The Mystery of the Haunted Subway

0:00:02 The Unsleeping City: Chapter II Lou Wilson as Kingston Brown; Ally Beardsley as Pete Conlan; Zac Oyama as Ricky Matsui; Siobhan Thompson as “Anastasia” Iga Lisowski; Emily Axford as Sofia Lee; and Brian “Murph” Murphy as Cody “Night Angel” Walsh Episode 3: The Mystery of the Haunted Subway < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] > (upbeat music)

0:00:08 Brennan: Hello one and all, welcome to another exciting episode of The Unsleeping City, season two. I'm your humble dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and with me as always are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:23 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:26 Brennan: [high-pitched, spooky cackling] Happy Halloween for indeed it is All Hallow’s Eve! In the great city of New York, and on the hustling and bustling subways. All know the fanfare and revelry of the big apple during Halloween. Yes, many go out in their sexy versions of normal uniforms and costumes and some really artsy people do things that you’re like, wow, that's really an incredible piece of art. Like that's a mechanical wonder like, I knew a guy one time who just went as a chair and he had a stool built into the costume and when he sat down, it just was like a chair in the street. So that's pretty cool.

0:01:07 Emily: Could you sit on him?

0:01:08 Brennan: Yes, you could sit on him while he was sitting on himself. [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

0:01:12 Brennan: Such wonders await in the Unsleeping City, where our intrepid heroes leapt onto the back of a rattling A train bound north for one final terrifying destination. The end of the line, as the conductor of the train announced over the squeaking PA in a ruined cockpit at one end of the train, you open the doors to see a crowded subway car filled with... Yes, people in costume. There's a pirate and a superhero and a Dracula and other various things but those.

0:01:46 Emily: Another pirate?

0:01:47 Lou: Another pirate?

0:01:48 Brennan: Another pirate, like Kingston. But those were not the people that you had to worry about. Because indeed, it was the people not in costume. Some, you know, people on their way to some dreary event or other commuters people working the grind people in the rat race, just standing slack-jawed and lackadaisical, not moving further into the subway car, an act of pure malice, manifested by the presence of Antipopuli, pure misanthropy in spiritual form that seems to have suffused every inch of this terrifying runaway subway car. We come now to battle, we have rolled initiative, and we are going to leap right into it. First things first, we jump now into Roll20! Oh my goodness gracious. And we see here...

0:02:14 Siobhan: That’s a long map.

0:02:40 Brennan: A very long map. But if you zoom in, you'll see where all your tokens are in the very upper left hand corner right here, and we're going to go ahead and remove the roof here so that you may see ahead of you into the car itself.

0:03:01 Lou: Wow.

0:03:02 Siobhan: Whoa.

0:03:03 Brennan: You see a vast and terrible subway car stretching out ahead of you and you see the zombies that now await. The reality of the train car flickers and you see that yes, on the surface level, this was happening here in reality, but you are all I mean, Pete, you know immediately that something is happening, Nod is being pushed out into the waking world by the presence of this Antipopuli, this primordial oozing hatred for the norms and customs of the city of New York. And the subway car in front of you erupts where the benches erupt into tombstones, you're in kind of a mausoleum, a graveyard, if you will. And you see these groaning shapes of these people with no care or consideration for their fellow passengers turn their heads. The passengers who were themselves trapped, do not appear to be here any longer or if they are here, they're back in the waking world while all of you are caught in a pure bubble of dream energy, and only these subway etiquette malefactors remain. First to act in our initiative order, Vox Phantasma himself, Mr. Pete Conlan, Pete.

0:04:34 Ally: [sighs] Well, okay, um, I, what is my movement again? Good lord. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna run straight ahead through that door right here.

0:04:47 Brennan: Hell yeah, boom.

0:04:49 Ally: Okay, cool.

0:04:50 Brennan: And by the way, the cells of this battle are actually not five feet wide. They're actually three and a half feet wide because New Yorkers know how to fight with less space on a crowded subway. And we wanted to be more accurate to the actual width of subway cars.

0:04:59 Zac: Wow.

0:05:09 Ally: Great.

0:05:11 Brennan: Um, so Pete, you rush forward to where that first zombie lurches. [groans]

0:05:17 Ally: Yes and I would like to cast Dispel Evil and Good and break enchantment on that first zombie if I can.

0:05:27 Brennan: Hell yes. So Break Enchantment would help a possessed creature. Dismissal is a melee attack [quickly reading spell description] on a hit, you attempt to drag a creature back to its home plane, the creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw. So do you want to do the Dismissal function of Dispel Evil and—?

0:05:42 Ally: I guess can I tell if this is a New Yorker who has been possessed or if this is just a full creature itself that I could use Dismissal on?

0:05:52 Brennan: Give me an Arcana check.

0:05:55 Ally: Oh, yeah. 17.

0:05:58 Brennan: You feel that you are interacting with an element of the real life people that is itself misanthropic and tainted. So in other words, you don't think that hurting this entity would hurt the real life person attached to it, you are effectively attacking that person's misanthropy and active disdain for their fellow New Yorkers made manifest within the dream realm.

0:06:31 Ally: Okay, um, so then I guess I'll do that dismissal.

0:06:38 Brennan: Hell yes let's go ahead and—

0:06:41 Ally: And for that, I'm gonna actually use my teapot. So it looks like I just sprinted forward and poured myself a little cup of tea, but then I like forced them to drink it. Weaponized tea.

0:06:59 Brennan: Incredible this is a Charisma saving throw from a zombie. Not great, gang. Oh, this creature has a minus three to Charisma. It needs a natural 20 to make the save. Close on the die, that's a 14. Um, Pete, you leave forward into the train. Whoo! Tea surrounds you, [burbling] down the gullet of this zombie. [imitating explosion] That comes apart and the spiritual malignance of this person is shunted out of existence as the corpse deanimates and collapses into bile and goo on the ground in front of you.

0:07:48 Zac: Whoo!

0:07:50 Lou: Yeehaw.

0:07:51 Brennan: Yee fucking haw, gang.

0:07:53 Murph: So rad.

0:07:54 Brennan: That is rad as hell, Kingston that's going to be you.

0:07:58 Lou: Uh, okay, as I like walk into this like subway car, can I make a Perception check to see into the next subway car or is that impossible?

0:08:07 Brennan: Give me a perception check, man.

0:08:10 Lou: That's gonna be a 22.

0:08:19 Brennan: 22, you do see into the next subway car but on a 22 I'm going to make you choose between seeing the dream realm version or seeing the waking world version?

0:08:31 Lou: Oh, great question. I'd like to see the waking world version.

0:08:38 Brennan: You see, there is a large family of tourists, like a group of families on kind of, they're wearing the same t-shirt, they have whistles and fanny packs and the dad of the family is loudly announcing to the group of tourists.

0:08:52 Dad: [panicked, Midwestern-sounding] Gang, we got to be safe here, okay. If you put your arm in that subway door, it's gonna take that arm right off okay, I've seen it happen, okay? This is your first time coming to the city, you got to watch out, you gotta be careful. I want you to keep your eyes on your buddy and stay around. Don't talk to any of these fucking people!

0:09:13 Brennan: That's what you see in the next car.

0:09:16 Lou: Great uh, that needs to stop now. I'll charge right into like this, this throuple of zombies right here.

0:09:28 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:09:30 Lou: And can I cast Turn Undead?

0:09:32 Brennan: Ooh, I would love it if you did! So yeah, Pete leaps out, teapots this one zombie and Kingston you rush out past your buddy Pete, your fellow Vox of the city, enter this group of zombies. Go ahead and let us Turn Undead.

0:09:49 Lou: So they all make a DC 15 Destroy Undead so if they fail, they just die? They're instantly destroyed. Excuse me, they don't die, they're instantly destroyed.

0:10:02 Brennan: Oh my god and the range on that is 30 feet correct?

0:10:08 Lou: Yes.

0:10:09 Zac: Nice. [impressed whistle]

0:10:10 Brennan: Holy shit.

0:10:11 Ally: Did that reveal some more people coming out?

0:10:15 Brennan: CR one or lower, let's go and check this out here.

0:10:18 Lou: What's the CR?

0:10:21 Brennan: What is the CR indeed? Um, hold on one second.

0:10:27 Lou: This feels like at the Olympics when they have to check something. It's like, well maybe we're gonna win— This is the difference between a gold medal for me and not a gold medal.

0:10:35 Brennan: Um, okay, let's roll these Wisdom checks. The DC on these is I believe 17 correct?

0:10:42 Lou: You don't have to believe, you can know, you can know that it is 17 in your heart.

0:10:48 Brennan: How wise are the zombies, they're a little bit wiser than they are Charismatic, but not by much. These guys need 19s or higher to make the save. That's a 2 a 6 and a 14. Kingston, what do you say as you stride into the middle of the zombies lurching towards you?

0:11:06 Lou: I like I think I just walk forward, lift my token aloft and I'm like,

0:11:12 Kingston: This only works if we are kind to one another.

0:11:19 Lou: And shine.

0:11:20 Brennan: All of those zombies erupt in lights, full like our opening of the Ark of the Covenant. They like exalt forward, their mouths open, pure street lamp light blasts out of their mouths, and they all three of them are unmade in that instant around Kingston Brown.

0:11:42 Lou: There we go.

0:11:43 Brennan: There we go, let's get it done, incredible. Well, gang, that would have been the zombies’ turn. But there is one zombie left in the car actually with a speed of 20 feet.

0:12:03 Lou: He can dash if he would like to.

0:12:08 Brennan: [laughs] Yes, we are going to go ahead and this zombie right here is going to move and dash to close with Kingston Brown. [groaning] With no action left as it charges you. That is going to be Cody “Night Angel” Walsh.

0:12:29 Murph: Cody is so amped. This is just, a sword guy just finds out magic is real. He is in the movie Underworld and he is happy. [Zac and Emily laugh]

0:12:45 Murph: He's going to charge down, I guess get like like run past Pete and over by Kingston here, and he's going to point at the zombie and go,

0:12:57 Cody: I am the ambassador of the dark lord, I command you to chill.

0:13:06 Murph: And I'm going to use Channel Divinity: Control Undead. Has to make a Wisdom saving throw or else I gained control of it for 24 hours.

0:13:16 Emily: 24 hours!

0:13:17 Zac: Wow.

0:13:18 Brennan: This zombie rolled a natural 18, which is a 16.

0:13:24 Murph: Fuck!

0:13:25 Brennan: Does 16 make the save?

0:13:26 Murph: Yes.

0:13:30 Brennan: So you go, I command you! You see the zombie goes [groans] and just checks its smartphone again real quick and seems somewhat distracted.

0:13:38 Cody: Fucking pay attention to me, fuck.

0:13:41 Emily: So perfect that your first act of magic failed.

0:13:46 Murph: I just, I look at Kingston and I look at Pete, I go,

0:13:48 Cody: I don't give a shit.

0:13:50 Kingston: Hey, it’s alright.

0:13:52 Sofia: Hey Night Angel, are you sure you made a deal?

0:13:53 Pete: You did, okay, you did fine.

0:13:53 Cody: It's fine! It’s fine. [quietly] Fuck.

0:13:59 Brennan: Um, incredible. That is now going to be a Sofia Lee, First Fist of the Order of the Concrete Fist, let's go.

0:14:10 Emily: So okay, can I see through, so this space in between this car and the next car, right? Is there a point of dim light in there?

0:14:20 Brennan: Um, do you mean it, connecting this last car with the second to last car?

0:14:25 Emily: Yeah.

0:14:26 Brennan: Um there, actually, no, I mean there's no light so that is the sort of darkened external connector portion between the two cars. When you go through one door, you're temporarily like, you're, I mean, you're you know, you're riding in between the two trains, but you are technically like outside and it's in darkness.

0:14:48 Emily: Yeah. Okay, so I basically, um. I need to be within 60 feet so I'll walk forward like two squares.

0:14:50 Brennan: Cool.

0:14:53 Emily: And then I want to teleport there, then use the rest of my movement to reveal what's in, to enter the next car. [Brennan smacks his fist into his hand and points excitedly]

0:15:00 Emily: Reveal it and I still have my attack.

0:15:05 Lou: [waving his hand] Rrrrrah!

0:15:10 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:15:11 Emily: That uses my bonus action but now I can attack—

0:15:12 Ally: We’re a little different from last season.

0:15:18 Lou: What’s up? Just a little.

0:15:18 Brennan: Hell yes. Sofia, you got it. Go ahead and teleport to the space in between cars and you will see what happens in that car with the aggressively anti-local tourists in the next car.

0:15:33 Emily: Okay, so she basically like moves two steps forward so that she can see through and then she teleports 60 feet here hanging on, hanging onto the door and peek it and like kicks the door open to see what the fuck is happening in there.

0:15:48 Brennan: Hell yes. Yeah, Sofia.

0:15:50 Emily: Use a stiletto heel to make, to make the door move.

0:15:56 Brennan: Sofia you leap into the car you guys see Sofia, who has mastered this new Way of the Shadows. [whoom!] You appear completely riding with one foot on each of the two cars as it pitches forward. This car is going probably upwards of 90 miles an hour. [imitates whooshing] Stations are screaming past you as this express train takes off northbound. You look in, see those tourists going.

0:16:24 Tourist: [panicked yelling] Look out! Jimmy, I want you to stay away from that man. Nobody touch anything. Oooooo!

0:16:31 Brennan: And everything, the dream world bubbles up with this toxic miasma of hatred and misanthropy, fear and misunderstanding and you feel yourself flash into the dream world this is some shit that like normally only Pete is able to do, and it appears to be happening not because Pete is commanding it but like to the entire physical location you are in. It really does feel like something being pushed or squeezed out into the waking world. This probably triggered something in Sofia in terms of all the shit she has been reading about. This feels... Actually go ahead and give me either Arcana or Religion if you want and you can go with advantage.

0:17:15 Emily: Okay.

0:17:16 Lou: Ooh, go with advantage.

0:17:20 Emily: Which is better, they're the same. Okay, I did poorly. I got a 7.

0:17:26 Brennan: 7, cool. This is fucked up and you're about to fight on this train but some crazy shit is going down.

0:17:32 Emily: You know, I've been reading a lot about this right now but right now I'm just, kind of feel cool for surfing the subway.

0:17:38 Brennan: All of those tourists, like all the people that they are bothering by loudly talking about how dangerous and bad this city is. All of those, the people listening vanish, and that family just starts going. [groaning yell] And a group of ghosts wearing fanny packs and baseball hats appears in a green ectoplasmic translucent subway car directly ahead of you. You have movement and your action left.

0:18:10 Emily: I do have movement, so let me, I'm going to enter that car. I think I only took like seven feet of movement before so I can definitely get to. Let me see I could run up to this square right here so that I could potentially attack both of them. Can I do that? To try to and I'll take an opportunity attack from this one ghost.

0:18:36 Brennan: Yes, absolutely go for it.

0:18:39 Emily: Okay.

0:18:40 Zac: I mean, it's frickin’ Halloween in here.

