Player characters · first: NA E1
Pinocchio
Pinocchio, played by Lou Wilson, is a marionette boy in an orange shirt and green shorts, with painted-on eyes and a splintered gap on his face where his wooden nose was NA E1·00:44:08. He is a warlock who, with Puss in Boots, is running a scam on Lord Bandlebridge, claiming to be a prince cursed into a puppet after taking 40 pennies from a witch, and asking to borrow 40 gold pieces to throw into a well NA E1·00:46:34 NA E1·00:47:56. After a fight he tells the others "Yes, my name is Pinocchio, but I'm not a prince. I'm just a little wooden boy." NA E1·01:53:49 He says "I'm small, okay? I'm a child!" when pressed about his size, and persuades Bandlebridge with a roll of 22 NA E1·00:57:42 NA E1·00:58:31.
In the last scene of the first episode Pinocchio walks through a carriage door into a long hallway, where he speaks to the Stepmother, whom he calls Mom NA E1·02:05:07 NA E1·02:05:41. She tells him to keep the Princess of Reverie safe and hidden NA E1·02:06:33. In a flashback Brennan shows the Wicked Fairy asking the village children their fathers' names while screams sound outside NA E1·02:10:08. Pinocchio answers "Daniel" NA E1·02:11:08. Brennan says his body drops dead and he wakes hanging from his strings in his father's house NA E1·02:11:13. In the second episode he takes a doorknob from the original door upstairs in the Stepmother's old home in the abandoned hamlet, and with Pib gets the coachman Stephan to leave the shoe carriage NA E2·02:03:07 NA E2·02:04:07 NA E2·02:05:09 NA E2·00:26:52. In Elegy he casts Hex on the Fairy Godmother and the Stepmother's voice speaks through his mouth NA E3·00:44:32 NA E3·00:47:36. The Godmother drops him to zero hit points NA E3·01:04:49, and in the third episode's total party kill he dies on his third failed death save NA E3·01:51:44. Lou describes his death vision as the village of Amanti and himself and his father riding a tuna home NA E3·01:52:38. A voice then says "My little Pinocchio. She has lied to you-" NA E3·01:53:31
In the fourth episode Pinocchio is a puppet again in an in-between space; the ghost of the talking cricket drives off the insects and tells him to be good and never tell a lie NA E4·00:07:16 NA E4·00:11:33. He confesses to the Stepmother that he took a doorknob, an etching and a knife from her old house, and she snaps his nose off NA E4·00:16:05 NA E4·00:19:07. She says "Great magic requires blood, Pinocchio." NA E4·00:20:25 Then she sends a crow to him NA E4·00:22:18. He returns to his body moss-covered, with a crow familiar and a staff NA E4·00:25:30 NA E4·00:26:05. On a natural 20 Brennan tells him he has replaced the earlier version of himself in this world, and that this is so because his stepmother willed it NA E4·00:31:27. He rejoins the group at the Cock & Toad, mossy and rotted NA E5·00:20:31. In the seventh episode he fools Mayor Hopps with Suggestion, and Mother Goose writes a new, carefree Pinocchio story, but the ink is swallowed by the page and Pinocchio later declines a different story NA E7·00:33:47 NA E7·00:57:35 NA E7·00:57:44 NA E7·00:58:37. He then uses a fairy candle to ask for his mom; Gerard's Sword of Truth shows the Stepmother's face, she throws strings onto him, and on a natural 20 he severs them with the Sword of Truth and takes back his marionette handle, then falls through burning pages into Scheherazade's door NA E7·01:30:16 NA E7·01:46:27 NA E7·01:47:37 NA E7·01:48:43. In The Lines Between he tells Sinbad the story of the ship was a lie, and as he tells the truth the sword at his side chimes and sings NA E8·01:15:33 NA E8·01:16:17.
In the ninth episode his connection to the crow is severed and he can no longer Eldritch Blast, so he decides to give his strings to any entity that will take them NA E9·00:09:17 NA E9·00:10:49. Seeking why his life has been so hard, he connects his strings to all copies of his story and takes his friends to the memory of Amanti, where the Stepmother first speaks to young Pinocchio and takes his strings NA E9·00:17:27 NA E9·00:27:44 NA E9·00:30:18. He and the party then meet the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, whose card reads Turquina NA E9·00:37:26. In the tenth episode he pulls Cricket out of his book, no longer a ghost, and reconciles with him NA E10·00:47:49 NA E10·00:48:17. In the thirteenth, his History natural 20 on the Terrible Dogfish brings a new warlock ability and a strand of destiny to the Dogfish NA E13·00:31:47. In the sixteenth he uses Strands of Fate to cast Animate Objects NA E16·00:20:06. Alphonse then hits him for 23 and he drops NA E16·01:12:29 NA E16·01:14:35. At zero hit points he hears the Stepmother say "I want you back, Pinocchio." NA E16·01:22:06 The Golden Goose then heals him for 70 hit points NA E16·01:22:47. He lights a firework and hands it to Cricket, and when it hits Alphonse, Brennan has the mule's curse break and Alphonse become a handsome prince NA E16·01:58:04 NA E16·01:58:16 NA E16·01:59:06. He introduces himself to the Baba Yaga as "the Boy of Destiny" in the seventeenth episode NA E17·01:54:31.
In the eighteenth episode, behind a door in the Baba Yaga's cottage, Pinocchio sees the Stepmother holding his father Geppetto, who is injured, and offers up ever becoming a real boy; Geppetto is carried away by his string and a scrap with the name Minerva floats out NA E18·01:20:10 NA E18·01:23:31 NA E18·01:26:30. In the Canonade he pours whiskey for Cricket, who has been killed, and takes Dimension Door with Gerard to Mira, winning her over with a Persuasion of 24 NA E19·00:29:59 NA E19·00:38:12 NA E19·00:39:47. His firework hits Snow White and Scheherazade, and his plea to Cinderella fails NA E19·01:26:56 NA E19·01:57:46. In the finale he casts Animate Objects on the largest books in the room, including Flat William, and with a Persuasion of 21 he tells the Fairy with Turquoise Hair that he knows what is best for himself NA E20·00:26:15 NA E20·00:29:57 NA E20·01:01:14 NA E20·01:01:37. She says "What's the point of magic if you can't rewrite destiny?" and dives into the pages NA E20·01:02:20 NA E20·01:02:28. Thrown by Flat William, he shouts "Hey! Minerva!", Geppetto is lifted out of the battle in golden light, and the Stepmother has disadvantage on saves from then on NA E20·01:30:01 NA E20·01:30:08. When the spell works, he learns his father is safe back at the Baba Yaga's hut ("Well, I'll see him tomorrow."), gives the Stepmother whiskey and gum, and thanks her for setting him on the path NA E20·02:12:52 NA E20·02:12:56 NA E20·02:13:01 NA E20·02:13:24 NA E20·02:14:19. In Lou's epilogue he grows up with mistakes and without the pressure of needing to be perfect, and as Lou tells it, on his 21st birthday, with the Fairy with Turquoise Hair and Geppetto, a whiskey-and-bubblegum cocktail turns him into a real boy; Brennan confirms it, and Geppetto says he is always his son NA E20·02:23:28 NA E20·02:24:59 NA E20·02:25:41. Lou says one of his first adventures is to shut down the donkey part of Toy Island, and years later he plays gin rummy with Ylfa NA E20·02:26:21 NA E20·02:37:03.
Character sheet — Neverafter
Neverafter sheet of Pinocchio (played by Lou Wilson). Only what is said in play or shown on the on-screen stat cards; dotted values are derived from spoken rolls. Values shown are the latest up to your chosen episode.
Skills
- Arcana: -1 NA E8·00:21:37 NA E8·00:21:47—
- Athletics: -1 NA E17·00:53:28—
- Investigation: -1 NA E8·00:21:37 NA E8·00:21:47—
- Performance: +7 NA E11·00:46:34—
- Persuasion: +5 NA E17·01:52:09 NA E19·01:58:06+4 NA E13·01:14:10—
Saving throws
- Constitution: +3 NA E3·00:51:52—
Features
- Introduction: a wooden boy — A marionette boy in a tidy orange shirt and green shorts, with painted-on eyes and mouth and a splintered gap where his wooden nose was NA E1·00:44:08
- A cursed prince — Tells Lord Bandlebridge that he took 40 pennies from who he thought was an old woman but was the witch, and asks to borrow 40 gold pieces to throw into a well NA E1·00:46:34 NA E1·00:47:56
- Finer sheets — A Persuasion check of 22 when Emily asks 'Are you trying to steal nice sheets?' NA E1·00:58:23 NA E1·00:58:31
- The shoe — Insight check on the shoe: 'I got a nat one'; Brennan says he thinks the shoe wants him to come with him into it NA E1·01:40:08 NA E1·01:40:12 NA E1·01:40:16
- Just a little wooden boy — After the fight: 'my name is Pinocchio, but I'm not a prince. I'm just a little wooden boy.' NA E1·01:53:49
- The carriage with a key in its door — A check of 21 to look into the carriage ('There's someone in there'), then a 12 on a Perception check; speaks through the door to the voice of the Stepmother ('Hi, Mom. Do you need something?'), who calls him 'my little Pinocchio' NA E1·02:04:17 NA E1·02:04:47 NA E1·02:05:41 NA E1·02:05:48
- Daniel — In the memory of the night they met, the Wicked Fairy asks 'Pinocchio. And what is your father's name?' and he answers 'Daniel.' NA E1·02:10:56 NA E1·02:11:08
- The book — Touching the book: a Charisma saving throw of 19; on a blank page an etching of an island filled with toys appears NA E2·00:33:59 NA E2·00:34:10
- The mirror's cry — In the teapot a young boy's face appears in the mirror and shouts 'Bring me back to her!'; Pib throws the sheet back over it and both run out as the teapot cracks NA E2·01:20:47 NA E2·01:21:28 NA E2·01:21:36 NA E2·01:21:46
- Tipsy in the cellar — Arcana check of 4 in the wine cellar ('I'm not good at that'); Brennan: 'You're just gettin' tipsy as hell.' NA E2·01:59:22 NA E2·01:59:24 NA E2·01:59:30
- The ram Senator — Says he named the ram Senator: 'Yeah, I named it Senator.' NA E2·02:16:04
- The old door — A Perception check with advantage of 15 up the stairs, then a 17 on another check; the door he looks through is 'where she only lives in silhouette', onto a bedroom with two skeletons, bloody handprints and an etching of a kind, paternal-looking merchant; he calls it 'My stepmom, dude.' NA E2·02:03:07 NA E2·02:04:07 NA E2·02:05:09 NA E2·02:06:19 NA E2·02:07:07 NA E2·02:07:13
- Extraction — Tells Pib 'You're on extraction'; his sprint is a 13 ('I did the assignment') NA E3·00:06:17 NA E3·00:22:10
