Reflections

0:00:03 Brennan: [voiceover] In the world of Spyre did prophecy foretell that the dragon Kalvaxus would rise to power when once more were seven maidens chained at the mouth of his cave. What the prophecy could not predict was what The Seven had in store for the world. United by prophecy, bound by friendship, the Seven Maidens would quickly become one of Spyre's premier parties of teen heroes and all-star students at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy. [end intro]

0:00:41 Brennan: Hello one and all! And welcome back to another thrilling episode of Dimension 20: The Seven. I'm your humble dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan. With me as always are our Heroic High Schoolers. Say hi, Heroic High Schoolers. During Brennan’s opening speech, Izzy and Rekha are both mouthing his words and mimicking his gesture patterns exaggeratedly.

0:00:52 All: Hi, Heroic High Schoolers!

0:00:54 Brennan: Were you doing a bit about- (Isabella mimicking Brennan) (Brennan laughing)

0:00:59 Becca: We didn't create this bit, we just have to maintain this bit.

0:01:01 All: Yeah.

0:01:02 Brennan: I'm being [snaps fan open] roasted. (players cheering)

0:01:08 Brennan: Gang, last we left off the Seven Maidens had just defeated the Harpy Queen and her general, Kuragran. High atop the Mountains of Chaos on the bridges of the Temple of the Earth Defiant where we now find our Heroic High Schoolers mounted atop some of Katja's finest horses here in the sanctum where no evil being may tread, hallowed as it is by dwarven clerics in ages long past. This temple being the last known location of the superintendent of the Solisian School System, Tectonya Karkovnya. We find ourselves here in front of the statue of Kora Ironbrow astride her incredible magical combat wheelchair, two scimitars in her hands, and some really lovely muttonchops. Ostentatia, you hear your spell continuing of Animate Objects back with Asha Hammerheart as she stands in the midst of that cave just swatting ether beasts off the bridge. And eventually hear sort of the ether beasts and other harpies that are swarming around here, some more harpies sort of flit around the sanctum. (screeches) But having seen their queen destroyed and unable to enter the temple they begin to fly back to their perch and we see these other ether beasts sort of turn and begin to depart from this place. You are all left here in safety, having fought your way to the very summit of the Temple of the Earth Defiant. What do you do?

0:02:51 Danielle: Okay, couple things.

0:02:51 Antiope: Yeah?

0:02:54 Danielle: You're all amazing, you're all-

0:02:57 Becca: No, you're amazing.

0:02:58 Everyone: You are amazing.

0:02:58 Sam: Yeah.

0:03:00 Danielle: This wasn't fishing for compliments.

0:03:03 Ostentatia: You're amazing.

0:03:03 Katja: You're amazing.

0:03:04 Danielle: Yes, amazing.

0:03:04 Becca: Candyheart, you're amazing.

0:03:08 Danielle: Oh, our horses are-

0:03:08 Antiope: You are amazing, Elegonia.

0:03:13 Brennan: Cinnamon looks up and says, (sighs)

0:03:13 Cinnamon: Fellow horses, you have done a great deed this day. Katja wipes away some tears.

0:03:21 Cinnamon: You have each protected your noble rider. It is in this moment that I must say I have never been more proud of my fellow equine adventurers.

0:03:33 Brennan: And you see that-

0:03:34 Izzy: Are they their own adventuring party?

0:03:36 Rekha: Oh my God! (group laughing)

0:03:39 Becca: They perform the deeds of steeds.

0:03:41 Katja: Cinnamon, Cinnamon, do you guys have to do a GED?

0:03:45 Cinnamon: What's that?

0:03:46 Katja: Do you have to complete a GED?

0:03:47 Cinnamon: My God, perhaps we do.

0:03:48 Brennan: Coming next season, Magical Horse Adventure, Dimension 20's newest side quest. (players laughing)

0:03:55 Brennan: You see that Cinnamon says,

0:03:56 Cinnamon: You have done admirably this day.

0:03:58 Brennan: Candyheart goes,

0:03:58 Candyheart: Well, if you say so.

0:04:02 Brennan: And Taffodil looks at you and says,

0:04:04 Taffodil: I guess Cinnamon missed when I almost fell off that bridge.

0:04:08 Sam: Don't worry, sweetie, we all have off days.

0:04:10 Sephie: I pet the horse.

0:04:12 Taffodil: Well, you are just the sweetest thing, I appreciate it. Lord knows my self esteem could use a little pick-me-up.

0:04:17 Katja: You're perfect! (group laughing)

0:04:20 Sam: You're beautiful, don't ever sell yourself short.

0:04:23 Taffodil: Neigh.

0:04:23 Danielle: All right, well, now that the classic postmortem is out of the way, I just want to say that that was real fucked. That was real fucked and something's wonky. Animals are getting mashed up every which way and you know, I'm pretty banged up. Anybody else?

0:04:45 Antiope: Oh, can I-

0:04:47 Danielle: Anybody else?

0:04:49 Antiope: I can do something about that.

0:04:50 Ostentatia: I could as well.

0:04:50 Danielle: Awesome. Also, I clocked, like, a harpy nest with a bunch of cool crap in it.

0:05:01 Antiope: So let's go check it out.

0:05:01 Katja: I saw a lot of crap, too.

0:05:03 Becca: Oh my gosh, does this mean there'll be climbing involved?

0:05:06 Sam: I mean, I can fly up.

0:05:07 Antiope: Do we want to take a break before we go explore 'cause also... Ostentatia, are we allowed to go explore? Is it weird that I'm asking you? Am I racist for asking you 'cause we're in a Dwarf-

0:05:17 Katja: It's so important we're talking about this.

0:05:21 Ostentatia: It's so important, it's so important. I also have no idea. (players laughing)

0:05:27 Ostentatia: I don't think it's-

0:05:27 Rekha: Culturally Dwarven.

0:05:29 Ostentatia: But I don't know if it's, I don't think it's bad if we explore. Let me just take a second.

0:05:33 Brennan: Give me-

0:05:33 Izzy: I would also like to Mass Healing Word.

0:05:37 Brennan: Amazing! (choir harmonizing)

0:05:38 Brennan: I'm gonna say that actually Ostentatia, here in this hallowed place, one of the Hallow effects on the sanctum, as you go to Mass Healing Word is that the Mass Healing Word that Ostentatia casts in this sacred place takes the effect of a short rest so not only do you get whatever Ostentatia rolls, all of you also through Ostentatia's magic can spend hit dice to get yourself back up to full. We can assume that you all are back up at full.

0:06:05 Izzy: So who's fucked up? Danielle is fucked up.

0:06:07 Brennan: Mm-hmm. Erika makes Yelle’s double peace signs.

0:06:10 Izzy: Katja is fucked up.

0:06:10 Rekha: I'm fucked up.

0:06:12 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

0:06:13 Izzy: And did anybody else take damage?

0:06:15 Becca: I don't have a drop of harpy blood.

0:06:19 Sephie: Oh wait, the horses, the horses are hurt.

0:06:21 Rekha: Oh my God, our horses.

0:06:22 Sephie: The horses are so hurt.

0:06:23 Becca: My horse is hurt.

0:06:23 Rekha: Help Cinnamon.

0:06:25 Izzy: Yeah.

0:06:25 Sephie: Yeah.

0:06:26 Rekha: She lost 10 hit points.

0:06:26 Izzy: Okay. (Aabria laughing)

0:06:30 Izzy: So I just do beep boop beep boop beep boop beep boop beep boop beep. (die taps table) Um, plus my spellcasting ability modifier is five so that's six.

0:06:40 Brennan: Six, so six hit points.

0:06:44 Izzy: Everyone only gets six hit points.

0:06:47 Brennan: But the horses actually all get back to full with that. And again, anyone who doesn't get back to full with that is allowed to spend their own hit dice because the temple is magnifying Ostentatia's magic. Ostentatia, give me a little religion check if you'd be so kind.

0:07:12 Izzy: 12.

0:07:12 Brennan: 12, so obviously you are a, you're a young Dwarven priestess and on a 12 you know that this is a holy site and it shouldn't be defaced or disrespected in any way. You see that there's some rubble around if you look here from like wear and tear. From your earlier research you know that part of the pilgrimage people make here to the Temple of the Earth Defiant is specifically to, if you are a pilgrim here you're supposed to come here and help repair this place. Like, a lot of the rubble is just from wind and storms. And the whole point of being here is sort of to like, that you come on a holy journey here to a place that for dwarves is very hard to get to to walk up into the mountains and be out in the sky exposed to the elements. And the whole point is that, again, like the word defiant is literally like defying the erosion of the wind to keep something in and of its shape.

0:08:24 Izzy: Could I cast Mending wherever it's needed?

0:08:27 Becca: [touched] Oh.

0:08:27 Brennan: Yeah, I think you actually-

0:08:31 Becca: Your ancestors would be so proud.

0:08:33 Brennan: You actually see, Ostentatia, as you begin to go around there's rubble on the ground here. You cast a Mending spell and you see that some of the rocks begin to form back into the columns. You take your hammer out and some of your mason's tools and begin to fix this place here. As you do so-

0:08:50 Ostentatia: If anybody feels like they want to help…

0:08:52 Antiope: Yeah.

0:08:54 Penny: No, you're doing a really good job and we just want to watch and cheer. (claps)

0:08:57 Ostentatia: All right.

0:08:57 Erika: So I'll, yeah. Danielle will use Speak With Plants and everything at her disposal to help coax vegetation to grow back and to cover up the cracks, flowers bloom in the rubble.

0:09:20 Brennan: Amazing.

0:09:21 Ostentatia: If there were any tomato vines, I could cook us up something.

0:09:22 Erika: Oh my God. There's like little Alliums of garlic, Allium and like chives grow.

0:09:29 Ostentatia: Oh, this is perfect.

0:09:31 Erika: And like bulbs of garlic spring up.

0:09:33 Ostentatia: Oh my God.

0:09:34 Erika: Tomato vines grow over the archways.

0:09:38 Rekha: A pasta plant.

0:09:40 Erika: Yeah, there's like a little herb garden.

0:09:42 Penny: Ooh, this one's got cheese already on the macaroni.

0:09:44 Sam: Oh my God, this one has tortellini.

0:09:45 Erika: There's... (laughs)

0:09:45 Aabria: It's so specific.

0:09:48 Erika: There's basil and oregano and...

0:09:51 Becca: Is that already preset in TaleSpire?

0:09:53 Brennan: Yeah, we have that.

0:09:54 Rekha: Do we have a tortellini bush in TaleSpire?

0:09:55 Brennan: Yeah, Hanan, if you're listening, let's get some tomato vines up in here. (players laughing)

0:09:58 Sephie: So I think, so Sam can't really do much as far as repairs go, but this place is covered in snow and probably has a ton of water damage and erosion.

0:10:09 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

0:10:10 Sephie: So I'm going to use Shape Water to pull moisture from the stone and also clean up the area around it so that there's not any like...

0:10:19 Brennan: Amazing.

0:10:21 Penny: We are nesting so hard right now and I love that.

0:10:23 Antiope: So, we are.

0:10:24 Penny: We are staying here, right?

0:10:25 Ostentatia: When we get a couple, like cute, maybe thrift items in here. (Brennan laughing)

0:10:30 Penny: Yeah.

0:10:31 Ostentatia: It's going to feel like our space.

0:10:33 Penny: Yeah.

0:10:33 Aabria: Yeah. I'm just following you with Druidcraft. Like doing 1% of the thing you're doing like...

0:10:39 Rekha: I'm very good with artisan's tools. I make some art and a little calligraphy like “a house is a home.”

0:10:43 Izzy: Horse, horse, horse embroideries.

0:10:45 Rekha: A horse is a home, yeah.

0:10:49 Brennan: [laughing] You put up, a horse is a home. (players laughing)

0:10:52 Becca: A horse is a home.

0:10:55 Aabria: I hate it!

0:10:55 Brennan: That's incredible. I'm gonna say no rolls even necessary. Like Sam and Danielle, you guys go out to the front, like outside of the columns and hit the geography of the outside and Sam, you guys see this beautiful snowstorm kick up from Sam that just pulls not only the snow but all of the ice that expands and breaks the stone apart and just sends it spiraling off into the mountains. And the moment that you do so roots and vines grow. And even young sapling conifer trees grow up that mean that if storms come in the future, these trees will be able to drink up the water and keep the mountains preserved forever.

0:11:43 All: Aw.

0:11:44 Brennan: So there's this beautiful snowstorm as these beautiful evergreens grow in this place.

0:11:48 Sam: Teamwork.

0:11:48 Rekha: Amazing.

0:11:50 Danielle: Makes the dream work! [they high-five]

0:11:50 Brennan: It's really great. There's a lot of very, (laughs) also like a lot of fun permaculture, I think, Danielle that you're doing in this moment of like, oh, there's a lot of these funguses are gonna be edible for hungry dwarves that come up here in the future.

0:12:04 Danielle: Yeah man, yeah, self-sustaining.

0:12:06 Ostentatia: You know, this is all like, I feel like it's sort of weird to just like relate to people based solely on race 'cause it's like, there are so many different types of people in the world and it's like, okay, how far removed am I from everybody here, but this is really sweet. That cannot be denied. And you guys are all so great.

0:12:29 Danielle: You're great.

0:12:29 Sam: Oh, you're great.

0:12:30 Penny: You're great.

0:12:30 Antiope: You're great.

0:12:31 Brennan: You look inside, Ostentatia, and as you all are sort of Mending stuff you see Katja is doing the calligraphy of, a horse is a home.

0:12:38 Katja: You don't need to be a horse to live here, but it helps. (group laughing)

0:12:45 Becca: But it helps!

0:12:47 Sephie: Are the horses reviewing scrapbooks?

0:12:49 Brennan: The horses, yeah, Candyheart-

0:12:51 Becca: Yeah, I think they're all gathered around one page on the graph broad.

0:12:52 Aabria: How interesting is this actually?

0:12:53 Brennan: Yeah, there are seven horses that are all sitting, which is weird to see horses do, just on their butts with their front legs extended and Candyheart somehow has a mug of tea next to them just being like,

0:13:03 Candyheart: Yeah, well, you know, I only got about halfway through the chapter today, so I feel like…

0:13:06 Izzy: Chapter of a scrapbook?

0:13:09 Becca: I'm actually sitting with him learning about scrapbook reviewing.

0:13:13 Katja: Exactly what happens in the Babysitters Horse 52. They've gotten a huge stable of horses. There's so many kids they have to babysit that they all take a break and they do this.

0:13:24 Penny: You gotta have you time.

0:13:24 Katja: Yeah.

0:13:25 Izzy: Who's turning the pages for them?

0:13:27 Rekha: Huh?

0:13:28 Brennan: The horses are having a hard. Just sort of destroying the scrapbooks.

0:13:33 Becca: I'm sitting there but I'm not helping. (group laughing)

0:13:37 Izzy: And that's the right thing to do.

0:13:39 Becca: Yeah, no, I'm not gonna do it for them.

0:13:40 Sephie: Sam picks up a little bit like of a twirling gust that turns the pages.

0:13:43 All: Aw!

0:13:43 Brennan: Aw, that's so sweet.

0:13:44 Candyheart: Wow, look at that, this place really is amazing. It's a miracle!

0:13:48 Ostentatia: We're being so wholesome!

0:13:51 Katja: God. (players laughing)

0:13:52 Brennan: But yeah, Taffodil looks and winks over at you and says,

0:13:54 Taffodil: You're a real sweetheart. Candyheart was having a hard time.

0:13:57 Katja: Oh my God!

0:13:57 Sam: It's okay, I understand.

0:13:59 Katja: Oh, this is so-

0:14:00 Sam: Everyone can use a little help sometimes.

0:14:01 Rekha: I take 1.000 of the same picture on my crystal.

0:14:05 Sam: Oh, that reminds me. So someone mentioned a video.

0:14:08 Katja: Uh-huh.

0:14:11 Antiope: Which one, we all took video.

0:14:12 Penny: You are everywhere.

0:14:13 Ostentatia: We all took videos.

0:14:15 Sam: Someone also mentioned it went viral?

0:14:18 Antiope: Yeah.

0:14:18 Penny: We all did. Separately each video.

0:14:19 Ostentatia: Yeah.

0:14:21 Ostentatia: Yeah, I mean, Katja doesn't have that many followers.

0:14:23 Katja: Yeah, so I got one like. My dad liked it so for me, viral.

0:14:25 Ostentatia: So that's going viral.

