Revelations & Revivifications

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 11: Revelations & Revivifications < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan, I'm your humble Dungeon Master. With me as always, our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:06 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:08 Brennan: Except for one of our intrepid heroes, who's on the 101 right now! (laughing)

0:00:14 Siobhan: Roast him!

0:00:15 Emily: He said he forgot about tonight.

0:00:16 Siobhan: Yeah, he was like, "Oh, is it Wednesday?"

0:00:17 Ally: He said he was microwaving a quesadilla and then was like, "Oh, I gotta get there."

0:00:23 Siobhan: "Oh, the traffic in L.A.!"

0:00:25 Brennan: I guess for some people, you know, adventure's less important than, you know--

0:00:29 Emily: Wow, wow. (laughter)

0:00:29 Brennan: Yeah, exactly. Guys, this is Dimension 20 Live. Zac Oyama's gonna be here any minute now. But, the show must go on! And so, here we are, back in the world of Spire, following the Bad Kids, a group of teen adventurers from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, the world's premier high school for heroes. We find ourselves midway through their spring break project to retrieve the lost crown of the Nightmare King that has brought them to the elven nation of Fallinel, after rescuing their party member, Adaine Abernant, and her former villain in season one, sister, Aelwyn Abernant from Calethriel Tower, our heroes have found themselves back in Kei Lumennura, the ancestral lands of Fabian Seacaster's mother's side of the family, (laughing) a place where the rowdy teens of Fallinel are banished until they get sad and wistful, as all elves should be. We awaken the following morning with our various heroes. We've had, Fig Faeth had a slumber party with party ally, Ayda Aguefort.

0:01:41 Ally: Aw.

0:01:42 Siobhan: Cute.

0:01:43 Brennan: Kristen Applebees's still in the doghouse.

0:01:47 Ally: Absolutely, yeah.

0:01:48 Brennan: Riz Gukgak and Gorgug Thistlespring kept a watchful eye over Fabian Seacaster who danced all night long.

0:01:54 Murph: Danced the night away. Lou starts waving his arms around in a beautiful dance.

0:01:57 Brennan: After a powerful discovery in his relationship to the elven magic of dance, and a kiss with a fire elemental.

0:02:05 Emily: You are so loose.

0:02:07 Ally: Yeah, wow!

0:02:08 Lou: This is the dance, right? It's just loose.

0:02:10 Emily: You really are one of those--

0:02:11 Ally: Lou just drinks Mai Tais before the camera rolls.

0:02:14 Lou: Yeah, what's up, guys? This cup ain't full of water. (laughing)

0:02:19 Brennan: And of course, Adaine and Aelwyn slept arm in arm. The last we truly left off was a heartbreaking moment where our dear Adaine Abernant went into the mind of her sister to find a charm, an enchantment locked away, bound in Aelwyn's natural abjurative magic saying, "Despite all the torment and tribulation, let this be proof I always knew there was just one person clever enough to find this," and having dispelled it, Adaine reset Aelwyn's memory to a version Aelwyn had created. Basically, at some point during her capture or after you guys had defeated her in your freshman year, she created a backup version of her mind far from where anyone but Adaine could find it, and after all of the heartbreak that Adaine had found in her sister's mind, Aelwyn, as you remember her from freshman year has had that version of her mind restored.

0:03:31 Siobhan: I couldn't have one nice day with my sister?

0:03:35 Brennan: [looking directly into the camera] No. No, you couldn't. (laughing)

0:03:38 Siobhan: He's all the bad guys.

0:03:39 Brennan: I am all the bad guys. (laughing) We return now, and I wanna ask for the rest of you who are waking up that morning, I guess we'll start with Kristen and Fig. Fig, you awaken next to Ayda, who has naturally curled her bird-like legs up against her chest. She gets extremely hot while she sleeps, just kinda like an ember burning kind of sensation. Little trails of smoke come out of her nostrils.

0:04:27 Ayda: (heavy breathing) (squawking) [jerks her head] Ah, I was unconscious.

0:04:31 Fig: No, I think you were asleep.

0:04:33 Ayda: Right, right. That's what I mean.

0:04:35 Fig: Right, same difference. Good caw.

0:04:37 Ayda: Thank you.

0:04:37 Fig: Yeah.

0:04:39 Ayda: Now that we're awake, is the sleepover still happening or is that considered concluded now?

0:04:44 Fig: You know what? I'm glad you asked. Let's keep the sleepover going throughout the day.

0:04:49 Ayda: Okay, I don't fully understand, but I'm going to basically take your lead and follow along.

0:04:52 Fig: Cool.

0:04:54 Ayda: Does this mean I have to remain in my night garb, or can I put on my normal daytime clothes?

0:05:01 Fig: You know, the thing is, at a sleepover you could sleep in your daytime clothes. So, sleepover, the wardrobe is kinda do as whatever feels right to you.

0:05:10 Ayda: Okay, things rarely feel 100% right to me. I’m very self-critical.

0:05:14 Fig: You don't have any outfit that feels good to you?

0:05:16 Ayda: I have outfits that feel good to me, but I worry about whether other people will like that. Does that make sense?

0:05:27 Fig: Okay, well first off, everything you're wearing everyone's been liking.

0:05:30 Ayda: Fantastic.

0:05:31 Fig: Yeah.

0:05:31 Ayda: God, what a huge success.

0:05:33 Fig: Yeah.

0:05:33 Ayda: Good.

0:05:34 Fig: It's definitely been a success. So, you know what? I think you should go out on a limb and put on something that you like that you think other people won't like.

0:05:45 Brennan: You see, she just fully starts sweating and goes,

0:05:47 Ayda: And you would like that?

0:05:50 Fig: Okay. I mean, yes, I would like that, but don't do it 'cause of that.

0:05:54 Ayda: Okay, you've constructed a hellish riddle. (laughing)

0:06:01 Ayda: Okay, I'm going to attempt to solve the dilemma you've put in front of me, and I am going to go eat. I am hungry, so I am going to go get food.

0:06:10 Fig: Yeah.

0:06:11 Ayda: And, I'm not doing that 'cause I think you'll like that. I just need to eat. Is that a success?

0:06:15 Fig: (laughing) Do you think it's a success?

0:06:17 Ayda: Okay, this is hell.

0:06:18 Brennan: (laughing) She walks out of the room. Kristen, you awaken in another section of the Hangvan, waking back by yourself once again.

0:06:36 Ally: Yeah, I think-- You know, I've been in the doghouse for a long time, and I would like to start taking steps to get out. So, I think I'm just gonna kinda-- are the books that we got out of the vault in the van with us?

0:06:51 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:06:52 Ally: I'm just gonna kinda start reading those and seeing if I can find anything helpful or interesting. I would like to maybe investigate those.

0:07:04 Brennan: Give me a Religion check.

0:07:06 Ally: Oh! That's advantage, baby.

0:07:08 Lou: That’s gonna be a Religion check!

0:07:13 Ally: Mmm! Mmm! You love to see it. That is a 22.

0:07:17 Brennan: 22. Ally accidentally rolls a die over to Lou but they quickly wrangle it.

0:07:17 Ally: [to the die] Get away from there.

0:07:20 Lou: [waves the die away] Shoo shoo.

0:07:23 Brennan: Okay. So, your proactivity in the Compass Points Library, having grabbed that pirate-esque Tomb Raider's Guide to a lot of stuff. The book you took from Arianwen's research, so the book you grabbed when the tower was about to collapse, which was the big religious text has a lot of seemingly contradictory stuff, and the text you have now is a lot older. So, what you find in this text cross-referenced to what you got from the Compass Points is pretty damn intense. You find a religious text manufactured by high elven clerics of Galicaea, who is the Goddess of the Moon, the same goddess that Tracker worships, right? Obviously, Track-- [turns his head] Zac skulks in behind Brennan.

0:08:27 Brennan: Oh! [the cast collectively makes the “ooh” after someone gets called to the principal’s/headmaster’s office]

0:08:27 Ally: Oh, look who it is!

0:08:29 Brennan: Okay!

0:08:29 Lou: How was that quesadilla?

0:08:31 Emily: Late to class!

0:08:32 Zac: Ooh, it was so melty.

0:08:32 Murph: That was pretty late to take a nap. (laughing)

0:08:35 Zac: Yeah, well, I had my alarm set, but the quesadilla shorted out the-- (laughing)

0:08:41 Ally: Have you been listening live?

0:08:43 Zac: No. (laughing)

0:08:45 Brennan: Incredible. Hey, it's live, baby. We live streamin'.

0:08:51 Zac: As you were saying, Tracker was--

0:08:52 Brennan: [laughs] Tracker is a cleric of Galicaea, as well, the Goddess of the Moon. What you observe, or I guess what you glean from this book, is these are an assembled number of texts and epistles from high elven clerics of the Goddess of the Moon. [gentle Skype ringtone starts playing]

0:09:15 Brennan: As they were basically keeping-- [gentle Skype ringtone persists]

0:09:22 Brennan: Sorry, one second. [Emily laughs]

0:09:22 Ally: Are you being Skyped right now?

0:09:24 Brennan: I am being Skyped at this present moment.

0:09:25 Siobhan: I thought that was somebody’s phone but that’s you being Skyped!

0:09:26 Lou: This is live, baby!

0:09:28 Ally: That's right, baby. That’s right!

0:09:30 Siobhan: Brennan! Everybody's unprofessional today.

0:09:32 Zac: [pointing towards Brennan] This is the thing now, right? [casts laughs]

0:09:33 Ally: Yeah.

0:09:34 Brennan: So sorry. (laughing) Just going to--

0:09:36 Lou: Did you schedule an interview for this time?

0:09:39 Brennan: I'm so sorry.

0:09:40 Siobhan: Wow.

0:09:40 Brennan: I'm getting Skyped. Please, nobody Skype me.

0:09:42 Lou: Get Skyped.

0:09:45 Siobhan: Everybody who has Brennan's Skype, please Skype him right now.

0:09:49 Brennan: I get phone calls-- whatever way I get contacted, my computer makes a million noises about it, and I can't make it stop.

0:09:59 Siobhan: Ta ta ta!

0:09:59 Brennan: So, what you find is that these high elven clerics have recorded a number of texts and epistles from nearly a millennia ago, like roughly 850 years ago.

0:10:11 Ally: Whoa.

0:10:13 Brennan: Or, between 850 and 900 years ago, immediately following, during, and around the time period of the last great Sylvan War, the time where all of the tribes of Sylvaire, centaurs, treants, sprites, and wood elves were in combat. The different similar references to gods of the tribes you find in these more ancient texts appear to refer to a united goddess of Sylvaire that in these texts are referred to almost as a younger sister of the Goddess of the Moon, of Galicaea. You find no reference to the name of this goddess anywhere in the text, but from what you can see, the unifying principles of this one sole goddess of Sylvaire was that she was primarily a Goddess of Mystery, and as you start to read about this there are literal references in these books to what these high elven clerics call the Sylvairian Heresy, which is that a lot of the gospel of this goddess, because she was a Goddess of Mystery, and sort of mystery and also night and magic, sort of like the mysteries of nighttime an the mysteries of the unknown and the mysteries of magic itself, but a lot of her gospel and doctrine was about the idea of mystery and being praised or worshiped through doubt, through a love of the unknown; and obviously the moment that Kristen reads that, it's kind of an intense moment here.

0:12:11 Kristen: That's me. Praise through doubt? I can do that.

0:12:18 Brennan: There are texts within here that are epistles from these high elven hierarchs that basically a lot of the motivation of the last Sylvan War was religious differences between the tribes about what the correct way to worship their shared Goddess of Mystery and the night was, and these high elven clerics came in to broker a truce, and basically said, “You are committing a heresy because your goddess has definitive facts about which there can be disagreement," and it looks like these high elves, as a part of their clergy, advised the tribes they were counseling through being a third party mediating this truce, advised them to, through official doctrine and through basically a combination of a council and a ritual act of divine magic, were basically advising the tribes of Sylvaire to destroy their goddess's name, destroy your goddess's name because the fact that she has a name is somehow a heresy because she's a Goddess of Mystery and she shouldn't therefore have a name. There shouldn't be things that are understood about her because any hard and concrete facts about her would of course be a heresy. So, this sort of weird logical, theological position, and you see that there are texts bound into the tome that Arianwen had collected, which were not included in these original tomes or doctrines that are ancient scrolls and messages from the clergy of Fallinel at the time that seem to suggest that their advisement that the tribes band together perform this ceremony and destroy or unmake-- they never use the word “destroy”. They always are very careful to use kinder terms than that. “Unmake”, right? “Release” or “free” or “liberate” the name of this goddess in the correspondence between the clergy themselves and time. There is some indication that this advice may not have been... in good faith on the part of the high elven clergy, that there may have been an agreement between the high elven clerics of Galicaea that this could be something they could do to weaken the position of that other goddess and create a possibility for their church to expand into Sylvaire.

0:15:12 Ally: Whoa.

0:15:16 Brennan: And, that is what you on a 22 Religion check--

0:15:21 Ally: Wow. Damn.

0:15:22 Brennan: Some really intense stuff.

0:15:26 Siobhan: Cool.

0:15:30 Brennan: Riz and Gorgug, you guys have dew on your body, the sun has come up and you've kind of awakened and see Fabian-- Lou starts dancing again. [Emily cracks up]

0:15:43 Brennan: In the morning light, just dance, dance, dancing away.

0:15:49 Gorgug: Right where we left him.

0:15:51 Murph: I wake up doing that nodding bearded dude meme, just looking at Fabian. [nods]

0:15:56 Brennan: Just like-- [laughing] [nodding]

0:15:58 Riz: [nodding] Yeah.

0:16:00 Brennan: The Robert Redford.

0:16:01 Murph: Yeah, exactly.

0:16:01 Brennan: The one where he gave the quick nod. Yeah. (laughing)

0:16:05 Riz: He's really doing it. I don't know what, but it.

0:16:10 Gorgug: Whatever he's doing, he believes in it.

0:16:12 Fabian: Good morning! [Zac laughs]

0:16:14 Riz: He's back, baby. [Zac and Murph laugh]

0:16:18 Gorgug: Good morning.

0:16:21 Brennan: Beautiful. Fabian, as you get your body experiencing a full-state exhaustion euphoria from-- You just feel so connected to your body, so like warm and alive and passionate, and as you look up at the dawn light and the dew aligns across the grass, walking across the grass, the leaves, the grass not even bending in approach of her footsteps, in her black on black kimono with some chunky travel sunglasses and a huge purse is your mother.

0:17:06 Lou: What?

0:17:07 Brennan: Hallariel Seacaster.

0:17:10 Lou: I stop dancing.

0:17:14 Brennan: As you begin to stop, she drops her purse, removes her chunky sunglasses, [squints her eyes] blearily at the sun, folds them, and goes,

0:17:26 Hallariel: Never on my account. [Ally, Emily, and Lou laugh]

0:17:28 Brennan: And begins to [dances like Fabian] takes a huge sheet out of her purse, begins to dance.

0:17:39 Gorgug: Are the sheets necessary?

0:17:41 Riz: I guess she brought them with her?

0:17:42 Gorgug: Okay.

0:17:43 Fabian: Mother, you always had a sheet?

0:17:50 Hallariel: I always did, and never knew.

0:17:54 Fabian: Okay.

0:17:54 Hallariel: I can't explain through words. I can only explain through the dance.

0:18:03 Brennan: You see that Cathilda, who has gotten back into her trainers and gray sweats, comes out full weeping, and she can't dance like you two can dance, but she just does full sprints and then leaps [spreads his arms] [Lou laughing]

0:18:18 Brennan: Around the edge of the meadow as you guys continue to dance, just full weeping.

0:18:25 Emily: I gotta play music along with this. (laughing)

0:18:28 Lou: We're having a party here.

0:18:32 Brennan: Fig comes out and--

0:18:33 Emily: Like some Explosions in the Sky, Friday Night Lights kinda music. (laughing)

0:18:37 Emily: Really ambient.

0:18:39 Fig: This is more ambient than I usually do, just so everyone knows.

0:18:42 Riz: I didn't feel super comfortable with dancing like an elf, 'cause I don't think I could pull it off, but I can do this.

0:18:47 Murph: I follow Cathilda and I freak out.

0:18:49 Brennan: Start freaking out along with your--

0:18:51 Murph: Real nerd kid, like really aggressive. [starts skanking] (laughing)

0:18:56 Ally: Like you're running to lunch, like the bell just rang.

0:18:58 Murph: Yeah, just like the ska-- Just like a ska kid freaking out.

0:19:02 Fabian: Yes, The Ball. Feel it.

0:19:04 Riz: I feel it. I'm skanking. I'm skanking.

0:19:06 Fig: Get in there, Ayda. Get in there.

0:19:07 Fabian: Skank, The Ball. Skank.

0:19:08 Ally: I take out a— [they mimic playing a flute] (laughing)

0:19:09 Brennan: Ayda goes in and just looks immediately, just,

0:19:13 Ayda: Dance? You want me to dance?

0:19:14 Fig: Yeah, get into it.

0:19:17 Brennan: She just starts rhythmically stamping her talons back and forth and kind of, yknow,

0:19:19 Fig: Hell, yeah.

0:19:21 Brennan: And bobbing. (laughing)

0:19:23 Zac: Gorgug picks up Riz and starts-- [imitates Lou’s arm waving] (laughing)

0:19:27 Fabian: Yes! Yes! The dance is freeing us all.

0:19:32 Brennan: Telemaine comes out and has completely disrobed, except for a huge ritual silk diaper.

0:19:40 Lou: What have I done?

0:19:40 Zac: Silk diaper?

0:19:42 Brennan: You know kinda like sumo where it's like made--

0:19:44 Murph: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

0:19:45 Brennan: It's not really a--

0:19:45 Siobhan: Yeah, you know.

0:19:47 Brennan: It's like silk ropes and bound and there's some spikes of fabric coming off of it. He comes out and you see he has this huge moss-covered, perfectly spherical stone and he's just doing contact juggling with it on his naked body. (Lou laughs and claps)

0:20:06 Ally: You're at Burning Man. (laughing)

0:20:10 Lou: Full Burning Man.

0:20:10 Emily: Ooh, I got my wa-wa pedal going on my bass. [wa-was] (laughing)

0:20:15 Brennan: He contact juggles it over to Hallariel. It becomes immediately clear the way they're weeping in deep eye contact that they haven't spoken and she hasn't returned in a long, long time. It's just a beautiful continuing dance, and finally, as the sun rises, naturally it just fades into-- The dance quiets and Hallariel and Telemaine end up on the ground and you see that Hallariel invites you in the dance to come until the three of you, the three generations of this family, your heads are all right next to each other, staring up into the sky together as the clouds move. And, you see that Telemaine looks up and goes,

0:21:12 Telemaine: [softly] That cloud looks like a song.

0:21:17 Brennan: And you see Hallariel in Elvish goes-- (Brennan’s phone ringing)

0:21:21 Brennan: You gotta be kidding me. [cast laughs]

0:21:21 Lou: No!

