Vulture Clash

0:00:19 Fantasy High: Junior Year Emily Axford as Fig Faeth; Zac Oyama as Gorgug Thistlespring; Siobhan Thompson as Adaine Abernant; Lou Wilson as Fabian Seacaster; Ally Beardsley as Kristen Applebees; and Brian “Murph” Murphy as Riz Gukgak Episode 9: Vulture Clash < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:34 Content Warning: Consumption of Rotting Organs, Description of a Dead Minor [Intro Theme]

0:00:49 Brennan: Hello, one and all! Welcome back to another thrilling episode of "Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year." I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan. With me, as always, are our Intrepid Heroes. Say hi, Intrepid Heroes!

0:00:57 Players: Hi, Intrepid Heroes!

0:01:00 Brennan: What happened that I missed?

0:01:01 Ally: I just decided to open up a bag of, we won't say what kinda chips, and I thought it was gonna be like, "Wanna play some D&D?" and there would be enough time for us to say yeah and I would... [pops tongue] But launched right in and it was like, "Hello, one and all!"

0:01:15 Brennan: Hello one and all. Yeah, and it just sorta started. Last we left off, our Intrepid Heroes were in the midst of the Frosty Fair Folk Festival facing down none other than Interim Emergency Backup Principal Grix, who had sprung out over the tree to attack Ruben, the member of the Rat Grinders and front man of My Clerical Gnomance.

0:01:39 Emily: You wanted to attack us.

0:01:41 Brennan: Me? Brennan?

0:01:41 Emily: I think so.

0:01:43 Ally: Yeah.

0:01:43 Emily: Yeah.

0:01:44 Siobhan: You're mad that we're not doing drugs. You want us to be cooler.

0:01:47 Lou: You clumped us all together and tried to get us to do drugs.

0:01:49 Siobhan: You tried to get us to do drugs.

0:01:51 Brennan: If everyone's mad at me because I somehow made Adaine cast Counterspell, you didn't even have to be involved in this fight! You could've been hanging out and watching a fun fight between a robot and a gnome that I thought you guys didn't even like that much to begin with!

0:02:06 Lou: The song is great.

0:02:06 Murph: We don't!

0:02:08 Siobhan: The song slaps.

0:02:08 Ally: Completely right.

0:02:10 Brennan: There were some intense confrontations last time between Gorgug and his parents, and sort of how they were running the lead-up to the Frosty Fair Folk Festival.

0:02:17 Zac: I think this might be Gorgug's worst day of his life.

0:02:23 Brennan: And Gorgug's died before. Let's be clear.

0:02:25 Zac: Yeah. Yeah, I know.

0:02:28 Brennan: This is also where you had a conversation with Ruben where he came out of his disguise as an old sort of druid and seemed to say that he's never taken a shit and also was getting mobbed for autographs. So not a very honest gnomish bard, all things being equal. This was also the day that you found, in Mordred Manor, you pored through all of the notes from Cormyr and Rana, Lydia Barkrock's old adventuring party, that were all about Bakur the fiend, the ritual that he tried to pull off in the Red Waste, and all this stuff about Oblivati Mori, the gods remembering their dead but not being able to break that sort of silence to mortals. If mortals have forgotten a god and thereby banished it to the Astral Realm, the gods are not allowed to circle back and be like, "Hey, wait, a couple of you. Come back. Worship my old pal." All of that unfolding, the battle raged, lawnmowers and various other devices that had been retrofitted for some, you know, totally healthy adult activity in the privacy of their own tree. Noticing a vulture perched on a piece of scaffolding, the spell-less Kristen Applebees, still separated from her deity, wandered forward to address the bird. And rather than simply sort of squawking and flying away, the bird was happy to bring you screaming into the Vulture Dimension! Which, once again, you are now all entering. You are entering [adventurous music] the Vulture Dimension.

0:03:59 Ally: This is so sick. This gives me "Simpsons" vibes in a really good way.

0:04:02 Zac: It was "Treehouse of Horrors."

0:04:02 Siobhan: Yes.

0:04:05 Brennan: Incredibly fucking cool. These projections are great. And honestly, as it fades into the actual Vulture Dimension, beautiful? It actually is kind of beautiful.

0:04:13 Lou: Calming, calming.

0:04:14 Brennan: Calming, yeah. Very calming.

0:04:14 Ally: Honestly, yeah.

0:04:15 Siobhan: Maybe we just stay here?

0:04:16 Lou: I'm assuming that means the Vulture Dimension's a great place to hang out.

0:04:19 Siobhan: Yeah, can we just chill in the Vulture Dimension?

0:04:20 Lou: Kinda a bit of respite.

0:04:21 Emily: I'm assuming we have this here 'cause you just need to know the range for all the heals the vultures-

0:04:26 Siobhan: Right, the vultures are all gonna give us a long rest, right?

0:04:29 Lou: These guys are also at the spa in the Vulture Dimension.

0:04:32 Brennan: As you appear here, Riz, you immediately feel the concentration on the Dominate Monster on you drop as you exit the dimension. Adaine, you are standing here. Your elemental has come with you. And Kristen, as you appear, this massive, hulking vulture stands over you and goes,

0:04:51 Vulture: [caws] You have entered the Vulture Dimension!

0:04:55 Ally: I look around to make sure I'm not high accidentally.

0:04:58 Riz: What happened?

0:05:01 Kristen: Umm, uh, so, you are?

0:05:02 The Vulture King: The Vulture King! Will you answer my riddle now or later?

0:05:08 Kristen: Is that the riddle?

0:05:08 Riz: [hesitantly] We can do it now.

0:05:10 Adaine: What's the riddle?

0:05:10 Kristen: Now!

0:05:11 Zac: Are we still stunned?

0:05:11 Brennan: They're all still stunned.

0:05:13 Kristen: Oh, now. Could you un-stun my friends? Is that something you could do?

0:05:17 Brennan: All of you make a saving throw real quick, all of the stunned people.

0:05:20 Ally: Come on, let's see those dice work.

0:05:22 Siobhan: Yes!

0:05:22 Emily: Ooh! 20!

0:05:24 Brennan: Hell yeah!

0:05:24 Emily: Not nat.

0:05:26 Zac: That's cocked.

0:05:26 Emily: 19 plus 1.

0:05:30 Brennan: Fig, you come back to. Fabian? [Lou shakes his head] You are just coming to. [Fig gasps] [the Vulture King squawks]

0:05:37 Fig: Where are we?

0:05:39 The Vulture King: As I've said-

0:05:39 Kristen: This is the Vulture King.

0:05:42 The Vulture King: I cannot un-stun your friends, but you may choose later.

0:05:46 Adaine: What's the riddle? Can we hear the riddle before we say?

0:05:48 Fig: What's on the table?

0:05:50 The Vulture King: What? No, you have to-

0:05:50 Riz: Can we think about the riddle?

0:05:52 The Vulture King: No! Listen, I am the King of Vultures!

0:05:55 Brennan: Vultures flying all throughout this tornado.

0:05:57 Fig: I'll do a riddle.

0:05:57 Kristen: Yeah, it's us. We just don't have Gorgug or Fabian. That feels...

0:06:01 Brennan: Fabian and Gorgug, give me another Intelligence saving throw.

0:06:02 Ally: Come on, come on!

0:06:04 Emily: I'm giving Gorgug the Help action.

0:06:04 Brennan: Okay.

0:06:06 Siobhan: Can I give Fabian the Help action?

0:06:07 Zac: Oh, 19?

0:06:07 Emily: Yes, you got it!

0:06:09 Brennan: 19 does it.

0:06:09 Ally: Nat 20! Okay, okay!

0:06:13 Brennan: You both pop up.

0:06:13 Ally: Now! Now, now, now!

0:06:14 Brennan: The Vulture King goes,

0:06:14 The Vulture King: Now?

0:06:16 Fabian: Where the fuck are we?

0:06:16 Adaine: Yeah, let's do now!

0:06:17 Kristen: It's the Vulture King! It's the Vulture King!

0:06:18 Fig: The Vulture King has a riddle we can do now or later!

0:06:19 Kristen: You have to kiss him!

0:06:20 Fig: We thought we didn't do drugs but we-

0:06:22 The Vulture King: [shrieking] I am the Vulture King! You will answer my riddle!

0:06:24 Emily: Okay.

0:06:27 The Vulture King: Will you elect one answerer, or will you all answer simultaneously?

0:06:32 Kristen: I'll be the answerer.

0:06:32 Fig: Simultaneously!

0:06:35 Riz: No!

0:06:35 Kristen: One answerer! One answerer, and it's Riz.

0:06:36 Fabian: No, simultaneously!

0:06:39 Riz: One answerer!

0:06:39 Kristen: One answer, it's Riz. One answer, it's Riz.

0:06:42 Fabian: Simultaneously!

0:06:45 Brennan: You see he says,

0:06:45 The Vulture King: All right, put it to a vote. Who wants simultaneous? Four of the Bad Kids immediately raise their hands.

0:06:48 Adaine: Can we debate before we answer? Or does it have to be quiet? Gorgug raises his hand.

0:06:53 The Vulture King: You have to choose simultaneously.

0:06:56 Fabian: We have the votes! We have the votes!

0:06:58 The Vulture King: You've all chosen simultaneously.

0:07:00 Riz: No we haven't! I haven't chosen simultaneous!

0:07:01 Fabian: We voted. We have the votes.

0:07:03 Riz: You guys are gonna say something weird on purpose, and the vultures are gonna kill us!

0:07:07 Fabian: He'll kill you, The Ball!

0:07:07 Riz: Gorgug can do it!

0:07:09 Gorgug: I'm so glad I died on that battlefield.

0:07:12 Fig: Yeah, we definitely died.

0:07:12 Adaine: This is Hell.

0:07:14 Gorgug: I'm in Hell, right? Thank god.

0:07:15 Brennan: You see the Vulture King looks and says,

0:07:16 The Vulture King: You have chosen to answer simultaneously.

0:07:19 Riz: Fine.

0:07:19 The Vulture King: By choosing simultaneously, you have committed to answering exactly the same.

0:07:24 Riz: Dammit!

0:07:25 The Vulture King: If there is any difference in your answers, which you must deliver simultaneously, you will be destroyed!

0:07:30 Fig: Yeah, I assumed all this.

0:07:33 Gorgug: One quick Q before you get into it. What we playin' for?

0:07:37 Fig: Oh, good question.

0:07:37 Emily: I take out a crisp $500 bill.

0:07:40 Fabian: And I love the delivery, Gorgug.

0:07:43 Gorgug: I'm just happy to be dead and not at that party anymore.

0:07:45 The Vulture King: If you answer correctly, you will be given all of the aid that the Vulture Dimension has to offer.

0:07:52 Adaine: My goodness.

0:07:52 Fabian: Oh, sick.

0:07:53 The Vulture King: And if you answer incorrectly, me and my vultures will destroy you!

0:07:57 Adaine: Can we change our answer from simultaneous to not simultaneous?

0:07:59 Fabian: No! We have the vote!

0:08:02 The Vulture King: You've already voted.

0:08:03 Kristen: There's like six little vultures and the biggie.

0:08:06 Adaine: I'm sweating.

0:08:06 Fig: Can we take a deep breath and all make eye contact before we launch into-

0:08:09 Siobhan: Can we cast Message?

0:08:10 The Vulture King: No.

0:08:11 Riz: What?

0:08:11 Fig: What?

0:08:11 The Vulture King: No.

0:08:13 Fig: We are allowed to take a breath!

0:08:14 The Vulture King: You voted simultaneously.

0:08:16 Fig: Yeah, and we can simultaneously take a breath.

0:08:18 Fabian: Message me. Somebody Message me.

0:08:19 Kristen: Oh, thank god.

0:08:21 The Vulture King: Here are the stipulations of the riddle. The riddle is multiple choice.

0:08:25 Fabian: I love that.

0:08:25 The Vulture King: There are only two options.

0:08:28 Kristen: Okay.

0:08:30 The Vulture King: The instant I am done communicating the riddle-

0:08:34 Emily: Does anyone have Time Stop?

0:08:35 Riz: I'm actually kinda bad at riddles.

0:08:36 Gorgug: I've never heard of a riddle that has two multiple choice-

0:08:40 Riz: And that you had to spit out instantly.

0:08:41 The Vulture King: The riddle has two answers. I will say the question of the riddle and provide the two answers. It will be very clear when I am done with the riddle.

0:08:50 Gorgug: Can we do a three, two, one, answer?

0:08:52 The Vulture King: No.

0:08:53 Kristen: What if someone Messages the three, two, one?

0:08:55 Fig: We are allowed to do three, two, one.

0:08:57 The Vulture King: Here's the thing, you keep offering other ways it's gonna work, and it's not gonna work any other way than the way I want it to.

0:09:02 Murph: I start Messaging everyone.

0:09:04 Riz: Everyone stop asking! Just send the Messages, okay?

0:09:07 The Vulture King: Now, the instant I am done communicating the riddle, you will all answer not only simultaneously but unanimously.

0:09:16 Fig: After a deep breath.

0:09:16 The Vulture King: No.

0:09:18 Gorgug: I'm gonna go like this. [Zac flaps his mouth in imitation of speech]

0:09:18 The Vulture King: If you take a deep breath, you will be destroyed.

0:09:19 Gorgug: I’m just going to go [Zac flaps his mouth in imitation of speech]

0:09:19 Fig: If we don't have the breath, we won't be able to produce the sound.

0:09:23 The Vulture King: Let me be clear, you are free to breathe, and that will be failing the riddle, and I will destroy you.

0:09:28 Fabian: Okay, and you said it happens to all of us? So if some of us get it right, we don't get the blessing? We all-

0:09:34 The Vulture King: Unless you all unanimously and simultaneously get it right-

0:09:37 Kristen: Hold hands. Let’s all hold hands. The Bad Kids hold hands.

0:09:39 Gorgug: Real quick, we're all gonna say it. We're all for sure gonna say it. [sharp whistle on 'sure'] Whoa, I kinda whistled real loud. But it's gonna sound like only one of us is saying it.

0:09:48 Fig: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

0:09:48 Kristen: Yeah.

0:09:49 The Vulture King: No, you will say it unanimously, simultaneously. If there is even a second's hesitation as the riddle ends, you will all be destroyed.

0:09:57 Fig: You don't understand how humans work. We need to take a breath before we speak.

0:10:00 The Vulture King: All right, it's about to happen exactly as I said.

0:10:03 Murph: I'm sending a Message! I'm sending a Message!

0:10:04 Riz: Adaine is going to give the answer, and at the exact time, I'm gonna cast Prestidigitation to make it all sound like we say whatever Adaine says.

0:10:10 The Vulture King: I will be able to observe spellcasting. I am watching the verbal and somatic components of Message in this moment.

0:10:17 Gorgug: Let's just go for it.

0:10:17 Kristen: Just go for it!

0:10:19 Fabian: Hey, I'll kill you, you fucker!

0:10:22 Kristen: Kiss him! Kiss him!

0:10:22 Fabian: No! I know that's a trick!

0:10:25 Emily: I kiss him.

0:10:26 Brennan: All right, he bends his beak to get a little smooch and he goes,

0:10:29 The Vulture King: All right.

0:10:29 Fabian: Okay, so he's into it!

0:10:31 The Vulture King: I'm gonna count down from three, and then it will be riddles and multiple choice.

0:10:34 Riz: Okay.

0:10:34 Fabian: Great.

0:10:35 The Vulture King: Three, two, one. Vultures, yea or nay?

0:10:39 All: Yea!

0:10:40 The Vulture King: You've passed!

0:10:43 Zac: I almost said nay.

0:10:44 Lou: I also almost said nay!

0:10:44 Emily: Yeah, right? Because...

0:10:47 Brennan: I have to ask, did anyone actually say nay? Siobhan/Murph: No. Emily shakes her head no.

0:10:49 Brennan: No, great.

0:10:50 Ally: I think we got that out of our system by voting unanimous, or all at once.

0:10:55 Lou: Yes, we got all the contrarian-

0:10:56 Ally: Giving our dumbass answer.

0:10:56 Brennan: He goes,

0:10:58 The Vulture King: You have answered the riddle of the Vulture Dimension!

0:11:02 Gorgug: Can we just stay here and hang out for a little while?