0:14:27 Sam: So-

0:14:27 Danielle: I never remember to pose.

0:14:28 Penny: He checked it?

0:14:28 Katja: He checked it!

0:14:29 Sephie: Fun fact, Sam has almost no social media, none.

0:14:36 Becca: Uh-oh, we should have asked.

0:14:36 Rekha: Okay.

0:14:39 Sam: How many views does it have?

0:14:41 Katja: Mine has the one, how about you guys?

0:14:44 Penny: Like 3.000, conservatively.

0:14:44 Antiope: Yeah. I'm afraid to check.

0:14:50 Sephie: How many views does my video have right now?

0:14:54 Brennan: Do we want to leave this up to the dice here?

0:14:57 Sephie: Let's leave it up to the dice.

0:14:58 Izzy: Roll all of them.

0:14:59 Aabria: Yeah, just roll everything you have and then add it all up.

0:15:02 Brennan: Yeah, we're gonna do this like exponential. So like a one means there's like 100, but as we go up it's like timesing by itself. (Erika groaning)

0:15:09 Sephie: Yeah.

0:15:10 Brennan: So I'm gonna roll. (die taps table) (whimsical instrumental music)

0:15:15 Brennan: Uh… I rolled an 18. (players screaming)

0:15:20 Brennan: So there's 180k views and it's climbing pretty steeply. It's a beautiful shot. Like the light, it was a broad daylight fight. It's incredibly well lit, the angle was great.

0:15:31 Ostentatia: [looking at her phone] Oh my God, I'm nominated for a film award? (group laughing)

0:15:34 Rekha: Wait...

0:15:36 Sephie: What do the comments say?

0:15:40 Brennan: Most of the comments are just commenting like, “oh my God”, like “always love these-”

0:15:45 Becca: Her hair in slo-mo.

0:15:45 Brennan: Yeah, hair in slo-mo. Oh my God, I always love these Aguefort vids.

0:15:50 Rekha: My dad says good for you Sam, even though you're dying.

0:15:53 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an investigation check.

0:15:54 Becca: Katja, you got a friend!

0:15:55 Brennan: But use your charisma instead of intelligence because this is social media related.

0:15:59 Sephie: Okay, cool. (Erika laughing)

0:16:01 Aabria: Amazing.

0:16:01 Rekha: So dumb. (group laughing)

0:16:07 Sephie: 16.

0:16:07 Brennan: 16. Way deep down, like probably past the first 50 comments someone references, it's not as bad as it could be but you just see someone says like, “wow, this girl looks a lot like,” and mentions your old TV character.

0:16:36 Aabria: Sort by newest.

0:16:36 Katja: Did we do a bad?

0:16:38 Sam: No, no, nothing’s wrong, nothing's wrong.

0:16:41 Katja: I could delete it. My dad is the only one who looked at mine.

0:16:45 Sam: Um, it's, it's- everything's fine.

0:16:49 Ostentatia: Do you want to look at the comments? I mean, my Nonna made me give her a freaking account 'cause she wanted to be a part of stuff so it's like a lot of her just doing a lot of periods and Ls and Fs and Ps.

0:17:03 Sam: Boomer stuff.

0:17:08 Ostentatia: Well, she's like fucking 400, but...

0:17:11 Sam: Oh God, that's pretty up there.

0:17:12 Ostentatia: But do you wanna?

0:17:13 Sam: I think I've seen enough for now. Everything's fine, it's fine.

0:17:18 Aabria: Can I roll an insight check?

0:17:19 Penny: You're saying it like it's not fine.

0:17:20 Sephie: You don't need to roll an insight check. Everything's not fine, but it's fine.

0:17:24 Ostentatia: Do you want me to delete it?

0:17:26 Katja: I'll delete mine.

0:17:26 Sam: No, it's fine.

0:17:29 Sephie: I look at Zelda.

0:17:29 Brennan: Zelda says,

0:17:32 Zelda: Um, I'm gonna delete mine.

0:17:34 Brennan: And just deletes hers from her phone.

0:17:37 Sam: You don't need to delete, you don't-

0:17:38 Zelda: No, that's fine. Izzy makes a “deleting” motion.

0:17:38 Rekha: I deleted mine.

0:17:38 Brennan: Zelda looks at you and says,

0:17:38 Zelda: Yeah, I think it's fine. Besides, we probably shouldn't upload immediately because if we want to make like sponsor vids later then we probably want it to be exclusive.

0:17:50 Ostentatia: Oh yeah, wanna get some ads in there.

0:17:51 Katja: Yeah, Smashburger merch, I want a hat.

0:17:54 Antiope: Also, I'm lying to my internship that I just have...

0:17:57 Penny: Have explosive diarrhea.

0:17:58 Antiope: Yeah, at home so please don't tag me.

0:18:01 Brennan: A little thing pings on your thing being like, uh,

0:18:03 Charity: Antiope, this is Charity Blythe. I hope everything with your bowels has returned to normal. Normally we ask interns to arrive at 8:30 AM. It is currently 11:00 AM three days into whatever- (Aabria and Erika laughing)

0:18:22 Brennan: Yeah, that pops up from your phone. And as you are deleting you see a little thing blips up on your phone, a little video pops up being like,

0:18:31 Nonna: Hello, this is Nonna Wallace. I am in my garden. Shout out to all of my followers. I hope everyone great day. Remember you are beautiful. Your beard is beautiful, is bright and sunny and I love you. Love to my granddaughter Ostentatia.

0:18:54 Ostentatia: (chuckles) This could be popular. (group laughing)

0:18:58 Becca: I've already hearted and commented and reshared Nonna. She's like,

0:19:00 Penny: I only have social media to follow Nonna.

0:19:03 Katja: I shared it to my stories. My dad might not get it.

0:19:06 Danielle: So, you know, our secrecy is very important twofold. Number one because we don't trust the narcs over in the Ministry, you know? Aguefort said to watch out who's watching. It's clear that something happened to Tectonya and we don't know if it had something to do with Charity.

0:19:31 Antiope: No, no, no, she was marked for death by that, so 100% that.

0:19:35 Sam: What?

0:19:38 Danielle: What?

0:19:38 Antiope: I said that part, right?

0:19:39 Penny: But what does this have to do with, yeah, yeah, yeah, you put it in our friendship crystal bracelets.

0:19:44 Antiope: Okay, I’m sorry, yeah.

0:19:44 Danielle: So we gotta keep our location under wraps. And second of all, like, this is not an accusation because mistakes can be made. Sam's got privacy to maintain, you know? And we should ask permission.

0:19:58 Katja: [Rekha] I'm sorry.

0:20:01 Danielle: For this kind of thing.

0:20:01 Sam: I mean, I'm fine. Like I know that as a group we do, like, you know, some of those brand deals and stuff. Like, I'm fine with that and I'm fine being in that. It's just, um...

0:20:13 Sephie: Sam looks at Zelda again.

0:20:17 Brennan: Zelda looks and shrugs her shoulders and says,

0:20:22 Zelda: Um, let's go… Yeah, I think, sorry, um.

0:20:30 Katja: It's okay.

0:20:31 Antiope: You're good, you don't have to apologize.

0:20:32 Penny: Hey, you're doing great. Your bangs look awesome today.

0:20:33 Zelda: Oh, thank you so much.

0:20:34 Penny: Yeah, post battle, the sweat really shapes them.

0:20:37 Zelda: Um, listen, oh Sam, you can fly, right?

0:20:40 Sam: Yeah.

0:20:43 Zelda: You wanna go, we'll go check out that nest up there because you can fly and I'm like, super...

0:20:49 Brennan: You see that, you see these columns here. Zelda just can walk straight up one with her goat hooves just like,

0:20:55 Zelda: Yeah, like I'm super good on cliffs and mountain stuff so let's go.

0:21:00 Sam: Let's go.

0:21:01 Becca: I've already like shimmied up one as well like,

0:21:02 Penny: See, I can do it, too.

0:21:02 Zelda: Yeah!

0:21:05 Penny: Also, I forgot to tell you guys or purposely didn't tell you guys about my opportunity, but I probably shouldn't have a public presence 'cause it's super secret and stuff I've already said too much.

0:21:17 Sam: You mean the Cult of Shadows or whatever?

0:21:19 Penny: Fuck, yeah. (Brennan laughing) You know about that? You guys, Society of Shadows.

0:21:22 Sam: You told us. You literally told us.

0:21:24 Becca: No, we retconned that, remember! (group laughing)

0:21:26 Rekha: Oh, now I remember, we retconned it.

0:21:28 Sephie: Oh, we did. Did we retcon it? Yeah.

0:21:31 Becca: Now I'll tell you for the first time!

0:21:32 Sephie: I thought that was in the, I thought it was an in thing.

0:21:37 Rekha: I always forget what we retcon.

0:21:40 Aabria: A retception, I don't know where we are.

0:21:42 Brennan: Zelda is gonna head out with Sam to go check out the nest that y'all pointed out.

0:21:48 Erika: Oh actually, I'm gonna go too with my webbed shoes. Is it okay if I tag along?

0:21:53 Brennan: Yeah, you see, actually-

0:21:54 Erika: Or I can follow at a distance.

0:21:56 Brennan: Zelda, actually, Zelda makes eye contact with you and as Sam goes outside Zelda just sort of pulls Sam off to the side for a second and I think anyone that wants to go check it—

0:22:07 Penny: I'll go with you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:22:08 Danielle: I'll go up, we'll go up.

0:22:08 Antiope: I’ll go up there.

0:22:08 Brennan: Yelle, yeah.

0:22:10 Penny: I'd love to shimmy up there.

0:22:10 Antiope: I got my kicks of kicking it, stringing, and spreading.

0:22:14 Brennan: So yeah, Antiope, Penny, and Yelle head off to the nest while-

0:22:17 Sephie: Sam notices nothing.

0:22:18 Brennan: Yeah, Sam notices nothing. Katja and Ostentatia who are still in there. Ostentatia, as you talk about throw pillows and stuff, you have many bolts of Michaels and JOANNs fabrics and stuff like that in your purse of holding. If you wanted to make some throws and stuff like that in here that's absolutely something you could do.

0:22:38 Izzy: Um, you know, maybe another time, but... (Brennan laughing) It's far past a minute, right, to talk to Asha.

0:22:48 Brennan: You could maybe go back and still check that out if you wanted to, for sure.

0:22:50 Ostentatia: Yeah. Katja, I don't know how you're feeling, but I was gonna maybe try and talk to a stone dwarf.

0:22:57 Katja: Okay. (Aabria laughing)

0:22:59 Rekha: I'll walk with Ostentatia to do that. I also, I remember seeing an axe on top of one of the roofs of this thing that I think is on the way back there anyway. I would like to try to snag as a present for my dad.

0:23:11 Players: Aw.

0:23:11 Ostentatia: Well we definitely probably should not take anything from here without asking.

0:23:16 Katja: Okay, I'll ask the stone.

0:23:16 Ostentatia: Great.

0:23:20 Brennan: (laughs) So you both head out. The last bit of Mending you do, Ostentatia, you see that this is a very potent thing that you're doing. And as you're going through it, obviously Ostentatia's relationship with divinity very much has to do with her real living family like why she became a cleric and why she sort of like, to help the actual dwarves in her life that are her family. When you mend stuff here, it's not just like, oh, that was shitty and broken and now it's fixed. Like, you mend a wall and as it springs back to relief it's like a relief of dwarves that traveled here to ask for a miracle and got one upon traveling here. And you see the things you are restoring are deep and powerful stories of people not very much unlike yourself who came here looking for something in the past. In the final mending spell that you cast, you fix something and even more than the spell, you feel that as you touch this stone wall, you're sort of fixing some cosmetic damage, you feel a click of something in the wall as you mend something and realize that you've just mended a lock inside of the stone. And there's no visible door here, but you've just mended a mechanism within this place.

0:25:09 Becca: Uh… (group laughing) I hear a click and I shimmy back down to peek.

0:25:15 Rekha: Did somebody say click?

0:25:16 Becca: Yeah and just watch you.

0:25:16 Katja: If you mend a lock, does that mean you locked something?

0:25:20 Ostentatia: Did I close it or did I open it?

0:25:21 Katja: Did you open it? Is it good click or bad click?

0:25:23 Ostentatia: It felt good.

0:25:26 Katja: As long as it felt good to you. I just want you to feel good.

0:25:29 Ostentatia: You know those locks on Louis bags?

0:25:32 Katja: No.

0:25:32 Ostentatia: That like pop really nice?

0:25:35 Katja: No.

0:25:36 Penny: I've never even touched...

0:25:37 Ostentatia: What about on like, a Bottega bag?

0:25:42 Katja: A Bottega bag?

0:25:42 Ostentatia: A Bottega Veneta bag.

0:25:47 Katja: A Bottega?

0:25:50 Brennan: [lauging] We're gonna cut from here.

0:25:50 Rekha: That goes on for one hour. (players laughing)

0:25:57 Brennan: So Antiope, Danielle, and Penny, would you want to hear that click and stay behind or would you want to go up to the nest with-

0:26:04 Becca: Oh God, I think I just scampered up the side and then I heard what sounded like a lock and I thought, I am being called and I turn around and I am upside-down peeking underneath at Ostentatia.

0:26:16 Brennan: Amazing, so Penny, you go back. We're gonna follow Danielle and Antiope up to the nest.

0:26:21 Aabria: Great.

0:26:22 Brennan: So you make it up here. You see Yvonna of the Sundering Hills. Of the different statues you've seen, Yvonna was like a dwarven paladin. You see that she has short, tight locs on her head. Do either of you read dwarven?

0:26:35 Erika: Um… [shaking their head] (dramatic instrumental music)

0:26:41 Brennan: Cool, so you see some dwarven runes written into the base of her-

0:26:42 Becca: I do.

0:26:44 Izzy: So do I.

0:26:44 Aabria: Oh, well, uh...

0:26:46 Brennan: You see some dwarven runes written into the base of her statue. But then you see a bunch of stuff up here like treasure and shields and weaponry and stuff like that. Also from here you see the Sun rapidly descending. It was a long ride to get here. What do you do as you get up to the top here?

0:27:05 Aabria: I'm just gonna reach out as we get there to do the slap, do you see this? But I'm also gonna cast Protection from Evil and Good on you just in case this becomes like a situation.

0:27:16 Danielle: Oh, oh, oh.

0:27:16 Antiope: Yeah.

0:27:19 Erika: I take a picture on my crystal of the dwarvish writing and of the situation and send it to the group chat and be like,

0:27:28 Danielle: If anybody can translate.

0:27:31 Brennan: As you and Katja, or sorry, yeah, you get it. You can read the dwarven writing. (message notification rings)

0:27:36 Katja: Wait, Bottega? (group laughing)

0:27:42 Penny: That's like a store.

0:27:42 Ostentatia: Or like Gotye. [startled by her notification] (Brennan laughing) (message notification rings)

0:27:48 Brennan: The dwarven writing basically says, “many heroes fought foul evils and great beasts to arrive in sanctuary here at the Temple of the Earth Defiant. Many treasures they left behind in this place for those that would be pursued by danger behind them. Should you take a gift of this place in your time of need, we ask only that you leave something of your own in return that those heroes that come after you would have something to avail themselves for.”

0:28:37 Izzy: Ostentatia writes,

0:28:37 Ostentatia: It's like take a penny, leave a penny. (group laughing)

0:28:40 Aabria: Oh no, we didn't. I respond,

0:28:42 Antiope: No, Penny didn't come with us.

0:28:43 Rekha: Ha. (group laughing)

0:28:46 Rekha: I put a "haha" Tapback.

0:28:46 Aabria: Yeah! Dad joke.

0:28:51 Ostentatia: It's like a take a copper piece, leave a copper piece.

0:28:54 Aabria: Oh, okay, okay. (group laughing)

0:28:55 Brennan: Yes, as you two look up and see the statue here, you see these other objects and artifacts. Go ahead, each of you, and make any like, give me whatever skill check you're making up here.

0:29:06 Aabria: I'm looking for like a good thing.

0:29:09 Erika: I'll do a...

0:29:12 Aabria: 13 arcana check just to see if there's like, a magical weapon.

0:29:14 Brennan: Yeah, for sure.

0:29:17 Erika: It's a 19 perception to like see what's around.

0:29:23 Brennan: Yeah.

0:29:23 Erika: See like, also, you know, has this place been hit by the fey creatures?

