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Down Came the Rain
What happens
- 00:00:54 Brennan welcomes the audience; asked about the little blood-red gems on the table, he says he gave them "in specific amounts to specific people" (00:01:06, 00:01:14).
- 00:01:25 Recap (recap): the afterlife adventures, the entities and forces met, Red's relationship to the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella's contact with Rosamund, the turquoise-haired fairy's contact with Prince Gerard and the Golden Goose herself giving wing to— (Brennan's sentence breaks off, 00:01:25); Pib's link to a council of trickster animals; Pinocchio's confrontation with "MaMa" (00:01:25, 00:03:12). Emily rolls an Insight check on whether the Big Bad Wolf is a fairy and gets 15 (00:02:33); Brennan says the wolf had no wings, wishes or wand and it is hard to tell (00:02:35).
- 00:03:37 The party returns to a place partway along the road towards Shoeburg, between the Kingdoms of Greenleigh and Reverie and partway from the fallen Kingdom of Marienne; thunder and rain (00:03:37).
- 00:04:27 The Cock & Toad, a roadside tavern with a rooster and a toad on its sign: mercenaries and warriors, a scarred bartender, a peddler and a giant dish with a face at the bar (00:04:27, 00:05:28).
- 00:06:47 Initiative is rolled to set the order of arrival; Rosamund arrives first (00:07:12).
- 00:07:18 Rosamund arrives with a hooded bodyguard of woodland creatures topped by an owl; Ylfa arrives, orders a "Pimmsless Pimm's cup", gets a whole jar of Gibson onions from the bartender and meets Rosamund again; the owl swallows the jar (00:07:46, 00:09:21, 00:10:08, 00:12:10, 00:13:30).
- 00:13:44 Pib sneaks in (stealth 23), changed: older, darker blue boots, a new cape, two small daggers, a bitten ear; Ylfa blows on the fire and the tavern's papers blow about (00:14:01, 00:15:05, 00:16:08).
- 00:16:37 Gerard arrives, now fully a big frog with the glass shard in him; Ylfa pulls the shard out (Athletics natural 20) and he takes eight damage (00:16:43, 00:17:39, 00:17:58).
- 00:18:58 Mother Goose arrives with a basket of apples and the book; Pinocchio arrives, mossy and rotted, leaning on his walking stick, with a full-sized crow on his shoulder (00:19:07, 00:20:31, 00:20:53).
- 00:23:16 The six compare what happened to them between lives; Ylfa's wolf is gone, Rosamund tells of three princesses, Pinocchio of his mother and his nose, Gerard of the turquoise-haired fairy; Pinocchio and Rosamund discuss fairies (00:23:30, 00:23:47, 00:24:12, 00:26:46, 00:30:15).
- 00:31:46 Gerard is asked whether the fairy gave him anything; his Deception 13 is read as a lie, and Rosamund's creatures search him in vain; he then admits the fairy told him to take the shard to a moonlit glade (00:32:21, 00:32:45, 00:33:13).
- 00:33:44 The group argues whether to go to Timothy's house or a barn; Pinocchio presses that Rosamund must be kept hidden; Rosamund and Timothy speak of Pinocchio's mom who "ate two people", and Brennan pauses and rules that only Pinocchio knows (00:34:00, 00:35:00).
- 00:37:04 The shard is discussed as something to stab, wipe or ink the book with; Rosamund says "true love is a myth" and a drunk Dish at the bar answers "Amen" (00:37:04, 00:38:07, 00:38:15).
- 00:38:17 The group talks to the Dish; Timothy shouts "Touch the book, touch the book!" (00:41:14), and the Dish tells his story and vanishes into golden motes with the line "And the Dish ran away with the Spoon" (00:41:03, 00:44:06).
- 00:45:35 Ylfa asks the Dish's tab (over 30 gold); Gerard lies that the Dish went to a better bar to drink free and the bartender rushes out after him (00:45:39, 00:46:02, 00:46:21).
- 00:47:21 Pib follows his ring's strand outside and helps a tiny spider in an acorn boat; the spider tells of a spider queen gathering forces in the Lullaby Lands, of a hill where her web used to be and of a winged shape that honked like thunder (00:47:21, 00:53:01).
- 00:55:19 Pib returns; the party goes to a barn; bear scat, a cow that leaps into the sky; the shard goes into the book and the whole story of Cinderella writes itself (00:56:03, 00:57:30, 00:59:24, 01:00:15).
