The Forest of the Nightmare King

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 17: The Forest of the Nightmare King < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:00 Brennan: Hello one and all! Welcome to another exciting episode of Dimension 20 Live presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year. They're doing their spells!

0:00:09 Ally: Yes, everyone gave me such shit about my spells being wrong, I'm looking them all up.

0:00:14 Brennan: Looking up all their spells.

0:00:15 Ally: Turns out I don't have Ice Feast or whatever I thought I had.

0:00:19 Brennan: Hey, nobody has Ice Feast.

0:00:21 Siobhan: What the fuck is Ice Feast?

0:00:23 Lou: It's a feast of ice.

0:00:23 Ally: Thank you!

0:00:25 Lou: Oh, come on dude.

0:00:26 Siobhan: You have a bag full of ice with you.

0:00:27 Ally: I do, I do.

0:00:27 Brennan: If you guys want to homebrew Ice Feast, you can. You guys, welcome back to another exciting episode of Dimension 20 presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year, the continuing adventure of the Bad Kids! The world of Spyre’s premiere teen adventures at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, a high school for heroes. Couple notes for tonight, number one, if you guys are interested in Dropout and seeing Dimension 20, but you're having a hard time affording it, good news! We're gonna release the entirety of our first side quest Escape from the Bloodkeep to our YouTube channel with new episodes dropping every Saturday. So we're gonna release all of it. Escape from the Bloodkeep is jumping out from behind the paywall in the run up to A Crown of Candy. (cheering) So this Saturday before A Crown of Candy comes out, the last of the finales here from Bloodkeep will go up onn our YouTube channel, make sure to check out Dimension 20 show on YouTube and ring that bell. Also if you have some friends and family in your life that are like, “I wanna watch Dropout, but I can't afford it.” Good news, you guys can now give subscriptions from one to 12 months if you wanna get Dropout for somebody as a present, birthday, anniversary.

0:01:36 Lou: Easter's coming up.

0:01:36 Brennan: Easter's coming up! (cheering) Classic.

0:01:38 Lou: Classic on cue!

0:01:39 Emily: Things to find inside an egg.

0:01:41 Lou: Exactly.

0:01:42 Brennan: Classic, classic Easter present. Also in our store now you can buy Pok Gugak's coffee mug, [cast awws] “Don't talk to me until my death's avenged”! Use the code MYSONRIZ and you can add a Riz sticker for free.

0:02:00 Ally: Speaking of coffee.

0:02:00 Zac: My beautiful son.

0:02:02 Brennan: Beautiful, beautiful son.

0:02:02 Murph: Beautiful baby angel.

0:02:04 Brennan: Before we move on, actually you know what, it's a little toasty in here so I'm just gonna. [takes off jumper to reveal maroon and navy striped shirt]

0:02:07 Lou: You hot dude, you hot?

0:02:07 Brennan: I'm a little hot, so, (group yelling)

0:02:11 Siobhan: The shirt is back!

0:02:11 Emily: I like the shirt.

0:02:14 Brennan: What do you mean?

0:02:14 Siobhan: The shirt is good—

0:02:16 Ally: The famous shirt that you wear every day.

0:02:18 Lou: A shirt so good you can't stop wearing it.

0:02:20 Siobhan: Brennan's only shirt TM.

0:02:23 Brennan: Okay, I didn't know that there was such a kerfuffle over my shirt so I'm gonna go ahead and change shirts if there's such a big to-do about it. [takes off second shirt to reveal a white t-shirt with a paper sign taped to it]

0:02:30 Lou: Wow! What's it say?

0:02:32 Brennan: What's it say?

0:02:32 Lou: What?

0:02:33 Brennan: What's up?

0:02:33 Siobhan: [reading the sign] “Bethany won shirtgate.”

0:02:36 Lou: Wow.

0:02:36 Ally: “Bethany won shirtgate.”

0:02:37 Siobhan: Congratulations, Bethany.

0:02:38 Brennan: What?

0:02:39 Lou: Hey Bethany, congratulations.

0:02:40 Brennan: What?

0:02:41 Lou: You won shirtgate.

0:02:41 Brennan: All right, look.

0:02:43 Siobhan: Brennan’s second shirt!

0:02:44 Ally: Oh, she just posted today that you wear that shirt all the time. Brennan finishes putting on a denim jacket over his white shirt.

0:02:47 Brennan: [defensively, to the camera] I own lots of shirts! (laughing)

0:02:50 Lou: Oh, do you?

0:02:50 Brennan: I got plenty of shirts.

0:02:52 Emily: That does look like a new one.

0:02:53 Zac: Honestly I wear the same amount of shirts and do not get roasted for it, so I'll own that.

0:02:59 Murph: You don't have like, a clear favorite though.

0:03:01 Emily: I've never worn the same shirt twice. (laughing)

0:03:05 Brennan: That is remarkably wasteful!

0:03:05 Ally: I throw them out.

0:03:07 Lou: I burn them, I burn them.

0:03:08 Ally: I burn 'em.

0:03:09 Lou: And they keep my children warm so is that wasteful? You gonna tell me that keeping my children warm is wasteful?

0:03:11 Siobhan: While making full eye contact with a seal!

0:03:14 Brennan: This bit took so long that we moved to the Gorgug music. [gentle chords in the background]

0:03:17 Lou: Oh, love it. (laughing)

0:03:21 Brennan: Okay, enough fun for everybody. Gang, this is Dimension 20 Live. Last we left off we had a bit of a wild time. I think you guys will find that last time we were here, we had some really incredible stuff happen. All of our friends started in the Nine Hells and Riz Gukgak met his dad's spirit, Pok Gukgak, a saint, a celestial soul working for the Lower Planar Reconnaissance Task Force. He helped his dad and got some information crossed back and forth about the nature of Kalina and the Shadow Cat. And got decked out with a bunch of rad spy gear, which is extremely, extremely cool. We also had a bunch of fun with our guys coming back and getting to Arborly. We had a viral shrimp party, which [turns to the camera and points] has never happened in a game of D&D before. Various players and Brennan mimic crabs with their arms. (laughing)

0:04:26 Ally: That party was coronavirus. (laughing)

0:04:30 Lou: We were patient zero in corona.

0:04:32 Ally: We were patient zero in a big shrimp disease.

0:04:33 Emily: I forgot that we gave away all of our stuff, right?

0:04:36 Zac: All the shrimp's gone.

0:04:36 Lou: Yeah, y'all poor now.

0:04:38 Siobhan: Shrimp flu.

0:04:38 Brennan: Well, yeah that's right.

0:04:40 Emily: It's fine, once I get residuals I'll be back.

0:04:44 Brennan: Fig, Riz, and Gorgug gave away all of their wealth, all of their currency.

0:04:48 Emily: Not anything that-- I was rich before, new money of course.

0:04:54 Lou: All the new money—

0:04:55 Brennan: Sorry you did not give away your—

0:04:57 Emily: My like tour money.

0:04:57 Brennan: Your touring money.

0:04:59 Ally: I think it would have touched in the bank.

0:05:00 Lou: Well no, that money would be in her S-Corp.

0:05:04 Ally: No, you truly do have to give everything away I think to be free of that, right?

0:05:08 Zac: Yeah, I think so.

0:05:08 Emily: Is this true?

0:05:09 Lou: You're poor, dude.

0:05:09 Emily: Brennan, it this true?

0:05:12 Brennan: I've never confirmed any of this stuff. This has all been a leap of faith on your guys’ part. (Emily laughing)

0:05:18 Brennan: So you tell me-- I'm gonna assume that you didn't give away your rockstar money until told otherwise. So then our beloved heroes gave away, in this case only Riz and Gorgug gave away all of their currency.

0:05:32 Zac: I called my bank and everything.

0:05:34 Brennan: You called your bank and everything. And then they headed, into the Forest of the Nightmare King. [dark and ominous music fades in]

0:05:44 Lou: So prepared. We were so fucking prepared.

0:05:45 Emily: If I roll a luck point can I undo what happened at the end of the episode?

0:05:48 Brennan: No, you may not. (laughing)

0:05:50 Siobhan: What about two luck points?

0:05:51 Murph: What if we all roll a nat 20?

0:05:53 Brennan: Honestly, if all of you roll a nat 20 right now, [players rolling] it already hasn't happened. (laughing)

0:05:59 Lou: 18, 19, 19, nat 1.

0:06:03 Siobhan: Pretty good. Collectively like three 20s.

0:06:06 Brennan: Gang, we are rowdy tonight. And the reason being as our intrepid heroes, wait, did we do that this time? Say hi intrepid heroes.

0:06:14 All: Hi intrepid heroes!

0:06:17 Siobhan: We're gonna die.

0:06:18 Brennan: As our intrepid heroes enter the Forest of the Nightmare King, they split up to search for the ingredients that Kristen would need to make a tincture to cure the Shadow Cat plague. Having collected two of the three ingredients, it seems that Sandra Lynn, Baxter, her griffin now, Ragh, vanished into the forest. Some horrifying magical fate befell Zaphriel in the Hangvan gem and Ayda Aguefort, and Tracker witnessed an illusory full moon, which would normally not do anything to a werewolf, but here in the Forest of Nightmare King where illusions are partially real, it was enough for her to transform. Kristen heroically casts Greater Restoration to remove the disease from Riz, and herself is suffering the horrifying attacks of Kalina, the Shadow Cat, who is partially real and therefore able to hurt Kristen. You guys are a quarter of a mile into the forest. You're not that far. You're a quarter mile into the forest. It is all difficult terrain here. So the briar wall is not far away from you, Arborly is not far away from you. You are each about 300 feet away from each other through thicket and trees and brambles, but you roughly know the direction that everybody is in. As Kristen is sustaining these attacks I'm going to need all of us to roll initiative.

0:08:13 Murph: Oh no.

0:08:13 Siobhan: Oh crap.

0:08:15 Emily: What?

0:08:16 Lou: This excites me. I'm excited.

0:08:19 Emily: Sick puppy.

0:08:20 Lou: I'm excited, I'm a sick puppy.

0:08:22 Murph: You're sick.

0:08:24 Lou: I'm a sick puppy and this excites me. [straight into the camera] Bow wow, bow wow. Bow wow, bow wow. [group laughing]

0:08:33 Brennan: Let's go around--

0:08:33 Emily: Get this puppy neutered. (laughing)

0:08:38 Lou: Go ahead and try.

0:08:38 Brennan: Who here got above a 20?

0:08:41 Emily: No one.

0:08:41 Siobhan: Nobody got above a 20.

0:08:42 Brennan: Anybody got above a 15? Lou slaps his hands on his arms then raises them like a butterfly. Zac and Murph raise their hands normally.

0:08:44 Brennan: What did Gorgug get?

0:08:44 Zac: 16.

0:08:46 Brennan: What did Fabian get?

0:08:46 Lou: 17, bow wow. (laughing)

0:08:48 Murph: 16.

0:08:48 Emily: Damn dude, this puppy.

0:08:48 Murph: Get out of here.

0:08:51 Lou: Go ahead and try to neuter this puppy. I'm excited.

0:08:54 Ally: Try to neuter this puppy?

0:08:56 Lou: Try to neuter this puppy. (cast laughing, crosstalk)

0:08:58 Siobhan: Run a game.

0:09:01 Brennan: All right, who got between a 10 and a 15? Siobhan raises her hand, but immediately puts it back down.

0:09:02 Siobhan: Oh, no. Slowbros.

0:09:07 Brennan: Okay, what did Fig get? Brenan points to the remaining cast members.

0:09:08 Emily: 9.

0:09:09 Siobhan: I also got 9.

0:09:12 Ally: [subdued] Negative 2.

0:09:12 Lou: What!

0:09:15 Emily: [screaming laughter] They simply must get new dice. [groans]

0:09:20 Zac: Kristen!

0:09:20 Ally: If you roll high you also gotta roll low sometimes, right?

0:09:25 Lou: Amen, amen.

0:09:26 Emily: I mean, your dice tell a beautiful story.

0:09:28 Murph: The only rules are that the dice are spicy. Lou waves his hand in an attempt to cool down his coffee, which passes in front of the camera.

0:09:31 Brennan: So Ragh, nowhere to be seen. Gorgug, Fabian, you are up in the trees, in the sort of at the point of a triangle 300 feet from either of your other Bad Kid allies. You can sense something is going wrong. You can probably hear muffled shouts. You hear “find Tracker” off in the woods. Fabian, you are first to act, what do you do?

0:09:53 Lou: Can I make a perception check?

0:09:54 Brennan: Yes, please do.

0:09:57 Lou: 10.

0:09:58 Brennan: Okay. You see forest, mist, no sign of Ragh.

0:10:02 Lou: I look up to Gorgug,

0:10:04 Fabian: I feel like we should find The Ball or anyone, okay great.

0:10:08 Gorgug: This sucks.

0:10:08 Fabian: This sucks! [yelling through his hands] Ragh!

0:10:11 Lou: And I slide down the tree and move in the general direction of where I think The Ball and Kristen are.

0:10:18 Brennan: Okay, you're gonna take a full move action.

0:10:21 Lou: Full dash action and then fuck it, I'll Action Surge and dash again.

0:10:27 Brennan: Okay, hell yeah. You rush in the direction of your friends.

0:10:33 Lou: Can I communicate with The Hangman?

0:10:34 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:10:35 Fabian: Hangman, things are going very poorly. Do not enter the forest but please bring Gilear and anyone else to the entrance.

0:10:47 Hangman: (growling) Sire, I come now to the briar wall with the wretch known as Gilear.

0:10:52 Fabian: Great, we'll see you soon. Yeah, be ready, things really aren't going well!

0:10:58 Hangman: Oh sire, I'm sorry too, I should have come with you.

0:11:00 Fabian: No, no you probably would have disappeared into the forest as well.

0:11:03 Hangman: Why?

0:11:03 Fabian: What?

0:11:05 Hangman: Why?

0:11:06 Fabian: Like why would you have disappeared-- this is not the time! (cast laughing)

0:11:11 Brennan: Riz, you are there, Kristen has just shouted at you, "Find Tracker!" Tracker is, go ahead actually and make a perception check for me.

0:11:23 Murph: [strained] Oh, please... Okay, 15.

0:11:30 Brennan: As the disease is cured from your body by Kristen's magic, what you were unable to hear a moment ago, you now hear. It is fading extremely quickly, which is Tracker, at this point already probably three or four rounds away, but you hear the crashing of a giant wolf through the underbrush running deeper into the Forest of the Nightmare King.

0:11:57 Riz: I don't think we're finding Tracker right now. I'm gonna try to find this tincture thing real quick.

0:12:05 Kristen: Okay.

0:12:05 Murph: I guess I will actually, okay. So Kristen right now has this thing that is hurting them. I want to, okay.

0:12:17 Riz: [to Kristen] Why don't you run, try to find our friends or try to get out.

0:12:23 Kristen: Okay.

0:12:24 Murph: I want to hand Kristen my gun that has the signal flare.

0:12:30 Riz: So that if you're running and you're about to go down, you can shoot it up and then I'm just gonna scramble around and try to find the last thing.

0:12:36 Brennan: Give me a Survival check DC15. (groaning)

0:12:40 Ally: What do you have for survival? Lou points at Murph’s dice and makes a vibrating “brrrrah!” noise. Murph shakes this die for a long time before rolling.

0:12:41 Murph: Plus one.

0:12:44 Ally: Yeah, 15!

0:12:44 Brennan: Ooh, baby. You go, you find lung ray pollen, you scrape into a little detective baggy, you have everything you need to make the tinctures.

0:12:52 Kristen: Run.

0:12:54 Riz: All right.

0:12:55 Brennan: Okay. That is your turn.

0:12:58 Emily: You're running after Tracker?

0:12:59 Murph: No, not after Tracker.

0:12:59 Brennan: Gorgug, that's you, I assume you're doing?

0:13:01 Zac: I cast Jump on myself to avoid the terrain as well as I can.

0:13:06 Brennan: Cool, you’ll take— yeah that actually completely works. You leap to the bottom of the tree.

0:13:11 Zac: Okay so I'm on the same track as Fabian, well I wanna make a Perception check to see if I can tell where to go, or I'm just following Fabian I guess.

0:13:15 Brennan: Cool.

0:13:20 Lou: You might be able to move faster than me, Gorgug.

0:13:22 Zac: Okay, I'm gonna just go the same direction as Fabian.

0:13:24 Brennan: Cool, I'm going to need a Survival check from you. It's a DC10 Survival check not to get lost in the forest.

0:13:30 Zac: [unconfidently] Okay, all right. 18.

0:13:34 Brennan: Okay.

0:13:34 Murph: Nice! [clapping]

0:13:34 Brennan: Cool.

0:13:36 Zac: I have Survival for some reason. (laughing)

0:13:39 Murph: It's barbarian stuff.

0:13:41 Brennan: That is barbarian stuff, that's true.

0:13:42 Zac: Truly never come into play in this game.

0:13:44 Murph: Sometimes we forget what classes we are.

0:13:44 Emily: Right.

0:13:47 Brennan: Incredible. That is going to go and be, Kalina looks at you.

0:13:56 Ally: She's still there?

0:13:56 Brennan: She's killing you.

0:13:58 Ally: Oh!

0:14:00 Brennan: Riz doesn't see her doing this, but she like lashes, when these things erupt in bursting boils on your face, it's her claws in your vision scratching across you. She looks at you, her eyes go wide with fear as you cure Riz of this illness. She vanishes and as she does so you guys see a horribly wounded Sandra Lynn on Baxter fly into the clearing looking completely manic. She's holding this wrestling, it looks like a horrifying little gremlin made of roots and plant matter. She lands right in between you two guys, leaps off and says,

0:14:46 Sandra Lynn: [urgently] Kristen, bite this!

0:14:51 Ally: Perception check?

0:14:52 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Perception check.

0:14:54 Ally: Oh, Jesus Christ. Nat 20. Nat fucking 20! Brennan just stares at them silently, then turns to look into the camera. (Ally yelling)

0:15:01 Lou: [singing nervously] This is too much! For me! Brennan puts his face in his hand.

0:15:05 Emily: [cheering] Oh, I love your checks! Ally, Murph, and Emily are all clapping. Zac holds up his dice box, and presents it to Brennan like he’s a fancy waiter.

0:15:07 Zac: We have here a flight of dice. This is a d20, starting down with our— (laughing)

0:15:11 Siobhan: We've been here before, it's like a small plate situation.

0:15:13 Ally: We have the kiwi strawberry.

0:15:14 Zac: Enjoy, enjoy.

0:15:14 Siobhan: Like a tapas of dice.

0:15:16 Brennan: [clearly exasperated] We're 15 minutes in. Brennan pops a sugar die into his mouth. (laughing)

0:15:23 Siobhan: Oh, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

0:15:25 Zac: Anyways, it is Sandra Lynn. (laughing)

0:15:27 Ally: Your perception check tells you it is Sandra Lynn. Brennan takes the die out of his mouth.

0:15:30 Brennan: D12's too big.

0:15:31 Ally: Did you put it in the coffee?

0:15:33 Brennan: Put in the coffee? [frowns] Don’t make me ruin the coffee.

0:15:34 Ally: I'm looking forward to that.

0:15:35 Zac and Lou: Ruin the coffee.

0:15:35 Lou: Ruin your fucking coffee.

0:15:37 Murph: Ruin your coffee dude.

0:15:38 Siobhan: Ruin your freaking coffee dude.

0:15:40 Emily: Ruin your coffee.

0:15:41 Brennan: [sighs and shakes his head] Now. Because you asked and because you rolled a nat 20, this is a forest of lies. Kalina vanished because she needed to use her focus and attention to create an illusion and Riz, you didn't see any of that. I was lying to you, Murph the player, when I said you did.

0:15:55 Murph: Okay.

0:16:08 Brennan: Riz doesn't see anything because what happened is that little squirming baby is right where Riz is. (Emily gasping)

0:16:18 Ally: Sick.

0:16:20 Kristen: I don't know if I should bite it!

0:16:21 Riz: Bite what?

0:16:22 Kristen: I don't know if I should bite it!

0:16:23 Riz: Are you gonna bite me, you're like baring your teeth at me. What are you doing?

0:16:27 Kristen: We need to get the fuck out of here.

0:16:30 Brennan: The illusion fades. Kalina,

0:16:31 Kalina: [snarls] Ah!

0:16:31 Brennan: Reappears and that illusion vanishes. She was attempting to get you to bite Riz.

0:16:38 Ally: Fuck yeah.

0:16:38 Emily: To infect him again.

0:16:39 Lou: Kinky.

0:16:41 Ally: [slapping their fist into their palm] To infect you again! Yes, you're right!

0:16:44 Siobhan: Dang.

0:16:44 Lou: Ooh, bow wow.

0:16:46 Emily: Oh, the 20s bless us.

0:16:48 Kristen: No matter what I do, don't take my blood. No matter what I do, don't take my blood.

0:16:52 Riz: Just don't bite me, just don't bite me.

0:16:53 Brennan: Okay. That is going to be Fig's turn.

0:16:55 Lou: That's a solid play, Kalina.

