History Checks and Lost Dex

0:00:00 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 14: History Checks and Lost Dex < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] > (The Unsleeping City music is here, folks)

0:00:07 Brennan: Hello, one and all, and welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Unsleeping City." I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan. With me as always are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:18 All: Hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:21 Brennan: Oh, we love it. Last we left off our champions of New York City, they were scattered around the city bearing down on the final piece of the puzzle, the mystery of how to defeat Null and its physical presence in the waking world, Gladiator Industries. Indeed, the entity from beyond the Sixth Borough in the deep Dreaming has manifested in the world through the machinations of this massive conglomo-corp. We see that our allies, after consulting with their dear infinite friend Kugrash found out the true nature of Null, Null's relationship to Gladiator and the foibles, regrets, and heroic acts of sacrifice made by the previous Dragon of Bleecker Street and the fact that they were fighting a war on two fronts, a physical war against Gladiator Industries in the Waking World and needing to bring a dragon of New York back. Realizing that they had already gotten far on their way to bringing a dragon of New York City back, our champions had gathered the three spirits of New York as brought into trinity by Kugrash himself who were created by the original Dragon of Bleecker Street. After conferring with the Shen family, friends of Kingston Brown down in Chinatown who know all about that good, good dragon lore and were able to talk all about what dragons need as they are born and growing, and also what to do, like the nature of dragons relying on their hoard. The incomplete hoard, seven objects that Kugrash said Null had destroyed, but maybe not fully destroyed because Kugrash was still able to remember them. So even though they were gone, they were not erased from all parts of the cosmos. Our champions got Willy reanimated by Kingston's ally and friend Rabbi Mike Salter. We had a contact with one hacker named Maddie Park who is apparently a hacker that paid off Pete's debt although not really, Pete's debt was paid off from a lot of hair dying done by Sofia Lee who managed to turn a lot of brunettes blond against her own better judgment. It's serving the greater—

0:02:46 Emily: Staten Island is very blond now. (laughs)

0:02:49 Brennan: Oh no, serving the greater good, gang. Additionally, Cody and Rick dive into sword lore, unmade Thirsting Blade Dark Excalibur Mega-Genesis. Cody hawked Mega-Genesis and Dark Excalibur to pay rent and now has the Questing Blade. Ricky still has his magic axe. And the Peasant Sword was given to Nick Lisowski who is choosing to become a warlock to carry on a different, more mindful version of his mother's tradition. Our heroes of New York City are still gathering resources and preparing for this inevitable showdown. Pete and Sofia have just gotten in touch with Maddie Park. Let me ask Pete, would you make plans to see Maddie immediately and go talk to her?

0:03:39 Ally: I think so, yeah.

0:03:39 Brennan: Cool. So Pete, you make plans to go see Maddie. We're actually gonna start though with Sofia Lee. Sofia, you have been writing letters to Dale. You were using your first week of downtime for—

0:03:56 Emily: Not writing letters to Dale. I was writing letters about Dale. All this talk of forgetting history, it was like, I need to write down everything I can remember about him so that the kid can know.

0:04:09 Brennan: You write extensive letters about Dale. As you do so, you also, where does Sofia go to her meetings? 'Cause your mom goes to the nearby church which is the closest place that an AA meeting happens, but I'm not sure...

0:04:26 Emily: I think probably just somewhere convenient on Staten Island 'cause it's not like, you know, it's pretty inconvenient to get anywhere else. And any excuse to not go to a meeting you would probably take.

0:04:35 Brennan: Right.

0:04:36 Emily: So she needs the one that's on Staten Island. Ally smiles.

0:04:39 Brennan: So she goes to the local one. You end up sort of walking up the stairs. You see there's like, you know, Staten Island neighborhood. You can see the bay. There's some construction going on next to the church. You look up the steps. You see your mom coming down the steps out of mass as you're headed up for the door down to the basement.

0:05:02 Sofia: (laughs) Hello, Mother.

0:05:05 Brennan: She says,

0:05:05 Maria: Sofia! You're here early for afternoon mass.

0:05:11 Sofia: Oh, no, no, no, I'm here for meetings, Mom. Do you know how I go to those meetings?

0:05:15 Maria: Right.

0:05:16 Sofia: And they help keep me on track.

0:05:17 Maria: No, I remember. I'm just glad you're going to church. Basement, pews, I'm glad you're in church. That's all I'm gonna say. (laughing)

0:05:25 Brennan: She looks at you and you see a sort of mothering look in her eye. She's gonna roll an insight check. (dramatic instrumental music)

0:05:38 Emily: Can I roll a deception?

0:05:39 Brennan: You can roll a deception, yeah. She rolled a natural two. (laughs) She looks and she says,

0:05:53 Maria: Well, you look wonderful, sweetie. You look like, I don't know, glowing.

0:05:58 Sofia: Thank you.

0:05:58 Maria: You look lovely.

0:05:59 Sofia: I've been exercising. That's why I've been away so much.

0:06:04 Maria: I'm glad you're taking care of your body because, honey, you've got a lot of years left. You got tons and tons of years ahead of you so you know, I'm glad you're taking care of yourself, that's all. Sweetheart, have a good time at your meeting, okay?

0:06:19 Sofia: I will, I will. I got some sandwiches and there's some in the fridge.

0:06:25 Brennan: She smiles and says,

0:06:25 Maria: Oh, good, I'm starving. I'll go help myself.

0:06:30 Brennan: She gives you a kiss, goes back off to the apartment. You go to your meeting, you know, it's good. You're putting in the work. As you are walking out, go ahead and make a perception check for me.

0:06:44 Emily: 19.

0:06:47 Brennan: Yeah, I think Sofia walks up. It's holiday time, Christmas lights are going up. You're looking at the stained glass here in this old Catholic church. See a lot of angel iconography and quickly kind of excuse yourself off to the street. You see La Gran Gata sort of appears in a shimmer around your shoulders. La Gran Gata looks very somber and sad and nuzzles into your leopard-print sweater and says—

0:07:24 Sofia: Why, what's wrong, hi.

0:07:25 Brennan: She looks at you and says,

0:07:25 La Gran Gata: My champion, Sofia Lee. You are, I have seen you writing these letters, and I know that you have questions that need to be answered. I feel like we should go for a walk, you and I perhaps, and seek answers. You know, you must always be prowling around to find the secrets.

0:07:51 Sofia: Okay.

0:07:53 La Gran Gata: They are always in dark corners, hidden places.

0:07:56 Sofia: Yeah, you know, usually it's dogs that need to go for a walk. But yeah, I could take you for a walk, hon. [La Gran Gata meows and licks her paw]

0:08:01 Brennan: Smiles, says,

0:08:04 La Gran Gata: By the way, I love this new leopard-print sweater.

0:08:07 Sofia: Thank you. Pete got it for me.

0:08:11 La Gran Gata: Pete, he has picked very well. This is an old leopard-print sweater, it's very magical.

0:08:19 Sofia: What?

0:08:19 Brennan: And you see La Gran Gata dips into the sweater. Pete got this sweater for you, and unbeknownst even to Pete in a bout of wild magic, this is actually a magic sweater of spell storing that is on your person. You can check your character sheet for the powers after we're done running this scene for you.

0:08:35 Ally: What?

0:08:35 Emily: (laughs) Oh!

0:08:38 Brennan: I wasn't gonna let such a sweet, when Pete does something sweet and magical, real magic happens.

0:08:42 Ally: (laughs) Aw.

0:08:46 Brennan: Hell, yeah.

0:08:46 Emily: Wow.

0:08:49 Brennan: You see, you head out to the street. Snow is flurrying around. It's like a snowy day in New York which means that it's very pretty but also gray, gray, gray clouds. You start walking past the construction site. You hear a catcall whistle (whistling noise) from the construction site as you're walking by.

0:09:09 Emily: I kick out their knees, put 'em in a headlock.

0:09:15 Brennan: [pounds his fists and laughs] Sofia, you turn around to find the guy who did it who's a little ways away. You see that there's sort of this thicker dude who sort of whistled. You see there's another dude, like Carhartt jacket, flannel, he's got the hat on. You see see he's by a buzzsaw cutting some two-by-fours. Looks like a handsome mid-thirties Middle Eastern guy who looks over at this dude and is like,

0:09:40 Carpenter: Dude, that's not you, man, that's not you.

0:09:45 Brennan: And you watch the guy who whistled at you look so fucking ashamed and look at you and say,

0:09:51 Cat Caller: Ma'am, I'm very sorry.

0:09:54 Sofia: No, honestly, the fact that you called him out, it means more than if I had called him out so thank you for that.

0:10:01 Brennan: You see that the ashamed-faced guy sort of walks away. The other dude walks over to you and says,

0:10:06 Carpenter: Hey, ma'am, I'm so sorry. You're literally walking out of church. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's a confused guy. He is better than that, I'm sorry.

0:10:17 Sofia: It's absolutely fine. You know, I call it out but I don't hold a grudge.

0:10:22 Carpenter: Well, in any case, happy holidays.

0:10:26 Brennan: You see he looks at you just sort of in this sweater and he's like,

0:10:28 Carpenter: Are you not cold at all?

0:10:31 Sofia: Oh, no, I run hot, yeah. Are you cold? Happy holidays to you as well, I'm sorry.

0:10:41 Carpenter: No, it's all right.

0:10:43 Brennan: You see he looks and says,

0:10:43 Carpenter: If you want this jacket, I'm working hard over here, I'm building up a sweat, so if you want it you can have it.

0:10:52 Emily: Can I do some kind of insight?

0:10:54 Brennan: Yeah, give me an insight check. (soft instrumental music)

0:10:59 Emily: 19, is this like a magical jacket or is this just a nice person being nice?

0:11:05 Brennan: I think you get a sense that it's a nice person being nice, but I also don't think you would rule out magic. There's some kind of Unsleeping City vibe on this person.

0:11:17 Emily: Do I get the sense that it would make them feel good if I took the jacket?

0:11:20 Brennan: Yeah, you do.

0:11:23 Sofia: Okay, actually, you know what, I was putting on a brave face. That would be amazing.

0:11:30 Carpenter: I thought so.

0:11:30 Sofia: Yeah.

0:11:31 Carpenter: I thought you looked kind of cold.

0:11:32 Sofia: Thank you so much.

0:11:34 Brennan: Takes this Carhartt off, wraps it around you. He goes,

0:11:39 Carpenter: Uh, got any plans for Christmas?

0:11:44 Sofia: Um, I uh, no, no. I'm sure I'll do something with my mother for as long as I have to. I'll probably attend church with her and then, I don't know, I'll probably see if any of my friends are around, although they all have families.

0:12:00 Carpenter: Gotcha, are you, so I take it 'cause you're gonna be with your mom that you're single at the moment?

0:12:07 Sofia: Okay. (chuckles) This is incredibly flattering, but I am not in a dating place.

0:12:16 Carpenter: Oh,

0:12:16 Brennan: He says—

0:12:16 Sofia: Thank you though. You know, it's very flattering to be seen in that way.

0:12:23 Carpenter: I don't want to give you the impression. Obviously, hey, whatever guy would be lucky, but I'm not looking to date anybody right now either.

0:12:36 Sofia: Oh.

0:12:36 Carpenter: So I was just asking because it's, you know, I feel like we should all feel like we're one big family during the holidays.

0:12:45 Sofia: Yeah, I have a, yeah. I mean, do you have people to spend the holidays with, I hope?

0:12:51 Carpenter: I try to spend the holiday with as many people as I can, but you know, that gets hard sometimes. But I don't know, it breaks my heart that this can be a hard time of year for people.

0:13:05 Sofia: No, I'm absolutely with you. I agree, and if anything, you know, you made my day a little better so I'm gonna take that and try and make someone else's day a little better. And hey, just in case you were reaching out to me as like, oh, you're looking to make friends, here's my phone number. But not in that way though because I am a widow who is comfortable being that for the time being.

0:13:35 Brennan: He looks at you and goes,

0:13:36 Carpenter: Oh my God, I'm so sorry for your loss. (soft instrumental music) What was your spouse's name?

0:13:48 Sofia: My husband was Dale Lee.

0:13:55 Carpenter: I'm so, so sorry. If I can ask, how many years has it been since Dale passed?

0:14:09 Sofia: It's been probably almost three.

0:14:14 Carpenter: Those wounds stay sharp and painful for a long, long time and especially around a time of year like this. That's gotta be really, really hard.

0:14:28 Sofia: Yeah, but I am not the only person in the world to deal with that so, you know, I think if the wounds stay open forever that's okay. People learn to live with lots of different wounds.

0:14:49 Brennan: He sort of opens his eyes and he's like,

0:14:51 Carpenter: Yeah, no kidding, that's the truth. Yeah, we all have our own cross to bear. We all have our own pain in our own way, but you have to forgive me, I mean.

0:15:05 Brennan: You see he points to the church next to him and just says,

0:15:09 Carpenter: I know for a fact that there is love coming to you from him. I know there is. I'm sorry if that's forward, but sometimes we need to remind each other that that never goes away.

0:15:32 Sofia: Okay, yeah. Thanks for checking in on me.

0:15:43 Carpenter: You got it.

0:15:45 Sofia: I wish I could check in on you, too.

0:15:47 Brennan: You see he smiles and says,

0:15:47 Carpenter: I appreciate that, yeah. Come and check in on me sometime, I'll be around. I got tons of stuff, I got a bunch of carpentry stuff I gotta handle, so you're all good.

0:16:00 Sofia: Cool.

0:16:00 Carpenter: Have a wonderful day. And hey, it's Christmas time, miracles can happen.

0:16:08 Brennan: And he smiles and goes back to work. And I think that's the end of that. You can give me one last Perception check if you want.

0:16:24 Emily: [sighs] 26.

0:16:24 Brennan: That's very good. You're walking away for a moment. You clock his hammer in his belt loop, like a lot of professional union carpenters, has his initials on the top. You're like a block and a half away. The initials on the hammer were J.C. Siobhan shakes her head. [players chortling]

0:16:53 Sofia: Jesus fucking Christ. [players crack up]

0:16:59 Sofia: Really? Oh my fucking God.

0:17:03 Lou: Wild, wild.

0:17:05 Sofia: Oh, my mother would have loved to have met you.

0:17:11 Brennan: Yeah, I think Sofia is reasonably stunned in this moment. You've met a lot of divine beings before and a lot of, but this was a wild one. And I think you flash to Kingston and think about a conversation you've been putting off having with Kingston for a while.

0:17:40 Emily: Oh, Jesus. [groans] Yeah, I guess I probably, it's been, it's just, Kingston's really busy and it feels more selfish and not direct to everything that's going on. So I guess I'll just text Kingston and just say, um,

0:18:07 Sofia: Hey, would love to grab coffee at some point when your schedule permits. We're all really busy though. Sorry, I'm super high from all the chemicals I've been putting in women's hair.

0:18:27 Lou: Yeah, I think Kingston texts back,

0:18:27 Kingston: Okay, hahaha. Would love to grab coffee. Sorry, sorry, Gladiator's got me all out of sorts. But yeah, would be great to talk.

0:18:44 Emily: Yeah.

0:18:47 Brennan: Cool, Kingston, you are coming back at a sort of odd time. You've been running around the city with this egg. And you come back— [Ally laughs]

0:18:59 Lou: Me and this egg, just getting around town.

0:19:03 Brennan: Getting around—

0:19:04 Siobhan: It's the buddy comedy of the year.

0:19:05 Brennan: Buddy comedy of the year, exactly.

0:19:06 Lou: Kingston and The Egg.

0:19:09 Siobhan: It also does sound like a shop in Williamsburg.

0:19:15 Murph: Kingston and the Egg.

0:19:15 Siobhan: Hey, I'm going to Kingston and the Egg, they sell really nice candles. They're $800 each.

0:19:21 Brennan: Kingston, you arrive home at a kind of strange time with this dragon's egg. As you arrive home with the egg you open your apartment door. Go ahead and make a perception check for me.

0:19:37 Lou: [chuckles] Happy to. Oh, nat one.

0:19:44 Brennan: Cool, you walk upstairs and see a lot of forms and stuff sort of around Liz's work area. And I think Kingston, on a 1 perception you don't notice any noises from anywhere else, but Liz should be home right now and you know that she's not.

0:20:15 Lou: Well, I'll text Liz and just be like,

0:20:15 Kingston: Hey, rough day. They got Willy. He's okay now, but would love to talk to you about him.

0:20:28 Brennan: You see Liz shows up not that long after like she was downstairs at your mom and dad's. She comes back upstairs. Give me an Insight check.

0:20:42 Lou: Oh, here we go again. Yeah, that'll be a 29.

0:20:47 Brennan: Liz quickly moves a lot of papers off her desk into a file cabinet in a way that's just a little bit speedy to you like she's just putting something away really quickly. And she says,

0:20:57 Liz: Kingston, hi, what's going on.

0:21:00 Kingston: Yeah, I just wanna, it's just been so much. Is everything all right at work, everything good?

0:21:09 Brennan: You see that she—

0:21:10 Kingston: You seem like you were going through it.

0:21:14 Liz: Yeah, I'm okay, you know. It's a busy time. But I don't want to stress you out with anything. I know you are doing—

0:21:23 Kingston: No, no, no, no, no, no. What's going on, what's going on?

0:21:28 Liz: Oh...

0:21:33 Brennan: She doesn't attempt to lie to you. She opens the desk and takes the papers out. She goes,

0:21:39 Liz: Um, I didn't want to talk to you because I was pretty sure the answer was gonna be no and it was.

0:21:48 Kingston: No, hey, hey now, all right. That's not how things work in this house, right? Nothing is certain until you say it out loud and we discuss it so please, let me know what's going on, Liz.

0:22:01 Brennan: She defeatedly sort of flops some papers over to you. And you see a number of form letter responses from three different adoption agencies— [Lou chuckles]

0:22:25 Brennan: That basically de facto rule out even sending someone to come and look at your apartment. Just like, two full-time professionals, a legal professional and a medical professional, no prior child-raising experience, both in their late 50s. And Liz looks and just sort of goes like,

0:22:51 Liz: I'm sorry. I didn't even want to bring it up to you.