0:11:05 Kristen: Yeah, could you bring his parents up here and some of their toys?

0:11:06 Gorgug: No. Kristen? Absolutely not.

0:11:10 Fig: He needs a little break from them.

0:11:12 Kristen: I'm so sorry.

0:11:13 Gorgug: I absolutely don't need that.

0:11:14 Fig: A lot has been asked of him today.

0:11:15 Adaine: Do you have a name or do we just call you Vulture King?

0:11:17 The Vulture King: I am the Vulture King.

0:11:18 Adaine: You're just the Vulture King?

0:11:19 Kristen: Hey, were you at the mithral factory?

0:11:23 The Vulture King: One of my-

0:11:23 Kristen: Five years ago when we were in a battle?

0:11:24 Adaine: Two years ago.

0:11:26 Fig: Two years ago.

0:11:27 Riz: Freshman year was two years ago

0:11:28 Kristen: It feels like five.

0:11:29 Fabian: It felt like five, I'll tell you that.

0:11:32 Kristen: Right?

0:11:32 Gorgug: Feels like five.

0:11:33 Kristen: I'm a completely different person!

0:11:36 The Vulture King: Every vulture is a descendant of mine. All vultures, I can see through. So yes, in a way, I was there.

0:11:44 Kristen: Wow. Good to see you again.

0:11:45 Fig: How would you have destroyed us? What would have happened to us if you destroyed us?

0:11:48 The Vulture King: I would have shot poison from my body, and I would have screamed and ripped you apart with my claws and beak.

0:11:56 Adaine: That's so cool. Hey, you wanna-

0:11:58 Ally: Go out sometime?

0:11:58 Adaine: You wanna be in our crew? We're fighting a really nasty robot principal right now.

0:12:05 Fig: Yeah. A robot. That's right, vulture.

0:12:08 Kristen: He flies through the air and he just sucks birds into his fan and ruins them.

0:12:10 Adaine: It's messed up.

0:12:12 Fig: He’s taking up the space.

0:12:13 The Vulture King: I should mention something, by the way, from the attitude and the vibe you all have.

0:12:18 Fabian: Yes?

0:12:18 The Vulture King: Time doesn't pass differently in the Vulture Dimension.

0:12:22 All: Oh!

0:12:22 Riz: They're gonna kill everyone.

0:12:23 Kristen: Yeah, yeah. Got it, got it.

0:12:23 Fabian: He's just gonna kill Ruben.

0:12:26 Kristen: That's kinda the vibe we had.

0:12:27 Gorgug: Please forgive this question, but are you a god of some kind?

0:12:32 The Vulture King: I don't know, man. [Zac dies laughing] [players cackling]

0:12:36 Brennan: I've never broken you like this. I have never broken Zac like this in five years of making this show.

0:12:49 Zac: [keeled over] [composing himself] “I don't know!” It’s just,

0:12:49 Gorgug: All right, I'll see you later.

0:12:53 Zac: Back dive.

0:12:54 Murph: We jump out of the nest.

0:12:54 Ally: We all swan dive backwards.

0:12:58 Riz: I assume we're cool to just jump out of the nest?

0:13:00 Murph: I start leaning over.

0:13:01 Brennan: You see he says,

0:13:01 The Vulture King: You have all solved my riddle. You deserve more than merely information about how time is the same here.

0:13:07 Emily: Here comes the gold.

0:13:07 Brennan: You see he says,

0:13:10 The Vulture King: Vultures, birds of carrion, gift to them my royal artifacts!

0:13:18 Brennan: The vultures descend, begin to rip him apart and pull his body apart. [shrieking] And all of you can have these magic items. [Brennan holds a stack of cards out]

0:13:28 Ally: What?

0:13:28 Murph: Whoa! Everyone reaches out their hands. Brennan splits the cards into two and hands them off.

0:13:29 Brennan: Go for it. Here you go, pass them around. Grab any you want.

0:13:33 Ally: Are they different? Oh my god, whoa!

0:13:36 Lou: “Consuming rotting organs takes a bonus action, grants you immunity to fear.”

0:13:40 Murph: Yes!

0:13:42 Lou: Consuming rotting organs.

0:13:42 Emily: Oh.

0:13:44 Lou: The Skull of the Vulture King grants you advantage to all Deception, Persuasion, and Intimidations, and you don't have to eat any weird shit.

0:13:51 Emily: I want to immediately use this.

0:13:53 Ally: Truesight!

0:13:54 Emily: “The Feather of the Vulture King. Breaking this oily feather summons 1d4 vultures. They are not under your command.” [players laughing]

0:14:04 Siobhan: [to Zac] Can I see this item?

0:14:06 Brennan: So with that, we are going to depart from the Vulture Dimension.

0:14:11 Lou: Goodbye.

0:14:11 Brennan: Goodbye! Reappearing in a burst of feathers from the Vulture Dimension, carrying viscera, entrails, rotting organs, beaks, bones, talons, all of the remains of the Vulture King that bear potent magic along with them. All of you reappear, having had this moment of divine vision, and Kristen, the shards of Cassandra glow bright in your pocket. You appear back. The situation has changed. Many of the bots are down. Lots of other people have fled. The members of My Clerical Gnomance have been struck by powerful magic from Principal Grix. Not only is Principal Grix now flashing in sort of fractals of light and reflection as a Mirror Image spell has gone up around him, he is holding concentration on a Hold Person spell on Ruben Hopclap. You see Ruben has a pick and is poised to come down in some incredible piece of bardic magic, but is being held by Principal Grix. You also see that the washer and dryer are fighting each other after Riz's Remote Access, and that is going to be Fig starting first.

0:15:18 Emily: Okay, can I do a Fireball up here?

0:15:22 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:15:22 Emily: So that only hits him and not these innocent bystanders?

0:15:25 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:15:25 Emily: Okay.

0:15:27 Brennan: The moment you come back and you announce the spell, you see Grix is gonna whip around and Counterspell.

0:15:32 Emily: And I'll Counterspell him right back.

0:15:33 Brennan: Hell yeah. He's dropping a higher level spell.

0:15:35 Emily: I'll do a 4th level.

0:15:37 Brennan: All right, you're gonna have to roll for it. He's gonna use a 5th level spell slot to counter.

0:15:40 Emily: I think, do I still have a Bardic from Ruben?

0:15:43 Brennan: Yes you do, you still have...

0:15:43 Emily: Okay.

0:15:44 Brennan: Ruben looks as Wanda appears back on the field. Okay, so Grix is Counterspelling. It will automatically cancel the Fireball, but there is a chance that you will hit his. DC is 15. You gotta get 10 or higher.

0:15:56 Ally: You got this.

0:15:56 Lou: You got this. It's not yesterday.

0:15:58 Ally: It's not yesterday.

0:16:01 Brennan: 15!

0:16:03 Zac: It's not yesterday!

0:16:03 Ally: It's not yesterday!

0:16:06 Zac: I mean, it's still today.

0:16:06 Emily: It's not yesterday!

0:16:08 Lou: It's still today, but it's not yesterday.

0:16:10 Ally: And it's only been two years.

0:16:11 Brennan: Hell yes, he's gonna make his Dexterity save. Go ahead and roll damage.

0:16:14 Emily: Oh my god, I rolled so bad.

0:16:14 Brennan: Oh no!

0:16:17 Ally: Three points of damage from the Fireball?

0:16:19 Emily: Oh my god.

0:16:19 Ally: 'Cause it was too bright.

0:16:22 Siobhan: It's only ones and twos.

0:16:24 Emily: Can I actually Counterspell myself? I've never cast a worse 5th level spell than I've just cast.

0:16:32 Brennan: Oof.

0:16:33 Emily: 18 points of damage.

0:16:33 Murph: Whoa.

0:16:34 Brennan: 18 points of damage.

0:16:34 Ally: Not nothing!

0:16:36 Emily: From 10d6.

0:16:36 Ally: Okay, okay. Is that possible?

0:16:42 Brennan: You see that this huge Fireball goes up. The sign alights in fire. Whoosh!

0:16:48 Emily: With my bonus action, I just wanna lie down and play dead 'cause I'm so ashamed of that.

0:16:54 Brennan: Poor Wanda.

0:16:56 Emily: Wait, but I do extra four damage, 'cause he has my Hexblade Curse.

0:16:59 Brennan: Yes. Okay, cool cool cool.

0:16:59 Lou: There it is.

0:17:01 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:17:01 Lou: Getting over 20.

0:17:04 Emily: I'm gonna think about that for days.

0:17:06 Brennan: Oh no. He whips around, fires a cantrip at you. He is gonna hit you for 20 points of lightning damage.

0:17:13 Emily: You can't embarrass me as much as I just did.

0:17:18 Brennan: That is now going to be Gorgug.

0:17:19 Zac: I have Returning Weapon.

0:17:19 Brennan: Oh, awesome.

0:17:21 Zac: So I'm just going to fucking throw my axe at him.

0:17:25 Brennan: Sick as hell.

0:17:27 Zac: For two attacks, so it's just shot put spinning and hurling his axe.

0:17:30 Brennan: Sick as hell. Go ahead and roll-

0:17:32 Zac: And recklessly.

0:17:35 Brennan: Recklessly. Sick.

0:17:35 Zac: All right. [dice rolling]

0:17:36 Siobhan: Ow!

0:17:39 Zac: 24 on the first one.

0:17:41 Brennan: He's used his reaction. He cannot cast Shield. 24 hits.

0:17:45 Zac: Okay, and the second one, 23.

0:17:49 Brennan: Both of those would have been prevented by a Shield. Both of those go through.

0:17:52 Zac: Okay!

0:17:55 Brennan: We're gonna roll Mirror Image for both of these. Six or higher, and your first attack goes for a duplicate. That's a four!

0:18:01 Ally: Nice!

0:18:02 Brennan: You hit the real him on the first one.

0:18:03 Emily: Yay!

0:18:03 Brennan: Second attack. Six, so the second attack gets rid of a duplicate, but the first attack strikes true.

0:18:11 Emily: Maybe you can get him on this one attack.

0:18:15 Gorgug: Get out of my yard!

0:18:19 Zac: Okay, that is 12 damage.

0:18:23 Brennan: Boom, Fireball, the axe moves through the air, strikes him again. He is looking incredibly messed up as the axe circles back around, bam, into your hands. One of his duplicates is gone. He only has two duplicates left.

0:18:37 Zac: I'm just gonna... Been trying to do the whole artificer thing, but I guess I'll go into a rage now.

0:18:43 Brennan: Cool, hell yeah.

0:18:44 Zac: Looking around at everything pissing me off.

0:18:48 Emily: I'm taking a video of it for Porter. Porter, you gotta see our boy!

0:18:53 Gorgug: I said no photos!

0:18:56 Lou: I feel like Fig is texting way too many adults about Gorgug.

0:19:00 Siobhan: Fig has always been texting adults. Fig loves texting adults.

0:19:05 Brennan: Okay, I'm going to need Gorgug to make a Dexterity saving throw.

0:19:07 Lou: Bro, you got this.

0:19:11 Zac: I can see this, right?

0:19:11 Brennan: You can see it, yes.

0:19:14 Lou: You got this, dude.

0:19:14 Zac: All right. Okay. [dice rolling] [Brennan rolling too many dice] Dex saving throw is a 12.

0:19:23 Brennan: Okay, he deals 27 points of lightning damage. Okay, that is Adaine's turn.

0:19:29 Siobhan: Great, my elemental is gonna go fly over to him and do two attacks.

0:19:34 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:19:34 Emily: Come on, little elemental!

0:19:36 Brennan: Go ahead and roll the first one. [dice rolling]

0:19:40 Siobhan: The first one is 25 to hit.

0:19:40 Brennan: That hits!

0:19:43 Siobhan: And the second one is a 20 to hit. Uh, 21 to hit.

0:19:46 Brennan: 21 hits. Getting him to use his reaction has made every single attack that hit him, hit him.

0:19:51 Murph: The little Fireball that could.

0:19:52 Emily: Thank you so much for trying to celebrate-

0:19:56 Ally: The little Fireball that could!

0:19:57 Lou: Yes, little Fireball!

0:19:58 Ally: That Roman candle that you shot at the big bad.

0:20:01 Brennan: First one- Okay, roll damage, but we're gonna say on a seven or lower, it hits the real him. Three, hits the real him on the first one. Next one.

0:20:12 Siobhan: Okay, so that's 8 plus, oh god, 11.

0:20:16 Brennan: 11 damage.

0:20:16 Siobhan: How's he looking?

0:20:19 Brennan: Your air elemental swirls into him and fully rips the casing off the front of his body, exposing raw wires, circuits shorting everywhere. [electricity crackling] [choppy speech] Per-er-erfect or-r-rder-r! He is hanging on by the barest of threads.

0:20:35 Siobhan: Great, so I'm gonna bonus action cast True Strike and then cast a 4th level Chromatic Orb.

0:20:43 Brennan: Ooh-hoi!

0:20:43 Siobhan: So I roll with advantage.

0:20:47 Ally: So two Mirror Images have been-

0:20:49 Brennan: There's one Mirror Image left.

0:20:54 Siobhan: That is a 23 to hit.

0:20:54 Brennan: Definitely hits. Now, on an 11 or higher, you will hit a duplicate. On a 10 or lower, you will hit the real him.

0:21:01 Murph: It's gonna be a six.

0:21:04 Brennan: 11.

0:21:05 Siobhan: Do you have a Silvery Barbs left?

0:21:07 Murph: Yes. Silvery Barbs.

0:21:09 Brennan: Here we go. Gonna reroll. 14.

0:21:13 Murph: I keep forgetting to do this with Silvery Barbs, but I can give advantage to somebody, so I'll give it to Fabian.

0:21:16 Brennan: Okay, copy that.

0:21:18 Fabian: The Ball!

0:21:19 Brennan: You annihilate the last of the Mirror Image duplicates in front of Principal Grix. You have the benefit of the Dodge action.

0:21:26 Siobhan: Yeah, I'm gonna try and move away from these guys in front of me, 'cause I have Dodge on, so their opportunity attacks will be with disadvantage.

0:21:33 Brennan: Cool. You rush in the way over here.

0:21:37 Siobhan: Does he still have concentration up on Hold Person?

0:21:39 Emily: He had three different things. From the elemental, from Gorgug, and from the little Fireball that couldn't.

0:21:46 Brennan: Oh, he's got to roll a ton. I'm gonna roll these real quick for him. Okay, that first one, he's gonna roll. Let's see how he does here. He's got to get-

0:21:54 Lou: 24.

0:21:55 Brennan: Okay, he makes versus the Fireball. The next one was-

0:21:58 Zac: I did 12 damage.

0:21:58 Brennan: Did 12 damage. That one he makes as well. And then the elemental hit him. I'll roll this in front of the board. He needs a 7 or higher or he loses concentration. That's a 5!

0:22:12 Siobhan: Yes!

0:22:14 Brennan: So your air elemental breaks the concentration, and you see Ruben come out [mimics guitar shredding] and this massive spell energy radiates out from Frosty Fair. Every single one of you gets a d8 Bardic Inspiration, and Grix, who was just about to Steel Wind Strike everybody, seeing that Ruben has come out of Hold Person... I'm gonna make a Luck check here. You guys want high.

0:22:49 Lou: Please be high! [tense music]

0:22:51 Brennan: Nat 20!

0:22:51 Ally: Nat 20! What the fuck?

0:22:55 Brennan: You see Grix looks at all of you, is preparing a Steel Wind Strike, and sees that the concentration breaks on Ruben and goes,

0:23:04 Grix: Perfect order.

0:23:04 Brennan: And summons a Forcecage around Ruben, the walls of which begin to close.

0:23:12 Siobhan: Counterspell.

0:23:12 Brennan: Ooh-hui, here we go!

0:23:14 Siobhan: 5th level Counterspell.

0:23:14 Brennan: 5th level Counterspell. Okay, go ahead and roll, DC 17.

0:23:23 Siobhan: No.

0:23:23 Brennan: What was that? What'd you get?

0:23:25 Siobhan: I got a seven.

0:23:26 Ally: You have that Bardic from Ruben.

0:23:27 Brennan: It's an 11. You have a d8. I'll tell you right now, you need to roll a 6 or higher on the d8 if you're gonna use it.

