A Very Merry Moonar Yulenear

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 11: A Very Merry Moonar Yulenear < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:34 Content Warning: Gore, Body Horror [Intro Theme]

0:00:49 Brennan: Hello, one and all. Welcome back to another thrilling episode of "Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year". Our name is Ally Brennan Beardsley Mulligan!

0:00:57 Ally: Gets me every time.

0:00:58 Brennan: Every time. With me, as always, are our Intrepid Heroes. Say hi, Intrepid Heroes.

0:01:03 All: Hi, Intrepid Heroes.

0:01:05 Siobhan: Oh, okay.

0:01:06 Ally: Getting a little Kristen.

0:01:09 Lou: Nothing but a sports bra and a G-string under here.

0:01:13 Brennan: Sports bras and G-strings. Last we left off, our heroes were getting ready to construct a ritual to speak to the devil Bakur sealed in a gem in the chest of one Lydia Barkrock, as well as having disguised ourselves as Wanda Childa to get some information from Ruben Hopclap of the Rat Grinders and forwarding some podcast information to get him on this podcast stat. Our friends Fig and Riz made plans to head over to Loam Farm at the edge of town to investigate the-

0:01:46 Emily: See you at the farm.

0:01:47 Brennan: See you at the farm. As well as learning about Mazey, Mazey Phaedra becoming sort of acting principal as student body president. There's some tense interactions with Fabian and Mazey in the last episode.

0:02:01 Ally: Make out with her so she doesn't die.

0:02:04 Lou: My kisses can't save her.

0:02:06 Brennan: We had a bunch of other bits of history unfold. Adaine learning more about the history of the giants, as Riz was able to map the magical sequence of sort of arcane DNA within not only Bakur, but the celestial or infernal force that had created Bakur. With that, we jump right back into our episode. I would say it's early December. No snow on the ground yet, but it's getting chilly in Elmville as Riz and Fig, you guys can make your way out to Loam Farm.

0:02:42 Fig: Before we go, do you wanna help me shoot off this fake email to Ruben?

0:02:47 Riz: Sure.

0:02:47 Fig: I feel like we could basically invite him to talk to a podcast guest or podcast host, and see if they try to kill the podcast host.

0:02:57 Riz: Oh.

0:02:58 Fig: To silence them.

0:02:58 Riz: What if he doesn't? What if they don't? What if he just shows up to be interviewed?

0:03:04 Fig: Well, I have a plan for that, if it happens.

0:03:07 Riz: What's the plan?

0:03:08 Fig: You wanna know?

0:03:08 Riz: No, no, no, okay. Okay, yeah, yeah. Why don't we, we'll set a day and a time maybe for after the new year?

0:03:16 Fig: Okay, we'll shoot off an email that's like: from my burner account. That's like, hey, got your name from Wanda. I don't know her that well, but I'm friends with Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy who is her ex-boyfriend.

0:03:34 Riz: Recent. In parentheses, recent ex-boyfriend.

0:03:38 Fig: Would love to pick your brain for this podcast. Let me know what time and day that works for you.

0:03:46 Riz: Great.

0:03:46 Fig: Does that sound all-

0:03:48 Emily: I'm running it by someone so that if: 'cause if I say to Brennan, then I'll just be wrong.

0:03:53 Fig: Does that sound all good?

0:03:53 Riz: That sounds great.

0:03:55 Fig: Okay, so we'll send that off, and then we can go to the farm.

0:03:57 Riz: Great.

0:03:58 Fig: Great.

0:03:58 Brennan: You guys compose a little email.

0:04:01 Ally: Recent.

0:04:01 Lou: Pete Wentz.

0:04:04 Brennan: You get that from Pete Wentz.

0:04:06 Siobhan: Canceled, absolutely canceled, Pete Wentz. You're dating a fictional 16-year-old? In a fictional world?

0:04:12 Murph: I didn't even think about about that implication.

0:04:15 Siobhan: It's fantasy Pete Wentz.

0:04:16 Murph: Fantasy Pete Wentz is 17.

0:04:17 Siobhan: Dating an imaginary, unreal person.

0:04:21 Murph: Pete Wents with an S at the end.

0:04:23 Ally: Yeah, Pete Wents.

0:04:25 Emily: Fall Out Boi, B-O-I.

0:04:28 Lou: Fetty Wap. F-E-T-T-Y W-H-A-P.

0:04:35 Brennan: Go ahead and give me, I'll say for this one you can either give me like a sort of tinkers tools check, or a Deception check as you send this email off.

0:04:42 Emily: I have good Deception.

0:04:44 Murph: Okay, cool. Can I give help?

0:04:46 Brennan: Sure.

0:04:49 Emily: Go with the first one, 23.

0:04:51 Brennan: Just blanket email being like, "Hey, we were referred to you by Wanda Childa. We wanna talk about getting you on a podcast."

0:04:57 Emily: Yeah.

0:04:57 Murph: Yes.

0:04:58 Brennan: On your way to Loam Farm, you get a response back, in a new email thread from Lola Embers saying, "My client's availability is very booked throughout the end of the year, but starting next year there's plenty of opportunities and he'd be happy to come in and: happy to come in."

0:05:13 Fig: Okay, great. Let's let him sweat for a little bit then. And let's go to the farm.

0:05:16 Lou: Let him sweat.

0:05:18 Brennan: So Sklonda comes to pick you up from school and looks in and says,

0:05:22 Sklonda: Oh, hi Fig, are you coming with?

0:05:24 Fig: I am. Is that a problem?

0:05:30 Riz: Fig, what the fuck?

0:05:31 Fig: I actually was trying to ask sincerely. Like, I didn't wanna infringe upon.

0:05:37 Riz: She just wants to make sure she's not-

0:05:39 Fig: Mommy/baby time.

0:05:40 Lou: Mommy/baby time?

0:05:42 Riz: Mommy/baby time?

0:05:44 Sklonda: You are my little baby.

0:05:46 Fig: Okay.

0:05:46 Ally: Is that a problem?

0:05:48 Fig: You actually have a lot in common.

0:05:49 Sklonda: We do. We do. He's my little guy. My sweet little baby. You know he asked me to prom, right?

0:05:54 Fig: He asked you to prom?

0:05:55 Sklonda: Yeah, he did.

0:05:55 Riz: Can we go to the farm, Mom?! God!

0:06:00 Brennan: Sklonda takes off with you guys. She is no longer a police officer, but you can tell that the glove compartment of the car is locked. It's in the locked position. So she's like rolling out to the farm, not unprepared.

0:06:14 Riz: Mom, real quick. As we're on the way there. Maybe you, as a fellow rogue might know, we heard something about something called the spy's tongue curse. Does that ring a bell at all for you? I'm wondering when I hear “spy's tongue”, I think like thieves cant or something.

0:06:31 Brennan: Roll in front of the board and see if she's heard of it before. Seven. You see she goes,

0:06:36 Sklonda: Spy's tongue curse? I can't say I've heard of it before, kiddo, but I would say that-

0:06:45 Riz: Have you ever heard of thieves cant called spy's tongue or anything like that?

0:06:49 Sklonda: Did you see it written out or did someone say it to you?

0:06:50 Riz: Somebody said it.

0:06:51 Sklonda: Okay. It's interesting whether it's spy's possessive or spies plural.

0:06:57 Riz: Interesting.

0:07:00 Sklonda: You know, it could be a curse on a spy's tongue.

0:07:03 Riz: That is interesting.

0:07:05 Sklonda: I'd probably talk to Adaine or someone who might know a little: it sounds like some sort of: probably it'd be somewhere in the Aguefort libraries under Arcana or something like that.

0:07:14 Riz: Okay.

0:07:16 Murph: I pop off a text to Adaine saying,

0:07:19 Riz: We forgot to look into spy's tongue curse, or spies tongue curse.

0:07:25 Siobhan: I get it, 'cause it's in text and so I see where the apostrophe is.

0:07:29 Brennan: So you guys head out to Loam Farm. It sort of moves into the cover of night as you guys get closer there. It's almost two hours outside of Elmville, way off in a more sort of rural area. [mysterious music]

0:07:43 Brennan: As you hear the cu-clunk of the car doors close and the lights go out, you see that Sklonda looks over at you and says,

0:07:50 Sklonda: I think a little bit of discretion wouldn't hurt, so I'd say no flashlights. Try to find what we can just in the dark.

0:07:56 Fig: Do we need a distraction?

0:07:57 Riz: Should we go and invisi: I think we don't wanna distract anybody. Should we go invisible?

0:08:00 Sklonda: Can we?

0:08:01 Murph: Well I'm really good at sneaking around so I'll cast Invisibility on my mom.

0:08:05 Fig: Does anyone live here?

0:08:06 Sklonda: Not anymore.

0:08:08 Fig: Who would be someone being here that wouldn't be suspicious? 'Cause I can just disguise myself as them.

0:08:12 Sklonda: At the moment here at night. I can't think of anyone that wouldn't be suspicious, unless you could disguise yourself as something that was an animal.

0:08:23 Riz: Mom, what are you doing?

0:08:25 Sklonda: I'm saying any person would be suspicious.

0:08:27 Emily: I'm gonna disguise myself as an animal. I'll use Disguise Person: Disguise Self.

0:08:33 Brennan: So Disguise Self, you're limited to very humanoid animals.

0:08:36 Emily: Yeah, I know.

0:08:38 Murph: Just a monkey on the farm.

0:08:41 Brennan: So you're, like, an orangutan.

0:08:46 Riz: Okay.

0:08:48 Sklonda: I think it is conspicuous, but ultimately no one is gonna ask the orangutan how it got here.

0:08:55 Riz: Well mom, I think we don't have to do invisibility because that will raise questions, if anything. So why don't we just sneak in?

0:09:02 Sklonda: All right, let's just sneak in.

0:09:04 Brennan: You cast Invisibility on your mom. Everyone give me a Stealth check.

0:09:09 Emily: With advantage, 'cause I'm orangutan?

0:09:11 Brennan: You aren't gonna get disadvantaged. This is a straight roll.

0:09:13 Emily: I was joking, anyways. 19.

0:09:16 Murph: That's a natural one, becomes a 23.

0:09:21 Brennan: How about it? Can't get lower than 23. You guys begin to move through the farm. You can see why this place was selected for Frosty Fair. There's like a big, huge backyard that's: beautiful tree-lined place. There's a number of large, older trees that are singled out in the field that provide a lot of shade. Even as you're looking at like how nice the old, vintage barn is, you wonder like, "Oh they must like have weddings and things here." There's a big barn that doesn't look like it's being used for anything, particularly. On the far side of the property there's a fence with a little lake and you start to see that there are some animals out there, but it looks like not as many as would fill up the pasture. Your mom says,

0:09:59 Sklonda: They started to get rid of some of the animals in the estate sale. 'cause the Loams died a couple weeks ago.

0:10:06 Fig: Who's been buying them?

0:10:08 Sklonda: Just farmers. I mean, the animals are worth something and the kids aren't farmers.

0:10:13 Riz: So it seems like whatever fucked up ritual they were doing involves trees?

0:10:18 Fig: They're gonna have to sell this farm. Is it possible that all this fraud is so that someone can buy this on the cheap?

0:10:25 Riz: So the Frosty... oh my god.

0:10:27 Fig: Literally.

0:10:27 Riz: Maybe.

0:10:28 Murph: Can we check and see: first things first. Let's see if there's a reason the Thistlespring tree was better than this place. Maybe, can we look into these trees and see if there's any kinda magical protection against them?

0:10:42 Brennan: Sure thing. Go ahead and give me Investigation checks on the trees. Actually, you know what? Give me a Nature as well.

0:10:47 Emily: I'm gonna throw up my Divine Sense. (retching)

0:10:56 Lou: That orangutan's vomiting. (laughing)

0:10:59 Emily: I think I just wanna give you the Help action, 'cause you're gonna be better at this stuff.

0:11:03 Murph: Can I cast– so I actually do have– I'm gonna cast Detect Magic.

0:11:06 Brennan: Yeah.

0:11:09 Murph: I guess to kinda look for anything. It lasts for 10 minutes, so I'll look around. And I think for Riz they're like a, they have to be like some kind of gear. So they're like really tiny oval glasses. And he puts them on, and just looks really serious.

0:11:28 Sklonda: Riz, do you need to go to the eye doctor?

0:11:29 Riz: No, mom, they're cool.

0:11:31 Sklonda: Okay.

0:11:33 Brennan: Powerful infernal presence, powerful magical presence emanating from behind the main farmhouse. Old wooden beams, white plaster, like stucco-ish walls.

0:11:45 Fig: Let's go look at that.

0:11:46 Riz: Yeah, let's check it out.

0:11:47 Fig: Sklonda, you feeling brave? There's powerful infernal magic energy coming from behind that farmhouse.

0:11:52 Sklonda: [cocks gun] Okay, great.

0:11:52 Riz: All right, let's do it.

0:11:54 Brennan: You go around the back of the house to find the entire back porch demolished. Caution tape around it.

0:12:03 Fig: Oh. Is this how they passed?

0:12:06 Sklonda: [nods]

0:12:09 Brennan: You look and see that the wood of the porch is just crushed inward and there is huge sort of cratering indentations in the soil underneath the porch.

0:12:23 Fig: Giants.

0:12:24 Emily: Does this remind us of the crime scenes that we've seen already?

0:12:27 Brennan: In the woods by Lake Shimmerstone? Yeah, absolutely.

0:12:30 Murph: Does it remind because the soil is poisoned, or does it remind us 'cause we see...?

0:12:35 Brennan: Your Detect Magic and your fiendish sense are both emanating from the ground more than the wreckage.

0:12:40 Riz: So is it...?

0:12:42 Fig: Digging.

0:12:43 Riz: Okay, yeah.

0:12:44 Brennan: Give me an Investigation check.

0:12:46 Emily: With advantage 'cause I'm helping.

0:12:50 Murph: Natural 20.

0:12:51 Brennan: Woo, doctor! On a nat 20, you scoop up a big sample of the soil. You can immediately see there is a– just with your naked eye here in the dark, a glitter or sparkle as though of glass or crystal crushed into the soil.

0:13:07 Murph: Glass or crystal crushed into the soil.

0:13:09 Emily: Oh, the shards of rage.

0:13:12 Brennan: Red, a red glass or crystal crushed into the soil. You definitely think this is the source of what it is. You're looking at it. On that nat 20, [points at Emily] give me any skill check, either Intelligence or Wisdom with advantage as Riz nails this Investigation.

0:13:28 Emily: Perception is my best.

0:13:28 Brennan: Cool.

0:13:32 Emily: Two eighteens becomes a 23.

0:13:37 Brennan: Riz, as you are holding this, you have your Divine Sense up. As it happens, totally dark here in the ruined porch. Some cloud cover blocks the moon and stars. So as a few scintillating specks of that broken sand of crystal, almost, illuminate very dimly. Here in the darkness, they glow seemingly bright as they emerge and your Divine Sense carries out in like 60 feet, almost like a cone in front of you. As you look, wherever your vision goes, those little red motes begin to float up into the air ever so softly. This is like a beyond Sherlock Holmes level. You're making a connection that is so impossible to make, that you can't even gather what the evidence is you're seeing in front of you. You're just like something, something from an earlier case, and you just remember, you're like, there's a photo in my office, there's something in my office about this. You see some of where like the bodies were taken out. You see that there's some blood spatter around. On a nat 20, you feel like if you could find material on the actual bodies that were recovered, there's something there. You also see very clearly in the wreckage, evidence from just like the ballistics of it, of force damage, but are not able to pin a spell source to it.

0:15:17 Emily: Can I just try- can I pick up any of these little shards?

0:15:22 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:15:24 Emily: Can I just Prestidigitation the 24-sided star onto it?

0:15:30 Brennan: Yes. As you put the 24-sided star onto it, a little thing glows in your hand. How would you describe Fig's emotional state right now?

0:15:48 Emily: I think that her conversation with her teachers left her feeling really confused. So I think her emotional state is avoidant of her own emotions and looking for external problems to throw herself into.

0:16:02 Brennan: You see a teeny tiny little rage star form outta the glass as you put the symbol on it. And you see, for lack of a better word, it looks confused. It darts right and darts left. (discordant pinging sounds)

0:16:18 Brennan: And then you see it stabs Fig's hand.

0:16:20 Fig: Ow. We gotta go!

0:16:21 Emily: I run. (all laughing)

0:16:25 Murph: Orangutan just taking off.

0:16:30 Siobhan: Swinging through the trees.

0:16:31 Zac: Literally never seen an orangutan run.

0:16:34 Riz: So does that mean that these, whatever this magic is, maybe it isn't necessarily.

0:16:42 Fig: Maybe it isn't...

0:16:42 Riz: Anger.

0:16:43 Fig: ...necessarily rage.

0:16:44 Riz: Maybe they are making it rage. Maybe this is something that could be manipulated, essentially.

0:16:50 Fig: Yeah.

0:16:51 Riz: So there's kind of two forces at work here. Where this thing, this is just being used as a tool. I think there's definitely something to what you were talking about before, about something maybe blooming in the spring.

0:17:03 Fig: Yeah.

0:17:03 Riz: Considering that they're taking this farm.

0:17:04 Fig: Considering it's all in the soil.

0:17:06 Riz: And they're getting rid of, they're getting rid of all the animals and everything. It seems like they're just making room.

0:17:11 Fig: Not to mention real estate and government for Copperkell and if they're trying to- fuck up the soil.

0:17:16 Riz: Copperlilly. Yeah.

0:17:18 Fig: Sklonda, what happens when you look at this? [holds out the rage star]

0:17:21 Brennan: You see she gazes at it. Doesn't seem to- doesn't seem to move it at all under her command, but she looks at it and shrugs, and says,

0:17:30 Sklonda: I mean, I don't have any ability to like prestidigitate anything onto it. It seems like it's some kind of magical reaction.

0:17:37 Riz: I'm wearing these cool glasses that give me Detect Magic. That's why I see it. I think otherwise maybe I wouldn't. Mom, any way we can get a look at these bodies? I just feel like there's something on 'em, maybe.

0:17:55 Sk: Let me go make a call real quick, okay?

0:17:57 Brennan: She walks off, goes to make a call.

0:18:00 Riz: There's also, I'm thinking there's a photo. I have a photo of the only photo I can think of is my dad and Kalina.

0:18:10 Fig: Well, Kalina is an advisor. She can kinda make her- is there any way that Kalina...

0:18:15 Murph: Would I have that available, on my phone or something like that?

0:18:20 Brennan: Yeah, do you wanna look through it like a drive?

0:18:22 Murph: Yeah, I'll look through and see if there's- that's the only photo that really sticks out to me as something that-

0:18:30 Brennan: I'm gonna say you also at this point get a text from Molman.

0:18:35 Emily: Okay.

0:18:36 Brennan: Saying,

0:18:36 Molman: Hey there chief. We got a- sorry about the outburst by the way, the other week.

0:18:42 Fig: (whispering) What happened?

0:18:44 Riz: He freaked out and, yeah, everybody's been freaking out, right? Like, people have been getting really mad.

0:18:50 Fig: Yeah, you're right.

0:18:52 Riz: The mole dude freaked out at me.

0:18:55 Fig: And then Fabian talked about-

0:18:58 Riz: Shitting himself.

0:18:59 Fig: And somebody quitting.

0:18:59 Lou: I didn't tell you I shit myself. [Murph laughs and pivots]

0:19:02 Riz: Nevermind I didn't. I heard from somebody in-

0:19:03 Fig: Fabian took me aside, and he confessed to me.

0:19:08 Riz: Yeah, for some strange reason somebody, for reasons not in Fabian's control at all, somebody quit school in Fabian's class while he did a cool dance where "nothing weird happened," is how he put it.

0:19:21 Fig: Everyone is kinda on edge.

0:19:22 Murph: Anyway, what was the full message?

0:19:26 Brennan: So Molman texts you, says,

0:19:29 Molman: Incredibly interesting soil profile.

0:19:35 Brennan: Okay, blocks, paragraphs and paragraphs of all the sort of botanical and da da da da da. And then he says,

0:19:41 Molman: Interesting anomaly. There's an extraplanar, mineral sediment in the sample you took, had a magical residue to it. I went through all of our samples from soil club from years and years and years of field trips and expeditions around Elmville. There were trace elements of this found only at one other address in town.

0:20:07 Brennan: You also know that Molman has probably not been out to this crime scene. The time period is not long enough. So he hasn't been here. So it's like Lucy's grave. He says,

0:20:13 Molman: 1223 Ash Grove Boulevard.

0:20:17 Emily: Do we recognize that?

0:20:18 Brennan: That, on your nat 20 Investigation, you fly through to your phone. Ragh Barkrock's old house.

0:20:29 Emily: Old house?

0:20:30 Brennan: That was the house.

0:20:30 Zac: That blew up.

0:20:32 Brennan: It was the house where Lydia Barkrock was attacked and her body, the clone body that Arthur Aguefort had created in sophomore year, was killed. There was a moment when you were all in Leviathan where Ragh basically believed that his mom had died.

0:20:46 Ally: So this has been going on.

0:20:47 Emily: Wasn't that Kalina who did that attack? Did we ever find out who did that attack?

0:20:51 Murph: Well, I told Kalina that Ragh had seen her, which then led her to telling other people, I think, to do the attack. So, yeah. Maybe let's bring all this info to the others and get to that house. But there's like, so, yeah. I think it seems like they're getting ready to get the land ready to essentially... Everything we know is that it's easier for gods to get to other places that aren't like the material realm. If they can essentially change-

0:21:27 Emily: The nature.

0:21:27 Murph: ...the world, the nature of the world so it's extraplanar soil-

0:21:29 Emily: Yeah, exactly.

0:21:31 Murph: -maybe they can bring a dead god back.

0:21:34 Emily: Yeah. Okay, I text everyone and I say,

0:21:35 Fig: Emergency meeting. Even you, Fabian.

0:21:42 Brennan: [laughing] “Even you, Fabian.”

0:21:44 Fabian: Guys, I am busy.

0:21:45 Ally: You're on 'do not disturb.'

0:21:47 Zac: I do the exclamation point on that part.

0:21:49 Siobhan: Can I text,

0:21:51 Adaine: Guys I'm at work, but can you come here? Even you, Fabian. (all laughing)

0:21:57 Lou: Fabian, still not responding.

0:21:58 Brennan: You guys all had to Basrar's. Your mom finishes the phone call, comes over and says,

0:22:02 Sk: I got the download on the bodies. You see that she says like,

0:22:05 Sk: I can try to go get deeper schematics, but just over the phone, incidentally, what they were able to confirm was force damage. There were capillaries and veins so crushed that in their body there were carbonized, basically red diamonds.

0:22:25 Emily: Yeah, which is this, right?

0:22:27 Brennan: Yeah. You're wondering if what these are is like carbonized, diamondized blood.

0:22:32 Murph: So they maybe didn't get killed. They went into a rage themselves.

0:22:36 Siobhan: And then the rage killed them.

0:22:37 Murph: And then the rage killed them. It kills you.

0:22:39 Emily: Does it… Okay, we saw firsthand, we saw those like rage mages in the mall. Did that look like a state that could have?

0:22:51 Brennan: Over time?

0:22:51 Emily: Over time.

0:22:52 Brennan: Give me a Medicine check.

