Spring Break! I Believe In You! (Part 1)

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 19: Spring Break! I Believe In You! (Part 1) < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] > [Significant Figures Fan Album plays] Burn Towns Get Money (upbeat rock music) I just wanna be rich and get money and burn this town to the ground So listen up cuz I’m gonna start a riot and I Don’t care if you see my underwear Font kick to the face Not a lady no grace and I I like to think that I am the fucking best So let’s go and make a mess Tear it up, tear it down Cause I wanna see fire rise to the sky so pour the gasoline out I wanna swim in gold and rival the stars so get a match and throw it out Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money You don’t have to be rich to wreck shop Just get a couple of friends Who’ll stay with you ‘til the end and head out to the Wide world just your squad and your bass Carve it onto its face That the Cig Figs were here You know you best and you’re better than the rest Guck what other people say Tear it up tear it down Cause I wanna see fire rise to the sky So pour the gasoline out I wanna swim in gold and rival the stars So get a match and throw it out Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money Sometimes I miss the safety that towns bring But then I remember I’m fucking rich, and I don’t need to live in a town 3, 4! Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money Stand by me Paint the town with me Repeat after me Burn towns (burn towns) Burn towns get money My Boat Is A Van (light guitar music) I'm feeling really bad and my van is a boat I'm feeling really sad and my boat is a van These feelings that I have like a frog in my throat So I take Boggy by the hand and... Hey, are you my dad?! Night Yorb is coming for us! Night Yorb is coming for us! The Night Yorb is coming for us! Zelda's feeling bad and my van is a boat Zelda's feeling sad and my boat is a van My girlfriend's really mad and she's also a goat I'm fawning for a faun, I don't know what's going on Night Yorb is coming for us! Night Yorb is coming for us! The Night Yorb is coming for us! Bad Kids, Bad Kids, sometimes we're the Sad Kids I'm bad kid, I'm baa'd kid, I'm sorry for what I did Bad Kids, Bad Kids, sometimes we're the Sad Kids I'm bad kid, I'm baa'd kid, I'm sorry for what I did The Night Yorb is coming for us! The Night Yorb is coming for us! The Night Yorb is coming for us! ...and my van is a boat Actor (picked guitar backing) I've been so many people, More than you'll ever meet, I've worn so many faces around They now all go skin deep I've made myself an expert At letting myself fade away Sometimes I can't help but fear That I got lost in the haze Light the pyre, baby 'Cause I'm not slowing down I'm an actor, a liar Spinning you around I'm on fire, baby Burning like a star I'm an actor, a liar And I've made it this far I can't keep myself together Everything goes wrong Changing who I think I am With each new tragic song It's happening again I see I've been here before I know you so well, but as for myself These days I'm still unsure Light the pyre, baby 'Cause I'm not slowing down I'm an actor, a liar Spinning you around I'm on fire, baby Burning like a star I'm an actor, a liar I've made it this far Can't tell the truth, can't let it slip Here's what I want, here's how I get it Can't tell the truth, can't stop the lies It's fine, it's all part of my disguise Can't feel a thing, can't be myself I'm numb if I'm not someone else Can't feel a thing, can't let it hurt Those pretend feelings and empty flirts So Light the pyre, baby 'Cause I'm not slowing down I'm an actor, a liar Spinning you around I'm on fire, baby Burning like a star I'm an actor, a liar And I've made it this far Yeah I'm an actor, a liar Hope I don't go too far Phoenix (light guitar music) The darkness closes in and i am not myself tonight Surrounded I’m caged in but I can’t help but feel delight Under night sky in the moonlight I’m seeing clearly What’s a telescope but a spyglass pointed at the stars It may bring them closer to our vision but not to our hearts Can you hear their song will you let it’s fire live inside of you until your eyes burn bright The phoenix comes alive tonight I’m invisible but you see me And for the first time i’m not thinking bout where else I’d rather be And though you scare me like I scare you I’ve got a feeling it’d be scarier to run away And truth was never my strong suit But I want you to know me and I wanna know me too What’s a telescope but a spyglass pointed at the stars It may bring them closer to our vision but not to our hearts Can you hear their song will you let it’s fire live inside of you until your eyes burn bright The phoenix comes alive tonight I’ll go dancing in the flames if it means I dance with you and I’ll leave early from the party if it means I leave with you I’ll sign my pride away if that’s what you want me to do I can’t promise I won’t change but I wanna change with you What’s a telescope but a spyglass pointed at the stars It may bring them closer to our vision but not to our hearts Can you hear their song will you let it’s fire live inside of you until your eyes burn bright The phoenix comes alive tonight Satellite (gentle ukulele music) I thought it would be alright Two weeks isn't that long a time But I miss you everyday It hurts to be so far away From you, from you I fucked up a couple times Broke my promise, lost my mind A cell tower's hard to find But I got a satellite For you, to talk to you My satellite, I'll get to you My satellite, I wish you knew Saving the world's pretty cool But it'd be better with you I just want to see you smile And talk to you for a while You know I'd do everything Slay a dragon, kill a king For you, for you And I'll be back soon enough Be it easy, be it tough I promise it will be okay Here's the first thing I will say To you, I love you My satellite, I'll get to you My satellite, I wish you knew Saving the world's pretty cool But it'd be better with you My satellite, my satellite My satellite, satellite My satellite My satellite, I'll get to you My satellite, I wish you knew Saving the world's pretty cool But it'd be better with you Yeah, saving the world's pretty cool But it'd be better with you I’ll Pray (gentle music) The path ahead forsaken, there’s no way to turn back There’s nothing left to follow, as I stumble through pitch black I once had my life laid out for me, a simple step-by-step But that was rudimentary, I’m no longer like that I’ll learn to be auspicious; despite my family tree I’ve dabbled in capricious and found that its for me I know that I have powers far beyond what they could dream I’ve died and gone to heaven, and it’s really not my scene And something deep inside of me keeps telling me I’m wrong And I’m letting it guide me to the beat of my own song And I’ll pray, pray to those who’d listen And I’ll pray to everyone still left And I’ll pray ’til I don’t need your permission And I’ll pray And I’ll learn your name A forest full of secrets, nightmares unforeseen Exposing all our weakness, and pulling down the screen I’m standing here before you, laying out my all I pray to you please unnamed Goddess, don’t let me fall And there’s no use in pretending I’m helpless and lost I’ll follow you through darkness whatever the cost And I’ll pray, pray to those who’d listen And I’ll pray to everyone still left And I’ll pray ’til I don’t need your permission And I’ll pray And I’ll learn your name This emptiness inside has led me this far My friends are by my side whenever it gets dark It’s time to vanquish doubt, and this is where I’ll start I know you’ll hear my call - I feel it in my- Love Me For Me (soft synth) I don’t think I’ve ever felt loved I don’t think I’ve ever belonged I don’t think I’ve ever felt loved I think that I always feel wrong But would you love me for me That’s all that I ask Would you love me for me Despite my rocky past I know that we’re all hurting But friends don’t be blue At least I know I’m hurting with you I think that with you I feel loved I think that with you I belong I think that with you I feel loved That’s why I am singing this song You all love me for me It’s more than I can ask You all love me for me Despite my rocky past I know that we’re all scared But friends don’t be blue At least I know I’m scared here with you Of all the hardships that I have been through I’ve never been more frightened than in this forest with no clue But I have a secret no king can behold My friends are around me, fear loses control And I love me for me It was hard at first pass But I love me for me My friends they have my back I know that we’re still hurting But friends don’t be blue At least I know I’m safe here with you We Didn’t Start the Bad Kids (upbeat music) Arthur Aguefort’s Academy Bad Kids first day tragedy In its ass, Tasha’s laughter Zayn, corn cutie lunch disaster Kristen, Gorgug back to life Gibbons has to pay the price Penny Crystal Palimpsest Identify, “ah, yes” Owlbears, backpack kid Hoot growl, Black Pit Cubby’s, bad luck Ice cream, Johnny doesn’t fuck They meet Tracker and Jawbone Spirit Guardians healing zone Panic attack, lycanthropy Sick bass drops, and sea shanties We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united We can start a prayer chain Sexy rat? please explain Gorthalax, papa vulture Fig’s suggestion, Jace & Porter Daddy’s little demon Kristen’s family harvestmen, Adaine has a web to spin Fig gets her kisses in KVX no lollipops Trust in teachers fully stops Hellmouth, clues search Someone breaks into the church Bloodrush field, Gorgug flew What would Ricky Martin do Ragh is dead and then alive Daybreak should just fucking die We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united The Ball kills with no dismay And we think that Ragh is gay Aelwyn is here to fuck Fabian is awestruck Cheerleaders, time stop Am I my dad? Probably not Kippers from a halfling maid Agueforts’ spicy escapades [Instrumental] Gorgug has a freaking crush She likes screamo very much Also punk, metal Rage metal, and death metal, Scream metal, mad metal Hate metal, crazy metal, Smash metal, slice metal And motherfucking chop metal We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united Maidens’ spell in sister’s room Incel Biz, box of doom, Seven maidens arcade game To save them we have to play Prizes case, Riz gets stuck Gorgug really ages up Blackmail, kids in jail Lit molotov cocktail Goldenrod's Kalvaxus Things descend to madness Long rest, god switch “You ate my dad, i'll eat you bitch” We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united Fig and Gorgug start a band Siobhan’s sugar dice revenge Friendship section library Dragon madness, imp baby I disguise myself as him Skype call, chungle:down bim, Lou wilson, bless this union Magic STI confusion Nat 20, very nice Brennan has to eat his dice Zac Oyama, quesadilla Emily with Hilda Hilda Brian murphy, little beans Shrimp party livestream Ally Beardsley, “being gay when you are here you’re familay” We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids But we’re going strong and we’ll adventure on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united We didn't start the bad kids There was no prevention Twentieth dimension We didn't start the bad kids Didn't want to fight it But we stand united [ALBUM ENDS] [BROADCAST BEGINS]

0:00:00 Brennan: Welcome, one and all, to a very exciting episode of Dimension 20 Live! I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan. With me as always, in spirit and teleconferencingly, are our intrepid heroes, say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:15 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:18 Brennan: Oh, beautiful. Well, one and all, welcome back to this incredible finale for Fantasy High Sophomore Year, the continuing adventure of the Bad Kids, teen heroes from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, on their spring break mission to retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. If you're wondering why we are now a series of heads in boxes rather than people sitting around a table, you're probably watching this way after the fact, and thankfully have survived the global coronavirus pandemic, because we are recording this due to maintaining social distancing in quarantine. Zac, Ally, Siobhan, and Lou pretend to be playing different instruments to the beat of the adventurous background music.

0:00:58 Brennan: Everyone, please do as much as you can, wash your hands to prevent the spreading of this virus, and help take care of your fellow human beings. We all got it, we're all working together. For all of you at home, if you're watching this, again, months or years after the fact, that's what's going on right now.

0:01:13 Ally: If you found this VHS tape in a heap of rubble.

0:01:18 Emily: As you uncover the Statue of Liberty.

0:01:21 Brennan: Please piece together the mystery of why this webcast was downloaded onto a VHS tape.

0:01:29 Emily: Me, it was me. I'll admit it now.

0:01:31 Brennan: Emily did it. Incredible. A little recap. Spring break started with our teen heroes, the Bad Kids, who successfully defeated their vice principal at the end of prom at the end of freshman year. We're now on their spring break sophomore year to retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. Zac flashes two metal hands. Lou pretends to punch the screen. Ally joins him in punching as Brenan continues to recap.

0:01:47 Brennan: They've gone to the pirate city of Leviathan, they've gone to the elven homeland of Fallinel, to the gnomish and wood elf conclave of Arborlee and deep into the heart of the Nightmare Forest to retrieve the crown of the Nightmare King. They've discovered the four transubstantiations, they have followed the Abernant family, Adaine's family, deep into the forest, they have saved each other, made new friends and allies, and now they have faced their greatest fears. Five of our intrepid heroes made it all the way to the heart of the Nightmare King's forest, facing the unknown, all of the dread that these dark woods could put upon them. However, one we still presume to be dead. How dead remains to be seen as we conclude the story of Fantasy High Sophomore Year! Cast cheers. Ally pretends to be dead in their chair.

0:02:36 Lou: Made us sound real cool, dude. We sounded cool as hell in that description.

0:02:39 Siobhan: So cool, so freaking cool.

0:02:42 Brennan: So freaking cool.

0:02:47 Emily: [through a sip of coffee] Ally!

0:02:51 Siobhan: This is the most work I've done in months, it feels like.

0:02:53 Ally: [laughing] Brennan called me separately and asked that I just play dead for five hours.

0:03:01 Brennan: Last we left Kristen, you were in the Chapel of the Unnamed Goddess. After having rolled a nat 20 Religion check, you communed with a voice from beyond. The voice was filled with cold, icy bitterness and rage. And as you spoke, saying "I have praise to offer you," the voice responded, "what praise will you have in death?" You watched as the horn of a skeletal unicorn burst through your rib cage, covered in blood, and you collapsed to the ground. Dead.

0:03:52 Ally: Mm-hmm.

0:03:55 Brennan: What is going through Kristen Applebees's mind in her final moments?

0:04:02 Ally: Okay. So I'm definitely thinking that felt, I don't know what was giving me this impression, but I do feel like that was a success, or you know, maybe even a critical roll, you know. I don't know where these words are coming from, but it does seem like maybe what was supposed to happen was good, but instead I have been stabbed by an old, dead horse. So. (laughs) Pain, betrayal, anger.

0:04:40 Brennan: In your moment of feeling pain, anger, and betrayal, you have a vision of a woman taller than a mountain standing in the midst of a forest, the trees only reach her ankles as she stands astride the world, surrounded by a thunderstorm like none you have ever seen in your mortal life. Lightning strikes her over and over again as she screams and rends her face with her fingernails. Each time the lightning strikes, her flesh vanishes and you see a tormented skeleton within her as she is being killed by the lightning storm around her. You feel pain, anger, and betrayal. You have been destroyed, and you feel that you are communing directly with a moment of pain, anger, and betrayal 850 years prior. You don't think you failed. The feeling you're feeling completely attaches you and gives you profound insight. The vision of this screaming giantess deity flickers in front of your mind, and you feel the betrayal and pain of someone or something that was trying to warn people that this is what would happen and they didn't listen. You have your vision. You're waiting for death to come, you're not losing consciousness. [music fades out] You're lying on the floor of the chapel, but you're not sure. You feel blood soaking all through your shirt, your shorts, pooling around you on the ground. What does Kristen do?

0:07:06 Ally: Can I make a Perception check to see if I died, or?

0:07:08 Brennan: Yeah, make a Perception check.

0:07:13 Ally: Okay, let's see. 19.

0:07:19 Brennan: You don't feel dead.

0:07:23 Ally: Who's around me? Is everyone still there?

0:07:27 Brennan: Having come back from the vision, the room is filled with dust. You don't feel pain in your chest anymore. As you move a finger to like, investigate, the tips of your fingers touch a wet, bloody hole in your chest. Do you go deeper to try to feel into the wound?

0:07:54 Ally: Can I cast Light on one hand and then like investigate myself?

0:07:59 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely. You cast Light, and like, use the screen of your crystal to kind of look in. You see a huge hole. You can't really see through to the other side, 'cause your organs and musculature have closed up on the hole, but you can like push through and your heart is destroyed. It is torn up. And as you are there, you realize you haven't, I think you probably gasp a little bit or take a breath, and you realize that you had not up until that point been breathing.