0:22:59 Kingston: No, no, no—

0:22:59 Liz: 'Cause it's nothing. This is nothing.

0:23:02 Kingston: Hey, hey.

0:23:06 Lou: I bring Liz in, just big hug, big, intimate, quiet hug.

0:23:11 Liz: It's probably for the best, we're busy and, you know, what, are we gonna be 70 years old with a kid in college? And it's crazy, I just thought, you know, there was like Thanksgiving with your mother and father. And I like, I just thought it was like, you just get a wild idea and you chase something down a rabbit hole for a second.

0:23:36 Kingston: Yeah.

0:23:37 Liz: And you shouldn't get your hopes up and I...

0:23:39 Kingston: Mm-hmm, hey, it's all, hey, I've been there. You know, I've been there quietly with myself 1,000 times wondering what it would be like to be a 70-year-old dad, what, moving my kid into college. I mean, it feels like that, but I mean, it's an honest and it's a real feeling. And I wish and I hope I didn't do anything to make you think you couldn't bring that to me. 'Cause I don't know, it's a feeling I've had and maybe should have brought to you. But you know, this feels just kismet in terms of a time to mention something like this. But I've been running around town with this giant egg.

0:24:31 Lou: I just produce the egg.

0:24:34 Liz: Oh.

0:24:34 Kingston: Yeah, so...

0:24:36 Ally: (laughs) “Oh.”

0:24:40 Liz: Congrats on your— on your egg? Is it a—

0:24:43 Kingston: It's congratulations to you as well, possibly, if you're interested. 'Cause this is a dragon's egg. And I, uh… it's gonna hatch and someone's gonna have to take care of it and raise it. I was down with the Shen family. You know the Shen family down in Chinatown.

0:25:06 Liz: Yeah.

0:25:06 Kingston: Got the big, it opens up and it's like everyone flies there—

0:25:09 Liz: Sorry, hold on.

0:25:09 Kingston: Yeah, anyway, so I—

0:25:11 Liz: You said raise a dragon's egg?

0:25:13 Kingston: Yeah, anyway, you know, have you had green tea? Imma get some green tea for us. I brought these green teas from China. You have to have a green tea.

0:25:22 Liz: Is there a little floating cloud in our kitchen? What is that?

0:25:25 Kingston: Yes, and it's filled with green tea. But yeah, I did say raise this dragon and I know it's not a—

0:25:37 Liz: What do you mean, raise a dragon? Like a dungeon dragon like it's gonna—

0:25:42 Kingston: No, no, it's not. It's more a spirit than a monster. It's not so much like a gnashing teeth, breathing fire sort of thing. It's kind of like the dragon that kind of brought me into The Unsleeping City and kind of took care of the city and held on to its history and its past and its culture and treasured that. And I don't know if you're open to it. I know that I am. I don't know, some of the other champions kinda suggested the idea that we kind of raise... and... foster... this spirit of the city. [Brennan and Ally laugh]

0:26:36 Kingston: [starts monologuing] I'm wondering if you, it's not a child. Like, we won't get to move the dragon into college. Like, that's not gonna happen at all. But I mean, the dragon's also gonna live for hundreds of years, like, long past when we. So I don't know, it's a lot, it's a lot. I'm saying a lot of things and I'm putting a lot on you right now. And if you want to take some space and think about it and we could talk later. But I really want this, I really want this really badly. And I care about this egg so much so quickly. I don't know. But I love you and I want you. And I feel like I've been talking for two minutes straight and I'm just gonna drink green tea and you talk and we'll just go from there. We just go from there. Imma drink this, Imma put green tea in my body and you just talk and you feel the space that I'm feeling with my, what is clearly anxiety over (sighs) that you might not want to raise this dragon with me in which case I would have to (sighs) I don't know. I guess Iga could raise the dragon if you don't want to raise the dragon, that's perfectly fine so if you say no there's options. So there's room for you to say no. I just want to say that. Like, it's not gonna be like that if you, oh, I was gonna drink some green tea. All right, where's that green tea? All right, and now you talk. [Ally is stifling giggles]

0:27:56 Brennan: She is massaging her temples and goes. [Ally laughs]

0:28:03 Kingston: Okay, I can keep talking if you want me.

0:28:05 Liz: No.

0:28:05 Kingston: Okay.

0:28:06 Liz: No, no, no, no, no, no, that's enough.

0:28:09 Kingston: Okay, great, that's what it felt like. It felt like that was enough. [pause]

0:28:18 Liz: Do I have to hatch the egg?

0:28:21 Kingston: No, absolutely not. I don't think you biologically have to do anything.

0:28:25 Liz: Okay.

0:28:25 Kingston: Other than, like, it would just be like, it would honestly be like we get to skip that part, like the nine month thing and we get to skip that. I mean, I do have to bring together a rat, or excuse me, a cockroach, a unicorn, and a pigeon and that's, I guess, kind of the birthing process. But you don't have to be there for any of that. And I don't think it's like a duck or anything where like the first thing it sees so you need to be there. So I think like, you can 100% come in later down the road on your timeline.

0:29:00 Liz: Huh, okay. Ally covers their face to stifle their laughter.

0:29:04 Liz: Um...

0:29:06 Kingston: You can say no. I just want to make it clear. Like, you don't have to be in.

0:29:11 Liz: I think, Kingston, you're giving me anxiety with your anxiety.

0:29:14 Kingston: Sorry, I'm sorry.

0:29:16 Liz: I'm trying to catch up to where you've been over a couple days, just in like a minute or two.

0:29:21 Kingston: Yep, yeah, I know.

0:29:25 Liz: So this dragon, does it, it looks like a dragon?

0:29:32 Kingston: I don't know, they can shapeshift. I learned that the other day. I was hanging out with a dragon that was just like a straight-up kind of Eastern European woman that became a dragon then went back to being an Eastern European woman then went back to being a dragon and has kind of been in dragon state since, but it seems like there's flexibility.

0:29:51 Liz: Okay. So listen, a lot of conversations.

0:29:58 Kingston: Yes.

0:29:58 Liz: You know, I personally, okay, I think the only hurdles would be like a birth certificate. Like, you have to get a Social Security number. You have to get… Yes, yeah, yes, I'm in, I'm in. I will raise a dragon with you.

0:30:27 Kingston: Okay. [exhales softly] Okay, yeah. We're gonna do it, we're gonna raise a dragon.

0:30:37 Lou: I think Kingston is maybe the happiest he's ever been in his whole life as he realizes he's going to get to raise a dragon with the love of his life. [Brennan and Emily laughing]

0:30:53 Brennan: Incredible.

0:30:53 Kingston: Yeah, that's the best news. That's the best news I've ever heard. And I'm gonna kiss you right now. I’mma kiss you right now right on the mouth to show you how much I love you.

0:31:05 Brennan: You both—

0:31:06 Kingston: And then maybe we can lay together.

0:31:08 Brennan: You both kiss, go to bed that night.

0:31:16 Lou: We lay together, Brennan, we lay together.

0:31:17 Brennan: You lay together, in the biblical sense. You lay together in the biblical sense.

0:31:22 Ally: Then maybe we could lay together. (laughs)

0:31:26 Brennan: In the biblical sense you lay together.

0:31:28 Ally: Wow.

0:31:28 Brennan: And that night, and this is sort of the end of that first week basically. Pete, you have plans to meet with Maddie the next day. But in your dreams... In your dreams you awaken in the Sixth Borough again. (stirring piano music)

0:31:57 Brennan: But are hidden away from the sort of cosmos in some sort of rubble and stuff like that. And I think you feel something glowing in your own heart. [mimics heart beating]

0:32:16 Ally: Okay, I kind of go inward to see what maybe that feels like.

0:32:23 Brennan: You go inward as Vox Phantasma and [mimics reverberations] begin to travel through your own consciousness and go into the Sixth Borough within yourself. You walk through the hallways of your own heart and you can see the city pumping in time to your own heartbeat, and there's a tiny, little oil drum fire. And standing on a milk crate wearing their little gray dress is Nod. Nod has a big black eye, is missing a couple of teeth, but in that sort of rascally, like almost like a cartoon of an orphan. Like, black eye, teeth, little sort of cold compress on their head, arm in a sling and is by the fire and waves over at you, Pete, as you approach them.

0:33:23 Pete: Nod, what happened?

0:33:23 Nod: Pete, Pete!

0:33:25 Pete: What happened to you?

0:33:26 Nod: Oh, I'm still mostly gone. This is the tiny, little part of me that I gave to you to make you the Vox Phantasma so this is the only part of me that still exists, in your heart!

0:33:42 Ally: I grab them and I sprint to my spleen.

0:33:51 Brennan: [laughs] Cool.

0:33:51 Ally: And I hide them there? I don't know.

0:33:54 Brennan: Cool. You hide them even deeper in your body.

0:33:57 Ally: Heart is too obvious. I'm just running through my organs.

0:34:02 Brennan: You see Nod goes,

0:34:02 Nod: Oh, this is a good idea, Pete. I'll hide even deeper in here, that's great.

0:34:09 Brennan: You go and hide Nod in your fucking spleen. And as Nod looks up and you and says,

0:34:13 Nod: Good. I'm kind of like a hologram. Like, if you cut a little piece of me off, it's still the whole me, it's just itty bitty. Oh, I wanted to give you something. Kingston is the first Vox Populi that's ever healed something in the Dreaming, so I wanted to give you this.

0:34:41 Brennan: And Nod takes a pure, golden dream. It is a contradiction. It is a dream made of the magic of the waking world. And goes and hands it to you and says,

0:34:53 Nod: I should stay hidden, but if you want to bring this to Kingston, you can.

0:35:00 Pete: What does this look like? What would he do with this?

0:35:01 Nod: It's his dream!

0:35:06 Pete: It's his dream, like, that he already had?

0:35:10 Nod: Yes.

0:35:10 Pete: Or it's a dream that he could have?

0:35:12 Nod: No, it's his dream that he already had that I was holding onto.

0:35:14 Pete: Okay.

0:35:18 Nod: But I think he should have it now, I think it's ready.

0:35:23 Pete: Okay. Okay, thank you. What, are you gone? Like, did you get destroyed?

0:35:38 Nod: Mostly, if you die, then I'm permanently destroyed, but as long as you're alive I'm okay.

0:35:45 Pete: Great, great.

0:35:48 Nod: When you pick a Vox Phantasma, you get weaker because a fraction of yourself is in the Vox Phantasma, but it's honestly a pretty good idea because I'm still alive because you're still alive so clearly it's not a bad thing to do. But yeah, it would be great to get the rest of me back. So if you could defeat Null, that would be awesome!

0:36:09 Pete: (laughs) Yeah, definitely. We're working on that right now. Okay, okay. Do you have any idea, is there something that you want me to do when I wake up tomorrow in the real world or?

0:36:29 Brennan: You see they look at you and say,

0:36:32 Nod: I think you've got it in the real world. Because I'm not there in person, I just can't bring this to Kingston or to Liz myself so I thought if you could do it because I can't really run the Sixth Borough right now, that would be awesome.

0:36:47 Pete: What is it? What's in the dream, or is that like—

0:36:51 Brennan: Pete, you can look right at it if you want to.

0:36:54 Ally: I mean, that feels like reading someone's diary. [Brennan sputters] [Lou laughs]

0:36:59 Ally: God damn it. I want to look so bad. Just know that, but I'm not going to.

0:37:05 Brennan: [laughs] Incredible.

0:37:09 Ally: If he wants to share this with me when I drop it off we could watch it together like a movie. I mean, I think that sounds pretty cute. My popcorn recipe is perfected at this point. [Siobhan and Emily laugh]

0:37:21 Brennan: Pete, you perform your role as the Vox Phantasma. You shift through dreaming space away from the vision of Null where Null cannot see you. And you find the apartment of Kingston and Liz and deposit the dream therein. You've never seen Kingston dream before, but you deposit this dream direct from Nod there. [warm piano music]

0:37:55 Brennan: Though Kingston and Liz cannot see it, asleep in their bed with the dragon's egg beside them a form from the dream realm manifests within the dragon's egg of New York. And it's a dream of the child that Liz and Kingston would have. And that form, the spirit of the egg, the first thing it fully becomes is that dream of Kingston and Liz. And Kingston, you dream of you and Liz and a human child.

0:38:52 Lou: [smiles] It's the best sleep I've gotten in my entire time as the Vox Populi.

0:38:58 Ally: Whoa.

0:38:58 Brennan: Amazing. Ricky, we're gonna cut over you to real quick. It's the next day, it's getting in to the early to mid-December. You come back home after working at Helping Hands and see that Patricia and Gabriela are here. And they're helping around. You see Patricia comes over and says,

0:39:15 Patricia: Oh, Ricky, so good to see you, darling.

0:39:18 Ricky: Good to see you. How's everyone doing? What's going on?

0:39:23 Brennan: Esther has some Christmas decorations down. She has her mom and grandma over to decorate for Christmas stuff and you see that her grandma is clearly hectoring her and Esther's like,

0:39:34 Esther: Fine, I accept, I accept. Whatever you think is best.

0:39:37 Brennan: And you see that Esther is wrapping up her silver baseball bat and putting in a box to put up in the attic. You see that she puts it down.

0:39:47 Zac: Wrapping it up, like? Oh, like not in a present, like it's like—

0:39:52 Brennan: Not in a present way, like in a putting it away way. Yeah, you see that Esther puts the bat away, looks over at you and says,

0:39:59 Esther: Hon, can you help me out? I'm having a, I'm just in a spell that's being indecisive. I feel like a staff, a full staff is unwieldy, but I don't want, like, a wand just for aesthetic reasons. A ring might be cool.

0:40:20 Brennan: And you see Patricia says,

0:40:20 Patricia: Not a ring. It should be a staff, a scepter, or a wand!

0:40:28 Ricky: Wait, so what's wrong with the? I thought the bat was kinda cool. (laughs)

0:40:34 Brennan: Gabriela looks over and says,

0:40:36 Gabriela: Oh Ricky, you're so sweet, the bat is fine.

0:40:40 Brennan: And you see Esther says,

0:40:41 Esther: The bat is cool and I love the bat.

0:40:44 Brennan: Gabriela looks at you, Ricky, says,

0:40:46 Gabriela: Esther was, while the curse still existed, going to become the Fury of Sorrow. We are furies no more, however, having the Staff of Sorrow or the Scepter of Sorrow.

0:40:58 Brennan: And you see Esther says,

0:40:58 Esther: Or the ring of sorrow.

0:41:01 Brennan: And you see she says,

0:41:01 Gabriela: Not a ring!

0:41:04 Brennan: Esther says,

0:41:04 Esther: Basically my mom and my grandma are super powerful witches. They want to make me an official staff or a scepter that while nowhere near as cool as my baseball bat will have actual for real magic powers and cool stuff associated with it, so.

0:41:22 Ricky: Oh.

0:41:22 Esther: And, you know, the bat's very cool, but also, you know, I'm the chairwoman. Maybe something with a little bit more pomp, I don't know.

0:41:34 Brennan: And you see that Patricia says,

0:41:34 Patricia: Pomp is right. You should command respect. How can you command respect with a baseball bat, look like you're heading to practice. [Lou and Zac laughs]

0:41:45 Brennan: You see that Esther sort of rolls her eyes. She looks up at you and goes,

0:41:56 Esther: How are things going with the other champions, Voxes, everybody, Sofia, things are good?

0:42:02 Ricky: You know, there's kind of a lot going on. I think, you know, maybe we could have a little chat, you know, about that later. I don't know if it's a whole, you know, everyone's business or whatever. Sorry, I didn't mean that in any sort of...

0:42:22 Brennan: You see Gabriela raises an eyebrow and looks at Patricia and says,

0:42:26 Gabriela: Mom, I think we're being asked to leave.

0:42:29 Ricky: No, I… [sighs] I didn't mean that in any way. You can stay forever, I want you to know that.

0:42:34 Brennan: Esther says,

0:42:34 Esther: No you can't, no you cannot, no you can't.

0:42:38 Ricky: Okay, all right. [Ally laughs]

0:42:40 Brennan: You see that—

0:42:43 Ricky: For what it's worth, I think, I mean, of those options I think a staff is kind of cool, but I don't know. Kind of a bat fan, yeah. [Emily laughs]

0:42:51 Brennan: You see that Patricia goes,

0:42:54 Patricia: We love a young man with sense, that's what we love.

0:42:58 Brennan: And Esther says,

0:42:58 Esther: Fine, Grandma, a staff is wonderful. I will take a staff.

0:43:05 Brennan: And you see Patricia and Gabriela say goodbye. They head out, Esther smiles, gives you a hug and a kiss. Says,

0:43:13 Esther: Yeah, things are going great. We are planning the retreat for the expedition, still conning those monks, all's well. Tony is such a dummy. He's bought it hook, line, and sinker. The camera flips to Emily, whose expression becomes very serious at the mention of Tony.

0:43:30 Esther: He's got like a detail of wizards helping him in the monastery that are looking at all the scrolls that he's pulling. Things are going wonderful. How are you?

0:43:44 Ricky: Great. [laughs]

0:43:46 Brennan: You see she says,

0:43:46 Esther: How are things going with you, sweetheart? I notice you have a fireman's axe again.

0:43:52 Ricky: Yeah, oh yeah, we haven't even talked since then? Wow.

0:43:57 Zac: So yeah, I think Ricky just explains the dreaming world fight and how he didn't take the sword.

0:44:03 Ricky: And you know, like, feels like a longer story, but you know, at the end of the day, like, between like an insane sword or just a tool I'm used to, I kind of went with, I decided to go with the axe. But yeah, and, you know, other stuff is going on that I feel like maybe you should just chat with Sofia.

0:44:30 Zac: I feel like it's, I don't know if Ricky feels comfortable just telling someone else that, even if it's his partner that she's pregnant just because they're close friends it feels like—

0:44:42 Brennan: Yeah, she says,

0:44:42 Esther: Yeah, I'll go talk to Sofia. That sounds wonderful.

0:44:47 Ricky: We also have a dragon egg, there's a lot.

0:44:49 Esther: That's incredible.

0:44:49 Ricky: Yeah.

