass.

1:23:23 Zac: Yeah, you have that kind of precision of course.

1:23:24 Brennan: Okay, cool. So you're just gonna try to nail this, you're gonna try to cap this graceful fall at 10 stories, cool.

1:23:30 Ally: No, do you understand like, I'm jumping with the ribbon dancer like this, you know, to fly, you know? I don't know if you understand. It's like to fly.

1:23:39 Brennan: [hoisting the Box of Doom, perfectly calmly] Okay, so yeah, you're just gonna try to go a quick three stories down using a ribbon dancer to do that. An ability nowhere on your character sheet.

1:23:46 Ally: The ribbon dancer is written on my character sheet.

1:23:49 Murph: You have 4 Dexterity.

1:23:52 Brennan: So here’s the thing.

1:23:53 Murph: Not a modifier four, four.

1:23:54 Brennan: So here's the thing. I'm gonna allow you to avert this, because I don't want anyone to say that I was cruel or mean or unfair, right? So all I'm gonna ask is this. Hit a 15 Acrobatics check for me right now, Box of Doom.

1:24:06 Ally: Another one?

1:24:07 Brennan: Yeah, just to like, Indiana Jones using a ribbon as a bullwhip.

1:24:11 Ally: Yeah. See, you let Indiana Jones do it, and that's sexist. (cast laughing)

1:24:16 Ally: No one respects femininity in this country. Ally rolls into the Box of Doom and the die jumps out.

1:24:19 Brennan: You Ally-ed out of the Box of Doom, across my lap! Ally rolls again.

1:24:26 Brennan: Okay, that's a natural 2.

1:24:28 Ally: Interesting.

1:24:29 Zac: So that's a--

1:24:29 Murph: Actual negative 1.

1:24:31 Emily: I really thought this was gonna be one of those crazy Ally moments!

1:24:35 Lou: I didn't want to say it to jinx it.

1:24:36 Ally: We don't know what the first one landed on, though.

1:24:39 Siobhan: That's true. The first one is canon.

1:24:42 Brennan: Here's your die back.

1:24:42 Ally: Thank you.

1:24:43 Emily: The first one was gonna be a nat 20.

1:24:44 Brennan: So, what happens is this. Kristen, you are like, “I have got to get to the first floor before Angwyn.”

1:24:50 Kristen: Here we go.

1:24:50 Brennan: Hey, I have great news. You make it to the first floor way before Angwyn does, right? And the reason for that is—

1:24:58 Ally: Why is that?

1:24:59 Lou: Ooh, man!

1:25:00 Brennan: 16, 23, you take...

1:25:04 Ally: Can we say the ribbon wraps around me, makes sort of a cushion.

1:25:08 Brennan: Cool. Here's what we are gonna say. Kristen, to get to the first floor, you take your ribbon, twirl, leap out the window, and take 36 points of damage as you—

1:25:19 Siobhan: Absolutely worth it.

1:25:20 Brennan: As you--

1:25:21 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:25:23 Brennan: (shouting) And you fuckin' land on your leg and roll and snap your ankle.

1:25:27 Ally: All right, I do have three points left. (cast laughing)

1:25:31 Zac: Can you bonus action heal yourself?

1:25:33 Ally: Yeah, I would like to bonus action heal myself.

1:25:35 Brennan: Throw yourself a Healing Word.

1:25:36 Ally: Love it.

1:25:37 Lou: Ooh, I was stress eating celery in that moment. That was crazy.

1:25:39 Brennan: Oh my god. Incredible.

1:25:41 Zac: It's so often how often they try to jump on things with the worst Dex I have ever seen.

1:25:47 Ally: I have a ribbon dancer, okay?

1:25:50 Brennan: Right. For sure, absolutely.

1:25:52 Ally: Some of us are getting more into dance in this episode. You just wouldn't understand.

1:25:56 Lou: How dare you. How dare--

1:25:58 Ally: It worked out really great for you.

1:25:59 Lou: I saw you do it, and I was like, go off.

1:26:01 Zac: What's his Dex?

1:26:03 Murph: Your modifier is bigger than their total. (cast laughing)

1:26:05 Ally: Yeah.

1:26:07 Lou: It's still, my modifier is five, which is more than their full attribute.

1:26:13 Ally: That's so funny.

1:26:14 Brennan: [coughing from laughing too hard] Total. Oh, that makes me laugh.

1:26:16 Murph: It's the lowest score I've ever seen. (cast laughing)

1:26:19 Siobhan: How do you even roll a four?

1:26:21 Murph: I can't believe you didn't--

1:26:22 Siobhan: 'Cause you roll five dice and take the three highest ones.

1:26:24 Brennan: So here's the thing. I'm just gonna say that's Kristen's movement. I'm gonna say that you leap out of the window, fall 100 feet, or let me see, yeah, about 100 feet. Hit the ground, take that damage, but you have an action left, if you'd like.

1:26:43 Ally: Great. I'm gonna cast Zone of Truth.

1:26:47 Murph: Oh my god. (cast laughing)

1:26:49 Zac: What? On an invisible man?

1:26:51 Ally: I'm gonna cast Zone of Truth right outside of the vault, while I lay there not really able to do very much. Just in case we catch him, then we could ask him questions.

1:26:54 Murph: Cool.

1:26:58 Ally: We could figure out what they're up to.

1:26:59 Brennan: Badly broken leg, you cast Zone of Truth. (Lou laughing)

1:27:02 Emily: You're not gonna heal yourself?

1:27:03 Ally: No, I did, I did a healing on myself.

1:27:05 Brennan: Healing Word, yeah.

1:27:06 Lou: Yeah, they're at 9, don't worry.

1:27:08 Ally: Oh wait, actually I get bonus points for that.

1:27:11 Brennan: Okay.

1:27:12 Murph: He knows he's a bad guy.

1:27:15 Ally: Well, we don't know, maybe they know more about the--

1:27:18 Zac: I think he's just gonna, I'm pretty sure he's just gonna get away.

1:27:20 Brennan: Fig, you get hit for 11 points of damage.

1:27:22 Emily: Okay.

1:27:24 Brennan: From one of the green men. Adaine, you're gonna get hit for some as well.

1:27:30 Lou: Ooh.

1:27:32 Siobhan: Shield, is that?

1:27:33 Brennan: Okay, one of them is bypassed, a critical hit still hits you for eight, seven, 15, for 18 points of damage, one, boom, wallops you. That is going to be, Kir is still banished. Oh, actually, I'm gonna need Kristen to make a concentration check, because you took 36 points of damage? So that's halved to 18, so you better get an 18 Constitution saving throw.

1:28:08 Murph: You need a 16 or higher.

1:28:09 Ally: Okay. Oh! 10.

1:28:15 Brennan: Kir returns into the room when you hit the bottom of the courtyard. As she does...

1:28:23 Emily: Wait, but was the teddy bear the one focusing on that one?

1:28:26 Siobhan: Yeah, what's the teddy bear's status? Brennan stares into the camera like he’s on the Office.

1:28:28 Emily: If the teddy bear was concentrating on it.

1:28:31 Siobhan: Yeah, I feel like that teddy bear has a plus five to Constitution.

1:28:32 Emily: Also like, a teddy bear can fall out a window.

1:28:33 Brennan: [sighs] I'm gonna roll a luck check in the box of doom. One through 10, it was the bear, that takes no damage, 11-20 it was Kristen. That's a 15, it was Kristen.

1:28:48 Ally: Aww, dammit. Do I look good down here? (cast laughing)

1:28:49 Emily: I look out the window, yeah!

1:28:49 Ally: Do I look intimidating to fucking Kir?

1:28:53 Lou: Hey, and there's a Zone of Truth, so we can't lie, so.

1:28:57 Zac: You're definitely there.

1:29:01 Emily: Yeah. I take some pictures in case you want me to... (cast laughing) Ally mimics a splatted Kristen with their mouth wide open.

1:29:05 Siobhan: Spring break!

1:29:07 Ally: The end of 10 stories down, you take a little grainy photo of me?

1:29:11 Emily: And like, in the foreground is the ribbon dancer, which did successfully grab onto the nook of the--

1:29:16 Ally: It's still falling.

1:29:17 Emily: Yeah.

1:29:18 Siobhan: There's a cat filter on your face. (laughing)

1:29:20 Emily: I take a boomerang, it’s really really… (?)

1:29:23 Siobhan: On your broken body.

1:29:25 Brennan: Okay.

1:29:27 Siobhan: Welp.

1:29:29 Ally: I'm glad we came in here with a plan, just like the guys. (cast laughing)

1:29:35 Brennan: Oh my god.

1:29:37 Siobhan: Oh, you're rolling too many dice back there, Brennan.

1:29:38 Lou: Oh no no no no.

1:29:42 Brennan: Adaine, you take--

1:29:43 Siobhan: I still have Shield up, is that, oh, this is from the crit?

1:29:46 Brennan: No, this hits regardless.

1:29:47 Siobhan: Okay.

1:29:48 Brennan: You take nine points of fire damage.

1:29:52 Siobhan: Okay.

1:29:54 Brennan: Fig, you take--

1:29:56 Emily: I took 11.

1:29:59 Brennan: From the green men.

1:30:00 Emily: Oh, this is from someone else.