0:29:31 Brennan: With a 13 arcana, you look around. Yeah, a lot of the gear here is clearly magical, right. There's like a giant crossbow here, there's an ax. There's a tall spear. There's also a lot of gems and gold. And it seems very clear that, but there are also a lot of non-magical stuff up here 'cause clearly a lot, it seems like the nature of this place is not like, leave an object of equal value. It's like, people left non-magical gear here that nonetheless had incredible significance to them because they were in desperate need for a more powerful weapon or they were being pursued by something dangerous. But on a 13 you see a lot of those specifics there. The crossbow, but there's definitely other ammunition there. You see there are some other arrows behind it. There's clearly an ax, there's a hammer. And oh, you also see like a small, there's some potions left up here. But I think on a 13 arcana you would also be like, yeah, this place is super dope. We could definitely grab some items and swap some stuff out and that could be very cool here. But I think also you're like, maybe some of this stuff here is like particularly like, oh, we're boned. We're getting chased by monsters up in the mountains here, oh no, and you would grab it to fend for yourself or whatever. If anyone, like if you wanted to identify some of this stuff, you could. But also there's no shade if you're like, I feel good with the gear that I have and thank you to the dwarves of this place. With a 19 perception, you look around. A 19 insight's pretty good. (warm instrumental music) (wind blowing softly) Something about the way the wind is blowing in the trees you are filled with a little bit of melancholy as though there is some form of attention being placed on this temple. And in that way, where you feel like you are being, not like you are being watched but feel like you are within the sight of something vast and powerful that has its focus on this place. You don't feel menaced, but you do feel uneasy.

0:31:48 Danielle: Something's going down here. It's not necessarily bad, but you know, it's... Higgledy-piggledy. (Becca laughs)

0:32:03 Antiope: I do hate that.

0:32:03 Erika: Yeah. Can I investigate a little? See if maybe there's any trace that Tectonya came through here.

0:32:14 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely. And with these rolls, by the way, feel absolutely free. Like, if you have magic to identify these magic items, you can do that, but also if you want to cast any, if you have any abilities that you want to do to supplement investigation checks or things like that, absolutely go for it.

0:32:29 Aabria: I think she's kind of, now that she knows it's a mixture of magical and non-magical items she's just sort of weirdly like talking to the statue of Yvonna and she's walking around like,

0:32:39 Antiope: Hey, I'm sorry, I know it's like the leave a penny, take a penny, and I don't have enough pennies, but I am gonna grab these arrows, thank you very much. And my friend wanted the ax so I am gonna grab that. Thank you very much.

0:32:51 Aabria: And then I pull out my short sword and be like,

0:32:53 Antiope: I am so sorry, I don't think this is magic, but it did kill a dragon and I do fucking hate dragons so there's a lot of like, emotional stuff in it for me if I leave this and I hope someone else can kill a ton of dragons with it if they need to or whatever. Well, I'm rambling, you're busy, you're not real, and Yelle can hear me right now so I'm gonna stop.

0:33:14 Aabria: And I sort of put it down. (group laughing)

0:33:16 Brennan: You watch your hyper-pragmatist friend stumble through a prayer apology.

0:33:22 Erika: Yeah.

0:33:22 Aabria: Yep.

0:33:26 Brennan: You grab this awesome big greataxe and five arrows. As you pull the arrows out of the snow you see they have these beautiful, like the wood of the shaft is very light. It's like silvery kind of beech. You can tell it would have had silver bark before it was fletched. The feathers in the fletching are a stark, snowy white. They all are kind of like very dramatically, they're not in a quiver, they're in the ground.

0:33:55 Aabria: Oh, cool.

0:33:57 Brennan: And as they are in the ground there, you can tell it was something where like, an archer must have, their quiver must have broken or fallen so they just had arrows in the ground next to them to be firing from up here long ago. You pull the arrows out of the ground. There's about five of them here. The arrowheads are pure reflection. The metal head is like made of mirror.

0:34:24 Becca: Hmm? (Isabella and Rekha stammering)

0:34:28 Antiope: Oh, thank you.

0:34:34 Brennan: [laughs] Yelle, what are you casting or doing?

0:34:38 Erika: First of all I think I'd like to check to see if there's any sort of potions or magical items that could help me or my friends on the journey. Anything we might need. You know, Danielle's looking ahead. You know, what could aid us? We don't know where we're going. There's a potential we're going underground. What is there that might help us?

0:35:03 Brennan: Yeah, go ahead and give, oh, so go ahead and give me either investigation, yeah, give me an investigation check here.

0:35:11 Erika: Ooh, eight.

0:35:11 Brennan: Eight, cool. You grab a bandolier of five potions which is like, it seems very clear that can help you and your friends. You sling five potions. Three of them are clearly potions of healing and the other two do other things.

0:35:25 All: Ooh!

0:35:28 Rekha: Other things.

0:35:28 Aabria: Just choose.

0:35:33 Izzy: Cold pressed. (Brennan laughs)

0:35:36 Erika: And in return Danielle just spreads her hands out and casts Entangle but instead of creating difficult terrain vines and mushroom spores spread out over wreathing the surrounding statue and helpful fungi and spores grow up.

0:36:02 Danielle: You know, we really don't know a whole lot about mushrooms. They're closer to humans than they are to plants.

0:36:10 Antiope: Horrifying.

0:36:11 Danielle: They have the kinds of powers to degrade chemicals that we don't understand. Like, some of them might be sentient, but in any case, mushrooms are dope, I'm leaving some mushrooms.

0:36:24 Antiope: That's really nice.

0:36:24 Danielle: Yeah.

0:36:27 Antiope: Are they like, mushrooms?

0:36:27 Danielle: Some of 'em are mushrooms.

0:36:30 Aabria: Cool, I'm gonna like Druidcraft and pick one off like leave a mushroom, take a mushroom. [pretends to pick and eat a mushroom]

0:36:37 Brennan: Amazing, yes, you see that you leave a number of these sort of magical mushrooms that start to grow up around the stone here and leave behind- yes?

0:36:48 Becca: Is there such a thing as temporary perception points? I feel like Antiope and Danielle would do mushrooms.

0:36:54 Aabria: Yeah.

0:36:54 Erika: Yeah.

0:36:55 Brennan: Would, oh yeah, begin to observe other things around them.

0:37:00 Aabria: I use Primeval Awareness while absolutely off my ass.

0:37:03 Brennan: Oh, don't do Primeval Awareness while you're on shrooms.

0:37:05 Aabria: They always say that.

0:37:05 Erika: Oh my God!

0:37:09 Brennan: Incredible, amazing.

0:37:10 Aabria: Everything's a dragon!

0:37:10 Brennan: Everything's a dragon.

0:37:12 Rekha: Oh, were horses always this colorful?

0:37:14 Becca: Uh-uh, you gotta be in the right mindset. Don't do it when you think about dragons.

0:37:17 Erika: Roll to see what kind of trip it is.

0:37:18 Aabria: Yeah! (claps)

0:37:19 Brennan: So Yelle and Antiope, you begin to descend from the-

0:37:23 Erika: Is-

0:37:23 Brennan: Oh yeah, sorry.

0:37:25 Erika: Was I able to check to see if there's any signs of her?

0:37:30 Brennan: Oh, from Tectonya, yes, absolutely. You got an eight investigation. Certainly not up here, so you didn't see any sign of Tectonya up here, but again, if there's any divination magic you want to use or anything else like that, you are welcome to give that a shot. But at the moment it seems like you've just grabbed some cool magic shit from this little cache.

0:37:52 Erika: Yeah, I don't think I have anything I can do. Anything to kinda check what happened around here or.

0:37:59 Aabria: Right, I did just take a, yeah, I do Primeval Awareness (lightning crackles) just to see what I see.

0:38:04 Offscreen Players: No!

0:38:05 Aabria: I'm on shrooms, it could be good, who knows?

0:38:07 Becca: I feel like that's advantage.

0:38:08 Aabria: Yeah.

0:38:08 Erika: Yeah.

0:38:09 Aabria: Also, I know what "The Legendarium," I know that's not a dragon, but if I pretend in my head it's a dragon.

0:38:19 Erika: Psychocybin.

0:38:20 Sephie: Is paranoia a status effect in this game? Let's do it.

0:38:23 Aabria: It's about to be.

0:38:24 Brennan: I'm gonna ask for a perception check here.

0:38:26 Aabria: Oh God. (die taps table) (gasps) Okay. 25.

0:38:32 Erika: Wha?

0:38:34 Sephie: Dang.

0:38:36 Brennan: Yelle, you watch your friend Antiope throw these mirror arrows into the quiver and look out over the mountains as the sun sets. It's a very dynamic pose, it's very, Antiope just looks very badass surveying the mountains in this moment.

0:38:54 Antiope: (laughs) Thank you.

0:38:56 Brennan: You look around, monstrosity, fey, you detect those presences here. You detect a number of magical presences here. (soft, slightly ominous piano music) Hair on your arm stands up. You feel something moving to this place. Your Primeval Awareness spreads out, but it's not moving in the way that an animal or a beast would move. It's moving in the way that wind moves or tides move. An awareness of a natural force is centering here, but it feels like the things in nature that produce circles like an iris closing, the eye of a hurricane, the center of a whirlpool. Something is closing in on this place. On a 25 perception, you have this moment of relating to something vast or enormous. And then you smell something on the wind. Again, you see through the melancholy trees blowing in the cold air. And you smell something that it for a moment, (sniffs) stings your nostrils with the smell of like blood in the water. And you wonder if there is something very profound and vast in the world that is, this is weird to say, injured, bleeding. And then you think about the ether beast. You think about the fey. Your mind immediately goes towards like, oh, well wizards, owlbears are a mashup creature made by wizards in ages long past. Clearly these ether beasts or whatever, there's some fucking wizard or sorcerer doing mashups in a tower somewhere.

0:40:52 Izzy: Like a DJ.

0:40:52 Brennan: Like a DJ.

0:40:53 Aabria: DJ Khaled.

0:40:53 Brennan: Yeah, no, the-

0:40:56 Rekha: You smell DJ Khaled.

0:40:56 Aabria: Oh!

0:40:57 Sephie: DJ Combo.

0:40:57 Izzy: Okay, DJ, yeah, he doesn't do mashups.

0:40:59 Brennan: The archmage Girl Talk is in a tower somewhere making ether beasts and- (players laughing)

0:41:06 Izzy: Supernatural singing.

0:41:11 Brennan: But you wonder at this moment if these things are happening just because somewhere in this space, and you do think it is this space. You do think it is like the Mountains of Chaos that some powerful thing is bleeding here in the mountains and there is something in the air and in the snow and in the water and the stone that is changing the world, nature, maybe reality itself.

0:41:48 Aabria: I communicate it exactly that way 'cause that was incredible (Brennan laughs) and then just start rambling about like,

0:41:55 Antiope: I'm… I’m a slayer which means I'm a predator so I smelled it 'cause I'm a predator. What if I'm here to kill the mountains?

0:42:03 Aabria: And then just start losing my mind in a useless direction.

0:42:07 Brennan: Antiope's pupils are so fully dilated past. Full orb of the eyeball is just pupil of just like, yeah, yeah.

0:42:17 Erika: Yeah.

0:42:17 Izzy: [whispering] That doesn't happen on trips, Brennan.

0:42:18 Antiope: I'm here to kill the Mountains of Chaos.

0:42:20 Danielle: Hey, you know in a way, that makes sense because you're here to slay something that is causing the chaos. All right, we should probably climb back down right now but be very, very, very, very, very careful. We should have brought a trip sitter. Why isn't Penny here? (group laughing)

0:42:38 Becca: My ears ding.

0:42:40 Brennan: We are going to move around the other side of the main spire with the temple in it. Sam, Zelda easily climbs up the cliff and you have your winged boots. And Zelda looks and goes,

0:42:52 Zelda: Um, how are you doing? Are you okay? (soft instrumental music)

0:43:03 Sam: I feel like you just saved my ass back there, and I've been a complete and total bitch to you.

0:43:12 Zelda: What are you talking about? You have not been a bitch to me.

0:43:18 Sam: I've been making fun of your boyfriend and being a bitch about us doing this entire quest and...

0:43:28 Brennan: Zelda just sort of pulls you into an embrace.

0:43:32 Aabria: Aw.

0:43:34 Brennan: You're sort of like, you're floating on mist pouring from your boots and she's standing on like the vertical rock of the cliffs as you hug suspended over space.

0:43:46 Becca: That's epic. (tender instrumental music)

0:43:48 Brennan: And you see she looks and says,

0:43:53 Zelda: Sam, I know this is like… [long pause] I'm gonna say this was a lot of, I love you so much, I love you so much. And I don't mean this in a fucked up way or a bad way, but like, whenever you get like a little bit rude, I'm like okay, T-minus until we find out what's hurting you. So like, even if you say something mean to me, I know. Like yeah, when we first became friends I was like, oh my God, it hurt my feelings. And now, like...

0:44:39 Sam: That doesn't make it okay. Zelda sighs.

0:44:44 Sam: So I'm sorry.

0:44:50 Zelda: I appreciate it and I love you. And nothing you could ever say to me is gonna be as mean as the stuff I say to myself. (laughs awkwardly) Sorry.

0:45:01 Sam: You should really be nicer to yourself because you're awesome.

0:45:04 Zelda: [stutters] Stop, stop it.

0:45:09 Sam: Even after almost two years of this, it's still hard to adjust to people that are actually genuine with how they feel and what they say. You know, this is a defense that I've always had to have where I have to be sharp, and it's only been recently that I've realized that like, I don't always have to be that way and I don't really want to be.

0:45:43 Zelda: I understand that so much, Sam, I really do. It's like, I'm not dumb. I know that I'm criticizing myself. But it's like, great, I know that I have a habit. Awesome, what do I do with that? Like, I know that I do that, and I feel like it's the same way with you. Like yeah, you know that you come from this like, I know about your bio mom and I know about, like obviously Penelope. Like yeah, when it's like go time and the red lights are flashing and it's crisis mode you go to verbal warrior mode. You go to like acid tongue. I either go into the deepest turtle shell of all time or I like, full berserk. And maybe we can just give ourselves a little bit of credit for at least knowing what our problems are.

0:46:45 Sam: That's probably smart, yeah.

0:46:51 Zelda: I know there's deeper stuff going on. You don't have to tell me about it, but I know that there's deeper stuff going on.

0:47:00 Sam: The Everpetals are divorcing. I'm living in their house alone.

0:47:07 Zelda: You know that any of us, you know that you could come live. Your vibe and my house's vibe might not mix great, but you know that my family would love to have you there.

0:47:23 Izzy: Ostentatia's got extra rooms. (Brennan laughing)

0:47:27 Sam: It's hard to rely on people, especially when they often disappear or let you down. And that's why I want this to continue 'cause I don't want anyone to leave.

0:47:42 Brennan: Zelda takes out her crystal, goes to the group thread and types,

0:47:49 Zelda: I'm in.

0:47:49 Brennan: And sends it.

0:47:51 Izzy: Aw.

0:47:51 Aabria: Oh!

0:47:55 Sam: [looks down at her phone and chokes up a little] Oh, I love you, Zelda.

0:47:55 Zelda: I love you so much!

0:47:59 Brennan: She gives you a big hug and kiss on the cheek and says,

0:48:05 Zelda: (exhales softly) "Short-term, do we want to say anything more than just, hey, let's keep off social media? Do we want to just like, say like, I'll just say like, hey, let's just really careful about social media and stuff."

0:48:21 Sam: Um, well, there is a few other things I haven't been entirely honest about. I contacted my mother trying to get information from Tectonya.

0:48:32 Zelda: [rubs a hand across her face] Oh no.

0:48:32 Sam: It was pos, like-

0:48:32 Zelda: Mm-hm.

0:48:33 Sam: I got some information, but she put me in contact with an agent so... The agent gave me some information but also, like, wants to work with me and...

0:48:52 Zelda: Sam, that's, that, that's awesome, that's awesome!

0:48:59 Sam: Is it though? I don't know if I want to go back to acting. And I really don't want to deal with the clamor of, oh, wow, big change, woo. Like, it's not anyone's business who I am or what my gender is, but that'll be everything they say when that happens.

0:49:25 Zelda: You're gonna lead an extraordinary life no matter what you choose to do. I think you're the most beautiful, amazing, special person. Like, you know, people are gonna talk. You're either gonna be an amazing actor doing acting work or you're gonna be saving the world or you're gonna be, you know, you'll have to work really hard to like, not be adored by people, Sam. It's just like something that comes naturally to you. And when people have eyes on you, like, people will talk. You have to do a lot of work to keep people from noticing you.