- Throw me — Asks Gerard to throw him ('I'm light, you're strong.') and says 'my mom gave me some powers to survive and stuff'; goes a full 60 feet instead of 30 NA E3·00:43:17 NA E3·00:43:22 NA E3·00:43:46 NA E3·00:45:53
- Pulls Gerard under cover — Pulls Gerard into a little cave under a broken piece of wood: 'This is not the time for process! We'll process afterward!'; a table tramples him for nine and he is at two hit points; his Constitution save of six smashes his arm off; a concentration check of 16 keeps the Hex NA E3·00:50:51 NA E3·00:51:07 NA E3·00:51:36 NA E3·00:51:52 NA E3·00:52:02 NA E3·00:52:38 NA E3·00:52:45
- Down to the Fairy Godmother — The Fairy Godmother's 1d10 radiant damage hits for eight, he rolls an 11 on a second Constitution check, and she whips her wand: 'Pinocchio, you drop... Pinocchio is at zero hit points'; the Hex ends NA E3·01:04:23 NA E3·01:04:31 NA E3·01:04:48 NA E3·01:05:02
- Death saves — First death save: the table calls a 20, Lou reads a two, Brennan: 'That's a failure. That's a six.'; Brennan counts two failures for Pinocchio after a later round, and on the next save, 'another three', Murph says 'He's dead.' NA E3·01:25:23 NA E3·01:25:41 NA E3·01:26:07 NA E3·01:48:31 NA E3·01:51:37 NA E3·01:51:44 NA E3·01:51:47
- Dies: the light goes out — Brennan: 'Life given to a very special little wooden boy by a fairy a long time ago. The light, movement of magic, leaves as your wooden grip on your own nose fades.'; last vision: Amanti, he and his father on the back of a tuna escaping a dogfish; a voice, 'My little Pinocchio. She has lied to you-'; the light goes out and Brennan hands Lou a red gem NA E3·01:51:58 NA E3·01:52:38 NA E3·01:53:31 NA E3·01:53:38
- Lost life, senses and animation — Brennan: 'You have lost your senses. You have lost your animation. You have lost your life.' Moss and fungus grow in the wood of his body, and he feels in his hand his staff, which is his nose NA E4·00:04:51
- Why the nose was broken — Lou's account: he saw the ruin and effect of the Neverafter and that his nose kept growing as he kept lying; realizing the world was changing but the rules were not, he took it upon himself to break his nose from his face NA E4·00:06:04
- The Cricket's ghost — Lou names the voice as the 100-year-old cricket he killed with a mallet when it tried to correct his behavior in his earliest days alive; as a ghost he shouts 'I'm a puppet, cricket!' NA E4·00:07:33 NA E4·00:07:52 NA E4·00:10:47
- Meets the Stepmother — Sees the Stepmother after being pulled by strings and calls her 'Mom'; says he does not know where Rosamund is; of the house he says 'I found your house' and 'I only took the doorknob', then admits taking a photo of a man who is not his dad and the knife by the bed NA E4·00:12:44 NA E4·00:13:15 NA E4·00:14:35 NA E4·00:16:05
- The price of coming back — Refuses at first ('I don't want this bird'), says he already has a ram named Senator and is told he cannot return to Senator's side; takes his nose in his hand, comes back into his body moss-covered and with a crow; Lou: 'And all it cost was my father's blood! Yay!' NA E4·00:23:34 NA E4·00:24:49 NA E4·00:24:51 NA E4·00:25:28 NA E4·00:25:30 NA E4·00:26:13
- Wisdom save and the vision of Amanti — A Wisdom saving throw, a natural 20; he chooses to look where he is going and sees Amanti and a version of himself he is being pushed to; red gem held up: Brennan, 'Not in this episode.' NA E4·00:27:45 NA E4·00:28:30 NA E4·00:31:59 NA E4·00:32:02
- Absolutely haunted — Arrives child-size in bright clothes but with duller, rotted wood, moss and fungus and a crow on his shoulder; says the crow is from his mom and that he had his nose for a second when 'dead dead', but it came off again when she brought him back NA E5·00:20:53 NA E5·00:22:26 NA E5·00:24:40
- The fairy was not his mom — Says the turquoise-haired fairy was a maternal figure who made him a real boy and turned him back into a puppet when he lied: 'I was a puppet turned into a boy who then turned back into a puppet.' NA E5·00:26:50 NA E5·00:27:40
- Insight with the crow's help — A 19 'with the crow' (the help action) on Gerard against a 13 NA E5·00:32:23 NA E5·00:32:34
- Perception in the barn — In the barn Brennan asks everyone for a Perception check; with the crow's help action he gets an 18 NA E5·00:56:03 NA E5·00:56:09 NA E5·00:56:20
- Perception of 19 — Gives Brennan a Perception of 19 ('19.'); the little picture of spiders that follows is Timothy's ('I drew a couple of the spiders') NA E5·01:16:12 NA E5·01:16:22 NA E5·01:16:28
- Crow and spider — Sends the crow scouting: it gets a 12 and he sees Tuffeton and a hill with a tree and a mine; later says 'Crow can turn into a spider', and Crow gets a plus five to Stealth, which he asks to halve NA E5·01:36:25 NA E5·01:36:28 NA E5·02:01:34 NA E5·02:03:15 NA E5·02:03:18
- Puppet resilience — Lou: 'I have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and I have resistance to poison damage.' NA E6·00:48:51
- Fey Presence — Casts Fey Presence: every creature in a 10-foot cube makes a Wisdom saving throw (DC 13) or is frightened or charmed; his stepmother's visage appears on his face and says 'Ladies.' NA E6·00:42:54 NA E6·00:43:20 NA E6·00:45:39
- Pinocchi-Crow — His crow can change shape; Lou: his DC 13 applies to anything Pinocchi-Crow shares; he flies it 40 feet NA E6·00:17:29 NA E6·00:17:49 NA E6·00:19:17
- Breathing — Fakes breathing against Miss Muffet: 'Hee, hee, hee!'; a natural 1 on the check; 'It's not laughter! It's breathing!' NA E6·00:23:11 NA E6·00:27:55 NA E6·00:28:02
- Left to the ladies — Left restrained when Rosamund goes; Pinocchio: 'Leave me to the ladies.' NA E6·00:53:48 NA E6·00:53:50
- Eldritch Blast: strings — Eldritch Blast at Miss Muffet from restraint: 'This is plus six. 21' hits for six; Lou: 'It's visions of my strings that go through the air and wrap around Miss Muffet.' NA E6·01:19:57 NA E6·01:21:07 NA E6·01:21:16 NA E6·01:21:28
- Mage Hand pulls the hood — Uses Mage Hand during the breakout ('Get out of here, get out of here.') and later to pull the hood off the second creature NA E7·00:25:19 NA E7·00:25:21 NA E7·01:18:12
- Suggestion: the adult sleepover — Insight with advantage from Little Red, a 13 on a check to find who has influence; sidles up to the man with the monocle and casts Suggestion (DC 14 Wisdom): 'it was an adult sleepover gone wrong' NA E7·00:33:34 NA E7·00:33:47 NA E7·00:33:56 NA E7·00:34:03
- Strings with his mom — Tells the group 'I don't have my strings with me all the time, because my mom has them', a tether between him, the candle and his mom; speaks to the candle: 'I'd like to speak to my mom.' NA E7·01:28:49 NA E7·01:30:16
- Cuts his strings — A Charisma saving throw of 21 for the first roll; to catch the sword thrown to him he rolls Acrobatics with Gerard's Help action and gets a natural 1 and a natural 20; he grabs the strings and cuts himself free with the Sword of Truth NA E7·01:40:18 NA E7·01:44:56 NA E7·01:45:13 NA E7·01:45:35 NA E7·01:45:38 NA E7·01:47:15 NA E7·01:47:37
- She is my mom — Says the shadow behind a door is his mom: 'I just know that that thing is where I've been getting my powers from.' NA E8·00:09:07 NA E8·00:09:17 NA E8·00:09:37
- Insight on the lion — Insight check, a natural 20, on the lion NA E8·00:15:31
- We lied — Tells Sinbad 'Sinbad, I'm going to be straight with you. Nope. I'm not made from a ship. We lied.'; the Sword of Truth sings through its wrapping, and he unwraps it NA E8·01:15:40 NA E8·01:17:59 NA E8·01:18:36
- First time — Says 'I'm still on my first time', and that his mom's ex-husband's face is on the Cinderella book cover: 'that's my mom's ex-husband that she had' NA E8·01:40:52 NA E8·01:40:54 NA E8·01:49:05 NA E8·01:49:29
- The magic stops — Goes to Eldritch Blast and Brennan says 'the source that you draw your magic from is no longer granting it to you'; his connection to Pinocchi-Crow is severed; Lou: 'I'm going to give away my strings immediately to whatever entity is present' NA E9·00:09:17 NA E9·00:09:24 NA E9·00:10:49
- Strings into his book — His marionette handle shoots up into the light of his own book; a Wisdom saving throw of 15; Eldritch Blast with advantage, an 11 against AC 10, knocks off the knob and kills the spell shunting the party NA E9·00:13:21 NA E9·00:15:01 NA E9·00:15:31 NA E9·00:15:33 NA E9·00:15:54
- Sometimes you need to lie — In the memory tells Geppetto 'Sometimes you need to lie, to save someone, or to keep someone safe'; an Athletics natural 1 when he tries to hold him back; Insight 14 on the weeping NA E9·00:23:29 NA E9·00:24:32 NA E9·00:24:39 NA E9·00:25:27
- Gives the strings to the Stepmother — Opens the door to the Stepmother's silhouette and gives her his strings: 'Someday, we'll all be together?' NA E9·00:27:23 NA E9·00:30:24
- Confronts the turquoise fairy — Pounds on the fairy's door and angrily says 'Okay, I lied to save my dad, and you-'; says he broke his nose off himself and is in his first version; calls the Stepmother 'my mom, temporary placeholder name' NA E9·00:36:43 NA E9·00:37:55 NA E9·00:39:08 NA E9·00:42:52 NA E9·00:43:07
- Strings pull a fairy through — Insight 'unnatural 20' on the fairy, then a natural 20; reaches out and pulls Turquina through with his strings NA E9·00:40:58 NA E9·00:42:03 NA E9·00:50:45
- Where was the history — History natural 1 ('Haven't lived long enough'); later a natural 20 on another roll NA E9·02:10:37 NA E9·02:10:39 NA E9·02:23:28
- The jester — Plays the jester in the cover story: 'I'm surprised we haven't seen a toilet yet 'cause this place is built like a brick shithouse.'; Performance rolls of 21, 19 and 14, then, with advantage, Ally reads out a 16 NA E10·00:25:05 NA E10·00:25:29 NA E10·00:29:42 NA E10·00:37:12 NA E10·00:38:14
- The golden string — At the rooms a tug on his strings ('almost like when a diver pulls on a rope'); his Eldritch Blast now looks like a golden string; Brennan says the strings reappear as he connects to his book and that his patron is almost his destiny NA E10·00:40:10 NA E10·00:46:57 NA E10·01:16:04