0:21:25 Ally: Aquarius season.

0:21:26 Lou: Wow.

0:21:26 Siobhan: Whoaaa. Did she get a call?

0:21:29 Brennan: If there was a cell tower.

0:21:30 Lou: Is the song played on the marimba and just very--

0:21:33 Brennan: Marimba. She looks up and begins to describe, as well, what different clouds look like with no formal greeting between her and her father, and after a certain amount of time passes, Telemaine stands and says,

0:21:56 Telemaine: My daughter has returned. The feast shall be laid out in her honor. That you have come here is the greatest honor in the past hundred hundred years.

0:22:11 Brennan: And you see Hallariel looks over and goes,

0:22:13 Hallariel: [shaking her head] I was here 18 years ago. It's not been that long.

0:22:18 Fabian: Because he has a weird thing about time. He'll say things are gonna get done, like, tomorrow, but tomorrow is like 60 years.

0:22:25 Hallariel: [nodding and waving her hands] I'm glad you've gotten to spend some time with your grandfather.

0:22:27 Fabian: He's fun.

0:22:30 Brennan: You see that Cathilda walks up and you see that Hallariel looks at Cathilda, gives her a kiss on both cheeks, and looks at you, Fabian, and says,

0:22:44 Hallariel: I think I'm going to go on a walk with Cathilda and have a little talk. You're welcome to come if you'd like, Fabian.

0:22:50 Fabian: I would like to.

0:22:51 Brennan: And, you guys go to walk throughout the grottoes and gardens together and Hallariel just goes into detail, talking about different memories of growing up here and just doing the things that a mom would do if she had taken her son to where she grew up.

0:23:07 Fabian: Did you eat the grapes, mother?

0:23:09 Hallariel: So many grapes.

0:23:09 Fabian: Really?

0:23:12 Hallariel: Yes.

0:23:13 Fabian: I've never ate one. [clears throat] They just suppress how horny you are? Is that really it? It it just, it brings--

0:23:23 Hallariel: Darling, Fabian. The grapes don't work.

0:23:26 Fabian: What?

0:23:28 Hallariel: They don't. They are supposed to suppress the innate horniness of the youths here, and boy, let me tell you, it does not work.

0:23:41 Fabian: Oh.

0:23:42 Hallariel: I grew up here and basically, the adults were like, "The grapes are definitely working.” (laughing)

0:23:53 Hallariel: And, I can just promise you I, again, grew up here. I wasn't sent here. I grew up here, and when I was 16, 17 here on the grounds of the grotto, let me tell ya, a wild time.

0:24:12 Brennan: She touches your cheek.

0:24:12 Hallariel: A wild time.

0:24:15 Fabian: I can imagine.

0:24:15 Hallariel: Yes. (Ally laughing)

0:24:17 Fabian: People seem very rowdy.

0:24:19 Hallariel: Yes, of course. It's a bad plan to take all the teens and put them in a place with extremely few adults around. Telemaine, he's not-- My dad's not checking up on these kids. He's wandering around, grabbing flowers, and turning into sand. He's not-- It's a bad plan. (laughing)

0:24:41 Hallariel: It's a bad plan for sure. Teens should, in an ideal world, if you wanted to stop the nonsense, you would keep teens away from each other. Kinda crazy to get all those hormones in the same spot, all cooped up like that.

0:24:57 Fabian: Yeah, sure. I don't think it's a bad thing that all the teens are together.

0:25:01 Hallariel: No.

0:25:01 Fabian: Doing stuff.

0:25:03 Hallariel: No. Not at all.

0:25:03 Fabian: It's kinda like our school, but--

0:25:05 Hallariel: It's kind of like Aguefort. Exactly, darling. Yes.

0:25:11 Brennan: She continues to walk with you and we are going to cut over to the hot springs right now where Adaine, you are gazing right now at your sister, Aelwyn, who is still in her body, but is otherwise very possessed again of her demeanor that you recognize. [somber piano music]

0:25:46 Aelwyn: [taking in her surroundings] Oh, my. Well, we're in Fallinel. That much is obvious.

0:25:54 Adaine: [quietly] Do you not remember?

0:25:58 Aelwyn: I'm afraid I remember everything up until I stashed my mind away where those elves couldn't find it. But, I'm afraid the recent events, although I'm not sure how recent the events are, is gone. I can assume because I am in this nice hot tub and you just found what you found that I am not in immediate danger of being killed by you. Is that a fair assessment?

0:26:39 Adaine: Depends on whether I'm about to be killed by you.

0:26:45 Brennan: You see that she sorta looks around and says,

0:26:48 Aelwyn: It doesn't seem like anyone's casting any spells. So, that's an exciting development. Feel free to catch me up to speed, if you'd like.

0:27:05 Adaine: I need you to look. I need you to see. I need you to look in my mind and see what happened to you.

0:27:15 Aelwyn: Ah. You wish for me to see a degree—

0:27:19 Brennan: And she looks at her hands, looks at her reflection in the water and goes,

0:27:27 Aelwyn: Ah. I've been very badly tortured. Is that correct?

0:27:31 Adaine: I need you to know what they did to you so you don't go back to them.

0:27:38 Aelwyn: Back to who?

0:27:40 Adaine: To them, to our parents!

0:27:43 Aelwyn: Ah.

0:27:45 Adaine: What do you mean, "ah?"

0:27:50 Aelwyn: You should understand, Adaine, that our-- [frowns] All right. I am obviously at a disadvantage in this conversation because there is a great deal of information you have that I don't. So, before I look into your mind, why don't you just briefly explain what the most urgent pieces of information are? I assume you retrieved me from some sort of elven custody. Last thing I remember was I was being broken out of prison in Elmville by elven agents.

0:28:34 Adaine: That was nine months ago. You've been kept awake and aware and unable to do magic for that whole time.

0:28:50 Aelwyn: And—

0:28:51 Adaine: Our father was going to kill me, kill us, I don't know.

0:28:58 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

0:29:04 Siobhan: 10.

0:29:06 Brennan: Gotcha. Aelwyn--

0:29:10 Emily: Do you have the Bardic Inspiration? Didn't I give you a Bardic Inspiration you didn't use.

0:29:12 Siobhan: I used it.

0:29:13 Emily: Oh.

0:29:14 Brennan: Aelwyn looks at you, and as you begin saying that, her gaze kinda wanders over. She says,

0:29:29 Aelwyn: Hmm. Adaine, our parents are not on the same side, the both of them.

0:29:40 Adaine: What?

0:29:42 Aelwyn: There is a great deal going on that I cannot explain right now.

0:29:53 Adaine: No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No.

0:30:02 Aelwyn: Point well made. No, no, no, no, no, no. [Emily laughs]

0:30:06 Aelwyn: Your eloquence, as ever, is legendary.

0:30:09 Adaine: Excuse me for not being the most eloquent person in the world when—

0:30:15 Aelwyn: Well, I've apparently been tortured for nine months and I'm managing quite well.

0:30:17 Adaine: Oh, please. [cast laughs]

0:30:18 Siobhan: [laughing] I cast Ray of Sickness on her. I get throw up in the hot tub.

0:30:26 Brennan: You cast Ray of Sickness on her? Hold on—

0:30:28 Siobhan: I don't. I don't have it stocked.

0:30:29 Brennan: Oh you don’t have-- Gotcha. You see she looks at you and says,

0:30:37 Aelwyn: All right. Anything that I can explain, I will try to. I'm still very feeble and I want to understand the situation to the best of my ability. What is most urgent for us to understand right now? Are we in danger of being found by the elves that took me hostage? Are we—

0:31:08 Adaine: I think it's possible. I think that we should leave as soon as we can. We're still in Fallinel, which means that we're under Fallinel law. It's possible that our father is dead. I don't know. I wasn't really caring that much. Rocks were falling. We needed to leave. He tried to kill me.

0:31:30 Aelwyn: Yes. [sighs]

0:31:32 Adaine: What side is everybody on? Why am I always that last person to find anything out in our family?

0:31:38 Aelwyn: It's rather funny given that you are a diviner. You'd think you'd know things.

0:31:40 Adaine: Oh, yes. All of the jokes about me being a diviner are very funny. (cast laughing)

0:31:46 Brennan: You see that she says,

0:31:50 Aelwyn: Adaine, I can't explain why you're the last to find everything out, but I think perhaps our parents wanted you to prove something to them before they entrusted you with certain information, but that's neither here nor there and a great deal has changed. You are-- I'm trying to think how to phrase this. If nine months have passed, I'm sure that much has changed, and while I'm very glad that I was able to protect my mind from the base crude degradations of the Court of Stars and the elven government, I am a little bit rattled and at a disadvantage. So! You have helped me. We are not currently in the same violent throes that we found ourselves at Ostentatia’s little shindig. You have saved me and I owe you at least a repayment for that favor that you have done me.

0:33:06 Adaine: Well, yes. And also, the many times that you tried to kill me. If you don't remember being tortured, I don't know— I—  You're—

0:33:15 Aelwyn: I tried to kill you one time. Let's not expand it to dozens of times. Let's not rewrite history.

0:33:22 Adaine: Well, and you kidnapped a bunch of girls.

0:33:24 Aelwyn: Were those girls you? That was you?

0:33:26 Adaine: Oh, I'm sorry. Does it make it less bad that it was not me?

0:33:29 Aelwyn: Oh, my goodness. Are the girls dead or are they all fine?

0:33:32 Adaine: Because we saved them.

0:33:33 Aelwyn: Yeah, I thought you were probably gonna do that.

0:33:35 Adaine: Oh, you thought we were probably going to do that?

0:33:36 Aelwyn: I thought you were probably—

0:33:38 Adaine: Yes, of course.

0:33:38 Aelwyn: Listen, you've met—

0:33:40 Adaine: You don't think I can do anything.

0:33:42 Aelwyn: Oh, pish posh. Okay. Clearly, I thought you could find the thing— Look, I'm not gonna sit here and fall into your traps to give you more compliments than I've already given you.

0:33:50 Adaine: I'm the one setting traps.

0:33:52 Aelwyn: You've met Goldenhoard, right? Did you really think that I thought that that guy was, what, going to win?

0:33:59 Adaine: He was a dragon.

0:34:00 Aelwyn: [sarcastically] Oh, no. A dragon.

0:34:00 Adaine: He's a full dragon.

0:34:02 Aelwyn: They're so, what, big? Oh, my god.

0:34:04 Adaine: Yes, they're really big!

0:34:05 Aelwyn: He's so big. He might-- He's gonna burn things one at a time as he, what, flies around?

0:34:12 Adaine: Oh, so you teamed up with him for what? For why?.

0:34:16 Aelwyn: Something of a lark. It's fun.

0:34:18 Siobhan: I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on her.

0:34:25 Brennan: She laughs a little bit too hard and fully passes out. [Emily laughs]

0:34:29 Siobhan: Great.

0:34:29 Brennan: Sinks into the hot tub a little bit. You see that some of the elven staff come over and pluck her, unconscious, out of the water and go,

0:34:41 Staff: [elf voice] Miss Abernant, elven oracle, oracle of people. Where should we deposit your unconscious sister?

0:34:50 Adaine: Put her in the van.

0:34:52 Staff: All right. We shall put her in the van.

0:34:53 Adaine: Into the van.

0:34:57 Brennan: So, the rest of you guys are sort of going about your business. I assume you guys meet back up. You've read this crazy stuff here, Fabian, up to you if you wanna stay on the walk with your mom, and people, you wanna group back up with people.

0:35:09 Emily: Can I just privately ask Telemaine a question?

0:35:12 Brennan: Sure. He's still in his ceremonial, sort of undercarriage cloth.

0:35:20 Emily: Okay. So, I keep my eye level up here.

0:35:23 Brennan: He has that, again, extremely fit, old man body. So, the skin is a little bit looser, but there's a lot of visible muscles. Emily is shaking her head with a slightly disgusted expression. [Lou laughs]

0:35:33 Brennan: Very, just like--

0:35:36 Emily: I take out the gem that Gorthalax is in and I just wanna kinda secretly show it to him and say,

0:35:46 Fig: I was wondering if you know a spell called Plane Shift?

0:35:54 Brennan: He extends his hand to the ruby, takes it, looks at it.

0:36:02 Telemaine: You're asking me if I know the secrets of walking between worlds.

0:36:07 Fig: Yes.

0:36:10 Telemaine: To tread the path beyond as lightly as the mighty deer treads the path of the forest.

0:36:17 Fig: Stealing the words from my lips.

0:36:20 Telemaine: No.

0:36:21 Fig: Oh, fuck. Motherfucker! Are you fucking kidding me?

0:36:25 Emily: I snatch it back.

0:36:27 Brennan: He looks and says,

0:36:29 Telemaine: However, I am the lord of Kei Lumennura. If you were to allow me time to study the gem, I could perhaps find a way to, while it was in my sanctum, open a door from here to the space within the gem.

0:36:56 Fig: [sighs] You are a super nice man who takes a really long time doing stuff. I think I'm gonna hope I run into someone who knows Plane Shift along my way. Thank you for the offer though.

0:37:11 Telemaine: Okay. [thinks] I could just give it a once over, you know, for a few days? Or years? What's shorter?

0:37:27 Fig: Okay. [laughing] I kinda live in the minute, but I'd settle for days.

0:37:35 Telemaine: Okay. Well, I can take a whack at it, and if you want to come get it, then I'll just give it to you, and if I'm taking too long, I'll just stop. But, it's up to you.

0:37:50 Fig: Okay. Give me a second to think about it, and before we leave I'll follow up.

0:37:56 Telemaine: I will be out in the yard, juggling the stone. Brennan waves his arms around. [Siobhan and Ally crack up]

0:38:02 Fig: [unimpressed] You know how to do that, but you can't walk between worlds.

0:38:06 Telemaine: If the worlds were a stone ball and the paths were my arms, and my feet could be up on my arms instead of my hands, then, you know, then that would be something.

0:38:21 Fig: That would be something.

0:38:23 Brennan: Juggle, juggle, roll, off into the woods.

0:38:25 Emily: I pocket my dad. [Ally and Brennan laugh]

0:38:29 Ally: Could I go find Aelwyn in the van really quick?

0:38:34 Brennan: Yeah, you find her in the van. She's unconscious.

0:38:35 Ally: Yeah, can I do a Cure Wounds on her and try to bring her back to consciousness?

0:38:41 Brennan: Yeah. You can go for it. You cast Cure Wounds. It does appear to help her injury somewhat, but she's probably just going through another trance or long rest to get another level of exhaustion off.

0:38:56 Ally: Okay, cool. It can wait. Yeah, that's fine. I’m glad to give her some hit points.

0:39:00 Siobhan: Here's what I would like to do to Aelwyn.

0:39:02 Brennan: Sure.

0:39:03 Siobhan: Talk about this for freaking divination. All right, first of all, I would like to cast Detect Thoughts on her. She's asleep, so I wanna see what I can find about our parents that she's maybe hiding from me.

0:39:21 Brennan: Cool, cool. She—

0:39:31 Siobhan: My spell save is 16.

0:39:33 Brennan: Mm-hmm. She saves against the spell as you attempt to cast it.

0:39:38 Siobhan: Okay. Then, I try again. [checks off another spell slot] [Zac and Emily laugh]

0:39:44 Brennan: Okay, on the second one, she fails.

0:39:45 Siobhan: Great.

0:39:50 Brennan: She is unconscious, in trance, so her surface thoughts are not super helpful. What do you begin to push through to?

0:39:59 Siobhan: I would like to find out about our mother.

0:40:04 Brennan: Hell, yes.

0:40:04 Siobhan: Because I have a pretty clear idea of what our dad was doing, or I feel like I do.

0:40:09 Brennan: Yeah.

0:40:12 Ally: I imagine I'm standing there, too, right? Can I--

0:40:14 Brennan: Yeah, you--

0:40:17 Ally: I tell you what I found in this book that your mom was writing.

0:40:20 Siobhan: Oh, wow.

0:40:21 Ally: And about this potential younger sister of the Moon Goddess.

0:40:25 Adaine: Oh, I also have research from her. I'll look into that afterwards.

0:40:28 Kristen: Cool, yeah. That’s great.

0:40:29 Fig: Oh, I have a shard of the gem that brought the tower down.

0:40:33 Adaine: That's nice.

0:40:33 Kristen: Oh.

0:40:34 Adaine: That's pretty.

0:40:36 Kristen: It's pretty. It could be a necklace, it could be a brooch.

0:40:39 Fig: Interesting. I think I'll use it as a pick.

0:40:41 Adaine: Yeah, no, cool, yeah.

0:40:41 Kristen: Oh cool, that's very cool. That's very cool.

0:40:42 Adaine: Yeah.

0:40:44 Kristen: All right, anyway. [to Adaine] What were you doing? I'm so sorry.

0:40:45 Adaine: What?

0:40:45 Kristen: Did I interrupt you?

0:40:47 Adaine: I'm really trying— This is a concentration spell.

0:40:50 Kristen: Oh, we can't say the goddess's name.

0:40:51 Adaine: Oh, okay.

0:40:51 Zac: I’m here as well.

0:40:52 Murph: Yeah. I also, I go over with Gorgug.

0:40:54 Zac: We’re here.

0:40:54 Riz: I just think it’s so great that—

0:40:55 Kristen: Hey!

0:40:56 Riz: Adaine and Aelwyn have been able to patch things up.

0:40:57 Gorgug: They’ve reconnected. Water under the bridge.

0:40:59 Riz: It makes me think, why did I kill Daybreak? He could’ve turned a corner. Something to think about, perhaps.

0:41:05 Kristen: Oh! Yeah.

0:41:05 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:41:07 Kristen: What do you think Daybreak would be doing right now?

0:41:09 Riz: That’s a good question.

0:41:09 Fig: Are you kidding me?

0:41:10 Gorgug: Maybe trying to kill us.

0:41:11 Riz: Yeah, true.

0:41:11 Gorgug: So, you know.

0:41:13 Kristen: Yeah. [to Adaine] What were you saying?

0:41:14 Adaine: Shh!

0:41:15 Brennan: As you probe deeper into her thoughts, so the thing that is looming largest in her mind right now, and the thing that your Insight check failed to see, when she was looking away from you, over your shoulder, Kalina was talking to her. [Ally gasps]

0:41:38 Brennan: The Shadow Cat was directly over your shoulder, speaking to Aelwyn.

0:41:44 Ally: That's what I was gonna try to do! I was gonna try to have her look at the photo and see if she saw the cat.

0:41:48 Brennan: And, Kalina was saying effectively, it is a very recent short-term memory. Aelwyn's mind is-- sleeping is good because she doesn't know you're casting a spell on her, but her thoughts are not as clear as they would be if she was awake and listening to you. She's also in a weird-- She's unconscious, but doesn't sleep. She trances, so it's like a weird, hazy, liminal space, but you see Kalina basically saying,

0:42:12 Kalina: Don't keep looking at me. Look back to your sister. Your sister's talking. Here's what you need to know. You've reset your mind and missed a great deal of information. Your mother is working for me. She has the crown, she's brought it to Sylvaire.