0:16:57 Brennan: You are standing in the woods, you're still holding the feather. You hear a voice next to you go,

0:17:01 Baby: [screaming, high-pitched] Oh, it's so bad! Don't worry all your other friends are gone, but Baby is here now! (laughing)

0:17:13 Fig: How comforting.

0:17:15 Baby: Whatever they were doing for you, Baby can do just as well. Onscreen there is character art of Baby, who is a strangely drippy tiny red devil.

0:17:20 Fig: Yes, thank you so much.

0:17:22 Siobhan: 'Cause I'm directly after you, if you wait I can cast Fly on us both.

0:17:28 Emily: Why yes, I would like to fly. I'll hold my action.

0:17:31 Brennan: You hold your action.

0:17:33 Emily: Can I do like a Perception check?

0:17:35 Brennan: Give me a Perception check.

0:17:36 Emily: Or like to try and find out where the rest of our friends are.

0:17:41 Brennan: 16, your mom took off. You can hear shouting and you hear a blast of like rocket boots and Fabian like sliding down the side of a tree not too far away from you.

0:17:52 Fabian: [weakly] Ragh! Zac mimes blasting off from the tree like Superman.

0:17:52 Fig: [points] That direction!

0:17:53 Siobhan: Great.

0:17:54 Brennan: Okay, you cast Fly.

0:17:56 Siobhan: I cast Fly as a fourth level spell so both of us are flying, which gives us a flying speed of 60 feet.

0:18:03 Brennan: Okay, that means that Adaine, you can move 60 and Fig if you want to you can actually just move 120.

0:18:10 Emily: Yeah, but I do it just to come in a circle to be next to Adaine again. (Brennan laughing)

0:18:15 Lou: Damn, that's cute as hell.

0:18:15 Adaine: Very cool.

0:18:16 Ally: Yo, we need to get out of the forest everybody.

0:18:20 Emily: If I go further than 60 feet, am I gonna see my friends?

0:18:23 Brennan: You will meet Fabian and Gorgug at the bottom of the tree if you do a full 120.

0:18:28 Siobhan: I have 60 feet of darkvision, so I will still be able to see you at that distance.

0:18:31 Fig: Are you cool if I go ahead?

0:18:31 Adaine: Yeah, that's fine.

0:18:32 Fig: You won't feel unsafe or anything?

0:18:35 Adaine: I feel unsafe with you there and without you there, it's not about you, the forest is bad.

0:18:38 Fig: Oh okay, cool.

0:18:40 Ally: Wow, those are some really good boundaries. That’s crazy.

0:18:43 Siobhan: Thank you.

0:18:44 Emily: Then I fly down and I find them.

0:18:46 Brennan: Cool, you guys see Fig (imitates blasting) flying through.

0:18:50 Fabian: You can fly?

0:18:50 Gorgug: I thought I was flying. (cast laughing)

0:18:54 Fig: You are though.

0:18:54 Brennan: Kristen, it is your turn, what do you do?

0:18:57 Ally: Okay, we got everything we need. I take off running for the exit.

0:19:03 Brennan: Cool, getting out out of the forest.

0:19:04 Ally: And then I, can I cast a spell in, yeah, yeah, okay. I cast da, da, da.

0:19:12 Riz: Should you just shoot the flare up?

0:19:14 Kristen: Yes.

0:19:14 Riz: Why don't we do that?

0:19:15 Ally: Yeah, I shoot the flare up in the air and I cast like a Lesser Restoration on myself.

0:19:21 Brennan: Okay, dope. Riz, yeah I'll let you do the signal as just an object interaction and you cast Lesser Restoration?

0:19:28 Ally: Oh wait, sorry, no I'll do Cure Wounds.

0:19:30 Brennan: Okay, cool.

0:19:31 Ally: A level three Cure Wounds and then I get some auto heals.

0:19:37 Emily: Sorry, since I held my turn, can I do an action and do Countercharm to give everyone advantage on saves against being frightened or charmed?

0:19:46 Brennan: Absolutely. Because you're moving twice as fast as anybody else, you can take an action to do Countercharm every round and still be moving as fast as everybody.

0:19:56 Emily: Cool.

0:19:59 Brennan: Awesome. So because you are all now committed to finding each other, I'm just gonna say we'll move to the next round of initiative that happens. Kristen, the next round you are dealt 11 points of damage.

0:20:17 Emily: Do you need to heal? I have Healing Word.

0:20:21 Ally: I mean, right now I'm only missing a few. It's not dire but I will at some point and I'm just gonna be healing myself as we try to get out.

0:20:30 Emily: Okay, cool.

0:20:33 Kristen: Oh, I healed Riz by the way. Riz isn't infected anymore, but Kalina's really tricky and I almost just reinfected him so everyone watch out.

0:20:43 Fabian: Okay.

0:20:43 Fig: Okay.

0:20:44 Kristen: Don't bite the baby that your mom gives you.

0:20:46 Zac: Are we all together?

0:20:47 Murph: I don't think we're all together here.

0:20:48 Brennan: You guys are now, I'm gonna say you take that damage, on the next round all of you guys come together. You have the pollen, you've taken a round to cast Cure Wounds. You guys, in other words, come together. As you do so, Kalina appears and says,

0:21:05 Kalina: Wait, wait. I'll kill you before you make it back to Arborly, but all your friends will escape even if I kill you, so let's make a deal.

0:21:23 Kristen: ...Okay?

0:21:26 Brennan: You see she says, [electronic ambience, spooky]

0:21:32 Kalina: Your crystals? On the ground smashed. The kid’s photo, ripped in half, left on the floor of the forest. You guys walk out of here with you alive, that's the deal.

0:21:51 Kristen: Run, everybody run! (laughing)

0:21:51 Fabian: Let’s go, dude! C’mon!

0:21:54 Kristen: Run fast as you can and keep your crystals, get all of the photos of her out of this forest!

0:21:59 Emily: Can I go to iCloud and start uploading? (laughing)

0:22:03 Lou: Can I call to The Hangman?

0:22:05 Fabian: Hangman, can you drive into the forest?

0:22:07 Brennan: You see The Hangman says,

0:22:07 Hangman: Sire, the briar wall is not granting me entry.

0:22:10 Fabian: All right, great. Well still be there and ready.

0:22:12 Kristen: Fig, do something!

0:22:14 Zac: Can I put Kristen on my back and start running, or if someone wants to use a spell or something that can do that, but that's what my plan is unless--

0:22:22 Brennan: Cool. I'll let you guys, Gorgug if you want to put Kristen on your back that is totally--

0:22:27 Zac: I still have Jump on.

0:22:30 Brennan: Still have Jump, Jump's not going to affect your speed but it's gonna help you with that difficult terrain.

0:22:32 Zac: Yeah.

0:22:35 Emily: I mean, can I grab Kristen and Dimension Door to the mouth of it or will that just mess you guys up?

0:22:41 Brennan: Dimension Door will get you some 600 feet—

0:22:45 Siobhan: Halfway there.

0:22:45 Ally: I also-- no I don't. (laughing)

0:22:49 Ally: Look, okay there's a little kerfuffle before we started filming today, I did make a lot of spells that were not mine. (laughing)

0:22:57 Ally: They did say cleric on them—

0:22:57 Siobhan: “Shield”.

0:22:58 Fig: Do you guys feel safe with that?

0:22:59 Riz: Yeah, let's just run.

0:22:59 Kristen: Let's go.

0:23:00 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:23:01 Adaine: Yeah.

0:23:01 Fig: Do you want me to Dimension Door Kristen?

0:23:03 Riz: Yes.

0:23:03 Kristen: And Riz, do we have two people, but do you have something?

0:23:06 Brennan: Only two people. Adaine I don't have Dimension Door.

0:23:08 Riz: We're fine, let's keep running.

0:23:09 Brennan: Okay.

0:23:09 Siobhan: I can pick Riz up, you're less than 90 pounds, right?

0:23:13 Brennan: So Fig grabs Kristen--

0:23:15 Emily: And I'll fly and I can fly really far, I can also Dimension Door, I can cover some miles.

0:23:21 Ally: [impressed] Shit! Okay Fig! (laughing)

0:23:24 Brennan: Awesome. I'm gonna say here. In the round that you’re figuring that you take another three points of damage.

0:23:31 Lou: Can I touch Kristen and say,

0:23:35 Fabian: [heartfelt] Spring break, I believe in you!

0:23:37 Lou: And cast Heroism on her?

0:23:37 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:23:41 Lou: So at the beginning of each of your turns you will gain temporary hit points equal to my spellcasting modifier, which is plus three. So every turn you get three hit points and you're also immune to being frightened.

0:23:54 Ally: Oh great, oh great.

0:23:54 Fabian: I believe in you.

0:23:57 Kristen: Thank you spring break!

0:23:57 Fabian: Spring break!

0:23:59 Kristen: I miss Tracker. (crying)

0:24:05 Brennan: So I'm gonna actually see something real quick.

0:24:09 Emily: I guess also if I'm gonna be peacing, I'm gonna leave some Bardic Inspiration for you guys. You already have some.

0:24:12 Murph: Appreciate it.

0:24:16 Lou: I can give it away.

0:24:17 Emily: I wink you, I wink you, I wink you. [Fabian, Riz, and Adaine]

0:24:19 Brennan: So this is very tense right now but I just want to see something.

0:24:23 Lou: I'm so scared. [shivers] Oh!

0:24:31 Brennan: So normally, um— I'm going to ask for an, I don't know if Fig wants to attempt to carry Kristen. I'm gonna ask for an Athletics check to be able to do that.

0:24:48 Emily: [a little worried] Okay.

0:24:48 Lou: Can I wink at Fig?

0:24:51 Brennan: Yes, this is taking another round, which is another six but only three damage to you.

0:24:57 Emily: Can I have Baby give me the help?

0:24:59 Brennan: Baby can give you the help action. (Emily cackling)

0:25:02 Ally: Come on.

0:25:02 Siobhan: [seeing the roll] Yeah.

0:25:05 Emily: I don't even know if I'm gonna use the Bardic Inspiration. That's a 21.

0:25:07 Brennan: [leans back in his chair] Ooh-hoo-hoo!

0:25:10 Fig: That's right. Come here, hoo! Fig lifts Kristen. (laughing)

0:25:13 Ally: Can I ride like a piggyback ride but on the front? Kristen clings to Fig like a monkey.

0:25:17 Zac: You just have no idea what's happening. Emily puts her arms out in front of her like Superman.

0:25:21 Emily: I'm flying and skateboarding at the same time. (laughing)

0:25:27 Brennan: So you guys see in this incredible act of magic, Fabian you pass out these Bardic Inspirations. As you guys move, hold on one second, you see underneath Fig, this like huge fiery pentagram just woo, appears. Fig picks up the party's cleric and appears almost halfway, almost certainly saving Kristen's life.

0:25:53 Emily: Yeah! [clapping]

0:25:54 Brennan: We're still gonna run it out, we're still gonna see how that works, but the way we're gonna do it is this. So you just oh, you can use somebody else's Survival check for this if you want but I'm gonna ask for another DC15 Survival check to know the right direction.

0:26:10 Zac: Okay.

0:26:10 Ally: You have good survival, yeah?

0:26:12 Zac: I have five, plus five.

0:26:12 Murph: It's better than the rest of us.

0:26:14 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:26:16 Zac: 22.

0:26:16 Murph: Hell yeah.

0:26:17 Brennan: Okay, great. So as you're picking Kristen up, Gorgug, you know exactly the way back to the wall.

0:26:23 Gorgug: I guess I get this stuff, I don't know. (cast laughing)

0:26:26 Riz: Who are you?

0:26:26 Fabian: You are of the land.

0:26:29 Brennan: You appear 600 feet closer. We're gonna resolve Fig and Kristen and then we're going to resolve everybody left deep in the forest. So here's how this is going to work. Oh man, that Heroism is so clutch. Lou grins and dances, showing two peace signs.

0:26:48 Brennan: And you're flying, taking double move actually, which is 120.

0:26:53 Lou: You've been there for us, it's the least we can do to be there for you.

0:26:55 Ally: Hey, I'll be there for you till the end of time. Ally and Lou hug.

0:26:57 Emily: I feel like I may use an action to do another Dimension Door if it gets dicey.

0:26:59 Lou: Hell yeah.

0:27:01 Brennan: Okay, even without that this was gonna be 44 rounds for you to get to the wall. It is now, because of, because of flying, Dimension Dooring, gonna take 12 rounds.

0:27:14 Ally: Cool.

0:27:14 Brennan: Cool?

0:27:15 Siobhan: Okay.

0:27:16 Brennan: So I'm gonna roll a ton of damage right now. We're just going to do this. Brennan pours out a shower of dice.

0:27:21 Siobhan: It's so many dice.

0:27:21 Zac: 12 times three.

0:27:23 Emily: I do have bonus action heals.

0:27:26 Ally: 36, so you subtract 36 from this no matter what.

0:27:29 Brennan: Subtract 36 in this no matter what, you got it. Hold on one second.

0:27:31 Emily: I have bonus action heal so I can also be Healing Word her.

0:27:35 Ally: Oh yeah.

0:27:36 Zac: And you could be healing yourself.

0:27:37 Ally: Yeah.

0:27:38 Brennan: Okay, here's how this is gonna be.

0:27:41 Lou: Heals on heals.

0:27:42 Brennan: While this is happening what are the four of you back in the woods planning on doing?

0:27:46 Siobhan: I'm gonna pick up Riz.

0:27:49 Brennan: Okay.

0:27:51 Ally: Just to hold.

0:27:51 Siobhan: Just to, yeah. (laughing)

0:27:53 Zac: Fabian, how far can you move around?

0:27:55 Lou: I can move 30 feet.

0:27:57 Gorgug: Do you want to hop on my back?

0:27:58 Fabian: Not really. (laughing)

0:27:58 Gorgug: You don't have to.

0:28:01 Adaine: This isn't the time, Fabian.

0:28:03 Riz: [clinging to Adaine, yelling] This isn't the time!

0:28:05 Fabian: The Ball, you're comfortable on people all right. I remember the backpack and such and such.

0:28:10 Brennan: This is 24d6 damage coming Kristen's way. Okay, 11, 14, 20, 24, 34, 38, 40, 51, 55, 65, 77, 85, 85 minus, um...

0:28:45 Zac: 36?

0:28:45 Siobhan: So 49. Murph groans and leans back in his chair.

0:28:48 Brennan: Yeah, plus another, oh no. 49, yeah.

0:28:53 Ally: That's great, because I would have been down.

0:28:55 Zac: But you would be healing yourself as you go, right?

0:28:58 Brennan: You could be, yes. You take 49 points of damage. Fig, you see a badly injured Kristen. You're just watching wounds open up. Kalina keeps sort of appearing to you. It's truly insane because you're looking at Fig's back while she is just like, I'm gonna say a trail of fire is coming up from behind Fig as she's flying holding you.

0:29:20 Adaine: I didn't do that, that's just happening.

0:29:24 Gorgug: Cool flavor.

0:29:24 Adaine: It's very cool.

0:29:25 Brennan: You see crouched on Fig's back, Fig obviously you can't see or experience this. Kalina is just raking her claws across you saying,

0:29:33 Kalina: Listen to reason, kid, come on!

0:29:35 Ally: I kind of nuzzle my face in your neck, like

0:29:39 Kristen: Ah, this is so scary!

0:29:41 Fig: I got you Kristen, I got you! Stay strong!

0:29:42 Kristen: No, she's here, she's a freaking big cat! (laughing)

0:29:47 Fig: That sounds really cute.

0:29:48 Brennan: You start to feel something also on your cheek, which are little wet kisses and you hear Baby go,

0:29:53 Baby: Don't worry! It’s okay! (cast laughing)

0:29:55 Kristen: Okay, okay! These kisses are wet!

0:30:00 Baby: I'm made of blood.

0:30:05 Kristen: Okay, I'll take what I can get.

0:30:07 Fig: Baby's a really good dancer. Baby, show 'em.

0:30:09 Kristen: What!

0:30:10 Brennan: You see---

0:30:11 Lou: Not the time, not the time.

0:30:13 Brennan: He holds himself in space, where his hands and feet are in space is completely static and his perfectly round body just (imitates bubbling) like bounces around in between where his hands and feet are.

0:30:30 Kristen: [unconvincingly] Oh wow, it's so good. I guess you should stop and—

0:30:33 Murph: The nightmares are real!

0:30:35 Kristen: We gotta wait for the rest of the group, right? (laughing)

0:30:39 Brennan: Okay, incredible. You get to the briar wall. At your approach Fig, you see the portal opens back up, The Hangman screams in.

0:30:50 Emily: Okay. I put Kristen there.

0:30:55 Fig: Kristen, I'm gonna seal this back up and go make sure to help shuttle everyone 'cause I still have another Dimension Door. Are you safe on this other side?

0:31:03 Kristen: Yeah.

0:31:03 Emily: Who's here? It's just Gilear?

0:31:05 Brennan: You see it’s just Gilear and The Hangman who's come in. Gilear has not entered the forest.

0:31:08 Gilear: Daughter, is everything—

0:31:11 Fig: Stay! Don't come in.

0:31:12 Gilear: All right.

0:31:15 Emily: Can I give— Can I—

0:31:17 Fig: I don't know if I should leave you.

0:31:18 Kristen: With Gilear?

0:31:19 Fig: Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna leave, cool.

0:31:21 Kristen: No, you but you have Dimension D— no, like go help everyone. Definitely get—

0:31:25 Brennan: Are you, are you going back through the door or are you staying on the other side in the Nightmare Forest?

0:31:30 Ally: Going back through the door.

0:31:31 Emily: Go through the door.

0:31:31 Brennan: You go through the door, the second you go back through the door you see Kalina walks through the door with you and says,

0:31:38 Kalina: Catch you next time.

0:31:40 Brennan: And vanishes.

0:31:41 Kristen: Okay. Yeah hurry and maybe just bring back whoever you can, but focus on Riz.

0:31:48 Brennan: Okay, that happens, but it still it took you 12 rounds to do this. We're gonna have to resolve 12 rounds of these guys before we get to that.

0:31:55 Lou: I get on Gorgug's back and I ask everyone, I swear everyone to silence.

0:31:59 Siobhan: I immediately take pictures.

0:32:01 Fabian: Stop! Gorgug makes two peace signs.

0:32:05 Fabian: Stop! No!

0:32:06 Ally: Look at those little feet!

0:32:06 Fabian: It's scary right now! I have normal sized feet and The Ball—

0:32:11 Riz: It's normal to get carried around.

0:32:12 Fabian: Yes, when you're The Ball, alright. Balls get carried, alright.

0:32:17 Adaine: I've been carried a lot, I don't feel undignified.

0:32:19 Gorgug: [holding Fabian] You're surprisingly light.

0:32:19 Fabian: Shut up! (laughing) Everybody shut up! Everybody shut up!

0:32:23 Adaine: He's dainty, a dainty lad.

0:32:24 Gorgug: You're not supposed to weigh a lot.

0:32:25 Fabian: Well it's because I'm holding—

0:32:26 Riz: What's up, The Ball? [laughing]

0:32:26 Fabian: All right, fuck this. Fuck this. I'll walk.

0:32:30 Zac: Turned Fabian into a ball. Zac pretends to take Fabian off his back, squish him into a ball shape, then dunk a basket with him. Afterwards, he goes back to miming sprinting.

0:32:34 Brennan: So Adaine is flying, Gorgug nailed the direction back to where you guys are going, so the slowest speed is gonna be Gorgug's speed on the ground, which is still 40. So we're gonna determine it this way. If you're doing a move and a dash every round, that's gonna be 80 feet but then halved again so it's 40. So it could take you this amount of rounds.

0:32:59 Zac: Is it halved with the jump? Or does that affect it--

0:33:03 Brennan: You only can do Jump once per round so it's, on the grand sca-- oh no, it's concentration, right?

0:33:08 Zac: Yes, it lasts for a minute.

0:33:10 Brennan: Okay I actually divide that in--

0:33:12 Zac: And I had two spell slots.

0:33:15 Brennan: Okay so I'm gonna say, I'll divide that in half again. Cool, it's gonna take you guys 16 rounds, so they're actually--

0:33:22 Ally: Just a little bit behind us.

0:33:23 Brennan: Yeah that Jump spell is really kind of helping.

0:33:26 Ally: Okay, cool.

0:33:28 Brennan: Or actually no, because the Jump is preventing the difficult terrain-- no you would be going twice as fast without difficult terrain. So let me go ahead and see this real quick.

0:33:41 Murph: Keep in mind he's anime running.

0:33:43 All: Yeah, yeah.

0:33:43 Murph: So he’s not using his arms.

0:33:44 Siobhan: Arms behind.

0:33:44 Zac: [arms straight out behind him] Like this.

0:33:46 Lou: And I'm fully letting the sheet unfurl behind me.

0:33:50 Emily: Like a sail.

0:33:52 Ally: You're kind of slowing them down.

0:33:55 Lou: A lot of draft. (laughing) If there's difficult terrain, it's mostly Fabian's sheet.

