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Busted
What happens
- 00:00:34 Brennan's recap of episode 5: the elevator fight (Gangie's shovel, a crunch), Sylvester and Dr. Magpie's finding that the squire's wound was an attempted surgery on old Bavarian shrapnel, Daisy's page 318 and the electrified desk (Rosalind Crumb, a maid, showing Daisy her whole butt), Vicar Ian and Hawkins in the library, Hawkins rummaging through the secret study (recap) — 00:00:34, 00:02:25.
- 00:03:44 Seance Room: Daisy at the stepladder by the portrait's eyes, Ian behind her in the dark, Hawkins's footsteps going down the stairs; Daisy asks if she may summon a ghost to go through the eye holes to find what she is looking for — 00:03:44, 00:04:53.
- 00:05:27 Brennan asks for a religion check; Daisy (alone, Ian made to look away) rolls a natural 20; the table is stunned — 00:05:21, 00:06:07, 00:07:29.
- 00:09:50 Daisy touches the altar items and the large crystal ball and begs the spirits to help; the room glows and a ghostly mouse appears; Daisy asks "Are you Connor McCabbage?" and he answers "You have spoken my name"; he says he is trapped and warns "There's great danger", then "Squire Badger! There's someone behind-" and vanishes — 00:10:24, 00:12:16, 00:13:26, 00:14:13.
- 00:14:40 Table theorising about the ghost's line (punctuation, a memory of being pushed at the mill, Squire Badger watching through the portrait) — 00:15:21, 00:18:04.
- 00:19:36 Daisy's investigation 16 shows exactly where the library door to the secret study is; she and Ian go next door — 00:19:57, 00:20:47.
- 00:23:01 Library: five busts of Roman emperors; perception 16 (Daisy) and 13 (Ian); Ian (history 18) names the emperors in order of greatness; Daisy rearranges the busts; a click behind the bust of Barkus Aurelius — 00:23:20, 00:28:41, 00:30:11.
- 00:30:22 Ian gives Daisy a d6 of bardic inspiration; she enters the secret study (investigation 14 plus 2 = 16), finds the Medal of Valor Hawkins threw into the drawer, regalia, art objects and ledger books; she takes the medal and ledgers (sleight of hand 13) — 00:32:30, 00:33:01, 00:33:53, 00:37:19.
- 00:38:43 They tidy the room, switch the light off; investigation 22 and 15; Daisy notices the Barkus Aurelius bust has a disguised plaster base and is heavy; with Ian's help (sleight of hand 22 and 19) she carves out the base and takes out a gyroscope with a powerful electromagnet — 00:40:03, 00:40:27, 00:42:01, 00:42:09.
- 00:43:05 Insight (Daisy 9, Ian 22): Ian explains that the criminals hid the magnet in an object already known to be magnetic and had to fake the date on the base — 00:44:11, 00:46:24, 00:47:43.
- 00:47:58 Kitchen hallway: Hawkins, Gilfoyle and Harding confront Buckster, Gangie and Lars; Hawkins "you are all under arrest"; Buckster's persuasion (disadvantage) is a natural 1 — 00:48:21, 00:51:21.
- 00:51:30 Plan B: Lars picks up Buckster and Gangie and runs past the staff with a d8 added to AC (rolls a 1); Lars beats Hawkins in an athletics contest and reaches the Ballroom crying "Sylvester!" — 00:55:13, 00:57:39, 00:58:10.
- 00:58:32 Ballroom: everyone in the house is present; Sylvester asks for a doctor and says "The two of us together, we will attend to my friend"; Hawkins demands the three be arrested; Gilfoyle holds the red-silk-tagged key "lifted from his very corpse"; Jeremy and Constance look on — 00:59:02, 01:00:28, 01:01:26.
- 01:03:55 Social showdown: Buckster fails (19 against DC 20) to help; Ian casts Bless and a speech on faith; Sylvester rolls persuasion 19 and asks who has called the constabulary (insight 16 shows Gilfoyle's concern); Jeremy says no one has authority to arrest but asks the three to stay in a bedroom; Buckster agrees (natural 20 persuasion) and lies about the key (deception 23) — 01:04:46, 01:06:21, 01:09:16, 01:13:01, 01:15:45.
