Bloppelganger Blitz

0:00:03 Brennan: 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. Hello one and all! 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.

0:00:51 All: Hi, Heroic High Schoolers.

0:00:54 Brennan: Last we left off we were at the midst of a masquerade ball aboard the Rombosa, flag airship of mogul and Baronic Lord Talcidimir Tallbreeze. But we're not here to talk about boastful billionaires. We're here to talk about Tectonya Karkovnya.

0:01:13 Becca: Yeah.

0:01:14 Brennan: The superintendent of the Solisian School System who has just been discovered by our seven fearless Maidens!

0:01:20 Becca: [punching the air] Hah, hah, hah! (player vocalizes dramatically)

0:01:23 Brennan: Danielle Barkstock with a nat 20 on her entrance into the party, resplendent as the Empress Anima of the Eidolons made contact with a disguised woman kind of behind a fan-like book that is covering her face with a red velvet pair of shoes which due to the reconnaissance of Penny Duckstone below....

0:01:48 Becca: Haha!

0:01:48 Rekha: Haha! Becca quacks.

0:01:49 Brennan: With the adorable Lysander Higgins, we discovered that this was none other than Tectonya! Your long quest to find the Superintendent has been fruitful, she is here at this grand masquerade ball in the VIP dais. However, all is not as it seems. Transforming into horrible, glowing, ooze-like monsters, many guests at the party began to sneeze and cough in these horrible transformations as seen by Antiope Jones below along with a perception check that let her know that some horrifying spell was at work. Some element of concentration being held on these monstrosities. I lay the scene for you now. (dramatic instrumental music)

0:02:35 Brennan: You are all in the grand ballroom in one place or another for the most part of the Rombosa. Empress Anima, AKA Danielle Barkstock is in conversation in the dais with Talcidimir Tallbreeze and Tectonya Karkovnya. Rapidly approaching her also here in the VIP dais due to some very careful disguise work, and shoving a rich electrum piece bro in a closet.

0:03:03 Sephie: [makes metal hands and sticks her tongue out] Like they all should be.

0:03:04 Brennan: (laughs) They all should be.

0:03:06 Becca: Yeah. Erika nods in agreement with their fan out.

0:03:07 Brennan: Disguised as Dunston Tallbreeze, Sam Nightingale is entering the VIP dais passing by the Lady Coeliabranca, who is sort of the majordomo of Talcidimir Tallbreeze. Approaching from the other entryway with host Michel Parnassus and half-orc guard Sean is Katja Cleaver who has just discovered that her mother may be here at the masquerade.

0:03:30 Rekha: You little bitch.

0:03:34 Brennan: (laughs) Out on the balcony overlooking the city skyline of Gravalvia is Ostentatia Wallace who has Michel Parnassus's charm, but also was going out to where the dancing was happening and now looks around at a dance floor with people bursting out into monstrous forms and shapes. On the ground floor by Lysander's little shoe shine chair is Penny Duckstone. Farther away, kind of with a central view of many areas and balconies is Midnight Huntress, AKA Antiope Jones. And charging out from the bathroom at the sounds of screams is also Madam Goodparty AKA Zelda Donovan.

0:04:17 Becca: Yes. (Aabria laughing)

0:04:19 Erika: Madam.

0:04:19 Aabria: What a good name.

0:04:20 Brennan: Madam Goodparty to kind of-

0:04:21 Becca: Madam Goodparty.

0:04:21 Sephie: Madam Goodparty.

0:04:24 Brennan: So the last thing I want to mention is that Antiope on the first floor is not only seeing all of this transpire and have some idea about the nature of the threat unveiling itself to you. You also are holding Preston's shirt, bugged.

0:04:40 Aabria: Sir, why did I bring Preston's shirt to this ball?

0:04:43 Becca: To deeply inhale from it.

0:04:43 Aabria: I did, that's why. I just wanted it on camera that... (sniffs)

0:04:47 Brennan: You guys didn't get a hotel room. You don't have your bags somewhere. You brought it with you to the mountain which means you brought it—

0:04:53 Izzy: There aren't lockers on this airship?

0:04:55 Brennan: There aren't lockers on this airship?

0:04:56 Becca: Oh, we should have all pooled.

0:04:57 Izzy: Can we reserve a locker?

0:05:00 Brennan: [French accent] Ah, the staple of any masquerade ball, your cubbies.

0:05:04 Rekha: Yeah. (players laughing)

0:05:06 Brennan: Take a bin if you want some blocks or markers for later. [normal accent] From again, our incredible team over at, shout out to the whole team at TaleSpire, to Hanan and Rick as well for this amazing set. Mr. Michael Schaubach, would you like to display to our Heroic High Schoolers the scene that now unfolds.

0:05:23 Rekha: Shut up, this looks like the Titanic!

0:05:23 Sephie: What, oh my God!

0:05:27 Becca: No, no!

0:05:27 Aabria: Oh my God.

0:05:28 Rekha: This ship is gonna crash into an air iceberg.

0:05:31 Becca: This is the goddamn Sistine Chapel of the air!

0:05:33 Brennan: This is the Rombosa.

0:05:35 Aabria: Oh my God.

0:05:35 Brennan: We are approaching the Great Hall.

0:05:36 Rekha: Yo, is this fucking Moroccan architecture? Get the fuck out of here.

0:05:38 Erika: Shut up!

0:05:41 Aabria: And you said you weren't a fucking artist.

0:05:42 Izzy: Ottoman—

0:05:43 Rekha: Oh my God, look at those crenellations.

0:05:45 Becca: He was gonna give us a tour, but it's impossible.

0:05:46 Aabria: ...I would fuck this building.

0:05:48 Sephie: Holy shit.

0:05:48 Aabria: This is amazing!

0:05:50 Izzy: ♪ I'm gonna fuck this building ♪

0:05:52 Rekha: ♪ Gonna fuck this building ♪

0:05:52 Sephie: I am drenched.

0:05:54 Aabria: Yo, I drown.

0:05:54 Brennan: That is the VIP dais we're seeing now that suspends over the hall. There's the fountain underneath.

0:06:00 Erika: Hagia Sophia-ass looking. (groans)

0:06:03 Aabria: Feels like a drag, but it's not.

0:06:05 Sephie: This looks like a level in Dragon Age or something.

0:06:08 Rekha: This looks like the Titanic before shit crashed.

0:06:12 Izzy: Before shit crashed.

0:06:13 Aabria: Please don't lie, I feel like that.

0:06:14 Brennan: So there is the room where Sam shoved Dunston into a closet, this room-

0:06:19 Rekha: Hell fucking yeah.

0:06:19 Aabria: Okay.

0:06:20 Brennan: Dunston was hanging out.

0:06:21 Aabria: This is where Dunston checked in.

0:06:22 Brennan: Dunston checked in. This is the second-story balcony as we move through. That little landing dais is where the host was stopping people from going farther before Ostentatia charmed him.

0:06:31 Izzy: Yeah, stupid bitch.

0:06:34 Brennan: That is the entry to the kitchens. There's an elevator here. We see the kitchen's here.

0:06:38 Becca: I'll be that way.

0:06:41 Brennan: Nobody is starting in the kitchens, but they are here.

0:06:42 Erika: Okay, yum.

0:06:43 Rekha: Is that a starfish on the table?

0:06:46 Brennan: They got weird food here.

0:06:47 Rekha: What the fuck?

0:06:47 Izzy: It's a ship.

0:06:49 Aabria: Eat a raw-ass starfish.

0:06:49 Rekha: It's a ship thing.

0:06:50 Becca: In the air, they have their own cuisine.

0:06:52 Sephie: There's nothing wrong with a starfish. (Brennan laughing)

0:06:55 Becca: Thank you.

0:06:55 Aabria: Just a star, God damn it. (players laughing)

0:06:58 Brennan: You have been introduced to the Rombosa! (players cheering and clapping)

0:07:03 Brennan: Thank you for that lovely tour of the Baronies' premier skyship, Mr. Michael Schaubach. Fans come out.

0:07:06 Sephie: Ooh.

0:07:07 Aabria: Fans for the design.

0:07:07 Brennan: And now if you'd be so kind we will adjourn to TaleSpire.

0:07:09 Sephie: Fuck.

0:07:14 Brennan: The first to act is Antiope Jones. You can tell something's going wrong way before anything else starts. I will say this right now, you see that a lot of these sort of horrible blob ooze monsters are still like, you're going so early before them that they're still completing their transformation as you begin to go, but still now look very, very dangerous. What would you like to do in this moment?

0:07:42 Aabria: So I'm holding on to Preston's shirt, and I'm holding on to the little crystal that's glowing, right?

0:07:47 Brennan: Yeah.

0:07:47 Aabria: Shoot. The first thing I want to do is try to break that just to see if that will fix all of this and then we don't have to do this whole combat.

0:07:55 Brennan: Yeah, that's gonna happen. So you break that, we're fucked. As a free object interaction you crush the crystal and break the delicate crystal technology. I'm gonna say that you grew up in the compound and have seen this before. These are location trackers so they know that you're here. It's constantly sending a message of where it is so they won't know the next place you go to if you go to a next place, you know?

0:08:19 Aabria: Cool, cool, cool. Then beyond that I wanna go ahead and take aim. There's some good gooey boys right in front of me.

0:08:25 Rekha: Disgusting.

0:08:25 Sephie: Oh, don't call them that.

0:08:27 Becca: Good gooey boys.

0:08:27 Aabria: I would like to attack the gooiest boy.

0:08:28 Rekha: Goo jesters.

0:08:32 Izzy: Oh, they look like Audrey II.

0:08:34 Aabria: Yeah!

0:08:34 Rekha: I was gonna say, they look like they have platters of vegetables on their heads.

0:08:35 Becca: They look incredible.

0:08:37 Aabria: Yeah, one of them is just like, a booger. Is that worse than the ones that still are like people?

0:08:43 Brennan: No, they seem to be about equivalent in terms… They all look bad to you.

0:08:46 Aabria: Okay. Then yeah, I'll take aim at the boog.

0:08:51 Brennan: Cool.

0:08:52 Aabria: And will Hunter's Mark [eagle screech] and then attack.

0:08:55 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it.

0:08:55 Aabria: Cool. Dirty 20 to hit. (dice tapping table) And then, oh, I can't do math, 18 to hit.

0:09:07 Brennan: So give me those one more time.

0:09:09 Aabria: Dirty 20 and an 18 to hit.

0:09:10 Brennan: Oh, those are both definitely going to hit.

0:09:15 Aabria: Thank you. (dice tapping table) (intense instrumental music) 16 points of damage on the first, and another six, so 22 points of total damage to the boog.

0:09:26 Brennan: 22 total points of damage to the boog, incredible.

0:09:31 Rekha: (laughs) Disgusting.

0:09:31 Sephie: (groans) So gross.

0:09:34 Aabria: And I'm trying to do it pretty stealthily.

0:09:37 Brennan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You fire two arrows fly out from your bow. You're not putting any bursting effects on them so there's no flashy magic going on. With 22 damage, two arrows fly into that booger. Seem to injure it. It does not look dramatically wounded.

0:09:59 Aabria: Then I want to lean down onto the bracelet and be like,

0:10:01 Antiope: Guys, it's getting fucking weird out here!

0:10:04 Rekha: Here's a question, or I'll just ask this. Are they like, 'cause are they squishy and soft? Does that matter in terms of what actually affects them?

0:10:14 Aabria: God, I don't know.

0:10:14 Rekha: I don't know.

0:10:16 Brennan: It definitely injures it, you see. But you can go ahead and either use, if you want to use a Monster Slayer ability here or give me a perception or insight check or even a survival check.

0:10:25 Aabria: Yeah, can I do a survival check?

0:10:26 Brennan: Give me a survival check.

0:10:27 Aabria: Wait, just sort of processing as I, ah, that's very bad.

0:10:30 Rekha: It's like hurting my brain.

0:10:30 Aabria: 14.

0:10:33 Brennan: You look at this thing. You definitely see that it is injured 'cause it moves to avoid that happening. Like, you've trained fighting things that are fully immune to stuff. Like once a werewolf knows you don't have a silver weapon it doesn't flinch as it fights. It's like, nothing you can do can hurt me. This thing is hurt by what you're doing. You would guess on a 14 that what you're dealing with here is probably like an abundance of just durability. You’re thinking you're dealing with raw hit points here.

0:10:59 Aabria: Gotcha.

0:10:59 Brennan: Not anything else. However, that's a very frightening thing 'cause the hall is crawling with these things that just took 22 points of damage without dropping.

0:11:08 Aabria: Sweet, yeah, I think I send that message to the group as she's pulling out the first of those five arrows.

0:11:12 Antiope: Like, gonna have to get weird on these guys, and that's me.

0:11:16 Brennan: So Antiope, any movement from you that round?

0:11:18 Aabria: Oh yeah, let me fuck off entirely from this area, thank you. (Brennan laughing)

0:11:24 Rekha: Oh my God, is that an action you can take?

0:11:25 Becca: Please and thank you.

0:11:26 Rekha: It's like, dodge, disengage, fuck off.

0:11:27 Aabria: Yeah or just, nope.

0:11:27 Rekha: Fuck off entirely.

0:11:29 Aabria: I would like to nope as a bonus action.

0:11:30 Becca: Nope on out of there, may I nope.

0:11:31 Aabria: Can you just—

0:11:31 Becca: Yeet.

0:11:32 Aabria: Someone just move me 30 feet back away from this little spot. Sorry young noble Seven. Good luck, you're hot!

0:11:40 Rekha: You're hot?

0:11:40 Aabria: Thank you.

0:11:42 Brennan: Any bonus actions from Antiope?

0:11:43 Aabria: No, I used my bonus action to Hunter's Mark.

0:11:45 Brennan: Oh, great, cool, cool. Sam Nightingale, that's gonna be you.

0:11:49 Sephie: Let's see, can I roll arcana to see, like, what these things are made of? Like what kind of goo this is or anything.

0:11:59 Brennan: Give me an arcana check. (die taps table)

0:12:04 Sephie: That is 25. (warm instrumental music)

0:12:08 Brennan: Wow, yes, you do know what these are. You heard before Dunston talking about people in the Baronies getting flubectomies which are all the rage.

0:12:17 Sephie: Oh my God.

0:12:17 Rekha: I forgot that you said that.

0:12:20 Sephie: Flubectomies.

0:12:21 Brennan: One of the things that the Baronies really struggles with, they have a big Doppelganger problem here. And there are many more and various strains of Doppelganger. There's throppelgangers where they are one thing that looks like three people instead of one other person. And these are a strain of those called bloppelgangers.

0:12:39 Erika: Oh my God!

