First Kisses and Last Words (Ep. 13)

0:00:00 Brennan: Everything else has frozen in time. Aelwyn has just pocketed the palimpsest with Ostentatia Wallace inside it.

0:00:06 Fabian: There is a matter of great consequence happening upon the roof of this building.

0:00:13 Brennan: You clamber to the roof to see your fallen—

0:00:16 Siobhan: I go into a rage.

0:00:18 Brennan: Adaine, you fully just lose it.

0:00:20 Aelwyn: [Laughing] You're casting Tasha's... Hideous... Laughter…. That spell... won't work on me in a million fucking [laughing uncontrollably]. Adaine gives her sister two middle fingers.

0:00:33 Adaine: Oops. Bitch. [END RECAP] [intense music] [bird screech, bear roar]

0:00:43 Brennan: Welcome back to Fantasy High. My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan. These are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:48 All: Hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:49 Brennan: I love it more each time. Guys, last we left off, you guys were on the roof of Ostentatia Wallace's house, where you still are. Aelwyn Abernant is laughing hysterically and you guys are surrounded by Hudol students that are stopping here and flying and spells are going off. Percival Nevelsvine stops and says,

0:01:11 Percival: [stuffy British accent] My goodness, what an absolutely smashing use of Tasha's Hideous Laughter [laughing]. It looked from what I could see-- obviously time and its movement had been somewhat subjected to a transmutation effect-- that you had rather a terrible conflict. The combat seemed quite gregarious.

0:01:22 Ally: Fuckin’ nerd.

0:01:33 Emily: Should we push him off the roof?

0:01:34 Ally: Yeah. [group laughs]

0:01:36 Lou: There's no need for that. We already trashed these mens' houses.

0:01:40 Siobhan: I think, first of all, we need to make sure that Aelwyn cannot do any more magic.

0:01:43 Aelwyn: [crying] Ha, ha, ha!

0:01:46 Siobhan: So, I would like to roll up—

0:01:49 Ally: I have Hold Person.

0:01:51 Siobhan: -- a sock and shove it into her mouth.

0:01:53 Ally: Cool, we can do that too.

0:01:54 Siobhan: And then tie up her hands in such a way that her fingers are also numb.

0:01:59 Emily: Yeah.

0:01:59 Ally: Let Fabian tie her up.

0:02:00 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:02:01 Emily: And she's— Isn't she wearing like a--

0:02:01 Lou: [suggestively] Let me tie her up.

0:02:01 Emily: —little crop top or something?

0:02:03 Brennan: So, she is. She has that sort of shirt tied in midriff.

0:02:06 Emily: I'm gonna create a minor illusion to make it look like she has a little fat fold. [magical chiming] [group laughing]

0:02:10 Emily: To try and make her feel bad about herself.

0:02:12 Murph: I'm knocked out on the ground right now I think.

0:02:14 Brennan: Riz is —

0:02:15 Emily: [freaked out] Oh shit, I'll run over and heal you.

0:02:15 Adaine: Oh my goodness, everybody get Riz.

0:02:17 Lou: What were we doin' this for?

0:02:18 Emily: What do I have left?

0:02:19 Brennan: Riz, in the process of making some death saving throws—

0:02:21 Emily: [rolls die] 9. [soft lullaby]

0:02:24 Brennan: —gets nine hit points from a Healing Word.

0:02:26 Ally: Nice.

0:02:26 Zac: Ooh.

0:02:27 Emily: [pointing] Oh, and then another 11. [electronic zipping noise] Why not?

0:02:30 Murph: Another 11?

0:02:30 Emily: For 20.

0:02:31 Murph: I have 20, great.

0:02:33 Brennan: You guys see all the Hudol kids start going like,

0:02:35 Percival: Well, as per usual, a Hudol house party has ended in elemental chaos and destruction.

0:02:39 Fabian: Yes it has.

0:02:42 Riz: Do these cheerleaders come to your parties a lot and cause trouble?

0:02:47 Percival: The young women at our school hold their own parties that are obfuscated from divination and they don't invite us. So, we pay Aelwyn Abernant to come and create these elemental cheerleaders so that the party is not a sausage festival.

0:03:03 Adaine: Will you—

0:03:03 Murph: [laughs] Festival.

0:03:06 Adaine: —say that again, but to my parents?

0:03:08 Percival: What's that?

0:03:09 Adaine: Will you tell that to my parents?

0:03:10 Fig: Oh, can I take out a crystal and record what he's saying?

0:03:12 Adaine: Yes, please do.

0:03:13 Emily: I take out a crystal and I say,

0:03:13 Fig: just say it again.

0:03:16 Percival: As I've just previously stated, myself and my friends are repugnant to those of the fairer sex in our school.

0:03:25 Fig: No, no, no. Not insulting yourself, talk about her sister having parties. During this entire confession scene, Zac and Ally are miming holding and adjusting boom mics in the background.

0:03:29 Percival: Ah, very well. In order for our parties to not be such a sausage festival [“festival” pronounced with too many vowels], we have paid Aelwyn Abernant to come here, sell us drugs and liquor, and create elemental cheerleaders that we might kiss upon the mouth and dance with—

0:03:50 Adaine: Isn't that a thing that is against school rules? The kind of thing that might get you kicked out of school?

0:03:57 Percival: Well to that I would simply say,

0:04:01 Brennan: Poof, gone! The Hudol students start disappearing. [air puffing sounds]

0:04:03 Kristen: This could have been your life Adaine.

0:04:05 Fig: Adaine--

0:04:06 Gorgug: Wait, wait. Do we have the crystal that that girl had?

0:04:08 Murph: Yeah, can we search Adaine's pocket for--

0:04:09 Siobhan: It's in Adaine's pocket— It's in Aelwyn's pocket.

0:04:12 Emily: Oh, I would like to Thaumaturgy myself into some sort of demonic goddess, look Aelwyn in the eye and use my Whispers of Terror on her to intimidate her.

0:04:24 Brennan: Uh, go ahead and give me that Intimidate roll. [eerie wind blowing]

0:04:26 Emily: Do I get, do I get, 'cause it's Whispers of Terror, do I get like advantage or anything? [rolling] I don't even need it [laughs]. I don't think at least.

0:04:35 Ally: I would like to Thaumaturgy and be behind her with matching eyes. [group laughing]

0:04:41 Emily: I got a 24.

0:04:43 Brennan: Ah, you got a 24?

0:04:43 Emily: Yeah.

0:04:43 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:04:46 Brennan: Ah, you see... Aelwyn looks up at you, terrified. She's been restrained, she's been fully defeated. She looks up at her sister, who's hit her with this spell, looks terrified.

0:04:58 Emily: I take one of my nails that's been filed to look like those vampire nails, 'cause I did that in the time we had, I brush her hair out of her eye, and I say,

0:05:09 Fig: Where do you and your bitches party? [group laughing]

0:05:13 Gorgug: They party here.

0:05:14 Fig: Shh, shh, shh.

0:05:15 Kristen: [quietly] Thought they had a different party?

0:05:16 Adaine: [whispering to Gorgug] The girls have different parties.

0:05:19 Brennan: Um, you see, Aelwyn goes [muffled speaking noises].

0:05:26 Fabian: Oh that's right, the sock. We have to take the sock out of her mouth.

0:05:29 Riz: Pull the sock out.

0:05:29 Adaine: She's gonna cast a spell.

0:05:34 Aelwyn: [sighs] I party here. I get paid to come here, as the young student said. This is where I go.

0:05:42 Adaine: So, you don't even go to the fun party? What a waste.

0:05:49 Brennan: You guys hear a noise of a car pulling up into the driveway. [motor rumbling] With magical spider webs hanging from the windows, smashed windows, things are on fire and have been electrocuted and otherwise destroyed. And you hear a voice say,

0:06:00 Unknown Voice: [a little raspy] Oh, God dang, my house! And you see there is an unemployed, dwarven dad, with yknow, a sort of jacket going,

0:06:09 Ostentatia’s Dad: Oh God, I couldn't afford the insurance this month, oh no!

0:06:16 Siobhan: Can I use my Mending cantrip [magical whooshing] to mend everything that I can? [Emily laughs]

0:06:20 Brennan: You're like putting some shingles one by one back on the exploded roof--

0:06:24 Emily: Can I just do Minor Illusion to make it look like it's better than it is? [laughs]

0:06:29 Adaine: I'm so sorry, sir, and I think that you might want to call the police because I have very bad news. Your daughter is unfortunately trapped in this crystal. And this girl did it.

0:06:39 Brennan: You see that he says,

0:06:39 Ostentatia’s Dad: Oh, thanks I guess. Oh God, Ostentatia, my sweetheart. First that dang poison tea, I can't keep her safe. I think I should probably just put her in Mumple.

0:06:52 Adaine: Oh, no, no, no. [everyone talking at once]

0:06:53 Kristen: Don't do that, she's nice.

0:06:55 Adaine: She’s such a good student.

0:06:55 Fig: She's so promising.

0:06:56 Fabian: This is not on you, this is on the world within you inhabit.

0:07:00 Ostentatia’s Dad: Oh….

0:07:01 Brennan: You see he takes his crystal out of his pocket, dials a number, and within a moment or two, you guys hear sirens approaching.

0:07:05 Fig: Shit, do we wanna be here?

0:07:10 Riz: Let's ask Aelwyn--

0:07:11 Fig: [at the same time as Riz] Yes, Aelwyn, why were you putting—

0:07:13 Riz: Why are you putting girls in the diamonds?

0:07:15 Emily: I'm still intimidating her, Whispers of Terror. I'm whispering in her ear.

0:07:19 Brennan: You see she says,

0:07:19 Aelwyn: This was my first try.

0:07:23 Riz: Where did you get the idea to do it? [silence]

0:07:27 Adaine: [offscreen] Was it Penelope Clearwater?

0:07:28 Murph: Can I do an Insight check on her?

0:07:28 Brennan: Sure. [dice rolling]

0:07:32 Murph: [holds up eight fingers] Phew, I can't get lower than an eight, 'cause of my thing [laughs]. So, I got like a 10.

0:07:36 Siobhan: [dice rolling] Oh, I got a 24.

0:07:40 Brennan: Great.

0:07:41 Siobhan: Insight.

0:07:42 Brennan: Um, you see your sister looks at you and says,

0:07:46 Aelwyn: I think you all well know where I got the idea from.

0:07:51 Fig: Was it Johnny Spells?

0:07:53 Adaine: No, was it Penelope Clearwater?

0:07:54 Fabian: Coach Daybreak.

0:07:56 Gorgug: [offscreen] Penelope Clearwater? Murph spreads his hands in an ‘I don’t know’ gesture.

0:07:57 Aelwyn: You really have no idea.

0:07:58 Adaine: Oh my goodness.

0:07:59 Gorgug: Was it my dad?

0:08:00 Fig: Or do we have—

0:08:00 Adaine: Our father?

0:08:00 Fig: —all of the ideas we need—

0:08:02 Adaine: [to Gorgug, a little exasperated] Your dad?

0:08:02 Fig: And we're just waiting for you--

0:08:03 Kristen: The Harvestmen?

0:08:03 Fig: —to come clean? So that we don't kick your fucking ass.

0:08:10 Aelwyn: [sighs] If you're going to kill me, just kill me.

0:08:12 Adaine: We're not going to kill you.

0:08:12 Fig: I'm not going to kill you.

0:08:12 Fabian: [offscreen] Nobody is going to kill you.

0:08:13 Adaine: We're just going to make you go to Mumple, which is much worse.

0:08:15 Fig: Yeah.

0:08:16 Aelwyn: [suddenly alarmed] You can't make me go to Mumple.

0:08:18 Adaine: I don't see why not.

0:08:18 Fig: Oh, we will make you go to Mumple.

0:08:19 Kristen: You'd fit in perfectly.

0:08:20 Adaine: Oh my goodness. You'd learn to be an innkeeper or a shopkeeper or a--

0:08:24 Emily: Can I say,

0:08:24 Fig: Hey, don't you and your jacket have that Mumple school uniform in her size?

0:08:30 Adaine: Oh, I do! I have exactly that, yes! [group laughing]

0:08:35 Aelwyn: [yelling] No, no, no, no, no! I won't go! [suddenly quiet] Listen, look, I can't tell you. Adaine, go to my room back at the house, I literally can't tell you.

0:08:52 Brennan: You, with your Insight check, see a look of genuine fear in her eyes and--

0:08:57 Adaine: Has somebody cast something on you?

0:08:59 Brennan: The cops pull up, [sirens blaring] and you see that your mom gets out with a couple other police.

0:09:02 Riz: Cool. [cupping hands around mouth to yell] Hey mom. [laughs]

0:09:05 Sklonda: God dammit honey!

0:09:07 Riz: Sorry.

0:09:08 Sklonda: What's going on?

0:09:09 Riz: Okay, so this girl, she put another girl, the Ostentatia, in a Palimpsest. We were tryin' to stop her and here we are, we did.

0:09:23 Sklonda: [frustrated noise] Well good job. Please stop taking the law into your own hands.

0:09:27 Riz: Yes, ma'am. [laughs] [Emily laughs]

0:09:29 Brennan: You see, she comes up, she escorts you guys down off the roof. They get a ladder up there to help you guys get down. You're sort of in the front.

0:09:38 Zac: I climb down the chimney. [feet stomping]

0:09:39 Lou: I flip off of my own accord. [bricks crumbling]

0:09:42 Murph: I jump into the pool. [water splashing] [group laughing]

0:09:44 Siobhan: Yeah, I use Blink to go down each flight of stairs.

0:09:46 Sklonda: The ladder’s for that!

0:09:47 Ally: [mimes climbing down a ladder] I take the ladder, I just go,

0:09:50 Kristen: Thank you ma'am.

0:09:50 Brennan: Uh, you see she goes,

0:09:50 Sklonda: Okay.

0:09:50 Brennan: She looks over at Aelwyn... A car pulls up. Angwyn and Arianwen step out.

0:10:00 Adaine: Hello mother, hello father.

0:10:02 Brennan: [offscreen] You see that she--

0:10:04 Emily: Such warmth.

0:10:04 Zac: Here I am at.

0:10:06 Murph: Here I am at.

0:10:08 Lou: [laughs] Right.

0:10:10 Brennan: You see that Angwyn, your father, steps up and says,

0:10:15 Angwyn: I'm so very sorry, there's been a misunderstanding. Myself and my children are covered by diplomatic immunity. Please release my daughter at once.

0:10:24 Emily: Oh! This is so fucked up.

0:10:25 Adaine: Yes, but she's gonna get in trouble though isn't she? She put a girl in a palimpsest.

0:10:30 Angwyn: What, what kind of trouble?

0:10:31 Adaine: She came to a party. I'm not allowed, she's not allowed to go to parties. She said she was going to study.

0:10:36 Angwyn: Well, there's no way of knowing that she wasn't here to study, Adaine.

0:10:40 Adaine: She wasn't.

0:10:42 Angwyn: Is there any proof of that?

0:10:43 Adaine: All of my friends— [crosstalk]

0:10:44 Riz: We have the—

0:10:46 Adaine: Oh yes.

0:10:47 Emily: I play the, I play the thing of the little kid talking.

0:10:50 Angwyn: Well I don't know that little human.

0:10:53 Kristen: [quietly, to Adaine] Check her room when you get home.

0:10:56 Riz: He goes to Hudol. Um, hey…

0:10:56 Murph: Can I pull Adaine aside.

0:10:59 Riz: Hey, should we steal your parents' car and go back to your house before they get there? Because they're definitely gonna clean up after your sister.

0:11:05 Adaine: I mean why don't we just get on the bike? I mean the three of us could fit on the bike and then—

0:11:08 Emily: I’m off somewhere else.

0:11:11 Kristen: Yeah. You get in a backpack and then—

0:11:13 Fig: You guys go, I have one last way to gather a little intel.

0:11:16 Brennan: You see, Detective Gukgak is speaking to Angwyn who says,

0:11:20 Angwyn: Excuse me, madam, if you would care to--

0:11:24 Brennan: You see that she looks and says,

0:11:24 Sklonda: We've met, sir. I was in your home earlier tonight.

0:11:29 Siobhan: I'm so bright red with embarassment and anger.

0:11:32 Brennan: He looks at her and says,

0:11:32 Angwyn: Release my daughter from these handcuffs at once.

0:11:39 Brennan: You see that your mom gets a look in her eye. Like this goblin look, like her pupils look slit a little bit, and she says,

0:11:45 Sklonda: Well sir, your diplomatic immunity obviously comes from your position as a diplomat, and extends to your family. However, diplomatic immunity can be revoked if any member of that diplomat's family feels unsafe in the presence of said individual.

0:12:00 Adaine: I feel unsafe.

0:12:01 Sklonda: Oh, well, we gotta take her in for custody. Thank you young madam.

0:12:05 Brennan: You see that she grabs Aelwyn, like jumps up to grab the back of her head, and like puts it into the cruiser and throws her in the back, slams the door. [car door slams] You see that your father turns and says,

0:12:12 Angwyn: What have you done? A member of this family in a goblin's jail cell?

0:12:21 Adaine: She tried to murder me.

0:12:24 Angwyn: A-a-a-and be that as it, [pointing] you let her go at once, un-apprehend that young woman.

0:12:31 Brennan: You see that your mom turns and looks at him and says,

0:12:35 Sklonda: Your Eminency, with all due respect, suck my dick, [gives a middle finger] fuck you, if you have any problems, you can come downtown. Or I can ask your daughter if you make her feel unsafe.

0:12:46 Fig: Nice.

0:12:46 Riz: [offscreen] Hell yeah, mom.

0:12:46 Adaine: [looking at Riz] Your mom is so cool.

0:12:48 Fig: [at the same time as everyone else] I’m so glad Gilear is hitting on that.

0:12:48 Riz: [claps his hands] Strong mom, just a strong mom.

0:12:51 Kristen: So, will they have to go down and tidy it up?

0:12:53 Adaine: Can I come stay with you guys? [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

0:12:55 Brennan: You see that she gets in the cruiser, looks to you and says,

0:12:57 Sklonda: [pointing at Riz] Home!

0:12:59 Riz: [thumbs up] Yes ma'am.

0:13:00 Brennan: She takes off in the cruiser.

0:13:01 Emily: And they're going back to the--

0:13:04 Ally: They're going downtown with her?

0:13:05 Emily: Downtown?

0:13:07 Brennan: The Abernants look like they're standing here and discussing things for a moment.

0:13:09 Emily: I'm talking about where is um--

0:13:11 Murph: Let's get downtown. [crosstalk]

0:13:12 Siobhan: Let's go right now!

0:13:12 Emily: I'm talking about, Aelwyn is going to be downtown in the prison?

0:13:14 Brennan: Yep.

0:13:16 Emily: Okay.

0:13:16 Brennan: As she's loaded into the cruiser, right before the door closes, she looks over at you [at Fabian] and goes,

0:13:19 Aelwyn: [licks her lips, sexually]

0:13:21 Fabian: Oh. [winks, makes a ‘call me’ gesture] [group laughing]

0:13:25 Riz: Fabian, Fabian, we need to go.

0:13:26 Kristen: Fabian.

0:13:26 Fabian: On my motorbike, let's go.

0:13:28 Adaine: That's not okay.

0:13:29 Fabian: What's not okay?

0:13:30 Zac: Are we all getting onto the bike?

0:13:31 Murph: We can't all get on the motorbike.

0:13:32 Ally: No you can't.

0:13:33 Lou: Well, then, I'll take—

0:13:34 Emily: It's okay.

0:13:34 Ally: I'll stay.

0:13:35 Emily: I think I should go down, I wanna go, I have, I-I would like to do something at the police office.

0:13:39 Ally: Like—

0:13:42 Fabian: Right, well I'll take Adaine and Riz,

0:13:42 Riz: Okay.

0:13:42 Fabian: The Ball, and—

0:13:46 Gorgug: Do you wanna go— we can go, go to the— the police station.

0:13:47 Emily: Yeah.

0:13:48 Siobhan: Go to the police office.

0:13:52 Brennan: Those who go to the Abernant home, you arrive there, ostensibly a minute or two before your parents are gonna head home. While Brennan is talking, the screen shows a map of Elmville, with a red line going from Ostentatia’s house to the Abernant home. They’re pretty close together.