0:18:43 Emily: [laughs] I do, can I do an Insight check to make sure it's not just cute children dressed as ghosts?

0:18:50 Brennan: Go ahead and make an insight check yes.

0:18:51 Emily: Okay well, I did get an 8, so.

0:18:53 Brennan: You're pretty sure these are some spooky damn ghosts.

0:18:58 Zac: Uppercut a nine year old.

0:19:04 Brennan: Yeah, it's gonna take a swing at you. Bada boom, that's a nat 20 to hit. [dark music fades in]

0:19:10 Sofia: It's fine, sometimes getting hurt makes me stronger.

0:19:14 Brennan: Ha ha.

0:19:16 Emily: Literally mechanically.

0:19:18 Brennan: Let's do it. That's going to be some heavy necrotic damage coming Sofia's way. That is 3, 6, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28 points of damage to Sofia as she leaps forward into the subway car.

0:19:45 Emily: Damn it it almost got me down to get my thing.

0:19:48 Brennan: To get your radiant?

0:19:49 Emily: Yeah, um, I take it uh, I'm disappointed it wasn't more and I then I'm gonna go I'm going to attack this one directly in front of me. Since after I Shadow Step, my first attack after I Shadow Step is with advantage. Does a 25 hit?

0:20:14 Brennan: 25 sure does hit.

0:20:15 Emily: Okay, so that is 10 damage but I'm going to try it but I'm going to spend a ki point to Stunning Strike.

0:20:23 Brennan: Okay.

0:20:23 Emily: And see if I can stun the ghost.

0:20:24 Brennan: Cool, Stunning Strike is a Wisdom save, what's your DC again?

0:20:29 Emily: 14.

0:20:30 Lou: Stun the ghost.

0:20:31 Brennan: 14. The ghost, the ghost, oh, but incredibly, these ghosts can be stunned this one makes it save.

0:20:38 Emily: It makes its save, okay.

0:20:39 Brennan: Absolutely insane that these guys can get rocked so hard that they get like flummoxed and dazed. Spectral entities.

0:20:47 Murph: Just imagine decking Casper and Casper goes, “Oh, my bell.”

0:20:50 Brennan: “I need to sit down, dude. You fucking rung my bell, I gotta sit.”

0:20:56 Emily: I might go stun him then stun another one, but I will attack him again.

0:21:00 Brennan: Cool, go for it.

0:21:01 Emily: That's definitely gonna hit, that's a 26, so that's another 8 damage and I'm going to... no I’ll save it. No, why save it? I'm going to try to stun him again.

0:21:13 Brennan: Hell yeah. How much damage have you done over those two attacks?

0:21:16 Emily: Um, I did 18.

0:21:18 Brennan: 18. Hell yeah. And gonna make another save for being stunned.

0:21:23 Emily: Actually, you know what? I'm not gonna try to stun him again. My plan was to try to stun multiple ones, but if I failed I'm gonna save my ki points. Thank you though.

0:21:30 Brennan: Sofia, you leap past one, you can feel the searing cold the necrotic damage as one goes like,

0:21:36 Ghost: Oh my god, that woman is running on the subway! [Emily laughs]

0:21:44 Brennan: And you leap forward and pow! Uppercut this ghost. Boom! Haymaker again and injure one of the ghosts there in that second car. Next in the initiative order is our dear friend, Ricky Matsui, that's you.

0:22:01 Zac: Tight. I think Ricky looks at Cody's chest and sees the “redemption” on it and realizes,

0:22:12 Ricky: Oh, yeah, I feel like I should have mentioned this before, guys, but since I lost the questing blade, I took it as a sign that I probably shouldn't try to hit people so much. So generally, I don't know. I'll do it if I have to but avoiding that. Just throwing that out there.

0:22:23 Kingston: Alright.

0:22:28 Sofia: Oh, okay.

0:22:33 Ricky: Just sort of a new path I'm on.

0:22:36 Kingston: Go ahead, Ricky.

0:22:38 Brennan: Hell yeah as Ricky says that, um, yeah, you guys see this sort of holy light covers Ricky. I also forgot. There actually, it is not Ricky's turn. It is about to be Ricky's turn, however, in the first car something else does happen.

0:22:48 Lou: No!

0:22:57 Emily: Oh no, I thought I was helping everyone by revealing the next one.

0:23:01 Lou: Hey, no, take backs, dude, you said it was Ricky's turn and Ricky did his whole thing.

0:23:04 Siobhan: It seems like it’s Ricky’s turn.

0:23:06 Lou: Yeah, I feel like you dropped the ball here.

0:23:08 Ally: Yeah, Ricky did his whole thing.

0:23:08 Siobhan: Nothing in the rulebook that says you can just make shit up.

0:23:08 Lou: His whole thing.

0:23:14 Zac: Oh, I didn't even notice but I love Pete's mustache.

0:23:18 Ally: Yeah it's new, it's new baby.

0:23:20 Brennan: Pete's mustache is very, very good.

0:23:22 Ally: Yeah, he's got a mustache and a caesar, he's really, he's ready.

0:23:26 Siobhan: He’s living that life.

0:23:27 Lou: A mustache and a caesar.

0:23:29 Brennan: Boom, boom, boom, boom.

0:23:34 Lou: What?

0:23:38 Brennan: Skeletons erupt from the stony floor of the subway car [crashing] as they, [bone rattles] horrifying commuter skeletons to join their zombie brethren, and they are going to rush forward.

0:23:59 Iga: See, this is why I don't get involved. It's just messy, you know? I just mind my business. No skeletons.

0:24:07 Murph: I think just, Cody thinks all of this stuff is rad so he's literally looking at everybody else's faces to see if the skeletons are good guys or bad guys. [cast laughing] Pete makes a “no” gesture.

0:24:17 Cody: Yes, shit, fuck, yes.

0:24:20 Brennan: Okay.

0:24:21 Pete: They’re bad.

0:24:21 Kingston: They're bad, they're bad guys, come on now.

0:24:22 Murph: I look at Pete, Cody nods excitedly at Pete.

0:24:23 Ricky: Cody, we aren't on those specific skeletons’ side.

0:24:27 Cody: Right, yeah, I know.

0:24:28 Pete: Skeletons in the future, you never know.

0:24:31 Brennan: All of these skeletons rush forward and are going to take swings at Kingston Brown.

0:24:42 Lou: [pointing at himself] [in a higher voice] Me?

0:24:43 Brennan: At you.

0:24:45 Lou: Why?

0:24:47 Brennan: Because you just iced three zombies in one action.

0:24:51 Lou: [normal voice] Sure.

0:24:53 Ally: [laughs] When you put it like that.

0:24:55 Lou: I can't blame them, I can't blame the zombies.

0:25:01 Brennan: Incredible. That's going to be the zombies taking their swings.

0:25:06 Emily: Are they zombies or skeletons?

0:25:08 Brennan: Oh sorry, these are the skeletons rushing forward.

0:25:10 Lou: Also one zombie, right?

0:25:12 Brennan: There's still one zombie left, yes, absolutely. Only one of the skeletons manages to land a blow for 6 points of damage to Kingston Brown.

0:25:23 Lou: Oh no. The Roll20 icon spurts blood.

0:25:26 Emily: Aha, look at you bleeding!

0:25:27 Zac: Bleeding!

0:25:28 Ricky: Kingston!

0:25:29 Kingston: It's not that bad.

0:25:31 Brennan: How's Kingston looking as the undead descend on him in a subway car?

0:25:34 Lou: 80, still at 80. It's a scratch.

0:25:40 Sofia: Just so everyone knows, the ghosts hit for actually quite a lot more.

0:25:42 Kingston: Okay.

0:25:45 Sofia: So, like ready yourself for that.

0:25:49 Brennan: Um, as you all surge forward, um, Ricky, a different kind of light shines around you not the bright and glaring civic light of your firefighter self from three years ago, but a gentler, warmer, kinder and softer, more radiant light as you now tread the path of redemption. You are a different kind of hero now, and you feel the power welling up within you and it is your turn.

0:26:23 Zac: I guess Ricky’s looking at these skeletons, can I make a check on them? Like, can I tell if it's like an Enchantment or...

0:26:32 Brennan: Give me either a Religion, or I guess you can do Religion, Arcana, or Medicine depending on what you're trying to figure out about.

0:26:39 Zac: I'm wondering if it's like a charm or frightening like, or a charm or enchantment, so I guess I'll do, can I do Medicine?

0:26:49 Brennan: Oh, yeah, do Medicine for sure.

0:26:53 Zac: Nat 1.

0:26:54 Brennan: Um, uh, you got no— these bone dudes are scary and mean, and they're trying to hurt your friends.

0:27:02 Ricky: These guys aren't great, well—

0:27:06 Zac: And also, can I go if Ox is moving? Movement is 60 can I make him take a dash and go 120?

0:27:13 Brennan: You absolutely can and that does not use your movement. Ox, though he is a sweet dalmatian and Ricky is not riding him in real life, functions as Ricky's paladin steed. So when you are running alongside your dog, you possess a superhuman speed born of your enthusiasm to keep up with your canine pal.

0:27:34 Emily: Brennan, there's nothing you can say that will not make me picture Ricky riding the dalmatian like a horse, okay.

0:27:38 Brennan: Goddammit!

0:27:42 Lou: I agree, very much agree.

0:27:43 Ally: You gave it an honest effort but there's just no way.

0:27:45 Lou: Good try. Great try.

0:27:48 Brennan: Unfortunately, Ricky, here's the issue: you cannot move through these enemy squares at the moment.

0:27:54 Zac: Damn.

0:27:56 Brennan: At least because they're fully blocking the subway car.

0:27:59 Zac: Okay, well, I would love to, so the one in front of Kingston is still alive?

0:28:02 Brennan: Mmhmm.

0:28:06 Zac: Okay ah, great great great. Okay, Ricky and Ox will try to move from here to here.

0:28:17 Brennan: Yeah, great.

0:28:17 Zac: Okay, so just move us over here.

0:28:22 Brennan: Dope great. You rush up oh, yeah you got 2 skeletons in front of you right now.

0:28:29 Zac: Mmhmm. You know, I don't feel great about it, I know literally what I just said, but.

0:28:39 Emily: [laughing] This is so funny.

0:28:41 Cody: I know what you're saying, dude, that skeletons are fucking rad as hell and you think your whole life that you're gonna serve the Dark Lord when you finally do you end up fighting skeletons in your first fight? It's fucking bizarre, but we have to do what we have to do.

0:28:54 Ricky: Cody, I'm gonna put in the work to get to know you. But right now, I gotta be honest, that's not exactly where I'm coming from.

0:29:06 Zac: I will just, I'm just gonna cast a, gosh, I'm going to hit the skeleton in front of me with a punch and see what happens.

0:29:16 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead and make an unarmed attack. Go ahead and roll.

0:29:19 Zac: And for that. I only got an 11.

0:29:25 Brennan: Only got an 11. Gotcha. And you're adding your Strength and proficiency, right?

0:29:31 Zac: To the hits?

0:29:32 Brennan: To the to the attack roll, you should be adding.

0:29:35 Zac: Nine, right?

0:29:36 Brennan: Yeah, I think I believe you should be adding plus nine.

0:29:40 Zac: Okay, so that I rolled a 2, so I, 11 on the first one. I'll just roll one more attack.

0:29:47 Brennan: Go for it.

0:29:49 Zac: Jesus Christ, a 13.

0:29:52 Brennan: 13 hits.

0:29:53 Zac: Okay, and so for how do I calculate unarmed damage again, is it just—

0:29:57 Brennan: Unarmed damage is gonna be your strength plus one, but you also can smite here if you want to.

0:30:02 Zac: Yeah I will okay, so I'm automatically doing six damage I'll just do a level one smite and just sort of like. [bops the air]

0:30:10 Brennan: Level one smite is actually gonna be 3d8, cause these are undead.

0:30:13 Zac: Yeah. Brennan So go ahead and roll 3d8.

0:30:16 Zac: Cool. 1, 2… Alright. Jesus, only eight. Brennan So that's 8 plus 6 is 14.

0:30:27 Zac: Yes.

0:30:28 Brennan: These guys have 13 hit points. Um, here's the thing it's up to you. I don't know that this is necessarily even violent, I think this is Ricky just literally laying a glowing hand on this skeleton and it just goes to rest.

0:30:43 Zac: Yeah, I see the skeleton and like this is,

0:30:45 Ricky: Hey, buddy, maybe just hang out somewhere else maybe you take a break from this.

0:30:49 Zac: And I just touch his forehead.

0:30:54 Brennan: The skeleton just sorts of leans into your hand in that way of like, dude, thank you for offering the support and perspective that I needed to make the right choice, [imitating clattering] and the bones clatter down to the ground, and the skeleton is disanimated in front of you.

0:31:11 Ricky: See you later, friend.

0:31:14 Brennan: What's Cody's reaction to that as he sees it?

0:31:17 Cody: Yeah, I think we might be on different paths of redemption. Do you need to borrow a sword?

0:31:25 Ricky: Um, gosh. It sounds—

0:31:26 Cody: Cause I have a bunch.

0:31:27 Ricky: Swords are cool. I think swords are cool.

0:31:28 Cody: Cool.

0:31:28 Ricky: But I also am feeling like swords are not for me right now.

0:31:34 Brennan: Um Iga that is going to be your turn.

0:31:38 Iga: Well, it seems to me like everybody's got this sorted out you know I don't Oh, gosh okay, I, fine I will hit. I will do an Eldritch Blast right at this zombie. Get this zombie out of the way.

0:31:56 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:31:58 Siobhan: That is a dirty 20. For my first one.

0:32:04 Brennan: Dirty 20 hits.

0:32:06 Siobhan: So that's 4 plus 9, so 13 damage for the first one.

0:32:14 Brennan: 13 does not finish the job, but cleaves into this zombie for sure.

0:32:19 Siobhan: And then my second Eldritch Blast is a nat 1.

0:32:24 Brennan: Oh no.

0:32:25 Emily: Aww.

0:32:27 Brennan: But you dealt 13 points of damage you said?

0:32:28 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:32:29 Brennan: What does Iga's Eldritch Blast look like?

0:32:31 Siobhan: Um, I think it looks fake. Like it looks like maybe she's shooting like a firework from her hand. [Lou laughs]

0:32:41 Siobhan: Like it's, it’s like a good magician's firework.

0:32:45 Brennan: Pew! Bottle rocket streaks out. Incredible, and we are back to the top of the order. That is Pete.

0:32:53 Ally: All right, I... So we're not able to pass through here, it's too congested.

0:33:01 Brennan: It's too congested at the moment. If you have creative ways of doing it, teleporting, other modes of movement, go for it. I, you know, it's not impossible, but you can't just straight walk through those enemies right now.

0:33:13 Ally: Ah, okay. Uh, okay, I am going to cast Fireball using a, burning a couple of sorcery points to use Careful Spell.

0:33:25 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:33:27 Ally: So I can pick some creatures to be safe from that.

0:33:29 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:33:31 Ally: So I'm just gonna cast Fireball kind of like, do we see if there are any new skel— I'll just try to get all of these people, all of these guys, these four.

