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Kingston Brown

Kingston Brown is a nurse at St. Owen's who says he has lived in New York since he was born in 1963 UC E1·01:14:21. He wears his grandfather's black trench coat and keeps New York Islanders jerseys at home UC E1·01:14:21 UC E1·01:15:04. He says "We take care of each other, all right?" about his neighbourhood, and cars never hit him there UC E1·01:18:45 UC E1·01:19:27. The city pays his bus fare, and a subway token he wears glows to open a hidden room UC E1·01:20:09 UC E1·01:26:23.

Kingston is the nurse and city-magic cleric of the party, played by Lou, who says he has been magical for 30 years and calls himself "the Vox Populi" UC E3·01:12:32 UC E3·00:24:17. He heals and blesses his friends throughout, and he takes Pete in to stay with him after Pete's dream trouble begins UC E4·00:05:57 UC E3·00:40:01.

A cop's specter drops him to 0 hit points, and in the darkness he feels Pete take his hand UC E8·01:23:57 UC E8·01:28:23. Afterwards he tells Pete "I owe you an explanation and an apology" UC E8·01:46:17. In Nod he and Pete share a museum of memories, and Pete picks his UC E9·01:39:31 UC E9·01:48:56. He votes to give the Seelie crown to the Seelie and wins the bronze eagle at a card game UC E13·00:34:01 UC E13·01:51:34.

Against Moses he shouts "You come for my family! You come for my friends!", and Sofia notices he called them friends UC E14·00:15:31 UC E14·00:16:10. He revives Pete, and later Sofia and Ricky, with Revivify UC E14·01:22:10 UC E16·01:21:53 UC E17·01:15:12. Facing the American Dream he says "I've made my peace. And I will stop you." UC E17·00:27:34. Lou's epilogue has him still at the hospital, spending Sundays with Liz and owning a mutt named Bruce UC E17·01:48:50 UC E17·01:49:29.

Character sheet — The Unsleeping City

The Unsleeping City sheet of Kingston Brown (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.

Class
Cleric UC E1·01:14:28—
Subclass
City Domain UC E1·01:14:28—
AC
18 UC E10·01:09:3818 UC E2·00:41:29 UC E2·00:41:31—
Spell save DC
17 UC E14·00:16:0515 UC E4·00:23:09—
Spell attack
+8 UC E12·01:56:58 UC E12·01:57:03—
WIS
+5 UC E14·01:45:59 UC E14·01:46:02—

Skills

Saving throws

Features

Spells

Items

  • Subway token — Brennan: the subway token around Kingston's neck glows and opens a door only to him. UC E1·01:26:23
  • Holy Grail Detergent — Brennan: "over by the laundry detergent, there's something called holy grail laundry detergent." Kingston finds a bottle. UC E7·00:08:22
  • MetroCard — Brennan: a MetroCard "purple and covered in stars much like the train to Nod was", a Christmas gift. UC E11·01:37:53
  • Holy Grail Detergent (used) — Lou: "I pour a bunch of Holy Grail detergent on him" (Kugrash); Brennan's recap counts it among the treasure spent. UC E14·01:44:35 UC E15·00:01:57
  • MetroCard — lost: Lou slips the MTA Metro Card to Nod. UC E17·00:59:59

By episode

UC E1: Start Spreading the News

  • Nurse at St. Owen's, 55, New York born (1963): "I've been here since 1963, when I was born." — 01:14:21
  • Wears his grandfather's black trench coat; New York Islanders jerseys at home — 01:14:21, 01:15:04
  • Neighbourhood protector: "We take care of each other, all right?" — 01:18:45; cars never hit him in his neighbourhood — 01:19:27
  • The city pays his bus fare: "the little light flicks green. Your fare is taken care of by the city itself." — 01:20:09
  • Wears a subway token that glows to open a hidden room — 01:26:23
  • Has been doing this "for 30 years" — 01:32:57. Casts Detect Poison and Disease — 01:27:38
  • Mother Victoria forces food on him; says he is "a 55-year-old man" — 01:16:12

UC E2: Mutant Santa Melee

  • Casts Bless on Kugrash, Ricky and Sofie at the start — 00:03:46; the subway token glows — 00:04:01.
  • Hesitates between Ricky and Santa and heals Santa: "Fine, I heal Santa." — 00:36:50. Shouts: "Santa! Get your ass up!" — 00:37:21
  • Is a nurse: Epona greets him "Nurse Brown, good to see you." — 01:18:13
  • Offers to remove the eggs: "I need to take those eggs out of you." — 01:12:56

