Trouble at the Tunnel

0:00:04 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 5: Trouble at the Tunnel < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] >

0:00:08 Brennan: Hello one and all! And welcome to another exciting episode of Dimension 20 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!

0:00:20 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:00:23 Brennan: Oh boy, oh boy. Gang, it's the middle of November, a crisp New York City evening here in the Unsleeping City as [deeper voice] thunder rumbles in the distance and a threat arrives from the far western shores of the Hudson River. For indeed, the patron devil of our knight of darkness Cody Walsh, AKA the Night Angel, Bazathrax, bound by Pete the Vox Phantasma into a sick-ass chest piece that says ‘Redemption.’ Bazathrax reached out thinking that his dark master — or dark employee I guess is the better, the better term? — would dig a bunch of devils running around and causing chaos in New York City. And even though Cody got on it right away, apparently those RSVPs got a little too far afield and the Jersey Devil discovered that it was open season on the island of Manhattan and they are on their way. Oh no. Numerous other things are also in the works that have been discussed. Last time we ended, Kingston was hot on the tail of some horrifying real estate shenanigans going on in the Waking World. While Sofia and Esther were covering their tracks from the other side of things, looking into the nature of Nod. Iga Lisowski was exploring the mythic castle within the ancient chest, kept in her bedroom in Greenpoint. While Ricky was keeping an eye on the new kid, Cody, to make sure he didn't get up to too much trouble. Looks like it didn't quite work out that way. Emily and Brennan laugh.

0:02:15 Zac: Didn't work, didn't work at all.

0:02:18 Murph: Well, we’ve reeled it in a little bit because the devils have always been, have been coming since I said it was fine at the hospital. So if anything—

0:02:27 Zac: True.

0:02:28 Brennan: That's right, we had a little bit of down time. And Pete used the two weeks of down time to get settled in Astoria and take care of himself, which we love to see.

0:02:38 Ally: I go on runs now. It's a really nice temperature. Nice evening runs.

0:02:46 Emily: [laughs] Oh, Pete you should get a bike.

0:02:49 Ally: [gasps] You're right.

0:02:50 Brennan: Oh! Get a nice bike and bike around!

0:02:53 Ally: I mean, it needs to be an only okay bike. I don't want it to get stolen.

0:02:56 Emily: Yeah.

0:02:57 Ally: I like to have a shitty looking bike that works amazing. That's the dream bike.

0:03:00 Emily: Yeah. [dreamlike music]

0:03:03 Brennan: So yes. You, we also met some new cadets of the Gramercy Occult Society. We met JJ, short for Joe Jacobs, who is a new apprentice wizard at the Gramercy Occult Society. We also met a returning member of the Order of the Concrete Fist, Tony Simos, a former First Fist of the Order and dealt with the aftermath of the appearance of raw Umbra itself in the Waking World. All of that covering our bases. [thunder noise] Lightning sort of crackles. And in the middle of their conversation you see Sofia. You're at the New York Public Library talking with Esther. You see JJ is making polite conversation as you guys have a snack, just going like, you know,

0:03:56 JJ: Oh, man. Yeah, it was great. Well, no, I got the full ride to Columbia, which was crazy and um—

0:04:02 Sofia: Wow.

0:04:03 JJ: I’m the— Yeah so, my both of my brothers are back on the rez, I'm here living in New York, sort of studying math. And now I get—

0:04:11 Brennan: [blaring alarm noises] The alarms go off, Esther leaps into action, yells out and goes,

0:04:19 Esther: Oh god, oh god, oh god.

0:04:22 Brennan: Ana and Amelia, both teleport here in a blast of sort of bats and smoke. [bat chittering]

0:04:29 Emily: [laughs] Very cool, Cody would have loved that.

0:04:35 Brennan: Esther rushes over to a series of books, [whooshing noise] sweeps across it as runes leap off of them to show an illuminated map of Manhattan. Red dots blinking, much like the highway hex map in the Clinton Hill Chantry, show many approaching figures coming from New Jersey. Towards the Holland Tunnel.

0:04:58 Emily: Okay. Bottleneck the Holland Tunnel.

0:05:01 Brennan: Esther looks around and goes,

0:05:01 Esther: Oh god, oh god.

0:05:03 Brennan: And you see that there is an image showing the strength of the Umbral Engine, and it's flashing. Go ahead and make an Arcana check for me, Sofia. Call it a DC15 Arcana.

0:05:16 Emily: I got a 9.

0:05:18 Brennan: 9, you, it looks like it's flashing, Esther cocks her head looking super confused, she goes,

0:05:23 Esther: We're at 150% capacity on the Umbral Engine.

0:05:29 Brennan: And you see that the flashing is not a like red, of like a low battery. But actually this like bright green going into gold, of like the Umbral Engine looking over, like over-juiced. She goes,

0:05:43 Esther: Okay, um.

0:05:45 Brennan: She looks at you, Sofia and says,

0:05:47 Esther: There are wards at the Holland Tunnel and the major bridges to stop other thing— How the hell did they get here? This doesn't make any sense. How are there devils in Jersey City?

0:05:59 Emily: Do I have any insight that this is Cody? Murph laughs silently.

0:06:03 Brennan: I think immediately Sofia knows that it's Cody.

0:06:07 Sofia: Yeah I think I know who's responsible for this. I don't really want to, I don't really want to call them out though.

0:06:14 Brennan: [laughs] You see Esther steps back for a second, calms herself and goes,

0:06:16 Esther: Okay. The Umbral Engine is overloaded. [incredulous] I don't understand this!

0:06:20 Brennan: You see, she turns to you, Sofia and says,

0:06:22 Esther: The Umbral Arcana only extends through the five boroughs of New York. Without any Umbral Arcana, devils shouldn't be able to openly travel through Jersey City. I don't know how they got there. This is, this is crazy that this is happening. The membrane that makes magic— the Unsleeping City— has to do with the sleep deficit of New Yorkers. So I don't understand how or why devils are openly out. There should be wards!

0:06:51 Brennan: She zooms in on the Jersey entrance of the Holland Tunnel and puts a hand over her mouth. And she's like,

0:07:00 Esther: The wards are all down. Um.

0:07:04 Brennan: She looks at the other wizards here, says,

0:07:04 Esther: Okay, way too— I have to stay here to fix the Umbral Engine with what's going on. Um, I know how to do it.

0:07:13 Brennan: She goes,

0:07:13 Esther: Ana and Amelia, can you guys go to the wards on the tunnel?

0:07:17 Brennan: You see Ana and Amelia both sort of put hands over their mouth and they say,

0:07:18 Twins: I'm so sorry. We're vampires, we can't go into the Hudson River. It's running water.

0:07:23 Brennan: And she goes,

0:07:23 Esther: Shit. Okay, okay, JJ,

0:07:27 Brennan: She points at JJ. He goes,

0:07:29 JJ: [panicked] I'm very new, I'm very, very new.

0:07:33 Sofia: [hurriedly] Me and everyone else can do it, we got it. We got it.

0:07:37 Brennan: She looks at you, does the quick math in her head that Ana and Amelia can't go into the water. She casts Water Breathing on herself. She says, she goes,

0:07:43 Esther: I'm going to head into the river to fix the actual runes along the tunnel. You've got to hold them off.

0:07:50 Brennan: She looks at, she says,

0:07:50 Esther: Ana and Amelia—

0:07:52 Sofia: Jersey side?

0:07:54 Esther: Jersey side.

0:07:56 Brennan: You see, she looks and says, she says,

0:07:56 Esther: Ana and Amelia, you're going to have to tackle the Umbral Engine yourselves, JJ doesn't know—

0:08:03 Brennan: She looks at JJ and says,

0:08:04 Esther: [slowly, more calmly] JJ, this is a crash course. I'm very, very sorry. You're in extremely good hands. You're going to go. There's going to be a sequence of runes on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel. Sofia and her friends are going to take very good care of you.

0:08:18 Brennan: She looks at Sofia—

0:08:21 Emily: [laughing] Oh no, JJ. Your freaking life is in our hands. [laughing] Okay!

0:08:29 Sofia: Okay, JJ, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure you get back to Columbia to go to Intro to Physics or whatever.

0:08:37 JJ: [panicked, sputtering] Okay! Um, what is exactly? It’s just, it’s what exactly?

0:08:41 Brennan: You see Esther goes,

0:08:41 Esther: [quickly] Minor Abjuration, you'll be fine. It's just Shield spells. And we went over those already. You're just powering up the Shield spells. I'm going to tap you into the mainline cause I'll be underwater on the tunnel. Sofia, we got to hustle.

0:08:53 Emily: All right I shoot out a text to everyone. and I say,

0:08:54 Sofia: Meet me on the New York side of the Holland Tunnel so that we can all go through together. Or if you can get straight to the Jersey side, just do that.

0:09:06 Brennan: Kingston and Iga, you guys are in an apartment up in Washington Heights right now with one Lowell Masters, who's finally gotten the time. You see you're in there. You see he looks around. It's nighttime now. It's pretty late, it's a Friday night, but he goes,

0:09:25 Lowell: Thanks so much for stopping by. I'm glad that you all could, could come by. Kingston, great to see you. How are you doing, how's Liz?

0:09:34 Kingston: She's great. You know, busy with work right now, the big old Rico case but hey, part of the job. Anastasia, this is Lowell.

0:09:41 Iga: [nods] Hi, Lowell.

0:09:47 Kingston: Lowell's an archeologist, a scavenger in the positive sense, just a all around good guy.

0:09:58 Brennan: You see Lowell looks over to you. His house is very filled with wonderful objects, but also immaculate. There are like a lot of aroma candles lighted. There's some like incense, air purifier, as like lived in as it feels, it feels very clean in here. Zac shakes his head slowly, Emily laughs.

0:10:17 Brennan: He, he walks over to you and says,

0:10:17 Lowell: Madam Anastasia, it's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Lowell.

0:10:26 Brennan: You see, he specifically looks like by practice he doesn't go for a handshake but just sort of nods his head. And he goes,

0:10:32 Lowell: So I understand that Kingston has kind of explained the deal to you a little bit. I assume people talk and you know.

0:10:40 Iga: Yes, no, I understand the deal and I have made my peace with it.

0:10:46 Lowell: Yeah. I just want you to know that obviously, you know there's a certain level of absurdity here to how I'm able to perform this magic. No one cares about these artifacts more than me. We're going to take all the proper protections. Nothing lasting is going to happen to your artifact. There's not going to be, you know, I just, you know. I've, I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of artifacts and the process is as streamlined and [makes air quotes] lubricated, if you'll forgive the pun, as it could be.

0:11:19 Iga: [makes hesitant sound, holds up a hand to motion him to stop talking] Okay, I can make it very small. So it goes—

0:11:21 Lowell: Great.

0:11:23 Iga: —so it will be very easy for you.

0:11:27 Lowell: Without, without alarming you, I will say size actually is not a factor. Ally and Emily laugh.

0:11:32 Iga: No, that, that, that there's actually no way for you to say that that does not alarm me.

0:11:36 Kingston: Yeah, Lowell we can just, we can skip, you know. We can skip that part.

0:11:39 Lowell: All right I know, I just didn't know, look because of people like Kingston in my life I've developed a sense of comfort with what it is that I do and what it is that brings me joy. And again, my love for these artifacts is very academic as well. And I have a lot of love for the people that choose to bring them in. So I understand. I'm just trying to ease a process that for some people can be—

0:11:58 Iga : So like 24 hours, 48 hours?

0:12:03 Lowell: It depends on how complex the identification is. We will know the major broad strokes within the first 24 hours. If it's a deeper Identify, might go 48. However, your arcane contact with it should not be limited or harmed in any way while I'm casting the spell. There— truly, the process involves zero Abjuration. There won't be any walls or wards up, it's pure divinatory magic, I’ll be happy—

0:12:27 Iga: Just skin to box.

0:12:29 Lowell: Yes, yes. [laughs, sighs out] Well—

0:12:33 Iga: Well!

0:12:35 Kingston: Let's begin!

0:12:37 Brennan: You guys both get texts on your phone from Sofia.

0:12:42 Kingston: Oh, uh. Uh, I need to go handle this. Anastasia, you, we would of course love to have you. If you'd like to come.

0:12:51 Iga: Look, I, the people coming in from Jersey I will come and take them out. I, we don’t need those Jersey people--

0:13:01 Kingston: That's something we can all get onboard with.

0:13:03 Iga: Bridge and tunnel, no thank you, you know?

0:13:06 Kingston: Great, are you okay leaving the box here with Lowell, for him to do his business?

0:13:11 Iga: Sure. I'm sort of psychically connected to the box. I kind of know what's happening. Unfortunately, I kind of will know what is happening with it.

0:13:19 Brennan: Lowell steeples his fingers and nods knowingly, just.

0:13:22 Lowell: Mhm. Mhm.

0:13:24 Iga: But it does mean, I know if you do any shenanigans with it, I will know. I will know where it is at all times a little bit too intimately, but I will know.

0:13:34 Lowell: Sure. It's going to be a, you know, it'll be moving around over the next 48 hours just sort of throughout the neighborhood. Iga makes a disapproving noise.

0:13:38 Iga: Okay.

0:13:42 Lowell: Just, you know, as I go about my business, but--

0:13:45 Brennan: You see that he puts a little plastic tag on it with the number 71. Hands you the other half of the tag, rips it off so that you have sort of like a dry cleaning, like this is your tag for the item.

0:13:57 Siobhan: I wipe it a little bit on my sleeve before I put it in my pocket.

0:14:02 Brennan: He looks at it, he's like,

0:14:02 Lowell: It's fine, I’m—

0:14:03 Brennan: He says, again,

0:14:03 Lowell: Everything here is incredibly sanitary. You'll have your item back in a moment. Is this the size that we're going to be working with here? Lou laughs.

0:14:11 Iga: No, I can shrink it down a lot smaller.

0:14:14 Brennan: He goes, well, he says,

0:14:14 Lowell: [impressed] This, this might be, this might be a 12 hour job in that case. So yeah, no worries. All right.

0:14:22 Brennan: So [laughs] you shrink the box down as small as you can, hand it to him. And he says,

0:14:27 Lowell: All right,

0:14:27 Brennan: He says,

0:14:29 Lowell: I'll be taking extremely good care of this, Madam Anastasia.

0:14:33 Iga: [to Kingston] I guess it's nice the man has found his passion. I mean, who knows what other tricks people might have if they just stuck things up their butt.

0:14:42 Kingston: Exactly. You know, Lowell is a pioneer.

0:14:45 Iga: Maybe all kinds of people could be casting spells. They don't even know about it because they don't want to do butt stuff, I don't know.

0:14:52 Kingston: I don't know either. Either way, we should probably get out of here. We've got some fucking Jersey trash to fucking sweep back over the river. The cast laughs.

0:15:06 Brennan: Incredible. Pete, you grabbed that text as well. I assume Pete's probably just like either out in Astoria or like grabbing dinner with Lugash, or something like that.

0:15:17 Ally: Yeah, exactly. Yeah I'll head over there right away.

0:15:20 Brennan: Hell yeah. Cody and Ricky.

0:15:23 Cody: Fuck, dude, do you think we're going to get in trouble?

0:15:25 Ricky: Um, you know—

0:15:27 Cody: Do you think people are gonna be fucking pissed at us?

0:15:29 Ricky: [carefully] Cody, I feel as though I let you down today and although you know, definitely not a good thing that this happened, we just both will impress upon the rest of the crew that we have learned from this mistake. And it'll be good going forward. Yeah, it'll be fine.

0:15:49 Cody: Cool, it's fucking airtight, dude. We should just get there and try to like handle this before they even get there. And then we don't even have to tell on ourselves if we don't want to.

0:15:54 Ricky: Uh, yeah.

0:15:58 Brennan: The texts show up on both of your guys' phones.

0:16:01 Cody: Fuck.

0:16:01 Ricky: Okay, everybody knows.

0:16:03 Cody: Yeah, let's go. They don't know who did it though. So if it doesn't come up, we don't have to lie.

0:16:10 Ricky: Yeah, I wonder who could it be. Who could have done it? Who could have possibly done this? [breaking slightly to laugh] Cast laughs.

0:16:15 Cody: We gotta go, dude.

0:16:16 Murph: Cody's Find Steed, Cody's Find Steed is a shitty moped [laughs] and he sprints over to a moped, and it has literal warhorse stats. So it has one horsepower. So he takes his one horsepower moped and just fucking tears off. Cast laughs. Lou shakes his head sadly.

0:16:32 Zac: I ride up with Ox.

0:16:34 Siobhan: So slow, you might as well walk.

0:16:34 Cody: Fuck!

0:16:35 Siobhan: Your knees are around your ears.

0:16:37 Brennan: Incredible. Yeah, Ricky, Ricky and Ox are literally just keeping up side by side with you. Truly incredible.