0:12:39 Brennan: A bloppelganger is basically a parasitic organism that can be introduced into the body and uses the host body to become a terrifying acidic ooze that comes out and kills people. You know that they are not super fast. They are incredibly durable. I mean, you're looking around and seeing them all over the hall. This is a big fucking problem. If you guys were trapped in a room with dozens of these, even at your high level, good chances you all die, right?

0:13:13 Sephie: Okay.

0:13:14 Brennan: It's not that they do the most damage in the world, but they're just very durable. And within that, the other thing you know about them is that they are not very fast. They're not hard to hit, they're not very fast. In a lot of situations, like in your early adventure training would have been like, if you see an ooze like this the best thing to do is to run. Obviously that's not really necessarily going to be an option for everybody here 'cause you're all on an airship and there's not really a lot of great places to run to, and there's just so fucking many of these things. But they are called bloppelgangers. Their damage is primarily acidic. That's what you know on a 25 arcana check.

0:13:47 Sephie: Cool.

0:13:47 Brennan: You also know that for this many to appear simultaneously is clearly some act of magic, like there was an instant transformation. Normally you have more time, like the transformation takes longer. So some act of magic has ramped up the transformation to an artificial level. And I think you would also know—

0:14:11 Aabria: Can I jump in and like, I have added to the group thing like, there is something that turned these so we're all on the lookout for it.

0:14:18 Brennan: You realize that normally these things, before they have a host, are just very small. They're like tiny-sized little oozes and realize that if in fact flubectomies are all the rage in the Baronies right now that maybe these arcane parasites were introduced as part of a wellness craze in the Baronies.

0:14:37 Sephie: (sighs) Okay. I want to do something weird.

0:14:40 Brennan: I love it.

0:14:43 Becca: Good.

0:14:43 Sephie: All right so since these are something that were introduced with the flubectomy and it's something that's clearly pouring out of their orifices, I want to see what happens if I just flood all of their sinuses with water.

0:14:55 Brennan: Okay.

0:14:55 Sephie: And see if I can get them to purge-

0:14:56 Rekha: A reverse flubectomy! (Aabria laughing)

0:14:59 Sephie: Yeah, a reverse flubectomy.

0:14:59 Rekha: Amazing.

0:15:02 Sephie: I could either use Shape Water or shape the water inside them or Create or Destroy water.

0:15:05 Becca: And an enema.

0:15:05 Aabria: [sounding uncomfortably interested] Ooh, all orifices.

0:15:08 Rekha: Oh my God, giving them all enemas.

0:15:12 Brennan: What level spells are Shape Water and Create Water?

0:15:13 Sephie: Shape water's a cantrip. Create or destroy water is second level.

0:15:16 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna say on a 25 you are aware that the substance in them is not water. Like, it's not elementally aligned.

0:15:24 Sephie: No, I mean like I am-

0:15:24 Becca: To flush it out.

0:15:26 Sephie: Not like controlling them as water. I'm trying to push them out with water, like flush them out of the system.

0:15:31 Brennan: Okay.

0:15:32 Rekha: We want to give the boogers an enema.

0:15:33 Brennan: Gotcha, yes, yes, yes.

0:15:34 Sephie: Yeah, it's basically like I'm doing a really large neti pot on them.

0:15:39 Brennan: Amazing.

0:15:40 Becca: We're putting it in different orifices on this side of the table.

0:15:41 Rekha: Yeah.

0:15:43 Sephie: You're so right, yeah, that's right.

0:15:44 Aabria: Enema gang, enema gang, enema gang.

0:15:46 Sephie: Basically they need to basically shoot water out of all of their orifices is what I'm saying.

0:15:50 Brennan: Amazing, let me take a look at these spells here. Shape water and Create water. I am going to say that-

0:15:59 Sephie: It's okay if the answer is no.

0:16:01 Brennan: I'm gonna say that Create or Destroy water would have an ability to potentially do what you want it to do.

0:16:09 Sephie: Okay, cool. So I'm going to cast Create Water inside of the nearest person and basically flood their system.

0:16:20 Brennan: Go ahead and call your shot. Which of these bloppelgangers in front of you?

0:16:25 Sephie: So I'm gonna go after the one that has, it's the one that's only partially transformed that's closest.

0:16:30 Brennan: Cool.

0:16:31 Sephie: The one that my character's staring at.

0:16:32 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:16:32 Sephie: I'm going to basically call forth salt water and just push it inside of them and then push it back out and just flood them as much as possible.

0:16:46 Rekha: Oh my God.

0:16:48 Aabria: Let's go.

0:16:48 Brennan: Amazing.

0:16:49 Becca: Now look at this.

0:16:49 Brennan: I am gonna say that this is a very creative use of magic.

0:16:53 Rekha: I love it.

0:16:53 Brennan: Which I absolutely love. And it's going to be a constitution saving throw from the bloppelganger versus your DC. I'm gonna roll this right now.

0:17:05 Sephie: And I can create like, how many gallons of water can I create with that? It's a lot.

0:17:09 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

0:17:11 Sephie: But that'll be relevant after.

0:17:12 Izzy: I was just about to ask if we should run away, but we're in the sky.

0:17:16 Aabria: (laughs) I feel like our horses can fly if they super wanted to.

0:17:20 Brennan: That is a 19. You see that you go, whoosh. (gurgles) And you see the thing (gurgles) hangs on. This was sort of going to be a save or die for this thing. You see that it manages to hold on as salt water. But it does open up some things so you see the noble underneath this thing going, just salt, nose, mouth, butt just going. (screams)

0:17:46 Sephie: Can I cast Quicken Spell on shape water to try again?

0:17:49 Brennan: I'm gonna say no, I am going to say no. I'm gonna start to be a little bit, this is a very tough battle and I want these things to feel dangerous. And also that would be—

0:17:56 Sephie: No, Shape Water's a cantrip.

0:18:00 Brennan: (gasps) (snaps fingers) I have to allow it. Go for it, yes, it's a cantrip. Go for it, yes, yes, yes.

0:18:02 Sephie: Cool, yeah. Okay, wait, do I roll for this? I think this is another constitution saving throw for them.

0:18:07 Brennan: It's another constitution-

0:18:08 Sephie: I'm just gonna Katara right back into him.

0:18:10 Brennan: Okay, amazing, so burn your sorcery points.

0:18:13 Sephie: Okay, cool.

0:18:13 Brennan: You do shape water to make more water, I'm gonna roll again.

0:18:17 Sephie: I'm just reusing the same water 'cause I can't create water with that.

0:18:20 Brennan: For sure.

0:18:20 Sephie: So anything that came out.

0:18:22 Brennan: Anything that came out, you're just (sputters) 'cause it's got dirt and finger food in it now.

0:18:25 Rekha: Disgusting. (player groans)

0:18:26 Sephie: Yep. (Rekha groans)

0:18:27 Brennan: Incredible, this thing saves on an 11 or higher so let's go. (die taps table) (dramatic instrumental music) Heartbreaking, that is an 11.

0:18:35 Sephie: Damn it!

0:18:38 Brennan: (gurgles) The bloppelganger remains but-

0:18:42 Sam: I'll get you yet!

0:18:43 Brennan: Incredible, incredible thinking. Any movement from Sam?

0:18:46 Sephie: So I am going to move probably backwards actually.

0:18:52 Brennan: Cool.

0:18:52 Sephie: If I could get myself not out of the room but just like a few steps backwards.

0:18:57 Brennan: You move backwards and bump into a figure that is rushing down the walkway behind you. You see that they're wearing a black sort of swallowtail coat and has a mouth mask, a sort of silvery mouth mask on, but are rushing forward with a Greatsword raised towards the dais. (Rekha gasps)

0:19:13 Sam: [in Dunston’s voice] Who are you?

0:19:15 Brennan: The figure regards you silently, but it is not their turn. Next in the order is Penny Luckstone, Penny Duckstone.

0:19:20 Aabria: Penny Duckstone!

0:19:21 Sephie: Penny Duckstone.

0:19:23 Rekha: Quack quack quack.

0:19:23 Becca: Quack quack, bitches.

0:19:24 Brennan: So Penny, you can see that you're on the chair. Lysander's in front of you. Zelda's charging out of the bathrooms next to you.

0:19:29 Becca: All right, I disengage from Lysander's face. (Brennan mimics smooching) (players laughing)

0:19:35 Becca: Looking around.

0:19:36 Izzy: You get an opportunity attack.

0:19:37 Aabria: Oh my God.

0:19:38 Rekha: Yeah, opportunity attack, little kiss. (Becca mimics smooching)

0:19:39 Aabria: Smack him on the butt.

0:19:41 Becca: One quick smack, I see Antiope ahead of me, I believe. She's just right in line of sight there.

0:19:47 Brennan: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

0:19:48 Becca: And I'm next to some real booger boys. One is right around a corner in what I think is an elevator?

0:19:57 Brennan: That is correct, you see an elevator there with a bloppelganger waiting inside it.

0:20:02 Becca: Okay, so that looks like a tempting little place to be. What I want to do is, can I in this order, Cunning Action hide then burst out and move and attack with advantage to that bloppelganger in my way?

0:20:21 Brennan: You absolutely can, go ahead and give me a stealth check. (lively instrumental music)

0:20:24 Becca: Oh. (chuckles) Do we even need to check? (Brennan laughs)

0:20:28 Becca: Okay, I rolled a two so that's a...

0:20:31 Aabria: (laughs) You have your...

0:20:33 Becca: Hold on, do I have advantage on stealth? I feel like I should.

0:20:36 Aabria: You got, Halfling, what are you?

0:20:38 Becca: Luck.

0:20:39 Aabria: Short boy stuff, yeah.

0:20:41 Becca: Short boy.

0:20:41 Sephie: Wait, don't we still have your Pass Without A Trace?

0:20:44 Becca: No.

0:20:44 Aabria: No, we do not.

0:20:46 Sephie: Okay, nevermind.

0:20:46 Becca: Well, it's still a 16.

0:20:49 Brennan: Still a 16. You absolutely attack from hiding. These bloppelgangers are not the most perceptive. By the way, also, congratulations to our Seven Maidens for leveling up to level 10. (triumphant music)

0:21:00 Aabria: Yeah! (players cheering)

0:21:03 Brennan: So Penny, you leap from the chair. Lysander looks at you and says,

0:21:05 Lysander: Where are you going? Are you gonna… (Erika laughing)

0:21:10 Aabria: Buddy!

0:21:11 Penny: Come with me if you want to live!

0:21:13 Lysander: Oh, I do want that and...

0:21:13 Becca: He can follow, yeah.

0:21:16 Aabria: Oh my God!

0:21:16 Penny: Stay behind me.

0:21:18 Brennan: I'm actually gonna say that Lysander just acts on Penny's initiative, running behind Penny to stay as close by as possible.

0:21:27 Aabria: What a boy, look at him!

0:21:27 Rekha: So gentle.

0:21:30 Becca: Can he do an unarmed strike? (chuckles)

0:21:33 Brennan: Yes, he absolutely can. So Penny, go ahead and make your attack.

0:21:38 Becca: Okay, come on, new die.

0:21:40 Brennan: You're rolling with advantage here.

0:21:41 Aabria: Hold that shoeshine brush.

0:21:42 Becca: Well, so that's a 27 for the first roll.

0:21:46 Aabria: [whispered] Let's go.

0:21:47 Becca: And not as high, so yeah, 27 to hit.

0:21:49 Brennan: Definite hit.

0:21:49 Becca: Okay and then a d8.

0:21:52 Rekha: Okay, so it's always good to kiss in this game 'cause then you get an ally.

0:21:54 Becca: It is, yeah, always kiss.

0:21:57 Aabria: Meet your allies.

0:21:57 Becca: I mean, that's not why. [beat] It could be why.

0:22:02 Sephie: I mean, it's great if you're a rogue 'cause then you have a distraction to sneak attack with.

0:22:05 Becca: That is nine piercing.

0:22:05 Brennan: Nine piercing damage. Sneak attack?

0:22:11 Becca: Yeah, I will sneak attack.

0:22:12 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

0:22:12 Becca: Okay, so I roll 5d6.

0:22:15 Brennan: 5d6.

0:22:16 Aabria: It's so many d6s, that's so good.

0:22:18 Becca: No big deal. (dice rattling)

0:22:20 Aabria: Kind of a big deal.

0:22:21 Sephie: [Sam voice] Penny's like, such a big deal.

0:22:23 Becca: Eight, 16, plus the nine gives us 25 total.

0:22:27 Brennan: 25 total damage as you rush out and strike with your Rapier of Warning.

0:22:34 Penny: I knew you were there! (laughs)

0:22:37 Brennan: And you take four points of acid damage. (Rekha gasps)

0:22:39 Erika: Acid.

0:22:40 Rekha: Is that from the booger like-

0:22:42 Brennan: Just like from the splash of striking at it.

0:22:46 Becca: Can I evade that at all?

0:22:47 Brennan: If you want to uncanny dodge you can. That would be burning your reaction to avoid two points of damage.

0:22:52 Becca: Not worth it, not worth it.

0:22:52 Brennan: Yeah. Four points of damage to you. Lysander will take a swing, hits, does two points of damage to the bloppelganger.

0:23:02 Erika: Aw.

0:23:04 Brennan: And takes six points of damage, looks on death's door.

0:23:08 All: No!

0:23:09 Brennan: He's like, ha, punches. (screams)

0:23:12 Penny: My sweet, no!

0:23:12 Rekha: You stupid idiot. Why would you put your hand in it?

0:23:16 Lysander: I, I, I, um...

0:23:17 Becca: I could have passed him a dagger and I chose not to.

0:23:20 Rekha: You just started dating, I get it.

0:23:22 Becca: I might need these for ranged attacks.

0:23:25 Aabria: You might be a widow.

0:23:25 Brennan: Amazing.

0:23:27 Becca: But I kiss him and lay him gently.

0:23:30 Rekha: Stupid.

0:23:30 Brennan: He's not dead yet, but he does fully submit to lying down.

0:23:33 Becca: I cross his arms over his chest, one of them being burned away with acid.

0:23:37 Rekha: You close his eyes.

0:23:39 Lysander: Please tell my family I died for a different reason. (players laughing)

0:23:43 Brennan: Amazing, anything else from Penny?

0:23:46 Becca: I'll move onto the elevator hoping that...

0:23:50 Brennan: Cool.

0:23:50 Becca: Yeah, do something cool there later.

0:23:52 Brennan: Cool, cool, cool.

0:23:52 Becca: I see Zelda's nearby and I'll just shout out to Zelda,

0:23:54 Penny: This way.

0:23:58 Brennan: Ostentatia, that's going to be you.

0:24:01 Izzy: Okay. (sighs)

0:24:01 Becca: You got this.

0:24:04 Brennan: So we cut to you on the balcony.

0:24:06 Becca: Oh gosh.