0:23:33 Siobhan: Great, so it's seven plus four, is my spellcasting modifier. [die rolling]

0:23:38 Emily: Yeah!

0:23:38 Brennan: Seven! Adaine, you raise your sword, and as the Forcecage begins to assemble, destiny and the white, shimmering magic of the Sword of Sight echoes across the stage, dispels the Forcecage, and that is Principal Grix's turn. He's going to lair action. I'm gonna need Dexterity saving throws from anyone within 60 feet.

0:24:08 Emily: I did say that I bonus action Dash away.

0:24:08 Brennan: Cool.

0:24:11 Emily: And then play dead.

0:24:11 Brennan: Cool.

0:24:14 Brennan: You are outside, but that's gonna be-

0:24:16 Lou: Am I safe?

0:24:18 Brennan: Fabian, I think, is actually just outside of it. But it's gonna be Adaine, Gorgug. Kristen, you're in there as well. Riz, you're in there as well.

0:24:25 Murph: Okay.

0:24:27 Brennan: So it's Riz, Kristen, Gorgug, and Adaine, are all gonna make Dexterity saving throws. Let me know what you get.

0:24:38 Ally: Goddammit.

0:24:38 Murph: So bad for all that. 15.

0:24:41 Zac: 11.

0:24:41 Murph: Wait, actually, you know what? I'll do my Bardic as well.

0:24:44 Brennan: Okay.

0:24:45 Murph: Oh, 23. Got an eight on the Bardic.

0:24:50 Siobhan: 10.

0:24:50 Brennan: Okay, 23, 10. What'd we get here?

0:24:52 Ally: Zero.

0:24:53 Brennan: Zero? [Emily cackling]

0:24:54 Zac: 11.

0:24:54 Brennan: 11, okay. Hold on.

0:24:59 Ally: So I'm gonna save that Bardic for something else. If I don't die.

0:25:05 Emily: You can save it for Revivify for me. I'm dead from shame.

0:25:12 Brennan: Adaine, Gorgug, Kristen, 39 points of lightning damage.

0:25:15 Ally: Oh, interesting!

0:25:15 Siobhan: I'm down.

0:25:17 Lou: Interesting.

0:25:17 Brennan: Adaine, down. Kristen down?

0:25:19 Ally: No.

0:25:19 Brennan: Okay.

0:25:20 Siobhan: I have Dodge on, so I have advantage on Dexterity checks.

0:25:23 Brennan: If you can see the attack, you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage. Fuck yeah, go for it.

0:25:26 Ally: What did everybody get from my Mass Healing Word?

0:25:28 Siobhan: I rolled a one.

0:25:30 Lou: It took me from 51 to 82.

0:25:33 Zac: I'm at 23 now.

0:25:34 Siobhan: It was 31.

0:25:34 Ally: Okay, great.

0:25:36 Brennan: So Riz, you take zero, having succeeded. Having renewed all of his legendaries, Principal Grix turns to look at all of you. Fabian, it is your turn.

0:25:45 Lou: How far am I from Grix?

0:25:48 Brennan: You're just within 60 feet.

0:25:48 Lou: Just within 60 feet, okay. I'm gonna Dash and Action Surge, and then I wanna know if I could climb the stage and jump to hit him.

0:26:05 Brennan: You have the movement. Let me see.

0:26:08 Emily: You could probably just jump up. He looks like he's not that high.

0:26:10 Brennan: And you're not using any jump stuff that helps with jump, right?

0:26:14 Lou: I could cast Kinetic Jaunt on myself again, but I'd prefer not to.

0:26:17 Zac: Could you just Acrobatics off this pole?

0:26:19 Lou: Yeah, can I jump off of somebody?

0:26:21 Zac: Look at this robot.

0:26:21 Brennan: With a running start, you can reach up and grab something 14 feet off the ground, which means that your reach is actually 19 feet and he's only 15 feet above the stage. He is just within range for you to make an incredible leap off the stage.

0:26:36 Lou: So yeah, I'd like to charge, battle sheet flowing behind me, toward the stage, jump off of it, and attack him.

0:26:45 Brennan: Before you even roll, he Shields. He sees it coming.

0:26:48 Lou: Great.

0:26:48 Brennan: You're Action Surging. You have not used a bonus action, correct?

0:26:52 Lou: I have not used a bonus action.

0:26:54 Brennan: Okay, here we go.

0:26:54 Lou: Okay, so first one, I'm gonna use the advantage from Riz.

0:27:00 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:27:00 Emily: Come on, baby!

0:27:02 Lou: That's gonna be an 18 on the die for a 29.

0:27:06 Brennan: Bypasses the Shield.

0:27:06 Emily: Yeah, it does!

0:27:09 Lou: And then for the second one, none of that. [die rolling] That'll be a 16.

0:27:13 Ally: You have that Bardic.

0:27:16 Lou: I have that Bardic. I'll use it.

0:27:17 Emily: C'mon, eight.

0:27:18 Lou: 16 plus 4 for a 20.

0:27:22 Brennan: 20 does not get past the Shield. You have one attack that lands.

0:27:26 Lou: We'll burn everything, so it'll be a 3rd level spell for 3d6, it'll be a Goading attack for 1d8, and it'll be another d8 for Bardic Flourish.

0:27:37 Emily: Come on!

0:27:37 Lou: Let's call it slashing. And then a d8 just for the blade itself.

0:27:43 Emily: Come on!

0:27:43 Lou: Okay, here we go. All right, 12.

0:27:49 Siobhan: Those are those numbers we were missing earlier.

0:27:51 Emily: Don't worry, I got the ones out, guys.

0:27:54 Lou: 23, 27 plus 9, for 34?

0:27:58 Ally: Six.

0:28:00 Lou: 36. 36 points of damage.

0:28:03 Brennan: Lou, please describe, as Fabian leaps through the air with Fandrangor, what happens.

0:28:08 Lou: Sprinting toward the stage, I put one foot up. Just as I'm going to push off, I look at Ruben. I say,

0:28:14 Fabian: I'm actually a huge fan.

0:28:16 Lou: Spin back, and I'm just going to spear him through his little ball and bring it to earth.

0:28:25 Brennan: Bang! Light, lightning. Grix is destroyed.

0:28:31 Ally: Yeah, Fabian!

0:28:35 Grix: [voice crackles and fades] Perfect order...

0:28:37 Brennan: And just becomes parts on the ground. Ruben looks as people begin to rush and fix whatever's going on. We come out of Initiative order as Ruben goes,

0:28:47 Ruben: Sorry for the interruption, everybody. Got a little rowdy in the mosh pit, huh?

0:28:52 Zac: I take the stage.

0:28:52 Gorgug: Okay, everybody, go home! Everybody go home. Time to go home.

0:28:59 Emily: Can I look back at him? 'Cause I'm still Wanda Childa. And I wanna Minor Illusion a bus, and I wanna look over my shoulder.

0:29:08 Lou: Forced perspective.

0:29:08 Emily: As I get on the bus, and then use the motion of my skateboard to make it look like the bus is driving away.

0:29:18 Zac: Like a school play, like a car.

0:29:21 Murph: What is Wanda Childa's actual deal?

0:29:25 Emily: And then in the Minor Illusion, I blow on the mirror and say, “See you soon, Ruben."

0:29:30 Brennan: Ruben, people are flocking to the stage, and he's running as the crowd... He's like,

0:29:34 Ruben: Wanda! Wanda! [growing frantic] Wanda! Wanda!

0:29:41 Brennan: As you begin to pull away in this illusory, skateboard-speed bus, give me a Performance check, if you'd be so kind.

0:29:47 Emily: Okay. I'm in disguise. Come on, please, good! Okay, that is a 30.

0:29:56 Brennan: Perfect. The illusory bus driver you've created is like,

0:29:59 Illusory Bus Driver: Sorry the bus is a little slow, but then again, we're not supposed to drive on the grass. What's your name? Where are you headed? “Wanda” [Fig]: Wanda Childa. Honestly, anywhere.

0:30:10 Illusory Bus Driver: Good news for you, this bus is headed,

0:30:10 Brennan: Bing! And it goes, "Anywhere," up on the thing of the bus.

0:30:16 Emily: I put my hand against the window and streak down.

0:30:20 Brennan: You see that as you begin going away, the bus driver says,

0:30:27 Illusory Bus Driver: Do you know what my name is? “Wanda” [Fig]: Yeah, it's Tucker.

0:30:31 Tucker: Tucker, okay. I'm real, right? “Wanda” [Fig]: Yeah, you're totally real, and my name is Wanda, and I'm mysterious, aloof, and I have a septum piercing, and I'm thinking about dyeing only half my hair.

0:30:45 Brennan: You see Tucker looks and says,

0:30:45 Tucker: Well, I should know. My kids are all into that hair dye and stuff. They got piercings. “Wanda” [Fig]: Really? How old are your kids?

0:30:54 Tucker: …I don't remember.

0:30:56 Emily: I steer the Minor Illusion away and then drop the disguise.

0:31:00 Brennan: Drop the disguise.

0:31:00 Emily: And then walk back and say,

0:31:02 Fig: What happened? I was taking a shit.

0:31:06 Brennan: You see Ruben goes,

0:31:06 Ruben: I fuckin' knew it! Get outta my way! Wanda!

0:31:13 Brennan: You hear a voice right behind you as you come back.

0:31:16 Agent Clark: Yeah, I'm actually interested if anyone else saw what that kid saw.

0:31:19 Brennan: You see there's an aarakocra in a suit looking around being like,

0:31:21 Agent Clark: Did anyone here just see a bus pull off? Incredibly slow, small bus?

0:31:26 Riz: No, why would a bus drive on the grass? That seems strange.

0:31:27 Adaine: That's crazy.

0:31:29 Gorgug: Do you have a warrant?

0:31:29 Agent Clark: Hm?

0:31:30 Gorgug: Do you have a fucking warrant? [Ally and Murph laugh]

0:31:34 Ally: Gorgug needs everyone gone yesterday.

0:31:36 Gorgug: I'm done. I'm done. I'm done.

0:31:37 Ally: Do you have a fucking warrant?

0:31:37 Gorgug: Wrap it up, people!

0:31:42 Brennan: You see Wilma and Digby are throwing blankets over the destroyed machinery, sort of courtesy blankets. Wilma & Digby: Sorry, gang! Sorry, everybody!

0:31:53 Brennan: Honestly, roll Intimidation with advantage.

0:31:54 Ally: Yeah! So good, so good.

0:31:59 Zac: Okay, not actually that bad. 15.

0:32:02 Brennan: You see-

0:32:02 Zac: Oh, I'm gonna use my Bardic.

0:32:04 Brennan: Oh yeah.

0:32:04 Zac: 20.

0:32:05 Brennan: Dirty 20. You see Agent Clark goes,

0:32:08 Agent Clark: Just enjoying the festival, man. Sorry.

0:32:10 Brennan: And you see he walks out. [Gorgug snorts like a pig] [Ally and Brennan laugh]

0:32:16 Brennan: As he leaves, you see over in the corner, a little halfling pops up and goes,

0:32:18 Bud Cubby: Hell yeah!

0:32:22 Brennan: You see Wilma and Digby run up and go, Wilma & Digby: Oh gosh, kiddo, I'm so sorry. You all saved the day! What the hell was that?

0:32:31 Gorgug: Just our new principal.

0:32:33 Ally: You're so good at tinkerer’s now. Can we ask your parents and you to look and see if this robot's been hijacked or if it's being controlled by something?

0:32:42 Murph: Yeah, I think we both kind of thought that maybe it was possible that piece from the Cloud Driver-

0:32:48 Zac: Could've been involved with this.

0:32:49 Murph: All of a sudden, Grix is flying.

0:32:51 Emily: Can we look through the parts of this fallen principal?

0:32:54 Brennan: Give me a tinker's tool check. Anyone can give me tinker's tool or Investigation.

0:32:58 Siobhan: Also, if anybody could give me a light heal, because I am dying.

0:32:59 Lou: Gorgug, you have a Bardic.

0:33:02 Siobhan: I am dead on the ground.

0:33:02 Zac: It's a d8?

0:33:04 Lou: It's a d8.

0:33:04 Emily: Do you want a Bardic?

0:33:06 Zac: I got this one [points to Fabian] and it sounds like… maybe not a…

0:33:06 Emily: Okay. [to Murph] Do you want a Bardic?

0:33:12 Murph: I'm okay.

0:33:13 Zac: Anybody interested in helping me?

0:33:15 Siobhan: Fig just went to the joke shop.

0:33:17 Ally: Definitely.

0:33:17 Zac: Okay.

0:33:17 Murph: Yeah, can I get some help investigating?

0:33:19 Brennan: Who heals Adaine?

0:33:19 Ally: Me, for 14.

0:33:21 Siobhan: Great, thank you.

0:33:21 Zac: 21 on my tinkerer's check.

0:33:24 Murph: And 24 Investigate.

0:33:24 Brennan: Hell yeah. So you're looking specifically for the Cloud Rider Engine. You don't see any proprietary stuff concerning the Cloud Rider Engine in here, and you're looking for any sign of tinkering that there might have been with him or anything sort of-

0:33:40 Ally: Can we just straight-up pull his hard drive or whatever?

0:33:45 Brennan: So that's the check you're making, right? And on a 21, you can pull it. As you pull it up, it's like, encrypted, logged away files.

0:33:52 Emily: We can bring it to AV Club.

0:33:52 Murph: Yeah, we'll take it.

0:33:54 Siobhan: Is there anybody from the AV Club here, or would you have to take it to school the next day?

0:33:57 Brennan: You might have to take it to school. Even with that, on your Investigation check, you see Arthur Aguefort's Arcane Mark. There's an open book in front of a burning egg. It looks like Arthur made this.

0:34:10 Siobhan: Can I cast Identify on Grix's body?

0:34:14 Identify Spell: This is another use of the Identify spell. What you now behold is Interim Emergency Backup Principal Grix, an automaton created by one Arthur Aguefort to maintain perfect order in his absence at the school grounds. Grix is a powerful arcane spellcaster possessed of many of the wizardly abilities of his creator, Arthur Aguefort. This model was made in the event that the normal vice principal would not be able to assume his duties, and was kept in a storage cupboard in the principal's office. This model has recently been destroyed, and you can see here that these parts contain the information and programming put in place by Arthur Aguefort, which contain, amongst other things, directives to enforce school bylaws, keep things kosher while, essentially, the superintendent's office might be looking into the school, and to engage in extracurricular, extra-campus activities should there be a direct threat to the existence of the school itself.

0:35:24 Emily: To the existence of the school? I'm also thinking, to enforce the bylaws, could someone have gone in and changed the bylaws, which would then change his directive?

0:35:34 Siobhan: The Identify spell, also, you learn whether any spells are affecting the item and what they are, so is there anything-

0:35:41 Brennan: There's a ton of magic here, because Grix himself was a spellcaster.

0:35:44 Siobhan: Is there anything, reading that, knowing Arthur Aguefort, that seems out of place?

0:35:48 Brennan: Give me an Arcana with advantage.

0:35:48 Siobhan: Great. That's a 25.

0:35:55 Brennan: With certainty, looking at Principal Grix's body, he is untampered with.

0:35:59 Siobhan: Huh. Okay.

0:35:59 Emily: Okay.

0:36:02 Murph: It does seem like, as much as this dude is the opposite of Aguefort, it also seems like a very Aguefort thing to just be like, “I don't know, I'll make a robot. Just follow all the rules! Make sure everything's good!”

0:36:12 Emily: And have it poorly worded.

0:36:12 Murph: And then leaving.

0:36:15 Emily: But the bylaws!

0:36:15 Lou: I do like the bylaws angle. Check and see if there've been any recent edits.

0:36:19 Ally: Would the president know?

0:36:20 Zac: We should ask Ruben if they broke any bylaws.

0:36:22 Emily: Oh yeah.

0:36:23 Zac: Because he went right for Ruben, right?

0:36:25 Siobhan: Right. I mean, the drugs.

0:36:25 Ally: He was doing drugs.

0:36:27 Lou: I could as Mazey about it, if the president is allowed to-

0:36:30 Murph: Mazey might know if anything's changed.

0:36:32 Siobhan: Well, and also, it's extracurricular activities that would affect-

0:36:36 Emily: The direct existence of the school. They also said something about, if there was superintendent investigation.