0:33:40 Brennan: Dope as hell. Go ahead and roll damage for Fireball.

0:33:45 Ally: All right, I'm gonna do... let's see. [quietly] Which level… [normal] Oh, I guess I'll just keep it at a, at third okay. Dadadada… Lou makes finger guns at the screen.

0:34:05 Ally: 44. [Brennan sputters in disbelief]

0:34:08 Murph: Good lord.

0:34:11 Lou: Sick, sick, that's cool, that's real cool.

0:34:14 Brennan: 44.

0:34:17 Ally: I probably still say like,

0:34:17 Pete: Hey, guys, look out!

0:34:19 Ally: But I'm definitely casting like Careful Spell, [Zac jokingly screams]

0:34:19 Ally: So that like when flames go up nobody gets hurt.

0:34:27 Brennan: Roiling dream fire. Just swirls of green and purple and blue flame erupt from Pete's hand. You're like in the mix as well protected by your own Careful Spell. [imitating fire roaring] Yeah, Cody, this is, you're seeing some wild shit here, man. Cody raises his hands and revels in this cool shit.

0:34:50 Brennan: All three skeletons, the zom, and the remaining zombie are incinerated, gone.

0:34:57 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:34:58 Lou: Hell yeah.

0:34:58 Zac: After Pete's turn. I don't know if you're done yet, Pete, sorry, but could I use Ox's movement to get up to the second car?

0:35:08 Brennan: Ah, ooh. Um, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say you can on your next turn ‘cause Ox had to stop his turn with you in the initiative. But on your next turn, you'll be able to tear off for sure. That's Pete. Kingston, that's you.

0:35:25 Ally: Oh, I'm just gonna move at the end of that, but that's all.

0:35:28 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead and move your piece. You have 30 feet of movement.

0:35:32 Ally: Let's see.

0:35:34 Brennan: Hell yeah and Kingston, what are you doing?

0:35:36 Lou: Great, Kingston is going to use the new, uh, charge through the roiling dream flames of Pete and I'll take a full dash into the next car, which I think is just about 60 feet for me to get to like right here, and I think I'll slam over, I'll slam over one spot.

0:35:58 Brennan: Hell yeah dope.

0:36:00 Lou: Oh, yeah, that's it that's right about 60. See, I'll use a dash action to get into the second car and be within eyesight of, make eye contact with Sofie.

0:36:10 Sofia: Hey Kingston, what's up?

0:36:11 Kingston: Hey, this is.

0:36:13 Sofia: Yeah, oh, it's ghosts they do like a lot of damage.

0:36:16 Kingston: Oh, great. Oh, a new flavor, great. Well, well listen. Everyone's coming, we, the last car’s done, this one's the new business.

0:36:23 Sofia: Okay, good good good.

0:36:26 Brennan: Cody, that's you, baby.

0:36:27 Murph: Sweet. Cody, is gonna do a full dash following Kingston, passes Pete and goes,

0:36:34 Cody: Nice job on the last one. I’ll handle this one. (cast bursts out laughing)

0:36:41 Murph: Naruto runs full speed to get up to the ghost, does not run fast enough, super winded when he gets up there.

0:36:49 Cody: Fuck!

0:36:49 Murph: And that is gonna use a bonus action to Compelled Duel on one of the ghosts that is going after Sofie and goes,

0:36:57 Cody: [pointing] I am your opponent. Brennan Incredible what's, is that a Wisdom save on that?

0:37:05 Murph: That is a Wisdom save.

0:37:06 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:37:08 Lou: “I am your opponent.”

0:37:10 Brennan: Um, this ghost fully believes you. [Murph laughs]

0:37:11 Brennan: And let me tell you exactly what it does about it.

0:37:15 Cody: Fuck!

0:37:19 Sofia: Wow, thank you, Night Angel.

0:37:24 Murph: [laughs] Bows deeply,

0:37:24 Cody: Don't thank me. Don't get used to it, we're only allies for now.

0:37:29 Iga: Wait, is it Knight Angel with a K? Or with a just N.

0:37:35 Sofia: That's a really good question.

0:37:36 Cody: That's super interesting, because both are super fucking cool. You guys,

0:37:37 Murph: I’m just yelling through the car.

0:37:42 Cody: You guys can just call me whatever cool shit you want.

0:37:43 Kingston: Okay, Cody.

0:37:44 Sofia: Yeah, I’m going to call you Cody.

0:37:45 Ricky: I'm gonna call you Cody.

0:37:47 Iga: Yeah, Cody seems to suit you pretty well.

0:37:49 Sofia: Cody works.

0:37:51 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna need Cody to give me a

0:37:57 Murph: Cody is fully the same level as everyone else I don't know why he sucks. [Emily laughs]

0:38:05 Lou: Hey, he doesn't suck he just hasn’t had an opportunity to shine.

0:38:08 Emily: Yeah, he just got his powers.

0:38:11 Zac: Did you ever think you'd be playing a D&D character named Cody? [Murph and Emily laugh]

0:38:16 Brennan: Um okay, um, Cody, here's what you see happen. This goes that you did the Compelled Duel. Looks at you and goes,

0:38:27 Ghost: Ah! Look at him, he's a satanist! [screams]

0:38:28 Cody: You’re damn fucking right.

0:38:30 Brennan: And leaps at you and attempts to jump into your heart. Give me a Charisma saving throw.

0:38:37 Lou: What?

0:38:40 Emily: Wait a second, when that, if that ghost ran away from me wouldn't I get an opportunity attack on him?

0:38:44 Brennan: You absolutely would, go ahead and give me an opportunity attack.

0:38:47 Lou: As he went to jump into Cody's heart.

0:38:49 Emily: Okay, I got a 17.

0:38:51 Brennan: 17.

0:38:52 Murph: This is, I literally because of my Auras, and because of having proficiency in it because I'm a paladin, I have a plus 12 and I just rolled a 3 so I only got a 15.

0:39:03 Brennan: Okay, Sofia, you hit on that roll?

0:39:06 Emily: Yeah, so I hit for um, I hit and this is the ghost that I already attacked.

0:39:12 Brennan: Yes.

0:39:13 Emily: So I hit for 12 more damage.

0:39:17 Brennan: Ooh, awesome. Okay. And what do you get on your saving throw, Cody?

0:39:18 Murph: 15.

0:39:19 Brennan: You roundhouse kick, bam! This goes as it flies past you. It rushes towards Cody and what do you get?

0:39:28 Murph: 15.

0:39:29 Brennan: 15 makes the save.

0:39:31 Murph: Yes!

0:39:31 Brennan: Incredible.

0:39:32 Lou: Oh, thank God.

0:39:34 Brennan: This ghost attempts to possess you.

0:39:36 Cody: You can't possess me, I have no heart.

0:39:40 Brennan: Pfft. I'm also going to need a Wisdom saving throw from Sofia, Cody, and Kingston. Wisdom throw from Sofia, Cody, and Kingston.

0:39:45 Emily: Okay.

0:39:50 Lou: Here we go.

0:39:51 Murph: Anybody who's within, I think, is anybody within 10 feet of me?

0:39:55 Brennan: Kingston is.

0:39:56 Lou: I am.

0:39:57 Murph: Kingston is. You get plus 4 to the roll.

0:39:59 Lou: Hell yes, Cody. Okay.

0:40:03 Murph: I got 5.

0:40:04 Emily: 14.

0:40:08 Lou: I got a 25.

0:40:09 Brennan: 14, 25. What'd Cody get?

0:40:11 Murph: 5.

0:40:12 Brennan: For real?

0:40:13 Emily: Cody.

0:40:14 Murph: Yeah, I'm not wise, believe it or not.

0:40:14 Lou: Oh, Cody.

0:40:14 Murph: That's my dump stat.

0:40:19 Brennan: Cody I'm gonna need you to roll a 1d4 for me.

0:40:23 Murph: Oh no!

0:40:25 Lou: Is there anything I could do as this is being--?

0:40:27 Brennan: There is nothing, you and Sofia are fine, you and Sofia.

0:40:30 Murph: 2.

0:40:33 Brennan: Cody, you age 20 years. [Emily and Siobhan laugh] Lou puts his hand over his heart. Zac covers his face.

0:40:45 Emily: [laughing] This kid’s life! In the course of the fucking day, he made a deal with a bad devil, tried magic for the first time, failed.

0:40:47 Cody: What happened?

0:40:48 Emily: And aged 20 years.

0:40:55 Lou: And he's now a 40 year old man.

0:40:55 Brennan: He's a 46 year old Hot Topic manager. [Emily squeals in laughter]

0:40:59 Ally: Oh my god.

0:41:00 Emily: I didn’t think he could get any more tragic.

0:41:01 Zac: This doesn't even have to do with the fact that he sold his soul. This is just a separate thing that happened.

0:41:11 Cody: You think that rad shit is gonna happen when you find out that magic and devils are real!

0:41:19 Kingston: Hey, there’s— We could do something about that, all right? There's a, there's a magical thing that we can do, just keep going.

0:41:26 Cody: Cool, I feel tired. [All laughing]

0:41:31 Brennan: I don't know if, you're a paladin. Can you be affected by the frightened condition or no?

0:41:36 Murph: Oh, interesting.

0:41:38 Brennan: Double check if you can.

0:41:38 Murph: I think I can't, I will double check that.

0:41:42 Zac: I'm immune to being frightened. That's Aura of Courage.

0:41:47 Brennan: If Cody has Aura of Courage, then he should be okay if he doesn't.

0:41:53 Zac: I don't know if he would though.

0:41:53 Brennan: You have Aura of Protection and Aura of Hate. Oh, no, you do have Aura of Courage. “While you are conscious you and friendly creatures within 10 feet can't be frightened”. Okay, so you are not also subjected to the frightened condition as one of the ghosts near Sofia just rends its face with this elongates its mouth and It's horrifying jiggly jello moan, goes [moaning] and you age. Kingston and Sofia you know you've fought undead before so you know to like not look directly at a ghost while it's doing something like this.

0:42:29 Pete: Don't give it any attention.

0:42:33 Cody: How am I not supposed to look at cool shit?

0:42:33 Kingston: It’s not cool shit!

0:42:33 Brennan: God, that is so fucking funny.

0:42:33 Pete: Cool shit?

0:42:40 Cody: Oh, I suddenly can't handle my diet of just Pizza Hut. Oh!

0:42:46 Brennan: Also, Cody, you take another 10 points of necrotic damage

0:42:53 Murph: Cody is just barfing everywhere because he had like four Monster energy drinks today. He was like coming out of his 20s, like still having like a teenager's diet and is just falling apart right now. Cody retches.

0:43:03 Siobhan: Blowing chunks all over the subway.

0:43:12 Sofia: Kingston, Kingston. Confirm for me. This is some of the craziest shit you've ever seen right?

0:43:17 Kingston: I've been doing this for 20 plus years. This is the wildest shit.

0:43:21 Sofia: Okay, cause I’ve only been doing it for a couple years.

0:43:24 Kingston: You missed the part where Pete pushed a devil into his chest. That also happened to him today.

0:43:27 Sofia: Oh? Okay.

0:43:30 Cody: That part was awesome. That part was awesome. I'll sell my soul to anybody who can fix me. [Emily and Brennan crack up]

0:43:37 Brennan: [laughing] “I’ll sell my soul to anybody-”

0:43:41 Cody: I’ll trade it!

0:43:44 Brennan: You hear, you hear Bazathrax in your chest be like,

0:43:44 Bazathrax: Dude, you can't fucking trade, dude, it’s not yours anymore.

0:43:51 Cody: [voice going up in pitch] Then fix me! You're the manager, fix me! When I was the manager and something bad happened with an employee, I had to fix it. You have to fix this.

0:44:04 Bazathrax: Dude, I don't know how, why is your body so much less comfortable now? Everything's slow, what's going on?

0:44:10 Cody: I don't know.

0:44:12 Sofia: Cody, maybe you can get out of the contract because the conditions changed. Because now you're an older man.

0:44:19 Cody: I just gave my soul freely forever.

0:44:24 Brennan: Bazathrax yells out,

0:44:24 Bazathrax: Tell her there's not like too many clauses in this contract. There's not a lot.

0:44:30 Cody: I can show you the contract. It’s on half a poster.

0:44:31 Sofia: Please do, I love paperwork now.

0:44:35 Brennan: Incredible. Sofia, the attack that just swiped across Cody for 10 points of damage, you duck and avoid just such an attack from the ghost next to you. Instead, Sofia's turn.

0:44:52 Emily: Okay, I think that do I have this sense that um, do I have the sense that it was the sound of this ghost that this ghost making this sound is what made Cody age?

0:45:05 Brennan: Yes, you do sense that.

0:45:08 Emily: Okay then I might cast, I think I'm going to cast Silence around me and these ghosts. Lou snaps his fingers repeatedly.

0:45:19 Brennan: [gasps] Oh, so fucking cool.

0:45:21 Emily: So that they can't try to do that on anyone else.

0:45:24 Lou: Yes.

0:45:25 Emily: Ah, that's my action. Is there anything I can do to try to keep them in this? It's a, hold on, I've never cast this before, because I just saw what happened to Cody, I don't want that to happen to anyone else. Ever.

0:45:41 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:45:42 Emily: Um so that it's going to be a 20 foot radius sphere.

0:45:47 Brennan: Um, dope. Um, so 20 foot radius sphere, absolutely. You have a bonus action left, you can't flurry because you haven't taken your attack action but you do have Hexblade Curse, you do have Patient Defense.

0:46:00 Emily: I guess I will do Patient Defense and well, I kind of want to get hit again so I yeah, I'm gonna Hexblade Curse is only once a day, I think that I'm going to sit tight, I'm going to sit tight and try and be a physical barrier so they can try to so they can't run out of this 20 foot radius and I shout— oh wait! Before I cast it, before I cast it, I say,

0:46:26 Sofia: I'm gonna make things real quiet around me so try and shove these ghosts in here and then we can have a real quiet fight with them.

0:46:36 Emily: And then I descend into a 20 foot radius.

0:46:39 Brennan: Sofia summons with her ki a radiant moment, a bubble of pure New Yorker solitude, the ability for like a New Yorker to like literally be in a subway getting like smacked in the head with someone's bag repeatedly over and over again and still just be like in their mind thinking about their day, [vwoom] fills a 20 foot radius around Sofia with pure silence. [imitates magic energy] As that happens, Ricky, that's going to be your turn.

0:47:16 Zac: Gotcha.

0:47:18 Brennan: Um, and now you got Ox's full movement.

0:47:20 Zac: Okay, with Ox's movement, could I carry somebody?

0:47:28 Brennan: I'll say yeah, if you want to you can carry somebody, go for it.

0:47:31 Ricky: Excuse me, my new friend in the back of the car.

0:47:31 Iga: Mm? Yes.

0:47:31 Ricky: Would you like to go forward? Could I offer you a ride?

0:47:41 Iga: I would yes, please thank you I'm just sitting back here like what can I even do? I'm so slow.