0:50:05 Brennan: And here her bang falls over her face some more and she's like,

0:50:09 Zelda: But like, we support you no matter what. And if you want to stay off social media and you don't want to be an actor and you want to keep people at a distance we have your back and we will make that happen. But if you, I think there's something cool, it's like, cool that you talked to an agent. Like, you know, doors are gonna open for you your whole life and it can be cool that doors open even when you don't walk through them.

0:50:40 Sam: Yeah, yeah. God, I feel like such a hypocrite after giving Antiope and Penny such a hard time.

0:50:47 Zelda: Oh yeah, Antiope and Penny are gonna flip. They're gonna- (players laughing)

0:50:50 Zelda: Yeah, they're gonna be super pissed, but like...

0:50:53 Sam: I didn't intend, it's not like I signed any paperwork. I just-

0:50:56 Zelda: No.

0:50:57 Sam: I'm being, I'm asked-

0:50:58 Zelda: It's not like you like went to lunch and talked about doing stuff. (players laughing)

0:51:04 Sam: Actually...

0:51:05 Brennan: (laughs) We cut from that scene, we cut from this scene. So Katja and Ostentatia, you're getting ready to walk and talk to the statue. Penny, you walk back into the room where you heard that click as you two-

0:51:18 Becca: I am hanging off the rock looking from upside-down.

0:51:22 Ostentatia: Hi, Penny.

0:51:23 Becca: And then like, as soon as you touch a lock you hear a boing, and I'm standing behind you. (group laughing)

0:51:30 Ostentatia: Hi, Penny.

0:51:30 Penny: Hi, Ostentatia.

0:51:33 Katja: I looked up Bottega, it's a bag. (group laughing)

0:51:37 Ostentatia: You're so smart.

0:51:37 Katja: You're so smart.

0:51:40 Ostentatia: I know, um… (players laughing)

0:51:44 Izzy: Can I tell if this is open or closed?

0:51:48 Brennan: You-

0:51:49 Izzy: Could I, can I use Penny to figure that out?

0:51:51 Brennan: Well, that's the thing, you-

0:51:53 Becca: My thieves' tools are already out and I'm splaying them and just looking at you hopefully. Like, my eyes tripled in size.

0:51:56 Brennan: Amazing. What I would actually love here, Ost, is a thieves' tool proficiency check (Becca exhales excitedly) from you. And Ostentatia...

0:52:11 Becca: It's a nat one, but I get to reroll those.

0:52:14 Brennan: Oh my Goodness.

0:52:14 Aabria: Oh my God!

0:52:14 Brennan: Halfling luck, Penny Luckstone.

0:52:16 Izzy: I have carpenter's, mason's, and smith's.

0:52:17 Rekha: I also have smith’s.

0:52:18 Brennan: And actually, and-

0:52:18 Becca: [rolls and grins excitedly] Ooh!

0:52:20 Brennan: Hold onto that roll. Give me a perception check. Yeah, give me a perception check. (whimsical instrumental music)

0:52:30 Brennan: And actually, you can do this with advantage 'cause of Stonecunning.

0:52:31 Izzy: Okay. (die taps table) Cocked. (die taps table)

0:52:43 Brennan: 14, okay. Amazing, you have your thieves' tools out. 14 is gonna grant you advantage on the roll as well. Becca is excitedly holding up a bunch of colored markers.

0:52:52 Izzy: Nice.

0:52:52 Becca: Thank you.

0:52:53 Brennan: So if you want to roll and see if you crit, you can. But you'll take the higher of whatever these two rolls is. So Ostentatia, you move your hand over it and find it's totally smooth stone until you find a part of the stone that you can press inward and reveal a keyhole to Penny.

0:53:20 Izzy: How nice is this stone?

0:53:22 Brennan: Oh, this is beautiful granite. (laughs) Izzy mimes cutting into the rock and levering some out.

0:53:25 Katja: Wait, you have to leave something if you take something.

0:53:28 Ostentatia: I've left a lot. (group laughing)

0:53:33 Brennan: Penny, what did you get for your thieves' tool check?

0:53:35 Izzy: I fucking made this place look nice.

0:53:36 Becca: A 28.

0:53:36 Brennan: (laughs) So… Becca begins to pretend to unlock something with her markers.

0:53:40 Izzy: Why did you bring out a bunch of markers?

0:53:42 Becca: They're my thieves' tools!

0:53:44 Izzy: Your thieves' tools look like markers.

0:53:45 Rekha: She packages them all in, like—

0:53:45 Sephie: They're all color-coded.

0:53:45 Becca: I colorified them.

0:53:48 Erika: They're all color-coded, all the blocks parts.

0:53:50 Aabria: That makes perfect sense.

0:53:51 Becca: Of course they're color-coded!

0:53:52 Offscreen Players: Yeah.

0:53:53 Brennan: The Dwarven smiths that crafted not only a secret door but also the lock for that door in case anyone could perceive it certainly thought that a DC 25 lock would get the job done. It does not. (Becca and Aabria laughing)

0:54:07 Brennan: I think Penny, you take out these tools. You also take, because so many doors have the keyholes higher than you can work, you jump up and put a little bungee cord and then rappel halfway up the door so you can do your work in the lock.

0:54:21 Katja: Can I just give you a hand?

0:54:21 Penny: Nope, got it!

0:54:24 Katja: Okay. (group laughing)

0:54:26 Brennan: And with a pop, boom (mimics rock sliding) the door swings open and a staircase descends.

0:54:37 Katja: Oh my God, horses can't go on stairs.

0:54:39 Penny: Oh no. (group laughing)

0:54:41 Penny: That's okay though, they're safe in the sanctum.

0:54:43 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

0:54:44 Penny: They're really enjoying their scrapbook reviewing.

0:54:48 Candyheart: I sort of feel like the later chapters are derivative of the earlier stuff. You know, it's like, okay, we've already seen these pine needles-

0:54:56 Ostentatia: What chapters?

0:54:58 Katja: I think it's like spring, summer...

0:55:03 Penny: It depends how you organize a scrapbook. You could go by like-

0:55:05 Katja: Mom.

0:55:06 Penny: Years of school or you could go-

0:55:08 Izzy: Ostentatia's done.

0:55:08 Becca: I follow you and continue all the ways to organize a scrapbook.

0:55:12 Rekha: I follow suit half gait trying to be ginger.

0:55:16 Brennan: Trying to be ginger as the halfling and dwarf descend. You guys go down the spiral staircase Penny leading the way, Ostentatia behind, Katja half gait coming down behind.

0:55:27 Erika: Have we gotten back?

0:55:29 Brennan: Ooh, I was gonna say, well, I wanted to also say this. Did you all want to, 'cause I don't want to lose the scene where we talk to the statue so I might say, let's rewind the clock a little bit. Penny you are, tick tock, tick, tock, tocking away.

0:55:45 Becca: It's gonna take me a while.

0:55:46 Brennan: It's gonna take you a while here. I wanted to make sure we run this scene where- : Yes. : Mm-hmm.

0:55:50 Brennan: Where you guys can talk to statues. I don't wanna eliminate that. Penny, you go down there. You see actually Taffodil comes up and says,

0:55:56 Taffodil: I am getting bored as hell by this scrapbook club.

0:55:59 Penny: Oh my God, me too!

0:56:01 Taffodil: Look, Candyheart is...

0:56:05 Penny: The worst.

0:56:05 Rekha: Oh my God!

0:56:07 Taffodil: Oh, you're bad.

0:56:07 Penny: Ssh.

0:56:10 Taffodil: Okay, okay!

0:56:10 Brennan: You see that the... (laughs)

0:56:16 Penny: You wanna go for a ride?

0:56:16 Brennan: So you're having a conversation with Taffodil which is really slowing down your lock pick process.

0:56:22 Aabria: So funny.

0:56:22 Penny: Okay, I'll teach you to do-

0:56:24 Rekha: You're gonna teach this horse to pick a lock?

0:56:27 Becca: Yeah. (laughs)

0:56:27 Brennan: So you see Taffodil's like,

0:56:28 Taffodil: "Okay, you gotta go slow, honey 'cause I don't, forget thumbs, I don't have hands, okay."

0:56:33 Penny: So hold one tool between your pinkie and ring finger then-

0:56:36 Taffodil: My what and my who? Oh my God.

0:56:38 Penny: I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

0:56:40 Taffodil: Okay, slow it way down.

0:56:40 Penny: I am being...

0:56:42 Taffodil: Like I'm a foal, please. (Aabria and Erika laughing)

0:56:46 Erika: Like I'm a foal.

0:56:46 Aabria: [choked up] Like I'm a foal. : (laughs) Katja and Ostentatia, you both walk down the bridges. There's still the sort of vines grasping here between. So you make that athletics check to jump over, but you get over the bridge, walk around the corner and you see with some slaughtered ether beasts there Asha Hammerheart, Dwarven cleric has returned to her shrine. It's like icy, blue chamber carved into the mountain that the bridge connects to and moves through that cavern. There are these permanent ice crystals here, things that are so cold that it would take like arcane fire to melt them. And she looks over and says,

0:57:34 Asha: Ah, bella donna, what is your name, child? Ostentatia curtsies. (group laughing)

0:57:44 Ostentatia: I'm Ostentatia Wallace, Wallach-e. Wallace.

0:57:52 Asha: Wallace.

0:57:55 Ostentatia: Wallace.

0:57:55 Asha: Wallace, yes.

0:57:56 Katja: Wallace.

0:57:58 Asha: Ostentatia.

0:57:58 Ostentatia: And this is my friend, Katja Cleaver.

0:58:00 Asha: Katja. Hello Katja, it is a pleasure to see you here. You are a friend of she who wields the magic of the forge. Katja curtsies and pulls her pigtails out at the same time. (group laughing)

0:58:20 Becca: So good.

0:58:20 Asha: You have come here to the Temple of the Earth Defiant. Daughter of the hills, it is a pleasure to have you here. You have come here to speak with me in this place. What wisdom can I offer you?

0:58:36 Ostentatia: Well, I was wondering like, I don't wanna assume anything.

0:58:43 Asha: Mm-hmm.

0:58:45 Ostentatia: I feel like maybe you've been here a while.

0:58:50 Asha: Yes, to be clear-

0:58:50 Ostentatia: You look amazing.

0:58:53 Katja: Yes.

0:58:53 Asha: Thank you for this.

0:58:53 Ostentatia: By the way.

0:58:53 Katja: Very good.

0:58:56 Asha: You know when they make the statue of you, they gave you like an advanced notice so you can arrive and you're wearing your best armor.

0:59:04 Katja: [Rekha] Oh.

0:59:04 Ostentatia: Incredible.

0:59:05 Asha: You get someone to do your hair.

0:59:07 Ostentatia: Incredible, my driver's license photo I get retaken all the time because I'm just like, not happy with it.

0:59:14 Katja: Same with with my horse license. (players laughing)

0:59:17 Katja: The first picture, they never let you redo it and you're like, my eyes are closed.

0:59:22 Ostentatia: And it's like, sometimes they're like smile, don't smile, it's like, what do you want me to do?

0:59:25 Katja: I've gotta be smiling.

0:59:27 Ostentatia: I never smile in a picture. (group laughing)

0:59:31 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

0:59:31 Asha: This, your licenses, do you, wait, you need a horse license? (Rekha laughing) (group laughing)

0:59:46 Katja: Yeah, a horse is the most powerful vehicle there is.

0:59:53 Asha: You know, well-

0:59:53 Ostentatia: Asha.

0:59:55 Asha: Yeah, good point, listen. (players laughing) But I appreciate your compliment on the statue. Of course I have been here for a very long time, as you say. But also in a way I am not quite here. I obviously died a long time ago.

1:00:15 Katja: I'm sorry for your loss. (Brennan laughing)

1:00:18 Ostentatia: Me too.

1:00:18 Asha: It is okay. I am in the halls of our forebears. I drink and eat and am well with all of the people I loved in life who are here. It is not a bad place to be, but-

1:00:37 Ostentatia: Great to know.

1:00:38 Asha: But I am happy to be in the mortal plane once more to speak to you.

1:00:42 Ostentatia: Mm-hmm. Oh right, I never really asked a question. Okay, so I just wanted to know like, what have you seen around here? I don't know if you sort of pop back into your statue to check out what's going on.

1:01:06 Asha: Oh, no, I have seen much in this place over the years. Is there a time period? I have stood here as a statue for 250 years which is a long time to keep watch, but is there a time period within that? So I have seen many come and go.

1:01:27 Katja: What about 12 years ago?

1:01:29 Ostentatia: What about exactly 12 years ago or something like that.

1:01:33 Katja: Something.

1:01:33 Asha: Yes, yes, I remember this.

1:01:36 Ostentatia: Seen any like sorta copper women?

1:01:38 Katja: Ladies?

1:01:41 Asha: There was a very striking woman, very beautiful but you know, not only she has no beard, she has no hair so.

1:01:53 Ostentatia: Well, I thought you didn’t like, I thought you were sort of like a no-bearder.

1:01:58 Asha: No, but I'm saying she had, it seemed like, you know.

1:02:02 Ostentatia: Full alopecia moment.

1:02:02 Asha: Yes, yes, yes, yes. She was made of a skin of copper and a sheen of sort of metal, burning eyes of brass. Yes, yes, yes, yes. She came by this way. Very hurried, made her way to the temple. There had been not many pilgrims in the last decade or so. She came to the temple and never left.

1:02:35 Katja: What?

1:02:35 Ostentatia: Huh?

1:02:37 Asha: If she left, she did not return on this passageway. Everyone else comes, they stay for a day, they stay for some weeks to build the bridges and repair the statues.

1:02:47 Katja: Is she hiding somewhere here?

1:02:54 Ostentatia: Amazing.

1:02:54 Katja: Is it? Ostentatia mouths “no” to Katja.

1:02:59 Asha: But since then, I would say starting about two, a year and a half to two years ago, pilgrims completely stopped. It becomes much too dangerous. This is around the time that the beasts that pursue you come. The Harpy Queen comes to this place.

1:03:23 Katja: Oh.

1:03:25 Ostentatia: Two years ago.

1:03:28 Katja: [whispering] That's when we got stuck in the crystals and were stuck.

1:03:32 Ostentatia: [whispering] And we came out and the mirror stuff.

1:03:35 Asha: I can't hear what you say to each other. (players laughing)

1:03:37 Katja: Two's my favorite number.

1:03:42 Asha: Congratulations.

1:03:42 Katja: Thank you.

1:03:43 Asha: I'm still wrestling with that one.

1:03:45 Katja: Ah.

1:03:45 Ostentatia: It's a hard one.

1:03:46 Katja: It’s hard.

1:03:48 Asha: There's infinite, there's the infinite of them.

1:03:50 Katja: Yeah, it's hard to find one that's right for you.

1:03:53 Asha: Mm-hmm.

1:03:56 Ostentatia: Well…

1:03:56 Becca: Two like you and your dad. (Rekha laughing)

1:04:03 Asha: Yes, there has been. I spoke also to Yvonna and to Kora. And they mentioned that, yes, for the past two years those beasts begin to come here. But I remember when the beasts first arrive they look more like normal. I have of course have fought displacer beasts in the past.

1:04:32 Katja: So they've mutated a little?

1:04:32 Asha: Mutation, yes. There is a change there as well. The first to come was, there was a gargantuan harpy who arrived and she stayed here, nest for some time. And when she leaves her wings are made of feathers and stick and dirt and... (thoughtful piano music) Kora has mentioned sometimes that there is, that she has seen on the mountaintops around here a woman. Perhaps you know? Not Tectonya.

1:05:09 Katja: A different woman?

1:05:11 Ostentatia: You know her name? (Rekha gasps)

1:05:14 Asha: Tectonya Karkovnya, yes.

1:05:14 Ostentatia: Why do you know her name?

1:05:18 Asha: She was alive when I was alive.

1:05:21 Ostentatia: You knew her when you were alive?

1:05:24 Asha: Yes.

1:05:24 Ostentatia: What was her freaking deal?

1:05:26 Asha: Powerful wizard, Solisian.

1:05:26 Ostentatia: Up to no good?

1:05:33 Asha: [frowns] Up to something, hard to say. Wizards, you know, can I..?

1:05:39 Katja: Please.