0:34:00 Brennan: Okay. Awesome. I'm gonna go ahead and say that because you guys have handled this so expertly, because your speed that you're going is fundamentally 80. I'm gonna say that you guys begin to hear the calling of ravens out in the forest but given how quickly you guys are moving and how many hit points you have, it would not be worthwhile to run this combat because even if you guys did nothing but run, they still wouldn't able to bring you down in the amount of time you guys have. You guys hear ravens coming behind you and because of your jump spell, these like rocket boots, you were actually able to mostly keep them at bay. I'll say that like Gorgug bringing up the rear effectively takes like a cosmetic, you take like 15 points of damage from these like birds coming at the rear and pecking at you before you make it back to Fig who's like waiting halfway between you guys in the forest. You guys sprint from there. The door opens once again for Fig as she approaches. As you do so you see that these ravens come and as they do so they hit the open doorway and burst into decrepit leaves with spider webs strung between them and are gone. You guys pummel through the doorway, the door closes behind you, you are back in Arborly with The Hangman and Gilear. (everyone sighing)

0:35:35 Adaine: So we have to go back in there, right?

0:35:37 Fig: Yeah, we have to go back in there.

0:35:37 Fabian: Like as soon as possible.

0:35:37 Gorgug: We gotta get Kristen.

0:35:39 Fig: We just need to get Kristen healed. [crosstalk in agreement]

0:35:41 Lou: Let's get the tincture going.

0:35:42 Adaine: Yeah, let's make this tincture.

0:35:43 Gorgug: We got all the stuff for the tincture, right?

0:35:45 Adaine: How long does the tincture take to make?

0:35:47 Kristen: We got everything, yeah. I guess I have all the stuff for the tincture, right?

0:35:55 Riz: We're saying tincture a lot.

0:35:55 Kristen: We're saying tincture.

0:35:58 Adaine: What's weird about that?

0:35:58 Kristen: Do we have enough of this tiny tincture?

0:36:01 Gorgug: Let's get back in the van.

0:36:03 Brennan: You can absolutely make this here. Listen, you paid dearly for these ingredients, you got that like, what? Was it a nat 20 on that Medicine check? It was some incredible roll. Having the ingredients, you can absolutely make this tincture. It will take you less time than it would to like, long rest and do a Greater Restoration on yourself again.

0:36:29 Ally: I still kind of want to do that though.

0:36:32 Emily: A long rest?

0:36:32 Siobhan: Does Kristen have to be the person that makes the tincture?

0:36:36 Murph: We should make one anyway in case we get infected again.

0:36:39 Siobhan: Yeah we should make as much tincture as we can 'cause also the other guys.

0:36:41 Zac: There's some kind of alchemist or something at the tinker?

0:36:47 Brennan: You know for sure there are chemists at the tinkerers’.

0:36:49 Fig: Kristen, what can I do to make it more comfortable for you to not take a long rest?

0:36:54 Kristen: No, that's fine. Just if I could take a long rest, I could, so what happened was I cured Riz and that made her so upset, like she wanted me to reinfect him so clearly the more of us that we can have the—

0:37:08 Gorgug: You're the only one who has it.

0:37:09 Fig: You're the only one who has it.

0:37:10 Adaine: Yeah.

0:37:10 Kristen: Really?

0:37:11 Riz: Yeah.

0:37:11 Fabian: Well everyone else who has it is still in the forest.

0:37:14 Riz: They're all missing.

0:37:16 Kristen: [whisper] Fuck. [regular] Okay, then, yeah, let's make the tincture.

0:37:24 Gorgug: Let's go to the Tinkerer's Hall and see if we can use.

0:37:26 Fabian: Make a good old big pot of it.

0:37:27 Adaine: Have the tinkerers make the tincture?

0:37:28 Kristen: We can make the tincture in the Tinkerer's Hall?

0:37:29 Adaine: Yeah.

0:37:30 Fig: [grinning] Tincture in the Tinkerer's Hall.

0:37:30 Kristen: Yeah.

0:37:31 Zac: I'm messaging right now and I'm saying,

0:37:33 Gorgug: Let's make the tincture in the Tinkerer's Hall. (laughing)

0:37:36 Fig: What about making the tincture in the Tinkerer's Tent?

0:37:39 Ally: Okay, can I--

0:37:39 Adaine: Tremendous.

0:37:41 Ally: Can someone Message me because I don't have it and maybe we should say this over Message. [points to Siobhan]

0:37:45 Adaine: Yeah.

0:37:46 Ally: Okay I message everyone and I say,

0:37:47 Kristen: She also tried to make a deal with me. She said, if we all put our crystals on the ground and ruined them and Riz, she knew that you were taking video of her and if you ruined that she would let me live.

0:38:00 Brennan: Sorry, one distinction. She didn't know about Riz's tie.

0:38:03 Murph: Yeah, she had the picture.

0:38:04 Siobhan: Yeah, she said the picture, not the tie.

0:38:05 Brennan: The picture, she talked about the[makes four corners with his fingers like a photo frame] original photo of Pok and Kalina.

0:38:07 Ally: Oh cool, very fucking cool.

0:38:09 Murph: And I'm gonna say over Message,

0:38:12 Riz: I got footage of her. We should watch it as soon as we get Kristen healed.

0:38:20 Fig: Yeah.

0:38:20 Adaine: Yeah.

0:38:20 Emily: I think also that I'm gonna make all of my social media public and this will be my first post is gonna be a picture of her and it's gonna be one of those like ‘if you see this person, they like stole from’, you know like? Like they're a bad person.

0:38:38 Kristen: But put her name too.

0:38:38 Adaine: Yeah, flame her.

0:38:40 Kristen: Like I think it's like people knowing who she is and what she looks like.

0:38:42 Siobhan: It's also better with video footage, right, because it's multiple pictures.

0:38:46 Kristen: Yeah, let's see what we got. Shit, I wish we had like a Moon Haven or I wish we had—

0:38:48 Zac: Is the van still working?

0:38:50 Siobhan: We still have the Moon Haven, the van is--

0:38:51 Zac: Can we go to the van and just and--

0:38:54 Lou: Drive it?

0:38:55 Brennan: Hallow is on the van as a location, not as Zaphriel the gem. So the Hallow is still very functional on the van.

0:39:02 Kristen: Let's go.

0:39:03 Brennan: But you no longer have the extra dimensional part where like, you can all sleep here like a house. So it's just a van that you've cast Hallow on.

0:39:10 Emily: Okay.

0:39:11 Zac: Okay.

0:39:11 Lou: Let's drive it to the Tinkerer's Hall?

0:39:12 Zac: Yeah.

0:39:12 Siobhan: Great.

0:39:13 Brennan: Cool. You guys head over to the Tinkerer's Hall. You arrive there, I'm not gonna put on the happy Tinkerer's music.

0:39:22 Lou: Are you sure?

0:39:22 Brennan: Are you sure? You guys arrive at the Tinkerer's Hall driving the van kind of bumpily over the grass there. Gilear says,

0:39:31 Gilear: What of everyone else? What of Sandra Lynn and--

0:39:36 Fabian: Later Gilear, later.

0:39:38 Fig: I think we probably have time. I think that the Shadow Cat took them, in some capacity charmed them.

0:39:46 Kristen: Yeah.

0:39:47 Fig: And took them somewhere else.

0:39:49 Gilear: [extremely quietly] Oh my.

0:39:50 Kristen: They all went to a house I think.

0:39:52 Adaine: A cottage.

0:39:52 Fig: Yeah, Ayda mentioned being in some kind of--

0:39:54 Adaine: Wasn't the cottage turned into a curse?

0:39:57 Fig: Some kind of witch’s hut.

0:39:58 Adaine: The sanctum was turned into a curse?

0:39:59 Fabian: Gorgug didn't say anything about a cottage. He just seemed to--

0:40:01 Fig: You mean Ragh?

0:40:03 Fabian: Ragh, excuse me.

0:40:04 Fig: He didn't say anything about a witch’s hut.

0:40:05 Fabian: No, he just disappeared into the forest.

0:40:07 Gorgug: On the gem that Zaphriel was in, I saw a cottage like a spider webby cottage.

0:40:14 Fig: What did it look like?

0:40:15 Gorgug: Like a cottage with spider webs.

0:40:17 Adaine: So maybe the people who didn't have Kalina inside of them went to a different place than the people who did?

0:40:24 Fig: Yeah, I was gonna say I didn't remember Ayda being able to see the picture.

0:40:28 Adaine: Ayda couldn't I don't think.

0:40:29 Kristen: Do we need me for any of what we're about to do?

0:40:32 Gorgug: Yeah, I think you're the only one who knows how to make the tincture.

0:40:34 Fig: Can I try?

0:40:35 Ally: Am I the only one or do I have it written down somewhere?

0:40:37 Brennan: I mean you could show someone else how to make it for sure.

0:40:39 Emily: I could make it.

0:40:41 Ally: I'll tell you guys how to make it and then I want to cast Blindness and Deafness on myself.

0:40:46 Zac: Well you can just be in the Hallow, right?

0:40:47 Brennan: Yeah.

0:40:48 Siobhan: Yeah, just be in the Hallow.

0:40:49 Kristen: I don't know if I trust it.

0:40:52 Fig: But you could also take a short rest if I could make the tincture and you could get some health back that way.

0:40:58 Kristen: Yeah, yeah, but just in case like just so she truly has no way of looking.

0:41:04 Riz: It's not a bad idea.

0:41:05 Kristen: Through my eyes or whatever.

0:41:07 Riz: Okay. Yeah, we'll give you a couple, we'll do two taps on your shoulder when the--

0:41:13 Adaine: When the tincture is ready.

0:41:14 Kristen: Okay should I be blind or deaf, I get to choose one.

0:41:18 Fabian: Blind, right?

0:41:18 Fig: It seems like—

0:41:20 Adaine: Well blind, you can just close your eyes.

0:41:22 Zac: I'm gonna put my headphones on you when you cast Blind.

0:41:25 Kristen: I have to listen to your metal music?

0:41:27 Adaine: Metal music and like a fun little sleep mask.

0:41:29 Kristen: [strained] I miss Tracker.

0:41:31 Adaine: Awww. Snuggle down.

0:41:31 Ally: There's metal music blaring.

0:41:33 Gorgug: It's a bunch of different types of rock.

0:41:35 Kristen: [moving a headphone] What's that?

0:41:36 Gorgug: There's a bunch of different types of rock.

0:41:37 Ally: I cast Deafness on myself. (laughing) But I'm still wearing your headphones and I don't let you know that I did it.

0:41:43 Brennan: So for everyone that goes into the Tinkerer's Hall, cool, you guys arrive there. Who all's going to Tinkerer's Hall? Emily, Zac and Siobhan raise their hands.

0:41:54 Siobhan: I think I am.

0:41:55 Fabian: I'm gonna stand outside and keep watch.

0:41:57 Fig: Oh, that's true.

0:41:57 Riz: I'll stay with Kristen. Make sure—

0:41:58 Fig: I usually am a German shepherd but—

0:42:00 Fabian: Let me, I can—

0:42:01 Fig: You going German shepherd?

0:42:02 Fabian: Roof, roof. (laughing)

0:42:03 Fig: Okay, I'm sure you're a puppy.

0:42:05 Fabian: Yeah, I'm a sick one.

0:42:07 Adaine: Maybe I should stay with you just so that there's a spellcaster here.

0:42:10 Fig: Okay.

0:42:12 Brennan: Cool, you guys were to the Tinkerer's Hall, you both walk in. The gnomes that you see Crumpkin Springbill goes,

0:42:18 Crumpkin: Well, if it isn't Gorgug Thistlespring!

0:42:22 Gorgug: Hello Mr. Crumpkin.

0:42:22 Crumpkin: Oh, hello.

0:42:24 Fig: Hi, I'm Figueroth Faeth.

0:42:26 Crumpkin: Hello, Miss Faeth. It's a pleasure to meet you.

0:42:30 Fig: Nice to meet you.

0:42:31 Gorgug: Look, we're in a bit of a pickle and we need to, we need these tinkerers to make some tinctures.

0:42:37 Crumpkin: Some tinkerers to make some tinctures?

0:42:39 Gorgug: Yes.

0:42:43 Zac: Without saying exactly what's going on, like I tell them what we're trying to make or like the ingredients in there.

0:42:48 Brennan: You see that they come over, some of the tinkerers all have different specialties. There are definitely some that are chemists and stuff like that. They're not necessarily like healers but as just a pure act of chemistry they'd probably be able to make this.

0:43:05 Gorgug: Okay cool, and I can help if that helps in any way.

0:43:08 Brennan: You see they say, they look at it and say,

0:43:10 Tinkerers: Well you've gotten a bunch of hard to get ingredients, this actually won't be that hard. If there's anyone in your group that knows medicine we could use their help.

0:43:19 Brennan: It sounds like they're politely kind of saying like the only people that would be able to give them a help action here are people that have proficiency in medicine.

0:43:25 Emily: I don't.

0:43:26 Zac: I don't.

0:43:26 Ally: I do.

0:43:27 Siobhan: Riz does.

0:43:28 Murph: I don't, I just rolled really well that one time.

0:43:29 Siobhan: Oh.

0:43:31 Zac: Can you give Bardic Inspiration?

0:43:31 Emily: I only have one left.

0:43:32 Brennan: No, you took the Healer feat, didn't you?

0:43:33 Murph: I do have a Healer feat. Yeah, I have a Healer feat. Does that give me proficiency in medicine?

0:43:37 Brennan: I'm not certain but for the sake of this, I would let Riz.

0:43:40 Murph: Cool, yeah I have a healer’s kit.

0:43:43 Brennan: You know enough about like forensic toxicology.

0:43:44 Murph: Great.

0:43:45 Brennan: ...what this kind of thing is like.

0:43:47 Gorgug: Riz.

0:43:47 Fig: Hey Riz.

0:43:49 Riz: Yeah?

0:43:49 Emily: I Dimension Door him back. Use a fourth level spell slot. (laughing)

0:43:53 Murph: I throw up.

0:43:54 Brennan: As you're doing this over some of the gnomes look over and you see that they're like looking off at you and talking. And you see that—

0:44:01 Emily: Where's Baby?

0:44:03 Brennan: You see Baby says,

0:44:05 Baby: I'm roughly the same size as these people.

0:44:09 Fig: I think you might be making them, maybe you should go over and say something sweet to them.

0:44:15 Lou: Oh, no.

0:44:17 Baby: Okay. [creepy giggling]

0:44:17 Ally: What!

0:44:18 Baby: Should I whisper it or scream it? (cast laughing)

0:44:22 Fig: Whisper.

0:44:24 Baby: So softly.

0:44:26 Gorgug: Is there any way Baby could go away? (cast laughing)

0:44:30 Gorgug: I'm not trying to be rude but.

0:44:31 Lou: Is there any chance?

0:44:32 Gorgug: Is there any way Baby can go away entirely?

0:44:34 Ally: Can Baby go back in his pokeball?

0:44:36 Siobhan: Yeah, Baby go bye-bye now.

0:44:36 Emily: I mean, maybe, we'll talk about it later.

0:44:40 Brennan: You see he says,

0:44:40 Baby: Okay, time to make friends!

0:44:45 Fig: Whispers, so soft.

0:44:47 Brennan: He goes up behind, there's a gnome who's like fixing a gear on something. Baby like flaps up behind it and he puts like [slowly closing his fingers] one hand on a shoulder and the other on, love handle small of back, and like whispers something.

0:45:01 Emily: Bad area, bad area.

0:45:03 Brennan: You see that he just goes like,

0:45:05 Baby: You know what I always thought. [whispers something incoherent]

0:45:07 Brennan: And you see the gnome just full vomits. (laughing) And Baby says,

0:45:11 Baby: [shrieking] It didn't work!

0:45:11 Brennan: And then he flies away.

0:45:15 Gorgug: What was he trying to do for it to not work?

0:45:17 Fig: Yeah, what did you whisper?

0:45:17 Gorgug: Something very specific happened!

0:45:19 Baby: I wanted to make a friend!

0:45:21 Fig: Oh no. Why do I collect so many tragic characters? Come here, come here Baby.

0:45:27 Brennan: You see the gnomes keep talking. You see a couple that come over and you see that the one that comes over is the woman that has like the sort of ornithopter backpack. She says,

0:45:36 Polly: Oh sorry to interrupt, that's a remarkable instrument on your back there.

0:45:43 Fig: Oh yeah, is that what you were looking at? I thought you were looking at my imp.

0:45:47 Polly: [very cheerful] Oh, I've been trying to avoid doing that since he came in!

0:45:50 Fig: Okay I'm sorry, I sent him over there to sort of broker peace, but no you can have a spin.

0:45:56 Polly: Wow!

0:45:56 Fig: Do you play?

0:45:58 Polly: Oh, myself?

0:45:58 Fig: Yeah.

0:45:59 Polly: Oh yes, I have a flying contraption on my back but this looks like a real piece of magical technology.

0:46:05 Fig: Yeah.

0:46:07 Brennan: You see that they start pouring over it and looks like the gnomes are actually like identifying this guitar for you. You see they say,

0:46:16 Tinkerers: Do you know all the properties that this has? The ruby is pretty easy, there's a label.

0:46:20 Fig: Yeah, yeah, I know that it can destroy a ruby. I know that it doesn't prevent you from losing all your friends in the forest.

0:46:31 Brennan: As you as you say that, Fig give me a Wisdom saving throw.

0:46:37 Lou: Ooh.

0:46:37 Emily: What!

0:46:38 Brennan: A Wisdom saving throw.

0:46:40 Emily: No!

0:46:40 Brennan: You have to, I asked.

0:46:44 Emily: No way.

0:46:46 Lou: No, I refuse.

0:46:48 Emily: Nine.

0:46:50 Brennan: You begin to hear whispers in your ear.

0:46:55 Voices: That's how you lost them, lost them all. Lost each and every one of them.

0:47:01 Brennan: And you begin to hear a chorus of voices in your ear blaming you for the loss of Sandra Lynn, for the loss of Ayda, for the loss of Ragh and Tracker.

0:47:19 Fig: [clears her throat] So you wanna tell me about my guitar?

0:47:25 Brennan: You see them say,

0:47:25 Tinkerer: Oh, we would be happy to! But let's give it a thorough once-over, maybe twice over, or a thrice over.

0:47:31 Fig: Yeah, as many times as you need.

0:47:33 Brennan: While that's happening, Gorgug, you see that Riz gets to work on the tincture, go ahead and you can either give them the help action or they can give you the help action.

0:47:40 Ally: Ooh.

0:47:47 Murph: I will give you the help action maybe. Or I guess it's them I think.

0:47:49 Brennan: Is it them.

0:47:51 Murph: Them, them, got it. Okay I will give them the help action.

0:47:54 Brennan: Okie-dokie. We’ll do this Box of Doom just 'cause it's a significant roll.

0:48:01 Siobhan: How big of a roll does it need to be?

0:48:03 Brennan: Well.

0:48:04 Siobhan: How significant is this roll? Just for academic.

0:48:08 Brennan: These guys get a plus six to this check.

0:48:11 Siobhan: Great.

0:48:12 Brennan: They're going to be rolling with advantage.

0:48:14 Emily: I'll give 'em my last Bardic Inspiration.

0:48:16 Brennan: Okay great, so we'll throw a d8 in there and I'm gonna say that the DC is 15; for every two points over 15 they can make an additional dose of the tincture.

0:48:27 Murph: Oh great.

0:48:27 Ally: Cool. Very cool.

0:48:29 Emily: Cool 'cause then if we find Tracker and Sandra Lynn.

0:48:31 Murph: Tracker, I think is gonna be a problem with the biting.

0:48:35 Siobhan: Wait, so hang on. So it's 15 plus—

0:48:38 Zac: Every two above that.

0:48:41 Brennan: Is another dose.

0:48:41 Siobhan: Is another dose.

0:48:42 Emily: So ideally we want 19.

0:48:42 Siobhan: In which case, oh no, I'm not even fucking there, nevermind.

0:48:48 Brennan: Okay cool.

0:48:49 Siobhan: God damn it.

0:48:50 Brennan: So we're gonna roll we're gonna add a D8, rolling with advantage in the box of doom. 3 and a 13 plus six is 19, we're gonna roll a d8.

0:48:59 Emily: 'Cause we might as well get extra.

0:49:01 Brennan: Plus seven is 26.

0:49:03 Ally: Oh, yeah! Emily groans in relief. Lou claps.

0:49:03 Brennan: So you guys get, so 15 is one.

0:49:07 Ally: Five extra.

0:49:09 Brennan: You get five extra, great, cool.

0:49:10 Lou: Oh, that feels good.

0:49:12 Brennan: It's gonna take you probably like the whole night to be able to make those tinctures but you have five full doses of the tincture. You guys can spread that amongst yourselves however you want. During that long night however, you're talking with them about your Identify. Gorgug you see that Crumpkin comes over to you. You see he says— [sentimental soft music]

0:49:30 Gorgug: Hi, Mr. Crumpkin.

0:49:33 Crumpkin: Mr. Thistlespring, your generosity really can't be overstated. Our town— There's so much work here about reclaiming more of the forest and what we're able to do that all that money's gonna make a real a lot of difference.