0:16:45 Ricky: Hey Cody, look. [mimes running, then doing Naruto arms]

0:16:45 Zac: And I do the Naruto arms and like,

0:16:47 Ricky: I just started watching it. And it, you know, just to—

0:16:49 Cody: Holy shit.

0:16:50 Ricky: To understand your references.

0:16:52 Cody: Dude. How far did you get?

0:16:54 Ricky: Uh, I got two episodes in.

0:16:56 Cody: Nice. First episode's a tear-jerker right?

0:17:00 Ricky: Yeah, pretty sad stuff. Not for sure understanding the references that you mentioned yet, but we'll get there. Emily laughs.

0:17:11 Brennan: You guys take off and meet at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel. On the New York side of the Holland Tunnel. All of you guys, all you guys meet up.

0:17:24 Emily: I introduce everyone to JJ and I say,

0:17:29 Sofia: This nice young grad student is going to be doing something that they're perhaps out of their depth doing. And so we got to look out for them, I believe.

0:17:41 JJ: So that's basically what Esther told me. Hi, I'm JJ, by the way, you can call me JJ. Joe's also good, but both. But I was, I sort of found out sort of right after Halloween that magic was real. Esther said it's basically like a minor Shield, I just have to power up the runes over on that side while she's, she's under the Hudson River right now rigging up the tunnel for the spell to come through. Because normally there are wards that keep these kind of renegade devils, like, like magical creatures in other parts of the world can't just travel here on foot either because there are actual external sort of waking world wards up. But those wards are, are down and we're not we're not even really super sure why but they should be waiting for us there another side and we're going to get them back up. What, what are we fighting? ‘Cause I don't actually, I've actually never for real been in a fight before.

0:18:30 Ally: I'm so distracted because all I'm thinking about is how I could have sold him Xanax. [laughs]

0:18:39 Pete: Wow, that would have been a huge sale. (laughs)

0:18:44 Ricky: JJ, there's nothing to worry about. I think we're going to be fighting some devils. Nothing scary about that.

0:18:47 Cody: Yeah. This was sort of a—

0:18:48 Iga: But I don't think you're going to be fighting devils. You don't have to worry about fighting, you're not fighting today.

0:18:54 JJ: Okay! Let me know if I should. I don't have any spells that hurt people but I will punch someone? I don't know.

0:19:04 Iga: No, no, no.

0:19:05 Sofia: I think focus on what Esther tasked you with. And the rest of us will do the punching or whatever our version of that is.

0:19:14 Brennan: Incredible. Sofia, you look at Ricky ahead of you. Who's standing here once again totally unarmed and feel the weight of the Questing Blade in your back pocket.

0:19:28 Emily: Oh, that's what he gave me? [dramatic music]

0:19:30 Brennan: Oh the silver nunchucks that Dale gave you are the Questing Blade. He returned it to you.

0:19:34 Emily: Oh!

0:19:35 Brennan: Because that was the way he was getting out of heaven over and over again.

0:19:39 Emily: I didn't know that, okay.

0:19:42 Sofia: Ricky? Hey Ricky.

0:19:43 Ricky: Hey, what's up?

0:19:44 Sofia: Hey, before. Hey, so sorry. I know it was like really, really important and stuff like that. Dale sent you a little present,

0:19:53 Emily: And I give him the nunchucks.

0:19:57 Brennan: Sofia, as you produce the nunchucks they float above your hand. Wreathed in light, right in front of Ricky, the nunchucks move. The Questing Blade has always taken the shape of its wielder. It became a fireman's ax in Ricky's hand, the Questing Blade booms out over the New York entrance of the Holland Tunnel or rather the exit of the Holland Tunnel. And it goes,

0:20:21 Questing Blade: Whosoever be most worthy of the Questing Blade shall wield the power of a true champion.

0:20:34 Brennan: It erupts into a twisted and barbed double handed great sword and shoots into Cody's hands.

0:20:44 Emily: [nearly shrieking] Cody's hands? [Murph laughs hysterically. Siobhan disappears offscreen]

0:20:47 Cody: Yes!

0:20:47 Sofia: What?

0:20:49 Cody: Yes!

0:20:50 Sofia: What?

0:20:51 Cody: Yes! Cody swings the Questing Blade around.

0:20:53 Cody: Fuck this other sword, dude! [throws it down]

0:20:55 Ally: Wait, how many swords does Cody have right now?

0:20:59 Brennan: Cody, as you swing this sword, it full on makes like distorted heavy metal lightsaber sounds as you swing it, like. [imitates lightsaber sounds in a gravelly hum]

0:21:12 Murph: Cody's just making his own sounds.

0:21:14 Cody: [punctuated by sword swings] This is fucking awesome, this fucking rules.

0:21:18 Sofia: Ricky, I'm so sorry, I thought that was for you. I'm so sorry, Dale doesn't even know Cody it makes no sense.

0:21:28 Cody: Ricky, do you want my, I so I was actually going to use, I have a replica sword of Frostmourne from Warcraft 3 that I was going to use that I got at BlizzCon that I bought off a cosplayer. So I was gonna use that, or I have that other umbrella sword, if you want. ‘Cause like this one kind of chose me.

0:21:50 Ricky: Yeah, no, I know.

0:21:55 Cody: Just like, do you need—

0:21:55 Ricky: Cody?

0:21:55 Cody: Uh-huh.

0:21:55 Ricky: First off, I'm so happy for you. I’m so happy for you. [cast laughing uproariously, which continues throughout Ricky’s speech]

0:22:01 Ricky: I'm so happy that the Quest, the Questing Blade found you. And I'm glad that you have it. And, and I'm just wanting to be clear about that because that's true, and that's how I feel.

0:22:18 Cody: I feel like—

0:22:18 Ricky: And then also, sure, I'll take that umbrella sword. I'll just hold on to that. You know, I would be lying if I said I thought this was how it was going to go down. [cast laughs]

0:22:31 Ricky: Give me that, give me that little guy and we'll get started.

0:22:35 Murph: I hand the Peasant’s Sword to, to Ricky.

0:22:40 Zac: It's called the Peasant's Sword?

0:22:42 Murph: Isn't that what it's called?

0:22:42 Zac: Yeah.

0:22:43 Brennan: Yeah.

0:22:46 Cody: I actually, I renamed it. I was going to call it Frostmourne but then I realized that I had an actual Frostmourne, so I just like kept it in my backpack.

0:22:57 Ricky: Great. Well, thank you so much for this and you know a cool thing about that, that sword that you have is you can also talk to that and it'll talk back, just to throw that out there.

0:23:08 Cody: Really?

0:23:09 Ricky: Yeah it has a voice and has—

0:23:12 Cody: [still swinging the sword] It's like a real life Frostmourne. That's fucking awesome, dude.

0:23:15 Ricky: I don't know what that is. But yeah I think it sounds like that. I know you just told me, but I'm, I'm feeling a lot of things firing in my brain at the same time. I would love it if you, you know maybe we could stop swinging it so much right here it's much larger than the last sword you had.

0:23:34 Cody: I just feel like the sword likes whatever I'm doing.

0:23:37 Ricky: [rubbing his temple] It probably does. It probably does. [cast laughs]

0:23:44 Cody: Cool cool.

0:23:44 Sofia: Oh, this is so painful.

0:23:46 Ricky: I'm going to go over here and stretch for a little bit.

0:23:52 Cody: Sofia, thank you so fucking much. This is like the coolest, like I bought swords on Etsy. I've tried to make my own swords but like my parents wouldn't let me like mess with like fire and shit. So I couldn't do like blacksmithing stuff. And then I tried to take a real class but then I just, like, I got fucking bored. So I just started like buying them and stuff. And like, this is the first time I got one for fucking, for free, except the other time I got the umbrella sword, but this one's—

0:24:19 Sofia: And that’s what you love about it, that it was free. And that, it, okay.

0:24:19 Iga: You're welcome!

0:24:20 Sofia: First off, you’re welcome.

0:24:22 Cody: No, the umbrella sword's fucking awesome, thank you.

0:24:25 Sofia: Yeah, absolutely.

0:24:27 Cody: I said thank you.

0:24:30 Sofia: Whoa. Okay.

0:24:31 Ally: We're all just awkwardly quiet.

0:24:32 Lou: Yeah.

0:24:35 Sofia: Cody, just know this, you know, it's a really special, very impossibly special weapon that has meant something very powerful to a lot of people. And I hope that it brings out the best in you. [Brennan laughs]

0:24:55 Cody: This is the coolest sword I've had since my Buster sword was confiscated, unless I can get another Buster sword which, that thing was custom made on Etsy. That took me a fuckin’ like eight months to get so. Zac has his hands over his face.

0:25:11 Pete: So that would outrank this sword you think?

0:25:14 Cody: It depends.

0:25:16 Zac: I think Ricky just shatters a statue next to him. [crashing] [cast laughing]

0:25:19 Emily: I was going to say, Sofia watches this, this little piece of shit wielding the weapon that her husband used to come find her and she just goes and punches a wall.

0:25:30 Ricky: Sorry, I was stretching and I had to, dynamic stretching.

0:25:32 Brennan: I think—

0:25:34 Pete: Ricky, are you okay?

0:25:35 Ricky: Yeah I'm fine. I’m cool. I had a coffee.

0:25:38 Pete: Okay, so should we go stop these devils, guys?

0:25:40 Kingston: Yeah, we’re good?

0:25:43 Emily: Before we go in, can I cast my once a day Freedom of Movement?

0:25:46 Brennan: You absolutely—

0:25:47 Emily: Oh I'll cast Jump as well.

0:25:49 Zac: Are we like seconds away from a battle? Do we know that?

0:25:52 Brennan: Yeah, you're like seconds away from a battle right now.

0:25:55 Zac: Okay.

0:25:56 Brennan: You guys I think, yeah. It's very easy to see Sofia punching a wall like through frustration is one thing, like Ricky, I don't know if, I don't think, like, for Kingston and Pete and the people that know Ricky, I don't think you guys have ever seen anything like this. Zac is staring intensely into the camera.

0:26:17 Lou: Can we make an Insight check on Ricky?

0:26:19 Brennan: Yes, give me an Insight check.

0:26:20 Murph: Can I make an Insight check? I have a minus two but.

0:26:22 Brennan: Yeah go ahead Cody, give me an insight check.

0:26:25 Murph: ‘Cause I realized like everyone's not super pumped for me which is like a little weird to me.

0:26:30 Brennan: Yeah, for sure.

0:26:31 Lou: I got a 28 insight on Ricky.

0:26:34 Murph: I got a 4.

0:26:37 Brennan: Cody, this sword is so fucking sick. Zac, what is, what is Kingston seeing when he looks at Ricky?

0:26:45 Zac: You're seeing the first real challenge Ricky has ever faced. [whole cast laughs] Cody continues to swing the cool lightsaber sword, oblivious to Ricky’s internal pain.

0:26:53 Zac: This is, obviously there are ups and downs in his life. Mostly ups. This is the, and not that, he doesn't know what to do right now. And he is surprised by his own, he's very much trying to put the work in with Cody but he is feeling challenged. [Brennan and Emily laughing]

0:27:20 Lou: I think Kingston comes up alongside Ricky and like doesn't like get in his space but it's just like,

0:27:24 Kingston: Hey, let's get through this. And then let's grab a cup of coffee, just talk.

0:27:31 Ricky: Yeah yeah. I mean, I would love, I'd love to have a coffee.

0:27:35 Ally: I pass by and I'm like,

0:27:35 Pete: That guy was made in a lab to get under your skin, Ricky. We all see you and let's get through this.

0:27:46 Ricky: He's a great guy. He is a great guy.

0:27:49 Pete: Oh that's a hard T, you're really enunciating.

0:27:54 Emily: I pop in and I say,

0:27:54 Sofia: Ricky, he's a little piece of shit and he doesn't deserve your sword.

0:28:00 Brennan: Meanwhile—

0:28:01 Zac: Ricky fully locks up.

0:28:04 Brennan: You guys make it to the other side of the Holland Tunnel with JJ.

0:28:09 Lou: Are we just like walking through cars? Like, is that what's the vibe inside the Holland Tunnel?

0:28:16 Brennan: I would say the vibe inside of the Holland Tunnel right now is you guys walking along the sort of catwalk, there's sort of tiled railing walk on the side.

0:28:25 Lou: Got it.

0:28:27 Brennan: Umbral Arcana is sort of protecting you as you guys emerge from the tunnel on the other side, and you're hoofing it, you see Jersey. Kingston, you can tell due to the laws of the Port Authority as long as you don't exit this strip of road or go past the toll booths you will still be within the bounds of New York City but you feel this is the, you are close to the borders of your city right now. Like you can see the toll booths where the Port Authority ends. And even now you're not, you're also in New Jersey. You're just in a liminal space. You're standing on the threshold where New York and New Jersey intermingle. And it's an intense feeling. JJ looks out, Pete, as you look out you see, covering Jersey City and roiling towards the south along the coast of New Jersey, you can see... actually Sofia and Pete give me Perception or Arcana checks.

0:29:36 Ally: Yeah, that's a 23.

0:29:40 Brennan: Cool.

0:29:42 Emily: Nat 20!

0:29:43 Brennan: Hell yeah. Sofia, you immediately solve the riddle of how the devils got here. You're both seeing, it's in the nighttime sky so it's almost impossible to notice. There is a raw throbbing vein miles across stretching south of raw Umbra. Like Umbral Ar— raw Umbra is pulsating and connecting New York City down to the south with like the, probably the Pine Barrens where you know the Jersey Devil actually like, dwells and lives. There are other pockets of magic all throughout the world but there are kind of these dead zones of no magic, it's not always easy for them to get to each other. But you see like pulsating Umbra connecting and forming basically like a land bridge as you hear in the distance rumbling thunder and [beatboxing]. [bass-heavy electronic music fades in]

0:30:38 Ally: Is this anything like we've ever seen before this like vein?

0:30:43 Emily: Yeah.

0:30:43 Brennan: No, this is fucking weird man. This is like dream shit getting pushed out here. But I think for Pete with that high Arcana check, so Sofia on that nat 20 you also can tell so many devils are coming. There are hundreds and hundreds of devils approaching.

0:31:02 Emily: But they are all going to have to take the Holland Tunnel. They can't swim across? [mysterious music]

0:31:07 Brennan: Correct, they are not gonna be able to swim the Hudson. They have to take the Holland Tunnel. You also see that through that vein you, on a nat 20 Perception, feel something. And you see up on a billboard, there's like a billboard that has like an anti-smoking message on it. And it has a sort of like blue background. There's a gray silhouette of an individual wearing a suit on the billboard. And it doesn't make sense in the graphic design. It's human size, so it's like tiny. You couldn't see it from the road but you just see that there's like a patch of gray on this billboard in the, in the silhouette of a, just sort of short haired individual in a suit. Pete, you look out and see, raw Umbra is something you mostly don't deal with in Nod because Nod is so like vibrant and alive, like raw Umbra is just like, you know it's like fucking, the space between interesting things. It's, it's shadow, it's haze. It's like nothing, you know, like. And to see it like roiling out here means something is pushing this through from the other side. All of you hear [thunder crashing] as JJ looks at the wall and goes,

0:32:49 JJ: Um, there are supposed to be, there are supposed to be runes here. There are supposed to be runes.

0:32:52 Brennan: And is casting some cantrips to try to illuminate them. You see that instead of a spellbook he's got all his spells loaded up on a laptop that goes to a like battery pocket in his back pocket. And he's like [magical energy whooshing] drawing runes from his screen and throwing them up onto the walls. And is going,

0:33:08 JJ: Um, I'm not, I'm not really like super seeing the runes up here. Um, I know what they're, what they're supposed to look like.

0:33:18 Zac: I will cast Divine Sense? Is that the, to see if I can find anything? And I'm also gonna put Protection from Evil and Good on him if I can do both of those.

0:33:30 Brennan: Yeah.

0:33:31 Lou: I'd also like to cast Death Ward on JJ.

0:33:34 Emily: Ooh!

0:33:37 Brennan: JJ looks around as you guys come over, put hands on his back and he goes,

0:33:40 JJ: Thanks that feels, that feels great. Yeah, I can do it.

0:33:44 Brennan: He looks, and he goes,

0:33:48 JJ: Something's like, erased the runes.

0:33:50 Murph: I whisper to myself,

0:33:50 Cody: Bazathrax, did you, did you fucking do this?

0:33:56 Bazathrax: Dude, you think I? No this shit, the shit that used to be here was anti Infernal, I couldn't fucking touch it.

0:34:02 Brennan: You guys hear the approaching noise of music, screeching cars, people pulling donuts in gas stations. Like you see that JJ goes like,

0:34:09 JJ: The runes are just gone. They're just gone. Look, I know how to do this. I can do this the hard way. I can, I can reroute it.

0:34:18 Brennan: And he goes into his computer. He's like,

0:34:19 JJ: I got it. I'm going to start now getting, getting something back up in place okay?

0:34:24 Kingston: Great, JJ.

0:34:26 Brennan: Cool you guys have those spells on JJ... JJ for the record is a first level wizard. Siobhan laughs a little.