- 01:02:05 A hand in the book writes back from a cave: Scheherazade, trapped with Sinbad, waiting for a roc, speaks with Mother Goose through the pages and sends an image of an eight-legged spider glyph (01:02:42, 01:05:24, 01:11:58).
- 01:17:05 After the book closes: Pib's ring, Gerard's golden sphere, a plan to find the spider, a team huddle ("Together") (01:17:36, 01:20:45).
- 01:21:33 Gerard patches his wound on a short rest, with a medicine crit by Mother Goose; Ylfa tells the others she can carry them on webs (01:21:40, 01:22:36).
- 01:24:02 The cow lands from the sky; Speak with Animals; Mother Goose asks the cow to touch the book, rolls Performance 6, and the cow vanishes with a new line "And the cow jumped over the moon" (01:24:14, 01:25:42).
- 01:26:12 The party marches through the rain; Longstrider, Goodberry, a ram from the book for Pinocchio, the crow scouts and sees Tuffeton, a hill with a mine and cobwebs (01:28:22, 01:34:27, 01:36:28).
- 01:39:35 Constitution saves in the rain; Pib fails and shivers; Mother Goose wraps him in a scarf, goes for Cure Wounds and, with a first-level slot allowed to cast a second-level spell, casts Lesser Restoration; Brennan rules that the cast prevented Pib from getting another blood-red token (01:39:56, 01:42:19, 01:42:59).
- 01:44:15 They enter the mine in teams, leaving apples and ball bearings behind; Ylfa feels a boar through Beast Bond; they reach an abyss of giant web (01:47:10, 01:48:41, 01:52:19, 01:53:50).
- 01:56:44 Mother Goose writes to Scheherazade again and hears of a palace with tapestries showing a golden sphere and a princess with a mace; the Gander speaks from the shadows (01:57:43, 01:58:17).
- 01:59:04 They plan the crossing; the crow becomes a spider; a group stealth check succeeds (Crow natural 20) and they cross more than an hour of web (02:02:57, 02:03:36, 02:04:26).
- 02:06:25 They stop within 40 feet of a group of spiders in the center of the web and those with darkvision have the drop on them ("those of you with darkvision, you have the drop on them"); Brennan calls initiative (02:06:25, 02:06:48).
- 02:06:53 Brennan closes the show and a next-time preview for Episode 6, "The Curdled Web", follows (see Table talk) (02:06:53).
Frames
Key quotes
- “Last we left off, boy, oh boy.” — Brennan 0:01:25
- “My, you've really blossomed into a young lady.” — Rosamund 0:12:10
- “I thought this was like five, 10 minutes.” — Timothy 0:19:41
- “Your mom who ate two people?” — Rosamund 0:34:28
- “Love's not real.” — Timothy 0:38:43
- “You gotta keep your hopes up.” — Spider 0:53:01
- “My name is Scheherazade.” — Mystery Writer 1:05:24
- “If you wanna fail together and as a team, go together.” — Pinocchio 1:20:26
- “Senator was King Cole's ram and Jubilee doesn't exist here.” — Brennan 1:33:07
- “Strands are enormous, utterly gargantuan.” — Brennan 1:54:41
Who and what appears
Player characters
- Mother Timothy Goose
- Pinocchio
- Prince Gerard of Greenleigh
- Princess Rosamund du Prix
- Puss in Boots
- Ylfa Snorgelsson
NPCs
- Aesop
- Alphonse the Mule
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Jack Hubbard-Goose
- Pete (Neverafter)
- Pinocchi-Crow
- Princess Elody of Greenleigh
- Scheherazade
- Sinbad
- The Dish
- The Gander
- The Stepmother
- The bartender
- The boar
- The owl (Neverafter)
- The peddler
- The spider queen
- The stepsisters
- Turquina
Locations
- A barn outside the tavern
- Hamelin
- Scheherazade's cave
- Shoeberg
- The Cock & Toad
- The Endless Nights
- The Lullaby Lands
- The mine under the hill
- Tuffeton
Items and artifacts
- Ball bearings
- Cinderella's story
- Glyph image
- Mother Goose's book
- Pinocchio's nose
- Red gems
- Ring of the Web
- The glass shard
- The golden ball
- Timothy's apples and scarf
Factions and organizations
- The Daughters of the Crown
- The fairies
- The party (Neverafter)
- The spiders
- The tavern's patrons
- Tricksters
Creatures
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll | Result | DC / AC | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:02:33 | Ylfa (Emily) | Insight (on whether the Big Bad Wolf is a fairy) | 15 ("16 minus one") | — | Brennan: hard to tell |
| 00:06:54 | Gerard (Murph) | Initiative | 10 | — | arrival order |