1:30:01 Brennan: This is from Kir, who's back.

1:30:03 Emily: Dang, Kir.

1:30:06 Brennan: You take 17 points of fire damage halved to 8.

1:30:11 Emily: Okay. Oh, right. [cackles]

1:30:12 Brennan: And then Ayda gets some fire damage, which she is fully immune to.

1:30:16 Siobhan: Cool.

1:30:20 Brennan: As Kir just lights you guys up with a bunch of rays of flame.

1:30:24 Fig: Dare you do that to Arthur Aguefort? (cast laughing)

1:30:29 Brennan: You see Ayda goes,

1:30:29 Ayda: Please stop that!

1:30:31 Fig: I know, but see, it's intimidating for them.

1:30:33 Ayda: It can't possibly be helping us more than it's hurting us.

1:30:38 Siobhan: Does Aelwyn have cantrips? How's she doing?

1:30:41 Brennan: Aelwyn's looking comatose.

1:30:43 Siobhan: Oh, okay.

1:30:44 Brennan: She's looking sort of--

1:30:45 Siobhan: So you're saying that she doesn't have any Ray of Frost that she can just pull out of her ass?

1:30:48 Brennan: Does not look like it.

1:30:50 Siobhan: All right, well, you know, worth a go. I message her,

1:30:52 Adaine: Wake up, you bitch! (cast laughing)

1:30:57 Brennan: Ayda is gonna go ahead and hit Kir with something. Kir's gonna make another Charisma saving throw. Kir once again has to hit a 16 or higher. Box of Doom.

1:31:14 Murph: Ain't gonna happen on spring break.

1:31:16 Zac: No way, sorry.

1:31:16 Lou: Not on spring break!

1:31:17 Brennan: That's a natural 3.

1:31:19 Murph: Yay, simply can't happen on spring break.

1:31:21 Brennan: You see that Ayda walks over and says,

1:31:23 Ayda: My friend Kristen did this. Mwah.

1:31:26 Brennan: And gives a kiss, sort of loudly pronouncing "mwah." And Kir goes,

1:31:31 Kir: Not again!

1:31:32 Brennan: And vanishes into a Banishment spell.

1:31:36 Ally: Yes, I wasn't there, but yes.

1:31:38 Brennan: Fig, that is back, your turn.

1:31:41 Fig: Okay, Adaine, do you wanna get to that spellbook before your dad does?

1:31:44 Adaine: Oh yeah, I do.

1:31:45 Fig: Describe the room to me.

1:31:47 Adaine: It's a vault and it's on the first floor.

1:31:49 Emily: I grab her by the shoulders and then Dimension Door down.

1:31:53 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:31:53 Emily: Into the vault.

1:31:54 Brennan: You Dimension Door. The normal protections that would safeguard the vault against these sorts of intrusions have been unmade by your party members abroad at the elemental pylons.

1:32:08 Lou: [sheetdancing] Spring break!

1:32:11 Emily: Spring jailbreak!

1:32:12 Murph: I love how you’re just down there with a broken ankle as they just zap past you. (cast laughing)

1:32:13 Ally: Yeah, do I hear them arrive? Can I be like,

1:32:14 Kristen: I'm out here?

1:32:17 Emily: I still have my movement, right?

1:32:18 Brennan: Yes you do.

1:32:19 Emily: So I wanna run to the door leaving so that I can try and prevent the invisible man from getting out. So I wanna occupy that door.

1:32:28 Brennan: You have made it down here definitely before Angwyn is down here.

1:32:32 Emily: Yeah.

1:32:32 Brennan: And so you see that the vault door—

1:32:33 Emily: Oh, in fact, I wanna go and hold my leg out for like the stairs.

1:32:39 Brennan: Okay. Well, you see there's like a big locked vault door that hasn't been opened yet, because no one's arrived here to open it.

1:32:45 Emily: Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we went into that vault.

1:32:47 Brennan: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You guys have teleported into the vault, there's the inside with the big locked door. That's where Angwyn's gonna come from when he comes here.

1:32:58 Emily: Oh, okay.

1:32:58 Brennan: 'Cause you're in a dark room that is, you know, you teleported into.

1:33:04 Emily: Okay, and then I wanna, can I like do a Stealth check or something to trip him when he runs in?

1:33:08 Brennan: Yeah, you can prepare an action to attack him when he runs in, absolutely.

1:33:10 Kristen: [strained] I'm out here.

1:33:12 Zac: He might not be coming to get the spellbooks.

1:33:15 Brennan: Adaine, that's gonna be you.

1:33:17 Siobhan: Can I, with Boggy giving me the help action, search this vault?

1:33:21 Brennan: Go ahead and give me either Investigation or Arcana.

1:33:24 Siobhan: Great. [shakes her head] Well, I rolled a 3 and a 2.

1:33:31 Brennan: Oh no!

1:33:33 Siobhan: So I got a 10.

1:33:34 Brennan: Okay. Right now it's pitch black in here, and even with elven darkvision, it's hard for you to see, without light, it's hard to see what would have magical auras in what would be otherwise light.

1:33:47 Siobhan: Okay, is there even at least like, I realize as a high elf, I actually have proficiency in swords and daggers.

1:33:52 Brennan: Uh-huh.

1:33:56 Siobhan: I don't have any spells left.

1:33:58 Brennan: Yeah.

1:33:59 Siobhan: I have one first level spell left. But are there weapons that I can grab?

1:34:03 Brennan: Absolutely, you wanna just grab a weapon?

1:34:05 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:34:06 Brennan: You reach out, there's a random sword hanging on a wall or something. As you pull it, [unsheathes sword] you go shing! And the vault fills with gleaming, green-golden light as this long, whip-thin elven sword springs to life in your hand, and the voices of your ancestors cry,

1:34:26 Fandrangor: [elf voice, dramatic] Fandrangor, Sword of the Elven Kings, forged in ages long past.

1:34:33 Adaine: Are you gonna do this every time I draw you?

1:34:35 Fandrangor: Every time.

1:34:36 Adaine: Great, can you help me find my spellbook?

1:34:39 Fandrangor: I don't have eyes.

1:34:41 Adaine: Okay, well, you're at least light in the darkness. (cast laughing)

1:34:45 Fandrangor: Mostly we prefer to be used for fighting.

1:34:47 Adaine: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Right, yes, obviously yes.

1:34:50 Brennan: You just have this big glow stick sword as you feel its ego extremely injured.

1:34:56 Adaine: You're being very useful right now.

1:34:57 Fandrangor: Useful is sort of not the vibe--

1:34:59 Adaine: Very dangerously useful.

1:35:02 Fandrangor: Oh, okay.

1:35:02 Adaine: You should meet my Investigate spell, I feel like you'd get on very well.

1:35:06 Fandrangor: All right. Aha. (cast laughing)

1:35:10 Brennan: Incredible. Fig, the vault door, crank, opens, and...

1:35:18 Ally: Wait, if I'm out there, do I get an attack of opportunity?

1:35:22 Brennan: You don't see anything approaching.

1:35:23 Ally: Hmm.

1:35:24 Brennan: But you do see the wheels start to spin.

1:35:27 Kristen: Hey, hey.

1:35:28 Brennan: But there was this, the door opens.

1:35:31 Siobhan: What's your favorite color?

1:35:32 Brennan: The door opens. Go ahead and take your attack roll with disadvantage.

1:35:36 Emily: With disadvantage, okay.

1:35:38 Brennan: Yeah.

1:35:39 Emily: Whew. Nat 1. (groaning)

1:35:41 Brennan: Oh, no!

1:35:41 Ally: Throw your dice away!

1:35:42 Emily: I'm getting 1s every roll this session!

1:35:44 Brennan: Oh, I'm so sorry. So you take a swing, but you do hear a yelp from Angwyn as he rushes into the vault, like (shouts).

1:35:54 Fig: I found him! I found him! Everyone attack!

1:35:55 Adaine: Close the door. Close the door!

1:35:57 Brennan: Kristen, that's you outside in the courtyard.

1:35:59 Ally: Okay. I would like to… Well, first I'm gonna cast a little Mass Healing Word on myself, yes, okay. I get another 12.

1:36:09 Emily: Oh, are we within 60 feet of Kristen?

1:36:11 Brennan: You are, you wanna hit Fig with that as well, you can.

1:36:13 Ally: Yup, you all just got 12, and you don't get anything in addition, but I do. Okay. I am going to, are my Spirit Guardians, do they follow me down?

1:36:26 Brennan: They do, yeah.

1:36:27 Ally: Okay, so would he have passed through them?

1:36:29 Brennan: Ooh, that is a great point. He's gonna roll.

1:36:31 Siobhan: Nice.

1:36:32 Brennan: He rolls a natural 1. Go ahead and roll damage, if you'd be so kind.

1:36:41 Ally: [collecting dice] I need one more.

1:36:42 Brennan: One more d8? Yeah, go for it.

1:36:44 Ally: [borrows a d8 from Lou] Oh, here it is, sorry. Okay, that's seven, 14—

1:36:48 Lou: Cha cha cha.

1:36:52 Ally: 22.

1:36:53 Brennan: Ooh!

1:36:54 Ally: That's right, baby.