0:34:36 Zac: I'm also going to put Sanctuary on JJ. Because that's not concentration.

0:34:41 Brennan: Cool so he's got Sanctuary, Death Ward, and Shield of Faith on him right now?

0:34:46 Zac: No Protection from Evil and Good, not—

0:34:48 Brennan: Oh Protection from Evil and Good, incredible.

0:34:50 Emily: Can I clarify one thing? With my nat 20, that gray silhouette that I saw on a billboard, is it like in the picture or does it feel like a person is standing there? [ominous, mysterious music]

0:35:01 Brennan: You have to walk a little bit to see if it's part of the billboard or a person standing there. You walk a little bit and the image, it doesn't click right. It's flat, but it's not moving like it's flat. It's hard to describe the physics of it. And as it does so you see the head of the figure turns for a moment to look at you and is gone.

0:35:20 Lou: Hoo hoo hoo. Oh no.

0:35:38 Emily: I tell everyone, except for Cody, what I saw. [Brennan laughs]

0:35:43 Emily: I'm just kidding.

0:35:44 Brennan: Everyone's Divine Sense goes off. Someone roll a 1D6 for me.

0:35:53 Siobhan: Ally?

0:35:55 Zac: I'm not in a good place to roll.

0:35:56 Murph: I got it. I got this. Guaranteed. 6. Is that good or bad?

0:36:03 Brennan: You guys have six rounds before whatever's coming gets here.

0:36:07 Murph: Great!

0:36:10 Lou: Fuck yes.

0:36:11 Emily: Yes! That’s awesome! [impressed] Cody!

0:36:11 Ally: Murph! Murph!

0:36:12 Brennan: Because some of your durations are only like a minute. So that could be bad potentially. But so any, remember six rounds is 36 seconds. Guys traffic is coming in and out of the tunnel and you know these devils are approaching. There's like dumpsters around, let's actually go ahead and go, let's go over to Roll20 and get you guys in here to take a look at what's going on. Cause you have six rounds to set up before enemies are here. Let's go take a look at the map gang.

0:36:39 Emily: Okay so these cars, which side is what?

0:36:43 Brennan: Just like the Holland Tunnel in real life to the north of you is the exit of the Holland Tunnel. This is the entrance of the Holland Tunnel. So both lanes are heading into this tunnel here. There are these six toll booths. Or sorry, yeah, there's a couple of toll booths up here, but all of the traffic is heading into it. You also have all these dumpsters around and and sort of everything else like that. But the traffic is coming in to this place here. JJ is going to post up like on this little railing.

0:37:23 Zac: So we're on the Jersey side right now and that's to New York is—

0:37:26 Brennan: Yes, that's going east under the Hudson River to New York.

0:37:30 Zac: Okay.

0:37:32 Siobhan: How about this? I have, I can cast Disguise Self at will. So what if I disguise myself as a traffic cop?

0:37:41 Brennan: Ooh, very cool. I can dig that. Iga, yeah, for sure.

0:37:46 Siobhan: And maybe we can, I can have you guys set up barricades.

0:37:49 Zac: For cars.

0:37:51 Lou: I also—

0:37:53 Emily: I was going to say that because of this, this size I can cast Darkness which means which no one can see through. I can cast it right before JJ. So there could be an area that anyone who entered would be blinded but I can see in the dark so I could attack them.

0:38:14 Brennan: Hell yeah. Sofia, go ahead and give me double, give me doubled up, give me advantage Arcana DC15.

0:38:22 Emily: Okay. I got it, I got it exactly at 15. I have plus one and I got a 14.

0:38:30 Brennan: This is the exact one that as the head warrior of the monastery you would know, devils have devil’s sight so they—

0:38:39 Emily: Ah, thank you.

0:38:41 Brennan: Yeah, no worries.

0:38:43 Emily: Nevermind, ignore that.

0:38:46 Brennan: So Iga, you disguise yourself as a traffic cop, as a traffic cop what is it you want to do?

0:38:53 Siobhan: I got my, my gloves on and I'm just like stepping out boldly in front of this traffic. I'm waving, I'm like whistling and waving and just stopping the cars.

0:39:06 Brennan: Okay so a bunch of—

0:39:08 Siobhan: Right that's what we, we want to stop the traffic right? That’s what we wanna do?

0:39:11 Zac: I think we want to block it up with traffic is what I think.

0:39:15 Siobhan: Right, yeah.

0:39:16 Zac: So if we could, I think if we could block cars in the most narrow portion of it, that would be best.

0:39:22 Siobhan: Sure like kind of where Cody is.

0:39:25 Zac and Emily: Yeah.

0:39:28 Emily: I can also cast Pass Without Trace on us if we want that, just for this experience. We might be able to get like a stealth round on whoever the first person who comes through is?

0:39:40 Zac: That sounds good.

0:39:42 Ally: I mean, I would love to go look for that figure with you.

0:39:45 Emily: You want to do that?

0:39:46 Ally: If we're really stealthy, I think that would be pretty interesting.

0:39:49 Emily: All right I'll Pass without Trace on everyone. Which means like Sofia Pass without Trace is just like,

0:39:56 Sofia: No one can see us now.

0:39:59 Emily: And then I cast that.

0:40:02 Siobhan: Maybe you should, oh that's only if you're trying to be stealthy though right? Like if I'm a traffic cop I don't want people to not see me.

0:40:08 Emily: Yeah I can not cast it on you.

0:40:09 Brennan: Cool, Pete and Sofia are going to use their six rounds to jump over to this billboard and investigate. Awesome, Pass Without Trace, vwoom, shadows wrap around everybody. Iga, you're going to go direct traffic. Sounds like Ricky saying let's use these cars. So are you going to commandeer vehicles from people?

0:40:26 Zac: No I just, I'm going to stop them and maybe move some of these traffic cones in a line in front of the traffic and be like there's an accident down the tunnel.

0:40:39 Murph: I actually have an awesome, I have a great move I can do here. Cody is going to use, I'm going to Channel Divinity Dreadful Aspect as an action, each creature of your choice, you can see within 30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the target is frightened of you for one minute. If it moves more than 30 feet from you it can attempt another saving throw. So I think Cody, how the hell would he do this? I think he's just going to, is this cool with everybody? We're trying to start a traffic jam, right?

0:41:25 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:41:26 Zac: Ohhh. Gotcha.

0:41:27 Murph: It's just getting people to run away because presumably they're just going to be people and they'll have low Wisdom saves.

0:41:32 Zac: I'm wondering if these New Jersey devils have cars, right?

0:41:34 Emily: I think that’s how they’re getting in, I bet.

0:41:36 Murph: Oh, so you want me to wait?

0:41:39 Zac: No, I don't really have a specific thought. Other than like maybe cars will be barreling through.

0:41:46 Brennan: Cool, this is all happening super fast. So I'm going to say to everyone there's not too much coordination that can happen. People kind of just gotta wild out and do what they're going to do. Iga, you go full traffic cop. Cody, you shout at people? Siobhan makes traffic cop motions that sort of look like the robot.

0:41:59 Murph: Yeah Cody, Cody's just gonna go around and do wheelies on his moped. And he just has, I guess if he could do any kind of magical Paladin thing of like lighting his sword on fire and just screaming and doing, just Omnislashing the air.

0:42:17 Brennan: Cool, Iga, toll booth operators from up at the front talk to you, go like, they're like,

0:42:23 Operator: Officer, are we, are we shut down?

0:42:28 Iga: No, there's just, there's an accident down the tunnel, we're we're cleaning it up. Shouldn't be too long, but yeah. Yeah shut it down.

0:42:39 Brennan: Go ahead and give me a Deception check.

0:42:42 Lou: Can I give Iga the help action?

0:42:44 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:42:45 Siobhan: Thank you. I got a 24. Is that high enough?

0:42:54 Brennan: Yes it is.

0:42:55 Siobhan: Great.

0:42:56 Brennan: So we have some stopped traffic up along that area.

0:43:01 Zac: I'd love to take the car that's right next to Iga and get to the driver and be like,

0:43:08 Ricky: Listen, I'm a former firefighter. I need to take over your car.

0:43:10 Zac: And commandeer their vehicle.

0:43:15 Brennan: DC20 persuasion.

0:43:17 Siobhan: I'll give him the help action.

0:43:23 Zac: What did I get? Persuasion, 12, I got a 12.

0:43:29 Murph: I'll use dreadful, I'll use Dreadful Aspect.

0:43:32 Cody: Get the fuck out of the car!

0:43:34 Brennan: The person screams, crawls out of their window without opening the door. All the drivers of these cars have fled. And now there's a crunch of traffic around you. I'm going to say that Cody, Ricky, and Iga have done everything they can do, Kingston, anything else from you?

0:43:50 Lou: Let me go talk to JJ.

0:43:53 Brennan: Yes.

0:43:54 Lou: I think along with Death Ward which is not concentration, I'm going to Enhance Abilities on JJ and give him advantage on Intelligence checks with Fox's Cunning.

0:44:08 Brennan: Hell yes. You walk over, JJ is shaking there [holds one shaky hand up] as he's getting the spell ready to start going.

0:44:15 JJ: [panicked breathing] Okay, okay here we go.

0:44:16 Kingston: Hey JJ?

0:44:18 JJ: Yes?

0:44:19 Kingston: You know everything you need to know. You are prepared for this. You are about to help a lot of people right now.

0:44:24 Lou: And I just touch his shoulder.

0:44:27 Brennan: For a moment, the hands of millions of other people counting on this one young wizard touch his shoulder as well with reassurance. He goes,

0:44:38 JJ: Got it, got it. This is just applied mathematics, that's all, let's get to work, here we go.

0:44:42 Kingston: Let’s get to work.

0:44:44 Ally: Woo!

0:44:47 Brennan: Amazing, last bit of the puzzle, Pete and Sofia you're over on that billboard?

0:44:53 Emily: Yes, we're stealthing over there.

0:44:55 Ally: Being as like stealthy as possible, really looking over our shoulders.

0:44:59 Brennan: Dope, go ahead each of you give me either an Arcana or a Perception check.

0:45:06 Emily: Okay.

0:45:08 Ally: Ooh baby that's a 27. Arcana.

0:45:10 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:45:12 Emily: I got a 17, Perception.

0:45:16 Brennan: 17, Sofia, this place is clean as a fucking bone. If you didn't know better, you'd be like there was nothing here. Nothing has been here. Totally, totally fine.

0:45:27 Sofia: Trick of the eye?

0:45:28 Brennan: Pete, 27 Arcana. [mysterious, dark piano] You've been sleeping well the past two weeks, you haven't heard from Nod in weeks. You haven't heard from the Gray Orphan themselves. You have not heard from the Monarch of Dreaming. And for a moment you see their face in your mind's eye looking up at you, and moving away like something being taken out by the tide into the deep ocean.

0:46:02 Ally: Okay. Can I cast Detect Thoughts and see if we pick up anyone's presence like around us that we can't see?

0:46:13 Brennan: The same feeling that Ricky and Cody got looking into the mist. Normally Detect Thoughts comes back with yes, there are thoughts here or no, there are not thoughts here. It comes back with N/A. You don't get a response from the spell. Something like static.

0:46:32 Sofia: Pete, I there's one thing I didn't tell you yet because I just haven't had a chance. In the books they talk about Nod being a Monarch of, you know the Gray Orphan being a monarch of Nod but they don't say the monarch. They just say a monarch.

0:46:55 Pete: Oh.

0:46:57 Brennan: [imitates thunder crashing] Thunder crashes, and you see the red light coming from the Jersey turnpike heading right down to the Holland Tunnel, lights, you hear the smashing of Smirnoff Ice bottles and a horde of devils descends on the Holland Tunnel.

0:47:19 Zac: Can I move closer to JJ?

0:47:21 Brennan: Yeah this is your last, this is your last chance to get in position real quick.

0:47:24 Emily: Okay, where is the, where is the billboard in relation to this?

0:47:30 Brennan: The billboard is off the map a little bit but you and Pete have time to run back.

0:47:32 Emily: Okay, so we can, hop—

0:47:34 Brennan: And I would say, I would say start on the edge of the map somewhere.

0:47:39 Zac: These devils.

0:47:40 Siobhan: They’re incredible.

0:47:40 Emily: On the edge, on the other side, on the devils' side? [laughs] On the edge.

0:47:46 Brennan: So that devil that we're seeing in front of us right now that is a siege devil on Roll20, salmon board shorts. Those guys are 16 feet tall. They are giants. [growling] These swarm devils in the cargo shorts are only about two feet tall. They're holding mini like airplane bottles of vodka and Smirnoff Ice and screaming and chatting to each other like,

0:48:01 Devils: [a little garbled, Jersey accent] Yeah dude, we’re goin’ to fuckin’ Manhattan, I know a guy who’s gonna get us into his club, baby! Let’s fuckin’ have a good time! [cackling]

0:48:17 Siobhan: God this is so triggering.

0:48:19 Ally: Yeah.

0:48:20 Brennan: And then you see, the Jersey Devil himself. A camel-headed, fanged, horned, winged monstrosity with multicolor shades, a backwards pink hat, a sort of like fluorescent, a fluorescent,

0:48:32 Ally: A Juul! [laughs]

0:48:44 Brennan: [claps] It's got a tank saying, let's get weird and a Juul. You see that he approaches the toll booth. Everyone that listened to Cody, so Cody has successfully got all human beings, you did the main thing to do, which was remove human beings from the fray. So, so the, even the toll booth operators have fled. the Jersey Devil strides up and Cody your chest burns. [metal music]

0:49:10 Brennan: Bazathrax from within your chest speaks in a voice that everyone can hear going like,

0:49:16 Bazathrax: Hey, hey dude, good to see you buddy.

0:49:20 Brennan: You hear the Jersey Devil [vapes his Juul] And a cloud of noxious vape mist comes out of his mouth. He goes, [metal music turns into dubstep]

0:49:28 Jersey Devil: [extremely Jersey accent] Yeah dude, fucking heard there was a good time happening in New York this weekend my guy. Who's your fucking friends? These guys look like herbs, huh? What's going on?

0:49:41 Cody: Why don't you smoke a real cigarette? You fucking piece of shit. Let me tell you something, asshole. [takes drag from cigarette] I grew up in Jersey City [pointing to himself] and there's a new Jersey Devil.

0:49:56 Jersey Devil: Yo, let's stomp this motherfucker, dude. You're fucking dead, guy.

0:50:02 Cody: You're fucking dead, dude!

0:50:02 Murph: I pull the moped… [laughing]

0:50:03 Brennan: Roll initiative! Everybody roll initiative. Emily laughs.

0:50:09 Zac: Oh, god. Already my favorite fight of all time.

0:50:11 Siobhan: Ooh, bad.

0:50:14 Emily: Oh I rolled really poorly.

0:50:16 Brennan: What'd you get?

0:50:16 Zac: Nat 20. Nat 20.

0:50:20 Siobhan: Okay, there we go.

0:50:21 Zac: I don't know that's that great for this, where we're waiting on people to attack.

0:50:24 Brennan: Okay.

0:50:25 Emily: Brennan, I have a question. When you said on the edge of the map, do you mean on the right edge? Or the left edge?

0:50:33 Brennan: You and Pete are going to start either below that yellow dumpster or you should start up above those trees that are forming that little median strip.

0:50:46 Emily: Okay I'll go behind the yellow. Ah— yeah. No, no, I'll go from the trees.

0:50:53 Pete: Yeah, me too.

0:50:54 Siobhan: Can I use luck points for initiative?

0:50:58 Brennan: Yeah you can use luck points for initiative.

0:50:58 Siobhan: Okay.

0:50:59 Brennan: I think, right? Cause they're just an ability check.

0:51:02 Siobhan: Attack roll, ability check, or a saving throw or when an attack roll is made against you.

0:51:06 Brennan: Initiative is an ability check.

0:51:09 Siobhan: Great.

0:51:09 Ally: There we go.

0:51:12 Murph: Brennan can I start a little closer? I would assume—

0:51:15 Brennan: Yeah go for it, dude.

0:51:16 Murph: Sweet thank you.

0:51:17 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:51:21 Emily: [laughs] Just remembering how this all started. I was so excited to see Ricky not—

0:51:26 Murph: It was, we did talk about it behind the scenes that Cody grew up in New Jersey. And I wasn't sure if it was going to come up or not but I feel like there needs to be some, I was going to say good Jersey representation, but Cody is not good Jersey representation but [makes a face] better than this dude maybe?

0:51:42 Brennan: Incredible. Real quick, okay so Sofia, what's your initiative?

0:51:46 Emily: 8.

0:51:50 Brennan: Iga?

0:51:51 Siobhan: 19.

0:51:53 Brennan: Cody?

0:51:53 Murph: Also 19.

0:51:56 Brennan: Pete.

0:51:58 Ally: 21.

0:51:59 Brennan: Ricky.

0:52:00 Zac: Oh, also 21 because I— nat 20 plus. One.