1:05:40 Asha: Can I speak in like a generalization and not be- (fan flaps open)

1:05:42 Aabria: Let's go!

1:05:43 Ostentatia: Bitch!

1:05:43 Sephie: Let’s do this. (group laughing)

1:05:45 Ostentatia: Bitch, speak on it.

1:05:48 Asha: Well, I feel like, you know, as a cleric you understand. So much of the magic is about to heal your community, to protect people, to create meaning and service. And wizards are sort of like, what are you up to? (players laughing)

1:06:01 Katja: Oh God.

1:06:03 Ostentatia: Is this like, for you?

1:06:03 Asha: Is this like, for you? You know what I mean? Like okay, you read this book all day. So what, you make a tower and you combine a monkey and an eagle and now there's a flying monkey and it's like, great.

1:06:15 Ostentatia: Okay, so this bitch is like, out here fucking combining animals.

1:06:20 Asha: No, that's an example, but it's the kind of thing a wizard would, you know.

1:06:24 Ostentatia: But like, that's what's going on, right?

1:06:25 Katja: Okay, this is making me a little uncomfortable. (group laughing)

1:06:30 Ostentatia: Why?

1:06:31 Asha: No, it's not true about every, I'm just saying, it's like-

1:06:34 Katja: I know…

1:06:34 Asha: Okay, you learn to bend reality, what's the biggest thing we want to change about reality? That monkeys can't fly, that's number one priority?

1:06:43 Katja: Maybe that's a wizard or two you know, but I know... We don't need to get into it.

1:06:48 Ostentatia: Oh you know, you like, have a lot of wizard friends?

1:06:50 Katja: I'm not going to name them. (group laughing)

1:06:55 Katja: Crazy, that's crazy.

1:06:59 Ostentatia: Sure.

1:06:59 Asha: So listen I, you know. (players laughing)

1:07:02 Asha: But you get what I mean, yeah.

1:07:06 Ostentatia: Okay, are you a cleric?

1:07:06 Asha: Yeah, I'm a cleric.

1:07:09 Ostentatia: You're a cleric?

1:07:09 Asha: I was when I was alive.

1:07:12 Ostentatia: Okay, let me talk to you.

1:07:12 Asha: Yes.

1:07:16 Ostentatia: What the fuck is up with Logran? (tense instrumental music)

1:07:20 Asha: Oh… (Erika chuckles)

1:07:22 Asha: You mean to say, the god of the forge has not been...

1:07:31 Ostentatia: Does he talk to you?

1:07:33 Asha: If I had met him I would tell you. (Rekha and Persephone gasp)

1:07:37 Asha: There are beings here, there are Azer, the celestial messengers of the god of the forge, the fiery.

1:07:45 Brennan: You would know Azer are basically like Dwarven angels. They are Dwarves composed of fire with burning beards and burning hair. You see she says,

1:07:57 Asha: We know that Logran cares for us because he grants us spells. He grants us the ability to shape the world. And while many clerics are able to speak directly to their divinity...

1:08:15 Brennan: Here you sort of see her pause in sort of a moment of sadness but she looks back and says,

1:08:22 Asha: But you know, Logran wishes to care for all of us. And if it is in his wisdom to offer us this power but not speak to us directly, then perhaps there is a reason for this.

1:08:43 Rekha: (scoffs) Katja scoffs at this.

1:08:45 Aabria: Oh, ooh.

1:08:46 Katja: If people want to take care of you, they do.

1:08:50 All: Aw.

1:08:52 Ostentatia: I love you.

1:08:52 Katja: I love you.

1:08:55 Ostentatia: Is Logran real?

1:08:55 Rekha: (laughs) Is God real? Roll. (group laughing)

1:09:02 Ostentatia: 'Cause you're dead, right?

1:09:02 Asha: Yes, as I have said-

1:09:06 Ostentatia: And you haven't met him?

1:09:06 Katja: I'm sorry for your loss.

1:09:08 Asha: No, okay, so what is that supposed to mean, I have not met him?

1:09:10 Katja: Oh no. [covering her ears]

1:09:11 Asha: Remember, I do adventures for a very long time.You are a young-

1:09:15 Ostentatia: Asha, do not raise your voice at me here in this ice cave.

1:09:18 Katja: Oh no, oh no.

1:09:19 Asha: Oh, in your ice cave, oh, I'm in-

1:09:22 Ostentatia: Who said it was mine?

1:09:22 Asha: Okay, so let me understand, all right, so to you because he do something that is not favorable to you suddenly he's a bad guy.

1:09:33 Ostentatia: I didn't say he's a bad guy I said, is he a god?

1:09:38 Asha: Okay, this-

1:09:39 Ostentatia: Because you're fucking special, bitch, all right. (group laughing)

1:09:43 Ostentatia: And it's like, okay, we've got an all-powerful fucking bitch over here who gets a statue on a cliff. She dies, you don't say hi? (tender piano music)

1:09:56 Brennan: Give me a persuasion check.

1:09:56 Aabria: Yeah! (shouts) (die taps table)

1:10:03 Izzy: 21.

1:10:03 Brennan: Ooh! She looks and goes...

1:10:08 Becca: You just convinced her not to believe in her god. (players laughing)

1:10:13 Brennan: Well, you see she says,

1:10:13 Asha: [a little choked up] You know, when I become a martyr and a saint, I was not expecting like, oh, come live by my side. But you're right, like a 'hi' would have been cool. (Erika chuckling)

1:10:29 Aabria: Oh, baby.

1:10:30 Asha: Like a, "Hi, thanks for your martyrdom. That was extremely dope." (players laughing)

1:10:38 Ostentatia: Mm-hmm, it was extremely dope.

1:10:42 Asha: I'm gonna, if it's okay with you, I'm gonna turn back into a statue 'cause I gotta go-

1:10:47 Katja and Ostentatia: NO, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. (players laughing) Ostentatia awkwardly holds her arms out in front of her and eventually sticks out her tongue.

1:11:00 Becca: Are you trying to kiss her?

1:11:00 Izzy: No! I don't know what to do right now.

1:11:05 Katja: If you need a moment, Ostentatia...

1:11:05 Becca: You go tongue first?

1:11:09 Brennan: She looks at the both of you and says,

1:11:10 Asha: I am gonna turn into a statue because I want to go back to the halls and talk to some people about maybe if.

1:11:17 Ostentatia: Okay, can I give you my number?

1:11:19 Asha: I don't know that I will get service from the afterlife (players laughing) but yes.

1:11:25 Ostentatia: I get service to the afterlife, all right. Ostentatia waves her arms around.

1:11:30 Brennan: She says,

1:11:30 Asha: I take your number.

1:11:32 Ostentatia: Okay.

1:11:32 Brennan: She takes your number down, steps back into her position, goes into it and (mimics reverberation) turns back into a statue.

1:11:38 Rekha: No, who was the woman Kora saw?

1:11:42 Izzy: Tectonya.

1:11:43 Brennan: [Brennan] You guys hear a big-

1:11:44 Katja: This is a different woman.

1:11:44 Izzy: Oh, her girlfriend?

1:11:47 Katja: Was that her girlfriend?

1:11:47 Izzy: Is that what she said? (group laughing)

1:11:53 Becca: No, (laughs) total misread. Another human woman has been, or a modern woman has been through here.

1:12:01 Sephie: Yeah, mm-hmm.

1:12:03 Becca: Charity?

1:12:03 Sephie: Probably Charity.

1:12:05 Rekha: Charity.

1:12:05 Izzy: Oh, is that what she said?

1:12:07 Rekha: Well, that's what I wanted to ask but then we were exchanging numbers.

1:12:12 Izzy: She's gonna come back!

1:12:13 Becca: All I need is a long rest!

1:12:16 Brennan: Yeah, you hear a ker-chunk and you hear back from the area over there. You hear Taffodil go,

1:12:21 Taffodil: Oh my God. So okay, so that's amazing. Now, if I give that a try, you think I can really hold that tool in two hooves?

1:12:31 Penny: I would love to see you try.

1:12:35 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna roll with disadvantage and a minus... (Rekha laughing)

1:12:40 Brennan: Minus two.

1:12:40 Aabria: Not on Taffodil.

1:12:42 Brennan: Okay, you see Taffodil goes,

1:12:42 Taffodil: Okay.

1:12:46 Brennan: And clomps one of your thieves' tools in between two of their hooves and just goes-

1:12:50 Penny: Great, doing great, this direction.

1:12:51 Taffodil: Okay.

1:12:51 Penny: Twist left.

1:12:53 Taffodil: Okay.

1:12:53 Penny: Twist right.

1:12:54 Taffodil: Okay.

1:12:54 Penny: Quarter clockwise turn into another plane.

1:12:57 Taffodil: Okay. Now, so I'm gonna try to do that turn that you just said. I have jammed the tool all way inside and I'm not holding it anymore, is that bad?

1:13:13 Penny: Can you move it with things besides your hooves?

1:13:17 Taffodil: Like my mind?

1:13:17 Penny: Yeah.

1:13:18 Taffodil: No.

1:13:18 Penny: Okay, then that's bad.

1:13:20 Taffodil: Okay, yeah, so I've messed this up. I'm gonna take a step back.

1:13:22 Penny: Taffodil, Taffodil, you know where Candyheart was on my shit list? You're now lower. (group gasping)

1:13:29 Rekha: Penny is ruthless!

1:13:29 Aabria: Savage.

1:13:32 Sephie: When I come back to hear that about my fucking horse.

1:13:35 Brennan: (laughs) You see Taffodil says,

1:13:39 Taffodil: Sugar, don't hate the horsey, hate the hooves.

1:13:39 Brennan: And-

1:13:44 Penny: Don't think you're getting a sugar cube every again. You lost my thieves' tool!

1:13:48 Brennan: You go in and have to fish your thieves' tools out. It's a whole thing, but the door opens up and we see the staircase descending down. Antiope, Yelle, Sam, Zelda, Ostentatia, Katja, you-

1:14:00 Penny: Wait, Taffodil.

1:14:00 Taffodil: Yeah.

1:14:02 Penny: You're right, I'm sorry. It's okay, I should never have tried to teach a horse that only has hooves to use these tools and that was rude of me.

1:14:09 Taffodil: I appreciate you, I see this, and this is a moment of growth and I do see that.

1:14:14 Penny: Thank you.

1:14:14 Katja: It's very big of you. I don't know what happened, but... (Brennan laughing)

1:14:18 Penny: I take, no, that feels like an insult.

1:14:20 Katja: No, it's just, you shouldn't be mean to a horse.

1:14:23 Danielle: Okay, we're coming on down now.

1:14:25 Sam: Were you mean to my horse?

1:14:26 Penny: We're friends, we're friends.

1:14:27 Antiope: The Mountains of Chaos are an ouroboros.

1:14:28 Brennan: Following the spiral staircase-

1:14:30 Antiope: I am a snake eating myself and I destroy and devour and rebuild as I go. (Brennan laughing)

1:14:35 Danielle: Whoa.

1:14:37 Brennan: You all follow the spiral staircase down and emerge into a chamber of stone but like, incredibly polished stone here. There are entire 60-foot inclines. It's almost like a crystal room where it would be like, massive 40, 60, 80-foot-long crystals where there are flat, incredibly smooth planes, but it's all precious stone. So it's like jade, tiger's eye, agate. All of these incredible, rich, deep colors in the stone and patterns to them. And as you move in here you see this sort of dwelling place, chamber, this is where clearly many people have lived while they are here to work on the temple while they are staying here. Anyone who would like to could go ahead and make any kind of investigation, perception, or insight roll that you want to make.

1:15:41 Aabria: I'm gonna make mine with disadvantage 'cause it's very fun being high. (Erika laughs) (dice tapping table)

1:15:48 Sephie: Ooh.

1:15:50 Aabria: 10 on perception.

1:15:50 Brennan: 10.

1:15:52 Becca: 28.

1:15:54 Sephie: 25 on insight.

1:15:54 Brennan: 25 on insight.

1:15:56 Erika: 12 perception.

1:15:56 Brennan: 12.

1:15:58 Rekha: Nine investigation.

1:16:00 Brennan: So Sam, you immediately begin to look through and can feel that there is a lot of powerful magic that has happened in this room.

1:16:08 Sephie: Happened or is happening?

1:16:08 Brennan: Happened, is happening. You begin to feel an ebbing of very powerful magic in this space. And on that insight check I'm also going to say that you are, you feel a magical pull coming from back up the staircase. And your skin crackles a little bit almost like that Lightning Lure from a long, long time ago. Penny. (Becca inhales excitedly) On that incredibly high investigation I'm gonna give you- [slightly jazzy music]

1:16:47 Becca: I'm really high off saying the first mean thing I've like, ever said twice in a row.

1:16:53 Brennan: Penny's like, wow, the power! Penny, you find more objects and knickknacks and it's like digging through old fire pits and you find, oh, this person used this type of wood. They were from this region of the world. Like, pure detective work. The things of real import I'm gonna say here are, you want big thing first or little thing first?

1:17:17 Becca: No, little thing, I love little things.

1:17:19 Brennan: Little things first. There are a number of flintlock musket balls clearly from a fracas or a fight that must have happened in here. The lead flintlock comes from the Baronies. You also find clearly there were some clothes that were torn or destroyed in a battle. You find a quilted vest of what looks like a type of high-altitude wear used by crew members on airships. You also see a small emblem there clearly from the Baronies. All of this seems to be like, it seems like crew members or some group from the Baronies had to have come here at some point. You also-

1:18:10 Becca: And what are the Baronies?

1:18:12 Brennan: Go ahead and make a history check if you want or if you want to bring it to someone that you want to make a history check for you, you can do that as well.

1:18:18 Brennan: I bring it to Katja,

1:18:18 Penny: Katja!

1:18:20 Sephie: I swear to God, if a romance partner comes I'ma leave.

1:18:23 Erika: [like Baron from the Baronies] A "romance partner."

1:18:23 Sephie: I'ma leave.

1:18:25 Aabria: You said mirrors and the Baronies and I got concerned.

1:18:27 Becca: I have 12.

1:18:27 Rekha: Oh, I got 24 for history.

1:18:29 Becca: Nice.

1:18:30 Brennan: So you bring over the stuff that you found over to Katja. Katja, you recognize this. This is the emblem of a famous lord in the Baronies, Lord Talcidimir Tallbreeze. You know a lot about crests and emblems and coat of arms and stuff like that. So the emblems from some of the uniforms are that of Talcidimir Tallbreeze who is not only a noble but also a billionaire airship mogul, invented a lot of the airships that are used in the Baronies. You also on that incredible history check, what Katja knows about the Baronies. A lot of people, the Baronies are not a nation. The Baronies are a name for a group of nations. And the reason they're called the Baronies, it's a little bit diminutizing, but basically the Baronies are a group of human nations that grew up in the shadow of a lot of trade both with Fallinel and with other Elven lands to the west of them. And basically adopted this culture around the fact that Elves viewed human beings as dying very early and as being kind of very prone to passion and fits of being piqued. So the Baronies are, their military and culture, like a lot of these emblems look like very Renaissance wear. The Baronies are very wealthy. They do a lot of trade. But again, the reason they're called the Baronies is that they are extremely prone to war, assassination, violence, intrigue, trade, mystery.

1:20:22 Rekha: And you said they're human?

1:20:22 Brennan: Human, and-

1:20:25 Aabria: Is there something wrong with that?

1:20:26 Rekha: No, no, no, no, no, but Charity, is she human?

1:20:30 Brennan: Charity is human. But the reason they're called the Baronies, so for example, the oldest Barony, the oldest nation in the Baronies right now is Grimner. It has a long history. It's one of the longest-lived nation in the Baronies. It is 50 years old. (Aabria laughs) The Baronies for hundreds of years there has been so much noble infighting, intrigue, assassination, coups like, "Haha, as your cousin I take the throne of whatever!" And rename the country, the borders change. So other countries just gave up on figuring out what was going on there and just go, the Baronies. Like, the maps get redrawn all the time, the borders get redrawn all the time. There's always some lord who's taken over. So the Baronies are a place that is in constant kind of like Renaissance intrigue, feudalist, like coup, war, infighting.

1:21:32 Sephie: That sounds great, I wanna go there.

1:21:34 Aabria: I think the Joneses are super embarrassed about that like.

1:21:37 Becca: Okay, we found-

1:21:38 Danielle: The Baronies fucking suck ass. (group laughing)

1:21:41 Antiope: Hey, rude.