1:36:55 Brennan: You see that your grad students are confused and they don't know who they're yelling at, so they just gonna like,

1:37:00 Spirit Guardians: Hey, fuck this invisible guy! Fuck this guy!

1:37:02 Brennan: He runs by, opens the door, and then springs out into this room, where he gets swung at by a bass guitar.

1:37:10 Ally: Cool, then I'm just gonna use my turn to help try to find the spellbooks.

1:37:16 Brennan: So you cast a bonus action, your Spirit Guardians did a thing, go ahead, do you want to give, do you want Investigation or Arcana here? You could also do a Religion check.

1:37:28 Ally: Yeah, Religion would be great, 'cause I get advantage on that.

1:37:31 Brennan: Go for it.

1:37:31 Emily: Oh, I'll bonus action Bardic Inspiration you.

1:37:34 Ally: Woo! That was Religion? Yeah, 21.

1:37:38 Brennan: You go over and find a massive religious tome packed with notes over in a section of the vault.

1:37:45 Ally: Okay, cool, I grab that and I do kind of like a, I wrap my body around it in a ball on the ground so no one can take it.

1:37:53 Brennan: You like, just huddle around.

1:37:55 Ally: 'Cause he's still invisible, right?

1:37:56 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

1:37:58 Zac: Wait, when you get hit when you're invisible—

1:38:00 Murph: Does he have to do a concentration check?

1:38:02 Brennan: Oh, Angwyn?

1:38:03 Murph: Yeah.

1:38:03 Brennan: Oh, he took damage, he does have to do that.

1:38:06 Murph: 11, right? 'Cause it's 22?

1:38:07 Brennan: 22 points of damage.

1:38:09 Lou: Get him, Murph.

1:38:10 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:38:10 Lou: Get him.

1:38:10 Siobhan: Fuck him up, Murph.

1:38:11 Brennan: We'll do it Box of Doom style. He's gotta roll an 11 or higher. That's a natural 3.

1:38:16 Ally: Hey!

1:38:21 Brennan: I'm gonna need you to reroll your attack roll, because he's not invisible when he comes into the vault.

1:38:27 Emily: Does a 15 hit?

1:38:29 Brennan: 15 exactly hits. (cast cheering)

1:38:30 Murph: You love to see it. It’s spring break.

1:38:31 Emily: Psychic blades, I'm adding my psychic blades.

1:38:33 Ally: It's spring break, baby.

1:38:33 Siobhan: Spring break! (cast laughing)

1:38:36 Brennan: Good bit of rules lawyering from Murph.

1:38:38 Murph: I think Zac pointed it out.

1:38:40 Emily: 11.

1:38:41 Zac: I love to see it. (cast laughing)

1:38:43 Brennan: Love to see it.

1:38:45 Emily: 27 damage, bitch! Eat my shit.

1:38:45 Brennan: So you see, he comes in, your grad students like, grab the spell off of him. He swings the vault and says,

1:38:53 Angwyn: You are a horrible, nasty little human!

1:38:55 Brennan: Bang! Like el kabong, just bass guitar to the head, his teeth fly out of his mouth, and he is unconscious on the ground.

1:39:04 Fig: You're a worse fighter than you are a father. Oh, you couldn't hear that.

1:39:06 Emily: I heal him so he can hear that, then kill him.

1:39:09 Brennan: What's this?

1:39:10 Ally: Can I drag him into the Zone of Truth while they're finding the other book?

1:39:13 Brennan: Yes, you drag him—

1:39:14 Ally: Okay, I hand the book to Adaine, and I drag him into the Zone of Truth.

1:39:16 Adaine: Thank you, this is not my spellbook.

1:39:17 Fig: Can I actually close this vault so we can trap him in here, so he doesn't do something tricky?

1:39:21 Adaine: Wait, no, my spellbook is still in there.

1:39:22 Fig: Yeah, yeah.

1:39:24 Kristen: The Zone of Truth is outside. Yeah, let’s do it.

1:39:25 Brennan: You guys hear an enormous explosion from up in the top of the tower, and you hear Ayda call down and say,

1:39:33 Ayda: I destroyed the green men, the last ones, they were still up here, more bad guys. I don't know if that was a priority.

1:39:38 Adaine: You did great, thank you.

1:39:39 Ayda: Thank you very much for your compliment, it means a lot.

1:39:40 Adaine: We're friends.

1:39:41 Kristen: Come on down and hang. Ayda screeches.

1:39:42 Zac: Where's your sister?

1:39:43 Fig: Come on down to the Zone of Truth.

1:39:46 Adaine: Bring my sister, please.

1:39:47 Kristen: Oh, right.

1:39:48 Brennan: Incredible. We are out of combat.

1:39:53 Siobhan: Oh, amazing.

1:39:54 Emily: Can I, okay.

1:39:56 Brennan: You guys see, however, as you guys are down here, that, hold on one second. As you guys rush in, Ayda swoops down on you guys and says,

1:40:11 Ayda: We have less than a minute left before Kir returns.

1:40:15 Emily: I'm gonna use that minute to look for something about gems in this special vault.

1:40:19 Brennan: I'm gonna let all of you guys make one last roll for the vault, tell me the skill you're using, because Ayda is getting ready to invisiblize everybody and get the hell out.

1:40:29 Zac: Is her sister there too?

1:40:31 Brennan: Yes, Ayda's holding your sister in her arms.

1:40:33 Siobhan: I'm gonna use an Arcana check with Boggy to help me.

1:40:36 Brennan: Absolutely, go ahead and make your Arcana check.

1:40:39 Siobhan: Okay, that's a nat 20. (cast cheering)

1:40:42 Brennan: Ooh, baby.

1:40:42 Siobhan: [punching the air] Okay, all right.

1:40:44 Brennan: You find, cordoned off, using the light from Fandrangor, you find a quarantined series of elven scroll cases that is labeled basically top secret, classified, confidential. This is the research of Arianwen Abernant. You found your mom's research.

1:41:09 Siobhan: And my spellbook and Aelwyn's spellbook?

1:41:10 Brennan: Your spellbook and Aelwyn's spellbook, yes.

1:41:13 Siobhan: Great, cool, thank you.

1:41:14 Ally: I would like to use Religion, and I'm looking for anything Nightmare King related, if there's anything like that.

1:41:22 Brennan: Go for it.

1:41:26 Ally: (whistles) Oh, that was cocked. Okay. 17?

1:41:31 Brennan: 17? As Adaine is going through her mom's stuff, you find a series of notes looking for the location of a temple within Sylvaire, that Arianwen was looking for. And you see it and immediately know that Arianwen might not have known where this was, but you do. The book that you and Riz found in the Compass Points library.

1:41:58 Ally: Cool.

1:41:59 Brennan: And let me get one from Fig as well, if you want.

1:42:02 Emily: Okay. I'm gonna do a Persuasion check?

1:42:05 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:42:06 Emily: And I'm gonna play like a really sick riff that makes all the gems dance. And just like try and like suss out any sort of gems, [yelling] I don't have any other good skills! (cast laughing)

1:42:20 Emily: This is what I do and it’s all I do!

1:42:23 Ally: You're gonna hear a gem dance?

1:42:25 Lou: The gems are gonna dance and reveal themselves.

1:42:29 Brennan: Okay, awesome.

1:42:30 Ally: I jumped out the window, so I can't laugh at you.

1:42:33 Brennan: Give me--

1:42:34 Emily: What am I gonna do, a plus two to anything else?

1:42:36 Brennan: Give me a Performance check.

1:42:37 Emily: Okay, Performance or Persuasion? I can do Performance if you need that.

1:42:42 Brennan: Do Performance.

1:42:42 Emily: Okay.

1:42:43 Ally: You're trying to persuade some gems?

1:42:46 Emily: Okay, 19!

1:42:47 Brennan: Cool. You hit a tasty chord, and you see that there's like large gem built into the base of Calethriel Tower. You go (imitates guitar chord echoing). The gem cracks, and you see the tower begins to collapse. (cast laughing)

1:43:05 Fig: Everybody run!

1:43:07 Brennan: Ayda goes,

1:43:07 Ayda: I think it's time to leave!

1:43:09 Brennan: And she grabs you guys.

1:43:11 Emily: I grab a shard.

1:43:12 Brennan: Actually, I will say this. You do see something here in the vault, specifically about gem lore, also in the section of Arianwen's research that Adaine was going through. So you grab another thing having to do with gems, and you guys peace the fuck out. Ayda invisiblizes everybody.

1:43:33 Ally: Couldn't have gone better. (cast laughing)

1:43:38 Ally: Couldn't have gone better.

1:43:39 Fig: Guys, great work out there.

1:43:40 Kristen: Good thing that me and my girlfriend are on such good terms, she can nurse me back to health. (cast laughing)

1:43:46 Adaine: Wait, did you and Tracker fight?

1:43:48 Kristen: We got in a little skiff.

1:43:52 Lou: (laughing) "We got in a little--"

1:43:54 Brennan: You guys race out. I'm gonna say that, as you guys all leave from this place, you guys reconvene in the forest around the hang van. The three spring break boys from the forge rush back into the van as the group flies in from the far ridge, and the group that was hitting Calethriel Tower appears at the van. You see Ayda looks at everybody and says,

1:44:18 Ayda: All right, what was the plan? Now what do we do?