0:49:52 Gorgug: Okay well, no worries. You know, I think for me I thought money was, more money, more problems as I've heard someone say.

0:50:09 Brennan: You see he looks at you. [the cast snickers at Zac]

0:50:13 Ally: Someone?

0:50:13 Lou: I heard someone say.

0:50:16 Zac: I think Gilear says that.

0:50:18 Siobhan: Yeah, mo’ money, mo’ problems.

0:50:20 Lou: Big Gilear.

0:50:20 Siobhan: Big Gilear energy.

0:50:23 Zac: Oh boy.

0:50:24 Siobhan: More yogurt, more problems.

0:50:24 Lou: Exactly.

0:50:26 Brennan: Crumpkin says,

0:50:26 Crumpkin: Well listen. We have two artificers here that would love to help you. If you want to work with one of them,

0:50:39 Brennan: He says,

0:50:39 Crumpkin: We have some prototypes. We just wanted to make you something as a show of appreciation.

0:50:46 Gorgug: What?

0:50:50 Brennan: And you see that two smiling gnomes, they look very, very moved. You see that the first one that comes up you see is, he's got a hat that's like a helmet with a big classic-looking magnet on it and he has these weird little orbs of buzzing metal kind of floating around him. You see he says,

0:51:14 Zoseph: [a little nasal] My name's Zoseph Bittybottle and I just wanted to say that there's a lot of research here that would never been able to happen without your generous grant to the Tinkerer's Hall.

0:51:22 Gorgug: Aww.

0:51:30 Brennan: And you see that this woman comes over, her hair is a full, the mass of her hair compromises two-thirds of her whole mass. It is a lightning streaked, just like, sphere of hair around her. And you see that there are clear little like alchemical stone batteries and a bandolier around her. So you see that Crumpkin says,

0:51:56 Crumpkin: Zoseph is our lead metallurgist who studies rare and exotic unique metals, and Marta is our electrician expert. Both of them have prototypes, if you'd like to take a look at them. If you're interested in in one or the other, we'd love to make you an ax if we could.

0:52:19 Gorgug: [excited] What?

0:52:21 Brennan: You see that, you look at basically the two of them go over. It doesn't look like there's any sense of competition here, they basically like pitch you on two different ideas of what they'd be able to do quickly. Basically they have some stockpiled, incredibly rare resources here that they've just been sitting on and like loath to use because they're so expensive and that's not an issue anymore. So it looks like Zoseph's prototype, it has to do with like, making something that would be like adamantine and would literally be like an ax that wielded a magic of like metallurgy and would almost be like a gravity ax. It would like manipulate the raw force of gravity itself and it's much more like a combat focused one and then Marta's is like one that would be a little bit more like, have some spell casting stuff thrown into it. She's like,

0:53:20 Marta: We’re probably able to do either of these in the time you need.

0:53:25 Gorgug: Spellcasting in what way, I'm curious about.

0:53:28 Brennan: Hers looks like a very like lightning shooty kind of thing.

0:53:31 Zac: Okay.

0:53:31 Lou: Lighting shooting.

0:53:33 Siobhan: That sounds pretty rad.

0:53:33 Zac: They both sound rad.

0:53:35 Siobhan: They do sound really rad. Zac puts his face in his hand briefly, incapacitated by choice.

0:53:35 Lou: Get both!

0:53:37 Emily: Gravity sounds dope.

0:53:39 Zac: Okay, I'm gonna flip a coin.

0:53:40 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:53:41 Emily: Yeah!

0:53:42 Zac: I got a little two-sided thing. All right one for—

0:53:45 Brennan: We can also, Gorgug can think about it, we can come back to you.

0:53:48 Zac: Okay, let's think about it. (Lou booing)

0:53:51 Brennan: But we could flip for it too.

0:53:55 Lou: [derisively] Take away a flip.

0:53:55 Brennan: Just to do this because we're all having, because you're in in the world of the Bad Kids right now, things are so bad, we'll have a little respite of fun stuff. Emily, I'm going to give you your magic item card for the guitar your dad gave you.

0:54:03 Emily: Aw!

0:54:12 Siobhan: It's so long.

0:54:14 Brennan: You can go ahead and read that out on camera if you would like.

0:54:16 Emily: Okay, you have plus one bonus to attack.

0:54:18 Brennan: Tell us the name of the instrument, first of all.

0:54:20 Emily: [grinning] The Infaethable bass. (laughing)

0:54:22 Ally: Sick.

0:54:22 Emily: Yeah. “You have plus one bonus to attack and damage, you also gain plus five bonus to performance checks while wielding this instrument,” [points at Brennan] you're gonna regret that. “Countershred:  when you roll a nat 20 on a saving throw against a spell targeting you may as a reaction redirect the effect of the spell back on its caster!” [cheers, slaps her first into her palm]

0:54:42 Ally: Whoa!

0:54:42 Siobhan: That's so sick.

0:54:45 Emily: “Hellish Shred: anytime you are dealt 10 or more points of acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic,” blah, blah, blah, While Emily is listing the damage types, Brennan gestures like he’s telling her to hurry up.

0:54:52 Emily: “You may add 1d6 damage of the same type of energy to attacks made with your instrument, the damage increases by one d6 for every 10 rounds,” basically like Absorb Elements.

0:55:01 Brennan: Yeah, TL;DR when you get smacked by magic energy damage you can add a portion of it back to your weapon attacks on the next turn.

0:55:09 Siobhan: It's like Black Panther's suit.

0:55:11 Brennan: Yes and it's added—

0:55:12 Lou: You stole that from Black Panther dude.

0:55:14 Siobhan: Hey man, you fucking hack.

0:55:14 Brennan: It's a great movie. (laughing)

0:55:17 Brennan: But also important is that's calculated before resistance and immunity so in other words, if you take fire damage which you don't actually take, that gets added to your smacks per piece.

0:55:25 Ally: Whoa.

0:55:26 Emily: “Reckless Shred: when targeted by a spell that prompts a saving throw you can choose to roll the saving throw with disadvantage,” which is I used to have and Reckless Shred, I gave it up when I take the level of warlock, [slams the item description against the table] it's back baby!

0:55:36 Ally: Yes!

0:55:39 Emily: Woo!

0:55:41 Brennan: And then shatter rubies. So they go through—

0:55:45 Ally: So sick.

0:55:45 Emily: [sweetly] Thank you, Brennan.

0:55:47 Brennan: Hey, I've had so much fun making up magic items for you guys. (laughing)

0:55:52 Brennan: So yeah it's basically the all the powers of the bass have to do with you being like extremely effective in like hellish combat, when like lightning and fire and cold are all swinging around and people are casting spells at you it becomes very dangerous for other people.

0:56:07 Emily: For a second I forget that my head whispered and told me it was all my fault. (laughing)

0:56:13 Brennan: Incredible. Zac.

0:56:15 Zac: Okay.

0:56:15 Brennan: Yeah.

0:56:18 Zac: [sighs] We're gonna flip a coin.

0:56:18 Ally: Yeah.

0:56:20 Lou: [clapping, headbanging] Flip, flip, flip.

0:56:22 Zac: One is one is the first ax, two is the thunder ax. One.

0:56:27 Ally: Oh, you sounded kind of disappointed.

0:56:29 Zac: I think it's the gravity one.

0:56:30 Brennan: The gravity one. Oh you go with, you look at it—

0:56:32 Zac: I think it's cool.

0:56:32 Brennan: Here's the thing, I'm gonna say that Gorgug looks at it and, I will tell you as Brennan the dungeon master, the lightning ax is extremely cool. It is slightly less effective. Zac taps his hands to his temples, smug about choosing the right one. Emily laughs at him. After that, Zac mimes spinning an ax around and examining it, then nodding thoughtfully.

0:56:48 Brennan: It would be very cool and cinematic but you start looking at the schematics of, you see that Zoseph starts calling it, he talks about it as a gravity ax but you it's also, he calls it the heavy metal ax. So when the ax is finished, this ax weighs 120 pounds. [Ally laughs, impressed]

0:57:14 Brennan: It requires 17 strength to even lift it.

0:57:19 Zac: I got 20.

0:57:22 Brennan: [laughs] As you pick it up, I’ll describe the ax to you. It's first of all made of adamantium, which is incredibly heavy. The pommel of it is an incredible, like, counterweight. This is like a Soul Calibur weapon. It's truly enormous. It's a single-bladed ax, so it's not double-bladed and part of that is because it has a slight like, fuller is not the right word. Part of lessening the tremendous weight of this weapon, [holds his fingers together in a circle] there is a perfect circle carved out of the flat blade of the ax. It's about medium size, it's not like a tiny little hole nor does it take up the whole blade but a medium-sized hole in the flat blade of the ax, which is the most shimmering dark, dark metallic steel gray ax. It's a very dark gray, extremely reflective and at the very end you see that Zoseph takes like huge tongs and takes what looks like a kind of liquid metal, this like almost, it's so dark red that it could be black almost, tongs it out of a holder and drops it into the hole in middle of the ax. It lands in the middle and [buzzing] hovers in the center of the hole and as it does so you can like heft the ax up more easily. You see, that Zoseph explains,

0:58:50 Zoseph: The way the ax works basically is the faster it's moving the more mass it gains, it becomes heavier as you swing it but as it slows on the upswing it will decrease in weight again.

0:59:06 Brennan: So you have this crazy physics ax. Go ahead and take this [hands Zac an item sheet] if you'd be so kind.

0:59:12 Lou: Wow.

0:59:13 Zac: Heavy metal ax, you want me to read it or?

0:59:15 Brennan: Read it, baby.

0:59:16 Zac: “The heavy metal ax is made of adamantium. You have a plus one bonu to attack on weapon rolls with this magic ax. Additionally the heavy metal ax has the following properties: anytime you attack with advantage this weapon scores a critical on 19 and 20.” The whole cast “oohs” in awe.

0:59:29 Zac: “Ignores damage thresholds, hardness, and damage reduction. Any hit against an object is considered a critical hit,” [looks confused for a moment] wait, any hit against an object, object, “is considered a critical hit and does maximum damage.”

0:59:41 Emily: Oh.

0:59:41 Siobhan: Nice.

0:59:42 Emily: Sick.

0:59:42 Zac: “If you miss an opponent with two or more attacks in the same round any additional attacks made against them that round are made with advantage and on a hit automatically deal the attacks damage to an object of your choice the opponent is holding, wearing or carrying.”

1:00:00 Brennan: Cool, so you crit more easily objects. You could chop trees down, cut through walls and shit like that, and anytime you like if you miss someone twice in the same round all the rest of your attacks, including opportunity attacks, have advantage and you can effectively just absolutely destroy shields, swords, anything they're carrying.

1:00:11 Zac: Ho-ho-ho.

1:00:16 Ally: Sick.

1:00:22 Emily: Cool.

1:00:22 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:00:24 Gorgug: [picking up the ax] This'll do. (cast laughing)

1:00:24 Lou: “This'll do.”

1:00:28 Brennan: Dope as hell. Incredible. Or I guess actually it's probably like late, because you guys headed out to the forest, what time of day did you guys head out to the Nightmare Forest? Ally and Murph have a crosstalk conversation about Riz’s tie video during Brennan’s previous paragraph.

1:00:44 Lou: Early.

1:00:44 Brennan: Early?

1:00:45 Emily: First thing in the morning.

1:00:46 Lou: We woke up after the shrimp party.

1:00:46 Murph: We do have the video of Kalina.

1:00:48 Emily: Yeah, we should watch that.

1:00:49 Murph: I guess we want to get Kristen better first.

1:00:50 Soibhan: Yeah.

1:00:51 Murph: So why don't we, I guess until we have the tincture.

1:00:56 Brennan: Cool, so I think you take a long rest that full day as you're like helping to build your ax, you have your bass.

1:01:05 Ally: [whistles and pats Lou on the shoulder] Nice one, that Heroism, man.

1:01:08 Brennan: Yeah. Huge.

1:01:08 Lou: Yeah, dude.

1:01:08 Ally: I love you, man.

1:01:08 Lou: Always.

1:01:11 Siobhan: Can I take the time while I'm making sure Kristen's okay to work on a spell for Ayda?

1:01:17 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely! You can go ahead, give me an Arcana check.

1:01:22 Siobhan: Great. Can I have Boggy help me?

1:01:24 Brennan: Yes you can.

1:01:30 Siobhan: Dirty 20.

1:01:31 Brennan: Dirty 20.

1:01:31 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:01:33 Brennan: I will say you make two days progress in a single day.

1:01:37 Siobhan: Great.

1:01:39 Brennan: And you should spend some amount of gold on material components for that but we can cover that later.

1:01:44 Siobhan: We can figure that out.

1:01:48 Brennan: So you rest in the van the whole day Kristen. At the end of it you get your spell slots back, so it's like evening by the time you finish this long rest. What's going on in Kristen's mind while this is all happening?

1:02:10 Ally: I think I'm definitely crying a lot because Tracker's in the forest but I'm listening or I'm not listening to this blasting music 'cause I'm deaf by my own hands. (laughing)

1:02:28 Ally: Yeah, I'm just kind of in the back seat of a non-magical van and I can't hear anything and I'm wearing a mask so I can't see anything. So just in that silence I'm just kind of thinking like that is the love of my life, okay interesting.

1:02:48 Brennan: You reach out for your spells. Where do you feel, your Spirit Guardians have left you. Tracker is in the woods. You reach out to get your spells back, give me a Religion check with disadvantage, which just means it's going to be a flat roll.

1:03:19 Ally: Okay. [rolls, looks, and whispers their answer] That's a 10.

1:03:26 Brennan: 10, okay. Kristen reaches out for her cleric spells. Who are you praying to? What are you praying to right now?

1:03:41 Ally: That's a great question. I am, I think I'm praying to not knowing but not in the like pretentious way?

1:03:56 Brennan: Yeah.

1:03:57 Ally: Not in a there are no questions shut up, or like there are no answers—

1:04:00 Brennan: Shut up about it.

1:04:02 Ally: Shut up about it, but in a like, there are no answers and that's great. Abundance in there being no answers.

1:04:12 Brennan: Hell yeah. You reach out for your spells. You regain your spell slots at the end of the long rest and as you do, make a Perception check for me. Ally rolls their check. Seeing it, both Ally and Murph put their hands to their faces, and Ally giggles a little.

1:04:39 Ally: [whispers] It's a 1.

1:04:39 Brennan: Nat one, cool. Your spells come back to you. [poof!] Cool. Ally drops their whole head into their hands.

1:04:51 Ally: Shit.

1:04:54 Brennan: It is late, it is late evening. What are you guys, as you guys come out of the Tinkerer's Hall you guys see this new insane… [buzzing] The ax as you hold it has, it's not this light, it's very soft but does have a [humming] like buzz to it. Zac mimes weightlifting with the ax. (Brennan laughing)

1:05:17 Fig: Oh can I try it, can I hold it? Agh!

1:05:21 Gorgug: Kind of heavy I guess.

1:05:25 Brennan: So you guys all come together. What do you guys do as you, as you come together again?

1:05:33 Murph: Do we have the potion?

1:05:35 Brennan: You have the tinctures.

1:05:36 Zac: Can I try the tincture to make sure--

1:05:38 Ally: Yeah, I guess.

1:05:38 Zac: We have so many.

1:05:39 Ally: I take a tincture.

1:05:41 Brennan: Okay. You take one of the tinctures. You're not seeing any illusions right now so nothing sort of fades—

1:05:49 Ally: Do we have that photo?

1:05:49 Murph: I hold up the picture.

1:05:51 Brennan: You cannot see Kalina in the picture.

1:05:54 Murph: Just to double check, nobody got reinfected, show everybody the picture. Can I see it?

1:05:57 Ally: I'm onto you bud.

1:05:59 Brennan: You cannot see it.

1:06:00 Lou: None of us can see it.

1:06:00 Emily: Can Gilear see it?

1:06:01 Brennan: Gilear cannot see it.

1:06:04 Emily: Can Baby see it?

1:06:05 Ally: [to Murph] You have something where you can see through Illusions, right?

1:06:06 Baby: Ooh, I can't see it.

1:06:08 Ally: Some sort of glasses or something?

1:06:11 Siobhan: Oh, you're thinking of the mirror from Hell.

1:06:13 Ally: Oh yeah.

1:06:14 Murph: Oh, I do. The truth seeing thing. Yeah, I have a little shard of mirror.

1:06:21 Brennan: You pull that mirror out. As you do so, you see that there is like a cracked fractured thing to it and you're looking around and seeing like white fog and stuff and you realize you're seeing the ethereal plane. This stuff is made of some kind of outerplanar material. It appears that it does not work on the Prime Material plane.

1:06:43 Murph: Got it.

1:06:45 Gorgug: I just thought of something. Remember that mean ranger?

1:06:48 Riz: Yeah.

1:06:48 Fig: Yeah.

1:06:49 Gorgug: Do you wanna ask them if they can Detect Disease on us?

1:06:54 Kristen: Oh.

1:06:54 Fig: We could do that. Is anyone else kind of itching to get back in though?

1:06:56 Adaine: Yeah, I do wanna get back in.

1:06:58 Kristen: I mean, yeah of course. All of our girlfriends are in there.

1:07:02 Riz: Do we want to see the footage of Kalina?

1:07:04 Gorgug: Sure.

1:07:05 Adaine: Yeah we might not be able to see her though, 'cause none of us can see her now.

1:07:09 Fig: Let's give it a spin.

1:07:09 Gorgug: Well let's give it a shot.

1:07:11 Adaine: I guess post it anyway.

1:07:12 Fig: On our way to the forest.

1:07:13 Gorgug: Can we plug into the crystal while she can't see us?

1:07:16 Kristen: She was pretty real in there though, right?

1:07:19 Adaine: That's true.

1:07:19 Kristen: Like you could see her?

1:07:20 Murph: Yeah, I also have, so the the way my thing works is I can do either Detect Magic or Detect Evil and Good while watching it. Should I do Detect Magic or should I do Detect Evil and Good?

1:07:34 Siobhan: I think Detect Evil and... Whew, but Detect Evil and Good is like against celestial and fae and stuff—

1:07:40 Murph: Magic might be good because then maybe we can find out what she's doing exactly.

1:07:44 Siobhan: Right.

1:07:44 Murph: Wanna do that?

1:07:45 Siobhan: But it's so weird because like she's not really either.

1:07:49 Zac: We found she's a disease, right?

1:07:50 Murph: Yeah.

1:07:51 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:07:51 Murph: She's evil, right? She's like a demon.

1:07:52 Zac: So maybe Detect Evil?

1:07:54 Siobhan: Detect Magic actually didn't work on her before.

1:07:56 Lou: Yeah.

1:07:57 Murph: Okay. Let's try Detect Evil and Good, I wanna watch the footage and do Detect Evil and Good.

1:08:01 Brennan: Okay, one note about the the necktie is that you have to have the effect running as you are recording, not as you're processing it.

1:08:10 Murph: Got it.

1:08:10 Brennan: If that makes sense. But I will allow you to say that you did it with Detect Evil and Good. As you look at Detect Evil and Good, the only presences that are coming up on the footage, Kalina is nowhere in the footage. But you do detect celestial on Tracker, you do detect celestial on Kristen.

1:08:31 Murph: Hmm. Okay. How often can I use it?

1:08:37 Emily: Well why don't we upload the video and see what people's reactions are to it?

1:08:43 Ally: We gotta do that.

1:08:44 Emily: 'Cause there are people who are infected in the world.

1:08:47 Siobhan: Yes. I think that we should do that.

1:08:48 Emily: Let's upload the video and see what people say to it.

1:08:50 Ally: So two videos on our thing is a viral shrimp party and then just the forest.

1:08:53 Lou: Yeah.

1:08:57 Emily: Just the forest.

1:08:57 Gorgug: Should we make a website?

1:08:59 Fig: Kristen, do you and Tracker—

1:08:59 Adaine: [to Gorgug] For sure.

1:09:01 Fig: Do you Tracker consent to your likeness being used in this video?

1:09:03 Kristen: We do. (Brennan laughing)

1:09:07 Fig: I think we should upload it, see what people say.

1:09:09 Riz: Okay.

1:09:11 Brennan: Okay, are you taking the full because the footage is extremely gruesome. It's like Kristen being attacked and other stuff. Are you gonna take like a smaller clip of--

1:09:22 Emily: I wasn't there during this moment so what is the moment?

1:09:23 Murph: I was, I saw her specifically. I was like looking in the water.

1:09:28 Emily: So what is the moment that you wanna use, is there a moment that you would condense it down to?

1:09:32 Brennan: There's a moment like before Tracker started turning that it's just Kalina talking to you.

1:09:36 Murph: Yeah.

1:09:37 Kristen: Well maybe keep Tracker turning in it, just one more piece of info or maybe she would be embarrassed by that.

1:09:41 Riz: Are you aware you’re a werewolf?

1:09:45 Fig: That's what I'm saying, is Tracker, yeah.

1:09:47 Kristen: Yeah, nevermind, she's not here to speak for herself so yeah cut it off right before Tracker.