0:47:48 Ricky: We'll figure it out, ma'am.

0:47:53 Zac: Ricky and Ox are going to double back and pick up...

0:47:56 Brennan: Iga and Misiek, cool.

0:47:56 Zac: Iga and Misiek at the back of the cart. And that would be, let's see.

0:48:09 Brennan: Like 15 feet to them.

0:48:11 Zac: 15 feet to them and Ox is dashing so that's, he has 105 left.

0:48:16 Brennan: Cool.

0:48:17 Zac: So from back there going 105 from here.

0:48:24 Brennan: Yeah it would be.

0:48:25 Emily: Yeah, come here and then you guys won't be able to won't be able to hear even if they scream.

0:48:31 Zac: Oh, gotcha.

0:48:33 Brennan: Gotcha cool. You can make it all the way to Sofia with Iga with no problem.

0:48:37 Zac: Okay, cool, I'll do that.

0:48:39 Ally: So this is a little dragon in a woman's hands in your hands on top of your dog.

0:48:47 Brennan: Yes. Rather, it's what everyone is seeing is Ricky picks Iga up and just bounds down the subway with Ox going [imitates dog barking[  bouncing off after him.

0:48:55 Emily: While riding the dalmatian.

0:48:59 Siobhan: An absolute dream.

0:49:02 Ally: While riding the dalmatian.

0:49:03 Zac: Ohh, man.

0:49:04 Brennan: Ah, the first ghost that you go past takes a swing at Ox misses by a mile.

0:49:07 Zac: Okay. I do a double take at Cody.

0:49:11 Cody: What? It’s weird!

0:49:13 Ricky: Oh, shit, dude.

0:49:15 Cody: I look pretty much the same, right?

0:49:16 Ricky: Were you this age the whole time? Was this, did they knock your—

0:49:23 Cody: Who the fuck are you, man?

0:49:25 Ricky: I'm gonna figure you out. I'm gonna figure you out.

0:49:28 Cody: I look like the fucking guys in Green Day, man.

0:49:35 Brennan: Um and Ricky, you have, you have your full movement and action in that second car.

0:49:40 Zac: Okay, uh, Ricky is going to step next to, walk up to this guy right here, can I stand right there?

0:49:51 Brennan: Yeah, you can jump up on the seat, it's no problem.

0:49:54 Zac: Okay.

0:49:55 Brennan: You're fighting it's like difficult terrain, but you have plenty of movement to make it there.

0:49:59 Zac: I'm gonna cast, I don't have Protection from Evil and Good, but I think I should so next fight I'll figure that out. I'll give Sofia a Shield of Faith.

0:50:09 Sofia: Thank you.

0:50:09 Brennan: Lovely and that's just a bonus action so you have an action left.

0:50:13 Zac: Oh, right I will. God, what am I gonna do?

0:50:22 Brennan: These are still undead so your, your like Lay to Rest smites don't, don't necessarily, they work pretty well on these dudes.

0:50:30 Zac: It's it's totally just Ricky just like, it's like you're watching someone do like an escape room puzzle that's dumb. And he like, he feels that he shouldn't fight things, but is also trying to figure out how to work around it so yeah, I'll just try to Lay to Rest smite the guy in front of me.

0:50:47 Brennan: Go ahead and make an attack roll.

0:50:50 Zac: Okay. Nat 20. [cast ‘ooh’ing in appreciation]

0:50:54 Brennan: Oh, my god.

0:50:58 Zac: He's gotta be dead.

0:51:00 Brennan: Yeah, well.

0:51:00 Lou: He’s gotta be dead.

0:51:00 Brennan: It's gonna be, your unarmed strike does no damage to this ghost but if you're doing a first level smite, that's going to be 6d8 damage to this.

0:51:13 Zac: Oh, yeah. 6d8. So, 6, 9, 8… so 23 damage to this guy.

0:51:27 Brennan: 23 damage, hell yeah. Yeah, you hit this ghost or just you touch with your first hand, deal 23 points of radiant damage to this ghost.

0:51:40 Zac: I'm gonna say,

0:51:40 Ricky: Be at peace.

0:51:40 Zac: And touch it in the head.

0:51:47 Brennan: Um, this ghost is still up, but you do have another attack left?

0:51:52 Zac: Um, oh, yeah, I'll just attack it again.

0:51:56 Brennan: Cool.

0:52:00 Zac: 18 to hit and I will Divine Smite again.

0:52:05 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:52:07 Zac: And that's normally 3d6, 3d8, right?

0:52:10 Brennan: Normally 3d8 because it's normally 2d8 for first level, these are undead so it's 3d8.

0:52:19 Zac: Uh, 9. Really bad rolls over here.

0:52:23 Brennan: This ghost is still up as you lay these like glowing hands. Just trying to like, not even harm just like restrain this ghost he's going,

0:52:32 Ghost: Don't touch me oh my god we just wanted to come and see the M&M store.

0:52:37 Ricky: It's not, it's just M&M’s.

0:52:40 Ghost: We don't have those back in Dayton.

0:52:43 Ricky: I have to disagree. I just have to disagree. You might not have a whole store but.

0:52:51 Brennan: Iga, that's gonna be you.

0:52:57 Siobhan: Ooooh. Can I do a Perception check to look through the little windows here to see what's in the next car?

0:53:03 Brennan: Yeah, make a Perception check.

0:53:05 Siobhan: Great. Well, that's a 4.

0:53:12 Brennan: You don't see shit.

0:53:14 Siobhan: I don't see shit, okay. Well, but I'm assuming that there's bad stuff in there. Is there a way that I can grab Cody but be further than 10 feet away from Kingston? To touch Cody while being more than 10 feet away from Kingston?

0:53:29 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:53:31 Brennan: Um, no.

0:53:33 Siobhan: Okay. In which case, I'm going to say to the one in front of Cody. I'm gonna cast Suggestion on that ghost and I'm gonna say,

0:53:44 Iga: You know, I'm sorry to interrupt you, I think I heard your kids say that they were thinking about moving to the city to study performance art? They said they loved it here and they also want to lick the subway pole. [cast laughing]

0:54:05 Iga: So maybe you should go deal with that instead of these people.

0:54:09 Brennan: Hell yes. This ghost just rolled for its Wisdom save. Does a 15 pass your DC?

0:54:20 Siobhan: My DC is 17.

0:54:22 Lou: Yeah!

0:54:22 Murph: Nice. Ally dances.

0:54:23 Brennan: Oh no. So the ghost right in front of Cody is the one is the one you’re looking at?

0:54:28 Siobhan: It's the one that, the one that aged him 40 years 20 years.

0:54:32 Brennan: You see that ghost goes,

0:54:32 Ghost: [ululating] Jason, we talked about this you were gonna go to a state school and then come help with the store! [Siobhan, Emily, and Murph laugh]

0:54:46 Brennan: This ghost screams. This Suggestion has fully worked on it.

0:54:50 Siobhan: Great.

0:54:51 Brennan: Incredible.

0:54:52 Siobhan: So yeah, on his next turn I would love for him to attack that guy. I don't think I have anything that I can do as a bonus action.

0:55:02 Brennan: Cool. Pete, that's you.

0:55:04 Ally: Okay, I would like to take a full dash.

0:55:09 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:55:10 Ally: So that is...

0:55:11 Brennan: 30 feet. It's like right into the train car.

0:55:17 Ally: 30. Oh, that's a dash.

0:55:19 Brennan: Well, that's a movement but you can double that if you want to yeah.

0:55:22 Ally: I'm gonna do double it, baby.

0:55:24 Brennan: Hell yeah, catching up.

0:55:26 Ally: Up here I think, can I go right past?

0:55:29 Brennan: Yeah, that guy already used his attack of opportunity.

0:55:32 Ally: Amazing and then I'm actually going to use um, let's see here quicken spell to use a fifth level banishment, so I can banish two people. [Brennan gasps]

0:55:47 Ally: So I'm gonna banish the one next to the one that Siobhan just Suggested, and then the one in front of me when I land here.

0:55:54 Brennan: Fuck yes! Awesome.

0:55:57 Zac: The one that's not hurt, or the...?

0:55:58 Ally: Yeah, the one that, whatever one's not hurt.

0:56:03 Brennan: Oh my god, very fucking cool. Charisma saving throws DC 17. Let's see what these ghosts have got in the tank.

0:56:13 Lou: What these ghosts got in the tank?

0:56:15 Ally: What do they have in the tank?

0:56:17 Lou: How much gas these ghosts got in the tank?

0:56:22 Brennan: A natural 4 and natural 2 is not much. [various ‘yeahs’]

0:56:25 Ally: Get the fuck out of here!

0:56:29 Brennan: Is this the ghost diagonally from Sofia or directly in front of Sofia?

0:56:34 Ally: I guess diagonally, right?

0:56:34 Emily: Yeah, that’s the one that hasn’t been hit.

0:56:35 Brennan: Yeah so the two upper ghosts in other words, not the suggested one but the ones closest to the wall. Both of those ghosts [snaps] vanish in a blink you see them get sucked straight into Nod. They are back in the Sixth Borough, gone from the train.

0:56:45 Ally: Sick.

0:56:54 Brennan: You're still maintaining concentration on Banishment, though so careful because if you take a lot of damage, they might come back.

0:57:02 Ally: Okay. Do I just keep rolling for Wild Magic? Is that still—?

0:57:07 Brennan: Yes, absolutely. You've been casting a couple spots but I think yeah, give me two rolls for these spells. So roll number one for the, for the Fireball and then another one for this one.

0:57:18 Ally: Okay, it was a d100?

0:57:21 Brennan: Oh no, d20.

0:57:22 Ally: D20 oh duh, of course. It's a 9. That's a 6.

0:57:28 Brennan: Cool. Now, now you're at one two and three give you a wild magic surge. Awesome. Um, that's Pete. Kingston, that's you.

0:57:37 Lou: Can I do a Perception check for two things. One, what's in the next car and two just the general sense I have or around the like, a meet like, this end that the train is headed to? What is the sense I get around that and how much time we have before that.

0:57:57 Brennan: You feel that you probably have at most like three or four rounds before you get the end of the line, this express train is rocketing, and the end of the line it's going to crash and kill everybody on the real life train unless you can stop the dream element of it right from destroying that. give me a Perception check for the next car.

0:58:26 Lou: That's gonna be 23.

0:58:27 Brennan: 23 and I'm going to keep it on the waking world. In the next car you see a bunch of people like peering and being like, like really looking like oh God, as there's a dude hunkered down right near one of the doors, who's got open street food in his lap and is just eating a full set of wings and like dipping sauces like balanced on his knee and like touching the pole with like grease on his hand, [Ally and Siobhan groan in disgust]

0:59:00 Brennan: Just like messily eating. And you can tell he opens some kind of thing of soup that he's like, he's having like soup and wings at the same time and you can it's like very clearly homemade and pungent. Just eat, having a full like multicourse dinner of like balancing wet foods on the subway.

0:59:19 Lou: Great. I think I shout to everyone else and I'm like, hey, also a weird like map thing that I'm trying to figure out. Do we have to, is that, this, this car in front of our like tokens the final car, or is this like a, it's been spread over three lines?

0:59:37 Brennan: It's been spread over three lines.

0:59:38 Zac: Oh, shit.

0:59:39 Lou: Great. I shout to everyone.

0:59:43 Siobhan: We have a lot more to go.

0:59:43 Brennan: You have a lot more to go.

0:59:43 Kingston: We have a lot more to go and maybe not more than three or four minutes to do it. Let's, let's hoof it.

0:59:49 Emily: Okay.

0:59:50 Lou: I'm gonna go a full 60 dash into this guy in front of me is gone, right? He's been banished?

0:59:59 Brennan: Oh, the guy in front of you is banished, the other one has been Suggested to leave and won't take an attack of opportunity. One of them is going to get a swing on you as an attack of opportunity and miss.

1:00:07 Lou: Great. Yeah, it's 60 feet for me to get into the next car, so that's what I'll do. I charge like down the road, cut in, and make it here, wherever’s here.

1:00:21 Brennan: You charge into the next car and the car with people being like,

1:00:25 Commuters: Oh my god, why is that guy eating so many like complicated, wet foods, like wings are the one of the— like there's so many foods that are gone once you're done eating them and wings are not one of them. There's wings with the bone and the bones are all left.

1:00:44 Brennan: You go in and Nod bubbles up and you're in a dark forest and you see gazing up where that guy eating the wings [snarls, screams] was a massive werewolf, blood drenched, eating like a human arm. [snarls]

1:01:01 Kingston: Okay, all right yeah, yeah, okay, we got this.

1:01:05 Brennan: Incredible. Cody, that's you, baby.

1:01:09 Murph: Oh man, Cody is—

1:01:11 Emily: Not baby, middle aged man.

1:01:12 Brennan: Middle aged man.

1:01:14 Lou: No longer 26.

1:01:16 Murph: Cody is frazzled. Okay.

1:01:21 Ally: Cody’s 46.

1:01:23 Murph: Cody is 47.

1:01:25 Emily: [laughing] I want this to be permanent for some reason.

1:01:27 Zac: [laughing] 47.

1:01:28 Murph: Okay, so Cody is going to take his now very sore body and he is going to Naruto run a little slower than before. With exactly 30 feet of movement, he can get up to this spot.

1:01:43 Brennan: Cool.

1:01:45 Murph: And he has not shown himself yet, so he's gonna go all out and he does whisper that to himself, that he's going to go all out just this once. [Brennan laughs]

1:01:55 Murph: He is going to bonus action cast a Thunderous Smite.

1:02:02 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:02:04 Murph: So starts glowing with lightning energy.

1:02:07 Cody: Just please let me fucking hit.

1:02:07 Murph: And then I'm going to Great Weapon Master to take minus 5 so that just I can fucking whale this thing. I’m just, going like full fighting game, huge sword with lightning, swing down and hope that I hit.

1:02:27 Brennan: Alright, let me know what you roll.

1:02:28 Emily: I want this for you so badly.

1:02:30 Murph: I only have a plus 3 to hit now.

1:02:30 Emily: What?!

1:02:30 Murph: But this is just simply what Cody would do.

1:02:35 Emily: I want this so bad.

1:02:36 Murph: [pumps his fist] Nat 20!

1:02:38 All: [cheering and clapping] Yeah! Yes!

1:02:40 Murph: I swear to God! I swear to God, can you see that, can you see that? [moves his camera down] The die does not show up because of the virtual background. [talking all at once]

1:02:45 Brennan: Yes, oh my God.

1:02:47 Emily: No because of the green screen.

1:02:48 Siobhan: No, we can’t see anything because of your background.

1:02:49 Lou: No, we cannot. We cannot see it.

1:02:49 Murph: God damn it.

1:02:49 Brennan: The virtual background.

1:02:49 Emily: I believe you, I believe you.

1:02:49 Murph: Do you see my nat 20?

1:02:49 Brennan: We cannot see it. Oh my God that is so fucking funny.

1:02:51 Emily: We were all like praying for you.

1:02:54 Murph: I can't believe it. Ally claps.