1:44:21 Zac: Do we have the hirelings? Are they—

1:44:22 Brennan: Yes, the hirelings have all come back.

1:44:24 Emily: We have Adaine's dad, right?

1:44:28 Brennan: If you guys want to, you can, or you could have left him.

1:44:31 Fig: I wanna bring him. I want him to, do you think he casts Plane Shift?

1:44:36 Adaine: I don’t trust him to—  You think we can make him cast Plane Shift? I don’t think so.

1:44:39 Kristen: Remember how horrible he is to work with?

1:44:41 Adaine: He sucks, I want him to die.

1:44:43 Fig: Well then why don't we just kill him?

1:44:44 Adaine: Let's kill him.

1:44:45 Gorgug: I don't know about killing your dad.

1:44:45 Adaine: He locked my—

1:44:46 Brennan: I'm gonna say this. With the tower collapsing around you, I don't know that you guys would've had any more time to--

1:44:53 Siobhan: Great, so we just leave him under the rubble?

1:44:54 Brennan: I think you just leave him under the rubble.

1:44:56 Adaine: Works for me.

1:44:56 Emily: Wait, I must have some kinda, ah, no, I don't think I have anything I can do.

1:45:01 Siobhan: I stab him as we leave. [sword stabbing motions]

1:45:02 Zac: [to Siobhan] Oh my God.

1:45:03 Brennan: You guys were putting your focus primarily on getting your shit out of the vault.

1:45:09 Fig: Wait, ah, fuck, I shoulda just killed your dad.

1:45:13 Gorgug: I don't know that we gotta kill people's dads.

1:45:15 Adaine: I'm saying yes, we should!

1:45:16 Fig: Yeah, that's why I asked Adaine to begin with.

1:45:19 Kristen: I'm in that camp too.

1:45:20 Adaine: I disowned him.

1:45:21 Kristen: You just have a good dad!

1:45:22 Brennan: Ayda looks and says,

1:45:22 Ayda: I don't mean to shout or be rude, but it's very important that we do something quickly.

1:45:28 Emily: I at least take a pack of clove cigarettes, light it on fire, and throw it behind me, to hopefully increase the damage to him.

1:45:35 Brennan: Just through the carcinogens in the cloves?

1:45:39 Emily: No, because it would maybe be like start a fire.

1:45:41 Brennan: Oh, actually start a fire.

1:45:43 Ally: Light the whole pack.

1:45:44 Emily: Like the whole pack, take out all the cigarettes and light the whole pack.

1:45:47 Ally: All my philosophy majors were like  oh, oh!

1:45:47 Brennan: Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah.

1:45:49 Fig: They’re not for you!

1:45:51 Riz: All right, well we just fought a bunch of fire elementals, does anybody have any clues as to where we should go next? 'Cause we should teleport there.

1:45:56 Gorgug: We should teleport the fuck outta here.

1:45:57 Kristen: Sylvaire?

1:45:58 Fig: Sylvaire?

1:45:59 Adaine: We should at least get back to the van.

1:46:00 Riz: Teleport to Sylvaire?

1:46:01 Brennan: Ayda says,

1:46:01 Ayda: I don't know anywhere in Sylvaire to teleport to. I can either take us back to Leviathan, or we could go back to Kei Lumennura under Fabian’s grandfather’s protection.

1:46:10 Riz: Let's do that.

1:46:11 Fabian: Are we going, yes, to Kei Lumennura.

1:46:14 Brennan: Ayda (whooshing), fire and phoenix feathers. [calm music] You guys arrive in Kei Lumennura. You see that Fabian, your grandfather, Telemaine, looks at you and says,

1:46:28 Telemaine: My grandson.

1:46:32 Fabian: Grandfather.

1:46:34 Telemaine: Something has changed in you.

1:46:37 Siobhan: [gasps] I left my jacket! No!

1:46:40 Brennan: Did you? 'Cause all your gear was there, your spellbook.

1:46:43 Adaine: Oh, I got my jacket with me—

1:46:45 Brennan: Yeah, all of it was in the same quarantined, you got your jacket, you got your shit. Yeah, they were not so paranoid that they would be like--

1:46:54 Siobhan: I take my anxiety medication.

1:46:55 Brennan: You know, it'd be like, yeah. Yeah, you take your anxiety meds. Cool. All of you are here in the gardens of [elf voice] Kei Lumennura. You look around and see this for the first time, Adaine.

1:47:14 Adaine: This is beautiful.

1:47:16 Riz: Adaine, it's good to have you back.

1:47:17 Adaine: What are these grapes.

1:47:18 Riz: [reaching out to her] We support you. Just so you know.

1:47:19 Kristen: Don't eat the grapes!

1:47:20 Fabian: Don't eat the grapes.

1:47:21 Gorgug: They kinda sing, or I think you could eat a grape, it just—

1:47:24 Riz: We don't know. It's a thing.

1:47:26 Fabian: It just makes you not horny.

1:47:27 Riz: Yeah.

1:47:28 Fabian: I think.

1:47:28 Brennan: A lot of love is showered on you, Adaine, by the other hirelings, Cathilda gives you a kiss on the cheek, Sandra Lynn claps you on the back and rubs your shoulder, and everyone's very happy to see you.

1:47:40 Fabian: Welcome back, Adaine.

1:47:41 Adaine: Thank you. Thank you.

1:47:43 Gorgug: We killed that guy we were fighting.

1:47:48 Adaine: Who?

1:47:49 Gorgug: Captain?

1:47:50 Fig: Captain Whitclaw, I actually had his sword, I would've given it to you and it would've been a whole thing, except I had to leave it to be a good person. [rolls her eyes]

1:47:56 Adaine: He seemed bad and his sword seemed bad.

1:47:58 Fig: Yeah.

1:47:59 Adaine: [holds up Fandrangor] I guess I have this now?

1:48:00 Riz: I see that we have your, should we, I guess we have like your sister kidnapped now—

1:48:07 Adaine: I need to sleep.

1:48:07 Riz: What's up with your sister?

1:48:08 Adaine: She needs to sleep.

1:48:09 Brennan: You see Telemaine looks at that and says,

1:48:11 Telemaine: Fandrangor, the Sword of the North Star. I made that a long time ago.

1:48:17 Adaine: Oh, it's beautiful.

1:48:19 Gorgug: No way.

1:48:20 Fabian: Very cool.

1:48:21 Telemaine: Thank you.

1:48:22 Fig: Do you still make weapons?

1:48:24 Telemaine: Yes, I am the greatest elven swordsmith.

1:48:26 Adaine: It'll take him like 300 years.

1:48:28 Gorgug: Do you have one that you already made that your grandson could have?

1:48:31 Fabian: What?

1:48:32 Brennan: He looks and says,

1:48:36 Telemaine: [consideringly] A sword worthy of my grandson.

1:48:39 Fig: Or maybe just like a barbed sheet.

1:48:43 Kristen: A barbed sheet?

1:48:45 Fig: Yeah, that he could whip around.

1:48:48 Gorgug: You know, like, if a sheet like little--

1:48:50 Fig: The sheet looked inviting, but hurt.

1:48:52 Siobhan: I take the sword and plant it in front of Fabian.

1:48:58 Lou: I pick it up.

1:49:01 Telemaine: You wield it well, Fahbiahn Aramayahas Seacaster.

1:49:06 Fig: Oh, right. Say his name again?

1:49:08 Gorgug: No, you don't have to. (laughs)

1:49:11 Telemaine: I understand that I mispronounced it the first time.

1:49:14 Gorgug: Oh, you worked on it?

1:49:16 Telemaine: I did. I want you to know that I--

1:49:17 Riz: The proper pronunciation is Jorjudge.

1:49:18 Fabian: Jorjudge.

1:49:20 Fig: I prefer the way you pronounce it.

1:49:22 Telemaine: I want you to know that I respect you, and you deserve to have your name pronounced correctly.

1:49:30 Gorgug: [touched] Thank you. I believe in you.

1:49:31 Telemaine: I'm going to say your name now. This is my best effort to get it right.

1:49:36 Gorgug: I can't wait.

1:49:43 Telemaine: [the camera zooms in on him, he takes a deep breath] Chett. (cast laughing)

1:49:46 Kristen: Jedd?

1:49:47 Riz: Chett?

1:49:48 Telemaine: Chedge, Chedge. Your name is Chedge?

1:49:49 Adaine: There are hard Gs in high elvish.

1:49:51 Gorgug: It sounds like literally no sound was correct in that. (Emily laughing)

1:49:55 Brennan: You see he cries a little bit. He says,

1:49:57 Telemaine: I'm really embarrassed, I'm really embarrassed.

1:49:59 Gorgug: You’re good at other things. You’re good at other things.

1:50:00 Fabian: Don’t worry, grandfather. We support you.

1:50:01 Riz: We support you. We learned a lot on our spring break.

1:50:03 Gorgug: I'm gonna go outside for a little bit, but I really appreciate the attempt.

1:50:07 Adaine: I'm gonna sleep.

1:50:08 Kristen: Gorgug, how did you make that call before when you were able to call Zelda?

1:50:12 Gorgug: Ayda Aguefort has the Sending spell, and maybe, did you—

1:50:18 Adaine: I have it too, if I sleep, goodbye.