0:08:42 Ally: I'm dead. I'm dead. Can I cast Detect Good and Evil on myself?

0:08:50 Brennan: You detect nothing. You don't detect any good or evil anywhere. As you cast a spell, by the way, the pinky finger of your right hand, something has like bitten the end of your finger off. Your finger is like injured, it's just like, it's bleeding. You also see that like, the blood is not pumping out of you anymore, 'cause your heart is no longer beating, but you are like dripping, you're kind of warm still, you don't feel undead. There's no like, I can no longer taste the air, you just are neither living nor dead.

0:09:40 Ally: Okay. My Catholic dad was right about purgatory. I'm just kind of chillin'. I guess I try to get up and see if I can walk with no blood.

0:09:57 Brennan: You get up, it knocks some more blood loose out of your body, but you don't seem to need it, you can still move. You, yeah.

0:10:10 Ally: Can I look out the window and see what it looks like outside?

0:10:13 Brennan: No window in the chapel, and in fact, the door is sealed up, but you see that there is a huge, like, cleaved hole in the wall, like some huge object smashed a hole in the wall near part of the chapel.

0:10:28 Ally: Can I check my crystal and see what date it is?

0:10:32 Brennan: Oh, it's been probably like, an hour or 90 minutes since you and the rest of the Bad Kids walked into the temple.

0:10:46 Ally: Okay, I cast a Cure Wounds on myself.

0:10:52 Brennan: Awesome. [passes hand over chest as if sealing a hole] You cast Cure Wounds on yourself. You knit your body back together so at least your blood stops falling out in a really uncomfortable, disquieting way, so now you have these like two pale scars, one on your chest and another one on your back.

0:11:15 Kristen: [touches back] Oh, whoa.

0:11:17 Brennan: Yeah, you feel like knit over. But it's like translucent pale, because the blood isn't flowing to it, so it's like kind of room temperature dead skin, but it's keeping the holes, and you heal over, but it looks like you had an amputation on like the last knuckle of your pinky finger, like that just heals over, but you don't have the bone for it. Lou chuckles.

0:11:46 Emily: Are you like Wolverine now?

0:11:48 Siobhan: No, I took one of your finger bones just so we could Reincarnate.

0:11:51 Emily: Ohhhh. Yeah.

0:11:55 Ally: Okay, I guess I try to see if I can get outta here.

0:11:59 Brennan: Awesome. Do you walk back the way you guys came in, or further in?

0:12:07 Ally: Further in. I still have a glowing hand and I'm doing this. [makes a metal hand]

0:12:17 Brennan: [copies the metal hand] Light moves forward. You walk through the rest of the temple, you see some signs of like a dusk moss ritual. How is Kristen feeling about her friends that have like, left her here?

0:12:29 Ally: Have they left? I can't really tell. Like it just seems like, are there any footprints I can look for to see where they went?

0:12:36 Brennan: Make a Survival check.

0:12:37 Ally: Yeah, definitely, okay. Oh yeah, baby, that's a 23.

0:12:43 Brennan: Your friends' tracks lead out of here.

0:12:46 Ally: The way they came in?

0:12:48 Brennan: No, deeper into the forest. First Riz, Adaine's do not lead out, Gorgug's do, Fig's also lead out. You, at this moment, cannot remember Fabian. He is like washed from your mind at this point.

0:13:09 Ally: Who? [smiles]

0:13:10 Brennan: Fabian is gone, like you cannot literally recall.

0:13:14 Ally: Who's Fabian? Cast laughs. Lou shakes his head.

0:13:19 Ally: Okay. Okay. Fuck, can I do something to try to like commune with Tracker? Is there any way of like...

0:13:31 Brennan: Hell yeah. Go ahead, with that high Survival, you find a weird, dark looking oracular pool right before the end of the temple. Go ahead and make a Religion check here.

0:13:50 Emily: Since Kristen did look for our footprints, might she noticed Fig's boots going to it?

0:13:59 Brennan: Yes, you would notice Fig's boots going to this pool.

0:14:01 Ally: Cool, I got a 24 on that Religion.

0:14:06 Brennan: Your hand glows, and another source of light comes out. Siobhan, Zac, Emily, Ally and Brennan all make the metal hand.

0:14:13 Brennan: The thin layer of skin over your heart is shedding a little bit of golden light, as though something radiant were buried inside your chest, and you see the pool shimmer, ripple, and then go completely still. You see the sun reflected in this pool, deep within the bowels of the temple.

0:14:45 Ally: Is this a Helioic temple?

0:14:47 Brennan: Not at all, this was a temple from the tribes of Sylvaire to the unnamed goddess. But you see the sun reflected in it now.

0:14:58 Ally: Okay. So, okay.

0:15:01 Brennan: And as you dwell on Tracker, a crescent moon sails across the reflection of the water, as though this were reflecting a sky, even though it is deep within the temple.

0:15:16 Ally: Okay. Cool.

0:15:24 Brennan: You feel the light extend from your hand towards the pool, and feel a beckoning from the pool, and this is a strange forest. You don't know that the beckoning is safe, but you have some inclination that if there is not safety in this pool, there are at least answers in this pool. [dark, spooky, mysterious piano music]

0:15:54 Ally: Okay, I go into the pool.

0:16:01 Brennan: You go into the pool. What is Kristen thinking and feeling as she goes into the pool?

0:16:07 Ally: I'm seeing this moon, so I'm wondering if maybe it will connect me somehow with Tracker, or I know I saw Fig's footprints, so I'm wondering if she's around. Can I feel in the pool to see if Fig is, you know, at the bottom or something like that, or?

0:16:24 Brennan: Yeah, you can absolutely do that.

0:16:26 Ally: I drag the pool.

0:16:31 Brennan: You begin to drag the pool, as you go deeper, you begin to… You move deeper in, and suddenly the sun glows bright. The moon glows bright. You get to the bottom of the pool, and as you're digging around and dredging up to try to find Fig somewhere, you pull through and come up for air, (gasps) and you are in this lake in the middle of like, a misty pine forest. You see that there is a field with some like horses running through it. Give me another Religion check.

0:17:24 Ally: 17?

0:17:26 Brennan: You are in the outer planes. You are not in the Nightmare Forest anymore. The pool, you have communed, also you have moved through life and death, the outer planes are afterlives, they are where souls go after they die.

0:17:44 Ally: (sighs) Okay.

0:17:46 Brennan: You have literally died before. But you feel very vulnerable right now. What you are in this state is almost something neither alive nor dead. It's almost as if your soul, which is supposed to be this eternal thing, has been given a physical, tangible body. So something that is supposed to be invincible and immortal is now clothed in flesh, like you yourself are transubstantiated, you are not any longer a being made of matter and spirit, you are one and the same, they are knitted together. As you are in the lake, you see, from a high clearing up through the forest, and there's mist all around, you hear like sweet birdsong and a rustling of pine needles and leaves on the wind, and you see a meadow as the quality of light in the sky dims to dust, as a meadow fills with radiant gold and silver light, and you hear a voice speak, resonating from the center of your chest, going,

0:19:07 Voice: [deep, gravelly voice] Kristen, it's okay. You can come home.

0:19:16 Ally: Is that my, wait. Who's that?

0:19:22 Brennan: It's not your dad, but man did you feel like it was your dad for a second. Didn't sound like your dad, but when he spoke, it felt like Dad.

0:19:36 Ally: Was it Jawbone?

0:19:39 Brennan: Only one way to find out. You have to go to the clearing.

0:19:41 Ally: Okay, I run to the clearing.

0:19:45 Brennan: You [panting] run through. In the clearing are two thrones. There is a golden throne, with geometric patterns and lines and rays moving out from it, and you see a long white-haired, bearded, robed old man whose eyes radiate the warmth and ferocity of the sun. He is powerful and ancient and wise, and there is a sternness to him and a comfort to him, as though he will provide for you if you leave his authority unquestioned forever. And seated next to him, in a chair of silver birch with interlocking vines and leaves and twigs of like wicker and plant life, all silvery white, is a beautiful elven woman in a gown of deep blue flecked with silver, a huge medallion of the moon  around her neck. You see that you are beholding Sol, god of the sun, and Galicaea, goddess of the moon. Standing off to Sol's side, kind of like dejected and looking down,

0:21:24 Ally: Yeah, that's right.

0:21:26 Brennan: With a corn husk sheaf around his belt, a Harvest Camp T-shirt and a backwards upside-down visor, is Helio, who—

0:21:40 Kristen: What's up, man?

0:21:43 Brennan: Helio looks up at you and says,

0:21:45 Helio: [frat boy, but quiet] Kristen, I'm so glad to see you again. My dad wanted to holla at you real quick, and so did Galicaea.

0:21:57 Brennan: You realize, by the way, that you are in the plane of Elysium right now. You're in like the neutral good plane. Sol is lawful good and Galicaea is like chaotic good, so they're clearly in this like neutral meeting space to speak with you.

0:22:15 Ally: Cool.

0:22:18 Brennan: You see Sol the sun god looks right at you and goes, well there, Kristen.

0:22:31 Sol: [deep, gravelly voice] It's good to see you again. One of my own son's chosen. Last time you saw me, I was a bit predisposed. I was unconscious on the floor of my office 'cause your principal knocked me unconscious.

0:22:52 Kristen: Mm-hmm.

0:22:53 Sol: Yeah. Yeah, not a huge fan of that, I have to say. [gentle, warm string music starts to play]

0:22:59 Kristen: Yeah, that sounds like God can create someone so strong they can knock God out. (laughs)

0:23:08 Brennan: Sol does not laugh at all. Galicaea looks at you and says,

0:23:17 Galicaea: [soft, smooth voice] Daughter of Helio, it is a pleasure and an honor to make your acquaintance.

0:23:24 Kristen: It's great to meet you too.

0:23:27 Galicaea: I am Galicaea, goddess of the moon. You have journeyed long, and you have finally arrived here, in the lands beyond. I have spoken to my brother, Sol, god of the sun. You, at the moment of your birth, were chosen by Helio. Divined from the beginning to be a prophet of his astride the world.

0:24:06 Kristen: I mean, isn't that kinda geographic, like didn't Helio just say like, hey, everyone here, you're Helio now?

0:24:20 Brennan: You see that Galicaea—

0:24:23 Kristen: It kinda feels like nations and religion just kind of all become one, it's not really like I was handpicked, it was probably just like hey, Solace, Helio.

0:24:37 Brennan: You look and see, Galicaea and Sol exchange a kind of look. You see Sol says,

0:24:47 Sol: Helio, why don't you take young Kristen for a walk and explain everything?

0:24:53 Kristen: [exasperated] Oh, can anybody else do it? Cast laughs.

0:24:58 Kristen: Can Galicaea do it, please? I'd love to hear from you.

0:25:02 Brennan: Galicaea nods and stands and says,

0:25:02 Galicaea: I shall walk with you.

0:25:06 Kristen: I appreciate it so much. I'm sorry I'm acting like a total fuck. Emily laughs.

0:25:13 Emily: Things you say when you meet God.

0:25:20 Brennan: You see Galicaea walks with you, and she reaches out a hand to take your hand. She's about like nine feet tall in her present form, so she's sort of like towering over you.

0:25:29 Ally: Cool.

0:25:39 Brennan: She walks with you and says,

0:25:39 Galicaea: Kristen Applebees, how has fared your journey to this realm?

0:25:51 Kristen: I am a little bit scared. I think I probably died. And I'm also wondering if, is there any way that you can talk to Tracker? She worships you, she's a werewolf, she looks like this.

0:26:11 Ally: I pull up a kind of not okay photo of Tracker like kinda naked, but it's just the most recent one I have.

0:26:20 Brennan: You see, give me an Insight check.

0:26:25 Ally: A 21. [the warm music changes to a colder piano track]

0:26:30 Brennan: You say the word werewolf and you see a little flash of yellow go across Galicaea's eyes, and you see that she swallows for a moment, as though mentioning Tracker and that she was a werewolf… You see something, she is a goddess, but there is a moment of like, conflict within her. She gulps, returns to this like serene elven state, and says,

0:27:06 Galicaea: [sighs] Yes, Tracker. One of my few remaining wolf children. She… Yes, she has been one of my devoted servants. (sighs) Well, Tracker is why we are here to speak with you, Kristen.

0:27:30 Kristen: Is Tracker dead?

0:27:33 Galicaea: No, but she is in grave peril.

0:27:36 Kristen: Okay, yeah.

0:27:39 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

0:27:45 Galicaea: Have you ever questioned where your spells came from in the time that you have questioned your faith?

0:27:58 Kristen: I was kind of starting to think that maybe they were coming from the power of doubt.

0:28:04 Galicaea: Doubt is nothing.

0:28:06 Kristen: Yeah, doubt killed me I think, or some sort of unicorn, I don't know if this is just like a, I don't know what killed me, but yeah, doubt is nothing. Doubt is the lack of some, I don't know, yeah, I'm honestly just so confused, I'm not asking the right questions and I'm aware of that.

0:28:32 Brennan: Looks at you and smiles and says,

0:28:34 Galicaea: Kristen Applebees, there is nothing to be gained from asking questions. The strength of a priestess flows from her conviction in the great divinity of the moon, ever changing, yet eternal. When one surrenders doubt and all questions, and accepts the presence of the great divine, one's conviction is as resolute and eternal as the moon itself.

0:29:10 Kristen: The moon goes away for like half the day. Right?

0:29:18 Galicaea: The moon...

0:29:18 Kristen: Am I right?

0:29:20 Brennan: You see she says,

0:29:22 Kristen: Sorry, not to poke holes in you, but I'm kind of like on a roll with this question asking. It kinda sounds like you're offering me another version of what I'm coming from, you know, no doubt.

0:29:35 Brennan: You see, for just a moment on that 21 Insight, her lip curls into a little sneer, and you could swear for a moment there was like a fang in her mouth. She goes,

0:29:51 Galicaea: I understand, my child. All habits die hard. What I wish to raise to you is a simple point. Your ability to heal, your devotion to the power of life and its presence in the world, never wavered. I want to show you what has been transpiring in all this time.

0:30:23 Brennan: She has walked in a circle back to the clearing, you see all of your philosophers and the philosophy students and grad students, all kind of waiting beyond the edge of the clearing. You see Helio talking to them. She puts a big, powerful hand, kind of grips your shoulder tightly, and she says,

0:30:52 Galicaea: You were chosen by Helio, and Helio was loathe to let go of you. All young clerics go through phases, and that's what this was. Sol advised his son to allow these spirits to advise you for a time, but for a time only. Your spells, your healing magic, your devotion to life, has been coming from the same place it always was. From poor, gentle Helio.

0:31:32 Brennan: She points, and you feel the resonance of the fact that like, even as you abandoned Helio and changed your faith and your conviction, you still like, had the Blessed Healer ability, you still had all of these attachments to who and what you were, and she looks at you and says,

0:31:53 Galicaea: Kristen, no one blames you for stepping out of your home and going out into the front yard to run away, because you never truly closed the door behind you. You can always come home. And what Sol and I have discussed is, if you will not return to Sol or his son Helio, then you could be mine, and you would still have all your spells, and you would never have to go even a single moment without being chosen by a power greater than yourself. Doesn't that sound preferable?

0:32:46 Kristen: I mean, honestly, it kind of just sounds like, the Hot Topi— in the mall sometimes, the Hot Topic would be next to the Not of This World, and they're kind of the same store. Cast laughs.

0:33:02 Kristen: So it kind of feels like you're just giving me like some more T-shirts, lady.