1:02:57 Brennan: Okay, add up your Thunderous Smite, if you're doing a Divine Smite now, go for—

1:03:01 Murph: I'm also going to do a Divine Smite.

1:03:04 Brennan: Go for it.

1:03:05 Murph: Okay, so I'll do first level Divine Smite and then the Thunderous Smite and then I get plus 10 for Great Weapon Master. I truly can't believe that worked out for me.

1:03:17 Ally: Incredible.

1:03:18 Brennan: And Sofia, just so you know you're on deck next, because the urgency of these trains are pushing the fight forward.

1:03:26 Emily: Yeah, I'm going to just start speeding forward.

1:03:28 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:03:29 Emily: I would’ve done that had I known.

1:03:32 Murph: And then for smites... 6d8 because it's undead and I crit.

1:03:39 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

1:03:40 Murph: Jesus, this is awesome.

1:03:41 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:03:43 Murph: Cody completely forgets that he's not 27 anymore and that he lost 20 years of his life. [Brennan and Emily laugh]

1:03:57 Murph: Umm. [doing math] I rolled so many ones.

1:04:00 Siobhan: There's those Murph rolls.

1:04:01 Emily: It's still gonna be a beautiful hit.

1:04:04 Zac: You don't have Great Weapon Fighting do you?

1:04:07 Murph: I do!

1:04:09 Siobhan: Oh yeah you crit, you go again.

1:04:09 Zac: You can reroll those ones.

1:04:10 Murph: Yeah, hang on.

1:04:12 Ally: Incredible.

1:04:15 Emily: Oh, that's true if you have Great Weapon Mastery you get to...

1:04:16 Siobhan: If you crit with Great Weapon Master.

1:04:18 Emily: Oh, but you're probably using a bonus action for smites already.

1:04:21 Murph: Yeah, one sec, okay. [doing math] 67 damage. [laughs]

1:04:31 Brennan: My God. Cody runs up. Cody has a bad back. Your duster does not really fit correctly, but you just. Your shirt explodes in flame along with your new chest piece. You bring the buster sword overhead. The roof of the subway will not allow this. You shear like scissors through fabric through the roof of the subway overhead, nail the ghost into the floor of the subway such that there is an explosion of fire and light. The ghost shreds into ectoplasm, disappearing into the now visible wheels and undercarriage through the hole you made in the floor of the subway car. Bwah! In the distance. [train wheels rattle, something screams]

1:05:25 Cody: I understand now. I had to pay for 20 years of my life to do something that sick. It was worth it.

1:05:31 Sofia: Honestly, age looks good on you.

1:05:31 Cody: Thank you.

1:05:34 Brennan: Incredible.

1:05:35 Murph: I still have another attack.

1:05:37 Brennan: Oh yeah.

1:05:41 Murph: I am out of movement. I can't see anything else right?

1:05:43 Brennan: No.

1:05:44 Murph: There's nothing in that forest, cool.

1:05:46 Brennan: Oh, actually yeah, you can see a werewolf under the tree.

1:05:50 Murph: Sweet. I'm gonna chuck a ninja star just into the, halfway into the other train.

1:05:57 Brennan: Give me an attack roll.

1:06:02 Murph: That one is a 22 to hit.

1:06:08 Brennan: 22 hits, baby.

1:06:09 Ally: Woo!

1:06:10 Murph: That one is just 7 damage.

1:06:15 Brennan: Um, it pings. Your non-silver replica like, like magazine-bought ninja star pings off of the werewolf's hide.

1:06:23 Werewolf: Rawr!

1:06:30 Brennan: Um, and, uh, Cody, you have smoked a ghost into the bowels of the subway and then hucked one of your like machine press ninja stars into the next subway car. Uh, Sofia, that is you.

1:06:43 Sofia: Okay, I just need to take the temperature of the group. It seems as though we need to get to the front of the, of the train as quickly as we can we are quite far from it. I may leave you all to try to get to the front of the train. Does this sound okay?

1:06:59 Pete: That sounds great, that's a great idea.

1:07:02 Emily: I would like to look through into this, I'm assuming that since this is a forest there's some dimness in here.

1:07:08 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

1:07:09 Emily: Okay, so I'm going to Step of the Wind 60 feet into here. So I go to that spot and then I'm going to do a full dash action.

1:07:23 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:07:24 Emily: And go 90 more feet.

1:07:25 Ally: Ooh!

1:07:27 Brennan: Incredible. Um, werewolf is going to get an attack opportunity on you.

1:07:33 Emily: I have, what is Shield of Faith?

1:07:36 Brennan: It gives you a plus 2.

1:07:36 Zac: Plus 2 to AC.

1:07:38 Emily: Okay, so I'm 21 AC right now.

1:07:40 Brennan: That is a miss from the werewolf, you can continue to move through the car.

1:07:43 Emily: Okay, so now I'm going to go 28 feet to the next car.

1:07:51 Brennan: And now you're actually in that second car in the second line.

1:07:55 Emily: Okay.

1:07:55 Brennan: So we'll go ahead and move you there and I'll describe what you see as you enter that car and I think you make it part of the way into that one.

1:08:03 Zac: Oh, I see. So that the one with the tree is the same one with the tree right there.

1:08:08 Brennan: Yeah, the one with the tree is the werewolf one. How much more movement do you have when you exit the werewolf car?

1:08:14 Emily: When I, so I used 28 movement when I got in there so 90 minus 28.

1:08:21 Brennan: You have like 60 feet of movement left which is awesome.

1:08:22 Emily: Yeah.

1:08:23 Brennan: Incredible. You make it all the way to that next car, you can probably get through that car if you need to.

1:08:30 Emily: Yeah I will.

1:08:35 Brennan: You walk into a car that as you see the waking world version of it, you see that there is a... this is a an emotional turmoil car, there is a loud couple breaking up publicly in the corner of the subway. Just sort of weeping and talking to each other about how things fell apart. There is another guy sitting in a subway car just pointedly trying to befriend someone reading with headphones in. [all laughing]

1:09:12 Emily: This car is so funny and I really want to stay but I gotta fucking get to the next one. Take your opportunity attacks.

1:09:18 Brennan: Incredible. Amazing. That, the people turn into to kind of like modern day, modern day vampires into like a lustful millennial vampire relationship and the dude trying to befriend a stranger becomes Dracula as you rush through here, amazing. They're gonna take some swings at you. Your AC right now is 21.

1:09:39 Emily: 21 sorry.

1:09:40 Brennan: 21. Okay, one of them I believe is going to hit.

1:09:45 Emily: Shield.

1:09:46 Brennan: Huh? Shield.

1:09:47 Emily: Shield.

1:09:48 Brennan: Hold on one second.

1:09:50 Emily: 27 AC.

1:09:50 Brennan: 27 AC.

1:09:51 Zac: Absurd.

1:09:52 Emily: Sorry, 26.

1:09:54 Brennan: 26 yeah, doesn't get the job done to hit to hit Sofia. You sprint through there that is Sofia's. Do you have any movement left? That's Sofia’s turn.

1:10:05 Emily: Yeah yeah, I still have 60.

1:10:06 Brennan: Oh Jesus.

1:10:07 Emily: Cause I used 28 to get into this one and now I can use my 62 left to get into this next one.

1:10:14 Brennan: Go ahead, get into the next car my God.

1:10:18 Sofia: I mean, you know, if Kingston says it's important I gotta believe him..

1:10:23 Brennan: Hey, you guys see Sofia in her magical Louboutins van— just like full on, Sofia gets halfway down the car and then just horizontal flying side kicks through both doors, blam blam! into the next car.

1:10:31 Murph: [crosstalk] Sofie runs as fast as Cody thinks he does.

1:10:38 Sofia: Just so everyone knows, the car I just left looks really funny.

1:10:40 Siobhan: What is this? Why is there a—

1:10:42 Zac: A headless horseman!

1:10:43 Brennan: It's a headless horseman. You got the next one. Sofia you see the waking world bubbling away in this one. There is a dude who, it is perfect weather outside. It is not raining, and a dude uh, and this car is this this train line is not crossing any rivers where it is right now. And some dude has brought his enormous bicycle on the subway. Has it positioned blocking off a number of seats from where people could sit down if they wanted to and it erupts into a colonial haunted tavern where the Headless Horseman with a flaming pumpkin in his hand gazes down at you. I believe now Sofia is out of movement yes?

1:11:29 Emily: Now I'm out of movement yep, I've used every single thing I can do.

1:11:32 Brennan: Amazing. Now that werewolf is going to bound towards Kingston, does so. [little snarl] Let's see here, it's going to hit with its bite attack. Kingston takes six points of damage.

1:11:43 Lou: Oh, c’mon now.

1:11:53 Brennan: And I am going to need a Constitution saving throw.

1:11:58 Zac: Before you do that could I channel divinity and use rebuke the violent and it's within 30 feet.

1:12:04 Brennan: Yes you can do that, what does that do?

1:12:06 Zac: Force the attacker to make a Wisdom save.

1:12:09 Brennan: Okay, rolls a natural three, Ricky, Rebuke the Violent works.

1:12:15 Zac: Okay, wait, sorry, I may have actually read this wrong. On the failure the attacker takes radiant damage equal to the damage just dealt. Okay, so it still hits him.

1:12:26 Brennan: Gotcha. Yeah still hits him but takes six points of radiant damage. What does Ricky say as this thing hits him?

1:12:31 Ricky: Please stop. Reconsider, friend.

1:12:36 Cody: Ricky, no, I finally understand it. We are vampires and these are our natural enemies.

1:12:41 Ricky: That's also Underworld.

1:12:44 Cody: Have you ever seen Underworld?

1:12:45 Ricky: No, I've seen Underworld, I have.

1:12:48 Cody: Wait, in Underworld they all kind of end up getting along and there's bad guys in the, this is all it's been a confusing day. Ricky Yeah.

1:12:56 Brennan: Kingston I'm gonna need a Constitution saving throw from you.

1:12:59 Lou: Great. If I fail, do I become a werewolf?

1:13:02 Brennan: Yes, you do.

1:13:03 Siobhan: Oh my god.

1:13:05 Lou: Is it that simple? Is it really that simple?

1:13:07 Brennan: It's truly that simple.

1:13:11 Lou: Okay, that is 18 plus 7.

1:13:15 Brennan: You're, you know Kingston got his lycanthropy vaccination back at St. Owen’s.

1:13:19 Lou: Of course, dude.

1:13:22 Brennan: He stays up to date on those.

1:13:23 Lou: I stay up to date but I can take that six, that six is fine.

1:13:29 Brennan: Incredible, that is the werewolf's turn. Sofia I'mma need a Dexterity saving throw.

1:13:36 Emily: Dexterity saving throw, okay.

1:13:38 Brennan: DC15.

1:13:40 Emily: Okay. Okay. It's gonna be a 25.

1:13:49 Brennan: Instead of taking an enormous amount of fire damage, as the Headless Horseman goes,

1:13:53 Headless Horseman: [laughs maniacally]

1:13:57 Brennan: You barrel roll, Olympic gymnast twirl in the air spread out on the ceiling as this pumpkin head explodes on the ground underneath you taking zero damage.

1:14:10 Emily: Because of my monk Evasion.

1:14:12 Brennan: Incredible, this, the Headless Horseman charges, attacks, and you're still under the effect of your Shield spell.

1:14:20 Siobhan: Yep, so it's still 26.

1:14:22 Brennan: Misses twice. [cast cheering]

1:14:25 Sofia: Don’t fuck with Sofie Bikes.

1:14:28 Ally: We're killing it!

1:14:29 Brennan: You're like holding on to the bars as the train is going 90 miles an hour and just blocking this like Hessian, colonial-era saber and the horse hooves with your feet.

1:14:41 Emily: I think I need to try to sooth the ego of this creature that just missed so much on me, I say,

1:14:46 Sofia: Just so you know I think my personal life just took a serious nosedive last night. I may have seen my husband for the last time. So I may be thriving in my career, you know, but.

1:15:01 Brennan: You see, the Horseman, uh, the Headless Horseman appears to hate the degree of empathy and grace you are extending to him.

1:15:08 Sofia: Just so you know.

1:15:10 Brennan: Incredible, Ricky, that's gonna be your turn.

1:15:12 Ally: Oh, can I say can I turn to Ricky and Iga and say,

1:15:16 Pete: Can you guys hold your turns for after mine because I have something that can definitely help you.

1:15:24 Ricky: Yes, I can move pretty far but, and kinda want to help Kingston out. Is there, uh.

1:15:34 Ally: I think it goes you, Iga, me right. So could you hold then it would be your turns again?

1:15:38 Zac: Cool, yeah.

1:15:42 Brennan: You actually could you guys can organize your turns kind of however you want. You could even use movement to like, get into the next car if you wanted to and all, and all sort of be together there but yeah, Ricky, Iga and Pete can all coordinate cause you all kind of have the same initiative.

1:16:01 Zac: I think my only thing was without planning too much is like, I want to be able to cast something near Kingston before I leave the area.

1:16:10 Ally: Yeah totally. Oh, yeah. I'm not gonna send you anywhere.

1:16:13 Zac: Okay cool yeah, I'll wait for you.

1:16:16 Ally: Awesome.

1:16:17 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:16:18 Ally: Cool. I just dropped down and I, I'm petting— Wait, what's, sorry, what's your dog's name again?

1:16:23 Zac: Ox.

1:16:25 Ally: Ox, right. I kneel down and I'm like,

1:16:26 Pete: Who's a good boy?

1:16:26 Ally: And I pet Ox and I cast Haste on Ox. So his movement is doubled.

1:16:35 Brennan: Incredible I'm gonna let you know that will break concentration on Banishment, which means those ghosts will come back if you cast haste.

1:16:43 Ally: And I don't have anything that can hold a second concentration, right, that's Fantasy High.

1:16:48 Brennan: Yes.

1:16:49 Ally: Okay. Uh, I think that's fine we can just start running from the I mean, if you have that much movement, I doubt they could find us.

1:16:53 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:16:57 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it.

1:16:57 Siobhan: Book it.

1:16:59 Brennan: Um, dope. How many people are you casting Haste on?

1:17:03 Ally: I think I can only cast it on one with this.

1:17:06 Brennan: Yeah.

1:17:07 Ally: So I'm just gonna cast it on Ox and then I'm gonna take a, I'm gonna dash up to Kingston.

1:17:13 Brennan: Hell yeah, rock and roll.

1:17:14 Ally: And that's my turn, thanks for letting me go first.

1:17:16 Zac: Hell yeah, thank you.

1:17:18 Brennan: Ricky, that's going to be you.

1:17:20 Zac: Okay with from here.

1:17:24 Brennan: Now Ox has his speed doubled to 120 and gets an extra movement every turn.

1:17:31 Zac: Hell. Yes. I'm going to use Calm Emotions on the werewolf. So each humanoid in a 20 foot radius must make a Charisma saving throw.

1:17:45 Brennan: Sorry, just a heads up, Calm Emotions is also concentration. So you will break Shield of Faith on Sofia. Cool, gotcha.