1:50:20 Ally: Ayda, can I talk to Ayda?

1:50:21 Brennan: Yes, you go over and speak to Ayda, yeah.

1:50:23 Kristen: Hey, do you think I could maybe use your Sending spell to talk to someone back home really quick?

1:50:28 Ayda: Yes.

1:50:29 Kristen: Great.

1:50:30 Ayda: 150 gold.

1:50:31 Kristen: I will absolutely give you, my friend, money.

1:50:36 Ayda: Is that normal? Is it strange or bad that I'm doing that?

1:50:42 Kristen: No, I think it's fine. I have much more money than you. I guess that's an assumption, but we got a lot of money from a recent thing. Anyway, I would like to send a message to Jawbone, my counselor, and I just wanna say like, I'm having some relationship woes, and I just want a little advice. And I wanna put some of that in there.

1:51:04 Ayda: All right, give me 150 gold pieces.

1:51:06 Kristen: Of course, yeah, okay, so let's see, that's 50, 75, 80--

1:51:10 Gorgug: It might not be the most financially sound plan to have a bunch of 150 gold transactions back and forth for a conversation. Just, it's your money, do whatever you want.

1:51:22 Kristen: It's 150 gold per—

1:51:24 Gorgug: Well, I think Sending is one message there, one message back. (Ally sighs)

1:51:26 Gorgug: And it's 25 words.

1:51:30 Adaine: Just wait for me to rest, it takes four hours.

1:51:32 Kristen: I can't do that. All right, I'll start with this, and then I'll switch over to your message.

1:51:37 Brennan: Cool.

1:51:37 Kristen: I got 300 for this, I really need an answer, I keep saying the wrong thing.

1:51:43 Brennan: You see that, what is the message that Kristen sends to Jawbone?

1:51:47 Ally: Okay, it says,  Jawbone. (laughing)

1:51:55 Kristen: Jawbone, hey, having some trouble with Tracker. She's pretty upset at me, I keep saying the wrong thing, I kept something from her, oops?

1:52:11 Brennan: You send that message, you immediately get a response back.

1:52:13 Ally: Oh.

1:52:14 Brennan: From Jawbone saying...

1:52:19 Jawbone: Tough break, kiddo. Happy to help if I can. Should I find a way to contact you other than this spell?

1:52:34 Ally: Yes. Oh, I can't say anything.

1:52:35 Brennan: You'd have to respond back.

1:52:38 Ally: Ah, god dammit. 150. And it says, fuck yes. (Brennan chuckles)

1:52:41 Brennan: Cool. You get a response back.

1:52:42 Jawbone: Hell yeah.

1:52:46 Fig: You can borrow my phone if you want.

1:52:48 Kristen: What?!

1:52:49 Brennan: Your phone doesn't work.

1:52:50 Fig: Oh.

1:52:50 Kristen: Oh.

1:52:53 Riz: You also like, threw it in a river, didn't you?

1:52:54 Fig: No, this is the new phone that I got from Adaine.

1:52:56 Adaine: Like a brick phone.

1:52:58 Brennan: Incredible. You guys are healed up.

1:53:01 Lou: Can I dance all night?

1:53:03 Brennan: Fabian dances—

1:53:04 Lou: I don't want to rest, I would like to dance with this fire—

1:53:05 Murph: He’s got the fire in his belly now.

1:53:08 Brennan: Give me an Acrobatics check with advantage, if you'd be so kind.

1:53:12 Ally: Ooh, advantage.

1:53:13 Murph: He's got fire in his belly now.

1:53:14 Lou: That's a one and a two. (cast laughing)

1:53:18 Zac: Can I give him a help action or something? I don't know, this is too sad.

1:53:22 Emily: Oh, Bardic Inspiration?

1:53:25 Murph: But he's dancing like nobody's watching. So if any, this is brave.

1:53:26 Emily: Ah.

1:53:28 Ally: In a way.

1:53:28 Murph: I’m just quietly saying,

1:53:28 Riz: He’s so brave. He’s so brave.

1:53:28 Brennan: Fabian, you're just in the groove of it. You do see that your footsteps, like, light the ground behind you with the dull glow of flame as you (whooshing) dance and dance and dance like nobody is watching. Fabian, it's a beautiful night of just being in touch with your body, your feelings, and for the rest of you guys.

1:53:55 Murph: I think I want to, like as Adaine's going to sleep, I just wanna poke her and go,

1:54:00 Riz: [whispering] Hey, Adaine. Is your sister still like trying to kill us? 'Cause she's kind of here now.

1:54:06 Adaine: I don't think so, I think that she's maybe, it's just they kept her awake for like five months.

1:54:10 Riz: Okay.

1:54:11 Adaine: And it broke her brain. And like, that's so bad that I had to rescue her.

1:54:18 Brennan: Ayda actually comes in with Aelwyn, and looks up at you and says,

1:54:28 Ayda: May I deposit this sister of yours in here with you?

1:54:32 Adaine: Yes.

1:54:33 Brennan: You see she lays Aelwyn on the bed. Aelwyn is outside of the orb, you see that her body is still shaking from like the strain and effort.

1:54:40 Siobhan: Can I hold her as we go to sleep?

1:54:41 Ally: Aww.

1:54:43 Brennan: You hold her as you go to sleep. And both of you are just out like lights.

1:54:49 Ally: That's so sweet!

1:54:52 Murph: Riz just slowly backs out. (cast laughing)

1:54:55 Brennan: Both of you trance for the first time in so long. And as you trance in the night, you can almost feel your sister, she doesn't have any magic left and is too exhausted, she just was in this position for too long. As you start resting to get your spells back,you feel a tiny piece of your sister's abjurative magic, like the innate kind of cantrip, it's her Abjurer's Ward, like her class ability. As she begins to get her energy back from resting, you feel her begin to build a shield around you in the night as you both trance. Ayda comes out and finds you, Fig, and says,

1:55:50 Ayda: I think Adaine is very grateful that we rescued her.

1:55:54 Fig: Yeah.

1:55:58 Ayda: Uh.. you fight very bravely, and--

1:56:01 Fig: Thank you, this was not my best work today.

1:56:04 Brennan: You see, she says...

1:56:08 Ayda: Um... you are extremely loud and funny and charming and you talk loudly, and that's so exciting.

1:56:17 Fig: [giggling] Thank you so much! I mean, you're really direct and analytical, and you kind of deconstruct things before my eyes and make me see them in a different way. And I really like that.

1:56:23 Ayda: Mm-hmm.

1:56:29 Fig: A lot of things I take for granted you really think through.

1:56:33 Brennan: Just tears of flame straight down her face.

1:56:35 Fig: Also you cry fire, which is awesome. And check it out. [reaches out and touches Ayda’s face]

1:56:39 Brennan: You see that, as you touch it and it doesn't burn your finger, she goes,

1:56:42 Ayda: Ha, that's something we have in common.

1:56:44 Fig: Yeah.

1:56:45 Ayda: That's bonding.

1:56:47 Fig: That's bonding.

1:56:48 Ayda: Yep. I live on an island full of nasty, dirty pirates, so I don't have any other young women to hang out with, and this has just been so huge for me, and you're so cool and kind.

1:57:00 Fig: Why don't you just come hang out with us?

1:57:00 Ayda: Okay.

1:57:01 Fig: Why don't you just keep hanging out with us?

1:57:03 Ayda: Okay.

1:57:04 Fig: The library can run itself. I mean, the man who works at the front, he was really on the ball. (cast laughing)

1:57:07 Fig: Really fast.

1:57:09 Brennan: You see, she says,

1:57:12 Ayda: That's not been my experience of Rawlins.

1:57:14 Fig: Okay, from my experience, I was like ooh, that's a fast man. (cast laughing)

1:57:19 Ayda: Running's all he's good for.

1:57:22 Ally: [laughing] "That's a fast man."

1:57:25 Zac: Wasn't that you running?

1:57:27 Ally: It was you, it was you.

1:57:28 Zac: The lore of the fast librarian. (cast laughing)

1:57:33 Brennan: Incredible. She looks and says,

1:57:34 Ayda: I think Adaine and her sister Aelwyn probably just need to rest.

1:57:40 Fig: Yeah.

1:57:42 Ayda: I need to fully sleep, do you fully sleep as well?

1:57:47 Fig: Yeah.

1:57:48 Ayda: Are you feeling tired from the battle?

1:57:49 Fig: Yeah.

1:57:50 Ayda: Okay.

1:57:51 Fig: Let's do it up. Are you asking to have a slumber party? 'Cause if you're not, I am.

1:57:54 Brennan: Crying.

1:57:56 Ayda: Okay, you're asking that because you want it, and it wouldn't be weird for me to also want that.

1:58:02 Fig: Look, I understand that you probably meet a lot of people that say what they don't mean, but I pretty much across the board say what I mean, but I usually look like someone else.

1:58:11 Ayda: Okay. (Ally laughs)

1:58:12 Fig: But I mean what I say.

1:58:14 Ayda: Okay. I'm gonna lie down next to you while we sleep, because I have not had a friend like that before.

1:58:20 Fig: Yeah. Let's do it.

1:58:21 Ayda: And I'm gonna really take my cues from you about what's normal about that.