0:22:54 Emily: Just wait till I crit! I got a seven.

0:23:01 Brennan: “Wait til I crit!” Without having the bodies in front of you, it remains a plausible theory.

0:23:09 Murph: I think that there's- looking at when those mages went berserk, it did not look like they were gonna be hanging around for like a long life.

0:23:19 Emily: And it seemed like Cassandra was-

0:23:21 Murph: Force, yeah it's just force damage. It looks like they were essentially taken over.

0:23:25 Brennan: Sklonda says,

0:23:25 Sk: Other thing I'll point out, and I'm not sure if this maps to... I'm not sure if this maps to the experience you had with either of the bodies you discovered. No defense wounds on either of the Loams, Alonso or Hespia.

0:23:39 Fig: Yeah, that would be in line.

0:23:40 Riz: So they just went berserk and then died and probably destroyed this house, yeah.

0:23:45 Brennan: You guys all head to Basrar's.

0:23:47 Zac: Where was the house that they were at, the farm?

0:23:50 Brennan: Way outside of Elmville.

0:23:51 Zac: So it's not on the map?

0:23:51 Brennan: Not on the map, no.

0:23:53 Fabian: Hey, sorry I'm late guys.

0:23:56 Adaine: Fabian, we've all been here for 45 minutes.

0:23:58 Fabian: Sorry, I just checked my texts.

0:24:00 Murph: Cool. So download these guys on everything.

0:24:03 Emily: Yeah, we tell everyone everything.

0:24:04 Adaine: Great. You know what I was thinking and maybe I'm Night Yorb-ing this a little bit, but what- I was thinking, spy's tongue... What is it? Spy's tongue curse. What's another word for spy? Mole. What's your soil boy's name? Mole. Is that something? I've been here for, I'm a little.

0:24:25 Ally: I kinda like, rub Adaine's back. Nice.

0:24:29 Adaine: Thank you. I'm actually not allowed to accept back rubs while I'm at work. It's unprofessional

0:24:32 Ally: I pull out the shards from Cassandra and I'm like,

0:24:34 Kristen: Could this be Cassandra's blood? Is that what I'm holding?

0:24:39 Fig: I did bring a shard. Can we compare our shards?

0:24:42 Siobhan: Can I cast Identify?

0:24:44 Brennan: You cast Identify. This is a funny thing 'cause Adaine's hand goes up as Fig and Kristen's hand go up. This is a funny question. What is everyone's emotional state as this happens?

0:24:56 Siobhan: I'm sort of post-emotion tired. Of just, like I been in that service job, like, just gotta be nice all the time.

0:25:08 Emily: I think that this has been a big enough mystery that my personal life is completely fully in the background and I'm naked curiosity.

0:25:16 Brennan: Naked curiosity, awesome.

0:25:18 Ally: Concern that this is like Cassandra's blood or just like extremely precious...

0:25:25 Brennan: As you hold them up, all of the red– the shards, right? This sort of like– and this is like way more pulverized. Yours are a little fuller I think and a little bit more intact. Yours rips out of your hand, and encircles all around the shards and begins to circle around it and your shards spin up in a moment and create like this very concerned ball, almost like try to conceal and go into a ball. And you see that the red begins to glow brighter and brighter as it looks to get into or inside of these other shards.

0:26:00 Kristen: Fuck.

0:26:00 Brennan: They're spinning around, but there's clearly a immediate magical reaction. The Identify spell goes,

0:26:05 Identify Spell: Ah, this is another use of the– oh, wow! Oh, ah, hah!

0:26:09 Adaine: And wait, weird annoying guy who does the Identify spell, what's going on?

0:26:16 ISiobhan: [babbling] ...a lot of power, a tremendous amount of power.

0:26:18 Fig: Is it two different types of power or one?

0:26:20 ISiobhan: Two in one. One in two. (babbling)

0:26:25 Adaine: Maybe they were split apart and they're supposed to be together?

0:26:27 ISiobhan: I don’t-! Ahh ah!

0:26:28 Brennan: Anyone who wants to make an Insight check. This'll be a very high DC on this Insight check.

0:26:33 Ally: Hell, yeah. 28.

0:26:35 Brennan: Holy shit.

0:26:36 Siobhan: Thank god.

0:26:37 Brennan: Okay, 28.

0:26:37 Ally: 19 on the die, Plus nine.

0:26:39 Brennan: 19 on the die. You notice something. Your emotional state going into this was one of concern over, is this Cassandra's blood? Your worry as these things came out of your hand, the shards enclosed themselves. There was fear, right? Which is something that Cassandra, who in some other version of herself was the Nightmare King, is very familiar with. What you notice is that the red, even though it was moving those- the red swirling, glittering crystal sand wind, even though it was incredibly aggressive and moved in a very like assertive kind of way, did not attack the purple shards at any point. What it was looking for was an opening that was not presenting itself. However, what happens immediately after that, as the Identify spell seeks to learn about them, is the sand glows bright red and attacks Adaine. I'm gonna make an attack roll.

0:27:39 Ally: Can I cast Banishment on the shards?

0:27:41 Brennan: On the red sand?

0:27:42 Ally: Yeah.

0:27:42 Brennan: Yes you can. And no roll necessary. Whoosh! You open something up. As you open it up, you- give me a Perception check.

0:27:51 Ally: Nat 20. Murph’s eyes widen.

0:27:52 Brennan: Holy shit.

0:27:55 Emily: Yeah-yuh!

0:27:57 Murph: You sent it back to its like plane I think, to where it's from.

0:28:00 Ally: And where's that, and what's its name? (all laughing) The dome darkens for dramatic effect.

0:28:06 Brennan: Kristen Applebees. You stand up from the table, the shards whoosh, rush towards your chest as you hit the sand. You send it from this place, and as you do, you see endless red, thrumming blood, fire pouring like water, not even flickering, liquid fire. You see screams and a sense of horror. You smell for a moment, rot, the rot of dead gods. You are smelling something far beyond in the astral plane, and you sense that you are in the interior of a body, vaster than worlds, that rots in death but cannot die. And that the heat and pressure of its own massive corpus is creating this burning stomach. You see this cavern you're in is almost more like some kind of massive world, planet-sized rib cage. Smelling it as almost like smelling salts, like a boxer would get that makes you pop up and start fighting again, this incredibly invigorating yet noxious smell. And sending those crystals back to that place, you see that any solid surfaces that are not covered in this liquid fire, this ethereal lava, any solid surface is manifesting jagged spikes of crystal that glow red.

0:29:36 Ally: I yell,

0:29:36 Kristen: Cassandra!

0:29:38 Brennan: As you yell “Cassandra,” a bolt of purple light, cool and misty, races through this place extinguishing fire all the way up to where the cavern narrows, and you see up there a movement, almost like an undulation of muscle. You say, “Cassandra,” and you hear (gasping) and the vision fades as the Banishment ends.

0:30:08 Kristen: Did you guys see that? Where was– did that look familiar to any of you?

0:30:12 Adaine: I just saw the things coming at me and then stopping.

0:30:16 Ally: So of the shards that I have of her, one followed the red in there?

0:30:21 Brennan: Doesn't look like it. It looks literally like you're holding onto all of them still. But you just saying that name appeared to move into that realm, diminish whatever this rage fire stuff was, and there was something far away in the cavern, like a movement, and then almost like breath.

0:30:40 Fig: So that's where we need to go.

0:30:44 Kristen: Or that's like the headquarters for this kind of toxic- it kind of seems like everyone has the capacity to be angry, but there's like a toxicity to a certain kind of rage or a closed loop rage.

0:30:55 Fig: Like a self-replication. Or like an impotent rage, really.

0:31:00 Kristen: Yes, totally.

0:31:00 Riz: Did you just see the inside of a body, like a god? Was that...?

0:31:06 Kristen: I guess.

0:31:09 Riz: Was that somebody who consumed Cassandra, or was that Cassandra herself?

0:31:13 Adaine: Or the other god?

0:31:15 Gorgug: Yeah, like when they reacted to it, was that Cassandra reacting to her own name or the other god reacting to his wife's name?

0:31:23 Riz: Gorgug, very good. Gorgug licks his ice cream.

0:31:29 Kristen: Oh, yeah. You get a liver treat, too.

0:31:31 Gorgug: Oh.

0:31:32 Fig: I'm actually still pretty hungry.

0:31:34 Gorgug: Okay, here you go.

0:31:36 Gorgug: I thought this was ice cream.

0:31:38 Fabian: Rude. That's rude.

0:31:39 Adaine: We actually do have liver treat flavored ice cream here, if you like. You guys need to tip me this time though, I'm so sorry.

0:31:45 Kristen: I can't,

0:31:46 Fabian: What's the point of?

0:31:46 Kristen: I can't and I won't.

0:31:48 Fabian: Then it's like pretty much we don't get the employee discount.

0:31:51 Adaine: I'm giving you the ice cream, you just have to tip me.

0:31:54 Kristen: Nah.

0:31:55 Gorgug: Hearing this explanation, do you think it's like these– what you're seeing is part of the god, like it's alive? Or is it like an ecosystem feeding off of his body? Like is it like a whale fall? Is it like a...?

0:32:10 Lou: What's a whale fall?

0:32:11 Zac: Like the thing where- it's like a whale dies and then all the little creatures kinda-

0:32:15 Emily: Like an entire ecosystem comes up around it because basically it's so much food that all these other- it becomes like a scene. It's like Burning Man.

0:32:27 Siobhan: “Do you wanna go to Whale Fall this year? I don't know it's kind of corporate now.”

0:32:31 Ally: I'm so sorry. "Burning Man as Whale Fall" is like a term paper that needs to be written.

0:32:36 Murph: Riz pounds a coffee and slams [voice obscured]

0:32:38 Kristen: Okay, yeah, totally, totally.

0:32:39 Riz: Look, if we're seeing the inside of this god, and this whatever, this material went back there, that implies that it's from there.

0:32:49 Kristen: It's from there.

0:32:50 Riz: Are they literally building a god from inside here? Like, is that literally pieces of this god's rotting inside?

0:32:59 Kristen: And they could only transport so much at a time?

0:33:01 Riz: Is that what's happening?

0:33:02 Fig: For some reason, I still feel a little bit partial that there was this union that challenged some kind of status quo, and then Cassandra was one of the members. And then they were both offed in some way.

0:33:16 Kristen: I think these can both be true. I'm curious about yours. [gesturing to Riz] It seems like, and maybe I'm wrong, but people get absorbed with rage and it's almost like they get smashed. Like, you were like- Giants were there?

0:33:28 Fig: It's almost like if you're angry, but you have nowhere to direct it. They just explode.

0:33:32 Adaine: Right, you're just crushing that anger.

0:33:34 Riz: I think literally all of your body experiences it all at once, and essentially your blood just crystallizes and you die.

0:33:41 Gorgug: Are you saying like, the god can't exist there so they're transporting piece by piece little tiny bit of him until he is here?

0:33:50 Riz: I'm wondering if what Fig said about something growing, if it's literally this god?

0:33:55 Adaine: Does anybody know how to get to the astral plane?

0:33:58 Brennan: The Wizard's Synod is technically in the astral plane.

0:34:01 Siobhan: Right, but didn't that whole...

0:34:03 Emily: And that's where this kinda all started.

0:34:07 Brennan: It might still be under reconstruction, but it is an extra-dimensional place that you do have access to, theoretically.

0:34:12 Kristen: What's going on with the bodies having like an imprint of the unknown god's name on the rib cage or whatever?

0:34:19 Fabian: That was the defiling to make it so that they couldn't come back. That thing?

0:34:23 Adaine: Yeah, I think so.

0:34:25 Fig: Yeah, it was ritualistic in nature to be sure.

0:34:29 Riz: So Cassandra was corrupted as the Nightmare King, correct? And then became Cassandra again?

0:34:39 Ally: I'm trying to remember this exact...

0:34:41 Emily: Yeah, do we remember, per se? I think that we're all...

0:34:43 Brennan: Yeah. No, I'm happy to explain. Timeline wise, what are you looking for?

0:34:47 Murph: Cassandra to Nightmare King relationship. What is that?

0:34:50 Siobhan: Yeah, how did that happen?

0:34:51 Brennan: So you I think would connect that to the archfey thing, right? The Nightmare King was a thing that Cassandra became when she could no longer be a goddess. Her worship was so diminished that she just became a giant undead monstrosity, right? So it was sort of a transformation that moved her out of deity status into this legendary monster status.

0:35:15 Murph: Is it possible that-

0:35:17 Siobhan: That happened to the other god, as well?

0:35:18 Murph: ...that this happened to the other person?

0:35:18 Ally: Definitely. And became super fiendish.

0:35:22 Murph: So they were both...

0:35:23 Siobhan: 'Cause that was the option, right? Like, they could be fey or they could be fiend. Or celestial, was the third one.

0:35:30 Murph: Nightmare, night and day, right?

0:35:33 Ally: What?

0:35:34 Murph: Cassandra became the Nightmare King, if the other person-

0:35:39 Siobhan: This person is the Daymare Queen?

0:35:40 Murph: The Daymare Queen.

0:35:42 Emily: But I'm thinking, I keep coming back to dawn.

0:35:44 Siobhan: Daydream Queen?

0:35:46 Zac: Dawn is like-

0:35:46 Murph: The dawn, yeah, exactly.

0:35:50 Ally: Bobby Dawn.

0:35:51 Siobhan: Bobby Dawn.

0:35:52 Ally: The Dawns, who's about to be the new cleric teacher.

0:35:55 Siobhan: Right.

0:35:55 Kristen: I don't know if I told you all that. We're getting an absolute religious zealot-

0:35:58 Adaine: You gotta change your major, dude.

0:35:58 Kristen: Whose DVDs my parents gave me for Christmas every year.

0:36:03 Riz: All of this stuff with the Church of Sol is concerning.

0:36:09 Kristen: I really wanna talk to Tracker and hear if there's like a Sol/Helio something being brought in by that new girlfriend of hers who's from Fallinel, So it'll be good to go out there.

0:36:20 Fabian: If we're all going there, maybe we could do a link up.

0:36:24 Brennan: I think that there's some answers in Fallinel for you guys. I think you guys wrap up your last week of school here. Is there anything before you guys head to Fallinel?

0:36:34 Murph: I realized we didn't check Ragh's house. Should we go to that old house? 'Cause we have that.

0:36:39 Siobhan: And I'd like to check in with Aelwyn again to see if she's- if Kipperlilly has gotten in contact with her at all.

0:36:45 Brennan: Anyone who's going to Ragh's house goes to Ragh's house. And then if you wanna go drop in on Aelwyn, you can go drop in on Aelwyn.

0:36:50 Siobhan: I'll go to Ragh's house for sure.

0:36:52 Brennan: Okay, everyone goes to Ragh's? Cool. You guys all go to Ragh's old house. You see that they've basically cleared the lot and it's like a vacant lot right now, waiting for everything to like come back in. You can give me an Investigation check if you would like to.

0:37:05 Ally: Is there like a backhoe around?

0:37:08 Brennan: Nothing that you can-

0:37:10 Ally: They're not in the middle of clearing it?

0:37:11 Brennan: Not in the middle of clearing it.

0:37:12 Murph: 24.

0:37:13 Brennan: On a 24 Investigation check looking around, you see it's pretty cleared up here. You have your files from your office that were just basically like when you were doing the quest for the crown of the Nightmare King. Anything that happened in the quest, you filed and noted away. So you had the address saved, which is what you sort of like, that flash of memory you had was like, I've seen something that was like this before. But you do see that the nature of the violence and destruction in the photos of the old house that you have, the old crime scene photos, are extremely, eerily similar to the ones you saw on the Loam Farm.

0:37:51 Siobhan: Can I do a Detect Magic to see maybe if the shape of it is anything?

0:37:58 Brennan: Yeah, go for it. Give me the shape of it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:38:01 Siobhan: What is that, an Arcana check?

0:38:02 Brennan: Yeah, Arcana.

0:38:04 Siobhan: Will a 15 do anything? 'Cause if it won't, I'll Div roll it.

0:38:09 Brennan: I think 15.

0:38:10 Siobhan: You know what? I'm gonna Div roll it. It's a 14 plus nine. So a 23.

0:38:18 Brennan: On a 23, looking around with Detect Magic, I think you see, and obviously it's many, many months after the fact, but you do see some evidence still of that shatter star sand in the soil. There's some residue.

0:38:37 Siobhan: And it's again these big circular things or is it different from the other?

0:38:41 Brennan: It seems to follow the impact of the original violence. So in other words, it's not like a big solid carefully drawn diagram around the house. It's a little bit more organic and violent than that.

0:38:54 Siobhan: It's spread out. It's not in these little circles that we saw at the other two places?

0:38:59 Brennan: I would say here it is actually a little bit larger and more pronounced, but way weaker because it's older.

0:39:05 Siobhan: Interesting. Do you think that is because it's maybe something that is happening organically with Lydia Barkrock? And so just her living here has like spread it around the place? Is that...?

0:39:16 Brennan: I think you would know that there are a lot of connections between Lydia Barkrock and whatever this is. The fiend trapped in her chest is the servant of the god that was the nameless god.

0:39:39 Ally: This is here because a presence attacked the fake Lydia Barkrock in the way that we've seen other people being attacked, right?

0:39:47 Brennan: That's to your knowledge, that's what occurred.

0:39:48 Emily: But now we're starting to think that the attacks are almost internal.

0:39:52 Ally: Yeah, if I pick this up and there's some like red crystals in here, can I kind of like earnestly think about something that makes me mad and look and see how they react?

0:40:04 Brennan: I think give me another Insight check.

0:40:06 Ally: Not nat, but 20.

0:40:08 Brennan: What are you thinking of that makes you mad?

0:40:10 Ally: Oh, I think about Buddy's grandpa being the new teacher, and the way that Buddy speaks to me.

0:40:19 Brennan: As you say that, just a powerful cleric, the twilight shards glow. And the twilight shards glow in a kind of comfort. There's almost like a coolness and- again, like the power of doubt. Like, you're going for anger, which is the cousin of conviction, not of doubt. And so your twilight shards are almost sad. Like they're almost, "Oh, you're getting so angry. Who's to say?" And you see this red sand whips around you. Everyone sees this happen really fast. The sand, and almost like a school of fish moving in unison makes a like spear of glass balancing in front of Kristen's eye, like right here. In that moment where that appears there, are you afraid or are you still angry?

0:41:13 Ally: Okay, I go into this being like, I need to earnestly channel anger, which isn't necessarily what I feel. And I think that when it comes up to my eye and I've seen it react that way, I think, “He's not worth it.”

0:41:25 Brennan: When you see the spear, this little glass thing like point at your eye, you go to a place of saying he's not worth it.

0:41:32 Ally: “It's not worth being angry about. His life is more sad.”

0:41:38 Brennan: Give me a pure Wisdom check. We'll call it a DC 15 Wisdom check.

0:41:46 Ally: Ooh, that is gonna be a 10. I might do...

0:41:52 Brennan: Human Determination?

0:41:52 Ally: Yeah.

0:41:54 Brennan: Here we go.

0:41:55 Ally: That's gonna be an 11.

0:41:59 Brennan: As you go like, he's not worth it, the twilight shards glow bright and the little glass cloud turning into a cloud fragment, glass thing, goes and just stabs your cheek for five points of damage.

0:42:13 Kristen: Fuck.

0:42:13 Fig: My president!

0:42:14 Zac: I'm gonna grab it.

0:42:16 Brennan: You grab it and it's gonna attack you. It misses. You grab it in your hand and are able to restrain it. Your hand is like actually bleeding a little bit as you hold onto it, but you see that it just turns back into red sand and the magic goes out of it. Gorgug wipes his hands.

0:42:29 Zac: Okay.

0:42:30 Ally: Healing word, to yourself and me. I just bring us back up.

0:42:35 Fig: [to Fabian] This what happened to that guy in your class who quit?

0:42:38 Kristen: (gasping) Did your shit have red pigment in it?

0:42:41 Lou: I did not tell you I shit.

0:42:43 Kristen: No, the whole school knows about it.

0:42:44 Riz: After you did your cool dance.

0:42:45 Fabian: After I did my cool dance.

0:42:47 Kristen: Your teacher told everyone about it.

0:42:47 Adaine: They're saying maximum legend when they're talking about it.

0:42:49 Fabian: Good.

0:42:51 Kristen: The teacher was bragging about how loose she got you. [Lou and Siobhan laugh]

0:42:55 Fabian: No, he just seemed to– he did bleed, 'cause he smashed his– he used his lute to break- He used his head to break his lute, but there was no...

0:43:07 Kristen: That seems like a big rage.

0:43:09 Riz: And also your enemy, the beekeeper, Gertie?

0:43:13 Fabian: Gertie, yes my nemesis.

0:43:14 Riz: Really escalated so fast.

0:43:14 Fabian: Pretty quickly.

0:43:17 Fig: I thought Fabian was the one-

0:43:19 Fabian: Oh, please. It was bad honey.

0:43:23 Riz: But just everyone.

0:43:24 Kristen: You're right, short fuse.

0:43:26 Riz: Everyone has a very short fuse.

0:43:27 Kristen: Fuel to the fire.

0:43:28 Fig: Should we go start minor disturbances around school and see if we get beat up?

0:43:32 Fabian: I do like that. We've got one week left.

0:43:36 Kristen: [to Riz] I think you're right. I think there's just, like, gas being dumped everywhere and its just gonna take a small spark.

0:43:43 Riz: It's more than just this farm. I think this is everywhere.

0:43:47 Adaine: Everybody's on edge, huh?

0:43:47 Riz: It's in the air.

0:43:50 Fig: The fact that it's in the soil, right? Something's gonna...

0:43:53 Riz: I think something's already coming up. People are already acting strange.

0:43:57 Fabian: As we get deeper into the year… [brief pause] [stammering]

0:44:00 Fig: What?

0:44:02 Fabian: No, I don't know.

0:44:03 Fig: Sorry, Fabian, what?

0:44:03 Fabian: No, it just felt like-

0:44:05 Kristen: What's the plan?

0:44:06 Fig: Everyone, Fabian wanted to say something.

0:44:08 Fabian: See this is why I, this is why I hang back on my crystal while you guys all do your-

0:44:12 Ally: I cast Thaumaturgy so everything you say is much louder.

0:44:15 Brennan: You guys are all like sleuthing and loitering around. It's about like one o'clock in the morning. Do you still wanna try to hit up Aelwyn?

0:44:20 Siobhan: Yeah. Aelwyn's gonna be awake at 1:00 a.m.

0:44:22 Brennan: For sure. You text Aelwyn. You guys all head over to Aelwyn's together?

0:44:25 Fabian: Oh no.

0:44:26 Siobhan: I can just, for some reason in my inventory, I have a scooter, so maybe I just scoot over there.

0:44:32 Brennan: You scoot over there. Cool. [Lou and Ally crack up]

0:44:35 Siobhan: [laughing] [shrugs] I don't know, I've just had a scooter this whole time.

0:44:37 Zac: Adaine's classic scooter. [Ally and Lou laugh] [Lou claps]

0:44:40 Lou: We all remember Adaine's scooter from sophomore year.

0:44:46 Siobhan: I just have had a scooter this whole time. I don't know what to tell you.