0:14:00 Brennan: What do you guys do when you arrive there?

0:14:01 Siobhan: Go straight to Aelwyn's room.

0:14:02 Lou: Yes.

0:14:04 Brennan: You go to Aelwyn's room. Go ahead and anyone who's here make an Investigate check.

0:14:09 Murph: This is what I'm supposed to do.

0:14:11 Lou: [chuckles] It's time. Private eye Fabian. Murph, Siobhan, and Lou all roll.

0:14:15 Siobhan: Nat 20. [holding up two fingers on each hand]

0:14:16 Murph: 24.

0:14:16 Siobhan: Nat 20.

0:14:16 Lou: [offscreen] 11!

0:14:16 Emily: Nice!

0:14:16 Brennan: 20 and a 24.

0:14:17 Lou: [proud] 12!

0:14:19 Brennan: Riz, you discover tons and tons of drugs, money hidden under the bed, there's handcuffs, you see there's a couple of loaded guns.

0:14:31 Siobhan: Oh my God!

0:14:31 Zac: Oh God.

0:14:31 Emily: Whoa! [immediately less impressed, pointing to Murph] Eh, you carry one.

0:14:34 Lou: Can I take those handcuffs? [smug expression, takes a suggestive drink] [group laughing]

0:14:37 Brennan: [offscreen] You absolutely may take those.

0:14:38 Adaine: I don't even know you anymore, man.

0:14:40 Murph: I hide them from Fabian.

0:14:43 Riz: It's weird, nothing sexual found here.

0:14:45 Brennan: You guys, what you find is in the books. You find inside of Aelwyn's spell books, the spell you saw before, Modify Memory. You see another spell, Conjure Elemental. You see another spell, that it looks like Aelwyn has researched and crafted herself with [gestures to Siobhan] your notes on the margins of it. Things that she's copied from your divination books.

0:14:59 Siobhan: Uh huh.

0:15:13 Brennan: The spell has a very disturbing name. It is called, Detect Maiden.

0:15:17 Emily: Ew.

0:15:17 Adaine: Detect Maiden? So she can tell people are virgins? Ew! Ugh! [sticks out her tongue in disgust]

0:15:24 Fabian: It's not so bad to be a virgin.

0:15:26 Adaine: No, I know, but why do you wanna know?

0:15:27 Riz: [offscreen] Why would you detect them?

0:15:28 Emily: No one who's detecting maidens, is a maiden.

0:15:30 Lou: You're not here.

0:15:31 Emily: By the way. ...Oh, uh, you're right. I shut the fuck up. [group laughing]

0:15:38 Riz: I had a crazy dream where my babysitter, who is missing, said that she was, her time was running up. So I think this is all bad.

0:15:48 Fabian: All right, well I mean, is there anything else to collect? I mean otherwise we can--

0:15:51 Riz: Yeah, what else?

0:15:52 Brennan: Riz, you also find that little runic thing around the ship in the closet, that Adaine found earlier. The Harpy.

0:15:59 Murph: Yeah.

0:16:00 Riz: Do you know anything about these little runes or anything?

0:16:03 Adaine: I don't,

0:16:03 Siobhan: Can I cast Detect Magic on it? I don't think, oh, can I cast Identify on it? [magical Identify whoosh]

0:16:12 Identify Spell: [energetic, posh British accent] Ah, yes. [group laughing]

0:16:15 Identify Spell: An effigy used in the casting of long-range evocation spells. This storm summoning sigil uses a carving of the object meant to be ensorcelled that has been made to look as though it is the larger object. The wood used in this rendering of the Harpy was taken from the actual Harpy itself, making the spell almost impossible to avoid. Notice the runes around the outside of the invocation spell, also include element of illusion magic to hide the spell from powerful diviners such as prophets and oracles.

0:16:53 Adaine: [gasps] Oracles. How... is there a timing on it? Does it say when the spell is gonna hit the Harpy? [magical Identify music]

0:17:02 Identify Spell: It appears it already has. The date in question, September 1st of last year. This has been another use of the Identify spell.

0:17:14 Fabian: I mean— [confused vocalizations]

0:17:16 Adaine: But the ship that went down wasn't the Harpy, it was the Cerulean. Unless, there was some sort of trickery involved. Which I guess is also… a lot of stuff is happening is trickery.

0:17:22 Riz: Yes.

0:17:25 Adaine: [putting her fingers to her temples] Ah.

0:17:28 Riz: Do you know anything about the Harpy?

0:17:30 Fabian: Do I have any ship knowledge? [laughs]

0:17:34 Brennan: You know who does.

0:17:36 Fabian: All right, well, my father would.

0:17:37 Adaine: Well, I mean, let’s get back on the bike before my parents—

0:17:40 Fabian: Fantastic.

0:17:41 Lou: We'll head to my house and I'll text the rest of the group that that's where we're headed.

0:17:46 Brennan: [rolls a die] Roll to see if something good or bad happens, okay.

0:17:48 Murph: Can we take pictures or anything of this?

0:17:51 Brennan: You can snag it all on your phone, no sweat.

0:17:52 Murph: Great.

0:17:52 Siobhan: [offscreen] Great.

0:17:54 Brennan: You guys walk out the front door to your [points at Siobhan] two parents coming up the garden path.

0:18:00 Murph: I'm gonna hide.

0:18:01 Riz: Let's go out the back. You got a back door? [laughs]

0:18:04 Brennan: You see your father says,

0:18:05 Angwyn: [intensely angry] It was a very brilliant move at that house, Adaine. A diplomat's child cannot be taken into custody. It is an insult to the nation of Fallinel. [points at Adaine] There will be consequences for this. Drastic consequences. Your foolishness, taking Aelwyn, she is your sister.

0:18:29 Adaine: You have treated me like a second class citizen in this house for as long as I remember. She has been treated like some sort of golden child and she is no better than me and in fact, is in many ways, worse. She's putting children in crystals. She has a spell called Detect Maiden. That's creepy.

0:18:51 Angwyn: [quietly] I understand that sisters are jealous. But, maybe if you applied yourself to your studies a little more—

0:18:58 Siobhan: I cast Invisibility on myself [laughs]. [magical whooshing]

0:19:02 Brennan: Poof. Your father looks around.

0:19:03 Angwyn: Well, she's teleported away, that's fine.

0:19:05 Brennan: And he walks up the garden path. But your—

0:19:07 Fabian: Goodbye.

0:19:10 Brennan: Your mother stays. [somber music]

0:19:16 Arianwen: I don't know if you're still here. Your father was never really good at recognizing spells. He's not a very talented practical caster. I believe you, and I'm very sorry.

0:19:32 Brennan: You see a little tear forms in your mom's eye and she walks into the house. Adaine is clearly trying not to cry, sniffing repeatedly. [group laughing]

0:19:40 Fabian: All right, with that we should be off.

0:19:42 Murph: [laughing] Riz and Fabian are just —

0:19:43 Adaine: Oh, by the way, I'm still here, so--

0:19:45 Riz: Okay, good.

0:19:45 Fabian: Okay, good.

0:19:45 Riz: Your mom just stared out, instead of saying it to us—

0:19:47 Fabian: Check it.

0:19:48 Riz: To like relay it, she just—

0:19:49 Adaine: The spell is gonna run out—

0:19:50 Riz: —stared off into the abyss.

0:19:52 Adaine: —in like 10 seconds. So, let's go.

0:19:54 Fabian: We, I was like we were the only ones—

0:19:54 Riz: Yeah. I was—

0:19:54 Fabian: —who were there for that—

0:19:56 Riz: At first I was like is she talking to me, is she talking to Fabian?

0:19:59 Fabian: Exactly.

0:20:00 Riz : She's talking to, okay, great, cool.

0:20:01 Fabian: Cool.

0:20:01 Riz: Let's go.

0:20:02 Fabian: All right, yes. [wobbly voice] Away.

0:20:03 Brennan: You guys head out. The other three, you're still at the crime scene Kristen, right? Or…

0:20:09 Ally: I went with them to the—

0:20:09 Emily: Yeah.

0:20:10 Brennan: You three went to the precinct.

0:20:11 Emily: [offscreen] All at the precinct. The screen is showing a map of Elm Valley, with a red line going from Ostentatia’s house to the precinct.

0:20:13 Brennan: Cool, you guys are already at the precinct.

0:20:15 Emily: I disguise—

0:20:15 Zac: What are we doing?

0:20:16 Emily: —myself as Penelope Everpetal.

0:20:19 Brennan: [offscreen] Cool.

0:20:20 Emily: I cast Disguise Self as Penelope Everpetal and I want to talk to, to try to talk to, Aelwyn.

0:20:29 Brennan: Aelwyn. Um, cool. Do you walk into the precinct looking like Penelope?

0:20:32 Emily: No, I walk in looking like Fig. Well, I'm looking, like if she's gonna be there, if I see her I'm gonna go back and then come back in as Penelope. But, I might just wait till right before I go in to meet with her.

0:20:44 Brennan: You take a look and you don't see an obvious cell where Aelwyn is being kept. You could try to make an Investigate check to find her, but, that would involve you going into the precinct. Which would —

0:20:53 Emily: Okay, I'll just become Penelope Everpetal. I'm Penelope Everpetal.

0:20:57 Zac: But, isn't she missing? Aren't people gonna freak out?

0:20:59 Emily: I thought--

0:20:59 Brennan: Penelope's not missing. Penelope's a popular girl.

0:21:01 Emily: Yeah, she came--

0:21:01 Zac: Oh I’m— I got her confused—

0:21:02 Emily: Penelope was at her house earlier today.

0:21:04 Zac: [nodding] Gotcha, nevermind.

0:21:05 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:21:06 Emily: So I go in.

0:21:07 Brennan: You walk in as Penelope. “Penelope” (Fig): [valley girl accent] Hi, I like heard that, I heard that Aelwyn was here? Can I speak with Aelwyn?

0:21:16 Brennan: You see there's a sort of thick-necked half-orc guy, in kind of a highway cop getup, looks at you and says,

0:21:27 Cop: [deeper voice] Uh, oh, Aelwyn Abernant? “Penelope” (Fig): Yeah.

0:21:31 Cop: [looking at a paper] Yeah, she's not accepting visitors right now. “Penelope” (Fig): She would be if she knew it was me.

0:21:35 Zac: Can I get Insight check on this guy to see--

0:21:36 Brennan: Sure. [Zac rolls Insight]

0:21:38 Siobhan: Oh oh!

0:21:38 Zac: Nat 20. Is he my dad? [Emily, Siobhan, and Ally laugh]

0:21:44 Brennan: Uh, you look at this dude. [somber music] Half-orc, right age, every possibility that this guy could be your dad. [Emily laughs]

0:21:55 Brennan: It would be so simple for this guy to be your dad. And you see that he looks over at him, looks over at you, he has like a weird familiarity in his eyes. He goes,

0:22:09 Cop: Gorgug?

0:22:15 Siobhan: Oh my God.

0:22:15 Gorgug: Yeah, I'm Gorgug.

0:22:19 Cop: Oh my God!

0:22:20 Gorgug: Who are you?

0:22:22 Cop: You're that freaky kid who steals backpacks! [group laughing]

0:22:28 Gorgug: I don't, I think there's been some wires got crossed.

0:22:31 Murph: Got a Nat 20 and then got dunked on. [group laughing]

0:22:35 Gorgug: I don't steal backpacks. It’s sort of this, my friend was being funny for a backpack, I caught it, so.

0:22:45 Brennan: You don't think this guy's your dad, bummer. [Zac sighs in the background]

0:22:49 Brennan: But you do notice that he seems generally just like as antagonistic and kind of, not into helping as these guys generally are. “Penelope” (Fig): I think you're gonna wanna talk to Aelwyn, and if you need I could bring Mr. Everpetal down here.

0:23:07 Brennan: Go ahead and make an Intimidate check. [dice rolling]

0:23:12 Emily: It's gonna be another 24.

0:23:15 Brennan: 24.

0:23:15 Emily: Yeah.

0:23:16 Brennan: See he goes—

0:23:17 Emily: Tap my fingers on his—

0:23:18 Cop: Ah, rich girl, all right.

0:23:20 Brennan: You see that he gets up, says,

0:23:20 Cop: Come on with me. “Penelope” (Fig): Okay.

0:23:25 Brennan: He leads you into this room where you see that Aelwyn is all done up in chains. She's sitting on a bench in a little jail cell. It's like a general holding thing. So the cop walks you back and then just sort of stands there. “Penelope” (Fig): [whispering] Like, what happened?

0:23:44 Brennan: She looks up at you. Make a Deception check.

0:23:50 Emily: I have advantage, right, because I'm an actor?

0:23:51 Brennan: You do.

0:23:51 Emily: I have the actor feat. [dice clinking]

0:23:53 Emily: Well that's gonna be a 29 or a—

0:23:57 Murph: [shocked] How do you roll so well?

0:23:59 Ally: God.

0:24:00 Emily: Or a 26. I have plus 11 to Deception.

0:24:01 Murph: What?

0:24:02 Ally: Jesus.

0:24:03 Murph: Yeah, wow.

0:24:04 Ally: [offscreen] That's crazy.

0:24:06 Emily: I had an advantage on it.

0:24:08 Brennan: You see she looks up at you and says,

0:24:12 Aelwyn: [also whispering] My little sister and her friends caught me. “Penelope” (Fig): Did you get her? Where is she? Where is the crystal?

0:24:25 Brennan: She looks at the cop standing right next to you, and says,

0:24:27 Aelwyn: The evidence locker, I imagine. “Penelope” (Fig): They caught you?

0:24:33 Aelwyn: Yes. “Penelope” (Fig): He is not gonna be happy.

0:24:36 Aelwyn: I know. “Penelope” (Fig): What are you gonna tell him?

0:24:40 Aelwyn: [shrugs] I don't imagine I'll be saying much of anything to anyone. “Penelope” (Fig): Do you want me to go to talk to him? [nervous smile]

0:24:47 Aelwyn: Yes, I think you should. “Penelope” (Fig): Okay. Do you know where? [laughs] [group laughing] “Penelope” (Fig): Shit, um, my crystal's actually dead. Do you know where he lives? My crystal fucking died. Because I've been running around all night trying to find you.

0:25:06 Aelwyn: I don't, my crystal's not, I don't have anything on me anymore. “Penelope” (Fig): But I'm saying, where is he tonight.

0:25:14 Aelwyn: You know that I don't know. “Penelope” (Fig): How did he get in touch with you?

0:25:20 Aelwyn: You got in touch with me. “Penelope” (Fig): Cool, I need to use the bathroom. [group laughing]

0:25:30 Brennan: Oh you see, that the cop says,

0:25:30 Cop: Uh, okay, sure.

0:25:33 Brennan: And lets you go use the women's restroom.

0:25:37 Emily: Okay. I climb out the window of the women's restroom. [group laughing] And I knock on the front door [knuckles knocking] to tell him [laughs].

0:25:44 Gorgug: What?

0:25:44 Emily: To come out.

0:25:44 Gorgug: Why are you outside?

0:25:44 Kristen: Is that Fig? Okay, yeah, let's go...

0:25:48 Gorgug: You're knocking on the front door of the police station. Fig is gesturing for the other two to come out.

0:25:51 Ally: We run out.

0:25:52 Kristen: What happened?

0:25:53 Fig: Penelope Everpetal—

0:25:53 Kristen: Let's keep going.

0:25:55 Emily: Okay, we start walking.

0:25:56 Fig: Penelope Everpetal put her up to it.

0:25:59 Gorgug: Okay.

0:25:59 Kristen: Penelope?

0:26:01 Fig: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:26:02 Kristen: Okay, so let's go get her?

0:26:04 Fig: Yeah, let's go rendezvous—

0:26:04 Gorgug: Let's like go with this--

0:26:04 Fig: with the other people and just consolidate intel.

0:26:09 Gorgug: Hey, what do we call our group by the way?

0:26:12 Kristen: [strained] The Dads.

0:26:12 Gorgug: [offscreen] The Dads? [Emily laughing]

0:26:16 Gorgug: I don't think that fits at all.

0:26:17 Fig: The daddy-less daughters.

0:26:17 Kristen: Daddy issues. [Emily and Ally laughing]

0:26:21 Gorgug: Anyways, let's all meet back up.

0:26:22 Kristen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They texted—

0:26:23 Murph: So I think we probably text you guys.

0:26:23 Ally: Yeah.

0:26:23 Murph: That we're going to— The map of Elmville is onscreen, showing two red lines from the police station and the Abernant home that go to the Seacaster Manor.

0:26:27 Ally: [offscreen] So we all made it to Seacaster's?

0:26:29 Brennan: You guys meet at Seacaster Manor.

0:26:30 Fig: Guys.

0:26:30 Gorgug: [to Adaine] Can I ask you a question?

0:26:32 Adaine: Yeah.

0:26:32 Gorgug: About the thing that you saw. With the runes?

0:26:34 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:26:35 Gorgug: Do you think that's the thing actually casting the spell on whatever the ship is? What would happen if you broke that?

0:26:40 Adaine: The Harpy?

0:26:41 Fabian: Oh!

0:26:41 Adaine: But it already happened.

0:26:42 Riz: I think it already happened.

0:26:42 Fig: Is it invisible?

0:26:42 Fabian: The spell was cast--

0:26:42 Adaine: September the 1st.

0:26:42 Fabian: On September 1st of last year.

0:26:46 Gorgug: But isn't it keeping something hidden?

0:26:47 Fig: But why would it still be going?

0:26:48 Fabian: No, I mean as far as the Identify spell explained it—

0:26:51 Fig: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:26:54 Fabian: It kept anyone from knowing that the spell was being cast. Or that it had been cast.

0:26:59 Ally: Can I do Insight to check on that?

0:27:02 Brennan: Uh, yeah, you can make an Insight check. Actually it would be a Perception check.

0:27:04 Adaine: [offscreen] Can you do— Ally rolls a die.

0:27:04 Adaine: [offscreen] Detect Good and Evil on it?

0:27:08 Ally: 11.

0:27:09 Brennan: You look at it, it seems like a piece of arcane magic that is not really either good or evil. It seems like it was a powerful storm evocation that sunk a ship.

0:27:19 Emily: So it doesn't feel like it's still continuing?

0:27:21 Brennan: No, it looks like it was a—

0:27:22 Zac: [offscreen] No.

0:27:23 Fig: Why would she hang on to it?

0:27:23 Adaine: Right?

0:27:26 Lou: Can I call for my Papa? [Emily laughing]

0:27:28 Brennan: You get to Seacaster Manor, you see that your father's in the drawing room with this banker guy again. You see this guy, Mr. Hughes, in there. They each have like a glass of brandy. Your father looks at you and says,

0:27:42 Bill Seacaster: Aye, young Fabian, my boy, my darling boy.

0:27:47 Fabian: [laughing] Hello, Papa, ah, good to see you.

0:27:49 Bill: You and your young friends, you seem to have some battle scars on ya'.

0:27:54 Fabian: Haha, yes Papa, another one well fought. [laughs]

0:27:59 Bill: Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's what I like to hear. Young, reedy Mr. Hughes here would know nothing of battle would you?

0:28:05 Brennan: See the banker goes,

0:28:05 Mr. Hughes: Uh, no, I would not.

0:28:10 Fabian: [smiling] Well, it is fine Mr. Hughes, everyone has their lot in life. [suddenly serious] Papa, do you know of a ship known as—

0:28:16 Gorgug: Oh, wait, hold on.

0:28:16 Kristen: No, maybe we could —

0:28:18 Gorgug: Can we talk over here?

0:28:18 Kristen: Yeah.

0:28:20 Gorgug: Do you mind if we talk over here for a second?

0:28:22 Fig: I'm gonna chat with Mr. Hughes.

0:28:24 Brennan: Cool.

0:28:24 Gorgug: [offscreen] Wait.

0:28:25 Fig: Just to get a vibe from him. You guys can go.

0:28:28 Emily: I don't have anything in particular to say.

0:28:29 Kristen: You know we probably shouldn't--

0:28:30 Emily: I just want to learn.

0:28:30 Kristen: —mention all this stuff in front of the bank guy.

0:28:31 Fabian: I was just going to ask about the Harpy.