0:44:52 Brennan: She looks and goes,

0:44:52 Esther: Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, sweet pea, I know you're having a, you know, you're like, the legacy of Kugrash. And I know that you're struggling with that you don't want to be a rat druid, and I don't think you have to be that.

0:45:13 Ricky: It would be cool, but it's not, you know, I would be lying if I said, number one dream is a rat druid.

0:45:21 Brennan: She says,

0:45:21 Esther: I know you're looking for something, sweetie. You're gonna find it.

0:45:26 Brennan: She kisses you, heads out. I think Rick, give me a Perception check, Ricky.

0:45:35 Zac: Ooh. Natural 20.

0:45:38 Lou: Brrrah!

0:45:39 Ally: Ooh!

0:45:41 Brennan: Rick, you head for a walk and you are down by the water and you spot a fire truck kind of rolling by and see the Johns, and the Johns slow the fire truck down and they go,

0:45:53 Johns: Oh, it's Ricky Matsui!

0:45:57 Ricky: John, John, John.

0:45:57 Emily: So many fires untended to.

0:45:58 Brennan: Big, big, big hugs all around. You see one of them looks at you and goes,

0:46:05 Johns: Whoa, dude, you got an axe? Are you with another truck right now?

0:46:10 Ricky: I'm, uh…

0:46:10 Zac: Ricky's realizing it's a little crazy to just walk around with an axe I guess.

0:46:19 Ricky: You know what, I'm not with a truck right now. I happened to find this bad boy somewhere weird and thought I should hang on to it, but you know what, I feel like y'all should hang on to it.

0:46:39 Johns: Whoa, dude.

0:46:39 Ricky: I think it's like—

0:46:41 Johns: You just want to give us an axe you found?

0:46:43 Ricky: It's a pretty sick fireman's axe and I think, well, I can't be that guy, right? I can't be the guy walking around town with an axe. You know, that feels intense.

0:46:57 Brennan: The Johns look, take your magic firefighter axe and head back out.

0:47:02 Zac: Bye. (chuckles)

0:47:06 Brennan: And I think Ricky, on that nat 20, you're looking around and I think you had your sorrowful goodbye with the Questing Blade. I think Ricky does feel free without the axe, that that was the right choice to get rid of that and now you're at the crossroad of all of crossroads. You feel totally unencumbered but are also like, so much of your meaning has come from things that other people imparted to you. Kugrash's legacy, his three spirits, the Hall of Heroes, being chosen by the Questing Blade. I think on a nat 20 Ricky is feeling a little bit rootless and a little bit like, empty. And I think you feel something moving within you with that feeling of directionlessness that a lot of other people in the city are feeling right now.

0:48:08 Zac: Can I use Divine Sense? I feel like, I'm scared this is anti-Populi kind of territory.

0:48:17 Brennan: Yeah, I think that—

0:48:18 Zac: I don't know if that's exactly right.

0:48:19 Brennan: You do Divine Sense and you get back a little bit of static. I think that it's not lethal, but I think Ricky has this moment of looking around and being like, there go my old friends with an axe that doesn't belong to me. The Questing Blade is in someone else's hands. The most helpful thing that I've done is uphold Kugrash's memory. And I think you look in your heart for like, what is uniquely Ricky Matsui's and you don't come up with an answer. And that little hole feels not great. And I think that it's a moment of you recognize you're feeling a fraction of what you saw JJ feeling that night that you spent time with him.

0:49:11 Zac: Maybe he'll go to the Occult Society and try to talk to JJ.

0:49:18 Brennan: Hell yeah. You go to find JJ. We're gonna cut from that over to, I'm gonna say, 'cause Pete's going to talk to Maddie. Cody and Iga, at the beginning of the next week is there anything you guys are gonna begin to do for that next chunk of downtime? Bearing in mind also that there's still all this stuff about these totems that are missing. I know, Iga, you had begun to make checks against Gladiator but for Cody and Iga, what are you guys up to that day? This is like the first Monday in December.

0:49:59 Siobhan: Well, first of all Saint Nicholas's Day which is December 6th is very big in Poland. So I don't think that they do like a full Saint Nicholas's Day because the kids want to do presents on Christmas Day like they're American, but it's definitely like, they put their shoes out. And you know, they're teenagers now, but they put their shoes out. She leaves them some little gifts there. Like, that's an important thing for her. As much of anything it's like, a thing that was joyful from her childhood that she likes to pass on.

0:50:35 Brennan: Yes. You have a wonderful Saint Nicholas's Day. Nick and Jess are getting along better than you've ever seen them get along before. And I think Smoczmatka, one of the times that you're in the chest remarks and says,

0:50:53 Smoczmatka: Iga, you have done truly well with these two. You should be very, very proud.

0:50:59 Iga: Thank you, they're good kids, you know? I mean, even though they're teenagers, I mean, I haven't had any of the problems of teenagers. They're just good. I like them pushing against me a little bit. It's cute, you know? It just means they're growing up.

0:51:18 Brennan: Smoczmatka smiles and nods and says,

0:51:22 Smoczmatka: Strong to stay that, and it is true and good.

0:51:28 Brennan: Your friendship with the dragon in the chest continues to blossom as its magical realm expands.

0:51:35 Siobhan: One of the things I also was gonna pitch to Cody was like, maybe weirdly we can investigate them all together 'cause I have a lot of stuff that is about getting into places that I shouldn't be able to get into.

0:51:53 Cody: I am awesome at that.

0:51:55 Brennan: Cody, you got all your new dope gear from selling those magic swords.

0:52:00 Murph: Yeah.

0:52:02 Brennan: Yeah, if you guys want to give me a little investigation check on the mall, go for it. Unless there's other stuff that Cody wanted to get up to.

0:52:13 Murph: Yeah, I think just like continuing to learn about stuff so he's not just like a mindless consumer. And then I think he's also always kind of looking for a crusade. Zac smiles.

0:52:31 Murph: So I think he's specifically looking for local places that are being taken over by Gladiator so that he can throw Big Gulps at people and like, just like still being a—

0:52:42 Iga: Or no locally-produced Big Gulps. You know, you're still buying the Big Gulps and—

0:52:45 Murph: Yeah, that's true, he's like,

0:52:45 Cody: Fuck, a Big Gulp!

0:52:47 Murph: He throws the Big Gulp in the 7-Eleven.

0:52:49 Iga: Go to a local bodega, buy a frozen drink from them. Why are you going to a 7-Eleven buying that.

0:52:56 Cody: Right.

0:52:56 Ally: Oh my gosh.

0:52:59 Brennan: Iga and Cody, give me investigation checks.

0:53:01 Murph: Sweet.

0:53:01 Siobhan: Great. I'm gonna Disguise Self myself as somebody who works for Gladiator.

0:53:10 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:53:10 Murph: Whoa.

0:53:13 Siobhan: And I'm gonna use a luck point to re-roll that seven.

0:53:21 Murph: 13.

0:53:22 Brennan: 13, cool.

0:53:23 Siobhan: 16.

0:53:23 Brennan: 16. You guys go to Gladiator. With that 16, Iga, you don't. First of all, Cody, you find an old piece of the Fairyland Amusement Park that used to be here. It's like, the backhoes dug it up from back when they built the mall. And you just see a little chunk of the sign that says Fairyland on that 13 of this old amusement park that used to be here. Iga, you find some equipment, disguised as you as a Gladiator employee. You also see here the mall—

0:54:05 Siobhan: Oh, I can actually disguise both of us as Gladiator employees.

0:54:10 Brennan: Cool, cool.

0:54:10 Siobhan: I forgot. I have Seeming, so I can use Seeming.

0:54:14 Murph: Cody just keeps punching himself in the leg.

0:54:17 Cody: Fucking Gladiator employee. [grunts]

0:54:20 Brennan: Iga, first of all, there's an entire floor here of Sparties, those delivery drones. And you find another piece of equipment. It's on the back of the truck, it's enormous. You could potentially break a piece off of it or you could just take a picture of it because it looks like it has some familiarity to the readout that JJ had.

0:54:49 Siobhan: Okay.

0:54:53 Brennan: When you guys were at the Metropolitan Museum of Memories.

0:54:55 Siobhan: Great, I would like to cast Remote Access on it.

0:54:59 Brennan: [mimics machinery booting up] You see it starts moving. You access it. (suspenseful piano music)

0:55:08 Brennan: New York Minutes are going into this machine as you turn it on and being flattened and destroyed to compress time. As you turn it on, it very quickly fucks up and breaks because it's not perfectly made. Like, you can tell from turning it on and how poorly it works when you turn it on that this is a prototype. It's like something they built to do this scary thing that they haven't built a working version of yet. [suspenseful instrumental music]

0:55:48 Siobhan: Can I Remote Access also one of these droids?

0:55:54 Brennan: Sure. [mimics device powering up]

0:55:56 Droid: [waves] Hi, I'm Sparty. I'm here to give you everything you need.

0:56:02 Siobhan: Can I sort of use this spell to do an Investigation check to see if there's anything other than delivery that it's programmed to do?

0:56:12 Brennan: Yeah, give me an Investigation check.

0:56:16 Siobhan: How good is this 45-year-old woman at technology? A 10.

0:56:23 Iga: Where does the button, Cody, which is the button for the thing?

0:56:27 Cody: Um, I only know how to break stuff, if you want me to like kick it or something 'cause this thing fucking sucks.

0:56:33 Iga: Yes, maybe. [Siobhan laughs]

0:56:35 Brennan: You fuck around with it. You don't see, like, a kill people switch on it. It just looks like a drone that walks around and delivers packages, but you do have the knowledge of that scary-ass machine.

0:56:47 Siobhan: Okay.

0:56:50 Brennan: We're gonna move to—

0:56:53 Murph: And I guess I'll also take that Fairyland sign.

0:56:57 Brennan: Cool, yeah, go ahead and throw that in your inventory.

0:56:58 Murph: A little piece of it, great.

0:57:00 Emily: A whole sign? Oh, it's a piece of a sign.

0:57:03 Murph: Yeah, it's a piece of a sign.

0:57:04 Brennan: It is a lovely morning in a coffee shop in Harlem. Kingston, you've just had the best sleep of your life, kissed Liz off on her way to work, has this beautiful dream. The egg when you woke up feels now warm to the touch. Life is good. You are getting coffee with Sofia Lee. Sofia, La Gran Gata again appears around your shoulders, smiling again, and you walk by a bodega here. La Gran Gata moves into it, goes and helps Cosmo out on Kingston's corner. But yeah, you meet up with Kingston for coffee. [chill jazzy instrumental music]

0:57:49 Sofia: Hi, Kingston.

0:57:49 Kingston: Hey, what's up, Sofie?

0:57:53 Sofia: How are you?

0:57:53 Kingston: I'm good. I think, uh—

0:57:56 Sofia: Yeah?

0:57:57 Kingston: Yeah, it's been, I don't know, this Gladiator shit is heavy, is heavy.

0:58:01 Sofia: I know, I know.

0:58:05 Kingston: But I don't know. I really think we got this, I really do.

0:58:13 Sofia: I think we do, too.

0:58:13 Kingston: Yeah.

0:58:14 Sofia: I've been setting myself straight. We're gonna knock this out of the park.

0:58:17 Kingston: Hell yes.

0:58:17 Sofia: I feel good about it.

0:58:19 Kingston: How about you? I mean, you've had a, between the monastery and congratulations again on the baby and everything that's going on. I mean, you're going through it right now. I'm sorry if I haven't, you know, I've been all over.

0:58:36 Sofia: No, as you should be.

0:58:36 Kingston: But you're important.

0:58:38 Sofia: As you should be. You are so much to so many people. And I'm honestly glad to see you taking a little time for yourself.

0:58:49 Kingston: Thank you, I appreciate that. But you wanted to talk about something.

0:58:55 Sofia: Yeah, after I say that I'm immediately coming to ask you for a favor.

0:58:57 Kingston: Right, that's what I do. I mean, hey, if there's something I can do to help you, you let me know.

0:59:04 Sofia: Okay. Okay, it's gonna be kinda hard for me to talk about, okay?

0:59:10 Kingston: That's perfectly fine.

0:59:10 Sofia: Okay. As you know, I'm with Dale's child.

0:59:20 Kingston: God, yes.

0:59:21 Sofia: And the thing is, I haven't told him yet, and I do have to tell him. The thing I'm holding out on is, I, you know. (sighs) Dale really wanted a kid, and I'm not trying to make his transition into a new life any harder, you know? And I just feel like if I just went up and said, hey, I'm pregnant, it would be kind of like just another thing he was missing out on.

0:59:57 Kingston: Yeah.

0:59:57 Sofia: So I was kinda wondering, I guess I just, do you know anything about, you know, 'cause like, did you know anything about anyone who's able to like, like in the monastery there's some texts that refer to someone coming back to their old body after a really long time, you know?

1:00:22 Kingston: Mm-hmm.

1:00:24 Sofia: And like, you know, they don't really say that much more about it, but I was wondering if there's any way for a person to come back after a really long time? I know that's a crazy thing.

1:00:41 Kingston: It's not crazy.

1:00:44 Sofia: And you know—

1:00:44 Kingston: It's not crazy.

1:00:45 Sofia: It's just like a little dream I've been trying to keep in my heart without letting it turn into a need, but at this point now I feel like I need to at least address it before I tell him 'cause if there's any opportunity then I go to him and say, I'm working on this, instead of just, I'm having your baby and you're not here for it.

1:01:02 Kingston: Yeah. Hey, it's not crazy. I mean, yeah, you're with his child. I mean, of course your head goes here and is asking these questions. Hmm, I mean, the answer is that is nearly impossible, but it is not wholly impossible.

1:01:35 Sofia: Okay.

1:01:36 Kingston: There's a chance it could happen, but I mean, you just, I guess the one thing I would want you to know is that like, the weight of asking for something like that. 'Cause you know my powers come from the city, you know? And so it would be me putting on New York to, if I were to do this, if it were on me it would be me asking New York to make this happen. And that would be something the city would decide. And you know, the truth is, if they said no it's no. But I don't know, that's just the way it will go. Is it possible? Maybe, but it's a huge ask. But I mean, if that's something you would be interested in. And fully, the one thing I ask is if you want, if this is going to go here that you really take into account what we're asking for 'cause it really is heavy. But I love you so if you want me to ask, I will.

1:03:13 Sofia: I don't think this is a decision I can make so...

1:03:16 Kingston: Of course.

1:03:18 Sofia: Maybe I'll just, maybe I'll just talk to Dale.

1:03:25 Kingston: Yeah.

1:03:26 Sofia: And maybe he can make the decision because it's, you know, yeah. [sobs softly] I appreciate your honesty.

1:03:33 Kingston: Of course. And I hope you know that as busy as I am, I'm always here if you need me.

1:03:44 Sofia: I know, it's just, [sniffles softly] you know, it's easier to be there for someone than to ask someone to be there for you.

1:03:52 Kingston: I understand.

1:03:55 Sofia: Anyways, I mean, tell me about everything going on in your life. [Lou and Brennan laugh]

1:04:02 Sofia: Honestly, it'd be a favor for me if you talked about yourself right now for a little bit. [Brennan laughs]

1:04:06 Kingston: Yeah, I don't know. I guess it's weird we're both expecting parents now.

1:04:14 Sofia: I know.

1:04:14 Kingston: I guess me and this dragon, I talked to Liz about it last night. She's pro-dragon, she's on board.

1:04:22 Sofia: Wow.

1:04:22 Kingston: So I guess we're gonna—

1:04:24 Sofia: I mean, it's kind of fun to be expecting at the same time, right?

1:04:26 Kingston: I mean, right? Hey, we'll be able to exchange tips and I mean maybe—

1:04:30 Sofia: Yeah, babysit for each other. A dragon and an angel.

1:04:33 Kingston: Oh, 100%.

1:04:35 Sofia: I mean, that's adorable best friends.

1:04:36 Kingston: I mean, best friends, [laughs] a match made in Heaven. Your angel child, my dragon child. [group laughs]

1:04:47 Brennan: As Sofia and Kingston laugh together about the bizarre unfoldings of The Unsleeping City, Pete, you meet up at Neptune Diner in Astoria. Waiting for you in a booth is, you walk in and immediately see one of the most beautiful people you've ever seen in your life.

1:05:10 Ally: Great. [laughs]

1:05:14 Brennan: She has vibrant multicolored hair, piercings, tight leather jacket over a hoodie, a couple pins. Yeah, loaded up with piercings and tats.

1:05:26 Pete: [enamoured] Hi. [spacey new age music] [Emily laughs]

1:05:28 Pete: [deeper voice] Hey, hi, [laughs] sorry.

1:05:31 Brennan: Beautiful, young Korean-American woman with again, patches all over. And you see that she has like a little flash card dropping off this thing. She has sort of like rubber halves of a keyboard tied into the sleeves of her thing. Like, she could unzip her sleeve and pull a keyboard out.

1:05:53 Lou: [laughs] Oh, okay.

1:05:54 Brennan: That's like made of something flexible that's like a cloth she can wear. She looks up and says,

1:05:59 Maddie: Hi.

1:05:59 Pete: Hi.

1:06:04 Maddie: Hey.

1:06:04 Pete: Hi!

1:06:06 Maddie: Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Maddie, hey.

1:06:09 Ally: I go for a hug even if it's not, if she's sitting down, I'm standing up.

1:06:12 Brennan: Go ahead and roll a persuasion disadvantage for me. [Emily laughs]

1:06:14 Ally: God fucking damn it. Oh, Jesus Christ, hold on. Okay. That's, oh, not too bad. Persuasion I have pretty good, right? I don't have that pulled up right now.

1:06:28 Brennan: Yes, but with disadvantage for sure.

1:06:32 Ally: Oh, that's okay, okay. It's a 14. Does that mean I catch myself during it and go, “Oh! Sorry, maybe that's a little too forward.”

1:06:41 Brennan: I'm gonna make something for her. She hits a nat five and a beat after you've started bailing on the hug she clocks the hug and goes for the hug herself.

1:06:54 Pete: [laughs] Oh, ah, I...

1:06:54 Maddie: Oh, oh, oops. [laughs] Oh God, sorry, thanks for the dance. [Lou laughs]

1:07:02 Brennan: You see she says,

1:07:02 Maddie: Yeah, hi, take a seat.