0:33:09 Murph: Talking to God. Talking to God right now.

0:33:12 Emily: You're just giving me more T-shirts, lady!

0:33:15 Siobhan: And then Spencer's Gifts around the corner.

0:33:18 Zac: Never heard a more powerful metaphor in all my life.

0:33:23 Kristen: I just, I think it's very kind, and I would like to be more, like what are you like, what would following you look like for me? What would change, or, not that it's all about me, I'm just, I am looking for a more ultimate truth and not a stay safe, stay at home, don't ever question.

0:33:54 Brennan: You see, she looks and says,

0:33:59 Galicaea: My path is a path of both serenity and passion, of the embrace of the natural world, the changing, the phases of the moon, the changing of the tides. It is a faith rooted in the divine of the natural world, of the feminine, of your sisters throughout the priestesshood. It is a faith shaped and molded by understanding that you will ever be clutched to my heart.

0:34:35 Brennan: And you recall conversations you had with Tracker about having this primal faith and her conviction in that. Make a Religion check for me, if you'd be so kind.

0:34:52 Ally: 16.

0:34:55 Brennan: Something's going on with Galicaea. This isn't Tracker's goddess, you know what I mean? It's like there's something that's not, Tracker wouldn't worship this person.

0:35:10 Ally: [fingers curled thoughtfully around their chin] Yeah.

0:35:13 Brennan: She looks at you and says, what...

0:35:18 Galicaea: There are churches and cathedrals all across the lands of Fallinel and beyond devoted to my worship. Surely Tracker has explained some of my divine potency to you.

0:35:34 Kristen: Yeah, definitely. I've heard a lot from her. You know, speaking of Tracker, as her god, can you show me where she is right now? Is there a way for us to scry on her together and?

0:35:48 Galicaea: She is within the Nightmare King's forest.

0:35:51 Kristen: Mmhmm.

0:35:53 Galicaea: I cannot see there myself. But if I had a champion to send there, I would gladly do so, Kristen Applebees.

0:36:01 Brennan: She says,

0:36:06 Galicaea: You see, my dear, sweet, at times confused and a little befuddled darling baby sister was once the Queen of Sylvaire. The Nightmare King killed my sister, and I would see him destroyed for daring to touch my family. [she maintains very intense eye contact]

0:36:37 Kristen: Whoa. Yeah. So, is your sister, who is she, what's her name?

0:36:47 Galicaea: Sadly her name was destroyed. She was a goddess of mystery, and she believed ultimately that destroying her name would make her more mysterious and make her more suited to her own portfolio, her divine domain. But the Nightmare King killed her before she could complete this task.

0:37:22 Brennan: Give me another Insight check.

0:37:25 Ally: Yeah. Okay. Insight. Oh, that's a 15.

0:37:36 Brennan: That's not the story you heard. The story you read, all those documents of the church of Galicaea convincing the tribes of the forest about the Sylvairian heresy and convincing the worshipers of the unnamed goddess to destroy their goddess's name.

0:37:54 Ally: Yeah, okay, yes.

0:38:01 Kristen: You know what, Galicaea, I would love to work for you. What would you like me to do? Go back in there, and would you give me like powers or something?

0:38:26 Emily: I would love to buy one of your shirts.

0:38:32 Ally: King Kong is now my grandpa.

0:38:39 Brennan: You see that she says,

0:38:42 Galicaea: All you have to do is swear yourself to me, from the foundations of your soul. Become one of my chosen, and you will be able to wield my power.

0:38:57 Ally: Can I do something crazy?

0:38:59 Emily: Yes, please do. Please do.

0:39:02 Ally: So we're in this kind of neutral place.

0:39:05 Brennan: Yeah.

0:39:05 Ally: Can I turn away a little bit and maybe like offer a prayer to this questioning god— this other option potentially, if it exists still, if it's still alive?

0:39:19 Brennan: Yeah, go ahead. Give me another Religion check.

0:39:27 Ally: Okay, that's a 19.

0:39:30 Brennan: You turn, you reach out, you see that woman that was dying and rending her face. You reach out to her with your heart. The golden light disappears from your chest and is replaced with a cool and reassuring shadow. And you see in this vision, she turns to you. She was killed in an act of betrayal. She killed you in an act of betrayal. And as you reach out to understand her again, you see a look of shock on her face that you are still attempting to understand her, and you see that she weeps, and even in the midst of being destroyed, softly raises a hand towards you and just mouths amidst the thunder and lightning,

0:40:38 Unnamed Goddess: I'm sorry, I'm just so scared—

0:40:42 Brennan: And before she can finish saying "scared," you feel a vice-like grip on your shoulder, Galicaea whips you around and has like pierced your shoulder with her hand, and she says,

0:40:51 Galicaea: There is nothing there to see! Galicaea growls.

0:40:56 Brennan: And this wolf's, and she...

0:41:01 Galicaea: [breathes] I'm so sorry. What an ugly thing for you to see.

0:41:08 Brennan: And you see she composes herself. You see a self-loathing in this goddess of the moon. The wolf part of her, the part that Tracker loves, this goddess hates, the moon goddess hates it about herself. And you realize why. In this moment, Kristen Applebees, beyond the pale of death, once again having performed this shamanic task to go to realms beyond, to understand the fundamental truth of the world. Gods are not eternal. They are shaped by their followers. Galicaea is this way because the elves of Fallinel made her this way, and who she once was when she was a goddess with primal cairns and moss-covered stones, the version of her that Tracker worships is in there, but in the mortal world, she is spoken for first and foremost by the high elves of Fallinel, and their interpretation of her has become her, because as the Void said to you at the end of freshman year, as above, so below, and if this is the version of Galicaea that is most worshiped, it is the version of her that will be real. She has lied to you.

0:42:45 Ally: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think I… man what do I do? I would like to… Fuck, I mean, can I do like a Perception check to see like what I could possibly do? Can I just say I reject your offer to everybody?

0:43:13 Kristen: I wholeheartedly reject all offers that you've given me,

0:43:17 Ally: And then I run up to Helio and I punch him in the fucking face. Cast laughs.

0:43:23 Zac: Yes. [raises his arms and silently cheers]

0:43:23 Lou: Damn, dude. Decking gods right now.

0:43:29 Ally: I'm decking a god's son.

0:43:31 Lou: Fair, fair.

0:43:33 Brennan: You say "I reject your offer" to both, Galicaea and Sol look on, and you see that like, for all of their like, branding that they are the opposites of each other, they are so fundamentally the same.

0:43:49 Ally: Yeah.

0:43:51 Brennan: It's an aesthetic, it's a mood, it's a vibe.

0:43:54 Ally: It's like Dove soap and Axe body spray are owned by the same core company. Brennan laughs.

0:43:57 Ally: Called Unilever, and it's all just advertising, and yeah.

0:44:00 Emily: Wow, thank you so much.

0:44:01 Lou: Damn.

0:44:03 Zac: Does Kristen work in a mall?

0:44:06 Emily: Another amazing analogy.

0:44:09 Brennan: Hey, D20 Stats, when you're watching this, I need brand references on stream by Ally Beardsley, that's all I need.

0:44:16 Ally: Anachronistic facts by Ally.

0:44:22 Brennan: You sock Helio in the jaw, and you turn to run. As you turn to run, you see Sol goes and he bellows out and becomes enormous, the sun's own fire, and says,

0:44:43 Sol: I told you that kid was trash! Now get her!

0:44:47 Brennan: And you see all of the philosophers, all of the students, look up from their kind of sadness. This fact that they were kind of just like, almost like paid friends, they were just here, even though you were still getting your spells from this divinity, that Sol and Helio just let them, and you see that they all look at each other and mob Helio and Sol, and a couple of them run, you see two of the philosophers whisk you in this toga, with a little thing of like olive leaves around you, and go,

0:45:20 Philosopher: Quickly, through the forest!

0:45:23 Brennan: And these old sandaled Grecian philosophers just start running through the woods as fast as they can. You see the gods completely like destroying these spirits. Sol bellows out after you and says,

0:45:34 Sol: You are done! You are cut off! No more magic, no more spells, see how you like working zero miracles from now on! You're just regular!

0:45:47 Brennan: And—

0:45:51 Kristen: You're one of many gods!

0:45:55 Brennan: You rush away. You see Helio just getting owned by these grad students, and that's a statement. You see that he goes,

0:46:03 Helio: [hands cupped around his mouth] Kristen!

0:46:03 Brennan: He goes,

0:46:09 Helio: [yelling] You're a soul in a body, you're one and the same! All that's waiting for you without any help from a god is just oblivion!

0:46:18 Brennan: And you know he is right, if you die in this form, there is no going to an afterlife. It's just [snaps] you're gone. You arrive back at the lake, you hear the noise of these gods rage off in the distance. A couple of the students have run up. They get you to the lake, they look at you, partially like injured and wounded and sort of like ghostly philosophy people. They get you to the lake, put you down. You see that one of the philosophers, there's this bespectacled, kind of like Enlightenment era looking woman with like a little pillbox hat. You see she looks up at you very academically, professorial. She says,

0:47:04 Bespectacled Philosopher: [formal, almost Transatlantic accent] Kristen, we're very sorry we didn't tell you, but we were on your side all along, even though we couldn't tell you the truth of where your spells were coming from.

0:47:22 Brennan: You see this old, bearded philosopher steps forward and says...

0:47:25 Bearded Philosopher: [elderly, slight accent] Before, you said very wise words, which were that doubt cannot be a belief, but it should be a practice.

0:47:43 Brennan: The philosophy spirits put their hands on your staff, hold it, and your shepherd's crook staff goes from being this like old, Helioic, wooden, like shepherd's staff, and it changes shape just slightly as it turns silvery and cool and pleasing to the touch, with a shimmer of starlight within it. And that shepherd's crook so easily becomes an elongated, elegant question mark. And you see that they hand you the Staff of Doubt. You see the philosophers all put their hands on your shoulders and back, the woman in spectacles gives you a kiss on the side of the head and says,

0:48:35 Bespectacled Philosopher: If doubt is a practice and not a belief, then it should live your hands, if not your heart.

0:48:46 Brennan: And you hold the Staff of Doubt. Taking it with you as a tool and no longer as something that you have to feel in every moment of your waking life.

0:48:55 Ally: Cool.

0:49:05 Brennan: They say their goodbyes to you. You hear the shouts of the gods off in the distance. What does Kristen do at this moment?

0:49:13 Ally: I'm back at the pool?

0:49:15 Brennan: Yes, you are.

0:49:16 Ally: I guess I keep going forward so that I can get out of this room.

0:49:20 Brennan: Cool, yeah, you dive back through the pool and you come back. I am going to go ahead, actually, and if you look on your character sheet online, I am gonna give you the Staff of Doubt right now and tell you what it does. Cast oohs and aahs.

0:49:37 Emily: Magic items, magic items!

0:49:39 Murph: Magic items! Siobhan, Zac and Lou pretend to play instruments again. Siobhan sings a guitar riff.

0:49:39 Brennan: We love it. Excited noises from the cast.

0:49:44 Lou: Everybody's getting magic items.

0:49:47 Emily: Just a total surf guitar? [sings guitar riff] Magic items! Lou sings the riff as well.

0:49:49 Brennan: Okay, hold on one second. Cool. It is now in your character sheet online, and I'll tell you what it does. Kristen, you feel yourself lose all of your spells. You don't have any innate spells, you are not a cleric of a deity anymore.

0:50:17 Siobhan: But you have a really cool stick, so.

0:50:17 Ally: Ooh, yeah, cool.

0:50:22 Brennan: For the first time, you're on your own. You got nobody in your corner. And you feel the metaphor, what they were talking about. The door is closed behind you. There is no going back. The Staff of Doubt has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend one or more charges to cast some of the following spells from it, they have different costs associated. Detect Magic is one charge, Lesser Restoration is two charges, Dispel Magic is three charges, Banishment is four charges, Greater Restoration's five charges.

0:51:03 Ally: Cool.

0:51:04 Brennan: While you are wielding it, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

0:51:06 Ally: Cool.

0:51:09 Brennan: So the whole point of it is about like clearing away like blindness, possession, dispelling spells. It can't do those things of, it does exactly what doubt is supposed to do. It's not in your heart anymore. It can't heal your friends, but it can get rid of some bullshit, and that's what doubt is supposed to do.

0:51:35 Ally: Okay.

0:51:36 Zac: So you can't Revivify anymore?

0:51:38 Brennan: Cannot Revivify anymore.

0:51:40 Siobhan: You can do Greater Restoration.

0:51:41 Brennan: You can do Greater Restoration.

0:51:44 Lou: Chill, chill.

0:51:44 Siobhan: Very chill.

0:51:47 Lou: Cool. [laughs nervously, shakes his head]

0:51:49 Brennan: Awesome. Kristen, you're back in the temple. Where do you go from here?

0:51:55 Ally: Okay, so, I… I don't have any spells at all? It's not like I'm in my new...

0:52:03 Brennan: No. No, right now you got nothing. Ally nods thoughtfully.

0:52:07 Brennan: Because you reached out to that unnamed goddess and felt her be moved by the fact that you were reaching out to her again, but your like life cleric stuff [snaps] has been revoked.

0:52:24 Ally: She just had too much on her plate to kinda give me some spells, or like, what was up? It was bad lightning? She was in the middle of some bad lightning.

0:52:34 Emily: Kristen, I dare you to go back and beg for spells.

0:52:40 Zac: Helio, please.

0:52:42 Murph: Helio, you can punch me.

0:52:43 Siobhan: I'll never leave you again.

0:52:46 Ally: Wait, so okay, hmm, interesting. This is very shocking, this is very shocking. Okay. So I have a staff. Okay, I walk out of the chapel. Fuck. [music changes to dark, spooky, discordant ambience]

0:53:06 Brennan: Hell yeah. You are in the forest of the Nightmare King. Kristen knows that she has to move in the direction of her fears, but what does that mean in this moment for what Kristen is literally doing?

0:53:30 Ally: Okay, I guess whatever direction, I'm gonna go in the direction I don't think I'll find Tracker in.

0:53:39 Brennan: Awesome. You go in the direction you do not think you will find Tracker in, cool. You begin to head off into the forest. We're going to cut back to a cliff side over a sea of mist. A big hunk of rubble and boulders has been pushed off, sailing into the endless expanse of the cliff side into mist. Gorgug and Fabian are at the edge of this cave and they come through these tunnels looking out over expanses of again, these like, coastal, you know like Monument Valley, just those like towers of striated stone? These are not like red and orange, they're all like lichen-covered grays and deep, darker blues of stone, and covered with pine forests on top, stretching out as far as the eye can see. You've got about 200 feet of cliff up above you. You have both just come through hell. You've seen each other, shared that big hug, and are now looking at this massive cliff scaling out overhead. You feel the dusk moss begin to like, leave your bloodstream.

0:55:02 Fabian: Ooh. Never doing drugs again, never. It's off, done, done.

0:55:14 Zac: Can we reach the closest cliff, or are we like, how far are we from it?

0:55:20 Brennan: You're standing, you realize that as you're looking around, you don't see like endless, weirdly you don't see like endless cliff going either side, you think you're in one of these spires. So your tunnel either was like magic, you know what I mean? Like it just somehow—

0:55:40 Zac: We're like in the middle of it somehow?

0:55:41 Brennan: Right, like you've appeared halfway up one of these colossal towering spires of stone. And are now like, you know, if someone were flying by, they would look and see a little cave, you know, like halfway in between the top and the mist ocean below, and see you two peering out of this cave, kind of in the middle of the column.