0:36:42 Siobhan: Right, so maybe it's this fricking aarakocra.

0:36:45 Murph: Is there anything going on with... Was Grix stopping a ceremony or something with this band? Is Ruben up to something beyond this?

0:36:56 Ally: Interesting.

0:36:56 Lou: Yes, maybe. Oh, was Ruben's performance in some way a threat to the school?

0:37:00 Murph: Can we see if this looks like it was any kinda ritual or something outside of just being a band performance?

0:37:07 Brennan: Anyone who wants to can give me an Investigation, Perception, Arcana, whatever you wanna do.

0:37:12 Siobhan: I'll cast a Detect Magic.

0:37:12 Murph: Can somebody Help me?

0:37:13 Fabian: The Ball, I've got your back on this one!

0:37:15 Riz: Appreciate ya.

0:37:16 Emily: I got a 17 Investigation.

0:37:19 Murph: Ooh baby, 29.

0:37:21 Emily: You know what, I never used Ruben's Bardic.

0:37:23 Fabian: The Ball, look over there. How about that?

0:37:25 Riz: Ah, perfect.

0:37:27 Emily: 19 Investigation.

0:37:27 Brennan: 19 Investigation.

0:37:29 Murph: 29.

0:37:29 Brennan: 29?

0:37:31 Siobhan: I got a 14 Arcana, but I'd also like to cast Detect Magic as a ritual, just to see if there's any schools of magic floating around. I mean, so much. [Adaine coughs and waves her hand]

0:37:41 Brennan: Tons of magical residue from all of this stuff going on. And then you got a 29 Investigation, right? What are you looking for, I think, in particular?

0:37:53 Murph: I think I'm looking for spell components, trying to see if this concert was more than just a concert, trying to summon something?

0:38:03 Emily: I'm gonna use my Investigation check, which, I have a 19, to see if there are any other Rat Grinders around here.

0:38:09 Ally: Yeah, and I'll look underneath the-

0:38:11 Siobhan: The stage?

0:38:11 Ally: The stage.

0:38:12 Brennan: So you look underneath the stage. As you start looking around for any other Rat Grinders, you don't see any others here. You see a lot of them are sort of peeling away, and honestly, maybe even conspicuous in their absence.

0:38:23 Emily: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If I had a show, you guys would show up, right?

0:38:28 Ally: We did.

0:38:30 Brennan: Kristen, you look under the stage. Riz and Adaine, as Kristen lifts the thing up, you look under and see that there are several glowing little stingers. These little sort of electrical cable connectors. As you look at them, all of them are glowing with a little subtle red light to them.

0:38:48 Emily: Is this some kind of Copperlilly Caterpil- petal?

0:38:51 Ally: Or is that the shards things that made everyone enraged?

0:38:55 Siobhan: Do you have Divine Sense still? Or Detect Good and Evil type non-spell things?

0:38:58 Ally: I have one, yeah.

0:39:01 Siobhan: But you also have your non-spell cleric things.

0:39:04 Zac: Are the cords making a circle, like a rune?

0:39:06 Brennan: As you begin to go through it, you see that the electrical connections don't make sense. You know that this is not the most efficient way to run cable to the stage. And Riz, on that 29 Investigation, you count them, and at first you're like, what is the shape they're in? There's so many of them. You realize that they are in concentric, you can't see the circles 'cause they're points on a circle. There's 24 of them.

0:39:25 Emily: A 24-sided star. At this point, we saved Ruben. What if we just kind of be like, hey, spill everything?

0:39:35 Murph: It's possible that Ruben doesn't even know.

0:39:39 Zac: But we should talk to him.

0:39:39 Murph: But we should find out.

0:39:41 Fig: Hey Ruben, did you know about this?

0:39:42 Brennan: As you turn around, you actually see that Ruben is gone. Ruben has run off in search of Wanda Childa.

0:39:48 Ally: So there are 24 points, glowing red power, underneath this stage. Is there something in the center of those?

0:39:57 Brennan: It looks like the center is sort of centered on the stage.

0:40:01 Ally: Where Ruben would've been standing?

0:40:03 Brennan: Kind of by definition. He's the front man, right? So he's standing center stage. Yeah, for sure.

0:40:06 Zac: Should we try to unplug it? 'Cause I don't know that this is good.

0:40:10 Lou: You don't want this on your lawn.

0:40:11 Zac: So I'm gonna see if there's a safe way to unplug these.

0:40:12 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:40:14 Ally: I can give you the Help action.

0:40:15 Zac: Do I need to make a roll?

0:40:17 Brennan: Make a tinker's tool check, yeah.

0:40:22 Zac: 23.

0:40:23 Brennan: You look and see that as you unplug the first one, the red light from all of them fades and becomes the sort of normal crystal blue of arcano-tech just more generally. And you don't actually see a big release of energy when that happens. It feels like walking into a room with a pentagram where the candles aren't lit anymore, right? It's like there's something-

0:40:43 Siobhan: Something already happened.

0:40:43 Brennan: Something already happened.

0:40:45 Zac: Is it similar to the arcade fight?

0:40:48 Brennan: I'll say, 29's pretty incredible. You wanna ask one other question on that roll about what you're seeing here?

0:40:54 Murph: Yeah, I like Gorgug's question.

0:40:55 Brennan: Asking if there's something sealed here?

0:40:58 Zac: Was it aware, and did it go somewhere?

0:41:00 Brennan: You're trying to find some connections. Now, most of these points don't correlate to something that was onstage, because there's 24 of them. There's just a lot of them in general. But you notice that every single speaker had one directly under it. You don't think anything was sealed or bound here. You actually think, on a 29, the reverse. That something was released here.

0:41:22 Murph: By playing this music, everyone sings along to it, they're singing a prayer.

0:41:25 Emily: What were the lyrics?

0:41:25 Ally: What were the lyrics, yeah!

0:41:28 Brennan: The song he was singing, there's a moment where it breaks into the chorus. The part where it breaks into the chorus is like...

0:41:33 Ruben: [singing] You hate when I get mad~ You hate when I get mad, get mad~

0:41:41 Murph: Ah.

0:41:41 Siobhan: I think it's rage, right?

0:41:42 Murph: Yeah.

0:41:42 Emily: Rage.

0:41:43 Siobhan: 'Cause the other guys went into a rage. There was stuff about doubt and rage being too powerful together, and rage being the outcome of doubt.

0:41:53 Murph: If Ruben knows what's happening, which let's assume he does, if he's saying get mad and they're channeling this stuff out, is it possible that the other members of the Rat Grinders were trying to pressure Lucy to change to this god?

0:42:09 Siobhan: This rage god?

0:42:09 Murph: This rage god.

0:42:11 Ally: Yeah, I definitely think that that was Lucy's-

0:42:13 Emily: I think they're all using this chaos magic.

0:42:16 Zac: And if they want whatever god it was to do whatever they were trying to do, and they have a new one who is now following Helio, does that feel like it's Helio?

0:42:27 Siobhan: What if we go to the woods and talk to the rats?

0:42:31 Emily: Yeah, I feel like-

0:42:31 Siobhan: 'Cause I bet-

0:42:32 Lou: Yes, if I eat a bunch of organs, we can speak to animals.

0:42:35 Siobhan: Yeah, you eat a bunch of organs. The vulture gave us the power to speak to animals.

0:42:38 Lou: Yes, I have the Tongue of the Vulture King.

0:42:40 Emily: You know what, I'm gonna summon 1d4 vultures that I can't...

0:42:42 Brennan: Roll 1d4.

0:42:45 Emily: Two.

0:42:45 Brennan: Two vultures appear.

0:42:47 Lou: Can I shoot one with my- [Brennan squawks]

0:42:50 Lou: Okay, great.

0:42:52 Fabian: All right, if I eat this-

0:42:52 Kristen: Whoa!

0:42:55 Fabian: ...I can talk to the rats!

0:42:55 Kristen: Whoa!

0:42:57 Riz: We have to get there first. Hang onto it.

0:42:59 Fabian: Just tell me when.

0:42:59 Riz: Hey, it's gotta rot. Just leave it out.

0:43:03 Fabian: I don't have a bunch of ideas!

0:43:04 Fig: I think you should eat it. I think you should eat it.

0:43:07 Fabian: Now?

0:43:07 Kristen: No, no!

0:43:09 Gorgug: This is my yard.

0:43:09 Fabian: Ew, it's nasty!

0:43:12 Gorgug: Did you think it was gonna be good?

0:43:14 Fabian: I don't know!

0:43:15 Fig: Maybe it's an acquired taste.

0:43:17 Fabian: Can we get some hot sauce before we leave?

0:43:18 Gorgug: No. Eat it now.

0:43:20 Wilma: Fabian, you want some hot sauce?

0:43:22 Gorgug: Don't give him hot sauce, Mom.

0:43:24 Fabian: Can I have some hot sauce? We're gonna go to the woods and I'm gonna eat this.

0:43:28 Wilma: Okay!

0:43:29 Brennan: You guys head to the woods. Go ahead and give me a Survival check.

0:43:33 Lou: Okay.

0:43:37 Siobhan: Just Fabian, or all of us?

0:43:39 Brennan: Anyone who wants to. We'll make it a group Survival check.

0:43:42 Murph: I got a four.

0:43:42 Ally: 18.

0:43:43 Emily: 19!

0:43:43 Zac: 15.

0:43:45 Lou: 17.

0:43:45 Brennan: Great, you guys wander off to the part of the Far Haven Woods that are most- sort of behind Aguefort, essentially.

0:43:53 Lou: Is this it?

0:43:54 Adaine: This is it. It's all you, dude.

0:43:57 Siobhan: I get my phone out to video him eating this. Fabian pours hot sauce on the organs.

0:43:59 Adaine: Okay, everybody, it's the eating the vulture tongue challenge.

0:44:04 Fabian: Well, I think I have to eat the organs, and then I eat the tongue.

0:44:08 Brennan: Are you livestreaming this?

0:44:08 Siobhan: No, no, no.

0:44:09 Brennan: No, you're taking a video. Okay.

0:44:11 Siobhan: This is just for us.

0:44:11 Brennan: Just for you guys. [flesh squelching]

0:44:15 Fabian: [gulping] Oh god, it's disgusting!

0:44:17 Fig: You have to keep it down or it won't work!

0:44:18 Kristen: Why did you start by licking it?

0:44:19 Fig: You have to keep it down or it won't work!

0:44:21 Kristen: Don't lick it!

0:44:22 Riz: Licking it's nothing but taste.

0:44:23 Fabian: Okay, okay.

0:44:23 Riz: Like a pill. Like a pill.

0:44:26 Fabian: All right.

0:44:26 Riz: Just rip it off! Why do you have to hold the whole thing?

0:44:28 Gorgug: Here's a glass of water.

0:44:28 Fabian: Thank you.

0:44:31 Adaine: Where'd you get that?

0:44:31 Gorgug: I found it on the ground. [organs squelching]

0:44:33 Fabian: [groans] Oh god.

0:44:38 Adaine: You're doing so good, buddy.

0:44:39 Fabian: How much do I have to eat?

0:44:39 Adaine: You're doing so good.

0:44:40 Fabian: Is it enough? It is enough?

0:44:40 Adaine: You're about 1/6 in. I don't know, somebody find a rat.

0:44:45 Fabian: Yeah! Yeah, you guys, somebody-

0:44:48 Ally: I try to grab a rat.

0:44:48 Emily: I try to grab a rat, too.

0:44:50 Brennan: You guys are walking out in the woods. You come into a little clearing, and as you walk into it, waiting to see a rat scurry, you just literally see, almost perfectly positioned at the other side of a meadow, just a quite large rat who just appears and goes... [chittering]

0:45:06 Emily: I give Kristen the Help action to grab the rat.

0:45:08 Ally: I try to grab the rat.

0:45:09 Siobhan: Why are we getting our least Dexterous person-

0:45:11 Brennan: Make an Athletics check.

0:45:13 Ally: Animal Handling is plus five for me.

0:45:15 Brennan: This is gonna be, if you're trying to grab it, it's Athletics. If you're trying to handle it and coo to it, it's Animal Handling.

0:45:22 Ally: All right, yeah, I do that one. I do that one. I hold out some of the nasty meat.

0:45:27 Fabian: Yeah, you want a piece?

0:45:27 Brennan: Give me an Animal Handling check.

0:45:29 Emily: With Help from me.

0:45:29 Ally: With advantage?

0:45:30 Emily: Yeah, yeah.

0:45:32 Gorgug: Kristen, I don't know if they can vote.

0:45:33 Ally: Oh, two 16s! So that's a 21.

0:45:36 Brennan: You hold out your hand, and as you hold your hand out, [Fabian chews] [the rat chitters]

0:45:43 Brennan: Rat comes up and comes into your hand.

0:45:45 Ally: How heavy is it?

0:45:45 Brennan: A couple ounces.

0:45:50 Riz: I think you just need to eat one organ, right?

0:45:52 Fabian: I don't know. Can I stop?

0:45:52 Kristen: Say something to him.

0:45:54 Fig: Wait, did you eat all of them?

0:45:56 Brennan: Did you eat the whole tongue or not?

0:45:58 Lou: Well, I was just eating the rotting organs. I haven't eaten the tongue yet. Do I have to eat the tongue too?

0:46:02 Brennan: Fabian, you discover that those were normal vultures that do not help or add magic.

0:46:08 Murph: So we have to eat the item to use it once.

0:46:11 Brennan: Fabian, I'm gonna need a Constitution saving throw.

0:46:14 Zac: I was so confused.

0:46:16 Murph: Reading it, it's clear as day, but we all-

0:46:18 Brennan: DC 15 Constitution check.

0:46:20 Murph: We all just thought wrong.

0:46:21 Zac: I didn't think he had to do that.

0:46:22 Lou: 17.

0:46:22 Brennan: Cool, so whatever... You're eating raw vulture meat. Your stomach curdles, but you're gonna be okay.

0:46:29 Kristen: Okay, now you have to eat the rotten tongue.

0:46:31 Riz: Now just eat the tongue.

0:46:31 Fabian: Okay!

0:46:32 Kristen: Now you have to finish that up with-

0:46:34 Fabian: Honestly-

0:46:34 Kristen: Do you want to have a piece of bread or something?

0:46:37 Gorgug: I found another glass of water.

0:46:37 Siobhan: It's like a carpaccio.

0:46:39 Fabian: Exactly. It's tasting me, and I'm tasting it!

0:46:45 Fig: Yeah, you're French kissing it.

0:46:48 Fabian: Don't tell anyone I French kissed the Vulture King.

0:46:50 Adaine: You're finally getting your kisses in.

0:46:51 Kristen: Is it hot?

0:46:51 Fabian: Yeah, finally. I mean, it's more like a Crystal Hot Sauce, so it's more for flavor. Hi.

0:46:59 Rat: [chitters] Hi there.

0:47:02 Fabian: How are you?

0:47:03 Rat: I'm okay. You gonna come here and step on me?

0:47:06 Fabian: No, actually, we wanted to know more about the steppers.

0:47:10 Rat: Well, all right.

0:47:11 Fabian: What can you tell us?

0:47:13 Rat: There's a bunch of people who come here and step on us, and they attack us with swords, and they shoot spells.

0:47:20 Fabian: Okay, great. Hey, okay-

0:47:21 Emily: Can I Minor Illusion Lucy Frostblade?

0:47:24 Fig: Ask it the last time it saw this girl.

0:47:26 Fabian: Okay, do you see this person? When's the last time you saw them?

0:47:31 Emily: I do a nice photo shoot, like a prom queen photo shoot.

0:47:34 Brennan: I just hit a nat 20 on this rat's History check.

0:47:36 Lou: Okay!

0:47:38 Ally: This rat was best friends with Lucy before she died!

0:47:40 Brennan: You see the rat looks and says,

0:47:42 Rat: Aw jeepers, she was always really nice.

0:47:48 Fig: [to the rat] Was she- [to Fabian] Did she have tension with the other ones?

0:47:49 Rat: Well, you know, we didn't like her at first because she used to come here and kill us all the time, but some time last year or something like that, she started to bring us back from the dead after her friends left.

0:48:00 Adaine: Oh, that's nice.

0:48:02 Fabian: That's so sweet.

0:48:02 Adaine: That is nice.

0:48:04 Fig: Oh my goodness.