0:52:04 Brennan: Kingston?

0:52:05 Lou: 22.

0:52:07 Brennan: Hell yes.

0:52:07 Emily: Oh my god.

0:52:07 Siobhan: Oh my god. I shouldn’t—

0:52:08 Emily: You guys are all hanging out and then I'm down at eight.

0:52:11 Siobhan: I shouldn't have used my luck point at all. Everybody got such good initiative. [Ally laughs]

0:52:15 Brennan: Amazing.

0:52:15 Siobhan: I was like, 19! I'm in, I'm in the mix.

0:52:19 Brennan: JJ goes at the end of the round as he's getting ready to start casting his spell. First in the initiative is going to be Kingston Brown. Kingston that is you.

0:52:33 Lou: I mean, I look at JJ and be like,

0:52:37 Kingston: Hey. I'm never going to be far. If you need help, you yell.

0:52:42 Lou: And I'm gonna run 30 feet ahead which is about right there. And then I'm gonna cast a Guiding Bolt on the Jersey Devil. Yeah. Let's just do it. Emily laughs.

0:53:06 Lou: And we'll make it, it'll be a second level Guiding Bolt on the Jersey Devil.

0:53:10 Brennan: Hell yeah, what's the range on that?

0:53:12 Lou: 120 feet, he's 115 feet away from me.

0:53:16 Brennan: Hell yes, go for it. Let me know what you roll on your attack roll.

0:53:19 Lou: Great. That's a nat 1. So, get the feeling, doesn't hit.

0:53:28 Brennan: Your magic goes out and gets a little bit too close to Jersey and fizzles out.

0:53:34 Lou: Oh, I go,

0:53:34 Kingston: Mm. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I don't go to that state. That's why I don't go there. Oh.

0:53:44 Brennan: Any bonus actions from Kingston?

0:53:46 Lou: No, not this turn.

0:53:48 Brennan: Cool, Pete that is you.

0:53:50 Ally: All right I am going to, I don't have to move so from where I'm at I am just going to cast Erupting Earth. I'm going to cast it as a fourth level and I'm going to cast it over here so that I can get as many people as possible.

0:54:14 Brennan: Cool and what's the radius on Erupting Earth?

0:54:16 Ally: 20. 20, baby.

0:54:20 Brennan: Hell yes so that's a 20 foot radius circle—

0:54:28 Siobhan: But that's 20— That’s a 20 foot—

0:54:29 Ally: Cube.

0:54:29 Emily: Yeah. So that would be 40.

0:54:33 Brennan: Sorry where are you casting this on again, show me?

0:54:35 Ally: 20 foot cube and I want it to be at these turnstiles. I'm going to try to hit both of the second largest guys.

0:54:43 Brennan: The siege devils, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:54:45 Ally: And then everyone behind them for a 20 foot cube. They're 20 feet apart from each other so 20 feet back should be one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight guys. Plus them too.

0:54:58 Brennan: That should work just fine. Yeah you should be able to hit eight of the swarm devils and two of the siege devils.

0:55:03 Ally: Incredible. Okay. And so I am going to roll 4d12 and they can save for half.

0:55:14 Brennan: That is correct.

0:55:16 Emily: Does it make it difficult terrain too or something?

0:55:19 Ally: Yeah it does. At least one minute to clear by hand. Each five foot portion of the area takes at least one minute.

0:55:27 Emily: Sweet. Ally drops their dice offscreen; Zac laughs.

0:55:33 Ally: Meant to do that. Ally rerolls their dice and makes an ooh sound.

0:55:43 Ally: 29 damage.

0:55:44 Murph: Nice.

0:55:45 Brennan: 29 damage, hell yes. [Lou makes a rolling brrrah! sound.]

0:55:51 Ally: And that's with rolling a 1.

0:55:54 Brennan: And what type of damage is that?

0:55:56 Ally: Let's see. Dex throw, bludgeoning.

0:55:59 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:56:02 Ally: And now it's difficult terrain. Each five foot is—

0:56:05 Brennan: Oh shit. We're— we are now going to roll for our little swarm devils behind them. The two enormous siege devils go,

0:56:17 Siege Devils: [exploding sound] [very deep, growling voice, Jersey accent] Bro, fucking take it easy, what's your problem?

0:56:24 Brennan: Amazing. Three of them, so it's going to be— Five of them behind the toll booths erupt in asphalt and are crushed as you [makes sound of falling rock] shatter them with Erupting Earth. The three underneath the toll booth managed to jump into the toll booths and hide but are badly injured as well. You, by the way, see again, this is the vanguard. All of the rows stretching behind them is hundreds and hundreds more devils just like these ones in an ever— never-ending onslaught. That is Pete's turn, Ricky that's you.

0:57:03 Zac: Gosh. There's hundreds behind them?

0:57:06 Brennan: Uh huh, you see giant hulking siege devils. These swarming devils that starts to scream with wicked infernal glee as they approach.

0:57:16 Zac: I don't want to be too far away from JJ, but Kingston do you feel like you have him for now?

0:57:23 Lou: Hell yeah Ricky go get'em.

0:57:25 Zac: Okay Ricky's going to use Ox's movement and get forward to near, near his best friend Cody. Players laugh.

0:57:40 Zac: Gosh, actually, you know what? I might delay my turn. Just because looking at this. Cause I don't know if I can. If I get there in time then I'll just be killed by 30 devils I feel like.

0:57:51 Murph: Do you have any way to lower somebody's like saving throw thing? Like curse them in any way?

0:57:57 Zac: I don't think I do.

0:58:00 Murph: Okay.

0:58:01 Zac: I'm just going to actually hold my turn cause I'm not sure what I could do yet.

0:58:07 Brennan: Okay cool you hold, you're just like holding the line. Iga, that's you.

0:58:12 Siobhan: Fantastic I'm going to use as a bonus action I'm going to activate my Elemental Gift so that I can fly. And I'm just going to fly up to this cab right here.

0:58:29 Brennan: Dope.

0:58:30 Siobhan: And then I am going to cast Synaptic Static which is a 20 foot radius so a 40 foot diameter which I think gets everyone. All of these devils.

0:58:38 Ally: Ooh.

0:58:43 Emily: Ooh.

0:58:47 Brennan: Synaptic Static, hell yes.

0:58:50 Siobhan: It's a 20 foot radius sphere. So it might miss these two outlying guys but I think it gets everybody else.

0:58:57 Emily: Whoa.

0:58:58 Brennan: Where Pete just did his thing, cool, right there yeah.

0:59:01 Siobhan: So that like it's 20 feet in this direction and 20 feet in this direction.

0:59:05 Brennan: But you want to, you want to catch the Jersey Devil in that as well?

0:59:07 Siobhan: Yes I absolutely want to catch the Jersey Devil.

0:59:10 Brennan: Okay, amazing. What's the save for Synaptic Static?

0:59:15 Siobhan: It is an Intelligence saving throw and I have a DC17.

0:59:19 Brennan: Hell yeah. And it's a save for half, correct?

0:59:25 Siobhan: It's a save for half and if they, um. If they fail a target has muddled thoughts for one minute. During this time it rolls a d6 and subtracts that number rolled from all of its attack rolls and ability checks as well as its Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration.

0:59:34 Brennan: Holy—

0:59:43 Siobhan: And then it can make a save at the end of each of its turns to end the effect.

0:59:47 Brennan: The three that survived Pete's Erupting Earth, the swarm devils, are utterly destroyed. And go ahead and roll damage for the larger ones and the Jersey Devil.

0:59:57 Siobhan: 21, 27 damage each.

0:59:58 Lou: Whoo!

0:59:59 Brennan: 27 damage each, Jesus Christ. What does that spell look like as Iga's casting it?

1:00:07 Siobhan: I think it looks like almost like nineties science fiction effects lightning. So it's all like green like buzzy weird lightning that's frizzy around the edges.

1:00:25 Brennan: Incredible, [makes buzzing electric noise] and you said 27 damage right?

1:00:29 Siobhan: Yes, 27 damage and then if they fail, they take that effect.

1:00:35 Brennan: You see that the northernmost one, the one sort of behind the taxi cab near the toll booths is affected and gets, it does get that minus six.

1:00:45 Siobhan: Great.

1:00:46 Brennan: And then the Jersey Devil has to make the save of course. Amazing, let's see here, Jersey Devil is strong. Nat 20 on the save for the Jersey Devil.

1:00:59 Siobhan: Dang.

1:01:00 Zac: Ugh.

1:01:02 Brennan: Terrible. But that is still, that is still not an inconsiderable amount of damage. It becomes 13 damage to the Jersey Devil. That moves from Iga's turn and is now going to be Cody.

1:01:18 Murph: Hell yeah. [makes vroom-vroom noises] I take the moped, drive up 45 feet to the Jersey Devil, give the Jersey Devil the finger,

1:01:29 Cody: Fuck you dude!

1:01:31 Murph: And shove my finger like into his face. And I'm going to cast Bestow Curse.

1:01:39 Brennan: With a middle finger!

1:01:41 Murph: With a middle finger. You touch a creature, that creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed for the duration of the spell. I get to choose the nature of the curse, I'm choosing, while cursed the target must make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns. If it fails it wastes its action, and that turn it does nothing.

1:01:51 Ally: [whistles] Amazing.

1:02:02 Murph: So this is a big Wisdom saving throw. I hope it fails. DC16.

1:02:08 Brennan: The DC is 16? The Jersey, the Jersey Devil needs a nine or higher and rolls with advantage. Players gasp.

1:02:13 Murph: Fuck.

1:02:19 Brennan: So we're going to roll twice. I'm going to roll, I'm going to roll Box of Doom style because this is pretty huge. So you need, you need an 8 or lower twice. Here comes 2d20. The Jersey Devil rolls an 11 and a 2.

1:02:33 Siobhan: Fuck. [various groaning]

1:02:36 Lou: My heart races when you do this.

1:02:39 Emily: I know!

1:02:40 Murph: All right.

1:02:41 Brennan: Terrible.

1:02:42 Murph: Fuck. Okay, well.

1:02:43 Lou: Cause it's not even Brennan's reaction anymore, we get it like straight.

1:02:47 Murph: Cool, very cool stuff. Cody just goes,

1:02:50 Cody: Fuck!

1:02:53 Murph: And I guess, is going to keep driving so that he's not right in front of the Jersey Devil. And so people have to move to get to him. So Cody is then going to take, actually fuck it. He's gonna. The, the moped has warhorse stats. So can I do a Trampling Charge at it and try  [laughing] to run it over with my moped?

1:03:19 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

1:03:20 Murph: Great.

1:03:21 Brennan: Go ahead and make an attack roll.

1:03:23 Murph: [reading] If the, if the moped moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with its hooves' attack—its tire attack. Okay. That's a fucking 9. I'm just going to drive away.

1:03:36 Zac: [face in his hand briefly] You have a Questing Blade. You have a Questing Blade.

1:03:38 Murph: Cody does a trick. [motions as though turning a moped’s handlebars]

1:03:40 Cody: Would have been fucking cool if my spell had worked.

1:03:44 Murph: And I guess I'll take the attack of opportunity if I have to, to move back again. Cause what did I take? 45 feet of movement? I'll move another 15 feet away.

1:03:59 Brennan: Go ahead and give me a Constitution saving throw.

1:04:03 Lou: No!

1:04:04 Murph: Jesus Christ.

1:04:06 Emily: Please age 20 years, please age 20 years. [laughing]

1:04:10 Murph: No, no more. Yeah, sure. You got it. It's fine. This is all good.

1:04:22 Brennan: What are we looking at Cody?

1:04:23 Murph: This is fine. That's a 23.

1:04:25 Brennan: Oh, incredible.

1:04:27 Siobhan: Oh, okay.

1:04:32 Brennan: You, so you go, you moped up. [screech noise] Flip the Jersey Devil off and turn to go, to turn back. As the Jersey Devil is like, pulls the Juul off his lip, and you take 10 points of poison damage and then 17 points of slashing, sorry, of bludgeoning damage as the Jersey Devil punches you with a poison fist in the back of the head as you try to moped away.

1:04:48 Cody: Ow! Fuck—

1:05:05 Jersey Devil: Fuck you, watch out for the sucker punch motherfucker.

1:05:07 Cody: Fuck you, dude!

1:05:09 Jersey Devil: [laughs meanly] Got your ass!

1:05:14 Lou: Cody, what are you at?

1:05:16 Murph: 56.

1:05:18 Brennan: But you do moped away. Cool.

1:05:25 Murph: It doesn't even, I don't know. I literally have all the same stuff as you guys. I don't know why, I dunno why I suck so much ass. Brennan pulls up the icon of Cody’s moped steed on roll20.

1:05:33 Brennan: Oh my God. And is that, is that where you're ending your turn Cody?

1:05:38 Murph: Yeah I only have 15 more feet.

1:05:40 Siobhan: Your electric bike.

1:05:41 Ally: Your little fucking Dutch bike.

1:05:45 Murph: It's a fucking moped!

1:05:47 Lou: My man's steed!

1:05:49 Murph: I think I call it a moped and it's just like a bike with a motor on it.

1:05:54 Siobhan: Those ones that just give you a little help when you're going uphill?

1:05:57 Murph: Yeah it just gives you help when you're going up.

1:05:58 Lou: Oh, fuck this.

1:06:00 Brennan: Incredible.

1:06:02 Cody: You don't even have to pedal when you're going up, it's only when you're going up super high that you have to pedal. If you're on like flat you can just let that fucking—

1:06:09 Zac: You just never pedal that thing.

1:06:14 Cody: [imitating frantically pedalling, high-pitched] Fuck! [laughs]

1:06:19 Brennan: Okay. You don't have anything bumping your AC, do you, Cody?

1:06:25 Murph: [laughs] No.

1:06:30 Brennan: Okay. Poor Cody.

1:06:40 Cody: Get the fuck out of here.

1:06:42 Brennan: Cody, you take three poison damage and 11 slashing damage. As the Jersey Devil says,

1:06:47 Jersey Devil: Bros, bros get this fucking guy. He tried to fucking flip me off.

1:06:52 Brennan: And you see this one goes,

1:06:54 Swarm Devils: [panting, scrambling noises] You got it boss!

1:06:56 Brennan: Little cargo shorts, and leap up onto you and begin to slash and attack you from all sides. Horrifying! After that, these siege devils are going to go.

1:07:13 Lou: [laughs] No. No.

1:07:15 Brennan: Ooh, baby.

1:07:17 Zac: Can I, can I go now?

1:07:21 Brennan: Oh but if you want to, yeah you see the siege devils point at Cody. Ricky, you may absolutely go now.

1:07:26 Zac: Okay I want to drive. I mean, not drive, ride Ox up to this cab. The one that's like here. So use Ox’s movement to get there. And then this is just an abandoned cab that's on?

1:07:47 Brennan: Yep yep yep.

1:07:48 Zac: I want to hop in it and reverse over the little demons next to Cody. Cast laughs.

1:07:57 Brennan: Incredible. Go ahead, so object interaction to get into the cab. I'm going to say make a, make a Dexterity based attack roll for the first swarm demon. You, if you miss by more than five, something bad happens. [tense music]

1:08:18 Murph: Oh my god.

1:08:24 Zac: 19, I rolled a 19 plus one so 20 if that's just my Dex.

1:08:31 Brennan: Go ahead and roll 4d6 plus five damage.

1:08:37 Zac: Okay. Ooh, good rolls. I got 20 on the, the d6 plus 5?

1:08:47 Brennan: 20 on the d6, so 25?

1:08:49 Zac: Yes.

1:08:49 Brennan: Amazing. Go ahead and make another attack roll if you'd be so kind.

1:08:55 Zac: Okay, Dex-based attack roll?

1:08:57 Brennan: Dex-based attack roll.

1:08:59 Zac: Ooh, that is a nat 1 and I'm gonna use a luck point.

1:09:04 Brennan: Burning through our luck points, okay.

1:09:06 Zac: That would only be a 10.

1:09:09 Brennan: A 10, okay. A 10 is not going to get the job done so you don't get both. But Ricky, you back the cab up and crush the swarm devil on the other side of, the one directly above Cody. You like, [screeches] throw it into reverse, Ox is in the passenger seat. Ox uses his mouth to buckle himself in. Safety first. [Emily laughs]

1:09:37 Ricky: Thanks, Ox.

1:09:40 Cody: Fucking hell yeah dude! We're like the Rock and Vin Diesel.

1:09:45 Zac: I just don't respond. [Murph, Ally and Emily laugh. Murph makes revving noises.]

1:09:52 Brennan: Yeah you back up and crush, crush that first one. Boom gone. Amazing. However, now these two siege devils are going to go. This one gets the minus six to everything. Boom, boom, boom. Up here has 10 feet of reach. This dude going through here, 10 feet of reach.

1:10:05 Murph: Jesus christ.

1:10:18 Siobhan: That's good to know that they have 10 feet of reach.

1:10:21 Brennan: Yeah this is going to suck. Um.