- 01:19:34 Daisy tells the room that Fletcher Cottonbottom is alive; insight checks of the table; Daisy and Sylvester roll deception (24 and 22) against each other's insight (19 and 16); Box of Doom rolls for Hawkins, Harding and Constance; Brennan sends private texts — 01:20:56, 01:22:29, 01:24:07, 01:27:18, 01:30:43, 01:31:12.
- 01:31:28 Daisy and Sylvester look into each other's eyes: Daisy has for the first time "one-upped the greatest detective in the world"; Sylvester goes upstairs with Lars — 01:31:50, 01:35:00.
- 01:40:39 Buckster passes his Hawkins reading in thieves' cant on the stairs and asks Daisy to pass the ledgers to Armond; Armond's long talk about currency conversion — 01:42:57, 01:43:08, 01:44:01.
- 01:46:50 Bedroom: Dr. Magpie, Mrs. Molesly and Jeremy tend Gangie and Lars; Sylvester and Dr. Magpie (medicine 23 and a natural 18, 24) allow max hit dice; Brennan: "This is the exact type of injury that you took care of in the Navy all the time" — 01:53:38; Mrs. Molesly comforts Gangie ("You're my family") — 01:48:26, 01:52:00, 01:53:07, 01:53:34.
- 01:55:44 Jeremy questions Buckster; the crunch suggests a shell: Harding, Armond or Professor Shellcrest; Buckster (insight 23) reads that Jeremy is not sure if his father is dead; Jeremy: "I just became a 50% owner of BB Industries" — 01:58:26, 01:59:20, 02:01:09, 02:02:47.
- 02:03:43 Private talk in thieves' cant: Gangie's bioelectric mushrooms, Sylvester's guess of a level below the basement; the party compares insight results about Hawkins and Harding — 02:05:17, 02:09:43, 02:12:31, 02:14:29.
- 02:15:26 Gangie questions Mrs. Molesly: Loam Hall on Roman ruins, a wine-cellar secret door, the elevator down to the cellars where the mushrooms grow — 02:17:11, 02:18:15.
- 02:18:55 Ian tries to draw out Constance (persuasion 14); she is thinking of the yes-or-no answer she gave her father; a loud knock at the front door — 02:20:07, 02:21:00, 02:21:47.
- 02:22:31 Daisy opens the door: Catherine McCabbage, soaked, "I've seen him! I've seen my Connor!" — 02:22:42, 02:22:50. End; "next time" Episode 7 preview — 02:22:54, 02:23:04.
Frames
Key quotes
- “Hi, Sylvan Sleuths.” — All 0:00:30
- “No nat 20 has ever been more untimely.” — Brennan 0:07:31
- “God is real?” — Ian 0:13:53
- “Pawdius The Peaceful, Growlius Caesar The Great.” — Ian 0:28:51
- “Incriminating, gentlemen!” — Buckster 0:49:54
- “Sylvester, they got me! He got me outside!” — Lars 0:58:59
- “Am I godless now, mommy?” — Child 1:07:46
- “Where the devil did you come across that key?” — Jeremy 1:15:18
- “The crunch of a shell, perhaps?” — Jeremy 1:58:26
- “Crunchy. It was crunchy.” — Gangie 1:50:56
Who and what appears
Player characters
- Buckster $. Boyd
- Daisy D'umpstaire
- Detective Sylvester Cross
- Gangie Green
- Lars Vandenchomp
- Vicar Ian Prescott
NPCs
- Ambrose Harding
- Armond Armadillo
- Barkus Aurelius
- Catherine McCabbage
- Colonel James Hawkins
- Connor McCabbage
- Constance Brockhollow
- Dr. Corbin Magpie
- Jeremy "Jez" Brockhollow
- Lady Winnifred Bramble
- Lucretia "Lucy" Brockhollow
- Matilda Molesly
- Millie Molton
- Milo Snout and Basil Baskins
- Ollie Banks
- Professor Simon Shellcrest
- Thomas Gilfoyle
Locations
- Ballroom
- Bedroom wing
- Kitchen wing hallway
- Library
- Loam Hall cellars
- Rickenbunny Falls
- Seance Room
- Squire's secret study
Items and artifacts
- Busts of Roman emperors