- The 100-year-old Cricket — Pulls on a string and pulls the 100-year-old Cricket out of the book as a no longer ghostly but magical glowing cricket; Lou: 'I'm gonna try and pull out the 100-year-old Cricket.'; apologizes to him for being angry NA E10·00:47:41 NA E10·00:47:49 NA E10·00:48:17 NA E10·00:50:32
- Hex on the Baron — Hexes the Baron (disadvantage on ability checks made with strength), later moves it from the mech to the pig; a 21 on a Perception check on the tank behind him, and a natural 20 on the Eldritch Blast attack at a leg of the tank NA E10·01:30:03 NA E10·01:30:38 NA E10·01:31:25 NA E10·01:31:43 NA E10·01:51:38
- Sword to Gerard — Takes the Sword of Truth out of his bag and asks Cricket (60 fly) to carry it to Gerard: 'Will you take this to the froggy guy? His name's Gerard.' NA E10·01:33:31 NA E10·01:33:35 NA E10·01:33:38
- Breaks the muzzle — 'No no, hey, everyone back off. This one's mine, all right! I feel very bonded.' He Misty Steps point-blank, adds seven to a 6 and a 14 against AC 17, and 'Pinocchio, you break the muzzle' NA E10·01:56:40 NA E10·01:57:00 NA E10·01:57:03 NA E10·01:57:23 NA E10·01:57:51
- One of them, before — Admits to the Wolf 'I was one of them. Before.' and 'Well I was, I'm not anymore.' NA E11·00:19:40 NA E11·00:19:46
- Create Bonfire — Creates Bonfire on Gerard's attempt to get out of the chamber NA E11·00:18:28 NA E11·00:18:36
- Wolf joke — Tries a wolf joke; Performance with advantage, a 5 plus seven, 12; the Wolf says 'I don't understand your joke' and sets a second wolf joke in a year and a day or 'that will be your final day' NA E11·00:46:26 NA E11·00:46:34 NA E11·00:47:15 NA E11·00:49:15 NA E11·00:49:23
- Bardic Inspiration from a song — Sings with the Wolf ('I actually sing') and receives Bardic Inspiration, a d8 NA E11·00:54:34 NA E11·00:54:53 NA E11·00:54:59
- Suggestion on a stranger — Casts Suggestion on a stranger: 'The Baron of Bricks is no more. The city is yours to do with as you please, and I suggest an adult sleepover.' NA E11·01:13:12 NA E11·01:13:16
- Snowball — Throws a snowball at Ylfa, a 14, which she catches with a dirty 20; tells Cricket 'That night I threw a mallet at you' NA E11·01:29:10 NA E11·01:29:14 NA E11·01:36:11
- Master Pinocchio, boy of destiny — Asks Cricket 'Do I get my power from destiny?' ('Sure, bud.'); says he has been alive 'upwards of four years'; Snow White calls him the boy of destiny and he says 'All of you guys better call me the boy of destiny from now on.' NA E12·00:35:29 NA E12·00:35:31 NA E12·00:36:08 NA E12·00:58:15 NA E12·00:58:28
- How his book works — Tells Snow White 'my marionette strings go into it, and so I think about parts of my life, and I pull on those strings, and then those things appear here in the Neverafter'; casts Create Bonfire near Rosamund NA E12·00:38:03 NA E12·00:42:39
- Snow White's joke — 'A warm heart and a tombstone!' and a Performance of 25 NA E12·00:51:23 NA E12·00:51:33
- Triple X and the fall — Eldritch Blasts the water ('Triple X') for 15 damage, then Misty Steps straight up to cancel his inertia and takes no damage from the landing: 'I took no damage.' NA E12·01:02:39 NA E12·01:02:52 NA E12·01:03:03 NA E12·01:04:02
- Toy Island regular — A Perception of 21 on the jank, a natural 20 that finds the hot dogs, and 'It's me, Master Pinocchio! I'm a Toy Island regular, or I was, back in the day.' NA E12·01:06:49 NA E12·01:13:52 NA E12·01:16:46
- Invisible Candlewick — Casts Invisibility on Candlewick just before they get back; 'I cast Invisibility because I found his appearance, I thought, would be too intimidating' NA E12·01:24:14 NA E12·01:27:12
- One day from a real boy — 'I was one day away from becoming a real boy the first time, and then Candlewick convinced me to come here.'; Candlewick goes into his book, one string feels taut, Arcana 18 NA E12·01:35:13 NA E12·01:35:36 NA E12·01:36:52 NA E12·01:37:15
- A strand of destiny to the Dogfish — A strand of light runs from the water to his chest; a natural 20 on a History check, and Brennan: 'Pinocchio now has a new warlock subclass.' Emily asks 'Is this his patron?'; Lou says 'This is my patron, yes.' and at once takes it back: 'Yeah. No, I wish.' Brennan: 'A strand of destiny connects you to this fish.' NA E13·00:26:56 NA E13·00:32:14 NA E13·00:32:20 NA E13·00:32:26 NA E13·00:32:28 NA E13·00:32:30 NA E13·00:32:37
- Call of Destiny — New homebrew subclass ability: when within 60 feet of a creature making a roll with advantage or disadvantage, he can roll a d20 himself and replace one of the rolls; first used on the Dogfish's save NA E13·01:19:13 NA E13·01:19:34 NA E13·01:19:39 NA E13·01:19:41
- Team distraction — Screams the Dogfish's weaknesses ('It has asthma!'); two Eldritch Blasts on a merrow, a natural 20 and an 18, with CHA added to damage: 'the first one it was 15 plus four, 19. The second one is five.' NA E13·00:37:00 NA E13·00:38:07 NA E13·00:39:24 NA E13·00:40:20
- On the dock — Gerard, 'you gotta get outta the water!'; Misty Steps onto the boat; two Eldritch Blasts on the fleeing merrow, 18 to hit and 12 raised to 15 with the Bardic die, 15 damage in total NA E13·01:09:20 NA E13·01:11:23 NA E13·01:11:41 NA E13·01:12:07 NA E13·01:13:37
- Holds the strand of destiny — Persuasion DC 15 with a plus 4: 16; holds the strand of destiny and draws the Dogfish: 'I am the boy of destiny!' NA E13·01:14:03 NA E13·01:14:10 NA E13·01:14:16 NA E13·01:14:48
- Misty Step to his friends — Insight 17: the Dogfish will rise at one of the two middle places; 'I think I want it to be me.'; picks himself and Misty Steps to all of his friends NA E13·01:40:55 NA E13·01:41:16 NA E13·01:42:06 NA E13·01:42:11
- Calls on Destiny again — Uses one of his Destiny uses on an Investigation check ('I get three every short rest!'): Lou calls it a natural 1 and Siobhan keeps her 14 NA E14·00:07:12 NA E14·00:07:16 NA E14·00:07:20 NA E14·00:07:23
- Whiskey and bubblegum — Has the party take a first round of bubblegum then whiskey: 'Literally let that perfume in your mouth... get the aromatics' NA E14·00:08:45 NA E14·00:08:57
- In control of his destiny — After beating the Dogfish: 'I'm in control of my destiny now'; Brennan: there are no taut strands of destiny; Lou: 'if anything, I feel like it's more asking me now.' NA E14·00:40:27 NA E14·00:40:29 NA E14·00:40:49
- Stepsiblings — Takes the lead with Cinderella, calling themselves step-siblings through the Stepmother; a Charisma check of 23; tells her the Stepmother is 'constantly eating and consuming people' NA E15·00:46:34 NA E15·00:47:27 NA E15·00:47:45
- The master of his story — Admits to Cinderella 'I talked a big game about how much I hated my story, and now I'm the master of it.'; says his connection to the Stepmother was severed in The Lines Between and that thanks to Pib his thrown strings connected to his own story NA E15·00:51:27 NA E15·00:53:26
- A chute in his leg — Smokes a cigar and chews bubblegum; 'I have a chute in my leg here.' and whiskey and moss fall from a latch in his leg NA E15·00:50:09 NA E15·00:50:19 NA E15·00:50:22
- Dexterity plus one — In the roll-off Lou says 'I have a plus one'; Murph asks 'you only have a plus one, right?' 'To dex?' Brennan: 'To dex.' NA E15·01:27:36 NA E15·01:27:44 NA E15·01:27:45
- Call to Destiny on the prayer — Uses Call to Destiny on the Gust prayer roll, which Brennan lets be rolled with advantage NA E15·01:54:07 NA E15·01:54:11 NA E15·01:54:15
- Counterspell — Counterspells Cinderella's invisibility: 'Counterspell.' Brennan: 'No roll necessary, it's a 2nd-level spell.' NA E15·01:28:19 NA E15·01:28:22
- Strands of Fate — Lou: 'My 6th level ability, Strands of Fate, allows me to cast Animate Object as a spell.'; animates the watchtower carrying the mages and two swords; the tower's attack is a 13 to hit for 16 damage NA E16·00:20:06 NA E16·00:21:34 NA E16·00:23:03 NA E16·00:23:06
- Counterspell on the wizards — Counterspells the wizard's second turn-into-vase trick, and later a Polymorph aimed at the Golden Goose NA E16·00:35:14 NA E16·00:35:19 NA E16·01:24:26
- Eldritch Blast on the tower wizard — Eldritch Blast kills a tower wizard (13 hits, 12 damage); a second blast at a trebuchet is a natural one NA E16·00:51:03 NA E16·00:51:07 NA E16·00:52:33
- Struck by the trebuchet — Takes 21 bludgeoning damage from a boulder and keeps standing; is hit by the archers for 11 points and passes a Constitution saving throw; he uses his reaction to give Cricket resistance, so Cricket takes five of the archers' 11 NA E16·01:05:11 NA E16·01:13:47 NA E16·01:13:51 NA E16·01:14:01 NA E16·01:14:05 NA E16·01:14:10
- Down to Alphonse — Alphonse wheels around and charges him: 'You take 23 points of damage.' Lou: 'I am down.' The tower crumbles and the tiny cavalry go away NA E16·01:14:15 NA E16·01:14:26 NA E16·01:14:35 NA E16·01:14:38
- Death save of 19 — While down, a death save at the top of his turn: Lou, '19.' Brennan: 'That is a success.' NA E16·01:15:57 NA E16·01:16:13
- Heard on the ground — On the ground he answers the Stepmother's voice: 'Mom, I'm not... I'm not coming back. You're not good for me, and you're not good for my father. Leave us alone!' The Golden Goose casts a 6th-level Heal for 70 hit points NA E16·01:22:23 NA E16·01:22:45 NA E16·01:22:47
- Frees the egg — Two Eldritch Blasts at the restraints of the golden egg, both hits ('Both ropes blast off.'); damage 9 plus 4 and 7 NA E16·01:33:49 NA E16·01:33:53 NA E16·01:34:06
- Call of Destiny on Alphonse's save — Uses Call of Destiny to roll an additional die on Alphonse's save (a six and a two) but decides not to let the mule fail; the mule's DC is 14 NA E16·01:55:56 NA E16·01:56:09 NA E16·01:56:22 NA E16·01:56:27 NA E16·01:56:36
- Smoke on the Water — A Performance of 17 on the Golden Harp: 'I just want to try and play Smoke on the Water.' and the Goose snores; later plays Three Blind Mice NA E17·00:23:23 NA E17·00:23:32 NA E17·00:23:39 NA E17·00:32:35
- Water for Cricket — Grapples Cricket (19 on the die minus one for 18 against 11) and makes him drink: 'I know you're a spirit that I've summoned out of a book, but you got to drink water.' NA E17·00:53:20 NA E17·00:53:24 NA E17·00:53:28 NA E17·00:53:33