1:10:24 Lou: You’re— You suck then. Emily laughs.

1:10:30 Lou: Oh, this looks awful.

1:10:32 Emily: I know, I know.

1:10:34 Brennan: Ricky, I'm going to need you to make. Uh, god, what am I going to need you to make here? I'm going to need you to make a Dexterity saving throw.

1:10:40 Zac: Okay.

1:10:45 Brennan: Trying to beat a DC18.

1:10:46 Emily: He’s in a car!

1:10:47 Zac: Natural 20.

1:10:49 Brennan: Hell yes.

1:10:49 Siobhan: Yes.

1:10:50 Ally: Yes!

1:10:53 Brennan: Okay so that's only going to be… Um, hold on. Zac holds up his d20 but it keeps fading into the virtual background.

1:10:57 Emily: It’s on 14. [laughing] Zac makes some little groaning noises as he spins the d20.

1:11:01 Emily: It's so hard to share it.

1:11:04 Brennan: Ricky, you are going to take 4d12, plus, gonna need a Dex save for Ox, no actually on a nat 20, Ox is going to be okay. You see, but that's going to be eight, 15, 18, 28, 34, 38, of damage to Ricky and 21 points, and I'm going to say on a nat 20, no damage to Ox here. That the siege devil goes,

1:11:30 Devil: [garbled yelling] Fucking see you later bro!

1:11:56 Brennan: And picks up the cab and hurls the cab 40 feet in the air. Because Ox is buckled, he's okay, but you take 21 points of damage.

1:12:08 Ricky: I can't believe I didn't buckle up.

1:12:10 Sofia: It’s been a tough day.

1:12:12 Kingston: Hey, you were too busy trying to save a friend.

1:12:15 Zac: What direction am I hurled?

1:12:18 Brennan: You are going to be hurled, you're hurled all the way over here. So let me, I'll show you where you land. You're there in a smashed cab. Boom, whips you away. And that one is still gonna take some more swings after that. Ooh, terrible, misses Cody horrendously, and doesn't have reach with the next attack. So it's done.

1:12:47 Murph: Great.

1:12:50 Brennan: This dude over here is going to take a swing at Cody once. That's going to be a hit and that's a hit as well. Both of those fists, that's going to be, Cody you take 12 points of bludgeoning damage and then 16 points of bludgeoning damage with two mighty fists, boom, boom.

1:13:18 Murph: Jesus. Cody's hurt!

1:13:22 Brennan: Okay, more devils coming through. These devils all rolled very similar initiatives, which is not ideal but what are you gonna do? Okay let's see.

1:13:34 Lou: Cody, you're at 14?

1:13:35 Murph: Yes.

1:13:38 Brennan: These guys here are—

1:13:43 Lou: [laughing lowly] Oh man.

1:13:46 Cody: Oh! Fuck! [Lou laughs]

1:13:50 Brennan: This guy's going to take his full movement to close, and this guy is going to make it here to close as well or not to close with, Cody—

1:14:03 Zac: Were these happening roughly at the same time or am I out of range at this point?

1:14:08 Brennan: These guys, these are all happening roughly around the same time.

1:14:10 Zac: Could I use my reaction to take the 16 points with Aura of Guardian from Cody? Cause I can, I can take, Aura of Guardian is when a creature within 10 feet of you takes damage you can use your reaction and magically take the damage instead.

1:14:25 Brennan: Go for it, I will let you take that damage, absolutely.

1:14:28 Zac: Well, it doesn't say per attack though. When a creature within 10 feet of you takes damage you can use your reaction to magically take that damage. Could I just take both of those hits?

1:14:38 Brennan: You can take both of those hits from Cody if you would like to.

1:14:40 Zac: How much was that?

1:14:42 Emily: Sixteen and twelve, I think.

1:14:45 Lou: 28.

1:14:47 Murph: Wow.

1:14:49 Zac: I'm so mad.

1:14:50 Lou: Ricky, what are you at?

1:14:50 Pete: You sure you want to do that? You don't have to, you don't have to do that.

1:14:57 Ricky: [surprisingly aggressively] It's fine, I wanted to do that. I like to help people, that's my thing. My thing is that I help people.

1:15:04 Lou: Ricky, what are you at?

1:15:05 Zac: I'm at 55.

1:15:07 Murph: Jesus, you have so much HP!

1:15:09 Brennan: I'm going to need a Con save from, from Cody.

1:15:16 Murph: 11.

1:15:22 Brennan: Okay. Oh no, oh no. Cody, you see the Jersey Devil looks right at you. Eight, three is 11. Another eight is 19, 29 plus 30 is 59 points of necrotic damage.

1:15:47 Murph: Super down.

1:15:50 Brennan: This is a Finger of Death spell. You send negative energy coursing through a creature that you see within range causing searing pain, a humanoid killed by the spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command, following your orders to the best of its ability.

1:16:05 Murph: Fuck.

1:16:06 Ally: Shit.

1:16:08 Emily: Oh, okay wait it rises its next turn?

1:16:09 Murph: Wait, I wasn't killed through right?

1:16:11 Brennan: Huh?

1:16:12 Murph: I wasn't killed, I was knocked out.

1:16:14 Brennan: You were knocked out. A humanoid killed, I'm trying to see, yeah let me, let me double check the wording of this spell.

1:16:20 Murph: I'm pretty sure I'm still alive.

1:16:23 Emily: Wouldn't killed be being knocked out?

1:16:27 Brennan: Well, it didn't, it didn't do more than double your, no.

1:16:31 Murph: No, I was at like negative 15.

1:16:34 Ally: What did it roll for that attack?

1:16:37 Brennan: It didn't roll anything. This is just a save. So you see, as you speed away on your moped you can feel Ricky taking the damage. The Jersey Devil goes,

1:16:44 Jersey Devil: Dude, you could have fucking come and partied with us. Instead you gotta be a fucking asshole about it? I see how it is, bro.

1:16:54 Brennan: And mist pours out of his mouth from his infernal Juul. You cough splutter and you see Bazathrax goes,

1:17:02 Bazathrax: Dude, I'm so fucking sorry, this guy's very powerful.

1:17:05 Brennan: And you drop to zero. That's the Jersey Devil. This guy is going to go. This dude is going to start charging. Yeah, this dude charges the truck and boom, boom, boom, [crash!] is going to knock it out of the way and attempt to crush Ricky with it.

1:17:38 Zac: Jesus.

1:17:40 Brennan: Gonna make an attack roll here, his Dex is not as good as his Strength. He's gotta roll, a 12 or higher to hit Ricky, either way he's moving the truck out of the fucking way. We'll do Box of Doom, see if he gets Ricky.

1:17:57 Emily: Natural 2! [laughs]

1:17:57 Brennan: Natural 2, the truck sails past you and lands in between Ricky and Sofia, still in hiding. But these siege devils are going to clear the way for their swarm devil buddies. Incredible. Sofia, that's your turn.

1:18:10 Emily: Okay, okay. Should, I'm wondering if I should go retrieve Cody? Cause I don't want him taking any more hits. I think that I'm going to move a little bit forward here. So move basically 15 feet so that then I can teleport to right on this truck right here and attack. And then I think if I wanted to carry Ricky and run away would that be like an action?

1:18:28 Zac: Cody?

1:18:46 Emily: Oh, sorry if I wanted to carry Cody, if I wanted to pick up Cody would that be an object interaction or would I need—

1:18:52 Brennan: It is an object interaction at the moment.

1:18:54 Emily: So I can use my attack action. Then hop down, pick up Cody and then just take a bunch of opportunity attacks as I run away?

1:19:03 Brennan: Basically yeah, absolutely.

1:19:04 Emily: Okay so I'm going to, from here I'm going to attack this siege devil right here.

1:19:13 Brennan: You leap to the top and you're at perfect eye level with this hulking giant on top of the truck.

1:19:18 Emily: That is a 16 to hit.

1:19:22 Brennan: 16 does not hit.

1:19:24 Emily: Okay I'm just going to try to attack him again. Does a dirty 20 hit?

1:19:30 Brennan: Dirty 20 hits.

1:19:32 Emily: Okay so I only hit him for 6 but I will try to Stunning Strike him.

1:19:38 Brennan: Hell yes. Guy's got a beefy Con save, but... does make the Con save there.

1:19:47 Emily: Okay he does make the Con save, okay well I did six damage to him and then I'm going to—

1:19:52 Ally: Can, can I Bend Luck on that and take away from his Con save?

1:19:58 Brennan: What do you roll, what do you roll on Bend Luck? The die that you roll?

1:20:00 Ally: A d4.

1:20:01 Brennan: Cool, this dude, you have to get a three or higher on the d4 to do Bend Luck here.

1:20:08 Ally: Box of Doom?

1:20:09 Brennan: Box of Doom? Yeah, go ahead and roll it on Roll20. Ally rolls a 2. [various groaning]

1:20:13 Brennan: Oh no!

1:20:14 Emily: Fucker! Okay.

1:20:16 Brennan: Still makes the save.

1:20:18 Emily: But I'm still going to, since I have Jump cast on me I am going to jump over all these guys. So hopefully the sheer leap would mean that I wouldn't take any opportunity attacks until I shoulder Cody. And then I think I would have

1:20:37 Siobhan: The big guys are a 10 foot reach anyway so you wouldn't take an opportunity attack.

1:20:41 Brennan: Until you leave exactly, cool. You rush with Cody on out of there.

1:20:47 Emily: Okay, so yeah, I grab Cody and I move over here.

1:20:51 Brennan: Cool. Cody's moped is left behind.

1:20:56 Murph: Fuck.

1:20:57 Brennan: You're going to get, you're actually only going to get a swing from that one siege devil. An 8, let's, I don't think that'll even do it. Four plus 10 is 14. Misses.

1:21:11 Emily: All right, we traded misses.

1:21:16 Brennan: After Sofia, this last siege devil down at the bottom is going to start going, charge here to this car. Boom, boom, boom, and flings this car over the side spinning it wildly out of control. After that siege devil...

1:21:38 Emily: So we need these cars to like stay where they are don't we? We need to clog this up.

1:21:41 Zac: I mean ideally, but it just feels like they just tossed them like, you know, like they weigh nothing.

1:21:51 Emily: Yeah, like we need to stop them.

1:21:53 Zac: Yeah if we could stop the siege devils, it could be good.

1:21:57 Brennan: All of the remaining active swarm devils take a double move and move 80 feet forward.

1:22:04 Ally: [whispering] Fuck.

1:22:05 Lou: Nightmarish.

1:22:09 Brennan: Incredible and at the end of that round JJ is going to make an Intelligence check. He gets a plus eight to this roll—

1:22:20 Emily: And advantage.

1:22:22 Brennan: And advantage because of Fox's Cunning. Making an Arcana check first round. He only needs to hit a 15. He's gonna roll 2d20. We'll roll it in front of the board. So for this one he, all he's going to need is plus eight, is just gonna need a 7 or higher on one of these two rolls. 16!

1:22:34 Siobhan: Yes! Yes, JJ.

1:22:40 Emily: Yeah!

1:22:46 Brennan: You guys look over at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel and watch as the, watch a runic circle of glowing golden light. Kingston you see, he is like harnessing, like waking world magic going like [energy buzzing] as this rune appears glowing in front of you—

1:23:06 Kingston: Atta boy JJ, atta boy, let's keep it moving! [clapping]

1:23:13 Brennan: We are back to the top of the initiative order with Kingston Brown.

1:23:20 Lou: I yell over to Ricky,

1:23:21 Kingston: Ricky, can you help Cody?

1:23:24 Ricky: [after a moment] Uhh…..

1:23:27 Kingston: Great that's a pretty good answer,

1:23:28 Lou: I'm going to move. I'm gonna move 10 feet up or I'll move like a full 15 up. Fifteen feet up and that should put me within 60 feet of, yep, 50 feet away from Cody and I'll cast Healing Word at a third level. Yeah let's do it. Okay. Oh, it's gonna be four, three, one. So eight plus, eight plus five, 13 hit points back up for Cody.

1:24:19 Murph: Thank you.

1:24:20 Brennan: Whoo!

1:24:21 Lou: And then can I also cast a cantrip?

1:24:25 Brennan: Yes you can cast an action cantrip if you need to.

1:24:28 Lou: Great and then I'll throw a Sacred Flame at the, the little, the little demon next to Madam Anastasia.

1:24:40 Brennan: Hell yeah. And does that, he's making a save right?

1:24:44 Lou: A Dexterity saving throw, 17.

1:24:47 Brennan: He fails.

1:24:48 Lou: Yee haw, okay. He takes, that's going to be 15 points of damage.

1:24:57 Brennan: You obliterate him with [energy noise] a street lamp light from the City of New York. You incinerate that swarm devil. No more, baby.

1:25:10 Lou: Great and then I'll honestly, I'm gonna move back 15 feet, so that I'm never, not so far away from JJ.

1:25:23 Brennan: Cool.

1:25:23 Lou: Cool, that's my turn.

1:25:24 Brennan: Hell yeah. By the way, I'm going to need some, some concentration checks from Ricky for those concentration spells that you took.

1:25:31 Zac: Okay, you're right I'm sorry. I don't remember what I—

1:25:34 Brennan: Second one's going to be a DC 16 I'm pretty sure. And the first one, the first one I think is just a DC 10.

1:25:43 Zac: 15 and then a 22.

1:25:48 Brennan: Okay so that second one was the DC 16. You pass both you hold, you maintain concentration. Awesome. Pete, that is you.

1:25:56 Ally: Okay I am going to try to get these three demons in front of me.

1:26:00 Brennan: Cool.

1:26:02 Ally: And maybe one more? I don't know they're all looking like they're about 30-35 feet away from each other. Can I try in a big circle to get two on the outside?

1:26:15 Brennan: Yeah, what spell are you casting?

1:26:16 Ally: Oh, I'm going to be casting a Fireball spell but burning a sorcery point to make it Careful and make sure I don't hit Iga or what's his name.

1:26:27 Brennan: Misiek.

1:26:28 Siobhan: Misiek.

1:26:29 Brennan: Give me, give me a DC15 Arcana check real quick.

1:26:33 Ally: Oh right, fire.

1:26:36 Brennan: Yep.

1:26:37 Ally: Okay, all right, thank you. [laughs]

1:26:40 Brennan: No worries.

1:26:42 Ally: Thank you, okay I'm going to take a full dash action to JJ. I can get there I believe, does that work?

1:26:50 Brennan: Yeah you're just going to take a double move?

1:26:53 Ally: Going to take a double move and then I'm going to burn two sorcery points actually for Quicken Spell.

1:27:01 Brennan: For Quicken spell, hell yeah. Yeah you do take five points of falling damage cause you're leaping down to the bottom of the tunnel from the ridge there.

1:27:09 Ally: Yeah, worth it. Honey, I'll do it. And then I'm going to cast Greater Invisibility on him.

1:27:17 Brennan: Oh my god.

1:27:19 Emily: Wow.

1:27:22 Brennan: Is that concentration, Greater Invisibility or no?

1:27:25 Ally: It is.

1:27:26 Brennan: Cool and you didn't have anything else active right?

1:27:29 Ally: No the difficult terrain one doesn't, Erupting Earth doesn't, isn't a concentration.

1:27:34 Brennan: Dope as hell. Amazing. JJ looks around, the Vox Phantasma, the Vox Populi, champion of New York, the chosen one of the Order of the Concrete Fist, everyone has active magic on this dude right now. He’s like,

1:27:41 JJ: Okay! [typing]

1:27:47 Brennan: And you see it as he goes invisible. He say,

1:27:49 JJ: Good, good. This is, this is support. This is what support feels like.

1:27:54 Emily: He has Pass Without a Trace and Greater Invisibility and Death Ward—

1:27:57 Zac: And Sanctuary.

1:28:00 Emily: And Sanctuary.

1:28:03 Zac: And Protection from Evil and Good.

1:28:06 Brennan: Amazing. Ricky, that's your turn.

1:28:12 Zac: Cody, how's Cody looking?

1:28:14 Cody: I'm fucked up just don't—

1:28:14 Murph: Cody looks at the ground.

1:28:16 Cody: Just don't even fucking worry about me, man.

1:28:19 Ricky: Okay.

1:28:21 Cody: I fucked up, just fucking, just fucking make sure they don't fucking get in, dude.

1:28:26 Zac: I'm going to move to this siege devil right here with Ox. I'm just going to take, pull out my Peasant’s Sword and say,

1:28:38 Ricky: Well, you know, I wasn't planning on fighting until I felt like a weapon found me and I guess this is that weapon. So it's awesome.

1:28:48 Zac: And I'll take two attacks—

1:28:53 Cody: It's, it's a pretty good sword, Rick.

1:28:54 Emily: “Rick!”

1:28:56 Zac: [rubs his forehead] I don't look at Cody. [laughs] So I'll take a first attack at that guy. Oh, you know what? Since we were close enough, actually Ox is gonna go first and use his attacks just to hopefully cause he gets Pack Tactics.