0:28:33 Gorgug: I just feel like…

0:28:35 Zac: [looks at Brennan] Are we out of--

0:28:36 Brennan: Sure, you are out of earshot, yeah.

0:28:37 Gorgug: I don't know what that guy's doing. Because remember there's weird stuff going on with the bank.

0:28:41 Kristen: Yeah, the bank might be like the epicenter of all this.

0:28:43 Fabian: But we don't know which bank he's from.

0:28:45 Gorgug: Maybe we just don't have a conversation in front of him.

0:28:46 Kristen: Yeah.

0:28:48 Mr. Hughes: [talking to Fig] Uh, well, young lady, I represent KVX Bank. We're based out of Bastion City.

0:28:52 Fig: Is that the bank that doesn't have free lollipops?

0:28:56 Mr. Hughes: We have a policy about not handing out sweets or pens to people.

0:28:59 Fig: Okay, cool. You work out of like an office?

0:29:03 Mr. Hughes: I work out of a skyscraper. The financial headquarters down in Bastion City.

0:29:08 Kristen: I'm bored!

0:29:08 Fig: [offscreen] Wow. [group laughing]

0:29:12 Kristen: All right, what are we gonna do tonight?

0:29:14 Brennan: Bill Seacaster looks over at you and says,

0:29:16 Bill: Young lady, why are you bored?

0:29:19 Kristen: Oh, no, I was just kidding.

0:29:21 Brennan: He says,

0:29:21 Bill: Don't you know that me and this fella here are in the same line of work? Ha, ha, ha.

0:29:25 Kristen: No way!

0:29:26 Bill: Oh that we are! We're both thieves.

0:29:29 Adaine: I thought you were a privateer sir.

0:29:31 Bill: What?

0:29:31 Adaine: A privateer.

0:29:33 Bill: A privateer? Who said I was a privateer?

0:29:36 Fabian: But, Papa—

0:29:37 Bill: Who put those words— I, young lady, am a pirate through and through.

0:29:40 Kristen: Oh.

0:29:43 Fabian: Papa, sometimes in mixed company, I'll describe your chosen profession as a privateer. You might come off as more of a gentleman, you know.

0:29:55 Bill: [dismayed] More of a gentleman?

0:29:59 Fabian: But it's just random. In mixed company it's just I'm not, sometimes the word pirate can be construed as a, you know, something negative.

0:30:06 Fig: [interjecting] Fabian made out with a hot girl tonight. [Riz laughs] Bill Seacaster turns his head to look at her instead.

0:30:08 Fabian: [offscreen] I did.

0:30:11 Fig: [quickly, embarrassed] Tried to help, sorry, I tried to help.

0:30:12 Bill: [offscreen] I—

0:30:14 Kristen: So did I, but, she wasn't real. [laughs]

0:30:16 Bill: I'm going to table [somber music] how proud I am of you for making out [Emily laughing] for a moment.

0:30:20 Fig: [whispering] Sorry, I tried.

0:30:24 Bill: Are you ashamed of me boy?

0:30:27 Fabian: I’m not— I could never be ashamed of you, Papa.

0:30:29 Bill: Why not say what I am? [somber music becomes distinctly pirate-like]

0:30:32 Fabian: I mean--

0:30:33 Bill: Does this man shame you?

0:30:34 Brennan: You see he draws his rapier [steel screeching] and holds it to the banker's throat, who just stops. [anticipatory music]

0:30:40 Bill: Does this man shame you? Would it bring shame to any of you to have this man as your father? Let me tell you somethin', what this man is, I am. But, more honest. You ever take someone's home away from 'em, Mr. Hughes? [music stops]

0:30:55 Brennan: So he goes,

0:30:55 Mr. Hughes: We occasionally foreclose on a property. [music starts again]

0:30:59 Bill: Aye, I've robbed many things in this world, but never someone's dwelling place. I am the courageous version, of this man. And every man like him. [music stops]

0:31:12 Adaine: I mean I certainly think that you are better than my dad.

0:31:15 Kristen: My dad too.

0:31:16 Fig: I have two dads and they're both great. [group laughing]

0:31:21 Brennan: You see, he looks at you [pointing at Fabian] and says, [somber music]

0:31:26 Bill: You and I were raised very differently, and I'm realizing that now. There's no shame in bein' who ya' are. I'm a pirate, lad, and I'm sorry that that gave you pause and felt like something you had to conceal. Then he sheathes the sword.

0:31:47 Fabian: [uncomfortably] I'd like to just adjourn to my room for a second.

0:31:50 Adaine: I am so sorry I got you in trouble I really didn’t mean to.

0:31:52 Riz: Does Mr. Hughes have a briefcase or anything?

0:31:54 Brennan: He does. Bill Seacaster goes to walk away. Mr. Hughes says,

0:31:58 Mr. Hughes: I better be—

0:31:59 Brennan: And Bill Seacaster kicks him right in the head, kicks him out of his chair, gets on a rope and swings sadly off into a crow's nest. [group laughing]

0:32:04 Gorgug: Aw.

0:32:09 Mr. Hughes: I'm going to be going. I've been kicked in the head by one of my—

0:32:12 Zac: Can I make an Insight check on him?

0:32:14 Brennan: Sure. [dice rolling]

0:32:14 Siobhan: Yeah, I would like to do that too.

0:32:16 Zac: All right I got--

0:32:17 Emily: I'm just memorizing what he's wearing. [dice rolling]

0:32:18 Murph: I'd like to pretend to be like helping him get up and stuff, but try to swipe anything I can out of—

0:32:23 Brennan: Give me a Stealth Check—

0:32:23 Emily: [offscreen] Ooh!

0:32:23 Brennan: —and a Sleight of Hand.

0:32:25 Emily: I'll also, I'll just play some music to try and distract him.

0:32:29 Fig: What's your favorite song Mr. Hughes?

0:32:30 Mr. Hughes: Not now.

0:32:30 Murph: [rolls twice] Stealth, 19. Sleight of Hand, so good, 21.

0:32:38 Brennan: What do you wanna grab for? This guy's wallet, business card?

0:32:41 Murph: Let me grab for his, just somethin' quick.

0:32:46 Brennan: [sliding sound effect] You grab a card out of his—

0:32:46 Murph: Okay.

0:32:46 Brennan: —out of his coat. Fabian, do you head off to your room?

0:32:52 Lou: Mm-hmm.

0:32:54 Brennan: You guys see Fabian walks off into Seacaster Manor.

0:32:57 Fig: So we should probably leave, right? 'Cause we're just in someone's house and they're just--

0:33:02 Riz: [offscreen] We should go to Fabian's room.

0:33:02 Adaine: No, we should go to Fabian's room then.

0:33:03 Riz: We should talk to Fabian.

0:33:03 Fig: You think that Fabian wants this?

0:33:04 Adaine: To get this information.

0:33:05 Gorgug: Let's just try to cheer him up.

0:33:07 Riz: Let's just go to Fabian's room.

0:33:08 Fig: All right, all right.

0:33:11 Murph: We'd like to go up to Fabian's room.

0:33:12 Brennan: The card you get says Alston Hughes, KVX Bank. You see that the KVX is this little slanted red logo KVX Bank. There's his crystal number on it, address of the office down in Bastion City. The department that he is a part of is special investments.

0:33:37 Siobhan: Can I do an Arcana check on the logo?

0:33:42 Brennan: Give me an Arcana check on the logo. [dice rolling]

0:33:45 Emily: I like that, that's a sassy move.

0:33:48 Siobhan: 7, [vocalizing] 14.

0:33:48 Brennan: 14.

0:33:51 Gorgug: KVX, like roman numerals like V, what is VX, 50?

0:33:57 Adaine: Well, but, no. VX is five and then 10, but--

0:33:59 Fig: The K is…

0:34:02 Adaine: Not how you would do it.

0:34:03 Fig: What is K?

0:34:04 Riz: Doesn't it minus if it's on the left side?

0:34:07 Kristen: Yeah.

0:34:07 Adaine: No, but if you, I mean, ten minus five is just five, so, it would just be five. So, it's not Roman numerals.

0:34:13 Riz: Right. Mmkay.

0:34:15 Brennan: You guys head over to Fabian's room. You guys haven't been to Fabian's room. Fabian, what's your room look like? [laughs]

0:34:20 Lou: It's like very cool, there's not like a ton going on. Like the floor is clean as hell, the bed is absolutely massive, and then there’s just like a massive picture of my father over my bed. [group laughing]

0:34:37 Lou: And then a bunch of like heirlooms and different trophies that he'd won or that I especially liked all over, and have hung up. And I think I'm just on my side on my bed like looking away out the window very, very sad.

0:34:44 Fig: Hey Fabian.

0:34:52 Adaine: I'm so sorry I got you in trouble.

0:34:54 Fabian: [quietly, transparently lying] Everything's fine.

0:34:54 Fig: Fabian.

0:34:55 Adaine: But also, like you made out with my sister.

0:34:56 Fig: [holding out a flask] Have some Gnomish whiskey.

0:34:58 Fabian: [offscreen] What?

0:34:58 Fig: Have some Gnomish whiskey.

0:35:00 Fabian: Fine. [Lou retching]

0:35:03 Fabian: Oh God! [group laughing]

0:35:04 Fabian: Oh that's disgusting, oh my God!

0:35:06 Fig: I stole it from the hospital. [Lou coughing]

0:35:10 Adaine: Do you have any of the Elvish wine left?

0:35:11 Fig: Yeah, fine Elvish wine, yeah.

0:35:12 Adaine: I think I would like--

0:35:14 Fig: I have a flask for each.

0:35:14 Adaine: To have a drink.

0:35:15 Kristen: [excited] I'll try some alcohol.

0:35:16 Gorgug: Should we all—

0:35:16 Fig: [handing out drinks] Here's some Gnomish whiskey!

0:35:16 Gorgug: —just get drunk right now?

0:35:18 Fabian: I guess. [laughs] Is it the mood?

0:35:21 Riz: I am not gonna get drunk.

0:35:22 Gorgug: What do you have, can I try something? Adaine hands Gorgug a drink.

0:35:24 Kristen: [offscreen] This tastes crazy.

0:35:24 Fig: I’ve got fine Elvish wine, Dwarven vodka and Gnomish whiskey.

0:35:28 Fabian: I'll have some of the Elvish wine.

0:35:30 Kristen: When we do like wine and bread at church, they always use grape juice. I've never had actual wine before. [takes a drink]

0:35:36 Fig: [offscreen] Go to town, girl.

0:35:38 Brennan: You see that Cathilda, the halfling maid, walks in with a bunch of shot glasses.

0:35:44 Cathilda: [pirate accent, but not as much as Bill] All right, children, well hello there. Would you like something to drink?

0:35:48 Fig: [offscreen] How did you know?

0:35:48 Kristen: I guess I'll do a shot.

0:35:49 Fig: Yeah.

0:35:50 Cathilda: Well, we have a little bit of tequila here if you'd like, and I certainly could cut some limes.

0:35:54 Gorgug: You have a tray of tequila?

0:35:55 Cathilda: Little tray of tequila for the master's son.

0:35:58 Fabian: Please, Cathilda, could you make my favorite snack?

0:36:01 Cathilda: Of course I can.

0:36:02 Brennan: You see that she takes a little tin, unwinds it, a little thing of kippers right in front of you. Cathilda hands the snack to Fabian.

0:36:05 Fabian: Thank you. [shoves them in his mouth] [group laughing]

0:36:09 Cathilda: And any snacks for the rest of you?

0:36:11 Kristen: I've only seen this on movies. [does a shot, groans in pain] [group laughing]

0:36:17 Kristen: Keep 'em comin'!

0:36:18 Adaine: Yeah—

0:36:19 Fig: Am I allowed to—

0:36:19 Adaine: —I'll take some snacks.

0:36:19 Fig: —smoke in here?

0:36:20 Fabian: Of course.

0:36:20 Fig: Okay, cool.

0:36:24 Kristen: I'm good on snacks. I think I'm not gonna eat. Crazy that we were at a party and we're just now partying. [laughs]

0:36:27 Adaine: Yeah.

0:36:30 Fig: [holding a cigarette] Hey Cathilda?

0:36:30 Cathilda: Yes. [ding]

0:36:33 Emily: I wink and give her a little Bardic Inspiration.

0:36:35 Cathilda: Well thank you very much, lass, I appreciate that.

0:36:37 Fabian: Cathilda, would you leave us?

0:36:40 Cathilda: I'll do that right now.

0:36:40 Brennan: So turns—

0:36:41 Adaine: Thank you so much Cathilda.

0:36:42 Gorgug: Thank you.

0:36:42 Fig: Thank you.

0:36:43 Cathilda: Aaaaall right and you're welcome children.

0:36:44 Brennan: She walks away.

0:36:45 Lou: I'd like to lock the door.

0:36:48 Riz: I don't wanna be this guy while we're having a party, but, Fabian, why do you think your dad's talking to this bank guy?

0:36:52 Fig: [quietly] Yeah.

0:36:55 Fabian: I don't know. My father's in all sorts of business. He's stupid wealthy. I know none of you have wealthy parents.

0:37:03 Adaine: [offended] I have wealthy parents.

0:37:04 Fabian: You have wealthy parents. You know what it's like, our parents are involved in all number of things that I have no idea about.

0:37:10 Adaine: It's terrible.

0:37:11 Kristen: Special investments is what that guy was in.

0:37:13 Fig and Riz: Should we?

0:37:13 Fig: Go to Bastion City?

0:37:15 Riz: Call his—

0:37:17 Fig: Road trip.

0:37:17 Riz: Or we can just maybe, borrow Bill Seacaster's--

0:37:17 Adaine: I mean why don't we, why don't we,

0:37:17 Riz: —cell phone and text this number?

0:37:25 Adaine: Or we can maybe look up what special investments means?

0:37:29 Gorgug: Yeah, I think I’m still kinda hurt.

0:37:30 Riz: Can we see if we can go to this—

0:37:32 Adaine: I am still kind of hurt as well.

0:37:32 Fig: I am too.

0:37:33 Riz: [offscreen] Yeah, we’re pretty fucked up.

0:37:34 Adaine: And I don't have any spells left.

0:37:35 Riz: Should we, do you have like a dope computer?

0:37:38 Fabian: Of course. I've got multiple dope comp— I mean, what do you want? I have, I’ve literally bought anything I've ever wanted. [magical buzzing]

0:37:45 Brennan: [making a beeping noise] A whole wall lights up.

0:37:47 Fabian’s Computer: [neutral, TTS-like accent] Avast! Hello Fabian!

0:37:49 Fabian: Good to see you, computer. My friend was hoping to use you.

0:37:53 Fabian's Computer: Oh, wow!

0:37:54 Riz: Hi.

0:37:55 Fabian's Computer: Hardy, har, har, har. Lower the main sail!

0:37:58 Riz: [uncomfortably] Ahoy. Um—

0:38:01 Fabian: Please don't talk to my computer like that.

0:38:02 Riz: Sorry. I'm so sorry. [clears throat] Sorry, I've never spoken to a computer like this before. Uh, can you do a Fantasy Google check on KVX Investments, KVX Bank special investments? [eerie buzzing]

0:38:20 Fabian's Computer: [singing a sea shanty] 16 men on a dead man’s chest, num, num, num, na, na, num, na, na~ Brennan makes a circle with his finger to indicate a loading icon. [group laughs]

0:38:23 Emily: [offscreen] Oh my God.

0:38:24 Brennan: You go to KVX's home page. It’s a large private bank.

0:38:30 Gorgug: Do they have like a mission statement on their website or something?

0:38:33 Fig: Ooh, yeah. Let's get into the depths, let's get into the about.

0:38:37 Brennan: You go to the about section. [Emily laughs]

0:38:39 Brennan: Who ever thought a game of D&D, [laughs] who thought we’d get to looking at the about section of a bank's website.

0:38:46 Adaine: Is there a FAQ's on this website?

0:38:48 Fig: Can we hack into the actual...

0:38:49 Kristen: Is there a profile of this specific banker who was here? Like his—

0:38:52 Adaine: Oh, yeah.

0:38:52 Kristen: —picture and all that.

0:38:54 Fig: Alston Hughes.

0:38:56 Brennan: You find Alston Hughes. It has a little thing for him, says Head of Special Investments, helping the bank make specific individual investments to further the dynamic mission statement of this bank.

0:39:07 Adaine: Eugh, is there a Reddit equivalent?

0:39:09 Kristen: [offscreen] Oh yeah.

0:39:10 Adaine: Where people can talk about conspiracy theories?

0:39:13 Fabian: Hold on, computer pause. What exactly are we looking for? I mean I'm unclear as to the information that we are hoping to acquire.

0:39:21 Gorgug: Well—

0:39:21 Fig: Well, we know, here's what we know. We know Penelope Everpetal is involved somehow.

0:39:26 Fabian: Yes.

0:39:26 Kristen: Yeah.

0:39:27 Fig: We know that she is the reason that Aelwyn did what she did tonight. We also know that bank is shady as hell.

0:39:31 Adaine: Yeah.

0:39:35 Fabian: But we have one maybe thing and one very clear thing.

0:39:38 Adaine: Do we know what Penelope Everpetal's parents do? I don't know anything about them.

0:39:40 Fig: I don't know, but when I went in there--

0:39:43 Adaine: Except that she wants to be--

0:39:43 Gorgug: She always hangs out with Dayne, right?

0:39:45 Fabian: Computer, please Fantasy Google search Everpetal.

0:39:49 Fabian's Computer: Dead men tell no tales. [eerie buzzing again, Brennan sings as the page loads] Num, num, num, na, na, num, na, na~

0:39:54 Brennan: You see there's a little social media profile. Penelope Everpetal, she's got a little filter that has a crown on her head and she's kissing Dayne, and there's another thing of her on a trip to Highcourt. A thing of her trip to Fallinel, a trip to Kalembrimor. All just sort of making the same face in each one.

0:40:08 Gorgug: She takes a lot of vacations.

0:40:10 Brennan: There's another one of her, a young one with her and Sam Nightingale on it.

0:40:16 Riz: Hm, she's— that's one of the missing girls.

0:40:17 Fig: [initially offscreen] But, who are, who are her, we knew that Sam Nightingale.

0:40:19 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an Investigate check.

0:40:20 Murph: [offscreen] ‘Kay.

0:40:22 Fig: We wanna find out who her parents are. And why she's rich.

0:40:25 Murph: [rolling die] 27.

0:40:25 Brennan: [impressed] 27. You dip into these, you go not through her tagged photos, but you find a way, going through like a mutual friend and dipping through, to get to one of her photo albums, which says old photos that she's untagged herself from. There's some old sort of best friend forever photos of her and Penny Luckstone. Her and Katja Cleaver. Her and Danielle Barkstock. Her and Antiope Jones. Her and Sam Nightingale. Her and Ostentatia Wallace. You see one posted earlier today of her and Zelda Donovan.

0:41:03 Adaine: [gasps] Zelda!

0:41:03 Kristen: Zelda!

0:41:05 Gorgug: Wait, what?

0:41:05 Adaine: Your girlfriend.

0:41:05 Kristen: [offscreen] Your girl.

0:41:06 Gorgug: Actually we're not dating, but- [group laughing]

0:41:09 Fabian: [dismissive] Yeah, he does not have a girlfriend.

0:41:10 Gorgug: Yeah, I mean—

0:41:12 Fig: He has more of a girlfriend than you do, Fabian.

0:41:13 Fabian: [offended] Okay, alright, I kissed someone.

0:41:13 Riz: All of these girls are missing and then there's a picture of Zelda. So Zelda’s in danger.

0:41:16 Kristen: Yeah, Zelda's next.

0:41:17 Adaine: [to Fabian, crosstalk] Stop bringing that up.

0:41:17 Kristen: Oh, we should—

0:41:18 Riz: Do you know where Zelda lives? Since she's your girlfriend.

0:41:20 Kristen: Did you ever get a number from her?

0:41:21 Gorgug: She's not my girlfriend.

0:41:22 Kristen: Did you get a number from her, Gorgug?

0:41:23 Gorgug: [sad] I didn't get a girlfriend. I didn't--

0:41:25 Adaine: [laughing] You didn't get a girlfriend.

0:41:26 Gorgug: I didn't get her number.

0:41:28 Fig: Okay, so we think that Penelope's a bad guy, right?