UC E3: Pigeon Plus Ones

  • As trained medical professional rejects tooth-ripping — 00:03:21. Offers Pete coffee after Pete asks to talk privately — 00:05:48.
  • To Pete: "Welcome to The Unsleeping City." — 00:09:22. On himself: "I'm the Vox Populi." — 00:24:17; "I woke up one day and I could touch people and make them feel better." — 00:24:24
  • Medicine with advantage heals both twins — 00:31:45.
  • Takes Pete in: "moving in is a strong word. You can stay with me until we figure something else out." — 00:40:01; "Honestly, I sleep in the guest bedroom now, so you'll be in the master." — 00:55:34. House rule: "Just be kind to my family" — 00:56:01
  • "I did dope one time in 1978." — 00:57:27
  • About himself: "I've been magical for 30 years." — 01:12:32; he lives on "the top floor" with his mother below — 00:40:12
  • A wedding photo with a younger woman; a tuxedo "from my wedding" (Lou) — 01:21:38. Kingston says nothing about her.
  • At the wedding: "Hi, I'm Kingston." — 01:28:22; asks Misty for an introduction to Don Confetti — 01:33:02; before the wedding: "the markings from the pixies, they're really the only thing we've got to go on right now" — 01:08:51

UC E4: Scramble in the Sewers

  • Blesses three: "Pete, Ricky and Sofie Bikes" — 00:05:57. Command DC 15 — 00:23:09; "Drop it, drop it!" — 00:23:22.
  • On the climb: "on the worst day of my life where my house was ruined by pigeons and now I'm running around in a dirty sewer. It's nice to know I still got it." — 00:24:15.
  • Natural 20 Athletics: "the subway token he wears around his neck begins to glow, and you hear a bunch of voices in so many different languages" — 00:43:34. Brennan's line is his narration.
  • Complaints throughout: "I live a clean life." — 00:38:35; "Y'all gotta get me the fuck outta here. I am done with this sewer, we were at a nice party." — 01:24:52.
  • Guiding Bolt, 19 to hit, 14 damage: "An exactly average roll." (Brennan) — 01:13:35.

UC E5: A New York Wedding

  • "Can we get out of this dirty-ass sewer?" — 00:03:25. Wisdom save 18.
  • Notes of the crown-up-the-butt man: "this guy who comes in the hospital a lot who puts stuff up his butt" — 00:02:18.
  • Dances with Pete while hearing the story: "Hey, keep dancing." — 00:37:50.
  • At home: salad with baby spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers — 00:53:09; "I buy local." — 00:53:20.
  • "Willy?" — 01:08:34, "The golem." — 01:08:38.
  • Visits Willy (Investigate 19), turns the dybbuks away: "Get outta here, you damn dybbuks!" — 01:26:39. Gets the name Emma Lazarus.
  • Heals Misty's hip after she calls: "I'm on my way, I'll see you soon." — 01:39:39; next morning "I use magic to heal you." — 01:46:22.
  • Says to Willy that Santa Claus "got his list stolen" and "Satan and St. Peter have been using that same list" — 01:28:12.

UC E6: The War of Bugs and Rats

  • Perception 27 hears Becky overhead — 00:06:30; "She's behind us in some weird burrowed hole!" — 00:06:42.
  • Bless as a second-level spell on Pete, Ricky, Sofia, then Kugrash — 00:07:27, 00:07:51, 00:07:55. Misty declines: "I'm good." — 00:08:03.
  • Cure Wounds on Sofia: "Damn, you look good." — 00:23:45; "But not for good reasons," — 00:23:49; heals 7 (00:24:13).
  • Command on the beetle: "Halt and stay up there, you damn bug." — 00:50:00; the beetle: "Are you from like, a zoning board or a neighborhood council?" — 00:50:16, Kingston: "One or the other, yes!" — 00:50:19.
  • Acrobatics: Murph: "You have to roll a 19." — 00:51:24; rolls a natural 20, "I have never been more confident rolling a dice in my entire life." — 00:51:36.
  • Guiding Bolt, 18 damage, on the last bugster — 01:14:23. Sacred Flame 13 — 01:37:14.

UC E7: We Need to Talk About Pete

  • Smashes Pete's Guinness: "I'd like to slap the Guinness out of Pete's hand." — 00:02:48. Pays $12.50 for the detergent (00:08:34).
  • Offers the group his bus (00:14:30) and a salad dinner: "Got a bunch of leftover salad at my place." — 00:19:16.
  • Reports on Willy: "He said the Lazarus we might be looking for might have something to do with the Statue of Liberty" — 00:31:46.
  • Hears of the lineup at city hall (see NPCs), is sworn in on his eternal coat (00:53:46), and is grilled by Liz about his date with Misty (01:00:00–01:01:38); Insight 19 on Epona (01:25:28).
  • At the meeting: "If things get out of hand, we put him down." — 01:36:47; "10 out of 10 times I choose New York City." — 01:37:40. Later argues the meeting is necessary: "we need to decide how we are acting towards him." — 01:41:11.