1:07:06 Pete: Totally.

1:07:09 Maddie: Thanks for meeting up in person. Let me—

1:07:12 Pete: Oh, actually, you know what? I have to pee.

1:07:15 Ally: Can I go to the bathroom and just do like a breathing exercise and try to fucking calm the fuck down? [Emily laughs]

1:07:22 Pete: [to himself] This is just a person, this is just another person. This is two skeletons hanging out in a booth, Pete, all right?

1:07:30 Brennan: All of Maddie's features that are not skeletal come back to you in a very real way in that moment.

1:07:38 Pete: [sighs] She's more than a skeleton. [laughs]

1:07:43 Brennan: [laughs] But you breathe.

1:07:44 Pete: She's so much more than a skeleton.

1:07:46 Brennan: You breathe, walk back out.

1:07:46 Pete: Yo. [chuckles]

1:07:48 Maddie: Hey, are you, we don't have to do this if you are, if this is weird for you. I just need to say in person again, I have so much guilt around what happened and I'm so sorry. Like, I can't… Yeah, I'm so… There's no—

1:08:18 Pete: Yeah.

1:08:19 Maddie: I wrote that email and my words are like failing me now, but I'm really sorry and yeah.

1:08:21 Pete: It's okay. It was fucked up, for sure. But my parents are actually, the parents that you gave my info to were awful people. But since then they're a lot better. And I never wanna be like, oh, that traumatic thing, I never wanna like baptize a traumatic incident and be like, it was worth it 'cause this good thing happened. The trauma was still bad, but it is better now.

1:08:59 Brennan: You see she says,

1:08:59 Maddie: Right, yeah. Bad things happen and they're bad and good things happen and they're good. And sometimes one leads to the other but it doesn't justify the other.

1:09:11 Pete: You know, it's the work that I did. It's not the bad thing. Anyway, yeah, I go to therapy now.

1:09:19 Brennan: She laughs and smiles a little bit. She's like,

1:09:21 Maddie: No, I get it.

1:09:22 Brennan: Pete, you look and see on Maddie's jacket amongst a multiplicity of other things that she's got a trans pride flag on her jacket.

1:09:34 Ally: [smiles] Cool.

1:09:36 Brennan: She goes,

1:09:36 Maddie: Yeah, I really get it. And I was in a super fucked up place. I did that job, figured out what was going on after I had already delivered and it's just unacceptable. It's just really unacceptable.

1:09:56 Pete: Yeah, it's… I really appreciated your apology. It was really well-written and yeah. So you're a hacker.

1:10:09 Maddie: Uh, yeah. [players laugh]

1:10:12 Maddie: Yeah, like to a degree, yeah. I do some black hat work.

1:10:20 Pete: Sick, that's really fucking sick! That's so sick.

1:10:23 Maddie: Oh, shit. Yeah, it's cool. I mean, like, it's a lot of hours of grueling computer programming that's like very...

1:10:35 Pete: Totally.

1:10:36 Maddie: Like, it's way less sexy in person than it sounds when someone calls you a hacker, which of course sounds very sexy but is not reflective of the truth—

1:10:44 Pete: Totally.

1:10:44 Maddie: —of like me, deep in an office chair for many hours at a time doing extremely tedious work so… [Pete laughs]

1:10:56 Maddie: Are you into computer stuff as well? I mean, I know what you used to do.

1:11:01 Pete: Yeah, no, yeah, I'm kind of turning over a new leaf, so to speak, so I just work. Right now I'm working at a bookstore and trying to deal with the pay decrease from being a, you know, [laughs] major plug to rich people.

1:11:25 Maddie: Yeah, no, I hear that. Yeah, money is fucked. And the amount of reward you get for doing the wrong thing a lot of the times is really challenging to the soul so—

1:11:41 Pete: Yeah, that's crazy that you say that actually. So you did ask if there was anything else that you could help me with, and I'm wondering if you would just have any interest in, my friends and I are, honestly, we're trying to take down Gladiator.

1:11:58 Maddie: I'm in.

1:12:04 Pete: They're kind of taking over the city. Yes, okay, well, I have some crazy info for you.

1:12:09 Ally: And I hand her a copy of the drive that I've just moved all of the most important stuff into.

1:12:17 Pete: Do you want to take a look at this and see—?

1:12:20 Brennan: She unzips her sleeves. [Ally laughs]

1:12:24 Brennan: Slaps this keyboard on the diner computer, sucks down half of a mint chocolate chip milkshake, and just. [mimics rapid typing on keyboard]

1:12:34 Ally: Fucking dream girl. [chuckles]

1:12:36 Brennan: It's tapped. You see the screen is reflected. She takes some glasses out and projects a little screen up in front of her on some next-level techno shit. She goes,

1:12:48 Maddie: Ooh, this is extremely fucked up and bad in a huge, major way.

1:12:53 Pete: Uh-huh.

1:12:57 Maddie: Yeah, okay.

1:13:00 Ally: Can I see if she's magical at all?

1:13:03 Brennan: Yeah, I was just gonna say, you detect that she is not magical, and the Umbral Arcana is kind of like...

1:13:08 Ally: Huh.

1:13:12 Brennan: But you see that she pulls up, I'm gonna, she's gonna make a little hacking check right now.

1:13:21 Lou: Hacking check.

1:13:22 Brennan: She pulls something up and goes,

1:13:22 Maddie: Okay, interesting.

1:13:32 Pete: Hm.

1:13:32 Maddie: This is blocked off. This is top secret. I would need more time to get into this. Okay.

1:13:39 Brennan: She says,

1:13:39 Maddie: It looks like Gladiator is about to make like a major acquisition in the city, but I'm not—

1:13:48 Pete: Whoa, of what?

1:13:50 Maddie: I can't find out just yet. I should go back to my home machine which is a little bit more powerful.

1:13:55 Pete: Which area do you live in? I was actually gonna go into the city if you wanna...

1:14:00 Brennan: She says,

1:14:00 Maddie: Oh, I live in LIC, I live in Long Island City.

1:14:05 Brennan: Which Pete, you would know is just down the train from you in Astoria. You see she says—

1:14:10 Ally: Cool.

1:14:13 Maddie: But I can head back to my home machine and look at this stuff. Do you know anyone named Joe Jacobs?

1:14:22 Pete: Yeah, I maybe have come across him before. Why, what's up?

1:14:28 Maddie: He, this is wild. There's like… His, why would an internship application have gone off of a normal server? They're like—

1:14:48 Pete: You can see that they've removed his internship application?

1:14:52 Maddie: Yeah, there's just a weird thing—

1:14:55 Brennan: And you see she dives further into it and is like,

1:14:58 Maddie: Yeah, there's like something, there's an internship application for this guy named Joe Jacobs.

1:15:05 Brennan: And you see that she says,

1:15:05 Maddie: Yeah, I'm just noticing like a bunch of stuff behind this firewall. I obviously can't open it, but it's very weird to see an internship application being hidden in a deep-security cybervault like behind a million levels of firewalls.

1:15:21 Pete: Whoa.

1:15:24 Maddie: If you know this person, Joe Jacobs, you should go talk to him pretty soon.

1:15:29 Ally: I send out a text to the group and be like,

1:15:32 Pete: Can someone get in touch with JJ?

1:15:36 Ally: And then I kinda explain that.

1:15:37 Brennan: Iga and Cody, you've just made the discoveries that you've made here.

1:15:42 Siobhan: Mm-hmm.

1:15:44 Brennan: When you get that message from Pete.

1:15:46 Siobhan: And that machine seems like something that's connected to JJ's research.

1:15:50 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

1:15:52 Siobhan: Great.

1:15:53 Zac: Was I going to JJ at any, like I wasn't sure.

1:15:56 Brennan: Yeah, you wanted to go hang with, I think you're on your way to the Gramercy Occult Society.

1:15:59 Ally: Oh, great.

1:15:59 Brennan: So you're actually, you're hanging with JJ who's working on some stuff at Gramercy when these texts start showing up on your phone.

1:16:07 Zac: Okay. But we've kinda... generally know what they're talking about, like that it has to do with the magic.

1:16:16 Emily: Yeah.

1:16:17 Brennan: Yeah, with New York Minutes, specifically.

1:16:19 Zac: Yeah, okay. I'm with JJ. I'm slightly unclear on if there's actually new information other than that Gladiator knows.

1:16:34 Murph: There's also the stuff at the mall.

1:16:37 Zac: Yeah.

1:16:37 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:16:38 Murph: We would be texting you about that they've actively taken JJ's...

1:16:44 Brennan: Research.

1:16:44 Zac: Right, gotcha.

1:16:45 Murph: Discovery and put it into a robot.

1:16:49 Emily: I follow up and I say,

1:16:49 Sofia: Maybe JJ would know how to destroy this prototype.

1:16:54 Ally: Whoa, yeah.

1:16:56 Brennan: If you guys send the prototype to Ricky, like the pictures you guys took. Ricky, do you want to show that to JJ?

1:17:02 Zac: I mean, yeah.

1:17:02 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:17:03 Ricky: JJ, this is kinda what's going on over here.

1:17:08 Brennan: His eyes go wide and he goes,

1:17:11 JJ: Um, you should get everybody here right now as fast as possible.

1:17:14 Ricky: Okay.

1:17:15 Ricky: Hey, let's link up at the Gramercy Occult Society. JJ wants to talk to us.

1:17:21 Brennan: Cody and Iga, you guys head in. Sofia and Kingston, you guys head in. Pete, Maddie looks at you and says,

1:17:28 Maddie: Hey, so I'm gonna head back to my home machine.

1:17:31 Pete: Super cool.

1:17:31 Maddie: And I'm gonna try to crack whatever Gladiators purchase was or what their acquisition was.

1:17:38 Pete: Super cool.

1:17:38 Maddie: I'm gonna hit you up with that as soon as I can.

1:17:42 Pete: Yeah, let me put you in my phone. Let's see, Maddie, what's your number? [Zac laughs]

1:17:48 Pete: Oh here, you can put in your number. Also, yeah, just put in like, I just have a weird way of filtering names so like, what's your sign 'cause I'm just gonna put that. [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

1:17:58 Pete: I'm just, I'm weird. I'm super crazy, but yeah, what's your sign though?

1:18:05 Brennan: She looks at you, raises an eyebrow and says,

1:18:07 Maddie: I think technically I'm an Ophiuchus, which is a 13th sign of the zodiac.

1:18:13 Pete: ...What?

1:18:15 Maddie: I don't know, maybe look it up.

1:18:17 Brennan: And she types in “Maddie.”

1:18:21 Ally: Did someone just out-astrology me? [group laughs]

1:18:27 Brennan: Ally, you should go ahead and Google what an Ophiuchus is.

1:18:31 Emily: Does Ally even believe in astrology?

1:18:32 Brennan: I might be mispronouncing it. But she leaves herself as Maddie Park and also fills in a contact with, you see she snaps a little selfie of herself to put a contact photo of her in your phone. She goes,

1:18:47 Maddie: Is it forward if I text myself so I have your number, too? I'm just gonna do it.

1:18:51 Brennan: And she texts herself.

1:18:54 Pete: You're the serpent-bearer.

1:18:54 Maddie: That's me.

1:19:02 Ally: [laughing] This is fucking nuts.

1:19:02 Brennan: The 13th zodiac sign?

1:19:06 Emily: Okay, now I need to look this up.

1:19:08 Ally: Okay, all right.

1:19:10 Brennan: So she smiles, heads on the train. You head in to the city.

1:19:14 Pete: Wow, cool. Fucking cool. So cool to meet someone cool. [chuckles] [Lou and Brennan laughs]

1:19:23 Zac: I like to think that Pete's mind has never been more blown than a 13th zodiac sign.

1:19:27 Ally: Yeah, yeah, I'm just like.

1:19:33 Brennan: Incredible.

1:19:33 Pete: But what's your rising?

1:19:36 Ally: I'm like two hours too late. I'm just on the train.

1:19:39 Pete: What's your moon?

1:19:41 Brennan: Also, Pete should look up what time it is now versus when Ophiuchus is as a sign 'cause Maddie's birthday is coming up very soon.

1:19:49 Ally: Good fucking god.

1:19:52 Brennan: But you guys all get to Gramercy. JJ comes out as you guys arrive at the Gramercy Occult Society. He looks at you and goes,

1:19:57 JJ: What you guys found at the Millennium Gladiator Campus is fucked. It's completely fucked. This is the opposite of my research. It's like the inverse of what a New York Minute is supposed to do. They're destroying them. So time and space are relative, right, and what that basically means is when time is going faster, space is going slower. But when you're moving faster through space you're moving slower through time, right? So there's sort of an inverse relationship there. If you compress time and slow it down to the point where it stops in a single moment, you have the potential to expand space infinitely in which every atom of creation is as far apart from every other atom as possible. Ultimate isolation. That is the physical definition of nothingness. Every single thing broken down to its finest atoms separated by endless void, completely alone. If you can flatten time, you can create nothingness. The cast digests this. [Ally exhales softly]

1:21:25 JJ: But it looks like it broke, right? The machine didn't work? Okay.

1:21:30 Iga: [nods] It broke big time.

1:21:31 Sofia: Don't they have a different plant in Connecticut and a plant in New Jersey? I gotta wonder if there are other prototypes of this and if there's other versions of this technology.

1:21:47 Iga: Yes, does this have to be in New York? Is there a New Jersey Minute or Connecticut Minute?

1:21:52 Brennan: He says,

1:21:52 JJ: I think it would work the best here. Like if you were gonna try to destroy the universe it would—

1:21:58 Sofia: The Catacombs.

1:22:00 Brennan: He looks and says,

1:22:00 JJ: Something like that.

1:22:01 Brennan: He says—

1:22:01 Ricky: JJ.

1:22:03 JJ: Yeah.

1:22:03 Ricky: Is there, so, at the fire station we had a Shop-Vac and it could really suck stuff up. But you could flip the switch and it could really blow stuff out. You usually don't use that so much with the Shop-Vac because you don't want stuff everywhere, but is there a way, since they reversed your thing, could you just reverse it somehow?

1:22:30 JJ: [eyes wide] Wait right here, wait right here.

1:22:31 Brennan: He runs off into another room and you see he fiddles around for about like 10 minutes and you start to hear a laughing from the other room going,

1:22:41 JJ: [laughs] Get in here! Get in here! Get in here! [dramatic instrumental music]

1:22:49 Zac: I head off.

1:22:49 Brennan: You guys rush in. In this laboratory of the Gramercy Occult Society you see that there is a poster of lunch atop a skyscraper, that photograph of the New York construction worker sitting on an I-beam over the city. JJ in black and white is in the photograph on the I-beam with the other dudes moving around waving at you and he goes like,

1:23:14 JJ: It fucking works, you can reverse it! Ricky, you can reverse it!

1:23:20 Ricky: How is this reversing it? What is this?

1:23:23 Brennan: He hits a watch on his arm, leaps out and goes,

1:23:27 JJ: So it's not science, it's magic science. It's magiscience, right? New York Minutes are connected to the past, but they're connected to the stories of the past, right? So the more powerfully something represents a true memory of the past, you can reverse what they're doing and not flatten time, you can expand it. And if there's something that's really attached to a moment in history and it has that fucking dragon magic—

1:23:58 Brennan: And he points at Iga's chest, he says,

1:24:01 JJ: You can go back into the past. Not the past past, but like a memory of the past.

1:24:12 Brennan: And you see he goes and runs over and starts fiddling, doing magic with a bunch of watches and hands these watches out to all of you. He says,

1:24:21 JJ: I've been working on these for a little while. Okay, so this is like a New York, it's like a Gotham Timepiece, right? So it's a Gotham Timepiece and—

1:24:30 Cody: [quietly] Oh my god, this fucking rules. [Brennan laughs]

1:24:33 Cody: Holy shit, go on.

1:24:33 Brennan: You see he goes,

1:24:37 JJ: If something is powerfully connected to the past, you can, it's a very limited form of time travel. We can only do it here because of all of the Umbral Arcana coming out of the Umbral Engine. So in a place with a lot of Umbral Arcana or raw Umbra in it you can flip the switch, use the timepiece to summon New York Minutes and can potentially move into the past, right.

1:25:04 Ricky: Wait, so—

1:25:06 Iga: Maybe we go to Ellis Island?

1:25:07 Ricky: Those things we're looking for, the seven things.

1:25:10 Sofia: Are in the past.

1:25:10 Kingston: All right, we go back.

1:25:12 Ricky: Are they specific things?

1:25:12 Brennan: Iga, as you say Ellis Island, Maddie texts you, Pete, and says,

1:25:21 Maddie: Looks like Gladiator just finalized a purchase of Ellis Island and the museum.

1:25:30 Ally: I tell everyone and then I write back,

1:25:34 Pete: You didn't ask but I am an Aquarius and we're extremely compatible, just kidding.

1:25:38 Ally: And then like a lot of GIFs of people being embarrassed. [group laughs]

1:25:46 Cody: Dude, write “lol”. Write “lol”, Pete!

1:25:48 Ally: And then I write another “lol” after all the GIFs.

1:25:51 Ricky: Send a selfie, send a selfie.

1:25:55 Sofia: Ooh, ooh!

1:25:55 Ally: I send a selfie.

1:25:57 Emily: I get the lighting just right. (laughs)

1:25:59 Pete: Thank you.

1:25:59 Brennan: Incredible.

1:26:03 Pete: Thanks guys, that was a great idea. [Emily laughs]

1:26:08 Brennan: I think as Maddie sends that, Maddie also sends something unrelated which was an article that never mentioned Gladiator but about a month or two ago, Gladiator bought some of the museum items from Ellis Island. Bought museum items from Ellis Island in a private exchange for a private museum they were building. Those items have not yet shown up. Gladiator hasn't released any plans to actually create a museum. Objects were bought from Ellis Island, but Maddie just sent this thing today about them going back and buying all of Ellis Island.

1:26:53 Ally: Is there a list of what the items were?

1:26:58 Emily: Or the number of items?

1:27:01 Lou: Yes, any chance it was seven items? [Emily laughs]

1:27:04 Brennan: Maddie hits you back,

1:27:04 Maddie: Looks like seven artifacts were bought from the museum.

1:27:07 Lou: Let's go!