- A choice needs to be made — 'There's just something really scary about when we get to that moment and we have that confrontation, a choice needs to be made.'; fears becoming like Candlewick: 'I don't want that life. I don't want to be that guy.' NA E17·00:59:44 NA E17·01:00:55
- A leg full of gum — Says his leg 'from my ankle to my thigh is just wadded up bubblegum'; later empties it as best he can before the hut: 'I want to walk in clean' NA E17·00:59:19 NA E17·01:47:42
- A favor owed — Pib offers ball bearings; Pinocchio asks for one 'just as a token', Pib: 'that's representative of me owing you a favor'; 'I won't lie, I wanted to blow up that mule.' NA E17·01:14:44 NA E17·01:14:47 NA E17·01:14:53 NA E17·01:14:57
- At the Baba Yaga's door — Takes his hat off and puts it on Pib; makes the Persuasion check himself while holding Pib, with Pib helping ('I'll talk! Let me talk!'); the die is a natural 20 ('Nat 20!'); claws sink into the wood around his neck as the door opens NA E17·01:51:19 NA E17·01:51:30 NA E17·01:52:09 NA E17·01:53:07 NA E17·01:55:20
- Son of Geppetto — 'I am Pinocchio. Some have called me the Boy of Destiny. I see myself only as the son of Geppetto.' NA E17·01:54:31
- Gifts for the Baba Yaga — Brings 'a handle' of whiskey, packs of bubblegum and a bottle of Pinocchio Select, 'aged in me'; asks about harps as a gift; she likes a gift 'to hurt to give'; offers his strings and Gerard says 'Don't, Pinocchio!' NA E18·00:13:48 NA E18·00:14:09 NA E18·00:14:18 NA E18·00:20:02 NA E18·00:30:53 NA E18·00:30:59
- Geppetto's name — Tells the Baba Yaga his father's name and that he is sad sometimes: 'His name's Geppetto, and he's sad sometimes.'; on his strings: 'They're in my hands now.' NA E18·00:04:40 NA E18·00:05:35
- Setting the table — A Perception check of 18 and Mage Hand to make the sound of setting the table while he eavesdrops; whispers into the keyhole to the Stepmother 'I've taken back my strings. We're coming for you.' NA E18·01:15:36 NA E18·01:15:40 NA E18·01:17:27
- Opens the door — Answers Geppetto's plea to obey: 'That's not the world we live in anymore.'; rolls 11 for initiative against a 10, opens the door and sees the Stepmother holding Geppetto; Geppetto is lifted away by the glowing string NA E18·01:18:18 NA E18·01:20:06 NA E18·01:20:10 NA E18·01:23:31
- The name Minerva — Plucks a scrap of paper from the air with a name on it, Minerva, and later says 'I have the name' and proposes writing it in Mother Goose's book NA E18·01:26:27 NA E18·01:26:30 NA E18·02:01:33
- Feel destiny in the ink — 'you can feel destiny itself written in this ink in front of you'; to Cinderella: 'We've never been the harmin' sort.' NA E19·00:01:29 NA E19·00:09:24
- Drink whiskey — Pours Pinocchio Select for the dead Cricket after the Circle of Death; Cricket's last words to him were 'Drink whiskey.' NA E19·00:33:16 NA E19·00:33:40 NA E19·00:38:12
- Dimension Door to Mira — Walks over to Gerard and they Dimension Door 500 feet to Mira; Insight on Mira, 19 (Bless does not apply to ability checks); Persuasion on Mira with disadvantage: first number a 10, then Call of Destiny rolls a 19 that replaces it for a 24; 'There are gonna be more pages, and you're gonna decide what's written on them.' NA E19·00:38:37 NA E19·00:38:45 NA E19·00:39:47 NA E19·00:39:53 NA E19·00:40:52 NA E19·00:41:11 NA E19·00:43:18
- Fireworks on the storytellers — Finishes the bottle of Pinocchio Reserve, smashes it, chews bubblegum, moves 20 feet and snaps off a firework at Scheherazade and Snow White for 32 damage, 16 on Scheherazade's success NA E19·01:27:25 NA E19·01:28:29 NA E19·01:29:30 NA E19·01:29:34
- Stepsis — Calls to Cinderella 'Stepsis, what are you doing? Please! Work with us!'; the DC is 20 rather than 25 because of 'a connection to her'; 'Five so it's 15'; the first roll is described as a natural 1; with his bonus action he rolls again with disadvantage, a three and a 14, and Call of Destiny cannot help ('even if you got a nat 20, we would use the 14'); he stays at the base of the ziggurat NA E19·01:57:29 NA E19·01:57:46 NA E19·01:57:58 NA E19·01:58:06 NA E19·01:58:19 NA E19·01:58:32 NA E19·01:58:35 NA E19·01:59:04 NA E19·01:59:09 NA E19·01:59:12 NA E19·01:59:54
- Wood twinsies — With Rosamund after her return: 'Twin, yeah. We're wood twinsies!' NA E19·01:57:05
- Strands of Fate: five objects — Casts Strands of Fate as Animate Objects on the largest books in the room: total cover for the storytellers, a flying book island for Ylfa and Flat William beside him; 'Each of you has total cover.' NA E20·00:26:15 NA E20·00:27:45 NA E20·00:28:29
- Fireworks to Pib — Struggling with the strands he pops the top of the whiskey, takes a swig and tosses a firework to Pib and his new bird summon NA E20·00:28:13
- Girl, read the room — Persuasion on Cinderella (DC 15 because the fairies arrived, with disadvantage): 19 and 9, fails; 'Girl, come on! Read the room!'; to the turquoise-haired fairy: 'It's already too late. We can't go back.' and 'I can't be a boy again!' NA E20·00:30:19 NA E20·00:30:36 NA E20·00:30:50 NA E20·00:31:26 NA E20·00:31:34
- The Authors' hand — The animated tower tries to pin the Authors' hand: Lou, '17 plus 5 to attack, so 22'; Elody's bonus die is a three, 25 against the hand's 24, and a stack of books flattens the hand to the side of the ziggurat NA E20·00:59:04 NA E20·00:59:16 NA E20·00:59:36 NA E20·00:59:38
- Silvery Barbs from Mother Goose — Ally offers a Silvery Barbs advantage: 'I'll give it to Pinocchio.' Brennan: 'Pinocchio gets it.' He does not cast it himself NA E20·00:54:29 NA E20·00:54:33
- Flat William carries him up — With Flat William on his shoulder: 'I'm sorry, I had to do it. I know you've always wanted to help me.' NA E20·01:00:22 NA E20·01:01:37
- Talks to the Fairy with Turquoise Hair — Talks to the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, using the Silvery Barbs advantage 'to flatten it out'; her DC for him is only 15 ('we only need a cool 10'); Brennan: '16 on the die!' and '21!' NA E20·01:00:37 NA E20·01:00:46 NA E20·01:00:53 NA E20·01:01:14 NA E20·01:01:17
- Fifty-six hit points — Ally: 'I can't help but look at your 56 hit points, Lou.' Lou: 'Just because I have 56 hit points and 3 nutcrackers, I don't need help?' Said as his hit points at that moment; nobody calls it his maximum NA E20·00:12:23 NA E20·00:12:30
- Call of Destiny on Ylfa — Uses a Call of Destiny on Ylfa's Persuasion ('One, so now I have one left'), and the last one on her next roll NA E20·01:18:51 NA E20·01:48:10
- Minerva — Flat William throws him to the Stepmother; he shouts 'Hey! Minerva!' and she screams as the pages move, with the turquoise-haired fairy coming back NA E20·01:29:40 NA E20·01:29:43 NA E20·01:30:01 NA E20·01:30:08
- Banishment on the Stepmother — Drops concentration on the animated objects, strides next to Rosamund's body and casts Banishment on the Stepmother (Charisma, DC 16); she has disadvantage, rolls a 12 and an 11, and burns her second Legendary Resistance NA E20·01:46:31 NA E20·01:46:44 NA E20·01:47:00 NA E20·01:47:02 NA E20·01:47:18
- Sometimes you need a bad stepmom — In the spell he asks where his father went ('Sort of suspended in strings'), and gives the Stepmother Pinocchio Reserve and a piece of gum: 'Sometimes you need a bad stepmom to let you know what's right.' NA E20·02:12:52 NA E20·02:14:19 NA E20·02:14:41
- Epilogue: Brennan's narration — Brennan: 'You are a young warlock, possessed of great powers. Cricket leaps to your side.' Geppetto: 'no matter what you are made of, you are always my son.' Brennan: 'you and Cricket go on as many adventures together as you want, Cricket being way less of a tight-ass.' NA E20·02:25:11 NA E20·02:25:41 NA E20·02:26:13
- Epilogue: a real boy at 21 — In Lou's epilogue Pinocchio makes mistakes and learns like a real boy 'but never with the punishment or the reprimand or the taking away'; on his 21st birthday, with the Fairy with Turquoise Hair and his ailing father Geppetto, he makes a cocktail of whiskey and a stick of bubblegum and is magically turned into a real boy; one of his first adventures is to go to Toy Island and 'shut that shit down', at least the donkey part; he plays gin rummy with Ylfa years later: 'They don't turn the kids into donkeys anymore.' NA E20·02:23:28 NA E20·02:25:06 NA E20·02:26:21 NA E20·02:37:03 NA E20·02:37:29
Spells
- Hex — Bonus action Hex on the Fairy Godmother, choosing her Strength: disadvantage on all her ability checks made with strength; spectral strings appear on his body and the Stepmother's voice speaks from his mouth ('Die!') NA E3·00:45:57 NA E3·00:46:33 NA E3·00:46:38 NA E3·00:47:08 NA E3·00:47:57
- Eldritch Blast — First seen when he blasts Miss Muffet; Brennan: 'This is your first time we're seeing your Eldritch blast.' NA E6·01:19:57 NA E6·01:21:24 NA E6·01:21:28
- Faerie Fire — Casts Faerie Fire on the crow, which fails deliberately, so he has 'a little lantern' that flies around NA E6·00:17:29 NA E6·00:17:34 NA E6·00:17:39
- Fey Presence (spell) — Cast as the Stepmother's gift, a 10-foot cube of Wisdom saving throws against frightened or charmed NA E6·00:42:54
- Mage Hand — Casts Mage Hand during the breakout NA E7·00:25:19
- Suggestion — Casts Suggestion on the monocled man, DC 14 Wisdom NA E7·00:33:47 NA E7·00:33:56
- Misty Step — Bonus action Misty Step to get point-blank to the muzzle NA E10·01:56:40
- Create Bonfire — Creates Bonfire on Gerard's attempt NA E11·00:18:28
- Invisibility — Casts Invisibility on Candlewick just before they get back NA E12·01:24:14
- Counterspell — Counterspells Cinderella's invisibility NA E15·01:28:19
- Animate Objects — Cast through Strands of Fate on the watchtower and two swords NA E16·00:20:06 NA E16·00:21:34
- Dimension Door — He and Gerard Dimension Door 500 feet NA E19·00:38:45
- Banishment — Cast on the Stepmother, Charisma save, DC 16 NA E20·01:46:44 NA E20·01:47:02
Items
- Doorknob, knife, etching and photo — Takes the carving knife and the etching of the paternal-looking man, then the doorknob, with the sense of powerful magic that only leaves a brass knob; he later admits to the Stepmother taking the knife, the photo and the doorknob NA E2·02:08:23 NA E2·02:08:25 NA E2·02:09:22 NA E2·02:09:35