0:24:07 Brennan: Absolutely surrounded by bloppelgangers.

0:24:10 Izzy: Okay.

0:24:10 Brennan: But if you look through, you can actually, I believe, see the dais. From where you are, you have line of sight just barely past the torchlight to Danielle talking to Talcidimir on the VIP dais as well.

0:24:24 Izzy: So can I see Tectonya?

0:24:26 Brennan: I believe someone announced over the thing.

0:24:29 Aabria: I said.

0:24:29 Brennan: So yes, you know that Tectonya has just been found on the VIP dais.

0:24:35 Izzy: Okay, okay, I promise I have been thinking about this this whole time it's just…

0:24:39 Brennan: It's a lot going on.

0:24:42 Becca: You have a lot of spells.

0:24:42 Rekha: It's a lot, you're golden.

0:24:44 Izzy: Is she within 60 feet of me?

0:24:46 Brennan: Well first of all, if you move you can get closer so she might not be within 60 feet right now, but she could become within 60 feet if you leave.

0:24:54 Izzy: Is it just tiles times five?

0:24:56 Brennan: It's just tiles times five, yes.

0:24:58 Izzy: What's 14 times five?

0:24:58 Brennan: 14 times five-

0:25:00 Becca: 70!

0:25:00 Rekha: 70.

0:25:01 Brennan: 70.

0:25:01 Becca: I Call of Cthulhu! (Persephone laughing)

0:25:03 Izzy: Okay, so what I'm gonna do.

0:25:07 Erika: That was really, really cool.

0:25:09 Izzy: Is I'm gonna cast Flame Strike around me.

0:25:13 Brennan: Okay.

0:25:14 Izzy: Everyone within a 10-foot radius and a 40-foot high cylinder has to make a dex saving throw.

0:25:21 Becca: These poor dancing idiots.

0:25:21 Brennan: Amazing. So Ostentatia, you can absolutely hit all of the bloppelgangers, and you can center it off to the side so you don't hit the innocent dancers.

0:25:34 Izzy: Sure.

0:25:34 Brennan: That's easy to do. You will hit yourself unless you move out of the radius of the spell.

0:25:40 Becca: He's really trying to get that opportunity attack.

0:25:43 Brennan: Well, hey, if you would rather Flame Strike yourself and not get the opportunity attack, you're welcome to be my guest.

0:25:48 Izzy: No, I'll take the opportunity attack. And then I can just put the spell over there.

0:25:52 Brennan: Yes, exactly. So go ahead, your movement is 25 feet.

0:25:56 Izzy: I'm trying to see if fire helps.

0:26:00 Rekha: I was gonna say, I think, we were kinda joking, but like, if these are boogers can you dry 'em out?

0:26:05 Aabria: Yeah, dry 'em out, man, antihistamine.

0:26:06 Izzy: Yeah, yeah.

0:26:07 Becca: I got Bonfire, okay, let's go.

0:26:09 Rekha: Sponsored by Zyrtec, sponsored by Claritin. (players laughing)

0:26:13 Izzy: I am a walking advertisement for Claritin.

0:26:17 Rekha: Okay, Dropout, Claritin.

0:26:17 Brennan: Amazing, yeah, Ostentatia, you can basically walk out of the room around the corner and-

0:26:23 Izzy: And can I move within 60 feet of Tectonya in that direction?

0:26:29 Brennan: Yeah, you could absolutely get within 60 feet of Tectonya in that direction.

0:26:30 Izzy: Okay.

0:26:32 Brennan: We're gonna roll some attacks of opportunity here. Three to be exact.

0:26:38 Izzy: Come for me.

0:26:41 Aabria: I forgot how all of my stuff works. I did not write a flowchart for myself, now we're doing it.

0:26:43 Brennan: With that 21 AC, Ostentatia, you only get hit one time, but you do get hit for 17 points of acid damage as one of them. (gurgles)

0:26:56 Rekha: You're a fucking tank, you got this.

0:26:57 Brennan: And that's now going to be-

0:26:57 Izzy: Wait! What about my, do I roll damage?

0:27:03 Brennan: Yeah, now, but I'm saying you walk, get out of the way so you don't burn yourself and now you are going to Flame Strike. So I'm gonna need Ostentatia to roll 4d6 twice.

0:27:20 Becca: Ooh.

0:27:20 Aabria: Ooh. (dramatic instrumental music) (dice rattling)

0:27:25 Erika: I bless them.

0:27:26 Izzy: 17.

0:27:26 Brennan: 17. (dice rattling)

0:27:31 Izzy: 17.

0:27:31 Rekha: 34.

0:27:33 Izzy: With different numbers.

0:27:34 Brennan: So you do 17 radiant damage and another 17 fire damage. Ostentatia, normally that would be 34, but it actually becomes 51 damage to all of them because the fire damage is doubled. Izzy sticks her tongue out and shakes her head victoriously. (players cheering)

0:27:53 Aabria: Drying out the boogies!

0:27:56 Brennan: But let me roll 'cause they might halve that. That is a dexterity save. Oh, these are not very dexterous. (Becca laughs)

0:28:03 Brennan: These are not very dexterous.

0:28:06 Izzy: Wait, you have to roll damage before we, oh, do they get half?

0:28:06 Brennan: Oh my God.

0:28:07 Becca: Oh heck yeah, I got a cantrip with fire.

0:28:09 Brennan: I'm gonna say this, Ostentatia just really found the move. These bloppelgangers have a -4 to their dexterity saving throw and need nat 20s. One of them literally gets a 19, which is not good enough, still fails the save. (players cheering) So that is 51 points of damage to all of them. They look bad.

0:28:31 Izzy: Bad, okay.

0:28:33 Brennan: They look badly injured, badly injured.

0:28:35 Izzy: Okay, okay.

0:28:36 Brennan: It's like sort of like badass walking away from an explosion. Ostentatia walks into the party and you just hear the ringing of a hammer in the sky and dropping down from the heavens. (mimics heavy impact) (gurgling) All of these bloppelgangers get roasted out on the balcony. Any bonus actions from Ostentatia?

0:28:58 Izzy: Um, no.

0:29:01 Brennan: Cool, incredible turn from Ostentatia having discovered a vulnerability of the bloppelgangers.

0:29:05 Izzy: I'm gonna wait 'cause it's concentration.

0:29:08 Aabria: Gotcha.

0:29:10 Brennan: What you all see happen next, Danielle, this actually is gonna happen right in front of you. Danielle in front of you, you begin to see the chaos erupt. Tectonya right in front of you looks around and you see is hit with a ranged spell, not a projectile.

0:29:29 Erika: Whoa!

0:29:30 Brennan: Something from the Enchantment School. So in other words, you don't get to clock a trajectory but something from far away. And you watch her go, (gasps for air) and collapse into the incapacitated condition.

0:29:46 Izzy: Who, who?

0:29:47 Brennan and Becca: Tectonya.

0:29:48 Aabria: Aw, shit!

0:29:49 Brennan: In this moment I am going to need perception checks.

0:29:55 Sephie: Why'd I think he was gonna say my name?

0:29:56 Brennan: I'm gonna need perception checks with disadvantage from Danielle and Sam. And I'm gonna get just a straight perception check from Ostentatia.

0:30:08 Sephie: I seriously thought you were saying my name when you said, "perception."

0:30:10 Brennan: Perception.

0:30:14 Izzy: 21.

0:30:14 Erika: Ooh, that's a nat one.

0:30:17 Sephie: That hurt, I got a nat 20 and an eight.

0:30:20 Erika: Yeah. (player groans)

0:30:21 Brennan: 24, okay.

0:30:22 Sephie: Wait, is this insight or perception?

0:30:24 Brennan: No, this is perception.

0:30:25 Sephie: So that's an 11.

0:30:25 Brennan: 11. Danielle and Sam see the effect of that spell go off. At the moment that happens, Ostentatia, you see just the smallest flicker of light down the rampart from you at the moment that spell goes off. Straight ahead of you along the balcony, down the rampart you see a figure.

0:30:49 Erika: Is that a jester?

0:30:50 Rekha: Willy Wonka.

0:30:50 Sephie: This bitch.

0:30:52 Brennan: So we're gonna continue in the initiative order. Sam, you hear the voice of the stranger rushing past you from the bridge as they look at you and say,

0:31:00 Stranger: Not now, Dunston.

0:31:00 Sam: [in Dunston’s voice] Excuse me!

0:31:04 Brennan: Move you to the side, walk up, and if you see on the dais here they walk up on the other side of Tectonya from Danielle in a sort of tuxedo, swallowtail coat.

0:31:17 Becca: Keep her safe.

0:31:17 Brennan: Tectonya's coughing. Talcidimir looks up. Tectonya turns to look at this figure. The figure raises their Greatsword and slashes into Tectonya over and over and over again.

0:31:28 Aabria: Whoa!

0:31:29 Becca: Can you use a reaction to protect her?

0:31:31 Erika: I know, I don't have any good reactions or anything.

0:31:33 Sephie: I don't think I do, either.

0:31:35 Becca: Can I just retcon a little bit and Lysander is still holding his shoe brush?

0:31:40 Brennan: Yes, absolutely, yes, yes, yes.

0:31:41 Becca: Thank you, important.

0:31:42 Rekha: Brush?

0:31:42 Aabria: Thank you.

0:31:44 Rekha: He's a horse! (players laughing)

0:31:48 Brennan: Tectonya wheels back, falling into Talcidimir as this masked figure, (grunts) clang, and you see copper blood flit across. Tectonya's still on her feet, she's very powerful, but this is, you're seeing that yeah, there's bloppelgangers around, there's chaos, but someone other than this person just cast a spell to incapacitate this person timed for this person walking across the bridge to. (grunts and swings a sword) And that is going to be their turn, Tectonya can take—

0:32:21 Becca: Is this different person than the one that Ostentatia clocked down the way?

0:32:25 Brennan: Yeah.

0:32:25 Becca: Okay.

0:32:26 Brennan: That is going to be Danielle Barkstock.

0:32:28 Izzy: They don't want us to graduate early. (group laughing)

0:32:31 Aabria: This is entirely about us.

0:32:33 Sephie: Yeah, it's entirely about us.

0:32:34 Becca: It's gotta be.

0:32:34 Rekha: All these, yeah. (laughs)

0:32:35 Becca: Who else could it be? We are teenage girls.

0:32:37 Rekha: Have you heard of us?

0:32:40 Erika: I look over to see if there is anything that I can do for Tectonya.

0:32:46 Brennan: I'm not even gonna make you roll. There's an eighth level spell on her right now. And it's powerful enough, you think it's some kind of Power Word probably. But it's the kind of thing where it's not even like she's gonna get a save at the end of every one of her turns. She's probably down for about a minute. It's also not a concentration spell. It's just (snaps fingers) like an instantaneous one and done attack spell that takes you out of commission which basically, you know she's a very powerful spellcaster. It looks like the kind of thing where someone's like, this is how we take this person out of the equation long enough to kill them.

0:33:15 Erika: Right. Danielle spreads her arms and summons woodland beings. And at first it doesn't look like anything has appeared and suddenly eight pixies blink into existence.

0:33:30 Izzy: Look how beautiful you look.

0:33:33 Becca: Right? Gorgeous.

0:33:34 Rekha: It's fucked up, it's fucked up.

0:33:35 Brennan: Empress Anima, from the little potted plants all around here you hear the rustling of leaves and you see wearing, with beautiful iridescent dragonfly wings wearing black hoodies with black ski masks, cans of spray paint on their side, little acorn bombs. (players laughing)

0:33:57 Aabria: Yo!

0:33:58 Brennan: Are like a bunch of anti-fash pixies that come roaring out of the-

0:34:02 Rekha: Look at them!

0:34:05 Brennan: Incredible and- (players gasps)

0:34:07 Izzy: What a beautiful rack she's got.

0:34:10 Brennan: Incredible.

0:34:11 Izzy: Rack focus though! (players laughing)

0:34:14 Brennan: Amazing, you summon these pixies. They are welcome to act. What do they do on your turn?

0:34:23 Erika: Question, what level is Talcidimir?

0:34:26 Brennan: You would probably suspect that Talcidimir is not like-

0:34:28 Erika: Not that-

0:34:28 Brennan: Not that tough.

0:34:30 Erika: Powerful, okay. Danielle says,

0:34:31 Danielle: Dear host, make yourself useful.

0:34:34 Erika: And one of the fairies goes, boop and turns him into an ape.

0:34:38 Brennan: Okay, so now there's eight. (players laughing)

0:34:41 Brennan: There are now eight allied spellcasters on the field. (Erika laughing and pointing) (players laughing)

0:34:50 Aabria: Oh yeah.

0:34:52 Brennan: Oh no…

0:34:52 Becca: She does it again.

0:34:55 Rekha: [cutesy] Hi, Brennan.

0:34:55 Brennan: Okay, so Erika decided that it would be good to have eight wizards helping you.

0:35:02 Aabria: She woke up and chose violence!

0:35:04 Brennan: Chose violence, chose wonder and whimsy and violence.

0:35:07 Rekha: Yeah, Erika woke up and chose one direction, Brennan.

0:35:09 Brennan: So like sprinkling a little. (chimes twinkling)

0:35:12 Pixie: [high-pitched] (giggles) Hi, Danielle, good to see you again!

0:35:14 Danielle: Oh, good greetings, Starchild.

0:35:18 Pixie: Oh, good greetings, Starchild. So what's the story? Are we gonna fuck all these people up?

0:35:22 Danielle: Oh, let's get 'em.

0:35:22 Brennan: Incredible. Okay, so go ahead and let me know the spells that they are casting, what they are doing, et cetera.

0:35:31 Erika: Okay so-

0:35:33 Becca: [covering her face in awe] Each of them gets to cast spells. (players laughing)

0:35:36 Izzy: Brennan of all people should have seen this coming. Aabria knows why.

0:35:40 Aabria: Yep!

0:35:41 Erika: So one of them does Polymorph on Talcidimir, ape form. One of them does Phantasmal Force on the candles and makes them imagine. They're going to have to do a save to believe that the room is not on fire.

0:36:01 Rekha: Fuck yes.

0:36:04 Brennan: Sorry, do you have all eight of their spells planned 'cause we'll resolve them one by one as we go through.

0:36:09 Erika: Okay, yeah, so Polymorph ape, Phantasmal Force to make it seem like the room is on fire. Confusion.

0:36:22 Brennan: Cool.

0:36:22 Erika: Entangle.

0:36:26 Izzy: [looking at Erika’s spot at the table] Her desk...

0:36:27 Sephie: It's amazing.

0:36:28 Aabria: Have you ever played "Diplomacy"?

0:36:30 Erika: What?