0:42:30 Brennan: She's like,

0:42:30 Kalina: Get away from your sister. We need to talk about what's happening.

0:42:42 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

0:42:44 Ally: Can I give you the help action?

0:42:46 Brennan: Yeah, if you want.

0:42:46 Siobhan: Great. 17. Oh, no, 18.

0:42:53 Brennan: Kalina is speaking to Aelwyn with an incredible amount of familiarity, as though they have spoken before many times.

0:43:03 Siobhan: I can see Kalina in this memory?

0:43:05 Brennan: You can see Kalina in this memory.

0:43:06 Siobhan: Great. That's all the information I'm gonna get from this memory?

0:43:10 Brennan: Yep.

0:43:10 Siobhan: Great. I cast Scrying and she gets a 1 because I rolled a 1 [slams the table] for my divination roll. Kalina rolled a nat 1 on my scrying. [to the camera] We leveled up. I have Scrying now. I'm using my divination magic for good. [slams the table] I get one of those 2’s back. Ooh, baby. (laughing)

0:43:35 Siobhan: Magic!

0:43:35 Brennan: Everyone's ninth level now. Incredible. So, you peer into Aelwyn's mind, see that she can see Kalina, see that Kalina's familiar with her. Kalina tells her, “Your mother has the crown and is working for me.” You see that—

0:43:53 Siobhan: So, tell me where Kalina is right now, please.

0:43:57 Brennan: Here's what I’m gonna describe on that nat 1.

0:43:58 Siobhan: Great.

0:44:00 Brennan: So, you see Aelwyn doing— Sorry, you see that basically Aelwyn is stretched out on the ground, unconscious, or in the van, unconscious. You see Adaine pulls— You're in Fallinel, this elven oracle thing. Adaine's hair, [whooshes] Miyazaki wind, eyes go brilliant white, and you just do this double dip into a Detect Thoughts, straight into a powerful Scrying. I'm gonna describe what you see—

0:44:27 Ally: Sick. Sick!

0:44:27 Brennan: With Scrying now. [Murph laughs]

0:44:35 Brennan: You are so deeply confused by the Scrying you get back. You had heard that Kalina was difficult to scry on, but you are literally using your elven oracular ability to reach out and say, "This time, it works." Fate itself is in your hands. You are in a small village in the Red Waste. There is an orcish man with a long scimitar walking along with a dark cloak. A second later, you are looking at a light blue robed elven individual in a council meeting with a picture of Arthur Aguefort. A moment later, there is a wood elf ranger walking with a wolf animal companion next to the border of Sylvaire. Less than a fraction of a second later, you see that there is another high elf who is just in a tavern, enjoying a breakfast in a port city on the edge of Fallinel. A moment later, you see that there is an enormous beast that has claw marks and wounds on it, walking through some weird, nasty, dark, tangled, evil-looking forest. Bam, [snaps repeatedly] flash, flash, flash, flash, flash, flash. You see images of all these people who are not Kalina over and over and over and over. And after a moment, you see it goes [snaps] Riz, Tracker, Sandra Lynn, Kristen looking, and you see you're scrying on Kristen and when it gets to Kristen, it stops. Kristen, where are you looking right now?

0:46:14 Ally: At Adaine.

0:46:18 Brennan: You see—

0:46:24 Ally: Fuck.

0:46:27 Siobhan: What the fuck? (laughing)

0:46:27 Brennan: You flash to a horrifying, dark, tangled forest. You see that there is a wood elf covered in open claw wounds that look like they've been festering for 100 years. Their eyes are covered in pus and gore. They look not zombified in that romantic way. It's almost like a biological-- They look like alive, but covered in open sores and festering things. They are covered partially in vines, like they've been sitting, resting against a tree for like 100 years, and you see there is a vine in their mouth that is dripping blood, like sap, from the vine, into their mouth. The vines retract from your Scrying. You see that this elf stands up, grabs a old, ancient, knotted spear and begins to scratch something into the ground that from your Scrying sensor is obscured by their old, tattered cloak. They turn to look and look directly into your sensor, and what they have scratched into the ground, in Elvish, says, "Hello, Adaine. Glad you could join me."

0:48:12 Adaine: Who are you—? They— Can they hear— They can't— Can you see me? Who are you?

0:48:21 Brennan: The moment after you see that, your scrying moves back to Kristen.

0:48:26 Ally: And so, you see yourself?

0:48:27 Brennan: So, you're scrying on Kalina and you're seeing Kristen, and you're seeing yourself say those things.

0:48:35 Kristen: What?

0:48:36 Riz: What are you talking about? (calm music)

0:48:41 Adaine: But, I'm still Scrying and I see Kristen.

0:48:43 Brennan: Yeah.

0:48:44 Kristen: So, she's here.

0:48:48 Zac: Gorgug’s gonna start punching around its head. (laughing) (Ally shouts)

0:48:52 Brennan: I'm gonna say that the Scrying spell comes to an end—

0:48:55 Siobhan: Can I see the picture?

0:48:55 Murph: Can we see the picture now?

0:48:57 Ally: Yeah.

0:48:58 Brennan: You look at the picture and cannot see Kalina.

0:49:01 Adaine: No, I can't see it, but I know what she looks like.

0:49:04 Gorgug: Hmm.

0:49:05 Riz: Say—

0:49:06 Gorgug: Do you really—

0:49:06 Riz: Say, "Kalina."

0:49:07 Adaine: Kalina.

0:49:09 Murph: Can she see the picture now?

0:49:10 Brennan: No. The only time you've seen Kalina was in Aelwyn's memory of Kalina.

0:49:16 Ally: So, does that mean that I have seen Kalina?

0:49:18 Siobhan: Can I do Detect Magic on Kristen?

0:49:22 Brennan: You cast Detect Magic. Give me an Arcana check.

0:49:28 Ally: Can I give the help on checking me out?

0:49:32 Siobhan: Oh, thank goodness you did, 'cause the other one was a two. That's a 27.

0:49:38 Brennan: Okay. You're casting Arcana on Kristen. There are no active spells on Kristen. There are no enchantments, there are no—

0:49:50 Zac: Is there-- Am I caught up to speed?

0:49:51 Murph: Are we sharing all this stuff?

0:49:52 Brennan: I'm gonna ask that you guys come back together.

0:49:53 Murph: Yeah.

0:49:54 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:49:54 Murph: Are you sharing this?

0:49:56 Adaine: Yeah, I Scried for Kalina and I saw all of these different people, and I saw—

0:50:02 Kristen: Can we Message this? Sorry.

0:50:03 Riz: You saw me?

0:50:05 Zac: We're just in the same spot now, right?

0:50:05 Riz: And Kristen?

0:50:06 Adaine: I saw you, and I saw Sandra Lynn, and I saw your mom, and I saw Kristen, and Tracker, all the people that can see Kalina.

0:50:15 Fig: Did you see me?

0:50:15 Kristen: And, Sandra Lynn.

0:50:16 Adaine: Sandra Lynn.

0:50:16 Riz: And you saw a wood elf?

0:50:18 Adaine: And a wood elf.

0:50:20 Riz: In the forest.

0:50:20 Adaine: Who said, "Hello, Adaine. Thank you for joining me, or something."

0:50:25 Zac: Do I know where the elf is that Ragh hooked up with?

0:50:30 Brennan: You can go find Fathethriel.

0:50:32 Zac: I go look for-- I'll see if we can get Fathethriel to come over.

0:50:34 Brennan: You go over to a little orchard, you see that Ragh is sitting there just very stoically and you see that Fathethriel is lounging next to Ragh and slowly feeding him one grape at a time. Ragh's like,

0:50:48 Ragh: Good. These grapes are good. [eyes widen] Gorgug, what's up, dude? Do you need me?

0:50:53 Gorgug: Yeah, but also—

0:50:53 Ragh: I gotta go, dude.

0:50:55 Brennan: And he, just within his—

0:50:56 Zac: If I could've taken the picture with me, can that elf see?

0:51:02 Brennan: You see Fathethriel looks and goes,

0:51:06 Fathethriel: Ah. It is a very small painting of a goblin and a tabaxi woman.

0:51:15 Gorgug: I think it's passed by touch or something. It's like a disease.

0:51:19 Fig: Kristen, touch me.

0:51:21 Kristen: What?

0:51:21 Gorgug: It's like Tracker gave it to you.

0:51:24 Kristen: How? Gorgug tilts his head and makes an “implying something” face.

0:51:25 Brennan: Tracker looks at you and goes— Tracker holds her hand up and just looks at Kristen.

0:51:28 Kristen: Yeah, but how did Sandra Lynn give it to you?

0:51:31 Gorgug: She maybe didn't, or did she?

0:51:33 Riz: It could be a love thing or something because it could be like betrayal or something.

0:51:37 Kristen: Well, there's been a lot of fighting going on. Is it through disagreement or something? We got in a fight.

0:51:44 Gorgug: Couldn't Garthy see it after Sandra Lynn?

0:51:46 Riz: So, Garthy was involved in the affair. That involves you, that involves Tracker.

0:51:53 Gorgug: But, Sandra Lynn could already see it too.

0:51:56 Riz: Sandra Lynn...

0:51:56 Kristen: So Sandra Lynn was a carrier into this whole group?

0:52:01 Riz: I had already, I could see it too.

0:52:01 Kristen: Oh, yeah.

0:52:02 Fabian: You can see it. Fig, you can't see it?

0:52:04 Gorgug: Spit in this cup.

0:52:04 Fig: It probably shouldn't be love because I hope my mom loves me.

0:52:08 Riz: No, I think it's betrayal or something.

0:52:09 Brennan: Sandra Lynn goes,

0:52:09 Sandra Lynn: I love you, sweetie.

0:52:10 Brennan: Sandra Lynn goes,

0:52:10 Sandra Lynn: Look.

0:52:12 Brennan: And you see, she's like,

0:52:14 Sandra Lynn: I guess everyone knows that I... slept with Garthy.

0:52:19 Brennan: Gilear goes,

0:52:19 Gilear: Well, well, well. [Murph laughs]

0:52:23 Fig: Gilear, can you see it now? Can you see it?

0:52:23 Riz: Gilear, how does that feel? [holds the photo out]

0:52:24 Gilear: Looks like--

0:52:26 Brennan: Gilear looks at it and says,

0:52:28 Gilear: I think we all know I can't see anything.

0:52:31 Riz: Come on, Gilear.

0:52:31 Fig: I'm with you, Gilear. I guess I got your--

0:52:33 Fabian: So, it's perhaps a sexual thing? Perhaps a betrayal thing?

0:52:40 Fig: My mom did betray Gilear.

0:52:40 Brennan: Tracker looks and said,

0:52:40 Tracker: I did not sleep with—

0:52:43 Brennan: And, you see that Tracker looks over at Sandra Lynn and says,

0:52:45 Tracker: I didn't sleep with Sandra Lynn.

0:52:47 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks over and says,

0:52:49 Sandra Lynn: Is there any other time that we could've exchanged—

0:52:52 Adaine: Yeah, didn't you do that weird heal on her?

0:52:54 Brennan: You see Tracker looks over and goes—

0:52:55 Fabian: Oh, blood.

0:52:58 Tracker: I did.

0:52:58 Murph: Yes.

0:52:59 Brennan: Sandra Lynn nods and says,

0:53:01 Sandra Lynn: Yeah, you did the Life Transference stuff.

0:53:02 Ally: Yes.

0:53:03 Brennan: And, you see that Tracker holds her head and goes,

0:53:07 Tracker: Oh, my god. I got you sick with an STD?

0:53:10 Kristen: It's okay.

0:53:10 Ally: I put my hand on her shoulder.

0:53:12 Kristen: It's fine.

0:53:13 Fig: I see— for those of us who can't see it—

0:53:14 Brennan: Sandra Lynn says,

0:53:14 Sandra Lynn: It's not an STD. It's communicated through blood, as well. I didn't—

0:53:17 Riz: A lot of us have it and some of us are born with it.

0:53:18 Fig: Also, those of us who can't see it wish we could see it, so it's kind of a cool thing.

0:53:23 Fabian: So, if I drink somebody's blood, I can see it?

0:53:27 Fig: I'll drink blood.

0:53:27 Adaine: But I think that—

0:53:27 Fabian: I'm down, as well.

0:53:30 Riz: I think that might mean Kalina can see through us.

0:53:31 Kristen: Yes. Yes.

0:53:33 Adaine: That's what I think.

0:53:33 Gorgug: Oh, yeah.

0:53:34 Riz: So, we've been working under the assumption that maybe the Nightmare King and this god with no name are the same person. I think it's possible that you saw the Nightmare King in the forest and Kalina is the god with no name.

0:53:48 Adaine: I think so too.

0:53:48 Riz: And is trying to get the crown.

0:53:49 Kristen: Oh, yes!

0:53:50 Riz: And the Nightmare King and Kalina are actually against each other.

0:53:53 Kristen: Yes!

0:53:53 Gorgug: Are you saying the Goddess of Mystery is the Nightmare King?

0:53:56 Riz: Is Kalina.

0:53:57 Adaine: Kalina's the Goddess of Mystery.

0:53:58 Kristen: But, that would make a lot of sense because she's so fucking secretive.

0:54:02 Fig: But why would you Scry—

0:54:02 Riz: Because she doesn't have a name, she doesn't apply by the rules. So, she doesn't have--

0:54:06 Adaine: Wait, hang on a second.

0:54:09 Fig: Not having a name is a power.

0:54:11 Adaine: I think there's research here from my mom, but if she's working with Kalina, she would already know it. So, why don't we do—

0:54:18 Riz: But, she might be-- I thought your sister said she was working with the Nightmare King. Or, is she working with Kalina.

0:54:25 Adaine: No, she’s working with Kalina.

0:54:27 Kristen: No, she has the-- We just know she has the crown.

0:54:27 Adaine: She has the crown.

0:54:28 Kristen: We don't know who she's bringing it to.

0:54:29 Riz: Okay.

0:54:31 Brennan: You see that Cathilda speaks up and says,

0:54:34 Cathilda: You were saying something about the research you got from your mom's place. It seems like there's a trove of information from Calethriel Tower. If just from the book that Kristen read, we find as much as we did.

0:54:49 Brennan: You see that Telemaine somersaults up with the stone and goes— [Lou laughs]

0:54:54 Telemaine: There are many rooms within Kei Lumennura where some might--

0:54:59 Brennan: Oh, sorry, yeah?

0:55:00 Man: We went offline real quick.

0:55:01 Brennan: Okay. No worries.

0:55:04 Ally: Shit.

0:55:06 Brennan: Ask chat, if you can, where we left off.

0:55:10 Zac: It felt like that was the path it took, the blood.

0:55:11 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:55:12 Zac: To go who saw it last.

0:55:15 Ally: What do you mean?

0:55:15 Zac: In the scrying.

0:55:18 Ally: It did seem like that, yeah. It was Riz first, right?

0:55:20 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:55:20 Ally: Then, Kalina. I mean, I'm sorry, Riz first, then Sandra Lynn.

0:55:26 Siobhan: But Sandra Lynn and Riz's mom—

0:55:26 Emily: Sandra Lynn could always see it though, right?

0:55:26 Siobhan: —could always see it.

0:55:31 Ally: Okay.

0:55:33 Brennan: We're good. In the chat, please tell me the last thing that happened before we went out. I don't want you guys to miss anything.

0:55:41 Zac: We solved it!

0:55:41 Brennan: Hold on.

0:55:43 Lou: We figured it out.

0:55:44 Zac: We figured it out in the in-between.

0:55:45 Brennan: Yeah, hold on.

0:55:46 Lou: I'm the Nightmare King.

0:55:49 Siobhan: What?

0:55:50 Brennan: It says something Adaine was saying. Riz made the connection. I got this research from-- Okay. “My mother's research was the last thing.”

0:55:56 Adaine: Yes, I got my mother's research. We should look into that.

0:56:04 Siobhan: Can I— I wanna message Fig.

0:56:10 Fig: Hey.

0:56:10 Adaine: There are some things I feel like we should not say in front of the people who are infected.

0:56:16 Fig: Okay.

0:56:16 Adaine: So, just some of these plans around Kalina, I think that should just be the four of us that can't see it.

0:56:25 Kristen: You're Messaging her.

0:56:27 Fabian: Yes. We're gonna do some investigation ourselves.

0:56:30 Kristen: No, you don't have to tell me. So, should those of us who are infected just blindfold ourselves if she's looking through our eyes?

0:56:38 Riz: I mean, it's up to you guys. If we think she's the nameless god, then she is a god. I don't know how sneaky we can be. She has some weakness, or else she'd just come and kill us right now.

0:56:49 Fig: Well, she has a name, it's just been destroyed. We just have to find the name.

0:56:53 Ally: Can I look through all of this bulk research and writings and stuff that we got and look for Kalina or Shadow Cat or any of these names?

0:57:04 Siobhan: Yeah. Can I go through the stuff that I had and use Bogey to cover us?

0:57:07 Brennan: You guys have a tremendous amount of stuff, especially what you gained here. If you guys wanna go comb through your stuff, cross-reference and get all this new data, Telemaine says there's research and study halls in Kei Lumennura. You guys are welcome to go and take whatever books he has there.

0:57:26 Adaine: I'm worried that the elves are gonna come after us, since we're still in Fallinel.

0:57:30 Brennan: Ayda speaks up and says,

0:57:32 Ayda: If need be, I can bring us back to the Compass Points.

0:57:35 Adaine: I would love that.

0:57:36 Kristen: I would prefer that.

0:57:36 Fig: Yeah, let's do it.

0:57:38 Kristen: Oh! Um—

0:57:38 Gorgug: Do you—

0:57:40 Kristen: Sorry.

0:57:40 Gorgug: Oh, sorry. Are you—

0:57:41 Riz: We could also teleport away if things go bad, right?

0:57:43 Adaine: Well, Ayda's the one with Teleport.

0:57:46 Riz: Right.

0:57:47 Adaine: So, yes. If we are with Ayda, yes.

0:57:49 Ally: I'd love to talk to Tracker really quick.

0:57:52 Brennan: Cool. Tracker looks up and goes,

0:57:54 Tracker: Hey.

0:57:54 Kristen: Hey. Whoa. Scary, right?

0:57:57 Tracker: Yeah, very scary.

0:57:57 Kristen: So, I actually learned a spell so that you don't have to keep doing your Moon Haven. I learned this spell called Hallow and I can cast it on the van, and it's permanent. It's like a permanent Moon Haven.

0:58:15 Brennan: Awesome. Go ahead, and if you'd be so kind, give me a persuasion roll with advantage.

0:58:24 Emily: Can I, as I see Kristen going to talk to Tracker--

0:58:27 Brennan: Tracker.

0:58:27 Emily: I'm gonna wink at her.

0:58:29 Brennan: Give a little wink for Bardic Inspiration. You've got it.

0:58:32 Fig: You've got this, Kristen. You've got this. Lou and Murph observe the roll.

0:58:34 Lou: Okay, okay.

0:58:34 Murph: Jeez.