1:29:18 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it.

1:29:22 Zac: Oh, I mean, I guess if it's a, is it, it's not 20 from there to here it's not 20 feet, he couldn't charge him could he?

1:29:31 Brennan: He could run away and then run back?

1:29:34 Zac: Yeah.

1:29:36 Brennan: Does he get, does he get a special charge thing? Oh yes, yes, yes, that target must, yeah, absolutely you can have him do a charge.

1:29:42 Zac: We'll do a charge. And I feel like this guy's probably gonna not be knocked down by a Dalmatian, the siege devil--

1:29:49 Emily: Be so cool if he was though.

1:29:51 Brennan: He succeeds on, he does succeed on his save.

1:29:53 Zac: Okay.

1:29:55 Ally: David and Goli-woof?

1:29:58 Emily: What? [laughs]

1:30:00 Siobhan: Nice. Freakin’ nice, dude.

1:30:00 Ally: Nobody liked that.

1:30:01 Emily: So uncharacteristic.

1:30:01 Zac: Oh I actually, I have to make an attack roll on the charge. So I'll just make that roll.

1:30:08 Brennan: Go for it yes, yes, yes.

1:30:10 Zac: Okay that's a, what does he add to his hit? I rolled a 19.

1:30:20 Brennan: Nineteen hits.

1:30:21 Zac: Yeah okay he's not knocked over. So that was the charge. So that's, that's his turn, nevermind.

1:30:28 Brennan: No he also makes a bite attack as part of that. So you can have him roll his bite attack.

1:30:32 Zac: All right so he'll roll his bite attack.

1:30:35 Brennan: And he has, yeah, he has advantage on these as well.

1:30:38 Zac: Oh, then I'll roll.

1:30:39 Brennan: Cause he's, cause of Pack Tactics.

1:30:41 Zac: Oh right right. Five plus four.

1:30:47 Brennan: Nine points of damage, hell yeah!

1:30:49 Zac: Did we establish that his bites are radiant damage?

1:30:53 Brennan: Yes so it bypasses the, yeah his bites are radiant damage. So the siege devil, as the Ox bites into his giant, like hoof or like his giant clawed ankle and then Ricky, that's you baby.

1:31:06 Zac: Okay now it's Ricky's turn. Ricky,

1:31:07 Ricky: I'm not an angry person, but you know this thing is, it's time for it to get out of here.

1:31:15 Zac: First attack is only a 12 to hit.

1:31:21 Brennan: Twelve does not hit.

1:31:24 Zac: And I will not use a luck point because I feel like I'll need them later. Second attack is only a 16.

1:31:34 Brennan: Sixteen is a miss as well.

1:31:36 Zac: Okay I think Ricky is so mad that he's just swinging wild.

1:31:44 Brennan: He goes,

1:31:44 Devil: Hey dude look at this guy, look at this fucking guy trying to hit me dude. Hey, what's your problem, man? Nice fucking sweat pants. You know it's Friday night, right?

1:31:53 Ricky: What are you wearing? What kind of, do you even have pants on?

1:31:56 Devil: Dude I got my fucking pink, I got my salmon board shorts, dude. It's peacocking, let the ladies know.

1:32:00 Sofia: Ewww!

1:32:03 Ricky: Okay well, I really don't know if I can have a conversation with you.

1:32:08 Cody: Tell him to fuck off Ricky, tell him to fuck off.

1:32:11 Ricky: I'm not going to tell him that, Cody— Maybe you just—

1:32:14 Cody: Get the fuck away from Ricky, dude!

1:32:16 Ricky: Okay.

1:32:18 Brennan: That's going to be Iga, that's you?

1:32:20 Siobhan: I think I'm gonna fly up to just this railing up here.

1:32:28 Brennan: Cool.

1:32:29 Siobhan: And I'm going to just Eldritch Blast these little wieners.

1:32:31 Emily: Yeah!

1:32:33 Lou: Get those wieners.

1:32:37 Emily: Blast those wieners!

1:32:39 Ally: Get those little wieners!

1:32:40 Lou: Get those wieners!

1:32:41 Brennan: Go for it.

1:32:41 Emily: Those wieners!

1:32:41 Ally: Oh my god all the little charms on JJ. JJ’s roll20 icon is covered in little spell indicators for all his buffs.

1:32:46 Lou: JJ's decked out dude.

1:32:47 Siobhan: So funny.

1:32:48 Ally: You can't even see him, he's just under all these Mardi Gras beads.

1:32:53 Siobhan: So the first one is a 25 to hit.

1:32:57 Brennan: 25 to hit, that is a hit for sure.

1:33:00 Siobhan: 11 force damage and four bludgeoning damage. On this first guy closest to me.

1:33:06 Brennan: Both of that magical, correct?

1:33:09 Siobhan: Yes.

1:33:10 Brennan: Oh, that's 15 damage total?

1:33:12 Siobhan: Yes.

1:33:13 Brennan: Iced, blasted away with an Eldritch Blast.

1:33:17 Siobhan: Okay for the next guy that's a 24 to hit.

1:33:21 Brennan: That hits.

1:33:23 Siobhan: And that is also 15.

1:33:28 Brennan: Next one is gone, toast.

1:33:30 Ally: Nice.

1:33:31 Siobhan: Sick. Oh, by the way, when she flies it does look like wires are picking her up. She's got a full wired rig underneath her clothes.

1:33:42 Zac: I want to see whatever bad movie she came out of. [cast laughs]

1:33:47 Brennan: That's going to be... okay.

1:33:53 Ally: [suspiciously] No.

1:33:53 Lou: No.

1:33:59 Ally: Whatever it is, no.

1:34:01 Lou: Anytime Brennan gets quiet it means he's being thoughtful. Which means he's going to do bad things.

1:34:06 Murph: Didn't I have the same initiative that Siobhan did? Is Cody going?

1:34:09 Brennan: You did, so Cody goes now, sorry yes. Cody, you are next up.

1:34:13 Murph: Okay, Cody is in over his head.

1:34:19 Emily: Trying not to get killed.

1:34:22 Murph: He’s had a bad day. I wipe my nose of blood, and turn to Sofia, embarrassed and go,

1:34:28 Cody: Fuck. Thanks, uh, thanks.

1:34:32 Sofia: You owe Kingston a little thank you as well.

1:34:36 Cody: Thanks, Kingston. Thank you, Ricky, fuck!

1:34:45 Murph: I look at the siege devils. This one has like a minus thing. They have something wrong with them, right?

1:34:50 Siobhan: They have to take 1d6 away from all of their rolls.

1:34:53 Brennan: Yeah.

1:34:53 Murph: Nice. Okay I know this is killing me as a paladin to not just swing. I guess first off I guess I'll look down at my sword and be like,

1:35:03 Cody: Are you anything other than just like a cool-ass sword? Or do you like fucking do like weird shit that could help right now?

1:35:12 Questing Blade: I can become as rad as you wish me to be. We must talk, you and I, about what it is you wish to do. I am the Questing Blade. Whatever your journey, I am here to aid you.

1:35:25 Cody: I want to get these devils like the fuck outta here. Do you have like a, like a, like a way to just like give them the finger and they just like fucking run?

1:35:33 Questing Blade: Not at the moment, but you could enchant me later to have that power.

1:35:37 Cody: Fuck!

1:35:38 Questing Blade: I guess all I would say is just like, just like value me. Just like treasure me, you know?

1:35:43 Zac: Ricky is like hearing this conversation from behind. [stares intensely]

1:35:47 Cody: I'm going to hang you on my wall, dude, just fucking wait. All right, fine. Zac laughs so hard he disappears out of frame for a bit.

1:35:51 Murph: I put the sword back and I'm going to cast on the one that has the subtraction from the rolls. I'm going to cast Crown of Madness to attempt to charm it so it has to attack other creatures. [Emily and Brennan ‘ooh’]

1:36:05 Lou: Oh yes, there we go, Cody, there we go. [clapping] Bring it around!

1:36:10 Brennan: And this is a Wisdom—

1:36:12 Cody: I am the true Jersey Devil. [holding hand out like an anime villain]

1:36:16 Sofia: Again, not about you though.

1:36:18 Brennan: This is a Wisdom saving throw, correct?

1:36:19 Murph: Yes. Murph continues to hold Cody’s fucked-up casting pose.

1:36:20 Brennan: Okay, your DC is 16. This guy gets a plus seven which means--

1:36:31 Murph: What?! To Wisdom?

1:36:33 Brennan: To Wisdom, that's correct.

1:36:34 Murph: This dude is throwing cars?

1:36:38 Brennan: But I'm going to say this, plus seven but we're going to roll a d6. I'll roll Box of Doom. Let's see how much is subtracted.

1:36:47 Emily: Oh right! The d6 rolls a 6. [cheering]

1:36:52 Emily: Oh! We’re subtracting six!

1:36:56 Brennan: So this is so six, so that means seven. He's gonna need a.. what's that? Oh Jesus. He needs a 15 or higher to beat this. Rolling in the Box of Doom. Siobhan crosses her fingers. [cheering]

1:37:19 Brennan: Natural one baby.

1:37:21 Murph: Yes! Yes!

1:37:23 Brennan: You see he goes,

1:37:23 Charmed Devil: Dude, you're the fucking Jersey Devil?

1:37:27 Brennan: The siege devil next to him says,

1:37:29 Siege Devil: Bro, he's not the fucking Jersey Devil. Wake the fuck up dude.

1:37:32 Brennan: And he says,

1:37:32 Charmed Devil: Oh don't fucking talk to me like that. Go fuck yourself, bro, you want to fucking go?

1:37:39 Brennan: And who would you like this dude to attack? Lou dances.

1:37:43 Siobhan: Yes.

1:37:45 Murph: I would like him to, let's see. Does he have enough movement to get to the guy going after Ricky?

1:37:55 Brennan: Yes he does.

1:37:57 Murph: Let's do that.

1:37:59 Brennan: Incredible. It's on his initiative, he will act and his initiative is coming very, very soon.

1:38:08 Devil: Shut the fuck up, let me fucking think, bro.

1:38:13 Murph: Okay, and then I also have so my, presumably my moped works like Find Steed. So it's like magical and can move without me?

1:38:22 Brennan: Yes, absolutely.

1:38:24 Murph: Sweet, can I hop on my moped? And I'm going to go ahead and can I do so it can get 60 feet. I would like to do a trampling charge on this guy up here.

1:38:41 Lou: There we go Cody.

1:38:43 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead and make your attack--

1:38:45 Lou: You did all the way back around.

1:38:46 Murph: Sweet. I want to use my movement to hop on my moped and then try to slam into this dude.

1:38:56 Brennan: Cool go ahead and make your, make your attack roll.

1:39:00 Murph: Fuck, 9.

1:39:03 Brennan: 9, does not hit I am afraid, but you close with those other devils for sure. After you, you guys see more devils charging in from the turnpike are appearing. Bam, a group appears and is going to charge immediately towards Sofia.

1:39:23 Emily: That's good, I could take a little damage.

1:39:27 Zac: Are they in that difficult terrain or do they bypass it?

1:39:29 Brennan: They are bypassing that difficult terrain. So these guys go to surround Sofia.

1:39:34 Ally: Whoa.

1:39:38 Brennan: That's going to be the siege devils. So this dude is going to boom, boom, boom, rush here. Charge his buddy, I'm going to say Murph go ahead and make these rolls for me. I'll say you're adding plus 10 to all of these rolls, let me know what you hit. You're gonna make, you're gonna make three. You're going to make, actually just making one attack. You're just making the gore attack.

1:40:03 Murph: Yeah, I think it's just the one. I think it doesn't take it, yeah.

1:40:06 Brennan: Yeah cool.

1:40:07 Murph: Must use this action move to make a melee attack against, against a creature.

1:40:11 Siobhan: It would also be minus the d6 still.

1:40:14 Murph: But I got a 17.

1:40:16 Brennan: You got a 17 to hit, you do not hit. So the other guy puts his arm up and—

1:40:21 Murph: Or I got his, oh sorry. I wasn't adding his bonus, I got a natural 17.

1:40:25 Brennan: Oh you got a 27. So even with a minus six, he rushes up, dude, these guys charging is no fucking joke. I'm going to need you to roll 7d10 plus seven.

1:40:37 Siobhan: Oh my god.

1:40:38 Lou: Whoa.

1:40:40 Murph: Should I just do it in front of the table here?

1:40:41 Ally and Emily: Yeah!

1:40:41 Siobhan: Yes.

1:40:42 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it. And you can add you can add the plus seven there to let us know what you get. I'm going to roll a saving throw as well. Cool he does not, no wait a minute. Ooh! 40 damage. Not only does he do 40 damage, he knocks this dude fully prone. He goes, runs up and he says,

1:41:09 Devil: Stop fucking laughing at me, bro. I got mind magic on me!

1:41:14 Brennan: And boom this other giant goes sprawling. This dude is going to charge for Ricky. This is a bit, Ricky your armor is your armor class is 21, correct?

1:41:29 Zac: That's correct.

1:41:30 Brennan: This dude is going to, but you already know these guys get a plus 10. This guy rolls an 11 or higher, it's bad news for Ricky. Fifteen.

1:41:43 Ally: Bend Luck, d4?

1:41:46 Brennan: You couldn't--

1:41:46 Zac: Eleven or higher.

1:41:48 Brennan: Yeah, you couldn't possibly.

1:41:49 Ally: Oh, right, right gotcha.

1:41:52 Murph: You could use a luck point on—

1:41:54 Zac: Could I use a luck point on his attack?

1:41:57 Brennan: Yes, you could.

1:41:58 Zac: Yeah I guess I should. I'm going to do that.

1:42:03 Brennan: Let's see, and I'm going to ask this time or do you want to Bend Luck on whatever this roll is, Pete?

1:42:07 Ally: I could, yeah.

1:42:10 Brennan: I want to ask you ahead of time before I announced what the roll is.

1:42:15 Ally: Oh because, oh cause I can do it after it's rolled but before I hear the effect or something like that.

1:42:20 Brennan: Okay gotcha yes yes yes. Yeah, no, let's do it here we go. So using the luck point, that is a natural five. [Emily cheers, Murph claps]

1:42:30 Zac: Okay, good.

1:42:33 Brennan: So boom, boom, boom. Ricky, you hold this peasant sword aloft, hold up a shield of light. [groans] And this demon stops just short of impaling you on his horn.

1:42:45 Ricky: Oh, I'm just lucky I guess.

1:42:49 Brennan: Incredible, more swarm devils are appearing at all times baby.

1:42:56 Emily: Why is the Jersey Devil staying there, right?

1:42:59 Siobhan: I think we got to take him out.

1:43:02 Emily: I think we have to go after him right?

1:43:04 Murph: You think so?

1:43:06 Ally: I mean, these people have plus 10. It's got, maybe it's some sort of like he's giving them something. Or maybe it's just natural.

1:43:14 Emily: I'm like wondering if like he's the reason that they're—

1:43:17 Zac: I mean they're following his lead. He is the Jersey Devil, you know? I think he's like commanding them, like hanging back.

1:43:23 Emily: Yeah that's what I'm thinking.

1:43:25 Zac: Or like commanding his troops. Not like magically commanding.

1:43:29 Emily: Yeah but I'm wondering if we get him if they stop?

1:43:31 Murph: Yeah I was wondering if this is like a tower defense like we're just trying to save JJ. Or if this is cut off the head of the serpent here.

1:43:41 Zac: It could be a bit of both, you know.

1:43:44 Brennan: Two more swarms of swarm devils show up charging forward,

1:43:48 Swarm Devils: Yeah yeah boss, get them, get them!

1:43:52 Brennan: And you see the Jersey Devil does look like he's kind of enjoying hanging back vaping. He's like,

1:43:58 Jersey Devil: Come on, dude. I know a fucking spot. We're gonna head down to the lower East Side. There's a buddy of mine, who fucking knows this great place. We're going to in piss in everything, shit everywhere. Put fire on everything. Kick a bunch of ass, fucking torch the spot. And get fucking wasted dude!

1:44:20 Brennan: I'm going to need Dexterity saving throws from Ricky, Ox, Sofia, and Cody. : Can I ask who's doing--

1:44:35 Brennan: The Jersey Devil is casting a spell right now.

1:44:38 Siobhan: Counterspell.

1:44:41 Brennan: You're within 60 feet?

1:44:46 Siobhan: Fuck, I'm not, 80 feet.

1:44:48 Zac: I'm going to Counterspell.

1:44:50 Brennan: You have Counterspell?

1:44:52 Zac: Yeah.

1:44:52 Emily: Oh thank God.

1:44:53 Brennan: Holy shit!

1:44:54 Zac: Oath of Redemption!

1:44:55 Emily: God, I got a nat 1 on my save—

1:44:56 Murph: Are you serious?

1:44:58 Emily: So please fucking Counterspell.

1:45:00 Zac: Oath of Redemption has Counterspell.