1:27:10 Ally: Okay.

1:27:11 Murph: Vroom, vroom, vroom! Moped.

1:27:12 Brennan: You guys fucking boogie.

1:27:14 Sofia: Can I get on the back of your moped, Cody?

1:27:16 Iga: Can I also get on the back of your moped, Cody?

1:27:19 Cody: Yeah.

1:27:19 Pete: Hey dude, can I get on the back of your moped?

1:27:20 Ricky: Sprinting with Ox.

1:27:20 Sofia: I'm actually really mobile. I just want to be around someone.

1:27:23 Ricky: Pete, hop on my back.

1:27:23 Ally: Oh, hell yeah. I send that selfie. [Emily laughs]

1:27:31 Ally: We're not toxically masculine, I'm riding him!

1:27:35 Brennan: I'm gonna need everyone here to go into D&D Beyond and add a Gotham Timepiece to your inventory.

1:27:44 Emily: Okay.

1:27:44 Lou: Okay.

1:27:45 Zac: Gotham Timepiece. “The Gotham Timepiece allows the wearer to manipulate New York Minutes in the following ways. Number one, run on New York City standard time, reliably 10 minutes late, but never more than that to any appointment. Time travel into objects with a variable DC based on the objects' connection to the past only the presence of heavy Umbral Arcana. Accomplish more than one task during downtime by taking on a level of exhaustion. Once per short rest you may take an additional action on your turn, taking a level of exhaustion at the end of that turn.” And then last, “Features an Uptown Compass, Uptown, Downtown, East Side, West Side. Cannot become lost in the Five Boroughs even by magical means.”

1:28:33 Lou: Hey.

1:28:33 Ally: Whoa.

1:28:35 Emily: Cool.

1:28:36 Brennan: You guys arrive at Ellis Island. You've taken the ferry out. It's closed up, obviously it's in the process of being sold to a private corporation which is a dark day here in New York City.

1:28:53 Ally: Nightmare.

1:28:53 Brennan: I actually think you guys, there's probably not a ferry going here so I think you guys arrive here— Sorry, there is a ferry waiting for Kingston as you guys get here.

1:29:04 Lou: Yeah, don't mess around dude. What're you talking about? [Brennan slams fists]

1:29:09 Lou: What, today's the day it stops working? Nah.

1:29:11 Siobhan: It's the same bus driver. She's qualified as a ferry driver.

1:29:14 Lou: Yeah. [Brennan and Ally laugh]

1:29:17 Brennan: You guys head off to Ellis Island. It's you, your familiars. As you arrive here, it feels eerie and desolate. There's no one here, it's been closed up. You approach and see a pair of doors shuttered with chains and locked up.

1:29:42 Cody: Permission to just freak out and break them? [Brennan laughs]

1:29:47 Emily: Is there a window?

1:29:47 Brennan: Yes.

1:29:50 Emily: Can I peek in and see if there's a dark spot in there, like a spot of shadows?

1:29:52 Brennan: Yes, there is.

1:29:56 Emily: Okay, I can also teleport in there.

1:30:00 Lou: Do we want—

1:30:00 Emily: But we all need to get in there, I guess for some reason I was like, oh, maybe I can open it from the inside. But maybe I could open it from the inside in which case you can walk under the chains.

1:30:08 Siobhan: If we all get in the box, you can teleport us all in. [Emily laughs]

1:30:12 Murph: Oh, that's fun.

1:30:14 Ally: Incredible.

1:30:14 Emily: That's great, everyone—

1:30:16 Zac: Can I use Divine Sense?

1:30:18 Lou: Yeah, can I make a Perception check through the window real quick?

1:30:21 Murph: Yeah, Cody just has his sword out walking towards it.

1:30:23 Cody: Yeah, that's cool, teleport or just kick the door in, either way. [Siobhan laughs]

1:30:27 Brennan: You guys, yeah, it's all groovy. Your Divine Sense does not turn up anything.

1:30:32 Zac: Okay, all right.

1:30:36 Ally: Whoa.

1:30:36 Zac: Cool.

1:30:36 Emily: I mean, I can also do recon and then come back out and then grab you guys and come back in 'cause I'm like, I mean, I'll Pass Without Trace all of us. Like, stealth is my thing.

1:30:47 Murph: Could we like, fucking, go back in time to like when they were buying the things?

1:30:56 Emily: Yeah, but we kinda need to know the objects, though. Didn't it say that we can use it—

1:31:00 Murph: Right.

1:31:00 Zac: Yeah.

1:31:00 Emily: To go back in time with the object? So if the objects are in there, we can use our Gothic timepieces to re-remember these objects.

1:31:07 Murph: Cool.

1:31:08 Zac: But is the Statue of Liberty an object, too? I don't know.

1:31:11 Siobhan: I would think so.

1:31:14 Zac: Okay.

1:31:14 Brennan: Yeah. So I think the issue is you guys need—

1:31:16 Ally: A candle?

1:31:16 Emily: Candle, torch.

1:31:18 Brennan: Yeah, you guys—

1:31:18 Emily: A scrap of paper.

1:31:23 Siobhan: Could be the...

1:31:24 Brennan: So are you guys busting the door down or are you guys getting in the box and teleporting in there?

1:31:29 Emily: I mean, whatever—

1:31:29 Ally: [shrugs] I'm voting box.

1:31:30 Siobhan: I’m Team Box.

1:31:30 Zac: The box and the teleporting sounds cool, yeah.

1:31:31 Murph: Cool.

1:31:33 Emily: Okay, yeah, I mean, yeah.

1:31:35 Brennan: Yeah, Sofia, you see there's a little wooden box there on the ground.

1:31:38 Emily: [chuckles] I will cast Pass Without Trace on all of us before they get into the box.

1:31:45 Ally: I think I take a photo of the chained up door and send it to Maddie just like,

1:31:48 Pete: Oh, came and looked at it. Shit's pretty fucked up, can you believe this?

1:31:55 Brennan: You get a text back being like,

1:31:57 Maddie: Are you physically at the shuttered Ellis Island? How did you get there?

1:32:03 Pete: Yeah, I had to see it for myself. I just took a ferry, I'm with some friends.

1:32:09 Brennan: You see there's ellipsis, ellipsis, ellipsis and then there's a text that says,

1:32:15 Maddie: Trying to think of a sweet way to say sober Pete seems equally as crazy.

1:32:23 Ally: [laughs] I just send that swirl emoji and that dumb smiley face that's like. [tries to make their eyes point in different directions] [Emily and Brennan laugh]

1:32:34 Brennan: You, Sofia, you move through shadow, appear in quiet Ellis Island. The click of your Louboutins on the stone floor. Click, click, click, click, click. You walk through a number of halls here. There's a lot of wings to the museum, a lot of exhibits. You arrive in a room that is like a Great Hall and you see there's a small display in the center of the room with a number of empty cases. Looks like the cases here are empty, but there's a lot of photos and art up on the wall. And I'm gonna ask everybody here to go to Roll20. And you see all of those signs. You see that this appears to be, like everything in Ellis Island, there's a lot of immigration stuff, people moving to New York City. You see there's an exhibit titled, From New Amsterdam to New York, Life in the New World. There's another one titled Famine and Diaspora, Immigration and the Armed Services. There's one that says, Tenement and Family Life. There's one that says, The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance. And you see there's another one that says 20th Century Immigration. You see these sort of empty cases. Everybody here go ahead and give me an Investigation check and tell me what you're looking for here.

1:34:10 Zac: I would like, I got a 22 on Investigation.

1:34:12 Brennan: Cool, cool.

1:34:15 Zac: I'm wondering, just because it's the first thing that I feel like I connect with in my own brain was like, is there like, are people playing music in the Harlem picture?

1:34:26 Emily: Yeah, I had that thought.

1:34:31 Brennan: So each exhibit has tons and tons of pictures on it. Did anyone else crack a 20?

1:34:36 Emily: I got a nat one so just don't even talk to me.

1:34:38 Siobhan: Yeah, I rolled a, I got a five.

1:34:40 Murph: I got a four.

1:34:40 Brennan: Ricky, you look over—

1:34:42 Lou: 19.

1:34:42 Brennan: At those empty cases. You see the tags on them. The largest one says, Peter Stuyvesant's Leg. And then there's another one. There's some more of these empty cases around. There's at least one at every one of these kiosks, something that's been emptied, and looks like it's been empty for a while. You're guessing these are the things that Gladiator destroyed, Ricky—

1:34:56 Zac: Oh.

1:35:10 Emily: Then let's read those captions.

1:35:13 Brennan: Ricky, you see by the Peter Stuyvesant's Leg one.

1:35:17 Ricky: [quietly] Peter!

1:35:18 Brennan: You see a little sign for kids that says, “Do you want to play hide and seek? You can find most of these objects from the photographs and pictures of the times they were taken.” And you look around and see one of the cases by the Harlem Renaissance one where you were looking says, a 1920s wedding bouquet. And there's a little thing being like, “Look, see if you can find it in the photographs.” I'm gonna need everybody here to roll initiative.

1:35:56 Siobhan: Shit.

1:35:56 Murph: Ooh.

1:35:59 Ally: What? [Emily whistles]

1:36:00 Lou: Ooh.

1:36:01 Emily: Okay.

1:36:01 Siobhan: Fuck. God, I'm rolling so badly today.

1:36:04 Emily: 17, I'm rolling really poorly, too.

1:36:06 Murph: Yeah, me too, I need new dice.

1:36:07 Emily: I pulled multiple nat ones. 17 though.

1:36:10 Brennan: Sofia got 17. What did Iga get?

1:36:13 Emily: Six.

1:36:13 Brennan: What did Cody get?

1:36:16 Murph: 10.

1:36:16 Brennan: What did Pete get?

1:36:18 Ally: 17 as well.

1:36:18 Brennan: What did Ricky get?

1:36:22 Zac: 12.

1:36:22 Brennan: What did Kingston get?

1:36:24 Lou: The big one one.

1:36:24 Brennan: Okay. All of your Gotham Timepieces start to beep. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. [dramatic instrumental music]

1:36:39 Brennan: It's detecting a tremendous influx of New York Minutes. That only happens when raw Umbra gets pushed through. You all feel the nature of this place has changed just through it passing into Gladiator's ownership. You hear a whisper, emptier and more hollow than anything you have ever heard repeat the words to itself mindlessly.

1:37:18 Null: [inhales raspily] What, if anything, stays?

1:37:24 Brennan: I'm going to need everybody here to give me an Intelligence saving throw.

1:37:33 Zac: Is anyone within 10 feet of— If you're within 10 feet—

1:37:36 Emily: I mean, yeah, we're all near each other.

1:37:39 Brennan: Sofia, did you actually move to that spot?

1:37:42 Emily: No, I just was in here.

1:37:42 Brennan: Cool.

1:37:45 Emily: Yeah, I was assuming that we're all hanging out.

1:37:47 Brennan: Cool.

1:37:48 Zac: Yeah, I was kind of hoping a similar thing.

1:37:52 Emily: That's gonna be, do I get the buff from you guys?

1:37:55 Emily: Plus four.

1:37:55 Lou: What's the buff?

1:37:56 Siobhan: Oh yeah, plus four.

1:37:59 Zac: Plus four on all saving throws.

1:37:59 Murph: God damn it, I got a one.

1:37:59 Siobhan: So I got 16.

1:38:01 Emily: Gonna be a 12 for me. (Murph sighs)

1:38:03 Zac: I'm gonna re-roll 'cause of luck.

1:38:07 Brennan: Cool. Murph shakes his head in dismay.

1:38:09 Zac: [shaking his head] I got a 13.

1:38:13 Brennan: Okay, did anybody here get an 18 or higher?

1:38:21 Siobhan: [shakes her head] We're dumb.

1:38:22 Ally: I'm gonna re-roll with Tides of Chaos.

1:38:23 Brennan: Okay.

1:38:25 Ally: Yes, okay, hell yeah.

1:38:26 Siobhan: Yeah, maybe I'll use a luck point.

1:38:28 Ally: 21.

1:38:28 Brennan: Iga, this is the same day that you blasted through all your luck points at JJ's machine over in Queens.

1:38:37 Siobhan: Oh, didn't I just use one?

1:38:37 Brennan: Oh, did you? I think you may have used two, I'm not sure. But I think this might be your last one. I could be wrong, I trust you to remember, but I feel like you used more than one.

1:38:51 Siobhan: Okay, then this is my last one. Okay, I make it, I get a 21.

1:38:56 Ally: Aye.

1:39:02 Brennan: Cool, no one else got an 18 or higher?

1:39:05 Emily: [shakes her head no] Mm-mm.

1:39:05 Brennan: Cool.

1:39:06 Lou: Pete and Iga.

1:39:07 Ally: Oh wait, okay, so who's close? Because I can use Bend Luck on someone.

1:39:13 Emily: I wouldn't be able to, I only got 12.

1:39:15 Zac: An 18?

1:39:15 Murph: I got a 1.

1:39:18 Ally: Yeah, what did you get, Zac?

1:39:19 Zac: I got a 13, it’s not, I'm not close.

1:39:22 Ally: [groans] Okay.

1:39:22 Brennan: Okay. Sofia, Ricky, Kingston, and Cody who did not pass their saves. Murph grimaces.

1:39:36 Emily: No, I did not.

1:39:36 Brennan: 14, 16, 20. You each take 25 points of psychic damage.

1:39:50 Lou: Mm-hmm.

1:39:51 Brennan: You each take 25 points of psychic damage. Iga and Pete do not take either as Null appears in the middle of the room. Null’s icon pops onto the map. [Lou groans]

1:40:04 Siobhan: “Either,” so that was supposed to be two things?

1:40:05 Pete: You guys, that's Null.

1:40:07 Brennan: You see a colorless silhouette two-dimensionally blotting out the color from behind it. Oh, I'm gonna need saves for Misiek, Luna, Ox, and Cody's moped as well.

1:40:24 Zac: Fuck. Ox.

1:40:24 Emily: Cody's moped. [laughs]

1:40:27 Lou: Come on, Cody's moped.

1:40:27 Murph: My moped!

1:40:28 Siobhan: Come on.

1:40:28 Lou: Come on—

1:40:29 Emily: I rode that thing here, I suddenly—

1:40:31 Siobhan: Oh, Misiek.

1:40:32 Murph: Moped rolled a natural 19.

1:40:32 Lou: Yeah, moped. (laughs)

1:40:34 Emily: But does your moped have plus two to intelligence? It might.

1:40:40 Murph: It's got—

1:40:40 Zac: Fuck!

1:40:41 Murph: No, it has minus four.

1:40:41 Zac: Same.

1:40:43 Murph: But it gets plus four being near me.

1:40:44 Siobhan: No, but you get plus four.

1:40:46 Murph: So my moped does pass.

1:40:46 Brennan: Incredible.

1:40:49 Emily: Oh wait, 'cause it's 18.

1:40:49 Siobhan: Misiek does not pass. Misiek is out of the battle.

1:40:50 Zac: Ox is down, too.

1:40:54 Murph: No.

1:40:54 Brennan: Misiek is gone?

1:40:55 Ally: 13.

1:40:55 Zac: Ox rolled a 13, but has negative four and that doesn't, you know.

1:41:00 Murph: Yeah, what was the DC, 18, did you say?

1:41:04 Siobhan: 18, yeah.

1:41:04 Brennan: 18.

1:41:05 Murph: Okay, yeah.

1:41:05 Emily: That's so funny.

1:41:07 Brennan: Luna is toast.

1:41:07 Ally: Luna's gone.

1:41:09 Murph: Penalty to the moped.

1:41:09 Emily: The moped passes. [Siobhan laughs]

1:41:13 Brennan: In this wave of psychic energy, [snaps as he lists names] Luna, Ox, Misiek, gone. As the barest tip of the claw of this monstrosity from beyond dreaming pushes its way through a wave of Umbral Arcana, through a wave of raw Umbra into the waking world, Ricky, Sofia, Kingston, and Cody, in addition to the damage you take I will also need a choice. You may either, you have a choice. This is either going to stun you or I'm going to need you to choose one of your six ability scores. [cast is silent]

1:42:11 Lou: And you're not gonna tell us what happens to it.

1:42:14 Brennan: You can either protect yourself by succumbing to the stunned condition or you can resist becoming stunned by naming one of your six ability scores.

1:42:30 Murph: Take my... [Zac sighs]

1:42:36 Murph: Dex! [Lou and Siobhan laugh]

1:42:39 Brennan: Cool.

1:42:40 Zac: I think I'm gonna say my dex as well. It hurts Ricky so much to... lower his physical prowess, but...

1:42:49 Brennan: Cool. Cody and Ricky, you lose your inner sense of initiative, of reflex, deep emptiness fills you. Your armor classes are reduced to one. You no longer have the desire to get out of the way of incoming attacks, you are too empty. And you may not make ability checks that involve dexterity. No stealth, no sleight of hand, no anything like that. You will also auto-fail dexterity saving throws.

1:43:34 Zac: Shoulda used another luck point, fuck. [players laugh]

1:43:38 Brennan: Sofia and Kingston. [Lou laughs]

1:43:41 Kingston: Sofia, you got an idea?

1:43:48 Emily: I, uh...

1:43:48 Lou: I choose strength.

1:43:53 Brennan: Kingston, you lose your strength. You feel your age bearing down on you.

1:44:02 Lou: Aw.

1:44:03 Brennan: You will auto-fail strength saving throws. You lose access to the athletics skill. You do not have the physical bravery within you right now to grapple or launch a melee attack of any kind. Sofia.

1:44:23 Emily: Do I get the sense that allowing myself to succumb to this is like letting it overtake me? Like, is getting stunned a sacrifice in itself or is getting stunned being complicit?

1:44:40 Brennan: Neither is being complicit. It basically has to do with whether your response is to throw your guard up in which case you're stunned or to flee and move, leaving yourself vulnerable for the nature of this thing to hit you in a big way.

1:44:59 Emily: Okay, I mean, if it's breaking down to that I feel really bad being the only one to say this, but I think Sofia's reaction would be to throw her guard up.

1:45:10 Brennan: Cool, you go stunned. You are in the stunned condition and will lose your turn, but can make a save against the stunned condition at the end of your next turn.