1:09:50 Riz: Why don't we make it like yeah, ASMR puddle.

1:09:56 Fig: Okay. We upload it as ASMR.

1:09:59 Kristen: That's really funny.

1:10:00 Brennan: I'm going to need a social media check from Fig.

1:10:03 Emily: Would that be Performance or Persuasion?

1:10:06 Brennan: I'm gonna say that that is—

1:10:08 Zac: [looks directly into the camera] Or survival? (Ally laughing)

1:10:08 Emily: Or Deception.

1:10:11 Ally: Right to camera.

1:10:11 Siobhan: Don't you have plus five to Performance with your ax? Or, your guitar?

1:10:15 Brennan: I'm gonna say that this is actually social media Performance Persuasion… I'm gonna say it's Performance.

1:10:20 Emily: Okay.

1:10:20 Fabian: Hey and just in case, Spring Break, I believe in you.

1:10:24 Fig: Thank you!

1:10:26 Emily: And then I since I'm carrying my ax, do I get a plus five? Or, carrying my bass?

1:10:31 Brennan: Yes, you do get a plus five.

1:10:33 Emily: So I have a plus 14 to this. (Ally laughing)

1:10:42 Emily: That's gonna be an 18 and then a 22.

1:10:47 Brennan: 22, Incredible.

1:10:47 Emily: [to Lou] Thank you for that.

1:10:51 Brennan: By the way is anyone gonna give the help action?

1:10:53 Zac: Oh yeah.

1:10:53 Siobhan: Sure.

1:10:55 Emily: Okay. That's way better. Okay so it's gonna be a 25 plus four, 29.

1:11:04 Brennan: A 29.

1:11:07 Fabian: Our social media presence is incredible. (laughing)

1:11:11 Brennan: So you're on Gorgug's—

1:11:11 Emily: Following a shrimp party with ASMR, baby. (cast laughing)

1:11:15 Ally: ASMR shrimp party.

1:11:16 Brennan: What social media profile, are you using Fig and the Cig Figs?

1:11:19 Emily: Yeah, I'm fully destroying the brand in the name of this.

1:11:22 Brennan: So many angry emails from Lola Embers, but you upload it and fully like not even 20 minutes later you and what do you say in it? What do you say in the text of the thing?

1:11:39 Ally: Ooh, ooh, write something like “wait for it.”

1:11:43 Lou: Oh yeah, make it like a puzzle or something.

1:11:44 Ally: So that they'll have to watch the whole thing.

1:11:45 Murph: Can you find Kalina? (gasps)

1:11:45 Ally: Yeah!

1:11:47 Emily: I think I'm gonna say can you find Kalina.

1:11:49 Brennan: Can you see Kalina?

1:11:51 Emily: Let's do this, everyone will think that were teasing--

1:11:52 Zac: It's like a Laurel Yanny kind of thing. (cast laughing)

1:11:55 Murph and Siobhan: #CanYouSeeKalina?

1:11:58 Siobhan: “I don't get it, she's right there! What is everybody talking about?”

1:12:01 Zac: Comment if you can see.

1:12:01 Siobhan: It's just a puzzle!

1:12:03 Ally and Lou: Yes, yes.

1:12:03 Ally: Like if you can see Kalina.

1:12:07 Zac: Comment Kalina if you can see Kalina! (Emily laughing)

1:12:11 Brennan: Guys, it literally 10 minutes later on fantasy BuzzFeed there is an article saying, "You won't believe this crazy video from..."

1:12:24 Ally: Wow!

1:12:24 Brennan: “Wow!” It goes super viral. Yeah, you see people start seeing it like and you see the vast majority of people are like, "lol, what is this?" And then you see people start responding over and over, there's like you know one out of every couple hundred, it's like there are people like, "Oh, my god I see the whatever" and—

1:12:42 Ally: Oh!

1:12:45 Fig: Do you feel this Kalina? Do you feel this?

1:12:47 Gorgug: Take a picture of that picture and then also type in “those who know, know.” (laughing)

1:12:52 Kristen: Do it, do it, post the photo too.

1:12:54 Riz: Somebody post, I'm very unpopular online. Somebody else take the picture.

1:12:57 Fig: Here, I'll continue.

1:12:58 Ally: You post the photo of Riz's dad, right?

1:13:02 Brennan: Incredible, so you guys it goes super viral and it's such a weird crazy thing that it just blows up. Cool. That is an incredible success. What do you guys do now? It's late into the evening.

1:13:20 Adaine: I feel like I should Scry on them but I only have one Scry, so like I feel like I can either Scry on Tracker or on all of the others.

1:13:36 Gorgug: Do we know—

1:13:36 Fig: I have Ayda's feather [holding it up] so you can be able to scry on her better if she's being held against her will.

1:13:41 Adaine: Right.

1:13:41 Kristen: Do it. Yeah. [soft piano music]

1:13:46 Siobhan: Would Scry tell me the location or would I have to deduce from what I saw?

1:13:51 Brennan: [sighs] You would have to deduce from what you saw.

1:13:53 Fig: Unfortunately if you're gonna scry on her feather it doesn't leave my hand though.

1:13:57 Kristen: I understand.

1:13:57 Fig: Is that okay?

1:13:59 Kristen: [crying a little] I fully understand.

1:13:59 Fig: Is that okay? I just can't.

1:14:02 Ally: I have like a little tuft of Tracker's hair. Kristen holds up Tracker’s hair, sobbing quietly.

1:14:10 Fabian: Is this what it's like it when you fall in love?

1:14:13 Kristen: [wailing] Yes!

1:14:13 Lou: Okay.

1:14:14 Gorgug: [seriously] This is exactly what's it like. (cast laughing)

1:14:21 Brennan: As Fig and Kristen weep, I'm gonna go ahead, so Adaine if you wanna cast Scrying on someone, go for it. As you guys weep for a second though Kristen you get a, so you already cast that Greater, oh no, you used one of the tinctures on yourself, cool. So you have four tinctures left. As you're crying over Tracker, and see how horrifying it was as she left, just feel this emptiness of longing powerlessness and you have this memory of being at church for Helio when you were a little kid and being wrapped up in a blanket by your mom, being wrapped in like a shawl of hers and knowing for a certainty that nothing bad was ever gonna happen to you because Helio had chosen you. And there is a deep emptiness in how wrong that was.

1:15:36 Ally: [whispering] Ohhhhh, God, I...

1:15:39 Brennan: And Fig, you, as you're weeping and holding the feather you hear the whispers come back again. They are biting and critical and omnipresent. Make an Insight check if you'd be so kind.

1:16:09 Emily: 13.

1:16:15 Brennan: You have been a College of Whispers bard for a long time. The main ability of that subclass is the ability to take on the visage of another person. That is an ability that plays into some of your deepest insecurities and oldest fears. You on a 13 Insight realize that these magical whispers you're hearing that allow you to capture someone's face and do all this stuff and be somebody else, the whispers are you. The voice you're hearing over and over again is your voice.

1:17:05 Fig: Well then maybe I should just stop talking to myself.

1:17:12 Brennan: You try and the whispers come back like redoubled almost. They go like,

1:17:21 Voices: You could try, try to quiet us, try to quiet yourself.

1:17:26 Fig: Okay, well if I can't quiet you then I'll just talk louder than you because I'm better at being loud than I am quiet.

1:17:39 Brennan: [laughing] I think as, so like the tears are streaming down your face you feel your skin getting kind of like hot for a second and you feel like this glyph on your head, you can feel it's like just a little traces around here. Maybe your friends didn't notice but feel a little bit of trace as you're like, maybe I should get loud and for a second you find a place of, it's not, anger's not the right word. You find a place of rebellion and for a second the voices are pushed back and your skin gets hot in a way that's a little bit scary but maybe not terrible. And I think Fig, it's like you're feeling probably a little bit, there's something deeper within yourself to discover here but you're also standing in a circle of all your friends with a lot of stuff going on.

1:18:34 Emily: Yeah, I don't usually explore myself in front of my friends. (laughing)

1:18:38 Emily: I'm very private.

1:18:40 Ally: I'm a very private person.

1:18:43 Brennan: But there's something unexplored here that is lingering. Adaine.

1:18:48 Siobhan: Yes?

1:18:48 Brennan: What are you going to do?

1:18:52 Adaine: Here's what I'm worried about. When you looked for Ayda with the feather, you couldn't feel her. So I'm worried that Ayda is in a place that is blocked off from Divination spells.

1:19:09 Fig: Yeah, okay.

1:19:11 Kristen: Just like alive in a different place.

1:19:12 Fig: Yeah, I like that take.

1:19:13 Adaine: I think that maybe she's in a different plane or in some sort of bubble of protection that maybe Divination can't get--

1:19:20 Fig: Did you notice anything different about it by the way? Is it changed magically?

1:19:25 Siobhan: Can I cast Identify on the feather?

1:19:29 Brennan: I am so sorry about this. You took out the feather a minute or two ago.

1:19:35 Siobhan: Yes.

1:19:38 Brennan: So as you take it out now you see it is glowing orange and bright in your hand outside of the briar wall.

1:19:46 Siobhan: Oh.

1:19:49 Fig: Oh, it works again.

1:19:49 Adaine: Okay. Wait, so can you—

1:19:53 Fig: I'm gonna try to—

1:19:53 Adaine: Yeah. (clears throat)

1:19:56 Fig: Can I just get a minute, can everyone just go away?

1:19:57 Ally: What is Tracker's hair doing in my hand? (Siobhan laughing)

1:20:03 Brennan: It's like it smells really good. Kristen sniffs the hair multiple times.

1:20:04 Kristen: Yeah it's like lavender shampoo, that's all?

1:20:07 Brennan: Absolutely, yeah.

1:20:07 Adaine: Glossy, it's really glossy.

1:20:10 Fig: Well the way this works Kristen is that I'm gonna say her name so you can try say Tracker's name—

1:20:15 Kristen: Over you?

1:20:15 Fig: With the clump of hair.

1:20:16 Kristen: Okay great, ready?

1:20:18 Fig: Okay, but actually can everyone just look away? I'm just private.

1:20:21 Lou: I'm gonna look straight at it.

1:20:24 Zac: Gorgug's facing the van wall.

1:20:26 Fabian: Okay, fine. Fabian faces towards the back wall.

1:20:27 Ally: I just look at Tracker's hair. Come on Tracker. Come on Tracker.

1:20:31 Fig: Ayda.

1:20:31 Kristen: Tracker.

1:20:31 Fig: Aguefort.

1:20:31 Kristen: Tracker. (Emily laughing)

1:20:34 Fig: Tracker doesn't have a last name!

1:20:37 Brennan: Sure she does, O’Shaughnessey.

1:20:38 Kristen: No, I know, but I thought you were saying her name three times.

1:20:42 Fig: No, Ayda just said say my name once.

1:20:44 Kristen: Hilda Hilda. [yelling into Tracker’s hair] Hilda Hilda! (Emily laughing)

1:20:50 Fig: Ayda Aguefort!

1:20:54 Brennan: You say Ayda Aguefort. Does Adaine cast Scrying?

1:21:06 Siobhan: Well doesn't the feather contact Ayda?

1:21:10 Brennan: The feather does contact Ayda. You sense a link between the feather and Ayda that would makes scrying even easier.

1:21:19 Emily: Oh, so it didn't, I thought it was gonna summon her.

1:21:20 Brennan: It did, she said it would.

1:21:23 Fig: [very softly] Ayda. [waves the feather around]

1:21:26 Adaine: I'm so sorry but there's four of them with Ayda.

1:21:29 Kristen: No of course, yeah I understand.

1:21:31 Adaine: And Tracker I trust—

1:21:33 Kristen: Yeah, it really sucks but yeah I get it.

1:21:35 Adaine: I know, I know I'm so sorry.

1:21:36 Kristen: Yeah, yeah, no worries.

1:21:39 Siobhan: Okay I'll cast Scrying on the feather.

1:21:42 Brennan: Adaine extends her orb out in front of you and you're holding the feather and you see a reflection of yourself in Adaine's orb. Adaine's eyes go white, her hair lifts up, you're holding the feather in front of you, it is glowing so brightly. [gentle string chord]

1:21:58 Brennan: That is not the right music.

1:21:59 Emily: I was gonna say I think she's doing okay!

1:22:00 Murph: She’s on vacation!

1:22:02 Siobhan: This beautiful romantic moment.

1:22:03 Lou: Just on a beach.

1:22:05 Emily: [fake-offended] Wait, is she hooking up with my mom?

1:22:06 Zac: [fake strumming] The guitar.

1:22:08 Emily: Mom!

1:22:09 Siobhan: Your mom really gets around.

1:22:11 Murph: Is that a Sandals Resort with Sandra Lynn?

1:22:13 Emily: Sandra Lynn come on, leave one person for me. (cast laughing) [dark, mysterious ambience]

1:22:17 Brennan: In the orb you see a part of the forest, in pitch darkness. If a human were looking into this they would see nothing. You guys are seeing, are peering with your dark vision into the orb. You see webs of vines and this maze of trees. You see off in the distance a blue-skinned eight and a half foot tall angel that has a puka shell necklace, huge wings spread out behind him, being strangled by vines spread up like in a spider's web. You see that the vines have gone into his eyes, into his mouth, into his nose, are pulling it open and he is suspended there. That is in the background. In the foreground, Ayda's celestial heritage puts her in this horrifying gallery of captured angels. You see her with vines all around her. You see the vines have not gone into her eyes because they would burn upon contact with them, but you see that her hands are bound and her mouth is, they haven't gone into her mouth but it's wrapped around the lower half of her mouth. So you know, no verbal somatic components, no spellcasting. You see that she is furiously weeping and as you hold the thing and say Ayda Aguefort, you see that little empty spot in her wing glows and you see that as it does she [strained grunting] and you see some of the vines snap and then wrap around and push her wrist back down. She's holding something in her hand and you see she's trying just like so defeated but not giving up, moving something back to her mouth so that she can speak into it. There's a very small little earring in her hand.

1:24:58 Emily: [very quiet] Is there blood on it, does it look like it was ripped out in a really painful way?

1:25:02 Brennan: It looks like it was ripped out in a really hasty, painful way.

1:25:07 Emily: Cool, I open up the--

1:25:08 Fig: [yelling] We're going back in guys! We're going back in right now!

1:25:11 Kristen: Why do you look so happy, it's like very manic.

1:25:14 Fig: What? Because I just saw, look first off you don't want to scry on Tracker, don't do it. Second off, does everyone have everything, because we're going back in.

1:25:22 Adaine: Yeah, I think we should go back in.

1:25:23 Fig: Right now.

1:25:23 Riz: Yep, ready to go back in.

1:25:23 Gorgug: Okay, let's do it.

1:25:23 Riz: Let's do it.

1:25:23 Zac: I just remembered that, look, I go to the Tincture’s Hall, to the Tinkerer’s Hall and I'm like,

1:25:33 Gorgug: You guys can have the keys to the van, I think the van, maybe I'll come back and buy it one day.

1:25:41 Gnome: We have a van too?

1:25:44 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:25:44 Kristen: What?

1:25:44 Gorgug: I just feel like I think I told you guys.

1:25:47 Adaine: Happy tinkermas!

1:25:48 Gorgug: I bought it with the money, so it's probably bad. I don't know.

1:25:51 Adaine: Oh!

1:25:53 Gorgug: I think I'm good. All right, let's go.

1:25:57 Emily: If that's the case I guess take my bank account with my touring money and give it to them as well.

1:26:03 Brennan: They don't have a way of--

1:26:03 Fig: Here's the information. I need to go, okay? (laughing)

1:26:05 Riz: Let's go, let's go.

1:26:07 Fabian: I don't have time to find papers. Here!

1:26:12 Riz: Laptops for seniors! Laptops for seniors! That's what I give my money to.

1:26:14 Ally: Can I ask the tinkerers if they have a film camera?

1:26:17 Brennan: They don't, they're way behind Solace technology here.

1:26:20 Zac: As an artificer I can make something record a six-second message.

1:26:22 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

1:26:25 Zac: That's like magically, so I'm just gonna pick up a rock and put that on there just in case.

1:26:29 Brennan: Cool, awesome. You give the van away, you get on your thing and give away, so Fig, who is a famous rock star is zeroed out, other than your personal effects you are broke.

1:26:47 Fig: [strained] Cool, is everyone all tied up, could we go back into the forest?

1:26:50 Gorgug: Let's do it.

1:26:50 Riz: Yeah, let's go into the forest.

1:26:52 Adaine: Let's do it.

1:26:53 Brennan: Okay, where are you going into the forest?

1:26:59 Siobhan: Was there any sort of, can I do a Perception check to see if there's—

1:27:02 Emily: Can I use the feather like a metal detector? [waving it back and forth]

1:27:05 Siobhan: Yeah, is there anything from that that I could maybe use to triangulate their position a little bit within, like, the sun's position or the way that the moss is growing on the trees or something like that.

1:27:19 Brennan: There's nothing from the outside that's gonna let you peer inside the forest. The only lead you have is that temple, that there is a temple and that's the only place that you know goes further in, that would help you.

1:27:31 Lou: To the temple?

1:27:33 Siobhan: Temple it is.

1:27:33 Zac: Temple.

1:27:33 Ally: Let's do it.

1:27:35 Siobhan: Temple it up.

1:27:41 Brennan: The Hangman takes you to the edge of the forest. And,

1:27:52 Hangman: [solemnly] Master, Bad Kids, fare thee well in the forest of the Nightmare King.

1:28:03 Brennan: You walk through the open portal. As you enter, you see that a flight of ravens in the trees as you guys walk through takes wing and flies off deeper into the forest.

1:28:20 Siobhan: Damn.

1:28:20 Ally: Can we--

1:28:21 Emily: As we're walking along I'm just gonna keep playing my Countercharm.

1:28:24 Brennan: Cool.

1:28:25 Ally: How many ravens were there? Can we try to shoot them?

1:28:30 Brennan: You can get one or two, but the flock flies off.

1:28:34 Emily: They might just turn into spider webs.

1:28:38 Murph: Yeah. Let's just keep moving.

1:28:39 Lou: Yeah.

1:28:40 Ally: What about that bird though? [Zac laughs]

1:28:43 Lou: You mean the vulture?

1:28:43 Emily: Are there any vultures?

1:28:46 Ally: There's something up, something up with those.

1:28:48 Lou: Never trust a bird.

1:28:53 Siobhan: How big is the forest? Like if I cast Locate Creature, its duration is an hour and it senses creatures within a thousand feet of me.

1:29:04 Zac: That's running out from where we were.

1:29:06 Brennan: This forest is—

1:29:06 Siobhan: It's huge, right?

1:29:09 Brennan: Larger than the nation of Solace.

1:29:10 Siobhan: Okay, so like pretty big.

1:29:10 Brennan: Pretty big.

1:29:12 Siobhan: All right. I won't cast it yet.

1:29:16 Brennan: You guys venture into the forest. I'm gonna need a group Survival check.

1:29:23 Siobhan: [whispers] Oh no.

1:29:23 Ally: Okay.

1:29:25 Siobhan: Can Boggy give me the help action please?

1:29:27 Brennan: Yes he can, Baby can also grant the help action.

1:29:30 Ally: [seeing Murph’s roll] Eyy!

1:29:33 Murph: Nat 20!

1:29:35 Lou: 19.

1:29:35 Siobhan: Dirty 20.

1:29:37 Emily: Dirty 20.

1:29:39 Zac: 12.

1:29:39 Ally: 13.

1:29:41 Brennan: Awesome. You guys know your correct direction, so you will travel one of the two days it takes to get to the temple. You travel there. The first night, I'm gonna need, are you guys, like what do you do? Are you making shelter?

1:30:05 Fabian: Oh yes, we don't have any sort of protection from our nightmares.

1:30:11 Fig: I have to be honest, you guys should just tie me here. I am apparently a really easy mark for Kalina.

1:30:17 Fabian: Well and I also jumped into the waters outside of Leviathan.

1:30:21 Fig: Yeah.

1:30:23 Fabian: So it just feels like maybe—

1:30:25 Riz: It's kind of bad for all of us.

1:30:27 Adaine: Yeah.

1:30:27 Fig: Okay.

1:30:28 Kristen: I don't have anything.

1:30:30 Fabian: Maybe we sleep in halves?

1:30:32 Fig: Yeah, let's do that and then we can tackle each other's bodies.

1:30:35 Fabian: Exactly.

1:30:35 Riz: Cool.

1:30:36 Fabian: Gorgug and I should sleep separate.

1:30:39 Ally: Can I before we go to bed cast Greater Restoration on Adaine?

1:30:47 Brennan: Sure, what for?

1:30:48 Ally: I'm gonna get it again but I just don't fully trust that we're actually healed.

1:30:53 Brennan: Oh, gotcha, cool, cool, cool. So like before you go to bed to regain the spell slot.

1:30:57 Ally: Yeah, I'm about to regain that spell slot anyway so might as well just keep—

1:31:00 Zac: We don't know if we're gonna have an actual full night's rest.

1:31:03 Siobhan: Oh yeah, that's true.