1:58:26 Fig: Okay. Physical contact is totally cool, we've talked about it, we can just do whatever we want.

1:58:31 Ayda: Great, fantastic. I'm gonna really follow your lead on this.

1:58:34 Fig: Yeah.

1:58:35 Brennan: You see that she lays down, and immediately starts to snooze and is—

1:58:41 Emily: Oh, I wake her up.

1:58:42 Fig: Sorry, part of the slumber party is that you stay up late talking.

1:58:45 Ayda: Fantastic.

1:58:47 Fig: Yeah.

1:58:47 Ayda: I got that wrong out of the gate, but now I know and I won't make that mistake again.

1:58:51 Fig: Yeah, first cue is we stay up for a while.

1:58:53 Ayda: Great, fantastic.

1:58:54 Fig: Okay.

1:58:54 Ayda: I love that.

1:58:56 Brennan: She stays up talking, Ayda is… You find out, is there anything you ask Ayda about as you guys are like, slumber partying?

1:59:05 Emily: I think I just would maybe apologize for being Aguefort, and I wanna say like,

1:59:09 Fig: My plan was like to try to get out of fighting them and make them think I was your dad, and like, that I would call off, you know, the military effort if they gave us, I wasn't trying to mess with you at all.

1:59:22 Brennan: Gotcha. You see that she says,

1:59:23 Ayda: That makes total sense, and I won't lie, I caught the short end of the straw with this disguise, but normally, your disguises are extremely delightful.

1:59:36 Fig: Thanks, yeah.

1:59:37 Ayda: So it's all right that this one didn't pan out for me. I'm sure the next one will.

1:59:40 Fig: I'm sorry that it seems like he's a really powerful guy and it must be really annoying seeing everyone idolize him so much, 'cause it doesn't sound like he was a great dad.

1:59:50 Ayda: No, he was not a great dad.

1:59:51 Fig: It's okay to admit that.

1:59:54 Ayda: I'm admitting it.

1:59:55 Fig: Yeah.

1:59:55 Ayda: I'm very forthright.

1:59:55 Fig: He might just be a bad dad forever.

2:00:00 Ayda: [monotone] Oh well.

2:00:02 Fig: But that's okay, because you find cool people in your world that take the place that you were looking for from him.

2:00:10 Ayda: A different, other dad.

2:00:13 Fig: Well, [stutters] rather, the emotions you were hoping to get from him, you might find in unexpected places.

2:00:23 Ayda: [frowns] I have to find these places.

2:00:24 Fig: (laughs) Not a physic, actually yeah, it's a physical place, yeah. Let's go into some caves and look for emotions.

2:00:31 Ayda: Fantastic.

2:00:34 Brennan: Fabian is dancing, Adaine's collapsed. Gorgug and Riz, are you guys doing anything else as you arrive back here in Kei Lumennura? Or are you—

2:00:43 Murph: I think we just watch Fabian dance.

2:00:45 Zac: I'm in like whatever the elven equivalent of a rocking chair is.

2:00:48 Murph: Yeah, we're both sitting on chairs.

2:00:51 Brennan: You guys see that there are two treants, like sort of tall tree beings, that are like, cradling you in their boughs and like rocking you, and they're both kind of humming. [hums a lullaby]

2:01:03 Riz: You know, this place isn't so bad.

2:01:04 Gorgug: How did this part start happening? (cast laughing)

2:01:08 Riz: I thought I was just gonna sit in a tree, and it started singing to me.

2:01:11 Gorgug: Hey. Really not horrible.

2:01:14 Riz: Yeah.

2:01:14 Brennan: You see that Telemaine appears behind you and goes,

2:01:17 Telemaine: Yes, really not horrible at all. And you see holds up his hand, a blossom lands on it, and he looks at you and just gently shoves it into your mouth. (cast laughing)

2:01:33 Telemaine: Eat it. Yes. Gorgug shakes his head.

2:01:37 Riz: Is it good, or is it just a flower? It was beautiful.

2:01:41 Gorgug: It’s gross. (cast laughing)

2:01:44 Brennan: He just glides off into the night.

2:01:48 Riz: Did he actually just feed you a flower?

2:01:49 Gorgug: Yeah. (cast laughing)

2:01:52 Riz: That was insane.

2:01:53 Gorgug: It's a complex flavor, I don't like it.

2:01:54 Riz: That was insane.

2:02:00 Brennan: Kristen.

2:02:01 Ally: Mm.

2:02:02 Brennan: You, after a little while, you see Tracker kind of goes off to sleep on her own. And also to like create the Moon Haven for as many people as she can.

2:02:16 Ally: She's got work to do.

2:02:18 Brennan: She's got work to do. You see that, later on in the evening, a little (booms) mote of light appears before you, and a little scroll glowing with illusory magic appears, and it says “a message from Arthur Aguefort.”

2:02:39 Ally: Oh, cool. I open it.

2:02:42 Brennan: It appears, you see in front of you a badly injured Arthur Aguefort at his desk, wrapped up with bandages, bleeding a lot, seated as his desk at Aguefort Adventuring Academy. Looks up at you. You see he goes, [music stops]

2:03:04 Aguefort: (sighing) Oh, hello, Kristen, how's it going?

2:03:07 Kristen: It's good, are you okay?

2:03:08 Aguefort: I fucked up.

2:03:09 Kristen: What?

2:03:10 Aguefort: I fucked up.

2:03:11 Kristen: What happened?

2:03:12 Aguefort: I did a bunch of magic, it was too much. It was just too much. I tried, you can't just destroy a government. (cast laughing)

2:03:19 Kristen: Oh, got it.

2:03:20 Aguefort: You can't just destroy a government.

2:03:21 Kristen: Got it.

2:03:22 Aguefort: A lot of that stuff was experimental, I was working on it, it's not, we shouldn't do that. I'm in a lot of trouble. [coughs a little]

2:03:26 Kristen: Oh god.

2:03:30 Aguefort: I'm in a lot of trouble, the government of Solace is really mad at me. Really mad at me.

2:03:36 Kristen: Oh, cool. Did you just kinda start a war like out of nowhere, maybe to like throw the scent off?

2:03:39 Aguefort: I think they're gonna patch it up, I think I didn't fuck anything up too much, I didn't. Yeah, a lot of that magic was sort of new, I was trying it out.

2:03:47 Kristen: What? You were, when you grabbed the sun?

2:03:50 Aguefort: Yeah, you're not supposed to do that.

2:03:53 Kristen: Yeah. Okay, cool.

2:03:54 Aguefort: Yeah, it's too much. It's just too much.

2:03:56 Kristen: That was a workshop.

2:03:57 Aguefort: I really hurt myself.

2:03:59 Kristen: I'm really sorry.

2:04:00 Aguefort: This is just the magic to kind of tore up my guts. (cast laughing) Oh, I just--

2:04:07 Kristen: All right, okay yeah.

2:04:08 Aguefort: I got about 50 miles north, and I just shit about an ocean of blood.

2:04:13 Kristen: No.

2:04:14 Aguefort: Yeah, I can't get that big. It's just too big.

2:04:17 Kristen: Okay, well, hey, so Aguefort, I'm so sorry, but it's four in the morning out here. So what's going on? What's with this personal message to me?

2:04:25 Aguefort: I really fucked up, I'm so sorry, Kristen. [pained] I know, we had that whole experience in heaven. I've kind of been going ham for a while. I knocked out God and ran heaven for a bit.

2:04:34 Kristen: Yeah.

2:04:35 Aguefort: And then I did a spell where I grabbed the sun, I tried to topple a government.

2:04:37 Kristen: Uh-huh.

2:04:38 Aguefort: Just kinda one-shot a government.

2:04:40 Kristen: Yep. Can't do that, turns out.

2:04:41 Aguefort: Can’t do that. It's actually, I got close. I think--

2:04:45 Kristen: Did you?

2:04:46 Aguefort: Well no, I think—

2:04:47 Kristen: Okay, there it is.

2:04:48 Aguefort: No, I didn't. They summoned up a lot of magic to try and stop me, I got hit with some pretty powerful elven counter magic, and a lot of what I was trying to do, just the force of magic itself didn't want that to keep happening, you know?

2:05:01 Kristen: Yeah, got it.

2:05:02 Aguefort: Too big, 450 feet tall is too big. (Lou laughs)

2:05:04 Kristen: Yeah, it's crazy.

2:05:05 Aguefort: No, just you're huge, you're just huge at that point.

2:05:08 Kristen: Mm-hmm.

2:05:10 Aguefort: I shit a lot of blood and I almost passed out.

2:05:12 Kristen: Wow.

2:05:12 Aguefort: Had to teleport back to Solace.

2:05:14 Kristen: Oh.

2:05:15 Aguefort: My sorta terracotta army fell apart. (cast chuckling)

2:05:17 Kristen: Yeah.

2:05:17 Aguefort: Yeah.

2:05:21 Kristen: Hmm. [awkward pause] So what's up?

2:05:23 Aguefort: Jawbone wanted me to reach out.

2:05:24 Kristen: Oh, yes, great.

2:05:25 Aguefort: He's here, so I just set up a spell for him.

2:05:27 Kristen: Oh!

2:05:28 Aguefort: I'm probably gonna have to go to court, I'm in a lot of trouble.