0:36:30 Brennan: ♪ Did you know that you’re my hero? ♪

0:36:30 Aabria: Have you ever played, there's a game called "Diplomacy" where you write out your orders for World War I, it's this.

0:36:36 Sephie: Have I ever mentioned how beautiful and attractive you are?

0:36:40 Rekha: Literally everyone should be lining up to date Erika now. Erika points at the screen.

0:36:45 Aabria: You'll have to fight.

0:36:47 Erika: Call me! And Fly on anybody who is willing-

0:36:53 Becca: Me!

0:36:53 Erika: In range.

0:36:54 Becca: Oh…

0:36:54 Erika: Yeah.

0:36:56 Becca: 120 or 60?

0:36:56 Erika: 60 I want to say.

0:36:59 Sephie: I'm nearby.

0:36:59 Brennan: So here's the problem, Fly has a range of touch so any pixies that you're gonna-

0:37:03 Erika: Some of them, yeah. The little, bloop.

0:37:04 Brennan: Some of them can depart and go after people if you want to send them to go after people.

0:37:09 Erika: Yeah.

0:37:09 Becca: Oh, fly please.

0:37:09 Brennan: And is anyone gonna cast fly on you, Danielle?

0:37:12 Erika: I actually already have fly.

0:37:12 Sephie: No, concentration broke because I cast Alter Self.

0:37:16 Erika: Concentration broke.

0:37:17 Becca: You can take it, mine won't get there.

0:37:19 Erika: Yeah, I have extra, I got one more. Okay, so that's five Fly, five, six, seven.

0:37:26 Brennan: Okay.

0:37:26 Aabria: Five for fly.

0:37:26 Erika: And then one Confuse one Poly one.

0:37:32 Becca: Phantasmal Force.

0:37:32 Erika: Phantasmal Force. Oh, and one Entangle.

0:37:34 Brennan: List is Katja, Danielle, Antiope, and Ostentatia.

0:37:43 Becca: Wait, if everybody's flying, can that Entangle one come for me? Don't worry about it, it's fine.

0:37:49 Erika: Yeah.

0:37:49 Brennan: Cool.

0:37:50 Aabria: I think she wants to be choked by a pixie.

0:37:51 Erika: Yeah, so now more Entangle.

0:37:52 Brennan: So in this round, for people to know, only Katja and Danielle get it this round. Ostentatia and Antiope, you see a pixie coming for you with the spell at their fingertips, but are too far away. So they get far away from the battlefield. So Danielle and Katja, you got the fly active.

0:38:08 Rekha: Thank you.

0:38:08 Brennan: What do the other three do?

0:38:11 Erika: So one casts Polymorph onto Talcidimir.

0:38:15 Brennan: Talcidimir.

0:38:15 Erika: And turns him into an ape. But the ape still has his like, you know, trappings. He still gets to wear his suit, it's just ape-sized.

0:38:24 Rekha: Ew! (players laughing)

0:38:26 Aabria: I don't like that.

0:38:27 Sephie: That thing is not doing it any favors.

0:38:29 Rekha: That's a fucking bear.

0:38:30 Brennan: You see the pixie goes. (giggles) And you see he turns into this massive gorilla wearing a suit with a jetpack who goes, (laughs)

0:38:40 Talcidimir: I love it, look at me, I always liked monkeying around. Many of my guests have died! (players laughing)

0:38:48 Brennan: You see that the pixie goes, (giggles)

0:38:50 Pixie: When we're done can we kill this guy? Danielle mumbles inconclusively.

0:38:54 Pixie: Okay, eat the fucking rich, mm, I'm hungry.

0:38:57 Aabria: Let's go.

0:38:59 Sephie: I want to make out with the pixie.

0:39:00 Danielle: Friends, tonight we feast.

0:39:02 Brennan: Amazing, okay.

0:39:02 Aabria: Oh my gosh!

0:39:03 Brennan: So the three spells we've got there are gonna be ape, Phantasmal, and Confusion, right?

0:39:09 Erika: Yes.

0:39:09 Brennan: Cool. Ape spell goes off without a hitch, Polymorph. For Phantasmal and Confusion, Confusion we gotta pick a, the spell, so each creature in a 10 foot radius sphere. Gotta let me know where that sphere's gonna be. And for Phantasmal Force, you're gonna pick a target, like who the creature is.

0:39:31 Erika: Okay, let's do those, hit those two.

0:39:34 Brennan: Cool.

0:39:34 Erika: And then the...

0:39:38 Becca: Greatsword wielder.

0:39:39 Erika: The greatsword wielder gets Phantasmal Force.

0:39:42 Brennan: Okay, great, so let's resolve this. (Erika sighs)

0:39:44 Brennan: Here we go.

0:39:48 Becca: Epic.

0:39:48 Brennan: This is a wisdom save.

0:39:52 Becca: I hope they're stupid! (Aabria laughs)

0:39:55 Brennan: They are, one rolls an 18 and still fails. (Erika laughs)

0:39:58 Aabria: Amazing.

0:40:00 Brennan: And then we're gonna roll a save here for Phantasmal. Both spells work, both of the bloppelgangers look confused. And you watch as the sword wielder looks to the table and reacts as though fire has ripped across all of the dais. (Becca laughs)

0:40:19 Aabria: Let's go.

0:40:21 Brennan: Amazing.

0:40:21 Sephie: Let's go.

0:40:22 Erika: And then Danielle flies up out of range.

0:40:26 Brennan: Fly speed is 60, do you want to go 60 feet straight up or do you want to go a smaller amount of feet?

0:40:31 Erika: A smaller amount.

0:40:31 Brennan: Okay.

0:40:33 Erika: Let's say 30.

0:40:33 Brennan: As the fly spell works on you, Danielle, your iridescent wings are actually what's, [fluttering] so you are raised up, glowing with green and silvery motes of light.

0:40:43 Erika: Yes.

0:40:45 Brennan: You could honestly touch the chandelier, one of the high chandeliers.

0:40:48 Becca: You see Anima's thumbs-up float by. (Erika laughing)

0:40:53 Aabria: Can I ask my pixie…? Have we met these anti-fascist pixies before?

0:40:56 Becca: I imagine they party with us, right?

0:40:58 Erika: I feel like yeah, we all hang.

0:40:59 Aabria: Sweet, I just give a fist bump to mine like, let's get it.

0:41:02 Brennan: Incredible.

0:41:02 Erika: [pixie voice] You look nice.

0:41:04 Aabria: Thank you!

0:41:06 Brennan: So those pixies, holy shit. (applauds) (players cheering) Empress Anima you, boom. You see that as they're flying like,

0:41:13 Pixie: Haha, magic! (mimics spray paint hissing)

0:41:16 Brennan: Like tagging shit as they fly around.

0:41:18 Rekha: Hell yeah.

0:41:19 Brennan: Actually, when they cast magic you all are tagged with glittery spray paint that smells like fruit and candy. (players laughing)

0:41:24 Becca: I love that.

0:41:25 Rekha: Can one of them be Banksy? (Brennan laughing)

0:41:28 Izzy: [cutely] Please, please.

0:41:28 Aabria: Banksy, let's go.

0:41:29 Izzy: The true identity!

0:41:30 Brennan: [also cutely] Oh please, Brennan, let a pixie be Banksy.

0:41:35 Erika: And as a bonus action I'm going to- (players laughing)

0:41:38 Brennan: I'll head out, I'll go home. I mean… (players laughing)

0:41:42 Rekha: As a bonus action, get the fuck out.

0:41:44 Erika: As a bonus action Danielle summons the Spirit of the Bear.

0:41:50 Aabria: Yes!

0:41:50 Erika: The spirit and might of all the tiny little creatures that disproportionately punch above their weight class and everybody gets 15 temporary HP.

0:42:01 Brennan: In a certain radius.

0:42:03 Becca: Yeah, I was gonna say, I think I'm out of your range.

0:42:05 Erika: In a 30-foot radius which is, I want it to be including the pixies in our area.

0:42:11 Brennan: Okay.

0:42:12 Erika: So Danielle has flown out of the area, but it's gonna appear where-

0:42:16 Brennan: So putting it in the center of the dais. Let's see who you can hit, okay, cool.

0:42:19 Sephie: Does it miss me?

0:42:19 Brennan: Oh!

0:42:21 Erika: I think it hits.

0:42:21 Brennan: No, you know what? You can just barely get Katja and Sam.

0:42:25 Sephie: Cool.

0:42:25 Erika: Yes.

0:42:26 Brennan: They're just about 60 feet apart, but it does not get Antiope, Penny, or Ostentatia.

0:42:32 Erika: I don't know if it gets me 'cause I said I was 30 feet up.

0:42:36 Brennan: Yeah, you can structure your turn to do it and then bounce, for sure.

0:42:39 Izzy: Wait, can it go to Tectonya, too?

0:42:41 Brennan: Yeah, Tectonya, if you want.

0:42:41 Erika: If I choose.

0:42:43 Brennan: If you want to choose. Do you want Tectonya and Talcidimir included as allies?

0:42:45 Erika: Okay, yeah.

0:42:47 Brennan: I'll assume the Lady Coeliabranca you're including in that as well 'cause-

0:42:50 Aabria: We like her.

0:42:50 Erika: Yes.

0:42:52 Brennan: Cause we like her.

0:42:52 Erika: Yeah.

0:42:53 Brennan: 'Cause she's got a fun vibe.

0:42:54 Becca: She has a very gentle voice, very seductive, we like.

0:42:58 Aabria: She had to do a hard thing, but did it in a really nice way that didn't make me feel bad that we didn't get to know.

0:43:03 Sephie: She's definitely social savvy.

0:43:04 Brennan: How many hit points is that, Danielle?

0:43:05 Erika: That is 15.

0:43:05 Brennan: So Katja, Sam, Danielle, Tectonya, Talcidimir, Coeliabranca, and the pixies on the dais all get (snaps fingers) 15 temporary HP. (Rekha cheers)

0:43:16 Becca: I throw Lysander towards it. (Erika laughing)

0:43:19 Brennan: So you see like, the Empress Anima, these pixies, boom, you summon them from the plants. You rise up on your wings as one of the pixies casts this. Spells are flying everywhere. And as you rise up, underneath you this spectral image not of some strange divine or celestial light but a thrumming in the wind golden dust and dirt rising up from the plants. It literally looks like swirls of dirt and earth from the potted plants create just the lined outline of a roaring bear lifting you up towards the chandelier as you fly.

0:43:58 Aabria: Shut up!

0:44:00 Brennan: (growls) And as that happens, you see a lot of the pieces of finery in here shatter and break as roots come through the building like. (roars)

0:44:14 Rekha: Katja rolls her eyes.

0:44:14 Becca: I lift up Lysander's eyelids and I turn his head towards it and I say,

0:44:18 Penny: That's my friend!

0:44:18 Becca: Because I just rolled my own little perception and I got a nat 20 so I'm just gonna say I saw.

0:44:21 Aabria: Ooh, that's a good idea.

0:44:23 Sephie: [bowing] Bow before Empress Anima.

0:44:25 Brennan: Bow before Empress Anima, amazing.

0:44:28 Izzy: Look at her!

0:44:29 Aabria: I can't see it but I heard it.

0:44:30 Brennan: You also just decaquintupled all of the hit points totals of these pixies that normally have one hit point and now all have 16 hit points.

0:44:40 Aabria: Oh yeah. (Becca laughing)

0:44:41 Brennan: Way tougher than a lot of the guards here now.

0:44:44 Erika: Oh no! (players laughing)

0:44:46 Rekha: Hell yeah.

0:44:46 Brennan: Amazing.

0:44:46 Becca: Oh, you broke the game in a good way.

0:44:48 Brennan: Incredible.

0:44:49 Sephie: Danielle is so badass. I can't, I can't.

0:44:53 Becca: So baller.

0:44:53 Erika: It's just like, vibin'.

0:44:54 Rekha: It's not vibing. You have to take credit for what you've done.

0:44:57 Erika: Oh, that's right, I'm gonna roll around in the compliment.

0:45:00 Izzy: Roll!

0:45:00 Rekha: Roll in the compliment.

0:45:01 Sephie: Roll around in the compliment.

0:45:02 Becca: I created the vibe and I put you all in it. (Erika laughing)

0:45:05 Erika: My vibe.

0:45:07 Aabria: I know what y'all thought this game was, but I came here to watch Erika eat.

0:45:10 Sephie: Yeah, mm. (players laughing)

0:45:12 Brennan: Now this is visible to pretty much, I actually think anyone in this space can see it. From the northwest corner of the hall, streaking across the higher level, it's hard to tell that it's fire at first because it's producing so much oily smoke. It's like, (mimics fire roaring) a fire bolt streaks across and hits Tectonya in her back, boom, for what looks like a significant amount of damage.

0:45:39 Sephie: How is she looking?

0:45:39 Becca: What did she even do?

0:45:41 Rekha: And where the fuck is it all coming from? Is there another-

0:45:43 Brennan: I'm gonna say Ostentatia, you see that jester move 10 feet.

0:45:51 Izzy: Jester Flop. (group laughing)

0:45:54 Brennan: Move 10 feet and release a fire bolt from their hand that streaks across, (energy reverberating) hitting Tectonya. That's gonna be Zelda's turn.

0:46:07 Erika: But Brennan, I also forgot because of Mighty Summoner, the pixies have, I think, it's like two extra hit points per hit die that they have. Brennan looks up at Erika with a tired smile.

0:46:18 Izzy: Lay him to rest.

0:46:18 Becca: Oh.

0:46:21 Rekha: You can die.

0:46:21 Izzy: Put him down.

0:46:24 Brennan: So that's going to be, it's per hit die that they have, correct?

0:46:27 Erika: That they have, yes.

0:46:28 Brennan: Cool, can we bump all of those pixies to actually have three hit points in addition to the 15 temporary hit points? Thank you very much, TaleSpire.

0:46:38 Sephie: This is so beautiful.

0:46:38 Brennan: Incredible.

0:46:40 Erika: Wow. [makes peace signs]

0:46:40 Sephie: I'm just… Erika, I love you, just...

0:46:44 Brennan: Okay, Zelda sees the bloppelganger in the elevator, says,

0:46:50 Zelda: Penny, I got you! (growls intensely)

0:46:54 Brennan: And rushes forward, bonus action goes into a rage, is going to attack twice.

0:46:58 Becca: Oh.

0:47:00 Brennan: That's a nat 20. (players cheering)

0:47:02 Aabria: Let's go, Zelly!

0:47:02 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:47:06 Sephie: Madam Goodparty.

0:47:06 Rekha: Madam Goodparty.

0:47:08 Aabria: Madam Goodparty!

0:47:09 Rekha: Ew, look at all these things.

0:47:11 Brennan: Zelda deals 16 points of damage to the bloppelganger. (mimics blows landing) And is also going to use her object interaction to hit the switch on the elevator and move you up to—

0:47:22 Becca: There was a switch?