1:31:04 Ally: You’re right.

1:31:05 Murph: Do we wanna figure out how we wanna split up this potion, this tincture? Because we have four of them.

1:31:11 Emily: We have four.

1:31:11 Siobhan: Oh yeah.

1:31:12 Murph: So I'm good at hiding so if I feel like I should have at least one 'cause I could yeah probably avoid a lot of stuff.

1:31:17 Emily: We've got Ragh, Sandra Lynn, and Tracker. Is there anyone else who needs one?

1:31:21 Murph: I mean between us--

1:31:21 Ally: I'll definitely take one because I would like to find Tracker and just feed it to her.

1:31:26 Siobhan: I could take one just because my jacket, I feel like that it's harder for them to like—

1:31:32 Emily: Get stolen.

1:31:32 Siobhan: Right.

1:31:33 Ally: How much you think a dart gun would be? Would I be able to get that out of your jacket?

1:31:38 Emily: Ooh, so you can dart it?

1:31:38 Murph: I have a tranquilizer dart.

1:31:40 Ally: Because she's, you know?

1:31:42 Brennan: Riz you could absolutely swap out the poison dose in one of your tranq darts.

1:31:46 Ally: Yes, that's what we do for her.

1:31:48 Emily: That's cool!

1:31:48 Ally: 'Cause maybe if we see her running--

1:31:49 Murph: Should we do it all four of 'em?

1:31:51 Ally: I mean we could make a bunch of darts with one of them maybe.

1:31:53 Emily: That's a good idea.

1:31:54 Brennan: Actually Riz, you and Gorgug, if you have the tinctures here if you want to use your tinker tools check, I will let you attempt to like, as part of like a short rest as you're like bedding down for the night attempt to make some tranq darts out of these tinctures.

1:32:06 Murph: Do you wanna do three, we'll leave one just in case.

1:32:09 Ally: Yes, yeah, yeah as a backup.

1:32:10 Zac: Can someone help me or?

1:32:10 Siobhan: I can help you.

1:32:12 Emily: Yeah, I'll help. Bardic Inspiration!

1:32:14 Brennan: Obviously there's a tremendous advantage to having tinctures in a dart but also the risk is if you miss, you shatter a tincture against a tree somewhere.

1:32:21 Siobhan: Right.

1:32:21 Murph: Oh, that’s true.

1:32:23 Brennan: So very very useful--

1:32:23 Murph: Maybe we just want two.

1:32:25 Ally: Two, yeah let's do it.

1:32:25 Lou: But we could always use it--

1:32:27 Ally: Honestly we only need one, right?

1:32:28 Zac: 6? Plus Bardic Inspiration.

1:32:29 Emily: Yeah. It's a d8.

1:32:29 Zac: A d8.

1:32:31 Brennan: DC is 15.

1:32:35 Siobhan: Oh, we're about to rest-- Oh, you got it.

1:32:38 Zac: So I got 18.

1:32:41 Brennan: So that first night you're able to make one--

1:32:43 Murph: Okay, let's just do one for now.

1:32:44 Emily: Let's just do one.

1:32:45 Brennan: Cool, so you have one tincture bullet.

1:32:47 Murph: Three doses and one bullet.

1:32:51 Ally: And I'll keep my Greater Restoration, I won't do it. Just in case we don't sleep all the way.

1:32:56 Brennan: So you guys get--

1:32:56 Emily: Are there any rubies around?

1:32:59 Brennan: Not that you can see.

1:32:59 Ally: Hey, do it anyway.

1:33:02 Emily: I'm gonna do it anyways. [laughs]

1:33:05 Siobhan: An earthquake happens, we all die.

1:33:06 Brennan: So, you guys bed down for the night. You guys have bed rolls and stuff but you don't have your Ranger with you, you don't have Tracker to make a Moon Haven, so I'm gonna need a group Survival check to make a shelter.

1:33:19 Lou: Okay, making a shelter.

1:33:21 Fabian: Hey Gorgug, spring break, I believe in you.

1:33:24 Gorgug: Hey, thank you.

1:33:24 Emily: Dirty 20 again.

1:33:25 Zac: I have a dirty 20 as well.

1:33:25 Brennan: Cool.

1:33:28 Emily: I'll also give out some Bardic Inspiration.

1:33:30 Siobhan: Ooh, nat 20.

1:33:30 Ally: What is this?

1:33:31 Brennan: Nat 20?

1:33:31 Emily: Bardic Inspiration for both of you.

1:33:33 Brennan: I really wanted to give you guys some levels of exhaustion and I can't do that. You guys remember a bunch of classes in the earlier part of sophomore year from like the Ranger teacher getting an assembly like, "Now you won't always have a Ranger with you, so it's important to know you gotta get your body warm." You're like, okay.

1:33:52 Kristen: She was so hot. (Emily laughing)

1:33:55 Kristen: I remember everything she said.

1:33:57 Fabian: I don't think I went, I think I skipped it.

1:33:59 Fig: I don't think I went.

1:33:59 Brennan: No levels of exhaustion, however I do need to know how you guys are sleeping.

1:34:05 Fabian: Shifts of three?

1:34:05 Fig: Ok. Shifts of three.

1:34:07 Riz: Yeah.

1:34:08 Fabian: Me and you shouldn't sleep at the same time.

1:34:10 Riz: 'Cause we may, okay.

1:34:10 Fabian: Just 'cause I could probably do the best of holding you down.

1:34:14 Riz: I'll stay up first because maybe I'll record you guys with my necktie while you guys are—

1:34:20 Kristen: What man?

1:34:20 Fig: Okay, creep.

1:34:22 Riz: Not like that.

1:34:23 Kristen: You're gonna stay up and record us while we sleep.

1:34:27 Fig: I'm gonna go on the first shift, just know I fail these a lot.

1:34:32 Fabian: Can I give you a bardic before I go to bed?

1:34:34 Emily: Will that work?

1:34:36 Brennan: Yeah, you can do your bardic.

1:34:37 Emily: Okay, I'll give you Bardic too.

1:34:38 Lou: Oh, look at that, I guess we're exchanging Bardics.

1:34:40 Emily: What's up.

1:34:41 Zac: Then I'll sleep in the first shift.

1:34:44 Lou: Okay good, yeah.

1:34:46 Siobhan: And so you'll stay up?

1:34:47 Fabian: So spring break, I believe in you.

1:34:49 Gorgug: You already gave me one.

1:34:50 Fabian: Hey, spring break, I believe in you.

1:34:52 Riz: I have one, thank you.

1:34:52 Ally: So we’re the three staying up.

1:34:53 Siobhan: Great.

1:34:53 Ally: Okay.

1:34:55 Brennan: So for everyone to get a full eight hours of rest, okay cool. Who are the first four to go to sleep, raise your hand.

1:35:05 Ally: First three.

1:35:05 Brennan: First three to go to sleep. Lou, Zac, Emily raise their hands. Zac puts his down after a second.

1:35:07 Lou: Oh wait, I thought I was going.

1:35:07 Brennan: Okay, you go, one other person.

1:35:11 Ally: You, oh no wait, sorry me. You can record? [to Murph]

1:35:13 Brennan: Okay Kristen, Fabian, and Fig. I'm gonna need all of you guys to leave me a Wisdom saving throw.

1:35:22 Ally: I've written down that I have advantage on that, is that from something before, maybe someone gave me that.

1:35:27 Zac: Did Baby help you or?

1:35:27 Brennan: I don't think you have an ability to give advantage on this.

1:35:31 Lou: I gave you so--

1:35:31 Emily: Yeah, I did and I got all six.

1:35:34 Murph: As they fall asleep I'm gonna do Detect Evil and Good on them.

1:35:39 Emily: I got a 10.

1:35:39 Lou: I also got a 10.

1:35:43 Brennan: You got a 10, you got a 10.

1:35:43 Lou: Fuck me.

1:35:47 Siobhan: I'm gonna give Fig a 16 Divination roll because I'm about to fall asleep.

1:35:53 Emily: And it turns into a 17.

1:35:53 Brennan: 17.

1:35:55 Lou: 10.

1:35:55 Brennan: 10.

1:35:56 Ally: 19.

1:35:56 Brennan: 19, cool.

1:35:58 Emily: Did you add my Bardic?

1:35:58 Lou: I did.

1:35:59 Emily: Okay.

1:36:01 Lou: Hey at least this is just me.

1:36:06 Brennan: Fig, you're sleeping and you're having dreams. You are looking ahead, you're in like hot red cave like dragon's lair or some pit of hell. You hear voices all around you, your voices again.

1:36:41 Voices: Wow, looks like Ayda's not having a very good time. Wonder if your mom would be sad that you didn't scry on her. Probably. Hmm, maybe Gilear's fine back in Arborly. Probably not though.

1:36:57 Fig: Okay and what would you have done differently?

1:37:02 Brennan: A 13 year old Fig Faeth walks out from behind the corner, pink cardigan, a like sunflower-patterned skirt, no horns on her head, just a happy young wood elf walks out and says,

1:37:26 Younger Fig: I wouldn't been in the situation in the first place.

1:37:31 Fig: Yeah you would have, because your forehead’s about to burst.

1:37:35 Younger Fig: [mockingly] Wow, oh my forehead’s about to burst. Listen, maybe you should consider the fact that there are, like, variables and constants. Everyone in your life has bad shit happen to them. What's the thing they all have in common?

1:38:01 Fig: Aguefort Adventuring Academy. (cast laughing)

1:38:09 Brennan: Go ahead and I'm gonna say give me like a Wisdom saving throw.

1:38:21 Emily: Ugh. [snaps] 19!

1:38:23 Brennan: This is bullshit, this is you as little kid. You can feel that there are, you feel the glyph clawing in on your forehead. You can get out of here if you want, you don't have to take this shit.

1:38:41 Fig: The thing is, that I am happier than you are. You may talk like you think you know what's up but you are so much more confused than I am. I am the truthful version of me, you are just honestly a poor idea of someone else.

1:38:58 Brennan: She bursts into flame. Fig, you gain the Cutting Words ability. And your previous class feature [snaps] vanishes. The rocks crumble and you are standing on a blasted plain under a sky of fire. You feel a deeper understanding start to come to you, and you hear a voice you haven't heard in a long time.

1:39:37 Gorthalax: [rougher than usual, almost a whisper] Hey there, kiddo.

1:39:41 Fig: Are you okay?

1:39:43 Gorthalax: I'm far away. My power is being used by other people.

1:39:50 Fig: I know. I'm really sorry I'm the one who did it to you.

1:39:53 Gorthalax: No, no sweetheart you didn't. I love you so much, I'm so proud of you.

1:40:00 Fig: I got the bass that you got me for Christmas.

1:40:02 Gorthalax: It's for your birthday!

1:40:03 Fig: My birthday is on Christmas, remember?

1:40:06 Gorthalax: It's not your birthday or Christmas, it's spring break! (laughing)

1:40:11 Brennan: He says,

1:40:11 Gorthalax: Your birthday so, you opened it, well I guess it's better for that. Don't shatter the ruby that I'm in.

1:40:21 Fig: Why?

1:40:21 Gorthalax: Well 'cause there's a contingency effect in here if you shatter the ruby, someone's got to come into the gem with me and break this curse and then shatter away.

1:40:31 Fig: Okay. I have just the person to help make that happen.

1:40:36 Brennan: You see he says,

1:40:36 Gorthalax: Really, who's the person?

1:40:40 Fig: [awkwardly] Cool, it's someone that I met.

1:40:40 Ally: Cool?

1:40:43 Gorthalax: [chidingly] A cool someone that you met. Hey sweetheart? Say no more. (Ally and Emily laughing)

1:40:53 Brennan: He looks at you and you see he says,

1:41:07 Gorthalax: So much of my feelings of guilt are about how much the course of your life was impacted by just me being your father. Your horns, being a Tiefling."

1:41:27 Fig: Gorthalax, I gotta tell you I'm really starting to dig the horns.

1:41:33 Brennan: He looks at you and says,

1:41:35 Gorthalax: Have you ever questioned where your power really comes from?

1:41:42 Fig: Like you mean Hell?

1:41:42 Gorthalax: Hell.

1:41:45 Fig: And being a devil. Yeah, I mean it's crossed my mind but it's kind of one of those things that I don't want to dig too deeply because--

1:41:53 Brennan: As you say “don't want to dig too deeply” you begin to hear, [whispers] those whispers come back.

1:42:01 Fig: Ughhh. Okay, just tell me where does my power come from?

1:42:14 Brennan: Gorthalax speaks and says,

1:42:17 Gorthalax: Tyranny, domination, conquest, all the virtues of Hell. These don't have to be yours.

1:42:29 Fig: [whispering, relieved] Oh god, thank god.

1:42:29 Brennan: You see he says,

1:42:33 Gorthalax: There is something earlier than this that all the devils of Hell have forgotten. I was a fallen angel. The devils of Hell forgot what started their desire for power. What started their desire for domination.

1:42:59 Brennan: You see that he looks back and says,

1:43:03 Gorthalax: Fig, you don't need my permission to define what Hell means, you're an archdevil. [cheery rock music]

1:43:13 Gorthalax: You get to decide. Emily and Siobhan smile and headbang to the music.

1:43:15 Brennan: And what you see in the distant past at the birth of the Great Wheel is the very first angel that fell from grace as the gods of light cast them down, flew back and went,

1:43:28 Angel: [double middle fingers] Fuck you!

1:43:33 Brennan: He says,

1:43:33 Gorthalax: Being a devil before all this bullshit meant rebellion and it hasn't meant that in a long time and it can still mean that.

1:43:45 Fig: There's a lot of rebellion in this one, so I think I can help redefine that.

1:43:50 Brennan: You see ancient histories that like the current government of archdevils has done its best to erase, which was before even the existence of the Prime Material or at the dawn of the Prime Material. It was perdition, it was angels that wanted to rebel against the light that were cast into fire and then developed evil as like a response to that. And you see that all of this hellish knowledge comes. I think that Fig has never really questioned where her powers come from. Obviously like Kristen uses Wisdom and that's all about a fucked in the head quest for like religious meaning. Adaine like literally gets it from books and you do this deep thing of like innate magic and you realize that like, your power has never come from your bloodline from your dad. That's like a cool part of your history, it's something you can embrace— comes from rebellion. Your power comes from your ability to literally magically flip the cosmos off. (Emily laughing)

1:45:03 Fig: You know, people say rebellion's a phase, but it's a lifestyle for me.

1:45:08 Brennan: You transmogrify your subclass to College of Lore. [various whooshing noises]

1:45:14 Fig: Counter spell, counter spell, counter spell. Ha!!!!

1:45:21 Brennan: As you guys sort of like shift and awaken, cool. We come back to Sylvaire, as we do Kristen, Fig, Fabian you guys wake up. What do you guys do?

1:45:41 Kristen: [sleepy] Okay, tag, you guys are it.

1:45:41 Fabian: Yeah, go to bed.

1:45:44 Adaine: Okay.

1:45:45 Kristen: [to Riz] I’m gonna take a nice video of you.

1:45:46 Fig: Good luck in there, I just had a freaking great time.

1:45:47 Fabian: Really?

1:45:47 Fig: Yeah.

1:45:48 Fabian: Honestly yeah, nothing super bad happened.

1:45:52 Adaine: The tie looks really good over the tie dyed shirt.

1:45:54 Kristen: Thank you so much.

1:45:55 Ally: I'm just wearing Riz's tie over my tie dye shirt. (laughing)

1:46:00 Brennan: Fabian, go ahead give me a Perception check with advantage.

1:46:03 Lou: Oh, okay, that's normal.

1:46:06 Ally: Kristen doesn't look good in the tie.

1:46:09 Lou: Perception?

1:46:09 Brennan: Yeah.

1:46:10 Lou: 15.

1:46:12 Brennan: Cool. As other ones are sort of like bedding out a little bit you can see like, it looks like Boggy the owl has sort of noticed something off in the forest and you see a tricorn pirate hat there.

1:46:44 Lou: How far off is it?

1:46:46 Brennan: It's like literally, like anyone could see, you could like walk 10 feet and pick it up.

1:46:51 Fabian: Adaine, do you see that—

1:46:53 Brennan: Sorry that doesn't, Fabian doesn't say Adaine. That was all a ruse to get you to walk away from everybody. Fabian is fully possessed and walks, begins to walk through the forest.

1:47:09 Zac: Are we asleep?

1:47:09 Siobhan: Are we asleep?

1:47:11 Murph: Who's awake right now?

1:47:12 Brennan: Well everyone's awake 'cause this is happening as the guard is shifting.

1:47:15 Adaine: [to Gorgug] Can you jump him?

1:47:16 Gorgug: Fabian?

1:47:17 Fig: Hey Fabian, what's up? What's going on?

1:47:19 Fabian: There's a hat, there's a hat.

1:47:20 Kristen: Someone just needs to grab him.

1:47:21 Zac: I'm just gonna grab him.

1:47:22 Fabian: Hey, let go.

1:47:22 Ally: I grab too.

1:47:24 Fabian: I wanna get the hat. Hey, I want the hat!

1:47:26 Brennan: Fabian, go ahead and attack Gorgug for me.

1:47:28 Emily: Oh!

1:47:29 Murph: I'm gonna shoot him with the net bullet.

1:47:33 Lou: That's only a 14.

1:47:35 Brennan: I'm gonna need you to take both attacks on him.

1:47:37 Lou: Great, that's a 14. Which dice are rolling the worst? And then that is a 23.

1:47:41 Emily: Cutting Words! Right, can I do that on the attack?

1:47:47 Brennan: On the 23 it would work. Sorry, on the 14 attack.

1:47:51 Zac: My armor class is 14.

1:47:52 Brennan: Yeah, he hits Gorgug on both attacks. But if you do Cutting Words you automatically cancel the first attack.

1:47:56 Emily: Yeah.

1:47:58 Brennan: So you guys that went, the next one's 23, that hits. And I'm gonna need you to load this up.

1:48:03 Lou: How hard?

1:48:03 Brennan: As hard as you can.

1:48:04 Lou: [nervously] Okay.

1:48:04 Zac: Can I go into a rage?

1:48:08 Brennan: On your turn you can.

1:48:11 Lou: Do you want me to use, do you want me to use maneuvers and such?

1:48:13 Brennan: Use maneuvers and such.

1:48:13 Lou: Great.

1:48:15 Siobhan: Wait, he got a 2 on that second roll.

1:48:19 Brennan: Oh! So Fabian attacks twice, nothing happens. Gorgug, go ahead and give me, you can go into a rage now, and give me an opposed Athletics to grapple Fabian.

1:48:27 Fabian: [yelling] I want the hat! I want the hat!

1:48:28 Kristen: Do we have a tranquilizer?

1:48:30 Riz: That’s Jorjudge! That’s Jorjudge!

1:48:31 Gorgug: It's just a hat!

1:48:31 Adaine: It's just a hat man!

1:48:34 Zac: That's a 26.

1:48:35 Brennan: 26, cool, give me an Athletics check opposed.

1:48:37 Lou: Come on man. I don't want to do well but I don't want to look lame that's all. Oh, that's a 17.

1:48:45 Brennan: Cool.

1:48:46 Riz: Gorgug, you kicked his ass. Thank god you’re stronger than him.

1:48:51 Brennan: Spellcasters and other people, what are we doing?

1:48:53 Fabian: [struggling] I want the hat!

1:48:54 Murph: I want to shoot him with the net.

1:48:56 Brennan: Shoot him with the net, I think in the grapple you would hit Gorgug, go for it, roll an attack roll.

1:49:02 Murph: Actually I think creature, oh so I need to hit first, got it.

1:49:06 Zac: Oh, I'm just gonna lay the ax down on top of him.

1:49:10 Siobhan: Lou, what’s your strength?

1:49:10 Ally: Oh!

1:49:10 Lou: My strength is 14.

1:49:13 Brennan: You lay the ax on top of him, Fabian you are restrained under the ax. Fabian yells, painfully.

1:49:20 Murph: Do I get advantage?

1:49:20 Brennan: You do get advantage, yeah.

1:49:24 Murph: Sweet, 22.

1:49:27 Brennan: Definitely hits. Oh you guys see a fucking net explodes out of Riz's gun, wraps around Fabian and entangles him under the ax. You are full done.

1:49:37 Fabian: [sadly] I want the hat.

1:49:38 Riz: No hat, Fabian!

1:49:39 Siobhan: Can I do a Arcana check? Is this a magical effect on Fabian?

1:49:41 Brennan: Yes, it is.

1:49:42 Siobhan: Oh okay, can I cast Dispel Magic on him?

1:49:44 Brennan: Yes, you can but you're gonna have to give me a raw Intelligence check to do so.

1:49:49 Emily: Can, I, Bardic Inspiration?

1:49:49 Zac: I'm raging so much.

1:49:50 Gorgug: Stop it, stop it you dumb asshole!

1:49:51 Fabian: I want the hat!

1:49:54 Gorgug: You're an idiot, there's no hat.

1:49:55 Fabian: [yelling] Let me have it! Let me out!

1:49:56 Riz: You're trying to kill Gorgug for a hat!