- Busts' partial magnetism
- Daisy's thieves' tools
- Electromagnet gyroscope
- Great crystal ball
- Medal of Valor
- Red silk key
- Squire's ledgers
Factions and organizations
Creatures
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll | Result | DC / AC | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:06:07 | Daisy (Rekha) | Religion | natural 20 | — | a ghost appears |
| 00:19:57 | Daisy (Rekha) | Investigation | 16 | — | knows where the library door is |
| 00:23:20 | Daisy (Rekha) | Perception | 16 | — | clocks the busts |
| 00:23:25 | Ian (Raph) | Perception | 13 | — | notices nothing |
| 00:25:50 | Ian (Raph) | History | 18 | — | — |
| 00:26:18 | Daisy (Rekha) | Investigation | 11 | — | busts already chronological |
| 00:29:34 | Daisy (Rekha) | Perception | 13 | — | — |
| 00:29:37 | Ian (Raph) | Perception | natural 1, total 5 | — | Brennan: all that is heard is the last bust going in |
| 00:32:30 | Daisy (Rekha) | Investigation | 14, d6 = 2, 16 | DC 15 | enters study |
| 00:37:19 | Daisy (Rekha) | Sleight of hand | 13 | — | books hidden |
| 00:40:03 | Daisy (Rekha) | Investigation | 22 | — | — |
| 00:40:13 | Ian (Raph) | Investigation | 15 | — | bust date puzzle |
| 00:42:01 | Daisy (Rekha) | Sleight of hand, advantage | 22 and 19 | — | opens bust base |
| 00:44:11 | Daisy (Rekha) | Insight | 9 | — | — |
| 00:44:16 | Ian (Raph) | Insight | 22 | — | explains magnet and date |
| 00:51:21 | Buckster (Sam) | Persuasion, disadvantage | natural 1 | — | fails |
| 00:52:02 | Lars (Ally) | Insight | 15 | — | — |
| 00:55:13 | Lars (Ally) | d8 (evasive footwork) | 1 | AC 17 + 1 = 18 | — |
| 00:57:21 | Hawkins (Brennan) | Athletics | 6 (plus 5 = 11) | — | beaten |
| 00:57:39 | Lars (Ally) | Athletics | 16 and 13 | 11 | blasts past Hawkins |
| 01:04:46 | Buckster (Sam) | Persuasion | 19 | DC 20 | cannot help |
| 01:08:08 | Sylvester (Grant) | d4 Bless | 4 | — | — |
| 01:09:16 | Sylvester (Grant) | Persuasion | 13 + 2 + 4 = 19 | lowest DC 11, 16+ wanted | Brennan: "Hell yes!" |
| 01:11:32 | Sylvester (Grant) | Insight | 16 | — | Gilfoyle concerned |
| 01:14:20 | Buckster (Sam) | Persuasion, advantage | natural 20 | — | — |
| 01:15:45 | Buckster (Sam) | Deception, advantage | 14 and 23 | Jeremy needs natural 20 | lie holds |
| 01:16:10 | Jeremy (Brennan) | Insight | 5 | — | fooled |
| 01:22:29 | Buckster (Sam) | Insight | 16 | — | Hawkins |
| 01:22:39 | Lars (Ally) | Insight | 21 | — | Harding |
| 01:22:40 | Gangie (Katie) | Insight | 20 | — | Hawkins |
| 01:23:13 | Ian (Raph) | Insight | 21 | — | Constance |
| 01:23:18 | Sylvester (Grant) | Insight | 19 | — | Daisy |
| 01:23:33 | Daisy (Rekha) | Insight | 16 | — | Sylvester |
| 01:24:07 | Sylvester (Grant) | Deception | 22 | 16 | against Daisy's insight 19 |
| 01:24:07 | Daisy (Rekha) | Deception | 24 | 19 | against Sylvester's insight 16 |
| 01:42:57 | Buckster (Sam) | Insight (dirty 20) | 20 | — | cant on the stairs |
| 01:53:03 | Magpie (Brennan) | Medicine | natural 18, 24 for Gangie | DC 20 | Brennan: both doctors hit DC 20 |
| 01:53:34 | Sylvester (Grant) | Medicine | 17 + 6 = 23 | DC 20 | max hit dice |
| 02:00:38 | Buckster (Sam) | Insight | 23 | — | Jeremy unsure |
| 02:20:07 | Ian (Raph) | Persuasion | 14 | — | Constance refuses |
Natural 20s: Daisy 1 (religion), Buckster 1 (persuasion) · Natural 1s: Buckster 1 (persuasion), Ian 1 (perception)