0:44:48 Ally: The plush that we sell, that's Adaine on a scooter. [Siobhan laughs]

0:44:54 Brennan: You talk to Aelwyn. She opens the door. You see that she is wearing a full Snuggie.

0:44:59 Adaine: That looks so comfortable.

0:45:00 Aelwyn: It is incredibly comfortable.

0:45:03 Adaine: And it's so clean. Did you come over and not tell me? And clean your laundry? That's so cute.

0:45:08 Aelwyn: I did. I did. I did do that.

0:45:11 Adaine: That's great. I love that for you. You wanna introduce me to all of your cats?

0:45:14 Aelwyn: Yes, I do. Hector, you've already met.

0:45:17 Brennan: And she begins to go.

0:45:18 Adaine: Wow, he is puking again.

0:45:20 Brennan: One of the cats straight up. You come over and he is like. (screeching) They're all incredibly-

0:45:27 Adaine: Where did you find these cats?

0:45:30 Aelwyn: There is-

0:45:30 Adaine: Did you just steal them from the street?

0:45:33 Aelwyn: No, I didn't steal them from the street, Adaine. I went to an animal rescue and I asked them to show me the ones that have been there the longest.

0:45:41 Adaine: Oh boy.

0:45:41 Emily: Aw!

0:45:43 Adaine: Are you gonna cry?

0:45:44 Emily: I'm going to.

0:45:44 Aelwyn: No, I'm- I'm allergic, because you upset the cats, and when you do that, they all shed so much that they shoot their hair everywhere and it got in my eyes.

0:45:56 Adaine: That is so sweet and nice.

0:45:58 Aelwyn: Sometimes cats are aggressive and mean-spirited, but that doesn't mean-

0:46:00 Adaine: [tearing up] And sometimes you can't show your care to other human beings, so you gotta show it to cats.

0:46:06 Aelwyn: [wiping her eye] I have so much love to give exclusively to cats. (all laughing)

0:46:14 Ally: If we make that shirt, I want it.

0:46:17 Brennan: I want it.

0:46:18 Ally: I want it.

0:46:21 Brennan: She looks and says,

0:46:21 Aelwyn: Well, come on, take a seat. Watch a bunch of TV with me.

0:46:25 Adaine: Yeah, it's 1 a.m.

0:46:27 Aelwyn: Okay.

0:46:28 Adaine: Sure, yeah, no I want to. What are you watching?

0:46:31 Aelwyn: I'm watching this reality show where they have a bunch of amateur chefs who come together and they are not that good and the hosts are brutal to them. Just absolutely, excoriatingly brutal.

0:46:46 Adaine: You like this, you like this, people being mean to people about their hobbies.

0:46:51 Aelwyn: Well, I think what I like is that everyone hates the judges, and then there's sort of a comradery in the toxicity.

0:47:00 Adaine: That's funny because you never had that camaraderie in toxicity with me.

0:47:05 Aelwyn: We could start now?

0:47:06 Adaine: Sure. Great, let's watch. I brought a pint of ice cream.

0:47:11 Brennan: She scarfs it down really quick. [Aelwyn sighs]

0:47:15 Adaine: I did bring it to share, but that's fine.

0:47:17 Aelwyn: Huh?

0:47:18 Adaine: What? Are you okay?

0:47:20 Aelwyn: Doing great.

0:47:22 Adaine: Good. You seem great.

0:47:24 Aelwyn: Have a job, apartment.

0:47:25 Adaine: You seem well.

0:47:26 Aelwyn: Powerful abjurer.

0:47:26 Adaine: Friends?

0:47:28 Aelwyn: What's that?

0:47:28 Adaine: Friends?

0:47:29 Aelwyn: Yeah, how are they doing, your friends? What are you asking? What are you saying? My friends?

0:47:34 Adaine: Are you making friends?

0:47:38 Aelwyn: I went and visited Penelope Everpetal's grave. Told her that she was a horrid bitch and that I missed her.

0:47:48 Adaine: She was a horrid bitch.

0:47:50 Aelwyn: She was, she was beautiful and mean, nasty.

0:47:55 Adaine: There are other beautiful, mean, nasty people out there, you know.

0:47:59 Aelwyn: Certainly. One can hope. But, who else am I- Well, you know, I went and did laundry and actually said hi to Zayn, which was nice.

0:48:07 Adaine: Oh, that's nice.

0:48:08 Aelwyn: You know, he seems like he's doing quite well for a ghost.

0:48:12 Adaine: Yeah, and that rat's just thriving, Edgar.

0:48:14 Aelwyn: Edgar, little ghost rat, fun. He doesn't have to go worry about mazes 'cause he can go through walls, you know?

0:48:21 Adaine: Gamed the system of being a rat.

0:48:23 Aelwyn: Of being a rat, exactly. Ragh, you know, Ragh- I feel like Ragh really, I was sort of trying to, I was sort of trying to identify with Ragh. I was like, remember when we were working for the terrible Kalvaxus conspiracy?

0:48:35 Adaine: And he was like, no, I don't remember that. Sweet boy. Absolutely sweet boy.

0:48:37 Aelwyn: Yeah, well, he told me that he wanted to see me grow and thrive, and I was like, well, that's not what I was looking for.

0:48:43 Adaine: No, no. He is very easily led, but when he's led by a good person, great.

0:48:50 Aelwyn: Yes, very much so. But tell me about you. Are you… How's your junior year going? How are your friends?

0:48:58 Adaine: No, it's all good. Everybody's… everybody's good. I don't know, I feel like we haven't talked about it. We just have been working, working, working, working, working.

0:49:08 Aelwyn: Working is good. Keeps your eye up above the day to day of your life.

0:49:13 Adaine: Sure. Where's those cats?

0:49:18 Brennan: Get some more cats. You see she turns and says,

0:49:20 Aelwyn: Do you- I know that Fabian's been throwing a tremendous amount of parties. That's very exciting. Do you-

0:49:26 Adaine: Yeah, you should come.

0:49:27 Aelwyn: Oh, I don't think.

0:49:27 Adaine: Why not?

0:49:29 Aelwyn: Well.

0:49:29 Adaine: What? Oh, because you were boning over the summer.

0:49:34 Aelwyn: Well, you know, we made out. Point being.

0:49:38 Adaine: I shared a bedroom with you.

0:49:39 Aelwyn: I understand. Listen, the important thing is this Adaine. I know that he's, I heard that he's like maybe seeing someone or something like that, but that's all right.

0:49:49 Adaine: It doesn't mean you can't come to a party.

0:49:51 Aelwyn: Sure, I'll come to a party. Okay, I'll be at the next one. [Lou chuckles and starts rubbing his hands]

0:49:53 Adaine: Great.

0:49:53 Aelwyn: Great. I'll be there. I'll be there. How about you? Is there anyone cute in your life?

0:50:02 Adaine: [very defensively] What? No. What? No. No. What? No.

0:50:05 Aelwyn: No?

0:50:05 Adaine: No. What?

0:50:05 Aelwyn: Why not? You are very fetching.

0:50:07 Adaine: I'm busy.

0:50:08 Aelwyn: Why not?

0:50:09 Adaine: I'm busy. I don't know, what?

0:50:10 Aelwyn: You're so mad at me.

0:50:12 Adaine: You’re so mad at me.

0:50:13 Aelwyn: No, I'm not.

0:50:13 Adaine: Yes.

0:50:13 Aelwyn: I'm having a good time.

0:50:14 Adaine: You're having a terrible time.

0:50:16 Aelwyn: Don't you ever fucking tell me what I'm doing.

0:50:17 Adaine: Fuck you.

0:50:17 Aelwyn: Fuck you, bitch. No, you have a punching spell, stop. Ow, you're way stronger than me now. Well, any interesting magical stuff you're working on? Anything I could help with?

0:50:26 Adaine: Yeah no, just all of this Kipperlilly Copperkettle malarkey, you know?

0:50:30 Aelwyn: Mmm.

0:50:33 Adaine: Oh, what's up with that?

0:50:36 Lou: What sixteen-year-old says malarkey?

0:50:38 Ally: You find out you're played by Biden. (all laughing)

0:50:45 Aelwyn: She showed up but didn't set a meeting time with me. She said she wouldn't be in touch.

0:50:48 Adaine: And she showed up.

0:50:49 Aelwyn: Showed up.

0:50:50 Adaine: Just showed up at Oakshield, when? At the same time as Kristen was there, or a different time?

0:50:54 Aelwyn: No, tell Kristen not to come back. The children were very rowdy after she came.

0:50:58 Ally: She was there, I could have gotten an in.

0:51:02 Siobhan: Adults also can't vote for you.

0:51:03 Ally: I gotta remember my contacts.

0:51:04 Murph: In with what?

0:51:06 Ally: Big time in.

0:51:06 Murph: With what? Brennan/Ally: Big time in.

0:51:09 Aelwyn: She said that she would need to be in touch with me in the new year, but not until then.

0:51:13 Adaine: Oh, okay.

0:51:14 Aelwyn: Any other arcane?

0:51:15 Adaine: Aren't you curious? Don't you wanna go on a little adventure?

0:51:18 Aelwyn: We're going to Fallinel, I thought. Isn't Hallariel flying everyone out?

0:51:22 Adaine: Business class teleportation.

0:51:23 Aelwyn: Teleporting business class.

0:51:24 Adaine: It just means we get to go slightly in front of other people. It's like children, veterans, us.

0:51:31 Aelwyn: Us, incredible.

0:51:32 Emily: Just Gorgug's family.

0:51:35 Adaine: Oh, maybe it's just Gorgug's family.

0:51:36 Aelwyn: Understood. Understood. Zac wiggles his eyebrows and smiles.

0:51:38 Adaine: That weird thing where like your friends got an upgrade and you didn't, so they're just on a different part of the line to teleport-

0:51:45 Aelwyn: Understood.

0:51:45 Adaine: ...than you.

0:51:46 Aelwyn: Understood. Well, that should be very fun. Yes, well, we'll have plenty of time.

0:51:50 Adaine: What are you doing? Like, don't you get up to shenanigans anymore? You loved shenanigans and malarkey.

0:51:55 Aelwyn: I do get up to shenanigans. I drive down to Bastion City and do crimes. I'm having fun.

0:51:59 Adaine: Okay, good.

0:51:59 Aelwyn: I'm having lots of fun.

0:52:02 Adaine: They're good crimes, you're having fun with the crimes? You are not hurting anybody with the crimes?

0:52:06 Aelwyn: No, I don't think so.

0:52:08 Adaine: You're just doing crimes on your own. Come do crimes with us. We do crimes all the time.

0:52:17 Aelwyn: I got a job offer.

0:52:18 Adaine: Oh, that's fun.

0:52:19 Aelwyn: Yeah, it's interesting.

0:52:20 Adaine: Doing what?

0:52:21 Aelwyn: I got a job offer to go work at the Compass Points in Leviathan.

0:52:25 Adaine: Oh, the library?

0:52:26 Aelwyn: Yes, Ayda's on this big road trip through time with her father. So they're looking for some wizards to help maintain the library.

0:52:32 Adaine: Oh, okay. But you hate reading. I mean, you're very good at it.

0:52:35 Aelwyn: Certainly.

0:52:36 Adaine: You're just naturally good.

0:52:37 Aelwyn: Mostly my understanding is I'd be shushing people, which seems fun.

0:52:40 Adaine: Actually, you'd be very good at that.

0:52:41 Aelwyn: Thank you. I thought so too.

0:52:43 Adaine: There's a pirate there that if you steal his bones, he falls to pieces.

0:52:46 Aelwyn: I shall steal everyone's bones. Until I find this pirate. Well, I think it's time for me to begin the feeding process. It takes 90 minutes.

0:52:56 Adaine: Yeah. I can help if you like. Or do you have like a whole system in place?

0:53:00 Aelwyn: I have a whole system.

0:53:03 Brennan: You see, she points to a rack of healing potions and shows her arm is just shredded by cat teeth and claws.

0:53:09 Adaine: Wow. Yeah.

0:53:10 Aelwyn: It's all right, it's worth it.

0:53:12 Adaine: Aren't you an abjuration wizard? Can't you-

0:53:14 Aelwyn: [imitating Adaine in a high-pitched, mocking voice]

0:53:15 Adaine: Can't you just make yourself a little mage...

0:53:16 Aelwyn: (mockingly) Can't you make yourself a little mage… The cats can smell the ward and they won't take the medicine. So I have to take the ward down.

0:53:27 Adaine: Makes a lot of sense.

0:53:28 Aelwyn: You know, if you would assume that other people sometimes know what they're doing, you would ask, hey, is there a system?

0:53:33 Adaine: Hey, sometimes you do things that are stupid, one does things that are stupid and then somebody points that out and you're like, well I feel stupid, but also, you're right.

0:53:41 Aelwyn: That's true. Hey, you coming and watching an episode with me was the best– I really appreciate it.

0:53:50 Adaine: Wow. Did you get Gilear cursed as well? What happened?

0:53:54 Aelwyn: What do you mean, did I get Gilear cursed as well?

0:53:55 Adaine: Oh, Fig got some kind of Gilear curse that's like yellow devil curse where she's terribly unlucky and I couldn't take it off.

0:54:03 Aelwyn: Listen, I know everything there is to know about curses.

0:54:06 Adaine: You know everything there is to know about curses?

0:54:09 Aelwyn: Well, I was working with a dragon.

0:54:10 Adaine: Oh my god. Come home– feed the cats. Come and have a look at Fig. My god, you just know everything about curses. I know nothing about curses.

0:54:18 Aelwyn: I was working with a cabal of evil.

0:54:19 Adaine: I am a divination wizard, I just know about the future, vaguely.

0:54:23 Aelwyn: All right, well I'm an abjuration specialist, but it doesn't hurt you to know what you are abjuring against, which when you're working with villains is often curses.

0:54:29 Emily: Can I have done one more thing tonight?

0:54:30 Brennan: Yeah, yeah.

0:54:32 Emily: I would like to disguise myself as Coppergililly Kepperpetal and enter Ruben's dream. And I'm gonna shape the environment to look like the crime scene of Lucy Frostblade, and I've disguised myself as Kipperlilly and I think I'm just gonna say over and over again, “Kipperlilly” (Fig): Ruben, someone needs to take the fall for this and it's not me. You need to take the fall for this.

0:54:56 Brennan: Give me a Persuasion check.

0:54:57 Emily: 23.

0:54:58 Brennan: Ooh-hoi! When you say that, I'm gonna roll a Luck check in front of the board. You want high. 10. You see Ruben, as you say that.

0:55:07 Siobhan: 15.

0:55:08 Brennan: Ooh, 15! Actually, as you're casting this dream, Adaine appears ethereally next to you as the Elven Oracle, looking through time as she is trancing.

0:55:18 Fig: [whispering to Adaine] It's me Fig, not Kipperlilly.

0:55:21 Ru: What's that, Kipperlilly? “Kipperlilly” (Fig): Someone needs to take the fall for this and it's not gonna be me. You need to take the fall for this Ruben, okay?

0:55:28 Ru: Okay.

0:55:29 Brennan: He begins to look around and you see he puts a hand over his mouth and squeezing out in between his fingers is blood. Which is not an element of the dream you added, but you are in his dream as it was already occurring.

0:55:45 Lou: An absolute dream terrorist, Figueroth Faeth.

0:55:48 Brennan: The next morning Aelwyn is just gonna say, "I'm gonna see you guys in Fallinel."

0:55:50 Siobhan: Okay, great.

0:55:51 Brennan: She's like, let's do it all in Fallinel. Anything else that people want to do before heading to Fallinel for the Moonar Yulenear?

0:55:59 Ally: I feel like maybe while we're in travel, I've got my neck pillow on. I've got as many comforts as possible. I would love to ask like– who would know? I would love to know what devil's nectar and ambrosia would be used for.

0:56:15 Brennan: Give me a Religion check.

0:56:16 Ally: Oh, great. 21.

0:56:18 Brennan: 21, cool. Ambrosia, your mom and your dad used to talk about a lot as the food of the gods, like that ambrosia was a special kind of corn that Helio could grow. That was a corn of ambrosia and it was the food of the gods.

0:56:31 Murph: Something's up.

0:56:32 Brennan: Devil's nectar on a 21. Give me a separate roll for that. You can give me Religion or you can give me Nature if you want to. And Nature will be a lower DC.

0:56:43 Ally: Okay. I'll do Nature.

0:56:46 Brennan: Cool.

0:56:49 Ally: Aw yeah. That is a 19.

0:56:53 Brennan: On one of your campaign stops, you are at the Apiarist Club. Gertie is fully in the other camp. Gertie has trained bees to spell out Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

0:57:05 Emily: What?

0:57:06 Brennan: Gertie has trained the bees to spell out Kipperlilly Copperkettle.

0:57:08 Fig: We need to steal the hive.

0:57:11 Brennan: As you guys are talking about devil's nectar, like in the cafeteria, she turns around and says,

0:57:16 Gertie: Are you guys talking about devil's nectar?

0:57:17 KristenAlly: Yeah.

0:57:18 GertieBrennan: Oh, that's really interesting because devil's nectar is actually- you can get bees to make a very special kind of honey with devil's nectar as the source of where they're getting the nectar for the honey from.

0:57:34 Kristen: Really? And what would that do?

0:57:36 Fig: Would it look like blood coming out of someone's mouth?

0:57:39 Gertie: It does have like a dark red color to it, but the effect of devil's nectar is there's a special honey you can make from it. Some of the properties are that you actually not only become more persuasive and more sort of deceitful, but you can lie to beings that normally cannot be lied to.

0:58:02 Ally: I grab her hand and I go,

0:58:05 Kristen: Are you helping anyone get this kind of honey? Maybe any catering businesses ordering bulk orders from you?

0:58:14 Gertie: Actually, yeah.

0:58:16 Ally: I pull her so close we're about to kiss.

0:58:19 Kristen: Are you–? Gertie closes her eyes and kisses Kristen.

0:58:20 Gertie: What?

0:58:21 Kristen: [briefly taken aback] That's actually really lovely. You have amazing lips.

0:58:24 Gertie: Thank you. I have a beeswax balm that I put- that I put on my lips.

0:58:29 Kristen: Yeah, okay.

0:58:29 Gertie: I've had a crush on you for a long time.

0:58:32 Kristen: Okay, well let's go out some time.

0:58:35 Gertie: Okay.

0:58:35 Kristen: I'm painfully single, and none of my friends wanna see me naked anymore.

0:58:40 Fig: I do.

0:58:41 Kristen: Yeah? Okay, we've got a couple hangers on. Are you getting this honey for someone?

0:58:48 Gertie: Yeah, well, I've made some of it already, which is why I'm so interested to hear you bring it up.

0:58:53 Kristen: Yeah. Was it for a catering company?

0:58:56 Gertie: Some local food trucks.

0:58:58 Fig: Do you know of any side effects of this?

0:59:00 Gertie: Oh yeah. One of the side effects is that it's, during the period that you're using it, it can become so persuasive that you actually fool yourself. You can like change your own memories by like saying a lie that is so persuasive that you believe it.

0:59:15 Fig: [whispering to the Bad Kids] I think Ruben in the memory, it was devil's honey maybe coming out of his mouth.

0:59:19 Gorgug: Because he must have convinced himself that they didn't do anything.

0:59:21 Riz: Whoa.

0:59:22 Fig: I'm wondering if they've all been taking devil's honey.

0:59:25 Fabian: Hey guys, sorry I'm- [notices Gertie] Oh, uh, should I? Ally starts miming making out with Gertie.

0:59:30 Gertie: Motherfucker!

0:59:30 Brennan: You see that- Are you making out with Gertie? So you guys just start-

0:59:34 Ally: I'm going like this. [holding Gertie with one hand, frantically gesturing Fabian to leave with the other]

0:59:36 Fabian: All right, all right, all right. Okay, okay.

0:59:40 Emily: I dive for the hive.

0:59:40 Siobhan: I cast Greater Invisibility on Fabian.

0:59:42 Riz: Fabian, you missed so little context. They just started making out. They got really close. You missed I think 30 seconds. You just showed up seconds after us.

0:59:53 Fabian: Okay, got it.

0:59:54 Riz: We did get some good info, though.

0:59:56 Brennan: Incredible.

0:59:58 Ally: We leave and I wave like this, bye to her. [bending their fingers at each knuckle]

1:00:00 Gertie: Bye, oh, have a good, have a good holiday. I'd love to hang out in the new year.

1:00:04 Kristen: Me too. [waves]

1:00:05 Gorgug: There was just like no level of privacy here.

1:00:08 Fabian: Kristen, you know that's my nemesis, right?

1:00:10 Kristen: Yeah, look, we got some great info that we would not have gotten if I didn't kiss her.

1:00:15 Fabian: Would you not?

1:00:16 Fig: Kristen, you look loosened up. You needed that.

1:00:21 Adaine: You needed to get your kisses in.

1:00:21 Kristen: Thank you.

1:00:24 Brennan: As the fall semester comes to an end, we're actually going to go through everyone. Riz, full marks across rogue classes. You see, you get a letter from Jace Stardiamond giving you a commendation and actually giving you a small stipend. You get three silver pieces. Basically it says like, From Jace - From the office of the vice principal. Your commitment to all of our school's after school activities and extracurricular clubs is one of the few things keeping the school working. As such, you have been added interim to the school's staff. Thank you so much for your earnest effort.

1:00:58 Brennan: Kristen, Mazey asks to talk to you in a meeting where it's like,

1:01:04 Mazey: Hey, the campaign's going really great. I just want you to know you're killing it, you and the whole squad. Fig and Fabian's obviously the man, he's doing great. And then Riz is obviously like great. You should be really, really proud and I know that Kipperlilly's throwing a lot of money around, but you should be very, very proud. I wanted to talk to you because actually not about that, but about one of my acting principal responsibilities. Basically we've only had one applicant for the position, who's this guy, Bobby Dawn, who's not a very neutral source. I'm talking to every single cleric at the school, 'cause I don't wanna have him come on without everyone's sort of say so. Basically, the situation that we're in is like if we take him, he's an intense, polarizing figure, but if we don't, we have to keep all the clerics pass-fail for the year, which has a lot of ramifications for other people.

1:02:02 Kristen: Because we would all have to take The Last Stand. The Bad Kids would.

1:02:07 Mazey: If that's something you guys are planning, then yeah. I mean, other people would maybe be okay with the pass-fail, but I know not everyone has the same situation.

1:02:14 Kristen: No, yeah, we wouldn't be… He is very scary to me. I am curious if we could find someone better. Maybe Fig.

1:02:27 Mazey: Yeah, no.

1:02:27 Kristen: Okay.

1:02:29 Mazey: But thank you.

1:02:30 Kristen: Tough but fair.

1:02:32 Mazey: I just feel like between warlock and paladin and bard and barbarian, that adding cleric to that, and running through all four years in time to graduate, to be able to teach here by January is- (all laughing)

1:02:53 Kristen: I guess you're right. That was actually kind of a bit. My real proposal is this woman that I actually met at the bus stop named Wanda Childa. (all laughing)

1:03:06 Kristen: She's incredible, and I think she has a PhD.

1:03:09 Mazey: So you can just tell me, no, you can just say... Truly I just wanna- I don't want anyone to work here if even a single student has voiced discomfort with what would be going on.

1:03:21 Emily: We're about to go to Fallinel, maybe we can ask.