2:05:30 Kristen: Ah, yeah, that sucks. Hey, so you said Jawbone's there, right?

2:05:35 Aguefort: Oh, yes, very good.

2:05:36 Kristen: No, I'm, yeah. That's--

2:05:39 Aguefort: I really stretched on this one, you know?

2:05:42 Kristen: Yeah.

2:05:43 Aguefort: That was some power, I grabbed the sun.

2:05:45 Kristen: Yeah.

2:05:46 Aguefort: They're gonna make me move the sun back to where it was.

2:05:47 Kristen: Oh, that's, yeah.

2:05:49 Aguefort: I'm gonna have to figure out how to do that.

2:05:51 Kristen: You have to move it back.

2:05:52 Aguefort: Yeah, it's not messing anything up too much right now, it's a little bit north of where it should be.

2:05:58 Kristen: Oh.

2:05:59 Aguefort: But it's going in the right direction, it's still going around the Earth, but in the far south of the globe, it's much more wintry than it should be.

2:06:06 Kristen: Interesting.

2:06:07 Aguefort: And it's a lot more summery up here where, you know.

2:06:09 Kristen: Huh.

2:06:11 Aguefort: I fucked up.

2:06:11 Kristen: Wait, on this planet, the sun goes around the Earth? (Brennan laughing)

2:06:16 Aguefort: Right, so, funny story. Actually, Spyre does go around the sun, so when I was dragging the sun across the sky, I'm actually not, I need to figure out kind of what I did.

2:06:28 Kristen: Oh, shit.

2:06:29 Aguefort: Yeah, 'cause again, it's sort of, that's a more poetic understanding of how things really work, but I really fucked up. So I don't know, been going pretty ham.

2:06:42 Kristen: Yeah.

2:06:42 Aguefort: When I was dead for a couple months, it kind of, it fucked me up.

2:06:46 Kristen: Mm. Me too, yeah. Meeting God, finding out that he was a frat boy, that ruined my life.

2:06:53 Aguefort: Sorry about that.

2:06:53 Kristen: No, it's okay.

2:06:54 Aguefort: Here's Jawbone.

2:06:56 Kristen: Oh, great.

2:06:56 Brennan: And you see he stands up. You see he kinda puts his pockets over and he, like, walks a little way away. Jawbone goes,

2:07:00 Jawbone: Hey there, Kristen. Arthur, we're gonna maybe need the room, bud.

2:07:05 Brennan: And you see Arthur says,

2:07:05 Aguefort: Huh? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go for a walk, I don't feel good.

2:07:10 Brennan: He walks out of the room.

2:07:10 Kristen: Is he gonna be okay?

2:07:13 Brennan: Jawbone looks and says,

2:07:13 Jawbone: Ah, he fucked up. You can't do that, you can't go do a one man war.

2:07:15 Kristen: Yeah. (Lou laughs)

2:07:18 Jawbone: On a whole place, and get real big and grab the sun.

2:07:24 Kristen: Yeah, especially if you're about to get impeached. Okay, so, hey Jawbone, I wanted to talk to you. So, I'm having problems with Tracker. I feel like she got really mad at me about something that I didn't think was that big of a deal, but then I just think that made her even more mad, that I wasn't really listening to her.

2:07:45 Jawbone: Okay. Well what was the thing that you were--

2:07:49 Kristen: Well now, this is another whole element to it, 'cause it was something about you, but I kinda want her to tell you. Is there a way to have this conversation without me telling you what the specific thing was?

2:08:01 Brennan: You see he kinda smiles and says,

2:08:03 Jawbone: Well, Kristen, I gotta say, my interest is pretty piqued.

2:08:07 Kristen: Yeah, definitely.

2:08:08 Jawbone: But I'm not gonna make you say anything you don't wanna say, I'll try to weigh in and be as helpful as I can without all the details.

2:08:16 Kristen: See, the next day, something scary happened and she was still mad at me, and I said, "I thought you slept it off." And she didn't like that.

2:08:25 Jawbone: Okay. You guys were in a fight.

2:08:27 Kristen: Mm-hmm.

2:08:29 Jawbone: You feel like you can't say the right things, and you thought she would just sleep it off?

2:08:34 Kristen: I thought maybe that would happen.

2:08:35 Jawbone: And you told her that.

2:08:36 Kristen: Yeah, I said it to her.

2:08:40 Jawbone: Huh. Well. Kristen, I think that the only mistake you can really make in a relationship is treating the other person sort of like a means to an end rather than kind of an end in themselves, does that make sense?

2:08:58 Kristen: That doesn't, yeah.

2:09:02 Jawbone: What is the thing you don't like about Tracker being mad at you?

2:09:08 Kristen: I guess she's like really distant, and she doesn't wanna, you know, she's really upset with me. She keeps like, you know.

2:09:11 Jawbone: Mm-hmm.

2:09:14 Kristen: She's like unbelievable.

2:09:18 Jawbone: Yeah.

2:09:19 Kristen: But you know her so well, so I tried to pick some flowers, like so cheesy, but something better than that, something like that to like--

2:09:26 Jawbone: Well, let me ask you a question. Try to answer as honestly as you can. Did you pick flowers for Tracker because you wanted her to start being nice to you again and to get over it?

2:09:43 Kristen: Mm-hmm, interesting, yeah.

2:09:44 Jawbone: That sound kinda true?

2:09:45 Kristen: Probably, yeah.

2:09:48 Jawbone: You know, this is hard, this level of enlightenment and awareness is not something that everyone's just naturally good at, it's work and effort  what I would probably say is, people can sense when people are trying to manipulate them to feel a certain way, and as unfortunate as it is, if you had gotten her flowers because you actually were sad that she was sad, it would've probably meant a very different thing than getting flowers to try and sweep the problem under the rug.

2:10:09 Kristen: Hmm.

2:10:31 Jawbone: And I know it's hard because, look, when someone we love is mad at us, we want to go into panic mode and we're defensive, and nobody likes to feel wrong or like we did something bad. But to the best of your ability, if you can honor Tracker's emotions for their own sake, you're gonna be a better partner to her. Like, if your main concern when she's mad or upset is that she's mad and upset and you wanna help address the thing that she has a problem with, for her sake, that's gonna be better than coming from a place of panic and just wanting to--

2:10:52 Kristen: Totally.

2:11:14 Jawbone: Just wanting to get her back to where she's the most fun for you.

2:11:21 Kristen: Totally, yeah, totally, yeah. Hmm.

2:11:25 Jawbone: Right? So why do you think Tracker was mad?

2:11:29 Kristen: Yeah, yeah, it's just--

2:11:32 Jawbone: 'Cause you gotta have that level of empathy. You gotta be able to look at your partner and say--

2:11:35 Kristen: I think that's totally true, yeah. I think she was really upset about something that I thought wasn't necessarily, it was more, I heard some information that was very pertinent to her, and she was the last person I told it to.

2:11:48 Jawbone: Oh, okay, I gotcha. Well, you know, people make mistakes. But I think that you owe it to Tracker, if you wanna patch things up, to understand that that's not her values. Now, you know, secret keeping is a hard, tricky thing. There could be instances where it's important to keep a secret from your partner, you know. Nothing's set in stone. But you know now about Tracker that for her, having full transparency and trust between the two of you is something that really matters to her.

2:12:27 Kristen: Definitely.

2:12:28 Jawbone: And maybe the thing to communicate is that you didn't know that before and you do know that now. The one thing it wouldn't be fair to Tracker to be mad about is for you to have not known something that isn't natural to you. If you think keeping secrets from someone is not a big deal, that's not your fault, that's just something that now you have to learn and grow and evolve.

2:12:48 Kristen: Yeah, totally.

2:12:49 Jawbone: Right?

2:12:50 Kristen: Cool. Cool, well, thank you, Jawbone.

2:12:54 Jawbone: Appreciate it. How's spring break going? Adventure going good?

2:12:57 Kristen: Oh, it's great, yeah. All the guys are burned, and—

2:12:59 Jawbone: That sounds normal.

2:13:00 Kristen: Yeah, and we're just having a good time with all the elves who are like silky. (Murph laughs)

2:13:07 Jawbone: Elves kinda are silky.

2:13:08 Kristen: They are, everything about them.

2:13:10 Jawbone: I traveled around a lot, I met a lot of very silky elves.

2:13:12 Kristen: Yeah.

2:13:12 Jawbone: It's kinda the right word.

2:13:13 Murph: I have to pee too bad to listen to this conversation. [exits] (cast laughing)

2:13:20 Brennan: You see that Jawbone looks at you and goes,

2:13:22 Jawbone: Well, you know, kiddo, I think you and Tracker work really well together.

2:13:27 Kristen: Mm-hmm.

2:13:31 Jawbone: And I love you--

2:13:32 Kristen: I have a question.

2:13:33 Jawbone: Yeah, sure, go for it.

2:13:34 Kristen: Are you the type of person who thinks like a secret should not be kept from you, and it's a big issue?

2:13:46 Jawbone: In my opinion, hard and fast rules about behavior always tend to have exceptions.

2:13:55 Kristen: True.

2:13:56 Jawbone: So keeping secrets, not keeping secrets, doing stuff, not doing stuff, I think every situation, you just gotta make a call with your heart, for the most part. What I will say is, I think it's usually pretty silly to try and protect people from the truth.