0:47:24 Brennan: Uh-huh.

0:47:25 Aabria: (laughs) You're just waiting.

0:47:26 Becca: Hello? (group laughing)

0:47:28 Brennan: And that elevator is going to move up to the top floor. Katja, that's going to be you.

0:47:34 Rekha: So Katja would turn behind her and try to get those two bloppelgangers that are behind these two men, but she senses something in the air. (Aabria chuckles)

0:47:47 Rekha: She smells a familiar perfume.

0:47:52 Erika: Oh!

0:47:52 Rekha: That sends her into a fucking rage. (players shouting)

0:48:01 Becca: Baby's first rage!

0:48:02 Aabria: Oh my God, but not her last.

0:48:03 Rekha: This is her barbarian puberty happening right before our eyes.

0:48:07 Izzy: Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up.

0:48:08 Sephie: Level up.

0:48:10 Aabria: We're gonna get YMCA'd, don't do that.

0:48:11 Rekha: As Katja smells her fucking mother.

0:48:18 Aabria: Yeah! (players cheering)

0:48:21 Brennan: Incredible.

0:48:21 Rekha: Yeah.

0:48:23 Brennan: You feel (growls) something. You are now flying, you have a speed of 90.

0:48:30 Rekha: Cool.

0:48:30 Aabria: Oh my God!

0:48:32 Rekha: On my way to this bitch, can I swing one of these candelabras into my hand, can I grab one?

0:48:40 Brennan: You can grab a candelabra.

0:48:41 Rekha: And can I drop a candle onto these crapplegangers?

0:48:46 Izzy: Crapplegangers.

0:48:47 Rekha: Near the tables.

0:48:47 Aabria: That's just mean.

0:48:49 Rekha: Is that a roll that I would need to check out?

0:48:51 Brennan: If you just want, I will let you as an object interaction toss a candelabra onto the table.

0:48:58 Rekha: Oh, onto the, can I not hit these two guys?

0:49:01 Brennan: If you want to make attacks, they gotta count as attacks.

0:49:03 Rekha: Okay, copy, okay, hmm... If I drop it onto the table is there something where there is a chance it rolls off and hits them? Like what are we saying if I drop it on the table?

0:49:15 Brennan: I will let you kick a candelabra over as an object interaction.

0:49:17 Rekha: Okay.

0:49:18 Brennan: And it will over time set the table on fire. If you want to do immediate and substantial damage to something, it's gotta take an attack.

0:49:27 Rekha: I'll take an attack and do that.

0:49:28 Brennan: Cool, which one do you want to go for? Do you want to go for these confused ones here, or do you want to go for the big one the table?

0:49:36 Rekha: This is a monster on the table? I thought it was a bowl of apples.

0:49:39 Becca: No, keep going. (players laughing)

0:49:42 Rekha: Oh!

0:49:44 Brennan: There you go, there you go.

0:49:45 Rekha: Please-

0:49:45 Izzy: Layers.

0:49:47 Rekha: Please give me a good edit, okay. (Aabria laughing)

0:49:49 Rekha: Incredible. I'll take this stupid thing on the table.

0:49:52 Brennan: Okay, great, go ahead and roll an attack roll like you're rolling with your greataxe.

0:49:58 Rekha: Great.

0:49:58 Becca: It's not something delicious like a bowl of onions.

0:50:00 Rekha: Yeah, I thought it was a big bowl of onions or whatever. Okay, so 19 plus 10, 29.

0:50:02 Brennan: That's a definite hit. Go ahead, normally this would only be 1d6 damage, but because we know that these things are hurt by fire, you're gonna roll 2d6 plus your strength.

0:50:16 Rekha: Two plus four, six plus my strength. Six plus nine, 15.

0:50:21 Brennan: Oh sorry, that's your saving throw.

0:50:22 Rekha: Oh, sorry, sorry, my strength.

0:50:24 Brennan: So this would be 11 but you're also raging so it's actually 13.

0:50:26 Rekha: Okay, yes, okay.

0:50:28 Brennan: So all of you see Katja streak across the room, whip this candelabra and go (roars) and for 13 points of damage plunge it into the center of one of the bloppelgangers. 13 points of damage to that bloppelganger on the table. You have more movement left and another attack left as well.

0:50:46 Rekha: I will take that second attack.

0:50:48 Brennan: Against the bloppelganger?

0:50:48 Rekha: Yeah.

0:50:50 Brennan: Okay, amazing, go ahead and roll your second attack.

0:50:54 Rekha: Okay, that is nine plus 10. (dramatic instrumental music)

0:50:58 Brennan: 19, definitely hits.

0:50:58 Rekha: Okay, so then same 2d6?

0:51:02 Brennan: It's gonna be, yeah, 2d6 plus seven.

0:51:04 Rekha: This is cocked, do I roll again?

0:51:05 Brennan: Yeah, reroll.

0:51:05 Rekha: Both of 'em?

0:51:07 Brennan: Just the one that's cocked.

0:51:09 Rekha: Sorry bitch, it got higher. (Brennan laughing)

0:51:11 Rekha: Okay, eight plus seven so 15.

0:51:11 Brennan: And 15 damage. (grunts) (gurgling) This thing is screaming and shouting looking injured but still very much up and competent and doing stuff.

0:51:22 Rekha: Okay.

0:51:24 Brennan: That is your bonus action and your rage, your action. You have other movement left, but you've also gotten within striking distance of this thing. Do you want to stay engaged with this or move away from it and take an attack of opportunity?

0:51:35 Rekha: I'll stay engaged with this. She is in such a rage she is being dead-ass eye contact with her mom while in the foreground just fucking… [swings axe]

0:51:43 Brennan: So first of all, as Katja moves to the dais, you see that the masked figure with the sword, dressed in a suit, but even in that tuxedo swallowtails coat, silver mask, hair up in a bun, looks at you and makes eye contact. Is seeing a teenage Katja for the very first time, but a look of recognition dawns on the Greatsword-wielding warrior currently attacking Tectonya. (Erika gasps) You notice in your eye contact after that look of recognition, her eyes very fluidly break away to continue her work.

0:52:20 Rekha: (gasps) Typical.

0:52:20 Becca: Fucking monster.

0:52:22 Sephie: Oh my God. (group laughing)

0:52:23 Izzy: Can't stop leaving.

0:52:26 Rekha: Even her eye contact doesn't stay. (players laughing)

0:52:31 Becca: Found it.

0:52:32 Brennan: At the end of Katja's turn, the jester figure walking the ramparts towards Ostentatia moves another 10 feet, fires off another fire bolt.

0:52:43 Rekha: This ugly-ass bitch.

0:52:45 Brennan: Talcidimir looks at all of this and goes.

0:52:48 Talcidimir: (laughs confidently) Evasive maneuvers!

0:52:50 Brennan: And leaps from the balcony, activates his jetpack and just flies off into the air as a monkey in a suit. (Rekha laughing)

0:53:00 Aabria: Idiot.

0:53:00 Izzy: A la Paul F. Tompkins? Paul F. Tompkins is the host of this party?

0:53:03 Brennan: Paul F. Tompkins, yes. In the television adaptation, Talcidimir is played by Paul F. Tompkins. (players laughing)

0:53:08 Izzy: Oh, he'll do it.

0:53:10 Erika: Danielle and one of the Kevins look at each other and Kevin goes,

0:53:12 Kevin: In the glorious revolution, he shall feed a whole family. (group laughing)

0:53:19 Rekha: One of the Kevins.

0:53:21 Becca: And one of our families is 600 pixies.

0:53:24 Erika: Yeah.

0:53:25 Brennan: I am going to need Ostentatia to make a couple saving throws for me.

0:53:31 Izzy: Sure.

0:53:31 Brennan: I'm gonna need you to make four dexterity saving throws. (sinister music) (dice rattling)

0:53:44 Izzy: 10, 16, four, four.

0:53:47 Brennan: 10, 16, four, and four, okay.

0:53:49 Aabria: It's the hair bump for me.

0:53:49 Rekha: Does it get advantage? Does it help? (players laughing)

0:53:55 Brennan: Ostentatia, the bloppelganger immediately behind you reaches out, you feel ooze-like tentacles (slurps) grab around your legs and you are pulled into the body of the bloppelganger.

0:54:08 Rekha: Oh.

0:54:08 Sephie: No!

0:54:10 Brennan: And you take 24 points of acid damage and are engulfed by-

0:54:16 Sephie: Oh God!

0:54:16 Rekha: Ew!

0:54:18 Brennan: You cannot breathe, you are restrained. Restrained means that your speed is zero. You have disadvantage on dexterity saving throws.

0:54:26 Izzy: What day is it, Thursday?

0:54:26 Sephie: Uh-oh. (Rekha chuckles)

0:54:29 Brennan: I'm gonna need three dexterity saving throws from Sam.

0:54:33 Sephie: Love that, love that for me. Just so you know, I have resistance to acid damage.

0:54:37 Brennan: Okay, great.

0:54:38 Becca: Hell yeah, we love to see it.

0:54:39 Aabria: All of those little boogers smell like Axe body spray. (dramatic instrumental music)

0:54:43 Izzy: Oh no.

0:54:43 Sephie: Okay, that is, oh God. Okay, so let's start with the high one, that is a 13.

0:54:51 Brennan: 13's the high one?

0:54:51 Sephie: Yep and then a 10 and a six.

0:54:55 Brennan: You are engulfed by one of the bloppelgangers.

0:54:59 Sephie: Ooh.

0:54:59 Izzy: No!

0:55:01 Brennan: You are gonna go ahead and take 12, 18, 24 halved to 12 acid damage.

0:55:04 Sephie: Thank God for...

0:55:08 Brennan: And are engulfed. (gurgles)

0:55:08 Sam: Ugh, sticky, ugh.

0:55:13 Brennan: Yes, not great. Interesting thing, Katja, because you are in the air, they actually cannot move into your space to engulf you, so they are just going to attack you.

0:55:24 Rekha: Yeah, good luck.

0:55:26 Brennan: That's a nat 20. Aabria, who has just taken a drink, suffers valiantly with her hand over her mouth. (players shouting)

0:55:28 Rekha: I wished you good luck!

0:55:28 Becca: Why did you wish good luck?

0:55:30 Rekha: I wished you good luck!

0:55:30 Sephie: Never poke a lich.

0:55:32 Becca: That's what gave it to him!

0:55:34 Sephie: I mean, ugh.

0:55:34 Aabria: That's the hardest I've ever worked to hold a full fucking spit take inside of my body.

0:55:38 Rekha: Uh, your funeral, nat 20. (laughs)

0:55:41 Izzy: ♪ Total party kill, we're done at episode seven ♪ (players laughing)

0:55:46 Brennan: Hey, Katja.

0:55:46 Rekha: What?

0:55:47 Brennan: You take 43 points of acid damage.

0:55:50 Rekha: No problem!

0:55:52 Brennan: (grunts) As you are covered in acid. Michel and Sean are gonna take full dash actions to get away from the blobs coming up the bridge behind them.

0:56:00 Becca: Yes please, keep them safe.

0:56:02 Izzy: Are they still charmed? Why aren't they helping me?

0:56:03 Rekha: Yeah, fucking help.

0:56:05 Brennan: They're running away from the fucking horrifying acid boogers.

0:56:08 Izzy: Run towards me!

0:56:08 Rekha: Okay, yeah, we all want to run away from the acid boogers!

0:56:12 Izzy: Sacrifice yourselves because I have CHANEL earrings on.

0:56:15 Sephie: It makes sense.

0:56:15 Rekha: Yes!

0:56:16 Brennan: So Antiope, you see these slow-ass bloppelgangers, a band. This noble over here just fucking books it and runs all the way away.

0:56:23 Rekha: Coward.

0:56:24 Aabria: Bye, noble seven.

0:56:24 Rekha: Coward.

0:56:26 Sephie: You were hot until you ran.

0:56:26 Aabria: I'm fine with that, too. My standards are very low. I'm still holding a shirt like, (sniff) I sniff you.

0:56:33 Brennan: But you see the bloppelgangers who, again, are nowhere near as fast as you running, but surging towards you. None there interact with you.

0:56:38 Aabria: No!

0:56:43 Brennan: And then we have the one in the elevator. Give me a dexterity saving throw, Penny.

0:56:49 Becca: (sighs) Okay. (die drops on table)

0:56:52 Aabria: Why are you stressed by that and yet you are a rogue?

0:56:56 Becca: 24. (players laughing)

0:56:59 Brennan: It lunges at you and you skid underneath it. You have to choose another place in the elevator to go to though. You end up actually just swapping places with this thing. It lunges forward and you skid under its pseudopods.

0:57:11 Penny: Are we dancing now? (group laughing)

0:57:15 Aabria: (claps hands) Penny, killer!

0:57:16 Izzy: Make out with the booger.

0:57:16 Aabria: Make out with the boog.

0:57:19 Rekha: Could be cool.

0:57:19 Becca: Don't test me.

0:57:21 Aabria: So cool.

0:57:21 Sephie: It's still higher standards than what you have kissed in the past.

0:57:25 Aabria: Excuse me, I think we liked Lysander.

0:57:26 Sephie: Except for Lysander.

0:57:26 Erika: Lysander was cute.

0:57:28 Penny: Lysander is actually my first kiss, everyone. So...

0:57:31 All: Aw.

0:57:34 Katja: Cute.

0:57:34 Antiope: That's so sweet.

0:57:36 Rekha: All fucking dying.

0:57:36 Penny: I know! Thank God we have these shard mirrors.

0:57:41 Sephie: That's right, oh my God.

0:57:41 Ostentatia: Congrats, congrats. (gurgles)

0:57:43 Penny: Guys, I did it!

0:57:44 Brennan: As the elevator goes like bing, "third floor," from a little alchemical voice box, another bloppelganger is waiting that lunges at Zelda, and she, (shouts) advantage on dexterity saves as a barbarian, slides away from it as well. The Penny Zelda squad is pretty stacked on dexterity saves which is what these bloppelgangers are throwing at people.

0:58:03 Becca: That's right.

0:58:04 Brennan: I forgot that two of these dudes were confused. We may need to, we have to run Confusion for two of them.

0:58:10 Sephie: Which ones are confused?

0:58:11 Brennan: The two of them that attacked Katja.

0:58:13 Rekha: Oh, oh!

0:58:14 Sephie: Oh, that'd be great.

0:58:15 Rekha: Oh, oh, 43 hit points. (babbles) Watch you nat 20 again.

0:58:21 Aabria: No!

0:58:23 Rekha: Fuck me.

0:58:25 Brennan: Katja, all of them hit you.

0:58:25 Rekha: Yeah, okay, whatever.