0:58:34 Ally: I'm gonna need that Bardic. Was that a d8?

0:58:37 Emily: D8. Seeing the d8 roll, Murph covers his face and Lou turns away.

0:58:41 Murph: Poor Kristen.

0:58:41 Ally: Persuasion. Oh, no. We're okay. Everyone, calm down. It's a 15.

0:58:46 Brennan: Cool.

0:58:46 Emily: Oh, hey. Okay.

0:58:48 Lou: Oh. Oh, yeah.

0:58:51 Brennan: You see that she looks over to you and says,

0:58:56 Tracker: Awesome. Yeah. If you wanna collab on—

0:59:06 Kristen: Yeah, that'd be great. It takes 24 hours to cast. So, I just need to stay up for that long, but it should be—

0:59:13 Tracker: Do we wanna head back to Leviathan, and then—

0:59:17 Kristen: Yeah, what do you think? That sounds like a good plan.

0:59:19 Tracker: It seemed like people kinda wanna jet out of here.

0:59:21 Kristen: Totally.

0:59:21 Tracker: So, maybe we--

0:59:21 Kristen: Yeah.

0:59:22 Gorgug: Dude, this place--

0:59:23 Zac: I look at Telemaine if he's nearby.

0:59:23 Gorgug: It's great here.

0:59:26 Telemaine: Are you guys gonna use the research halls? We put out some sort of very cool citrus water. There's a fruit that grows here that tastes almost like nothing.

0:59:39 Riz: Oh. Do you have any books that we could borrow? It would be for a very short amount of time, relatively. But a second, really. [Ally laughs]

0:59:49 Telemaine: If it's only for a second, you may have every single book I know about. (laughing)

0:59:55 Emily: Just start packing them up.

0:59:55 Murph: I go and I just put as many as I can into the Briefcase of Holding.

1:00:00 Emily: Also, I wanna specifically search for if there's any books about the rock and roll concert where everyone got pregnant.

1:00:07 Brennan: Cool. You guys immediately go to this dude's library

1:00:11 Murph: Oh no.

1:00:11 Brennan: And what you see is hundreds of elven scrolls about centering yourself, finding healing calm, and just general oneness.

1:00:21 Emily: Nothing about immaculate conception via rock music?

1:00:24 Brennan: There is not a goddamn useful book in this guy's whole library.

1:00:26 Siobhan: I'll take some of these meditation things. Those sound useful to me.

1:00:32 Ally: [laughs] Maybe can Tracker help me track down these herbs and incense and oils and stuff that I have to like—

1:00:38 Brennan: Yes. Believe me, they got plenty of oils, aromatic oils at Kei Lumennura. You better believe they got those.

1:00:44 Ally: Love it. And, I feel like I'm talking to her about her god, Gali—

1:00:49 Brennan: Galicaea, yeah.

1:00:49 Ally: Yeah. About how this might be her sister and just trying to hear more about her god.

1:00:57 Brennan: Do you mention the parts to Tracker about the--

1:01:01 Ally: [very serious] I mention everything to Tracker from now on immediately. (laughing)

1:01:06 Ally: I message Tracker the minute I take a shit. [Brennan and Emily laugh]

1:01:12 Zac: She's gotta know.

1:01:13 Ally: She's gotta know, okay? I'm not gonna do that again.

1:01:16 Emily: Well behaved.

1:01:18 Ally: I'll tell her the sister thing.

1:01:19 Brennan: Cool. You fully divulge everything. Tracker kinda nods, and I'm gonna run a little Insight check for Tracker. You see Tracker recognize how forward you're being, and nod. She is obviously very offput by the seemingly messed up things that the church of Galicaea did. Obviously, she's like a human werewolf that doesn't feel necessarily responsible for the things the elven church did, but it's the same goddess, even if it's a different denomination. So, she's in a kinda trippy place about it.

1:01:53 Kristen: I hear ya.

1:01:55 Brennan: She's like,

1:01:55 Tracker: Yeah. I don't know. It's fucked up when the servants of your god have misappropriated the teachings of your deity.

1:02:09 Kristen: Yeah, totally.

1:02:13 Tracker: This is maybe messed up to say, but I never really got... You've been through a lot of shit.

1:02:20 Kristen: Yep.

1:02:26 Tracker: It doesn't feel good. Yeah.

1:02:28 Kristen: Yeah, there's a lot of horrifying things I needed to confront about Helioic traditions, and just things my parents said day to day. Yeah. I had to shed a lot of that.

1:02:46 Brennan: Tracker looks over to you and says,

1:02:48 Tracker: Thank you for telling me all this, and I'm gonna help research as much as I can, and I'm really sorry I got you sick.

1:02:57 Kristen: [shrugs] I enjoyed it. (Ally laughing) (calm music)

1:02:59 Brennan: You see she smiles. She smiles, leans over, and just lightly touches her head to your head, and looks up and says,

1:03:18 Tracker: I know we're about to leave. I'm gonna go talk to Sandra Lynn. I get mad, and part of that is my lycanthropy and part of it is just who I am. My faith puts me in touch with my emotions. Me being upset with you is never ever about me not loving you with my whole heart, 'cause I do.

1:03:50 Kristen: I love you, too.

1:03:54 Tracker: [sighs] I’m gonna—

1:03:56 Kristen: Do you—

1:03:56 Tracker: Yeah.

1:03:57 Kristen: Sorry.

1:03:57 Tracker: No, no. I'm gonna go talk to Sandra Lynn.

1:03:59 Kristen: Okay, cool. Is there any way for you to find out if your god has a sister? I'm not super versed in your religion, but...

1:04:10 Tracker: Yeah. I will—

1:04:11 Kristen: [leans forward] [speaking out of her mouth, mildly suggestively] Does she have a sister? [laughs] I'm just kidding. I’m just kidding.

1:04:16 Tracker: [laughs] Easy. Come on. We just got back on the— [laughs] [Lou laughs]

1:04:25 Emily: Kristen, you're the best.

1:04:26 Tracker: God, you're hot. Alright.

1:04:28 Kristen: [deeper voice] Back atcha.

1:04:30 Tracker: We gotta still-- Okay, I'm gonna go. [sighs]

1:04:32 Zac: [imitating Ally] “Back atcha!”

1:04:34 Ally: Only spoken with your throat. [guttural] “Back atcha!” Zac falls forward laughing.

1:04:36 Kristen: Cool.

1:04:38 Brennan: She looks and says,

1:04:41 Tracker: We'll figure it out and we'll figure it out together.

1:04:43 Kristen: Yeah.

1:04:44 Brennan: She walks off. Cool. For the rest of you, what is the conversation we were having about potentially getting out of here and going back to the Compass Points?

1:04:58 Riz: I guess I wanna talk about whether or not you guys want us to know everything. I will say, point for us—

1:05:09 Siobhan: I'm gonna say,

1:05:09 Adaine: Yeah, we want you to know everything.

1:05:11 Siobhan: I Message Fig,

1:05:12 Adaine: We definitely don't want them to know everything.

1:05:13 Riz: They're gonna know--

1:05:13 Gorgug: Of course we want you to know.

1:05:16 Riz: She's gonna know. Just tell us to leave, I guess, because she's gonna know where we're coming. She'll know where we are. If you wanna kill her and you think that we jeopardize it, then we should leave.

1:05:29 Fig: Truthfully.

1:05:29 Emily: And I'm saying this right to you, 'cause I know she's watching.

1:05:34 Fig: I don't know enough about you to know if I even wanna kill you.

1:05:39 Riz: [confused] Me?

1:05:40 Fig: I'm talking to her.

1:05:41 Riz: Okay, well that feels weird.

1:05:42 Kristen: That's scary. [touches Riz’s shoulder] Hey man, I'm sorry. I was right there with you, actually. I was like, maybe she's gonna kill you.

1:05:49 Fabian: I mean, The Ball and Kristen, we're like, you know. It's not like they've gotten some big up on us before, I don't know. It feels like what are we gonna do? Just the four of us are gonna handle it and they're gonna show up?

1:06:02 Fig: Yeah, we're not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that.

1:06:03 Adaine: We also don’t know, is she looking through your eyes at all times, or can she just dip in when she feels like it?

1:06:08 Riz: And also, there's a reason she wants to be a secret.

1:06:10 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:06:11 Riz: And by talking about it and by—

1:06:15 Gorgug: I kinda wanna be able to see her.

1:06:16 Riz: Finding out the truth.

1:06:17 Fig: I know. Me, too!

1:06:17 Gorgug: In case she’s behind me or something.

1:06:19 Fabian: Let's all drink the blood.

1:06:20 Fig: I wanna drink the blood. I feel deeply left out.

1:06:21 Adaine: That’s wild. That is a wild—

1:06:22 Riz: I don’t really know--

1:06:23 Fabian: There was a real--

1:06:23 Riz: I think--

1:06:23 Fabian: There was a real moment where I shoulda cut Riz and sucked— [Murph laughs]

1:06:25 Fig: I feel deeply left out. You guys are all special and I'm nothing.

1:06:27 Gorgug: Riz? [turns to Riz expectantly] [Siobhan laughs]

1:06:30 Fabian: Whoa, whoa.

1:06:32 Emily: I drink blood. [laughs]

1:06:32 Riz: There’s a happy middle.

1:06:33 Adaine: Where did you get that blood?

1:06:34 Riz: There’s a happy middle.

1:06:34 Adaine: Who’s blood is that?

1:06:36 Zac: [pretends to throw back a drink] Gatorade.

1:06:37 Emily: Gatorade and blood.

1:06:39 Gorgug: What's the happy middle?

1:06:41 Riz: That we all just stick together and try to figure out who Kalina is.

1:06:45 Fig: Yeah, I definitely wanna stick together.

1:06:47 Adaine: Yeah.

1:06:47 Fabian: Yeah.

1:06:50 Adaine: I also wanna say I think that we need to keep our guard on Aelwyn because I think that she's gonna try and escape us.

1:06:57 Emily: Oh, shit.

1:06:57 Kristen: Yeah. How do we do that? What do we--

1:07:01 Adaine: I don't know.

1:07:01 Kristen: Do we have Hold Person?

1:07:03 Fig: I'm a German Shepherd. I can just keep watch. I'll be her bouncer, or reverse bouncer. She can't get out.

1:07:10 Kristen: Should I— Do you think this Hallow spell, casting it on the van will protect us from [turns to Riz] this god who can see through us? I feel like no.

1:07:18 Riz: Maybe.

1:07:19 Kristen: All right.

1:07:20 Fabian: I mean, the Moon Haven seemed to do something, so.

1:07:21 Riz: That's not a bad idea.

1:07:23 Kristen: Yeah, I'll cast Hallow—

1:07:23 Brennan: Sandra Lynn points to Fabian and says,

1:07:26 Sandra Lynn: It clearly worked enough that she had to press Riz for information back at the Gold Gardens.

1:07:34 Riz: Right.

1:07:34 Ally: Okay. Yeah, then I can cast a Hallow within a day, and I can give us all courage so we can't be frightened while in the van.

1:07:43 Murph: Cool.

1:07:43 Lou: Great.

1:07:46 Siobhan: If I take a long rest, I can get different spells that can... I have Web and I have Snare, so I can--

1:07:59 Ally: Hold Aelwyn.

1:08:01 Siobhan: Yeah. It's not perfect, but I can't do it yet though 'cause I don't have them stocked.

1:08:07 Riz: Why don't we hang onto her spellbook. You have it, right? (gasping)

1:08:09 Adaine: Yeah, we should do that.

1:08:10 Kristen: Great.

1:08:11 Brennan: Well, whose spellbook? Sorry.

1:08:12 Ally: Aelwyn.

1:08:12 Siobhan: Aelwyn's spellbook.

1:08:14 Brennan: Aelwyn's spellbook. Gotcha. Yes, yes, yes.

1:08:15 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:08:16 Zac: I think Gorgug—

1:08:16 Siobhan: Maybe I'll give it to Gorgug because I feel like--

1:08:24 Gorgug: [flips through it] Finally.

1:08:24 Adaine: Read up.

1:08:26 Brennan: Ayda looks at you and says,

1:08:27 Ayda: I was pretty clear about you not doing that, but also I'm not the boss of you.

1:08:32 Gorgug: Oh, right. [closes the book]

1:08:34 Kristen: Okay.

1:08:34 Fig: Ayda, why don't you want him to look at it?

1:08:38 Ayda: His mind is a perfectly clear pool, undisturbed by ripple. I fear that the introduction of information into his mind would corrupt it.

1:08:46 Gorgug: [still holding onto the book] You guys remember how I thought of the time that Ragh and that other guy fucked?

1:08:50 Riz: Uh-huh.

1:08:50 Gorgug: I'm pretty smart.

1:08:52 Kristen: Oh.

1:08:52 Brennan: [laughs] You see Ragh shrugs as well.

1:08:55 Kristen: Yeah, definitely. Siobhan pats Zac’s shoulder.

1:08:55 Gorgug: Yeah, I noticed that stuff.

1:08:57 Fig: Yeah, I don't think-- I don't think that would corrupt him.

1:09:00 Brennan: So, Sandra Lynn goes,

1:09:03 Sandra Lynn: All right, so the plan is to get back to Leviathan?

1:09:05 Riz: Yeah.

1:09:05 Sandra Lynn: If we're gonna do that, let's do that right now so Kristen can get-- Her spell takes 24 hours to do, so we should get on it.

1:09:12 Kristen: Yeah. I have another idea too though we can start working on. I can make a Glyph of Warding with the spell stocked in it. So, if we wanna make a decoy spellbook of Aelwyn's, put this glyph on the front so that when she runs to grab it, a web can come out and-- just have some booby traps. Emily and Siobhan go through their spell cards.

1:09:27 Adaine: I don't know if I can make a fake... I don't think I have anything that can make a fake-looking book. I don't have--

1:09:33 Kristen: We have 24 hours. If you guys just wanna--

1:09:34 Fig: Why don't we just do one.

1:09:35 Kristen: Cut and paste. (laughing)

1:09:39 Fabian: Hey, everyone. My mom showed up here today.

1:09:43 Gorgug: Do you want a minute?

1:09:44 Fabian: Yeah, can I get just like a cool 15?

1:09:47 Adaine: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:09:47 Fabian: Okay, cool.

1:09:48 Kristen: Or bring her with us to the Compass Points.

1:09:50 Fabian: She just got here.

1:09:52 Kristen: Oh yeah, travel, yeah yeah yeah.

1:09:52 Fabian: And I feel like there's gonna be a dad thing.

1:09:53 Fig: That's fair.

1:09:55 Zac: I'm just gonna go upstairs and try to start working on the Hangman.

1:10:00 Brennan: On the Hangman?

1:10:02 Zac: Yes.

1:10:02 Brennan: Cool.

1:10:03 Siobhan: I also have Mending. I can come and help you.

1:10:05 Zac: Got it.

1:10:07 Brennan: Awesome. So, putting all this together, 'cause people are going in a lot of different directions right now, you guys go up and start working on the Hangman. What is... Ayda says,

1:10:21 Ayda: Should we teleport back to Leviathan?

1:10:24 Brennan: No, you need a minute, so you're gonna go do that.

1:10:27 Fabian: I need a cool 15.

1:10:29 Brennan: Fabian’s gonna go. What is Riz doing?

1:10:31 Murph: I guess I'd like to read up and find out--

1:10:33 Ally: Awesome.

1:10:33 Brennan: Cool. You grab some stuff and start this new investigation. Kristen, you're not gonna cast anything yet. You're gonna go to--

1:10:39 Ally: We're just collecting--

1:10:41 Brennan: Oh, you're getting incenses.

1:10:41 Ally: It needs kind of a lot of stuff.

1:10:42 Brennan: Incenses, oils, stuff like that. What is Fig up to?

1:10:46 Emily: I guess I'm just noodling on my guitar.

1:10:48 Brennan: Cool.

1:10:48 Siobhan: Can you guard Aelwyn?

1:10:50 Emily: Oh, wait. That's what I'm doing! [Ally laughs]

1:10:52 Emily: I am fully--

1:10:53 Ally: I’m making a quesadilla. Zac smiles.

1:10:56 Emily: “I'm making a quesadilla. I'll be late.” [nudges Zac] I'm guarding over Aelwyn.

1:11:00 Ally: It's canon. I'm sorry.

1:11:01 Emily: I'm guarding over Aelwyn, just ready to tackle her, do some spells, disguise myself as her, pretend to be a mirror. Who knows?

1:11:09 Brennan: Cool. You are there.

1:11:16 Murph: Very excited for this buddy comedy to come out. [Emily laughs]

1:11:20 Brennan: Fabian, you are walking off with your mom and Cathilda, and Telemaine is with you, as well. So, you see Hallariel says,

1:11:34 Hallariel: [sighs] Darling, word reached me that you were here in your ancestral homeland, and I thought that it'd been quite some time, and I should come and see my dear father and see you, as well. How's the adventure going, my darling?

1:11:51 Fabian: It's good. We're having a good time. Everyone's really doing good work. I mean, we, as a collective. Me, personally, I'm doing rough. Really rough. There was a whole thing. We went to Leviathan, and I was all excited to be my father's son and do it right, and then I got a bunch of people killed. Over 20. (laughing) it was wild. (laughing) I mean, I still-- There's one of them, it's burned in my brain forever. This is the moment which I turned my back and ran away from him as he cried out for help, but it's been good to come here and feel, I don't know. I never really got in touch with this side of me. Yeah. I'm as much your son as I was dad's.

1:12:45 Brennan: She smiles and kisses you on the cheek and says, (sighing)

1:12:52 Hallariel: Fabian, as much as you are my son, and your father's son, you are also, darling, you're becoming your own man, and your father had many scars from battle. He lost his eye, lost his leg, but he told me one time when he was observing ships that he never wanted to buy a ship or steal one that had no mark of repair on it, that had never seen combat, had never experienced the decay or the destruction. He said he only wanted a ship that had the soul of a survivor in it. There is so much relief in my heart to know that my son can sail through storms and come out the other side. It's a better skill to have than never sailing into a storm at all. I'm very proud of you.

1:14:16 Fabian: Thank you. Yeah. I'm doing my own thing now. I dance. I have a sheet. I put out my friend's fire. My friends were on fire, I used a sheet to put them out, then I also, I wrapped up a fire elemental with it and inhaled it. It was crazy. It kissed me on the lips and it went inside me.

1:14:38 Hallariel: Fabian!

1:14:38 Fabian: What, Mama? Stop.

1:14:40 Hallariel: Ribald details.

1:14:43 Fabian: No, it wasn't romantic. It was more like, I don't know, spiritual. I don't know.

1:14:50 Brennan: Telemaine goes,

1:14:50 Telemaine: [nods] Yes. Yes. I wasn't there, but I get it, and I like it for you.

1:15:01 Fabian: Oh. Thank you, Grandpapa.

1:15:04 Brennan: You see that Hallariel looks at you and says,

1:15:11 Hallariel: Darling, I've also come not only to see you, but to bring a little bit of news. Arthur Aguefort has deeply endangered all the school's funding from... He apparently turned 300 or 400 feet tall and grabbed the sun—

1:15:35 Fabian: Yes, we watched that! It was crazy. I think he went to war with Fallinel.