1:21:42 Danielle: Like look, I say this as part human and like, oh my God. And there are no good billionaires so fuck this Tallbreeze.

1:21:55 Katja: Yeah I mean, my dad's nice, but no, I know what you're saying.

1:21:57 Ostentatia: Yeah, mine too.

1:22:01 Brennan: You see the second thing Penny finds after finding those emblems. Oh, yeah, sort of off in a corner wrapped up in a piece of cured leather is "The Legendarium Extrordia."

1:22:16 Penny: (gasps) I found it, I found it, I found it, I found it, I found it, I found it! (yells)

1:22:21 Becca: I run over to you because you told us you can read the map legend.

1:22:23 Erika: Oh, yeah.

1:22:25 Antiope: Yeah, oh.

1:22:25 Becca: And I jump up and down in front of you like, jumping to your height.

1:22:28 Antiope: Please stop moving, please stop jumping. Does someone have water, oh God.

1:22:34 Danielle: Oh my God, you did so good!

1:22:35 Rekha: I spray Penny like a cat. (group laughing)

1:22:38 Penny: No. (hisses)

1:22:41 Becca: I go lick myself in a corner.

1:22:44 Erika: It's okay, and Danielle like pets Penny.

1:22:48 Becca: Aw, Penny nuzzles up in your lap.

1:22:50 Danielle: Aw, oh, I love it when she's purring.

1:22:54 Izzy: Could I cast Protection From Energy?

1:22:57 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

1:22:57 Rekha: Good call.

1:22:59 Izzy: On Antiope.

1:22:59 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

1:23:02 Aabria: Thank you so much.

1:23:02 Rekha: Good fucking call.

1:23:03 Brennan: As you cast Protection From Anti, Protection From Energy on Antiope, what does that look like?

1:23:07 Izzy: I cast Protection From Antiope.

1:23:09 Brennan: I mean, that's a good spell.

1:23:10 Aabria: You can't save me from myself. (group laughing)

1:23:13 Sephie: You're suddenly capable of talking to Preston.

1:23:15 Aabria: Oh my God, I feel good about myself.

1:23:18 Brennan: What does it look like as Ostentatia casts this spell?

1:23:20 Brennan: I hold her shoulders and I'm just like,

1:23:20 Ostentatia: Be careful.

1:23:26 Antiope: Thank you.

1:23:27 Brennan: The stone resonates through here. You take "The Legendarium Extrordia." I'm gonna say, on that incredible investigation check, there's a little four-digit lock screen on it. And Penny, you're able to just like...

1:23:40 Penny: Hold on, let me just try every combination of a factorial of four—

1:23:41 Ostentatia: We're gonna get locked out!

1:23:44 Penny: Faster, faster.

1:23:44 Ostentatia: We're gonna get locked out!

1:23:47 Erika: She's also like, checks the fingerprints. She can see the smudgies on there.

1:23:52 Brennan: [Brennan] Yeah.

1:23:52 Becca: Oh, yeah.

1:23:53 Izzy: I would also-

1:23:53 Rekha: One, two, three, four.

1:23:55 Brennan: Amazing.

1:23:55 Izzy: Wait, could I also, could I also like, 'cause I'm like scared.

1:24:03 Rekha: Yes.

1:24:03 Izzy: Izzy is.

1:24:05 Brennan: Yeah.

1:24:07 Izzy: Could I also cast Guardian of Faith just in case-ies?

1:24:12 Brennan: Yeah, I love that.

1:24:12 Rekha: I think that's smart.

1:24:15 Brennan: You cast-

1:24:15 Izzy: Thank you.

1:24:16 Brennan: You cast Guardian of Faith. Have you cast this spell before? Do you know what your guardian looks like? Or are you just reaching out for whatever kind of spiritual entity-

1:24:25 Izzy: I feel like she looks like Asha.

1:24:28 Players: Aw.

1:24:30 Brennan: And you see that Asha Hammerheart appears.

1:24:32 Izzy: Like a combination of Asha and my mom and Nonna.

1:24:35 Brennan: Oh, I love it. Actually yeah, so these sort of, there's like flickering shapes of-

1:24:42 Izzy: But with the rings of my dad.

1:24:44 Brennan: Oh, I love it. So this sort of like, familial guardian appears. Different dwarven faces move across it. Your momma goes like,

1:24:49 Lucia: Oh, sweetheart, I'm so proud of you.

1:24:54 Brennan: And then it moves over to your Nonna who's like,

1:24:56 Nonna: You're doing so good, like and subscribe.

1:25:00 Brennan: And you see Nonna moves past. (players laughing)

1:25:02 Brennan: And you see Asha's face manifests briefly on the guardian. You cast Guardian of Faith. Antiope, you look at "The Legendarium Extrordia" and (mimics reverberation) look into the crystal screen, see a map of the globe. What would you like to do as the screen comes on and you see this rotating globe of Spyre there?

1:25:23 Aabria: I'm gonna, you gotta to where you are first to just see what's going on and... Is this like a live feed or just in general?

1:25:31 Brennan: Go ahead actually and just give me like a, either arcana or investigation.

1:25:39 Aabria: Those are equally only, oh shit, eight.

1:25:40 Brennan: Eight, okay. You begin to dip through here a little bit. You are able to get to where you are right now. You see that you don't really have an ability to change the time period. Time period is set to current day. It looks like it's sort of in a neutral position. But you see the key there, the legend. And go ahead and give me a perception check.

1:26:03 Izzy: Can I cast Guidance?

1:26:03 Brennan: Oh yeah.

1:26:05 Aabria: Oh, yes, thank you.

1:26:05 Izzy: So add a d4.

1:26:08 Aabria: Oh my God, it's so bad.

1:26:08 Brennan: Add a d4.

1:26:10 Aabria: Oh, that's not gonna help enough.

1:26:12 Izzy: I can cast it as many times.

1:26:14 Aabria: 15.

1:26:14 Brennan: 15, okay.

1:26:16 Aabria: [to Izzy] It helped a lot.

1:26:16 Brennan: So obviously you looked. So Ostentatia's standing by your side and you point out that there's that legend of the different quest types. There's A, B, C, D, E, F. You look at the six of them and you can toggle them as filters and they will show you every quest of that type in the world right now.

1:26:39 Aabria: Okay, I wanna go to our region and then can I pick multiple filters 'cause I just want to filter out D through F. I just want to see A, B, and C in the area.

1:26:46 Brennan: Cool, swirling color, it's so bizarre to look because it's like, how does a quest exist in physical space? You see that some of the quests cover a region and others kind of snake between two points with weird, flickering lines. It's like, this is a, a quest is like a conceptual entity, but this is like mapping them in physical space. You filter out-

1:27:11 Becca: Color-coding is how you do it. [picks up her markers] (group laughing)

1:27:15 Brennan: You filter out F and half the quests disappear. And suddenly there's big chunks of just like dull gray kind of blank like, there is nothing of interest happening here. You go F, E, D, Spyre is blank. You are looking at A, B, and C-type quests.

1:27:38 Becca: None in all of Spyre?

1:27:40 Brennan: Antiope, you are looking at this and Penny and Ostentatia are already, both of you, you all look and there's no insight check necessary. You are looking at a complete absence of the type of quests you would need in order to be able to graduate.

1:28:00 Katja: They don't, the system doesn't want us to graduate!

1:28:04 Antiope: No, hold on, I'm gonna turn it off and turn it on again.

1:28:05 Aabria: I turn the program off and then reboot it.

1:28:06 Penny: Shake it, shake it, blow on it.

1:28:08 Antiope: Yeah. (blows)

1:28:08 Erika: During all this, Danielle is taking shots with her phone of anything, you know, just sort of documenting all of this and seeing if there's any sort of way to, you know, jailbreak it.

1:28:28 Becca: I'd also like to check my crystal and previously taken photos and flip through the bylaws.

1:28:35 Brennan: Amazing, give me an arcana check.

1:28:36 Becca: Oh. (scoffs) (gasps excitedly) 28. (Brennan cheers)

1:28:41 Aabria: Yeah! (claps)

1:28:41 Becca: Hold on, hold on, 29.

1:28:43 Brennan: So you start looking through the bylaws of like, okay, we need a certain class of quest to get there, but is it, like, is there an-

1:28:53 Becca: That's a 31, that's a 31, that's a 31. (Rekha laughing)

1:28:55 Aabria: Oh my God!

1:28:56 Brennan: A 31?

1:28:56 Becca: Yeah, that's a 31. That's how that works.

1:28:58 Aabria: You're a God.

1:28:58 Brennan: Amazing, you start to just go through your phones. You're like, you are positive that you can find a way to, there's gotta be some wiggle room in these bylaws.

1:29:11 Becca: Right, there must be a caveat in the case where there is not an A, B, or C there must be one available and if there is not there has to be some sort of other bylaw.

1:29:19 Brennan: And sorry, Yelle, in this moment you're saying that you're looking for… : I'm documenting and then also checking to see like in the submenus or just in the tech of the crystal itself if there's any way to jailbreak it and port it to our phones.

1:29:35 Izzy: Ooh.

1:29:37 Brennan: Ooh.

1:29:37 Izzy: Nature, nature hacker.

1:29:41 Erika: Yeah.

1:29:41 Brennan: Yeah, actually go ahead and if you're not gonna use magic, but go ahead and give me a nature. If you're doing with natural ability, go ahead and do that. But give me either nature or arcana.

1:29:57 Aabria: Can I give her advantage? ?: Can everyone—

1:29:59 Aabria: For helping?

1:29:59 Brennan: Sure. If you want to do that, go for it. Yeah, roll this with advantage.

1:30:03 Erika: Okay. (dice rattling)

1:30:08 Erika: [excited] Oh! 25. (groovy instrumental music)

1:30:12 Brennan: Incredible. You see, Yelle, you're looking around at all these beautiful semi-precious stones. You walk over with a small handful of these beautiful, again, like tiger's eye, jasper, agate, jade, walk over and the stones all sort of hum in your hands going,

1:30:37 Stones: Wow, we're going somewhere. Wow.

1:30:37 Aabria: Oh my God.

1:30:40 Danielle: Oh man, moving around feels so good. Yeah, come on, my little babies.

1:30:47 Brennan: And you move on out and all these, you take one of the stones after you connected them to "The Legendarium '' and moved them and one attaches to your crystal. And you see that a little. (mimics electric buzzing) And you see that there is a little anarchist, like thorns around a goat skull like anarchist druid symbol as you like, hack into the government software. (Erika laughing)

1:31:15 Aabria: (claps) Yes.

1:31:18 Izzy: She's wearing that as a mask.

1:31:20 Brennan: Yeah.

1:31:20 Becca: And has the mask.

1:31:23 Brennan: You have pirated druid software on your crystal phone of "The Legendarium," incredible.

1:31:31 Erika: Amazing.

1:31:31 Aabria: Amazing.

1:31:32 Sephie: Absolutely amazing.

1:31:35 Brennan: Penny, you...

1:31:37 Erika: Can I give them, can everybody, can I hack these or?

1:31:42 Brennan: You start to go and take the other stones and start to attach them, but before that we need to run something else, Sam.

1:31:50 Sephie: Hi. START OF ANIMATIC—

1:31:50 Brennan: Hi. You walk back up the staircase and arrive back up at the top at the columns overlooking the vastness of the Mountains of Chaos and feel that familiar crackle out towards the edge of the columns. You see there, her arms clasped in front of her, her hair blowing in the wind looking out not at the direction that you have come from but through the columns on the far side, her back to the journey you have just taken is The End of All Things. (soft instrumental music)

1:32:36 Sephie: I walk not completely to her but about halfway between where I am and where she is.

1:32:46 The End of All Things: I um, I never left.

1:32:54 Sam: What's wrong?

1:33:01 The End of All Things: Oh...

1:33:03 Brennan: She turns to look at you, just tears of blood streaming from her eyes.

1:33:14 Sam: Can I help you?

1:33:19 The End of All Things: [wipes a tear] Doubt it. Maybe you can. [sighs] It is frigid up here, are you all right? You're a mortal.

1:33:29 Sam: I manage. Look, I know you sort of almost trapped me in a mirror for eternity, but you look really fragile right now. What happened?

1:33:54 Brennan: Make a persuasion check for me. And you can actually do that with advantage if you'd be so kind. (dice rattling) (soft instrumental music)

1:34:09 Sephie: 25.

1:34:12 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

1:34:17 The End of All Things: I would appreciate that. I owe you an apology. I didn't mean to frighten you and your friends. I, I... It's very easy to forget that by simply being oneself one may harm or frighten another being. And I know that I am not like you, and I did not mean to be frightening. [a little choked up] I got, I was released by one of your sisters, and I thought to rejoin mine, and their mirrors were all shattered.

1:35:14 Sam: Not like yours, they weren't let free?

1:35:18 The End of All Things: They weren't there. If they had been freed, why wouldn't they have freed me? What else would have...?

1:35:26 Sam: Me. Who were your sisters? Maybe there's, something happened. Maybe they were captured again.

1:35:34 Brennan: She speaks some names out loud. She goes,

1:35:41 The End of All Things: Chronoa, Terra, Pyrria, Nira, Zefira, and Anima, my closest. She's only a little bit older than me.

1:36:02 Sam: The Eidolons?

1:36:05 The End of All Things: You know about us.

1:36:07 Sam: Only a little. (soft instrumental music)

1:36:14 Sam: If I hug you, is it possible for me to hug you?

1:36:22 Talura: You could call me Talura.

1:36:22 Sam: Talura?

1:36:25 Brennan: And she just full-on weeps and starts to collapse.

1:36:30 Sephie: I go to her.

1:36:30 Brennan: You go to her and hug her. And in a moment where, you know, I know your loved ones if they were witnessing this would be horrified that the worst would happen in this moment, you embrace her and feel a deep and profound icy coldness that doesn't hurt. And she sobs into your shoulder and you hear in her sort of very quiet, there's almost no vocalizing, it's just her chest lightly shaking as she cries. You hear the confusion and sadness of your friends downstairs coming to the conclusion that there are no A, B, or C-class quests. And you can hear Penny like...

1:37:27 Penny: There's gotta be a way, there's gotta be a way, there's gotta be a way, there's always a way.

1:37:29 Brennan: You hear her saying, "There's gotta be a way" in that way that Penny's voice gets as more and more bad news keeps incoming.

1:37:36 Sephie: I look at Talura and glance back at the cave. It sounds like stress but it doesn't sound like danger, Right?

1:37:46 Brennan: Yeah. (tender instrumental music)

1:37:53 Sam: My own sisters are struggling with something right now, but I'm gonna be here for you 'cause they're still here and we don't know where yours are. But maybe we can find them. Maybe.

1:38:13 Brennan: She looks at you.

1:38:18 Talura: This is a rare magic.

1:38:24 Brennan: And she conjures something in her hand. It's like a snarling face made of smoke. You see it's got an acid tongue, a forked tongue. (snarls) And she sort of wafts it away and looks up and says,

1:38:49 Talura: Beyond anything else, I am certain, mortal, that this kindness is at the center of who and what you are.

1:39:05 Brennan: And she looks out and says,

1:39:05 Talura: There is a way for you to help me find my sisters. We were sealed away long ago, after the gods were done with us.

1:39:23 Sam: They used you and put you away?

1:39:28 Talura: It is a cruel thing to be kept to be used as part of someone else's plan. But then I think you know that, don't you? (tender piano music)

1:39:43 Talura: I-

1:39:43 Sam: Yeah.

1:39:46 Talura: My tears have been leaking from this place for some years now, since I scoured the mountains looking for my sisters who are everywhere and so to find their presence nowhere is beyond troubling. I don't think anything could have destroyed them so I do not know where they could have gone. But I know that they were not there. Their mirrors were not shattered. It was challenging, the mirror... (sighs) The gods left a way for us to leave the mirrors if we wish, but that way was death. So either my sisters have been captured and rebound or were destroyed or... I have to imagine that they...

1:40:41 Sam: Talura...

1:40:45 Sephie: Sam reaches into her pocket, pulls out the mirror.

1:40:50 Sam: I can't look into anything with your sisters because I'm mortal, I tried with you, but I don't think the curse that's on this will harm you. It may be able to tell you something if you think of one or all of your siblings, but I can't do it for you.

1:41:10 Brennan: She looks and says, smiles and goes,

1:41:14 Talura: You may be the most gifted sorceress I have ever encountered. You have offered me a boon, for indeed in that... mirror... I know there is a way to find what I seek. By ancient laws am I bound though to offer you a boon in return should I accept this.