0:41:31 Adaine: Oh, she's definitely a bad guy.

0:41:31 Fig: We know that she's a bad guy. But, what do we know that's going on in the world. I took notes about what we had in the past.         So…

0:41:38 Kristen: Let's see.

0:41:39 Fig: We had, you had [points at Adaine] the stuff that you told us about Kalvaxus, [reading from her notes] was the main bad guy in the Red Waste and he owned the, he was like in charge, he was using as pawns the Nightmare King and the Necronomicon. And then there was like a big showdown and then Alexandria defeated him and disbanded the monarchy.

0:42:00 Adaine: [offscreen] So what does that have to do—

0:42:01 Fig: 'Cause we know that Coach Daybreak--

0:42:02 Adaine: So, Kalvaxus—

0:42:02 Gorgug: Wait, what is Kalvaxus? The camera cuts briefly to Brennan, who is almost smiling.

0:42:04 Fig: He was the bad guy.

0:42:04 Adaine: Was the demon guy.

0:42:06 Fig: [reading] Was like the demon guy who liked the Night--

0:42:07 Gorgug: Kalvaxus?

0:42:08 Fig: Kalvaxus was—

0:42:09 Adaine: [excited] Oh! KVX!

0:42:10 Fig: Ohhhh! [eerie music]

0:42:10 Riz: Okay, so--

0:42:13 Kristen: Like the bank?

0:42:13 Fig: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:42:14 Kristen: Yes.

0:42:16 Fabian: Yes. Yes.

0:42:17 Adaine: Motherfucker.

0:42:17 Kristen: It's Kalvaxus' bank.

0:42:18 Adaine: [realizes] Riz, there's something I need to tell you. [ominous music]

0:42:21 Riz: Oh, what's up?

0:42:24 Adaine: I know something about your dad.

0:42:29 Riz: [quietly] Yeah, he worked for like, the State Department? He was like a, had like a disease and he died.

0:42:35 Adaine: No, he died on the ship that sank. He was in the Secret Service and he died on the ship that sank.

0:42:43 Fig: Your dad died on September 1st?

0:42:46 Brennan: No, your dad died five years ago. Riz makes a confused face at the entire table.

0:42:51 Adaine: So he died in a—

0:42:51 Riz: [offscreen] He died in a—

0:42:51 Adaine: —different ship that sank?

0:42:52 Fig: Why are people dying so much?

0:42:54 Riz: My dad died in a ship that sank?

0:42:56 Fig: Wait a second. Sinking ships throughout history has been used to start wars.

0:42:58 Fabian: [offscreen] No, wait.

0:43:00 Adaine: You're right. Who are they trying to start a war with?

0:43:03 Fig: And, Coach Daybreak was probably trying to start a war when he did the perditional contradoxy thing. Because that's technically--

0:43:09 Adaine: Right. Breaking down barriers between the two worlds, the two, uh—

0:43:11 Gorgug: What two worlds?

0:43:13 Adaine: Countries. Um, Spyre and Highcourt, because Highcourt is— Emily, Zac and Siobhan all get out their laminated world maps.

0:43:16 Gorgug: Well if Spyre is everything—

0:43:20 Adaine: —the religious country, right? It's, it's, um, um, kyriarchy? It's run by the church.

0:43:29 Fig: Yeah.

0:43:31 Gorgug: Maybe we don't have all the answers.

0:43:33 Fig: [shaking her head] I don't think that we do.

0:43:34 Adaine: I don't think that we do, but I feel like we're closer.

0:43:37 Kristen: For KVX, yeah, I think that's the biggest thing.

0:43:40 Adaine: Is Kalvaxus, I mean, if he's some kind of demon, that means that he's immortal, right?

0:43:46 Gorgug: [to Fig] Can you ask your dad—

0:43:46 Adaine: Can we kill a demon?

0:43:47 Gorgug: —about Kalvaxus?

0:43:47 Kristen: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:43:48 Fig: Yeah.

0:43:48 Emily: Can I text my dad?

0:43:50 Brennan: Sure.

0:43:50 Emily: Can I text Gorthalax? Can I FaceTime him actually?

0:43:54 Brennan: The FaceTime doesn't go through, but you can text him.

0:43:56 Kristen: I have an idea too. Maybe Gorgug, you could try to find Zelda's—

0:44:01 Gorgug: Can I use your computer?

0:44:01 Kristen: [offscreen] Online profile.

0:44:02 Fig: We do have to do something about Zelda.

0:44:02 Kristen: And start texting with her. And see if—

0:44:04 Adaine: Yeah. Can you text Zelda?

0:44:06 Kristen: Just be suave. Just like woo her.

0:44:08 Gorgug: [clearly overwhelmed] Can you guys kinda help me out?

0:44:09 Fig: Ask her to meet you.

0:44:11 Gorgug: Okay.

0:44:11 Fig: Tonight.

0:44:12 Gorgug: Tonight? ...We should, all right. [sighs] You guys mind if we use your computer?

0:44:17 Fabian: Your crystal won't do? [Emily laughs]

0:44:19 Kristen: Wow!

0:44:22 Gorgug: Oh, you're right, I can pull out my crystal.

0:44:24 Adaine: Let him use your computer man.

0:44:24 Fabian: No, no!

0:44:25 Kristen: Let him use your computer.

0:44:25 Fabian: Nobody gets to just use my computer because you have a texting device.

0:44:28 Kristen: [knowingly] There's a bunch of porn on there.

0:44:30 Fabian: No, there's not a bunch of porn on there.

0:44:31 Kristen: There's a bunch of porn on there.

0:44:32 Fabian: [aggravated] There's not a bunch of porn on there. [crosstalk]

0:44:33 Gorgug: I don't wanna look at your porn.

0:44:34 Adaine: [shaking her head] So much porn.

0:44:34 Fig: I search porn.

0:44:35 Fabian’s Computer: Yo, ho, ho. Accessing pornography. [group laughs]

0:44:37 Fabian: Stop! Computer, stop! Stop, pause! Pause! [waving his hands] [swanky music]

0:44:39 High-Pitched Porn Voice: [moaning]

0:44:40 Pirate Porn Voice: Yar har, ha ha har, yar har. Brennan is making pornographic hand movements.

0:44:41 Fabian: [standing up, loudly] Everyone, look away! Do not look at this! Everyone in the group except Fabian is varying degrees of laughing, uncomfortable, and alarmed. [crosstalk]

0:44:45 Pirate Porn Voice: Oh, shiver me timbers! Suck the plank!

0:44:49 Fabian: [increasingly upset] Stop! [swanky porn music stops]

0:44:50 Fabian: [sitting down] This is my father's stuff.

0:44:51 Fig: Priva-tear me a new one, wow!

0:44:53 Kristen: Wow!

0:44:54 Fabian: No, there's no need for puns, all right. [Fig laughing] Fabian looks defeated.

0:44:56 Kristen: Wow. You guys, this is a wild night for me.

0:45:01 Adaine: Your dad is looking at porn on your computer?

0:45:02 Kristen: That's weirder.

0:45:03 Fabian: Well, it's a central hub. Or something.

0:45:06 Kristen: Hmmm. I don’t buy it.

0:45:07 Gorgug: I will try to find Zelda on my crystal.

0:45:09 Fig: Yeah, get in touch with Zelda.

0:45:10 Kristen: [raising eyebrows] After that.

0:45:12 Brennan: You find Zelda on your crystal, there's the little add friend button. Her profile photo is a black and white, filtered and blurry ink rendering of just an eye and a piece of her hair coming down.

0:45:28 Fig: She's really artistic.

0:45:28 Gorgug: So cool.

0:45:30 Murph: So Myspace.

0:45:30 Fabian: Gorgug, do not.

0:45:31 Gorgug: [offscreen] Such a cool picture.

0:45:32 Kristen: You have to. Don't let Fabian tell you. Add friend—

0:45:33 Gorgug: All right. [presses the crystal screen] [notification sound]

0:45:35 Adaine: Don't take dating advice from Fabian.

0:45:37 Kristen: Uh…

0:45:39 Gorgug: Okay, I added her.

0:45:40 Kristen: Okay, and then send a message too? Just like--

0:45:42 Fig: Yeah. I think just chat her. You need to chat her.

0:45:45 Gorgug: I have to wait for her to accept my friend request, right?

0:45:48 Brennan: You see that the request is confirmed. [notification sound]

0:45:54 Brennan: And then you are immediately unfriended. [negative notification sound]

0:45:56 Gorgug: [excited, then disappointed] Huh! Ah. [notification sound]

0:45:58 Brennan: And then a friend request comes in for you. And that friend request [negative notification sound] is deleted.

0:46:02 Gorgug: [offscreen] What?

0:46:03 Brennan: And the friend request [notification sound] comes back.

0:46:03 Gorgug: [offscreen] Huh?

0:46:04 Brennan: And then deleted. [negative notification sound]

0:46:05 Brennan: And then the friend request comes back. [notification sound]

0:46:06 Brennan: And deleted. [negative notification sound]

0:46:06 Emily: Can I do an Insight check if she's just having a panic attack or if someone else is controlling it? [dice rolling] It's not gonna be the best.

0:46:11 Ally: [offscreen] I'll do the same. [dice rolling]

0:46:15 Emily: It's gonna be a 10, no sorry 11.

0:46:18 Ally: I got 18.

0:46:18 Brennan: 18. She's freaking out.

0:46:22 Kristen: Oh! Cute!

0:46:22 Fig: Oh.

0:46:24 Kristen: [offscreen] Just send her a message that says hey!

0:46:25 Fig: Saying I don't want to freak you out.

0:46:27 Gorgug: Okay. [typing] Hey. [to his friends] What?

0:46:28 Fig: Tell her--

0:46:29 Kristen: [offscreen] That's it.

0:46:30 Gorgug: Should I say?

0:46:30 Fig: Tell her you just got a tattoo.

0:46:31 Gorgug: [disturbed] I didn't get a, do I have to go get a tattoo now?

0:46:33 Adaine: Don’t tell—

0:46:36 Kristen: Don't listen to Fig—

0:46:36 Riz: We need to be more—

0:46:37 Kristen: Just put hey.

0:46:38 Adaine: Don't listen to Fig.

0:46:39 Gorgug: Um. [typing] What’s up?

0:46:39 Adaine: Do you wanna go see some art? Ask her to go and see some art.

0:46:41 Gorgug: I don't know, I bet—

0:46:42 Kristen: It's nighttime though.

0:46:44 Riz: [a little emotional] I can't believe I just found out my dad sank in a ship and we're helping him flirt right now.

0:46:46 Fig: That is--

0:46:49 Fabian: [to Riz] Take some gnomish vodka and shut up, all right?

0:46:52 Fig: That's totally fair. I will play your favorite sad song.

0:46:54 Zac: I say,

0:46:54 Gorgug: What's up, uh, how's your semester going?

0:46:59 Kristen: What?

0:46:59 Fabian: That's so bad.

0:47:00 Gorgug: Why? I wanna know!

0:47:00 Fig: Tell her you got a tattoo!

0:47:01 Riz: [mildly exasperated] She's actively in danger right now. So, say that you need to meet up.

0:47:05 Fig: You need to meet up.

0:47:05 Gorgug: Okay.

0:47:06 Adaine: Don't say you need to meet up.

0:47:07 Gorgug: But— [makes a pained expression of confusion]

0:47:07 Fabian: That's thirsty. Don't say you need to meet up.

0:47:09 Gorgug: [offscreen] I need to meet up.

0:47:10 Fabian: Say you'd like to meet up.

0:47:11 Riz: [regular exasperated] We’re not— this isn't a date.

0:47:11 Adaine: [pointing to Gorgug’s crystal] He already did it.

0:47:12 Fig: Tell her the tattoo got infected. [laughs]

0:47:14 Gorgug: She doesn't even know I have a tattoo.

0:47:16 Adaine: Why do you keep saying that?!

0:47:16 Gorgug: I don't have a tattoo.

0:47:17 Brennan: [laughing] So what does the message say to her? It says we need to meet up?

0:47:18 Gorgug: I say, hey, what's up?

0:47:19 Fabian: [waving his hand] We want—

0:47:19 Kristen: And then Fig adds—

0:47:19 Gorgug: [offscreen] How is your semester?

0:47:19 Kristen: —my tattoo got infected, to whatever this is.

0:47:24 Adaine: [reading off Gorgug’s crystal] Hey what's up, how’s your semester, we need to meet up.

0:47:27 Fabian: We would like.

0:47:28 Gorgug: We would like to meet up. [makes a face]

0:47:29 Kristen: We?

0:47:29 Fig: We?

0:47:30 Kristen: No, that's weird.

0:47:30 Fabian: You, you you you. [pointing at Gorgug]

0:47:32 Gorgug: I backspace. Okay. [Emily laughs]

0:47:35 Gorgug: Hey, how's your semester, I think you might be in trouble LOL.

0:47:39 Kristen: [offscreen] No. [Murph laughing]

0:47:39 Kristen: No, no, no.

0:47:41 Fabian: [nodding authoritatively] Keep that LOL in there.

0:47:41 Gorgug: I send that. Siobhan takes off her glasses and presses the ends of them into her eyes.

0:47:43 Brennan: You get a response back that says, [notification sound]

0:47:47 Zelda: not much, you? *good not, not much. *not, not much. I didn't mean to type not much. I meant to say good. My semester's going good.

0:47:59 Gorgug: [showing everyone the text] What does that mean?

0:48:00 Fig: Just tell her you need to meet up right now.

0:48:01 Kristen: [offscreen] Her semester is going good.

0:48:02 Brennan: She says,

0:48:02 Zelda: I'm in trouble LOL? Like how do you...LOL...what?

0:48:11 Fig: Oh my gosh, she thinks that you are, like, being flirty with her.

0:48:13 Gorgug: [making faces at the crystal] Oh. Well—

0:48:14 Kristen: Say, “let's meet up tonight. I know this sounds crazy, but where are you?”

0:48:20 Gorgug: What if we just went to get ice cream?

0:48:23 Riz: [offscreen] Just say that you wanna—

0:48:24 Kristen: Invite her to Basrar's.

0:48:24 Adaine: [crosstalk] Invite her for ice cream.

0:48:26 Gorgug: Hey, do you wanna get ice cream tonight? I know that's wild LOL.

0:48:31 Riz: LOL.

0:48:33 Fig: [laughing too hard to speak] Okay, that's… fine. [group laughing]

0:48:35 Riz: [waving back and forth from Gorgug and Zelda] This seems to be a thing between them. Sorry, I'm emotionally distraught.

0:48:39 Fabian: Uh-huh. Yes.

0:48:40 Brennan: There's a long pause, like about a two minute pause.

0:48:43 Gorgug: Oh no.

0:48:44 Fabian: I’m sorry buddy.

0:48:45 Fig: Maybe she's like—

0:48:47 Gorgug: [distraught] Maybe they got her.

0:48:49 Kristen: Oh, no. Don't say that.

0:48:50 Fig: All because you couldn't nut up and tell her that you got a tattoo.

0:48:53 Brennan: You get a message back from her saying,

0:48:55 Zelda: So sorry I dropped my phone in the toilet, I'm on my computer now.

0:48:58 Gorgug: What? Emily is nearly hyperventilating from laughter.

0:49:01 Kristen: Okay.

0:49:02 Brennan: She says,

0:49:02 Zelda: LOL forget about the toilet thing that didn't happen something else happened. I took a pause in the conversation for a different reason. Not the toilet. Forget about the toilet thing I said.

0:49:12 Fabian: [to Gorgug] You cannot date this person.

0:49:14 Kristen: You absolutely have to—

0:49:14 Riz: She is—

0:49:14 Kristen: —date this person.

0:49:16 Adaine: Who else is he gonna date?

0:49:17 Fabian: All right, fair.

0:49:18 Gorgug: [offscreen, offended] Wow.

0:49:19 Kristen: Invite her to ice cream, she's--

0:49:19 Adaine: [to Gorgug] I mean, she’s perfect for you, because she’s really nice.

0:49:19 Kristen: Say you're gonna pick her up and go to ice cream. And then you two hop on the bike and you pick her up on the bike.

0:49:26 Brennan: She says,

0:49:26 Zelda: on my way to Basrar's right now LOL. Emily gasps.

0:49:30 Zelda: Hope that you like banana sundaes because I also like them and then that would be a thing we had in common.

0:49:37 Gorgug: That would be a good for me too. And I like them.

0:49:39 Adaine: [correcting Gorgug] A good for you too?

0:49:42 Gorgug: And that would be a good thing for me too to eat a banana split.

0:49:43 Fabian: Well that's fantastic.

0:49:44 Gorgug: I guess I like them too.

0:49:47 Fig: I guess? Commit, man!

0:49:48 Gorgug: [showing everyone his texts] I got it.

0:49:49 Riz: [mentally drained] All right, all right, cool.

0:49:49 Fig: [offscreen] Okay.

0:49:50 Riz: Let's go to the ice cream shop. ...How are the ships— why are the ships five years apart? Why was my dad on the one ship—

0:49:56 Fig: Did your dad die on September 1st is what I’m asking.

0:49:59 Riz: No, he died five years ago.

0:50:01 Fig: But, I'm sayin' was it five years ago on September 1st?

0:50:02 Fabian: Well, I'm— [sighs].

0:50:04 Murph: [to Brennan] Did my dad die on September 1st five years ago?

0:50:06 Brennan: He actually died on that first Saturday after September 1st, if you remember. He died a couple days later in September five years ago.

0:50:15 Adaine: But maybe, so maybe it's a weekday thing. It's like a first Sunday in September type thing or a lunar calendar, or...

0:50:24 Fig: Is like a prophetic time for--

0:50:27 Gorgug: Let's talk on the way.

0:50:27 Siobhan: [grabbing her die] Can I, uh, do—

0:50:28 Adaine: Yeah, let's talk on the way.

0:50:29 Siobhan: Can I do, like, a— [notices Emily is talking] oh, sorry.

0:50:30 Emily: Can I text Gorthalax and say, hey pops, what do you know about— [stops to look through her notes]

0:50:37 Kristen: Maybe have him join us at ice cream.

0:50:38 Gorgug: Kalvaxus?

0:50:39 Adaine: Kalvaxus.

0:50:40 Emily: Oh, I could say,

0:50:40 Fig: Hey pops, first off we're goin' to Basrar's. I know you got that sweet tooth. If not, what do you know about Kalvaxus?

0:50:49 Brennan: Cool. You guys head off to Basrar's. You [pointing to Fig, who looks alarmed] don't get an immediate response from your dad. You guys wanna do anything before you leave Seacaster manor?

0:50:57 Lou: Can I do a better job of hiding my pornography? [group laughing]

0:51:00 Emily: [offscreen] Can we, can I do—

0:51:02 Murph: While he's hiding his pornography, I kinda wanna whisper to these guys,

0:51:05 Riz: Hey guys isn't there something with how doing something through that gate might not bring about the apocalypse, but might bring back the monarchy or something?

0:51:10 Adaine: Yeah, maybe.

0:51:14 Fig: That's what I'm thinking.

0:51:15 Riz: You know who might want a monarchy, [slightly singsong tone] like a captain working with a bank.

0:51:17 Fig: You know who wanted a monarchy is Penelope.

0:51:18 Adaine: I—

0:51:20 Riz: Yeah, that's— [looks extremely startled].

0:51:20 Gorgug: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:51:22 Adaine: [offscreen] Yeah.

0:51:25 Riz: Prom king and queen?

0:51:25 Adaine: Mm-hmm.

0:51:26 Fig: [smiling] Yeah.

0:51:28 Riz: Jesus Christ that's nuts.

0:51:30 Kristen: You think she wants to be like eternal prom king and queen?

0:51:32 Riz: Like eternal prom queen?

0:51:33 Adaine: Like eternal prom king and queen?

0:51:34 Kristen: They wanna be, her and Zayn wanna be king and queen of the entire land.

0:51:40 Fig: There's no way that they could ever reach that level of—

0:51:44 Gorgug: Wait, someone’s trying to bring the—

0:51:45 Riz: [offscreen] A prom king?

0:51:45 Fig: What do Zayn's parents do?

0:51:47 Riz: We don't know anything.

0:51:48 Adaine: Isn’t it Dayne?