1:45:02 Siobhan: Sick.

1:45:02 Ally: Amazing.

1:45:03 Murph: That’s insane!

1:45:03 Brennan: Oh my god. Okay this is a high level spell. This is a sixth level spell. So Ricky, you need to roll, god, incredible, 10 so it's a DC 16. You're adding plus four. You need to roll a 12 or higher to counter this spell.

1:45:26 Zac: Okay. Natural 20. [cast cheering]

1:45:31 Brennan: Oh my God.

1:45:33 Zac: I’ll show you, I’ll show you. Zac tries once again to tilt his camera down, foiled by the background.

1:45:36 Emily: We can't see it, we can't see it.

1:45:38 Ally: It never works, it never works.

1:45:39 Zac: Give me one second. Zac turns off the background and displays a legitimate nat 20.

1:45:44 Brennan: Amazing, oh my fucking god.

1:45:45 Lou: That’s real.

1:45:47 Emily: That was, I rolled a nat 1 on my save. Just so you know, I would have been so fucked.

1:45:53 Brennan: Dude a fucking—

1:45:55 Murph: I rolled a nat 5, I would have been fucked.

1:45:56 Brennan: That was a, that was 10d8 lightning damage coming your way. That was a Chain Lightning spell. You see he goes,

1:46:03 Jersey Devil: Dudes, fuckin’, why do we got these douchebags coming here and fucking bothering us? We're just tryin’ to have a good time, bro. I want to take a piss in that moped's gas tank. Come on, man, give me a break.

1:46:09 Ricky: Hey, you know what?

1:46:15 Cody: You fucking try, dude!

1:46:19 Brennan: You see Ricky, he sucks in the Juul, summons lightning into his hand, goes to hurl it, what does Ricky do?

1:46:25 Ricky: You know what? I'm not a mean guy by any means but I'm going to tell you right now, knock it off. [cast laughs]

1:46:35 Ricky: Cut it out. Cut it out.

1:46:38 Brennan: [laughing] You see the lightning, he like swallows it as it goes back down his gullet.

1:46:42 Jersey Devil: No no no!

1:46:45 Brennan: As again, your pure sense of responsibility to the people of this city protects the you and your companions from this lightning. That is amazing. This Jersey Devil is powerful but he does not have legendary actions. You shut down an entire turn from the Jersey Devil. Jesus Christ, dude.

1:47:06 Zac: I've never hit, I feel like I don't hit nat 20s when I need to hit nat 20s, and this season I have.

1:47:13 Brennan: My god, dude.

1:47:13 Emily: Yeah!

1:47:13 Siobhan: It’s been very good.

1:47:13 Lou: It feels good.

1:47:17 Emily: Oath of Redemption indeed.

1:47:18 Brennan: Okay we got some attacks incoming from this siege devil who stands up from prone. And is going to go for Ricky. [sucks in a breath] Ooh baby, okay. Two of those hit, I'm going to need a Strength saving throw from Ricky.

1:47:32 Zac: 18?

1:47:45 Brennan: 18, okay 18 passes. You are, you hit by this thing and not knocked prone, which is incredible. But you are still going to take some damage. It's going to be 2d8, 4d10 plus 14, for 11, 14, 23, 31. Ricky takes 45 points of damage.

1:48:19 Zac: Okay, I am at 10 hit points.

1:48:25 Brennan: He goes boom boom,

1:48:25 Siege Devil: Fucking lay it off, man.

1:48:29 Brennan: Sofia, that's your turn.

1:48:31 Emily: Okay since I have Jump on me, can I so I'm 40 feet away from the Jersey Devil. I'm starting to think we need to really do something about him. Can if I jump to him would that mean that I only take opportunity attacks from these four? Who are surrounding me?

1:48:49 Brennan: You would only take opportunity—

1:48:53 Emily: So I'm like jumping into the air and then landing on the Jersey Devil. So I would take it from, I'm assuming these four that are around me, but maybe not these—

1:49:01 Brennan: And the one, and the one siege devil has reach to hit you. So you would get some swings from the swarm devils around you. You could bonus action disengage.

1:49:10 Emily: I don't want to, I'm going to take the opportunity attacks.

1:49:13 Brennan: Okay.

1:49:14 Lou: She wants the damage.

1:49:14 Siobhan: Get that radiant damage.

1:49:17 Lou: She wants the damage.

1:49:21 Emily: But I mean it, to a certain extent.

1:49:24 Brennan: Sofia, from the swarm devils, you take nine points of slashing and eight points of poison. And the siege devil misses you with his swing.

1:49:36 Emily: Okay, cool. And then I land on the Jersey Devil. That's, I haven't used, that's just my action. And I'm just going to start attacking him.

1:49:50 Brennan: Holy shit, great.

1:49:52 Emily: First attack is going to be a dirty 20.

1:49:57 Brennan: Dirty 20. He throws Shield up as a reaction. Dirty 20 does not hit.

1:50:05 Emily: Okay, I gotta keep trying. Second attack is going to be a 23?

1:50:12 Brennan: 23 exactly hits. Murph claps his hands.

1:50:14 Emily: Okay, awesome. I hit him for only six but I'm gonna do a Ki point to Stunning Strike.

1:50:22 Brennan: Okay hold on one second. This does not qualify as magic so he does not have advantage against it. You said six points of damage, right? [dramatic music]

1:50:30 Emily: Yeah, six points of damage. And then I'm going to try and stunning strike him.

1:50:33 Brennan: Okay, that's a Constitution. Is that Constitution, I believe? Yes.

1:50:38 Emily: Yeah, Constitution.

1:50:40 Brennan: Constitution he does not have advantage. And he only has a plus two.

1:50:46 Emily: It's a DC15.

1:50:48 Brennan: Okay we're going to roll. He needs a 13 or higher to get this done. Nat 20, brutal.

1:50:56 Emily: Okay that's fine, I'm gonna Flurry of Blows. To try to hit him again. Definitely hits, it's a 24.

1:51:04 Brennan: Yep.

1:51:05 Emily: I'm only going to hit him for seven, but I'm going to try and Stunning Strike him again.

1:51:10 Brennan: Hell yes. You're, he's looking okay. This guy looks like he's a big sink of hit points, but.

1:51:15 Emily: I know.

1:51:17 Brennan: But the stunning will fuck him up for sure. Here comes his next roll, 13 or higher? 17.

1:51:26 Emily: Okay that's fine. I'm going to try to hit one more time. Cause I have one more Flurry of Blows. It is also going, oh that's 29. Okay and then I'm going to hit him again for another nine but I'm going to try and Stunning Strike him one more time.

1:51:43 Brennan: Jeez, brutal. You can see, you guys can see the Ki radiating off of Sofia just bam bam bam, this Jersey Devil's like,

1:51:48 Jersey Devil: Whoa dude this fucking chick, wait dude you're from Staten Island, right?

1:51:54 Sofia: Yes.

1:51:55 Jersey Devil: Dude I can always fuckin’ tell, people always mix us up but you can always tell, what are you doing later?

1:52:00 Sofia: [aggressively] No one thinks I'm from Jersey. [Brennan laughs]

1:52:03 Sofia: Never once.

1:52:06 Brennan: 13 or higher, third saving throw. The die is very briefly on 20, but rolls onto 2.

1:52:11 Brennan: 2! [cheering]

1:52:14 Murph: Yes!

1:52:16 Siobhan: Oh God, that was so close.

1:52:16 Emily: Fucking finally!

1:52:17 Brennan: As you say, as Sofia says, “No one has ever thought I'm from Jersey,” she leaps up full corkscrew, roundhouse, boom. And he stumbles on his ass, holding his head, wobbling in the fucking air. Incredible! This dude goes after Sofia. He is going to rush towards his boss, goes, boom boom makes an attack. Flings this semi out of the way.

1:52:49 Murph: Jesus.

1:52:51 Brennan: Boom, makes it here. And it's going to hurl that car at Sofia.

1:52:55 Emily: Okay.

1:53:00 Brennan: And I'll roll this in front of the board too, Sofia is at 19 right now; on a 9or higher he's going to hit with this car. [Lou sighs in relief, Emily cackles]

1:53:10 Brennan: 3, Sofia goes full matrix. You spring into the air, backflip as this red sedan sails—

1:53:18 Emily: Can we say that the car comes through and both the doors, both the doors are open and so I sort of dive through the car?

1:53:23 Brennan: Yes!

1:53:26 Siobhan: So sick.

1:53:27 Zac: It's like Spiderman for sure.

1:53:29 Brennan: So fucking sick. Bam, crashes into and crushes this truck behind it. And that's that dude's turn.

1:53:39 Zac: Can I ask a question?

1:53:41 Brennan: Yeah go for it.

1:53:42 Zac: Do we have a sense if more of the siege guys are coming or if it's only swarm guys?

1:53:46 Brennan: It looks like there's more siege guys way in the back. There they're much more spread out. It's mostly swarm devils. Okay, these swarm devils that are already further along this one's going to come for Iga. These three are going to, think they're all gonna try to make it to Kingston at the same time. Yeah cause it's difficult terrain there for them because of all these cars. So they can't make it to Pete in the same round. Two of these coming for Iga.

1:54:23 Murph: Does my moped get an opportunity attack?

1:54:27 Brennan: No, it does not.

1:54:30 Murph: Fuck.

1:54:32 Brennan: Iga takes four slashing damage and nine poison damage. Kingston—

1:54:39 Siobhan: That's 13 damage?

1:54:40 Brennan: Yes, 13 damage all together. And Kingston is going to take boom, boom. These guys hit Kingston. Oh, these are all cocked. Oh my god. Six attacks and not a single one hits Kingston from these Jersey devils.

1:55:04 Lou: Be cool, be cool. [Emily laughs]

1:55:10 Brennan: [snarling] Incredible, that is the end of the round. The DC now goes up to DC20 Arcana check. Our, our boy JJ calls back. He says,

1:55:21 JJ: Okay I'm on it!

1:55:23 Brennan: You see he looks at you, Pete and says,

1:55:25 JJ: [very quickly] Okay, they can't see me right now but maybe I should stop talking. Am I alerting them to my presence by talking out loud?

1:55:29 Pete: You're good, man. Hey, just take a nice deep breath.

1:55:32 Ally: I pour him some really nice tea.

1:55:34 JJ: Oh my god in the middle of a fight? You're incredible.

1:55:37 Pete: Just have have a sip.

1:55:38 Brennan: [imitates drinking] He takes it.

1:55:39 Pete: I'm a peace boy now. [Brennan and Emily laugh]

1:55:43 Brennan: Okay, he, he's rolling with advantage. He just needs one of these to be a 12 or higher. 2d20… JJ rolls a 14 and a 16.

1:55:54 Siobhan: Yes.

1:55:54 Brennan: Hell yes. The next layer of runes comes in. [magical buzzing] He calls out and says,

1:55:59 JJ: I'm almost there. I just need to put the last layer of runes on.

1:56:09 Brennan: You guys are doing good, man. The DC will go up to 25 on his next roll. So he will need, he'll need a 17 or higher on the next one. He wouldn't have made it this turn. Incredible, back to the top of the order. Kingston Brown, that is you.

1:56:29 Lou: Okay a weird question. Are any of these cars a Tesla? [Siobhan laughs]

1:56:37 Brennan: I'm gonna roll, I'm gonna roll a luck check--

1:56:41 Zac: A Musk check?

1:56:43 Brennan: A Musk check. Good grief.

1:56:43 Murph: Oh no.

1:56:43 Ally: [waggling their finger scoldingly] Oh no. Oh no.

1:56:49 Brennan: I'm going to say, I'm going to say on a six or higher there's a Tesla here. Yeah, 19 hell yeah there's a, there's a fucking, I'm going to say the car right in front of you is a Tesla.

1:57:00 Lou: Question okay, I have a spell called Remote Access where I can, I can use any electronic device within range as if it were in your hands. Because a Tesla is an entirely electric car, can I use this spell to drive the car without being in it?

1:57:20 Brennan: Kingston, 100% yes. [heroic orchestral music]

1:57:23 Ally: Yes!

1:57:25 Lou: Okay. Okay my dreams came true, now what do I do? I was like is this even, I was so ready to be shut down. Okay.

1:57:37 Ally: It says Tesla now! That's so funny. The car’s image in roll20 now has “TESLA” written on it.

1:57:41 Lou: Great. I would like to whip this Tesla around and drive it toward Ricky and Ox.

1:57:53 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:57:56 Lou: And I would like to, how much movement does a Tesla have?

1:58:02 Brennan: A tremendous amount of movement.

1:58:05 Lou: Can it charge the siege beast, pick Ricky and Ox up and drive them back here all in one turn, is that possible?

1:58:14 Brennan: Can it pick up the siege beast?

1:58:16 Lou: Oh, excuse me can it drive over, it doesn't need to attack the siege beast, can it go pick up Ricky and Ox and drive back?

1:58:24 Brennan: I'm going to say that, I'm going to say that Ricky and you act on almost the same exact initiative. So I'm going to say that you can effortlessly get this to Ricky with its movement and have it open its doors and ready an action to do something when they get back in.

1:58:45 Lou: Great, that car drives around toward, toward Ricky.

1:58:51 Brennan: Someone's brand new Tesla gets the shit scraped out of both of its doors, as it goes up on the curb, so Kingston you look at the car and as you look at the car, there was only one thing that would have prevented you from being able to do this. But you check the Tesla. It's got a set of New York plates and that's all you need.

1:59:03 Lou: There it is.

1:59:16 Brennan: Boom! The emblazoned buildings of the New York skyline on its license plates. The car [buzzing] turns on and listens to the commands of the Vox Populi. Incredible.

1:59:30 Kingston: Go get Mr. March.

1:59:30 Lou: Oh yeah, that happens. And then I dunno, I'll hang out. Yeah that's the end of my turn I think.

1:59:38 Brennan: Hell yeah, very fucking cool. Incredible, you call a car to your aid. Absolutely amazing. Pete, that's gonna be you.

1:59:49 Ally: I'm going to take a full dashy to right here.

1:59:53 Brennan: Cool.

1:59:56 Ally: Yoink! Yeah, then I'm gonna use a Quicken Spell and I am going to cast a Cone of Colds up at all of these guys. I think I can hit all of these guys.

2:00:14 Brennan: Oh my god, okay you can hit all of them. I'm trying to think of, because Ricky is there—

2:00:24 Ally: Oh, I'll hold for Ricky and the Tesla plan. ‘Cause I heard them shout that out and then I will get ready to cast Cone of Cold immediately as they skirt away.

2:00:34 Brennan: So Kingston, as Kingston effortlessly is just boxing with these swarm devils knocking their things out of the side. You point this Tesla, Pete, and you see Pete make JJ vanish and sprint after the Tesla, the Tesla whips around to Ricky and Pete, you crouch down in between this parked sedan and cab with your hands at the ready, you ready an action to cast Cone of Cold. Ricky that is going to be your turn.

2:01:02 Zac: If Ox takes a disengage, do I have to, or I'm not sure how that works.

2:01:07 Brennan: No he can take a full disengage action on your turn.

2:01:11 Zac: Okay well Ox, using Ox's movement we'll get in the car with his disengage.

2:01:16 Brennan: Cool.

2:01:17 Zac: And then I'm just because I'm so hurt I'm gonna give myself 30 hit points with the Lay on Hands.

2:01:29 Brennan: Hell yeah.

2:01:31 Zac: And then come back up to 40.

2:01:31 Brennan: Dope.

2:01:31 Zac: And then just ride the Tesla back into the middle of the, like next to Cody and get out.

2:01:41 Brennan: Incredible, you, and you're moving further towards the entrance of the tunnel right?

2:01:47 Zac: Yeah, I just want to be right next to Cody. I mean not, I don't really, but I want to be in that spot. [laughs]

2:01:53 Brennan: Cool.

2:01:55 Cody: Are you thinking like a double team move here?

2:01:58 Zac: Just quietly, like park the car and get out, like.

2:02:03 Ally: [laughs] Silent treatment?

2:02:04 Ricky: Yeah, yeah, like a double team.

2:02:06 Zac: Like just, nothing behind it.

2:02:08 Brennan: And Pete, this is a 60 foot cone, right?

2:02:11 Ally: Yeah.

2:02:13 Brennan: Okay. I'm trying to see something right now. Jesus Christ.

2:02:24 Zac: Can you see a cone effect?

2:02:26 Emily: If the Jersey Devil is in that you can I think he'll automatically fail cause he's stunned.

2:02:31 Brennan: He is not, he is just outside of range but—

2:02:33 Emily: Oh, okay.

2:02:36 Murph: Could Pete move though?

2:02:37 Brennan: No, Pete's used all his movement to get where he's at. However he can hit literally every single devil up in this cluster here. And most of the ones over here, Pete, go ahead and roll damage.

2:02:50 Emily: Do I need to do a Dex save? It's fine if I do.

2:02:54 Brennan: [laughs] 38!

2:02:56 Ally: Yup.