- Red gem — Brennan hands Lou a red gem when his light goes out; he and Siobhan 'kiss' their red gems together NA E3·01:53:38 NA E3·01:53:58
- Staff, which is his nose — In his hand, which is his nose; after he comes back it is tossed to him stained red with blood and etched with letters; the staff grants a plus one to attack and damage rolls for spell attacks NA E4·00:04:51 NA E4·00:23:11 NA E4·00:26:05
- Crow familiar — A crow, the 'pet' given by the Stepmother; he comes back with it on his shoulder and it NA E4·00:23:34 NA E4·00:25:30
- Sword of Truth — Grabs the sword thrown to him and cuts his strings with it NA E7·01:44:53 NA E7·01:47:37
- Crow lost — Lost the crow: Pib slashes both eyes of Pinocchi-Crow with his dagger and it falls and turns into tattered burnt parchment; Pib: 'I killed Pinocchi-Crow.' NA E8·00:51:38 NA E8·01:13:30 NA E9·00:09:17
- Veritas sings — As he tells Sinbad the truth, Brennan says he hears singing like the ringing of a fine chime from the sword at his side; he unwraps it and the sword names itself: 'Veritas I am called, the Sword of Truth!' NA E8·01:16:17 NA E8·01:18:36
- Book of his story — His marionette handle goes up into the light of his own book NA E9·00:13:21
- Sword of Truth to Gerard — Gives the Sword of Truth to Cricket to carry to Gerard NA E10·01:33:35
- Cricket — The Cricket, pulled from his book as a glowing magical cricket and no longer ghostly NA E10·00:47:41 NA E10·00:48:17
- Fireworks — Brennan: 'Pinocchio grabs a shitload of fireworks.' on Toy Island NA E13·01:43:07
- Firework lit for Cricket — Asks to light a firework, give it to Cricket and send Cricket into the enemy NA E16·01:53:44
- Ball bearing — A ball bearing from Pib's 200, taken as a token of the favor Pib owes him NA E17·01:14:47 NA E17·01:14:49 NA E17·01:14:50 NA E17·01:14:53
- Whiskey, bubblegum and Pinocchio Select — A handle of whiskey, packs of bubblegum and a bottle of Pinocchio Select, 'aged in me'; the Pinocchio Select label reads 'from the leg chute' NA E18·00:13:48 NA E18·00:14:09 NA E18·00:14:16 NA E18·00:14:18
- Gifts eaten and drunk — Pushes a pack of bubblegum toward the Baba Yaga ('Make sure you chew the bubblegum.') and she slurps it down and swallows NA E18·00:14:34
- Cricket dies — Lou: 'Nevermind, Cricket is dead.' after the Circle of Death NA E19·00:33:16
- Firework thrown at the storytellers — Puts a firework where it hits Scheherazade, Cinderella and Snow White NA E19·01:27:25 NA E19·01:27:43
- Cricket returns — In the epilogue Brennan: 'Cricket leaps to your side.' and 'you and Cricket go on as many adventures together as you want' NA E20·02:25:11 NA E20·02:26:13
- Firework to Pib — Lou: 'I'll give that firework to him.' NA E20·00:29:37
By episode
NA E1: The Times of Shadow
- Marionette boy: orange shirt, green shorts, painted eyes, a splintered gap where his wooden nose was — 00:44:08
- Claims to be a prince cursed into a puppet after taking 40 pennies from a witch; wants to borrow 40 gold pieces to throw in a well — 00:46:34, 00:47:56
- Persuasion 22 for finer sheets — 00:58:31
- Calls himself a child: "I'm small, okay? I'm a child!" — 00:57:42
- Insight check on the shoe is a natural 1 — 01:40:12
- Identifies himself honestly after the fight: "my name is Pinocchio, but I'm not a prince." — 01:53:49
- Talks with the Stepmother through a key-door; named "my little Pinocchio"; his father is Daniel — 02:05:41, 02:11:08
- Perception 21 at the carriage with a key in its door, then 12 on a later Perception — 02:04:17, 02:04:47
"I'm just a little wooden boy." — 01:53:49
NA E2: Mirror, Mirror
- Stays by the chariot, putting himself between the group and the cart in case anyone makes a break for it; slaps the horses of the shoe to send it away — 00:24:32, 00:28:02
- Touches the book: Charisma save 19; an etching of an island filled with toys appears — 00:33:59, 00:34:10
- Tells Timothy: "it definitely feels like this book and you having it, it feels like you have no idea what you are dealing with." — 00:41:45
- Answers Pib's question about "the key in the door": he thought he saw somebody in the carriage but there was nobody, "just like goods and stuff" — onions and vegetables — 01:10:18, 01:10:29
- Wants to stick with the royals to "mooch off whatever they are able to get" — 01:11:06
- The mirror shows him a young boy's face and shouts for him to bring it back to "her"; he flees with Pib — 01:20:47, 01:21:28, 01:21:46
- Names the ram "Senator" — 02:16:04
- Proposes the forest after Rosamund's path opens: "Let's do the fuckin' forest." — 01:42:23
- Arcana 4 in the wine cellar; he is "tipsy as hell" — 01:59:24, 01:59:30
- Perception with advantage 15, then 17 Investigation upstairs — 02:03:07, 02:07:07
- Opens an old door "where she only lives in silhouette": a bedroom with two skeletons (one with no toe bones, one with a chunk of its heel carved off), bloody handprints, a carving knife and an etching of a paternal-looking merchant; Brennan says "this was her home, you think" and that he thinks "she ate the two young girls here" — 02:04:07, 02:05:09, 02:07:13
- Pulls the doorknob off; feels powerful magic, then only brass; keeps etching, knife and doorknob — 02:09:22, 02:09:35, 02:08:25
- "Distraction and extraction." — 02:33:51
"I'll be forward and say that the place is, it's fun, but it's not all good." — 00:38:37
"My stepmom, dude." — 02:06:19
NA E3: No Place For a Prince or Princess
- Tells Pib "You're on extraction" (00:06:17); Gerard later tells him "You're on extraction now! We're all on extraction!" (00:16:10); his Stealth 13 on the sprint; carries his broken-off nose in his hand — 00:22:10, 00:19:50
- Asks Gerard to be thrown; says "my mom gave me some powers to survive and stuff"; full dash, 60 feet, bonus action Hex on the Godmother (strength checks) — 00:43:17, 00:43:46, 00:45:53, 00:46:38
- Hex: spectral strings appear on his body and the Stepmother's voice speaks from his mouth; Brennan: "maybe you have been led to this place for reasons that Mother didn't share" — 00:47:08, 00:47:36, 00:48:01
- Pulls Gerard under a broken piece of wood; a table tramples him for nine, he is at two hit points; Constitution save plus three = 6 (injury: arm smashed off); concentration save 16, Hex holds — 00:50:51, 00:51:11, 00:51:52, 00:52:02, 00:52:45
- Hit for eight radiant; Constitution check 11; the Godmother swings her wand and he drops to 0; Hex ends — 01:04:28, 01:04:48, 01:05:02
- Death saves: the first, at 01:25:41, is first called a 20 by the players and read as a two by Lou; Brennan rules "That's a failure. That's a six."; two failures counted by 01:48:31, then a three; he dies — 01:25:41, 01:26:07, 01:48:31, 01:51:44
- Brennan's death narration: "Life given to a very special little wooden boy by a fairy a long time ago. The light, movement of magic, leaves as your wooden grip on your own nose fades." — 01:51:58
- Last vision: Amanti, him and his father on the back of a tuna escaping a dogfish; spiders and termites; a voice; final Charisma save, Brennan hands a red gem — 01:52:38, 01:53:24, 01:53:31, 01:53:38
"I'm light, you're strong." — 00:43:22
"This is not the time for process! We'll process afterward!" — 00:51:07
"I think I see Amanti, the village on the horizon, me and my father on the back of a tuna as we ride home after escaping a terrible dogfish" — 01:52:38
NA E4: Once Upon a Time
- Brennan tells him he has lost his senses, his animation and his life; insects and moss in the wood; he feels his staff in his hand, which is his nose — 00:04:51
- Lou's account of why the nose was broken off: he saw the ruin and the effect of the Neverafter and that his nose kept growing as he lied; the world was changing, but the rules were not; he realized that lying is necessary and holds him back, so "he took it upon himself to break his nose from his face" — 00:06:04
- Lou names the voice as the cricket he killed with a mallet when it tried to correct him in his earliest days alive; Brennan confirms the ghost of the talking cricket from his father's workshop, the one he killed with a mallet — 00:07:33, 00:07:52
- As a ghost he is still a puppet; he says he is "dead", brushes the cricket aside, swears at it and screams that he is a puppet and not a real boy anymore — 00:09:20, 00:10:14, 00:10:47
- Pulled by strings; asks about the length of his nose (not the full lying length); turns to look and sees the Stepmother — 00:11:06, 00:12:19, 00:12:44
- Calls her "Mom"; says he does not know where Rosamund is; blames Gerard's extraction-team call and says he wanted distraction — 00:13:15, 00:13:24, 00:13:49
- Asked whether he took anything from the house he says "No!" while Brennan mimes his nose growing with a slide whistle — 00:15:56
- Confesses: when he tried to fight back with the magic she gave him he "found your house" and bones on the ground; took the doorknob, a photo of a man who is not his dad, and the knife by the bed; the photo he took "'cause I thought it might be helpful" — 00:14:35, 00:16:05
- Wants to talk to his dad: when he was hit by "your not-friend" and was dying he heard his father's voice; offers the doorknob; the Stepmother asks if that is a bribe — 00:18:09, 00:18:47
- Says the powers could have helped but Gerard is tough and "a lot of that's on him"; asks "who do we know who has blood" and names Tim; refuses when told his father is the one with blood — 00:19:51, 00:20:38, 00:23:34
- Says he already has a pet, a ram named Senator, and is told he cannot return to Senator's side — 00:24:49, 00:24:51
- Takes the nose, regains his body, moss-covered with fungus in the joints, with a crow familiar; staff gives plus one to attack and damage on spell attacks — 00:25:28, 00:25:30, 00:26:05
- The Stepmother recalls that he had said he met a fairy who knew her; asked about anyone else, he mentions only the mice in her cupboard whom his friends met; feels a tingle under the nose he holds — 00:21:30, 00:26:23, 00:26:31, 00:26:47
- Wisdom saving throw: natural 20; Brennan gives a choice of looking where she pushes him or behind; Lou chooses where he is going and sees Amanti — 00:27:45, 00:28:00, 00:28:30