0:56:07 Gorgug: Okay, well, what do we know?

0:56:11 Fabian: We're here, our friends are not here?

0:56:16 Gorgug: Yes, okay, that's a solid start.

0:56:19 Fabian: Okay.

0:56:21 Gorgug: And we should find them?

0:56:24 Fabian: I agree with that, I think that's a great first step.

0:56:29 Gorgug: Maybe we should get to higher ground?

0:56:33 Fabian: I mean, do you wanna climb? I mean, if you want to climb, I'm down to climb. Yeah.

0:56:39 Gorgug: I'd give a climb a shot.

0:56:40 Fabian: I've done way crazier stuff today, so climbing, that honestly feels way more in my wheelhouse.

0:56:46 Gorgug: Climbing is not quite a nightmare for me, but at the same time, this doesn't seem like an easy climb.

0:56:52 Fabian: No, not at all. Gorgug shudders a little.

0:56:55 Lou: Can I do a Perception check for like how difficult it feels like to scale? Or like I don't know, is this like, could we like boulder this, or is this straight up like, I don't know, free solo levels of like, we mess up and it's like done?

0:57:14 Brennan: Give me a Perception check.

0:57:16 Zac: Can I do that too?

0:57:17 Brennan: Yeah.

0:57:19 Lou: That'll be a 17.

0:57:22 Zac: Dirty 20.

0:57:23 Lou: [a little defeated] Okay. Zac and Lou both pretend to look up at something.

0:57:27 Brennan: This looks very scary, but doable. And doable doesn't mean, in other words, there is tremendous risk if you fuck up badly, however, it doesn't look impossible to get to the top. It's very naturally formed rock. There are not many places it looks like to… Directly up from you, there's not too many ledges where you could like, get to be safe, rest for a moment. However, if you look diagonally across, you can see there are some other places that might be cave-like, like the one you're in right now. So if you go slower and try to like edge sideways, you could get to some other places, and maybe sacrifice time to be a little bit less risky.

0:58:27 Gorgug: Okay. Well, do we, hmm. I wonder if there's any caves that go to different islands.

0:58:34 Fabian: Well, that's what, I'm wondering if there's a way, how would we find, like if our friends aren't coming here to this cave, would they be coming to one of those caves? Or like, I don't know, I'm nervous about—

0:58:48 Gorgug: Can I tell you something? I got smarter, but I still feel pretty dumb in this scenario.

0:58:55 Fabian: Hey, fair, all right? I mean, my levels of intelligence didn't change at all, but I still feel just as unsure.

0:59:02 Gorgug: Hey, why don't we tie a rope to each other and then climb for one of the closest caves?

0:59:07 Fabian: Great start. It's a solid start, let's do it.

0:59:11 Gorgug: I believe in you, spring break.

0:59:13 Fabian: I believe in you, spring break.

0:59:13 Lou: I use my sheet. I like cinch it around Gorgug's waist.

0:59:22 Gorgug: Oh, thank you.

0:59:24 Brennan: Incredible. You use the sheet, and you guys are able, in this moment, to give each other the help action, even while climbing. So each of you guys give me an Athletics check with advantage.

0:59:41 Fabian: On belay!

0:59:43 Gorgug: Belay on!

0:59:45 Zac: Wow, thank goodness. I rolled a 1 and an 18, so a 23 for me. Or Athletics? Oh.

0:59:55 Brennan: Athletics.

0:59:56 Zac: 27.

0:59:57 Brennan: 27, okay, cool.

0:59:58 Lou: Oh, I'm a 15. Zac and Lou mime climbing with great exertion.

0:59:59 Brennan: 15, okay, cool. You guys begin to scale to sort of get around as fast as you can. You make partial progress. As you do so, you guys begin to, I'm gonna say that you guys like, begin to feel, like your hearts swell a little bit. And in fact, I'm actually going to say, one second. Let me find my—

1:00:31 Lou: Okay.

1:00:32 Gorgug: I'm having a heart attack.

1:00:34 Brennan: Having a heart attack.

1:00:35 Fabian: No, it's all right. I think it's just strong emotional feelings.

1:00:39 Zac: Into the mist.

1:00:42 Lou: Just dragging me with you. [music changes to something with adventurous strings]

1:00:47 Brennan: You guys begin to like, get over across the rock face. You're making partial progress, and you feel on an intuitive level that you have changed. You watch Gorgug point out the cave, start figuring out the best path there. Gorgug, you feel Fabian calling out when your grip is getting unsteady on something, moving along, you see that you have both grown as you're moving through here. You also like, feel that pulse of hope connect you, and there's this moment of like, reflecting on Gorgug holding a tin flower out to Fabian on the first day of school, getting socked in the stomach, and then weeks and months of like Owlbears and hoot growl, and that hug you guys shared in the cavern, and I think that like, especially for teenage dudes that are growing up, there's this weird thing about showing affection with your friends and being physical, and you guys spend a grueling two hours just like being on top, like arm under, a shoulder up, grabbing someone's arm, pulling them up, to the point where you're just like one working unit moving each other across the rock, and you finally arrive at this cavern, and you feel this like, friendship pulse between you as you like, you know, all of the weirdness of insecurity of friendship melts away with this like pure teamwork. Zac and Lou, during Brennan’s description of their climb, have been miming climbing with great exertion. Sometimes Zac points out a direction, and sometimes they take drinks, and sometimes Lou grunts loudly.

1:02:24 Brennan: And you finally both vault yourself into this cave. As you vault yourself into the cave, you see riddled with arrows is a massive griffin, and you see— [quiet, sad piano music]

1:02:47 Zac: No! Emily’s jaw drops and she gasps.

1:02:50 Lou: Shit.

1:02:51 Brennan: You see Baxter the griffin is in this cave. I'll ask both of you to make a Medicine check for me, if you would be so kind.

1:03:11 Lou: I got a 9.

1:03:12 Gorgug: 17.

1:03:15 Brennan: Baxter is dying, but not dead.

1:03:18 Zac: I'm gonna cast Cure Wounds on Baxter.

1:03:22 Brennan: Gorgug, you rush up, take out a first aid kit, begin to go to work. You cast Cure Wounds. Tell me how many hit points Baxter regains.

1:03:32 Zac: Okay, so, I don't actually have the card in front of me.

1:03:36 Ally: I can help you out.

1:03:37 Zac: You have it?

1:03:38 Brennan: It's 1d8 plus your modifier, your spellcasting modifier.

1:03:42 Ally: I don't have any spells anymore, so you can have all my cards.

1:03:50 Zac: Three hit points.

1:03:53 Lou: Okay. Okay.

1:03:54 Ally: All right, all right.

1:03:56 Zac: So I rolled a 1 plus the 2 that my new bonus is, so.

1:04:03 Brennan: You see Gorgug go to work, still almost on death's door, you both look up and see Baxter, eyes flutter, covered in blood, just (breathing heavily), like breathing heavily, Baxter looks up and just has enough strength to kind of like, nuzzle Gorgug with his beak. Gorgug pats Baxter gently.

1:04:28 Brennan: Fabian, you look and see these arrows are, you recognize these arrows.

1:04:34 Gorgug: Where are these arrows from?

1:04:38 Lou: Who do I recognize them...?

1:04:41 Brennan: Sandra Lynn. Emily looks horrified.

1:04:43 Fabian: Oh.

1:04:43 Gorgug: Oh no. Must have… tricked her.

1:04:49 Fabian: [a little shaky] Sandra Lynn's been taken over in some way. Oh, this is really bad.

1:05:02 Zac: Can we, hmm. I only have one other spell slot left. I shoulda cast Spare the Dying on him, I feel like.

1:05:15 Lou: I mean, is Baxter still dying?

1:05:17 Brennan: No.

1:05:19 Lou: Or is their wounds stabilizing?

1:05:22 Brennan: The Cure Wounds has worked fully. And Baxter gets up, shakes his wings. You see the reason Baxter looks so unwell is heartbreak. It's just like, he doesn't understand what's going on, he doesn't understand why he's been attacked. He clearly was hit with like a last arrow in his throat that meant he had to rapidly descend, and thankfully made it to this cave. But you see he stands up, he's capable of movement again. And Gorgug, part of your first aid I think is like you two pulling the arrows, you know.

1:06:02 Zac: Okay.

1:06:04 Fabian: I think we need to be careful. I feel like if Sandra Lynn would turn against Baxter, there's a chance that she may not be in a state to recognize us as allies, even.

1:06:16 Gorgug: Yeah. I wonder if we should just leave Baxter here to rest for a little bit, 'cause I feel like if anything blew on him, he'd fall out of the sky again.

1:06:25 Fabian: Fair, yeah, in case Sandra Lynn is above? I mean, we did a pretty good job of climbing up this far.

1:06:32 Zac: How many arrows are in here? Like does she have more arrows?

1:06:37 Brennan: He took about nine arrows.

1:06:39 Lou: Jesus.

1:06:41 Gorgug: Hey, well Baxter, we're gonna fix Sandra Lynn.

1:06:45 Fabian: Yeah.

1:06:49 Gorgug: There's a lot going on here, I don't know how much you're getting of my explanation, but—

1:06:54 Brennan: Give me an Animal Handling check.

1:06:55 Zac: Okay. Pretty solid one to this. Plus a nat 1, so.

1:07:04 Brennan: Baxter demands to follow you. As you guys like, move to the mouth of the cave.

1:07:08 Zac: [laughing sadly] Oh no.

1:07:12 Gorgug: Okay. Well. Baxter. Well.

1:07:19 Fabian: It's Baxter's choice.

1:07:21 Gorgug: We're kinda, this is sorta the end of the line, so we might as well just, fuck it, let's ride this buddy.

1:07:30 Fabian: Come on, Baxter.

1:07:32 Lou: Yeah, I hop on.

1:07:32 Fabian: Let's do it.

1:07:34 Gorgug: All right, Baxter.

1:07:35 Fabian: We're gonna get your person back.

1:07:39 Brennan: You both hop up on Baxter, Baxter kind of shakes the blood from loose feathers off his wings, and you guys [whoom] vault out. You see trails of mist coming off of the tips of Baxter's wings as he goes through the deeply humid skies of this forest of moist, almost like trails coming off his wings as he takes off, and you guys fly off. We are gonna cut from there to, ba ba ba.

1:08:11 Zac: Can Baxter have a short rest?

1:08:13 Lou: Please.

1:08:14 Brennan: Baxter cannot have a short rest, unless you guys take one.

1:08:16 Siobhan: Can Baxter have a Second Wind?

1:08:18 Brennan: No he may not! Incredible. You guys begin flying. We're going to move over to a clearing with Adaine. Siobhan takes a deep breath.

1:08:43 Brennan: Adaine, you are suspended in this orb, prevented from spellcasting. You can speak, but are unable to cast spells within this orb.

1:08:59 Siobhan: Okay. But I can cast Message, right?

1:09:03 Brennan: You can cast—

1:09:04 Siobhan: I've been able to cast Message.

1:09:05 Brennan: You've been able to cast Message, that's correct. You see Angwyn standing, staring at you, Killian and Arianwen have both walked away. You see Angwyn sort of stalks off into the clearing a little bit, and Aelwyn is left standing nearby, keeping an eye on you. What is Adaine doing in this moment?

1:09:36 Siobhan: Can I Message Aelwyn?

1:09:38 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:09:40 Siobhan: So I'd like to Message Aelwyn and say,

1:09:41 Adaine: What are you doing? You don't like these people any more than I do.

1:09:50 Brennan: She Messages you back.

1:09:56 Aelwyn: Adaine. I don't like our parents, but I do love them, don't you?

1:10:10 Adaine: They don't love me.

1:10:19 Aelwyn: Adaine. You have always been, above all else, steadfast in your ways. Some might even go so far as to say stubborn. Love is something that has to be earned. It's not something—

1:10:43 Adaine: No it's not.

1:10:46 Aelwyn: What value does a thing have if it can be freely given?

1:10:52 Adaine: The greatest value of all. A gift given without ask or want?

1:11:03 Aelwyn: [sighs] I don't understand.

1:11:05 Adaine: I think you do. I think you do understand. Because you're the most defensive person I have ever met. Your defenses are so high. You chose, of all of the schools of magic, to be an Abjurative wizard. You won't let people in, because you're scared that if you let people in and they reject you, then you're not worth it in some way.

1:11:42 Aelwyn: I'm not scared. Taking cautions… I have tried to make the right choice as often as I could, and you can't make it in this world alone. You need to have

1:11:58 Adaine: Aelwyn. I don't love our parents. But despite the fact that you have not earned it, I do love you. Do you hear that? I hope you hear that.

1:12:17 Brennan: There is no response from Aelwyn, she… Give me an Insight check.

1:12:31 Siobhan: 15.

1:12:35 Brennan: If you had to guess, the power of that statement and how much Aelwyn needs to hear it is something that she saw coming like a Magic Missile headed straight for her. And you watch her eyes go glassy, and you watch her fully dissociate. Just to not process that. She like, is too scared in this moment. You see Angwyn looks around and says,

1:13:08 Angwyn: Great deal of silence over here in this corner of the clearing.

1:13:15 Brennan: He walks over, and you see that he approaches, and you kind of observe him getting some kind of like Sending spell, or like a Whispering Wind spell, probably from your mom, and you see he looks over at, oh, also give me a Perception check, if you'd be so kind.

1:13:42 Siobhan: 11. [music changes to dark, discordant Nightmare Forest]

1:13:45 Brennan: You see, with an 11 Perception check, you just see that your father has a sword on his belt that he almost never carries or would wear. But you see he walks over to you, and as he does so, you see that he's got like a look in his eye. He glances at Aelwyn and says,

1:14:18 Angwyn: Daughter, the time has come. [sighs] I need a moment to prepare the punishment that awaits your sister. I would like for you, if you would be so kind, seeing that she has been as recalcitrant as ever to assist her family, kindly scour the information as to what her accomplices are doing from her mind. I'll be waiting for you to complete this task.

1:14:50 Brennan: And you see his hand crackles with light again, and he says,

1:14:55 Angwyn: Adaine, after your sister wrests what you are holding away from you, I'm going to fix you. I hope that you will be grateful, although if I am successful, I won't have to hope for you to be any way that I wish. Adaine gives two aggressive middle fingers.

1:15:22 Brennan: You see Aelwyn looks over at Angwyn and goes,

1:15:31 Aelwyn: Father, [laughs nervously] as much as I would love to see Adaine suffer, once we have the information from her, let's leave her in the orb, that's what she's most scared of.

1:15:44 Brennan: You see her father says,

1:15:46 Angwyn: Aelwyn, you've been given an order. Carry it out.

1:15:49 Brennan: Aelwyn says,

1:15:49 Aelwyn: Right, but...

1:15:49 Brennan: You see Angwyn furrows his brow and says,

1:15:53 Angwyn: Aelwyn, now is not the time to lose your nerve. Do it.

1:15:59 Brennan: Aelwyn stands there for a second. You can see that her hands are shaking at her side.

1:16:06 Siobhan: I Message her,

1:16:06 Adaine: I'm here with you. I'm with you. Whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.

1:16:12 Brennan: She snaps her eyes over to you and says,

1:16:19 Aelwyn: [weakly] Father. Adaine's just, she's a baby. She's a, she’s a— I—

1:16:28 Brennan: And you see Angwyn goes,

1:16:28 Angwyn: A baby?

1:16:31 Brennan: And you see she says,

1:16:33 Aelwyn: No, I mean, she's young. There's no...