1:49:58 Emily: Can I Bardic Inspiration this Intelligence check?

1:50:01 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:50:02 Emily: Bardic inspiration, add a d8.

1:50:03 Siobhan: Great. 18.

1:50:10 Brennan: 18 successfully does it.

1:50:14 Fabian: Ow! What, take this ax off of me.

1:50:19 Adaine: Fabian, why are you looking for a hat in the forest?

1:50:21 Fig: What’s with the hat, stop talking about the hat.

1:50:21 Fabian: What are you talking about?

1:50:23 Riz: You tried to kill Gorgug.

1:50:23 Adaine: For a hat.

1:50:25 Fabian: No I didn't, what, no?

1:50:25 Adaine: You were possessed.

1:50:27 Fabian: What?

1:50:28 Fig: You kept talking about a hat.

1:50:30 Riz: Yeah, it's not even like you saw him as some evil person, it's just you thought you saw a hat and then tried to kill one of our friends.

1:50:34 Brennan: You, Fabian you didn't have any control over your actions. The spell was making you act like you, all of the like find the hats stuff, that was the spell. You don't have an experience of willingly doing any of that.

1:50:49 Siobhan: Can I do an Arcana check to see if this is an effect of the forest or if somebody cast the spell on him?

1:50:55 Brennan: Oh, give me a Arcana check.

1:50:56 Siobhan: Great, can I use Boggy to help?

1:50:57 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:50:57 Siobhan: Thank you. Oh that’s cocked. [rolls] 24.

1:51:08 Brennan: 24. [sighs] The spell was cast on Fabian, it was not an ambient effect of whatever. Look you know what this is, this is what was happening to you guys in Solace. The only reason, the only thing that's changed, you don't think this one is the forest. You think it's stronger in the forest, but this was what made Fig capture that—

1:51:38 Adaine: You have Faerie Fire, right?

1:51:39 Fabian: I do.

1:51:41 Adaine: Can you cast Faerie Fire and see if there's anybody invisible?

1:51:46 Fabian: I mean if you'll untie me from this net and take this big ax off me, yes I will.

1:51:51 Fig: I'll get the ax.

1:51:52 Kristen: I'll get the ax.

1:51:52 Adaine: Okay, I'll get it. Both Fig and Adaine uselessly pull at the ax.

1:51:54 Ally: How strong do you have to be to hold the ax?

1:51:56 Zac: 17. [smiles, a little smugly]

1:51:58 Fabian: Is there a general direction you'd like me to cast it in?

1:52:03 Siobhan: Is there a general direction that I would like him to cast it in?

1:52:08 Lou: 20 foot cube.

1:52:09 Siobhan: Oh, it's only a 20 foot cube. Boy.

1:52:12 Murph: That's not gonna do much.

1:52:13 Zac: The direction the hat was in?

1:52:14 Emily: Yeah.

1:52:14 Lou: Yes, can I use this sheet and cast Faerie Fire in the direction of the hat?

1:52:18 Brennan: You cast a bunch of sparks out from your elven battle sheet and...

1:52:24 Fabian: Well we can't all have a big, ax alright. Some of us have a battle sheet.

1:52:29 Fig: Oh wow, your battle sheet's really heavy.

1:52:30 Fabian: Yes.

1:52:31 Gorgug: I guess I don't understand what a battle sheet is but—

1:52:33 Fabian: Well—

1:52:33 Brennan: A million elves, thousands of miles away are so offended right now.

1:52:40 Adaine: I like the sheet.

1:52:40 Fabian: This is a proud history. (Emily laughing)

1:52:44 Brennan: You cast Faerie Fire, nothing, you don't see any creatures in it.

1:52:50 Siobhan: Worth a try. Lou sighs directly into his microphone.

1:52:53 Brennan: Again with that 24 Arcana check. This is what worked on Fig. And your mind goes back to the fact that Riz on that first night before you guys started being careful, before you started doing Moon Haven stuff, before you started taking care of that kind of thing, Riz didn't get possessed... but Riz also didn't go to sleep that night and instead got attacked by something physical.

1:53:23 Siobhan: Right.

1:53:25 Brennan: You're not sure what that means here, but in any case you guys have used some of your resources. Now obviously a couple of you guys are waiting to take a long rest but the three of you that woke up that used anything like Bardic Inspiration or other stuff, that was used. But your stuff mostly comes back on a short rest, right. So you'll be okay. Cool, next three go to sleep. Give me some Wisdom rolls.

1:53:55 Zac: Do we still have those Bardics?

1:53:57 Lou: You have one.

1:53:58 Emily: I had three left and I'm gonna get a short rest, so I give each of you one.

1:54:03 Lou: Yeah okay, well yours are better than mine.

1:54:04 Brennan: Cool.

1:54:05 Siobhan: Can I just be underneath Gorgug's ax as I sleep, as I trance.

1:54:10 Brennan: That will be very painful and uncomfortable and not allow you to trance.

1:54:11 Siobhan: Okay.

1:54:14 Murph: Alright, Wisdom?

1:54:14 Siobhan: Can Boggy help me?

1:54:17 Brennan: Boggy can help you, yes.

1:54:17 Zac: D8?

1:54:20 Emily: D8, yeah.

1:54:20 Murph: Good lord. Siobhan groans in worry.

1:54:23 Zac: I got—

1:54:23 Emily: Add the Bardic.

1:54:24 Ally: Do you have a d8?

1:54:26 Murph: Yeah, I don't think it's gonna help though.

1:54:27 Zac: I got a 24.

1:54:27 Murph: Good lord.

1:54:31 Siobhan: Well.

1:54:31 Murph: It's a 7.

1:54:34 Siobhan: I got a 15.

1:54:36 Brennan: You got a 15, cool.

1:54:42 Emily: Something tells me there's gonna be a couple more hats.

1:54:45 Siobhan: (laughing) So tempting, they're so cool!

1:54:47 Brennan: You guys wake up. Through the night in the Nightmare Forest nothing happens. As you guys move through and again, I think you guys are taking a lot of care on that, you had a bunch of nat 20s on that thing so you're like heavily disguised, you're like up in the canopy somewhere. You've like made sure because you know this forest is dangerous but I will say, even as bad as it is here you know from what your visions have been that you're still in the entry-level easy mode version of the Nightmare Forest. [sighs] You guys all wake up. You're all fine.

1:55:33 Fig: So you guys slept well? Feels good?

1:55:35 Gorgug: I actually slept pretty well.

1:55:36 Ally: You especially Riz, you slept well?

1:55:38 Riz: I feel like I, everything’s feeling good.

1:55:39 Lou: I walk up and just slap Gorgug really hard.

1:55:42 Fig: Wait, are you possessed again?

1:55:43 Fabian: No, I just wanted to make sure you weren't. You good?

1:55:45 Gorgug: Why did you do that?

1:55:45 Fabian: I don't know, I don't know, I just want to make sure you're okay. You all right?

1:55:50 Adaine: [flatly] Wow Fabian, you're so strong.

1:55:52 Gorgug: We could have had a conversation.

1:55:53 Fabian: Okay, I'm sorry. I woke up underneath an ax in a net.

1:55:59 Siobhan: Wait, are there spells I should stock, oh, god.

1:56:02 Brennan: Cool. Adaine got a full trance in. For everybody else unless you're taking like many multiple hours to sleep in shifts, you're not really getting a full night's sleep. Just give me literally a DC5 Constitution check.

1:56:19 Lou: Me included?

1:56:19 Brennan: Fabian, included, yeah.

1:56:23 Murph: All right, little beans.

1:56:23 Emily: Ooh.

1:56:25 Ally: Ugh.

1:56:25 Emily: I got it.

1:56:27 Murph: Hey, that's a 17.

1:56:27 Emily: I got 18.

1:56:28 Lou: 9.

1:56:29 Brennan: Cool. Great, great, great. So. Yeah. So you guys avoid exhaustion. These rolls will become harder as you don't get full nights of sleep. You guys continue, go ahead and give me Survival check for the next day as you venture deeper.

1:56:57 Lou: How'd the beans do?

1:56:57 Murph: Bad.

1:56:59 Emily: Dirty 20 again. Now wait, I can't reroll your thing.

1:57:05 Zac: I got a nat 1.

1:57:05 Emily: Is it too late to give them Bardic Inspiration after they roll?

1:57:07 Murph: We did a bad job over here too.

1:57:10 Siobhan: Yeah, I got a 9. Ally nods, with a nervous look on their face.

1:57:10 Brennan: I would allow you to give--

1:57:12 Emily: Okay.

1:57:12 Zac: Well it's a nat 1, I don't know if that matters.

1:57:14 Murph: I got a 5.

1:57:16 Brennan: You got a nat one as well?

1:57:18 Ally: No, I have a 7.

1:57:19 Brennan: 7.

1:57:20 Emily: Bardic could save you.

1:57:20 Ally: Yep.

1:57:21 Emily: Take a Bardic.

1:57:21 Lou: I got an 11.

1:57:24 Ally: D8.

1:57:24 Siobhan: I got a 9.

1:57:26 Lou: Geeze Louise. Wink, wink.

1:57:27 Ally: Aye, there we go. Oh no, that's not.

1:57:32 Siobhan: 14.

1:57:32 Ally: It's a 13.

1:57:34 Brennan: 14, 13.

1:57:35 Lou: 18. Excuse me 19.

1:57:35 Brennan: 19, what did Riz get?

1:57:38 Murph: 5.

1:57:40 Siobhan: Oof.

1:57:41 Ally: 13.

1:57:43 Lou: 19.

1:57:43 Brennan: What did Adaine get?

1:57:45 Brennan: 14.

1:57:46 Zac: 1.

1:57:46 Emily: Dirty 20.

1:57:46 Brennan: Okay.

1:57:49 Zac: I have plus 5 but it's no.

1:57:52 Brennan: Did you roll that with advantage?

1:57:54 Emily: I did yeah because of--

1:57:54 Brennan: Because of Baby, gotcha. You guys are not going the wrong way but you don't make the smartest decisions about how to get through the forest. It really slows you down, like the sun rises and falls. If you want you can either allow more time to get away from you and just make shelter and try again the next day or you can push through the night.

1:58:21 Murph: I think let's press on.

1:58:21 Gorgug: Let's just keep going.

1:58:23 Lou: Agreed.

1:58:23 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:58:24 Brennan: Okay.

1:58:25 Kristen: Hey Riz, do you think that maybe I could carry the gun with the antidote in it? Just I'm really looking for Tracker as we walk around like maybe she'll run past us at some point and I can try to nail her.

1:58:38 Riz: Sure, do you think you would be able to hit her?

1:58:41 Fig: Riz might be better to aim guns.

1:58:42 Kristen: Or maybe we can just make a code and I'll say like the code word.

1:58:43 Riz: Yeah.

1:58:45 Kristen: How about the code word is Tracker. (cast laughing)

1:58:48 Riz: Okay. Tracker, shoot her!

1:58:49 Gorgug: Can't you just use your spell?

1:58:51 Kristen: Huh?

1:58:52 Gorgug: Can't you just use your spell?

1:58:53 Kristen: No, I mean she might be like running full werewolf speed so like a dart gun would definitely hit before--

1:58:59 Brennan: Cool, you guys press through the night. Give me another group Survival check.

1:59:08 Emily: [impressed] Ooh.

1:59:10 Murph: 13.

1:59:10 Emily: 22.

1:59:11 Siobhan: 16.

1:59:11 Zac: 16 as well.

1:59:14 Siobhan: 16. Lou holds up a single finger.

1:59:14 Brennan: Nat 1, 16, okay, group check makes it. Now the last thing I'm going to need from you guys as you push through the night is another Constitution check. This time it's a DC10.

1:59:26 Emily: Is this something I can use Baby for?

1:59:28 Zac: Is it a saving throw or just a check?

1:59:30 Brennan: This is a saving, a Constitution saving throw.

1:59:32 Lou: 12.

1:59:32 Murph: 17.

1:59:34 Zac: 18.

1:59:35 Siobhan: Yeah, I can use Boggy or?

1:59:36 Brennan: You can use Boggy for this, yeah.

1:59:38 Emily: Oh yeah.

1:59:38 Lou: Oh yeah.

1:59:40 Ally: 21.

1:59:40 Emily: 18.

1:59:42 Siobhan: 16.

1:59:42 Brennan: Everyone beats 10?

1:59:42 Zac: Yes. [spooky piano music]

1:59:43 Brennan: Cool, great. You guys push through. You're pushing yourselves, it's good. You didn't get a lot of sleep last night. This forest is really hard. You've been like marching through the woods all day. You push through the vines and see a large temple in front of you. It is made of not hewn stone, it's not mortared together. It is literally domes of like boulders and smooth flat rocks bound by roots and trees. This was shaped by druids. It is a sprawling hive of rocks and natural wood. You see the large rooted archway and you see that over the archway is a shattered plinth as though something that stood above the doorway here was taken down long ago. You see bones litter the forest floor around here and as you look at them you see they are centuries old. The earth having mostly swallowed them up, just hints of white coming up from the earth. As you walk you see that all of the bones are arranged ceremonially. If you had to guess whether these bodies were brought here or whether these people simply laid down here and died you would guess the latter.

2:01:38 Emily: Can I do some sort of check to see if, once we get closer if they're gonna come to life?

2:01:45 Brennan: Go ahead and make a, you can make an Arcana or a Religion check. Emily widens her eyes in a dubious expression.

2:01:51 Ally: Can I also make a Religion check to see if the thing that was broken down from the archway, if it was the moon goddess’s sister that's like unnamed.

2:01:59 Brennan: Give me an Religion check, yeah.

2:02:01 Emily: I did get a nat 1.

2:02:05 Brennan: These things are not going to pop up. They already popped up. They're in hiding right now. (Emily laughing)

2:02:12 Fig: Everyone, shh, be quiet but there are skeletons everywhere.

2:02:17 Fabian: What?

2:02:18 Murph: Can I do an Investigate check to try to see if there's any signs of Tracker around, like any signs of werewolf.

2:02:24 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Investigation check.

2:02:26 Zac: Can I look at where the plinth, the plinth is not the statue itself that was broken off?

2:02:29 Brennan: You don't even see a statue. The plinth is just the base of it.

2:02:32 Zac: Gotcha.

2:02:33 Ally: 12.

2:02:34 Brennan: 12, because you just said it to me, yes. The church of Helio is all about taking down false idols, but you think this one was taken down by its own followers in whatever cataclysm happened during... after they destroyed their goddess and during the aftermath of the last Sylvan war  and then the rise of the Nightmare King.

2:03:00 Siobhan: Are these, can I tell from the skeletons if these are high elf or wood elf?

2:03:08 Brennan: You'd have to start excavating some of them.

2:03:10 Siobhan: Oh, they're like in, here like underground? I can’t just like—

2:03:12 Brennan: They're centuries old so the ground like just like foliage has created soil around them.

2:03:17 Siobhan: Okay, great.

2:03:18 Brennan: But you can look more. Actually any—

2:03:25 Siobhan: Oh, can I cast the Identify spell on one of these skeletons is that, it's an object.

2:03:28 Brennan: It is an object, yeah. But identify will only work if it's a magical object so if it's just normal remains, it won't work.

2:03:35 Emily: That'll tell us if it's a skeleton maybe.

2:03:37 Murph: I got 19 on Investigate.

2:03:39 Brennan: You see from the exact direction you guys just walked in, three sets of footprints walking in here. A couple days old.

2:03:49 Emily: Oh.

2:03:49 Siobhan: Oh. Okay.

2:03:51 Brennan: You see they are halfway to the door, are joined by a fourth set of footprints.

2:04:02 Siobhan: Are they cat prints?

2:04:05 Murph: Or are they your dad?

2:04:07 Siobhan: They could be my dad, they could be the Nightmare King.

2:04:09 Ally: But we lost three friends, right?

2:04:12 Lou: True.

2:04:12 Murph: That is true too.

2:04:13 Siobhan: That is also true.

2:04:18 Ally: Three friends who would maybe be walking.

2:04:20 Siobhan: Are they bird prints, what?

2:04:23 Brennan: They are boot prints. They are not paws or talons or anything.

2:04:27 Emily: But we don't see footprints coming out?

2:04:30 Brennan: On a 19 Investigation you do not.

2:04:35 Zac: Did that fourth set of prints come from the circle of skeletons?

2:04:39 Brennan: The fourth set of prints simply appears, which is a clue in it of itself.

2:04:44 Murph: Okay, that would be a wizard or--

2:04:46 Emily: Teleportation, flying.

2:04:47 Siobhan: Well, but you can't teleport in unless you have the permission of a devil.

2:04:53 Emily: But they have Gorthalax in a gem.

2:04:55 Ally: And they have the gem in that person’s—

2:04:56 Siobhan: But don't you need to use the gem to get through the wall so I don't think that they would be able to get somebody in using the gem.

2:05:03 Emily: I think they're controlling a devil's will.

2:05:06 Ally: Yeah because you're, we don't know but.

2:05:09 Brennan: I mean you guys can make an Arcana check about it if you'd like to.

2:05:11 Siobhan: Yeah.

2:05:13 Brennan: Yeah.

2:05:14 Emily: I’ll do one, in case I crit. [rolls] I don’t.

2:05:16 Siobhan: There's a 24 again.

2:05:21 Brennan: Teleportation doesn't work like direct travel. It interacts with dimensions in an interesting way. So you think that because a Teleport doesn't move from one space to another in a line that in other words, opening a barrier would, if Killian was able to open the briar wall he would have been able to open an allowance for a teleportation, a Dimension Door, a Plane Shift, something like that.

2:05:52 Riz: Didn't your mom saying that letter like--

2:05:54 Adaine: Yeah, come and join me. Yeah.

2:05:58 Kristen: Okay.

2:05:59 Adaine: Yeah, which I'm assuming is my dad but there was no clear—

2:06:01 Riz: That's true, that's true.

2:06:04 Adaine: I mean I don't know if my dad is dead. Or it’s just another random person.

2:06:11 Ally: Can I howl just as loud as I can?

2:06:15 Siobhan: No.

2:06:15 Group: No.

2:06:16 Siobhan: Absolutely not.

2:06:16 Emily: I give Kristen a help action to howl less loud.

2:06:20 Brennan: You can howl if you'd like. You guys see the tracks going into the temple.

2:06:23 Riz: Let's just go into the temple.

2:06:24 Adaine: Let's follow the prints.

2:06:25 Kristen: You don't want me to howl really loud, because what if Tracker hears me?

2:06:27 Emily: I will give you a help action.

2:06:28 Zac: Then the werewolf will come.

2:06:29 Murph: Please don't.

2:06:29 Siobhan: I could cast Locate Creature on Tracker to see if Tracker isn't within a thousand feet of here.

2:06:35 Ally: Yeah, please.

2:06:36 Murph: And then we can walk into the temple.

2:06:37 Ally: Okay, yeah, yeah.

2:06:38 Murph: Cause it’ll last for a while.

2:06:39 Emily: Yeah, because if we rendezvous Tracker and heal her—

2:06:41 Siobhan: Yeah, it's concentration but it lasts for up to one hour.

2:06:42 Murph: Let's do it.

2:06:43 Zac: You can do it on your family too.

2:06:45 Siobhan: Yes, but it's only one person.

2:06:47 Ally: You could do it on your fam, that makes more sense.

2:06:49 Murph: Do it on your mom?

2:06:51 Brennan: Who are you casting it on?

2:06:53 Ally: Your mom.

2:06:56 Siobhan: Yeah, I'll do it on my mom.

2:06:58 Brennan: Cool, you cast locate creature for your mom. Wherever she is she's beyond a thousand feet. These tracks are a couple days old.

2:07:05 Riz: Okay shall we head in?

2:07:05 Fabian: Are we stealthing in? Or are we just walking in?

2:07:07 Ally: Yeah, let's stealth in a little.

2:07:09 Riz: Do you guys want me go ahead and then I can give you guys a signal?

2:07:14 Ally: Yes. I have disadvantage.

2:07:14 Murph: Okay.

2:07:17 Zac: I have advantage on Dex saves just in case that matters.

2:07:19 Murph: Cool.

2:07:20 Zac: But I only have plus 1.

2:07:20 Murph: I mean I have really good stealth.

2:07:22 Zac: Yeah, yeah.

2:07:22 Emily: I don't have good stealth.

2:07:24 Murph: Cool.

2:07:24 Lou: We'll be right behind you.

2:07:25 Kristen: Can you hand me the antidote darts?

2:07:28 Riz: Just a potion?

2:07:28 Kristen: Just one potion.

2:07:31 Gorgug: I think you should just let him keep it.

2:07:32 Adaine: You have Greater Restoration.

2:07:33 Gorgug: He's gonna be a way better shot.

2:07:35 Kristen: I'm just thinking what if he disappears and then I see Tracker.

2:07:37 Emily: How about we—

2:07:39 Gorgug: Who has them, who has them?

2:07:41 Murph: I give out the potions. All I have is the one dart.

2:07:43 Riz: If I see Tracker, I will shoot her. I promise.

2:07:46 Kristen: And I'm not gonna howl.

2:07:47 Riz: Okay.