1:03:24 Siobhan: Yeah, maybe Tracker can come back and be...

1:03:27 Ally: Absolutely not.

1:03:30 Kristen: I'm not happy about it and I am pretty worried about what that will look like, but I can't elect for pass-fail if I have an option to get a grade.

1:03:43 Mazey: Copy that, all right. Thank you Kristen. I appreciate it.

1:03:45 Kristen: Yeah, thank you. Has he said anything extra? Could we just keep our eyes- Can I report back to you if weird stuff happens in the class?

1:03:53 Mazey: He knows that this is not an opportunity to evangelize, that he's supposed to actually help everybody with their studies. So if he does anything that it breaks any of the bylaws, just tell me.

1:04:04 Kristen: Cool. Yeah, if you could maybe email me if you have, I know you're really busy.

1:04:08 Mazey: Yeah.

1:04:09 Kristen: The bylaws, I would just love to have them.

1:04:10 Mazey: You're a candidate, you should have it. I'll send it to you,

1:04:12 Brennan: And she just does it on her phone right there and sends you these.

1:04:14 Kristen: These haven't been updated anytime recently, right?

1:04:16 Mazey: I think they got updated sometime during the summer.

1:04:19 Siobhan: Interesting, interesting, interesting.

1:04:21 Kristen: Right after the grades were submitted, maybe.

1:04:23 Mazey: Yeah, right at last June. You guys were gone out of town, but yeah.

1:04:27 Kristen: Can I also have the previous ones just so I can... [brings her hands together to lightly interlock her fingers] Shloop.

1:04:30 Mazey: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Absolutely.

1:04:32 Brennan: She gives you the previous ones.

1:04:35 Ally: And I just hand her a CV of Wanda Childa, just to have.

1:04:44 Emily: It just says free spirit. (all laughing)

1:04:47 Mazey: Thank you. It's got one bullet point on it.

1:04:50 Kristen: It's beautiful though, right? It's wicker.

1:04:52 Mazey: Well the paper stock's great.

1:04:53 Lou: Wicker?

1:04:54 Siobhan: A wicker paper.

1:04:57 Brennan: Fabian, both Terpsichore and Corsica are checking in on your academics. Like, is there a little bit flagging in the back half of the year?

1:05:07 Lou: Just sit there with my brand new neck tattoo. Just say,

1:05:10 Fabian: No, I'm all– it's just an adjustment period.

1:05:15 Corsica: You got it. You got it.

1:05:17 Brennan: Corsica's a little bit worried and Terpsichore says,

1:05:18 Terpsichore: I want you to know something. If this is about the poop.

1:05:22 Fabian: I told you I didn't wanna talk about it. I know it was natural. I know it was natural.

1:05:28 Terpsichore: I pooped right now.

1:05:30 Fabian: Don't– you can't tell me that. Right now? Oh god.

1:05:36 Terpsichore: It's natural. It is natural.

1:05:37 Fabian: All right.

1:05:38 Terpsichore: Mine less so, 'cause I did it on purpose. Yours was even more natural, 'cause it was by accident.

1:05:43 Fabian: Yeah. Can I go?

1:05:46 Terpsichore: Can you? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. (snaps fingers)

1:05:49 Fabian: Nope. Not what, not in this moment.

1:05:54 Brennan: Adaine, you wrap up. Tiberia points out that you should probably have a research project for your final this year. If there's anything you wanna research.

1:06:05 Adaine: I'm thinking about looking into curses.

1:06:07 Tiberia: Curses?

1:06:08 Adaine: Yeah.

1:06:09 Tiberia: That's fascinating. Any kind of curses?

1:06:11 Adaine: Unbreakable demonic situations, which if you have any books or anything you could point me in the right direction of, would love.

1:06:23 Tiberia: Talk to Ms. Dimweather in the library. She'll be able to help you out.

1:06:27 Brennan: She begins writing a list.

1:06:29 Tiberia: Check out these books on curses. There's a very interesting bit of arcana. It's a new bit of arcane research about harnessing the power of broken curses. It's an enormous release of energy when a curse is broken. Let's call it 10 points of extra credit. Should you over your winter break engage in some research relating to curse breaking as a form of ritual power sourcing. All right?

1:06:53 Adaine: Great. Thank you.

1:06:55 Brennan: Gorgug, I think at the end of your academic chapter here, there is a huge beginning to be breakthrough. I don't know if you know what that would be for Gorgug.

1:07:04 Zac: I think, yeah. I can picture Gorgug in the Tony Stark lab phase of trying to figure out the combination of rage and artificer stuff is. Like, just sort of letting artificer students kinda hit him for a while. Trying to power up.

1:07:28 Brennan: Yeah, you begin to make measurement pads and things that can absorb bits of kinetic energy and different power absorption methods. Henry at the end of your winter semester says,

1:07:39 Henry: Gorgug, I know we had like a little dip in grades after a big running start at the top of the year. But I talked to your barbarian teacher, who had amazing things to say there and that your MCAT got signed.

1:07:52 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:07:53 Henry: So I think we're gonna be in awesome shape starting next semester. I think we're gonna be able to pick those grades up in a big way by the end of the year. And I've seen such a tremendous amount of progress. It's awesome. I'm really happy about it.

1:08:07 Gorgug: I think so too. I'm feeling better than I have.

1:08:11 Henry: Hey, you can trust old Henry Hopclap. I'm here to help.

1:08:15 Emily: Is Ruben's last name Hopclap?

1:08:17 Brennan: Ruben's last name is Hopclap.

1:08:19 Emily: Is that his dad?

1:08:20 Gorgug: Oh hey, I just never really thought about this. There's other people here with last name Hopclap. Is Ruben...?

1:08:29 Henry: My nephew Ruben is a much more well-known Hopclap than I, certainly. Yeah.

1:08:36 Gorgug: Oh wow.

1:08:37 Henry: He's very, very talented, for sure.

1:08:39 Gorgug: Do you play any music? I play the drums, so that's why I'm asking.

1:08:41 Henry: I play the harmonica.

1:08:42 Gorgug: Oh cool. Wow. Nice.

1:08:46 Zac: I think I have it as one of my… my stress token disadvantages, but can I make an Insight check on him?

1:08:54 Brennan: Go for it, yep.

1:08:55 Zac: My best skill.

1:08:56 Lou: Two eighteens.

1:08:57 Emily: Oh my god.

1:08:58 Zac: But that isn't.

1:08:59 Emily: It's still pretty good though. It was a nat 20 and then a 10.

1:09:05 Brennan: Yeah. So that will become an 11. He seems nice. Seems like a nice guy. He goes,

1:09:14 Henry: Yeah. You made a lot of really incredible progress and my god, you guys all fighting Grix over at Frosty Fair. You saved my nephew's life. It's incredible. And Grix, a truly stunning piece of artificing work. He was a really remarkable...

1:09:34 Gorgug: Did you have anything to do with the creation of Grix?

1:09:41 Henry: I consulted a little bit with Principal Aguefort while he was building him. Didn't want him to go haywire and attack my nephew.

1:09:51 Gorgug: I hope not.

1:09:52 Henry: But yes, it was very special to be able to work with Principal Aguefort on that, for sure.

1:10:00 Zac: Can I look around to see if there's, if I see any signs of the shell of what...

1:10:07 Brennan: Give me a Perception check.

1:10:11 Emily: Yay.

1:10:11 Zac: Nat 20.

1:10:13 Emily: This dice. [kisses her pointer finger repeatedly and throws kisses to the D20] Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!

1:10:16 Brennan: You begin to look around, on a nat 20, as Henry moves over and says,

1:10:22 Henry: Ah, Asuna, no, those are very volatile compliments.

1:10:27 Brennan: He runs over and you look and see a little locked area of the teacher's desk that is normally locked is unlocked right now. And you see a little bronze glimmer within there.

1:10:42 Zac: I'm gonna lean over to the modron guy. [Unit beeps and babbles]

1:10:47 Gorgug: I'll explain everything later. Can you go over there and scream? [Unit screams]

1:10:56 Zac: Can I look in the- try to take a look in the drawer?

1:10:59 Henry: Unit! Unit!

1:10:59 Brennan: You see, obviously he runs over. You rush over there. On a Nat 20, one of Grix's motherboards is inside of Henry's desk.

1:11:13 Zac: It feels like I don't have that much time. We're gonna leave it, but I see it.

1:11:17 Brennan: You leave it in there and head out. Fig, you have a meeting with Zara Sool. Zara sort of smiles meeting with you. It's late at night, she says,

1:11:26 Zara: So, heading to Fallinel in the morning. Incredible.

1:11:29 Fig: Yeah.

1:11:31 Zara: Should be a wonderful time. I want to be able to pass everything off for the semester. So we're just talking about your sensibilities surrounding warlockness and if there's any questions you have or anything like that, just let me know.

1:11:49 Fig: Okay, so I've really, really thought about what you've said. And I think the thing I'm bumping up against is I'm much better at pledging myself to other people than to myself.

1:12:06 Zara: I understand.

1:12:07 Fig: So I don't have the agreement that you're looking for.

1:12:13 Zara: That's all right. I am happy to do that. You are going to be a bit behind schedule, which is all right.

1:12:21 Fig: Do you have a book on like pre-pantheon pagan deities?

1:12:26 Zara: Certainly, yes. I think so. You know, you are trying to solve two riddles right now, which is this. You are looking for a reliable source for your ability to Smite. You are looking for a reliable source for a sort of inborn warlock powers and bard powers and things like that. And if you were looking for these older deities, pre sort of Solesian deities, then yes, absolutely. And you know, warlocks are not as bound as clerics are. You do not have to limit your search to just deities.

1:13:10 Fig: Yeah. Yeah, but I do have an academic interest in them right now.

1:13:15 Zara: Certainly. Absolutely. And of course, the line is very blurry between fey and fiend and celestial and deity.

1:13:22 Fig: Yeah.

1:13:23 Zara: Much to explore. I can sense that this- I do not wish for this to be a burden on you. Obviously, your magic will manifest as it will, but it is about safety and reliability. It's about having a path that you can tread steadily, I think, more than anything else.

1:13:45 Fig: Yeah.

1:13:47 Zara: All right, you're sweating right now.

1:13:48 Fig: Yeah. No, I'm uncomfortable.

1:13:52 Zara: Understood. Understood. Well, let's end the meeting.

1:13:57 Fig: Okay.

1:13:57 Zara: Right here. Hooray, have a very happy Moonar.

1:14:02 Fig: What are you doing for the Moonar Yulenear?

1:14:04 Zara: I am going to go and see my beloved.

1:14:08 Fig: Where?

1:14:08 Zara: The Celestial Heights.

1:14:11 Fig: Ooh, okay.

1:14:14 Zara: A little trip to Paradise.

1:14:16 Fig: Enjoy, and next time I see you, I'll probably have everything figured out.

1:14:20 Zara: I am sure you will. And if you don't, you are surrounded by mentors, so.

1:14:24 Fig: True.

1:14:26 Brennan: The next day Jawbone is up at the crack of dawn.

1:14:29 Jawbone: All right, we gotta get to the teleportation pad 9 minutes early.

1:14:34 Gorgug: We got business class, I thought.

1:14:36 Fig: Just you and your family.

1:14:37 Gorgug: Okay, I'll see you guys there.

1:14:40 Brennan: Jawbone gets his car all loaded up. Sandra Lynn, Lydia and Ragh are coming. Aelwyn shows up. Aelwyn gets there and says,

1:14:46 Aelwyn: Hello, everyone. It's nice to see everyone after a long time. Hello. Hello. Big tall stack of books about curses there, Adaine.

1:14:58 Adaine: It's an absolutely normal sized stack of books about curses, I think. Just some light reading for the holidays.

1:15:04 Aelwyn: Seems suspect.

1:15:06 Adaine: What do you mean, suspect?

1:15:07 Aelwyn: Seems suspect.

1:15:07 Adaine: What do you mean, suspect?

1:15:09 Brennan: It's a long drive to Bastion City. You see there's terminals with cinnamon bun restaurants and weird places to get duty-free stuff. And then you see there's this big field and these terminal gates that all come out. And then standing out in the middle of the thing, instead of an airplane, there's just a giant runic pentagram. And guys with little orange cones just directing big groups of people as wizards. There's an ancient wizard with a big purple conical hat and a long white beard just going zoop, and people are disappearing.

1:15:37 Gorgug: Let me know when you guys get there 'cause I'm in the lounge.

1:15:41 Adaine: How did you leave after us and you're already in the lounge?

1:15:44 Gorgug: I just literally breezed through security. [Emily laughs]

1:15:48 Brennan: You see also that Gorthalax shows up. He's coming on the trip as well.

1:15:51 Gorthalax: Hey sweetie, how's it going? Big old family trip.

1:15:55 Fabian: All right, everyone is coming.

1:15:57 Gorthalax: Thanks to your mom. It's really sweet. It's a nice offer-

1:16:00 Fabian: I guess so, yeah.

1:16:01 Brennan: You see that he's holding a huge chunk of earth with a tombstone sticking out of it. And you see that Zayn pops out and he's like,

1:16:08 Zayn: Hey! Gorthalax is bringing my grave so I can come.

1:16:12 Kristen: Oh cool.

1:16:12 Fabian: (unsure) Cool. Yeah.

1:16:15 Adaine: That's so punk rock.

1:16:17 Zayn: Thank you! I was like, "Oh it's okay. I'll watch the house."

1:16:20 Brennan: You see Jawbone and Sandra Lynn on FaceTime. Gulsom, your old realtor, the sort of flesh construct Frankenstein, is like,

1:16:27 Gulsom: Happy to watch the house you guys. It's looking in great shape. Got banisters, it's awesome.

1:16:34 Adaine: Hey, you don't know a guy called Copperkettle, do you?

1:16:37 Gulsom: Oh, I do.

1:16:38 Adaine: Do you know him? What's he like?

1:16:41 Gulsom: Polite.

1:16:42 Adaine: Wow. We don't like him. So if you don't like him, you can tell us.

1:16:47 Gulsom: Oh, he seems like, you know, eager.

1:16:52 Adaine: Yeah, a little desperate.

1:16:54 Riz: He's a little too much.

1:16:55 Gulsom: A little bit of a perky, kinda try hard. A little, yeah, a little capricious. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:17:00 Adaine: Yeah, right.

1:17:01 Gorgug: Hey guys, I’m in Fallinel. (all laughing)

1:17:04 Brennan: You guys eventually get out onto the teleportation pad. You are all teleported, and you all arrive in beautiful Kei Lumennura. You arrive in the Elven homeland, the grotto waiting, and there's snow all over the ground. You see that walking out from the grotto, your grandfather, Telemaine Lomenelda.

1:17:27 Fabian: Grandpapa.

1:17:29 Telemaine: Fah-bian. [embraces Fabian] Oh, perfect.

1:17:31 Siobhan: I push Gorgug.

1:17:32 Telemaine: Your companions.

1:17:34 Fabian: Yes, they're all here.

1:17:36 Siobhan: Say to Aelwyn,

1:17:36 Adaine: Watch this, watch this.

1:17:38 Brennan: He goes,

1:17:38 Telemaine: And you.

1:17:41 Gorgug: Hey. Hi. It's been a minute, how are you?

1:17:45 Telemaine: Been one second, yes. Perhaps to you a minute, but for me, the glimmer of a moth's wing as it circles a flame, so soon to die. My sweet.

1:18:01 Brennan: And you see he touches something in his pocket and you just hear it goes,

1:18:03 Recording: Gorgug.

1:18:06 Gorgug: What's in your pocket?

1:18:07 Telemaine: What? I just said your name.

1:18:10 Gorgug: No you didn't. No, I heard it come from your hip.

1:18:13 Emily: Can I try and Sleight of Hand whatever's in his pocket? (die rolling)

1:18:16 Fabian: Stop picking on my grandpapa.

1:18:18 Brennan: You can do Sleight of Hand.

1:18:19 Emily: 16.

1:18:20 Brennan: You pull a little Yak Bak. It's like a little- (all laughing)

1:18:25 Emily: I press it so many times.

1:18:26 Yak Bak: Gorgug, Gorgug, Gorgug. Gorgug, Gorgug.

1:18:28 Gorgug: I forget. Did I give that to you?

1:18:30 Telemaine: My Yak Bak has been stolen. Return that novelty device at once young Figueroth Faeth, of the woodland elves. Please give me that.

1:18:40 Adaine: Don't say woodland elves like that. They're just as good as us.

1:18:44 Fabian: All right, everyone stop being rude to my grandpapa who paid for you all to come on vacation with us.

1:18:49 Adaine: I think your mom paid for us to come.

1:18:51 Fabian: Who gives a shit?

1:18:53 Brennan: You see that your mom walks up, you see that Telemaine looks and says,

1:18:57 Telemaine: Without my Yak Bak, I fear...

1:19:01 Emily: I take the Yak Bak again.

1:19:04 Brennan: You get it, it's easy. His pocket, it's so silky.

1:19:07 Murph: His pockets are so big.

1:19:09 Brennan: He says,

1:19:11 Telemaine: I relied on the Yak Bak, that I might pronounce your name correctly.

1:19:15 Gorgug: Oh wow. Okay, well here.

1:19:16 Zac: I do a magic tinkering and I get a rock and say,

1:19:22 Gorgug: My name is Gorgug, and maybe just talk to somebody else.

1:19:30 Rock: My name is Gorgug, maybe just talk to someone else.

1:19:34 Brennan: Single tear.

1:19:36 Telemaine: To hear your name in your own voice.

1:19:38 Gorgug: I shouldn't have done that.

1:19:38 Telemaine: I can do it. Welcome to Kei Lumennura once more. Grape nip.

1:19:45 Gorgug: Was that you trying to say my name?

1:19:46 Telemaine: Nope, I was doing a different word.

1:19:48 Kristen: Grape nip.

1:19:48 Gorgug: He called me grape nips.

1:19:51 Adaine: Hey, I like it. Grape nip?

1:19:53 Brennan: You see he walks away. Hallariel comes out.

1:19:56 Ha: Oh my darling!

1:19:58 Lou: Mama!

1:19:59 Hallariel: Welcome. Happy Moonar Yulenear.

1:20:03 Kristen: Thank you so much.

1:20:03 Bad Kids: Happy Moonar Yulnear.

1:20:06 Ha: Come in, let's put your bags down.

1:20:08 Brennan: As you walk in, you see by the door, his eyes sunken, stroking his chin looking like he has not slept in a long time, is Gilear.

1:20:18 Fig: Hey, Gilear.

1:20:19 Kristen: How's it going?

1:20:19 Ally: I tousle his hair.

1:20:21 Fig: You okay?

1:20:22 Brennan: You tousle his hair and a gold coin falls out. He goes,

1:20:25 Gilear: (haunted and suspicious) Did you put that there?

1:20:27 Emily: Give it to Adaine.

1:20:28 Adaine: Oh my god, I'll take it.

1:20:30 Gilear: Did you put that in there?

1:20:31 Kristen: No, but can I give it to Adaine?

1:20:33 Gilear: Figueroth I must speak to you at once.

1:20:34 Fig: Okay yeah. What's up?

1:20:35 Brennan: He pulls you aside and he gets really in your face. His breath smells amazing.

1:20:40 Fig: Dad, did you just use mouthwash?

1:20:42 Gilear: No. No I didn't.

1:20:45 Fig: What's going on?

1:20:45 Gilear: I don't know what the fuck's going on.

1:20:47 Fig: Okay, I think I have an idea of what's going on, and maybe it will help you relax into this bounty. I think that you were cursed and I took on your curse and we swapped. So I think that, I think you're good now. You're good.

1:21:04 Gilear: You're cursed?

1:21:06 Fig: No, no, no.

1:21:06 Gilear: My life doesn't make any sense.

1:21:07 Fig: No, no, no.

1:21:08 Gilear: I found a puppy that grants wishes. I was elected mayor.

1:21:12 Fig: Can I have a puppy that grant's wishes?

1:21:14 Gilear: I already used all the wishes.

1:21:15 Fig: What?

1:21:15 Gilear: [growing agitated] They're all used. I solved three enormous problems. I've been given the key to the city so many times I can't even remember.

1:21:23 Fig: Gilear, relax.

1:21:23 Gilear: Three different apocalypses almost happened here. I stopped each of them with a wish.

1:21:28 Fig: You deserve this. This is who you always were, and a curse was holding you back.

1:21:33 Gilear: I don't feel good.

1:21:34 Fig: Relax, enjoy it.

1:21:35 Gilear: I contracted a disease that the only symptom is that you can eat cookies all day and nothing bad happens.

1:21:40 Fig: Yeah, that sounds like a great disease. It's good. It's luck. It's not bad.

1:21:44 Gilear: Something is amiss. You have this curse now?

1:21:47 Kristen: Yeah, she killed my god.

1:21:49 Fig: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I did not.

1:21:51 Gorgug: Guys.

1:21:51 Fig: I did not.

1:21:53 Kristen: No, but she did help my god die.

1:21:56 Adaine: She did kill her teacher.

1:21:57 Brennan: Gilear says,

1:21:57 Gilear: We are going to get to the bottom of this, this life of endless serendipity, where huge windfalls appear in my lap day after day. It's driving me mad.

1:22:12 Fig: Why?

1:22:12 Gilear: I don't deserve this.

1:22:13 Fig: Yes you do.

1:22:13 Gilear: No I don't.

1:22:15 Fig: You do.

1:22:16 Gilear: I'm fine. But I'm not like this.

1:22:20 Fig: Gilear, we always talked about this. You're the chosen one.

1:22:24 Gilear: I am not the chosen one!

1:22:27 Fabian: Gilear.

1:22:27 Adaine: I think you might be the chosen one. I'm now convinced that you might be.

1:22:32 Brennan: Gilear says,

1:22:32 Gilear: Daughter, listen to me. This might tickle you in some way to watch my life become suddenly amazing against my will. But I will find a way to undo this if this is the last thing I do.

1:22:48 Fig: What do you miss about your old life? What do you want back that you feel like you've lost?

1:22:56 Gilear: There was some part of the misery that I could take in stride. And that stoic resilience filled me with a sense of identity that I recognized. And now that everything's going my way, I feel like I'm going to lose it at any moment.

1:23:17 Fig: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

1:23:20 Gilear: I don't think I want my life to go back to the way it was, but I also don't think it could, now that I know that luck is a curse. I want the yogurt back on my shirt.

1:23:37 Ally: I tried to spill some yogurt on him.

1:23:39 Brennan: You throw it and it hits him, and a full $20 bill is just in the yogurt. Kristen does a double take.

1:23:44 Emily: [laughing] I give it to Adaine.

1:23:45 Kristen: Is this from the factory? That's disgusting.

1:23:49 Adaine: This is Fallinel money, but I guess we can spend it here.

1:23:51 Murph: Someone just dropped a–

1:23:52 Kristen: Someone dropped a 20 while they packing lemon yogurt.

1:23:54 Zac: A gold coin and then a $20 bill.

1:23:56 Brennan: Yeah, it's a $20 bill. And he's like, "I have no context for what that is." He says,

1:24:02 Gilear: We will find a way to undo this or I will surely go mad.

1:24:06 Brennan: And you see he stomps off. Well, so we are all in Kei Lumennura. You see Hallariel is just smiling, and she has this big white creamy robe with a feathery boa wrap hemming the garment, sword at her side, wavy kind of Marilyn Monroe hair.