1:16:42 Brennan: You see your dad just raises a hand and Aelwyn flinches. She turns, looks at you, and says, Siobhan shakes her head slowly.

1:16:51 Aelwyn: I'm so sorry.

1:16:59 Brennan: And she casts Detect Thoughts on you. What does Adaine do as Aelwyn begins to cast Detect Thoughts?

1:17:10 Siobhan: I would like to think about all of the times that Aelwyn was almost nice to me, and then at the prompting of our parents, did something cruel instead. Like I want those to be my surface thoughts. I close my eyes and that is what I'm thinking about. [music changes: soft, gentle, ambient]

1:17:36 Brennan: You think of all the times that Aelwyn chose to be cruel to save herself. The last time you cast Detect Thoughts on Aelwyn, you walked through a bombed out city. What is Aelwyn walking through right now, as she sees a vision of your mind?

1:18:02 Siobhan: I think it's our childhood house in Solace, which is most of my childhood memories. I feel like we moved there when I was very small. And it's just a series of interconnected rooms that's like my room and her room and my room and her room and my room and her room, with each of these memories inside it.

1:18:28 Brennan: She begins to walk through with you. I'm gonna make my first roll. She walks through, and doesn't push deeper, even though that's what she's supposed to do. She walks in, looks at all these moments, looks up at you and says,

1:19:01 Aelwyn: Well if you're trying to humiliate me, I suppose it's working.

1:19:09 Adaine: I'm not. We can make new memories. But these are all the memories that I have of you. These are the best memories that I have of you. We will live immortal lives. Do we want to keep playing these patterns out? I don't want to.

1:19:32 Brennan: Aelwyn looks out of the window of her room, and she wants to go deep, she sees something and wants to go deeper in your mind. Does Adaine allow her to do this?

1:19:49 Siobhan: Yes.

1:19:52 Brennan: She moves through the window, and is at your memory of her in the hot tub after you had rescued her from Calethriel Tower. She looks and looks up at you, confused, because she doesn't remember this.

1:20:16 Adaine: They broke you, Aelwyn. They broke you. For what? For why? They're cruel people. And I'm sorry, but I don't think that they will ever love you. And they'll never even let you make your own decisions, you're just a tool to them. And they'll only keep you around as long as you're useful. Aelwyn takes a shaky breath.

1:20:49 Brennan: You see now it's becoming even more painful, because in your memory, you cast Detect Thoughts, and there is a memory of you and a memory of Aelwyn going into Detect Thoughts, and there's the two of you that are here in the present moment that can follow your old selves into that casting of Detect Thoughts.

1:21:19 Adaine: Look at these ruins. Look. There was no rebuilding this.

1:21:29 Brennan: Aelwyn, healed at least mentally from her protective magic, watches you observe, in the destroyed version of her mind, all the things that were buried, and is forced to confront not only her inner self, but forced to confront the fact that she has always lied to herself about who she is and how she felt, has to confront the fact that you know that, and has to now confront that it's all been mistakes, needless cruelty, and wasted time. She digests all of this, sees all of the things, her in the bed with you, making the ward around you, all the things she said to you when you were in the orb, and has to ingest all of that as someone who brought her old mind back. She looks up.

1:22:51 Adaine: Will you be my big sister? I would really, really love to have you as a big sister.

1:23:02 Brennan: She looks, and loses concentration on Detect Thoughts, tears stream down her face, she loses it, steps back. As she does so, you are back in the forest of the Nightmare King, you see... (sighs) You see that Aelwyn is just weeping, standing there, looking like, having to reshuffle her entire mind to accommodate all this. You see Angwyn turns to her and says,

1:23:52 Angwyn: Well then, daughter, were you successful? What are her friends planning?

1:23:56 Brennan: Aelwyn just looks up, and can only think to just say the truth, which is,

1:24:00 Aelwyn: [whispered] I didn’t, I didn’t. I didn't find it. I didn’t find her— her friends. I didn’t—

1:24:09 Brennan: Angwyn kind of like rolls his eyes. (sighs) He looks up, and as he does so, you see… As he does this, he looks up and, [music changes to a dark, tense, orchestrated track]

1:24:31 Angwyn: Very well, Adaine. The time has come for a new and better daughter.

1:24:38 Brennan: His hand crackles with light, he reaches out and says,

1:24:43 Angwyn: Prepare to be better, dear, sweet daughter.

1:24:48 Brennan: Light races towards your mind. As it is an inch away from the orb, the orb covers with an Abjurative rune. Aelwyn stands with her hand extended, her face completely blank and emotionless, as the spell is Counterspelled. Angwyn looks over at Aelwyn, looks back—

1:25:10 Siobhan: I cast Dispel Magic on the orb.

1:25:13 Brennan: You cast Dispel Magic on the orb. The orb dispels. It is Angwyn's turn again. Hold on one second. Angwyn reaches out his hand, extends it to Aelwyn.

1:25:43 Siobhan: Counterspell. Counterspell. Counterspell.

1:25:46 Brennan: He Counterspells your Counterspell.

1:25:52 Siobhan: Fuck. Brennan is counting damage.

1:25:57 Murph: You hate to see it.

1:25:59 Lou: You hate to see it.

1:25:59 Emily: No, I love to see this!

1:26:02 Murph: No, I mean…

1:26:04 Lou: Counterspell, Counterspell.

1:26:05 Emily: Oh, I know, I know.

1:26:06 Ally: Wait, you love to see what?

1:26:07 Murph: Sisters getting destroyed by a Fireball?

1:26:08 Emily: No, I love to see what just happened before this.

1:26:10 Murph: Yes, yes, agreed, agreed.

1:26:11 Emily: Before whatever dice have been rolled.

1:26:13 Brennan: Adaine.

1:26:14 Siobhan: Yes.

1:26:15 Brennan: You shatter the orb, you counter, your dad throws up a counter to your Counterspell with a bolt of lightning that races across the field. In Aelwyn's last moment, she makes eye contact with you, just says,

1:26:32 Aelwyn: I'm sorry.

1:26:32 Brennan: And is hit in the chest and blasted back across the field. Adaine, it is your turn.

1:26:46 Siobhan: [hands on her head in shock] Fuck. Um, I— God.

1:26:52 Emily: You have any cures?

1:26:54 Siobhan: Wizards don't have goddamn cures. We don't care about other people. Cast laughs.

1:27:03 Siobhan: I would like to cast Adaine's Furious Fist.

1:27:11 Emily: Yeah! Various silent cheers from the cast.

1:27:14 Siobhan: At a fifth level. And I would like to charge my father.

1:27:18 Emily: Yes.

1:27:22 Lou: Jesus.

1:27:23 Brennan: Your father, with zero remorse on his face, raises up his spellcasting hand and whips around to face you as mist and smoke rises from Aelwyn's exhausted, crumpled body. You are standing in the shadow of where your orb was. You cast a spell at the highest spell slot you have available. Your fist crackles with white arcane fire. Your father turns around, seeing a spell he does not recognize. He is 20 feet away from you. You sprint across the grass of the clearing. Go ahead and make your attack roll.

1:28:15 Emily: Yeah!

1:28:17 Siobhan: Oh no, it's so many d10s that I don't have.

1:28:23 Brennan: So you're making your attack roll first.

1:28:24 Zac: It's a spell attack?

1:28:25 Siobhan: Oh, sorry, yeah, sorry.

1:28:27 Brennan: No worries.

1:28:32 Siobhan: Oh baby. That's a 24.

1:28:35 Lou: Pow pow.

1:28:38 Brennan: Holy shit. (laughs) Okay. Zac and Emily punch the camera.

1:28:43 Ally: How many d10s is it?

1:28:45 Siobhan: And he rolls a four on his save. Brennan laughs.

1:28:52 Siobhan: So it's 10d10. So I look him in the face, hold my fist up to him and say,

1:28:58 Adaine: Guess what, bitch, I'm strong now.

1:29:02 Siobhan: And I punch him for, oh!

1:29:08 Murph: [chanting] Kill your dad, kill your dad.

1:29:10 All: Kill your dad, kill your dad.

1:29:17 Siobhan: 43. Brennan is staring with an open-mouthed expression of shock.

1:29:19 Ally: Oh baby.

1:29:22 Siobhan: 51, 59.

1:29:26 Lou: I like that.

1:29:27 Siobhan: 69, nice. 77 points of damage.

1:29:35 Lou: Solid.

1:29:36 Ally: Wow Emily laughs.

1:29:37 Brennan: 77 points of damage?

1:29:39 Siobhan: Yes. Ally whistles. [tense, choral adventurous music]

1:29:41 Brennan: As you say "I'm strong now," Adaine, you have walked for unending days in the forest of the Nightmare King. You have fought the tides of the wide misty ocean. Your Strength becomes 14, which is an eight point Strength increase, your fist crackles, you rolled a 24 on your attack roll. On a saving throw, your father, Angwyn Abernant, automatically fails. He turns, an arcane fist raises— 77 points of damage is more than double his max hit points.

1:30:24 Siobhan: What?!

1:30:25 Zac: Whoa.

1:30:26 Brennan: Your father, as your mother said in season one, was never much of a practical caster. Your father is dead as he leaves the ground, and his body sails 25 feet through the air and skids across the clearing. Your father is no more. You stand, you feel, through weeks of hardship in the time that elapsed and your vision in the forest. You never have to be afraid of being weak again. Your father hurt you and he hurt your sister, and no matter what anyone fuckin' thinks about it, guess what? He never gets to hurt anybody ever again. You stand in the clearing as light crackles around you and leaves your fist. Adaine—

1:31:25 Siobhan: Amazing. Can I run to Aelwyn and do a Medicine check to try and stabilize her?

1:31:30 Brennan: Yes you can. She is going to roll a death saving throw before that.

1:31:32 Siobhan: All right.

1:31:35 Brennan: The damage was not enough to fully put her under. Or fully kill her. So.

1:31:48 Zac: [chanting] Loot your dad, loot—

1:31:50 Siobhan: Oh baby, you know I'm gonna loot my dad.

1:31:52 Lou: Gotta loot your dad, dude.

1:31:54 Siobhan: I'm strong, I'm gonna take that goddamn sword.

1:31:59 Emily: Seems like you should just stick with this spell, huh?

1:32:02 Siobhan: I mean, I can double two-handed weapon.

1:32:06 Ally: Put the sword in the fist's hand.

1:32:08 Siobhan: Yes.

1:32:14 Brennan: I'm gonna go ahead and roll Aelwyn's death saves.

1:32:21 Siobhan: You actually don't have to roll the first one, because the first one she gets an 11.

1:32:26 Brennan: Incredible, okay.

1:32:28 Siobhan: So those are my portent rolls gone.

1:32:35 Brennan: One second. So her first one she rolls an 11. You rush over to her side.

1:32:42 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:32:49 Brennan: As you do so, you can make your first check before she makes her second death save. So you're making a Medicine check.

1:33:02 Siobhan: Mmhmm. An 18.

1:33:06 Brennan: You rush over to Aelwyn's side. You use your last portent, on a 18, you stabilize her. Aelwyn is not going to die in this moment. She looks up at you as she begins to enter unconsciousness, and she says...

1:33:36 Aelwyn: [crying] I don't… I don't deserve you, and I don't deserve this.

1:33:45 Adaine: It's not about deserving me, and you definitely don't deserve this. But we could rebuild something better together. I think there's enough room in my room for a bunkbed, if you wanted.

1:34:01 Brennan: She weeps. She says,

1:34:06 Aelwyn: Adaine? I killed all those people on the ship. I killed the oracle. Kalina told me that I would be dead if I didn't. I did it, I worked for Kalvaxus, I've worked for Kalina, I've worked for our parents.

1:34:25 Adaine: You're a child. They made you do it. They were bad people and they were manipulating you. They trained you from birth to be obedient to them without question, and you were, and they rewarded you for it.

1:34:45 Brennan: She begins to fade, and she quickly says,

1:34:49 Aelwyn: If I can make up for any of the mistakes I've made, I don't know that I ever will, but the mistake that they've always made, the heroes have always made, when they defeated the Nightmare King. The curses have to be undone, all of them, including the fifth. All five must be undone. And there's a—

1:35:14 Brennan: You see she starts to fade a little bit.

1:35:20 Siobhan: As she's fading, can I give her the tincture?

1:35:24 Brennan: Yes, you can give her one of the tinctures, that is a very wise move.

1:35:26 Siobhan: Right.

1:35:28 Brennan: You give her the tincture. She looks at you and says…

1:35:30 Aelwyn: She's gone.

1:35:39 Brennan: She looks up and says,

1:35:39 Aelwyn: There's a sword. There's a sword on Father's side. He stole it from the Lomeneldas. It's supposed to be yours. Not yours yours, but it's yours, it's the oracle's.

1:36:00 Brennan: You see she says,

1:36:00 Aelwyn: I see you don't have your orb, but the sword, it's an arcane focus.

1:36:07 Adaine: Oh. I'll take it you, you rest here, I'll find Mother.

1:36:13 Aelwyn: Do you want to know something, Adaine?

1:36:15 Adaine: Yes.

1:36:17 Aelwyn: Do you know, in your freshman year, how Kalvaxus knew that you were going to be able to take the book, that you were going to be the oracle?

1:36:31 Adaine: No.

1:36:37 Aelwyn: I've always been rather a terrible bitch to you. But I did know, having got into the advanced classes at Hudol, that they believe that the oracle, because it's not passed through genealogy or anything else, they've always thought that it goes to the most prodigious diviner amongst the elven people. Kalvaxus asked me if I could be sure, and I said, "Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I know who the next oracle will be."

1:37:21 Adaine: I love you, too.

1:37:23 Brennan: She weeps, clutches your hand, and slips away. Your sister is stable and unconscious here in the clearing, and you see your father's body across the clearing from you. What does Adaine do?

1:37:47 Siobhan: I'd like to cast Greater Invisibility on myself and take the sword, and just do a sort of Investigation check on my father to see if there's anything else that I need for all of these rituals and stuff on his body.

1:38:03 Brennan: Sorry, give me that one more time?

1:38:05 Siobhan: So I'm casting Greater Invisibility on myself.

1:38:08 Brennan: Cool.

1:38:08 Siobhan: And then I'd like to take the sword from my father and then see if there's anything else, do an Investigation check to see if there's anything else on him that's obviously for this Nightmare King situation.

1:38:20 Brennan: Go ahead and give me the Investigation check.

1:38:29 Murph: You find a note that says he always loved you and he just wanted to make you stronger. He knew he had to push you to the edge to become the ultimate elven oracle.

1:38:36 Emily: Yeah baby, full anime, let's do it.

1:38:39 Lou: Full anime.

1:38:40 Siobhan: Nightmare.

1:38:41 Zac: I hope I don't get punched.

1:38:42 Siobhan: Well, I got a 25, do I find the note, Brennan? [Murph laughs]

1:38:46 Brennan: Oh, do you find the note? You see, hold on one sec. Ba ba ba, hold on. What did you get on your Investigation, sorry?

1:39:00 Siobhan: 25.

1:39:01 Brennan: 25. On a 25, you find no note on your father's body. All the important magical shit went with your mom. He's got nothing to recuse him from being the absolute bastard that he was.

1:39:16 Zac: Any cash?

1:39:18 Siobhan: Yeah, any cold hard cash?

1:39:19 Brennan: Yeah, you get 30 gold pieces, how's that?

1:39:21 Siobhan: Sick!

1:39:23 Murph: A crisp $20 bill.

1:39:25 Lou: Oh yeah.