- The vision: a little boy Pinocchio in a worse-looking Amanti with rubble becomes a wood-etching illustration, drawn into the Stepmother's palm as Pinocchio is thrust into his place; closer to the drawings in Tim's book — 00:28:30, 00:29:40, 00:30:36
- Holds up a red gem and asks if it matters now; Brennan: "Not in this episode." — 00:31:59, 00:32:02
- Frame card: level 3 — 00:31:42
"You have lost your life." — 00:04:51
"I'm a puppet, cricket!" — 00:10:47
"I only took the doorknob." — 00:16:05
"I found your house." — 00:14:35
"I don't want this bird." — 00:23:34
"A ram. His name is Senator." — 00:24:49
"And all it cost was my father's blood! Yay!" — 00:26:13
"you have replaced this version of you in this world" — 00:31:27
NA E5: Down Came the Rain
- Arrives "Absolutely haunted": still child-size, bright painted clothes but wood duller and rotted, moss and fungus, gently curled legs, walking stick as support, a full-sized crow on his shoulder — 00:20:53
- Says the crow is from his mom; Rosamund notices blood on his stick — 00:22:26, 00:24:50
- Says he had his nose for a second when "dead dead", but when his mom brought him back it came off again — 00:24:40
- Asked "Is that your mom?" about the turquoise-haired fairy, says no: she was a maternal figure in the other life (and in this one); she made him a real boy and turned him back into a puppet when he lied — 00:26:50, 00:26:52, 00:27:08, 00:27:40
- Pinocchio's memories: one set, "locked and loaded" — 00:31:31, 00:31:33
- Describes the "really bad fairy" who came to his town as "of shadow" — 00:30:30, 00:30:48
- Says his mother is "really worried about Rosamund" and Rosamund must be kept hidden — 00:34:00
- Insight 19 on Gerard with help from the crow — 00:32:34
- Perception 18 in the barn (crow help, 00:56:09) and 19 after the pages — 00:56:20, 01:16:22
- Misses Senator the ram — says of the ram "it's a different goddamn story" — 01:32:24, 01:32:41
- Sends the crow scouting: Perception or Investigation 12; sees Tuffeton, Hamelin's sign, a hill with a tree and a mine — 01:36:25, 01:36:28
- Wants no one to go back to Timothy's house: "We're not going back to your house." — 00:33:49
- Lets the crow turn into a spider ("Spidocchio"); says Crow gets plus five to stealth and asks to halve it; Brennan: "Yeah, you can halve that" — 02:01:34, 02:03:15, 02:03:18
"I was a puppet turned into a boy who then turned back into a puppet." — 00:27:40
"This is the first time I've ever had a mom." — 00:34:37
"Pinocchio and Pinocchi-crow." — 01:50:20
NA E6: The Curdled Web
- Fey Presence on four infant spiders; Lou: "My stepmother's visage appears on my face and says, Ladies." — 00:42:54, 00:45:39
- Faerie Fire on the crow with the crow failing deliberately; blue; flies 40 feet — 00:17:29, 00:17:49, 00:18:26
- Apologizes when his light shows the huge spider: "I'm sorry!" — 00:21:06
- Fakes breathing ("Hee, hee, hee!"); Deception natural 1 — 00:23:11, 00:27:55
- Strength 10, dexterity unnatural 20 total in the web prone — 00:25:05, 00:25:33
- Left restrained and alone by Rosamund: "Leave me to the ladies." — 00:53:50
- Concentration on Faerie Fire lost at 5 against DC 10 — 00:49:37, 00:49:41
- Pinocchi-Crow pecks him free (19, 7 piercing); Acrobatics 15 through the charmed spiders; 9 damage; Constitution 11 — 01:02:40, 01:03:37, 01:04:10, 01:04:29
- Faerie Fire again on Muffet, strange gray-green mist as he screams "no, no!" — 01:05:34, 01:05:38
- Eldritch Blast first seen as strings around Muffet (21, 6 damage) — 01:21:07, 01:21:28
- Strength 6, dex 8: restrained once more — 01:08:23, 01:08:38, 01:08:40
- "We're more survivors." — 01:36:18
"It's not laughter! It's breathing!" — 00:28:02
NA E7: Trouble in Tuffeton
- Asks Muffet about the cocoons; "Respect." — 00:03:29, 00:03:49
- Suggests heading to town: "We'll probably be welcomed as heroes." — 00:12:21
- Insight 13 to find who in the crowd has influence; casts Suggestion on the monocled man (DC 14 Wisdom) and tells him to stand and say it was an adult sleepover gone wrong — 00:33:34, 00:33:47, 00:33:56, 00:34:03
- Tells Mayor Hopps and Muffet about Toy Island and his story, a story "about growing up, realizing that actions have consequences, and responsibility" — 00:54:37, 00:55:52
- Mentions his strings are with his mom: "I don't have my strings with me all the time, because my mom has them." — 01:28:49
- Mage Hand pulls the hood off the second creature; Insight 7 on the surviving creature's reaction to its dead friend; casts Faerie Fire on Rosamund's suggestion — 01:17:56, 01:18:14, 01:26:49
- Feels a tug toward the candle, speaks to the candle; sees the wicked fairy in the flame and turns toward the Stepmother's silhouette — 01:28:06, 01:30:16, 01:35:28
- Charisma save 21; sees shifting faces and a woman in a crown trying to escape her mouth — 01:40:18, 01:44:18
- Acrobatics to catch the sword: nat 20 with Gerard's Help; cuts his strings with the Sword of Truth — 01:45:38, 01:47:15, 01:47:37
- Dances on the bar and uses his nose as a pole; holds back at the end after Muffet's question — 00:47:53, 00:48:54, 01:08:32
"Did you say that everyone in your village is in a cocoon?" — 00:03:29
"I think it worked. I can't really tell." — 00:38:36
"The story I'm on is the story I need to be on." — 00:58:37
"I'd like to speak to my mom." — 01:30:16
"Pinocchio grabs as many of the strings as he can with his free hand and cuts himself free." — 01:47:15
NA E8: The Lines Between
- Tells the group the Stepmother is "my mom", seen only as a shadow behind a door, source of his powers — 00:09:07, 00:09:17, 00:09:37
- Perception 16 for Pinocchi-Crow, helped by Ylfa's sniffing; Arcana 11 helped by Pib; scans the room — 00:10:31, 00:21:58
- Insight natural 20 on the lion — 00:15:31
- Plays along with Pib's story that he is carved from a ship called the Pinocchio — 00:11:56, 00:14:50
- Holds the Sword of Truth at his side; tells Sinbad "We lied" and hears the sword chime; tries to muffle it, then unwraps it — 01:15:40, 01:16:17, 01:17:59, 01:18:36
- Serves as a boat for Pib; a light wolf nudges him — 01:10:17, 01:11:42
- Saw the monstrous thing with people crawling under its skin and the grandmother eaten — 01:14:04, 01:14:32
- Says he is on his first time, not his second; tells how his mom took another boy and he took his place — 01:40:48, 01:41:34
- Sees the face on the Cinderella cover; says it is his mom's ex-husband — 01:49:05, 01:49:29
- Says he got the etching in a bedroom in the house with the mice, and gave her things back — 01:49:29, 01:49:48
"I just know that that thing is where I've been getting my powers from." — 00:09:37
"His boat, the Pinocchio, from which I was carved." — 00:14:50
"Sinbad, I'm going to be straight with you. Nope. I'm not made from a ship. We lied." — 01:15:40
"I'm still on my first time." — 01:40:54
"that's my mom's ex-husband that she had." — 01:49:29
NA E9: Origins
- Tries to Eldritch Blast the doorknob; Brennan says the source of his magic no longer grants it and he must give his strings to something — 00:09:17, 00:10:08
- Chooses to give his strings to any entity that will give him enough power; throws the marionette handle into the light of his own book — 00:10:49, 00:13:21
- Wisdom save 15, Eldritch Blast with advantage 11 against AC 10, the knob is knocked off and the spell shunting the party is killed — 00:15:01, 00:15:33, 00:15:54
- Asks why his life has been so hard; the book branches into all copies of his story; he lassos his friends — 00:17:27, 00:18:19, 00:19:58
- In the memory, tells Geppetto "Sometimes you have to lie" and tries to hold him back (Athletics natural 1) — 00:24:32, 00:23:29
- Insight 14 on Geppetto: he cannot tell whether the weeping is for hurting Pinocchio or from saying something untrue — 00:25:27, 00:25:31
- Opens the door to the Stepmother's silhouette, gives her his strings; "Someday, we'll all be together?" — 00:27:23, 00:30:24
- Pounds on the Blue Fairy's door; angrily confronts the Fairy with Turquoise Hair about the lie — 00:36:43, 00:37:55
- Says he broke his nose off himself; tells Turquina he is still in his first version and calls the Stepmother "my mom, temporary placeholder name" — 00:39:08, 00:42:52, 00:43:07
- Insight natural 20 on the fairy (Lou's roll) at 00:42:03; Insight "unnatural 20" at 00:40:58; reaches out and pulls Turquina through with his strings — 00:42:03, 00:40:58, 00:50:45
- Says the stories are tied to the real them and asks whether to go into the Cinderella book and fix it — 01:47:41
- History natural 1 ("Haven't lived long enough"); Constitution save natural 20 — 02:10:37, 02:10:39, 02:23:28
- Talks to the mill worker as the party's voice — 02:13:15
"the source that you draw your magic from is no longer granting it to you." — 00:09:24
"I'm playing a child. I'm going to give away my strings immediately to whatever entity is present" — 00:10:49
"why does anytime I choose to do those things, I get hung or my feet get burned or my father gets eaten?" — 00:17:27
"Sometimes you need to lie, to save someone, or to keep someone safe." — 00:24:39
"Okay, I lied to save my dad, and you-" — 00:37:55
"I had given them to somebody who actually helped!" — 00:40:16
NA E10: The Baron of Bricks
- Plays the jester in the cover story; jokes about the Baron's house and the Baron gives "droll"; Performance 21, 19, 14 (Brennan asks for disadvantage, then lets Zac help) and 16 with advantage — 00:25:05, 00:25:29, 00:29:42, 00:37:12, 00:38:14
- Feels a tug on his strings when the book opens; at the rooms opens his book, the strings reappear as he connects to it and he pulls out the 100-year-old Cricket — 00:40:10, 00:45:00, 00:47:49
- Apologizes to Cricket for being angry: sometimes how chipper and sweet Cricket is does not feel appropriate for the world as it is now — 00:50:32
- In the fight his Eldritch Blast now looks like a golden string; with Cricket's help he gets Perception 21, hits a leg of the tank behind the Baron (natural 20), uses Hex on the Baron, and later breaks the muzzle with a Seven — 01:16:03, 01:30:38, 01:31:43, 01:57:47
- Gives the Sword of Truth to Cricket to carry to Gerard — 01:33:35