1:24:24 Fig: Hey, it's me from the phone.

1:24:26 Ha: Oh, Figueroth, thank you. So someone was very naughty, was on 'do not disturb.'

1:24:31 Fabian: Well you have to understand the amount of texts I get every day.

1:24:34 Riz: You doesn't respond to any of them.

1:24:35 Kristen: He's a maximum legend.

1:24:35 Riz: You're on 'do not disturb' all the time.

1:24:36 Ha: Are you a maximum legend?

1:24:39 Fabian: [showing off his neck tattoo] Oh yes.

1:24:40 Ha: Oh my goodness.

1:24:40 Fabian: How about that? And it's healed finally.

1:24:43 Ha: Well that is just delightful.

1:24:45 Adaine: The second M is peeling off a little bit.

1:24:46 Fabian: All right, well I'll get it touched up again.

1:24:50 Ha: Papa would be so proud.

1:24:51 Fabian: I know he would. I don't wanna scare you, but we have been thrashing about the house.

1:25:00 Ha: What do you mean you've been thrashing about the house?

1:25:02 Fabian: You know, just a, a little bit of horseplay here and there.

1:25:07 Ha: [uncharacteristically serious] I told you not to throw parties at the house.

1:25:09 Fabian: No, I'm not throwing parties. Guys, I'm not throwing parties.

1:25:12 Adaine: No.

1:25:13 Kristen: Of course not.

1:25:14 Adaine: Fabian.

1:25:16 Ha: [back to her usual self] Oh, if it's just horseplay then it's fine.

1:25:19 Fabian: It's just a little bit of-

1:25:19 Lou: I grab Gorgug.

1:25:19 Fabian: Ho-ho!

1:25:22 Gorgug: He grabs me.

1:25:24 Fabian: You know, that sort of thing.

1:25:26 Hallariel: Ohohoho! Lovely.

1:25:26 Gorgug: They grab me!

1:25:28 Hallariel: Well, darling-

1:25:28 Murph: I push Gorgug.

1:25:30 Fabian: The Ball, stop.

1:25:30 Riz: What?

1:25:32 Fabian: Stop.

1:25:33 Hallariel: How are studies going? You're doing all right in school?

1:25:35 Fabian: I'm doing all right.

1:25:37 Hallariel: Oh, good.

1:25:38 Fabian: A hot start and a medium finish. But we're gonna– we're picking up speed.

1:25:43 Hallariel: All right, well lovely. I mean, and the important thing- Owlbears is going well and you and your friends are...

1:25:48 Fabian: Yes, we're on the team still, hanging in there.

1:25:51 Hallariel: Absolutely wonderful. And any, I'm sure any little crushes running around for you, you youngsters?

1:25:57 Fabian: Yeah, well, everyone’s–

1:26:02 Fig: Yeah. Oh, Kristen.

1:26:03 Riz: Kristen just made out with-

1:26:06 Kristen: Made out with Bee Girl.

1:26:09 Ha: Does she know you call her bee girl? (Lou laughing)

1:26:13 Kristen: I don't know.

1:26:14 Riz: Do you know her name?

1:26:15 Kristen: I do know Gertie.

1:26:17 Riz: Very good.

1:26:18 Fabian: It's my– actually, it's my nemesis.

1:26:18 Kristen: When we made out, I didn't remember her name, but I was reminded afterwards what her name is.

1:26:24 Adaine: She had said her name seconds before.

1:26:26 Ha: The rambunctiousness of youth, I remember it all too well.

1:26:30 Adaine: [quietly] Is there lambas bread here?

1:26:33 Ha: [quietly] Yes, there is, of course. [normal volume] And what terrible hosts. It's the Moonar Yulenear. [claps] (all cheering)

1:26:44 Brennan: Little candles are lit, there are boughs of holly. You see that an antlered elf painted in woad dances with a huge Isadora Duncan scarf throughout the hall. Telemaine comes in and begins to just play a harp in air, but strings appear as his fingers move, and he slowly weeps, opens his mouth and the noise of pure bird song comes out.

1:27:12 Fabian: Can't believe you guys clown on this guy. He's amazing.

1:27:15 Adaine: I love him.

1:27:16 Riz: (unsure) This is great.

1:27:18 Gorgug: What do you want from me?

1:27:20 Telemaine: Rizbert?

1:27:21 Riz: Yes. Close enough.

1:27:23 Fig: Wait, Riz is short for Rizbert?

1:27:26 Riz: No.

1:27:26 Kristen: Oh my gosh, I'm changing your name in my crystal.

1:27:28 Fabian: Wow, we could have been calling you Rizbert this entire time?

1:27:31 Riz: Telemaine, stop bullying me!

1:27:34 Telemaine: I'm not bullying you. Why– why– I'm just saying what's on your name tag.

1:27:40 Brennan: He points to your chest.

1:27:41 Telemaine: Oops, got your nose. Oops, got your nose.

1:27:43 Fabian: Oh, grandpapa! Yes.

1:27:48 Brennan: You see, Telemaine stands up and goes,

1:27:50 Telemaine: [somewhat ominously] Not your house little guy.

1:27:54 Fabian: All right, The Ball, that second part was weirdly intense.

1:27:57 Emily: I'm gonna Hexblade Curse Telemaine.

1:28:00 Gorgug: I'm so glad I don't have that energy from him.

1:28:02 Fabian: All right, maybe my grandpapa kinda sucks.

1:28:04 Telemaine: Everyone, eat of the lambas bread and everyone drink of the mulled wine. Be merry, feel upon your bones the heat of the hearth fire. Let yourself be caressed by falling leaves.

1:28:18 Brennan: And leaves, you see, are just falling from the ceiling with no branches, just leaves kind of appearing.

1:28:24 Telemaine: Anyone who wants to may roll around in the silk pile.

1:28:27 Fig: I will.

1:28:27 Kristen: I will, too.

1:28:29 Adaine: I will for sure-

1:28:29 Kristen: I would love to.

1:28:30 Adaine: I will roll around in the silk pile.

1:28:31 Gorgug: Do we have to take our shoes off?

1:28:32 Fig: I didn't. [Murph laughs]

1:28:33 Ally: I ribbon dance into it.

1:28:35 Fabian: Oh, you still have that around.

1:28:36 Siobhan: I took my shoes off as soon as we got to Fallinel. Nobody's wearing shoes.

1:28:40 Brennan: Nobody's wearing shoes. Hallariel says,

1:28:41 Ha: Can you believe it's winter here, for the first time in eons?

1:28:46 Fabian: Oh.

1:28:47 Fig: Oh, does time work differently here?

1:28:49 Ha: Well, the seasons certainly do, but our dear friend Tracker, who's caused quite a stir here on the island-

1:28:57 Brennan: You see Telemaine says,

1:28:57 Telemaine: The seasons remind us of the passage of time in the outside world. The wolf girl is bold to have brought winter to this place.

1:29:07 Fig: [at a higher pitch than normal] How did she bring winter?

1:29:09 Ally: [at a slightly higher pitch] How did she bring winter?

1:29:10 Zac: [at a slightly higher pitch] How did she bring winter?

1:29:11 Lou: [at an even higher pitch] How did she bring winter?

1:29:12 Murph: [at the highest pitch] How did she bring winter?

1:29:15 Brennan: Oh, you see, Hallariel shrugs and says,

1:29:15 Ha: Beats me, but you are welcome if you wish–

1:29:18 Kristen: What was it before that?

1:29:21 Telemaine: Unending summer as the trees stood tall in the light of the sun and in the light of the moon, in the light of the stars, and in the light of lights we make.

1:29:33 Lou: Are there hemispheres on Sol?

1:29:35 Brennan: Yes.

1:29:36 Lou: Are we in a different hemisphere than-

1:29:38 Brennan: Fallinel's sort of near the equator.

1:29:40 Siobhan: Oh, okay.

1:29:41 Zac: Do you think it means that it's summer somewhere else if it's winter here?

1:29:47 Ally: Was it unseasonably warm where we just came from?

1:29:53 Brennan: No, it was a little chilly in Elmville. You hadn't gotten a good snowfall yet. It was a little chilly.

1:29:57 Murph: Well, now that we're in Fallinel where Tracker's kinda hanging out, can I do my Gregorian Necktie at the moon here and see if I see any of Bakur's...?

1:30:09 Brennan: Influence? You scan the moon and do not see any of Bakur's influence on the moon.

1:30:15 Emily: I'm gonna pair it with my Divine Sense.

1:30:18 Brennan: Pair it with your Divine Sense. I don't think you guys pick up anything from the moon here. I mean it's possible that your theory about the reflection of the moon's light might- That might be harder to do than just looking at it from a distance, but.

1:30:30 Murph: Got it, the range. We'll check Tracker.

1:30:33 Ally: Yeah, and in the church and the new… You know.

1:30:37 Brennan: Telemaine says,

1:30:37 Telemaine: The wolf girl, she sings a song of spring, of hot bloodedness, of ramping and pramping about.

1:30:47 Adaine: Ramping and pramping.

1:30:47 Fig: This would be the second song that's making things happen.

1:30:50 Kristen: Do you know the lyrics about pramping about?

1:30:54 Fig: Yeah, can you give us the lyrics?

1:30:55 Telemaine: I am of an older time. I dare not sing the Wolfsong.

1:31:02 Adaine: Oh, so it's like a rap.

1:31:03 Gorgug: It would be embarrassing for you to sing?

1:31:04 Kristen: Is it like a historical rap that she's singing? Cool rap.

1:31:10 Adaine: Cool, down with the kids.

1:31:12 Telemaine: No, in the capital, in in the Court of Stars there was a very popular play for a while about different members of the Court of Stars from history, and they were rapping and it was sort of about...

1:31:24 Adaine: People loved it for a while and then they really turned on it. A real hard turn.

1:31:26 Telemaine: And then a real hard turn, and a couple people that you were like, you liked it. Admit it.

1:31:32 Adaine: Yeah.

1:31:32 Telemaine: Don't be like now that you weren't into it 'cause you were.

1:31:35 Adaine: Yeah.

1:31:35 Telemaine: Yeah, for sure.

1:31:37 Ally: She's so like online. Can I look it up and see if I can find the lyrics anywhere? Like a video of her singing this song?

1:31:44 Brennan: Wolfsong is more, like there's a lot of hymns and songs and stuff like that. So when he's talking about [makes air quotes] “singing the Wolfsong,” he probably just means like her.

1:31:51 Ally: One of.

1:31:52 Brennan: One of her practice, generally.

1:31:53 Kristen: And do you guys know Niandriel?

1:31:56 Telemaine: Naradriel.

1:31:58 Adaine: Naradriel.

1:31:59 Telemaine: Long are the hours of her passing from the Court of Stars that her people should walk these ancient woods seeking lost knowledge of Galicaea, goddess of the moon, and her eternal and unchanging manner.

1:32:13 Adaine: So, yes?

1:32:15 Telemaine: I sort of lost the question halfway through my answer.

1:32:18 Gorgug: I felt myself falling asleep while you were saying.

1:32:21 Siobhan: Naradriel.

1:32:22 Gorgug: It's just sort of– it's beautiful, it really is.

1:32:25 Adaine: Actually Aelwyn knows her, I think.

1:32:27 Brennan: Yeah, Aelwyn says,

1:32:27 Aelwyn: Do you want me to reach out? I could reach out to Nara and see if she wants to come by.

1:32:31 Fig: Oh.

1:32:33 Kristen: That's not I what I was asking. (all talking at once)

1:32:36 Brennan: You see Ragh is like,

1:32:36 Ragh: Hey, this could be...

1:32:38 Adaine: You don't have to be here.

1:32:39 Kristen: Let's get to know her.

1:32:40 Ragh: Are you guys on bad terms?

1:32:41 Kristen: No.

1:32:42 Adaine: No.

1:32:43 Fig: We can just make you invisible. I'll disguise myself.

1:32:46 Kristen: No, no.

1:32:48 Fabian: We can find tartar sauce somewhere here, right?

1:32:51 Kristen: Can you do a backflip?

1:32:52 Riz: We'll do a shrimp jump here.

1:32:54 Kristen: Can you do a back flip?

1:32:55 Fabian: International shrimp jumps.

1:32:57 Gorgug: We gotta really talk up bee girl.

1:33:02 Kristen: I can't hang my hat on Gertie.

1:33:04 Fabian: My nemesis. I mean that's a big deal.

1:33:08 Kristen: Listen. Yes, I guess if we're gonna see her we'll probably see Tracker, so shouldn't we just go to their church so we can look around?

1:33:17 Adaine: Aelwyn, maybe you can do your Aelwyn thing, and do something about Naradriel.

1:33:22 Aelwyn: Do you want me to kill her?

1:33:22 Adaine: No. Maybe. No I didn't.

1:33:25 Kristen: Is that doing your Aelwyn thing?

1:33:28 Aelwyn: Well, I didn't know what you meant.

1:33:29 Adaine: Just distract her or get information out of her.

1:33:31 Aelwyn: Oh certainly, I could freeze her.

1:33:34 Adaine: Just neg her in such a way that she feels terrible about herself for the rest of the week.

1:33:39 Brennan: See Ragh goes,

1:33:40 Ragh: Yeah, you know, I actually know Nara a little. I met Nara a little bit. She's pretty nice. Pretty nice cool person, is not bad.

1:33:50 Brennan: So Aelwyn's like,

1:33:50 Aelwyn: So we don't want to freeze her?

1:33:53 Adaine: No, not physically. Maybe emotionally a little bit.

1:33:57 Emily: I look to Kristen.

1:33:57 Fig: You say the word.

1:34:00 Kristen: Okay.

1:34:02 Fabian: We're not going to kill her.

1:34:03 Kristen: No, no, no. This plan is, I go invisible and Fig does a backflip as me.

1:34:08 Fabian: Got it.

1:34:09 Riz: It's a shrimp jump.

1:34:10 Gorgug: I thought it was like Fabian goes high, I go low. (all laughing)

1:34:14 Fabian: Full tabletop situation.

1:34:15 Riz: If things go really bad with Kristen, we stage a shrimp jump. We say, “Is anyone hungry for shrimp?:

1:34:23 Kristen: Is anyone hungry for shrimp?

1:34:24 Riz: Kristen says, “I'm gonna go get the shrimp.”

1:34:26 Kristen: I'll go get the shrimp, I turn invisible.

1:34:29 Adaine: You give Naradriel a Bardic Inspiration.

1:34:31 Telemaine: Scram?

1:34:32 Kristen: Yes.

1:34:33 Gorgug: Sorry, do you not know what shrimp are?

1:34:36 Telemaine: Sh-chrim?

1:34:36 Fabian: Grandpapa?

1:34:38 Kristen: I'm Kristin.

1:34:39 Telemaine: Oh, craw fathers.

1:34:41 Fabian: Yes. Yes.

1:34:43 Adaine: Aye, like our craw fathers before us.

1:34:45 Telemaine: Like our craw fathers before us.

1:34:47 Adaine: Here we go.

1:34:47 Siobhan: I pull a shrimp out of my Jacket of Useful Things.

1:34:50 Zac: Gorgug is just on a balcony nearby, just looking out like, just clearly pissed off.

1:34:56 Brennan: Wilma and Digby walk up.

1:34:57 Thistlesprings: Hey, buddy, wow. This place is like a whole resort. This is nuts. You guys came here on your spring break?

1:35:03 Gorgug: Yeah, it was like– oh, like, a pit stop on the journey.

1:35:08 Thistlesprings: Wow, I love it. The energy is, I mean it's very sedate, but everyone seems really positive and people, I love the physicality of everyone here. It feels like people are really celebrating life, which is sort of wonderful to see.

1:35:20 Gorgug: Yeah, you'll probably have some fun here I guess. (all laughing)

1:35:24 Thistlesprings: Well, but I, we don't, I don't want– no, we're here on a family...

1:35:29 Gorgug: Hey, do your thing. I don't know.

1:35:31 Kristen: If your parents showed up on a kink dating app that I'm on, would you wanna know about it?

1:35:37 Gorgug: I'll just pretend we didn't have this conversation.

1:35:39 Kristen: Okay.

1:35:39 Brennan: You see Digby and Wilma say,

1:35:41 Thistlesprings: Kristen, you should not be on a kink dating app.

1:35:44 Kristen: There's an option for my age range. I just opened it for a second, okay? I just was curious.

1:35:51 Brennan: You see that Digby and Wilma sort of walk away. Sandra Lynn comes over at a certain point and looks at you Fig and is like,

1:35:58 Sandra Lynn: Did I see you talking to your dad, talking to Gilear.

1:36:02 Fig: Yeah, I was talking to Gilear. He's had some really, really good luck and it's like he's feeling stressed at the prospect of losing it all and I was trying to tell him that he deserves the good luck.

1:36:16 Sandra Lynn: Yeah. Yeah. Convincing people they deserve good things can be really tough. Well, you… I just wanna understand what's going on with you, too. Do you have a situation going on? 'Cause I saw you step in that bucket of cement earlier in the school year.

1:36:37 Fig: Yeah. Oh yeah. So I'm cursed.

1:36:41 Sandra Lynn: And you have the curse that made Gilear's life what it was.

1:36:44 Fig: I think so, yeah. I think essentially he borrowed someone's armor and now they're mad at me.

1:36:55 Sandra Lynn: Well, is there a way to break it, so it's neither of you? It's not on either of you?

1:37:00 Fig: Yeah, probably. I just haven't gotten a chance to think about it. I've been really busy with Kristen's presidential campaign.

1:37:10 Sandra Lynn: I understand, I understand. Well, it's what every mother wants to hear. They wanna hear that their daughter is deprioritizing a fiendish curse on her for her friend's student president campaign, so...

1:37:25 Fig: Yeah. No, I agree.

1:37:27 Sandra Lynn: But hey, no campaigning possible now, we're in Fallinel. So maybe for old mom's sake, we bump up the priority on de-cursing the old, my only daughter in the world?

1:37:37 Fig: Yeah, we could do that. I honestly, mom, I think in general, I'm having a slight issue, because at school they're asking me a lot of personal questions. Now that I've invested myself in school, they're starting to ask me personal questions like, what do you want and who are you and what motivates you? And it's like when people ask me questions about other people, I can feel so animated, and then when people ask me questions about myself, I feel like I wanna puke. I start sweating, and I get sick to my stomach and everything shuts down and I don't wanna talk about myself like ever. I don't even wanna exist, right? It's like, sometimes when I'm Wanda Childa, I'm like, can I stay this way?

1:38:18 Sandra Lynn: Who is Wanda Childa? Who's Wanda?

1:38:21 Fig: She's my alter emo. (all laughing)

1:38:24 Brennan: Sandra grabs a bottle of some kind of wine from a passing Elven waiter. He's like,

1:38:29 Waiter: I'm happy to pour-

1:38:29 Sandra Lynn: [holding her finger up] Shut the fuck up. [takes a big swig] (all laughing)

1:38:35 Sandra Lynn: Okay.

1:38:38 Fig: I think I'm just fundamentally struggling with basic introspection.

1:38:44 Sandra Lynn: That's okay. I don't think sweetie, we've ever unpacked… I was a bit of an asshole to you in your freshman year.

1:38:53 Fig: I don't think so.

1:38:54 Sandra Lynn: No, it's fine for you to feel that way. I went under my own standard. I was brusque, I was mad that you were not doing well in school. The divorce with your dad, it got to a weird place. I just don't think I was as graceful as I could have been. All of which is to say you had a huge shift in identity. Who you were in middle school and who you became when you met your other friends, I think there was a lot of embracing the tiefling part of you and becoming this hard rocker that I think is truthful to who you are. But it's a huge change that it kinda feels like you were– we were in conflict, and then you were saving the world every eight months. And there's not a mourning process for who you were in middle school, and maybe not time for you to– you know, if you love your friends and that's where you feel the most comfortable, and introspection makes you feel nauseous, would you ever think about talking openly and honestly to your friends about how they see you? Because community can be a tool for seeing ourselves, for sure. Like, I don't see myself well, I think, most of the time. Who I am in Jawbone's eyes, who I am in your eyes, that's an aspirational person for me to be, a lot of the time.

1:40:20 Fig: I don't think I wanna say that to people. I don't wanna say, hey, what do you guys think of me? I don't wanna do that.

1:40:27 Sandra Lynn: I mean that yeah, that's a pretty naked way to put it. That would feel really intimate. But I think there might be, maybe there's a softer or more natural way to ask for that.

1:40:36 Fig: Well, I think I'm also maybe, 'cause it's like the warlock teacher's kinda like... I think she's asking me to dig into a part of myself that I kinda don't really know what to make sense of, because like I am a devil who runs a bottomless pit of damned souls. And I think I'm struggling to know what to make of that. I turned it into a recording studio last I knew, but there was one guy who was really bummed about that. And I just keep thinking, what if I've eternally punished this man to rock?

1:41:10 Sandra Lynn: You can't.

1:41:11 Fig: And everyone else seemed happy, but this one man seems really unhappy and now I feel like a dictator.

1:41:17 Sandra Lynn: You can't keep everybody happy. If you gave everyone who was damned to hell a chance to basically record rock music in a big studio and there's one guy out of the infinite guys.

1:41:28 Fig: He's all I think of. He's all I think of. I'm a monster to him.

1:41:34 Sandra Lynn: Okay, these are really harsh words. I'm glad we're taking a little Yulenear vacay. Let's, you know what, these are worries for another time.

1:41:45 Fig: Okay.

1:41:47 Sandra Lynn: You wanna get some snow cones?

1:41:48 Fig: Okay.

1:41:48 Sandra Lynn: Great, let's get snow cones.

1:41:50 Fig: Cool.

1:41:50 Emily: I light up a cigarette.

1:41:54 Sandra Lynn: I don't wanna see that.

1:41:59 Brennan: So you guys make plans to go check out Tracker's church, but I think a lot of your folks and parents probably wanna stay in Kei Lumennura. But Aelwyn and Ragh are both down to go, and Zayn also says he's down to go if someone can just carry his grave.

1:42:12 Fabian: Great. Does somebody… who wants to volunteer?

1:42:15 Gorgug: Do you wanna...?

1:42:17 Fabian: I was wondering if you-

1:42:18 Gorgug: I was curious-

1:42:19 Fabian: The Ball, do you wanna?

1:42:20 Riz: Too small.

1:42:21 Brennan: Sandra Lynn, Sandra Lynn straps Zayn's grave to the top of Baxter's saddle. So now there's just a griffin with a gravestone and a big plot of earth on his back.

1:42:32 Adaine: Dude, do you know about curses?

1:42:34 Zayn: Yeah, I know a ton about curses.

1:42:36 Adaine: How does everybody– was there a class?

1:42:38 Zayn: Well, I was literally a necromancer, I am a necromancer.

1:42:41 Adaine: I'm so stupid. Why aren't I asking the people who would know about these things?

1:42:45 Brennan: Zayn looks at Aelwyn and says,

1:42:45 Zayn: We worked on some curses together, yeah.

1:42:47 Kristen: Like what kind?

1:42:48 Brennan: Aelwyn says,

1:42:48 Aelwyn: Well there was a lot. I mean obviously, there was a putting the curse on the Cerulean, on on The Harpy.