1:17:50 Zac: I think that's worth it right now. I'm gonna break the concentration on that and use it to make a target indifferent about creatures of your choice that it is hostile towards. That would end if people attacked it or any of its allies near it, but would just like to make it indifferent to our party.

1:18:08 Brennan: A natural 5 on the saving throw from this werewolf.

1:18:10 Ally: [whispering] Yes.

1:18:12 Brennan: What does Ricky say as he approaches the werewolf?

1:18:15 Ricky: My sweet pup, listen. You just chill here. We'll get all this sorted out and then, you know, you can go play outside or something. How does that sound?

1:18:24 Brennan: Ah, you see, it looks at you in your serene chillness and Ox comes up and licks the werewolf on the end of its nose. And you see that there is a tree root which you recognize is one of the like side benches of the subway car. And the werewolf just goes over and plops itself down to take a seat, having been understood and reached out to with empathy and kindness. Zac nods.

1:18:36 Ally: Aww.

1:18:49 Zac: And then can Ox grab me and— God, I keep forgetting— Because I keep wanting to call Siobhan's character Anastasia, but I’m really—

1:19:03 Brennan: You guys all know her as Anastasia.

1:19:04 Iga: You can call me Anastasia.

1:19:04 Ricky: Anastasia!

1:19:04 Zac: Can I get Ox to carry us both as far as we can go forward?

1:19:08 Brennan: You could have cast that spell kind of as Ox was carrying you carrying us through. So you're, you have your full movement. So Ox right now has a speed of 120 and if he uses his action to dash can go a full distance of 360 this turn. Ally, proud of their work, grins widely, hands in front of their eyes.

1:19:25 Zac: Fuck it, let's do it.

1:19:26 Emily: Yeah.

1:19:27 Brennan: Let me measure, I'll measure this. So to the end of the werewolf car, that's 90. Then, um, 120 for the next two cars. So 90 plus 120 is 210.

1:19:46 Zac: I will get out next to the Headless Horseman but have Ox carry, carry, um... Anastasia all the way to the end of the car.

1:19:57 Brennan: Hell yes, great, go ahead and move your pieces so Iga and Anastasia it's 210. Ox still, at the end of the Headless Horseman's cart, Ox still has 150 movement left. [Ally laughs]

1:20:05 Zac: A hundred--

1:20:09 Emily: Finish it out.

1:20:14 Zac: I mean, he shouldn't just go in there because he'll just get rocked, right?

1:20:16 Emily: That’s true.

1:20:18 Brennan: Yes, and Iga is with him as well.

1:20:21 Zac: Huh, okay, y’know what?

1:20:21 Murph: You could see what’s happening though, right?

1:20:21 Ally: So three more cars to get through.

1:20:24 Zac: Uh, you know what, maybe, maybe we'll just keep going. I'll stay with Ox and go as far as possible.

1:20:32 Brennan: Cool.

1:20:32 Siobhan: Yeah, let’s keep going.

1:20:32 Brennan: You have 150, you see a car, and we'll actually move down to the first car of the third line. So you move in there and see a number of passengers with truly outlandishly enormous backpacks, just leaving them on both straps, turning around fast to like, talk to each other and look at subway maps with no regard for the swinging of their enormous backpacks, and you, not putting them at their feet, in between their feet to leave the most space for other passengers and Nod bubbles up and you see the backpacks turn into monstrous abdomens of giant spiders in a place filled with spider webs. You still, again, have 100, at this point, 140 feet of movement left.

1:21:01 Zac: [whistles] Geez.

1:21:31 Emily: Are the spider webs any kind of terrain?

1:21:33 Brennan: The spider webs are difficult terrain. So it costs double movement here. From where you are, 150 is still 75. You could get into the next car, you would just get attacks from these spiders.

1:21:48 Zac: Shit. I mean, I haven't been hit yet.

1:21:52 Emily: Do it.

1:21:54 Zac: You know what? I'll go for it. We got to get through.

1:22:00 Brennan: Hell yeah. Ricky's AC right now is 20 correct?

1:22:02 Zac: It's 21, actually, I changed my fighting style just because I don't have a weapon.

1:22:09 Brennan: Makes sense to me, incredible. 21, oh wow! That is two hits and a crit on Ricky.

1:22:18 Zac: All right.

1:22:20 Brennan: I'm gonna need three Constitution saving throws.

1:22:24 Zac: Okay. Let's see how this goes. First one.

1:22:30 Siobhan: Can I have Misiek give him the help action?

1:22:33 Brennan: Sure, that'll only give him advantage on one.

1:22:36 Zac: Okay.

1:22:37 Siobhan: Yes, but.

1:22:38 Zac: So the first one which was a 2, so great. That is, okay I got a nat 1. Can I use my Lucky feat?

1:22:45 Brennan: Yes, you can.

1:22:47 Zac: Okay.

1:22:49 Siobhan: Oh, I forgot I have Lucky.

1:22:55 Zac: God, it’s uh, 14. Do I add my plus 4 to my saves?

1:22:57 Brennan: Yes you do.

1:22:58 Zac: Or are they added. I think they might already be added right?

1:23:02 Brennan: Oh, for Ricky? I think it's probably already, yes it's already added.

1:23:04 Zac: Damn okay, so that was only a 14.

1:23:07 Brennan: 14 passes.

1:23:09 Zac: Okay, cool. I need two more.

1:23:12 Brennan: Two more.

1:23:15 Zac: Another 14.

1:23:16 Lou: Mwah.

1:23:16 Brennan: Cool.

1:23:18 Zac: Or 16 actually then.

1:23:19 Lou: Hey hey.

1:23:20 Zac: Okay now that's like a 17 plus 6.

1:23:21 Lou: Yeah!

1:23:22 Brennan: Awesome. You do take 27 points of damage.

1:23:27 Zac: Okay.

1:23:28 Brennan: And you take, and then you take 11 and 8. You take another 19 poison damage from the spiders as you race through here.

1:23:39 Zac: If I'm immune to disease, does that affect anything?

1:23:41 Brennan: Does not affect poison in this instance.

1:23:44 Zac: Okay.

1:23:46 Brennan: Hell yes. But you can move another 75 feet through here. So you get into the next subway car. In the next subway car, you see that there is a sort of well-to-do Upper East Side woman who has monopolized three seats around her in every direction with her various shopping bags and personal items, taking up the seats around her. And you see she looks up and says,

1:24:16 Upper East Side Lady: Oh, I'm so [louder and witch-like] sorry to have bothered you, sonny! Hee hee hee!

1:24:22 Brennan: A witch's cauldron explodes out of the dream realm. A witch with her cauldrons and herbs and various bags of newts and toads taking up all of this public seating space.

1:24:35 Zac: Frickin’ Halloween. [Emily laughs]

1:24:37 Brennan: This is, this is where Ox ends his movement. Iga and Ricky, Ricky, you used an action to cast a spell but Iga, you have your full turn as you enter this new chamber.

1:24:49 Siobhan: Okay, can I use Thunder Step to bring the animals or like just bring Ricky?

1:24:54 Zac: Like Ox?

1:24:56 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:24:59 Brennan: It depends on if spells that affect Ricky also— I think Thunder Step is only one other person but if the spell also affects both of them.

1:25:07 Siobhan: I mean, if not.

1:25:08 Brennan: While mounted on your steed you can make any spell that targets only you also target your speed, you can move all three of you with Thunder Step.

1:25:11 Zac: Ooh!

1:25:14 Siobhan: Fantastic. Ah then I will.

1:25:17 Emily: Does your little drake get left behind?

1:25:20 Siobhan: Yeah. Misiek comes in my bag, surely.

1:25:23 Brennan: Misiek comes in the bag exactly, yes yes.

1:25:26 Lou: Misiek comes in the bag.

1:25:28 Siobhan: I grab onto Ricky a little too tight and I say,

1:25:28 Iga: Let me repay the favor.

1:25:30 Ricky: What?

1:25:32 Siobhan: And I cause Thunder Step to take us 90 feet down the next car.

1:25:35 Lou: Wow!

1:25:39 Brennan: Incredible, look at that. You guys, this was a very specific gimmick to this fight which was limited time and a long way to go. Incredible. You rush forward, you, Ox, Pete literally like reaches out, touches Ox and just like shortens Ox's relationship to space in like quantum relationship is like pure dream physics of like, yeah, you know how in a dream like you go to like you go to your dad's house and you walk out your door and then you're just like in your dad, just woo, you're suddenly, boom, somewhere else. The final car, you see the flapping door of the MTA conductor themself cackling over the intercom with the most fiendish antipopuli subway corruption of all. You see a man well over six feet tall, sitting in a five seat stretch of seats, his knees pulled apart, exposing his crotch out to the middle of the subway car, literally blocking off five seats with the fearsome spread of his mighty legs, manspreading from pole to pole, and the dream erupts and you see the wide knees of Frankenstein's monster as Dr. Frankenstein cackles from the front of the car.

1:27:14 Dr. Frankenstein: Coming up on the end of the line!

1:27:22 Brennan: Iga, you've used Thunder Step. I believe that's a, that's a bonus action right?

1:27:26 Siobhan: No it's an action.

1:27:27 Brennan: Action, cool, any bonus actions from you or are you all good?

1:27:32 Siobhan: I have no bonus actions to do, I am good.

1:27:35 Brennan: Incredible, that goes from Iga.

1:27:38 Zac: I didn't roll concentration, I just realized, for the.

1:27:42 Brennan: Go ahead and give me three concentration checks.

1:27:45 Zac: Okay. Um, what do I have to beat? Sorry.

1:27:51 Brennan: I'm gonna say for these you're just trying to beat a 10.

1:27:54 Zac: Okay I beat out on the first one got a 15,

1:28:01 Brennan: Cool.

1:28:02 Zac: Another 13.

1:28:05 Brennan: Amazing. Um, those spiders are going to take double moves to move 60 into the witch's car. The witch is going to cackle, speed of 40. That's so scary, she's going to move eighty. Well she definitely can. She's going to come straight for Iga.

1:28:20 Siobhan: Oof.

1:28:36 Brennan: Iga what is your armor class?

1:28:40 Siobhan: 13.

1:28:43 Brennan: Okay, that's going to be hits all around.

1:28:50 Siobhan: What kind of damage? If it's bludgeoning I'm resistant?

1:28:54 Brennan: This is piercing and slashing, unfortunately.

1:28:56 Zac: What's hitting her? Is it just the witch?

1:28:59 Brennan: The witch is gonna run up and shred her to pieces with her claws.

1:29:02 Siobhan: Oh no.

1:29:03 Ally: What?

1:29:05 Emily: Witches have claws, people, this is normal.

1:29:07 Lou: Witches have claws.

1:29:10 Iga: Look at you, look at me, you think we're different? Do you think you're better than me?

1:29:14 Brennan: 13, 15, 21, 21. Iga takes 55 points of damage as the witch runs up and sinks her claws into your back. Is Iga down?

1:29:32 Siobhan: No, I'm at 32.

1:29:34 Brennan: Ooh! Iga is tough.

1:29:35 Zac: This is a new turn right?

1:29:37 Brennan: New turn, yeah.

1:29:38 Zac: I’m going to use, well, God, witches are probably going to have wisdom right? I'm going to use Channel Divinity again to Rebuke the Violent which means that they have to pass a DC 16 saving throw or they take all that damage or half.

1:29:53 Brennan: Oh my God, I'm gonna roll this I think this is going to be our digital version of Box of Doom, because that first attack was a crit and it dealt 36 points of damage in that first attack. Ricky's DC for this is I believe 15 right?

1:30:08 Zac: It's 16 now. Cause I, yeah, I added charisma.

1:30:13 Brennan: 16 and it's wisdom for her. She only gets a plus two. So you said six she needs a roll of 14 or higher here comes, here comes the Box of Doom.

1:30:25 Emily: Is it on the Roll 20 thing?

1:30:27 Brennan: On the roll 20, 14 or higher. Let's see if she gets it. The witch gets a nat 1. [All cheering]

1:30:37 Lou: That was honestly great,

1:30:39 Brennan: Ricky, you turn around this which sinks her talons [cackling] into Iga's back, what does Ricky say to her?

1:30:47 Ricky: Excuse me? We don't know you and it's inappropriate.

1:30:54 Brennan: As Ricky says, “it's inappropriate,” I'm going to choose on a natural one to have this deal double damage, which is going to be 72 points of damage. She looks and says, looks to you as you say it's inappropriate and says,

1:31:06 Witch: [stuttering] I'm so sorry. I didn't I didn't mean to cause offense I just simply thought, I'll see myself out.

1:31:17 Ricky: You probably should, yeah.

1:31:19 Brennan: [boom!] Radiant light, the witch is destroyed in this single act of Rebuking the Violent, she is gone.

1:31:27 Ally: Incredible.

1:31:28 Ricky: You just shouldn't touch people you don't know.

1:31:31 Sofia: That's what I said, except I broke a man's wrist to say that

1:31:33 Iga: Thank you. I agree, I agree.

1:31:36 Brennan: Truly that simple. Amazing. Back at the top. Pete, that's you baby.

1:31:42 Ally: They held for me right? Brennan Yes, that's right. So Kingston, that's going to be you now.

1:31:46 Lou: I look over at Pete,

1:31:46 Kingston: Hey Pete, you got any more magic that's gonna get us up to the front anytime soon?

1:31:52 Pete: I don't, I went through all of my stuff.

1:31:56 Kingston: Alright uh, well, I guess we're stuck.

1:32:00 Cody: We'll just freak out and just kill ghosts.

1:32:02 Kingston: I mean, I don't think you should be messing around with ghosts anymore, Cody but yeah, it feels like.

1:32:09 Brennan: Kingston you do see that Cody is the caboose and is stuck in the room where the two ghosts just came back.

1:32:17 Cody: This is, this is my fight, Kingston. Peter Cody I think we got to run, right?

1:32:24 Kingston: Yeah, we should be moving forward, Cody, all right.

1:32:28 Pete: Cody do you have anything that's gonna get us really far?

1:32:32 Cody: Yes.

1:32:34 Pete: Oh shit.

1:32:35 Kingston: Wait really?

1:32:36 Cody: I'm gonna omnislash these ghosts. I’m gonna use omnislash. I’m gonna use my final limit break.

1:32:40 Pete: I’m so stu— Why do I listen?

1:32:41 Cody: I'm gonna go all out.

1:32:44 Lou: Cody, what are you at?

1:32:44 Murph: What am I, Cody's fine, Cody's at like 71.

1:32:48 Lou: Okay, in that case, Kingston is just gonna be like

1:32:50 Kingston: Well, I mean, let's see if we can just make sure we don't get into too much trouble.

1:32:58 Lou: I'm gonna step up to like here and I'm gonna cast Lightning Bolt at a fifth level into the next car. Hitting the vampire and the two break up people and start, stopping just short of Sofia.

1:33:18 Brennan: Oh my god what is the range on Lightning Bolt?

1:33:21 Lou: 100 feet.