| 00:06:57 | Ylfa (Emily) | Initiative | 17 | — | arrival order |
| 00:06:59 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Initiative | 17 | — | first to arrive |
| 00:07:01 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Initiative | 6 | — | arrival order |
| 00:07:03 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Initiative | "Tres" (earlier "I got two") | — | arrival order |
| 00:07:05 | Pib (Zac) | Initiative | 11 | — | arrival order |
| 00:12:34 | Ylfa (Emily) | Intimidation | 5 (a minus one) | — | owl frightens her |
| 00:14:01 | Pib (Zac) | Stealth, advantage | 23 | — | unseen |
| 00:17:39 | Ylfa (Emily) | Athletics | natural 20 | — | shard pulled; Gerard takes 8 |
| 00:22:36 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Insight (the crow) | 16 | — | no result stated |
| 00:22:55 | Ylfa (Emily) | Survival or Perception | natural 1 | — | smells rain and peat |
| 00:25:45 | Ylfa (Emily) | History | 4 | — | memories of Pottingham |
| 00:28:28 | Pib (Zac) | Insight | 10 | — | no explanation |
| 00:32:21 | Gerard (Murph) | Deception | 13 | 13 to beat | caught |
| 00:32:29 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Insight | 16 | — | sees flop sweat |
| 00:32:34 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Insight | 19 (with crow help) | — | sees flop sweat |
| 00:32:36 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Insight | 14 | — | sees flop sweat |
| 00:35:19 | Pib (Zac) | Insight | 16 | — | Brennan: only what Pinocchio has said |
| 00:42:55 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Investigation | 15 | — | the Dish tells his story |
| 00:44:50 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Arcana | 9 | — | limit of the book |
| 00:56:12 | Ylfa (Emily) | Perception | 17 | — | barn |
| 00:56:12 | Gerard (Murph) | Perception | 17 | — | barn |
| 00:56:15 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Perception | "Dirty 20" | — | notices scat |
| 00:56:17 | Pib (Zac) | Perception | 16 | — | barn |
| 00:56:20 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Perception | 18 (crow help) | — | barn |
| 00:56:20 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Perception | 16 | — | barn |
| 00:57:30 | Ylfa (Emily) | Survival | 10 | — | cow jumps |
| 00:58:51 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Survival (Pib helps) | 10 | — | no tracks |
| 01:00:58 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Insight | 19 | — | Cinderella's story |
| 01:02:12 | Rosamund / Gerard / Mother Goose | Perception | 24 / 15 / 15 | — | quill scratching in the book |
| 01:15:58 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Stealth | 20 (Ally: "not nat") | — | hides a drawing |
| 01:16:18 | Pib (Zac) | Perception | natural 1 | — | not stated |
| 01:16:22 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Perception | 19 | — | Brennan: "Ooh, okay." (outcome not stated) |
| 01:21:47 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Medicine | "crit" (as said) | — | Gerard's health back |
| 01:25:40 | Mother Goose (Ally) | Performance (Rosamund helps) | 6 | — | cow vanishes |
| 01:30:28 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Insight | 8 | — | misses Red's resolve |
| 01:31:19 | Pib (Zac) | Stealth | 23 | — | fast and stealthy |
| 01:33:02 | Mother Goose (Ally) | History or Arcana | 18 | — | Senator, Jubilee |
| 01:36:25 | Crow (Lou) | Perception or Investigation | 12 | — | scouts Tuffeton |
| 01:39:58 | Rosamund / Gerard / Ylfa / Mother Goose / Pib / Pinocchio | Constitution saves | 18 / 14 / 9 / 16 / 6 / 19 | — (Brennan: "Anyone else get below an eight?") | Pib's 6 is a fail |
| 01:51:15 | Gerard (Murph) | Perception | 17 | 10 | spiders |
| 01:54:38 | Pib (Zac) | Investigation | 22 | — | identifies strands |
| 02:02:42 | Rosamund / Mother Goose | Survival or Acrobatics | 18 / 22 | — | cross the web |
| 02:03:29 | Pib / Rosamund / Ylfa / Mother Goose / Crow | Group Stealth | 24 / 22 / 26 / 16 / natural 20 | — | undetected |
Natural 20s: Ylfa 1 (Athletics), Crow 1 (group Stealth) · Natural 1s: Ylfa 1 (Survival or Perception), Pib 1 (Perception) · Claimed natural 20: Ally's Medicine "crit" (01:21:47) · Totals: Rosamund "Dirty 20" (Perception); Ally's Stealth 20 is not a natural.