1:45:19 Emily: Okay.

1:45:20 Zac: Oh, that sounds like a better choice. [laughs] [Brennan and Emily laugh]

1:45:28 Emily: I felt like I was like, scared that I was like, wait, am I missing the message of this?

1:45:33 Brennan: No, no, no, no, not at all. Pete, that is going to be you.

1:45:40 Ally: Okay, can I do an insight check to see if there's anything it, like, I can tell Ricky and Cody look extra bad, right?

1:45:49 Brennan: Ricky and Cody look bad. Kingston doesn't look great, either. And Sofia looks okay but is visibly stunned, in the stunned condition.

1:45:58 Ally: Okay. Can I do a roll to see if there's anything I can do to help Ricky and Cody or if they're in a lot of trouble right now?

1:46:06 Brennan: I don't need you to make a roll. All of you are in a lot of trouble right now. And this is Null. Null bought this today. Gladiator bought this today. This is a horrifying entity.

1:46:23 Ally: Yeah.

1:46:28 Brennan: But also, if you guys run away, this is it. This is the lost artifacts of the dragon's hoard.

1:46:40 Zac: We have to get the stuff back right now.

1:46:43 Lou: This is it.

1:46:45 Ally: So can I use the timepiece and just start looking for these artifacts?

1:46:50 Brennan: You absolutely can, Pete. You can take a move action to get, tell me which one, if any—

1:46:57 Ally: Gotcha, yeah.

1:47:01 Brennan: —if there's a particular one you're running towards, and you're gonna need to give me a history check to try and recognize something. You're like, running towards it trying to look for the history as best you can.

1:47:16 Ally: Okay, um...

1:47:21 Brennan: You can go more into the center of the room. If you go to the center of the room and give me a DC, like, I can give you information about the different ones, but you gotta run into the center of the room to do it.

1:47:38 Ally: Can I do something like this where I like, go behind a thing like this.

1:47:40 Brennan: Yes, you can, absolutely.

1:47:45 Ally: Okay, I would like to do that and then—

1:47:46 Brennan: Cool.

1:47:47 Ally: Let me give you that roll. This is a, what is this, investigation?

1:47:51 Brennan: Perception.

1:47:51 Ally: Perception.

1:47:52 Brennan: So you can give me a perception first.

1:47:54 Ally: Great. Perception, that's only gonna be an eight.

1:47:59 Brennan: All right so this next roll's not gonna be with advantage. This is your history check to try and use your Gotham Timepiece to find one of the things you're looking for. We're gonna need a DC, cool, didn't happen.

1:48:15 Ally: Doesn't matter, it's a four.

1:48:18 Brennan: You—

1:48:18 Ally: Uh, okay.

1:48:20 Brennan: Cool, you've moved, you still have an action. You didn't find anything here. You could try to move, and the history checks are for free. You don't spot anything in that one. You can try to move down the line or move to another one or you still have an action left.

1:48:33 Ally: Yeah.

1:48:36 Brennan: You've used how much movement now?

1:48:36 Ally: Okay.

1:48:36 Brennan: You've used like 30?

1:48:38 Ally: 30, that was 30, yeah.

1:48:38 Brennan: Cool, yep. If you want to use a dash action, you can.

1:48:43 Ally: Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to do that.

1:48:45 Brennan: Cool.

1:48:45 Ally: Okay, so we're gonna dash ♪ A little bit longer now ♪ Okay.

1:48:51 Brennan: Cool.

1:48:53 Ally: Can I go here and do another history? That's not super far, but...

1:48:57 Brennan: Yes, and I'm gonna say because this is your second check this one's gonna be with disadvantage. You're just trying to hit a DC 15, go ahead and roll it.

1:49:05 Ally: History?

1:49:05 Brennan: Yep.

1:49:07 Ally: Man. No, 6.

1:49:10 Brennan: Pete, you run. At the end of your turn...

1:49:24 Ally: Can I yell while I'm hiding and tell everyone,

1:49:32 Pete: This is Null. It's Null!

1:49:36 Ally: And then also...

1:49:36 Iga: Got it.

1:49:38 Pete: I fucking love you guys! [Emily laughs]

1:49:41 Pete: You mean the world to me! I'm so happy that we're the Dream Team.

1:49:47 Ally: And then yeah, I'm hiding behind this pillar.

1:49:50 Brennan: Okay, I'm gonna need saves from Ricky, Sofia, Iga, Kingston, and Cody again. These are Intelligence saving throws, DC 18.

1:50:01 Zac: Can I make a, is it a spell?

1:50:01 Brennan: It is not a spell.

1:50:05 Zac: Okay. [Siobhan groans]

1:50:07 Zac: What was the DC?

1:50:07 Brennan: DC is 18.

1:50:11 Siobhan: Nat 20!

1:50:11 Emily: It's intelligence so I don't automatically fail. [Zac groans painfully]

1:50:16 Emily: I fail again.

1:50:16 Brennan: Cool.

1:50:18 Murph: Ooh, I almost—

1:50:19 Ally: How close to failing are you?

1:50:21 Emily: I literally rolled the same exact thing so I'm at 12 again.

1:50:23 Murph: I got a 16. That would be helpful for me.

1:50:25 Ally: Yeah, I got you.

1:50:29 Murph: Thank you.

1:50:29 Ally: Wait, what was the DC?

1:50:32 Murph: 18.

1:50:32 Emily: 18.

1:50:33 Ally: Oh yeah.

1:50:33 Zac: I got it. [sighs]

1:50:36 Ally: All right.

1:50:36 Zac: No, I got a, that's a, I did my math wrong, I failed. I'm gonna use another luck point.

1:50:44 Brennan: Cool.

1:50:46 Zac: Even worse, never mind.

1:50:46 Ally: Okay, so this is for Cody.

1:50:48 Murph: So bad, oh god.

1:50:48 Ally: All right, Cody. Four!

1:50:54 Murph: Yes! (claps hands)

1:50:54 Brennan: Hell yes.

1:50:55 Emily: Yeah!

1:50:55 Ally: Four, four, four.

1:50:56 Murph: Okay, so does my moped also have to roll?

1:50:59 Brennan: Moped also has to roll.

1:51:01 Murph: You're the smartest fucking moped I've ever met. Come on. (gasps)

1:51:06 Lou: Pete, how many times can you Bend Luck?

1:51:08 Ally: A lot, do you need it, what do you need?

1:51:10 Lou: I'm also at 16.

1:51:10 Ally: Okay, I got you. I will use sorcery points.

1:51:14 Brennan: Can you do, no, I think Bend Luck is a reaction. I don't think you can use Bend Luck again.

1:51:18 Lou: [voice muffled, pen in his mouth] It's all good.

1:51:19 Brennan: I think it's just a reaction.

1:51:20 Ally: Wait. Oh, oh, I can't use it like on two different people by burning that number of sorcery points?

1:51:29 Brennan: I think it's a reaction. Let me double check on your sheet.

1:51:32 Ally: Yeah, it's definitely a reaction.

1:51:34 Brennan: Yeah, so it's only once.

1:51:34 Ally: Nuts, man.

1:51:35 Brennan: Just the once.

1:51:35 Lou: It's all good.

1:51:38 Murph: My moped tried its damn best. It is a scholarly moped, but it only got a 16.

1:51:42 Brennan: Cool.

1:51:44 Emily: It's a miracle that it survived the first round.

1:51:46 Murph: Honestly it's a...

1:51:47 Ally: [whistles dejectedly] Fuck, Kingston, sorry.

1:51:49 Lou: To me it felt like—

1:51:50 Murph: Moped's actually super fucking smart.

1:51:51 Lou: Cody needed it.

1:51:51 Brennan: 16, 24. Moped is gone.

1:51:56 Murph: No!

1:51:57 Zac: God, we haven't had any, I haven't had a turn yet.

1:52:01 Brennan: Yep. Who failed? Ricky, Kingston, Sofia?

1:52:03 Murph: Oh wait, I didn't.

1:52:05 Emily: I did.

1:52:05 Brennan: Cool.

1:52:07 Emily: Sofia failed again.

1:52:09 Brennan: Each of you takes 29 points of psychic damage.

1:52:14 Murph: Good God.

1:52:16 Brennan: Same choice to make. I will say, Sofia...

1:52:20 Emily: I'm already stunned.

1:52:24 Brennan: Yeah, and I'm gonna just double check here.

1:52:25 Emily: Can I just keep being stunned?

1:52:27 Brennan: You're probably in the same position to just go stunned again.

1:52:28 Emily: Okay.

1:52:32 Brennan: Kingston and Ricky, what is the choice you are making? [Lou laughs]

1:52:39 Zac: I'm going to say I'm gonna... I feel like we just need to not be stunned and so I'm gonna say wisdom.

1:52:47 Ally: Nice, dude.

1:52:51 Brennan: Ricky, everything goes gray. You do not lose your memories, but you lose your ability to perceive, to gain insight. You have no understanding left of other people. You maintain a focus of specific memories. You know what you're supposed to do next. You don't remember any of your relationships to people. You've become like just a, you're like some kind of single-purpose, like a rescue dog running through the night, completely single track.

1:53:29 Zac: Very different from how Ricky used to be. [laughs]

1:53:31 Brennan: Yeah.

1:53:31 Zac: Oh.

1:53:34 Brennan: Kingston.

1:53:34 Lou: Yep, yeah.

1:53:37 Brennan: And you still take the damage, by the way, but you ignore the stunned condition.

1:53:41 Ally: Can I start a really small popcorn chant where I go,

1:53:41 Pete: Dream?

1:53:48 Iga: Team.

1:53:48 Sofia: Popcorn? Oh. [players laughing]

1:53:53 Ally: We just start kind of chanting, like,

1:53:53 Pete: Dream.

1:53:56 Ricky: What?

1:53:56 Pete: Team.

1:53:56 Iga: Team.

1:53:56 Pete: Dream. Team.

1:53:57 Emily: I can only speak falteringly, so I kind of mumble along,

1:53:57 Sofia: Team.

1:54:01 Lou: I will take Charisma.

1:54:05 Brennan: Kingston, you lose your sense of self. You lose your desire or ability to interact with others. You don't have an ego that you can project anymore. You are able to perceive others. You are able to remember, but you no longer have a sense of who Kingston Brown is to make an impression on the world around you. Auto fail Charisma saves, may not make Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation checks. [Zac sighs deeply]

1:54:42 Brennan: That is going to be, so Pete, that was your turn. Null took its legendary actions. Sofia, at the end of your turn you may make another intelligence saving throw to come out of the stunned condition.

1:54:59 Emily: Okay. (dramatic instrumental music)

1:55:02 Brennan: Remember, you get the bonus from Ricky being nearby.

1:55:05 Emily: Yeah, yeah.

1:55:15 Brennan: You do not come out of the stunned condition. Iga, on your nat 20 saving throw.

1:55:22 Siobhan: Mm-hmm.

1:55:24 Brennan: You feel yourself, the chest in your bag throbs with energy. This thing's ability on a nat 20 saving throw will not work on you again. Your magic was made to fight things like this as you stare into the emptiness. Ricky, that's gonna be your turn.

1:55:51 Zac: Oh, fuck. Okay, I'm next to the one. I saw a bouquet on the thing that I am at right now, right?

1:55:59 Brennan: Yes, you did.

1:56:03 Ricky: Bouquet! [laughs]

1:56:05 Zac: That's how single-mind.

1:56:05 Brennan: Cool.

1:56:06 Zac: And I'm hitting the watch—

1:56:06 Brennan: The Gotham.

1:56:09 Zac: Trying to go back in fucking time.

1:56:13 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead. I'm gonna say you have advantage 'cause you hit a 22 on your perception. You're trying to clear just a DC 15 history check.

1:56:23 Zac: Come on. History?

1:56:28 Brennan: Yep.

1:56:32 Zac: I got an 11, I have a zero to history. [Brennan sighs]

1:56:36 Zac: I'm, [sighs] I'm gonna use my last luck point.

1:56:41 Ally: Yes.

1:56:41 Brennan: Cool, go for it.

1:56:44 Zac: 17.

1:56:46 Brennan: Hell yes.

1:56:46 Ally: Yeah!

1:56:48 Brennan: Ricky, you rush up stumbling.

1:56:48 Lou: Good news!

1:56:50 Brennan: Ricky, you cannot see anymore. Your body is falling apart as you go hollow inside. You hit the watch on your wrist. (mimics magical reverberations) Scintillating light, pure time. (imitates big band music) Pure New York hustle throws you into a photograph on the wall. Ricky disappears into a photograph. You no longer feel Null's presence. You have still given up those two ability scores. You still have a sense of self, but your wisdom is gone.

1:57:23 Zac: Do I still have a turn or is that my turn?

1:57:27 Brennan: You will still have an action now. You appear in the photograph on the wall.

1:57:36 Siobhan: Whoa!

1:57:36 Lou: Oh.

1:57:38 Murph: Oh, shit.

1:57:38 Ally: Cool.

1:57:39 Brennan: Look at that, yeah, Ricky's in the photo.

1:57:41 Zac: Oh, whoa!

1:57:43 Lou: Amazing.

1:57:45 Brennan: Incredible, it's so incredible. You hear jazz playing. (peaceful jazz music)

1:57:54 Brennan: You hear laughter and music. (guests laughing)

1:57:58 Brennan: A band is playing and you hear a bunch of people gasp— (crowd gasps)

1:58:02 Brennan: As you appear. You are again—

1:58:05 Zac: Naked like Terminator?

1:58:09 Siobhan: [laughs] Just covered in goo.

1:58:12 Ally: So ripped and so naked.

1:58:16 Brennan: Ricky, you are standing in your modern garb in a wedding in a beautiful venue right off of 125th Street in the 1920s. You see a bunch of people gasp. What do you say as you look out? You see there's some piano players. You can see here in the photograph the people here in this family. The cake has just been cut and people look to behold you as you appear here.

1:58:42 Ricky: Okay, everyone. [Brennan laughs]

1:58:46 Zac: [laughs] I'm struggling to maintain. So I don't feel the effects, but I still, like, I'm still—

1:58:53 Brennan: You still have lost your Dexterity and your Wisdom, but you still have your Charisma, so Persuasion.

1:58:57 Zac: Okay.

1:58:58 Brennan: You still have a sense of self. What you have a hard time, if you think about it, you've lost access to Insight and Perception.

1:59:05 Zac: Okay.

1:59:05 Brennan: So you don't know what's going on with these people. It's more like you're confused, but you can still talk. You still have that part of you.

1:59:14 Zac: I'm going to use, like, I don't have an actual spell for this, but my Civic Authority that I've used in the past to just let everyone know,

1:59:23 Ricky: Everything's calm. Everything's fine, this is—

1:59:25 Emily: Everything's—

1:59:29 Ricky: Everything's calm, so pretty to be here. [cast laughs]

1:59:36 Brennan: You see a man walks up to you. The groom actually walks up to you and says,

1:59:40 Groom: Sir, can I help you?

1:59:42 Ricky: Listen, you are a man who's been married today and it feels like it must be good for you to feel that way. And so for the day to be continued to be blessed, I would love to borrow a bouquet of flowers.

2:00:05 Brennan: He looks at you.

2:00:05 Zac: I'm smiling in the nicest smile I can smile.

2:00:13 Brennan: Amazing. He says,

2:00:13 Groom: Just any bouquet will do?

2:00:18 Ricky: I think it's a specific bouquet.

2:00:20 Zac: But can I make any sort of check to, can I Locate Object or is that? God, I don't know if I want to burn that.

2:00:27 Brennan: Yes, you can cast.

2:00:27 Zac: Yeah.

2:00:29 Brennan: On your turn you cast Locate Object. It is the bride's bouquet.

2:00:31 Zac: Okay.

2:00:32 Brennan: You need the bride's bouquet.

2:00:33 Ally: Of course it is, of course.

2:00:33 Emily: Wow.

2:00:35 Murph: That's a tough sell, that's a tough sell.

2:00:38 Ally: Yeah!

2:00:38 Ricky: I'm pretty sure this is not going to be the happy thing you want to hear, but I need to borrow the bride's bouquet. It is a matter of saving New York.

2:00:52 Brennan: Ricky, you look over and see next to you on the table even through your confusion, a guestbook for the wedding of Arthur and Marian Brown. We're gonna cut from Zac, it's someone else's turn. You cast Locate Object. You know what it is you do. Kingston, that is your turn.

2:01:16 Lou: So I have no sense that I am Kingston Brown. I'm just a vessel on a mission?

2:01:21 Brennan: You are a vessel on a mission.

2:01:24 Lou: Okay. Then driven by my mission… Okay, let's do this. I'm gonna cast Enhance Abilities at a one, two, three, at a fourth level.

2:01:41 Brennan: Cool.

2:01:44 Lou: And touch Cody and Iga.

2:01:44 Brennan: Okay.

2:01:47 Murph: Cool, thank you.

2:01:48 Lou: And look at them and just say,

2:01:50 Kingston: [flatly] This will help us do what we came to do.

2:01:53 Lou: And then myself as well, and then I will slowly walk over to “From New Amsterdam to New York”.

2:02:00 Brennan: “From New Amsterdam to New York”, yep, cool. You cast that. Go ahead and give me a history check.

2:02:12 Lou: Great. Okay, that's gonna be a 17.

2:02:24 Brennan: Oh, baby, Kingston. Siobhan rubs her hands.

2:02:30 Brennan: Here is what you see.

2:02:35 Lou: [laughs] I made it off the board, thank you God. Oh, okay, great.

2:02:40 Siobhan: Oh, all right. Maypole time.

2:02:46 Brennan: Kingston, you are standing in brand-new New York. Peter Stuyvesant has surrendered to the British a couple weeks ago. You are standing around this maypole dance. You see a woman holding a wooden leg.

2:03:13 Lou: Great, I cannot make any sort of check with regard to persuasion so I'm just gonna ready myself to cast Command on my next turn and force her to give me that leg. [Murph and Siobhan chuckle]

2:03:27 Brennan: Incredible, Siobhan.

2:03:31 Siobhan: Yes.

2:03:31 Brennan: Is it okay if I throw a curveball at you?

2:03:36 Siobhan: Oh my goodness, I would be honored.