0:51:49 Emily: How does Font of Inspiration do work, because I'd like to heal us all while we're— [Murph laughing]

0:51:53 Brennan: Yes.

0:51:54 Emily: Because I'm worried about--

0:51:55 Brennan: You guys head off. You can do your short rest up if you want to.

0:51:57 Murph: [offscreen] Yeah, that's a good idea.

0:51:58 Brennan: You guys go to Basrar's.

0:51:59 Siobhan: I will do it. [dice rolling]

0:52:01 Siobhan: It's a… like, 5 d6’s. [dice rolling]

0:52:02 Lou: [offscreen] 10.

0:52:04 Emily: But I'm supposed to give an extra D6.

0:52:05 Siobhan: Oh right.

0:52:07 Brennan: Actually I'm just gonna say you guys are all back to full.

0:52:09 Siobhan: What about spell.... What about spells?

0:52:12 Brennan: Spells, spells are not. It's like getting late and it's like about 11 o'clock at night. You guys go into Basrar's. Soda fountain's all set up, it's lovely here. Pretty empty, it's getting late at night. In a little booth that's just one of those booths that's like small in the middle of the thing, you see Zelda is seated. The character card onscreen reads “Zelda Donovan: Gorgug’s Date” and has a picture of Zelda, a satyr.

0:52:32 Brennan: She's got a little green hoodie that has a little black silhouette of like a fairy sylvan creature on it. Her hair is kinda hanging down in front of her face. You see that she's got little earbuds in and is sitting. You see that she has a little rose in her hand. A little flower.

0:52:42 Siobhan: Let's—

0:52:47 Zac: Maybe Gorgug— [crosstalk]

0:52:52 Zac: I put on that leather jacket I’ve been carrying.

0:52:54 Kristen: Gorgug, can we just pop in with Gorgug really quick.

0:52:55 Adaine: Yeah, we need to—

0:52:56 Kristen: Make sure you ask how she knows Penny, how that goes bad. Maybe try to find out if anyone's done anything weird to her lately.

0:52:59 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:53:02 Kristen: You got this, but—

0:53:02 Riz: She's not your dad.

0:53:04 Gorgug: She isn’t?

0:53:05 Kristen: Don't get sidetracked.

0:53:06 Adaine: You’re a good guy.

0:53:07 Emily: Can I give him like—

0:53:08 Adaine: You’re a good catch, okay?

0:53:09 Fig: Yes you are.

0:53:10 Gorgug: [psyching himself up] Okay, thank you, okay. [deep breath]

0:53:13 Emily: Can I use like a little Minor Illusion to like gel his hair in a nice way. [magical twinkling]

0:53:20 Brennan: Your hair kinda pops back and immediately falls back in front of your face.

0:53:22 Gorgug: Awww.

0:53:24 Fig: It looks great, it looks really great.

0:53:24 Adaine: It looks really great.

0:53:24 Kristen: You look intentionally great.

0:53:26 Fabian: It looks fine.

0:53:27 Gorgug: [decisively] I gotta do it. I gotta go.

0:53:30 Brennan: You go sit down. Are you guys making anything to hide?

0:53:34 Murph: I think we’ll just be in like a different booth.

0:53:34 Emily: I’m hiding.

0:53:34 Siobhan: I'm just being like a couple booths over.

0:53:36 Fig: No, we gotta hide, he'll feel embarrassed.

0:53:38 Riz: We'll be on the other side.

0:53:40 Kristen: We'll just be on the other side.

0:53:40 Riz: You want us to wait outside? Do you guys just wanna wait in the parking lot?

0:53:42 Fabian: I'm gonna get a root beer float.

0:53:43 Kristen: I'm gonna get a sundae. I mean, hello!

0:53:46 Siobhan: I would like to, as we're doing this, look up, check on the lunar calendars of when the first and second ships sank to see if there's any sort of significance there?

0:53:59 Brennan: Cool. As you look it up, going back through your notes. You realize that what Sklonda was saying was not that Riz's dad had died in a shipwreck. You're only going back over what you've written. As it all happened very quickly.

0:54:15 Siobhan: Right, yeah.

0:54:16 Brennan: But that he had died on a mission, and you realize that her wording makes it unclear if the mission was on the ship as though he was physically on the ship or if his mission was on the topic of the ship. So, you just assumed because you'd seen that little ship in your sister's room. But suddenly you realize, that it might be even more complicated than that.

0:54:35 Adaine: Yeah, Riz, I might have made a mistake. It might not have been that it's, he was on the ship, he maybe he was investigating the ship.

0:54:42 Riz: Interesting, I wonder if I should talk to my mom and see if she'll—

0:54:45 Adaine: I mean it's weird that she hasn't told you already. So, maybe—

0:54:49 Riz: I am 14. But, now that I'm a renegade detective—

0:54:50 Adaine: [offscreen] That's true.

0:54:51 Riz: —maybe she'll tell me. Gorgug does a weird gesture with his hands and puts on an unnatural smile, further hyping himself up to walk over to Zelda. Fig laughs at him.

0:54:58 Brennan: You see that Gorgug goes and stands over there. Zelda looks immediately terrified. You see that she's noticed your friends here. And she's just like, wincing ahead of time. She looks up and goes,

0:55:18 Zelda: Um, [awkward cough] your friends here, like, as a prank or something?

0:55:21 Gorgug: No, no, oh they're just, they're like, they heard that I was getting ice cream and wanted ice cream too. So they're just, it's good to see you. [uncomfortable laughter]

0:55:32 Zelda: Oh, cool, yeah, my friends they all peaced out. They didn't want, they were all like, “we all live in different homes.”

0:55:35 Gorgug: Right.

0:55:38 Zelda: “We have to go home.”

0:55:41 Gorgug: All my friends live in different homes, too.

0:55:46 Siobhan: I message him.

0:55:46 Adaine: Tell her she looks nice. [notification sound] [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

0:55:53 Gorgug: Um, y-you uh,

0:55:53 Zac: I look at my phone.

0:55:53 Gorgug: You look nice.

0:55:57 Zelda: Are you bored?

0:55:57 Gorgug: No, no.

0:55:57 Zelda: What did you say?

0:55:59 Gorgug: I said you look nice.

0:56:02 Brennan: Go ahead and make a, Persuasion roll.

0:56:06 Emily: I wink at him. [points at Zac] [magical ding]

0:56:06 Brennan: Wink at him, cool, with Bardic Inspiration.

0:56:08 Emily: My last Bardic.

0:56:09 Brennan: This is actually just a Charisma check. Charisma check.

0:56:12 Murph: Gorgug's charismatic, right? [laughs]

0:56:14 Zac: Wait, do I get…

0:56:15 Emily: You get to add an extra d6.

0:56:17 Zac: [rolls first die] Phew. [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

0:56:19 Zac: [rolls the extra d6] Phew. Flat five.

0:56:20 Brennan: [laughing] Flat five!

0:56:20 Murph: What?

0:56:23 Brennan: You see, she looks at you and goes,

0:56:25 Zelda: Oh, could—

0:56:29 Gorgug: I'm sorry, I'm nervous.

0:56:31 Zelda: It's cool, I'm nervous too. I, uh, I’m— Your friends are like popular and loud. [awkward laughter]

0:56:38 Gorgug: Yeah they're really loud.

0:56:39 Fabian: [obnoxiously] Ha, ha, ha!

0:56:41 Emily: I take out a violin bow and start playing my bass now. [string instrument tuning noises]

0:56:44 Riz: [dramatically] Father!!! [group laughing]

0:56:46 Gorgug: Sometimes I feel like they're just so loud all the time and I would just love to be quiet.

0:56:55 Zelda: Yeah, I get that. My family's super, um, loud too. Um, I'm like the least loud… uh, one.

0:57:05 Gorgug: That's me, too. I like to be quiet. Did you want some ice cream? Should we get some ice cream?

0:57:11 Zelda: Yeah!

0:57:11 Brennan: Basrar comes over. [magical tinkling]

0:57:11 Basrar: [indistinct foreign accent] Ah, hello! To the young couple, congratulations.

0:57:14 Gorgug: Ahhh… [looks down]

0:57:16 Basrar: Is this some sort of anniversary? I notice you have a flower.

0:57:23 Gorgug: Oh, yeah.

0:57:24 Brennan: You see Zelda looks and she goes,

0:57:27 Zelda: I actually just, was, I—  [chomping]

0:57:32 Brennan: And just eats the whole rose, thorns and all.

0:57:34 Gorgug: [faint surprise] Oh.

0:57:35 Fabian: The Ball, did you see that? Did the girl just eat the flower?

0:57:37 Riz: Yeah, sometimes people eat flowers. Goblins do it all the time.

0:57:39 Fabian: [disbelieving] Okay.

0:57:40 Zelda: I'm part goat, so I can eat, super anything.

0:57:44 Gorgug: Yeah. Uh, do you want more flowers? [confused face]

0:57:47 Zelda: No.

0:57:47 Gorgug: To eat?

0:57:47 Zelda: No, but if you want, do you want some?

0:57:48 Gorgug: [to Basrar] Could we get a sundae with some flowers on it?

0:57:53 Basrar: [on the verge of a breakdown suddenly] I can only do ice cream is the thing. So I can do like a flower flavor?

0:58:00 Gorgug: Okay.

0:58:01 Basrar: Like I can do my very specific wishes, okay? So—

0:58:05 Gorgug: I get it.

0:58:05 Basrar: [offscreen] Okay.

0:58:07 Gorgug: What I, yeah, whatever, uh. [to Zelda] Does flower flavor sound good to you?

0:58:12 Basrar: Flower is okay. Do you wish to use your wish for ice cream later or is someone going to pay?

0:58:19 Brennan: Zelda says,

0:58:19 Zelda: I can, I'll pay.

0:58:21 Gorgug: I got it, I got it. I can, I'll pay. It was my idea, so.

0:58:26 Zelda: Okay, okay.

0:58:27 Gorgug: Yeah.

0:58:27 Brennan: You pay for the ice cream. It comes out to be one gold piece. You see that-- Zac goes to mark it on his character sheet but stops, laughing instead.

0:58:32 Brennan: You see that Zelda looks over at you.

0:58:39 Zelda: Yeah, my family, all worship the god of wine and ecstasy,

0:58:45 Gorgug: Oh.

0:58:48 Zelda: And I'm, um, I’m training to be a battle dancer, and...

0:58:53 Gorgug: Battle dancer?

0:58:54 Zelda: Yeah, sort of my ancestors would go wild in the hills and forests and they would drink, um, wine and they would experience a deep ecstasy and they would rend men limb from limbs with their hands. Um...

0:59:07 Gorgug: So cool. The rest of the group is clearly trying not to laugh.

0:59:09 Zelda: Really? Cause some people think it makes you like, a freak. [tucks her hair behind her ear]

0:59:12 Gorgug: Oh, I don't think so, I think it's cool.

0:59:15 Zelda: [coughing nervously]

0:59:17 Gorgug: Um, yeah.

0:59:19 Zelda: That's why, if I was weird when you flipped out on Ragh, It was just that I got super, um, like when you flipped out, it's like that's... hot.

0:59:31 Gorgug: [late reaction] Oh! [laughs]

0:59:34 Zelda: Um, 'cause I also,

0:59:34 Gorgug: What?

0:59:36 Zelda: No, it's stupid.

0:59:41 Gorgug: It’s not stu— um, uh, cool. I mean. Awesome. That's awesome.

0:59:46 Zelda: Yeah, whatever.

0:59:47 Gorgug: That's really awesome. [laughs]

0:59:50 Zelda: I just, like, I um, I flip, like,

0:59:54 Gorgug: You flip out?

0:59:56 Zelda: Yeah, I have to, I have to practice with Porter.

0:59:58 Gorgug: Oh, yeah.

1:00:01 Zelda: Because I can't be in the regular Barbarian classes because I flip out too hard for the other barbarians?

1:00:06 Gorgug: Really?

1:00:07 Zelda: Yeah, 'cause it's like a divine thing, where it's like powered by the god of wine and ecstasy—

1:00:12 Gorgug: No way.

1:00:13 Zelda: And so it gets really disturbing. So, I have to—

1:00:19 Gorgug: I bet it's awesome. Hey, this feels like an annoying thing to ask, but, do you know Penelope?

1:00:33 Zelda: Uh, not super well. She asked me to hang out earlier today, but,

1:00:39 Gorgug: She's been doin' weird stuff. We were, just, me and my friends were just like kind of noticing.

1:00:44 Zelda: Yeah, I didn't super get it. She actually asked me about you and like if we had hooked up at all or, I don't know, she thought, it's weird.

1:00:48 Gorgug: [characteristic alarmed expression] Huh. [laughs]

1:00:49 Zelda: [offscreen] It's weird.

1:00:51 Gorgug: [offscreen] That's so weird.

1:00:57 Zelda: I haven't hooked up with anybody, so.

1:01:02 Gorgug: Oh, yeah. [stuttering] I know what you’re thinking, but yeah, me either. [Brennan and Emily laugh]

1:01:07 Gorgug: I just bought a jacket and stuff.

1:01:10 Ally: I'm like asking Fig to spike my milkshake so I'm on one right now.

1:01:13 Fig: Yeah, yeah. Drink up, girl.

1:01:17 Zelda: But is she weird? She's like, not cool?

1:01:19 Gorgug: [considering noise] I think she's like maybe, I don't want to freak you out, but I think she's like maybe like a psycho, like.

1:01:27 Zelda: [offscreen] Weird.

1:01:27 Gorgug: Killer person. Like she might be doin' some crazy stuff like putting people in [shakes head a little] stuff.

1:01:35 Zelda: I'll super, she just asked with me to hang out tomorrow but I'll super not.

1:01:40 Gorgug: Wait, what? Yeah, maybe you should. But, also, where did she say that she wanted to hang out?

1:01:45 Zelda: Just like at school.

1:01:45 Gorgug: Okay, cool. What kinda music do you like? [Murph laughs]

1:01:53 Zelda: Um, I like a lot of different stuff. Like I like screamo, I like emo. I like punk and like some pop punk I like. I like metal, rage metal, I like death metal. I like scream metal. I like mad metal, I like hate metal. Um, I like mad metal, crazy metal. I like thrash metal, smash metal, some of it's good, I like the older stuff. I like, uh, slice metal is good, I like chop metal, it’s good. Gorgug is nodding very attentively throughout Zelda’s description of her music tastes.

1:02:28 Emily: I throw something at Gorgug [laughs].

1:02:31 Gorgug: Ow, ow! [puts a hand up to his head]

1:02:33 Zelda: How 'bout you, what kind of stuff are you into?

1:02:35 Gorgug: Same stuff. [group laughing]

1:02:39 Brennan: You guys watch the rest of this very cute ice cream date between Gorgug and Zelda.

1:02:43 Murph: Can I sneak out and see if there's anybody outside like, following Zelda?

1:02:48 Brennan: Gimme a Perception roll.

1:02:48 Murph: Cool. [rolls, puts his hands to his head and grunts disappointedly] 5.

1:02:56 Brennan: Coast is clear.

1:02:58 Murph: Everything's all good.

1:02:59 Emily: Have I heard back from Gorthalax?

1:03:00 Brennan: You have not heard back from Gorthalax.

1:03:02 Siobhan: Can I do—

1:03:02 Emily: That's really weird.

1:03:03 Siobhan: A Ritual Detect Magic on Zelda just to see if there's anything weird—

1:03:10 Brennan: Weird?

1:03:10 Siobhan: Weird going on there? [magical swooshing]

1:03:12 Brennan: Nothing that seems to be weird. She has a little bit of a trace of divine magic around her, but that's about it.

1:03:16 Siobhan: That's pretty normal for somebody who's a—

1:03:20 Kristen: Um, what should we do? Like someone at all times follow her? Keep tabs on her to and from school?

1:03:26 Fig: Yeah, I think tomorrow, we just need to shadow her.

1:03:27 Brennan: Zelda waves at you, [at Gorgug] she gets up and says,

1:03:29 Zelda: All right, well it's getting late and my parents, honestly, they get mad at me if I get home too early 'cause they're like, “live life, rip your clothes off, kill, feel the rush of blood and feel the hot, warmth of what it means to truly live.”  And I'm like. [pushes hair behind her ear]

1:03:37 Gorgug: [offscreen] Wow.

1:03:44 Zelda: Dad shut up, shut up.

1:03:47 Gorgug: Cool [laughs]. Um, uh, my parents are gnomes.

1:03:52 Zelda: What?

1:03:52 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:03:53 Ally: I'm drunk and I yell,

1:03:53 Kristen: You should go home together! [group laughing]

1:03:57 Zelda: I gotta, I gotta go,

1:03:58 Gorgug: Oh, okay.

1:03:59 Zelda: Um, bye, it was super nice to—

1:03:59 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:04:01 Zelda: Uh.

1:04:03 Gorgug: I'll see you at school tomorrow.

1:04:05 Zelda: Yeah, I'll see you at school.

1:04:07 Kristen: [drunkenly] I'm probably not going to school tomorrow.

1:04:09 Gorgug: Awesome.

1:04:09 Zelda: Awesome. Bye!

1:04:11 Brennan: [offscreen] All right, she runs away. Gorgug makes a gesture like he might have meant to hug her. [Emily laughing]

1:04:12 Riz: Should we... follow her?

1:04:13 Fig: I think we should be, yeah, we cannot let her—

1:04:13 Riz: Do you wanna drive her home?

1:04:14 Fig: Here's my thought.

1:04:16 Gorgug: I just got out of that so smoothly. I have to follow her now? [Adaine laughs]

1:04:18 Fig: Okay, well, [points at Fabian] how 'bout you show up with Gorgug on the back? Give her a ride home.

1:04:20 Adaine: Yeah.

1:04:22 Fig: And then you and your elvish ways can stand guard at her house, maybe.

1:04:26 Kristen: Well, Ball is really good at hiding.

1:04:27 Fabian: Well, I mean—

1:04:28 Fig: He needs to sleep.

1:04:29 Adaine: I need to sleep 'cause I have no higher level spells left.

1:04:32 Fabian: Yeah, but didn't you say that Penelope was planning on—

1:04:34 Gorgug: She's saying she just wanted to meet her tomorrow.

1:04:36 Fabian: I mean feel like it’s, when school or tomorrow morning early, is when we need to be on guard.

1:04:40 Riz: Most of this ends with—

1:04:40 Kristen: Yeah.

1:04:40 Riz: These people not showing up to school.

1:04:42 Kristen: Yes.

1:04:42 Fig: Yeah.

1:04:43 Riz: Is that, how most of these things end.

1:04:43 Kristen: I think we gotta, this is just one night we gotta sacrifice. Who feels most comfortable staking out the place?

1:04:48 Riz: I can probably just sleep outside.

1:04:50 Fig: I mean, I only got Gilear to go home to and he won't notice if I'm not there.

1:04:54 Riz: Oh, actually my mom would be super pissed. She told me to go home like six hours ago.

1:04:56 Fig: She did.

1:04:57 Fabian: Yeah, I need to get eight hours or else I'm very cranky.

1:04:59 Fig: I need to get eight hours. But, I mean we could do shifts.

1:05:03 Gorgug: I feel like I could go. But I don't—

1:05:05 Riz: Why don't we do a quick lap on the motorcycle and make sure she gets home okay.

1:05:08 Fabian: [annoyed] Wait, you don't get to dictate what happens on my motorcycle, The Ball, okay.

1:05:11 Riz: Just a quick lap on Fabian's motorcycle.

1:05:13 Kristen: All right, who's gonna stay—

1:05:14 Riz: Me and Fabes.

1:05:14 Kristen: —staking out her house all night? 'Cause I can offer.

1:05:15 Fig: I can too.

1:05:17 Kristen: I'm bound to be up all night.

1:05:20 Adaine: If you do that, we won't have any healing spells.

1:05:22 Gorgug: I think you're really drunk. Everyone except Kristen agrees with Gorgug.

1:05:22 Kristen: I'm—

1:05:23 Fabian: You should go home.

1:05:24 Riz: You for sure need to sleep the most.

1:05:25 Fabian: You know what, fine! Me—

1:05:26 Kristen: If you guys could only feel what I'm feeling right now.

1:05:28 Fabian: You know what, fine. Me and The Ball will go and case the joint.