1:42:56 Brennan: Zayn looks over and says,

1:42:56 Zayn: What was that one you needed? You needed something about that…

1:43:02 Brennan: And you see Aelwyn says like,

1:43:03 Aelwyn: Oh yes. Actually that had a little bit to do with Kalina.

1:43:06 Kristen: What was that?

1:43:07 Aelwyn: Kalina needed a, needed a curse in order to work with some people. This was around... this was the end of freshman year going into that summer, I think sometime. Had to do I think with some contacts she had at the Hotel Cavalier.

1:43:27 Adaine: With the book.

1:43:27 Brennan: Zayn's like,

1:43:27 Zayn: Yeah, she... what was it? Spy's tongue.

1:43:33 Ally: Can I do a Perception roll for this? That he’s talking about?

1:43:35 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:43:36 Adaine: What is spy's tongue?

1:43:38 Brennan: Aelwyn says,

1:43:38 Aelwyn: Right, it was for some conspirators of hers. Spy's tongue is a-

1:43:44 Brennan: You see Zayn goes like,

1:43:44 Zayn: Yeah. Spy's tongue is basically like a curse that prevents you from naming co-conspirators. Like literally you take it and there are certain circumstances where you literally cannot say people's names. You can't refer to them.

1:44:00 Kristen: So if someone paired themselves with a god, and then they would prevent them from saying their own name.

1:44:07 Gorgug: What happens to them when they try?

1:44:10 Brennan: Aelwyn says,

1:44:10 Aelwyn: To my knowledge it's actually impossible. You cannot say the name.

1:44:15 Kristen: Can you write it?

1:44:16 Aelwyn: Cannot write it either.

1:44:17 Adaine: Maybe it's not a god. Maybe it's some kind of co-conspirator… So weird.

1:44:23 Brennan: Zayn's like,

1:44:23 Zayn: I remember we had to- you needed some modifications on it 'cause Kalina needed it to work on non-humanoids. Like, she needed it to work on-

1:44:32 Brennan: You see that Aelwyn said like,

1:44:34 Aelwyn: I always assumed she needed it to work on herself, 'cause she was going to- it's a double-sided curse. You need to be able, both people agree to it, essentially. It only works-

1:44:43 Adaine: Oh, it's like handshake curse.

1:44:44 Aelwyn: Exactly. It's like, in conspiracy with each other, you take this curse to protect each other's names.

1:44:48 Emily: Cassandra's the one who said it.

1:44:50 Ally: Cassandra's the one who said it.

1:44:51 Emily: That's where we got that from, right?

1:44:53 Ally: Yes, well it's in her voice that it came to me, but yeah, I think it was sent to me by her.

1:44:58 Brennan: Yeah, it wasn't like she said it, it was almost like it was on her mind. You see she says,

1:45:02 Aelwyn: So Kalina wanted it, but seemed to be rather, if memory serves, she was very sort of pissed about the whole thing. I don't think it was her idea. She needed connection with somebody and seemed to be put out about the whole thing.

1:45:17 Adaine: So maybe this other person who wouldn't get into a connection with her unless...

1:45:22 Aelwyn: I believe that was the situation.

1:45:23 Adaine: ...she agreed.

1:45:23 Aelwyn: Yes.

1:45:25 Kristen: Do you remember who that was or what they had to do with?

1:45:28 Aelwyn: No, obviously. The Shadow Cat kept her own council for the most part. Once we gave her the spell supplies and procured the texts, she was off on her own.

1:45:36 Kristen: Weren't you involved in something memory related around that time?

1:45:41 Aelwyn: Yes. I was modifying some memories back during your freshman year.

1:45:46 Fig: Does devil's honey work like Modify Memory? (all correcting "Devil's nectar")

1:45:51 Brennan: Oh the devil's nectar makes what you guys have been calling devil's honey.

1:45:54 Fig: If you use enough of it, can you reshape a person's memories?

1:45:58 Aelwyn: I don't think it works specifically- There's a reason I used Modify Memory because Modify Memory is aggressive and consistent and precise and you can determine the memory.

1:46:08 Fig: Okay.

1:46:09 Aelwyn: The way devil's honey works is it, and again, it doesn't work like this all the time. You have to take a pretty significant amount, a small amount will allow you to lie to creatures that can discern lies. But if you use it too regularly or too often, what happens is you convince yourself of your own lies. They become convincing. So you wouldn't be able to use it surgically to change your own memories.

1:46:30 Fig: You'll only use it on someone else.

1:46:33 Aelwyn: Or rather the way the honey modifies a memory is actually sort of a negative side effect. So if you think about it this way. You use it to make yourself better at lying. You can trick normally untrickable beings, but if you abuse it yourself, you start to believe your own lies. So in other words, if you were going to modify a memory, you would have to know in advance that you were going to use the honey, and start lying and believing in the lie.

1:46:58 Fig: Like if a group of people did something they wanted to- that they knew they wanted to forget, they could all just go to town on devil's honey and pretend to lie.

1:47:07 Adaine: Like maybe a food cart's, food truck's worth of devil's honey would be able to do that for six people.

1:47:13 Kristen: I'm just curious. Yeah, I think I thought that maybe she was spiking her food with that, but I don't really know what advantage that would give her in the election.

1:47:23 Aelwyn: It's a very potent substance. If you spiked even a drink with a small amount of it, it would taste incredibly sweet. And moreover, if you spiked someone with it, you wouldn't be able to change their memories. It's just the next time they lied it would be more convincing. And if you did it over and over and over again, they'd start to believe them.

1:47:41 Kristen: It'd be more something that you would take privately if you were about that, so it might just be the Rat Grinders taking it.

1:47:46 Fig: Yeah, I'm picturing them kind of taking it to pretend like they...

1:47:50 Kristen: I just thought food and big food supply. Like, what is she doing with those food carts? She has to be up to something.

1:47:55 Adaine: Maybe we can use it as a therapy aid for Gilear though. If he needs to be slowly convinced that his luck is worthwhile.

1:48:02 Riz: What I'm wondering is, it seems crazy that these two things wouldn't be linked, but I don't know how to link them. Is the idea that everybody's presumably taking this honey to forget stuff and not be able to name people, and then there's this nameless god, but that works– But that's the spy's tongue curse and that's only conspirators.

1:48:30 Fig: Well if there's a conspiracy of gods.

1:48:33 Riz: But why would the people who write the name not be able to say it?

1:48:39 Fabian: Is there something to forgetting that you made the deal with the god? Is that, is that a thing? You make the agreement, then you eat a bunch of honey, and then you forget that you made the deal or something. I don't know, I'm just throwing things out there.

1:48:53 Fig: Yeah. It's almost like a way to do something and then not feel bad about it afterwards.

1:48:57 Riz: No, I know what you mean. But it just seems, it seems strange to me that the texts and stuff that we're reading about this false god, right? X's out the name, we can't see the name.

1:49:11 Adaine: Right, which means that it goes beyond the...

1:49:13 Riz: That has nothing to do–

1:49:14 Adaine: ...spy's tongue curse, I think. That has to do with the obfuscation, whatever that was called.

1:49:19 Aelwyn: Obliviati Mori.

1:49:21 Riz: It just seems like there's a whole lot of people forgetting stuff and it just seems crazy to me that it would be like, this forget thing, this forgetful thing.

1:49:30 Fig: I know. What if you could forget a law. No, the law would still come. Will you look at what the edited bylaws were?

1:49:38 Riz: Oh yeah.

1:49:39 Ally: So, okay, so the Obliviati Mori.

1:49:42 Brennan: Yeah.

1:49:43 Ally: That's like gods, if they see a god fall because all of their following has forgotten them, they can't remind people and raise the god back up, right? But what if there was one person or a couple people left who could keep that god alive? Could the gods enter in an agreement with them, and make them not be able to speak their name as co-conspirators and then...?

1:50:07 Riz: Yeah. Is it possible that everything that's happening is that all of this stuff coming up out of the ground and everything, that we're taking on the spy's tongue curse and we're becoming conspirators to this thing? Does everyone have the spy's tongue curse?

1:50:26 Gorgug: Is there a way that we can find out if we have it?

1:50:28 Kristen: Is it a handshake? Is it a...

1:50:30 Adaine: Right, I mean, how would you?

1:50:31 Brennan: You have a ton of books on curses here.

1:50:33 Siobhan: I have ton of books.

1:50:34 Ally: Can we ask them, too? 'Cause Aelwyn set this up.

1:50:36 Brennan: Set the thing up. She says,

1:50:37 Aelwyn: It is voluntary. You can't be compelled.

1:50:43 Riz: You can't be compelled to do it.

1:50:44 Aelwyn: Cannot be compelled.

1:50:45 Kristen: For that aspect of it though.

1:50:46 Aelwyn: Whenever we're talking about magic, of course everything has to have that grain of salt of like it can't be compelled until some magic comes along. But no, the way it's structured, no it can't. You cannot be compelled.

1:50:55 Riz: Just seems strange that there's, we're forgetting this god's name, and then we're forgetting other stuff in it.

1:51:02 Kristen: And there's a forgetting…

1:51:04 Aelwyn: I would say that the correlation between what you're talking about is again, just that names are incredibly potent. You know, gods and their domains... I don't mean to speak out of turn, Kristen. I know that you are yourself of the gods and of divine magic. There's a fascinating correlation between the fact that there are deities that share across domains, domains that are shared across deities. Gods wield these incredible facets of existence. Huge portfolios and domains of raw creation magic, destruction magic, and have a name and a title and a face and a story. And the relationship between the domain and the sort of story they are given, honestly provides all of the strength and power of various clerics throughout time and space, but also provides many opportunities for devilry and strange changings of domains, and gods changing over time and the history of gods in Spyre and all the various competing pantheons and deities, et cetera, et cetera, is truly catastrophic. It's a violent story over time, of many different gods rising and falling.

1:52:24 Kristen: Or it's almost like a merger or something. Like, you might be an employee of a company and then they get taken over by a completely different ethos and you're still working there and you may not even know.

1:52:35 Aelwyn: It seems that the connection here across all of this is that names have tremendous power. Conspirators will enter into a curse willingly to see a name protected. Names of gods who have died, competing faiths, rival nations, different factions will do everything in their power to erase the name of a god from the world.

1:52:57 Brennan: You see, Aelwyn kind of thinks for a second, and goes,

1:52:59 Aelwyn: You know, if you're looking around for names particularly, Fallinel is not a bad place to do it. The elves are, sort of high elves that have lived at the Court of Stars for a long time tend to be insufferable. But they do keep amazing records.

1:53:22 Riz: Let's check it out.

1:53:24 Kristen: Let's do that.

1:53:25 Fabian: It's winter break.

1:53:27 Adaine: I have to write an essay. What's your homework?

1:53:31 Brennan: You guys have a chance to go talk to Tracker at her church at Wolfsong.

1:53:38 Emily: I'm at my president's side.

1:53:39 Ally: I'm furiously doing pushups until the second before we go. (Emily laughing)

1:53:44 Brennan: You guys arrive and you begin to hear the singing. It is some true like, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" like, ♪ Dahoo dores, fahoo fores ♪

1:53:55 Emily: That's what Wolfsong is like? Gorgug puts on his headphones. [Emily laughs]

1:53:57 Brennan: You see that there's a bunch of people dancing, and there's little lights strung up between the trees. You see that there's basically a giant campground. It's all snow covered, different yurts and tents and little temporary things. And you see it's satyrs and treants and dryads and pixies and elves and wolves and just a big old silk-

1:54:21 Ally: I grab one of their arms as they pass by.

1:54:23 Kristen: Hey do you believe all this stuff?

1:54:26 Satyr: What's that?

1:54:27 Kristen: Do you believe all this stuff?

1:54:27 Brennan: There's a little satyr there. He's like,

1:54:28 Satyr: Do I believe it? Of course I believe it.

1:54:32 Kristen: Cool.

1:54:32 Satyr: Yeah. Believe what, like specifically?

1:54:36 Kristen: I just think that's really beautiful. I'm wondering if some people are here just to camp and have fun, like, kind of a social thing. Or if you're like, you're really dialed.

1:54:43 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

1:54:45 Ally: Okay. (gasping) Nat 20.

1:54:49 Brennan: This is Narnia Burning Man. It is... It is like a festival. There's music, there are lots of- you see that for all this stuff, there are these tents tended to by high elves that have this beautiful steamy broth and hot cocoa, mulled wine, cider, and marshmallows and stuff. And you're looking around and seeing- I think what you see on a nat 20 Insight, which is like, I think higher than a 30, right?

1:55:16 Ally: Or 29 actually.

1:55:18 Brennan: 29. You're like, there is money here. Like, there's money here. There's nice food, people are able to sleep in these tents that are resistant to the snow and stuff like that.

1:55:29 Ally: Expensive retreat kinda vibes.

1:55:31 Brennan: Yeah. It doesn't look necessarily like the people here are wealthy, but it looks like the services that have been provided to them here have backing.

1:55:44 Ally: Wow.

1:55:45 Brennan: And you see that a lot of the people that are working in the tents are high elves. You know, sort of angular, very posh-looking elves, ladling soup into bowls and handing it to centaurs and stuff like that.

1:56:00 Ally: I go up to one of the people working there. I go,

1:56:01 Kristen: I'm sorry, my room is not up to my standards. I got there and it was pretty dirty.

1:56:09 Elf: Ah, terrible. I am so sorry. Somewhere in the shadows has chaos unfolded. But as Galicaea's light wanes, so too it must wax. Give us your tent number and we'll take care of it right away.

1:56:26 Ally: I just press a bunch of money into their hand,

1:56:26 Kristen: Nevermind.

1:56:30 Elf: Oh, a donation. (Ally laughing)

1:56:32 Brennan: You see that–

1:56:32 Siobhan: It's a $20 bill.

1:56:34 Kristen: You guys, this is like a five star hotel. This isn't a church. This is so annoying.

1:56:36 Fabian: This is awesome.

1:56:38 Kristen: Oh my god, Fabian.

1:56:40 Fabian: What? It seems great. They're dancing. Honestly, I've been feeling pretty tight, so I might loosen up.

1:56:45 Brennan: You look out, and Fabian, you see an entire snow sculpture of ramparts and parapets. It's like a three acre snowball fight course that people are like–

1:56:56 Fabian: Guys, do we not wanna hit the course?

1:56:57 Riz: We brought winter here somehow.

1:56:59 Emily: I fucking skateboard to the snowball fight.

1:57:01 Riz: Relax.

1:57:02 Murph: Riz puts on his very tiny glasses.

1:57:05 Ally: I'm with Riz. I'm with Riz for clues.

1:57:07 Brennan: Fig and Fabian roll a d6 for me.

1:57:10 Lou: Oh, okay.

1:57:13 Emily: Two.

1:57:13 Lou: Two, as well.

1:57:14 Brennan: You guys have the time of your fucking life. You guys go pow, ba-pow, pow! And you see there's a bunch of satyrs–

1:57:20 Emily: Can I smite a snowball at him? (Lou throws his head back as if actually hit and makes pained noises)

1:57:25 Brennan: You see over in the corner, just someone. You see there's a young, there's a young Elven werewolf who posts up with a big scarf and a thing of hot cocoa as a little raccoon comes and puts marshmallows in the hot cocoa. And a little cricket fairy starts fiddling as the snowball fight's going. And she says,

1:57:41 Cricket Fairy: All right, it's a wonderful day out here on the course. Looks like some newcomers have come to challenge the king of the mountain.

1:57:48 Fabian: The king of the mountain?

1:57:49 Brennan: And you see up, there's a tall rampart, and you see that there is a beautiful dryad up there. You see she's got autumn hair tied up in a bun of autumn leaves, and she's like

1:57:59 Dryad: [flexes both arms] Queen of the mountain. Come get some.

1:58:04 Fig: I sense a revolution coming from the Archdevil of Rebellion!

1:58:08 Emily: I smite her.

1:58:11 Brennan: You guys have a fucking ball. It's great. As you guys are watching, you hear a voice behind you go.

1:58:17 Tracker: Kristen?

1:58:18 Ally: I'm holding my little shards.

1:58:20 Brennan: You see Tracker there.

1:58:22 Kristen: Hey. Oh–

1:58:23 Ally: And I hug.

1:58:25 Brennan: Big hug.

1:58:26 Ally: Little bit too long.

1:58:27 Tracker: Hey, how's it going?

1:58:28 Brennan: She kind of pushes off and goes,

1:58:30 Tracker: Let me introduce you to Nara.

1:58:32 Brennan: And Nara comes out. She has sort of wavy sandy blonde hair. It's very long, it's tied back. Goes with these white ear muffs, this little white snowy coat. Tracker, you see is sort of in a big Solesian down parka, kind of a Canada goose looking thing. And Naradriel has very suede and white fur and all this stuff. And you see Tracker goes,

1:58:53 Tracker: This is Nara.

1:58:55 Brennan: You see Nara says,

1:58:57 Nara: Kristen?

1:58:58 Kristen: Hi.

1:58:58 Nara: Hi. It's really lovely to meet you.

1:59:00 Kristen: I've heard so much about you,

1:59:01 Ally: I go for a hug as well.

1:59:01 Brennan: A big hug.

1:59:03 Ally: Also hug too long, I'm just nervous.

1:59:05 Brennan: Yeah, she gives you a little kiss on the cheek and she says,

1:59:06 Nara: It's really wonderful to see you. Welcome. Welcome. Did you get a hot cocoa or something?"

1:59:12 Kristen: I did. I saw the amenities. Five star.

1:59:17 Nara: Oh my goodness, five stars. Well, there's more than five. The Court of–

1:59:21 Brennan: And you see Tracker goes,

1:59:23 Tracker: In Solace, we review places and five stars is the most they can-

1:59:26 Brennan: And she's like,

1:59:26 Nara: Oh, the top review, that's very sweet. Thank you. Well, it's really lovely. I'm so glad you like it. Do you need to eat or you need any food or anything like that?

1:59:38 Ally: Am I with Riz? Yeah, sure.

1:59:40 Kristen: It's freezing here. This is crazy, right?

1:59:43 Nara: Well, you know who you have to blame for that is little Miss Tracker here.

1:59:48 Brennan: You see a Tracker goes,

1:59:48 Tracker: Heh. It's kind of a– it's a miracle. There were members of the Court of Stars that began calling Wolfsong a heresy, and a misrepresentation of Galicaea. And they said, Galicaea is unchanging. Her aspect is eternal as the moon is eternal. And I stood up on the steps of their big church and I held my hands up and summoned winter for the first time in like about a thousand years.

2:00:14 Kristen: Wow.

2:00:15 Tracker: And I said, "If Galicaea is unchanging, then why does she bring change?"

2:00:19 Kristen: Wow. Okay. And you saw Galicaea when you did that, you felt her?

2:00:25 Tracker: I felt her presence. Oh, very much so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very much so.

2:00:29 Kristen: Okay.

2:00:30 Tracker: Yeah. I commune with her, so I talk to her about once a week.

2:00:36 Kristen: Totally. Any other gods in the mix? Is she friends with anyone? I just... Cassandra, I know, and her were siblings, but…

2:00:46 Brennan: You remember in sophomore year, Kristen, that you went to speak to Galicaea when you were searching for Cassandra and that Helio was there at her court. So you see, she says,

2:00:58 Tracker: Galicaea maintains good relations with a lot of the gods. She's very close with Logran Soulforger, with Ollie, you know, other Dwarven gods. I think she's close with the High Court pantheon as well. Sol, Helio, you know, she's...

2:01:16 Kristen: Yeah, cool.

2:01:18 Tracker: There's not really that many gods she's opposed to other than the gods of the lower planes and destruction and...

2:01:23 Kristen: Oh, totally. I don't mean opposed, I just mean like friendship hanging out all the time. Thick as thieves.

2:01:29 Tracker: I think part of what we're trying to do is represent that Galicaea is– I think Galicaea was sort of isolated by her worshipers for a long time. I think the fact that Fallinel is so isolationist, with some exceptions, obviously.

2:01:42 Brennan: As she points to Adaine and she's like,

2:01:44 Tracker: But for largely isolationist, I think Galicaea's worship became kind of reflective of that national value to the degree that makes sense.

2:01:53 Kristen: I came–

2:01:53 Ally: I am kinda talking to Nara.

2:01:56 Kristen: I came from a big Helio background.

2:01:59 Nara: Oh, wonderful.

2:02:01 Kristen: Oh no, it wasn't that great. I ended up ditching that for a couple prototypes and then I got to the god that I was just recently worshiping before she died heroically

2:02:18 Adaine: She's really cool.

2:02:19 Nara: Your god is dead?

2:02:21 Adaine: No, but in a cool way.

2:02:23 Riz: She's not dead.

2:02:23 Kristen: She's not dead. I can still commune with her.

2:02:26 Adaine: In, like, the "Oh, she will be risen."

2:02:28 Brennan: You see, Tracker says,

2:02:28 Tracker: You can commune with her. You're hearing her speak?

2:02:31 Kristen: Well, I guess I kind of mean that poetically, if you know what I mean, but...

2:02:36 Tracker: Okay.

2:02:37 Kristen: Yeah.

2:02:37 Tracker: Yeah.

2:02:38 Gorgug: Sorry, where do you get the hot chocolate?

2:02:40 Brennan: And points over to the-

2:02:42 Fabian: Guys, they have flavored marshmallows. They have strawberry and dulce de leche.

2:02:47 Zac: Push everyone down. [pretends to run] (all laughing)

2:02:49 Brennan: Fabian, you look over and see a bunch of young congregants of Wolfsong. A door opens up from a beautiful wooden sauna, and they run out and someone takes a towel off and whips someone else's butt and they all jump in a frozen lake together.

2:03:04 Emily: I get naked!

2:03:06 Lou: Fabian gets down to his skivvies. (all laughing)

2:03:11 Ally: I know I'm in a calm, I know I can't, but now all of a sudden I really feel my clothes on my body.

2:03:17 Adaine: Hey Naradriel, can you read this for me? Just read it out loud.

2:03:25 Nara: Kalinda? Kalina?

2:03:27 Adaine: Kalina. Thank you. I just wanted to see if you could.

2:03:30 Kristen: Your accent is the same.

2:03:32 Adaine: Yeah. No, no, no, yeah.

2:03:34 Nara: Yes. Oh, okay.

2:03:34 Adaine: Kalina.

2:03:34 Nara: Kalina?

2:03:36 Adaine: Kalina.

2:03:36 Nara: It's funny.

2:03:38 Adaine: I just wanted to see if you could read it. It's a joke. It's a Solace thing. Thank you.

2:03:45 Nara: All right. Well, it's very nice to have you.

2:03:49 Brennan: You see, she looks over at Tracker and says,

2:03:51 Nara: Why don't I go see– we would love to give you a place to stay for the night.

2:03:55 Kristen: We would love that. Is that cool with you guys? Yeah.

2:03:57 Fabian: Gorgug, it's so good.

2:03:59 Gorgug: It's hot. (sips)

2:04:01 Fabian: What flavor did you get?

2:04:02 Gorgug: I don't know, it's sort of a cinnamon-y.

2:04:04 Adaine: Goddammit. Children, be gone.

2:04:09 Ally: I think I kinda sidebar with Tracker a little bit and be like,

2:04:13 Kristen: This is nice.

2:04:17 Tracker: Yeah, it did not start like this. When me and Ragh first got here, we were roughin' it. Mosquito bites, the whole nine yards. Naradriel's family has a lot of money.