"I'm surprised we haven't seen a toilet yet 'cause this place is built like a brick shithouse." — 00:25:05
"Ah, on occasion, but only wind." — 00:37:39
"You feel a tug on your strings almost like when a diver pulls on a rope" — 00:40:10
"I'm gonna try and pull out the 100-year-old Cricket." — 00:47:49
"And so I'm sorry I was angry it's just, I didn't..." — 00:50:32
"I think it's a golden string, baby." — 01:16:04
"No no, hey, everyone back off. This one's mine, all right! I feel very bonded." — 01:57:23
"Will you take this to the froggy guy? His name's Gerard." — 01:33:38
NA E11: Big and Bad
- Admits to the Wolf that he was one of the Stepmother's intermediaries "before", but not anymore — 00:19:40, 00:19:46
- Tries a wolf joke for the Wolf: "How do you like to have sex?"; the Wolf answers; Performance 12; the Wolf does not understand the joke — 00:45:58, 00:46:01, 00:46:34, 00:47:15
- The Wolf sets him a task: a second wolf joke in a year and a day or the day will be his last — 00:49:15, 00:49:23
- Knows Slappy's Bubblegum and Whiskey from Toy Island, and praises Toy Island — 00:37:03, 00:37:52
- Casts Create Bonfire on Gerard's fire; sings in the song of rest and receives Bardic Inspiration d8; casts Suggestion on a stranger (DC 15) so that the city goes to an "adult sleepover" — 00:18:28, 00:54:34, 00:54:59, 01:13:12
- Throws a snowball at Ylfa (14, caught), later another hits her; tells Cricket he threw a mallet at him one night — 01:29:10, 01:36:52, 01:36:11
- Tells Cricket "You just wanna help. I get it." — 00:31:00
"I was one of them. Before." — 00:19:40
"Under the light of the crescent moon." — 00:46:01
"I don't understand your joke." — 00:47:15
"if it does not make me laugh, that will be your final day." — 00:49:23
"You've been to Slappy's Bubblegum and Whiskey." — 00:37:03 (Brennan)
"The Baron of Bricks is no more. The city is yours to do with as you please" — 01:13:16
NA E12: A Warm Heart and a Tombstone
- Hears Snow White call him "Master Pinocchio" and "the boy of destiny" — 00:40:08, 00:58:15
- Asks Cricket whether he gets his power from destiny; Cricket answers "Sure, bud." and then reminds him he threw his handle into his book — 00:35:29, 00:35:31, 00:36:58
- Says he has been alive "upwards of four years" — 00:36:08
- Casts Create Bonfire near Rosamund at Snow White's request — 00:37:46, 00:38:03
- Tells Snow White how his book works: marionette strings go into it and he pulls on them so things appear in the Neverafter — 00:42:39
- Joke "What are the two requirements to being Snow White's friend?" answered "A warm heart and a tombstone!"; Performance 25 — 00:51:11, 00:51:23, 00:51:33
- Eldritch Blast the water ("Triple X"), hit with an 18 on the die, 15 damage; Misty Step up; takes no damage from the landing — 01:02:25, 01:02:39, 01:03:03, 01:04:02
- On Toy Island: perception 21 for the jank; digs a gray hot dog from the grease; natural 20 Perception finds the trap; says he is a "Toy Island regular, or I was, back in the day" — 01:06:49, 01:10:29, 01:13:52, 01:16:46
- Casts Invisibility on Candlewick; Deception 17; the party blames him for letting Candlewick sneak up — 01:24:14, 01:22:28, 01:27:12
- Says Candlewick convinced him to come to Toy Island and drop out a day before he would have become a real boy — 01:35:27, 01:35:36
- Candlewick goes into Pinocchio's book; the book stays glowing and one string is taut; Arcana 18 — 01:35:13, 01:36:52, 01:37:15
"All of you guys better call me the boy of destiny from now on." — 00:58:28
"Do I get my power from destiny?" — 00:35:29
"my marionette strings go into it, and so I think about parts of my life, and I pull on those strings" — 00:42:39
"I cast Invisibility because I found his, his appearance, I thought, would be too intimidating" — 01:27:12
"I was one day away from becoming a real boy the first time, and then Candlewick convinced me to come here." — 01:35:36
NA E13: Terror on Toy Island
- Level 5 Warlock per the card; STR 8, DEX 12, CON 16, INT 8, WIS 14, CHA 18, AC 13 — 00:31:53
- Is the one Brennan sees tied to the Dogfish: a strand of light runs to his chest, the pages of his book rustle — 00:26:56, 00:27:43, 00:28:32
- Natural 20 History: Brennan says Pinocchio gains a new warlock subclass and that the Dogfish is bound to his story — 00:32:14, 00:32:20, 00:32:37
- Screams the Dogfish's weaknesses at the top of his lungs so the party does not need to hear them in their heads (Gerard: "Aren't you a warlock? Can't you do this in our head or something?", Pinocchio: "No!") — 00:37:00, 00:37:17, 00:37:20
- Joins "team distraction" because the others have the princess — 00:37:54, 00:38:07
- Two Eldritch Blasts on a merrow: a natural 20 and an 18; 15 plus 4 = 19 on the critical, 5 on the other; Insight (the second daddy-meter) is a natural 1 — 00:39:04, 00:39:24, 00:40:20
- Tells Cricket to stay with Rosamund (Cricket flies 60) — 00:41:02, 00:41:19
- Tracks the tether to see where the Dogfish will rise, warns Gerard to get out of the water, runs, jumps and Misty Steps to a dock — 01:08:16, 01:09:20, 01:10:35, 01:11:04
- Two Eldritch Blasts on the fleeing merrow: 18 to hit, 12 raised to 15 with Bardic Inspiration; 15 damage in total — 01:11:23, 01:11:41, 01:12:07
- Perception 19 (sees the Sea Witch's boat); Persuasion 16 (plus 4) holds the String of Destiny and draws the Dogfish with the merrow's thumping feet; mutters to himself — 01:12:34, 01:12:43, 01:14:03, 01:14:16, 01:14:31
- Uses his "Call of Destiny" (Brennan's new homebrew ability) on the Dogfish's save — 01:19:13, 01:19:41
- Second Persuasion, 12 (outcome not stated) — 01:30:48, 01:31:32
- Insight 17: the Dogfish will rise at one of the two middle places and he picks his own side; grabs a shitload of fireworks; readies Misty Step — 01:40:55, 01:40:56, 01:43:07, 01:43:23
- Thinks he cannot swim but will not immediately drown; Rosamund says he is made of ebony, "the only wood that sinks" — 01:44:26, 01:44:32
- Sheds a single wooden tear for the Funnel Cake and Cigar shop — 01:50:53
"There is a strand moving from the water of pure light directly to Pinocchio's chest." — 00:26:56
"Pinocchio now has a new warlock subclass." — 00:32:20
"there aren't versions of your story where something like this doesn't appear" — 00:32:37
"It has asthma! So if you hide, you could light a fire inside of it! The other thing is the eyes!" — 00:37:00
"I think we're distraction because they have the princess." — 00:38:07
"Gerard, you gotta get outta the water!" — 01:09:20
"I am the boy of destiny!" — 01:14:48
"Gerard, why don't you focus on not drowning?" — 01:14:53
"can roll a d20 himself and replace one of the rolls" — 01:19:41
"I think I want it to be me." — 01:41:16
"Pinocchio sheds a single wooden tear." — 01:50:53
NA E14: Daughters of the Crown
- Makes the party take its first round of drinking whiskey and bubblegum, teaching a method ("get the aromatics") — 00:08:45, 00:08:57
- Uses one of his Destiny uses on an Investigation check, Lou calls it a natural 1 (Siobhan's own 14 stands) — 00:07:12, 00:07:20, 00:07:23
- Says that after beating the Dogfish he feels in control: "I'm in control of my destiny now" (Lou, as player or character) and Brennan says there are no taut strands of destiny, the party's success "untangled them", and he feels "a brand new power" — 00:40:27, 00:40:29
- Charisma save 16 at the Authors moment — 00:26:49
- Votes princesses: "my heart says princesses" — 00:41:51
- Is hurt by Alba calling Toy Island a wasteland: "Some of us like it here. Wasteland?" — 00:14:45
- Throws a snowball at Mira and misses with 13 — 00:54:17, 00:54:32
"Literally let that perfume in your mouth. You know, get the aromatics, yeah." — 00:08:57
"I get three every short rest! Hold on." — 00:07:16
"if anything, I feel like it's more asking me now." — 00:40:49
NA E15: Leap of Faith
- Takes the lead with Cinderella on the ramparts, calling himself her "step-sibling" through the Stepmother — 00:46:34
- Charisma check 23 with Cinderella — 00:47:27
- Tells Cinderella that the Stepmother is alive, "constantly eating and consuming people", and has become a quadrupedal monster that crawls between the stories — 00:47:45, 00:48:48
- Smokes a cigar and chews bubblegum; whiskey and moss fall from a latch in his leg — 00:50:09, 00:50:19, 00:50:22
- Admits to Cinderella that he is not doing well and has not had time to sit with his story — 00:51:27
- Explains how he reclaimed it: his connection to the Stepmother was severed in The Lines Between, he threw the strings up, and "thanks to Pib, they connected to my own story"; he now draws power from his book and destiny — 00:53:26
- Tells Cinderella that the party has her book, and that the Stepmother "had thrashed up your book" — 00:55:24, 00:55:38
- Sends Cricket to ask Pib whether Cinderella should be shown her book — 00:57:44
- Stays glib; Cinderella calls it his way of moving through the times of shadow — 00:58:07
- Says he was created by his father and that, in a moment of desperation to protect him (the father, as worded), the Stepmother "appeared and offered to care for him" — 00:58:49
- Says the Stepmother has no book, no story and cannot remember her name: "she's just a character in your story"; she went to the Baba Yaga, who "revealed to her the nature of her existence" — 00:56:23, 00:48:18
- Uses "Call to Destiny" on the Gust prayer — 01:54:07
"We're kind of step-siblings, in a fun way? You know, your stepmother was my stepmother for a moment, and she's no fun." — 00:46:34
"She's tearing through stories, man." — 00:48:18
"I have a chute in my leg here." — 00:50:19
"I talked a big game about how much I hated my story, and now I'm the master of it." — 00:51:27
NA E16: In the Land of Giants
- New sixth-level ability Strands of Fate lets him cast Animate Objects; golden strings fly from his hand — 00:20:06, 00:21:55
- Animates a large watchtower, two swords (medium) and two skulls (Lou: medium counts as two, "I can do three swords and a tower" before changing) — 00:20:52, 00:21:34
- The animated tower attacks a trebuchet's archers (13 to hit, 16 damage), crushes two archers, bends over to give the party total cover — 00:23:03, 00:23:18, 00:24:16