1:41:43 Sam: I don't need a boon. I know what it looks like to be used and hurt and to not have people to connect with. This is just because you're hurting.

1:41:55 Brennan: She smiles. She looks and says,

1:42:05 Talura: If it is freely given, then that is appreciated and accepted, but perhaps you will pay me a second kindness by allowing me to show kindness to a... friend?

1:42:31 Sam: Yeah.

1:42:31 Brennan: You see she smiles and you hear downstairs. Penny, you look in the bylaws.

1:42:47 Penny: [manic] It's gonna be here somewhere, because it just gets smaller with the A's and then it goes I and then it goes back to numbering and then the numbers- (Rekha moaning)

1:42:54 Brennan: So this is just an element of your arcana 30 check. There's gonna be a lot more that comes with that as well. But you find that there is no clause to go down to another class of quest.

1:43:12 Becca: I throw my crystal across the room.

1:43:14 Aabria: What?

1:43:14 Penny: It's broken, it's broken, it's all broken, the pictures, I don't think, I think I took a wrong picture!

1:43:17 Katja: They can fix it at the store if you just say you sat on it.

1:43:21 Brennan: Cutting to back up top you see Talura looks over and says,

1:43:24 Talura: Are your friends all right? They seem distressed.

1:43:28 Sam: I have a feeling something went wrong with our mission.

1:43:34 Talura: What is your mission?

1:43:37 Sam: We're trying to get a [pronounced jed] GED.

1:43:37 Talura: A GED?

1:43:40 Sam: Yeah, something something educational something to graduate early so we can all stay together.

1:43:47 Talura: (gasps) Aguefort, Aguefort, I remember the name.

1:43:49 Sam: Yeah, yeah.

1:43:51 Talura: What is it that you need to achieve the fabled GED? (Aabria chuckles)

1:43:56 Sam: We need the Superintendent of Schools to sign off on it and we need to solve a rank A, B, or C quest. (dramatic instrumental music)

1:44:07 Talura: Um, Eidolon! (laughs) (Becca laughing)

1:44:10 Sam: Okay.

1:44:12 Talura: In exchange for the viewing of my sisters, or not an exchange but I will love to find my sisters with this... mirror. (players laughing)

1:44:25 Talura: I can do that for you, Sam, I'd be happy to. (upbeat instrumental music)

1:44:30 Sam: That would really help my friends, so thank you as long as it's freely given.

1:44:35 Talura: Of course. Sam, your wish is my command. (reverberations shutter) (mimics wind howling)

1:44:44 Brennan: Shadow wraps around her and downstairs in "The Legendarium Extrordia" starting in the Mountains of Chaos, ping.

1:44:55 Antiope: Fuck yes!

1:44:57 Brennan: A class A quest appears. (player gasps)

1:45:00 Ostentatia: Oh, it just took a long time to load.

1:45:02 Katja: I put your phone in a bag of rice. I don't know if that's the right fix but uh...

1:45:07 Penny: No, this is really nice, Katja.

1:45:08 Antiope: Do you have rice? We're eating goodberries.

1:45:09 Penny: It's great for horses.

1:45:14 Brennan: You see up there Talura is shaking. (moans)

1:45:21 Becca: Oh, okay, we know that one. (fans slapping open)

1:45:24 Aabria: There it is, girl.

1:45:24 Brennan: Yeah, she. (exhales softly)

1:45:28 Sam: Will you be all right, do you know?

1:45:29 Talura: It has been so long since I have had a wish to grant. Thank you, I…

1:45:33 Sam: You're welcome.

1:45:37 Becca: Too long.

1:45:38 Brennan: You see she opens the mirror and says,

1:45:45 Talura: Show me my sisters. (reverberations echo)

1:45:50 Talura: What? No. No, no, no!

1:45:57 Brennan: And you see, slams the mirror shut. Her face extends into a snarling gray wolf's head. (snarls)

1:46:05 Talura: (reverberating scream) Why would they do this to me!

1:46:09 Brennan: And grows 20 feet tall, the mirror clatters to the ground. You feel her, she loses sight of you. You don't feel any of this rage or ferocity directed at you. It is purely at what she has seen. (stirring instrumental music) She goes,

1:46:28 Talura: [growling] Yes, yes, well, if that's how it is meant to be, then I think I have a thing or two to say about it!

1:46:36 Sam: Talura, what, what, what happened to them?

1:46:40 Talura: Class A, you said.

1:46:40 Sam: Yeah.

1:46:43 Talura: That can be arranged.

1:46:46 Brennan: The class A in the mountains spreads across the entire world. (players gasp)

1:46:52 Brennan: Fills the screen with color, fractures the screen.

1:46:54 Antiope: Oh!

1:46:57 Brennan: And Talura vanishes in a blast of smoke.

1:47:04 Sam: Don't be a stranger? [waves]

1:47:06 Brennan: (laughs) Your mirror on the ground is covered in frost. You stand here and looking at your crystal across the ground class A, B, and C in the bylaws, 30 arcana.

1:47:23 Izzy: 31.

1:47:25 Brennan: 31, excuse me.

1:47:26 Becca: Yeah, wasn't gonna nitpick, but it's kinda what I do so.

1:47:30 Brennan: There you go. So the classification system, you finally find in a glossary rather than in the main chapter.

1:47:40 Penny: Always start with the glossary, I should have known.

1:47:42 Katja: That's the craziest thing ever to start with the glossary.

1:47:45 Penny: No, not if you need to know every term before you begin.

1:47:49 Brennan: So the classification system. Classification system, basically it has to do with the scale of a quest, right? So a class F is literally affecting a municipality, is a quest that affects a municipality. Class E affects a region, class D affects a nation. Class C, which is the lowest that you need to get your GED is a world, a planet. So a quest that the fate of a world hangs in the balance. Class B would be a plane of existence, and a class A quest would be the entire multiverse.

1:48:34 Aabria: Oh, vibes.

1:48:36 Erika: No pressure.

1:48:37 Katja: So we had to zoom out of the map.

1:48:39 Penny: Oh, zoom out.

1:48:40 Antiope: It's broken!

1:48:40 Becca: I relay this information.

1:48:42 Penny: Okay, so you know-

1:48:42 Ostentatia: Oh shit!

1:48:44 Penny: Class A, maybe it's a bit much for us. Maybe we start with just a single planet we're trying to, (gasps) do you feel that?

1:48:47 Antiope: Hold on, what's before A? What's before A?

1:48:49 Brennan: Hey, yeah, Danielle, you've attached so everyone has the "The Legendarium" on their phones now, but you have an extra gem for Sam, and you don't see Sam down here.

1:49:00 Danielle: Oh God. (Brennan laughing)

1:49:03 Ostentatia: Guardian, guardian, get up there!

1:49:06 Erika: Yeah, so…

1:49:06 Izzy: Wherever she is.

1:49:08 Brennan: Asha begins to move. Asha turns to you and looks around and says,

1:49:14 Asha: Um, sorry, something very bad, um, uh, uh, sorry. (alarm blaring)

1:49:19 Brennan: Runs, whoosh, disappears. You hear alarm bells ringing in the afterlife behind your guardian of faith. (Erika laughing)

1:49:30 Ostentatia: Did you just fucking leave after I summoned you here? (Brennan laughing)

1:49:33 Penny: Wait, now's my moment!

1:49:36 Becca: I reach deep into the fanny pack I've been wearing this whole time and pull out a rust-colored fuzzy ball which I toss.

1:49:47 Rekha: Disappeared.

1:49:48 Brennan: You toss a rust-colored fuzzy ball. Go ahead and roll what animal it becomes.

1:49:52 Becca: (gasps) A bear? I think it's a bear, it's a brown bear.

1:49:57 Rekha: (screams) Cute!

1:49:57 Penny: (screams) I made a bear! Look, Danielle, I made a bear!

1:50:03 Danielle: Whoa.

1:50:03 Penny: Hi, bear!

1:50:03 Antiope: Why did you make a bear, what?

1:50:06 Penny: Could you go see what that is upstairs?

1:50:08 Brennan: (growls cutely) And the bear-

1:50:10 Players: Aw!

1:50:12 Brennan: The bear wanders upstairs, what do you all do? You see that Sam is not here, not present in this space.

1:50:15 Erika: Yeah, I tell it,

1:50:15 Danielle: Sam's up there, Sam's up there.

1:50:17 Katja: Run upstairs.

1:50:17 Antiope: Yeah, 100%.

1:50:20 Ostentatia: My fucking guardian of faith just bailed on me!

1:50:24 Erika: I ride on the bear.

1:50:26 Danielle: Bro, is it okay, can I get a ride?

1:50:29 Brennan: Yes, you can ride on the bear. So Sam, looking out at the horizon at roiling clouds (mimics wind rushing) over the horizon, you see your six wonderful friends ride out of the bottom on a bear. (Becca laughing)

1:50:47 Rekha: Same thing as a horse. It's like riding a horse!

1:50:51 Brennan: And you see, all of you see Sam at the edge of the icy precipice looking out over a dark sky.

1:51:01 Sephie: Holding her frost-covered mirror.

1:51:03 Brennan: Holding the frost-covered mirror. Sam, what do you say as you turn to see your friends?

1:51:09 Sam: Um… I might have done something. (Brennan laughing)

1:51:14 Penny: Me too, I made a bear!

1:51:17 Sam: Oh, that's so cute, have you named him yet?

1:51:20 Brennan: Taffodil looks over and says,

1:51:22 Taffodil: Something crazy just happened up here. (players laughing)

1:51:23 Danielle: What happened?

1:51:27 Sam: I got a feeling and...

1:51:30 Danielle: Are you safe?

1:51:32 Sam: I don't think any of us are now.

1:51:34 Antiope: So remember when I had that high thought about something very bad coming?

1:51:37 Danielle: Oh yeah.

1:51:37 Antiope: That wasn't a high thought.

1:51:40 Sam: I'm not sure if bad's the right way to say it. She just seemed hurt.

1:51:44 All: She?

1:51:48 Sam: Talura.

1:51:49 Ostentatia: Who, Talura-rula-rula-rula-rula-ruli?

1:51:50 Antiope: Okay, I was gonna freak out 'cause I didn't-

1:51:51 Sam: The Ending of All Things.

1:51:52 Antiope: You know her fucking name now?

1:51:55 Sam: Her and all her sisters, all the Eidolons.

1:52:00 Penny: Oh, Eidolons, I did read about them quite a bit so I do know all their names as well. (Brennan chuckles)

1:52:04 Antiope: You good though, like?

1:52:09 Sephie: Are you lying?

1:52:10 Becca: I did get like a 31 on researching the Eidolons so I probably know their names.

1:52:15 Brennan: You would know. I think that different cultures have a, you probably know hundreds of names for all of them. But Sam has learned the names that they use for themselves.

1:52:25 Becca: Mm-hmm.

1:52:26 Brennan: So there's an incredible wealth of information here. But yeah, Antiope, you look at Sam who looks shaken. I imagine Sam looks a little like.

1:52:39 Sephie: Shaken and almost like she's about to cry. (soft instrumental music) Aabria : She completely forgets about all of the other dumb shit and just runs over and grabs you.

1:52:50 Antiope: Are you okay? Did she hurt you?

1:52:55 Sam: I'm fine.

1:52:55 Aabria: And I just-

1:52:56 Sam: She's not.

1:52:59 Danielle: Okay, we need a really quick rundown of what's going on right here because shit's weird.

1:53:04 Sam: So she was here. She apologized for-

1:53:09 Ostentatia: In a mirror?

1:53:12 Sam: No.

1:53:12 Antiope: For what? What did she, like exactly did she apologize for?

1:53:16 Sam: For hurting and scaring us.

1:53:16 Antiope: Vibes.

1:53:20 Penny: I feel like you should still demand a personal apology.

1:53:22 Antiope: Like a little bit, but-

1:53:23 Sam: She couldn't find her sisters. She was upset.

1:53:26 Danielle: The ones in the mirrors.

1:53:27 Sam: Bleeding from her eyes and in a lot of pain so I went to her.

1:53:33 Brennan: As Sam says that, Yelle, you realize that these Eidolons, being the entities that moved divine will into the actual matter of the universe, if there was an injured Eidolon here, that explains all the weird beast stuff happening. That explains the vibe you've been getting from the natural order here.

1:53:55 Antiope: Injured, they weren't just high thoughts.

1:53:58 Danielle: Yeah, no, you had it all right.

1:54:01 Antiope: Mushrooms are dope.

1:54:02 Penny: Wait a minute, so if her sisters didn't get free when their mirrors were broken, what happened to them?

1:54:08 Sam: I think the mirrors were just empty.

1:54:11 Ostentatia: What did she do? Because something very bad is going on. There was an emergency in the afterlife.

1:54:18 Sam: I'm getting to that.

1:54:18 Danielle: She used your mirror?

1:54:20 Erika: And she points to the frost-covered mirror.

1:54:23 Sam: She used my mirror.

1:54:23 Danielle: What did she say?

1:54:25 Penny: Does that thing have redial?

1:54:26 Danielle: Star 69.

1:54:26 Ostentatia: Star 69, seven.

1:54:29 Penny: Star, 67?

1:54:30 Sam: I don't know if any of us can handle that.

1:54:32 Ostentatia: Doesn't nine block?

1:54:32 Katja: No. Star 69's who called me. Star 67 is I think stop calling me.

1:54:39 Sephie: I open the mirror.

1:54:45 Brennan: You open the mirror. Give me a-

1:54:48 Rekha: Star 69 check.

1:54:52 Brennan: No, I'll go ahead. (Aabria laughing) You can try to do this carefully in which case there's a risk of failure or you can ensure your success with a little bit of risk here. (thoughtful instrumental music)

1:55:05 Sephie: I think Sam is not just concerned about the power that Talura has and whatever she's done because she was very clearly upset and acting out of upset which is something Sam is very familiar with, but I think she's actually worried for a being that's much greater than her. And I think she takes the risk.

1:55:30 Brennan: Amazing, I would love a… your choice. Either a constitution or a wisdom saving throw.

1:55:38 Sephie: Constitution.

1:55:38 Brennan: Mm-hmm. (thoughtful piano music)

1:55:46 Sephie: That's a 13.

1:55:47 Brennan: We are going to get to what you see because you're going to see it in a different state of consciousness. What everyone else sees is Sam holding the compact. (suspenseful instrumental music)

1:56:01 Brennan: Ice, fire, shadow, mist, water, wind. (mimics howling wind) You watch Sam's eyes go wide and she lifts up as her storm magic has often had her do and can see every muscle in her body tensing. And the wind just picks up more and more and more to the point where Sam's limbs are kicking and flailing in the force. And you see her eyes glow powerfully white as you succeed by pushing yourself past your limit to achieve this vision. Sam goes horizontal and collapses to the ground unconscious.

1:56:43 Rekha: Whoa!

1:56:43 Aabria: Can I catch her?

1:56:45 Brennan: Yes, of course. Antiope run, you grab your friend, hold her, Sam is unconscious. We are going to get to what Sam sees later. I want to know what the rest of the Maidens are doing.

1:56:57 Penny: Okay, so we have an angry planar creature who just needs to find her sisters. We can find sisters.

1:57:06 Katja: What?

1:57:07 Antiope: Are we not worried about this?

1:57:08 Ostentatia: We’re gonna talk strategy?

1:57:08 Penny: Oh, oh, oh, oh! I thought she was taking a nap 'cause she was tired and-

1:57:15 Antiope: I let it happen for so long and I'm like-

1:57:16 Sephie: I'm rolling performance to see how hot I fell.

1:57:18 Brennan: Okay. (laughs) (die taps table)

1:57:20 Sephie: Jesus Christ.

1:57:23 Ostentatia: [holding her phone up] I won't post, I won't post, it's just for me!

1:57:26 Antiope: It's just for us!

1:57:27 Sephie: 32. Sorry, 31, 31.

1:57:30 Brennan: 31, yeah. Sam is just otherworldly.

1:57:32 Izzy: So we all pass out.

1:57:34 Aabria: Yeah. (Becca moans)

1:57:37 Brennan: Zelda is next to you holding Sam going,

1:57:39 Zelda: Oh my God, Sam, Sam!

1:57:41 Erika: Immediately Danielle does a medicine check.

1:57:43 Brennan: Okay, go for it.

1:57:46 Erika: 17.