1:05:31 Brennan: The Hangman says,

1:05:31 The Hangman: Master. [ominous music]

1:05:31 The Hangman: I neither sleep nor rest.

1:05:35 Kristen: Ooh, perfect.

1:05:36 The Hangman: I can keep my watchful gaze upon the girl.

1:05:39 Riz: [offscreen] Okay.

1:05:39 Fig: Awww.

1:05:39 Fabian: All right, fine. My motorcycle will go watch for the girl and make sure that everything's all right.

1:05:46 Kristen: You can go home and watch porn. [laughs]

1:05:50 Fabian: [offended] J--  Good night!

1:05:51 Brennan: The Hangman begins to roar down the street. You see that Zelda has her arms up on her backpack, and has her headphones in, turns around, sees this flaming motorcycle coming down the street. [motorcycle rumbling] Turns and goes,

1:05:57 Zelda: Aaaahhh!

1:06:02 Brennan: Runs screaming [Zelda’s hooves clomping] as the motorcycle chases her down the street.

1:06:05 Kristen: No.

1:06:06 Riz: Oh, no, shoulda been more specific with, uh...

1:06:07 Kristen: Yeah, fuck.

1:06:10 Fabian: Hangman, not in the moment, just keep an eye out on the house. [ominous wind blowing]

1:06:14 The Hangman: Oh, the house, very well master. I will destroy the house.

1:06:16 Group: [offscreen] No!

1:06:20 The Hangman: I will [tentatively] protect the house.

1:06:22 Riz: [offscreen] Make sure the girl doesn't get kidnapped.

1:06:24 Fabian: Yes, just keep watch.

1:06:25 The Hangman: I shall keep eternal vigil on the house until every rock has been reduced to dust.

1:06:31 Fabian: All right, thank you Hangman.

1:06:33 Emily: Can I give him a little treat? I wanna give him like a—

1:06:36 Fabian: Do not give treats to my motorcycle, all right.

1:06:39 Brennan: [laughing] You guys head home.

1:06:42 Adaine: [nervously] Can I stay at somebody's house?

1:06:43 Fig: Yeah, come sleep over with us. [points at Adaine and also Kristen]

1:06:45 Kristen: Can I sleep over at your house too? I hate my parents.

1:06:46 Fig: Yeah.

1:06:48 Riz: [making two peace signs] Everybody lives at the crappy apartments now.

1:06:48 Kristen: Hell yeah.

1:06:49 Brennan: [offscreen] So, four of you— so, you [referring to Gorgug] go back to the Thistlesprings.

1:06:52 Kristen: Vending machine party again. I'm just eating a million chips shit-faced.

1:06:55 Riz: Hey, Fabian, if you wanna sleep over, I got a—

1:07:00 Fabian: No, just, do any of you have a king plus size bed? No? All right, fantastic, I'm going home. [Emily laughing]

1:07:07 Brennan: You go back to Seacaster Manor.

1:07:09 Fabian: Can I talk to my father before I go to bed?

1:07:12 Brennan: Yeah, you go up to the crow's nest. You see he's up there.

1:07:14 Emily: [laughing] The crow's nest.

1:07:15 Siobhan: Can I give you, I'll give you the model of the Harpy.

1:07:18 Fabian: Oh.

1:07:20 Emily: I don't think it's a diplomatic mission.

1:07:21 Bill: Well, well, well.

1:07:24 Brennan: [playing an instrument] Bing, da, ding. [soft piano music]

1:07:28 Bill: Playin' me shanties up here in the crow's nest. How goes it, Fabian Aramais Seacaster?

1:07:35 Fabian: It goes well father. [stutters] I want you to know that.. I am your son through and through. Only last week, I literally thought about cutting a man's heart out of his chest.

1:07:54 Bill: Don't try to patronize me with things you know I love.

1:07:57 Fabian: I was going to do it. He was constantly making fun of me for having no heart and then I literally thought about taking his heart out of his chest and showing it to him because then I would have heart and be, it's not worth it. Um, father, you're a pirate and, I'm not. But, I am your son. And that means more to me than anything. [somber music]

1:08:23 Bill: [quietly, by his standards] What's that you have there in your hand?

1:08:27 Fabian: Oh, it's a ship, it's called the Harpy. Are you familiar?

1:08:32 Bill: Aye, I know the Harpy well. Cursed ship that.

1:08:35 Fabian: What?

1:08:38 Bill: Some centuries old. That was the flagship of the navy of Kalvaxus, Emperor of the Red Waste.

1:08:42 Siobhan: [gasps]

1:08:47 Fabian: Oh, you don't say. Um, fantastic, but it's gone, right? Wait, hold on. Did you say it was Kalvaxus' ship?

1:08:59 Bill: It was the flagship of Kalvaxus' navy.

1:09:02 Fabian: If I were to tell you that this model here was made out of the wood of that ship. Would that be surprising or?

1:09:11 Bill: That be cursed wood then. And I'd see it out of me house as soon as you please.

1:09:15 Fabian: [unconvincingly] All right, well, it's not, it’s not, so—

1:09:20 Bill: The Harpy was destroyed along with all the rest of Kalvaxus' wealth long ago. But the Harpy was the most fearsome ship on the seven seas.

1:09:26 Fabian: Oh.

1:09:32 Bill: It was… [remembering] made with illusory magic. Could go invisible, look like another ship. It could cloak itself, disguise itself, it was a true devil on the seas. Far before my time, but, any sailor knows the legend of the Harpy.

1:09:51 Fabian: Now I do as well. All right, well father, I must be off.

1:09:57 Bill: Are you truly the captain of the Owlbears? Or is Dayne Blade still the captain?

1:10:03 Fabian: I... [somber music stops]

1:10:07 Lou: [to Brennan] Am I the captain of the Owlbears?

1:10:10 Emily: Yeah you are, Gorthalax made you—

1:10:11 Lou: It was the talk of everyone being the captain, but—

1:10:14 Brennan: Yeah, Gorthalax seemed to be really uncomfortable telling anyone they couldn't be captain.

1:10:16 Lou: Ha, ha, ha.

1:10:18 Brennan: So, he was just like, if you feel like captain you are a captain.

1:10:21 Lou: Okay, great.

1:10:23 Emily: Ha! That's my dad. [somber music starts again]

1:10:24 Fabian: Well, Father, I'll tell you this, I killed the coach of the Owlbears, which, in a way, I don't know, makes me king of the Owlbears? I mean took down the previous ruler, and though I don't sit in his place and wear his crown, I have his soul in some way or another. [a pause; Brennan rolls something]

1:10:51 Bill: You journey with those friends of yours, and I see the way they look at you, a peer, no fear in their heart of you. I do not know what you are the captain of, Fabian. Leave your father be now.

1:11:12 Brennan: Make a Perception check for me.

1:11:17 Lou: All right. A 3.

1:11:21 Bill: Get along then.

1:11:24 Fabian: [sadly] Yes, Papa.

1:11:30 Bill: [sadly] Ha ha ha… [singing] Well roll the ol’ chariot along… Well roll the ol’…

1:11:35 Brennan: You walk away from the crow's nest so you can go down to your room. You see that Cathilda pops in real quick and says,

1:11:42 Cathilda: Right, Master Fabian, is everything all right?

1:11:46 Fabian: It's fine, it's just I'm not used to Papa being mad at me. I don't know.

1:11:54 Cathilda: Well, you're growin' up. Every parent gets mad at they're children as they— [Zac laughing]

1:11:57 Cathilda: —get older because they're really mad that they’re seeing their last chances to make a difference.

1:12:10 Fabian: Well, when you put it that way, Cathilda.

1:12:14 Brennan: You see that she pinches your cheek and says,

1:12:15 Cathilda: I'll go get some kippers.

1:12:18 Fabian: Ooh, thank you.

1:12:19 Brennan: We cut over to the Thistlespring tree real quick. You arrive home late, you see your parents are out. Your dad's in like an undershirt. Your mom's in like a sort of apron and has like a little sort of wrap around. It's like hot, they're like welding together, [electric buzzing] they're like sweating out of building this big apparatus. Look over at you and say,

1:12:38 Wilma: Well, hi there, bud, how you doin'?

1:12:40 Gorgug: I'm good, what, you guys are up late.

1:12:43 Wilma: Yeah, we're workin' on a big ole project.

1:12:46 Gorgug: Oh, what, what is it?

1:12:49 Digby: Well it's a big ole power source for the new arcade down at the Elm Valley Mall.

1:12:54 Gorgug: Oh?

1:12:55 Digby: Yeah!

1:12:58 Gorgug: Good night. [group laughing]

1:13:01 Brennan: You head to bed.

1:13:02 Wilma: Anything exciting happen today?

1:13:06 Gorgug: Oh, um, well, I kinda went on my first date. [excited yelling]

1:13:09 Thistlesprings: Ah!

1:13:13 Brennan: Like fireworks. [waving his arms around]

1:13:14 Thistlesprings: Oh my goodness. Well who's the lucky young lady or fella, bud?

1:13:21 Gorgug: Oh, I'm glad that you're open-minded, but it's Zelda. She goes to school with me. [Ally laughs]

1:13:27 Wilma: Golly, that's so lovely. Well what's she like? Could she come over? Where is she now?

1:13:33 Gorgug: I think she went home 'cause it was gettin' late.

1:13:37 Thistlesprings: If she wants to come over, she can come over. If you ever wanna hang. Hey, let me tell ya' somethin', I know you're a teenager, you ever wanna have a drink, you ever wanna do a smoke, [Ally laughing]

1:13:45 Thistlesprings: You ever wanna kiss somebody, I rather you do it here, under the tree where we know you're safe, all right bud? Where we know you're safe. Okay?

1:14:00 Gorgug: Okay, all right.

1:14:01 Thistlesprings: Well golly, so happy. Where'd ya, how far, what base?

1:14:06 Gorgug: We just talked.

1:14:07 Thistlesprings: What's that? You docked?

1:14:08 Gorgug: We talked. [group laughing]

1:14:13 Gorgug: We talked.

1:14:14 Digby: Talked, oh that's lovely.

1:14:15 Gorgug: Wait, what is docking?

1:14:15 Digby: Lovely.

1:14:15 Gorgug: What's dock?

1:14:16 Digby: What's that?

1:14:16 Gorgug: Docking mean?

1:14:20 Digby: Well, Wilma you wanna handle--

1:14:21 Wilma: Sure, Digby, I'll handle it. Docking is when two uncircumcised men put the tips of their penises, erect penises against one another, [puts her two index fingers together] and they sort of fold the foreskin back, sort of on top of each other,

1:14:29 Gorgug: [seriously] Hmm.

1:14:38 Wilma: It's almost like a docking, sort of an insertion and they're kind of linked together by that foreskin there.

1:14:44 Gorgug: Huh. We didn't do that. [group laughing]

1:14:48 Thistlesprings: Well, I would hope not, I would hope not. That's a little bit much for a first date.

1:14:54 Gorgug: Right. We shared some ice cream.

1:14:56 Thistlesprings: That's, great too. Whatever you wanna do as long as everyone involved is havin' a good time and you're talkin', yeah? You know you’re talking, you should check in because here's the thing, you're a big fella, and one of the important things you gotta know is that you gotta be checkin' with each other's feelings. Make sure that everyone's having a good time. Make sure everyone likes what's happening and there's, hey, don't buy into the hype, there is nothing sexier than being clear about what you like and what feels good.

1:15:25 Gorgug: Okay, uh, I'm gonna go to bed I guess. [group laughing]

1:15:31 Digby: You know what the number one erogenous zone is bud? Bing, bing, bing. It's the brain, okay. And everybody bein' on the same page.

1:15:37 Zac: I'm like half way up the steps. [group laughing]

1:15:40 Thistlesprings: All right. And you know about, you know about birth control, right? You know about, you know about condoms.

1:15:48 Gorgug: [from behind his bedroom door] Huh?

1:15:49 Thistlesprings: 'Cause that's your job.

1:15:50 Gorgug: Yeah.

1:15:50 Thistlesprings: It's not just the lady's job.

1:15:52 Gorgug: Okay, okay, yeah, I hear you.

1:15:55 Thistlesprings: All right. Wrap it up every time, okay?

1:15:57 Gorgug: K, good night.

1:15:58 Thistlesprings: Keep checking in. That's two rules for you bud. Check in and wrap it up.

1:16:03 Gorgug: Okay. [group laughing]

1:16:06 Thistlesprings: Night, kiddo.

1:16:07 Gorgug: G’night.

1:16:08 Brennan: You see, you hear them outside, sayin',

1:16:10 Wilma: Okay, we better, let's go put some music on.

1:16:11 Digby: Why?

1:16:12 Wilma: We know he's gonna be in there, he's gonna— [Zac laughing]

1:16:16 Wilma: He's gonna be— [Ally laughing]

1:16:18 Wilma: You know what he's gonna be doin' in there. Let's just give him a little privacy, huh. It's a small tree, c'mon. [group laughing]

1:16:26 Zac: Polishing my ax. [group laughing]

1:16:28 Ally: Google confirming docking. [group laughing]

1:16:34 Brennan: They play some music. We'll cut over to Strongtower Luxury Apartments with the other four members of the party. [Kristen yelling]

1:16:40 Adaine: This is the best.

1:16:42 Emily: Is Gilear there?

1:16:43 Brennan: You see that you guys open up, Gilear is in there, you see that he is washing a bunch of what looks like some kind of steak sauce out of the little wisp of hair.

1:16:49 Riz: Gilear, you had steak.

1:16:55 Adaine: I cast Mend on his hair.

1:16:58 Riz: That's good.

1:16:59 Gilear: Yes, one of the more unruly children at the school today, saw fit to take the Salisbury steak and to dump a plate of it on my head.

1:17:08 Fig: Who?

1:17:09 Gilear: What's that?

1:17:09 Fig: Who? I'll fuck 'em up.

1:17:11 Gilear: I believe it was Ragh Barkrock.

1:17:13 Kristen: I'll fuck him up too.

1:17:14 Riz: Oh, he is—

1:17:15 Adaine: That kid.

1:17:15 Fig: Ragh is so fucked.

1:17:16 Adaine: Mumple-bound moron.

1:17:17 Fig: He's goin' to Mumple, you got a—

1:17:19 Kristen: He’s a piece of shit.

1:17:19 Fig: You got a Ragh-size Mumple?

1:17:21 Kristen: [drunkenly] You guys wanna know a secret?

1:17:23 Fig and Adaine: Yeah.

1:17:23 Kristen: I think I like girls. [Adaine laughing]

1:17:26 Fig: You definitely do.

1:17:26 Riz: We know.

1:17:28 Kristen: [loudly] You guys wanna know a bigger secret? I haven't told anyone that.

1:17:32 Fig: Yeah, I think—

1:17:34 Riz: They probably figured it out.

1:17:35 Kristen: Don't tell anyone.

1:17:36 Adaine: I mean I think everybody knows.

1:17:37 Fig: You know, I think you should tell everyone. I think you should tell Thrasher.

1:17:40 Kristen: What? Who's that? Oh, Tracker?

1:17:43 Fig: Tracker. [laughs] Sorry, I just give her a slightly cooler name.

1:17:47 Kristen: [one of her eyes is partially closed] You hook me up with a Thrasher… maybe.

1:17:50 Fig: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

1:17:52 Ally: I fall asleep. [group laughing]

1:17:54 Ally: On the ground.

1:17:55 Brennan: Kristen is totally asleep. Gilear looks at you [Adaine] and says,

1:17:58 Gilear: Uh, Adaine, you've come to spend the night here at Strongtower Luxury Apartments.

1:18:02 Fig: [laughing]

1:18:06 Adaine: It's very luxurious.

1:18:08 Gilear: Has a room opened up in your home?

1:18:12 Adaine: Why don't you try and ask my parents that. Actually I'm not even gonna put you through that. No.

1:18:15 Gilear: Oh.

1:18:17 Adaine: I'm staying here for the night.

1:18:20 Fig: Gilear, this is the place to be. She's comin' here because her house sucks compared to—

1:18:21 Adaine: It does.

1:18:23 Fig: —what we've built together.

1:18:25 Gilear: Oh, that's true. This is the place to be. [group laughing]

1:18:31 Adaine: Gilear can I ask you a question? Do you know about the Harpy?

1:18:34 Gilear: What's that?

1:18:35 Adaine: The Harpy. A boat, a ship.

1:18:36 Gilear: It is a partially nude bird woman.

1:18:40 Adaine: You don't know about the ship, the Harpy?

1:18:41 Fig: The ship.

1:18:42 Adaine: Oh, do you know anything about the oracle's ship that sank last year?

1:18:47 Gilear: Terrible accident. Although it's sort of like… you’re an oracle. [Zac laughs]

1:18:50 Adaine: That's what I said.

1:18:51 Gilear: How do you not,

1:18:53 Adaine: You should know that.

1:18:54 Gilear: If I'm an oracle and I'm walking towards the ship, and I'm, [puts a finger to his head] bing, bing, all right wait a minute, I'll catch the next one.

1:18:57 Adaine: Take another ship. Yeah.

1:19:00 Gilear: I'm gonna go get a hotel room for a night and we’ll sail tomorrow.

1:19:03 Fig: You know they did all lose their lives. Perhaps we could be a bit gentle.

1:19:07 Adaine: All right, all right.

1:19:08 Gilear: Fig, why don't you pack it in, all right.

1:19:10 Lou: Ho, ho, ho, ho! [claps]

1:19:11 Fig: [offended] Gilear, I took you back! I took you back as my dad—

1:19:13 Ally: I'm somehow having dreams about the Harpy, the nude bird-woman. [laughs] [group laughing]

1:19:19 Murph: I'm gonna turn her on her side.

1:19:21 Ally: I have a big smile.

1:19:23 Brennan: You see, you do the responsible thing of turning Kristen on her side so she doesn't throw up in her mouth.

1:19:27 Fig: Wait, Gilear, where is Gorthalax? When's the last time you talked to him?

1:19:30 Gilear: I talked to him earlier today. He went to go have a talk with your mother for the first time.

1:19:39 Fig: Oooohh… Oh, dear. Okay, cool.

1:19:44 Gilear: They're probably, I don't know, boning down on each other right now.

1:19:50 Riz: Speaking of boning down, have you seen my mother lately?

1:19:53 Gilear: What the fuck? [group laughing]

1:19:55 Riz: Oh, I figured you guys were, I don't know.

1:19:57 Gilear: Me and your mother.

1:19:57 Riz: Yeah, kind of in the—

1:20:00 Gilear: I'll be very honest, Riz.

1:20:01 Riz: I'm in the market for another dad. [laughs]

1:20:04 Gilear: Brutal. I'll be honest, Riz. Your mother is too much woman for me to handle.

1:20:13 Fig: Gilear!

1:20:15 Gilear: Kiddo, I'm standing here with steak sauce in my hair. [group laughing]

1:20:19 Riz: He's not wrong.

1:20:22 Gilear: I have a, what I'm going to offer you for dinner tonight, is an order of garlic knots that mistakenly came with a pizza I... found.

1:20:32 Riz: [laughing] How do you know it was a mistake Gilear?

1:20:35 Gilear: I checked the receipt on the outside of the box. Things aren't going great for ol’ Gilear.

1:20:42 Fig: Gilear, we need to do—

1:20:43 Zac: I think they're going pretty good.

1:20:44 Fig: Gilear, come to the mirror with me. We need to do some affirmations, okay.

1:20:49 Gilear: All right.

1:20:49 Fig: This is too sad. Look yourself in the mirror [inspirational music] and say, I am strong.

1:20:55 Gilear: I am strong.

1:20:58 Fig: I am powerful.

1:20:59 Gilear: I am powerful.

1:21:01 Fig: I believe in me. Gilear takes a little too long to repeat this one.

1:21:04 Fig: Gilear?

1:21:07 Gilear: Does it have to be true when you say it? [group laughing]

1:21:09 Fig: The idea is that it becomes true if you keep saying it.

1:21:14 Gilear: [whispering] I believe in me. [unhappy frown]

1:21:15 Fig: [offscreen] Okay.

1:21:16 Riz: Go get it Gilear.

1:21:17 Fig: That's enough affirmations for tonight. I’m proud of you, Gilear.

1:21:20 Gilear: All right. I'm going to go jiggle the vending machine to see if anything falls out. If anyone wants any of that. All right.