1:15:44 Hallariel: And also, it's coming up on the end of your spring break. I'm not sure how you're doing on your timeline for accomplishing this quest, but also, I have— I'm not proud of this. I've eaten all of Gilear's yogurt and I don't know how to make any more food, and I kind of am coming to see if Cathilda would come back.

1:16:07 Fabian: What? Oh.

1:16:11 Brennan: She puts her head down and says,

1:16:12 Hallariel: I am having a very hard time in the kitchen.

1:16:15 Fabian: Oh, okay.

1:16:17 Brennan: Cathilda looks up, shakes her head ruefully, and says,

1:16:23 Cathilda: Madame Seacaster, why don't I talk to Fabian for a moment? And, you can say hello to your father and catch up with him.

1:16:38 Brennan: Cathilda takes your hand and walks through the garden with you and looks up and says,

1:16:46 Cathilda: Master Fabian.

1:16:49 Fabian: Are you really going to go, Cathilda? I do worry about my mom, so it feels right, but I don't want you to go.

1:16:58 Brennan: Cathilda looks at you and says,

1:17:03 Cathilda: Master Fabian, watching you dance was an honor and a pleasure, and there is something I have been waiting to see who you would become for a long time, and watching you become the man that you were always meant to be is something that I'm honored to have seen just the very beginning of. It is true that I will no longer receive my hireling stipend, but I’m a member of your crew. If you wish me to continue on to this last leg of the journey, I will. If you wish me to go back and take care of your mother, I will do that. I'm happy to take my call from you, young master Fabian.

1:18:12 Fabian: Cathilda, you've really lifted me up, especially through some pretty rough times, but I feel like I'm back on my feet. So, you go home, you take care of Mama. I think, I think I... will be fine.

1:18:33 Brennan: Big tears stream down her face. She takes your hand and says,

1:18:39 Cathilda: I always knew you would be. (sniffing) Oh, there's only one Seacaster left to take care of, and she's back there in a kimono.

1:18:51 Fabian: She is. I'm excited to come home and tell you about all the crazy things I'm gonna do. Wild stuff. Really wild stuff.

1:19:02 Brennan: She smiles and says,

1:19:02 Cathilda: I can't wait to hear it. A brand new legend, one of your own writing, you and your friends.

1:19:13 Brennan: She smiles and says, (sighing) takes her little dancing blades, walks a little bit away and says,

1:19:26 Cathilda: What sword do you think you'll fight with? That fancy elven sword or your father’s?

1:19:33 Fabian: The elven one. Dad's sword's just gonna chill for a second.

1:19:40 Brennan: She nods, smiles, and says,

1:19:44 Cathilda: It's the warrior, not the blade, anyway, my boy. You'll do well. [blows a kiss]

1:19:51 Brennan: She walks off with your mom. So, you see that she walks over, back to Telemaine and Hallariel. Kristen, you're-- Sorry, you again are off—

1:20:09 Ally: Just got a bunch of materials.

1:20:10 Brennan: Yeah, you're getting a bunch of materials.

1:20:11 Lou: [laughs] Getting oils.

1:20:12 Ally: Getting various oils.

1:20:12 Brennan: [points at Zac and Siobhan] You guys are working on the Hangman.

1:20:14 Murph: I'm trying to read up on—

1:20:17 Brennan: Cool. Go ahead and give me an Investigation check real quick.

1:20:20 Murph: Sweet. I roll those with advantage now.

1:20:22 Ally: Woo!

1:20:23 Brennan: Steady Eye.

1:20:25 Murph: Ooh, you love to see it. You simply love to see it. 28. Ally shakes their head.

1:20:28 Brennan: [laughing] 28!

1:20:31 Zac: Pretty good.

1:20:31 Ally: Great.

1:20:33 Emily: That’s good.

1:20:33 Murph: And, I also just realized, Ragh, right, when Ragh was afraid of the Shadow Cat, she threatened him because he saw her, right? Or, did she ask him, "Did you tell anyone?" or something like that? I thought she said something like that.

1:20:50 Siobhan: That was my mother that said that.

1:20:50 Murph: That was your mother. So, knowledge.

1:20:53 Riz: Knowledge is power, people.

1:20:56 Murph: I say that, quietly say that.

1:20:57 Brennan: If you actually look for help with that, Ragh goes back to explain to you and as you're researching, he's like,

1:21:05 Ragh: What did you wanna know? What exactly happened? What's the timeline you're interested in?

1:21:09 Riz: When you saw the Shadow Cat.

1:21:10 Ragh: Yeah.

1:21:12 Riz: She threatened you, right?

1:21:13 Ragh: Yeah, she said if I told anyone anything I'd seen, 'cause the first people I saw were Arianwen talking to Jace at Aguefort the night of prom.

1:21:26 Riz: Okay.

1:21:28 Ragh: And then, later on my way home after the whole fight and everything, that's when I saw-- Or, it all happened after the fight, but that's when Kalina came up and hassled me, basically.

1:21:44 Riz: Got it.

1:21:45 Brennan: But, Ragh is helping you to the best of his ability, with this investigation. He’s kinda just, you know. He's not the most investigative person. Tell me what it is you’re looking for. A 28 is an incredible roll. Is there a specific thing you're looking for in particular?

1:22:04 Murph: I guess I'm trying to find out how to pin down Kalina. I'm trying to find out, basically-- I have a suspicion that the reason she's moving around so much is because she's this god with no name, and I'm trying to see if there's a way to undo it, to make her as she has been unmade.

1:22:35 Brennan: Cool. So, you avoid some of the thicker arcana stuff, 'cause that's not your bag, really. What you do find in a lot of Arianwen's hand is her researching abyssal demonic texts. You are looking for-- and this is specifically stuff that Arianwen was writing that you begin to piece together. She's careful not to ever write, 'cause this was research she was doing while in Fallinel with elven governmental stuff. The earliest thing you find is a parcel of her notes, right. So, rather than big, meaty-- You're like, religious tomes, Kristen, big meaty arcana tomes, that's Adaine. You're like, "let me get in that weird bag of old receipts." Wanna get in that thing of detective work, and the first thing you find is a lot of notes that Arianwen requisitioned that has to do with a couple, basically like two or 300 years ago, the execution of a wood elf in basically the elven Secret Service, this thing called the Third Court, that is a wood elf woman named Landrin Lier who descended from a family of wood elf refugees from Sylvaire after the Nightmare King came into power, who came on and was one of the first wood elves to get accepted into the Secret Service of the elves as a healer, 'cause she was a cleric of Galicaea, of the Moon Goddess. She was eventually killed for espionage, and basically the notes are a little bit unclear, but what they end up finding is this stuff that has to do with-- Once second. What they end up finding is notes having to do with her trial, notes of heresy, and also notes of her being basically false, like not a true servant of Galicaea. There are notes in the trial-- obviously, it's a secret trial. She wasn't tried in the public court 'cause it was all espionage and hidden elements of the elven courts. It seems like Landrin Lier was secretly a cleric not of Galicaea, but of something else.

1:23:53 Murph: Uh-huh.

1:25:12 Brennan: And what she is accused of having done is it's basically that she used her role as a healer to do something, to put some kind of curse or effect or do something when she was healing members of the elven courts that she introduced something into Fallinel.

1:25:42 Murph: So she created the “virus” or whatever, as it were, it seems.

1:25:46 Brennan: Yeah, putting that together, you're like, she's the recording of something got brought into Fallinel by this woman who was basically killed as a zealot. She was like, "I'm part of the church of Galicaea. I will join your Secret Service, and then later, it's like, “No, you're a zealot for something dark and hidden, and you've come to try and sabotage Fallinel from within.”

1:26:08 Murph: Right.

1:26:10 Brennan: So, that's one of the big first things that you find. The 28, as well, you're looking for Kalina stuff.

1:26:20 Murph: Yeah. Kalina stuff, and then I guess I'm also, like I said before, I was kinda working under the assumption that the Nightmare King and the nameless person were the same. I'm kinda curious if they're opposing forces.

1:26:35 Brennan: If the Nightmare King and this nameless goddess are the same, right?

1:26:37 Murph: Yeah, if maybe the crown of the Nightmare King is not being fetched for the Nightmare King. If it's being--

1:26:43 Siobhan: Well, the crown is-- This is stuff from earlier. The crown is a talisman that anchors an extraplanar creature on our plane. So, if the goddess was unmade, then perhaps the crown of the Nightmare King could ground her back in this plane.

1:26:59 Ally: Wow!

1:27:02 Murph: So, Kalina could be this zealot who is trying to bring--

1:27:06 Siobhan: Yes, or she could be the goddess. Either way.

1:27:08 Murph: The goddess herself.

1:27:09 Siobhan: If she gets the Nightmare- this unmade goddess gets this crown--

1:27:14 Murph: Then, she could be made.

1:27:14 Siobhan: Then perhaps, she could be made.

1:27:19 Brennan: Okay. You see this is a big element here, as well. Arianwen's research, it's got Landrin Lier in there. There's also stuff about Arianwen researching demonic texts, and she finds this thing from more recent history having to do with the original fall of Kalvaxus. When the Nightmare King was defeated, like after the fall of Kalvaxus and sort of alliance of the big baddies of the world, you see that a group of infernal warlocks came to help the good guys by creating a boundary around the forest of the Nightmare King 'cause it was cursed, this curse was spreading even after the Nightmare King was defeated. So, these devils that basically like, “the Nightmare King worked with demons, those are our enemies, we're gonna come help out,” and place this boundary around the forest of the Nightmare King that appeared to both simultaneously keep things in the forest in and keep things outside the forest out. So, it was a weird moment where these infernal powers were like, "Hey, this is enough in our interest that we're gonna come help you guys seal this place off."

1:28:41 Murph: Got it.

1:28:44 Brennan: This is also stuff that you find that this thing was requisitioned using names on these requisition forms that this information was checked out of in your father's handwriting. Pok Gukgak checked this out, and also in his handwriting he checked that out for him and Kalina while they were partners together. You see Arianwen's notes on this information that had been partially checked out by Pok and Kalina when Pok was working in collaboration with the elven government. You see that in the text the boundaries placed around the forest of the Nightmare King to prevent the return of the Nightmare King and to prevent the return of the Nightmare King's crown had to do with... Only a high-ranking devil could allow passage through that boundary into the forest of Sylvaire, and you see Arianwen got her hands on a demonic ritual that involved-- And, you see there are notes in the margin, Arianwen was like, they basically say logistics, how to get-- They basically say, the ritual starts to go, the demons are like, "A high-ranking devil's never gonna do this willingly." If a devil were bound into something and you see that Ragh, over your shoulder, goes,

1:30:28 Ragh: I know that term. I know that word. That's a medical word. I've seen it in my mom's stuff before. It's about a body fusing with a gem. This is about gem magic. This is about putting a gem inside somebody's body.

1:30:43 Brennan: Reading further into it, you see that the ritual requires a specific kind of body to have been dead for 24 hours, and then a gem containing a high-ranking devil being placed into the body, and you see next to the thing with the body there's notes from Arianwen basically being like, “Question mark, question mark, question mark, logistics, how to get a devil into Kalina’s hands. Possible, question mark.”

1:31:22 Murph: Is Gorthalax a devil or a demon?

1:31:24 Brennan: Devil.

1:31:24 Murph: Devil. So, I was the dead one they were trying to sacrifice and Gorthalax is a part of it.

1:31:30 Emily: So, why would the boundary, that's not at the boundary of the Nightmare forest.

1:31:35 Zac: Is that boundary still up?

1:31:37 Emily: I do think that perhaps we should leave Gorthalax in the gem now.

1:31:40 Murph: The ritual didn’t happen. Yeah, I think I call Fig in because of the gem stuff.

1:31:45 Brennan: Cool.

1:31:45 Fig: I can't. I'm watching Aelwyn.

1:31:46 Riz: Okay, got it.

1:31:47 Fig: You can tell me later though.

1:31:48 Riz: Cool.

1:31:51 Brennan: Awesome. You're looking at that, and basically what you see, it's literally this weird thing where it basically seems like the devil has to be held by the Shadow Cat, by the servant of the Nightmare King, that these texts make direct reference to, and a lot of it is that Arianwen's notes are like, "How do I get something into the possession of the Shadow Cat?" and the answer appears to be this thing where it's like a certain type of dead body can put this gem into the hands of the Shadow Cat. Now, back in—

1:32:28 Siobhan: Does that mean that she's not in contact with the Shadow Cat? Because that's what the Shadow Cat implied to Aelwyn is that they're working together.

1:32:37 Emily: So, I just wanna pull up a stool by the door. I wanna light a clove cigarette. I wanna disguise myself as Aelwyn and Adaine's mom.

1:32:50 Brennan: Cool.

1:32:51 Siobhan: Sick.

1:32:51 Emily: And then, I'm also gonna hex her. [Ally laughs]

1:32:52 Emily: Which lasts for an hour, and the ability that she's gonna have disadvantage checks on is strength, in case I need to grapple her.

1:33:01 Brennan: Cool. Awesome. So, you are--

1:33:07 Kristen: You want a cortado? I can make one really quick. [Siobhan laughs]

1:33:09 Fig: Yeah, please.

1:33:09 Brennan: Cool.

1:33:11 Adaine: I love that you only know how to make cortados.

1:33:13 Brennan: So, you're sitting there,

1:33:14 Adaine: And also, incorrect.

1:33:17 Brennan: Very cool. As you're doing that... You’ve hexed her, she's lying there, you're smoking, you look like her mom.

1:33:29 Murph: You're an actual nightmare.

1:33:31 Ally: [laughing] Yeah. Sadistic.

1:33:35 Emily: If she wakes up, I'll put out the cigarette, pretend to be her mom.

1:33:38 Brennan: As you're sitting there—

1:33:39 Emily: Although,

1:33:39 Fig: [to Adaine] Does your mom smoke cloves?

1:33:43 Siobhan: I'm gonna let you answer that question.

1:33:45 Emily: I message you.

1:33:45 Fig: No?

1:33:46 Emily: I hear nothing back.

1:33:46 Fig: Huh, my Message must be off. I think my Message isn’t working.

1:33:50 Adaine: I don't even begin-- I can't even begin to think to answer that question. (Emily laughing)

1:33:53 Adaine: It's just so baffling to me that you would even--

1:33:57 Emily: Alright. [laughs]

1:34:00 Brennan: You hear a knock on the outside of the van door.

1:34:03 Emily: I kick it open.

1:34:05 Brennan: You see-- Blam! The van door kicks open. You see Fathethriel out there. You see Fathethriel looks at you and says,

1:34:14 Fathethriel: Hello, have you seen Ragh?

1:34:17 Lou: [laughs] Man.

1:34:17 Fig: This is really sad. I think it's not gonna happen.

1:34:23 Fathethriel: It already has a couple of times.

1:34:25 Fig: Yeah, but the continuation, I don't know if he's feeling you that way.

1:34:30 Fathethriel: Okay.

1:34:32 Fig: Yeah, but I haven't seen him. No, maybe he went for a swim.

1:34:35 Fathethriel: Okay. A little swim or something?

1:34:38 Fig: Yeah.

1:34:39 Emily: I think I wanna shield so he can't really see in the room.

1:34:41 Brennan: Cool. You see he looks over at you and says,

1:34:45 Fathethriel: By the way, just because there's some sort of a rumor going around, what's going on with you and Ayda?

1:34:53 Fig: What sort of saucy little elf are you? You think I come into your town so that you can whisper words about me?

1:35:00 Zac: Do you still look like her mom?

1:35:01 Ally: Yeah, I was gonna say, doesn't she look like a random woman? (laughing)

1:35:06 Brennan: I think you got a bass guitar on your back and you're smoking a clove cigarette, and he's put it together. (cast laughing)

1:35:13 Brennan: Then, he looks and just goes,

1:35:16 Fathethriel: I'm sorry. Me and some of my friends talked to her about it, and it just seemed like something was going on.

1:35:23 Fig: What did she say?

1:35:27 Fathethriel: Well, you know, we just talked about how you're a rockstar and probably get around, and she got really upset and teleported away.

1:35:39 Fig: She said I'm a rockstar?

1:35:41 Fathethriel: No, we said that.

1:35:43 Fig: Oh. Oh. Well, I guess that's the end of our conversation. You wanna know anything else? Do you wanna know if I'm a rockstar and I get around?

1:35:55 Brennan: You see that he says—

1:35:56 Fig: Here. Here's a little fucking gossip for you. I'm a fucking virgin who's never had a healthy relationship!

1:36:06 Fathethriel: Wooooooow! This is the best day of my life.

1:36:09 Fig: Spread that around, 'cause guess what. I don't care what you say here 'cause I'm never coming back. Choke on grapes, bitch! [cast laughs]

1:36:24 Murph: Oh, my god.

1:36:24 Zac: Did Ayda teleport away?

1:36:26 Siobhan: I'm hearing all of this in my mother' voice.

1:36:27 Zac: Did Ayda teleport away?

1:36:29 Ally: That line, honestly. But stick with the grapes.

1:36:30 Brennan: Yeah, 'cause it hurts to Fig that Ayda teleported away.

1:36:34 Fig: Oh, she teleported away? Wait, come back!

1:36:37 Brennan: You see Fathethriel turn around and says,

1:36:38 Fathethriel: I don't know. You kinda had a big moment there. Do you wanna restart this up or let that sit?

1:36:43 Fig: Where did she teleport to? Are you talking about she teleported like all the way back, or did she teleport behind a tree?

1:36:50 Brennan: You see he's like,

1:36:50 Fathethriel: She opened the door to some kind of fiery place and there's like a big fire door. It's by the grotto, literally just whatever. It's still there. I think some of my friends are gonna go through it later, but we're gonna, you know?

1:37:06 Fig: Okay.

1:37:06 Ally: This guy sucks.

1:37:07 Fig: Gorgug! Gorgug! Zac pantomimes holding a broken part together.

1:37:09 Gorgug: This part's broken.

1:37:11 Fig: Gorgug!

1:37:11 Gorgug: Huh? Yeah?

1:37:11 Fig: Can you take over for a minute?

1:37:15 Gorgug: It's still broken. Siobhan leans over and raises her hand over the “broken part” as if casting a spell.

1:37:16 Fig: Can you take over for a minute?

1:37:18 Adaine: Mending takes one minute. Just hold still for--

1:37:20 Gorgug: Take over watching her?

1:37:22 Fig: Yes.

1:37:23 Gorgug: [sighs] Okay. Well.

1:37:23 Adaine: Okay. All right, well.

1:37:25 Gorgug: We can just do this later.

1:37:26 Fig: Also, Adaine, I'm gonna come out of the van, but don't get too freaked out.

1:37:30 Adaine: Why would you— Why are you— It's very triggering for me that you would do this.

1:37:35 Fig: I know. I'm sorry. Again, I'm always offering if you wanna do some sort of therapy back to back, I can be like, "I love you."