1:57:47 Brennan: You recognize this immediately. This is basically, it is a good thing that Sam has passed out. This is like going into shock like, oh, don't experience this. (snaps fingers) Click, lights out that Sam's body has shut down because she is receiving information on a scale so far past mortal beings that this is the only safe way for her to process the magic that she's doing. That's what you get from that medicine check. You all look around. You are able to connect with what Sam basically said of like, she had an interaction with Talura up here who you would know from that long list of names is the seventh Eidolon.

1:58:35 Penny: Out of seven, she's the baby, that makes sense. They can be bratty.

1:58:40 Antiope: What is she the Eidolon of? Oh, The Ending of All Things, I remember. I am very stressed.

1:58:45 Brennan: Penny has gotten so many 30-pluses, especially surrounding Eidolon stuff. So Chronoa, the eldest of the Eidolons, these are all the Eidolons at the core of the elemental planes. The middle four that you all understand are based around the four elements. So Terra, you know who Terra is. Pyrria, Nira, Zefira are fire, water, and air. Penny, you'd also be aware, Chronoa's a very interesting one because Chronoa's actually associated with both the Astral and Ethereal planes, the transitive planes. Chronoa is the eldest Eidolon, and is the Eidolon of time. The two baby sisters are associated with the positive and negative energy planes, AKA, life and death.

1:59:41 Aabria: Okay, well, yep.

1:59:46 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:59:46 Aabria: Dope.

1:59:49 Rekha: Wow, the life and the death were the closest friends.

1:59:52 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:59:54 Rekha: Okay.

1:59:54 Becca: Okay, (laughs) okay.

1:59:56 Rekha: (laughs) Whatever you say.

1:59:57 Brennan: That's the reaction I'm looking for in any worldbuilding I do, oh, okay.

2:00:00 Rekha: Okay, whatever you say. (group laughing) Erika?: I like this.

2:00:02 Izzy: Copy.

2:00:03 Brennan: Copy that.

2:00:03 Rekha: Interesting. [shrugs]

2:00:06 Brennan: Penny. (energetic piano music)

2:00:09 Penny: We have to find her sister Anima first. That was her counterpart.

2:00:15 Brennan: I will also say on a 30-plus you know something else which is, maybe all of this is interconnected or maybe it's just the wildest coincidence of all time, but you know that if Talura has done something to, 'cause you all can put two and two together and be like, oh, Sam had a talk with one of the beings that shaped reality and then this class A quest expanded and broke "The Legendarium." There is one person that you know studied Eidolons more than any other person, Tectonya Karkovnya.

2:00:51 Penny: This bitch. (Brennan laughing)

2:00:53 Sephie: I mean, she's supposed to be the, I'm not there.

2:00:55 Aabria: What, go to sleep.

2:00:57 Katja: She didn't leave this mountain.

2:00:58 Ostentatia: Oh, we didn't freaking tell anybody.

2:01:01 Rekha: Okay, we tell everybody.

2:01:03 Ostentatia: She's here.

2:01:03 Katja: She's here. Sorry, she's here.

2:01:07 Penny: How do you know?

2:01:07 Katja: We talked to Asha. Asha said that she saw a beautiful copper lady come by and she never left.

2:01:17 Penny: Can none of us sense metal?

2:01:20 Ostentatia: Oh, I can.

2:01:20 Brennan: Actually, hold on, give me an investigation check, Penny.

2:01:25 Becca: 22.

2:01:25 Brennan: As Katja and Ostentatia tell you like, the statue said that she never left, remember the other stuff you found other than "The Legendarium" downstairs.

2:01:40 Becca: Airships, there's stuff in the, I look up.

2:01:43 Aabria: (gasps) I turn to Zelda,

2:01:44 Antiope: Weren't you supposed to go up and look at that?

2:01:47 Zelda: Look, it's been a big day, I was helping Sam out! [snarling] And why does everyone pick on me all the time?

2:01:51 Penny: Okay, we need to find healthier ways to let it out.

2:01:55 Rekha: I brush Zelda.

2:01:56 Brennan: You see her goat leg kicks out a bunch as,

2:01:59 Zelda: (inhales and exhales roughly) I'm so sorry you guys. I completely freaked out.

2:02:02 Penny: No, it's okay. Let it out more often.

2:02:03 Rekha: Oh, it's okay. I brush all her hair in front of her face the way she likes it.

2:02:06 Penny: Zelda-

2:02:07 Brennan: She's like full Cousin Itt, like it's full.

2:02:12 Penny: If you talk about it more, then maybe it won't come out in such an unhealthy way. That's what my mom says.

2:02:15 Ostentatia: What does the airship have to do with what we're talking about?

2:02:19 Penny: I don't know, but people…

2:02:20 Katja: Because that could be where she went. If she's not around here, she wasn't downstairs, maybe she's up-

2:02:24 Ostentatia: Upstairs.

2:02:26 Katja: Up, the sister to downstairs, upstairs.

2:02:32 Brennan: Katja, make a history check with advantage.

2:02:34 Rekha: With that brilliant monologue. With advantage you said?

2:02:39 Brennan: Yeah, with advantage.

2:02:40 Rekha: So that's a dirty 20 and then that's 22.

2:02:45 Brennan: I will say this.

2:02:45 Izzy: So 42.

2:02:47 Brennan: Recognizing the emblems, there's one fact about Talcidimir Tallbreeze I neglected to mention.

2:02:54 Rekha: Uh-oh.

2:02:56 Brennan: Talcidimir Tallbreeze is oldest and best friends with one Karl Cleaver.

2:03:01 Rekha: I was gonna say, okay. So I recognize him or?

2:03:08 Brennan: You've met him in the past.

2:03:09 Rekha: Is this this person you mentioned that my dad was hanging out with on the phone?

2:03:13 Brennan: No, that was Gelgador the wizard.

2:03:16 Rekha: Cool 'cause I, okay, cool, okay, great so...

2:03:18 Brennan: But Talcidimir, probably the last time he met you would have been when you were a little, little kid. But you know where, like, if that dude's emblems were in the temple, you know where in the Baronies that dude is at, you know how to get to his place. You know where to find it.

2:03:36 Katja: We have to go find my dad's friend in the Baronies.

2:03:40 Danielle: Can you call him, like call ahead to make sure he's home and stuff?

2:03:43 Penny: Alive.

2:03:46 Brennan: He's not Solisian, he doesn't have a phone. He doesn't have service.

2:03:49 Antiope: (gasps) Disgusting. (Erika groans)

2:03:53 Rekha: And he doesn't have the internet?

2:03:56 Izzy: The Baronies doesn't have 5G yet.

2:03:58 Rekha: Can I send him an email?

2:03:58 Becca: They think it'll give you brain cancer.

2:04:00 Aabria: You can send, like an assassin can get a message into the Baronies.

2:04:04 Rekha: I'm gonna craft an email.

2:04:04 Brennan: Great.

2:04:06 Rekha: (sighs) I hate talking to my dad's friends.

2:04:10 Izzy: I know, they're always like, you're bigger.

2:04:11 Brennan: And you guys also, it is getting late. You guys are gonna need a long rest.

2:04:16 Erika: From the medicine check I know that she's okay, that she's getting-

2:04:18 Sephie: I've already started mine.

2:04:19 Brennan: You can tend to her, you can absolutely.

2:04:21 Erika: Okay.

2:04:21 Becca: (gasps) Okay, you guys I'm gonna cast Create Bonfire down in the safe space. There's a fire waiting for us, it's really toasty.

2:04:34 Izzy: Love.

2:04:34 Erika: Aw yeah, and my staff goes (mimics wind rushing) and this giant mushroom toadstool springs up and it has a little door and a little window.

2:04:46 Izzy: I'll make that throw blanket now.

2:04:49 Erika: Okay, cute, like over the bonfire.

2:04:51 Katja: I send, should I send it, does this look good? Katja holds her phone out to Danielle, who sends the message.

2:04:56 Danielle: Boop, okay.

2:04:57 Katja: Oh what, you just sent it! D!

2:04:59 Brennan: Amazing.

2:05:00 Danielle: We don't got time.

2:05:01 Antiope: Ostentatia, for the love of God, please take, can you fix the iPad, Legendarium?

2:05:06 Izzy: Can I? With mending?

2:05:08 Brennan: Yeah, it is an artifact so I'm gonna ask for, give me a check here. Give me a little smith's tools check.

2:05:16 Erika: Do you think, need to check for Sam for taking care of Sam?

2:05:20 Brennan: Yeah, give me a little medicine check here.

2:05:21 Rekha: Can I also do a smith's tools check?

2:05:22 Brennan: Yeah, and actually you can, yeah. Both of you make a check, go for it.

2:05:26 Rekha: Okay.

2:05:26 Erika: 23.

2:05:28 Izzy: What do I add?

2:05:30 Brennan: Your wisdom plus your proficiency, so plus nine.

2:05:34 Izzy: 27.

2:05:34 Brennan: [Brennan] Wow!

2:05:36 Aabria: Let's go!

2:05:37 Rekha: Wait, I got a dirty 20.

2:05:37 Brennan: Dirty 20, amazing. So Katja, you're helping. You get a forge heated up and Ostentatia, you have an anvil, you're hammering on this crystal thing, heating it up so that it remelts and can turn back into a solid structure. We're going to go into a long rest before I run Sam's scene so I just want to know if anyone is, so you're fixing the crystal. What is Antiope doing as the gang gets ready to bed down for the night?

2:06:09 Aabria: I'm just gonna, like, I do eventually put Sam down, but I'm gonna take first watch.

2:06:14 Sephie: How, I'm so pretty? (Brennan laughing)

2:06:15 Aabria: (laughs) I'm gonna take first watch and kind of look out over everyone. But I did want to pump a lesser restoration while I was holding you just for whatever that's worth.

2:06:25 Brennan: Amazing, and the medicine check we had from Danielle was what?

2:06:30 Erika: 23.

2:06:30 Brennan: 23, incredible. You have an amazing poultice going. You have something to like, there's basically just like, you get a medical kit out. There's a little eyedropper. You make this very rich, it's like a herbal broth that you can put some drops in so that Sam is not like, 'cause it's very exhausting what Sam is going through.

2:06:53 Erika: Like essentially there's like a tube. There's hollow reeds and stuff. She makes like an IV drip.

2:06:57 Brennan: I love that so much. So you have this sweet little anarchist symbol on your phone to light yourself so that you can put the, and you guys see this little scene of Sam bundled up with Yelle there and Antiope right by her side with that lesser restoration also looking out and keeping watch. Katja and Ostentatia, anything else before?

2:07:22 Rekha: Are we gonna end this scene and move to the next thing?

2:07:25 Brennan: I just want to know what you're doing. We're wrapping up and I want to know what you're doing that night.

2:07:28 Rekha: Okay, well, I want to do fun sleepover stuff.

2:07:30 Becca: Oh yeah, oh yeah. (group laughing)

2:07:32 Brennan: Great, Katja's doing fun sleepover stuff.

2:07:34 Rekha: Yeah, I start a game of MASH going.

2:07:36 Aabria: Yeah!

2:07:36 Becca: Oh, fun, toadstool.

2:07:38 Brennan: Incredible.

2:07:38 Becca: Wait, put a T on there.

2:07:39 Sephie: I'm so sad I'm missing it.

2:07:40 Brennan: Oh no!

2:07:40 Rekha: Yeah, MASH-T.

2:07:43 Becca: I want to kiss and tuck in all the horses and the one pony.

2:07:45 Brennan: Amazing, incredible. Candyheart's like,

2:07:49 Candyheart: Oh, I can't believe, we sleep standing up.

2:07:54 Penny: Candyheart, Candyheart?

2:07:54 Aabria: You don't?

2:07:55 Candyheart: Yeah.

2:07:55 Penny: Don't talk, just let it be.

2:07:58 Candyheart: I know, I'm bad to be around.

2:07:58 Aabria: Oh!

2:08:02 Brennan: [Brennan] And you see-

2:08:02 Erika: [squeaking] I love Candyheart.

2:08:05 Aabria: Poor baby.

2:08:06 Becca: I kiss her on the head anyway.

2:08:08 Brennan: (smooches) A little tuck in, amazing. And then we're playing MASH. Yelle, you're tending to Sam. Ostentatia, before bed that night I'm interested in a couple of things, but also interested in like, 'cause you were gonna pray for your spells that night, what, if anything, after everything you've talked about with like Logran and all this other stuff today, how do you ask for your spells? Or what are your prayers like after all this shit you learned today?

2:08:39 Izzy: I feel like I'm asking... (thoughtful piano music) I mean, I don't know if we're moving too fast.

2:08:47 Brennan: Go for it.

2:08:49 Izzy: But I feel like I'm asking Asha.

2:08:52 Brennan: Amazing, you pray to Asha. Asha responds. You feel her voice coming from the stone underneath you as you pray goes,

2:09:07 Asha: Bella donna, know that great forces will marshal behind you. You speak for whichever force you wish to speak for. You are a hero in your own right, and I tell you this now. I am going to make sure that you have the power that you need and a little something extra.

2:09:35 Brennan: You feel sort of mystical power filling you. You hear her say,

2:09:40 Asha: I am sorry that I had to depart. There is great turmoil in not only your world, but in worlds beyond number. And I do not know if there is time for any others to discover the trouble that is at hand. You and your friends must bear a burden greater than is right or just to ask of you. There are answers for you, but like anything of beauty in this world, it will take great forging to create them.

2:10:21 Brennan: And you get an extra spell which is the Commune spell.

2:10:26 Aabria: Yeah. (players cheering)

2:10:29 Brennan: We are going to move to Sam. (ethereal music)

2:10:32 Brennan: Sam, what is your emotional state as you fall into this mystical?

2:10:35 Sephie: I feel like Sam first, like it's almost like her catchphrase, it's almost like she's drowning in the waters of herself.

2:10:44 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

2:10:45 Sephie: Like, I think that to get to the state where she can take in this information, it's sort of like plunging her deep below the multiple layers of her personality, trauma, all the things that make up her and she's sort of just like, to get past that she has to sort of take them all in and feel each layer before she can get to the base this low. And so she is simultaneously calm and distraught.

2:11:21 Brennan: In this place of, very aligned with the element of water, not only as a physical reality but also sort of the meaning of that idea of the tempest. Like these feelings of chaos or discomfort or pain are going to come and I'm going to accept them as they are and go deeper. You move through this space and see the vision of the mirror that Talura saw. Talura mentioned to you in passing that these traps that had been made for them by the gods, by these ancient beings had a way for them to leave, but she said that way is certain death.

2:12:04 Sephie: Death.

2:12:06 Brennan: She looked for the past of her sisters and saw her sisters all choose to leave their mirror. And you watch this beautiful fiery woman smile, touch the surface of her mirror, step through it and burst into flame and her body is undone. You watch the Earth meld into the glass and shatter forward into stone, each of them walking forward with a smile on their face. The air Eidolon like, laughing. You see the eldest walk forward, not with a smile but kind of a knowing eyebrow cocked and see that she was the first of them (snaps fingers) to do this and did it almost immediately upon being trapped. And then you see this beautiful gold and green and wild-living energy walk out looking very terrified at the edge of the mirror and looking almost like a twin to Talura going…

2:13:28 Anima: (sobs softly, then realizes) Oh! (chuckles)

2:13:31 Brennan: And touching the glass and smiling and vines and moths and bugs and little things (mimics wind whistling) going out into the world. And that's the vision you see. You have that wisdom and know that to be true as you awake at sunrise the following morning. (Persephone inhales sharply)

2:13:55 Brennan: And that is where we stop our episode. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Dimension 20: "The Seven," later! (players cheering) (players clapping) [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 6: Belles of the Baronies] [NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION 20]

2:14:05 Brennan: You just shot one of your best friends with an arrow.

2:14:07 Aabria: Why?

2:14:08 Becca: Are we immortal? I take my dagger.

2:14:11 Rekha: Katja weeps, weeps.

2:14:14 Penny: Well someone undo it!

2:14:15 Ostentatia: Apologize to your daughter. Katja’s Dad?: I'm very sorry.

2:14:19 Ostentatia: Mean it!

2:14:20 Brennan: You all have invitations to a grand masquerade ball. (Persephone gasps)

2:14:25 Becca: (gasps) Oh my God!

2:14:28 Brennan: Is there a part of Danielle that always wanted to walk into a room and turn everybody's head and to have people truly think she was exceptional and want to get to know her? (dramatic instrumental music) ___________________________________________________________

2:14:28 Captions extracted by: Kyber Bonsai

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