0:58:29 Brennan: But how much damage did you take? You took 40-

0:58:30 Rekha: 43.

0:58:32 Brennan: You get back 28 hit points worth of healing so add 28 hit points back as you see two of them are confused and cannot take movements or actions as the sort of pixie magic. (gurgles) Just like lashing out around. That is now going to be Antiope at the start of the next round.

0:58:49 Aabria: Can I see the bad caster?

0:58:50 Brennan: What bad caster are you looking for?

0:58:52 Aabria: The jester that's been lighting people up on the second floor. Is there a way I can spy that from the first floor? 'Cause there's the strong balcony situation happening.

0:59:01 Brennan: Oh shit, he has 3/4 cover so his AC will be very, very high.

0:59:06 Izzy: Kevin?

0:59:07 Aabria: But you see the jester.

0:59:07 Aabria: I can see him?

0:59:10 Brennan: You can see the top of this jangling hat moving along.

0:59:14 Aabria: And I saw the greasy path on the map there.

0:59:16 Brennan: Yeah, you saw the greasy path.

0:59:17 Aabria: So I can put that together.

0:59:18 Brennan: So you're looking up at that tall balcony and there's these little moments as he steps forward and blasts out a fire bolt so you have these tiny chances. But yeah, you can see him.

0:59:30 Aabria: Cheesy question, am I hidden from him? Would that give me advantage on my attack?

0:59:34 Brennan: You did not take any steps on the previous turn to hide so you are not hidden.

0:59:37 Aabria: That's fair. Okay, don't care. Boots of Striding and Springing, I'm going to leap straight up into the air. I know it's not gonna change the AC but I don't care 'cause I have sharpshooter. So I'm gonna hit him with Slayer's Prey. And that mirror arrow I was pulling out for the little boogers is going straight to this jester and we're gonna light his ass up from here.

0:59:54 Brennan: Oh my God. With the Kicks of Striding and Springing, you launch 18 feet straight up into the air.

1:00:02 Izzy: Is that the official name?

1:00:04 Erika: The Kicks of Striding and Springing!

1:00:05 Sephie: That's what they are, yes!

1:00:06 Aabria: Do you see, I lift up my dress and you see the most ridiculous neon-colored orange and green.

1:00:11 Izzy: Do you say Nike, is that not allowed? (laughs)

1:00:13 Becca: Orange and green?

1:00:14 Aabria: Yeah, they are bright orange, bright green like fresh to fucking death.

1:00:18 Brennan: You leap straight up. I forgot your sharpshooter cover.

1:00:22 Aabria: Ignores cover.

1:00:22 Brennan: Ignores cover, incredible. Okay, you take one of your mirror arrows out. And bonus action Slayer's Prey so that's adding a d6 to the damage. Go ahead and make your attack roll.

1:00:34 Becca: You get to ignore cover, stupid idiot.

1:00:35 Brennan: Are you doing any minusy stuff?

1:00:37 Aabria: I'm doing sharpshooter so that's my -5 for sharpshooter.

1:00:40 Brennan: -5 for sharpshooter.

1:00:41 Aabria: I'll connect the first time and make sure.

1:00:42 Brennan: Okay.

1:00:43 Aabria: 'Cause I don't know what this dude's DC is, and I'm afraid to put both of them on there. Dirty 20 to hit.

1:00:45 Brennan: Okay. We are going to need Box of Doom. (Persephone cheers) (Erika gasps)

1:00:54 Becca: [clapping] Box of Doom, Box of Doom!

1:00:55 Brennan: The Seven Maidens are very much holding your own, but you can see the amount of damage that these bloppelgangers are putting out, and that this situation is not tenable. You see the bloppelgangers rushing you, see that jangling hat, smell something on the air, leap straight up as he goes to the balustrade, so you get just a little edge of his mask which is all the opening you need. (player gasping)

1:01:07 Becca: The ninth pixie!

1:01:19 Brennan: You are hoping for a low roll here. (dramatic instrumental music) Brennan rolls in the box; it is an 18, but the players can’t see it.

1:01:23 Aabria: Guys.

1:01:26 Erika: Low roll.

1:01:27 Aabria: Box of Doom, remember me!

1:01:30 Brennan: You got a dirty 20 on your first attack?

1:01:32 Aabria: Yeah.

1:01:32 Brennan: Okay. You are gonna have another attack in a moment. Are you doing any stuff to this first attack? You took Sharpshooter, anything else happening to it?

1:01:41 Aabria: If it hits, then yeah, I'm gonna start putting some arcane shots on it.

1:01:45 Brennan: I wanna double check. I'm gonna be a little nasty.

1:01:46 Aabria: Nah, do it.

1:01:48 Brennan: A little nasty man.

1:01:49 Aabria: I am trying, I spent the first round-

1:01:50 Izzy: Be a little nasty man.

1:01:52 Sephie: Nasty boy.

1:01:53 Brennan: I'm a dirty, nasty boy.

1:01:54 Aabria: Brennan remember-

1:01:54 Sephie: Naughty, naughty.

1:01:55 Aabria: I was nice on the first round of combat.

1:01:55 Izzy: He’s being a little, nasty man.

1:01:56 Aabria: Just remember that.

1:01:56 Brennan: I remember you.

1:01:58 Aabria: I'm not Erika. I’m not the worst one.

1:01:58 Rekha: I need a little nasty man, not a little nasty boy.

1:02:01 Sephie: Nasty boy.

1:02:03 Brennan: You decide to use the option when the arrow hits a creature.

1:02:05 Aabria: Yeah.

1:02:06 Brennan: That is the wording.

1:02:07 Rekha: What this man says to you in the morning when you wake up.

1:02:08 Brennan: Public defender. Pro bono rules lawyer Aabria Iyengar. (players screaming) Fans flap out.

1:02:13 Brennan: We love it, we absolutely love it. So before you have to waste any of your resources on it, your arrow shoots forward. Your aim is true, your accuracy unparalleled which is why you effortlessly destroy one of the mirror images of the creature. (snaps fingers)

1:02:32 Aabria: Oh. (players gasping)

1:02:34 Izzy: Fucker!

1:02:34 Sephie: Beautiful.

1:02:35 Brennan: So you have another attack and you have gotten this being's attention which now sees somebody's paying attention to it.

1:02:43 Aabria: Can I just, as that happened, is there any perception check I can make to see what squared on me when I destroyed its mirror image to know where to turn and shoot the second arrow?

1:02:53 Brennan: The Mirror Image spell you know are clustered, reflected images on the same square so you're hitting the right square.

1:02:59 Aabria: Oh, got it, okay.

1:03:00 Brennan: It's basically just whether he gets a chance. He's rolling to put a duplicate in front of your arrow basically.

1:03:05 Aabria: Okay, cool, cool, cool, then let's do it again.

1:03:07 Brennan: But I also know that, free knowledge as a ranger, every duplicate you destroy means he has less to throw in front of you so the spell gets weaker as you hit.

1:03:14 Aabria: Okay, second one, fuck it, I'm gonna use a trick shot in there, too. Let's go restraining. I'll take another -5 so I'm taking a -10 to hit in order to try to destroy this kid.

1:03:28 Brennan: Okay, you're taking a -10 to hit to try to pin the jester to the wall.

1:03:32 Aabria: Yeah.

1:03:33 Brennan: Go ahead and roll your attack.

1:03:35 Erika: Come on. Aabria rolls her die, then gasps and reaches out to hold Rekha’s hand.

1:03:39 Aabria: Natural 20. (players screaming) Brennan is staring ahead, shellshocked.

1:03:43 Sephie: Fuck yes. (fan flapping open)

1:03:44 Aabria: Don't even tempt me.

1:03:46 Sephie: You're so good! (players cheering)

1:03:49 Becca: You're making him sweat! This little, nasty man's sweating!

1:03:53 Rekha: This little nasty man, little-

1:03:53 Aabria: You're so nasty, man.

1:03:54 Izzy: Nasty, nasty man.

1:03:54 Rekha: Get the little nasty, nasty man—

1:03:57 Brennan: Now, now, I'm going to be purely cruel here which is the fact that, first of all if you hit, not only will you be able to restrain, you'll also be able to throw another ability on there because of the Dragon Slayer Bow. (Erika gasps)

1:04:12 Brennan: However, there is a chance that you did not just hit this person but hit one of the duplicates.

1:04:15 Aabria: God, that's true.

1:04:16 Sephie: Oh, come on.

1:04:16 Rekha: Okay, but that would be stupid storywise. (players laughing)

1:04:21 Brennan: With two duplicates.

1:04:22 Izzy: So take that into decisions-

1:04:22 Becca: You gotta reward the 20!

1:04:25 Brennan: On an eight or higher this hits a duplicate.

1:04:28 Erika: Oh my God.

1:04:29 Sephie: Oh my God, come on.

1:04:30 Rekha: No.

1:04:30 Becca: But a nat 20. Disadvantage.

1:04:33 Sephie: Yeah, disadvantage. Brennan holds up two dice and nods.

1:04:35 Izzy: What? (players screaming)

1:04:38 Erika: Oh my God, we bullied him into it!

1:04:41 Sephie: Go Penny, fuck yes.

1:04:43 Brennan: So he's gonna roll with disadvantage 'cause a nat 20 is a nat 20 and you have to honor a nat 20.

1:04:47 Aabria: Thank you. (tense instrumental music)

1:04:51 Brennan: That's a 19 and a 16.

1:04:51 Aabria: Fuck!

1:04:53 Brennan: You hit another duplicate. Two of the duplicates of Mirror Image are gone.

1:04:57 Aabria: Action Surge! (Brennan laughing) (players screaming)

1:05:02 Brennan: Oh my God!

1:05:03 Becca: Aabria!

1:05:03 Sephie: Aabria!

1:05:04 Becca: How many can there be?

1:05:04 Sephie: Stop.

1:05:05 Izzy: When you click on Antiope's thing to go see her where she is, you are in the middle of the air looking at a goddess.

1:05:11 Rekha: You look beautiful.

1:05:15 Brennan: You look beautiful, yeah. Your are firing four arrows in the middle of a leap straight up into the air.

1:05:20 Rekha: Look at the boots! They made the boots what you said.

1:05:23 Brennan: Okay, Action Surge, we got two more attacks.

1:05:26 Aabria: Yeah, we're doing it again.

1:05:26 Sephie: Come on Aabria.

1:05:27 Izzy: Oh my Lord.

1:05:28 Aabria: Oh God that's gonna be so bad. 10… Is a 17 to hit.

1:05:33 Brennan: A 17 to hit even with all those minuses is going to, hold on one second gang.

1:05:39 Izzy: Boing.

1:05:41 Rekha: Boingy, boingy.

1:05:41 Izzy: Boing. (laughs)

1:05:43 Rekha: I feel like-

1:05:43 Izzy: Boing.

1:05:45 Sephie: Bling, bing bam right in the face.

1:05:47 Brennan: Bling bing, we're gonna roll again. Now we are rolling with only one left. We're gonna roll, again, this is gonna be, 'cause this is enough to hit a mirror image.

1:06:00 Aabria: Okay.

1:06:00 Brennan: With a 17. hitting the last duplicate. (dramatic instrumental music) (die taps Box of Doom)

1:06:10 Brennan: Unfortunately that is a 10, which means that you hit the actual jester or would if he did not cast Shield.

1:06:17 Aabria: Amazing. I scream and use my last attack.

1:06:25 Brennan: Go for it.

1:06:25 Aabria: I will hit him.

1:06:27 Brennan: Go for it, now are you taking any minuses to this attack? You're doing Sharpshooter?

1:06:30 Aabria: Yeah, I've been going at -10. I don't care, I want to hit him.

1:06:32 Brennan: Cool, cool, cool, cool.

1:06:32 Erika: Get him!

1:06:35 Aabria: (gasps) 19 on the die, 21 to hit. (player gasping)

1:06:39 Brennan: 21 to hit, we're gonna roll to see if it's Mirror Image or not.

1:06:41 Aabria: How many mirror images?

1:06:42 Brennan: Well, you didn't hit a duplicate on the last one which is why he was able to shield.

1:06:48 Aabria: Yeah. Brennan rolls a 10 in the Box of Doom.

1:06:49 Rekha: Stupid, he looks dumb.

1:06:49 Becca: He looks dumb.

1:06:52 Brennan: You connect with the shield spell again.

1:06:54 Aabria: Yeah.

1:06:54 Brennan: You hit him again. Two shield spells, you think these big, minus 10 to the attack is a lot.

1:06:59 Aabria: Yeah.

1:07:01 Brennan: You fire off all these arrows, but you have nailed two of the mirror image duplicates, fully have this entity's attention. Antiope, you leap straight up into the air and you have Slayer's Prey.

1:07:13 Aabria: I'm moving towards him now.

1:07:16 Brennan: Cool, I'm-

1:07:16 Becca: What about your pixie?

1:07:19 Rekha: Yeah, Kevin.

1:07:19 Aabria: Yeah, what do I-

1:07:20 Brennan: You can still bound up the stairs and be within 30 feet.

1:07:22 Aabria: I'd just be like, "Kevin, come here."

1:07:23 Brennan: Yeah, I'm gonna say that Antiope is going to be right here like you leap to the top of the stairs basically as you fire off those arrows and are now back on the ground. This is gonna move from Antiope to become Sam's turn.

1:07:34 Sephie: Okay, so I don't know what I have to do for restraint yet, but I have to roll for my concentration.

1:07:39 Brennan: Yes.

1:07:39 Sephie: I forgot to do it when it happened.

1:07:40 Brennan: Cool, cool, cool. (tense instrumental music)

1:07:44 Sephie: That is a 20, not nat.

1:07:48 Brennan: You definitely succeed on the concentration.

1:07:50 Sephie: Okay, so I'm still the douchebag. All right, so I'm restrained. I can use my action to break it or?

1:07:56 Brennan: So basically what the deal is this. On a failed save, yeah, you can't breathe, are restrained. An engulfed creature can try to escape by taking an action. You can use shenanigans, but the most straightforward way to escape is just to make a strength check to get out.

1:08:12 Sephie: Could I carve myself out with a new spell?

1:08:18 Brennan: What's the new spell?

1:08:18 Sephie: Eldritch Blast.

1:08:21 Brennan: Oh shit, here's the thing, you are absolutely free. Restrained just means that your speed is what's affected right now. You can absolutely cast spells from within this.

1:08:33 Sephie: I'm gonna use a bonus action to cast Hex on the thing that I am inside of.

1:08:42 Brennan: Okay.

1:08:42 Sephie: And I am going to cast that on its strength check so I can try and use an action to break it.

1:08:49 Brennan: Ooh, amazing, so it's gonna have disadvantage which I think in this context is going to give you advantage on your strength saving throw.