1:33:24 Brennan: Oh my god. Um, uh. Incredible.

1:33:29 Emily: That's gonna be so cool to see the very end of a Lightning Bolt right in front of my face.

1:33:36 Brennan: Kingston, go ahead and roll damage for a fifth level Lightning Bolt.

1:33:40 Lou: Okay, that's 10d6. Yeah, I take my pirate-like handkerchief off that I've been wearing and like, flip up my eye patch. Okay, here we go. This is five. Okay. [tense music]

1:34:11 Lou: Only 35.

1:34:15 Brennan: Pfft. You hit every single one of them for 35 points of damage. Kingston, you just sort of stride, now at this point because you're taking an action every turn you're not even running. You're just like, sort of, you know, like walking safely up. You hold your hand out the city heeds your command and you hear from the utilities of the city itself, “you got it Kingston”, and watch the third rail of the subway outside just spill Lightning through the cracks of the doors into your hand until you are once again holding a lightning bolt like Zeus. It is a, you're holding like a 40 foot long lightning bolt in your hand and as you hurl it forward, [crashing thunder] each of those vampires takes the 35 full points of lightning damage, shrieks and drops to their knees, and fully begin to turn into ash in front of you. Completely unmade by that lightning bolt.

1:35:15 Emily: As the smoke dissipates from their bodies it reveals Sofia at the very end with a thumbs up.

1:35:25 Kingston: It's good right! It's not bad! Still got it!

1:35:27 Sofia: Really good stuff Kingston. Your aim is incredible.

1:35:31 Kingston: Hey, get to the front! I don't think we're gonna make it. Cody's gonna omnislash the ghost, I don't know what that is.

1:35:39 Sofia: I like Cody. He's growing on me I think.

1:35:41 Kingston: Honestly, he's getting better with age if you ask me.

1:35:45 Sofia: Yeah, right?

1:35:49 Brennan: Incredible speaking of which, Cody it is your turn after Kingston fries these vampires.

1:35:56 Murph: Cody gives a knowing nod to Kingston like this is all part of the plan and then he drags his giant sword Gears of War style so that sparks come up as he runs across and he runs backwards to the ghosts.

1:36:12 Lou: Oh Cody.

1:36:13 Emily: I'm just so worried now that he's 47 all of his cultural references are gonna be so different than people who are now his peers.

1:36:21 Murph: Truly they are all, out of game, they are all references that I remember from high school and they already don’t hold up.

1:36:28 Zac: It's so sad that he's a 47 year old man running like an anime character. 47 year old white man.

1:36:33 Ally: Yeah, yeah.

1:36:36 Brennan: Incredible.

1:36:38 Murph: Okay, so he'll take his so there's one ghost that has been Suggested right? Or is that...

1:36:45 Brennan: Yeah correct.

1:36:46 Murph: Okay, so I'm gonna go after the one that has not gotten to do anything.

1:36:51 Brennan: The Suggested one actually left, fully left the subway car so.

1:36:55 Murph: Okay, so there is just one.

1:36:58 Brennan: So yeah, this ghost right here the lowermost ghost is gone. And then this other one in front of you is back from Banishment.

1:37:06 Murph: Great I will just go after this one. First things first, thunderous smite as a bonus action to charge up my sword.

1:37:14 Cody: [gruffly] Omnislash!

1:37:14 Murph: And I go all out. That's a 17.

1:37:22 Brennan: Hits. 17 hits.

1:37:24 Zac: This is like a kid playing in his room.

1:37:29 Murph: Okay, so I've got Thunderous Smite—

1:37:29 Emily: Again, a 47 year old man.

1:37:30 Murph: And then I'm also going to Divine Smite at a third level. So that's going to be 5d8, cause third level would be four and it's a undead.

1:37:43 Brennan: Hell yes because you guys are segmented now, I'm gonna let you resolve the amount of damage you do to that ghost and also move on to Sofia's turn, so you roll that damage. Sofia.

1:37:53 Emily: So here's what I want to do I need to I want to avoid going in this room with difficult terrain.

1:38:00 Brennan: Cool.

1:38:01 Emily: So what I want to do is I want to do a pull up, Lou mimics doing pull-ups.

1:38:02 Emily: And then do Step of the Wind as a dash action and run on the top of these, on the top of the subway cars.

1:38:11 Lou: [snapping repeatedly] Yes, yes yes yes yes. The cast cheer.

1:38:14 Brennan: Yes yes.

1:38:16 Emily: For 180 feet which should get me to the end.

1:38:18 Ally: Fuck yeah.

1:38:19 Brennan: Oh my fucking God.

1:38:21 Siobhan: So sick.

1:38:23 Brennan: A million percent. Sofia, go ahead and move yourself as far as you. Yeah the Headless Horseman is gonna take a swing at you, does not hit as one of the hooves lash out and you pull yourself up onto the roof and... 90 mile an hour car. You, running atop a moving subway, sprint 180 feet.

1:38:44 Emily: Yeah, so with 180 feet—

1:38:44 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:38:44 Emily: I should plop myself right down in the mix here.

1:38:51 Murph: And I did 48, 48 damage.

1:38:53 Ally: [wheezing with laughter] So funny!

1:38:55 Brennan: 48. You annihilate this ghost, dude.

1:38:57 Murph: Great.

1:39:00 Ally: But no one's there to see it! [Emily laughs]

1:39:02 Lou: Oh wait, we watch. We watch. Come on, Pete. We watch.

1:39:07 Cody: Did anyone see that?

1:39:08 Kingston: I want to see what an Omnislash is.

1:39:11 Cody: Did you guys? [looking around] Kingston, Pete! Fuck.

1:39:15 Ricky: [to himself] God, I hope he’s not dead, that old child.

1:39:18 Murph: I use my second attack to punch a window.

1:39:21 Brennan: I will say there is still a, there's one ghost left in the, in the car that came back from Pete's other Banishment. So you have two, two attacks so you nail—

1:39:26 Murph: Oh, sweet.

1:39:30 Brennan: So there's one other ghost left, you could take your other attack if you want.

1:39:37 Murph: Yeah, definitely. Um, I can't keep track of how far I went. Can I get back to that guy?

1:39:43 Brennan: Yes, because remember, the cells are only three point five.

1:39:44 Murph: Oh, sweet.

1:39:45 Brennan: You're only 15 feet away from that ghost, so yeah.

1:39:49 Murph: So I'm just going to run back and freak out again. I'm going to go, I'm using literally all my spell slots.

1:39:55 Brennan: Incredible. I love it.

1:39:57 Murph: I'm going to cast, oh wait no, I already used a bonus action so I just have to do a regular attack.

1:40:02 Brennan: Cool.

1:40:04 Murph: Do I want to Great Weapon Fighting? No, that's.

1:40:09 Zac: Because regular damage doesn't hurt ghosts right?

1:40:13 Murph: I think it does like half or something, I don't know.

1:40:14 Zac: Oh okay, yeah.

1:40:16 Murph: Boy. Should I Great Weapon Fighting? Yeah, maybe not. Okay, just regular attack. Good thing I didn't. Only 14.

1:40:24 Brennan: 14 hits.

1:40:26 Murph: Nice. Okay, then I will do another third level smite, use my last spell slots.

1:40:34 Brennan: Hell yes. As you're rolling that, Sofia rushes forward. The werewolf is now sitting politely because it was chastised by Ricky, Sofia before you leap down. You see ahead of you. For everyone that's in that subway car you hear the mad scientist at the front whisper to Frankenstein's monster and say,

1:41:02 Dr. Frankenstein: I've got these ones. The roof, monster!

1:41:02 Brennan: In the middle of that table, Sofia you see an eruption on the roof blasting through the metal Frankenstein's monster punches through the roof to meet you on the roof of the moving subway and is going to charge you.

1:41:27 Emily: I get low.

1:41:29 Lou: Hell yes.

1:41:32 Brennan: Oh, this battle was as cool as I wanted it to be.

1:41:35 Murph: 38 damage by the way. 38 damage.

1:41:38 Brennan: You obliterate, I'm sorry, no, 38. This was, this one was uninjured. There's still a ghost in front of Cody all the way back in the second car. It's so close to death.

1:41:42 Murph: Fuck.

1:41:46 Brennan: It's so close to death.

1:41:49 Zac: Oh Cody.

1:41:52 Brennan: Yes, and actually right after Cody's turn this ghost is going to go. I hate to do it to you, Cody.

1:41:54 Murph: Fuck.

1:41:57 Brennan: I'm going to need a Wisdom saving throw.

1:42:03 Lou: Fuck off, dude, are you gonna make Cody a 60 year old man?

1:42:03 Siobhan: 70 year old man.

1:42:07 Emily: Wait, isn't there still Silence there though there's still silence so if it's about, does that, I haven't taken any more damage to do a concentration roll and I think it just stays in that location.

1:42:18 Brennan: “Centered on a point you choose within range.” Yes, that is true. There's still Silence there. Cody, would you, what would you have rolled, Cody?

1:42:28 Murph: Oh, I would have passed, I think. Yeah, 21. 21.

1:42:32 Brennan: Okay the ghost tries to scream and cannot. It is surrounded by Silence. Werewolf, we go all the way down to Frankenstein's monster. It's gonna make two slam attacks on Sofia, who's back at 21, right? Sofia that lumbering Frankenstein's monster with bolts in the neck greenskin this giant long leg still, still bow-legged and manspreading even up here on the roof, takes two wild swings that you effortlessly dodge and block.

1:43:05 Emily: I'm actually not, I'm not at 21, I’m at 19, because Ricky did something else so Shield of Faith is gone.

1:43:10 Brennan: Copy that. Okay, even with that roll, the natural 5 and 2 missing Sofia by a mile. You are exchanging punches with Frankenstein's monster on the, on the roof of a barreling A train headed uptown. Emily pretends to dodge blows.

1:43:29 Brennan: Kingston.

1:43:31 Lou: What?

1:43:34 Brennan: [mimicking Lou] Huh? With all the vampires gone, you get charged by the Headless Horseman who summons another pumpkin head. I'm gonna need Dexterity saving throws from Pete and Kingston.

1:43:46 Ally: Ooh.

1:43:48 Lou: Okay, happy to do it.

1:43:53 Ally: Aye, 21.

1:43:55 Lou: That's a mod 20.

1:43:58 Brennan: Each of you only takes half damage from this.

1:43:58 Lou: Hell yeah.

1:43:58 Brennan: Hold on one second.

1:44:03 Zac: To be clear if the werewolf sees people fighting in front of it, it will come out of indifference.

1:44:09 Brennan: Gotcha. Copy that. Oh, this guy rolled so bad. 4, 6, 5 is 11, 67. You each take 17 halved to 8 points of fire damage from this exploding pumpkin head and then Kingston is going to take two hoof attacks, one of which hits Kingston for another 5 points of damage. Come on, Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman you see it charging across over the, the ashy corpses that are splitting in the wind of the vampires you sundered with your Lightning Bolt, rides you down. How's Kingston looking after this fearsome charge from the Headless Horseman?

1:44:52 Lou: 61. Kingston’s...

1:44:53 Ally: Yeah.

1:44:54 Lou: Kingston's got, there's like a, there's a new kid on the block and he’s just got to prove himself, you know, he's not out here. He wants Cody to think he's cool, you know. I'm the Vox Populi, damn it.

1:45:08 Cody: We are, we are contemporaries. We are pretty much the same age.

1:45:12 Kingston: Now.

1:45:15 Brennan: Amazing, that is going to be Ricky, that is your turn.

1:45:18 Zac: Okay, so we are in that cart.

1:45:21 Brennan: Yes, you're in the front cart and the witch has been destroyed. You can hear spiders chasing you from back behind you but all that's left in this car is the mad scientist at the front of the car.

1:45:33 Zac: Okay, it may not work out but I'm going to send Ox back as far as he can to try to grab somebody and bring them closer.

1:45:41 Brennan: Ox can go do whatever you want Ox to do, but those spiders are filling up that car and so Ox will get some attacks of opportunity from them.

1:45:49 Zac: Yeah, he's pretty weak I guess, can I bring [laughs] Anastasia and myself closer to the mad scientist?

1:45:57 Brennan: You absolutely can.

1:45:58 Zac: With Ox.

1:45:59 Siobhan: I actually am fine where I am.

1:46:01 Zac: Okay cool. Then I will use Ox's movement to get to the mad scientist.

1:46:05 Brennan: Hell yeah cool. You charge the mad scientist, what does Ricky do with his action as he, as he, also with the haste Ox can make attacks here as well if you want?

1:46:14 Zac: Oh, right. Okay I will say I guess Ricky just wants to just, first just chat with the mad scientist for a second.

1:46:23 Ricky: Hey, man, what's going on? What is this about?

1:46:27 Dr. Frankenstein: [laughs] No room no room the end of the line is coming. There's nothing left, tides coming in deep deep down and it's time for everything that was… [stares intensely]

1:46:40 Brennan: And you see his eyes flicker and says,

1:46:40 Dr. Frankenstein: [quietly] To go away. [manic again] Death to you all!

1:46:50 Brennan: And it looks like he's about to do some messed up magic stuff.

1:46:53 Zac: Okay, I'm you know, it's not Ricky's favorite. Ricky is just gonna take a regular... You know what actually, um, Ricky is going to let Ox attack because he has Pack Tactics.

1:47:10 Brennan: That's correct so he has advantage.

1:47:12 Zac: And so, and he has two attacks right now because he has Haste.

1:47:16 Brennan: Oh, he does, that's right. Yes yes yes.

1:47:19 Zac: Okay, so um. 19 though.

1:47:27 Brennan: Ah, dude, 19 hits. Also I'll point something out. This mad scientist has bottles and beakers all over this room. You think that if you can prevent this dude from in other words using somatic components. I'll be clear, this is a spellcaster enemy. If you can grapple and pin this dude because Ox just got that 19, you may be able to prevent this dude from casting spells on his next turn.

1:47:54 Zac: Gotcha, if I can grapple him, okay.

1:47:57 Brennan: Basically yeah.

1:47:58 Zac: Um so on it okay, that's only on a charge that it can do it DC 14 saving throw or you'd be knocked prone.

1:48:09 Brennan: I'll let you do, Ox just charged because he charged with you.

1:48:12 Zac: Oh yeah he did okay let's do that. [Box of Doom music]

1:48:14 Brennan: This is important. This guy has nothing to Strength, needs to roll a 14 or higher. This is huge, you have reached the conductor of the train, the Dr. Frankenstein.

1:48:26 Ricky: Ox, can you push him down on the ground please?

1:48:29 Brennan: 10. Ox successfully pushes the mad scientist to the ground.

1:48:32 Zac: He leaps over my shoulder.

1:48:35 Brennan: Boom! Knocks him to the ground. You will, let me see if Ox has anything left, any other attacks. So Ox has used his charge and then the hits with his attack. So he has his attack he can either do damage or try to make an Athletics to grapple himself, if you want to roll Athletics.

1:48:58 Emily: Picturing just dalmatian arms, putting someone in a headlock.