1:37:42 Adaine: Are you a trained therapist? (Ally laughs)

1:37:46 Emily: I walk away. (Murph laughs)

1:37:47 Brennan: Cool.

1:37:49 Emily: I guess I'm gonna go to this fiery portal.

1:37:50 Brennan: You go to this fiery portal. Gorgug, you hop down into the van.

1:37:55 Gorgug: What's going on in here?

1:37:55 Brennan: Cool. Awesome. So, as you go into the van and close the door, you see that Aelwyn kinda wakes up a little bit. Goes, [Aelwyn groans]

1:38:14 Emily: She is still hexed. I think that it will still have full disadvantage on strength checks.

1:38:18 Brennan: Goes like,

1:38:18 Aelwyn: Ugh, I don't feel good at all.

1:38:22 Gorgug: Yeah. [silence]

1:38:28 Ally: Come on, man. You can do it.

1:38:30 Gorgug: So, what's, uh... Maybe you should go back to sleep? I don't know.

1:38:38 Aelwyn: What?

1:38:39 Gorgug: I don't know. This got sprung on me. I didn't really-- This is not the zone for me.

1:38:46 Aelwyn: I don't feel good at all.

1:38:48 Ally: C’mon, man, you can do it!

1:38:51 Gorgug: I could— [sighs] [Emily laughs]

1:38:53 Gorgug: Maybe there’s some water or something?

1:38:55 Aelwyn: What?

1:38:56 Gorgug: What?

1:38:57 Aelwyn: What?

1:38:57 Gorgug: What?

1:38:58 Aelwyn: What?

1:38:59 Gorgug: I was asking if you want some water. Aelwyn?: [sighs] I don't feel good at all.

1:39:06 Gorgug: Did you just—

1:39:09 Zac: Gorgug puts his hand through and just sees if he can touch her.

1:39:11 Emily: Oh, no!

1:39:12 Siobhan: Oh no! (laughing and groaning)

1:39:14 Emily: No!

1:39:16 Brennan: You touch her head and your hand comes back wet, like she's made of water and she goes, Aelwyn?: You're cute.

1:39:24 Siobhan: God.

1:39:24 Gorgug: Uh oh. [panics]

1:39:26 Zac: I open the door.

1:39:29 Gorgug: Anybody? Hello?

1:39:31 Adaine: Yeah, I'm up here.

1:39:31 Ally: I should be getting back from my stuff?

1:39:32 Lou: Am I on the way back?

1:39:33 Gorgug: Your sister's made of water and I didn't--

1:39:34 Adaine: God dammit.

1:39:36 Kristen: You're kidding me.

1:39:36 Gorgug: I'm not sure when it happened, but she is made of water.

1:39:39 Kristen: Fig!

1:39:40 Brennan: Fig, you walk down towards the grotto where you see the grotto's supposed to be. You don't see any fucking fiery portal at all.

1:39:46 Ally: No!

1:39:50 Fig: [yelling] Oh my god. I was completely fucking used! All y'all need to choke on grapes! [points at the elves] All y’all!

1:39:56 Fabian: What? What is happening?

1:39:57 Riz: Why are we choking on grapes? We said don't eat the grapes.

1:40:00 Fig: You guys are excluded from the choking on the grapes.

1:40:01 Brennan: So, you're in a different part. You're near the grotto right now.

1:40:06 Ally: Oh, boy.

1:40:07 Brennan: I'm gonna need you to make a Wisdom saving throw, if you'd be so kind.

1:40:13 Emily: Okay.

1:40:14 Ally: Come on, nat 20. This is it.

1:40:15 Siobhan: Nat 20, baby. Nat 20, nat 20. Oh, all right. Okay.

1:40:21 Emily: That is going to be a dirty 20.

1:40:25 Brennan: A dirty 20. Cool.

1:40:26 Lou: Hell, yes.

1:40:27 Brennan: You feel a spell try to happen on you. Now, I'm gonna need you to roll initiative.

1:40:33 Emily: What?

1:40:35 Ally: Come on.

1:40:35 Emily: Oh my God.

1:40:37 Ally: You still look like Arian, right?

1:40:41 Emily: Yeah, I do still look like Adaine's mom. I got a 5, but I'm gonna use a luck point to try to get better initiative.

1:40:50 Zac: You have luck points?  Ooh.

1:40:53 Emily: Okay, that's gonna be a 17.

1:40:55 Brennan: 17? Okay, it does not beat a 19, so I'm gonna need another Wisdom saving throw, if you'd be so kind.

1:41:06 Emily: 15. (sighing)

1:41:10 Ally: Luck point?

1:41:11 Brennan: You can use another luck point here if you want to.

1:41:13 Emily: I will.

1:41:13 Brennan: Okay.

1:41:16 Emily: 10.

1:41:20 Brennan: Fig. Your body freezes. It's just for a moment. You know it's Hold Person. It's not gonna kill you and it's something you can keep making saves against. Go ahead. So, we're in initiative order. At the end of your turn now, go ahead and make another saving throw.

1:41:45 Emily: Okay. 12 isn’t gonna do it.

1:41:50 Brennan: Okay.

1:41:51 Emily: I guess I gotta try— I don't wanna freaking use my third luck point. What a waste of these new luck points. 18?

1:41:59 Brennan: 18 does it.

1:41:59 Emily: Okay.

1:42:00 Brennan: So, at the end of your turn you come out just in time. On a natural 19, you watch Gorthalax's gem come out of your coat.

1:42:17 Emily: By what? By someone invisible?

1:42:18 Brennan: Literally an invisible something.

1:42:20 Emily: Okay. Bestow Curse. I wanna make that person have terrible gas so I can follow them. (laughing)

1:42:25 Brennan: You cast Bestow Curse. I'm gonna roll a saving throw. That is a— What's your DC?

1:42:34 Emily: 17.

1:42:34 Brennan: So, I'm gonna narrate what happens now. You watch the invisibility fade as a shivering, shaking Aelwyn Abernant holding Gorthalax's gem and holding her spellbook (Emily gasping) appear before you.

1:43:00 Zac: How did this happen?

1:43:03 Brennan: Appear before you. She was invisible in the van with you. Appear before you and go,

1:43:15 Aelwyn: I'm so sorry, but goodbye for now. (mouth farting)

1:43:22 Aelwyn: What?

1:43:22 Brennan: And teleports, very confused by just blasting ass against her will.

1:43:30 Ally: I have a question.

1:43:31 Brennan: As she teleports out of here.

1:43:35 Fig: You motherfucker!

1:43:37 Ally: When? I have a question though.

1:43:39 Emily: How did she know it was me though? I look like her mom?

1:43:42 Brennan: She was casting Detect Thoughts.

1:43:47 Ally: I made a fake thing that was loaded with glyph of warding with an explosion that looked like that crystal. I don't remember when you took your specific dad one out of the bag, but we had a decoy one.

1:44:04 Siobhan: I think it was just the bag that was like that.

1:44:06 Emily: Yeah.

1:44:08 Ally: Oh, just the bag. You're right. You just had the loose-- Yeah.

1:44:10 Emily: I had it in my pocket because I tried to give it to him.

1:44:10 Ally: Yeah, I got you. Don't worry about it.

1:44:15 Brennan: So, Aelwyn [snaps] vanishes. The concentration-- You see that the spell fades on you and you are no longer paralyzed.

1:44:33 Emily: I run back up.

1:44:36 Fig: Hey, guys. Aelwyn just fucking got away.

1:44:39 Kristen: Yeah, she was all water.

1:44:42 Fig: Yeah, well--

1:44:44 Adaine: I should've been watching her myself. This is my fault.

1:44:46 Gorgug: We had her captive for like nine minutes.

1:44:49 Fig: Yes. I don't even know when it happened.

1:44:50 Adaine: Honestly, that's longer than anybody has ever been able to hold her captive before.

1:44:54 Fig: She has Gorthalax in the fucking gem and I don't know where she teleported. I tried to give her gas so that I could follow her when she was invisible, but I can't—

1:45:02 Riz: I was just reading and they need a devil to get into the forest of the Nightmare King. So, they're definitely taking Gorthalax there at some point.

1:45:11 Kristen: We need to get there.

1:45:12 Riz: They have to kill someone, and within 24 hours...

1:45:15 Fig: Where's Ayda?

1:45:17 Brennan: Ayda comes in. She's got a little bowl of grapes. [Ayda chewing]

1:45:22 Kristen: Hey, baby. [Lou laughs]

1:45:22 Kristen: So, I have a question.

1:45:25 Ayda: I'm not a baby.

1:45:26 Kristen: I know. I have a question.

1:45:27 Ayda: I'm not a baby. I'm an adult.

1:45:28 Gorgug: No one thinks you're a baby.

1:45:28 Kristen: Yeah, totally, baby.

1:45:30 Gorgug: It's a turn of phrase.

1:45:31 Kristen: Okay, so there was this weird, oozing pus man, right, in what you saw? Is that the person that they need to cram this devil into?

1:45:39 Adaine: The devil into.

1:45:40 Kristen: That sounds like a dead wood elf.

1:45:42 Riz: He's in the forest.

1:45:43 Adaine: He's in the forest.

1:45:46 Kristen: Okay, yeah. I guess, but it sounds like they were trying to keep someone freshly dead and that kinda sounds like what they need.

1:45:52 Fig: I think 24 hours just means that, yeah, they need some-- although, they could cast Gentle Repose on them.

1:45:57 Kristen: Yeah. Hey, do you think that your mom--

1:45:59 Fig: Where's Fathethriel?

1:46:00 Kristen: Do you think your mom fell in love with the idea of this nameless lady?

1:46:02 Brennan: You wanna go find Fathethriel?

1:46:02 Murph: Yeah, let’s go find Fathethriel.

1:46:04 Emily: Yeah, I wanna go find fucking Fathethriel.

1:46:06 Brennan: Cool. Fathethriel's hanging out, dipping his feet into a little pool.

1:46:10 Fig: Hey, Feth. What's up?

1:46:13 Fathethriel: Hey.

1:46:14 Fig: So. I need you to tell me that what you just did, someone cast a spell on you and you did against your own will.

1:46:22 Fathethriel: No. Um. A tabaxi woman showed up and told me she'd give me 10 gold pieces if I went and messed with you.

1:46:31 Kristen: That's so little money.

1:46:33 Fig: For 10 gold pieces? For 10 gold pieces you literally just gave away my fucking father who I don't even fucking know!

1:46:42 Fathethriel: Whoa? What? I don't know anything about this.

1:46:45 Riz: Give us your lunch money!

1:46:45 Murph: I try to take the gold back.

1:46:48 Brennan: He says-- [Fathethriel cries out in pain]

1:46:48 Fabian: Yes!

1:46:49 Lou: Backhand. [Fathethriel shouts]

1:46:50 Brennan: He says,

1:46:51 Fathethriel: Everyone's being weird! What's going on? I don't get it! A lady said to go mess with you and say some stuff about Ayda or whatever.

1:47:03 Murph: I want to steal—

1:47:03 Riz: That's Fig's 10 gold.

1:47:08 Fathethriel: I'm waiting. She didn't give me the gold yet.

1:47:09 Riz: You didn't even get it up front?

1:47:11 Fig: [upset] Okay, she didn't give you the gold yet? Cool. We'll wait until she gives you-- You didn't even get anything up front, you just did this on a fucking lark?

1:47:19 Fathethriel: No. I don't know. I didn't do it for—

1:47:24 Fabian: You're mean.

1:47:26 Fathethriel: What?

1:47:26 Fabian: You're very, very mean.

1:47:28 Fig: You're mean.

1:47:28 Adaine: Ragh, I think this guy is bad for you and I think we should leave.

1:47:30 Kristen: Ragh, I think you should beat the shit out of this guy.

1:47:33 Fabian: [waves his hands] Whoa, whoa, whoa!

1:47:33 Brennan: Ragh says,

1:47:33 Ragh: [waving both hands no] I’m not comfortable, I’m not comfortable—

1:47:36 Kristen: Do it, c’mon, man. Do it.

1:47:38 Fig: Everyone but Ragh should. Everyone but Ragh should.

1:47:39 Riz: Fathethriel is really mean. Fathethriel, you should go around and tell everyone about this cat that just told you about this thing, and if you do that, I’ll give you 100 gold.

1:47:50 Murph: I give him 100 gold. Fathethriel pockets it.

1:47:52 Fig: Don't give my fucking greatest enemy in my life 100 gold.

1:47:56 Fathethriel: Wait. I'm confused. How am I now the greatest enemy of your life?

1:48:00 Adaine: You know why.

1:48:01 Fathethriel: I super don't.

1:48:01 Adaine: You know.

1:48:01 Fabian: Hey, Fathethriel?

1:48:03 Emily: That's a, does a 23 hit? [cast laughs]

1:48:07 Brennan: Yeah, a 23 hits!

1:48:07 Murph: I try to hold Fig back.

1:48:08 Brennan: Yeah, you sock him for--

1:48:08 Emily: I'm gonna do Booming Blade— Zac makes a face of dismay.

1:48:12 Ally: No, don't kill him!

1:48:13 Lou: Do not kill Fathethriel.

1:48:13 Murph: [almost laughing too hard to talk] Don’t, he was tricked!

1:48:16 Ally: [shaking their head] You’d absolutely kill him, your dad is gone.

1:48:18 Emily: He absolutely just humiliated me in every fucking way possible.

1:48:23 Murph: Fig! Hold her back, hold her back.

1:48:24 Lou: Yes, can I grab onto Fig with my sheet?

1:48:28 Brennan: You know what,

1:48:30 Murph: I would like to try to hold Fig back.

1:48:31 Brennan: If you guys want to leap on Fig, okay.

1:48:32 Emily: I hit him for a 19.

1:48:33 Murph: Let him spread the word.

1:48:34 Emily: I hit him for 19, and if he walks, then he takes another 2d8 damage.

1:48:38 Brennan: If you hit this kid for 19 damage.

1:48:40 Zac: He’d be dead. Fully dead.

1:48:41 Brennan: He's fully dead.

1:48:42 Emily: Just knock him unconscious.

1:48:44 Brennan: You do non-lethal. [Murph laughs]

1:48:46 Brennan: Bong! Hit him on the ground.

1:48:49 Riz: That was really big of you, Fig.

1:48:50 Brennan: Yeah, you see Ragh goes,

1:48:50 Ragh: Holy shit! What did he do? What did he do?

1:48:56 Adaine: He helped Aelwyn escape.

1:48:59 Fig: Yeah, that.

1:48:59 Ragh: Oh. Well, that sucks.

1:49:01 Kristen: And, Aelwyn got her spellbook and Fig's dad.

1:49:05 Adaine: Also, he tricked Fig, which I feel like is Fig's whole thing, and so maybe it's more painful because of that.

1:49:11 Ragh: Oh, you're seeing your vices and someone else's engaging with them.

1:49:14 Adaine: Right, yeah.

1:49:15 Fig: No. I don't feel bad about my vices. My vices rule.

1:49:19 Kristen: I have a question about Arian's motive here.

1:49:23 Adaine: Arianwen's or Aelwyn's?

1:49:25 Kristen: Arianwen’s.

1:49:25 Adaine: My mom.

1:49:26 Kristen: Yes, your mom's, because it sounds like the high elves did this whole misinformation campaign in bad faith. Does it sound like your mom is trying to bring it back and make right, maybe against the high elves?

1:49:38 Adaine: Maybe, but it seems like the high elves-- My mom is the highest of the high elves.

1:49:43 Kristen: But, it sounds like she broke back 'cause her and your dad aren't working together.

1:49:46 Riz: I think they're both just bad. They're both just different kinds of bad.

1:49:49 Gorgug: But, they're on different sides, is what it sounds like.

1:49:50 Kristen: It sounds like she's on this mystery side because she did so much research. This is like the research of someone who's fallen in love with a new—

1:49:56 Adaine: Look, I do not know my mother at all.

1:49:59 Kristen: Can you talk to her in any way?

1:50:02 Adaine: If I take a long rest. I guess I could Sending her, I could send her a message using Sending.

1:50:10 Brennan: Sandra Lynn says,

1:50:12 Sandra Lynn: Okay. We've knocked one of the youths here unconscious. I think it's time for us to go. We're gonna head back to Leviathan right now.

1:50:20 Brennan: You see Sandra Lynn says,

1:50:22 Sandra Lynn: Also, we need to have a discussion because Cathilda is gonna be departing. Currently, Ragh is still on the adventure with you as a full party member. Myself, and Tracker are no longer officially receiving a stipend from the school. I can't speak on Tracker's behalf.

1:50:47 Gorgug: Why is that? Just 'cause of funding—

1:50:49 Fabian: Aguefort's out of money.

1:50:49 Sandra Lynn: Yes, he's in trouble. So, you guys are heading into what looks like the last leg of your journey. You have a lot of information from Fathethriel, you have all the information you need about what our enemy's up to.

1:51:07 Brennan: She looks around and you see that she and Tracker are standing together like they've just had a conversation. She says,

1:51:17 Sandra Lynn: I feel obligated to continue if you guys want me. You're heading to the forest of Sylvaire. That's kind of why you guys brought me anyway, so I will continue on with you.

1:51:35 Brennan: Tracker looks at you guys and says,

1:51:37 Tracker: I will, as well. You guys don't have to pay me. I'll keep going, too.

1:51:42 Adaine: We'll pay both of you. We have—

1:51:43 Fig: Yeah, we have money.

1:51:45 Ally: I do have a question though because there is kind of a part of me that wonders if there's something those of us who are infected can do separate to help.

1:51:55 Fig: I don't wanna separate.

1:51:57 Kristen: I don't want to either, but I am thinking if she's hearing every plan, if she knows exactly where we are, all of our research, she knows what we know. Is that bad?

1:52:06 Riz: Well, we knows what she needs to do, too.

1:52:08 Fabian: Exactly.

1:52:09 Riz: We know where they're going.

1:52:10 Kristen: Yeah, true.

1:52:10 Adaine: Let's get out of here and have this conversation in Leviathan.

1:52:15 Kristen: Yeah, 'cause we know where the temple is.

1:52:16 Brennan: Cool.

1:52:17 Kristen: You and me found that stuff at Compass Points. We know exactly where the temple that she's heading towards is.

1:52:20 Riz: And, considering how your father used you guys, it's possible your sister is being set up as the person being sacrificed now.

1:52:35 Adaine: Cool!

1:52:35 Riz: I think both of your parents are bad in different ways, but they might be doing the same thing.

1:52:39 Adaine: Great. Wonderful.

1:52:40 Brennan: You guys-- Ayda prepares the teleport. Telemaine comes up and says,

1:52:47 Telemaine: It has been an honor.

1:52:52 Kristen: [hostile] Get out of— [apologetic] Oh, sorry. [laughs] [hides face] I thought you were-- I thought you were the guy. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. [to Fabian] I'm so sorry I yelled at your dad.

1:52:59 Fabian: It's my granddad.

1:53:00 Emily: No, I’m still standing on Fathethriel’s Adam’s apple.

1:53:00 Kristen: Oh, right.