2:03:39 Brennan: Siobhan, you are dancing around a maypole having a great time. You've played a practical joke on that fucking stooge, Peter Stuyvesant.

2:03:48 Holly: Tra-la-la. [Ally laughs]

2:03:54 Brennan: And a man appears. Kingston, you are like rendered in the wood etching style of this drawing here. [to Siobhan] You see a man approaching, preparing to cast a spell. [to Lou] And Kingston, you feel as if you remember this person.

2:04:22 Lou: I mean, I guess there's the idea that I, like, I don't know. This new Kingston is intense so it's like I remember them but I know I'm not connected to the part that knows them.

2:04:38 Brennan: It's like you're full dissociated.

2:04:40 Lou: Yeah.

2:04:40 Brennan: You're not experiencing your own life anymore. You're just a series of actions. But you do know that this person looks up at you with recognition.

2:04:51 Kingston: I need the leg.

2:04:58 Holly: [pauses] I'm sorry, hello. What?

2:04:58 Kingston: Hello, I need the leg.

2:05:03 Holly: I mean, I'll give it to you. I think it's very funny to give this leg that I stole to a stranger. What, who are you, what's going on?

2:05:12 Kingston: I'm called Kingston Brown.

2:05:16 Brennan: You see someone in the distance calls out and goes like,

2:05:22 Someone: Oh right, that's, over there in the corner. She stole Peter Stuyvesant's wooden leg! That's Miss Holly Branch! [Zac laughs]

2:05:34 Brennan: This is Misty, this is 1700s Misty Moore. [Emily laughs]

2:05:39 Lou: AKA Holly Branch.

2:05:42 Brennan: Holly Branch. Siobhan, what does Holly do in this moment as this strange man asks for Peter Stuyvesant's wooden leg?

2:05:53 Siobhan: I think what I do is… Because I am somewhat of an agent of chaos, I give him the leg and I say,

2:06:10 Holly: Nay, 'twas this man, he took the leg! [cast laughs]

2:06:15 Brennan: Incredible, you smile and laugh. Kingston, you are holding the wooden leg. The townsfolk begin to laugh and cheer. Cody “Night Angel” Walsh, that is your turn.

2:06:29 Murph: Sweet. Cody is not dexterous right now, does not have a moped.

2:06:33 Siobhan: If you hold, I can move us.

2:06:40 Ally: Ooh.

2:06:40 Murph: That would be very cool. Sweet, can I use my action now but wait to use my movement on Iga's turn, Brennan?

2:06:54 Brennan: Sorry, can you hold your action?

2:06:56 Murph: Yeah, I want to cast Bless on a bunch of us to give us d4s.

2:07:00 Emily: Oh, I could use that especially 'cause all my paladins are gone.

2:07:05 Brennan: Yeah, I would probably...

2:07:05 Zac: Oh, gosh, sorry.

2:07:09 Brennan: Yeah, man, do what you're gonna do.

2:07:13 Murph: Sweet, I will go ahead and with the fires of Hell, bless my friends. It's within 30 feet. If I can see Kingston in the picture would that count? Could I give Kingston a d4, too?

2:07:28 Brennan: Yeah, I'll let you give Kingston a d4.

2:07:30 Murph: I think the only person—

2:07:31 Brennan: You are just out of Counterspell range, my man.

2:07:34 Murph: Let me see if I'm close enough to get Pete. I think unfortunately there's no possible way I can get to Ricky. Okay, I think I'll move forward a little bit. Iga, were you going to like Thunder Step us or like move us?

2:07:46 Siobhan: Yeah.

2:07:46 Murph: Okay. So I could still use my movement and you can Thunder Step.

2:07:49 Siobhan: Yes.

2:07:51 Murph: Just so I can make sure I get Pete, too. So I will use my movement—

2:07:53 Brennan: Cool.

2:07:55 Murph: —to run forward, so I'll go kind of get in the middle so I can hit everyone. I'll go 25 feet, get in the middle. [a little menacingly] And then I will summon the powers of hell [normal voice] to bless everybody. (Ally and Emily laughing)

2:08:14 Murph: At a third level I can hit everybody except for Ricky, unfortunately. Zac nods.

2:08:20 Brennan: Cool.

2:08:21 Ally: Is that a d4?

2:08:21 Murph: Yes.

2:08:23 Emily: Yeah.

2:08:24 Brennan: You hear Bazathrax in your chest go,

2:08:26 Bazathrax: Hell yeah, dude, let's do it! What the fuck's going on out there anyway?

2:08:29 Cody: You haven't fucking talked to me for like, what are you doing in there, dude? You've just been in there.

2:08:35 Bazathrax: Dude, we gotta fucking crazy L section on here and a monster bong, dude.

2:08:41 Cody: Who's, oh, right, The Jersey Devil's in there. I was just mindlessly consuming devils. Get the fuck out! Get the fuck out!

2:08:50 Bazathrax: This fucking dude is a monster, dude!

2:08:51 Brennan: All right, incredible, you cast Bless.

2:08:54 Murph: Oh, and then can I do, I guess can I do a History check on the one that Pete failed on?

2:09:02 Brennan: Yes, there's also, you're right next to, those middle plinths are also—

2:09:06 Murph: Oh, okay.

2:09:07 Siobhan: 20th Century—

2:09:08 Brennan: Yeah.

2:09:08 Murph: Yeah, I'll just do whatever one I was closest to.

2:09:09 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it. Go ahead and give me an Intelligence check.

2:09:12 Murph: Great.

2:09:12 Lou: Advantaged.

2:09:15 Murph: Oh yeah, ooh, baby.

2:09:17 Brennan: Ooh, yeah, his—

2:09:17 Murph: Okay, yeah, with advantage. 21.

2:09:22 Brennan: 21?

2:09:25 Ally: Hell yeah.

2:09:25 Brennan: Hell yeah, baby.

2:09:27 Murph: Oh, even more 'cause now I have proficiency in History. Yeah, like 23.

2:09:29 Brennan: Dope as hell.

2:09:32 Siobhan: Maybe I'll Thunder Step Sofia.

2:09:33 Brennan: Watch what happens now.

2:09:36 Emily: I am kind of worthless, so you should Thunder Step someone who can actually do something.

2:09:40 Siobhan: Well, everybody's—

2:09:41 Emily: I have plus two to intelligence.

2:09:42 Siobhan: You're the only person in my range.

2:09:44 Emily: Okay, I'm probably just gonna stay stunned this entire time. (laughs)

2:09:52 Brennan: Cody, you appear in the 20th Century Immigration, 1970s. [mimics magical reverberations] [players laugh]

2:10:01 Brennan: Incredible.

2:10:02 Siobhan: The sword is still too big.

2:10:05 Brennan: Amazing, truly amazing.

2:10:06 Ally: Oh my god, oh my god. Absolutely unreal, the screenshot of a lifetime.

2:10:13 Brennan: You're standing in a family home. You see there is a happy, beautiful family, two Chinese immigrant parents and their first-gen kids. You see there's a little kid with a Mets cap holding a baseball.

2:10:32 Siobhan: Oh!

2:10:33 Brennan: The kids, the people here look at you and you see the dad says,

2:10:37 Dad: Who the hell are you?

2:10:40 Brennan: And the kid looks at you and says like,

2:10:43 Kid: Hey Dad, who's this guy?

2:10:45 Brennan: Cody, what do you— You've used your action so you get to say something, but you're out of actions for this turn.

2:10:52 Cody: Uh hey, my name's Cody, uh... [Zac laughs]

2:10:57 Brennan: Iga, that is going to be you.

2:10:59 Siobhan: [sighs] Okay, so its magic won't work against me. Do I get the impression that my magic will work against it?

2:11:08 Brennan: You get the impression that your magic will work against it, yes.

2:11:12 Siobhan: Okay, in which case what I want to actually do, instead of doing Thunder Step, is this a humanoid?

2:11:24 Brennan: No, this is not a humanoid.

2:11:24 Siobhan: Damn. Damn!

2:11:29 Lou: [quietly] Damn.

2:11:29 Siobhan: Um, hmm. Then I would like to see if I can cast Suggestion on Null.

2:11:43 Brennan: Cool, awesome, go for it.

2:11:51 Siobhan: And I would like to suggest that it leave this place. It's a DC 17 Wisdom check.

2:11:58 Brennan: Iga, you attempt to abjure this thing. The magic of this dragon sorcery hits this dream being. [discordant chime resounds]

2:12:11 Brennan: And you feel it is completely immune to charm effects. [Siobhan sighs]

2:12:19 Brennan: It,

2:12:19 Null: [inhales sharply] You would attempt to sway me? I cannot be swayed.

2:12:29 Brennan: Any movement from Iga on her turn?

2:12:34 Siobhan: Yes, I'll move towards these suitcases up here.

2:12:41 Brennan: Those ones up, yeah.

2:12:42 Siobhan: Am I close enough here to be able to see the photograph?

2:12:49 Brennan: Sorry, that series of photographs actually does not have one of the cases by it, the one by the suitcases. You can go for one of the other ones, but you'll be rolling with disadvantage.

2:13:02 Siobhan: Well, I have advantage from Kingston so I would just be rolling flat.

2:13:06 Brennan: Cool.

2:13:07 Siobhan: Sofia, do you have advantage in darkness on checks or anything like that?

2:13:13 Emily: I have, no. I can see in total darkness. I have the Devil's Sight but—

2:13:17 Siobhan: Right.

2:13:20 Emily: But no.

2:13:20 Siobhan: Okay, well, I'll roll on “Tenements and Family Life”.

2:13:24 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it. Just a straight roll.

2:13:30 Siobhan: Oh, I make it. I rolled a 17, plus Bless, plus two.

2:13:36 Brennan: Cool. [mimics magic energy shooting] [festive instrumental music]

2:13:40 Brennan: You see an image appear before you of a sort of 1800s tenement family seamstress like tailors celebrating Hanukkah together. Go ahead and make a Perception check for me.

2:14:00 Siobhan: 18.

2:14:03 Brennan: A shape smiles in through the window made of brick back through the window behind you, silhouetted in the sky. You've used your action. Now Null is going to go. [softer, spookier music plays]

2:14:25 Brennan: On a natural 19.

2:14:28 Lou: Oh, I don't like this one bit. I like nothing about this.

2:14:37 Brennan: Null joins Iga in the photograph. [players protest]

2:14:40 Lou: What, come on, dude!

2:14:45 Brennan: Chasing the person with the nat 20 on the save that has the Dragon Chest. [menacing Box of Doom music plays]

2:14:50 Brennan: I'm gonna roll in front of the board to see if Null recharges its Mind Blast. On a 5 or 6 on a d6 it recharges. 2, it does not recharge.

2:15:06 Ally: Okay, yes, yes!

2:15:06 Lou: Oh, God damn. [laughs]

2:15:11 Brennan: Gonna roll some attacks. Both of those hit Iga. Iga, you take one, two, three. Sorry, hold on, I gotta just count these dice up real quick.

2:15:28 Murph: Oh, Jesus.

2:15:30 Brennan: 8, 7 is 15, 20, 23. You take 29 psychic damage. Murph takes off his glasses.

2:15:44 Brennan: Seven, nine. Nine, 15, 17. And then 23 psychic damage.

2:15:54 Lou: [chuckles] What? What are you at, Iga?

2:16:00 Siobhan: 44.

2:16:06 Murph: You guys have so much HP, it's crazy.

2:16:09 Brennan: I'm gonna need Iga to make two Charisma saving throws.

2:16:16 Siobhan: Okay.

2:16:16 Murph: You are Blessed.

2:16:18 Siobhan: I'm Blessed.

2:16:22 Emily: Charisma's gotta be good for a warlock.

2:16:23 Siobhan: And saving throws I have a plus nine to Charisma so.

2:16:27 Ally: Amazing.

2:16:27 Siobhan: Mm, still not great. 14 on the first one. [sighs] 13 on the next one.

2:16:30 Ally: With Bless?

2:16:35 Siobhan: With Bless, yeah. I rolled really badly.

2:16:37 Brennan: Your hit point max drops by that same amount of damage.

2:16:44 Siobhan: So now my max is 44?

2:16:44 Emily: Oh.

2:16:46 Brennan: Yes, your max is 44 as you feel Null [inhales raspily] trying to hollow out your soul. That is now going to be, Pete, that's you.

2:17:03 Lou: Huh.

2:17:03 Ally: Okay. I am. [inhales and exhales] Okay, I'm going to use sorcery points to cast Haste on myself as a bonus action.

2:17:21 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

2:17:24 Ally: And then I'm going to roll for this, like a history check for the one in front of me.

2:17:31 Brennan: Cool.

2:17:33 Zac: We got that watch, remember, that is good with directions.

2:17:36 Ally: Yeah, that's a 16 plus, what's...

2:17:41 Brennan: I'm gonna say this, Pete, too. Because you already failed that one, you might want to move farther along to move to one of the other ones that you didn't fail on if that makes sense. Like, rather than go—

2:17:55 Ally: Does the DC get harder?

2:17:58 Brennan: The DC gets harder when you've already failed on them.

2:18:01 Ally: Oh, I got you. Let's see, it's a history check, right?

2:18:06 Brennan: Correct, yes.

2:18:07 Ally: So do you think a 17 wouldn't work on this one?

2:18:10 Brennan: I don't think a 17 would work on this one, but it would work on the next one down.

2:18:13 Ally: That's great. Okay, so I'm gonna move here.

2:18:21 Brennan: Hell yeah.

2:18:22 Ally: And I'm actually doing it on this one.

2:18:24 Brennan: Dope as hell. Pete, you appear in a massive crowd of people disembarking from a ship. You see that there is a family of Irish immigrants coming off of a steam ship and a huge crowd of people. It's like 1847. You see that a bunch of them look up at you. And you've used a bonus action to cast Haste so you still have your action left. You see that there is a woman who turns to look at you and looks at you with a look of recognition.

2:19:08 Pete: Hi.

2:19:10 Brennan: Go ahead and with your remaining action, go ahead and roll Persuasion for me if you'd be so kind.

2:19:16 Ally: Okay, yeah, hell yeah, 19.

2:19:20 Brennan: Ooh.

2:19:20 Ally: 20.

2:19:24 Brennan: You see a man, a woman, and a little kid walk up to you. The woman walks up and says,

2:19:35 Woman: Young lad, are you, do we know you?

2:19:40 Pete: Yes, and I need your help.

2:19:44 Brennan: Instead of having to look for this, Pete, you look at this woman who looks at you, meets your eyes and looks at you and says,

2:19:53 Woman: You're the one. You're the one that the folk under the hills told us would come. “A child would be born in this new world to the daughter of your daughter's son,” said they. “Charmed and cursed alike shall he be, fair of face and quick of tongue, a shapeshifter and friend of the wind. He will walk between all ways, and his name will be known to him before it is known to any other. He will be a voice to the unspoken and in a city without sleep he will awaken."

2:20:31 Brennan: The little boy reaches into a pocket, takes out a gold Faerie coin and places it into your hand and it becomes a penny in your hand.

2:20:46 Pete: Thank you. You guys don't know what you've done.

2:20:51 Ally: And then I get the fuck out of the painting.

2:20:52 Brennan: [laughs] At the end of Pete's turn, Null's gonna take a legendary—

2:20:58 Ally: Oh honey, that's not the end of my turn. I cast Haste on myself, that's one action. I'm moving on to the next one.

2:21:03 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it. You can either give me a DC 20 History check to dip straight into another photo or you can dip back out into the common room.

2:21:22 Ally: Can I dip out back into the room and move up to another photo?

2:21:24 Brennan: Yes, you can.

2:21:29 Ally: Okay, yeah, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna dip back out and then move to this next photo.

2:21:35 Brennan: Cool.

2:21:36 Ally: “Immigration and the Armed Services.”

2:21:39 Brennan: Hell yeah. Boom, you got your coin. Go ahead and make your history check.

2:21:45 Ally: Okay. Hell yeah! Okay, that is a 16.

2:21:49 Brennan: 16, cool. Pete, you're looking at this wall looking for photos everywhere. As you are looking for photos you know you have the coin, Kingston has the leg, Ricky's working on getting the bouquet. Is there a particular thing that you're looking for? Does Pete remember the other items that you guys were looking for?

2:22:16 Ally: Yeah, I'm either looking for a scrap of paper or a candle or a cymbal.

2:22:21 Emily: I think the candle would be with Iga.

2:22:24 Siobhan: Yeah, it's Hanukkah.

2:22:24 Ally: Probably, cool. So it's gotta be scrap of paper or candle, [shakes head] or I mean, or cymbal.

2:22:30 Brennan: Pete, you see...

2:22:35 Siobhan: Oh, brass band.

2:22:37 Emily: Yeah, that's what I was thinking, armed services.

2:22:39 Ally: Nice!

2:22:41 Brennan: You see a ticker tape parade with paper.

2:22:45 Ally: Amazing.

2:22:45 Siobhan: Oh.

2:22:46 Emily: Oh, scrap of paper.

2:22:46 Brennan: It is a ticker tape parade. You fly in. You see a young husband and wife. The husband has just come back from fighting the German Army, fighting the Nazis in World War II. They both look at you. You see that they are a young couple of immigrants. They are two young Colombian immigrants. The young man in his 20s looks up at you and goes,

2:23:19 Alejandro: Peter?

2:23:19 Pete: [eyes wide] Oh.

2:23:23 Alejandro: Peter, is that you?

2:23:23 Pete: Alejandro!

2:23:27 Brennan: His eye flashes golden and you see peeking out of his messenger bag is a book of spells for him fighting a bunch of occult Nazis during World War II.

2:23:42 Ally: Incredible.

2:23:42 Brennan: As a wizard. He looks at you and says,

2:23:47 Alejandro: Peter, how do I know you? What is it that you need, my friend?

2:23:54 Pete: I need a piece of paper.

2:23:57 Brennan: He reaches up, grabs a piece of paper, puts it in Pete's hand. What a fucking turn from Pete, baby.

2:24:05 Ally: Uh, we're not done. I'm gonna use the timepiece and get one more turn. [Murph gasps]

2:24:10 Brennan: And get a level of exhaustion?

2:24:12 Ally: Yeah.