2:04:31 Kristen: So they kinda helped get it to the next level.

2:04:34 Tracker: Well that was the big thing, right? Was sort of like when Naradriel came on board, yeah, it picked up. Her family were part of the old clerical caste of Fallinel, so it was kind of a huge deal when she became a congregant. She wasn't a congregant, she was like... honestly like a peer. She was like an equal cleric coming in.

2:05:00 Kristen: She wasn't part of your congregation, and then...

2:05:03 Tracker: I didn't mean to say that. She was not a part of my congregation. She came here sort of: honestly, what later I found out that her family was like, keep an eye on this young, upstart werewolf. And then she saw the vision of the revival and the new direction. Why am I talking? I feel I'm talking-

2:05:21 Kristen: Is her background Helio? Sorry, I felt like I was like kind of rude there being so anti-Helio.

2:05:28 Tracker: No, no, her background is traditional Galicaea.

2:05:31 Kristen: Galicaea? Okay, cool cool.

2:05:32 Tracker: She's traditional high elf. Yeah, all the way.

2:05:34 Kristen: Wow. This is a very large scale operation. Does it still feel, like, real?

2:05:46 Tracker: No, I mean it does feel surreal a little bit. In a good way.

2:05:51 Kristen: I meant like authentic, searching: like on a personal religious- I think that there's social religion, which is totally cool. You can have a big water slide. I'm kind of like being annoying about that. But then there's personal religion, which might be a little bit more serious. Do you still feel that?

2:06:10 Tracker: Oh, you feel like this is unserious?

2:06:11 Kristen: No, I'm asking you if you do, 'cause it's gorgeous.

2:06:16 Tracker: Yeah, I feel like it's very serious.

2:06:18 Kristen: Oh, cool.

2:06:19 Tracker: And I would say that just because something is doing well doesn't mean it's not personal.

2:06:23 Ally: I look out to the giant snowball fight.

2:06:27 Fabian: We're making snow angels.

2:06:28 Ally: I just have friends who are drunk on marshmallows right now. So I'm like, sometimes that could feel...

2:06:34 Brennan: She looks at you and she's like,

2:06:34 Tracker: Well look, it's not a sad meeting in a basement with Craig.

2:06:39 Kristen: I wish, I wish. You would.

2:06:44 Ally: And I yell, "World star" and I– (laughing)

2:06:47 Murph: Riz tackles Kristen.

2:06:48 Lou: World star.

2:06:51 Emily: I disguise myself as Kristen and start doing backflips.

2:06:56 Ally: I go invisible as I'm about to punch her and I hold off and then you do a backflip down in the snow, and just yell, “I teleport.” (Emily laughing)

2:07:04 Brennan: Okay, so Tracker looked at some crazy madness that just happened, and she was like, hey.

2:07:10 Tracker: Sorry, sorry, sorry.

2:07:11 Brennan: She goes,

2:07:11 Tracker: Are you still here?

2:07:14 Kristen: I'm here, I'm… You know, it's just real fresh wound that you just poured salt in, okay?

2:07:24 Tracker: Hey, I don't wanna pour salt in a wound, but you know you're being passive aggressive.

2:07:27 Kristen: I'm not, no. I'm earnestly wondering.

2:07:30 Tracker: You're asking me if I sold out?

2:07:33 Kristen: Can you be totally loaded at the Apple Product Conference and worshiping a real god?

2:07:41 Tracker: I don't- the hot cocoa- What part of this is unholy to you? The hot cocoa, the snow, the snowball fight where everyone's having a good time? What about a sauna is so fucking bad?

2:07:54 Kristen: No, I think you're totally right. I guess my question was more like, among all of this that's so fun and-

2:08:01 Brennan: Give me an Insight check, by the way.

2:08:02 Ally: Okay, great. Ooh, that's a dirty 20.

2:08:07 Brennan: She's deeply bothered by everything you're saying.

2:08:09 Ally: Okay, great.

2:08:09 Brennan: She's deeply bothered.

2:08:10 Ally: Okay, great.

2:08:10 Brennan: For sure.

2:08:11 Kristen: Okay great, I just, you know, like you can get so attached to really nice things in your life. It's a little bit hard to truly...

2:08:22 Tracker: I don't know how to square what success will look like. Yeah, it's a little weird. But is there a version of this revolution where we save my goddess from the elves that have been, in my opinion, corrupting her? Is there a version of saving her that doesn't result in something like this? Like, do we win while still being covered in mosquito bites and living in the fucking brush? Or do we start to look more like this as we win? I don't know. I don't know. You know, amenities. Yeah, it's Naradriel's family's money. Like, maybe it's a little too fancy, I don't know, if the pot that had the hot cocoa in it was a little dirtier, would that be better? I don't know, I really don't know.

2:09:12 Ally: I put my hand on her shoulder. I say,

2:09:14 Kristen: I'm sorry for coming for you.

2:09:15 Brennan: She collapses onto your shoulder and is just really emotional.

2:09:19 Ally: I hug her. I say,

2:09:20 Kristen: I'm sorry for shouting (indistinct).

2:09:20 Siobhan: I watched how Naradriel reacts to this.

2:09:23 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

2:09:24 Murph: Yeah, can I do that as well?

2:09:25 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

2:09:26 Gorgug: Is it crazy to get a second hot cocoa?

2:09:29 Fig: I'm on my third.

2:09:30 Fabian: What? I'm gonna double fist.

2:09:33 Gorgug: My stomach isn't right.

2:09:35 Fig: I'm trying to catch up guys.

2:09:36 Fabian: Ooh, strawberry marshmallows.

2:09:40 Gorgug: Grape marshmallow.

2:09:40 Fabian: Grape?!

2:09:40 Siobhan: With disadvantage, that's a 17.

2:09:42 Murph: 22.

2:09:42 Brennan: Naradriel looks crestfallen, deeply hurt and angry.

2:09:48 Siobhan: So at least those feelings are real.

2:09:49 Brennan: You see that Tracker pulls away kind of realizing, and just goes like,

2:09:54 Tracker: What I said was totally fucked up. I'm really sorry.

2:09:56 Kristen: No, now I'm saying bro, really loud. No, bro. Like, oh seriously, dude. I totally get it, bro.

2:10:06 Tracker: You're a real bro, thank you.

2:10:07 Kristen: Of course, bro. Seriously, dude. Man, it's great to see you.

2:10:14 Ally: And I kind of punch her shoulder.

2:10:15 Brennan: Yeah, she's like,

2:10:15 Tracker: Hey, lay off, motherfucker.

2:10:19 Kristen: I'll kill you.

2:10:20 Brennan: There's a moment where you see there's still deep attraction here. And she goes,

2:10:22 Tracker: She goes, all right. Hey, so did you need anything?

2:10:26 Kristen: Yeah, we're gonna get a room I think, one big room.

2:10:29 Fig: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:10:30 Tracker: Great, we'll get you guys a big room.

2:10:31 Murph: I had that Detect Magic going. I wanna see if there's anything on Nara or Tracker or kind of anywhere around, 'cause it goes for 10 minutes. So I'll give the whole place kind of a look around.

2:10:41 Brennan: You don't see any magic coming from Nara. You see that she goes and texts someone on her little crystal phone. Which is interesting because again, she's from Fallinel. So this is Solesian technology that she's sort of- but then again it's possible that the upper class in Fallinel has just adopted this.

2:10:58 Murph: Would it, that seems strange though. So there's nothing around her in this holy ground of...

2:11:04 Brennan: There's ambient kind of divine magic around, yeah.

2:11:07 Murph: Got it. But there's nothing suspect. These people are all just Galicaea...

2:11:09 Brennan: You see the strongest source of magic you see is there is a circle of standing stones that are actually quite beautiful. And you see that none of the money shit is around there. Ancient, lichen-covered stones that have ancient Sylvan writing on them and images of hieroglyphic elves, with images of fairies and sprites around back when sprites used to live.

2:11:33 Emily: Can I do Divine Sense to see if it's the Hallow spell?

2:11:36 Brennan: It is the Hallow spell, it's also powerfully celestial. And I think on your Divine Sense, you also sense it is connected to Galicaea.

2:11:43 Emily: It is connected to Galicaea, 'cause there was a part of me that wanted to sense out if there's any presence of Ruvina here.

2:11:50 Ally: Ooh.

2:11:51 Brennan: Give me a Perception check and you do it with advantage.

2:11:59 Emily: That is a 23.

2:12:03 Brennan: You sense that this standing circle has Galicaea's presence in it, but is not devoted to Galicaea. And having this book of ancient pre-pantheonic Spyre deities with you, you begin to go through it and see some of the runes correspond here to ancient runes associated with Elven deities like Galicaea, but also to giant divinities and things like that. And you see a couple things here that you realize are almost proto-linguistic Sylvan. Like, Sylvan that later shows up in giant, or later shows up in Elven, later shows up in other parts of language. On a 23, you get the sensation that this place was holy by the time the gods got here.

2:12:57 Fig: The holiness of this, of that site that we're looking at like predates the gods.

2:13:03 Kristen: Pre-god. Some sort of source site.

2:13:07 Fig: Like a power source, like a ley line or something like that.

2:13:10 Ally: Can I go near it and see if my little shards, or maybe while we're going to our room or whatever? Kind of make a little.

2:13:17 Brennan: You guys go to your room. I think also we have a little bit of business here, which is the Moonar Yulenear gift exchange. And you got your hot cocoa. You see that this is a Secret Sylvan, a little Secret Sylvan for the Moonar Yulenear, as you guys have your first night in Fallinel together.

2:13:38 Emily: Do we wanna roll to see..?

2:13:40 Murph: Do we roll initiative to see who goes first?

2:13:40 Ally: Yes!

2:13:42 Murph: So we picked during the "Adventuring Party". So who got the highest?

2:13:45 Emily: I had a 15.

2:13:45 Lou: Seven.

2:13:46 Brennan: The cast, the Bad Kids are exchanging Secret Sylvan gifts.

2:13:51 Siobhan: I got an 18.

2:13:51 Murph: So you go first.

2:13:53 Siobhan: I got Fah-bian.

2:13:55 Lou: Oh.

2:13:58 Adaine: Fah-bian, a gift unto you. Something that I hope will be useful both in our mission, but also in helping you tackle a real deep fear that I have seen you have.

2:14:13 Fabian: Aw, Adaine.

2:14:15 Adaine: And perhaps will also bring you joy. I give you the Pipes of the Sewers.

2:14:20 Fabian: Oh.

2:14:21 Adaine: Which will help you interact with rats, so they won't attack you unless you let them. And also you can bring...

2:14:31 Fabian: Oh, well this is very sweet.

2:14:33 Adaine: Or bring the rats to you.

2:14:34 Fabian: Oh great.

2:14:34 Adaine: If you wish.

2:14:35 Fabian: I can summon a bunch of rats with this Pipe of the Sewer.

2:14:39 Adaine: Who like you! To be clear.

2:14:40 Fabian: Who like me? Well, I think that sexy rat liked me a lot in the Nightmare Forest.

2:14:47 Adaine: But they won't attack you.

2:14:48 Fabian: Okay. Well, thank you, Adaine. This is very sweet.

2:14:51 Adaine: You're welcome. I feel like you don't like it as much.

2:14:53 Fabian: No, I love it, I love. (blowing)

2:14:55 Emily: Oh, it's a pipe that you blow in.

2:14:57 Siobhan: No, they're pipes like pan pipes.

2:14:58 Murph: Oh, I thought it was a sewer pipe.

2:14:59 Siobhan: No, they're pan pipes.

2:15:00 Fabian: No, it's pan pipes. Let me play it just real quick. (flute music)

2:15:06 Brennan: Great, a number of rats appear.

2:15:08 Fabian: Great.

2:15:09 Emily: I make them all sexy.

2:15:10 Fabian: Stop. Stop, stop, stop.

2:15:12 Brennan: Pah, cha cha cha, cha cha cha!

2:15:12 Ally: Oh my god, they're sexy.

2:15:16 Emily: Like the Rockettes. It's seasonal!

2:15:18 Brennan: You see the– the Rat-ettes?

2:15:21 Emily: The Rat-ettes.

2:15:22 Brennan: The Rat-ettes do a little...

2:15:23 Adaine: This is fun. (Brennan humming Can-Can music)

2:15:29 Adaine: It's not Christmas without the Rat-ettes.

2:15:31 Kristen: They're really showing hole. (all laughing)

2:15:35 Fabian: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are the rats showing hole?

2:15:40 Brennan: Rat bends around, spreads its butt, lifts its tail.

2:15:43 Ally: Roll for hole.

2:15:46 Lou: No, I don't wanna roll for hole.

2:15:48 Ally: I'm sorry.

2:15:48 Fabian: All right, let's move on.

2:15:50 Ally: You just said what we were all thinking.

2:15:51 Riz: Fabian, who did you get?

2:15:53 Fabian: Well, if you could believe it, I got to Adaine.

2:15:56 Kristen: Oh.

2:15:57 Fabian: What is that, a closed loop? Adaine, I got you something that I think you would also love.

2:16:04 Adaine: Oh great.

2:16:07 Fabian: I just went down to the mall and went into the first wizarding store I could find, and then just gave them our two gold piece limit. It was like, give me whatever. And then I described you a lot.

2:16:19 Adaine: In a caring– nice, caring way.

2:16:19 Fabian: I described you a lot. I was like, she's blonde, she's a wizard. She's the Elven Oracle, all that kind of stuff. And I got you this.

2:16:33 Lou: And I give you a little nice golden box.

2:16:35 Adaine: The box is lovely.

2:16:35 Fabian: Thank you.

2:16:37 Lou: And if you open it, there's just a wriggling worm in there.

2:16:41 Fabian: So that's an Ear Worm. If you kind of hold it up near your ear, I believe it'll kind of, he described it as like burrowing into your skull, but I think it's a little bit nicer than that. And it'll let you cast Detect Thoughts, and Dissonant Whispers using a few, a number of charges that it has every day.

2:17:03 Adaine: That's amazing. And it just stays in there? [points to her ear]

2:17:06 Fabian: Yes, and you can't take it– once it crawls in there-

2:17:09 Riz: It just lives there?

2:17:11 Fabian: Yes.

2:17:12 Riz: Does it have like a personality? Is it like good or bad?

2:17:15 Fabian: Anytime you use Detect Thoughts, I think it communicates them to some kind of extraplanar deity.

2:17:22 Gorgug: What happens if it dies?

2:17:22 Ear Worm: Put me in your brain.

2:17:24 Fig: Oh my god, I love him.

2:17:26 Ear Worm: Put me in your brain.

2:17:28 Kristen: Do it.

2:17:29 Fabian: Do it, come on. Yes.

2:17:30 Adaine: [brings the worm to her ear] What a beautiful gift from my good friend. [starts convulsing]

2:17:32 Kristen: Oh my god. (screaming)

2:17:36 Gorgug: She's dead!

2:17:37 Fabian: Adaine!

2:17:37 Riz: Adaine!

2:17:38 Kristen: Fucking nasty.

2:17:42 Lou: But yeah, it's an Ear Worm. You got 15 charges and you can cast Detect Thoughts and Dissonant Whispers.

2:17:47 Siobhan: 15 charges? Wow.

2:17:48 Lou: But you also can't take it out without casting Remove Curse.

2:17:52 Siobhan: Well, that's fine. I have Remove Curse.

2:17:53 Lou: There it is.

2:17:54 Murph: All right, so we got a closed loop. So why don't we just go to 15.

2:17:57 Emily: I think I was next.

2:17:57 Murph: Next in Initiative.

2:18:00 Fig: Kristen, I forgot to wrap it. Fuck

2:18:03 Kristen: Oh, that's okay.

2:18:04 Fig: I'm gonna Minor Illusion wrapping on it.

2:18:07 Ally: Okay, cool.

2:18:09 Riz: Did you have to say that?

2:18:10 Gorgug: I can make the tearing noises if you need me to.

2:18:11 Kristen: Okay, thanks.

2:18:12 Fig: Yeah, will you? Kristen pulls at the illusory wrapping paper as Gorgug mimics tearing noises.

2:18:16 Fig: [dismisses the Minor Illusion] It's an immovable pull-up bar.

2:18:19 Kristen: Wait, what?

2:18:20 Fig: It's an Immovable Rod, but you can use it– you can put it anywhere.

2:18:24 Ally: I'm putting it in a door frame. Kristen starts doing pull-ups.

2:18:29 Fabian: All right! Two, three. Kristen pauses.

2:18:35 Fabian: Is that it?

2:18:37 Adaine: Is that a pull-up or a chin-up? (Kristen grimaces)

2:18:40 Gorgug: That's a pull-up.

2:18:41 Fig: It can hold up to 8000 pounds of weight so it doesn't matter how huge you get, you'll always be able to use it.

2:18:45 Kristen: Sick!

2:18:48 Ally: I tried to look as yolked as possible to make it...

2:18:51 Fig: And you can use an action to press the button, which causes it to become magically fixed in place. So you can do pull-ups anywhere.

2:18:58 Kristen: Oh, sick.

2:18:59 Fig: Yeah.

2:18:59 Fabian: Wow.

2:19:03 Kristen: Damn, that's great.

2:19:03 Fig: Yeah.

2:19:05 Kristen: Thank you. Okay. Well, I got Riz.

2:19:09 Riz: Okay.

2:19:10 Kristen: And I got you something I just, style wise, I feel like you'd fucking love this. Here you go. And this is the Bracers of Defense. (giggling)

2:19:23 Riz: Oh shit, they're so practical.

2:19:25 Kristen: Yeah.

2:19:26 Riz: I have to wear bracers. [Brennan laughs]

2:19:27 Kristen: Yeah, yeah. Look, I mean.

2:19:30 Riz: Hey, what can they do? They're tactical.

2:19:33 Kristen: They're styled. They're styled in green and black with question marks all over them, so they really look like The Riddler.

2:19:36 Riz: Okay!

2:19:40 Brennan: So tactical. So tactical.

2:19:43 Riz: Pretty tactical.

2:19:44 Ally: And these are kind of crazy, but I did clear this with Brennan. While you wear these, you gain a plus two to AC. (all hooting)

2:19:52 Riz: Whoa! That's so helpful. Thank you Kristen.

2:19:54 Kristen: If you're wearing no armor and not using a shield.

2:19:56 Riz: That's incredible.

2:19:57 Kristen: Yeah.

2:19:57 Riz: Thank you.

2:19:59 Murph: I give Kristen a hug and keep looking at my cool bracers.

2:20:02 Kristen: They're so sick. They're so sick.

2:20:03 Riz: They're so practical, is the thing.

2:20:04 Kristen: Yeah. Yeah.

2:20:07 Riz: I have no choice– I have to– I have to wear ‘em.

2:20:08 Adaine: Yeah, that’s really cool, what a wonderful gift.

2:20:09 Riz: I got… I got Gorgug, who honestly has already given me two wonderful gifts. The first one, you know.

2:20:20 Gorgug: The second one will be- will disappear once you've...

2:20:23 Riz: Of course, yes. Appreciate that. But I got- my very brief time on the Owlbears when I tried out and didn't make it in one day.

2:20:33 Adaine: Does that count as being on the...? Gorgug makes an unsure face at her.

2:20:34 Riz: We had sort of a moment. I think maybe I was slowing you down because I had already started to tackle you when Mary Ann kinda destroyed you. So I thought, maybe I could give you something, 'cause we saw that she was kinda working with a bunch of stuff, had a bunch of auras.

2:20:41 Gorgug: Oh.

2:20:48 Riz: Maybe I could give you something to help you in that way.

2:20:52 Murph: And I hand you a little box. And inside is like a fire giant, like, energy drink looking thing, which is a Potion of Fire Giant Strength, that for one hour your Strength becomes 25.

2:21:10 All: Oh.

2:21:12 Fig: You can juice.

2:21:13 Murph: So that'll bump up your Athletics.

2:21:14 Gorgug: Is this legal?

2:21:15 Riz: It's not. (all laughing)

2:21:18 Gorgug: Thanks Riz.

2:21:18 Riz: That's why I gave you one can.

2:21:21 Gorgug: Oh my god. That's amazing. Well, I can't wait to use it and have a heart attack. [Murph laughs]

2:21:28 Kristen: Take it now. Gorgug twists it open and takes a sip. Fabian/Kristen/Riz: No!

2:21:32 Fig: That's not gonna pair well with the hot chocolate. Gorgug spits it back in and closes the lid.

2:21:36 Ally: You have 25 Strength for the snowball fight. Yeah. Yeah.

2:21:41 Gorgug: Well, I had Fig, and I was struggling to figure out what to get you, because I feel like, I don't know, I think sometimes it's hard to get gifts for people. But I was talking to Riz, and he mentioned when y'all were on Loam's Farm, and... just open this. It's just sort of a square box you open.

2:22:06 Emily: Okay. I open it up.

2:22:07 Zac: There's an old wooden orangutan mask. [Siobhan and Murph laugh]

2:22:14 Gorgug: It's Mask of Beasts. And lets you, if you wear it, you can cast Animal Friendship on an animal.

2:22:25 Fig: Oh, I can't become an animal?

2:22:26 Gorgug: No, but...

2:22:28 Riz: The mask looks cool as hell though.

2:22:30 Fabian: It does look great.

2:22:30 Kristen: Yeah.

2:22:31 Gorgug: It looks cursed, but it's not.

2:22:33 Fig: Okay, but I can't become the animal?

2:22:37 Gorgug: No, but...

2:22:39 Kristen: You become friends.

2:22:39 Gorgug: I think you look a lot like it right now.

2:22:41 Fig: Thank you!

2:22:43 Emily: I look for the nearest animal.

2:22:45 Brennan: There's a bunch of rats doing a Can-can dance. [cast laughs]

2:22:50 Fabian: Can you ask them to stop showing hole?

2:22:53 Riz: Ask them to stop showing hole. The rats point at Fabian as they show hole. [Ally and Lou laugh] [Lou claps]

2:22:56 Fig: Hey, guys? Hey, guys? Fabian closes his eyes and uses his hands to create a barrier between him and the rats. (all laughing)

2:23:01 Fig: More hole, more hole.

2:23:01 Fabian: No! No!

2:23:03 Kristen: How could you fail them so intensely?

2:23:05 Fabian: Stop, stop, stop, stop. [all laughing] Brennan starts arranging his seating position to get his butt off his chair.

2:23:10 Riz: [blocking his face looking away from the rats] No more hole!

2:23:10 Fabian: Stop!

2:23:11 Rats: [pointing at themselves] No? No?

2:23:12 Fabian: Please, please stop. No!

2:23:14 Fig: More hole! More hole!

2:23:14 Gorgug: They're her friend. [rats scream]

2:23:19 Kristen: Fig!

2:23:21 Lou: I wanna take a quick group selfie.

2:23:22 Gorgug: So you could do that every day.

2:23:23 Fig: Yeah!

2:23:24 Lou: I wanna take a quick group selfie with everyone. And then I'm gonna send it to Mazey. And I'm gonna say, “I hope you're having a Munear Yulner.” What is this holiday called?

2:23:36 Brennan: Moonar Yulenear.

2:23:37 Fabian: I hope you're having a great Moonar Yulenear.