1:49:03 Brennan: Yeah, if you want to roll Athletics for Ox to try. Zac Hell yeah. Brennan You would have to finish the pin because Ox doesn't have enough attacks to do it in one round but he can start it for you basically.

1:49:16 Zac: Okay yeah, sure. I'll do that. So it's like he has plus four to strength so that's the... Brennan Yeah that's what you're adding.

1:49:22 Zac: Nat 1.

1:49:24 Brennan: Oof, brutal. Okay, let's see if this dude rolls a nat 1. No, 16, he makes it. Now Ricky has advantage on anything you wanna do this round.

1:49:32 Zac: Gotcha. Okay I'm going to, can I make a check to see if I can see what's going on with the control panels to slow things down.

1:49:42 Brennan: Give me a raw Intelligence check, I'm going to say that this is a DC 20 Intelligence check.

1:49:48 Zac: Interesting, interesting. Nat 20, nat 20. [All cheering]

1:49:51 Siobhan: Ricky!

1:49:54 Ally: No fucking way. Zac attempts to turn his camera down to show his die, but is foiled by the green screen. Brennan You've got to be fucking kidding me.

1:49:56 Siobhan: Smart king.

1:49:58 Ally: You got to turn off your background thing.

1:49:59 Emily: Turn off your background so you can see it.

1:50:01 Brennan: I literally want to turn off your fucking like virtual background. Zac’s background switches off. His die is shiny blue and is, indeed, a nat 20.

1:50:03 Emily and Siobhan: Yes!

1:50:06 Brennan: Oh my fucking God, oh my fucking God. Ricky, you look at the conductor’s panel. By the way, what could Ricky have made that roll on?

1:50:28 Zac: A nat 20. [Brennan wheezes in laughter]

1:50:33 Zac: I have 10 intelligence.

1:50:37 Brennan: Ricky you look at the most complicated series of dials, knobs, beakers, lightning all, everything like that. This is the exact kind of thing that would normally give Ricky a full. Not like, Ricky would not panic over this but you would just be completely over your head not knowing what it was. But here's the deal man, there's nothing you care more about than safety. And you took an elective course as a young firefighter just in case you were ever on a runaway subway. As Ox pins this mad scientist to the ground. Ricky, you know the sequence code and there's a key in the ignition to open a secret panel which pulls the lever that instantly master overrides every emergency brake in every single car on the train.

1:51:20 Zac: Okay I'm gonna step over the mad scientist and just be like,

1:51:24 Ricky: Sorry, buddy, but time to slow down. [all laughing]

1:51:28 Siobhan: What a hero.

1:51:32 Zac: And do that. [adventurous, heroic orchestral music]

1:51:36 Brennan: Absolutely astounding. As the train slows Cody facing that last ghost you watch the ghost fade back into just a regular person and suddenly everyone kinda looks up and notices you just holding a sword on the subway. Kingston and Pete, you are looking at a dude, he's kinda sweating and breathing. Who is looking at you like, he's like holding a bike and he's like in a different car than he was looking kinda confused and upset. Sofia, as you're trading blows with Frankenstein's monster, suddenly you're on the roof of a slowing subway with a regular guy who screams and falls to the ground fully crying. Like, [yells]. Looking around.

1:52:35 Sofia: It's okay I'll hold your hand through this.

1:52:39 Brennan: Iga you look see the cars spread out behind you the woman right behind you that was moments ago a witch and Ricky in the front compartment saves the train.

1:52:44 Ally: Incredible.

1:52:50 Brennan: Everyone now back in the waking world all of that strange dream stuff fades away as the train pulls into the second to last station. You have saved the day, defeated the runaway Halloween car and a group of passengers looking around. Ricky, you see that the little PA comes on as the sort of normal looking conductor looks up from the ground as Ox licks his face. [lick] The PA system is open in front of you and you see that a bunch of confused people start like yelling and shouting around here.

1:53:31 Zac: I take the intercom and talk to the train.

1:53:36 Ricky: [through a tinny PA] Be calm, everyone. Turns out someone threw up and that's what happened.

1:53:42 Sofia: It was me, I threw up, it was me.

1:53:46 Ricky: She threw up and that's the explanation I got. Go about your day. Hope everyone has a safe Halloween, don't eat any candy that has little openings on it. Stay safe out there.

1:54:01 Brennan: The entire train looks around and someone in a little Dracula came in, someone else is dressed like a bumblebee and someone who's some political reference and someone else who's some other thing all [clapping]. Train erupts into applause. The doors open, all of you from various places of the train walk up onto the platform and all observe each other as something magical seeps back into the ground. [brief ethereal ambiance]

1:54:34 Ally: Can we do like an Insight check to try to catch some info about that?

1:54:38 Brennan: Yeah give me an Arcana or an Insight check.

1:54:43 Ally: Ooh, yeah. 28.

1:54:44 Brennan: 28. Pete.

1:54:45 Emily: I got much less than that.

1:54:48 Brennan: You see Umbral Arcana which you have only ever known as something manufactured by the Gramercy Occult Society. But you see it in your sort of dream vision, in a like a raw unprocessed form and it looks like it is ebbing away, and when I say ebbing away I'm choosing my words carefully here. You guys successfully defeated this rotten like anti-New York sentiment Halloween cursed subway. And as you congregate again, Pete you're looking down like in between the train and the track underneath it. And when I say it's ebbing away it's almost like you're seeing a tide going out. As though it's going out now but tides don't just go out forever.

1:55:50 Emily: Yeah, we beat back the tide but the ocean is still there.

1:55:56 Zac: Fighting an ocean, how?

1:56:01 Brennan: So Pete you're looking at that, it does look. There's something here within this that seemed like an element of Nod escaping but every time you've seen Nod enter the waking world it was a violent act or an act of desire to be in the waking world. Like the whole thing Nod talked about before that, dreams wanna be real. This is the first time you've seen dreams enter the waking world and the vibe you get is wrong man. It doesn't feel like these dreams came here because they wanted to be here. It feels like they were being pushed here, like tide, in an effort to get away from something else on the other side.

1:56:28 Ally: [frowns] Whoa.

1:56:56 Brennan: You're back in the waking world as Nod dissipates and Pete you're gazing. Um Sofia, go ahead and give me a Perception check with advantage if you'd be so kind.

1:57:06 Emily: Okay. That's only going to be a 15. Oh, 15 though.

1:57:12 Brennan: You look down at Pete, Pete's giving you a hand by pointing it out. You can see this shit. The Umbral Arcana is definitionally like obfuscating. It's a fucking force that makes you not see stuff. You and Pete watch as this kind of haze, it's a haze that moves away. It chills things, it dampens things. It almost like, it's sort of grimy subway station floor but you almost can swear like it saps the color from the floor in a way, moves out. You are able to both perceive it and Sofia, your hackles raise. ‘Cause Pete, you're seeing your responsibility which is the dream realm behaving in a really unusual way and Sofia, you're seeing some shit that confirms a lot of what you've been studying in the history of the Order’s battle against forces from the dreaming.

1:58:19 Sofia: Hey, hey Pete, I know we haven't really formally worked together very much but I think I have more information about the dream world that, I, you know I would love to maybe go over with you sometime.

1:58:35 Pete: Cool, yeah we could go get a coffee or like a panini or something.

1:58:41 Sofia: I'd love a panini.

1:58:42 Pete: Yeah, totally.

1:58:44 Sofia: Yeah.

1:58:45 Pete: Yeah it'd be cool to talk.

1:58:46 Ally: And then I look down at like my 60 day chip. [Brennan and Emily laughing]

1:58:54 Pete: Just seems like it would be cool to talk.

1:58:57 Sofia: Yeah, right.

1:58:59 Brennan: Hell yes, you guys have that connection there. Ricky you're sort of going, I feel like asking passengers what happened and immediately assuming you are an authority figure here and coming up to ask you.

1:59:13 Zac: Presenting like, sometimes the subway will jostle you around and if you've just recently ate something that's not agreeing with you and you're not feeling well it can make you throw up.

1:59:24 Brennan: The dude who was in his dream self, the Frankenstein's monster gets down off the roof of the subway car looking like what the fuck happened like.

1:59:35 Sofia: It was you, you threw up.

1:59:39 Dude: Oh shit, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry?

1:59:42 Ricky: It happens, it happens.

1:59:45 Brennan: Cody, you're 47. [cast loses it] Ally completely disappears offscreen for a moment from laughing.

1:59:50 Zac: Can I try to Remove Curse? From Cody?

1:59:52 Lou: Yeah also I have Dispel Magic, is there something we can do?

1:59:56 Brennan: Uh, I’m gonna say, Ricky and Kingston give me medicine checks.

2:00:00 Zac: Okay.

2:00:01 Lou: Okay.

2:00:02 Emily: [through laughter] This is so funny.

2:00:06 Lou: I got 27.

2:00:07 Brennan: Hell yeah,

2:00:07 Cody: So just to be clear I might walk in the darkness but I do have a zest for life and I would like to not have 20 years off my life, that would be awesome. I wanna hang out in the mall again. I wanna do cool shit. I'm here to do rad shit, I'm not here to, you know. I don't wanna go to the other side yet, so fix me, please.

2:00:30 Brennan: You see Bazathrax goes,

2:00:30 Bazathrax: It feels bad in here, it feels really not as good. It didn't feel great to start. I'll be honest.

2:00:38 Cody: Just trade up man, trade me up! Fuck!

2:00:40 Zac: I got a 21 on my Medicine check.

2:00:42 Brennan: Incredible, both of you. Kingston and Ricky you guys look at each other, I'm gonna say this both of you guys know what would be needed to handle this which is a Greater Restoration spell, is a very powerful kind of restoration. Kingston, on a 27 you know that not even Greater Restoration will cut it unless it's in the next 24 hours.

2:01:05 Kingston: Oh Cody, we need to hustle all right. We need to hustle.

2:01:11 Cody: Cool, yeah.

2:01:12 Kingston: But we can get this done. It's just gonna require a little bit of hustle. A little bit, not too much, don't worry we can get it done. Cody I can see if the devil will give you my soul, do you need my soul? Kingston Honestly we're done talking to the devil. You especially.

2:01:30 Iga: I also have a way that we could maybe remove the curse, but it is a big risk and we'll keep it as a second option.

2:01:39 Kingston: Great.

2:01:40 Sofia: Interesting.

2:01:41 Brennan: Kingston on that Insight, as you're kinda looking over Cody and both checking him out again, Cody is in a bad way. You look, the woman who was the witch, and a couple other people, walks out. The woman who's the witch is again a very, like, wealthy sort of Upper East Side lady, she walks with a bunch of shopping bags like she's going to visit a family friend or something like that but on a 20 insight you see that something is sort of wrong with her. The only way I can put it is you see some sort of like deep down emptiness in her eyes. She's here. She's like about to go walk and do her thing, she doesn't look too unnerved but you just see some sort of emptiness in her eyes. And on a 28 insight, what does Kingston do at this moment?

2:02:43 Lou: Can I approach her?

2:02:45 Brennan: Yeah, you can approach her.

2:02:46 Kingston: Hey excuse me miss, you were on the train, right?

2:02:51 Upper East Side Lady: Um yes, I was, sorry, yeah I was on the train.

2:02:55 Kingston: We're part of a task force that's trying to help. Are you feeling okay today?

2:03:11 UES Lady: I'm feeling um, feeling all right. I, umm… [sighs]

2:03:19 Brennan: She looks down the bag she's carrying and she has like a bunch of stuff here that she's been shopping for. She looks up and says,

2:03:28 UES Lady: I'm all right, yeah.

2:03:32 Kingston: Just all right?

2:03:34 Brennan: She looks up and says,

2:03:38 UES Lady: The store where my husband bought our 30th anniversary, 30th wedding anniversary gift closed down and I don't, to be honest with you sir I don't, I'm having a reaction to it that's very, I feel very sad and it feels, I feel very childish for it. It was just a store, I hadn't been there in...

2:04:08 Cody: I am actually 47 years old and I have attachments to some stores because people attach memories to places so it's actually fucking fine what you’re doing. It's fucking normal.

2:04:20 Kingston: This is Cody. He's also part of the task force.

2:04:22 Ricky: Hey Cody, Cody, actually Cody.

2:04:26 Pete: Oh Cody, hey.

2:04:27 Emily: I Minor Illusion a cool sword 60 feet away from this conversation. (all laughing)

2:04:36 Cody: I need to go but I just want you to know that I see you and that’s fucking bullshit.

2:04:39 Murph: And I walk towards the sword.

2:04:44 Zac: “And I walk towards the sword.”

2:04:46 Brennan: “And I walk towards the sword!” You see, Kingston, she looks over and smiles and says,

2:04:51 UES Lady: What a disturbed young man.

2:04:55 Kingston: He's all right, he's been through a lot today.

2:04:58 Brennan: She turns to look and says,

2:04:58 UES Lady: It’s just I don't, a favorite music venue near me shut down as well and my youngest son just got a job that's gonna take him out of the city and he was my last child that still lived here.

2:05:19 Brennan: Kingston you get a very powerful impulse of something deep at work. It's not in this woman, this woman is not like the keystone of it but you just sense something out there in a very chilling way. She looks at you and says,

2:05:39 UES Lady: I don't know. You're an older man. The city changes all the time, it has no respect for its history it's just, I don't know it's just getting to me today. You sit there asking yourself, you know, what, if anything, stays.

2:05:59 Kingston: You know it's funny. That, I don't know where I heard but that feels familiar, I think. Thank you for talking to me. I hope that you find solace in the change that is coming and stay safe.

2:06:14 Brennan: You see her walk away and the emptiness in her eyes reflects back to you the emptiness of that store front you saw this morning. ‘Cause the last thing she does is she says,

2:06:25 UES Lady: In any case all this was brought on because we had a very aggressive realtor who was trying to buy our apartment. We've lived in the Upper East side for a long long time and this extremely invasive realtors were sort of harassing us and asking us to sell but now that my youngest son is not here maybe I should. I have friends that live out in the Hamptons, I have friends that live out in Long Island and Massachusetts and I don't know.

2:06:41 Kingston: Hey, I mean—

2:06:57 Iga: You can't let those blood suckers take your house.

2:07:03 Kingston: This is Anastasia, she's also a part of the taskforce.

2:07:08 Iga: Hey I think actually you've come to me for a reading before I think I recognize your face.

2:07:13 UES Lady: [gasps] Madam Anastasia!

2:07:13 Brennan: She lights up, she says

2:07:13 UES Lady: Oh my goodness, Madam Anastasia, you're part of a task force?

2:07:22 Brennan: And you see for a moment she buries that emptiness but then again on a 28, Kingston, it's not gone. The last I'll say as this woman starts to talk to you, Anastasia amazed to find you here, is you look at the box in your purse and you see the last little bit of some of that haze, that ephemeral smoke sludge seep into the crack of your box and disappear inside it. And that's all for this episode of the Unsleeping City. Tune in next week. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 4: We Need To Talk About Cody]

2:07:22 Edited by: Kyber Bonsai, gluegunshots, Catherine, rowan solsys