1:39:26 Siobhan: I was saving this for your birthday card, but here it is.

1:39:27 Murph: Wow, he just went to the bank, this is crazy.

1:39:31 Brennan: Incredible. So, bum bum bum bum. You pull the sword off. Do you do anything, so you look at the sword. You see that it has an elven eye glyph set into a two-sided pommel on each side. Like a sort of geometric, cool eye glyph. If you wanna cast Identify on it, you can.

1:40:00 Siobhan: Identify I only have stocked as a ritual, so it'll take me 10 minutes. I'll do it as soon as I have figured out what's happening with my mum and found her hiding place.

1:40:11 Brennan: Cool, copy that. Awesome. You take off. We are going to cut over, just the hits keep comin'!

1:40:22 Lou: The hits keep comin'.

1:40:24 Brennan: Incredible. [music changes from soft strings to something darker and more ambient]

1:40:30 Brennan: We are in the celestial gallery with Riz and Fig. You guys are bound, so your hands are bound, so there's no like, somatic components really that you can't do your spells. The vines also have grown around and bound your mouths at this point. You see the unicorn, skeletally tromps through the glade, and you see it speaks in your minds. You see it goes…

1:41:06 Unicorn: [deep, growling whisper] You have been captured here, and soon shall your friends be as well. The time of the King's return is upon us.

1:41:26 Brennan: You see fake Fig walks out of the forest smiling with Baby behind her, and you see that she snaps her fingers and the vines all wrap around Baby. Baby goes,

1:41:39 Baby: (squeals) It's gonna kill me, please!

1:41:44 Brennan: And you see that he gets wrapped up in vines. You see that the unicorn looks at fake Fig. Fig goes,

1:41:58 Nightmare Fig: Hi, so, I'll be happy to continue this little deal we've got going. Should I keep the disguise on for now?

1:42:07 Brennan: And you see that the unicorn says,

1:42:10 Unicorn: The time for trickery is over. Bring forth your brethren.

1:42:19 Brennan: Coming out of the jungle, you guys see dozens to hundreds of barlgura, vrocks, a legion of demons starts to stalk the gallery, and specifically just like a dozen each just watching your every move. Fake Fig sheds this illusion, and you see a full-blown marilith, which is a towering, multi-armed snake woman with like, torso and head of a woman, many arms holding different weapons, and this giant snake's body. These are like the captains of the Abyss. You see that she says,

1:43:02 Marilith: [snake-like voice] Yes. The loyalty of the demon folk to the Nightmare King stands for now, unicorn.

1:43:17 Brennan: You see the unicorn responds to the marilith and says,

1:43:22 Unicorn: Keep them here. Soon their friends will join, and when the King returns, they shall walk in the world, hidden as his servants.

1:43:39 Brennan: The unicorn leaves the glade and you guys are left with truly an army of demons here in front of you. What is going on in each of you guys' minds?

1:43:53 Emily: Okay. So, right now, I can't use verbal or somatic components, so I think I'm hoping to try to wiggle in a way that my lighter in my pocket will light everything on fire to free me.

1:44:16 Murph: I think, yeah, and as I see Fig doing that, I think Riz knows she's gonna be the only one to be able to get us out of this, away from all these dudes. I'm going to pull a real secret agent move and use my watch and try to shoot the laser at Fig's mouth.

1:44:39 Zac: Oh, man. [Brennan laughs]

1:44:41 Emily: Actually, I'd prefer if you did my hands, 'cause I want somatic more.

1:44:44 Murph: You want me to do hands? Okay, as you do like a nod thing, I shoot at the wrists.

1:44:49 Brennan: Cool.

1:44:50 Lou: Go off, The Ball.

1:44:52 Brennan: In order to move your wrist, you would need to move your hand, and in order to move your hand, you're gonna have to spring out of some of these bonds. Make a Perception check for me real quick.

1:45:08 Murph: Okay. Does my inquisitive, my steady eye doesn't give me--

1:45:20 Brennan: Actually, let's do Investigation, give me Investigation.

1:45:22 Murph: You love to see that. That's a 17.

1:45:29 Brennan: Okay. You're still holding your briefcase in your hand. You're gonna have to probably drop that to be able to move and get your watch hand free, and that might—

1:45:42 Emily: What about, oh, sorry.

1:45:47 Brennan: As long as you're not too worried about raising suspicion. Like I don't know, the demons are watching. So it's a calculated risk, whatever Riz would do.

1:45:57 Murph: Okay.

1:46:01 Emily: Before you said, okay, go on.

1:46:03 Murph: No, go ahead.

1:46:04 Emily: I was gonna say, before you said that, would something that originates from my pick require verbal and somatic?

1:46:11 Brennan: It would, it's still casting a spell, unfortunately.

1:46:13 Emily: Okay, go on then.

1:46:15 Murph: Yeah. I think despite what the unicorn said, it is the time for tricks. Lou dances in approval.

1:46:20 Murph: So Riz is going to, ooh, you know, at some point you have to grow up and drop the briefcase. I drop the briefcase, and I'll use my wrist to shoot at Fig's binds.

1:46:34 Brennan: Hell yes, awesome. You drop the briefcase. I'm gonna say that this is an attack with disadvantage, 'cause you're still restrained.

1:46:43 Emily: I wink at him, Bardic Inspiration.

1:46:45 Brennan: Hell yeah, you don't need any components for that.

1:46:46 Murph: You love to see it.

1:46:46 Brennan: Cool.

1:46:47 Murph: You love to see it. Please. Okay, okay. So—

1:46:54 Emily: I'm a d8, babe.

1:46:55 Murph: Okay, a d8, so right now I have a 13, and then I need a d8.

1:47:04 Brennan: So that's gonna be a seven or an eight on that d8, am I correct? Yes. To hit the—

1:47:12 Murph: I have to get a 20?

1:47:13 Brennan: Gotta get a 20, so it's gotta be a seven or an eight. You can do it.

1:47:15 Murph: Come on.

1:47:15 Lou: Come on.

1:47:17 Siobhan: Come on. We believe in you, The Ball.

1:47:20 Murph: It's a 4.

1:47:21 Siobhan: Dang.

1:47:22 Brennan: All right. I'm gonna narrate what happens next. You fire your watch, the demons begin to hoot and holler with laughter. You can tell, they kind of want you to escape, 'cause they wanna be able to like, kill you guys. You fire it, give me another Perception check with advantage.

1:47:45 Murph: Perception or Investigate?

1:47:47 Brennan: Investigate.

1:47:48 Murph: 29.

1:47:50 Brennan: [laughs in disbelief] 29? No one is moving to stop you from shooting again. With 29 Investigation, the briefcase, The Ball's briefcase, is jiggling a little bit. Fig. You are the recipient of a Sending spell in your mind. You receive a Sending spell, and you hear a voice say,

1:48:12 Bill Seacaster: Me darling lass, wanted to tell you, we sold all six suits of armor and I have your cut waiting, Bill Seacaster.

1:48:30 Emily: Am I allowed to respond?

1:48:32 Brennan: You are allowed to respond.

1:48:35 Emily: Can I sort of send him, drop a pin and send it back to him?

1:48:41 Brennan: Yeah, you can do that.

1:48:42 Emily: And just say like,

1:48:42 Fig: How about you pay me in a favor?

1:48:52 Emily: And then I drop a pin, and I'll also say,

1:48:55 Fig: Currently bound, trying to get some shit off me so I can cast spells.

1:49:00 Brennan: Hell yeah. Give me an Insight check as well, if you'd be so kind.

1:49:05 Emily: That's a nat 1.

1:49:08 Brennan: Bill is trying to fuck you over. There are seven deadly sins, and he's telling you that he sold all six suits of armor.

1:49:19 Emily: Oh, so he saved one. I just, I can't deal with this right now. I really can't deal with this right now. Enough is going on, I don't need someone else in my life trying to fuck me over.

1:49:34 Brennan: You see that, so. You're like, yeah, he's fucking you over. Riz, you see The Ball's briefcase is like hopping a little bit, but the clasp on it is locked.

1:49:50 Murph: Try again. I'll take a shot at the latch.

1:49:55 Brennan: Cool. This is just a latch on a briefcase, it's only an AC of 12.

1:49:59 Murph: Okay, disadvantage?

1:50:02 Brennan: Still disadvantage, yes.

1:50:03 Emily: Do I get to roll anything to try to have my lighter light me on fire?

1:50:09 Brennan: Yeah, give me a flat luck check.

1:50:13 Lou: Come on.

1:50:13 Emily: 16.

1:50:15 Brennan: 16's not bad. What's that Murph?

1:50:17 Murph: I got a 15 on my attack.

1:50:20 Brennan: Murph. As the demons laugh at you, the marilith starts to slither and says,

1:50:27 Marilith: Oh, he's found a little way to fight, has he?

1:50:31 Lou: Come on. [music changes to a growing, orchestral, heroic song]

1:50:32 Brennan: You hit the latch. As you hit the latch, you see the briefcase pops open and a golden suit of infernal armor stumbles out, collapses to the ground, with a huge glowing golden halberd. As it does so, you see it stands wobbling. The marilith looks. The visor is up and you can't see who it is yet. The marilith stands up and says,

1:51:03 Marilith: The Armor of Sin? It will latch on to whatever pride you have and destroy you.

1:51:11 Brennan: Gilear stands up.

1:51:14 Lou: [out of his seat] Oh! [cast cheers and laughs]

1:51:16 Lou: Yes!

1:51:16 Emily: What?!

1:51:17 Zac: Yes!

1:51:18 Brennan: You see Gilear stands up and says,

1:51:21 Gilear: In my haste to put the armor on, I buckled the leg plate and I think I've clipped the tip of my penis against one of the leg plates, and every time I move, it feels like it might come off, the tip of, so let me assure you, demon, I have no pride! [group laughs]

1:51:45 Brennan: Roiling with golden red light, Gilear surges forward, beheads the marilith in one shot.

1:51:51 Lou: Yes! Yes!

1:51:54 Emily: Looking up to see which, I was like I know Gilear has that seventh one. Yes!

1:52:01 Brennan: Gilear moves through these demons like a force of hell itself, beheading, goring. Every time he moves, you hear,

1:52:11 Gilear: Oh, god, my penis! I can't take large steps!

1:52:15 Murph: Can I put my tie to record it? I just want everyone to be able to see Gilear's big day.

1:52:24 Brennan: You pull on your tie. No demons are watching you. Fig tries to speak through a closed mouth.

1:52:30 Murph: Yeah, I'll try to break loose.

1:52:32 Brennan: Go ahead. The bonds are DC 20, you have advantage on these checks, which cancels out the disadvantage, so it's just, you have plus 14 to this roll, you gotta beat a DC of 20.

1:52:44 Emily: What are we rolling for this?

1:52:46 Brennan: He's using his Arcadian watch.

1:52:48 Emily: Oh. Can I just try to break through with like Strength?

1:52:52 Brennan: Give me a Strength check.

1:52:52 Emily: Okay.

1:52:54 Murph: 33.

1:52:56 Brennan: Jesus Christ. Riz, your spy watch goes into action, a saw of radiant light cuts you loose from this, and you are out of your bonds and have fully like James Bonded yourself out of these bindings. Fig is right across from you. Gilear is moving through these demons, just roaring with flame. (infernal roaring) What does Riz do in this moment?

1:53:27 Murph: I'll help Fig get out.

1:53:28 Brennan: Cool. Give me one more check. You're not bound anymore, so go ahead and give me one with advantage.

1:53:33 Murph: That's a flat 20.

1:53:38 Brennan: Hell yeah. Fig, you are loosed from your bindings as something has changed in the way Gilear's moving, like the armor has fully taken over. He's a fucking storm. The demons all begin to flee and vanish and disappear.

1:54:00 Zac: Oh my god.

1:54:03 Fig: That’s my dad!

1:54:03 Brennan: You see standing there in this golden armor, the visor down, this last like vrock demon is impaled, split, and you see Gilear [whirling] spins the halberd behind his back, plants it in the ground—

1:54:10 Emily: Whoa!

1:54:16 Brennan: Goes into a three point crouch. The armor opens up, and Gilear's fully dead body is vomited out onto the ground in front of you.

1:54:26 Emily: What?! Fully dead?!

1:54:29 Brennan: Full stop dead. Fully dead.

1:54:33 Lou: What?

1:54:33 Fig: Riz, do you have any diamonds on you?

1:54:39 Brennan: I'm gonna need Gorgug and Fabian to give me some Perception checks.

1:54:43 Lou: Okay.

1:54:43 Zac: Yeah. Are we flying, do we get advantage?

1:54:45 Brennan: Yes you are.

1:54:48 Riz: I don't have any diamonds.

1:54:52 Zac: 17, 17.

1:54:54 Lou: 26.

1:54:55 Brennan: 26.

1:54:55 Emily: Okay, wait.

1:54:57 Brennan: You guys spot infernal fire coming up from one of the islands and can fly there with Baxter.

1:55:03 Emily: Okay, Brennan. I'm going to use Prestidigitation, because illusion is real here. I'm gonna use Prestidigitation, you create a non-magical trinket or illusory image that you can fit in your hand. I'm gonna create a diamond in my hand and then Revivify Gilear.

1:55:21 Siobhan: Yes!

1:55:21 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna need, to make it, I'm gonna need a DC 25 Performance check, because you are trying to like, make a diamond beautiful enough that it would be worth that.

1:55:32 Emily: Okay.

1:55:32 Zac: Can we fly down?

1:55:34 Brennan: You guys can fly down, yes.

1:55:36 Murph: Is there anything I can do to help Fig with this?

1:55:40 Brennan: You can give her the help action, yeah.

1:55:41 Murph: Okay.

1:55:41 Zac: Can we get there before this happens, or?

1:55:44 Lou: Yeah, do we get to see any of Gilear's most beautiful day?

1:55:47 Brennan: As you guys are descending, you see the fullness. But you can just see a golden suit of armor, so you don't know what's happening until you guys land and Gilear gets vomited out.

1:55:56 Murph: We're cheering and letting out choking sobs with advantage?

1:56:00 Emily: I don't get it, yeah.

1:56:03 Zac: Can you get a Bardic from Fabian?

1:56:04 Emily: I got a 22.

1:56:06 Siobhan: Oh, from Fabian.

1:56:07 Brennan: Zac- oh, if you want a bardic from Fabian you can get it.

1:56:10 Lou: Yes, of course.

1:56:10 Fabian: Spring break, I believe in you.

1:56:12 Fig: Oh, okay.

1:56:13 Fabian: Also, what's happening?

1:56:15 Riz: Gilear rules and he's dead!

1:56:17 Emily: I got 27, does that count?

1:56:18 Brennan: A perfect diamond appears in your hand. [Emily cheers]

1:56:22 Brennan: Fig, you rush forward to Gilear's dead body prostrate on the ground. What do you do as you rush up?

1:56:32 Emily: I take him in my arms and I say,

1:56:32 Fig: I've always been afraid that I'm more like you than I am like Mom, but now I know that I'm actually proud that I'm more like you than I am like Mom.

1:56:45 Emily: And I keep him in my arms and then I bring him back to life.

1:56:50 Brennan: You see that flaming anarchy symbol appears over his heart, and a portal appears into his chest of flame. You reach your hand in, hold his heart, and with the warmth and heat of the fire from your hand, squeeze his heart and (gasps) your father comes back to life.

1:57:10 Emily: Ooh, can I also say that I used my bass guitar to almost like restart his heart?