2:23:41 Lou: And the picture. We're in Fallinel and there's a bunch of rats here showing–

2:23:47 Ally: Don't zoom in.

2:23:48 Fabian: Don't zoom in. The rats are a lot. Would love to hang out when we get back.

2:23:54 Lou: And then I'm gonna put my phone in airplane mode. (all laughing)

2:23:58 Fig: I can break it for you if you want.

2:23:59 Fabian: What?

2:23:59 Fig: I can break your phone.

2:24:01 Fabian: Yeah, that actually would be better. [hands Fig his crystal] Fig breaks Fabian’s crystal. Gorgug slams his axe down it for good measure.

2:24:03 Riz: Why? Why?

2:24:05 Fabian: It's fine, I can buy another one.

2:24:07 Riz: Okay, that makes sense. Fig and Gorgug both whack the crystal some more.

2:24:08 Gorgug: Absolutely destroyed it.

2:24:11 Fabian: Okay, now actually I'm starting to realize it's probably bad.

2:24:14 Zac: I'm Mending it.

2:24:15 Fabian: Okay, thank you.

2:24:17 Brennan: Hell, yeah. What a lovely exchanging of gifts on this beautiful Moonar Yulenear. Kristen does some more pull-ups.

2:24:22 Emily: It defies gravity too. I don't know what that means.

2:24:25 Brennan: Well it's like you can set it in the air, click it and it will stay fixed in the air there.

2:24:32 Murph: Oh wait, you can just do it in the air?

2:24:33 Brennan: In the air. It doesn't need to connect to anything solid.

2:24:35 Emily: If you were falling, you could just click it, and then you would be able to do pull-ups.

2:24:39 Ally: So sick! I get on the roof.

2:24:42 Brennan: You get up on the roof. Hell, yeah.

2:24:44 Adaine: Jump.

2:24:44 Ally: I jump off.

2:24:45 Brennan: Great, give me an Athletics check.

2:24:47 Murph: Oh no, Athletics is fine. It's not, minus four whatever you have.

2:24:53 Ally: This is not good.

2:24:53 Murph: Break her leg.

2:24:56 Ally: It's a five.

2:24:57 Brennan: So you guys see Kristen gets up on the roof, takes off, clicks it, and the sudden jerking stop, your fingers slide off immediately. So it's like. (all yelling)

2:25:09 Kristen: Now how do I get it down?

2:25:10 Lou: I send up the sheet.

2:25:11 Brennan: It's just like 30 feet up in the air.

2:25:13 Kristen: No!

2:25:13 Ally: I feel like a kid when you first lose a balloon and you're like, that's a possibility?

2:25:19 Siobhan: I cast Fly on you.

2:25:21 Lou: “That's a possibility!”

2:25:22 Kristen: Thank you.

2:25:22 Ally: I get up there.

2:25:24 Kristen: Okay, you can turn Fly off.

2:25:25 Riz: Wait, leave it up. Do assisted pull-ups now and look super cool over the whole camp.

2:25:30 Fabian: Wow, everyone, look at this.

2:25:33 Ally: I'm kind of going too high, like, there's no way that could be muscle.

2:25:36 Brennan: You see that people are looking over at you.

2:25:39 Lou: 47! 48! 49!

2:25:44 Adaine: Hey Tracker, you seeing this? Kristen starts doing the assisted pull-ups with one hand.

2:25:45 Brennan: You see Nara walking by and looks over and says,

2:25:48 Nara: Oh, you are very strong.

2:25:51 Kristen: Oh, thank you.

2:25:53 Ally: I unclick it and fall.

2:25:56 Brennan: Slowly fly, descend down. You see, Nara says,

2:26:00 Nara: I just wanted to– I just wanted to come back to make sure that you are all well fed, and cozy and you had jammies and slippers or anything like that.

2:26:09 Adaine: The jammies are so soft.

2:26:11 Nara: Thank you.

2:26:12 Fig: I'll take any of the swag you guys got.

2:26:14 Nara: I'll send a gift basket.

2:26:16 Fig: Yeah, I would love that.

2:26:16 Kristen: Thank you.

2:26:19 Nara: And I just wanted to say that I just– [to Kristen] can I actually talk to you if that's all right?

2:26:26 Kristen: Of course. Yeah.

2:26:27 Brennan: Sort of takes you to the side and she says,

2:26:30 Nara: I just wanted to let you know that I'm really grateful that you're here. I know that you and Tracker had had conversations and that you were... It was very big of you. And I think that some of my own insecurities made me feel like I was pushing for something. I know that that impacted you, and I really hope we can be friends, because I do know that Tracker would not have been with anyone who was not a very special person. And I think that– I think we can both agree she's very impressive. And you know– I tried to have a revival, too.

2:27:18 Kristen: Oh really?

2:27:19 Nara: Yes. I tried to have a Galicaea revival of my own. And it was really hard because I started it and I was like, Galicaea doesn't like bad things, she likes good things. And I started it and a bunch of people came to my first one and then I was like, we are going to have a revival. And then I went on a three week vacation with my family to the White Shores. And I got back and some of the steam had died down. And I like– Tracker talked to me about follow through, which I struggle with I think a little bit.

2:27:56 Kristen: Oh, are you kinda... are you kind of… do people say that you're impulsive?

2:28:02 Nara: Yes, they're always saying I'm impulsive.

2:28:05 Kristen: Oh, cool.

2:28:08 Nara: Like, you know, it's funny 'cause I obviously, I know I have nice clothes and things, but it's sort of like if I didn't have help, I think I'd be a little bit of a mess. But don't tell anybody.

2:28:22 Ally: [laughs] Can I do an Insight check? Is she like me? Is she like me? Is she lying? Is she mirroring me on purpose? Okay, that's a 19.

2:28:30 Brennan: She's not like you. She's like you if you had money.

2:28:33 Ally: Oh yes. Okay. Okay. Is she trying to say everything right? Or is she being sincere right now with being...

2:28:42 Brennan: You think she's trying to say everything right. But I don't know if you clock a deeply nefarious motive in that. It's like someone who's having hard feelings, who had a big bout of jealousy earlier in the day, who's like, I'm gonna fucking do something. And then an hour later is like, I'm gonna be the bigger person, and I'm gonna go be polite and dah dah dah dah dah. But, you could have just said nothing, but instead you had such a big feeling that you had to go be like, hey, I don't feel bad.

2:29:07 Kristen: I'm extra happy you're here.

2:29:09 Nara: I'm extra happy that you're here. Yeah.

2:29:10 Kristen: Okay. That's interesting. So you've always been a follower of Galicaea?

2:29:14 Nara: Well, my family, yes, since I was very little. My father and mother are clerics of Galicaea. But of course they're more church administrators, less so than miracle workers. And I think, my mother and father were not initially very supportive of Tracker.

2:29:36 Kristen: What was their issue with her?

2:29:37 Nara: Well, they just thought, it takes some time. Someone comes along and says, the way you are all doing something is wrong. And then you're left saying, no, I'm a good person. And then the first person's like, that's not what I said. I didn't say you were a bad person. I said, you are doing something wrong. This church isn't serving anybody. The Church of Galicaea has become an institution dedicated to preserving Fallinel's unchanging bureaucratic state. And instead, Tracker's come and reminded us all that the moon changes as we do. Life changes. So I think that there's- speaking as a high elf, we are very nervous and hesitant around change. And I think that someone coming and saying that our goddess is a goddess of change was always going to be met with some resistance. But you know, they're coming around. Obviously there's a lot of: they've been helpful.

2:30:41 Kristen: Yeah. I appreciate you coming and talking to me, and I'm excited to be here, too.

2:30:47 Brennan: Well I was gonna say you should see the standing stones. They're quite beautiful.

2:30:50 Kristen: I was just gonna, can we go talk to my friends? We were just wondering about that.

2:30:56 Ally: I think I walk us back and I say,

2:30:59 Kristen: We were wondering if there were gods for the giants that were here as well, 'cause we're noticing that these stones aren't just Galicaea.

2:31:09 Nara: No, I'm pretty sure these stones are just for Galicaea.

2:31:12 Kristen: Oh, I'm sorry.

2:31:14 Nara: I think?

2:31:14 Brennan: You see she looks and says,

2:31:17 Nara: I could study them and make more sure, but… They're very ancient but they, I believe, are stones of Galicaea.

2:31:25 Kristen: Oh, okay. Cool.

2:31:27 Siobhan: I Message Kristen.

2:31:27 Adaine: This girl is dumb.

2:31:29 Emily: I Message Kristen,

2:31:29 Fig: I think stop. I mean she might be dumb, but I feel like there could be something going on with these stones, and I think we should all maybe be really careful around them.

2:31:43 Murph: Yeah, I send a Message.

2:31:45 Riz: I don't know that Nara's necessarily… she may have been sent here on behalf of her parents, whether she's going along with it on purpose or not.

2:31:56 Fig: I'm just saying like a Hallow spell can have repercussions against people.

2:32:02 Kristen: Oh, like damage or something like that?

2:32:03 Fig: It can benefit some people in a way that you wouldn't want to get lured in there against someone who was buffed by it.

2:32:11 Brennan: Looking at the stones nearby, do you guys want to just approach them yourselves or would you want to get someone from Wolfsong to come with you?

2:32:20 Murph: We'd probably wanna approach them ourselves, would be my…

2:32:22 Emily: Yeah.

2:32:24 Lou: I'm bringing the rats.

2:32:26 Brennan: Bring the rats. You see Aelwyn looks over and says,

2:32:28 Aelwyn: Do you want us to set a perimeter?

2:32:30 Adaine: Maybe just like a, an early warning system, maybe.

2:32:35 Brennan: Zayn goes,

2:32:35 Zayn: Got it.

2:32:38 Brennan: Sinks into the ground.

2:32:39 Riz: At first I thought maybe like Tracker was being like misled or something, but it seems like maybe the winter stuff is– was Tracker performing a legit miracle? And it seems like maybe people are trying to undermine her. It seems like maybe this is by design, like all of the–

2:32:58 Gorgug: There's kind of some bloat.

2:32:59 Riz: ...social media stuff. I think that– I think this is people maybe trying to make her cause unserious, maybe.

2:33:07 Fabian: I think about that thing that Kristen was saying about mergers and things. Maybe it's that they wanna get Hillsong real big and then they'll merge it with something nasty or something else.

2:33:18 Zac: Wolfsong?

2:33:18 Siobhan: Hillsong.

2:33:19 Emily: Wolfsong.

2:33:20 Lou: What?

2:33:20 Adaine: You said Hillsong which is an entirely different thing.

2:33:23 Fabian: Uh, uh, uh no.

2:33:23 Kristen: What is that?

2:33:26 Fabian: Yes, maybe they're trying to get Wolfsong real big and then, do a merge.

2:33:31 Fig: This is a crazy second thing to just throw in our back pockets, 'cause you kept talking about spy's tongue curse and Obliviati Mori. What if some of the [air quotes] “gods” that we think are gods are actually not really gods.

2:33:44 Gorgug: Like they've tricked people…

2:33:45 Fig: …into thinking that they're gods and that's why they would use spy's tongues curse to recreate Obliviati Mori. But some of these, maybe some of these runes allude to actual gods, because this energy preexists the gods.

2:34:02 Zac: We know that gods can become archdevils. Can archdevils become gods?

2:34:06 Siobhan: Yeah, can it go the other way?

2:34:08 Emily: Is there anything we can do to, before going into this, to understand what the repercussions of this Hallow spell would be?

2:34:20 Brennan: You sense that none of them are–

2:34:22 Emily: I throw a rat in.

2:34:25 Fabian: Rude.

2:34:26 Gorgug: That was your friend.

2:34:27 Fabian: You're wearing– [Emily laughs]

2:34:27 Fig: [to a rat in her hand] You're my best friend. [throws the rat]

2:34:30 Brennan: You sense that the Hallow is here to prevent desecration, to make this a holy place. It aids in healing spells. This doesn't feel like a wartime Hallow spell.

2:34:39 Emily: Oh, okay, okay. Guys, I was being-

2:34:41 Ally: So we could ask her to show us that, 'cause I kinda would like to hear what she has to say.

2:34:46 Murph: Yeah.

2:34:46 Lou: Yes.

2:34:47 Murph: I also want, I would love to get a hold of Nara's crystal. It seems like maybe she's not doing stuff on purpose, but I do, I wonder if her parents are keeping tabs on her and they wanna get rid of Tracker.

2:35:01 Ally: Can we… Who has the best Sleight of Hand, 'cause I can talk to her.

2:35:06 Murph: Maybe we first start our… Check out these stones.

2:35:11 Siobhan: Can I look at the runes on the stones and see if there's anything that I recognize from all of my history research?

2:35:18 Murph: Yeah, can I investigate as well?

2:35:19 Ally: I think I'm talking to Nara and being like,

2:35:22 Kristen: Yeah, we would love a tour of the runes.

2:35:26 Brennan: Cool. Oh, so Nara comes along and is like,

2:35:29 Nara: Oh, I can give you a tour of the runes, absolutely.

2:35:31 Ally: Yeah, maybe I keep it kinda one-on-one, and you guys do your own thing.

2:35:34 Murph: I just crit on an Investigation check. I keep critting on Investigation checks.

2:35:37 Brennan: Incredible.

2:35:38 Emily: It's 'cause I put your dice on the moon.

2:35:40 Siobhan: I did not crit, but I will give myself a 19 on Arcana. So 19 plus nine.

2:35:47 Brennan: Incredible, 28. You got a 30?

2:35:50 Murph: Two.

2:35:51 Brennan: 32 Investigate, on the crit and on all of this. I think Nara walks in and says,

2:35:57 Nara: Well the stones obviously are a place that can open the channels between realms, to be traversable more easily.

2:36:08 Adaine: Oh. So you can use this to go...?

2:36:12 Nara: Tracker comes to commune here with Galicaea, yes.

2:36:14 Adaine: But you could use these stones to go to different planes?

2:36:19 Nara: Yes. Well, potentially. A very proficient cleric or druid could, but–

2:36:23 Fig: Could someone who wasn't devoted to Galicaea come here and pray to their god?

2:36:28 Brennan: On these very high rolls, you see Nara leave the area of her expertise. She has attributed this as only a place to Galicaea, which you know is not true. It's like someone saying- it's you're in some place in like modern-day Turkey. And it's like, "This has only ever been this kind of religious building." And you're like, no, you can look underneath and there's a different building.

2:36:52 Siobhan: You can see it right there.

2:36:52 Brennan: You can dig archeologically down and see a different–

2:36:54 Ally: I'm texting Tracker,

2:36:54 Kristen: Where are you at?

2:36:56 Brennan: Tracker's like,

2:36:56 Tracker: In the office, do you need something?

2:37:00 Kristen: Yeah, we're getting a tour, but I'm curious about your thoughts. We're down by the runes.

2:37:04 Brennan: She's like,

2:37:04 Tracker: I'll come by and say hi.

2:37:06 Brennan: As you're investigating, you see this place is very protected. And on that nat 20 Investigation, you gotta honor a nat 20. And a 28 Arcana. You begin to go down. Riz, you see runes at the base of one of these. You dig through the snow a little bit. There is a several thousand year old scorch mark at the base of one of these stones. Tracker comes up in the snow saying,

2:37:39 Tracker: Hey Kristen, what's up? Hi sweetie.

2:37:40 Brennan: And gives Nara a hug and a kiss.

2:37:43 Emily: I turn into Kristen and do a backflip. (laughing)

2:37:47 Brennan: Riz, you are looking at the stones here. And on a nat 20 Investigation, you see that there are a list of names under the snow. This menhir, this massive stone in the stone circle has sunk over time. And there's a list of names. There is a list of names of one family. And you see that it says Galicaea, Cassandra, in the middle you see Sol. You are looking, again on a nat 20 Investigation, at a wedding contract. You are looking at a divine and ancient wedding certificate. You see that there is Sol in a position that almost makes it look like an officiant, makes it look like the person who did the marrying. You then see that there is the name Galicaea. And the Galicaea is in a matron of honor position. It's like a older sister, like a maid of honor. And then beneath that, you get down to the ground level, where the frozen grass is under the snow. Across from Galicaea, you see in Sylvan, but translated, Ruvina, the giantess goddess. And you see underneath Galicaea's name, you see the beginnings of Cassandra as the bride. Across is underneath the earth. The grass comes up and covers the other part of this stone.

2:39:20 Ally: Dig, bitch.

2:39:21 Brennan: Tracker starts talking and says like,

2:39:23 Tracker: Yeah, so this is where we come and commune with Galicaea all the time. Riz, what's up man? Can I help you?

2:39:32 Riz: Have you gotten a close look at this? Obviously you have. Have you ever seen the names down here?

2:39:41 Tracker: The names down here? Oh, that got covered up by snow.

2:39:47 Emily: Can I use my Mask of Animal Friendship to tell all of the rats to start digging? (all laughing)

2:39:53 Brennan: Sure. You put on this orangutan mask. (Murph laughing)

2:39:57 Fig: Put the holes away and make 'em.

2:40:00 Fabian: They're my rats.

2:40:01 Fig: Stop showing a hole, and make 'em.

2:40:03 Brennan: You see that the rats all begin, and you see that Tracker goes,

2:40:05 Tracker: Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey! Are they scratching the stones?

2:40:09 Fabian: No, no, no. They're just digging.

2:40:10 Fig: They're just digging.

2:40:11 Kristen: They’re just digging [unintelligible]

2:40:12 Brennan: Anyone who wants make a Persuasion check for me.

2:40:14 Adaine: Respectfully digging. (dice rolling)

2:40:17 Emily: I got a… I got a 30.

2:40:20 Brennan: All right, so Tracker's like,

2:40:20 Tracker: Are the rats, what are the rats doing?

2:40:23 Fig: The rats are doing their natural thing. This is what rats do.

2:40:27 Lou: In an orangutan mask.

2:40:29 Tracker: Gather around a standing stone and dig into the...?

2:40:31 Riz: They're charmed, kind of. They're kind of charmed.

2:40:33 Fig: It's cold, the rats aren't used to this. But look, they're not harming the statue at all. They're digging in the snow.

2:40:39 Brennan: The rats dig. Talk about a fucking crazy thing.

2:40:44 Ally: And Ruvina was the Maid of Honor on that side?

2:40:47 Brennan: On the other side. So Ruvina, so it's like, officiant, Maid of Honor, Maid of Honor, Bride Cassandra. You're digging to where the other side of that wedding would be. The rats, they dig down, they remove a name. With that 28 Arcana, you translate and you see a name. And I have to ask what you are going to do when you see the name, Adaine. You are the only one that knows enough about ancient runes to know how to pronounce something in ancient Sylvan that you're reading off this glyph. 'Cause you're translating it into giant, like what it would be in giant.

2:41:27 Siobhan: I am not really thinking about the repercussions of it. I'm just in sort of, studious discovery mode, and I'm reading as we go down. And so as I see the name, I say it out loud.

2:41:40 Brennan: Go ahead and read that out loud for me if you'd be so kind. (tense music)

2:41:45 Adaine: Ankarna.

2:41:46 Brennan: As you say that, (blowing) the stone circle begins to glow red.

2:41:55 Kristen: Can you...? Does it look bad?

2:41:59 Riz: I'm sure it does.

2:41:59 Murph: I put my glasses back on.

2:42:01 Brennan: Your glasses begin to go fucking nuts. This place is filling with fiendish energy.

2:42:06 Emily: But does it feel safe inside the circle, though?

2:42:09 Brennan: It does feel safe inside the circle.

2:42:10 Emily: Okay then, everyone get inside the circle.

2:42:12 Brennan: Everyone is gonna jump into the circle? Your phones begin to blow up. Like bing, bing, bing, bing.

2:42:17 Lou: I turn off airplane mode.

2:42:18 Brennan: Ragh runs outta the thing on the phone going, yeah.

2:42:22 Adaine: Get in the circle, get in the circle!

2:42:24 Brennan: Ragh and Aelwyn and Zayn all jump into the circle. As Zayn jumps into the circle, you see the circle repels Zayn. He goes boom, as a ghost. As Zayn is repelled, you guys see that all the phones go berserk. Ragh is like,

2:42:35 Ragh: Yeah? He looks up and he's like,

2:42:38 Ragh: Something happened to the gem in my mom's chest.

2:42:41 Adaine: Oh, fuck! I'm so sorry.

2:42:44 Brennan: Again, a name that was erased from the world. But as you were told before, some shred– only gods can't say the name, right? Like only gods are forbidden from saying it. You found one of the things that they had tried so thoroughly in the past to destroy, which was a carven memory of a dead god's name. And of course they missed it on the island of Fallinel, buried underneath the earth from a marriage 3000 years ago,

2:43:08 Siobhan: Oh my god. They were going word by word trying to erase this person's name. This was a manual erasing? They didn't CTRL-F the name?

2:43:21 Brennan: Adaine, your books on curses begin to go nuts. As the fiendish energy encircles, I'm going to need everybody here to roll Initiative.

2:43:31 Emily: Can I be in the circle?

2:43:32 Brennan: Yes, you can. You are allowed to be in the circle.

2:43:35 Emily: Five.

2:43:37 Zac: 14.

2:43:38 Siobhan: Four.

2:43:38 Brennan: Did anyone get above a 15? Fabian?

2:43:40 Lou: 24.

2:43:41 Murph: 25.

2:43:43 Ally: Negative one. (Siobhan laughing)

2:43:45 Lou: Negative one?

2:43:47 Gorgug: It's okay, Clobica.

2:43:48 Fig: It's okay guys, I'm still friends with the rats.

2:43:51 Kristen: You're still wearing the mask. Can you please take that off?

2:43:52 Gorgug: Hey, can you please take that mask off?

2:43:53 Kristen: I'm already so scared.

2:43:54 Fig: Why? You gave this to me?

2:43:54 Fabian: Also, I think they're charmed by me.

2:43:56 Gorgug: I can't see your eyes. In the fiery light it looks kind of scary. : Guys, you need to stop fighting over the rats.

2:44:02 Fabian: They're my rats.

2:44:04 Brennan: Here's what happens right away. You see that the stone circle begins to move. The moon glows incredibly bright. Tracker grabs Nara and goes,

2:44:13 Tracker: What were you doing? I didn't-

2:44:16 Brennan: Bam! Tracker's face like cracks open. She is flung out of the circle and Nara goes spinning, smashes into a tree. You each see blood pouring down their face. Tracker begins to shift. You see that the moon begins to grow visibly in the sky from like waning to full. Again, as Tracker goes, (growling and howling) I'm gonna need a Constitution and a Wisdom saving throw from Fig specifically.

2:44:46 Emily: But I only have plus one. That's a nine.

2:44:50 Brennan: That's Constitution?

2:44:51 Emily: Oh, Constitution, that's a 10.

2:44:54 Brennan: Okay, and then let's do Wisdom.

2:44:58 Emily: That's a 15.

2:44:59 Brennan: Okay, Constitution, you're able to hold onto your mind. But all of you watch as this Hallow spell kicks into gear protecting the stone circle. You were able to enter, but you suddenly see this aura of gleaming fucking yellow armor appears around Fig, like ethereal, partially there. You recognize the suit of armor, and you see that the moon glows bright and a ray of moonlight comes down, grasps the armor, and tries to pull it off you, and it begins to rend your skin and flesh as the armor is being pulled off.