1:21:30 Brennan: And you see he walks down the hallway.

1:21:33 Fig: He's in a rut.

1:21:33 Riz: All right. Should we go talk to my mother?

1:21:37 Adaine: Is your mother there?

1:21:39 Murph: Do I know if my mom gets off soon?

1:21:42 Brennan: Um, she gets off in a little while. But—

1:21:44 Fig: Why don't you just go to sleep?

1:21:47 Brennan: I think these three head to sleep and Riz, you head home.

1:21:51 Murph: Cool, I'd like to set up like a chair in the middle of the room and a lamp next to me. And I'd like to pour myself [liquid pouring] a little drink. [laughs] Sitting in the middle of the room.

1:22:00 Fig: I'm gonna kind of platonically snuggle with Kristin Applebees. [group laughing]

1:22:05 Siobhan: So confusing. [Kristen snores]

1:22:08 Ally: I'm chirping. [group laughing]

1:22:10 Brennan: Here's what you guys see. At this place, your mom's full case box is on the kitchen table. [Riz growling]

1:22:24 Emily: Am I there? Or, no—

1:22:25 Brennan: No, you guys are asleep. It's just Riz.

1:22:26 Ally: Chirp, chirp. [laughs]

1:22:29 Murph: Well, my mom told me to go home. She left it out, I open it up.

1:22:36 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an Investigate check. And you roll with advantage 'cause the whole fucking case is here.

1:22:40 Murph: Okay. [dice rolling] Oh, pretty good. 24. [ominous music]

1:22:47 Brennan: Your mom's case is being shut down at the end of the week. It's moving federal. They have not been able to work on the extradition from Highcourt. There's a lot of dead ends they're hitting trying to get the palimpsests back from Highcourt. It seems there’s like, a lot of wrong information for some reason. It's unclear to you what the fuck is going on. But, it's like there's a bunch of weird dead ends in their attempts to get those palimpsests back. It covers taking down the Harvestmen and how they got all the Harvestmen arrested in town. The chief feels that's the accomplishment so the chief is pressuring your mom, because they've got Daybreak, they’ve got the Harvestmen and this is a win for the department. Let's move on and not keep it as an open case. So they're handing it off to the feds to handle the palimpsest stuff. You see, you look at something, and that little scratching clue in the back of your head triggers. You're looking at when Biz Glitterdew went to the hospital from his attack months ago.

1:23:18 Murph: Mm-hmm.

1:23:49 Brennan: And Zayn Darkshadow's time of death. You see that they have attributed both of these attacks to Coach Daybreak. Because of the scarecrow mask, the sweatpants, the sweatshirt, all this stuff. You realize that's impossible. Because, the time of death on Zayn Darkshadow is incorrect. Because time of death is measured from body temperature.

1:24:19 Murph: Mm. So, he was taking them cold pills, right?

1:24:22 Brennan: [nods] Taking them cold pills. So, you realize that his time of death would not have been way sooner as they say it is. Or sorry, way earlier. 'Cause they're like, oh he died a long time ago for his body to get that cold.

1:24:34 Murph: But he was like fresh dead.

1:24:35 Brennan: Fresh dead. It's just that now his body was already that cold.

1:24:37 Murph: Got it.

1:24:38 Brennan: Uh, so you see that their time of death is wrong and that the time of death for Zayn Darkshadow would have been the exact same time that Biz was attacked in his home. Meaning that two different people had to have done this. Coach Daybreak could only have done one of them.

1:24:46 Murph: Hmph.

1:24:53 Brennan: You also see that an amount here was paid back from KVX Bank to William Seacaster and that there is a, amount of money being paid from KVX to William Seacaster in this portfolio.

1:25:10 Murph: And that's part of the evidence?

1:25:12 Brennan: Part of the evidence in this case. Doesn't seem to be that they're going after Seacaster but it's part of the trust's information that they were able to obtain from KVX.

1:25:21 Murph: Does it seem like Seacaster is the one that's stopping the Highcourt?

1:25:29 Brennan: Doesn't look like it. There's Coach's handwriting to a contact in Highcourt about the Palimpsests, which seems to be the main thing they're going off of. It's a handwritten letter from the coach talking about picking up the next Palimpsest.

1:25:44 Murph: Okay. The coach wants the palimpsests or Highcourt wants the palimpsests?

1:25:47 Brennan: He's talking to, it's the coach's handwriting, to a contact in Highcourt that they haven't been able to locate that is about getting them another palimpsest with another soul trapped inside.

1:25:55 Murph: Got it. Okay. So he's a supplier.

1:26:00 Brennan: You see that Edgar, the rat, sort of jumps out of your bag, your little briefcase, and goes over to a little area behind your mom's desk and starts pawing at the wall. [high pitched squeaking]

1:26:17 Riz: What the fuck, Edgar.

1:26:19 Murph: I go over and I check it out. I investigate it.

1:26:23 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Investigate.

1:26:27 Murph: [dice rolling] 24.

1:26:29 Brennan: You move your mom's desk, you feel a little bit of air coming out of the wall. You push and the wall [rumbling] of the apartment opens up.

1:26:38 Murph: [whispering] We are not gonna get our security deposit back. [group laughing]

1:26:44 Brennan: You walk inside [wondrous music] and you see there is a little desk in here. It's a dark corner of the room, there's like a hanging lamp, it all looks like super collected dust. You see that there is a little chair here with a picture lying down of your dad as though someone comes in here to look at it and have a drink. [music becomes sadder] There is another desk up against a wall that has a little picture of you as a baby and your mom on it. So, someone had a picture of you and your mom on their desk. Looking around you see the desk is clearly your dad's.

1:27:23 Murph: Okay. Can I investigate his desk?

1:27:25 Brennan: For sure, go for it. And it's all his shit so just give me roll with advantage.

1:27:29 Murph: Oh my God.

1:27:30 Ally: Yeah.

1:27:32 Murph: Nat 20.

1:27:33 Emily: Oh, oh! [Siobhan clapping]

1:27:35 Brennan: Your dad, you see that there's a photograph of him in here with your mom. Your mom is dressed in a sleek black gown and she's holding him. Your dad is looking like you never saw pictures of him. He was always like a clerk, kind of middle management guy. Onscreen is a character card for Pok Gukgak, Secret Agent Man.

1:27:49 Brennan: You see that he's in a black tux, he has a little pencil mustache, sleek hair combed down, one of these big long goblet things, and you see that he has a gun, a thing of a holster under his tux with a little arquebus with a silencer on it.

1:28:03 Murph: [whispering] So dope.

1:28:05 Brennan: You see that in all of the stuff on his desk there is an investigation he was going into. Your dad was a foreign agent, he went into other countries as a goblin, perfectly able to join up with evil armies, to become just another minion, he would infiltrate places for the Solesian government and spy on them from the inside. There is evidence here that he has collected, talking about a ship called the Harpy and going into a whole detail of how the wealth of Kalvaxus had to be destroyed at the foundation of Solace. You see that there is a note in his handwriting, circled around and around, about a dock certificate where the Harpy was supposed to be destroyed and he says “wrong ship, dud, never destroyed”. On another thing, he goes, there's a side-by-side picture of the Harpy and a ship called the Cerulean, underneath it he says, “illusory capability... same ship”, underlined. Murph gets a look of realization on his face and goes to write something down.

1:29:11 Brennan: You see that there is also a crystal here. There's a ton of banking information, wealth, following money trails, and you see there's a tiny little crystal, you also see, you sort of lost track of it a long time ago, but you see in here that it sort of like fell and rolled away. You see that Edgar is looking for something. There's a little crystal on your dad's desk and then Edgar is sort of scrounging around for something as well.

1:29:37 Murph: Cool, I'll leave the crystal for now. Let's see what Edgar is looking at.

1:29:42 Brennan: Edgar finds a little Necromancer's pearl that is gray. And you realize that you haven't kept track of your pearl. Your mom must have grabbed it for evidence a long time ago. This is Zayn Darkshadow's Necromancer's pearl and it is gray right now.

1:29:57 Murph: So, that means he's not dead. Or… Black is dead?

1:30:00 Brennan: I believe black is dead and white is alive.

1:30:02 Murph: Oh, so he's like maybe lost somewhere. Interesting. Okay.

1:30:10 Riz: Edgar, is this your dad? Is he--

1:30:12 Edgar: [squeaking]

1:30:13 Riz: You think he might be alive? Edgar shrugs his rat shoulders.

1:30:15 Riz: Maybe?

1:30:15 Murph: All right. I'll check out this crystal. [electronic buzz]

1:30:20 Brennan: You see your dad, a little image of your dad appears setting up a crystal. [mimes arranging something] [Siobhan whimpering]

1:30:27 Brennan: You see that a little version of you in the background of the apartment climbs up on a sofa with a little magnifying glass. Your mom comes in and says,

1:30:34 Sklonda: Riz, get off the couch you’re gonna, there's nothing back there. ...Oh, there is something back there. One of your blocks went back there, how did you find that?

1:30:41 Brennan: She takes you up into your room. Your dad looks over and says,

1:30:45 Pok: Okay, this is Pok Gukgak recording. It is August 31st, 'bout to head out on a dangerous mission. Bud—

1:31:04 Brennan: You see a little nine-year-old you in the back running around.

1:31:08 Pok: Bud, you're nine years old right now, [somber music] I've already said goodbye to you, but, I don't think you really know how dangerous this is and I don't really wanna tell you. God, I had a whole thing prepared and now it feels kinda stupid. [pauses and looks down] Kiddo there's a lot that I wanna be around to be able to tell you. The world's a hard place for goblins. We're small, people look at us and see an image of a certain kind of creature, something that is wicked and disposable, threatening but also kind of a joke. It's the worst of all worlds. It's not really fair, but, you have a ton of work ahead of you that in a more just world you wouldn't have to do. Knowing how hard a road you have ahead of you, I wanna say this: I'm not worried about you at all. I got nothing but hopes for you kid, and hopefully you'll never have to see this. Clues are always out there and the one thing nobody's counting on, is that you'll never give up. When you're smaller than everything else in the world, the one thing that you can have bigger than everybody is will and grit. And that's you, kiddo, love ya pal.

1:32:02 Brennan: Click. [Pok turns off the crystal]

1:32:57 Riz: Love you dad.

1:33:02 Murph: I'd like to find his gun. 'Cause I wanna kill [group laughing] whoever did this with his gun.

1:33:09 Brennan: You find an incredible midnight black arquebus with a silencer on it and a bandolier of 20 magical bullets on the side of it.

1:33:22 Murph: Dope. [Brennan laughing]

1:33:25 Zac: [quietly] Nice.

1:33:27 Brennan: You hear the key in the front door of your apartment.

1:33:33 Murph: Um, I'm just gonna let my mom find me like this.

1:33:36 Brennan: Your mom walks in, you hear her bag drop, the front door doesn't even close. She just walks into this secret room.

1:33:46 Riz: Hey, Mom. I know about dad.

1:33:52 Sklonda: Hey, kiddo. [long pause] I thought there was a world where you wouldn't walk down the same road.

1:34:10 Riz: But Mom, we're all super badass, the whole family is super badass. At first I thought it was just me and you were badass, but Dad's a badass too. We're just like this trio of frickin' goblin badasses, Mom. Do you see, this is so—

1:34:27 Ally: This is so teen.

1:34:29 Sklonda: Honey, your dad was the most badass man I ever knew.

1:34:33 Riz: This is so fuckin' cool, Mom, why didn't you tell me? I know you thought it would make me sad, but it just makes me happy.

1:34:41 Brennan: [laughing] You see she says,

1:34:41 Sklonda: This is my greatest fear come to life. The reaction you're having, even more than you being angry at me, this was what I was trying to avoid. Because the world will knock you on your ass kid. Are you ready for that?

1:35:01 Riz: I've got, uh, Nimble Escape, so— [group laughing]

1:35:07 Brennan: Your mom kisses you on the head and says,

1:35:11 Sklonda: Fuck it, no fighting destiny I guess. [sighs, sniffs] Do I smell alcohol on you?

1:35:18 Riz: I had a little bit of alcohol after, after, first of all, all my friends were drinking, I only had a little alcohol after I found out about dad. So, sue me.

1:35:30 Sklonda: All right. Let's go visit dad sometime and I'll tell you all about him, okay?

1:35:36 Riz: I would really like that, Mom. And I'm sorry that I went through your stuff.

1:35:42 Sklonda: It's fine. Honestly I think your dad would have approved of you finding out this way more than any other.

1:35:49 Riz: [quietly] Oh, that's really badass.

1:35:51 Brennan: [laughs] She kisses you on the head, goes off to bed. And you sleep that night as well. The next morning you guys meet up at school. What do you guys do?

1:36:00 Fabian: [excited] Guys, I broke the case all right. My father told me about the Harpy, alright, and the Harpy is, there's runes on the ship--

1:36:03 Fig: Shh.

1:36:07 Fabian: [quieter] Fine. There's runes on the ship all right, and that means that the ship can't be seen by divination. So, that's how it snuck by the oracle.

1:36:13 Fig: Have we thought of if the ship's wealth is being laundered through the bank?

1:36:18 Riz: Guys, I also found out some stuff. Turns out my dad was a super badass.

1:36:20 Fabian: [disappointed] Okay, all right.

1:36:21 Riz: He was kind of like a special agent type guy. He was going in real deep. I found, his gun's really cool.

1:36:24 Murph: I show them my magic gun.

1:36:26 All: Whoa!

1:36:28 Riz: It's even more magic than my gun. Anyway, apparently, I found some evidence. There was a false wall in my apartment, I guess we have a two bedroom.

1:36:35 Adaine: So cool.

1:36:42 Fig: I hope Gilear has one of these.

1:36:43 Gorgug: Oh!

1:36:45 Riz: So, I went in there and I found my dad's desk and it turns out that the Harpy didn't really sink.

1:36:50 Fabian: [upset] That's what I said. I said the exact same thing and nobody cared.

1:36:53 Riz: Right, but it's the Cerulean.

1:36:54 Adaine: The Cerulean was the ship that had the oracle in it.

1:36:56 Fig: Yeah. The Cerulean did sink.

1:36:59 Riz: The Cerulean—

1:37:00 Adaine: Unless, it didn't sink and it had these runes on it of illusion. And it just was an illusion that it sank and actually it's just sailing around. Why would they want—

1:37:09 Fig: That makes sense. Because everyone's been saying why would oracles get onto a ship that was going to sink.

1:37:15 Adaine: Right. But why did they need an oracle? Except that—

1:37:16 Kristen: You guys.

1:37:17 Adaine: Maybe they need the oracle to stop the—

1:37:19 Kristen: I found out something too.

1:37:21 Adaine: Is it that you're gay?

1:37:22 Kristen: [laughing] I think I might be gay. [group talking]

1:37:25 Kristen: I just wanna say--

1:37:25 Adaine: You told us when you were drunk.

1:37:25 Kristen: something really quick. [soft guitar music]

1:37:28 Kristen: I'm a little hungover and maybe this will take 10 minutes to say. I hope it doesn't take that long but—

1:37:32 Fig: Ha, ha, ha.

1:37:35 Kristen: I just wanna say, we are friends and, for a while, you know what, the Corn God was my religion, but now, seeing you guys is my friends that's what I believe in. And you guys were there with me through—

1:37:45 Gorgug: It's actually inspiring.

1:37:54 Kristen: From kisses to kiss. So many kisses. I can't sleep sometimes I'm thinkin' about all the kisses. Kisses to come!

1:37:58 Fig: I know how that feels.

1:38:02 Kristen: Kisses that passed.

1:38:05 Adaine: I'm just quietly thinking about realizing I've never kissed anybody.

1:38:09 Kristen: Just so many kisses, drownin' in kisses at this point. Older people kisses, young people kisses. Kisses for all of you!

1:38:16 Ally: I kiss everyone. [group laughing]

1:38:19 Fig: Oh, yeah. That's my ticket.

1:38:20 Fabian: Ooh, God, no, please.

1:38:21 Kristen: You loved it!

1:38:22 Riz: That was my first kiss.

1:38:24 Kristen: Well, I'm gay, so you're gonna have to talk about this in therapy later. Set you up for failure.

1:38:33 Gorgug: I had a—

1:38:34 Riz: Did we deduce that the Cerulean is the Harpy?

1:38:37 Brennan: You guys have deduced that the Cerulean is the Harpy.

1:38:40 Emily: And we believe it to be missing.

1:38:43 Brennan: You believe it to be missing or that its illusory capability was what allowed—

1:38:45 Ally: [offscreen] To show that it was sinking?

1:38:48 Brennan: Was what allowed the Harpy to become the Cerulean without anybody noticing it was missing.

1:38:51 Emily: Can we assume that you've filled us in on everything, right?

1:38:53 Murph: Yeah. I told you everything.

1:38:55 Emily: So, perhaps, did you tell us everything about Seacaster?

1:39:00 Murph: Yeah.

1:39:00 Ally: Oh, okay.

1:39:00 Fig: [to Fabian] So, perhaps the bank is bribing your dad, because he knows it's still out there.

1:39:06 Kristen: I didn't want to say this, but it took another strong man beating the shit out of someone. Do you think they convinced your dad to commit the other, like rough up?

1:39:17 Fabian: My father couldn't be beaten into anything.

1:39:19 Gorgug: Oh, I have something. Two things. I learned about, first this thing called docking, it's just very interesting. But, second, the more important thing. My parents are working on this big power source. Are we still looking for a power source or anything?

1:39:33 Adaine: Oh, for the palimpsests.

1:39:34 Riz: I think we have—

1:39:35 Fabian: I think, well Biz says he couldn't.

1:39:36 Kristen: Wait, are they making it for the bank?

1:39:38 Gorgug: She said the arcade. But, maybe the bank—

1:39:40 Fig: Or maybe they're making it for the bank.

1:39:41 Brennan: You guys hear The Hangman say, [ominous wind roaring]

1:39:43 The Hangman: Master, trouble at the girl’s house.

1:39:44 Kristen: Fuck!

1:39:45 Fig: [offscreen] What?

1:39:46 Fabian: There's trouble at the girl's house.

1:39:47 Adaine: Oh, how do we get there? Go on a bus?

1:39:48 Riz: Go in a car? Gilear!

1:39:51 Kristen: Let's get Gilear to drive us.

1:39:52 Adaine: Gilear! We need to borrow your car.

1:39:53 Brennan: You guys are at school right now.

1:39:55 Emily and Zac: We're going to the Lunch Lad.

1:39:56 Brennan: Oh,

1:39:56 Fig: Sorry, sorry, Lunch Lad.

1:39:59 Gilear: What, no, I have to—

1:39:59 Murph: I’m gonna try to pick his pockets for his keys. [rolls die]

1:40:01 Gilear: I have to warm the—

1:40:03 Ally: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!

1:40:03 Murph: I got a 23. Sleight of Hand.

1:40:05 Brennan: He says,

1:40:05 Gilear: I can't go right now, I have to warm up the Hot Pockets.

1:40:08 Kristen: Oh, okay, well then, you keep doing your job and thank you for everything you've done.

1:40:12 Adaine: Thank you so much.

1:40:13 Gilear: [offscreen] Very well.

1:40:14 Fig: Gilear, sometimes I prefer you to Gorthalax.

1:40:16 Ally: We run.

1:40:17 Gorgug: Gilear, you have an open Hot Pocket on your head.

1:40:18 Gilear: [offscreen] How the fuck?

1:40:20 Riz: Gilear, I actually don't want you to be my dad anymore.

1:40:22 Gilear: What?

1:40:23 Riz: I don't want you to be my dad anymore.

1:40:24 Gilear: Hurtful.

1:40:25 Murph: Ha, ha, ha.

1:40:26 Siobhan: Here's some Elven waybread that I just pulled out of my jacket—

1:40:27 Gilear: Everyone's introducing a different topic to me right now.

1:40:30 Kristen: [yelling] I might be gay.

1:40:32 Gilear: [overwhelmed] Oh my God.

1:40:32 Riz: You said you were for sure.

1:40:34 Kristen: I mean, I'm leaving my options open.

1:40:37 Riz: Okay, bye bye Gilear.

1:40:38 Gilear: You still drunk from last night?

1:40:40 Kristen: No, I'm fine, I got some coffee, it was Irish. I'm not Irish. I thought it was funny.