UC E8: Subway Skirmish

  • Recap: "If things get out of hand, we put him down." — 00:00:12 (recap).
  • Confronts Epona at the stop: "Epona? What are you doing here? 'Cause clearly it's not police business." — 00:00:32 (recap).
  • Takes 30 damage and is restrained by Epona's chain (00:10:13); casts Heat Metal, takes the damage too: "Great. I'll take the damage." — 00:23:17; Epona drops the weapon.
  • Stays silent: "Still silent." — 00:47:39. "I'm not weirdly shaken but I'm shaken by Pete's revelation." — 00:24:20 (Lou describing Kingston).
  • Casts Turn Undead; Command ("flee", second and third level); gives Healing Word to Alejandro.
  • Takes 22 from a cop (01:22:56); Constitution save against the max-HP cut: "Great. That’s going to be 16." — 01:23:56; the DM: "You succeed, Kingston falls as this specter reaches in." — 01:23:57 (max HP not reduced, but he falls to 0 from the damage). Death save "2" then 3 after Pete's Tides of Chaos — 01:27:58–01:28:22. In the unconsciousness (DM): "You feel a hand take your hand in the darkness and you can feel Pete through the mist." — 01:28:23.
  • To Pete over the mind link: "I owe you an explanation and an apology." — 01:46:17.

UC E9: Borough of Dreams

  • Recap: "I owe you an explanation and an apology." — 00:00:32 (recap).
  • Is amazed by Nod: "This is easily, this is some of the wildest shit, We're in Nod." — 00:10:13.
  • Perception 16 — 00:11:04. The Dream World recedes from him; he is unable to fly — 00:17:56; as he approaches the East River "the water parts as you got here" (DM) — 00:17:56.
  • Throws the Tupperware when the tomatoes talk: "I thought you said it was a sober salad!" — 00:18:59.
  • Asks Nod: "With regard to the Dreamfolk who we had to deal with in Brooklyn, I mean what was that about?" — 00:46:48.
  • Calls Nod "gray baby" — 00:47:26, 00:50:20; Nod objects only the second time — 00:50:25.
  • Summarises Nod's theory: "the American Dream is one of these paragons" — 00:42:58.
  • Cannot fly: "I don't like this. I don't like this at all." — 01:02:14.
  • At Glamour: "I'll just take water?" — 01:26:03. Investigation "Modified 20" — 01:27:24. "I don't like this place." — 01:33:22.
  • Lou plays Kingston at several ages in the museum memories — 01:40:53–01:46:41.
  • Pete's hug: "What?" — 01:49:01; "Aww." — 01:49:05.
  • At the art show: "Picasso is art, this is bullshit!" — 01:58:29.

UC E10: Panic at the Art Show

  • Calls Spirit Guardians as spiritual New Yorkers — 00:22:24.
  • Cannot see through the fire ("Insight 14") — fire is "being summoned magically but once it's here, it is just burning the building regularly" — 00:21:57.
  • Casts Spare the Dying, Healing Word (9), Mass Healing Word (9 to up to six), Persuasion 21 to lead people to the roof — 00:50:17–00:51:35.
  • Sees Willy frozen — 01:15:13.
  • Lightning Bolt at fourth level, 9d6 = 30 — 01:59:54.
  • Sense of the city: "more whole" after Nod and making things right with Pete — 02:14:20.

UC E11: Home for the Holidays

  • Cooks breakfast for Pete (grits, pancakes, scrambled eggs, Polish sausage) — 00:03:30. Perception 19 notices 53V3N's text — 00:11:24.
  • Nurse: "I'm a nurse, and so I just wanna take a look at you" — Medicine 25 shows Hib-Hob was hit by a very powerful Sleep spell, "probably pixie magic" — 01:26:24–01:27:01.
  • Arcana natural 20: recalls the Time Stone from the Dragon of Bleecker Street's hoard — 01:23:45–01:24:24. Has "never been inside of this place before" — 01:19:19.
  • Lauds Pete to Christmas guests hoping they will hire him — 01:45:17. Gifts Pete tomato seeds and a zebra hat; gets chocolate and a purple, star-covered MetroCard "much like the train to Nod was" — 01:36:34, 01:37:53.

UC E12: Broadway Brawl

  • Insight on Misty 21: she looks afraid and is casting some spell — 00:07:52–00:08:04. Takes the stairs down; "I'm a 55 year old man" — 00:11:25.
  • Bless (d4) on three, then four allies — 00:11:51, 00:46:14; Guiding Bolt hits Titania (18) — 01:15:19; Mass Healing Word at fourth level — 01:44:00; Guiding Bolt at third level on Don Confetti — 01:56:55.
  • Huge Sondheim fan: "Into the Woods is one of the greatest shows that I have ever seen." — 00:26:52.