1:53:00 Fig: That guy doesn't get to come to until I'm gone. [Murph laughs] Ally hides their face.

1:53:03 Brennan: You see that Telemaine comes up and says to all of you,

1:53:07 Telemaine: Take as many grapes as you'd like.

1:53:08 Fabian: What an opportunity.

1:53:09 Riz: Thank you, Telemaine.

1:53:10 Kristen: Thank you, sir.

1:53:10 Gorgug: I'll take a grape, yeah.

1:53:12 Siobhan: I give a formal, high elvish, departation ritual saying of,

1:53:21 Adaine: May your grapes be juicy and bright.

1:53:24 Brennan: You see that he returns the formal response. He says,

1:53:28 Telemaine: In your time here, you have rescued your friend. You found what you needed in your great quest, though it pains me to see you go, my sweet grandson. You have also knocked one of our youths unconscious.

1:53:44 Fig: I need you to trust me on this one. He deserved it.

1:53:47 Telemaine: Oh, he's a shit starter.

1:53:47 Fig: It was completely manipulative, what he did.

1:53:49 Telemaine: He's a shit starter, for sure.

1:53:51 Fig: Yeah. I would throw him in the river.

1:53:53 Telemaine: No, no, no. It's okay. He's weird. The way he talks about half-orcs is weird. We all think it. This is messed up for me to say about a kid, but I don't like him.

1:53:58 Fig: Ah, okay.

1:54:02 Riz: He’s just a rotten kid.

1:54:02 Murph: I kick him once. [Emily laughs]

1:54:05 Brennan: You see, he goes—

1:54:07 Siobhan: I kick him but I hurt my foot. I’m so weak.

1:54:11 Brennan: Hallariel says,

1:54:11 Hallariel: I shall see you when you're all back in Elmville again. Best of luck saving the world, darlings. I love you so much. I love you, sweetheart.

1:54:20 Fabian: I love you, Mama.

1:54:23 Brennan: Cathilda comes up with her little bag packed. She gives you a kiss and says,

1:54:29 Cathilda: You're your own hero, Master Fabian.

1:54:33 Brennan: She goes around. She gives you a little kiss, Riz, and goes over to Kristen. She goes over to you Adaine, and as she gives you a little kiss, she puts a little thing of cookies in your hand.

1:54:45 Siobhan: I give her a big hug.

1:54:46 Brennan: Gives you a big hug in return. She smiles at you, Gorgug, gives you a kiss on the cheek,

1:54:52 Gorgug: Thank you!

1:54:52 Brennan: And she comes over to you and she looks and says—

1:55:00 Fig: I believe you. You're on our side.

1:55:04 Brennan: She smiles, nods, and says,

1:55:08 Cathilda: You're a good egg.

1:55:09 Fig: This guy though, probably the Nightmare King.

1:55:13 Cathilda: Who are you pointing to?

1:55:15 Fig: The small elf underneath my boot.

1:55:18 Cathilda: No. He's an asshole. He's not the Nightmare King.

1:55:21 Fig: Yeah. Right now I just need to believe he's the Nightmare King.

1:55:25 Brennan: As Cathilda walks away, can I take out my father's eyepatch and put it back on, and then say,

1:55:35 Fabian: You're the best maid-- No, the best surrogate mother a boy could ask for.

1:55:44 Brennan: She bursts into tears. You see, your mom looks, hears--

1:55:50 Fabian: You know. You know it's true.

1:55:52 Brennan: She looks and says,

1:55:58 Hallariel: It hurts because it's true.

1:56:01 Brennan: And you see she says,

1:56:04 Hallariel: My hope is that I start doing better, darling.

1:56:07 Brennan: And, she looks at Cathilda and says,

1:56:10 Hallariel: Maybe, Cathilda, we should have a talk about what it means to do right by people.

1:56:18 Brennan: Cathilda says,

1:56:18 Cathilda: Oh.

1:56:19 Brennan: She looks over at you [Fabian] and says,

1:56:23 Cathilda: Two down, [points at Hallariel] one more to go.

1:56:26 Brennan: And, she takes Hallariel’s hand and says--

1:56:30 Zac: What?

1:56:32 Brennan: Bill, Fabian, and now Hallariel. You see she looks at you and says,

1:56:41 Cathilda: My heart beams with light for you, Fabian.

1:56:43 Brennan: And she says,

1:56:43 Cathilda: The eye patch looks good on you.

1:56:48 Fabian: Stop it.

1:56:49 Brennan: And, they walk away. Ayda, the runes of fire spread. And, you all reappear, vwoom! And can small the salt sea air and can once again feel the ebbing call of gulls. You are back, midday, under a deep fog at the Compass Points Library. Leviathan spreads around you, no longer under the threat of Captain James. For those of you who are here, Ayda looks and says,

1:57:27 Ayda: Very well. We have some research we have left to do. Let us dive into it and see what we can glean.

1:57:34 Ally: I start casting Hallow on the van.

1:57:38 Brennan: You see that Tracker and Sandra Lynn look at you, both. Sandra Lynn sort of coughs and says,

1:57:46 Sandra Lynn: So, you would prefer for Tracker and I to continue the last leg of the journey with you?

1:57:51 Adaine: Yes.

1:57:52 Brennan: Sandra Lynn looks at you, looks out at Leviathan, looks at Tracker, puts a hand on Tracker's back and sort of squeezes her shoulder and looks out and says,

1:58:07 Sandra Lynn: We're headed into the shit. [looks to Adaine] Your sister's taken back her book, [looks to Fig] she's captured your father and one of my partners, and I wanna say that I haven't been good, and I'm sorry. I haven't been a good role model. I'm an adult. You're all learning how to be heroes. I've given you reason to doubt me. I've introduced strife into Tracker.

1:58:41 Kristen: This is about to get inspiring.

1:58:43 Brennan: You see, she bursts into laughter, you saying that, and just goes,

1:58:46 Sandra Lynn: Look, we're going into the shit. We all have stuff to work out. I'm not perfect and you guys are teenagers and you've known that for a minute. If I give you reason to doubt in the middle of something that's dangerous, then that's on me and I'm sorry. If anything ever happened, and I made things hard, Mordred Manor is a home waiting for all of you, and if anything ever happened and I ever made a mistake that put anything in jeopardy, I would get on Baxter and go before I put your home and your family in jeopardy. I want you to know that. We fuck up and we try to make the decisions to be better where and when we can, and we're going presumably to Sylvaire to stop what's going on. Here's to getting it right on the next try.

1:59:37 Brennan: You see that Tracker nods and you see that Sandra Lynn looks over at Ayda, hangs her head and says,

1:59:47 Sandra Lynn: Ayda, can I… [rubs her eyes] get a use of that Sending spell from you? I need to talk to somebody.

1:59:53 Brennan: And you see that Ayda says,

1:59:53 Ayda: Sure. Someone specific or just any person in the world?

1:59:59 Brennan: And, Sandra Lynn goes,

1:59:59 Sandra Lynn: A specific person. [Ally laughs]

2:00:02 Brennan: And walks off with Ayda.

2:00:08 Ally: Can I do an Insight to see if that was maybe to Jawbone?

2:00:12 Brennan: No Insight needed. You said the name. It's to Jawbone.

2:00:14 Ally: Okay, yeah yeah yeah.

2:00:15 Brennan: Tracker comes over, smiles at you, and goes,

2:00:19 Tracker: All right. Let's get to work.

2:00:20 Kristen: All right, I'm gonna do this. Can you go find Chungledown Bim?

2:00:23 Adaine: What?

2:00:23 Fabian: Do not-- No! Absolutely not! [Murph and Brennan laugh]

2:00:26 Kristen: I wanna know!

2:00:28 Fabian: We don't need him back.

2:00:29 Kristen: We need to make contact with somebody from here.

2:00:29 Fabian: He's going to shit in my mouth, all right.

2:00:32 Kristen: Go find him, honey.

2:00:32 Riz: We don’t need Chungledown Bim.

2:00:33 Kristen: We need Chungledown Bim!

2:00:35 Fabian: I have come a long way.

2:00:36 Kristen: What if he saw-- What if he saw Arian?

2:00:38 Fig: Hey, Kristen, Fabian's really delicate right now.

2:00:41 Fabian: I just got back, I just got back.

2:00:42 Kristen: We don't have to bring him here. I'll go to him once I finish this.

2:00:47 Brennan: Tracker looks at you and says,

2:00:50 Tracker: Kristen, if what we need is information about Arianwen, we could go hit up Garthy again if you wanna go back to the Gold Gardens.

2:00:56 Kristen: Oh, that's a way better idea.

2:00:58 Gorgug: Have you met Chungledown Bim?

2:01:00 Kristen: I just looked—

2:01:00 Gorgug: Who's Chungledown Bim?

2:01:00 Murph: Fabian cried about Chungledown Bim, I guess.

2:01:01 Kristen: I've heard this name and I have dreams about it.

2:01:04 Lou: I'm just in the corner going,

2:01:06 Fabian: [rhythmically] I believe in you. Spring break. I believe in you. Spring break.

2:01:08 Gorgug: Spring break!

2:01:09 Adaine: Great call, let’s go to the library.

2:01:11 The Boys: [pointing at each other] I believe in you. Spring break. I believe in you!

2:01:13 Kristen: Let's talk to him. If it doesn't work out with Garthy, then Chungledown Bim is a close second.

2:01:18 Tracker: We'll talk to him and we'll figure out something.

2:01:18 Fabian: Stop! [Ally laughs]

2:01:19 Brennan: Cool. For those of you who are in— For those of you who are doing research at the Compass Points, go ahead and give me whatever rolls you're doing. For anyone who's gonna go talk to Garthy, let me know who's going to do that.

2:01:35 Siobhan: I want to do two things at the library. I want to look at this research, but I also want to see if there's records of any books that my mother took out of the library, if she went to the library and I don't know if she did.

2:01:51 Brennan: Cool. Give me an Arcana check for the first and an Investigation for the second.

2:01:55 Siobhan: Great. So, I'm gonna use Boggy with the help action for both of them.

2:01:59 Brennan: Yep.

2:02:02 Siobhan: Oy. That's a 15 on the first one.

2:02:06 Brennan: We'll call that the Investigation.

2:02:08 Siobhan: Oh, okay. Oh, and a nat 20, and the other one was a 1.

2:02:12 Ally: Whoa!

2:02:13 Siobhan: Thank you Boggy.

2:02:13 Brennan: So, a nat 20.

2:02:16 Siobhan: And then, a nat 20 on the other.

2:02:17 Brennan: Okay. Investigation 15. You don't find any books that Arianwen took out of here.

2:02:22 Siobhan: Okay.

2:02:24 Brennan: Cool. Um, uh, ba ba bum... So, what you find is this. The nat 20 arcana (Lou whistling) you dive into the hefty tomes taken from your mother's research. These are written by mystics, shamans of the wood elves, centaurs, treants, and sprites immediately during the run up to this council where the worshippers and clerics of the Goddess of Mystery, the unnamed Goddess of Mystery, were building up to destroy her name. There were certain [airquotes] heretics that were driven out that were having prophetic dreams, and your oracle shit is extremely relevant here because the dreams that these shamans started having were basically ignored by the power structures of these influential, high elven clerics working in Sylvaire. The Goddess of Mystery sent visions, and from the four different tribes they saw what were called the Four Trans-Substantiations, and you see four powerful effects. This Goddess of Mystery, Magic, and Night, the word they used sometime is they call her a Witch Goddess, and she apparently was not just a goddess of magic, but was almost a goddess of spellcasters and a spellcaster herself because basically the warning she gave is, "What you are doing is going to destroy me. Unmaking my name is going to hurt me or destroy me." She performed four trans-substantiations and a great trans-substantiation in anticipation before this ritual happened to try to protect herself.

2:04:23 Siobhan: So, four regular trans-substantiations and one great—

2:04:26 Brennan: And one great.

2:04:28 Siobhan: Great.

2:04:28 Brennan: She turned her spellbook into a coin, she turned her familiar into a plague, she turned her sanctum into a curse, and she turned her arcane focus into a tree. On a nat 20, you can find something about what her arcane focus was. Her arcane focus was a broomstick. And the final trans-substantiation was she turned her name into something, but you don't know what she turned her name into.

2:05:09 Siobhan: Great.

2:05:11 Brennan: Now, with other investigation—

2:05:17 Siobhan: So, she actually wasn't unnamed because her name was changed before the un-naming?

2:05:19 Emily: Her name still exists.

2:05:22 Zac: Is her name the crown?

2:05:23 Emily: It exists as something.

2:05:25 Brennan: It looks like she, before the mortals could do the ritual, she trans-substantiated her own name to survive, preempt— whatever, right?

2:05:38 Zac: What if we're looking for a Nightmare Queen?

2:05:41 Murph: Yeah.

2:05:41 Siobhan: Well, I do have a memory of-- I didn't write it down, so maybe I'm misremembering this, but didn't you say that the Sylvairian language doesn't have gender? Is that something that you said, or is something that I'm fully making up in my brain?

2:05:59 Brennan: You might be fully making it up in your brain.

2:06:02 Siobhan: Sometimes I do that. [Zac laughs]

2:06:05 Brennan: Cool. But, you might be making that up in your brain.

2:06:07 Siobhan: Great. Sick. So, just to reiterate, the spellbook became a coin, the familiar became a plague, the sanctum became a curse, and the arcane focus which was a broomstick, became a tree.

2:06:26 Brennan: Correct.

2:06:26 Siobhan: Great.

2:06:29 Brennan: Riz, what did you get on your Investigation?

2:06:30 Murph: 23.

2:06:31 Brennan: 23. You find within the stuff you're looking at as you're going through it, one of the pieces where Arianwen's writing also mentions something that in the original alliance between Kalvaxus and the Nightmare King, one of the gifts that the Nightmare King gave to Kalvaxus as a vassal, being like, "I bow to you. I'm one of your vassal servants," gave the gift of a single coin to add to Kalvaxus' hoard.

2:07:11 Emily: Ah, that's gonna be the spellbook. Wait, we have his hoard.

2:07:14 Siobhan: We have his hoard.

2:07:16 Murph: Unless we gave away that.

2:07:17 Zac: But, when that hoard, his specific hoard, that bank got blown open, maybe that was to get the coin?

2:07:25 Emily: Do we know that we directly received his coins or were they laundered in some way?

2:07:29 Murph: Yeah.

2:07:33 Ally: Is that a question for someone in particular?

2:07:36 Siobhan: I feel like Arthur Aguefort is the one that gave us the money.

2:07:41 Emily: Yeah, we could ask Arthur.

2:07:42 Murph: Do we find anything else?

2:07:45 Brennan: I'm looking at it right now. Did anyone else make any other rolls?

2:07:47 Emily: No, I'm gonna go to Garthy.

2:07:49 Brennan: You're gonna go to Garthy. Cool.

2:07:50 Zac: Just working on the Hangman. (laughing)

2:07:51 Lou: I'll roll. Do I know that Gorgug is working on the Hangman?

2:07:55 Zac: I'm trying to hide it.

2:07:57 Lou: Well then, I don't go looking for him. I'll roll with them to Garthy.

2:08:01 Brennan: Cool. You roll with them to Garthy's. You're doing Hallow and Tracker's actually gonna help you with Hallow.

2:08:05 Ally: Okay.

2:08:05 Emily: Yeah, okay. We can go. I gotta get away from here.

2:08:07 Brennan: So Fabian and Fig, you go to talk to Garthy.

2:08:09 Lou: Cool.

2:08:11 Emily: Yeah.

2:08:12 Fabian: We haven't hung out in a minute.

2:08:14 Fig: I know. You look great. Dance looks great on you.

2:08:16 Fabian: Hey, honestly it was really cool to watch you kick the shit out of [stumbles] Fathethriel.

2:08:22 Fig: Yeah. You know, he was fucked up. I hate him.

2:08:26 Fabian: Yeah. Solid. I'm about it. [Emily laughs]

2:08:30 Fig: Yeah, let's go. Wait, what are we talking to Garthy about?

2:08:33 Fabian: Not sure. Let's hand.

2:08:33 Fig: Sorry. I've been in kinda my own head. I got kinda fucked up there.

2:08:37 Brennan: Ragh's gonna go with you guys—

2:08:41 Lou: Cool.

2:08:41 Brennan: --to Garthy's. You see that Ragh looks over and he's like,

2:08:46 Ragh: [to Fig] Hey, I know it was about your own shit going on, but when we got back after the tower, Fathethriel said some really messed up stuff. So, good looking out.

2:09:02 Fig: Oh.

2:09:02 Ragh: He was weird. He was mean.

2:09:04 Fig: Good.

2:09:04 Ragh: He was mean to me.

2:09:05 Fig: I wish I could say I was doing it as an act of justice, but it was a personal vendetta. He just really embarrassed me.

2:09:13 Ragh: Yeah, I hear that.

2:09:13 Fig: You know? I hope he has a really painful cramp shit.

2:09:20 Ragh: Did you say you did a curse to make Aelwyn fart?

2:09:24 Fig: Okay, follow me. This was my game plan.

2:09:28 Fabian: Okay.

2:09:28 Fig: If she's invisible— I didn't know it was Aelwyn at the time.

2:09:29 Fabian: Uh-huh. Yeah.

2:09:31 Fig: If she's invisible, then I could track her via scent, but then she teleported and I—

2:09:39 Fabian: Yo. That's an amazing plan and if it'd worked out I think you'd be on my shoulders for sure.

2:09:44 Fig: Thank you so much. Thank you so much!

2:09:45 Fabian: If that had worked out that would've been awesome.

2:09:47 Fig: Thank you so much.

2:09:47 Fabian: That would've be awesome!

2:09:49 Fig: I love this support. Thank you.

2:09:50 Fabian: Damn, dude!

2:09:50 Fig: I need this right now.

2:09:52 Fabian: Oh, spring break!

2:09:53 Fig: Spring break.

2:09:53 Fabian: I believe in you.

2:09:55 Fig: Thank you! Also, whatever Fathethriel said that I said to him is a total lie.

2:10:02 Ragh: What?

2:10:02 Fabian: What did you say to him?

2:10:04 Fig: Nothing. I just made—

2:10:06 Ally: Wow. Wow.

2:10:09 Fig: I'm just saying I think this guy spreads lies and I bet I will be the subject of one.

2:10:16 Brennan: The last stuff that Riz finds with a 23 on that investigation has to do with notes left on Arianwen's research by the elven government. That have to do with them finding out that Arianwen was planning on betraying them. Basically, what you're able to piece together is that Arianwen had worked out a deal that if she could bring the crown of the Nightmare King back to Fallinel, the government would release Aelwyn and return the Abernant family to some position of whatever and the government just didn't honor that, and they found research Arianwen was doing on people outside of Fallinel that understood curse breaking, and you see information about Garthy O'Brien and finding them as an external curse breaker. People that go to Garthy, you guys are back in the Gold Gardens. As you arrive back at the Gold Gardens you see life and music and fun, people are having a good time, people drinking and dancing, you see Garthy over in their normal spot. They look over and go,

2:11:36 Garthy: Oh, my goodness gracious. Look, it's a couple of-- My goodness. Lovey. You're standing so tall and straight. I love it. [cheerful string music]

2:11:49 Fabian: What can I say? I'm back. We're back. And we need you.