0:48:05 Fabian: Wait, is there a place that they hung out in the woods, or particularly liked? Did you guys ever, did they have a-

0:48:11 Kristen: Where's their zone?

0:48:11 Fabian: A lair, or their nest?

0:48:15 Rat: They sorta hung out all over, but there's a place where I go sometimes because it was the last place I... I'm not supposed to say nothin'.

0:48:25 Fabian: No, no.

0:48:25 Kristen: Hey, that's okay.

0:48:27 Fabian: You can talk to us.

0:48:27 Gorgug: What's it saying, Fabian?

0:48:31 Fabian: It's having kind of an emotional moment.

0:48:34 Fig: I know how to handle this.

0:48:34 Fabian: Okay.

0:48:35 Emily: I'll Minor Illusion a sexy rat.

0:48:37 Fabian: No, come on! Come on, dude! Dude!

0:48:39 Ally: I step on the sexy rat. [the rat shrieks in horror]

0:48:42 Fabian: Sorry, no! We're not those guys!

0:48:43 Kristen: No, sorry, that was fake! That was fake! She was so sexy. [rat shrieking]

0:48:47 Fabian: You know that's triggering for me.

0:48:49 Kristen: Can you get a little rat stuffed animal out of your coat?

0:48:50 Fabian: You know that's triggering for me.

0:48:52 Adaine: Oh yes, a little rat. Here.

0:48:53 Ally: We get a little rat stuffed animal out of the coat.

0:48:55 Adaine: This is for you.

0:48:55 Kristen: It's extra tiny and it can hold it while it's-

0:48:58 Rat: It's like a mannequin, like they have in rat stores.

0:49:00 Fabian: I'm sorry? I'm sorry? Wait, hold on, what'd you just say?

0:49:04 Adaine: You have rat stores?

0:49:05 Rat: What?

0:49:05 Fabian: What'd you say? Rat store?

0:49:07 Rat: There's not a rat world under the school.

0:49:09 Adaine: What?

0:49:09 Rat: What?

0:49:10 Gorgug: I don't know what he's saying.

0:49:12 Fabian: He's talking about rat stores under the school.

0:49:13 Gorgug: Got it.

0:49:14 Fabian: Where you can get rat mannequins.

0:49:15 Riz: Steer it back! Steer it back, Fabian! All we hear is squeaking, steer him back!

0:49:21 Fabian: Okay, sorry. It's just interesting, you know? Did you guys know about Rat World? Now we do!

0:49:26 Gorgug: Just keep going!

0:49:26 Riz: Where was Lucy Frostblade?

0:49:28 Fabian: All right, nobody else wanted to eat the fucking tongue or the organs.

0:49:32 Adaine: You volunteered!

0:49:33 Riz: You volunteered so hard!

0:49:33 Fabian: It made it better!

0:49:35 Ally: I'm petting the rat. I'm trying to keep it kinda calm.

0:49:38 Brennan: Rat's sort of crying a little bit.

0:49:40 Kristen: Aw, it looks sad.

0:49:43 Fabian: I know it would be hard for you, but it would mean a great deal to us and that person if you could show us that place.

0:49:51 Rat: All right, I could take you. It takes about two days to get there.

0:49:57 Adaine: We can carry you.

0:49:57 Fig: Oh, that's two days for you.

0:50:00 Riz: Two days rat time.

0:50:00 Kristen: Tell him we could carry him.

0:50:02 Fabian: We can carry you.

0:50:02 Rat: Okay.

0:50:04 Fabian: We move faster than the wind.

0:50:07 Fig: [to the rat] Do you want to ride the- [to Fabian] Ask him if he wants to ride the skateboard.

0:50:08 Fabian: Do you wanna ride on a skateboard? Do they have those in your Rat World?

0:50:12 Rat: A skateboard? No.

0:50:13 Kristen: Make the battle sheet into a BabyBjörn for the rat.

0:50:15 Fabian: Okay. Here, I'm gonna wrap you up and we're gonna put you on this skateboard.

0:50:20 Rat: Lucy used to call me Spot.

0:50:22 Fabian: Spot?

0:50:22 Spot: Mm-hmm.

0:50:26 Fig: Tell him that we are trying to help Lucy, and so if he can help us, we are gonna help Lucy.

0:50:31 Fabian: We're trying to help Lucy, so if you can help us-

0:50:33 Brennan: Go ahead and give me Persuasion with advantage.

0:50:36 Emily: Do you want a Bardic?

0:50:37 Lou: Yeah, can I get one?

0:50:37 Emily: Yeah.

0:50:40 Lou: D8?

0:50:40 Emily: Yeah.

0:50:41 Murph: Be so careful.

0:50:41 Lou: Okay, I got a 19 plus 8.

0:50:46 Ally: Nice, nice.

0:50:46 Lou: So that's 27.

0:50:48 Murph: Maybe you don't need it.

0:50:49 Ally: You don't need it, then. You don't need it.

0:50:50 Murph: You can save it, right?

0:50:50 Ally: It could kill the rat, honestly. Imagine the rat getting bonked in the head by a fucking skateboard wheel.

0:50:55 Lou: It's my Bardic, so I think I would be the one.

0:50:58 Zac: It's up to you.

0:50:59 Lou: I mean, what do you guys...? Eh. Three. 30.

0:51:04 Brennan: Hey, 30. You see Spot goes,

0:51:05 Spot: Yeah, absolutely! You can come with me right now. I'll show you where it is.

0:51:10 Fabian: Fantastic.

0:51:11 Brennan: You guys are gonna take a hike through the woods?

0:51:14 Emily: Yeah.

0:51:14 Brennan: Great.

0:51:16 Emily: Keeping our eyes out, though.

0:51:18 Brennan: Eyes out.

0:51:18 Emily: I'm keeping my eyes peeled.

0:51:19 Lou: Oh yes, for traps or those sorts of things, perhaps.

0:51:22 Emily: Yeah, I'm in full security detail right now.

0:51:25 Ally: Yeah, I'd love to keep my eyes open.

0:51:28 Brennan: Everyone give me a Perception check.

0:51:30 Murph: Can we do a little short rest, too? Just in case we get nabbed by a trap. My Perception is disadvantage these days. I also got a 2.

0:51:42 Zac: It's a Perception?

0:51:42 Ally: Oh. 16.

0:51:42 Siobhan: Perception. I got an 18.

0:51:45 Zac: I got a 24.

0:51:45 Ally: Nice.

0:51:47 Brennan: You all move through the woods. Spot directs you. There's some noises out in the forest. There are some things out here that are kept by the adventuring academy. Not anything that would give you guys real pause. A couple giant spiders, some things that would be sort of short work for all of you at this point. Moving through the Far Haven Woods, you eventually see through the darkness the first little bit of light, which is sort of crescent moon reflecting off of Lake Shimmerstone.

0:52:20 Ally: I tap Fig and go,

0:52:20 Kristen: This is the whole mystery vibe. This is Cassandra's whole religion vibe. Are you scared, a little bit?

0:52:28 Fig: Am I scared?

0:52:28 Kristen: Yeah.

0:52:30 Fig: Of Cassandra?

0:52:30 Kristen: No, no. Like... Doesn't it feel kinda eerie and empty?

0:52:35 Fig: I like to be a little scared.

0:52:36 Kristen: Cool, yeah, me too.

0:52:36 Fig: Yeah.

0:52:38 Kristen: Cool.

0:52:38 Brennan: As you say that, the shards glow a little bit in your pocket.

0:52:43 Kristen: Sick. [whispering to the shards] We're gonna find your husband.

0:52:45 Adaine: Or wife! You're assuming.

0:52:45 Kristen: Or wife. Or… partner! [Emily guffaws]

0:52:53 Ally: I put it back in my pocket.

0:52:56 Murph: Riz jumps into the water.

0:53:00 Brennan: As you approach Lake Shimmerstone, Spot looks around and says,

0:53:06 Spot: Alright, let me go make sure there's no other little rats paying their respects.

0:53:12 Fabian: Of course.

0:53:13 Fig: What are they paying their respects to?

0:53:17 Spot: Lucy.

0:53:18 Fabian: Well, you be respectful. Go ahead, make sure we're not interrupting.

0:53:22 Brennan: That vulture tongue is sitting really bad in your stomach. Fabian, as your stomach goes [gurgling] Spot runs forward and you see [caws] owl picks him up and eats him.

0:53:33 Adaine: No!

0:53:33 Emily: What? No! I Hex the owl!

0:53:36 Lou: Hand crossbow.

0:53:39 Brennan: Great, everyone roll Initiative.

0:53:41 Siobhan: Disadvantage.

0:53:46 Brennan: Did anyone beat a 22?

0:53:49 Siobhan: No. Ally closes their eyes and shakes their head.

0:53:50 Brennan: Fabian, your stomach gurgles. There's a scent of creamy lemon that sort of pours out of your nostrils a little bit, something that smells like old sandals hidden wet in the gym bag in the back of an old car, and you see an owl swoops down, grabs Spot, and eats him.

0:54:08 Gorgug: No!

0:54:08 Fabian: Okay.

0:54:10 Fig: Okay.

0:54:10 Kristen: Fuck!

0:54:10 Fabian: [to Fig] You are cursed. You're, like, a hundred percent cursed. And it's not even just to the person, it's to the world just kinda generally around them.

0:54:19 Fig: Yeah. Yeah.

0:54:21 Ally: Are there any other rats around here that maybe we could try to talk to really quick before Fabian barfs?

0:54:25 Murph: Could we do an Investigation check to see if there's-

0:54:26 Brennan: Well, the rat, Spot, did bring you to the location. So you can now, anyone who wants to, give me Investigation checks.

0:54:35 Murph: Could somebody help me out?

0:54:35 Ally: Yeah, I'll help you.

0:54:37 Emily: I already rolled, sorry.

0:54:37 Lou: I also have one Bardic left.

0:54:40 Murph: Nat 20.

0:54:40 Siobhan: Nice.

0:54:42 Murph: 31.

0:54:42 Ally: Yes, yes, yes!

0:54:45 Brennan: All of you are out here exploring. You notice that there are a lot of old, sort of rotting trees around here. It looks like a lot of trees have sort of been felled in this area. Riz, you are looking for some evidence in the case of Lucy Frostblade's death. Which means on a nat 20, it is very shocking to you when you discover the body of Yolanda Badgood.

0:55:15 Emily: What?

0:55:15 Ally: Yolanda!

0:55:16 Emily: Okay.

0:55:18 Zac: [gestures to Ally] You told her about the thing!

0:55:19 Brennan: Riz, you are looking around. It's expertly hidden. It is deep under vines and foliage.

0:55:25 Riz: What the fuck?

0:55:25 Emily: How did she die?

0:55:27 Siobhan: How long has she been there?

0:55:27 Emily: Cause of death.

0:55:27 Brennan: On a nat 20, I'm gonna give you everything. It's, first of all, challenging to identify her. It's wire. The body is almost taken apart by, and this is a mystery in and of itself, but on a nat 20, I'll let you know without even casting any spells.

0:55:43 Murph: Okay.

0:55:45 Brennan: Force damage.

0:55:47 Emily: Okay, force damage is Steel Wind Strike.

0:55:50 Ally: Oh.

0:55:51 Brennan: And there is no magic residue. You take a temperature check on the body. Body's been dead for about three hours.

0:55:57 Zac: Three hours?

0:55:57 Ally: Three hours?

0:56:00 Emily: Will you cast Identify on the token?

0:56:04 Siobhan: Yeah, can I cast Identify on this bracelet?

0:56:08 Brennan: On the bracelet that was given to you.

0:56:09 Ally: The token from Yolanda?

0:56:09 Siobhan: From Yolanda.

0:56:12 Identify Spell: Ah yes, another use of the Identify spell.

0:56:14 Adaine: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:56:14 Identify Spell: What's that? I don't get to do my thing all the time.

0:56:18 Adaine: You're great. You're doing a really good job.

0:56:20 Identify Spell: You want my help or not?

0:56:20 Adaine: Yes, I absolutely... Please, yes. Thank you.

0:56:22 Identify Spell: Very well!

0:56:24 Fig: I actually really like you.

0:56:24 Identify Spell: Who said that?

0:56:28 Fig: Figueroth Faeth.

0:56:28 Identify Spell: Oh, I like you, too. Have you ever considered learning me? You could multiclass wizard.

0:56:33 Fig: Yeah, add it to the fuckin' pile.

0:56:37 Adaine: Wizard classes are expensive, let me just tell you.

0:56:40 Brennan: You see it says,

0:56:41 Identify Spell: This bracelet provides the channel to divine power for clerics devoted to a non-deity-specific cause.

0:56:50 Emily: Okay, I was trying to see if she was giving you-

0:56:53 Ally: Can I try to Raise Dead on her?

0:56:55 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:56:56 Ally: I mean, it takes an hour to do it, but I do have the spell slot, so I can start doing...

0:57:01 Brennan: Give me a Religion check as you begin here.

0:57:06 Ally: Really good. Okay, this is... Yeah, 24.

0:57:10 Brennan: There's cracked ribs, and you can see on the center of the sternum, you're looking at something, and you can see something which you cannot see.

0:57:19 Ally: The name of something.

0:57:21 Brennan: The name of something that you cannot read. Someone has performed an unholy last rites. Meaning that they have compelled her soul to the beyond past raising with the name of a dead god.

0:57:36 Siobhan: Can I flip over my Diviner Third Eye from seeing invisibility, which is my base, just regular one to see if I can see anything on the Ethereal Plane?

0:57:51 Brennan: Yeah, give me Perception with advantage. [dice rolling]

0:58:00 Zac: Are the trees that are down, do they look cleanly broken or did something rip them?

0:58:05 Brennan: As you look at them, pretty violently.

0:58:06 Siobhan: 22.

0:58:07 Brennan: 22. Adaine, you start looking at the Ethereal. You look and see what Kristen is pointing out, and you can see it's like someone erasing a letter and you being like, "A letter goes there," right? There's something that goes there. Ethereally, as you begin to peer through these material things, you see that there's one of the trees that has fallen. And looking at it, there's something underneath the fallen tree.

0:58:31 Adaine: Guys, there's something under the tree. Can we-

0:58:34 Brennan: You see it's the same glyph. It's the unholy glyph.

0:58:37 Adaine: What?

0:58:38 Brennan: There's something under the tree.

0:58:39 Lou: I'll dig.

0:58:39 Emily: This glyph is the name?

0:58:40 Brennan: Yeah, whatever the unnameable name is is underneath-

0:58:43 Emily: Can I just start copying the glyph?

0:58:45 Brennan: You can't even actually perceive the shape of it. But as you start digging under, all of you discover the body of Lucy Frostblade.

0:58:53 Lou: Holy shit.

0:58:54 Siobhan: Wait, how long has this body been here?

0:58:56 Emily: This has been here for months.

0:58:57 Brennan: It's been here for months. Months and months and months.

0:58:59 Fabian: This is really bad.

0:58:59 Ad: This is really bad.

0:59:02 Brennan: I'll still honor that nat 20 Investigation. The means of death was different here. You don't see that force damage.

0:59:08 Murph: Okay, so it seems like Yolanda was killed like three hours ago. When was Ruben playing?

0:59:15 Siobhan: Three hours ago?

0:59:15 Brennan: Yeah, just about.

0:59:18 Murph: Could that spell have been used to-

0:59:24 Brennan: I'll ask for Medicine or Investigation here.

0:59:27 Murph: Okay, I'll do Investigate.

0:59:28 Emily: All I need to do is crit.

0:59:28 Lou: I'll do Medicine.

0:59:30 Emily: I got a three.

0:59:32 Zac: I'm gonna use this Medal of Wit so I can use-

0:59:35 Murph: 25.

0:59:35 Lou: Unnatural 20 medical.

0:59:37 Zac: 21 Investigation.

0:59:39 Brennan: 21 Investigation, and we got 25 over here? Okay. I think on a 25 Investigation, there's a lot of rot here. It's very hard to see, but what you can see is, you think Lucy had multiple assailants. There's lacerations, there's breaks, there's clear spell damage. I think you see that there is something in the soil. The quality of the soil is weird here. As you're looking through it, the roots of the plants almost did not grow down into here, so you see there's some weird quality to the soil.