UC E13: Faeries and Feces

  • Reminds Misty of his questions about the mirror and Titania — 00:13:11
  • Votes for the Seelie option: "So I will vote in favor of giving the crown to the Seelie." — 00:34:01
  • Knows the bronze eagle is inside Lowell: "I know where it is, y'all ain't gonna like that." — 00:59:04
  • Texts Emiko for Lowell's address — 01:01:09–01:01:18
  • History natural 20: Buddy will be at the card game — 01:17:03–01:17:07
  • Wins the eagle with Persuasion 13 and the hand ten-king suited versus pocket aces — 01:51:34–01:53:03
  • Takes Eliza, Jamil and Cooper to the Met; Moses threatens him; he slaps Moses (attack 19) — 01:57:22–02:02:34
  • Medicine 27 on Liz — 02:04:24
  • Voice moves Dr. Simms out of the room — 02:05:11

UC E14: Showdown at the Stock Exchange

  • Casts Shutdown at fifth level: "I'd like to cast a fifth level Shutdown spell." — 00:14:35; steps up and calls out Moses: "You stupid motherfucker!" — 00:15:27
  • "You come for my family! You come for my friends! I will fuckin' drop you, and anyone you attempt to bring at me!" — 00:15:31; Sofia notices: "Did anyone else notice that Kingston called us his friends?" — 00:16:10
  • Religion check 7 and Arcana/Religion 10 do not identify the vampires' limits — 00:16:39, 00:53:15
  • Command (second level): "Smash" at the pillars; one vampire resists, the other burns willpower — 00:53:27, 00:53:39
  • Revivify on Pete: "You're not done yet, kid. Come on. We got work to do." — 01:22:10
  • Greater Restoration on Kugrash via "Holy Grail detergent": "We gotta get Kug up." — 01:44:35, 01:44:41
  • Fourth-level Mass Healing Word for 11 to everybody — 01:45:42, 01:46:05
  • Constitution save 26 halves a 52-point spell to 26 — 01:47:25, 01:47:45
  • Dispel Magic on Sofia's stun against an eighth-level spell: natural 18 plus 5 — 02:12:32, 02:12:55
  • "I'm really thankful for Cockrash." — 01:48:17
  • In the preview he rolls "Nat 20." — 02:34:56

UC E15: Hall of Heroes

UC E16: Times Squaremageddon

  • Sees "sacrifice, and, you know, mothers and fathers, toiling, working late hours" — 00:06:20
  • Casts a fourth-level Bless on Ricky, Sofia, Alejandro and Pete — 00:12:28
  • Calls Willy: "Willy, get your brick butt in here!" — 00:44:11; Dispel Magic roll 8 (no effect said) — 00:45:10
  • Does not move well: "Do I think this 55 year old man's gonna go from one building to another in the middle of a hurricane?" (Lou) — 00:13:04
  • Takes 9 falling damage, 6 bludgeoning, and a 41-point blast (left at 33) — 00:25:19, 00:37:30, 01:41:32, 01:41:41
  • Casts Revivify on Sofia (a fourth-level slot) and calls La Gran Gata: "La Gran Gata, your champion needs you!" — 01:21:53, 01:22:02, 01:21:50
  • Catches Esther as she falls (Box of Doom roll 19): "And grasp her in a double forearm as her feet trail off into space." — 02:12:09, 02:12:43
  • Skill modifiers: Athletics and Acrobatics both +1; Religion +2 (Lou) — 02:09:29, 02:09:41, 02:02:10

UC E17: Times Squaremageddon Pt. 2

  • Singing Joni Mitchell to himself, dissociating — 00:08:43, 00:08:55
  • Private scene: the Dream shows his family, Liz, a boy; Kingston: "I'm 55. I've lived a long life. I've made my peace. And I will stop you." — 00:25:47, 00:26:17, 00:27:34
  • Fails a Dexterity save, takes 31, is at 2 hit points — 00:54:37, 00:54:49
  • Catches Pete (readied action); slips a Metro Card to Nod "Just in case" — 00:53:02, 00:59:59
  • Divine Intervention roll: 8 (needs 19 or 20) — 01:05:37
  • Casts Revivify on Ricky, meets St. Peter and Alejandro at the Pearly Gates, tells Dale "The deer are all right" — 01:15:12, 01:17:44, 01:20:01
  • Medicine check 22 on David: needs Greater Restoration; Kingston says the "Holy Detergent will work tomorrow morning" — 01:38:27, 01:38:31
  • Uses Commune With the City at the Gramercy Occult Society to find Ana and Amelia — 01:44:35, 01:44:52
  • Epilogue (Lou's account): still at the hospital, Sundays with Liz, a mutt dog named Bruce — 01:48:50, 01:49:29