1:08:56 Sephie: Yeah, and basically Sam is like choking on goo, essentially.

1:09:01 Rekha: Oh my God.

1:09:02 Sephie: And then reaches deep down inside of herself and this black energy starts to form around her eyes and she just curses this fucking thing.

1:09:12 Brennan: You all feel a whisper of cold wind in this place and smell and feel this presence of a cold autumn wind, (mimics wind howling) as Sam calls on something very ancient and powerful, not unlike Danielle calling on the power of the Empress Anima. Sam, go ahead and give me a strength saving throw with advantage.

1:09:35 Sephie: Oh wait, I had advantage already because of the Bear Spirit, oh, whatever.

1:09:39 Brennan: Maybe we could have this, you know what? I'm going to drop the DC of this to just 12.

1:09:44 Sephie: Okay.

1:09:44 Brennan: Okay? (dramatic instrumental music)

1:09:49 Sephie: Nope.

1:09:49 Brennan: Brutal. (Erika whisper screams)

1:09:52 Brennan: You feel yourself trying to pull out of this thing. It is cursed and hexed in this moment as you are trying to remove yourself from it. That is your bonus action and your action.

1:10:01 Sephie: Yep.

1:10:01 Brennan: You are restrained.

1:10:02 Sephie: Yep, I can do nothing.

1:10:04 Brennan: Sam is in a lot of trouble. Penny, that's gonna be you.

1:10:06 Becca: (gasps) I am in the elevator. So I'm now on the level of the dais.

1:10:12 Brennan: Yes.

1:10:12 Becca: Wow, do I ditch Lysander, take my Cunning Action to disengage and start running? Where's my Kevin, where's my Kevin at? Is my Kevin gonna find me?

1:10:24 Brennan: I don't know what this means.

1:10:25 Rekha: The pixie.

1:10:25 Aabria: Our pixies are named Kevin-

1:10:27 Rekha: Every one of them is named Kevin, why is this confusing?

1:10:28 Aabria: What is wrong with you, though?

1:10:28 Izzy: Where my Kev at?

1:10:31 Brennan: Kevin is a little bit a ways away from you.

1:10:36 Becca: Okay, will my Kevin find me later on Kevin's turn?

1:10:40 Izzy: Bring back my-

1:10:40 Sephie: Kevin. (players laughing)

1:10:42 Brennan: Will your Kevin find you?

1:10:43 Sephie: Bring back my Kev.

1:10:44 Brennan: Yeah, your Kevin is going straight for you.

1:10:45 Sephie: Bring back my Kev.

1:10:46 Brennan: And will do its best to find you whensoever it can.

1:10:50 Becca: Okay, the one that came for me and I dodged out of its way, is that the one in the back standing by Lysander there?

1:10:56 Brennan: Yes.

1:10:57 Becca: So the one is engaged with me and the other is engaged with Zelda?

1:11:00 Brennan: They are, yeah, generally, but also they're just monsters. They'll eat whatever's here.

1:11:03 Rekha: Mm, that's nice.

1:11:06 Erika: (chuckles) Big mood.

1:11:08 Rekha: Big mood, right, I get it, right? We've all been there.

1:11:10 Sephie: Yeah.

1:11:12 Becca: So let me just, I'm gonna create a bonfire on this ugly thing's face.

1:11:18 Aabria: Let's go. (Rekha laughing)

1:11:22 Becca: And it needs to make a Dex saving throw or take some fire damage.

1:11:26 Brennan: Okay. (die taps table)

1:11:29 Aabria: Great.

1:11:31 Izzy: Smart.

1:11:31 Brennan: [with his hand over his mouth] It's a nat 20.

1:11:33 Sephie: Oh no.

1:11:34 Rekha: Okay, what if you kill all of us in this battle? You'll feel bad.

1:11:37 Sephie: Yeah.

1:11:37 Aabria: He wouldn't. Brennan starts to answer, but shuts his mouth and just gives them a look.

1:11:38 Sephie: Hm, no.

1:11:40 Aabria: Oh no!

1:11:40 Rekha: Okay, okay, monster.

1:11:43 Sephie: Wow, wow.

1:11:44 Rekha: We know who the true booger is.

1:11:45 Sephie: Yeah.

1:11:46 Aabria: You are the true booger.

1:11:48 Sephie: The truest booger.

1:11:48 Izzy: I am the-

1:11:49 Rekha: A true booger.

1:11:49 Sephie: High lord of boogers.

1:11:53 Becca: Okay, F this, I'm going to use my cunning action to disengage and just start dashing towards the dais.

1:12:02 Brennan: Amazing, so that's gonna be your movement. Your movement plus a bonus action dash is 50 feet.

1:12:09 Becca: Now, I'd love to grab Lysander and pull him along with me, but I don't think that's how-

1:12:12 Brennan: He acts on your turn, and he's going to run after you, and he's not taking an attack so he's just gonna bounce on out of here. But the creature is going to get a little attack of, no actually if you want, you can take the attacks of opportunity for Lysander if you wish.

1:12:32 Rekha: Oh my God, do you love him that much?

1:12:34 Aabria: Can I rules lawyer? This is upsetting.

1:12:35 Becca: I actually will not-

1:12:37 Aabria: Could he have taken a disengage?

1:12:38 Rekha: Good, don't be crazy, you just met!

1:12:40 Brennan: He can take a disengage, but if he takes disengage he won't be able to move far enough to get away from where they can catch him.

1:12:46 Aabria: (groans) I tried, but it didn't do the job.

1:12:47 Becca: Okay, well, I want him to take the disengage and go as far as he can which would only be 30 feet?

1:12:51 Brennan: Oh yeah, he can take disengage and go 25 feet.

1:12:53 Becca: Okay, and then I will leave him behind there. And I will go as far as I can.

1:12:57 Brennan: Cool.

1:12:59 Rekha: I think that's okay, you only just met, so.

1:13:01 Aabria: Yeah.

1:13:01 Brennan: Cool, Lysander goes-

1:13:03 Becca: I'm gonna hop up and kiss Zelda on the cheek as I pass.

1:13:05 Aabria: Aw.

1:13:05 Brennan: And then you go ahead.

1:13:07 Penny: You're doing great.

1:13:07 Brennan: And you move a full 50 feet, sprinting down the walk, amazing, that is Penny's turn. Jester is going to move—

1:13:15 Izzy: Jester ass.

1:13:15 Aabria: My motherfucker?

1:13:18 Brennan: Your motherfucker is going to move another 10 feet.

1:13:22 Rekha: He's disgusting.

1:13:22 Brennan: And this time he's gonna hit, gonna go for you.

1:13:26 Rekha: He's disgusting.

1:13:26 Aabria: Fucking dare you.

1:13:29 Rekha: He looks like shit. (Brennan and Becca laughing)

1:13:32 Brennan: He looks like shit, we hate him.

1:13:32 Izzy: You look like shit.

1:13:34 Rekha: Can he take some hit points for that?

1:13:36 Becca: He looks really good at looking like shit.

1:13:36 Aabria: Psychic damage.

1:13:37 Sephie: Vicious Mockery.

1:13:38 Rekha: He's turning away, you see, 'cause he knows he looks like shit. (Aabria laughing)

1:13:42 Izzy: Dressed up and still looks like shit.

1:13:44 Rekha: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know we've all been to those parties where we think oh, we look so nice and we're like, I look like shit.

1:13:48 Becca: And then in the pictures, oh no.

1:13:50 Brennan: Antiope, he hits you with a Fire Bolt. So you're trading arrows and bolts and you're running in opposite. You're running up the stairs in opposite directions as he's sprinting down the rampart. He hits you for 13, 23, 32 points of damage with a fire bolt. (mimics fire roaring) (dramatic instrumental music)

1:14:11 Aabria: Ooh, I hated that.

1:14:11 Becca: You got those temp HP. No, you didn't.

1:14:12 Aabria: I don't have temp HP.

1:14:14 Becca: Fuck.

1:14:14 Aabria: That just sucked.

1:14:16 Brennan: And also, if I didn't say it already, he moves another 10 feet down the rampart.

1:14:17 Aabria: I do yell,

1:14:19 Antiope: Go fuck yourself.

1:14:21 Rekha: You look like shit. (laughs)

1:14:21 Brennan: Incredible. Ostentatia, you are engulfed by one of these bloppelgangers.

1:14:30 Becca: ♪ Bloppelganger ♪

1:14:31 Izzy: So what's the deal?

1:14:34 Brennan: Right now you're inside of an acid blob that is devouring you.

1:14:38 Izzy: Can I cast Searing Smite on Sunforger?

1:14:41 Brennan: Yes, you absolutely can.

1:14:43 Izzy: So it's just on fire?

1:14:44 Brennan: Sunforger is just on fire, and that's a bonus action to cast that so you can cast Searing Smite on Sunforger, absolutely.

1:14:55 Izzy: Actually, I take that back.

1:14:55 Brennan: Okay.

1:14:57 Izzy: I would like to cast Wall of Fire.

1:15:00 Aabria: Nice.

1:15:00 Rekha: Yes.

1:15:01 Becca: Amen.

1:15:01 Brennan: Hell yeah. Where do you want to cast it?

1:15:03 Rekha: Lay it right behind you.

1:15:04 Brennan: Again, this thing is eating you, but it's so viscous and oozing that you can cast spells from within it so where do you want to cast Wall of Fire? What's your target?

1:15:13 Izzy: Around myself. (Brennan gasps)

1:15:15 Izzy: And so it lands on the majority of the ooze.

1:15:17 Brennan: Oh my God. Izz, you can absolutely encircle all of these bloppelgangers.

1:15:22 Aabria: (gasps) Let's go!

1:15:25 Brennan: In a wall of fire, absolutely.

1:15:27 Izzy: And then...

1:15:29 Rekha: Yes.

1:15:29 Izzy: I can't do a little hit?

1:15:32 Brennan: Wall of Fire, I think, is a full action so you can't do an attack.

1:15:34 Rekha: Cool.

1:15:36 Brennan: Other bonus action stuff, yeah, you're absolutely gonna get all of them.

1:15:40 Becca: Devastating!

1:15:41 Rekha: Fuck yes, Izzy.

1:15:41 Becca: Yes, yes, yes.

1:15:42 Izzy: Can I try to get mine as well?

1:15:44 Brennan: What's that?

1:15:45 Izzy: Can I try to get the one on me?

1:15:47 Brennan: Yeah.

1:15:48 Izzy: I think that fire, I like it, so it doesn't hurt me.

1:15:53 Sephie: You are resistant to fire.

1:15:55 Brennan: Yeah, you're resistant to fire so you are gonna hurt yourself.

1:15:57 Izzy: I don't care.

1:15:57 Brennan: But you're not gonna hurt yourself nearly as bad as you hurt them.

1:15:59 Izzy: I wanna melt this bitch. (Aabria claps)

1:16:01 Brennan: Incredible.

1:16:01 Rekha: Make him into jewelry.

1:16:02 Brennan: So if you want, you can also cast this as a fifth-level spell which means it will deal slightly more damage, it'll deal—

1:16:07 Izzy: No.

1:16:08 Brennan: You're just gonna keep it fourth level.

1:16:09 Izzy: Yeah.

1:16:09 Brennan: Amazing.

1:16:11 Izzy: 'Cause I have to cast other things.

1:16:13 Brennan: You are gonna cast Wall of Fire. Oh my God, this is so fucking dope.

1:16:17 Becca: Yeah! (Persephone cheering)

1:16:18 Brennan: Oh my God-

1:16:19 Rekha: We're watching seduction happen.

1:16:20 Brennan: Izzy, I'm actually gonna, we're gonna do double-

1:16:22 Ostentatia: What are you gonna do, propose to me about it? (Aabria cheering)

1:16:26 Rekha: Ostentatia, to be clear, says that.

1:16:29 Aabria: Yep.

1:16:29 Brennan: Yeah.

1:16:30 Aabria: To the universe.

1:16:30 Brennan: To the universe. The universe is into it.

1:16:34 Izzy: Fire!

1:16:34 Brennan: I am actually gonna need, Ostentatia, we're gonna do double damage the old fashioned way. I'm gonna need you to roll 10d8 fire damage.

1:16:41 Aabria: Let's go!

1:16:42 Brennan: We're gonna double the amount of dice because they're vulnerable to fire.

1:16:44 Sephie: Do you need d8s?

1:16:45 Aabria: Do you need d8s? We'll just all yeet them at you.

1:16:46 Izzy: 4...5...6... I need four.

1:16:49 Sephie: Got that many, well, here's two.

1:16:50 Izzy: Got 'em.

1:16:50 Sephie: Oh, you got 'em?

1:16:52 Aabria: Let's go.

1:16:52 Izzy: Ow, one of them hurts.

1:16:53 Erika: I know, it's spiky.

1:16:53 Becca: In a good way. (dice clatter)

1:16:57 Izzy: What's that? Okay, someone help me.

1:17:01 Aabria: Just yell numbers and we'll do it.

1:17:04 Izzy: So seven, seven, seven, seven.

1:17:07 Rekha: 28.

1:17:07 Izzy: Like the "Friends" scene.

1:17:09 Aabria: Yep, 28, keep going.

1:17:09 Rekha: 28, yeah.

1:17:10 Izzy: Remember?

1:17:10 Aabria: Yeah.

1:17:11 Izzy: Five, five, five, five.

1:17:11 Rekha: 28 plus-

1:17:14 Sephie: 48.

1:17:14 Rekha: Yeah.

1:17:16 Izzy: Two, three.

1:17:16 Rekha: 48 plus five.

1:17:17 Sephie: 53.

1:17:17 Aabria: 53.

1:17:18 Becca: 53. (Erika gasps)

1:17:21 Becca: (laughs) To each of them.

1:17:21 Izzy: Wait, to each of them?

1:17:24 Brennan: That's gonna be 53 damage. No nat 20s were rolled on saving throws from our bloppelgangers so they each take 53 points of fire damage. Izzy swings her arms around as if swinging fire.

1:17:34 Brennan: Ostentatia, you reach into yourself. What's going on with Ostentatia as she finds this spell within her? What's going on as she casts this?

1:17:45 Ostentatia: [screaming] You're fucking up my clothes! (players laughing) (Rekha clapping) Sephie gets her fan out.

1:17:52 Brennan: [makes fire roaring sounds] Not only is there a ring, oh wait, fuck. (flaps his fan open)

1:17:54 Aabria: Let's go! (players cheering)

1:17:56 Brennan: Actually, towards the forge. Towards the forge.

1:17:58 Erika: Oh.

1:17:59 Sephie: Towards the forge, fan the fires of war.

1:18:01 Brennan: Incredible.

1:18:01 Izzy: Bigger!

1:18:03 Aabria: Wallace on fire!