2:02:57 Zac: [hands in his hair] 8d8?

2:02:57 Brennan: And are you you're trying, cause this is not Dex. So Sofia cannot evade this. This is Constitution. So you're, and Sofia is also out of range anyway, so.

2:03:03 Ally: Yeah yeah yeah.

2:03:09 Emily: It would have been fine if I got hurt.

2:03:12 Brennan: First of all let me just show you Pete how many, how wide the cone is number one. Okay it's a 45 degree angle. So you, you probably want to favor the big chunk with the siege devils, right?

2:03:28 Ally: Yeah, yeah, that's true.

2:03:30 Brennan: Okay so boom—

2:03:31 Ally: With those three siege devils.

2:03:32 Brennan: Without having to make any saves every one of these swarm devils is gone. [screaming, explosion] You stand up from between the two cars. Raw freezing cold from the deep dreaming covers everybody. The DC is 17. These guys have some beefy fucking Con saves but we'll roll here. Yeah, their Con is plus 13. Both make it, then the one that is the minus six, oh one rolls a, Siobhan, go ahead and roll a d6 for me?

2:04:13 Siobhan: A 1.

2:04:15 Brennan: A 1. Okay, he passes as well. It's still half damage. So 38 is still going to be 19 damage to every one of these dudes. Incredible. Some of these guys are starting to look hurt. Cool, that is Pete and Ricky's turn, that's going to move on to now be Iga.

2:04:38 Siobhan: I think I want to, since the Jersey Devil is stunned, cast Synaptic Static again, but I'm worried about Sofia.

2:04:48 Zac: Could you hit pretty much all of them but that top devil?

2:04:53 Emily: I think don't, you also don't have to worry about me cause I'm at 67. And if I get hurt I'll start doing radiant damage. So I'll be able to hurt the stunned devil more.

2:05:05 Siobhan: Yes, but I'm just worried about you having to just take this d6 away.

2:05:11 Brennan: Iga, you can set it off south a little bit and just hit the Jersey Devil. The only, the only issue is you'll just be missing that one swarm devil above Sofia. You'll hit pretty much everybody else.

2:05:26 Siobhan: Right yeah, so yeah I guess I'll do that.

2:05:29 Brennan: Hell yeah.

2:05:34 Siobhan: So I’ll, it's 8d6.

2:05:36 Emily: That means the swarm devil will automatically fail this right?

2:05:39 Siobhan: Yes. [Emily laughs]

2:05:42 Brennan: Do they, would they automatically fail?

2:05:44 Emily: If he’s stunned.

2:05:45 Zac: The Jersey Devil?

2:05:46 Siobhan: The Jersey Devil.

2:05:49 Brennan: Let me look up stunned with Intelligence savings. Do you automatically fail saving throws while stunned?

2:05:54 Emily: I don't know, I guess I just assumed.

2:05:56 Murph: Oh, maybe not Intelligence. I think it's just Dex.

2:05:58 Emily: Oh, automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving rolls.

2:06:02 Brennan: Cool.

2:06:03 Siobhan: Did not roll very well.

2:06:04 Brennan: No worries, let me know what you got.

2:06:07 Lou: Let me know what you got!

2:06:09 Siobhan: Twenty.

2:06:10 Brennan: Twenty, okay. So we're going to roll these five Intelligence saving throws for our little swarmy boys. See what they get. They need to hit that 17 and only one does. It's for half damage, right?

2:06:26 Siobhan: Yes.

2:06:28 Brennan: Okay so one of them is going to take 10. We’ll have this guy right here, bada boom. And the others, one, two, three, four, [burbling] their brains melt as Iga hits them with the static. This dude right here is going to roll into this, nat 1 on the intelligence save for this dude. He takes the full 20 and now also has that minus six. Jersey Devil is going, this is a spell so he's going to roll this with advantage. And he's got a beefy Int save, but you never know.

2:07:07 Siobhan: You never know.

2:07:08 Brennan: Let's see here. Yeah this dude's Int save is plus seven. So he's going to get it on a 10 or higher and he's gonna roll with initiative but let's see here comes 2d20. If both of these are 9 or lower, you're in the clear. The roll is a 14 and a 3.

2:07:25 Brennan: Ah, dang. But he does take 10 points of damage however.

2:07:28 Iga: Better than nothing.

2:07:31 Brennan: Amazing. That is Iga's turn. Cody, that's you?

2:07:36 Murph: Oh boy. What can Cody do here? I feel like I got to go do some damage here. ‘Cause I don't really have anything else to buff anybody. You say the siege guys, the three that are gathered near where Ricky was, are they're starting to look hurt?

2:07:57 Brennan: Yes.

2:07:59 Murph: Okay what about this one that's down by Sofia.

2:08:03 Brennan: Not looking that hurt, honestly.

2:08:05 Murph: Okay.

2:08:08 Zac: Is the one still mind controlled by you?

2:08:10 Murph: One of them is.

2:08:11 Zac: Okay.

2:08:13 Murph: All right I got to just do something maybe a little stupid but I'm going to move I'm gonna use my moped. I'm going to go over to the guy below Sofia and I'm just going to go all out.

2:08:32 Ally: Here we go, here we go.

2:08:34 Emily: Are you gonna freak out?

2:08:36 Lou: Worked one time.

2:08:38 Murph: I'll let me see, just this one time, I do it every fight. Let me make sure, okay that's 70 feet. So I had to use a dash so I can't use an attack with my moped so I'm just gonna use my own stuff. Okay, so first things first we are going to do Blinding Smite. So I'm going to do Blinding Smite as a bonus action. So my sword begins glowing and then I'm going to make some rolls to make some attacks. 23?

2:09:15 Brennan: 23 hits.

2:09:16 Murph: Okay, sweet, so Blinding Smite is a third level spell. And then I'm going to do a, these guys are devils, right? So they get an extra—

2:09:26 Brennan: Correct. They get an extra d8 from smite.

2:09:28 Murph: So I'll do also a third level smite.

2:09:30 Brennan: Jesus.

2:09:31 Ally: Hell yeah.

2:09:32 Murph: Okay so that's, so it's going to be five, so it's going to be 8d8 with Blinding Smite, and then 2d6 for my sword.

2:09:37 Brennan: Yes.

2:09:40 Siobhan: Sick.

2:09:42 Murph: Actually you know what? I can just do it on Roll20. Okay. [cast ‘oohs’]

2:09:47 Emily: Woo!

2:09:51 Brennan: Oh my god. 56 points of damage.

2:10:00 Ally: You freaked out!

2:10:01 Brennan: You freaked out.

2:10:03 Cody: [screaming] Get the fuck out of here!

2:10:08 Brennan: This guy's gone from looking not that hurt to extremely hurt. That's your first attack, you have another one.

2:10:15 Murph: That's my first attack. And so I also did a Blinding Smite so it needs to do a Con save. Probably has really good—

2:10:21 Brennan: If he rolls a one or two, he fails. The devil gets a 3.

2:10:25 Siobhan: Ugh, brutal.

2:10:27 Brennan: So close.

2:10:28 Ally: Brutal!

2:10:29 Brennan: Brutal, absolutely brutal.

2:10:34 Murph: Sweet. So I will make my second attack. Come on. That is only a 17 to hit? Oh wait, 18 to hit.

2:10:48 Brennan: 18 hits.

2:10:50 Murph: Okay, I'm going all out just this other time and I will do a, I only have second level smites now. So I'll do a second level smite. So that will be—

2:11:04 Brennan: 4d8 plus 2d6.

2:11:09 Murph: I literally think I would have missed if I did not have the Questing Blade.

2:11:15 Ricky: [nodding] Yeah, good.

2:11:16 Pete: Hey Ricky, you're biting your lip really, it's bleeding.

2:11:20 Ricky: Oh, is it bleeding? Oh.

2:11:22 Cody: The Questing Blade is now called the Thirsting Blade because it quests for blood! [big sword swing] Ricky looks down in exasperation.

2:11:29 Brennan: Cody says that out loud, the Questing Blade shines brighter than either Sofia or Ricky have ever seen it shine. And Cody leaps like Blade, his duster silhouetted against the Manhattan skyline and fully decapitates this siege demon. [devil growling, blood spattering] And does a perfect three point landing.

2:11:56 Sofia: This is what Dale would have wanted. Yeah.

2:11:58 Ricky: This is, that's a good, that is objectively good for our situation right now. [nods] That's awesome.

2:12:06 Pete: Yeah, definitely.

2:12:07 Cody: We did it, we are the real Jersey devils.

2:12:11 Pete: We? Oh let's not, let's not.

2:12:14 Kingston: You could be.

2:12:14 Pete: Let’s not use any we’s.

2:12:15 Iga: I try not to go to Jersey at all.

2:12:21 Brennan: Incredible, the next, that swarm is destroyed. Let's see these siege devils over here.

2:12:27 Murph: One of them has to attack its friend.

2:12:29 Brennan: Oh yes, that's right. And I'm trying to think here. Yeah so go ahead, Murph and give me three attack rolls.

2:12:39 Murph: Or just does the one, right?

2:12:40 Zac: Does it charge?

2:12:41 Brennan: Yes.

2:12:41 Murph: Crown of Madness?

2:12:43 Brennan: Oh no, give me, oh yeah it's just Crown of Madness. Yeah, go ahead and give me an attack roll?

2:12:48 Murph: Nat 10. So 10 plus 10, 20?

2:12:50 Brennan: So that's going to hit, that's going to hit.

2:12:52 Lou: “Nat 10.”

2:12:53 Ally: Incredible to hear.

2:12:53 Brennan: If you would be kind enough to roll just 2d8 plus 7.

2:12:59 Murph: 19.

2:13:05 Brennan: The one that gets the minuses takes 19 points of damage. These guys actually act on the same initiative. Holy shit, how am I gonna resolve that? Okay, you see the two siege devils, the one you controlled and the other one kill each other. They literally did enough damage to each other on the same initiative, they go,

2:13:25 Devils: Fuck you, dude! The devils punch each other, growling and snarling.

2:13:34 Brennan: And fully waste each other with just that one attack. It's crazy. Both are gone. The next swarms is just going to be the two here around Sofia are going to take attacks on Sofia. Zero hits. Sofia is hit by none of them.

2:13:59 Ally: Wow.

2:14:00 Zac: So does the one siege guy left go, or is he just?

2:14:02 Brennan: He's on a different initiative actually. Bam, these guys appear,  big old truck in their way. but they are going to take their turn to get over here to close with Cody and not be able to attack.

2:14:21 Siobhan: God damn. Where are these fucking guys?

2:14:25 Brennan: The hits keep coming.

2:14:27 Zac: The tunnel's just filled with those guys right?

2:14:29 Siobhan: Yeah, we've got to take out this devil.

2:14:33 Murph: Or we just got to get the wards up right?

2:14:36 Brennan: The Jersey Devil, this is the turn the Jersey Devil loses correct? So he comes out of stun at the end of this one—

2:14:42 Emily: The end of my turn, actually.

2:14:44 Brennan: At the end of your turn, Sofia, he is still stunned. And hold on one second. This dude sees Cody behead his brother. What's his movement like? Can he get, can he get to Cody? If it's, if it's within 40, he’s charging Cody. Brennan checks the measuring arrow on roll20. Cody is 42 feet away.

2:15:02 Brennan: Ooh.

2:15:02 Lou: Wow.

2:15:05 Brennan: Just past!

2:15:06 Siobhan: Thank god.

2:15:07 Brennan: So Ricky, you watch that and get full charged by this siege devil.

2:15:12 All: No!

2:15:16 Brennan: Again, an 11 or higher. 9, you are missed again. Jesus.

2:15:27 Zac: [running his hands through his hair] Oh my god.

2:15:30 Brennan: Just you like snap out of watching the Questing Blade glow and Cody's hands to see this,

2:15:35 Devil: Fuck you guys!

2:15:39 Ricky: I mean it probably wants to be called the Thirsting Blade, now.

2:15:43 Cody: It thirsts for blood. [sword tricks]

2:15:47 Brennan: Sofia, that is going to be you.

2:15:50 Emily: Okay I'm going to Hexblade Curse this, this Jersey Devil. And because he's stunned, I get advantage on attacks against him, right?

2:16:01 Brennan: You absolutely do. And he also can't use his reaction to cast Shield again.

2:16:05 Emily: So close. Well, I definitely hit though because I got a 27.

2:16:11 Brennan: That's a hit on the first one.

2:16:13 Emily: To hit on the first one. Oh, I rolled eight so that's 13. Oh plus my proficiency so 17.

2:16:21 Brennan: And you're rolling advantage on all these attacks right?

2:16:24 Emily: Just, oh sorry, that was, I did 17 damage now.

2:16:25 Brennan: Copy that.

2:16:26 Emily: And I just rolled with, with advantage.

2:16:30 Brennan: And you're adding, are you adding any radiant to this or no?

2:16:33 Emily: I'm not, no I'm not low enough.

2:16:34 Brennan: Cool.

2:16:36 Emily: So yeah, it's just 17, but I'm going to since I don't know if I'll hit on my second one, I am going to use my final Ki point to try to Stunning Strike him one more time.

2:16:45 Brennan: Hell yeah, here comes his Con save. Twelve, he needed a—

2:16:53 Emily: I have 15.

2:16:54 Brennan: Fifteen? He has only as a plus two he needed a 13 or higher.

2:17:00 Emily: [cheering] Yeah! Okay so now until the end of my next turn,

2:17:01 Brennan: [weakly] Still stunned!

2:17:02 Emily: And then I'll take my second attack. It it could have been a nat 1 but it was actually a 19. Does a 19 hit?

2:17:10 Brennan: Nineteen hits, his AC is 18 right now, I'll tell you straight up.

2:17:14 Emily: Six plus, six plus five plus four, 15. Another 15 damage.

2:17:22 Brennan: Another 15, good grief. Okay that's your second attack.

2:17:26 Emily: Yeah that's my second attack. But I used my bonus action to do Hexblade Curse and I used my final, but he's now stunned until the end of my next turn again.

2:17:33 Brennan: Okay he's looking messed up. He is, this is Sofia has got him up against the cab doing that thing where a really intense boxer is like, you're unconscious but I'm not going to let you fall down. I'm going to body you against this to just keep thudding my fists—

2:17:55 Emily: Elbows?

2:17:56 Brennan: Elbows, bam bam bam, as the Jersey Devil flies back again and again. Incredible, these last ones here, we go over to these swarm devils here. Another two attacks on Iga, both misses incredibly. Six attacks coming for Kingston.

2:18:21 Lou: From who?

2:18:22 Brennan: The swarm devils.

2:18:25 Zac: The three devils next to you?

2:18:28 Lou: From who? I don't see.

2:18:30 Brennan: Miss, miss. Okay finally one hits, dealing six points of slashing and two points of poison damage to Kingston. One slashes you with a dirty Smirnoff Ice bottle, [various grunts of distaste from the players]

2:18:45 Brennan: Going,

2:18:45 Devil: Yeah, fuck you, old man. We're trying to get into the city. We heard we could get wet.

2:18:50 Ricky: He just iced Kingston.

2:18:53 Kingston: Get wet?

2:18:54 Pete: Kingston, you have to drink the whole thing.

2:18:56 Devil: We could come here and we can fucking get wet, dude.

2:18:59 Kingston: Get, oh, you children are a nightmare.

2:19:03 Brennan: I'm gonna need a concentration check from Kingston.

2:19:06 Lou: What's the, what do I need?

2:19:09 Brennan: It's only going to be a DC 10.

2:19:11 Lou: Okay well I get plus seven. That's a 19.

2:19:19 Brennan: Hell yeah, you do not lose the incredibly important Enhance Ability on JJ at the end of their turn, we're gonna roll it's, JJ needs a 17 or higher here and it will potentially finish the last layer of runes. 2d20. Lou reaches his hands out to give energy and Siobhan makes a praying gesture.

2:19:32 Zac: JJ. JJ gets an 11 and a 3.

2:19:46 Brennan: Not going to do it.

2:19:49 Emily: But that just means that devils could get through.

2:19:52 Murph: Three, eleven, they love it. They're just, they hear amber's the color of your energy. And they're going to go get wild.

2:19:58 Brennan: JJ is putting the spell. He, you see him reciting magic. He looks back seeing the onslaught of the devils those surrounding Kingston, his spell falters. Because he does not finish it he has another chance to finish it, but if he can't finish it on the next round, the spell will fail from the beginning. He's got to wrap it up on the next round. And that's all for this episode of the Unsleeping City.

2:20:15 Emily: What?!

2:20:23 Siobhan: What? You son of a bitch!

2:20:31 Brennan: Tune in next time to see the thrilling conclusion to the Battle of the Holland Tunnel. Later!

2:20:40 Lou: This season is wild, man.

2:20:41 Brennan: This season’s wild, man, we're bouncing around. [dramatic music] [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 6: Collaborators ]

2:20:41 Edited by: gluegunshots, Sola, Kyber Bonsai, rowan solsys