1:00:13 Emily: Okay, now I'm starting to think, if the Rat Grinders are working with just this rage god without being tempered by doubt, then that could actually be a really bad presence.

1:00:21 Brennan: Fabian, you get that Medicine check. Lucy's body looks like it was killed by multiple assailants. I think on the Medicine check, also, if you look at Yolanda as well, there are capillaries and blood vessels within Yolanda's body that were crushed with such force that the blood carbonized and turned into diamonds in her body. The force and pressure of whatever-

1:00:48 Adaine: Can I use those in my class?

1:00:50 Fabian: Adaine!

1:00:51 Kristen: Adaine!

1:00:51 Ad: I'm kidding, I'm kidding! It's dark, it's dark and scary!

1:00:55 Ally: Wait, so there are no good roots underneath these trees? It's like toxic?

1:01:00 Brennan: There's something in the soil that you see here, and I think-

1:01:02 Zac: I got a 21 Investigation. I'm looking for, like, these trees have been fucked up, this person has been destroyed by force damage. Are there giant footsteps anywhere?

1:01:13 Brennan: You look at Lucy's body, who was a frost genasi. She's tall, and I think you can see that she is descended from giants, and I think that you can also see, looking at the origin of these trees, I think you peg giant. And I think the reason you do is because the trees don't fall in the same direction. You can tell the trees were knocked over by either magical force or violence of some means, or an enormous opponent fucking pushing it down. I think on that 21 Investigation, this tree was knocked down after the fact to hide the body.

1:01:56 Zac: Got it.

1:01:57 Ally: I know I don't have a divinity, or I just don't really know where Cassandra is, but can I try for a Divine Intervention?

1:02:09 Brennan: Give me a Divine Intervention roll.

1:02:10 Ally: Okay. It's a d100, and it has to be 11 or less.

1:02:18 Brennan: Yeah.

1:02:18 Ally: Okay. No. 62.

1:02:22 Brennan: As you reach out, you also had that Sending spell you wanted to cast, right?

1:02:26 Ally: Yeah.

1:02:27 Brennan: Moving to a connection to mystery and the night, and I will say too, it's almost three o'clock in the morning now. You guys are out here at this fucking double crime scene. I think that you reach for Cassandra, can't find her, but in not finding your goddess of mystery and the night, realize that that's okay too. And I think you remember-

1:02:51 Ally: Interesting.

1:02:54 Brennan: ...Yolanda's voice saying, "With your goddess gone, you need to work the miracles of doubt and mystery that she cannot work," and sense that that is your path back to spellcasting. Even if you can't get Cassandra back, if you can be doing her miracles in this world for her, there will be some path back to that divine source of magic. You've already done parts of it. Even just tonight, the small miracle you've worked have given you some of that magic back as you hold onto these shards.

1:03:22 Ally: The vulture.

1:03:22 Brennan: Yeah, the vulture. She is not fully gone. You hear Cassandra's voice, almost.

1:03:30 Cassandra: [gasps] Spies, tongue, curse...

1:03:33 Brennan: And she says the words, "Spies, tongue, curse."

1:03:40 Fig: Okay, [points to Fabian] you're the tongue. [points to herself] I'm the curse.

1:03:44 Fabian: Who's the spy? Which one of you is the mole?

1:03:47 Brennan: Who's a fucking turncoat?

1:03:48 Murph: I wonder if, with fraud and stuff, maybe this is literally a religious cult that is running-

1:03:53 Ally: Getting money, yeah.

1:03:53 Murph: Maybe getting money.

1:03:55 Brennan: I think Adaine maybe already pointed out, it's not a coincidence that these are in the same place. It seems obvious that Yolanda had just learned something about Lucy and might have been here looking for Lucy.

1:04:06 Emily: Yeah.

1:04:09 Brennan: As to why Lucy is here, you know, she was in an adventuring party that came to the Far Haven Woods a lot.

1:04:14 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:04:14 Brennan: It's possible that this is just a very beautiful place in the woods that some event happened at several months ago.

1:04:21 Emily: And the rat said that she would wait while the others left and then revive them, so she could've been completely separated from the party, and then that's when-

1:04:30 Murph: Yeah, first things first, I mean, Lucy seems like she was a good person. I feel like we should maybe-

1:04:36 Siobhan: Yeah, tell her parents?

1:04:38 Lou: Call an adult.

1:04:39 Murph: Well, last time we told somebody, we told Yolanda, and Yolanda was murdered. So I'm wondering, if we move... I know moving bodies is fucking weird, but I'm kinda like-

1:04:49 Emily: We can't do that. We'll get framed.

1:04:50 Murph: Can we get them out of cursed soil?

1:04:52 Lou: Let's call the... Let's take a picture of Wanda Childa here, and then... Well, then they'll think Wanda Childa killed-

1:04:59 Siobhan: Can we take a little sample of the cursed soil?

1:05:01 Murph: Oh, should we just anonymously report it? Yeah, that's a good idea. We don't need Wanda Childa to take the fall.

1:05:08 Lou: I feel like I realized in that moment-

1:05:10 Emily: If anything, Wanda Childa would be a really good dead girl in a movie.

1:05:14 Murph: Let's not put Wanda Childa in there.

1:05:16 Siobhan: Minor Illusion Wanda Childa's body right next to these other two bodies.

1:05:19 Murph: Do you have Spare the Dying or something? Something to un-curse Yolanda and Lucy here?

1:05:23 Ally: I think I tried. Yeah, I do have Spare the Dying.

1:05:26 Brennan: Both of these people have passed quite close to each other. Is there anything that you would say, that Kristen would want to say to Yolanda specifically?

1:05:35 Ally: Oh yeah, I mean, I think I would absolutely start crying and be like,

1:05:41 Kristen: You were such a good teacher. I'm sorry I just got a C. Thank you. Like, I love you. [Ally laughing]

1:05:49 Brennan: Yeah, I think you see this very tender moment. And I think Kristen, as you kneel into that space and weep and mourn-

1:05:55 Ally: Can I try to put one of the shards over the name on her chest?

1:06:02 Brennan: Yeah, go ahead and give me a Religion check.

1:06:05 Ally: See if it interacts at all.

1:06:05 Brennan: Yeah.

1:06:08 Ally: That's an 18.

1:06:13 Brennan: You put a shard over this rune that has cast this soul out past the point of reaching, and you feel the presence of a miracle that you cannot see. This spell cannot bring Yolanda back. It cannot stop this magic that has been worked here. But you get the sensation of wherever Yolanda's soul is and whatever might be going on there, in realms beyond, a door opens in front of Yolanda's soul to a cool, dark, welcoming forest that she moves into and away from the grip of whatever was holding her in realms beyond.

1:06:59 Ally: Fuck, I do the same thing for Lucy, then. I see if I can do the same thing.

1:07:03 Brennan: I need everyone here to make a Perception check.

1:07:11 Siobhan: 12.

1:07:11 Emily: 19.

1:07:13 Lou: 23.

1:07:13 Zac: 22.

1:07:16 Brennan: Gorgug and Fabian, as you're watching your friend Kristen perform a working of clerical magic that is completely improvised, without the aid of any deity and are reminded that, whatever her trials with academics, Kristen is one of the most gifted clerics this world has ever seen. Gorgug and Fabian specifically, you look out onto the lake and see the water ripple as that crescent moon paints a line, and for the briefest moment, you see two silhouettes in that rail of moonlight across the ripples of the lake. A tall and awkward teenage girl's silhouette and a strong and confident woman briefly hold hands and disappear up the ray of moonlight towards the sky. [music slowly fades] This moment of sacredness dissipates until once again, the crickets and the sound of little dew forming in the wet forest falls away. The miracle that Kristen has worked here in this moment re-grants you your spellcasting.

1:08:26 Ally: Nice.

1:08:28 Brennan: It does not have to stop here. You become aware that the relationship of clerics and gods within the world of Spyre is that clerics are these sort of agents that work on behalf of deities, but I think you realize in that moment, well and truly, the relationship does not have to start on the part of the deity. Your goddess is gone, in some clutches that you can't begin to understand. But in her moment of need, it is not just right, but the most right, that she could rely on you. Those shards glow. Though you do not know how or why it works like this, your realm is doubt. It works.

1:09:11 Ally: Cool. I take the shards and I put them in my Wrangler pocket.

1:09:20 Gorgug: Do you want a fanny pack?

1:09:20 Kristen: No, absolutely not.

1:09:22 Ad: I can get you one right now.

1:09:23 Kristen: They're really big pockets, actually.

1:09:25 Riz: They're huge, yeah.

1:09:25 Kristen: Yeah, they're huge.

1:09:26 Fabian: There's a pay phone at Basrar's we can use to place a-

1:09:30 Adaine: Maybe not the place where I work.

1:09:32 Fabian: Well, like, an anonymous phone call. Not in the... It's outside, in the parking lot.

1:09:37 Kristen: All right, let's go.

1:09:37 Fig: Can I look at this? We have to cover our tracks somehow. There's so many ways for this to get pinned on us, and if we don't-

1:09:46 Kristen: What, five footprints and a skateboard track?

1:09:52 Ad: Go through with a broom.

1:09:54 Riz: The copy of our party that did this crime?

1:09:57 Kristen: Yeah.

1:09:57 Riz: Could it look like us?

1:09:58 Ad: They are absolutely freaking copying us.

1:10:00 Riz: Yeah.

1:10:01 Zac: Oh, what's that- Soil Club? [Siobhan gasps]

1:10:04 Ally: Take a sample!

1:10:04 Murph: Can I use my knowledge from Soil Club to cover the crime scene?

1:10:08 Ally: Or to get a soil sample, 'cause it's really cursed soil.

1:10:12 Murph: I would love to do that, yeah. Take out one of my-

1:10:14 Brennan: Adaine's already got a sample of the cursed soil.

1:10:16 Murph: Soil tube. Thank you.

1:10:19 Brennan: Riz, go ahead and give me a Persuasion with advantage.

1:10:24 Murph: Okay.

1:10:25 Ally: You've been killing it in Soil Club.

1:10:27 Murph: Okay. Okay!

1:10:30 Emily: Do you want a Bardic?

1:10:30 Murph: No. 28. I got a 19 on the-

1:10:35 Brennan: You got a 28 Persuasion?

1:10:37 Murph: I got plus nine Persuasion.

1:10:39 Brennan: Cool.

1:10:39 Molman: This is Molman Holden. Hi, it's three o'clock in the morning, but I got this on my urgent Soil Club phone.

1:10:45 Riz: Hey, I found some weird dirt.

1:10:48 Molman: Oh, I'll be right there. Where are you?

1:10:51 Riz: No, I'll come to you.

1:10:51 Molman: Okay.

1:10:52 Riz: Where do you live?

1:10:54 Molman: I'll drop a pin. Boop!

1:10:57 Ally: Is it close to Basrar's?

1:10:59 Murph: Is it close to Basrar's?

1:10:59 Brennan: Uh...? [rolls a die] Yes, it is close to Basrar's.

1:11:05 Murph: Okay, perfect.

1:11:05 Emily: I'm gonna propose, 'cause I really, really don't want us to get fucked by this, by having been here, the only thing I can think of is Bud Cubby. He's an adult that probably knows how to-

1:11:22 Murph: Should we just call Bud Cubby?

1:11:23 Emily: That's what I'm saying, and be like, hey-

1:11:25 Zac: He was at the party.

1:11:26 Murph: We're gonna get Bud Cubby killed. The last adult we told was Yolanda.

1:11:29 Ally: Oh yeah, that's true.

1:11:29 Siobhan: Yeah, you're right.

1:11:31 Ally: I would be so upset.

1:11:31 Siobhan: Let's just keep it a secret.

1:11:32 Emily: Yolanda was going to look into it. Bud Cubby wouldn't go investigating about this.

1:11:36 Siobhan: He might do.

1:11:36 Ally: Can we Prestidigitation? Does someone have something like that?

1:11:39 Lou: Can I make a Survival check to cover our tracks?

1:11:42 Brennan: Yeah, give me a Survival check.

1:11:43 Ally: I'd love to, also.

1:11:43 Emily: I'll do the same.

1:11:45 Brennan: Group Survival check.

1:11:45 Siobhan: Sure, why not?

1:11:46 Emily: I crit!

1:11:46 Brennan: Hey, nat 20!

1:11:49 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:11:50 Brennan: With that crit, I will let you do a perfect job, but you have to call your shot. You don't have enough time before dawn, in other words, to get all your tracks. Do you wanna pick the tracks starting closer to Aguefort or do you wanna do the ones that actually lead to the crime scene at the lake?

1:12:06 Emily: Lead to the crime scene.

1:12:06 Brennan: Cool.

1:12:08 Murph: It's not a big deal to be in the woods.

1:12:09 Emily: I'm okay with people knowing we were in the forest.

1:12:11 Ally: The hub for my campaign is in the forest, remember?

1:12:14 Emily: Yeah.

1:12:14 Ally: My Tiny Hut.

1:12:14 Murph: This is also a magical world. We can cast Zone of Truth on each other and stuff and just be like, I didn't do it.

1:12:20 Emily: I wanna dust, or get rid of our fingerprints, anything like that.

1:12:22 Brennan: Cool. Are you just doing it by hand as best you can? Just scuffing up the earth and stuff?

1:12:26 Emily: Yeah, I'm security detail mode.

1:12:26 Brennan: Cool. You're security detail mode.

1:12:29 Emily: I put my earpiece in.

1:12:29 Brennan: You guys go back through.

1:12:31 Emily: And then I think I coordinate a bunch of rats to help me, to just scramble around in our tracks.

1:12:37 Brennan: The biggest job is to reseal that rotten tree. After that, you're able to clear your tracks. You have to spend a couple hours, but basically, the last third of your journey, as the sun is coming up, you clear so that your tracks just, you end in a meadow, and it looks like you just came out to the Far Haven Woods, were in a meadow doing something, maybe investigating the Rat Grinders, and then turned around and headed back. Everyone give me a Constitution saving throw. [dice rolling] Did anyone get below a 10? Right here. So you guys both start this day with a level of exhaustion. [Murph groans]

1:13:14 Ally: Fuck.

1:13:15 Brennan: Just getting back.

1:13:16 Ally: What if I stop at a diner or something and get huevos rancheros a la mode?

1:13:20 Brennan: Yeah. Also, it's the weekend. It's a Saturday, so you guys can just head-

1:13:22 Murph: Oh!

1:13:22 Ally: Oh, that's fine.

1:13:23 Brennan: You're all good. You can head back.

1:13:24 Lou: Great!

1:13:24 Brennan: You're all good. But once again, you guys, it's the middle of your fall semester. You guys have unraveled huge, significant portions of the mystery. Given that there's a lot left to do, but also, it's the weekend, you're exhausted, you've been out all night, you found some really wild stuff. You go to Molman and get him to anonymously call in something?

1:13:47 Murph: I think we wanted him to look at the dirt.

1:13:49 Lou: I was gonna go just, yeah, I'm gonna go to a pay phone.

1:13:51 Murph: Do we want them to know that we're onto them, though?

1:13:54 Siobhan: I don't think so.

1:13:54 Emily: Lucy's family needs to know.

1:13:57 Lou: I think people need to know, out of respect.

1:14:00 Murph: Yeah, okay.

1:14:00 Siobhan: That's fair.

1:14:00 Emily: I do Prestidigitation on your voice like a voice filter.

1:14:04 Fabian: Hi, I'm calling-

1:14:04 Ally: [pitched high] Hi!

1:14:09 Siobhan: I'm a widdle boy.

1:14:10 Police Department: Hey, this is the Elmville Police Department.

1:14:13 Fabian: I'd like to make you aware of something.

1:14:18 Police Department: Get the extinguisher! Get the extinguisher!

1:14:20 Fabian: No, it is not a fire.

1:14:20 Police Department: What?

1:14:22 Fabian: There is-

1:14:22 Police Department: No, there's a fire here.

1:14:24 Fabian: Oh, there's a fire there.

1:14:24 Police Department: Yeah.

1:14:26 Fabian: Oh. Do you want me to call back in a second?

1:14:28 Police Department: No, if we stopped taking calls every time this place was on fire, I tell ya...

1:14:33 Fabian: Okay, we just want to make you aware of a space in the woods worth investigating due to high crime activity.