2:07:47 Fabian: Don't howl.

2:07:47 Siobhan: And Boggy can help you with a stealth check.

2:07:51 Brennan: Riz is gonna stealth in?

2:07:51 Murph: Yeah.

2:07:53 Brennan: Go ahead and give me Stealth, my dude.

2:07:56 Murph: Should be good at stealth.

2:07:58 Ally: With the beans?

2:07:59 Zac: I can't believe you.

2:08:01 Brennan: Give me the beans! Give me the beans boys.

2:08:03 Ally: You're a mad man.

2:08:03 Lou: Yeah!

2:08:05 Murph: That is a 28.

2:08:05 Emily: Ooh yeah.

2:08:08 Brennan: Riz is a shadow. Go ahead and give me an investigation check.

2:08:15 Ally: Ooh.

2:08:16 Murph: Okay, not gonna push my luck with the beans on this one. That's a nat 20! (cheering)

2:08:26 Brennan: You guys are, on a nat 20 Investigation you case this place in like well I don't know, like eight minutes. You guys are outside for about eight minutes, just like tense looking around. Riz on a 28 stealth and a nat 20, which how high is nat 20 Investigation for you?

2:08:47 Murph: That is a 30.

2:08:49 Brennan: Which is the DC for what they say are nearly impossible tasks, so you go in, this temple is completely ruined, like the book you found in the Compass Points Library indicated this place used to be a temple of all the tribes of Sylvaire could come to, centaurs, treant, sprite, and wood elf. Outside you guys now see that the bones, some of them are tiny, like birdlike. These are the bones of fairies. Others are large and worn, these centaur skeletons. And you look around you see by the way none of the trees around here have leaves on them. They're all just like, empty and then realize these are not trees, these are the dead bodies of treants. These are living trees that came here and died. You find a room in the center that has a burnt brick of ash that you recognize as dusk moss. A ritual took place here. On a nat 20 investigation you know that dusk moss has hallucinogenic properties, dreams and illusions are partially real here. There's a bunch of arcane writings here that you can't read, there's other like spell shit that happened here but you know a ritual happened here and the tracks lead through the maze of this temple towards what was a direction that was almost impossible for you guys to go in. You think that there's like another level of defense into the forest moving past here that this ritual kind of like allowed them to unlock. On an nat 20 investigation as well, you see that there is a chamber off to the side of this place that has a, what at first looks like a skeletal horse but an extremely graceful sort of like slender horse and then you see that there is a horn coming out of the front of its head. The skeleton of this unicorn is filled with webs and you see egg sacs of spiders all throughout its body. This creature died looking at a portrait of a woman in a black gown with flowing black hair. You look up and see that a blast of magic struck the stone where the face was and there is just a white chalky crater where the face of this being should be.

2:11:57 Murph: I guess I will—

2:11:57 Brennan: Oh sorry, last thing. Stacks of tomes and books have been left in that chamber where the ritual was performed.

2:12:09 Ally: Oh.

2:12:09 Murph: Cool. I'm definitely gonna use the necktie. I get 20 minutes of audio and video, I definitely want to get the picture and I guess I want to get the runes of the magic spell or whatever was done.

2:12:24 Brennan: Cool.

2:12:26 Murph: And then I want to come back with a bunch of books. (laughing)

2:12:27 Kristen: Huh.

2:12:29 Fig: Wow. Go shopping?

2:12:32 Kristen: Did you go shopping?

2:12:33 Riz: There was a dead unicorn with spiders in it pointing at a faceless woman.

2:12:39 Adaine: Were you okay?

2:12:39 Riz: And people were doing drugs in there. Yeah, I'm fine.

2:12:43 Adaine: Okay.

2:12:43 Riz: It was weird.

2:12:44 Adaine: What are these books?

2:12:44 Riz: I don't know.

2:12:47 Adaine: Can I look at the books?

2:12:48 Kristen: Yeah, can I look at the books too?

2:12:50 Siobhan: Before we open them let's do an Arcana check on the books.

2:12:53 Emily: Oh yeah, let's do like an Insight to see if they're bad.

2:12:57 Brennan: Give me yeah, give me what's the Insight?

2:12:59 Emily: 10.

2:13:01 Brennan: They are bad in that they are dusty old nasty books of what looks like kind of evil magic.

2:13:08 Fig: If anyone has asthma.

2:13:08 Siobhan: 19 Arcana check.

2:13:11 Brennan: 19 Arcana check. On a 19 you're gonna need like more time to look at these and really unpack them.

2:13:17 Ally: Can I do a Religion?

2:13:17 Brennan: You would need to, a lot of this shit is research that was missing from your mom's research you got back from Calethriel tower. You would need to go to the chamber to see which of these runes they actually used otherwise these books are just so dense for you to look through.

2:13:34 Fig: This is a strange question.

2:13:34 Riz: I didn't see anyone alive in there.

2:13:35 Fig: You said that there was like a face that was destroyed?

2:13:39 Riz: Yeah.

2:13:39 Fig: Were there pieces of it on the ground, could we mend it and put the face back together to see what looked like?

2:13:44 Kristen: Should we go in there?

2:13:47 Riz: I didn't see anyone but I was pretty sneaky. Nobody would have seen me but we could try, I didn't see anybody in there.

2:13:54 Adaine: I mean my mom isn't within a thousand feet of here so I don't think that they're still here.

2:13:58 Fig: How would they have gotten out though? Is there a back door or something? Let's look for footprints leading in a different direction.

2:14:02 Riz: It looks like they hallucinated and because dreams are real here they would able to go somewhere else so I think—

2:14:07 Adaine: But we have the moss, right?

2:14:09 Riz: Yeah, we can do the same thing.

2:14:10 Fig: They lucid dreamed themselves somewhere else?

2:14:11 Kristen: If we look through all these books and see if maybe they tell us exactly what to do.

2:14:15 Riz: Yeah.

2:14:15 Gorgug: Okay.

2:14:16 Fabian: We're gonna do drugs?

2:14:18 Fig: Doing drugs in a forest where dreams are real sounds really— [whistles]

2:14:20 Adaine: I think that only I should look at the books because if the books are dangerous I'm the best at reading magical books then it's just me who's done it. If I get messed up by them then you can help me, if more than one person looks at them then I just want to keep us safe.

2:14:47 Riz: Cool.

2:14:47 Fig: That's cool.

2:14:49 Brennan: So you guys go towards the chamber where the ritual took place. Off of this is the chapel, is the place that had the image of the goddess. Adaine, go ahead and give me another Arcana check if you'd be so kind.

2:15:08 Emily: When Adaine is going through the books, can I Countercharm just, she can't get charmed or anything like that.

2:15:17 Siobhan: I have advantage on charm but I, fear is bad for me.

2:15:20 Emily: I'll play it just make you feel bold. It’s your favorite song. (cast laughing)

2:15:29 Brennan: You see your friend Adaine there reading these books very selflessly being like, I want to do this scary thing alone so that none of you get hurt and you look up and see your friend Fig who has got your back as always and is playing her bass. Siobhan mimes a tear in the corner of her eye.

2:15:46 Murph: And I have my net gun pointed at you. (cast laughing)

2:15:48 Brennan: Riz displaying friendship in Riz's own way.

2:15:52 Adaine: I see you and I appreciate you.

2:15:54 Brennan: As they're doing that in the chamber, Kristen, go ahead and give me a Religion check.

2:16:00 Ally: Cool. [rolls, looks up and smiles at Brennan] Guess what?

2:16:02 Brennan: What's that?

2:16:04 Ally: [grinning smugly] What do you think?

2:16:04 Murph: [finger guns at Brennan] What do you think, dude?

2:16:05 Zac: Just guess. Ally stands up and points at their die in its box.

2:16:06 Ally: What do you fucking think!

2:16:06 Murph: [yelling] Guess, dude!

2:16:08 Brennan: [shouting] On international DMs day! On international DMs day!

2:16:11 Siobhan: [pointing imperiously] Crunch it up. Crunch it up, bro, crunch it up.

2:16:12 Ally: Yeah, I'm letting you tell your story.

2:16:14 Lou: Honestly you still got that d12. Why don't you suck on it a little bit longer.

2:16:17 Siobhan: Suck on it a little!

2:16:17 Murph: International DM day? [laughing and cheering, a lot of loud crosstalk]

2:16:19 Murph: Read out whatever you prepared dude 'cause we figured it out! Brennan puts his earlier discarded edible d12 back in his mouth and does, indeed, suck on it a little.

2:16:24 Siobhan: I hope it's got dust all over it.

2:16:27 Lou: Yeah.

2:16:27 Brennan: [primly, to the camera] I put it on a piece of paper and there's a little bit of paper on it. (cast laughing)

2:16:30 Ally: Aw, I'm sorry.

2:16:36 Brennan: So you get a nat 20 Religion check. You're in the chapel, you guys are in the, so one, two, three are in the chamber. Fabian and Gorgug, there's a lot of other places in this complex, there's like hallway, there's a place at the back of this chamber, where are you guys positioned at?

2:16:53 Lou: I think I keep looking at Gorgug in all of this and I'm just like,

2:16:56 Fabian: What should we do? I just think there's nothing to hit.

2:17:01 Gorgug: I can lock down this hallway a little bit.

2:17:03 Fabian: I mean I can lock down that other hallway. I can make sure nobody comes through.

2:17:04 Adaine: You two are both so unwise.

2:17:08 Brennan: Cool, so one of one of you pick which of you is posting up at the hallway leading out of the chamber and which would use posting up in the hallway kind of like in between the chapel and the other one.

2:17:18 Zac: I'll do leading out.

2:17:21 Lou: Okay. I honestly wanted to go catch a peek at that weird unicorn thing so I'll go back to the chapel.

2:17:25 Zac: That thing creeped me out.

2:17:26 Lou: It is so scary.

2:17:27 Brennan: What was that Arcana check, one more time?

2:17:28 Siobhan: 21.

2:17:28 Brennan: 21. You look through here, you discern the ritual and in so doing crack the secret of the four curses, the four transubstantiations. You know what they all are, you know. This ritual allows you to back engineer what every single one of them is. Siobhan gasps, sits there wide-eyed for a moment, and slightly shakes her head in shock.

2:17:48 Lou: [impressed] Damn.

2:17:50 Brennan: As you are sitting there studying.

2:17:51 Kristen: You should read more.

2:17:53 Adaine: [manically] Books are cool.

2:17:53 Riz: Yeah.

2:17:57 Brennan: What your mother was able to do here, what you realize is for any of you guys, Illusion magic past this point, the two days of traveling have been at the border of the Nightmare King's Forest. As it goes in the thing making it stronger is the tree. The broomstick, it is at the center of the forest and it creates these concentric circles where the curses overlap and make each other stronger. The two days of traveling through here have been a place where illusions become partially real, past here they become like even realer. That's also true for you guys, like in the way that made Kalina almost kill Kristen. If you were to cast Disguise Self here it would actually be the effect of an Alter Self spell. It would be a full transmutation.

2:18:42 Emily: So I'd be more powerful?

2:18:43 Siobhan: Amazing. What Illusion magic do I have? [flips through her spells]

2:18:44 Brennan: In other words if you transformed into a thing, if you use illusion to become something that had like wings, like an aarakocra, you'd be able to actually fly, right? So Illusion has some ability to actually make itself real here but that makes the place extremely dangerous. That curse—

2:19:01 Siobhan: Does that mean if I cast Greater Invisibility I just don't exist anymore?

2:19:07 Brennan: No, because the purpose of invisibility is to literally not be seen.

2:19:08 Siobhan: Okay.

2:19:11 Brennan: So you wouldn't be like--

2:19:12 Siobhan: So nobody but it would maybe mean that people who can see invisibility, wouldn’t be able to see through it.

2:19:16 Brennan: Yes exactly, right.

2:19:16 Siobhan: Okay, great.

2:19:18 Brennan: Illusions are just vastly more powerful here. The ritual that was done here with the dusk moss was to put your parents and stuff into a state of lucid dreaming. You don't think it was some kind of way for them to like, gain mastery over the dream realm or whatever. You think it was an Abjuration. You see your sister's magic helping here. It's literally like we're gonna lucid dream so that if something that lives organically in this forest tries to rip our mind apart, we will be able to just say this is not happening and control the lucidity of our experience in the forest. It's literally a survival, it's like I need to be able to partially control the unreal things that are going to be happening as we go deeper into the forest.

2:20:03 Siobhan: Is this something that I can do or is this just an Aelwyn thing? Like is this if I—

2:20:08 Zac: We have the stuff. (Siobhan sighs)

2:20:11 Lou: We have the drugs.

2:20:11 Siobhan: We have the drugs.

2:20:15 Brennan: You could it potentially do it, you would have to research and have the time to do it.

2:20:20 Siobhan: Here is some fuckery. [laughs]

2:20:20 Brennan: Give me the fuckery.

2:20:26 Siobhan: Illusions here are real.

2:20:26 Brennan: Yes.

2:20:28 Siobhan: I have Illusory Script. If I were to write a spell using Illusory Script in this forest, would that make the spell real? Brennan takes a deep, disappointed looking breath, then puts his hands together as if in prayer.

2:20:47 Brennan: What I need from you (players laughing) is a DC, I'm gonna say this is an incredible piece of fuckery. I'm going to need a DC30 Arcana check.

2:20:56 Siobhan: Great. I literally can't get that so I would have to—

2:21:02 Emily: Bardic.

2:21:05 Siobhan: Thank you.

2:21:06 Siobhan: And can I, can I have Boggy help me?

2:21:09 Brennan: Boggy can help you.

2:21:10 Ally: Can you have two Bardics?

2:21:10 Lou: Yeah.

2:21:10 Siobhan: No, no.

2:21:10 Ally: Can you stack Bardics?

2:21:13 Siobhan: I don't think you can.

2:21:13 Brennan: You can't stack Bardic, yeah.

2:21:15 Zac: That would be broken. (laughing)

2:21:18 Brennan: A party of bards would be virtually unstoppable.

2:21:20 Lou: Bang, bang!

2:21:20 Zac: Everyone at 80.

2:21:22 Brennan: Yeah. (Siobhan laughing)

2:21:24 Murph: [pointing at her die] Guaranteed nat 20. You got it.

2:21:26 Siobhan: What?

2:21:26 Murph: It's nat 20, you got it.

2:21:26 All: [overlapping] Guaranteed nat 20. Zac, Murph, and Lou put their arms out to give Siobhan good roll energy.

2:21:28 Siobhan: What? A guaranteed nat 20. You’re saying that I'm guaranteed nat 20?

2:21:32 Murph: We're guaranteeing it. Siobhan rolls her die and shakes her head, sucking in a breath.

2:21:38 Ally: Not too bad.

2:21:38 Emily: Bardic, add that d8.

2:21:40 Lou: What is it at?

2:21:40 Siobhan: I can't get it. No, I can't get it.

2:21:44 Zac: Don't sue us.

2:21:47 Brennan: You see it is a, you think this is a trick you can try again, not for this spell.

2:21:52 Siobhan: Okay.

2:21:54 Brennan: Effectively what's going on here is it is not, like the premise of the idea is absolutely accurate. It literally comes down to like Illusory Script still requires you to write something down. So if you were to like, “write down the ritual for the spell I would need”, a scroll would appear saying the ritual for the spell I need like you still would need to know what to put on it in order for it to exist.

2:22:19 Emily: Can I see that Adaine tried this and it feels like she failed and maybe is feeling sad and then cast Phantasmal Force. “You craft an illusion that takes root in the mind of you see within range,” and I want to, I mean I don't really have.

2:22:35 Zac: Make her think she did it. (cast laughing)

2:22:37 Emily: I guess I just want to make her think she did it.

2:22:41 Brennan: A momentary burst of triumph comes over you.

2:22:45 Adaine: I did it!

2:22:46 Brennan: And then immediately.

2:22:47 Adaine: Oh.

2:22:47 Murph: Aw.

2:22:47 Emily: Can I try it again and then just make a unicorn she can have?

2:22:52 Siobhan: What!

2:22:52 Brennan: Moving on. (cast laughing) A tiny unicorn prances around. Is very real. But what I'm gonna do now is tell you the rest of these curses real quick, which are the familiar that was turned into plague, you know, that Kalina.

2:23:09 Siobhan: Yes, Kalina.

2:23:11 Brennan: There are four schools of magic associated with them. Kalina's is Illusion. We know that. Powerful Illusion. She seems to be the thing controlling the Illusions that live within the forest. Right?

2:23:22 Siobhan: Okay.

2:23:26 Brennan: The next one is the spell book that was turned into a coin, that is Enchantment. You connect the Enchantment school with the possessions you've been seeing. The coin went to the hoard and the hoard has something to do with the ability for people to receive, to be possessed, to be dominated. So all that Enchantment stuff has to do with the coin. The coin is the thing that produces that Enchantment effect. That appears to happen when you go to sleep. You also think that it only works while you're asleep, which is why when Riz didn't go to sleep he didn't get potentially possessed and also that if you guys had to with no Moon Haven and no Hallow spell, you could potentially just never sleep while you're in here and it wouldn't be an issue. You're risking levels of exhaustion but what you're not risking is getting possessed.

2:24:23 Siobhan: Yeah.

2:24:25 Brennan: There is the cottage, the sanctum that was turned to the cottage. That has to do with Abjuration magic, right? By the way, all these are associated with the gifts that one of the tribes got from them, so like the cat was a hero, like the wood elves who are all about the dexterity, agility of combat and war. The sprites were all like dream magic and stuff like that. The cottage was something that was a holy place to like the centaurs who lived here, that's Abjuration magic and what you see is as you go deeper into the forest there is more control. You realize that the cottage appeared to the celestials you brought with you. It's like a giant magic circle. It's the thing that is Abjuration magic protection against other forces trying to come into the forest. It's divine magic. So there are, like, things that are gonna prevent certain levels of spellcasting as you go deeper and deeper. Then there is, the last one is the tree, which the broomstick of the tree that was revered by the treants, that has to do with the scariest curse you learned about thus far and it's the one you haven't encountered yet. The forest beyond this point is alive and it will change the paths of itself to lead you away from the center based on the degree to which you feel or don't feel fear. Meaning the more confident you are that you are going in the right direction and that you are safe in doing so, the more it will turn you around back the way you came.

2:26:08 Emily: So we have to be afraid as we go in? We have to follow our fear.

2:26:13 Brennan: You have to be more and more afraid. You have to literally follow your fear. Kristen, you get a nat 20 Religion check. What are you thinking as you look at the goddess?

2:26:27 Ally: I want to know who she is. Like I want to know what the school of thought was, why she wants to be hidden. Or I guess yeah like who's hiding, I know who's hiding her but.

2:26:50 Brennan: What you see as you move towards the goddess, destroyed face, you move closer. You hear a voice in your head,

2:27:11 Voice: [whispered] Why do you search for me?

2:27:18 Ally: [very quietly] Jesus. [Lou and Emily laugh]

2:27:21 Kristen: I heard that you're the god of praise through doubt and that really resonates with me with where I'm at right now. I have a lot of praise for you. [spooky hissing]

2:27:40 Brennan: Fabian, near the doorway.

2:27:42 Lou: Is Kristen in the room?

2:27:42 Brennan: Kristen's in the room. I need you to make a Constitution saving throw with disadvantage.

2:27:52 Ally: Interesting.

2:27:52 Fabian: Pretty creepy, huh Kristen? It's very weird.

2:27:57 Murph: With his eyes rolling back. (laughing)

2:28:00 Emily: Pretty creepy, huh Kristen?

2:28:04 Ally: Oh disadvantage. 13?

2:28:06 Lou: One roll to a nat 20. That's pretty crazy.

2:28:10 Brennan: Kristen you're looking up. I'm gonna describe what Kristen sees and I'm gonna describe what Fabian saw.

2:28:19 Lou: Okay. Saw?

2:28:19 Brennan: Saw. You say “I have a lot of praise for you,” you feel a hiss like air escaping from ancient tombs. Bitterness, spite, betrayal, rage. You feel lancing pain. There's something below you, there's something like look down and as you turn to look down a blood-covered horn is emerging from your chest. You sway on your feet and collapse because what Fabian saw was that skeleton in the room stand up, leap forward, and gore Kristen through the heart.

2:29:14 Lou: The unicorn?

2:29:14 Brennan: The unicorn.

2:29:17 Fabian: [screaming] Every-- Ah!

2:29:19 Lou: I run at it, I run, I scream and run.

2:29:22 Brennan: Kristen, you feel the life completely drained from your body.

2:29:32 Voice: What praise will you have in death?

2:29:37 Brennan: The light leaves your eyes and you see Kristen collapse to the ground dead, as the skeleton of this unicorn turns to face you, it looks into your eye and only because Fabian is immune to fear does he keep his mind as the skeleton utters,

2:29:56 Skeleton: You should not have come here.

2:29:59 Brennan: And that's all for this week.

2:29:59 Ally: Okay!

2:30:01 Brennan: On Fantasy High.

2:30:01 Ally: Okay! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 18: Fearful Symmetry]

2:30:01 Edited by: gluegunshots, tevildo, rowan solsys