1:57:16 Brennan: Hell yeah, I love that. Boom, hit that power chord. He snaps back to it, and as he does so, you see Gilear (gasps), comes to, all these wounds over his body.

1:57:33 Lou: You say he's naked?

1:57:36 Fig: Don't look.

1:57:36 Brennan: Yeah.

1:57:37 Fig: Let a man have his privacy.

1:57:40 Fabian: Okay, all right.

1:57:40 Brennan: Actually, you know what? Gilear is naked. Everyone make a Dexterity saving throw to not look at Gilear's junk while he's naked. [Siobhan laughs]

1:57:49 Zac: I have Danger Sense, so I can do this with two.

1:57:52 Brennan: With advantage. I'm gonna say Fabian, you roll disadvantage.

1:57:54 Emily: 16.

1:57:55 Lou: God dammit.

1:57:56 Murph: I have 13.

1:57:59 Zac: Dirty 20.

1:58:00 Emily: 16, I gotta think I don't see it.

1:58:01 Lou: I get a flat 10.

1:58:03 Brennan: Fabian and Riz, Gilear is hung like a goddamn horse.

1:58:10 Lou: Fuck off! No he's not!

1:58:12 Murph: I just share a look with Fabian.

1:58:15 Lou: I fully look The Ball in the eye.

1:58:18 Brennan: Anyone who got a 14 or lower, you know for a fact that Gilear is packing like nobody, you've been in locker rooms, it doesn't matter, nobody you've ever seen.

1:58:29 Zac: It doesn't matter.

1:58:30 Emily: 16, blissful ignorance, thanks.

1:58:33 Riz: He is the chosen one.

1:58:33 Fabian: He truly is the chosen one, The Ball. I knew it all along, and now I know it for sure.

1:58:39 Brennan: Gilear (gasps) comes back to life, quickly protects his modesty, looks at you, Fig, puts a hand on your head and says, (sobs)

1:58:52 Gilear: Daughter, are you all right, are you safe?

1:58:53 Fig: Yes, yes, I am, I am specifically because of you, you just saved me and you saved Riz, and you saved Baby, as soon as I free him.

1:59:03 Brennan: You see Baby screams.

1:59:03 Baby: [hands bound] Don't free me, I like this!

1:59:10 Fig: Okay, we'll build one of those for you at home.

1:59:13 Baby: [weirdly suggestively] I don't deserve to go around and do things!

1:59:21 Brennan: You see Gilear look, and just full weeping, he goes,

1:59:23 Gilear: My darling daughter, I am so glad you're safe. I am sorry I stole the armor from the bottomless pit. I just didn't know any other way that if it came down to it, I would be able to protect you. [pained] Ah! Oh.

1:59:40 Fig: You have nothing to apologize for. This means everything to me.

1:59:46 Gilear: [groans] I died, I died really quick. Really quick in there. It's hard, because as soon as I started to kick ass, I started to feel like I was cool, and then the armor just really killed me right away.

1:59:56 Riz: Gilear, that was the coolest goddamn thing I've ever seen. You're the coolest guy.

2:00:03 Brennan: You see full tears, he looks around and says,

2:00:08 Gilear: Well, I am very glad that you… I'm glad it was worth doing. And if it was cool, then that's fine, and if I clipped my penis into the armor by accident and then started to feel like I was doing a good job, and then the armor, and then that's pride, and then the armor found, you know, you see what I mean? It's very hard to be kicking a lot of ass—

2:00:37 Fig: Gilear, Gilear, don't you realize though that this opens a well in you. You've been missing out, I think you could use a little pride, so maybe putting on this armor sort of opened an untapped reservoir that's maybe been neglected. And maybe you should dip into that and try a little pride.

2:00:55 Fabian: Drink deeply, Gilear.

2:00:56 Fig: Drink deeply of the well of pride.

2:00:58 Gorgug: Gilear, is your penis okay?

2:01:00 Fig: Feel free to go a little too far, you're so far in the other direction.

2:01:03 Fabian: His penis is fine, Gorgug, I'll tell you that right now. His penis is perfectly okay.

2:01:08 Gorgug: I'm not sure why, I'm feeling some animosity here, I'm not sure why.

2:01:12 Riz: I feel like, I didn't see the whole thing, but from what I saw, it looked fine.

2:01:16 Fabian: I didn't see it all, but something tells me it's fine.

2:01:18 Riz: It was like over a leg and a little bit into like some bushes nearby.

2:01:23 Gilear: No no, that's all right.

2:01:25 Gorgug: Oh my god.

2:01:27 Gilear: Look, everyone. I, uh. Oh! That was wild, and I suppose if I have enough pride that I can be killed by devil armor, then I should have enough pride to know that when push came to shove, I did what was necessary to protect my daughter and her friends. So, I feel that I've done what I needed to do, and if this was my contribution, and I had to die and again, hurt my penis very badly, then that is all to the good.

2:02:07 Fig: Dad, oh, go on, Dad?

2:02:08 Gilear: Sorry, yes.

2:02:09 Fig: No, you go, Dad.

2:02:12 Gilear: I was gonna say, some clothes would be wonderful.

2:02:14 Emily: Well, I can make things that are the size of my hand, so I make some small clothing for him. Just Prestidigitation some clothing.

2:02:26 Zac: I for some reason have been holding on my inventory a leather jacket from the Johnny Spells fight in the first season. Can I just give him a leather jacket?

2:02:34 Brennan: Perfect. So Fig creates a crumpled up pair of briefs, which is like what you can create, and so Gilear is wearing no shirt, leather jacket, pair of tighty whities, that's all he's got.

2:02:48 Ally: Oh my god.

2:02:49 Riz: Now this dude fucks.

2:02:53 Fabian: [nodding] Yes he does.

2:02:58 Gorgug: We're here with, we found Baxter, but we didn't find your mom, by the way. And I think she might be under a spell still?

2:03:08 Fig: Under a spell, what do you mean?

2:03:11 Fabian: She attacked Baxter.

2:03:14 Gorgug: So I think she, I don't know what's going on, but Baxter is pretty hurt, and he had a bunch of arrows in him.

2:03:21 Fig: Well, I'm sure—

2:03:21 Fabian: [proudly] Gorgug healed him.

2:03:23 Fig: It's just some kind of spell, right?

2:03:25 Gorgug: Yeah, I mean, I guess so, I just think we should be ready for that. Also, yeah, I only have one spell slot left, so I can only heal one more person ever.

2:03:39 Fig: I've got Healing Word, if anyone needs it.

2:03:42 Gorgug: Okay.

2:03:42 Zac: I cast Spare the Dying on Gilear's penis. Group laughs.

2:03:49 Brennan: You guys turn around as you hear someone approaching. Adaine rushes into the clearing, holding a sword.

2:03:56 Adaine: Oh! Hi! Gorgug, Fig, Fabian and Riz all say hi to Adaine.

2:03:59 Fig: You cool?

2:03:59 Adaine: I'm cool.

2:04:00 Fig: Wait a second, don't use that on us.

2:04:02 Adaine: I’m strong! I have a sword now. I'm not gonna use it on you.

2:04:06 Fabian: Okay.

2:04:06 Adaine: Wait, is everybody, everybody's here.

2:04:09 Fig: Except for Kristen.

2:04:09 Riz: Everybody except for Kristen.

2:04:11 Fabian: Yes, Kristen.

2:04:12 Fig: And also Sandra Lynn, we think she attacked Baxter.

2:04:18 Riz: And Ragh's still missing, and Tracker, obviously.

2:04:19 Fig: And Ragh is still missing, and Tracker.

2:04:22 Gorgug: The van. Wait, is the van here?

2:04:25 Fig: And Ayda of course

2:04:25 Adaine: And Ayda.

2:04:25 Fig: But we know where Ayda is, we know that Ayda's at the sanctum at the cottage.

2:04:30 Zac: Wait, which place are we at right now? Is that not the celestial place?

2:04:34 Brennan: You guys are in the celestial gallery. You can sense other celestials off in the woods. You're near where Ayda would be.

2:04:42 Adaine: Oh my god, let's go to Ayda. I have Locate Creature, we can cast Locate Creature on Ayda.

2:04:47 Fig: Yeah.

2:04:48 Fabian: Can we make Gilear get back in the suitcase real quick?

2:04:52 Gorgug: How did he get in the suitcase?

2:04:54 Siobhan: Wait, I can't cast Locate Creature, I'm out of spell slots, I'm sorry.

2:04:55 Lou: Or the briefcase, excuse me.

2:04:59 Brennan: Oh, you see that… What is it, oh, Gilear looked—

2:05:05 Emily: We had just walked by it.

2:05:08 Brennan: Gilear says,

2:05:08 Gilear: After Figueroth told me I was not allowed to come, I knew you wouldn't let me, so I took the armor while you were sleeping and I hid in Riz's briefcase.

2:05:21 Gorgug: Okay. (laughs) Wow, incredible.

2:05:25 Adaine: What's it like in there?

2:05:28 Gilear: I was extremely oxygen-deprived for a long time. So what I tried to do was every time I felt like there was a rest or some stop of movement, I would pop out and try to open it, but the last time I did it, the latch came down and also there's a lot of stuff in here and I fell down and knocked some things over, so it's been eventful.

2:05:51 Fig: Yeah. Well, it was all worth it. And I guess, I don't even know that we need Locate Creature to find Ayda, because I literally got marched by her and I have her feather, maybe her feather will--

2:06:05 Gorgug: Do you wanna hop on Baxter and, he's only got three HP, but--

2:06:10 Fig: Yeah, I can hop on Baxter and I can just kind of fly around to try and find where I was when I felt her.

2:06:17 Fabian: Great.

2:06:18 Brennan: Incredible. So you guys are gonna go run and find, you're gonna go on Baxter and find Ayda. What are the rest of you doing who are staying in the clearing for right now?

2:06:28 Siobhan: I would like to cast Identify on my sword.

2:06:31 Brennan: Hell yes, cool. So you go ahead to cast Identify on the sword. As you do so, you see that… [sparkly Identify spell music]

2:06:43 Identify: Ah yes, this is another use of the Identify spell. The object that you now hold in your hand is known as the Sword of Sight, the ancestral sword of the oracle of the elves, constructed in ages long past by Telemaine Lomenelda. While wielding this weapon, that has a plus one bonus to attack and damage rolls, you gain the following benefits. Your base armor class while wearing no armor is 12, which would bump your AC up to 15. You may cast Divination cantrips as a bonus action. Any time you cast a Divination spell, you gain the benefit of the Dodge action. You do not have disadvantage on melee attacks made with this weapon against creatures you cannot see.

2:07:37 Adaine: Your grandfather made this sword, Fabian.

2:07:41 Fabian: Very cool. That's my grandpapa.

2:07:44 Adaine: He's really good at, slow, but good.

2:07:47 Fabian: Slow, but good, very good.

2:07:51 Murph: I'd like to really quick, because I'll probably have to tape over this with something more important, but I'd like to play Gilear kicking demons' asses and take a video of it with my crystal.

2:08:05 Emily: Ooh, upload it to our cool account.

2:08:07 Murph: I'll upload it to the cool account.

2:08:09 Zac: It looks like a found footage viral marketing campaign.

2:08:12 Lou: Yeah.

2:08:14 Brennan: Hell yes.

2:08:15 Murph: It's called "Gilear Absolutely Going Mad on These Lads." [group laughs]

2:08:23 Brennan: Incredible. So. We're going to cut back to… We are going to cut now back to Kristen Applebees. Kristen, what's going through your mind as you walk through the terror of the Nightmare King's forest? [discordant, Nightmare Forest ambiance]

2:08:43 Ally: All right, I have something to say. Okay, so I have no spells.

2:08:50 Brennan: Correct.

2:08:52 Ally: I've been, I wouldn't say forsaken since it was more my actions, but I don't have Sol, I don't have the moon goddess.

2:09:04 Brennan: [shakes his head] Mm-mm.

2:09:07 Ally: Okay. Fuck. I would like to use my blood to start drawing, as fast as I can, what I saw of this towering goddess being hit with lightning. I wanna try to recreate that visual.

2:09:29 Brennan: Give me a Religion check.

2:09:34 Ally: Okay, that is a… [grins] That is a 25. I'm sorry, 24.

2:09:47 Brennan: The bark of the trees hungrily drinks in the blood. As your dirty fingers smear the shape of this face, the blood moves across the surface of the tree, sap begins to bleed out from the rivets of the bark, and you see the sap is a deep, viscous red.

2:10:23 Low Menacing Voice: [snarls] Beware of what you give a face and what you give a name. Power there is in these things. But perhaps more power there yet remains in the nameless and the unseen. You know what is unseen, even now. She is behind you and not far on your trail. She is hungry, Kristen, and when she finds you, the kiss she gives you will be your last.

2:11:21 Kristen: I don't care.

2:11:25 Ally: I paint this picture of this face of the unknown goddess, and I get down completely, like flat, like not even bowing, just full body down face on the ground to worship it, making myself maybe now the representative of like 100% of her followers, if as so above, so below, I am now representative and I believe she's real and I believe she's good and that she can come back again. It seems like the Nightmare King wanted to get rid of her, and the twilight, you know, all the elves got rid of her as well, everyone's against her, but I'm her number one follower.

2:12:22 Brennan: You get down underneath this tree, your hands covered in blood, the image of the unnamed goddess in front of you. You begin to pray. You stop running, and you can feel something in the forest, hungry, drawing closer to you.

2:12:39 Ally: Mm-hmm. That's okay. I mean, I feel like people need to know what they're worshiping, they have this kind of like, knowledge is power is control, but I think that that's all an illusion, none of us really know why we're here, and this god is perfect for me, and I'm still just, yeah, whole-heartedly a follower of this mystery.

2:13:05 Brennan: You reach out. Give me a Religion check. You roll that with advantage anyway, but go ahead and give me a Religion check.

2:13:12 Ally: 18.

2:13:15 Brennan: You begin to pray. As you do, you see the blood on the tree changes. A beautiful face looks out at you and says…

2:13:33 Unnamed Goddess: You. All I ever wanted was to be there for people in the darkness and tell them that the night can't hurt you. That the things that you're afraid of in shadow are still dangerous in the light of day, and that there is nothing in the darkness other than mystery. I just wanted to hold their hand when they couldn't see.

2:14:09 Brennan: You feel this idea of like, this being reaching out to you and saying,

2:14:19 Unnamed Goddess: Everyone abandoned and destroyed me.

2:14:23 Brennan: And you see a flash of images. You see this weird undead like pixie or sprite that looks like it's like a cicada husk, like layers of its skin are paper dry and like flaking off as it like chitters around. You see what looks like a sculpture made of rotting wood and old moss-covered stone in the shape of a centaur, but like a rotting, its like jaw is missing and like hanging loose, made of like old rotted wood but with real bone teeth set into the wood, and no eyes, just smooth wood over the top of its face. You see this like, insane treant, like living tree, that is bound by iron bands all over it that are clearly cutting into its wood, and it looks like huge and enraged, and you see the elf that Adaine saw in her scrying on Kalina, the one that was in the tree with the vines going into his mouth, that was all diseased and covered in pustules. You see these flickers when she talks about people betraying her, and realize that these are the court of elders. These people and the unicorn are the people that you know, like you've read a lot of shit about the high elves tricking people, but by the same token, these people worshiped this goddess and allowed themselves to be tricked. They did not listen to the visions that the goddess sent them. They betrayed their, you know, it's not just the high elves that committed this betrayal, it was the followers of the goddess as well. You have an image of the Nightmare King that you still can't think of how to piece into this. You're not sure how the Nightmare King figures into all this. And as you had that thing of like, the Nightmare King killed the goddess, there is a little moment of residual fear, and you feel that residual fear sever this vision and this connection. Not fully, but you feel yourself like, gain intimacy, and then as you become afraid of the Nightmare King, lose a little bit of intimacy, and you are back in the clearing on your knees praying. A sphere of twilight surrounds you. Your embrace of doubt surrounds you. And licking her chops in full wolf form, her mouth covered in blood, is Tracker, staring at you hungrily.