1:40:46 Brennan: You guys jump in Gilear's car--

1:40:47 Emily: Wait, on the way out, do I see Ragh at all?

1:40:52 Brennan: Let me roll. You do not see Ragh on the way out.

1:40:55 Fig: Ah, I just wanted to blast him real quick. [group laughing]

1:40:59 Brennan: You guys dip out of there. You grab Gilear's car, you head over to where The Hangman is. The Hangman is in the front yard covered in blood, surrounded by a whole bunch of shirtless satyrs, that have like tattoos and look insane and there's a bunch of just like, dead, what look like weird elemental creatures, summoned fiends and stuff like that. Just happened in the suburban, this is like a scene of slaughter.

1:41:13 Ally: Fuck.

1:41:20 Fabian: What—

1:41:24 Gorgug: [offscreen] So, this is it.

1:41:27 Fabian: Hangman,

1:41:27 Fig: What happened?

1:41:28 Fabian: What happened? [ominous music]

1:41:29 The Hangman: Master, these rad satyrs flipped out and killed all of these summoned beings here.

1:41:37 Brennan: You see that the lead satyr comes over and says,

1:41:39 Satyr: [vaguely Spanish accent] Hey, which one of you, which one of you is, you are the boyfriend.

1:41:44 Gorgug: I don't know if I'm the boyfriend.

1:41:45 Fabian: Yes, that's the one.

1:41:46 Brennan: He grabs you and kisses you firmly on the mouth and says,

1:41:49 Satyr: I am the father of your woman.

1:41:53 Gorgug: [terrified] Okay.

1:41:55 Fig: Was that your second kiss?

1:41:56 Gorgug: [sad] Yeah. [group laughing]

1:41:57 Murph: Baffling.

1:41:58 Zelda’s Dad: Someone put my girl in this ball. [holding it up]

1:42:01 Kristen: Oh, fuck!

1:42:03 Gorgug: In a ball?

1:42:03 Fig: Of course.

1:42:04 Gorgug: Is it a crystal?

1:42:05 Brennan: You see that there's a palimpsest.

1:42:07 Kristen: We've lost every other palimpsest. We have to get her out—

1:42:09 Riz: [to Zelda’s dad] We can get her out of there.

1:42:11 Brennan: You guys—

1:42:12 Adaine: Yeah, I think we can get her out.

1:42:14 Brennan: He says,

1:42:14 Zelda’s Dad: You can get her out? [points at Gorgug] I trust you. When you get her out, you know what you must do.

1:42:24 Gorgug: I, will give, yes, I do, I will.

1:42:26 Fig: I think he means the honorable thing is to marry her.

1:42:29 Gorgug: Oh! I won't.

1:42:30 Zelda’s Dad: What?

1:42:31 Fig: [offscreen] Oh, okay.

1:42:32 Zelda’s Dad: [nonplussed] No, we worship the God of wine and ecstasy.

1:42:35 Adaine: We have wine.

1:42:37 Fig: Yeah, I have a bunch of fine Elven wine.

1:42:38 Zelda’s Dad: [nodding sagely] Then you know what you must do.

1:42:39 Gorgug: I have to get drunk with her?

1:42:41 Zelda’s Dad: That's a start, my man.

1:42:42 Gorgug: Oh, okay, all right.

1:42:42 Fig: [disturbed] Oh my God.

1:42:45 Zelda’s Dad: Very well. We will return to our home and continue to watch daytime television.

1:42:50 Kristen: [holding a drink] Is it cool if I have some of this punch?

1:42:52 Zelda’s Dad: Oh, that is a religious hallucinogenic.

1:42:56 Kristen: Oh! [laughs] It tastes good. There's some melon in it, I didn't expect that. [drinks again]

1:43:03 Brennan: You guys dip out. And you have this palimpsest, that apparently Zelda has been sealed inside.

1:43:10 Adaine: Can I Detect Magic on the things that got conjured?

1:43:15 Brennan: Yes, you can. Go ahead and give me an Arcana Check.

1:43:16 Siobhan: Okay. [rolls die]

1:43:18 Ally: I can do the some thing.

1:43:22 Siobhan: 21.

1:43:25 Brennan: 21. These were conjured by your sister’s magic.

1:43:30 Adaine: How the hell? This is Aelwyn.

1:43:32 Gorgug: [offscreen] Did she make a bargain to get out of jail?

1:43:35 Riz: [offscreen] Did she, maybe Penelope is—

1:43:35 Fig: She had a palimpsest?

1:43:35 Riz: [offscreen] —the one that's—

1:43:37 Fig: [gasps] Wait! I bet Penelope is your sister. I bet your sister's in disguise as Penelope, maybe.

1:43:43 Adaine: But, she's in jail.

1:43:45 Fig: Yeah, so I'm saying--

1:43:46 Gorgug: But she got out.

1:43:47 Adaine: I hate her so much.

1:43:48 Riz: I also didn't tell you guys that Zayn and Biz were attacked at the exact same time.

1:43:54 Kristen: Oh yeah. That's what I was saying. Do you think maybe Bill Seacaster was that second attacker?

1:43:59 Adaine: I don't think so, I think it was another—

1:44:00 Kristen: Someone strong enough.

1:44:02 Gorgug: I think he's just muscle for something.

1:44:04 Adaine: I don't think Seacaster would beat up a child. I don't think he would see it as an honorable fight.

1:44:08 Fabian: We have to find Penelope.

1:44:10 Adaine: We have to.

1:44:11 Brennan: You [Adaine] get a little bing on your crystal. It's an article from your mother being sent to you. A little news article.

1:44:18 Adaine: I hate it when she sends me articles.

1:44:20 Kristen: It's probably about marriage.

1:44:21 Riz: What’s it say?

1:44:22 Fig: Yeah, it's probably, just close it.

1:44:25 Brennan: War declared between Fallinel and Solace. The group takes a shocked breath.

1:44:30 Brennan: The government has discovered that an Elven strike team liberated a diplomatic family member from custody. And Solace has declared war.

1:44:36 Adaine: Uh oh.

1:44:42 Kristen: That would be your sister.

1:44:45 Adaine: So, I think I maybe accidentally started a war.

1:44:48 Gorgug: [relatively calmly] That happened fast.

1:44:50 Riz: They broke her out.

1:44:50 Fig: [offscreen] Well they want a war.

1:44:53 Riz: They broke her out, that's what started the war.

1:44:54 Gorgug: Let's just text Biz and see what he says we should do with the crystal.

1:44:57 Riz: There's a war, should I—

1:44:58 Kristen: Should we pick a headquarters so we don't have to go to school, right?

1:45:02 Riz: Yeah.

1:45:02 Adaine: Yeah, let's, we—

1:45:04 Riz: Yeah, there's a war, fuck school. Should we call, should we find out, 'cause Aelwyn must have got out of jail. That's what it said, right?

1:45:07 Fig: So, Aelwyn got out of jail.

1:45:11 Riz: She broke free?

1:45:12 Kristen: I know this is crazy, but I think Strongtower Luxury Apartments should be our main headquarters.

1:45:17 Adaine: Great. Can we, can we, let's go.

1:45:21 Brennan: You've stolen Gilear's car so you're good to go.

1:45:24 Gorgug: I think we needed, earlier, and we can ask Biz to see if this makes any sense, and also I'm so stupid, so I don't even know what I'm talking about. But we needed—

1:45:34 Kristen: We have the power source from your parents

1:45:35 Gorgug: —a power source.

1:45:36 Adaine: Yeah, bring Biz to your parent's house and we can—

1:45:39 Gorgug: Okay, yeah, let's go to my parent's house with Biz.

1:45:43 Brennan: Okay. You go to your parent's house and do you guys text Biz too?

1:45:46 Murph: Yeah, we text Biz to meet us.

1:45:48 Brennan: Biz shows up there.

1:45:49 Emily: Uh, maybe we shouldn't text him, maybe we should show up to his house and make sure it's not intercepted.

1:45:52 Murph: Alright, we’re gonna go pick up Biz.

1:45:54 Brennan: Cool, you pick up Biz and he goes,

1:45:55 Biz: [nasally] Hey gang, what's going on?

1:45:58 Riz: Get in the car, Biz. [sharp gasping]

1:45:59 Adaine: Don't sit next to me.

1:46:00 Emily: Can I do a check to see if it's really him?

1:46:02 Brennan: Sure.

1:46:04 Siobhan: Oh yeah, I would like to do that too.

1:46:07 Emily: I have a 6.

1:46:08 Siobhan: Oh, I didn't do my rolls for the day.

1:46:10 Brennan: You see that, yeah it seems like it's Biz to you guys.

1:46:14 Murph: I got a 26 Insight.

1:46:17 Brennan: Yeah, seems like it’s Biz.

1:46:17 Riz: Biz, you check out.

1:46:18 Brennan: You see that, you guys are driving, you're looking on your phone, it's like a weird, scary day. You see like this fuckin' sudden declaration of war because an Elven military unit performed an operation on Solesian soil. Is like an immediate, you know, that's an act of war.

1:46:26 Emily: I'm driving right?

1:46:34 Adaine: I mean it's insane that my parents would just text me an article to tell me this and not be like, “you should come home.”

1:46:39 Murph: Can we look more information, like what preceded this happening? We see that she broke out of the jail cell?

1:46:47 Emily: She was broken out by an Elven strike team.

1:46:49 Lou: Yes.

1:46:50 Emily: That means that Fallinel sent a crew.

1:46:54 Brennan: Deeper in the article, it says that your sister has been remanded to Elven custody. Which is interesting.

1:47:00 Adaine: She's remanded to Elven custody?

1:47:02 Brennan: Meaning that they also are like—

1:47:03 Adaine: So she's just at home.

1:47:04 Riz: Should we go to your house?

1:47:06 Gorgug: I don't think with should go there.

1:47:07 Adaine: No, let's break out this pal-- Let's see if we can get this palimpsest open.

1:47:10 Brennan: You guys arrive at the Thistlespring tree, big old fuckin' power source. You see that Biz is there goes,

1:47:15 Biz: Oh, baby, okay, daddy like.

1:47:22 Siobhan: I throw up a little bit in my mouth.

1:47:25 Kristen: Should one of us be spying on your house?

1:47:29 Emily: I think I'm gonna be the muscle. I'm gonna go into bouncer mode and just kinda strut around in my German Shepherd mode.

1:47:34 Brennan: You see the Thistlesprings are there, your parents come out and say,

1:47:37 Thistlesprings: Hey bud, how's it goin'?

1:47:39 Gorgug: Kinda bad. You remember that girl I told you about?

1:47:42 Thistlesprings: Yeah.

1:47:43 Gorgug: She's in here.

1:47:44 Thistlesprings: Wha--!

1:47:45 Gorgug: She got stuck, some magic put her in here. But I think if we use the power source that you have here, we could maybe start to get her out.

1:47:53 Brennan: Biz looks at it and goes,

1:47:53 Biz: I've got an idea, check it out. We can't move this thing in a car, or I don't know if we can, but can you guys meet me tonight at the Elm Valley Mall? Because we could hook this bad boy up to the new arcade they're building there. And that's gonna power this bad boy. We could get this fuckin' palimpsest cracked in no time with the amount of juice running through that place.

1:48:21 Kristen: Well this was already going to the arcade, right.

1:48:22 Adaine: Yeah.

1:48:23 Brennan: You see the Thistlesprings nod their head. Says,

1:48:25 Biz: Bingo fuckin' bango, guys.

1:48:28 Kristen: Wait, that's weird.

1:48:28 Biz: Hacker, back at it again, wild.

1:48:32 Riz: That's wild Biz.

1:48:32 Fig: [offscreen] Yeah, Biz.

1:48:34 Riz: Okay.

1:48:35 Kristen: That's kinda weird though. Why was it already going to the arcade? Is someone else trying to do something with these palimpsests?

1:48:40 Gorgug: We just gotta get her out I think.

1:48:42 Adaine: Yeah.

1:48:43 Gorgug: So, let's just go.

1:48:44 Fig: We have to protect the palimpsest before—

1:48:47 Kristen: Yeah definitely.

1:48:49 Brennan: How are you guys going to, oh, actually you see that the Thistlesprings say,

1:48:52 Thistlesprings: We already have a van to move it if you guys—

1:48:54 Riz: [offscreen] Yeah.

1:48:54 Adaine: Yeah, we'll load in.

1:48:55 Riz: We'll accompany you to the old mall.

1:48:57 Fig: I'm gonna text Gilear and tell him I'm still borrowin' his car.

1:49:00 Brennan: He texts you back and says,

1:49:02 Gilear: I have made several reports to the police today, you need to tell me these things in advance. [group laughing]

1:49:09 Fig: Call the pigs off, Gilear.

1:49:12 Brennan: You guys roll over to the mall. It's after hours, you see the Thistlesprings go in, [arcade machines playing] there's this giant arcade, Skee-Ball, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, all these fuckin' wild machines everywhere.

1:49:24 Gorgug: Hey, Mom and Dad, I think--

1:49:26 Thistlesprings: Yeah?

1:49:27 Gorgug: I'd like if you guys got outta here, we can handle it from here I think.

1:49:32 Thistlesprings: Okay, if you think that's wise, sure.

1:49:36 Gorgug: Biz, you got it, right?

1:49:38 Brennan: You see Biz says,

1:49:38 Biz: Do I got it?

1:49:41 Gorgug: You got it, right? [group laughing]

1:49:43 Biz: Oh yes, I got it. Yeah, for sure.

1:49:45 Siobhan: I text my mom, k. It's several hours later. I just text her k.

1:49:50 Kristen: Guys, I got a slushy. If anyone wants some, it's in like one of those long yard things.

1:49:53 Riz: That's a margarita. Who gave you a margarita?

1:49:56 Kristen: What?

1:49:57 Fabian: It's wartime, so I'm sure everything's looser now.

1:50:00 Brennan: You guys are walkin' in here. There's this giant glass case of all the rewards and shit that people have here. Huge reward casing that's super rad. Different prizes and shit in there.

1:50:13 Fig: Hey Biz.

1:50:14 Biz: Yeah.

1:50:15 Fig: You got Darkvision?

1:50:17 Biz: Yeah, I do.

1:50:18 Gorgug: I do too.

1:50:18 Fig: Me too.

1:50:19 Ally: Can I cast Detect Good and Evil on this arcade?

1:50:22 Brennan: Sure, yeah, absolutely.

1:50:23 Ally: I cast it. [organ music]

1:50:25 Brennan: You Detect Good and Evil. There's a faint malevolent presence.

1:50:29 Emily: Mm.

1:50:33 Brennan: In some of the games. One or two of the games has like a sort of faint malevolent presence in it.

1:50:40 Siobhan: Can I do an Arcana check?

1:50:41 Brennan: Sure.

1:50:42 Emily: I'd like to German Shepherd case it.

1:50:45 Brennan: Cool.

1:50:46 Siobhan: [rolls die] Ah, 22.

1:50:48 Brennan: You start looking around at the arcade stuff. You see that Biz quickly wheels the thing into the back and says,

1:50:55 Biz: Riz, you wanna give me a hand, dude?

1:50:56 Riz: Yep.

1:50:58 Brennan: Sort of wheels it back. Starts setting it up in this back room with a bunch of machines around there. Make a Perception Check.

1:51:06 Murph: Sure.

1:51:07 Ally: I have a crazy idea.

1:51:10 Murph: 17.

1:51:13 Brennan: As he's setting up he goes,

1:51:14 Biz: All right, well we got this puppy pretty, I'll be able to crack this palimpsest in no time.

1:51:18 Brennan: You see that there is a little video game console [video game beeping] and you see that it's called Lucky Stones on it. Riz is startled and stares, alarmed.

1:51:26 Brennan: And you see that a little halfling girl appears on the screen and goes,

1:51:29 Video Game Girl: Hi, I'm Penny, wanna play? [video game dinging]

1:51:37 Riz: What the fuck?

1:51:41 Brennan: You [Adaine] start to examine one of the games. You see a powerful conjuration on it. You [Kristen] detect a sort of malevolent presence from the game that Adaine is looking at.

1:51:54 Kristen: There's, what are you seeing?

1:51:57 Adaine: It's some kind of powerful magic on it.

1:52:01 Brennan: And you guys are in the front room kind of area here.

1:52:05 Siobhan: Can I, can I press the buttons? [buttons clicking] See what's going on with this?

1:52:10 Brennan: Yeah, you look at it--

1:52:10 Siobhan: Put a little silver in there.

1:52:12 Brennan: You start to put the game in there. You see that suddenly, [video game beeping]

1:52:16 Video Game Girl: Hi, I'm Katja, [strikes a pose] I'm here to chop, ah!

1:52:22 Brennan: Fighting game, chop, ah, hah. [martial arts]

1:52:26 Ally: If I cast Guardian of Faith at a point in this arcade, it lasts for eight hours. Can I cast that like—

1:52:32 Brennan: Yes!

1:52:32 Ally: Ahead of time? 'Cause it feels crazy and I want something on our side. [ominous choir music]

1:52:36 Brennan: You cast Guardian of Faith. You see that Biz looks over at you, and says,

1:52:41 Biz: Riz, what's goin' on, my man?

1:52:43 Riz: That is one of the missing girls. She used to be my babysitter. And she's in that game.

1:52:52 Brennan: You see he looks at you and says,

1:52:57 Biz: Hey, can I be super honest with you for a sec? Guys like us don't really get a chance to be cool, you know what I mean?

1:53:08 Riz: [disbelieving] Sure.

1:53:10 Biz: And, um, it's not like, fair. Like hot guys always get like all the attention.

1:53:15 Emily: Oh my God.

1:53:17 Riz: Are you giving me a nice guy speech right now?

1:53:19 Brennan: He says,

1:53:19 Biz: But here's the thing dude, here, with these—

1:53:22 Brennan: You see that he takes a blank palimpsest out of his pocket. He says,

1:53:28 Biz: We get to call the shots when they're in here.

1:53:32 Riz: Oh, so we make the games. Got it. Dude are you the one that's hookin' all these up?

1:53:41 Biz: Uh, what can I say dude, I'm good at what I do. [Siobhan gasps]

1:53:44 Brennan: You see he says,

1:53:45 Siobhan: [whispering] You son of a bitch.

1:53:47 Biz: Now, I got one extra one from our new supplier, and I've had my sights on Ms. Abernant for some time. Siobhan looks alarmed.

1:53:57 Riz: Can I see it?

1:54:00 Biz: Are you into that, 'cause you feel like a cool guy?

1:54:02 Riz: Hey dude, I am in.

1:54:04 Brennan: You see he says,

1:54:04 Biz: Take a look, go for it, what do you think.

1:54:08 Riz: Very good. I pull my gun out on him. [gun cocking] [group laughing]

1:54:10 Brennan: I want everybody here to roll initiative.

1:54:12 All: Ah!

1:54:13 Siobhan: That little creep!

1:54:16 Brennan: That's it for this week on Fantasy High.

1:54:17 Ally: Jeez.

1:54:18 Brennan: See you next week to see [Biz voice] exactly how the game gets played.

1:54:23 Siobhan: Oh, I'm gonna wring his little shitty neck. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 14: Arcade Ambush] [NEXT TIME ON FANTASY HIGH]

1:54:27 Brennan: We find ourselves at the arcade in the back room around this giant power structure filled with glowing crystals. An insane phantasmagoria of rainbow colors begins to enshroud the arcade.

1:54:40 Emily: I run up, I grab Fabian, I say,

1:54:40 Fig: Trust me.

1:54:42 Fabian: What the fuck are you doing?

1:54:44 Brennan: Get ready to find coins or else you'll die!

1:54:46 Deep Voice: Welcome player one. Fight!

1:54:49 Fabian: What's happening? Where am I?

1:54:50 Unknown: Riz, Riz is that you?

1:54:52 Riz: [reaching out] That's me. I think we're fucked.

1:54:54 Lou: How many dice you pickin' up dude? Brennan is picking up a lot of dice. He looks smug about it.

1:54:56 Emily: What are you--

1:54:57 Lou: Put those dice down.

1:54:58 Siobhan: Put them down!

1:54:59 Ally: No!

1:55:01 All: Ah!

1:55:03 Siobhan: Oh my God!

1:55:12 Lou: What! What!

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