1:14:43 Brennan: You give the coordinates and you hear,

1:14:45 Police Department: All right, thank you so much for this tip. Thank you for calling our anonymous... [phone beeping rapidly]

1:14:48 Brennan: The phone goes over and you hear,

1:14:51 Automated Voice: Being transferred to the Council of Chosen.

1:14:55 Agent Clark: Hi, who am I speaking to?

1:14:58 Fabian: David.

1:14:59 Agent Clark: David, that's a nice illusory mask on your voice. This is Agent Clark. Where are you right now? Get a lock, get a lock on the location!

1:15:08 Ally: I yell from the back,

1:15:08 Kristen: They're onto you, Hilda!

1:15:14 Lou: Slam.

1:15:14 Brennan: Slam! Great. I think here at this point, you guys have a lot of things you wanna do, but also, you're now getting back into needing to eat and needing to be human again. So I think we're gonna head into another period of downtime here.

1:15:25 Lou: Okay!

1:15:27 Brennan: There's a lot of mystery stuff to take care of.

1:15:29 Ally: Fuck! I have to prioritize mystery. Do we take a long rest before we're going into this downtime?

1:15:37 Brennan: Oh yes, everyone long rests. You're all badly injured after the fight. Unless there's anything you can think of that is immediately pressing that weekend, but it seems like there's a lot of leads that you guys want-

1:15:46 Emily: No, I'm gonna sleep all weekend.

1:15:47 Brennan: Yeah, let me know what tracks people are, if anyone knows how they're starting off. If anyone wants to start with academic stuff or mystery or whatever. Yeah, Riz.

1:15:54 Murph: I think I'll do academics. I feel like Riz has been kind of doing as much work as needs to be done just to get good grades, but maybe not paying as hard of attention to it. But I think I'm really, really gonna try to find the rogue teacher, really try to apply what we just saw.

1:16:13 Ally: Oh, nice.

1:16:13 Murph: And consider that the rogue teacher may have witnessed something or may have tried to reprimand-

1:16:19 Brennan: So I'll let you know right now, finding the rogue teacher is a DC 30 Investigation check. So you need a 19 on the die to do it.

1:16:27 Murph: Okay.

1:16:27 Brennan: Right? Cool.

1:16:31 Murph: Ah, 14. 25.

1:16:32 Brennan: Still get an A. That's your first track. What's your second track?

1:16:35 Murph: Second track, I'll do the extracurriculars with disadvantage.

1:16:39 Brennan: Cool, give me extracurriculars with disadvantage.

1:16:42 Murph: Persuasion is good?

1:16:42 Brennan: Persuasion's great.

1:16:45 Murph: 22.

1:16:45 Brennan: Incredible!

1:16:46 Murph: Great, I'll do that.

1:16:48 Brennan: As you do, Molman talks to you at Soil Club and says,

1:16:52 Molman: Hey, got that call. Seems like some interesting soil stuff is going on?

1:16:56 Riz: It's like a weird, it seemed to be killing the tree that it was attached to.

1:17:02 Molman: I'd love to get my little claws in there. If I can get my little snooter snootin'.

1:17:08 Riz: Okay.

1:17:08 Molman: I'll get it.

1:17:11 Riz: Here's the dirt. I just have the vial.

1:17:14 Molman: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Vial?

1:17:15 Brennan: You see he takes it and puts it into a little trough.

1:17:18 Murph: Okay.

1:17:19 Brennan: Takes a little stone marble pestle and kind of grinds it up and gets his long, mole-like nose and just goes... [snuffling]

1:17:26 Zac: Might be so bad for you, but-

1:17:29 Riz: Oh yeah. Careful, dude.

1:17:33 Molman: [sniffing] Oh yeah.

1:17:33 Riz: Okay.

1:17:35 Molman: There's iron, okay?

1:17:35 Riz: Okay.

1:17:37 Molman: Can I have a couple days to study this?

1:17:38 Riz: Yes, certainly.

1:17:39 Molman: All right. I'm gonna get into this, 'cause this is-

1:17:43 Riz: Okay. Be super careful with it. I'd maybe have a study buddy while you're looking at the dirt.

1:17:50 Molman: Hey man, don't fucking tell me what to do!

1:17:52 Riz: Okay! Okay!

1:17:56 Molman: You are the fucking treasurer!

1:17:57 Riz: Okay, okay! I'm sorry, god! [Molman shrieks]

1:18:02 Brennan: You see he screams and just burrows into the earth. That's your extracurriculars. What's up for Riz after that?

1:18:08 Murph: I gotta get Kristen doing good on the popularity. So I don't know, do I help Kristen with her roll-

1:18:17 Brennan: You can always take more stress tokens for Kristen.

1:18:19 Murph: Cool.

1:18:19 Ally: No.

1:18:20 Brennan: But you can just roll Persuasion yourself.

1:18:22 Murph: Okay.

1:18:22 Brennan: It's a DC 15 at the moment.

1:18:25 Murph: Okay, I think I can't miss that. One becomes a 10 becomes a 19.

1:18:34 Brennan: Cool, so you actually have for yourself, Riz, the mechanical benefit that when meeting a new character from that community or institution, you roll your first Charisma check with advantage. So as campaign manager, your strategy works. You are not cool, but you're still a junior, and half the school are underclassmen to you, and you can run around, having saved the world a couple times, and all these classes got lots of nerds and dorks and geeks running around in 'em. So you have become like the consigliere of geeks and other people. Doesn't matter how cool you are.

1:19:09 Murph: Right. Check out all the friends I have. I have a briefcase.

1:19:14 Brennan: And then nothing on the little relationships track?

1:19:18 Murph: No.

1:19:19 Emily: Nothing for your relationship with Fig?

1:19:22 Murph: Well, you guys are all-

1:19:23 Emily: You don't wanna strengthen our bond?

1:19:25 Murph: I check in with Fig.

1:19:26 Brennan: I think Riz, partway through it, there's a little moment where you're doing stuff at school. You're taking care of all the treasury accounting stuff for the different clubs at school. Your mom comes in and goes,

1:19:36 Sklonda: Hey.

1:19:41 Riz: How's it going?

1:19:43 Sklonda: Good. We were out and about. I stopped over by Cravencroft and just spent a little time visiting Dad.

1:19:53 Riz: I'm sorry I wasn't there.

1:19:53 Sklonda: No!

1:19:54 Riz: It's been crazy. It's been really, really crazy.

1:19:58 Sklonda: I know.

1:19:59 Riz: Did you hear about the stuff at the festival?

1:20:00 Sklonda: Frosty Fair, yeah.

1:20:01 Riz: Yeah, Principal Grix came down and tried to kill students, and also everyone was naked before it. There was a nudity tent.

1:20:09 Sklonda: Well, I knew about the nudity tent. Yeah, Frosty Fair. But yeah, absolutely strange. I was planning on going, but my case folded up.

1:20:17 Riz: Why did your case fold up?

1:20:19 Sklonda: The people I was defending are no longer with us.

1:20:24 Riz: Does that strike you as suspicious?

1:20:28 Sklonda: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. But, you know, I would only interact with it in a legal way if the person who-

1:20:37 Riz: Mom, I'm sorry, I'm trying to not to get, like, 'cause I feel like I'm just like, work, work, work.

1:20:42 Sklonda: No!

1:20:42 Riz: And we should really, like, go for a picnic or something, but I just wanna ask you about your case so bad. Is it okay if I ask you about your case, Mom?

1:20:52 Brennan: She says,

1:20:52 Sklonda: How about I'll be a little bit late. I'll drive you to school.

1:20:54 Riz: Please!

1:20:56 Sklonda: You can talk to me about the case.

1:20:57 Riz: Okay, thank you.

1:20:58 Sklonda: You know, it's your junior year. I'll take all the time I can get.

1:21:02 Riz: Thanks, Mom. Yeah.

1:21:02 Sklonda: Love you, kiddo.

1:21:04 Riz: Love you, Mom. Let's talk about the case, please.

1:21:06 Sklonda: Let's talk about the case.

1:21:07 Brennan: You get in with your mom and go.

1:21:10 Emily: I was sitting there being like, why isn't he asking about the case?

1:21:13 Ally: Yeah, I was like, sick!

1:21:16 Brennan: Okay, cool.

1:21:16 Zac: Very sweet.

1:21:17 Brennan: So we'll hold off on mystery for Riz. Who else wants to jump in on downtime?

1:21:21 Lou: So I'm unbelievably wealthy.

1:21:24 Brennan: Incredible.

1:21:24 Lou: And me and my friends just discovered the site of a double homicide. [everyone laughing] So...

1:21:31 Emily: Well, is it a double homicide if they were different times?

1:21:34 Zac: It was a homicide and then another homicide.

1:21:35 Siobhan: Maybe the dumping ground of a serial killer.

1:21:37 Emily: It was two homicides, but not a homicide duet.

1:21:38 Lou: So we found the dumping ground of a serial killer. I'm wondering-

1:21:41 Zac: Maybe.

1:21:42 Lou: Fabian is willing to invest a lot of money in some version of a relaxation track activity-

1:21:50 Brennan: Cool.

1:21:50 Lou: ...for anyone who wants to participate. Whatever that might look like, be it buying out a spa for a day, getting a bunch of nurses to come over to my house and administer B12 shots.

1:22:03 Ally: We all get IVs.

1:22:05 Lou: Finding a dwarf-

1:22:05 Emily: Naughty nurses.

1:22:06 Lou: ...who can do a sound bath in the living room. You know, shock therapy, but in a fun kind of- [Emily guffaws]

1:22:16 Siobhan: Like a TENS machine.

1:22:17 Lou: Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean! Whatever version of that, and however much it costs.

1:22:22 Ally: What's a TENS machine?

1:22:23 Siobhan: Those little pads that go... [buzzes] You go to the chiropractor and it's like-

1:22:27 Ally: Ooh!

1:22:29 Lou: Yes, where they put a towel under your back.

1:22:31 Ally: Ooh!

1:22:31 Lou: And then they shock you.

1:22:33 Brennan: I will say this. You can use money to help with relaxation up to a point.

1:22:40 Lou: Okay.

1:22:41 Brennan: If you are slammed and crazy and busy, then getting a massage just becomes one other thing you have to do if there's no other support for that around it. So if you wanna use money to solve this, you're gonna roll 1d4, and whatever that number is, the relaxation track has to happen by that number for you to get advantage, right?

1:23:03 Lou: Okay, great.

1:23:03 Ally: Come on, three or four.

1:23:06 Lou: By that?

1:23:06 Brennan: So in other words, if you roll a three, you can't put the relaxation track after three, and if you remember, relaxation tracks have to be the last thing you roll. There's a little bit of limitation to how much you can do. If you're doing six things, it doesn't matter how much money you spend on massages, you're still doing six things.

1:23:22 Ally: Three!

1:23:22 Lou: Three.

1:23:23 Brennan: Three. Okay, so I won't make you spend the money, but if you want to spend the money to get advantage, that track has to go no later than third for people.

1:23:32 Ally: So we each get to do two things.

1:23:32 Brennan: So Riz already wouldn't be able to get advantage on it.

1:23:33 Lou: No one's gonna use it.

1:23:36 Zac: I don't know that I'll be able to.

1:23:37 Lou: I got a bunch of nurses to come over.

1:23:39 Ally: You're just hanging out with them.

1:23:41 Emily: The nurses are hanging out with the birthday pirates.

1:23:43 Brennan: Any other-

1:23:44 Ally: Just hanging out with nurses.

1:23:45 Brennan: Got a bunch of nurses, getting shocked left and right.

1:23:47 Fabian: They might come over. Everyone's kinda having a busy time.

1:23:50 Adaine: Stop trying to make friends with the nurses, my guy.

1:23:52 Fabian: Hey, well, I mean, shit, they're here!

1:23:53 Adaine: They're really nice.

1:23:55 Brennan: Zac, you were talking about Gorgug wanting to put barbarian first.

1:23:58 Zac: Yeah, I think if I get this figured out, then everything else becomes easier, and then I can maybe invest energy somewhere else.

1:24:05 Brennan: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:24:05 Emily: As a reminder, I sent everything of Gorgug being angry to Porter.

1:24:11 Brennan: Hell, yeah. Okay, so an A plus is just a DC 17 here. You're rolling Athletics. You made the call to record that. I will allow you to make this roll with advantage.

1:24:21 Zac: Okay.

1:24:21 Brennan: All right.

1:24:26 Zac: I add an eight to that, so I think I only got-

1:24:30 Siobhan: You got a 10. You rolled a 10.

1:24:34 Zac: So 18.

1:24:34 Ally: Nice!

1:24:36 Brennan: What does that look like as Adaine actually helps Gorgug with his barbarian stuff? [Gorgug clears throat]

1:24:44 Adaine: You can be angry at me. Just yell at me.

1:24:46 Gorgug: Get out of my face! Sorry.

1:24:49 Adaine: Yell more!

1:24:49 Gorgug: [voice cracking] Get out of my face!

1:24:51 Adaine: Yell louder!

1:24:51 Gorgug: I got it now. I got it.

1:24:54 Brennan: Incredible.

1:24:54 Gorgug: Let's go!

1:24:55 Brennan: So 10 plus 8 is 18.

1:24:55 Zac: Yes.

1:24:56 Brennan: Adaine, during trance, you start to get visions of Gorgug focusing on artificer spell effects while raging. You see it happening. There's a big, triumphant leap he's making. There's a big pre-victory party at Seacaster Manor. You see there's beautiful stars in the sky. There's a big, glowing moon.

1:25:19 Adaine: I think there's a way for you to do spells when you're raging.

1:25:22 Gorgug: I know, there's gotta be.

1:25:23 Adaine: There's gotta be a way.

1:25:24 Gorgug: I think I'm very close to figuring it out.

1:25:27 Adaine: I think you can do it.

1:25:28 Gorgug: I just gotta get through the bullshit hurdles this school has set up for me.

1:25:32 Adaine: Yeah!

1:25:33 Brennan: Gorgug, you walk into class-

1:25:35 Zac: I kick the door down.

1:25:36 Brennan: Bam, the door flies off. It hits Porter and he goes,

1:25:38 Porter: Shit!

1:25:41 Brennan: You see he looks up.

1:25:41 Porter: The hell?

1:25:44 Zac: Picturing my parents' lawnmower sex toy.

1:25:50 Gorgug: We need a word.

1:25:52 Brennan: Porter looks over at Fig and looks back at you and says,

1:25:56 Porter: Speak your mind.

1:25:57 Gorgug: I... ...don't like you. I think I hate you. You're a weird guy, and you're just fuckin' in my way.

1:26:12 Porter: What do you do to something in your way?

1:26:14 Gorgug: You knock it down.

1:26:15 Zac: And I push him.

1:26:18 Brennan: Give me Athletics.

1:26:18 Zac: Oops!

1:26:21 Brennan: Give me Athletics. He's gonna roll. He adds a plus 14.

1:26:26 Zac: I go into a rage and push him.

1:26:27 Brennan: Okay, 27. You go into a rage.

1:26:30 Emily: Can I-

1:26:30 Zac: All right.

1:26:31 Emily: Oh wait, he already has [advantage].

1:26:34 Zac: 21.

1:26:36 Brennan: As you shove him, he steps back, stays on his feet.

1:26:40 Gorgug: I was finishing your sentence. I didn't really wanna do that.

1:26:43 Porter: All right, we'll work on the follow-through. Look.

1:26:46 Brennan: You see he goes,

1:26:48 Porter: [holding up his crystal] Is this you oinking at an officer of the law?

1:26:53 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:26:54 Porter: Fucking metal, Thistlespring. Where has this been?

1:26:58 Gorgug: I don't know, I just felt weird about being mad. I didn't wanna do it unless it felt really necessary or justified.

1:27:09 Porter: Well, look. If you feel that there is some good in the world to do by running around and stomping through dungeons and attacking airships and running into castles, you know, as our real principal said, a hero is a violent wanderer. You're gonna give yourself permission to burn and pillage and murder, you're not gonna give yourself permission to get a little angry?

1:27:39 Gorgug: Yeah, I gotta be honest… it's kinda fun.

1:27:45 Porter: That's what I'm talking about!

1:27:46 Brennan: You see he just starts weeping. He gives you this big fucking hug, and really, it hurts.

1:27:52 Gorgug: Ow! Ow!