- Swords hit Alphonse (10 damage) and the skirmishers (8): "Real boy!" says a sword's gem-eye — 00:25:06, 00:25:35
- Lou on the spell: "Against tiny people, it works out. I can animate whole buildings!" — 00:27:45
- Chooses not to spend his action controlling the objects, so each rolls a d10 and does nothing useful — 00:49:28, 00:49:36
- Eldritch Blast kills a tower wizard (13 to hit, 12 damage); a second Eldritch Blast at a trebuchet is a nat one — 00:51:03, 00:52:33
- Counterspell on the second turn-into-vase trick of a wizard — 00:35:19
- Struck by trebuchet (21 bludgeoning), later hit by Alphonse for 23 and drops: "I am down." — 01:05:11, 01:14:35, 01:14:38
- On the ground he hears and answers his Stepmother (see NPCs); the Goose heals 70 — 01:21:49, 01:22:23, 01:22:47
- Frees the golden egg with two Eldritch Blasts (9 plus 4, and 7): "Both ropes blast off." — 01:33:49, 01:34:06, 01:34:09
- Having heard all of Mother Goose's talk with Jack, he feels weird about blowing up the trebuchet — 01:52:55, 01:52:59
- Hands a lit firework to Cricket aimed at Alphonse and the cavalry; Lou uses Call of Destiny ("I'm using Call of Destiny to roll an additional dice"; Brennan: "He got a six and a two"), having planned to make the mule fail, then reconsiders (a friend of donkeys); Alphonse's save is a nat 20, whose die owner is not stated — 01:53:44, 01:55:56, 01:56:22, 01:56:36, 01:56:56, 01:57:18
- Cries "Goose, pick up that motherfucker! Get him, Goose!" when the prince runs — 01:59:26
"My 6th level ability, Strands of Fate, allows me to cast Animate Object as a spell." — 00:20:06
"Pinocchio's incredibly disappointed that I guess, what, if you don't put your energy into things, they don't work out the way you want them to?" — 00:50:26
"Cricket! Go give the mule one last gift." — 01:54:13
NA E17: The Last Wish
- Plays the Golden Harp for the party's sleep: "Smoke on the Water" (Performance 17; the Goose snores), later "Three Blind Mice" — 00:23:32, 00:23:42, 00:32:35
- Checks on Cricket, grapples him (19 on the die minus one for 18 against Cricket's 11) and makes him drink conjured water; says he is "a spirit that I've summoned out of a book" — 00:52:27, 00:53:00, 00:53:24, 00:53:28, 00:53:33
- Asked by Cricket whether his stepmom put the Goose here, he hedges ("I think that's what people were saying") that she has machinations around the Gander and is, he guesses, in The Lines Between "really messing stuff up" — 00:54:36, 00:54:44
- On the coming confrontation: a choice has to be made, and he does not think it is about running — 00:58:44, 00:59:44
- Fears becoming like Candlewick, who beats people over the head and eats donkey dogs — 01:00:55
- Says the journey has led him somewhere he likes "on a surface level" — 01:02:12
- Takes from Pib a ball bearing as a token of the favor Pib owes him ("Yeah, give me one of those just as a token."); "I won't lie, I wanted to blow up that mule." — 01:14:47, 01:14:53, 01:14:57, 01:15:08
- Pinocchio's own persuasion plea at the Baba Yaga's door: "I am Pinocchio. Some have called me the Boy of Destiny. I see myself only as the son of Geppetto." — 01:54:31
- Leg full of bubblegum "from my ankle to my thigh"; empties it before the hut — 00:59:19, 01:47:42
- Takes his hat off and puts it on Pib, and holds Pib, for the Persuasion; his roll is the nat 20 — 01:51:30, 01:53:07
- Claws sink into the wood around his neck as the door opens — 01:55:20
"And I just want to try and play Smoke on the Water." — 00:23:39
"I know you're a spirit that I've summoned out of a book, but you got to drink water." — 00:53:33
"I think there's just something really scary about when we get to that moment and we have that confrontation, a choice needs to be made." — 00:59:44
"I don't want that life. I don't want to be that guy." — 01:00:55
NA E18: The Trials of Baba Yaga
- Brings whiskey ("a handle") and bubblegum as gifts: "Pinocchio Select", "aged in me" — 00:13:48, 00:14:09, 00:14:18
- When asked what he would give, offers his strings ("I was going to offer my strings"); Gerard says "Don't, Pinocchio!" — 00:20:02, 00:20:05
- Tells the Baba Yaga his father's name and that he is sad sometimes — 00:04:40
- Says of his strings, to the Baba Yaga: "They're in my hands now." — 00:05:35
- Asks the Baba Yaga about harps as a gift; she says she likes a gift "to hurt to give"; he drops it — 00:30:53, 00:30:59, 00:31:10
- Sets the table; Perception 18; casts Mage Hand to make the sound of setting the table while he eaves-peeps on a staircase — 01:15:36, 01:15:40
- At the door, whispers into the keyhole to the Stepmother that he has his strings back and they are coming for her — 01:17:27
- Answers Geppetto's plea to obey: "That's not the world we live in anymore." — 01:18:18
- Rolls 11 for initiative (beats a 10); opens the door on the Stepmother holding Geppetto; is terrified and has no answer to her — 01:20:06, 01:20:10, 01:21:27
- Offers up the chance to be a real boy again, in Lou's narration, Pinocchio would rather have his father there looking at him in any way than looking on him with love; Geppetto is lifted away by the glowing string — 01:22:31, 01:23:31
- Takes the scrap with the name "Minerva" from the air; later says "I have the name" and proposes writing it into Mother Goose's book — 01:26:27, 01:26:30, 02:01:33
- Set the table "with his actual hands" and folded swan napkins — 01:55:01, 01:55:09
"It's a classic combination of whiskey and bubblegum." — 00:14:47
"His name's Geppetto, and he's sad sometimes." — 00:04:40
"I've taken back my strings. We're coming for you." — 01:17:27
"You feel a sense of deep and profound loss." — 01:23:31
NA E19: The Ending of All Things (Part 1)
- Can feel destiny written in the ink — 00:01:29
- Answers Cinderella's offer of no harm with a joke — 00:09:24
- Pours out Pinocchio Select/Reserve for the dead Cricket; Cricket's last words to him were "Drink whiskey." — 00:33:40, 00:38:12
- Calls Gerard "to get up in the fucking mix" and takes him by Dimension Door 500 feet, riding on Gerard's back, to Mira — 00:38:37, 00:38:45, 00:39:05, 00:39:16
- Insight on Mira 19 (Bless does not apply, the 23 is dropped); Brennan's reading: Mira "is not one of the true believers", her life so bad that "this was not the hardest sell", she is alone and "heard that somebody had answers" — 00:39:47, 00:39:53, 00:40:01
- Persuasion on Mira as a bonus action with disadvantage: first number 10, then Call of Destiny on himself, result 24 (Lou: the die 19 replacing); Brennan narrates his own glowing strings entering the book and a glowing page opening, Gerard hopping through, ink spiralling around his head — 00:40:52, 00:41:11, 00:41:18
- Mira steps beside him; Gerard congratulates him ("That was awesome.") — 00:43:25, 00:43:32
- Second turn ("Pinocchio, that's gonna be your turn." 01:26:56; the first was 00:38:03): finishes the bottle, smashes it, chews bubblegum, moves 20 feet, "snaps off" a firework to hit Scheherazade and Snow White (not Mother Goose, who is near) for 5d10 (32; 16 on Scheherazade's success) — 01:27:25, 01:28:22, 01:29:30
- With Rosamund after her return: "Twin, yeah. We're wood twinsies!" — 01:57:05
- Calls to Cinderella as "Stepsis"; Brennan sets the DC at 20 rather than 25 because of "a connection to her"; the first roll is a conflict (the caption phrase "Rolls a nat 1" against Ally's "It was 19" and a frame at 01:58:24 reading 19), then 3 and 14 with disadvantage; stays at the base of the ziggurat — 01:57:29, 01:58:01, 01:58:19, 01:59:09, 01:59:54
"you can feel destiny itself written in this ink in front of you" — 00:01:29
"We've never been the harmin' sort." — 00:09:24
"You can't cry when something great happens." — 00:33:45
"I know what it means to have something taken away from you and to feel like you'll never get it back." — 00:42:27
"There are gonna be more pages, and you're gonna decide what's written on them." — 00:43:18
"The world you want, it's not worth fighting for anymore." — 01:57:46
NA E20: The Ending of All Things (Part 2)
- Animates five objects of the Canonade with Strands of Fate cast as Animate Objects: covers for Mother Goose, Aesop and Scheherazade, a flying book island for Ylfa, and Flat William beside him — 00:26:15, 00:28:29, 00:29:11
- Pours a swig of whiskey, throws a firework to Pib — 00:28:13
- Another Persuasion on Cinderella (DC lowered to 15 because the fairies arrived, with disadvantage): dice 19 and 9, fails — 00:30:19, 00:30:36
- To the Turquoise-haired fairy: "It's already too late. We can't go back." / "I can't be a boy again!" — 00:31:26, 00:31:34
- Grapples the Authors' hand with his books (25 after Elody's d4), flattens it to the side of the ziggurat; later lets it go because it wants the Stepmother (he feels the string tug) — 00:59:16, 00:59:38, 01:07:57, 01:08:06
- Persuasion on the Turquoise-haired fairy: 16 on the die, 21, DC 15; Flat William carries him up — 01:00:22, 01:01:14
- Flat William throws him to the Stepmother; he shouts her name, "Minerva", which gives her disadvantage on saves and ability checks and brings the Turquoise-haired fairy back; he then dances around shouting it — 01:29:43, 01:30:01, 01:30:08, 01:31:01
- Lou uses Call of Destiny on Ylfa's Persuasion (one left); the last one is offered later for her Athletics — 01:18:51, 01:48:10
- Casts Banishment on the Stepmother (Charisma, DC 16); she burns a Legendary Resistance — 01:46:44, 01:47:02, 01:47:18
- In the spell: asks where his father went ("Sort of suspended in strings"), gives the Stepmother Pinocchio Reserve and a piece of gum — 02:12:52, 02:14:19
- Epilogue (Lou): a real boy at 21; "he makes a cocktail from his youth and time on Toy Island that involves a bit of whiskey and a stick of bubblegum" — 02:23:28
- Epilogue with Ylfa: plays gin rummy; "They don't turn the kids into donkeys anymore." — 02:37:03, 02:37:29
"Each of you has total cover." — 00:27:45
"Girl, come on! Read the room!" — 00:30:50
"I'm sorry, I had to do it. I know you've always wanted to help me." — 01:01:37
"Hey, sometimes you need a bad stepmom to let you know what's right." — 02:14:41
"You've got to get a chute." — 02:15:11