2:17:00 Ally: Is the twilight from Tracker?

2:17:04 Brennan: Nah baby, that's from you.

2:17:06 Ally: That's from me.

2:17:07 Brennan: That's from you.

2:17:11 Ally: Do I feel like spells come to me, or is this like a...

2:17:21 Brennan: I'm going to say, does Kristen have fear of following the Unnamed Goddess in her heart still or not? What is her conviction in her following that path?

2:17:35 Ally: Zero fear, all conviction.

2:17:39 Brennan: Your spells return, Kristen is a Twilight Domain cleric.

2:17:42 Emily: Yeah!

2:17:44 Ally: Yeah, bitch. Okay, Tracker is in front of me, right?

2:17:48 Brennan: Tracker is there. She is being abjured. You realize that your Twilight Domain is not like Tracker's. She is a moon priestess. She follows that like primal path of the goddess whose followers killed the Unnamed Goddess. Your shit is like pure nighttime. It is like, the goddess, you've realized that like, doubt is impossible to hold as a conviction in your heart, but a love and embrace of mystery is a belief you can hold in your heart. And that feeling of standing in the middle of the nighttime in the deep forest and not being afraid, that's the power that now rests in your heart. Tracker looks at you. Yeah, what does Kristen do in this moment?

2:18:50 Ally: I cast Greater Invisibility on myself.

2:18:56 Brennan: You cast Greater Invisibility. Tracker (snorts) snarls, and you hear a voice ring out from her. Tracker does a good job of keeping her lycanthropy in check, this is a curse. You see this has taken her fully. You see she says,

2:19:20 Tracker: (snarls) Where are you running? Why don't you want to be close to me? Why don't you accept me like I am? You're so fucking selfish. It's always about your quest, your journey, your doubt, your mission. What do I do, just support you? I'm so tired, I could rip you apart! [snarls] [screams]

2:19:48 Ally: I walk around behind her, and I slam my staff down and cast Greater Restoration on her.

2:19:59 Brennan: You slam the staff down, cast Greater Restoration. Now this is something that I have to look up to see if you can cast this on an unwilling creature. Hold on one second.

2:20:13 Ally: I have a backup plan if not.

2:20:16 Zac: Do you have a dart?

2:20:19 Brennan: No, you just have a potion.

2:20:20 Ally: I just have a potion. No one would trust me, all right?

2:20:25 Zac: We shoulda given Kristen a dart gun.

2:20:26 Siobhan: No, absolutely not.

2:20:27 Ally: You all should have given me a lot of guns.

2:20:31 Murph: If you could physically use the dart, yeah. Now, yeah.

2:20:36 Brennan: I'm gonna home rule this as a like, it is a like melee attack, melee spell attack. So go ahead, you have a +9 to this. Tracker's… Tracker's, ba ba ba. Where is Tracker, hold on. Tracker's armor class is 14 so you just have to roll a 4 or higher. What'd you get? Ally holds up 3 fingers.

2:20:58 Brennan: 3.

2:21:19 Ally: A 3. Fuck!

2:21:21 Brennan: Your hand moves through Tracker. You see you are incorporeal. You're still dead, or undead, or whatever thing you are. And you see that you are sucked away as Tracker screams out in pain, just howling, and says,

2:21:42 Tracker: Why are you leaving me! I always knew you were gonna leave me! Tracker screams.

2:21:51 Brennan: And you are gone.

2:21:54 Ally: As I'm being taken away, can I… Fuck, nevermind, I don't wanna do that. [groans] Fuck, okay, yeah, nevermind, sorry.

2:22:07 Brennan: You zoom off. As you do so, as you zoom away from there, you see the forest filling you with visions. You see the face of the Nightmare King as the forest races past you, you're zooming through it. The Nightmare King says...

2:22:33 The Nightmare King: Why? You worship something that is dead and gone, the goddess is no more. You have chosen a path of pain. An image of the Nightmare King is on screen. He is a glowing lich skeleton with tattered robes and a black crown.

2:22:52 Brennan: And fear rushes into you.

2:22:56 Ally: Can I roll to get to fight that? 'Cause I think death is the ultimate mystery. I think it's fine that she's dead.

2:23:06 Brennan: Fuck yeah. And in fact, you said you're doing your Twilight Domain thing, right? So like—

2:23:10 Ally: Yeah. (laughs)

2:23:11 Brennan: You can just end the fear effect on yourself. This Nightmare King just starts throwing vision after vision of you. It throws you visions of the fact that you abandoned your following of Helio, you know, people, all of those second guesses of the fact that you chose a harder life for yourself, hands down. Your brothers are left behind, your parents are confused, and everything you've ever been afraid of, every weird, irrational story you've ever told yourself about why you're bad, and that final fear comes in front of you. What do you think Kristen's final fear she faces is? What's the last thing she sees that the Nightmare King does to try to break her?

2:24:07 Ally: I mean, I just saw Tracker so messed up, maybe it's like Helio or someone coming and saving like all of my friends, and I was just so wrong, like, couldn't have been more wrong, and I just die totally alone, without taking the easy answers that were offered.

2:24:32 Brennan: You look back, and the fear that the Nightmare King uses that you feel about to snap to snap your soul in half is that exact fear. You got told your entire childhood that the world would tempt you, that the devil always sounds convincing, and that if you strayed from the path, you would be lost. And what did you do when you went to Aguefort? Exactly what your parents said, you strayed from the path. And you left because you were so sure you were right, and you still haven't found the answers that you thought you could find, and would it have been so bad to be wrong if you were just gonna be wrong anyway this way and be miserable? And you feel that. You feel that that's the best card the Nightmare King can play as you are whisking through space and time. What does Kristen do as you break that fear off of you?

2:25:54 Ally: I think I think about how the… Who was the god that I just talked to that's like Tracker's god?

2:26:04 Brennan: Galicaea.

2:26:05 Ally: Galicaea, I think about how she just straight-up lied. Like she's clearly grasping at straws for power, she said that the Nightmare King killed her sister when in reality, she convinced all of her sister's followers to forget her. Like it just seems like everybody is after, it's a power grab, and everybody's basic and wrong. Brennan and Ally laugh.

2:26:32 Brennan: As you say, "everybody is basic and wrong," Group laughs.

2:26:37 Brennan: You leave the realm of fear.

2:26:42 Ally: Cool.

2:26:46 Brennan: You're drawing spells from a divinity that is gone, and the spells are working, and you got killed, but you didn't die, and anyone who can look at those facts and think they know how the cosmos works is crazy. And the only sane thing to do is to accept that all of this and the way it all fits together is more complex than any being, even a god, could understand. And the honesty of the divinity you've chosen that says "mortals, I also don't know," fills you with more hope and peace than you can imagine. You are floating above all of your friends in a clearing. You can see them all. It doesn't really make sense, but you feel something, in one of your friends' pockets, I believe it's Adaine, it's either Adaine or Fig. Who took Kristen's finger bone? Siobhan raises her hand.

2:27:25 Brennan: Adaine.

2:28:03 Siobhan: I did.

2:28:04 Brennan: You feel drawn to something in Adaine's pocket.

2:28:09 Ally: Okay, I go reach into Adaine's pocket.

2:28:16 Adaine: Do you feel something?

2:28:17 Brennan: You guys watch as a finger bone, Kristen's finger bone, floats up into the air.

2:28:23 Adaine: What the hell? I hate this place.

2:28:28 Brennan: As you guys do that...

2:28:32 Zac: I'm gonna attack it. I get crit automatically on objects, so.

2:28:38 Murph: I pull out my gun.

2:28:39 Zac: Max damage on this finger bone.

2:28:41 Emily: I think I'm on Baxter, I think I might not be there.

2:28:45 Brennan: Kristen. You're holding your own finger bone.

2:28:50 Kristen: I've always wanted to do that.

2:28:58 Brennan: Maybe you died, maybe this is some new thing. You think it might be impossible for you to come back to life. But… You feel these like new spells and miracles filling your body, coming from this unknown source. The fact that something is impossible maybe doesn't mean anything. You feel a potential that you could maybe, if you wanted to, cast Raise Dead on yourself. [[the music in the background is gentle, heavenly and choral]

2:29:48 Ally: Whoa. I cast Raise Dead on myself.

2:29:57 Brennan: You guys look, see the finger bone, it turns into a single point of light, like a distant star.

2:30:05 Zac: Of course.

2:30:06 Brennan: And the night sky appears behind it and opens. With a halo of softly scintillating shadow depicting a starry nighttime sky, Saint Kristen Applebees walks out of void, having raised herself from the dead, as your finger reattaches, and forever after glows with a little bit of starlight.

2:30:35 Kristen: Oh, that's hot for being gay. Group laughs.

2:30:45 Brennan: Incredible. Awesome. Kristen has returned, you guys see Kristen back with you.

2:30:51 Adaine: KRISTEN!!

2:30:51 Gorgug: It's Kristen!

2:30:51 Kristen: Hey!

2:30:53 Emily: Am I there? Am I there?

2:30:55 Brennan: Yes, you are still there, you had not left on Baxter yet.

2:30:58 Fig: Kristen, I'm sorry, I tried to Revivify you, and then I went into this tunnel, and it was scary, and then we found you and it was bones.

2:31:06 Gorgug: Your bones were really old.

2:31:07 Fabian: It's like you died 600 years ago or something.

2:31:09 Riz: I chased that unicorn, I thought that the unicorn took you, but then it didn't, 'cause—

2:31:14 Fig: Are you okay?

2:31:16 Kristen: No, the unicorn is bad, the unicorn is part of like a council of elders and all of them fucked over my new god, and it's the only one alive, it seems like—

2:31:24 Fabian: New god?

2:31:24 Kristen: Wait, Gorgug, I died again!

2:31:28 Gorgug: Aww, yeah, I know. I'm so sorry I wasn't there.

2:31:32 Kristen: No, it's okay, it's just it's different the second time.

2:31:35 Gorgug: Was the second time different? Okay, interesting.

2:31:37 Kristen: It's like meeting the boss. It's like the boss level. I got to see a bunch of different gods, they all were bad. Yeah, no, but anyway, yeah, now I'm, oh wait, I saw Tracker. Tracker is really fucked up. Are you guys good, did you find everybody?

2:31:46 Gorgug: We can't find—

2:31:55 Kristen: Ayda and Sandra Lynn?

2:31:58 Fig: We know where Ayda is.

2:31:59 Adaine: I killed my dad. Everyone cheers excitedly.

2:32:02 Kristen: You killed your dad?

2:32:07 Fabian: Damn.

2:32:10 Ally: I hug you.

2:32:10 Kristen: Congrats!

2:32:10 Fabian: We are having a day.

2:32:11 Fig: That's good, I love that for you.

2:32:12 Kristen: Man.

2:32:14 Adaine: I had to leave Aelwyn, but we weren't very far away, I feel like, can we go back to where I left Aelwyn?

2:32:23 Brennan: Yes, so there is Ayda to get, there is Aelwyn to get, Gilear is here with you guys as well.

2:32:29 Siobhan: The Chosen One. I believe it now.

2:32:32 Ally: Tracker.

2:32:32 Zac: Tracker, Ragh.

2:32:33 Brennan: Ragh, and you know that your mom is somewhere off doing the ritual. So—

2:32:38 Emily: And then yeah, what about Sandra Lynn?

2:32:42 Brennan: Sandra Lynn, you haven't seen Sandra Lynn yet, nor have you guys seen Ragh.

2:32:47 Ally: Okay.

2:32:49 Emily: Okay, so they're somewhere together.

2:32:51 Zac: Can we try to, how much time do we have?

2:32:56 Brennan: I think you guys probably don't think you have too much time. Who's going to go get Ayda, who's gonna go get Aelwyn, and is there anything else people are doing?

2:33:05 Ally: While we're doing, oh, sorry.

2:33:07 Siobhan: Can I take either Kristen or Gorgug? Either Kristen or Gorgug.

2:33:10 Zac: One slot total.

2:33:12 Siobhan: She just needs to be brought back up.

2:33:15 Ally: I can do it now.

2:33:16 Emily: I could also use someone with heals, I don't know how hurt Ayda is.

2:33:22 Zac: I think that's just—

2:33:22 Ally: Oh, you're right. Who has antidotes, who do we need to heal?

2:33:26 Lou: I do not.

2:33:27 Ally: I tried to heal Tracker, but I fucked up.

2:33:29 Murph: I can go, if Kristen wanted to come with me, I could try to get Tracker with a dart.

2:33:36 Ally: Yes, yeah, I think that will work, she's really rabid.

2:33:39 Zac: Kristen, you're the only one that can really heal anyone, also.

2:33:44 Ally: Is there a way to get everybody in one spot? 'Cause I have some new kind of like aura abilities that I can heal and protect people if we get us stacked.

2:33:57 Emily: Okay. I can go just grab Ayda on Baxter and bring her back to be healed by you.

2:34:03 Murph: That's a good idea. Fig, do you have any--

2:34:04 Adaine: Yeah, Fabian, do you wanna come on a Aelwyn rescue mission with me?

2:34:09 Fabian: I would love to.

2:34:10 Zac: Fig, do you have any heals?

2:34:12 Emily: I have bonus action Healing Words.

2:34:14 Zac: Okay.

2:34:15 Ally: I have some heals that I could try to heal Baxter with. I have a Cure Wounds.

2:34:20 Brennan: Cool. So it sounds like you guys are gonna split up. Adaine and Fabian are gonna go to get Aelwyn. Fig and Gorgug, Fig and who else is gonna go get Ayda?

2:34:36 Zac: I can go wherever. What makes sense for, I think I could go with Fig.

2:34:39 Emily: Yeah, why don't you come with me?

2:34:41 Murph: That makes the most sense.

2:34:42 Brennan: And then Riz and Kristen, Gilear's gonna go with Fig as well. Riz and Kristen are going off to go try to find Tracker?

2:34:50 Ally and Murph: Yeah.

2:34:51 Brennan: Cool.

2:34:52 Ally: I just healed Baxter for 20, by the way.

2:34:54 Emily: Yeah!

2:34:55 Zac: Whoa.

2:34:56 Lou: Look at that.

2:34:57 Brennan: Also, our final Bad Kid to do this, Kristen's Intelligence bumps up two points to 14.

2:35:05 Ally: Hey!

2:35:07 Siobhan: The smart kids.

2:35:08 Zac: It's not the Dex, though?

2:35:10 Emily: Not Dex, though?

2:35:10 Siobhan: Yeah, not that Dex, though?

2:35:10 Kristen: I don't know what you guys are talking about, I'm very dextrous. When have I ever fallen down?

2:35:16 Gorgug: You fell down right now, you're on the ground.

2:35:18 Riz: You don't bend your knees when you walk.

2:35:22 Brennan: Incredible. You guys split up, we're gonna take a short break here. Maybe we actually should take our full break here, we've been playing for about two and a half hours. And we will come back and jump right in, hell yeah, gang. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 20: Spring Break! I Believe In You! (Part 2)]

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