1:27:52 Porter: Resist, resist! That's what I'm talking about! Rage is not a bad thing. Ayda, you know, the principal's daughter, she said you're the greatest wizard of this age, and I feel lucky to have you in my class. You're someone that can actually use that rage in a smart way, but it's not wrong to wanna fuck shit up sometimes.

1:28:19 Gorgug: I do. I'm sorry I knocked the door off your... I'm not sorry. It was fun.

1:28:24 Porter: Let's fucking kill this door. [both screaming] [wood splintering]

1:28:29 Brennan: Bam. You get an A plus in barbarian class! [players cheering]

1:28:35 Emily: What about the MCAT?

1:28:40 Zac: I try to,

1:28:40 Gorgug: [holding up a paper] This is actually-

1:28:41 Fig: [holding up a paper as well] Actually, can you re-sign mine?

1:28:43 Gorgug: Re-sign Fig's?

1:28:46 Brennan: You see Porter... Give me a Persuasion with advantage.

1:28:50 Emily: Me? Okay. Persuasion becomes 23.

1:28:57 Brennan: 23. Porter looks at it and says,

1:28:57 Porter: I'm a man of my word.

1:29:01 Brennan: He takes out a quill and signs your MCAT.

1:29:05 Gorgug: Thank you!

1:29:07 Brennan: He goes,

1:29:07 Porter: And look, I appreciate the focus you're putting back into your barbarian classes here. If it gets a little bit rocky, with Grix out of the way, there are some bureaucratic loopholes that Principal Aguefort put in place for students that have been unfairly maligned by the rules. So there's a couple little... If you or any of your party need help with grades later in the year, just, you know, there's things that can be worked out.

1:29:34 Gorgug: And that works with trying to go to college, and it's not like the pass-fail thing, right?

1:29:40 Porter: The one thing I'm thinking of is an elective exam at the end of the year. It's called the Last Stand. And if you get into any kind of academic probation or anything's looking a little bit rocky, you can just take the Last Stand exam, and it will bypass a lot of other things that might happen as, you know... Like, we got some news this morning that one of the entire classes at this school is gonna be moved to pass-fail. Zac/Siobhan: The entire class?

1:30:09 Ally: Me! My teacher died! [Siobhan gasps]

1:30:14 Zac: Whoa.

1:30:14 Siobhan: Oh.

1:30:17 Gorgug: Thanks for letting me know.

1:30:18 Brennan: I'm gonna go off to artificer class.

1:30:21 Brennan: Yeah, head off to artificer class. Unclear how that might affect the rest of your party or if it would fuck any of them up. 'Cause how many parties have a cleric in them, right? A ton of them.

1:30:30 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:30:31 Brennan: But yeah, let's go ahead and roll those artificer classes.

1:30:34 Zac: Okay, so next one is a DC 10?

1:30:37 Brennan: This is now a DC 10, yes. Tinker's tools check, DC 10.

1:30:42 Zac: Okay. That is a 23.

1:30:49 Ally: Nice.

1:30:50 Brennan: 23 from 10. That is an A plus, yes. Okay, incredible. Barbarian, A plus. Artificer first year is A plus.

1:30:59 Zac: Okay, next artificer class. Two, so I got a nine.

1:31:07 Brennan: Nine is gonna be a failure. You'll fail that chunk of artificer class.

1:31:12 Zac: I will take a stress token.

1:31:16 Brennan: Here we go.

1:31:19 Ally: How many is that?

1:31:19 Zac: That's four.

1:31:21 Brennan: Yeah, the DC is 15, and then it's 27 for an A plus.

1:31:28 Zac: Okay. 18.

1:31:33 Brennan: 18 is a C. You hit the wall. The first couple weeks you were like, "Oh my god, I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it!" And now, focusing on barbarian stuff a little bit, the course load is just piling on. You hit the hard part of sophomore year for artificers. That's gonna be your junior year artificer class. DC is a 20.

1:31:47 Zac: Okay.

1:31:49 Brennan: 32, or 30, for A plus.

1:31:53 Zac: Well, that's impossible, but...

1:31:58 Emily: Oh.

1:32:00 Zac: It was almost a 19, but it's a one.

1:32:03 Murph: Can I help Gorgug study and take a stress token?

1:32:06 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:32:06 Murph: I'll take one.

1:32:09 Riz: [a little manic] I'll do the flash cards again!

1:32:12 Zac: Switching dice.

1:32:14 Gorgug: Cog, gear, cog!

1:32:21 Zac: [shocked breath] Uh, 25.

1:32:22 Brennan: Holy shit! Okay, so a 25 from 20 is actually, yeah, that's another C. So you're talking with Henry in class and he's essentially like,

1:32:33 Henry: Listen, you were doing really great. Focus is sort of, you know, it's like you gotta stay on this track, right?"

1:32:42 Gorgug: I've got my thing signed, though, for next... It's gonna be better.

1:32:45 Henry: Great.

1:32:46 Gorgug: I'm in a lot of school. I think I'm just in a lot of school right now.

1:32:49 Henry: I totally understand. There's only so many hours in the day, unless you were to build a time machine, which is an option.

1:32:54 Gorgug: Is it?

1:32:56 Henry: You tell me, Gorgug.

1:32:59 Gorgug: [sigh] Do you have any books?

1:33:02 Brennan: He sends you off with that. But you start to put things together. I think certain pieces of gear start to come into effect. You start picturing, some of that battle, the elemental damage of that battle, you cast Absorb Elements, and you're sort of sketching out ideas for a harness or different ways of dealing with energy. There's certain things that start to occur to you that you could maybe do. So Riz is taking a stress, you've taken a stress. That's all the academics. Are we rolling Owlbears?

1:33:29 Siobhan: Fuck.

1:33:29 Zac: If I fail that roll, can I just fail?

1:33:34 Brennan: Yeah, it's a DC 25 Athletics. If you fail-

1:33:38 Zac: Add an eight to this. Okay, 18 on the die plus 8 is 26.

1:33:45 Brennan: Unbelievably, you come back up in the mix.

1:33:47 Ally: Hell yeah. [Gorgug roaring]

1:33:49 Gorthalax: That's what I'm talking about, Thistlespring!

1:33:52 Zac: I clothesline Durden.

1:33:55 Brennan: Max Durden, bam, in a scrimmage.

1:33:57 Gorgug: Sorry.

1:33:57 Brennan: Incredible. Owlbears is a success. You are not cut from the team. You can roll mystery later, but you're at a DC 30 for anything that comes next.

1:34:05 Zac: Okay, I think I have to lie down.

1:34:08 Brennan: Yeah. Also, once again, not rolling on relationships. You come back from a long day of studying to just a lovely note and a little piece of cake or baked thing. Roz and Gorbag waited for a long time, but eventually had to head back out of town. Digby and Wilma are like,

1:34:28 Thistlesprings: They understand, bud. They know you're busy as can be.

1:34:32 Zac: I just eat the cake in one bite.

1:34:32 Gorgug: I'll call them later.

1:34:36 Thistlesprings: Yeah. They understand, pal.

1:34:38 Brennan: Poor Gorgug and Riz, each taking on another stress token, feel the absence of all this other stuff going on. Anyone else?

1:34:45 Siobhan: So with my job, to get to well off, I need to get a 25. The only way for me to do that is to crit.

1:34:54 Brennan: Because of what you add to your profession roll.

1:34:56 Siobhan: Because of what I add to any of these skill checks. So I might as well not do it first. In fact, I might as well fucking do it last, because a crit is a crit is a crit.

1:35:05 Brennan: Yeah.

1:35:05 Ally: Yeah.

1:35:06 Siobhan: So I'm gonna start with academics. Rolling with disadvantage, but... [dice rolling] What is a 15?

1:35:14 Brennan: A 15 would be an A but not an A plus.

1:35:19 Siobhan: Oh, I'll take that.

1:35:19 Ally: Nice!

1:35:22 Brennan: There's a certain exam at the end of that time, and you see that Tiberia just goes like,

1:35:26 Tiberia: Ms. Abernant, exceptional spellwork as always. A little bit shoddy on the execution here. I think a little bit of, perhaps, nickel in your silver filings? Let's try to get pure silver, if we can.

1:35:40 Adaine: Yes. Yes, we'll try to do that next time, sorry.

1:35:46 Tiberia: You could try, or you could simply do it.

1:35:49 Adaine: Yes, the thing is... Yes, no, yes.

1:35:56 Tiberia: Is everything all right, Ms. Abernant? You're sort of-

1:35:58 Adaine: No, everything's fine. Everything's absolutely fine. What could be more fine? Everything's peachy. I love my life. Everything's perfect.

1:36:09 Tiberia: Very well, Ms. Abernant. I'm glad that you love your life.

1:36:14 Brennan: And you see, I think you get a text from Aelwyn that just says,

1:36:18 Aelwyn: Can't believe I'm about to say this. Miss my little sister. Everything all right?

1:36:23 Adaine: Yes. [Adaine groans]

1:36:29 Adaine: Come to Basrar's?

1:36:31 Brennan: You see she says, a little question mark thing pops up-

1:36:34 Adaine: I'm working there.

1:36:35 Brennan: Long ellipses, with just,

1:36:35 Aelwyn: ……………………..YOU’RE WORKING?!

1:36:35 Brennan: All caps-lock.

1:36:40 Adaine: I have to get 10 barrels of diamonds. I haven't even gotten one barrel of diamonds yet.

1:36:44 Brennan: You see over at Basrar's- you're over there in the middle of a Saturday, Aelwyn comes by. You see she comes in. She's got a white button-up shirt, some trousers. She's got a much shorter haircut now. She has sort of a bleach blonde pixie cut.

1:37:04 Adaine: Your hair looks great.

1:37:06 Aelwyn: Thank you. Needed a change.

1:37:09 Adaine: Yeah, no, yeah, I get it.

1:37:12 Aelwyn: Adaine.

1:37:12 Adaine: Yeah?

1:37:13 Aelwyn: You can't possibly earn barrels of diamonds working as a part time waitress at an ice cream shop. You know that, don't you?

1:37:19 Adaine: Well, I can't earn not working as a part time waitress at an ice cream... What are you saying? Are you gonna get me in trouble?

1:37:30 Aelwyn: No, I don't wanna get you in trouble.

1:37:34 Adaine: You've got your "I'm gonna get you in trouble" eyes. I'm not against it, necessarily.

1:37:38 Aelwyn: I just haven't seen you in some time. I know this is hopelessly saccharine, but I don't know, I've been in an apartment by myself with some number of cats for a while.

1:37:50 Adaine: Oh, that's nice. I didn't know you had cats. That's so sweet.

1:37:56 Aelwyn: I have 10 cats.

1:37:57 Adaine: 10 cats? That's a lot of cats.

1:37:59 Aelwyn: They're all little bastards.

1:38:01 Adaine: That's great.

1:38:01 Aelwyn: I love them very much.

1:38:03 Adaine: Yeah, that sounds like really your vibe.

1:38:06 Aelwyn: Do you wanna get out of here?

1:38:07 Adaine: I would love to. I can't. I mean, after work. Is that okay?

1:38:11 Aelwyn: [groans] You can't-

1:38:11 Adaine: You have a job also! Don't you have to go to work?

1:38:15 Aelwyn: It's the weekend. And I don't always show up.

1:38:19 Adaine: Okay, and they're okay with that?

1:38:20 Aelwyn: Oh, they're middle schoolers. What are they gonna do?

1:38:23 Adaine: Your boss? The middle schoolers aren't your boss.

1:38:26 Aelwyn: What I have on my boss-

1:38:28 Siobhan: Can I ask Basrar to take my break?

1:38:31 Brennan: Basrar says,

1:38:31 Basrar: Yes of course, please take your lunch break. Hello, Ms. Abernant. It's a pleasure to see you.

1:38:36 Brennan: You see Aelwyn waves over at Basrar.

1:38:38 Siobhan: How many elves are waiting in line to see me?

1:38:40 Brennan: You walk out and you see a sort of elven matriarch says,

1:38:44 Elven Matriarch: Oracle, long have been the hours of my teleporting to arrive here.

1:38:50 Adaine: Why didn't you just walk?

1:38:51 Elven Matriarch: It's cheaper to use the slow ones.

1:38:54 Adaine: Oh, okay. What do you want? I'm here with my sister. I can't really talk to you right now.

1:39:00 Brennan: She says,

1:39:00 Elven Matriarch: I have come to ask for a vision-

1:39:03 Brennan: You see Aelwyn just holds a hand up and seals her inside of a fractal that disappears.

1:39:07 Adaine: Thank god.

1:39:09 Brennan: The other elves go running and scatter. She says,

1:39:11 Aelwyn: Do you want to go get some sandwiches and go look at our old burned down house?

1:39:20 Adaine: Okay, yeah, we can get there... We can Dimension Door there and back.

1:39:25 Brennan: She opens up a Dimension Door. As she's about to walk through it, she looks and says,

1:39:31 Aelwyn: Adaine, I think it's time I told you that there are other ways in Elmville to make money than jobs. I've been working for someone that's been able to provide me with a fair amount of capital.

1:39:51 Adaine: What are you doing?

1:39:52 Brennan: You see that her crystal lights up, and you see the background for it says OK with a green check mark.

1:39:58 Adaine: Oh no, you're not working for her!

1:40:00 Aelwyn: I've been working for Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

1:40:03 Adaine: Clamface Cunthead? Why are you working for her? What are you doing? Tell me all of her secrets. Actually, no, this is great. If you're working for her, tell me everything.

1:40:14 Aelwyn: Let's go get a sandwich.

1:40:14 Adaine: Great.

1:40:16 Aelwyn: I'll tell you all about Clamhead Cuntface.

1:40:19 Brennan: And that's where we're gonna stop this episode of "Dimension 20." Tune in next week as we go get some sandwiches and look at the burnt remains of the Abernant home. We'll see you then!

1:40:28 Lou: That's the whole episode. NEXT EPISODE - Episode 10: Cursed Out [Next Time On Dimension 20]

1:40:33 Riz: Everything is going, you know what I mean?

1:40:36 Brennan: Headed into early winter.

1:40:38 Gorgug: Do you think that there's anything wrong with the soil at my house now?

1:40:41 Brennan: Police are investigating loam, the farm, and the murder scene.

1:40:44 Emily: What?

1:40:45 Adaine: But Cottoncandy Bitchfuck, how are you making so much money working for her when she's a child?

1:40:50 Aelwyn: Well.

1:40:51 Lou: Oh.

1:40:51 Riz: Normally it's like, we're just off on an adventure and we got the one thing that we're trying to stop.

1:40:56 Kristen: Is there a way to talk to Bakur?

1:40:58 Emily: Gorgug's almost getting too mean.

1:41:01 Kristen: I just feel like we should all be a little bit closer.

1:41:04 Ruben: Wanda? “Wanda” [Fig]: Oh hey, Ruben.

1:41:06 Murph: Whoa. [Fabian stammering]

1:41:07 Riz: We have to hunker down. Actually, everyone's gotta do really well in school and everything. Fig has like three majors now.

1:41:14 Emily: I've been waiting patiently for my downtime.

1:41:17 Fabian: Mazey, what's going on?

1:41:19 Brennan: You also could take stress here, if you want.

1:41:21 Riz: And we're all struggling to keep our grades up and do all our crazy extracurriculars.

1:41:25 Brennan: What the fuck is everyone doing?

1:41:26 Siobhan: You know what, I'll take a stress token.

1:41:28 Brennan: Here we go.

1:41:28 Fabian: I'm still maximum legend.

1:41:30 Kristen: These middle schoolers are vicious!

1:41:32 Riz: Why?

1:41:32 Kristen: You got me this gig!

1:41:34 Riz: I definitely didn't!

1:41:35 Kristen: You got me-

1:41:35 Riz: Then there's this red star thing that's making everybody go crazy.

1:41:40 Adaine: What are you doing?

1:41:40 Fabian: Oh shit, sorry.

1:41:42 Brennan: Riz! [all shouting]

1:41:45 Fabian: Whoa, what is happening!

1:41:47 Kristen: Fig! Hey, Fig!

1:41:47 Brennan: Oh no!

1:41:49 Riz: What is everyone's deal today?

1:41:51 Fabian: Trying to keep up.

1:41:51 Fig: Yeah.

1:41:53 Fabian: It's just a lot.

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