2:11:57 Fig: Yeah.

2:11:58 Garthy: Very well. What can I do you for?

2:12:01 Fabian: Well, Fig.

2:12:03 Fig: [whispers] What are we supposed to ask them?

2:12:04 Fabian: What?

2:12:05 Emily: Am I close enough to message Adaine?

2:12:07 Fig: Adaine, we're talking to Garthy and we can't remember what we're supposed to ask about.

2:12:11 Fabian: Anyway—

2:12:11 Fig: Shit, my Message is broken. I swear.

2:12:13 Fabian: The most awesome thing.

2:12:15 Siobhan: [laughs] I’m so far away.

2:12:16 Brennan: Both of you guys just give me a straight up Persuasion check.

2:12:20 Emily: Okay. I got a [laughs] Oh, okay. I got a 15.

2:12:28 Lou: 18.

2:12:29 Brennan: 15, 18. Cool. You guys sit down with Garthy. Garthy goes,

2:12:35 Garthy: So, you're on a mission here and we're not exactly specific on what—

2:12:41 Fig: Yeah. I was sort of in a situation that I needed to get out of somewhere, and this was the other option. So then I tagged along.

2:12:49 Garthy: Understandable. All right. Well, I wanted to actually apologize, if I could, because I might've given you some bad information earlier.

2:12:59 Fabian: Oh.

2:12:59 Fig: Oh, really?

2:13:02 Brennan: You see, they say,

2:13:05 Garthy: I told you that Adaine's mother, she came in with the crown and all.

2:13:11 Fig: Yeah.

2:13:13 Garthy: She went to an elven ship that was bound for Fallinel.

2:13:18 Fabian: You had mentioned that.

2:13:18 Fig: Yeah.

2:13:18 Fabian: Right?

2:13:22 Garthy: Darlings, the ship was not bound to Fallinel. That was put on the log books. The ship rerouted. Somebody saw it take harbor off the coast of the forest of the Nightmare King.

2:13:38 Fig: I knew you were gonna say that.

2:13:40 Fabian: It tracks.

2:13:40 Fig: It tracks.

2:13:42 Fabian: It tracks.

2:13:43 Garthy: There's a little village up the cliff side from the coast. It's called-- Oh, what is it? It's called Arborly.

2:13:53 Fig: Arborly.

2:13:53 Fabian: Arborly?

2:13:54 Fig: Arborly, that sounds like somewhere that would have a lot of trees.

2:13:57 Brennan: You see that-- You actually already rolled for this, Fig. You rolled for this months ago when you did your roll in the very first session of Sophomore Year. There is a venue manager in Solace who was at that party where you heard people talk about the Nightmare King, who you played at a lot of this person's venues. They have a family home called Holly Hill in Arborly, and in a drunken night of rockstar partying, were basically like,

2:14:36 Venue Manager: [drunk] Anytime you wanna stay at Holly Hill, you wanna come through and do a show, you go. You go. Mi casa es su casa, okay?

2:14:47 Fig: Great, great.

2:14:49 Fig: [to Fabian] I'll just tell them I'm working on a new album and I wanna do a little party.

2:14:53 Fabian: Tight.

2:14:54 Brennan: So, you know about-- What you would know about Arborly that basically the person told you is it's a wood elf, forest gnome sanctuary that has a lot of wood elves that are part of this process to slowly start to reclaim Sylvaire as much as they can, but you also know that they are being-- There's some magical border that's stopping them. You immediately recognize from what Riz found out is this infernal warlock thing that only devils or the infernal can allow people passage through this boundary. So Garthy says,

2:15:41 Garthy: So, apologies for the misinformation, but it was all done very hush-hush. There's some sort of secret where the ship put a different thing in the log books than it did on what it actually ended up doing.

2:15:53 Fig: How long ago was that?

2:15:56 Garthy: That would be probably... a month or two ago at this point.

2:16:01 Fig: Okay. How long does it take to travel by ship there?

2:16:05 Garthy: By ship? It's like about, y’know, five or six days.

2:16:09 Fig: Okay.

2:16:09 Fabian: What if we could teleport?

2:16:11 Fig: Yeah, I think we'll probably teleport.

2:16:13 Fabian: Yeah, we’ll teleport.

2:16:13 Fig: I'm trying to figure out a timeline when she's out there.

2:16:16 Zac: It'll only be a month or 20.

2:16:16 Fig: We're pretty used to teleporting now. It’s just something we do, big time.

2:16:19 Fabian: Yeah, we do it all the time. We're big time teleporters.

2:16:20 Fig: Big time. If they got frequent teleport miles, we got 'em.

2:16:25 Fabian: We would always be in the lounge. (Emily laughing)

2:16:31 Brennan: Garthy sort of wishes you guys farewell.

2:16:36 Lou: Oh, they don't wanna come?

2:16:38 Brennan: You see Garthy says,

2:16:38 Garthy: No, I think that I'll be remaining here in my place of business.

2:16:40 Fabian: Oh, come on.

2:16:42 Garthy: Oh, are you trying to get me to toddle off on an adventure?

2:16:46 Fabian: I'm going through a whole kind of rebirth thing where I'm kinda doing me, and I don't know. You've been doing this for a long time.

2:16:54 Fig: Ooh!

2:16:56 Fabian: What if you got out there?

2:16:58 Fig: Ooh.

2:16:59 Emily: I'm gonna Bardic Inspiration, just in case he needs a little.

2:17:03 Brennan: You see that Garthy looks. Well, you guys have your 15 and 18 Persuasion.

2:17:08 Emily: Oh, right, right, right.

2:17:09 Brennan: So, you see that Garthy says,

2:17:09 Garthy: Darling.

2:17:12 Fabian: Garthy.

2:17:13 Garthy: Here is the honest to goodness truth, and I say this knowing that you're walking around with a dragon's hoard, yeah. You simply can't afford me, and I'm so sorry. But, I would be delighted to hold a revelry in your honor upon your return to the Gold Gardens and we'll hear all about your fabulous exploits.

2:17:35 Fig: One last quick question. Do you have any experience with identifying rare coins?

2:17:42 Garthy: Identifying rare coins? I can identify here and there, lovey. I'm happy to appraise where and when I can.

2:17:48 Emily: I show them all my money.

2:17:49 Fig: Anything look off?

2:17:52 Fabian: Just get in there. Go ahead.

2:17:54 Fig: Get in there. Sniff it. This one's chocolate. Ignore that one.

2:17:56 Garthy: It looks like gold coins to me.

2:17:57 Fabian: Okay, what about this one?

2:17:59 Lou: I pull out my bag.

2:18:00 Brennan: They go,

2:18:02 Garthy: Oh, my goodness. That's all deeply cursed. I'm gonna take that off your hands. [Emily laughs]

2:18:11 Garthy: I'm gonna take it out of your hands. No, listen.

2:18:12 Fabian: Does this, does this feel like--?

2:18:13 Garthy: Listen. It's all right because it's actually, and you know what, I am a touch of a curse breaker.

2:18:19 Fabian: Yes you are.

2:18:20 Garthy: But, the issue is I have to break it on each one, so why don't I hold onto it.

2:18:25 Fabian: All right.

2:18:26 Garthy: And, over the course of weeks--

2:18:28 Fabian: Oh, it's gonna take weeks? Weeks?

2:18:30 Garthy: It's going to take some time.

2:18:31 Fabian: Garthy. Garthy.

2:18:33 Garthy: What?

2:18:34 Fabian: My father was a pirate. I know a ruse when I see one.

2:18:37 Garthy: A ruse? I've been accused of lying in my place of business.

2:18:41 Fabian: [laughs] You know what? I'm glad you're not coming because if this is what—

2:18:42 Garthy: I’m a deeply nice person, lovey! Well, have it your way.

2:18:47 Fabian: Can't wait for the party.

2:18:48 Fig: Yeah, start working on that party.

2:18:53 Brennan: You see--

2:18:53 Fig: I am straight edge, except for drugs. So, plan accordingly. [Siobhan laughs]

2:18:57 Garthy: What does that, what do you mean straight edge except for drugs?

2:18:59 Fig: It means I don't drink.

2:19:00 Fabian: And, I'm sober now.

2:19:03 Garthy: Oh.

2:19:03 Fabian: Full sober.

2:19:03 Garthy: Congratulations.

2:19:03 Fig: I might do that. Actually, I'm gonna go—

2:19:05 Fabian: I don't think I ever really started drinking. I was doing snuff for a minute. I had a big snuff night, but apart from that.

2:19:11 Fig: You know what? I think I could go straight edge, except for hallucinogens.

2:19:15 Fabian: Ooh, that's it. That counts.

2:19:17 Fig: Yeah. [Emily laughs]

2:19:19 Brennan: You see-- You guys arrive back at the Compass Points. You guys are doing research. You guys are still casting Hallow. Gorgug, go ahead and give me-- You're doing mending. Give me a tinker's tool check.

2:19:41 Zac: Okay. So, that's plus 5?

2:19:42 Brennan: Plus 5.

2:19:43 Siobhan: Can I give him the help action, since I was helping him with the Mend spell earlier?

2:19:47 Brennan: Yes. Yes, you can.

2:19:51 Zac: 22.

2:19:52 Brennan: 22. You are there, working on the Hangman. Adaine has to leave partway through Mending. You see Fabian's old, discarded Owlbears jacket and there's some things you're trying to buff out that aren't quite coming out. You see a little tin of wax in Fabian's letter jacket pocket, and it's just a little thing of motorcycle polish.

2:20:29 Zac: I open it.

2:20:33 Brennan: You open it. As you open the thing, you take it out and start putting it on there, start fixing it, ratcheting something. You figure out how to put things back together. As you're putting it all back together, you finally find this one last part. You put that wax in that last seal and suddenly you hear (aggressive rumbling) (throaty explosion) Fire appears in the eyes of the Hangman.

2:21:07 Hangman: (gasping) Master, I'm sorry. Stab me as much as you need to. Hey.

2:21:11 Gorgug: Oh, hey. Hangman. I'm not your master, but I did fix you. I fixed something. (laughing)

2:21:19 Brennan: You see that Hangman rights itself, looks at you and says,

2:21:23 Hangman: You have fixed me?

2:21:28 Gorgug: Yes. I've been trying to fix stuff for a while, and it hasn't really worked out, so it's really surprising that this worked out.

2:21:36 Brennan: You see, as you are holding these tools in your hand, you feel this sense of accomplishment and pride come over you. You were raised by two gnomes. You know how to fix stuff. You see Hangman looks at you and says,

2:21:55 Hangman: I do not know by what magic you have brought me back from the brink, but know this, I behold the greatest wizard of our age.

2:22:08 Gorgug: [nodding solemnly] You do.

2:22:09 Hangman: I have to find my master!

2:22:11 Brennan: And, the Hangman tears off. Fabian, as you and Fig come back in the late afternoon, you hear- [low rumbling] [Zac laughs]

2:22:20 Fabian: Do you hear that? Is that a boat?

2:22:21 Fig: Is that Aelwyn. Is it Aelwyn?

2:22:23 Fabian: It doesn't look like a storm.

2:22:25 Murph: [laughs] “Is it Aelwyn?”

2:22:26 Zac: Oh, can I ride it out?

2:22:26 Brennan: You wanna ride it? Sure.

2:22:29 Zac: I'm just like holding it. It's skidding on the ground.

2:22:32 Brennan: It's going fast. You guys see Gorgug riding the Hangman, peel around the corner.

2:22:37 Fabian: What? What, what, what?

2:22:38 Brennan: The Hangman--

2:22:38 Fabian: What?

2:22:40 Brennan: The wheel runs up you and the Hangman leaps up on you. It deals 5 points of damage.

2:22:47 Fabian: Ow, ow, ow! Ow!

2:22:49 Hangman: Master! Master, I am so sorry.

2:22:50 Fabian: Ow. I relay—

2:22:51 Hangman: I'm so sorry. Will you stab me?

2:22:53 Fabian: What? You were broken! Oh.

2:22:57 Ally: [laughs] Whoa.

2:22:59 Fabian: Everything is-- What happened? How did you-- What happened? Did you-- Who did this?

2:23:04 Gorgug: I guess I...

2:23:04 Hangman: Master Thistlespring summoned the hellish flame from beyond the ken of mortal men. He reached into the nine pits and grasped my soul with fiery claws.

2:23:18 Fabian: Did you go to Hell again?

2:23:20 Gorgug: I just put some pipes together mostly, but I guess in a sense, I went to Hell.

2:23:26 Brennan: For those at home, Gorgug's ninth level is one level of artificer.

2:23:30 Emily: Yay! [claps]

2:23:31 Ally: Yay!

2:23:31 Zac: So, pretty smart now.

2:23:33 Lou: Wow.

2:23:33 Zac: Still very dumb, actually, but I have a tinkerer's tool.

2:23:36 Fig: Can you make me a chain wallet?

2:23:38 Gorgug: I'll work on it right now. (laughing) I'm sorry that your dad's gone, and we'll get him back.

2:23:44 Fig: Oh, yeah. Thanks.

2:23:46 Gorgug: You should say that.

2:23:46 Fabian: Hey, Gorgug? You're a true friend and I'm gonna buy you an orange. It's a thing. It's a pirate thing.

2:23:55 Fig: Yeah, I know. I've heard. I think I read a book.

2:23:57 Brennan: Ayda over in the corner, crying tears of flames.

2:24:00 Ayda: A whole orange, that's extremely meaningful.

2:24:02 Gorgug: Thank you.

2:24:03 Fabian: No, thank you.

2:24:05 Lou: I kneel down to pet my motorcycle like a dog.

2:24:08 Emily: Aw!

2:24:09 Hangman: [engine growls] I am so sorry.

2:24:11 Fabian: I'm so sorry.

2:24:11 Hangman: I'm so sorry.

2:24:13 Fabian: I stabbed you.

2:24:14 Hangman: I let you stab me and you didn't like that.

2:24:16 Fabian: I was too sad and I thought you were just full dead and I just kind of abandoned you.

2:24:22 Hangman: I abandoned you by being full dead!

2:24:24 Fabian: No, you can't abandon me. You're a motorcycle.

2:24:28 Brennan: The Hangman is so delighted to be back, the end of the following day, the next day, Kristen, you finish and you see a reverberating magic. What do you think Kristen's magic looks like in this moment as you complete the Hallow on the van?

2:24:53 Ally: I know this is kinda messed up, but I think I'm really liking everything I learned about this God of Doubt. So, it kinda looks Kalina-esque.

2:25:05 Brennan: Yeah.

2:25:05 Ally: Kalina-esque.

2:25:07 Brennan: So, you see that in this world where this partially destroyed goddess was Galicaea's sister, the final test in the spell, Tracker takes your hand in hers and you see the power of the moon flows from her and in the farthest away from Helio you've ever gotten, pure energy of night just surrounds the van.

2:25:29 Ally: Cool.

2:25:29 Brennan: The darkness of the unknown. Not a night of dread or menace, but the true night of who knows what's waiting for us out there.

2:25:40 Ally: Cool. So, it's kinda like her god, the moon, and my god, this unknown, and we're doing this freaky sister magic?

2:25:49 Brennan: Yes. Absolutely.

2:25:49 Ally: Great. Scissor sister magic. [Ally, Emily, and Brennan laugh]

2:25:54 Brennan: You complete the spell. Ayda looks at all of you and says,

2:26:02 Ayda: I'm going to take you and this new Hallowed place that Kristen has created to Arborly. After that, I will have to return to Leviathan. A bunch of pirates broke in while I was gone and stole a bunch of stuff.

2:26:18 Adaine: Oh, no.

2:26:18 Ayda: It's okay. There's a reason that I really can't leave, so I'm going to find them, kill them, take my books back, and then I'm going to start to shrink the Compass Points sort of piece by piece until it's very, very small so that I can bring it to be with you guys as best friends.

2:26:37 Adaine: Great. Sending us— We're sending each other postcards.

2:26:42 Ayda: Okay.

2:26:42 Kristen: Can you say hi to Chungledown Bim for me?

2:26:45 Fabian: Stop. Honestly--

2:26:45 Ayda: I don't know who that is.

2:26:47 Kristen: I don't know who it is either. I just love him.

2:26:48 Fabian: I am doing so well. The only thing that could ruin this day is if Chungledown Bim looked me dead in my eyes—

2:26:55 Kristen: I'm so sorry.

2:26:55 Fabian: And told me he's gonna shit in my mouth.

2:26:57 Brennan: The Hangman says,

2:26:57 Hangman: Sire. By the nine Hells and all the malice of the pit, I will shit in Chungledown Bim's mouth.

2:27:08 Fabian: Yes. Yes, we'll figure, Gorgug will help us figure out how to make you shit and then we'll find Chungledown Bim.

2:27:15 Hangman: Give me a-- Give me a mechanical stomach and butthole that I might shit in his mouth. Zac moves to roll a D20. [Brennan laughs]

2:27:24 Zac: Nat 1. [Ally and Brennan laugh]

2:27:24 Brennan: Nat 1. You don't know how you would begin to do this.

2:27:30 Ally: You give yourself a mechanical stomach.

2:27:33 Brennan: Ayda says,

2:27:33 Ayda: Best of luck in the next leg of your journey. I will join you after you have completed your quest.

2:27:40 Brennan: She says,

2:27:40 Ayda: And now, as my final favor to you, my best friends, my best friends. [quick intake of breath] God, it means a lot. This is hard emotionally. To Arborly and your success in the retaking of the Nightmare King's crown. [music changes to something somber]

2:28:06 Brennan: Ayda brings you through a flash of fire into a dark, dim forest. Around you, trees rise in all directions, knotted and gnarled in the shadow of the Nightmare King's forest. You look around you and see structures hidden in the darkness of the trees. You perceive beyond this place things hidden, thorns off in the distance of the woods. You see mist gathering, and then you turn to look behind you and you see a really nice, well-appointed mansion, like a very sick house built partially into the trees, doors carved into the woods of the living trees going up into platforms and branches and tree houses, and you see the gates of Holly Hill, [gestures to Emily] the manor you were told about.

2:29:10 Fig: I think I know the key code here.

2:29:13 Adaine: Oh.

2:29:13 Fabian: Sick.

2:29:14 Adaine: Yeah.

2:29:15 Kristen: What is it?

2:29:16 Gorgug: One, two, three, four?

2:29:18 Fig: One, two, three, five.

2:29:19 All: Oh!

2:29:20 Brennan: And, that's all for this week. (laughing) Fantasy High Sophomore Year. Tune in next week. We'll be continuing Adventures of the Bad Kids, the Quest to Reclaim the Crown of the Nightmare King. Thanks for watching, guys. Bye!

2:29:32 All: Bye! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 12: Crustaceans & Crushes]

2:29:32 Edited by: gluegunshots, rowan solsys