1:18:05 Brennan: You see that the entire ground here becomes a bed of coals like you're in a furnace now. All of the bloppelgangers are horrifically injured. The two of them that were injured by Flame Strike before are incinerated. (mimics fire crackling) And as you burn the ooze away from them, there are two uninjured nobles underneath them.

1:18:29 Rekha: Wow.

1:18:29 Brennan: They go,

1:18:29 Nobles: Oh my!

1:18:30 Brennan: And begin to sprint away.

1:18:32 Aabria: Let's go, yeah! (claps)

1:18:32 All: Yeah! (players clapping)

1:18:34 Erika: Yes!

1:18:35 Brennan: And Ostentatia, you have fully freed yourself because you've destroyed one of the ones-

1:18:41 Izzy: [yelling] Ugly jester!

1:18:41 Brennan: Incredible! And you take 13 points of fire damage from your own spell.

1:18:46 Becca: Amazing.

1:18:46 Izzy: A little tickle.

1:18:49 Brennan: A little tickle.

1:18:49 Aabria: You just hear from across the room like. (cheers)

1:18:51 Brennan: Incredible spell from Ostentatia! (players clapping and cheering)

1:18:54 Aabria: Get him!

1:18:55 Brennan: Incredible, incredible, incredible.

1:18:56 Izzy: I did good.

1:18:57 Brennan: We're gonna continue to go along.

1:18:58 Sephie: Wait, can she move 'cause she isn't restrained anymore?

1:19:00 Brennan: Oh yeah, you have your movement. You can go right ahead and move on out of here.

1:19:02 Rekha: Then there's a Kevin right above you.

1:19:03 Izzy: Move me to jester.

1:19:03 Brennan: I'm gonna say that you don't take the secondary damage from the wall of fire because you just took damage from it as you were walking through it. So you exit the wall of fire and move five tiles. You can see the jester walking towards you.

1:19:17 Izzy: Come here.

1:19:17 Sephie: You just wanna talk?

1:19:19 Brennan: Boom.

1:19:19 Izzy: I just wanna talk.

1:19:20 Sephie: Just wanna talk.

1:19:21 Brennan: What a badass move. (players cheering)

1:19:22 Becca: Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

1:19:23 Brennan: We love it.

1:19:23 Sephie: (claps) We love to see it.

1:19:25 Izzy: Oh, thank you.

1:19:27 Brennan: I actually misspoke before, Ostentatia. You did not kill two bloppelgangers, you killed four.

1:19:32 Aabria: Let's go! (players cheering)

1:19:34 Brennan: So all four that you hit with the Flame Strike outside, boom, which is, by the way, just to again communicate the danger of the battle, those are the first bloppelgangers to drop. So whoosh. (mimics fire roaring)

1:19:45 Rekha: [eating a banana] That's a tasty banana.

1:19:45 Brennan: Incredible. After Ostentatia it is now jester's turn.

1:19:52 Becca: Uh-oh.

1:19:52 Rekha: Ew.

1:19:53 Becca: Ew.

1:19:53 Sephie: Ew.

1:19:55 Aabria: But jester already light my ass up.

1:19:56 Becca: What's wrong with his stupid face?

1:19:57 Aabria: Why is his?

1:19:57 Brennan: Oh, jester's going a bunch. Jester's got legendary actions.

1:20:00 Sephie: Yeah, I was gonna say.

1:20:02 Aabria: Jester has legendary actions.

1:20:04 Sephie: Jester's a legendary tool.

1:20:06 Rekha: Yeah, is one of his actions, eat my fucking ass? (laughs)

1:20:09 Brennan: Ostentatia, you can see the jester approaching, walks to the beginning of the pathway amongst the bloppelgangers there and is going to cast a Fireball spell.

1:20:17 Aabria: Oh no.

1:20:17 Sephie: Oh no.

1:20:19 Brennan: That is going to affect Tectonya, Danielle, Katja. Actually yeah, I think the fireball's gonna go off and actually hit pretty much everyone on that side of the dais. I am going to need dexterity saving throws from Danielle and Katja.

1:20:36 Sephie: Tectonya's gonna die-

1:20:41 Erika: It looks like I'm out of range, but is that just an approximation?

1:20:44 Brennan: Well, if you're 30 feet above the dais, you're within range.

1:20:47 Erika: Oh, okay.

1:20:48 Brennan: Right, 'cause he's gonna center it 15 feet up off the ground, to hit you and the people on the ground.

1:20:51 Aabria: [pointing to Rekha’s sheet] Indomitable.

1:20:54 Rekha: (gasps) What's Indomitable?

1:20:56 Aabria: You get to reroll a failed save.

1:20:57 Sephie: I'm so angry.

1:20:57 Rekha: (gasps) Oh, you're totally right! I forgot that.

1:20:59 Becca: That's epic.

1:21:00 Aabria: But wait to find out if you failed it.

1:21:02 Brennan: Seven, 13.

1:21:02 Rekha: Yeah.

1:21:04 Aabria: I'm sorry for such a weird like, [deep voice] I read your character sheet.

1:21:06 Rekha: No, no, no, no, this is my favorite thing about a person. (Aabria laughing)

1:21:11 Brennan: Correct me if I'm wrong, the pixies with temp HP have three hit points plus 15 is 18? So unfortunately the damage of the fireball is exactly 36 which halves to 18 which means that all the pixies within that fireball (snaps fingers) are dead.

1:21:32 Erika: (screams) Kevin!

1:21:36 All: Kevin!

1:21:39 Rekha: Wait a minute, does that mean I fall?

1:21:41 Brennan: No, no, no, your Kevin is still over by the bridge where it cast fly on you. However, the Kevin who cast on Danielle does die. (Erika screams)

1:21:50 Becca: Buddy.

1:21:51 Brennan: Which means that, but first of all, let's resolve fire damage first.

1:21:54 Erika: Okay.

1:21:54 Brennan: Number one, there are some bloppelgangers on that table.

1:22:00 Rekha: Bye, bitches, get out.

1:22:02 Brennan: All the bloppelgangers on that table take 36 times two which is gonna be-

1:22:08 Rekha: 72.

1:22:10 Brennan: So 72 damage to each of the bloppelgangers on that table.

1:22:13 Aabria: Those are rich people and I'm glad they're gone.

1:22:15 Rekha: Bye.

1:22:16 Sephie: Oh, now I wish I had been hit by it.

1:22:18 Brennan: And Jana is going to take 36 fire damage. She fails her save. (Persephone laughs)

1:22:27 Rekha: [insincerely] Oh no.

1:22:27 Sephie: Oh no, mommy.

1:22:29 Aabria: Oh no, mommy.

1:22:29 Brennan: All of the pixies on the dais are gone which means that the confusion effect ends on the bloppelgangers and the Phantasmal Force on Jana also ends (snaps fingers) because those pixies are no longer there to maintain concentration on their spells. Oh, and Tectonya automatically fails which means that she takes 36 points of damage. Let's start resolving what happens here. Katja, what did you get?

1:22:52 Rekha: I rolled a 14, but I have Indomitable if that doesn't.

1:22:56 Brennan: That is not gonna cut it.

1:22:57 Aabria: Get it.

1:22:57 Sephie: Come on. (dramatic instrumental music) Rekha rolls, then looks ruefully at her character sheet.

1:23:01 Brennan: Not gonna do it?

1:23:01 Rekha: Three.

1:23:02 Brennan: You take 36 points of fire damage.

1:23:04 Rekha: It doesn't even matter.

1:23:04 Brennan: (laughs) What's Katja at?

1:23:08 Rekha: Oh, just give me a second, 179? Oh sorry, not 170, 79, Jesus Christ. (Isabella laughing)

1:23:16 Rekha: Yeah, I gained.

1:23:18 Brennan: Incredible, Danielle.

1:23:23 Erika: 14.

1:23:24 Brennan: 14, that is a failure as well. You take 36 points of fire damage. You immediately fall to the dais, taking another 11 points of falling damage.

1:23:33 Erika: Okay, and then I should do a concentration check?

1:23:37 Brennan: You should do a concentration check, yes. Do you have War Caster or no?

1:23:40 Erika: I do.

1:23:42 Brennan: So you're rolling with advantage.

1:23:43 Erika: Okay, oh.

1:23:44 Brennan: But it's a DC 18 constitution saving throw.

1:23:48 Erika: Oh God. (die taps table) 19. (dramatic instrumental music)

1:23:51 Brennan: You miraculously hold onto the spell which means that your friends have not lost flight. (Erika shouts)

1:23:56 Becca: Whoa!

1:23:58 Brennan: Miraculously War Caster comes in.

1:24:01 Aabria: You're the dopest!

1:24:01 Brennan: I'm gonna actually need another Con save with advantage as you take the falling damage.

1:24:04 Rekha: You're perfect, you're perfect, you're perfect.

1:24:06 Brennan: This is only DC-

1:24:07 Erika: Another 19!

1:24:07 Brennan: Amazing. So Danielle, you, boom, the fire engulfs you. Your little pixie goes,

1:24:12 Kevin: (gasps) I'll remember you, comrade.

1:24:16 Danielle: Rest in power!

1:24:16 Rekha: Kevin!

1:24:18 Aabria: Kevin!

1:24:18 Brennan: And you fall, take another 11, hit the dais, stand up. How many hit points does Danielle have right now?

1:24:24 Erika: 51.

1:24:24 Brennan: Okay, you're looking good. You're up, things are okay. And Katja, you fail the save.

1:24:31 Rekha: I'm at 79.

1:24:31 Brennan: At 79. (mimics fire roaring) The fire goes off. Jana is hurt as well.

1:24:34 Rekha: Cool.

1:24:36 Brennan: Tectonya falls. (player gasps)

1:24:38 Brennan: Tectonya goes to zero.

1:24:39 Aabria: Shit, signature.

1:24:41 Brennan: After that, it is Jana's turn. Jana is going to try to finish the job. (light piano music)

1:24:47 Rekha: What job?

1:24:48 Aabria: Hold on, this bitch just got lit on fire. She's never stuck with anything in her life.

1:24:52 Rekha: Actually, that's true, she should roll with disadvantage.

1:24:54 Becca: Yeah.

1:24:55 Aabria: Is that really what she wants? 'Cause she seems flaky as shit.

1:24:58 Rekha: Yeah, she might want to go, like, fuck some dude right now. (Aabria laughing)

1:25:02 Brennan: Oh my God.

1:25:02 Rekha: What?

1:25:03 Brennan: She rolled two threes, that's actually a miss. (Becca gasps)

1:25:06 Rekha: Wow, the dice tell a story.

1:25:11 Brennan: She's got two more attacks. She could finish Tectonya off.

1:25:14 Rekha: But what if she's a flighty bitch?

1:25:16 Aabria: But what if she's a flighty.

1:25:16 Brennan: That's a hit.

1:25:16 Rekha: Don't commit to hit.

1:25:19 Brennan: You see she slashes at Tectonya's fallen body, delivers two failed death saving throws to Tectonya. We're gonna Box of Doom this last one.

1:25:26 Sephie: Oh no.

1:25:26 Erika: Ew.

1:25:28 Becca: Oh no.

1:25:29 Sephie: There's literally nothing we can do.

1:25:29 Izzy: Okay, all we need is her hand. (sinister instrumental music) [Brennan laughs]

1:25:32 Aabria: Upsetting but true.

1:25:34 Rekha: That is upsetting but true.

1:25:36 Sephie: Maybe not because the superintendent might be, the signature might have something to do-

1:25:40 Aabria: We can lie, we have the form. We'll say she signed it before she died.

1:25:44 Becca: There will be a new superintendent.

1:25:46 Rekha: When she dies!

1:25:46 Sephie: Yeah.

1:25:47 Aabria: We did not walk all this way to find another superintendent.

1:25:50 Becca: I know.

1:25:50 Aabria: We're allying with the corpse we have.

1:25:52 Erika: I feel like-

1:25:53 Sephie: And what if it's fucking Charity?

1:25:55 Izzy: Maybe Jana's the new superintendent.

1:25:57 Rekha: If Jana's the new superintendent, Katja sets herself on fire. (dramatic instrumental music) (dice tap Box of Doom)

1:26:04 Brennan: That's a nat 20.

1:26:04 Aabria: Oh no!

1:26:06 Sephie: No!

1:26:07 Becca: Don't roll those anymore, please.

1:26:09 Aabria: If you could not, sir. (Erika groans)

1:26:11 Brennan: Hey, you all-

1:26:12 Aabria: You're back to being a booger again.

1:26:13 Brennan: Y'all knew what was going on. Tectonya was in trouble from the jump. And you see that Jana makes eye contact with you, swivels the Greatsword around. Takes it double-handed blade down and boom, shatters the stone underneath Tectonya's body, driving the blade through her stomach, (snaps fingers) killing her.

1:26:32 Katja: Congratulations on the first thing you followed through on. (players gasping)

1:26:36 Aabria: Yo!

1:26:36 Sephie: Yo!

1:26:39 Becca: Psychic damage, psychic damage?

1:26:40 Rekha: Yeah, fucking psychic damage, you stupid shitface!

1:26:43 Aabria: Come on.

1:26:44 Brennan: Jana plunges the sword into Tectonya silently. The Superintendent is dead.

1:26:50 Becca: No, I was gonna ask her to be my mentor.

1:26:54 Aabria: Why?

1:26:55 Brennan: This is, I don't need to tell you guys, this is catastrophically bad. Jana has shattered through the stone on the other side of the Superintendent. You can see the Superintendent's soul begin to. (exhales)

1:27:10 Becca: No!

1:27:10 Brennan: Because you remember what happens when the Superintendent dies, right? Someone somewhere else becomes the Superintendent, and you have a very limited amount of time to try and stop this. And that's all for this week on Dimension 20.

1:27:26 All: No!

1:27:28 Brennan: Tune in next time.

1:27:28 Rekha: I told you she sucked! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 8: And Another Thing] [NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION 20]

1:27:32 NPC: Once the juice is loose, that's all she wrote, folks.

1:27:36 Sephie: I'm a giant fucking swan, I'm angry!

1:27:39 Rekha: I don't understand this world.

1:27:41 Izzy: I got three words for you, S-P-F.

1:27:45 Aabria: You guys, I gotta go to therapy.

1:27:46 Becca: Can I roll to see if Lysander's the one? (somber instrumental music)

1:27:51 Katja: Jana...

1:27:53 Aabria: Ooh.

1:27:54 Katja: Nice to meet you, I guess. (soft piano music)

1:28:01 Jana: I'm at work.

1:28:02 Izzy: Do you want her to die forever?

1:28:03 Rekha: I've never thought about it. (laughs)

1:28:05 Becca: Crush your mother's skull!

1:28:05 Rekha: Okay.

1:28:07 Sephie: Crush her! _____________________________________________________________

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