2:14:06 Kristen: Hmm, mm-hmm.

2:14:16 Jawbone: I feel like more harm gets done from people not knowing than from people knowing. In general.

2:14:23 Kristen: I think that's great. Okay, well, can you call me at this time tomorrow again to talk really quick?

2:14:31 Jawbone: I'd be happy to, kiddo.

2:14:32 Kristen: Thanks so much, Jawbone.

2:14:34 Jawbone: Give my love to Tracker.

2:14:35 Kristen: I will.

2:14:36 Jawbone: Give my love to you.

2:14:37 Kristen: Hey. Thank you.

2:14:38 Jawbone: Love you, kiddo.

2:14:39 Kristen: I love you too.

2:14:40 Jawbone: And please give my love to Sandra Lynn too.

2:14:43 Kristen: [nodding] I sure will, I'm definitely gonna talk to her immediately. (cast laughing)

2:14:47 Brennan: He nods, he says,

2:14:47 Jawbone: All right, take care, thanks for checking in, okay?

2:14:50 Kristen: Okay, of course, thank you. Bye, Jawbone.

2:14:54 Brennan: [tiny wolf noise] Little message vanishes. You go off to sleep. The next morning, you all awake in Fallinel. Or except for Fabian, who has danced through the night.

2:15:09 Lou: All night, all night. [sheetdances]

2:15:14 Emily: [laughs] All night.

2:15:19 Brennan: Incredible. As you dance through the night, sun rises and Telemaine watches from the trees, and your grandfather begins to dance with you as the dew assembles on the leaves.

2:15:31 Emily: I'll play little music for them to dance to.

2:15:35 Brennan: Great, on the bass?

2:15:36 Emily: Yeah.

2:15:37 Brennan: Under the new (mumbles). Ayda is just completely passed out, she is deep, deep sleep, you guys were up all night talking. Telemaine looks at you and says,

2:15:50 Telemine: I danced for so many years in these glades and meadows with your mother.

2:15:56 Fabian: I understand why now. I've never danced before. It feels so right. It is who I am.

2:16:05 Telemine: It is, my grandson. To feel the movement of your body and the grass, the leaves of the trees. You belong here, Fabian.

2:16:19 Fabian: Part of me does, Grandfather, of course. But I mean, I can't stay here. I have to go with my friends. We have to defeat the Nightmare King.

2:16:36 Telemine: It is a cruel world beyond these shores. I would see such beautiful children have to do stuff. You should not have to do stuff. You should instead be ever in these meadows, eating grapes and dancing around, dancing around forever.

2:17:03 Fabian: Maybe I'll come back one day.

2:17:05 Telemine: Please come back.

2:17:06 Fabian: And dance a little more.

2:17:08 Telemine: I only wish for you to dance ever a little more, my grandson. Eat this. [grabs a flower and gives it to Fabian] (cast laughing)

2:17:18 Gorgug: Don't, it's gross!

2:17:19 Fabian: Mm.

2:17:19 Murph: It's just a regular flower.

2:17:21 Fabian: It's very good.

2:17:22 Telemine: Thank you.

2:17:24 Brennan: He glides away. You guys assemble that morning, your party all together. Ayda is still here with you, your hirelings are all here, and in the morning as you come out of trance, Adaine, you open your eyes and you see a very sick and shivering Aelwyn. It looks like she has not recovered. [calm elven music]

2:17:56 Siobhan: Are there any kind of, like a hot spring or something that I can take her down to and just get her cleaned up?

2:18:07 Brennan: Yes, absolutely. There are some elven healers who wash Aelwyn, and you see—

2:18:16 Siobhan: I'm gonna stay by her side, I don't wanna leave her alone.

2:18:19 Brennan: You stay there, Telemine looks at you and says,

2:18:23 Telemine: We would be happy to keep your sister here, if you wish.

2:18:29 Adaine: It's up to her.

2:18:33 Brennan: You stay by her side. Her eyes flicker open. She looks at you and goes,

2:18:41 Aelwyn: Adaine?

2:18:43 Adaine: Aelwyn.

2:18:44 Aelwyn: [barely audible] We're out of the tower.

2:18:46 Adaine: We're out of the tower.

2:18:51 Aelwyn: Did… did we escape or did we die?

2:18:54 Adaine: No, we escaped.

2:18:55 Aelwyn: Good.

2:18:56 Adaine: We're alive.

2:19:03 Aelwyn: I… I didn't really take care of you.

2:19:09 Adaine: No, but that's okay, I'm gonna take care of you now.

2:19:13 Brennan: She puts out a hand, and a very feeble shield surrounds you, and you see she goes,

2:19:22 Aelwyn: [strained] I don't remember everything.

2:19:25 Adaine: That's okay. Don't worry about it. It's okay, you don't have to do anything right now but get better.

2:19:34 Aelwyn: Okay.

2:19:37 Brennan: Give me an Insight check with advantage, be so kind.

2:19:44 Siobhan: 16? Yeah, 16.

2:19:47 Brennan: You see like a look of confusion or something in her eyes, and you sense that like, she is having trouble navigating her own mind, that there's something changed or different about her mind. There's something going on within her thoughts that is confusing and upsetting.

2:20:15 Siobhan: Can I give her Boggy to hold?

2:20:17 Brennan: Yes.

2:20:18 Siobhan: And, hmm. Can I, as a ritual, cast Detect Magic on her?

2:20:25 Brennan: Yes, you can. You cast Detect Magic. As you cast Detect Magic on her, there is a faint aura of enchantment magic somewhere around her, but it's deep and well-hidden. You find it, only the faintest whisper of it. But there's something going on in her mind.

2:20:59 Siobhan: Can I cast Detect Thoughts on her?

2:21:02 Brennan: You cast Detect Thoughts, start to move through her mind. The torture has had a profound corrosive effect on Aelwyn's well-being, and her memory is really warped and hurt. As you're casting Detect Thoughts and looking through her, you see, it's almost like a vision to you. You're like walking through her mind, and you see, it's like a city that's been like razed to the ground or bombed out, and you see all of these walls and defenses and like battlements, with like, magical arcane towers that have all like crumbled, and you look at these like intense arcane defenses everywhere, and recognize like, your sister's personality. Like, the horrible, mean, wicked, sarcastic, you see the wreckage of that, and it is like the ringed walls of a great city. And you're walking through this weird, vulnerable labyrinth of images, and most of what you see is like, deep self-loathing, and a lot of the memories of self-loathing, you see memories that you don't remember, from this perspective, of you being like, scorned and chided and dismissed by your parents and actively like cast aside into second place, and you see your sister there, and you never remembered your sister doing anything heroic, interceding on your behalf, doing anything, but what you see now in all these moments is Aelwyn's loathing of herself for never saying anything, this natural like, abjurative instinct, and overpowering, the thing that is more powerful than that self-loathing is her fear of your parents. Of just not wanting to put herself in front of them. And then of course that cowardice feeds directly back into the self-loathing, which feeds back, back, back, over and over again, through as many memories as exist throughout your childhood. A horrible acknowledgment that she was the golden child, and as long as she never fucked up, she would never have to face what you faced. In the center of this labyrinth, you find an intense magical charm, and it's wrapped up, and it's all of Aelwyn's abjurations mixed with that faint enchantment that you can see, and you get the sense that in that orb, they had been searching for this over and over and over again. And you see there's writing on the outside of this, and it says,

2:24:31 Aelwyn’s Thoughts: Despite all of the torment and tribulation, let this be proof, I always knew there was only one person clever enough to find this.

2:24:46 Siobhan: I touch it.

2:24:49 Brennan: Do you attempt to dispel this effect?

2:24:53 Siobhan: Will it work? Does it seem like it will work without dispelling her own magic?

2:24:59 Brennan: It seems like you can trigger this with a dispelling action, and it will do what Aelwyn intended it to do.

2:25:06 Siobhan: Then yes. (booms)

2:25:08 Brennan: You are shunted out through the city. I'm going to describe something very heartbreaking now.

2:25:17 Siobhan: Oh no.

2:25:21 Brennan: Aelwyn's mind returns. The version of her mind she saved before all of this happened. You feel that your sister is no longer broken. The memory of herself, the version of her mind, using that custom Modify Memory spell, (whooshes) comes back, (whooshes), as you are now once again in your own body standing next to her, and you see a very physically feeble Aelwyn go,

2:26:11 Aelwyn: [gripping her head and shouting] ...Adaine. [a smirk grows on her face] Little sister.

2:26:17 Brennan: That's all for this week on Fantasy High.

2:26:19 Siobhan: [whispered] Fuck.

2:26:21 Ally: Get outta here!

2:26:22 Siobhan: [slams the table] Eat your goddamn dice, Brennan!

2:26:25 Brennan: I got my sugar dice right here.

2:26:26 Ally: Aww.

2:26:28 Brennan: Guys, that's all for this week on Fantasy High. Tune in next week, we will see you guys then. Thank you as always for watching.

2:26:28 Siobhan: God dammit.

2:26:28 Lou: Chett, Chett. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 11: Revelations & Revivifications]

2:26:28 Edited by: gluegunshots, Finley Sweets, rowan solsys