2:24:12 Brennan: Hell yeah, go for it, dude.

2:24:16 Ally: Okay, honey, we're popping back outta here. I'm like,

2:24:18 Pete: Thank you for your service, Alejandro.

2:24:21 Ally: And then I pop back out. [laughs] And I go do the next one.

2:24:24 Zac: Nice.

2:24:26 Brennan: Amazing.

2:24:26 Ally: So if that's bonus action was casting Haste which gave me two turns then I'm doing this, this will, yeah, a third turn.

2:24:34 Brennan: Hell yeah, go ahead and give me another History check, homie.

2:24:38 Ally: Okay.

2:24:40 Brennan: And are you going in to one of other occupied—

2:24:42 Ally: Yes!

2:24:42 Brennan: What was that?

2:24:43 Ally: I rolled a 17 so it's an 18 History check. And cutie, you know I'm looking for that cymbal.

2:24:53 Brennan: Hell yeah. Pete, you rush out, boom, appear here. Sorry, wait a minute, the DC for this went up. This is now a DC 20 so you do not get—

2:25:03 Lou: Bless.

2:25:03 Murph: Did you use Bless? Did you use Bless?

2:25:04 Ally: Oh, I have Bless. I have Bless.

2:25:05 Brennan: Gotta hit a two on that d4.

2:25:08 Ally: Stupid.

2:25:08 Murph: Come on.

2:25:09 Ally: I'll roll it in front of the board.

2:25:11 Brennan: Go for it.

2:25:11 Murph: Just not a one.

2:25:12 Lou: Here we go. (Siobhan groans nervously) (dramatic instrumental music)

2:25:15 Lou: Two!

2:25:15 Ally: Yes! [players cheer excitedly]

2:25:17 Siobhan: Bare minimum, we love to see it.

2:25:21 Murph: Fuck yeah.

2:25:24 Brennan: Pete, using his dream sorcerer shit to tear through these other realms.

2:25:30 Siobhan: Damn, can I just say, Kendra fucking killed it on this one.

2:25:34 Brennan: Isn't this beautiful? Aren't these photos—

2:25:36 Siobhan: They’ve been doing a great job this whole time.

2:25:36 Ally: Oh yeah, incredible.

2:25:37 Siobhan: But these pictures are so good.

2:25:40 Ally: Absolutely incredible, they're so sick.

2:25:45 Brennan: Pete, you appear in a photo from, like, turn of the century, like 1900. [Ally laughs] [cheerful organ music]

2:25:52 Brennan: You see there's like a family, a well-to-do family and there is a father and daughter that look like this is around a huge wave of Italian immigration coming into the city. And you see there's a man playing an organ grinder. He's got a capuchin monkey with the two little cymbals doing the thing. Looks up in the middle of his performance, smiling. He goes,

2:26:16 Man: [Italian accent] Oh, buongiorno, hello! You appear from nowhere.

2:26:24 Ally: Do I know this person, can I do an Insight check? Or is this a full stranger?

2:26:28 Brennan: Give me an Insight check.

2:26:28 Siobhan: “You know the monkey.” [players chuckle]

2:26:32 Lou: That's who you know.

2:26:35 Siobhan: The monkey is Marcel from Friends.

2:26:37 Ally: That's only an 8.

2:26:39 Brennan: You have no idea who the fuck this dude is. This is gonna be some serious Persuasion stuff.

2:26:44 Ally: I'm gonna try to intimidate him.

2:26:47 Brennan: Okay, go ahead and give me an Intimidate check.

2:26:49 Pete: Give me that fucking cymbal. [Ally and Lou laugh]

2:26:52 Ally: Oh baby, that's a 27. [Siobhan laughs] Ally covers their face.

2:26:56 Brennan: Pete, you like, the photograph roils and you see the guy goes,

2:26:59 Man: Okay, okay, it is all right. Listen, you can have the, here.

2:27:05 Brennan: You see that he claps his hand. The money jumps to his shoulder. He takes one of the cymbals, looks over at you. You look behind him, see his sweet little daughter and also see a bicycle behind him.

2:27:17 Ally: Cool.

2:27:17 Siobhan: Oh no! [laughs]

2:27:22 Ally: What? Wait, what? Um..

2:27:24 Emily: They're related to me. They're related to me. (Brennan clapping)

2:27:28 Ally: I take the cymbal, I have no idea who these people are, and I say,

2:27:32 Pete: Thank you for your service!

2:27:32 Ally: And I get out. [cast members laugh]

2:27:38 Brennan: And Pete is fucking gone. Okay, that's Pete's turn.

2:27:41 Ally: Okay.

2:27:46 Brennan: Okay, at the end of Pete's turn Null is going to attack Iga with a legendary action. That's a hit. Iga, you take 12, 14—

2:28:01 Siobhan: Killing me, man, killing me.

2:28:03 Brennan: 18, 25 points of damage. Give me a Charisma saving throw.

2:28:14 Siobhan: God damn, I'm rolling so badly. It's a 15.

2:28:21 Brennan: Your hit point max is reduced by that amount.

2:28:27 Siobhan: God. So now my hit point max is 19.

2:28:30 Brennan: Yes. That's gonna be Sofia.

2:28:35 Emily: Okay, I'm gonna try to get out of being stunned. That's gonna be, do I get to add Ricky's—? I think it doesn't even matter if I do. Even if I added Ricky's stuff I'm just still stunned.

2:28:47 Brennan: Oh no. I'm so sorry.

2:28:50 Emily: [laughs] You know what?

2:28:55 Brennan: Yeah.

2:28:55 Emily: I have been doing great ever since I found out I was pregnant. [cast laughs]

2:29:03 Brennan: Yeah, you remain stunned.

2:29:07 Emily: Will you let me have used the timepiece even though I'm stunned to get an extra chance to try to break out of this?

2:29:14 Brennan: If you want to take the level of exhaustion, I'll give you another save right now.

2:29:20 Emily: Okay, oh, but then it will still just be the end of my turn.

2:29:20 Brennan: You know what?

2:29:22 Emily: So I couldn't—

2:29:23 Brennan: If you're gonna use that power, I'll do beginning of your turn. Go for beginning of your turn.

2:29:25 Emily: Okay. Fuck me!

2:29:29 Murph: Oh my god.

2:29:31 Ally: No!

2:29:31 Emily: Two plus nine is 11 plus two is 13 plus four.

2:29:41 Brennan: (sighs) Stunned is really, really rough.

2:29:48 Emily: You know, I just thought someone should try it.

2:29:53 Lou: Amen.

2:29:54 Brennan: I hear you. Ricky, that is gonna be your turn.

2:29:58 Zac: I think Ricky's in this painting, confused. He's gonna look at the… There's two ways to do this in Ricky's mind.

2:30:11 Brennan: Yeah.

2:30:11 Zac: He's noticed that he's still very strong and maybe can just grab it and just do something that way.

2:30:17 Brennan: Mm-hmm, yeah.

2:30:18 Zac: Or is the little girl Kingston's mom?

2:30:23 Brennan: No, this is the 1920s so these are Winston's parents. Winston has not yet been born.

2:30:29 Zac: Gotcha.

2:30:32 Brennan: Winston has not yet been born.

2:30:33 Zac: Oh, okay. In that case, Ricky's just gonna go,

2:30:38 Ricky: I'm the leprechaun of good luck!

2:30:42 Zac: And rip his shirt off and say,

2:30:46 Ricky: The Brown family will prosper forever! [Lou laughs]

2:30:48 Zac: And grab the bouquet and run away.

2:30:52 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an opposed Athletics check.

2:30:56 Murph: Oh my god.

2:30:56 Brennan: As you grab Kingston's grandma's bouquet.

2:31:00 Lou: Oh, Ricky, we're gonna have words about this.

2:31:01 Zac: Opposed Athletics check?

2:31:03 Brennan: Athletics.

2:31:03 Zac: God, I hope this works.

2:31:05 Brennan: She got a 17.

2:31:09 Zac: [hides his face] I rolled a 3, I add 9 to that. I got a 12 and it's just an Athletics?

2:31:16 Murph: Good God.

2:31:18 Brennan: Ricky, you go to grab the bouquet. [players gasp]

2:31:21 Brennan: The freshly-married Marian Brown pops you right in the eye and says,

2:31:27 Marian: Get your hands off my bouquet, this is my wedding!

2:31:28 Zac: I hit the watch again, we're doing it again.

2:31:32 Murph: Oh my god.

2:31:32 Zac: We're doing it again.

2:31:34 Ricky: I'm sorry. This is good luck! this is good luck!

2:31:39 Brennan: She got a 6 this time.

2:31:39 Murph: Me and Ricky are thrust into these insanely awkward situations.

2:31:43 Zac: Rolled a 19.

2:31:46 Brennan: Ricky, you see the pianist runs up, the guy who's playing the piano runs up, grabs you and helps you get the bouquet. You pull it out. You see this dude, you see his drummer, he's the band leader on the piano and on the drum it says Sebastian Sinclair. And you see he looks at you and goes,

2:32:14 Sebastian: Take care of her for me, Ricky.

2:32:17 Brennan: And is referring to his great-granddaughter.

2:32:22 Zac: Oh, Esther's... Wait.

2:32:24 Brennan: This is Esther's great-grandpa. Not related to the Brown family, but playing the piano at their wedding.

2:32:34 Ricky: I will!

2:32:35 Zac: And I jump out of the picture.

2:32:36 Brennan: Ricky, you grab the bouquet, you are outta here.

2:32:39 Zac: Okay, can I move to Sofia and try to give... gosh. [sighs]

2:32:49 Emily: I'm a lost cause. He's just gonna keep doing it and I'll keep failing it, anyways, you should invest—

2:32:53 Zac: Okay.

2:32:55 Emily: I also have plus one to History so I can't even help with history checks or anything.

2:33:01 Brennan: Ricky, you can at least jump out and give your bonus to Sofia on the saving throw.

2:33:07 Zac: Okay, I'll jump out and then I wonder if I have any fucking thing I can spell-wise do. I don't really have anything, I don't think. I guess I'll cast Sanctuary on, I don't think that matters, right? They're like AoE kind of things, right?

2:33:30 Brennan: Yeah, yeah.

2:33:30 Zac: Never mind. Yeah, that's the end of my turn.

2:33:35 Brennan: At the end of Ricky's turn this is the final attack. This possibly will do enough damage to drop Iga. Null hits Iga—

2:33:45 Zac: Oh! Can I go through the paintings like Pete did?

2:33:53 Emily: Oh, to go into Iga's.

2:33:55 Brennan: Yeah, if you want to try to jump to Iga's painting you absolutely can.

2:34:00 Zac: Wait, I don't even, I can't, yeah, I can do that, I'll do that.

2:34:04 Brennan: Okay, you gotta hit a DC 20 History check to jump from painting to painting.

2:34:10 Zac: What is that, a nat 20? Let me see.

2:34:13 Ally: What do you have to History?

2:34:13 Zac: Zero. [Murph sighs]

2:34:16 Ally: Okay.

2:34:17 Zac: No.

2:34:17 Ally: Aw.

2:34:20 Murph: Shoot.

2:34:20 Brennan: But Ricky, you—

2:34:22 Siobhan: The level will know that that is.

2:34:24 Brennan: You can still exit the painting.

2:34:26 Zac: Okay, I'm just gonna come back over here and be within 10 feet, [sighs] yeah.

2:34:34 Brennan: Null hits Iga on a three or higher.

2:34:40 Siobhan: God damn.

2:34:42 Brennan: I'm gonna roll in front of the board. [dramatic instrumental music]

2:34:44 Emily: Do you have Shield or anything?

2:34:46 Siobhan: Nothing. [Murph groans]

2:34:50 Siobhan: I have counterspells, is it casting spells? It's just hitting me, right?

2:34:54 Brennan: It's not casting a spell, just hitting you.

2:34:56 Siobhan: I'm down, I mean.

2:34:58 Brennan: Ricky, as you leap back out into the room, you look and see the photograph up on the other side and see Iga in that photograph (snaps fingers) vanish from the photograph.

2:35:22 Emily: Doesn't she get a Charisma save to make it not be reducing hit point maximum?

2:35:26 Brennan: Oh, that's true. That is true, so go ahead and roll in front of the board. Iga, to succeed on this saving throw you need a 12 or higher in front of the board. [dramatic instrumental music]

2:35:48 Ally: Hey.

2:35:48 Brennan: 16.

2:35:49 Lou: Oh god.

2:35:49 Emily: Ooh!

2:35:52 Lou: Holy shit, that—

2:35:52 Emily: Yes!

2:35:53 Lou: If her hit point maximum was reduced to zero, full dead?

2:35:57 Emily: Then she would be dead.

2:35:57 Brennan: Full dead.

2:35:59 Lou: Fuck this game, dude, holy shit.

2:36:01 Brennan: Let me tell guys right now—

2:36:01 Siobhan: I'm so sweaty.

2:36:03 Brennan: Very happy, very happy to celebrate that moment. You guys are not out of the woods, and Iga is really not out of the woods. We're gonna move right along in initiative. That was Null's last legendary action. Kingston, that is your turn.

2:36:20 Lou: All right, fuck this. Can I jump, so I have the leg.

2:36:26 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

2:36:28 Emily: Jump to Iga.

2:36:31 Lou: Yeah, yeah, I look down at Misty and I'm like,

2:36:37 Kingston: [flatly] This was kind of you. You have done good, I must go.

2:36:44 Holly: I hope to meet you again, you're very handsome.

2:36:47 Kingston: You are very kind to say that. I'm gonna go.

2:36:50 Lou: And I'm going to, yeah, let me jump to “Tenements and Family Life.”

2:37:01 Brennan: Go ahead, I'm gonna need a DC 20 History check.

2:37:07 Lou: Okay. First one won't do it. [exhales softly] God, I hate this so much. Second one will 100% do it on a 19 plus 6, 25.

2:37:20 Brennan: Kingston, you flash across the room face to face with this entity. As you do so, it turns to regard you. Kingston, you move, you still have your action.

2:37:40 Lou: Great, Revivify on—

2:37:43 Brennan: On—?

2:37:44 Lou: Or no, you're not full dead, right, you're just at zero?

2:37:46 Siobhan: I'm not full dead.

2:37:46 Lou: Just at zero.

2:37:47 Brennan: Oh yeah.

2:37:47 Lou: Okay, great.

2:37:48 Siobhan: And don't use a higher level spell on me 'cause my hit point max is 19.

2:37:50 Lou: Great. Can I just, oh, I have no strength. I can't pick Iga up, okay.

2:38:04 Siobhan: If I get out of it, there's stuff I can do.

2:38:08 Brennan: Kingston, you see Null's presence is freezing this family in shape. As you appear, the family turns to you and outside you see Willy look and say,

2:38:18 Willy: Kingston Brown.

2:38:28 Brennan: You see the young girl reach down, grab a candle off the table and hand it to you as you appear in the photograph.

2:38:39 Lou: I silently take it, put it in my pocket, look at Willy and nod. And I'm gonna cast like a, yeah, I'll cast a first-level Cure Wounds on Iga.

2:38:59 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

2:39:01 Lou: 'Cause it won't do much. That's gonna be nine, Iga.

2:39:13 Siobhan: Great, thank you. [choir chanting majestically]

2:39:15 Lou: Okay, you're back up. I'm then gonna, can I, is it another action to jump photos again?

2:39:23 Brennan: It is another action, yeah. You can leave for free with movement.

2:39:29 Lou: Okay, if I use the Gotham Timepiece can I jump to another photo and use another, or I've already used one spell, no more spells this turn? Could I jump to another photo and use an action?

2:39:48 Brennan: Honestly, if you're gonna use the Gotham Timepiece, yes, you can do that.

2:39:50 Lou: Okay, great. Then I would like to jump to the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance.

2:39:56 Brennan: Cool.

2:39:58 Lou: DC 20 still?

2:40:01 Brennan: DC 20.

2:40:01 Lou: Okay, that'll do it. That's 19 plus one equals exactly 20. I look at my family. I don't feel like I'm Kingston Brown so I do nothing. I'm gonna hop out of the photo, run over to Sofia and throw detergent of… the Holy Grail Detergent on her.

2:40:28 Brennan: Kingston—

2:40:28 Emily: What's that mean?

2:40:31 Brennan: Before you exit the photo you feel a hand on your back. Your charisma and strength return to you as your grandfather Arthur Brown looks at you and says,

2:40:46 Arthur: Young man, that's a nice coat.

2:40:46 Brennan: And regards the coat that he will buy three years from this day.

2:40:55 Lou: I smile real wide, say,

2:40:58 Kingston: It does a lot of good.

2:40:58 Lou: And hop on out.

2:41:02 Brennan: You hop out of the photo and hit Sofia. Sofia, you are out of stunned condition.

2:41:07 Sofia: Oh, you didn't have to do that, Kingston. I think I don't have much to add to this battle, anyways.

2:41:13 Kingston: Hey, we're a long way from being out of the woods.

2:41:16 Sofia: Okay.

2:41:16 Kingston: So no soldiers, you know, not working right now.

2:41:18 Sofia: Okay.

2:41:20 Kingston: Snap to it.

2:41:20 Sofia: All right.

2:41:24 Brennan: Incredible, Kingston is-

2:41:24 Kingston: Also, I saw Misty. At the time I didn't really realize what was happening. I saw Misty, she stole the leg! God, I miss her.

2:41:35 Sofia: She would, classic Misty.

2:41:38 Kingston: She would, she would. Honestly, when this is over I'm gonna jump right back in that painting. (players laughing)

2:41:44 Brennan: Sofia is free. Kingston, you have jumped out. Ricky has the bouquet. Kingston has the leg and the candle, Pete has the cymbal, the coin, scrap of the ticker tape, but I will say now, Pete and Kingston and Sofia all have one level of exhaustion. Disadvantage on ability checks.

2:42:09 Lou: Yep.

2:42:09 Brennan: Cody, it is your turn.

2:42:12 Murph: Oh boy, so Murph knows that this is Jackson, right?

2:42:19 Brennan: Yeah, Cody's got no idea who the fuck this is.

2:42:21 Murph: So Cody has no, I can't even do a check, right? Like, Cody has no fucking clue.

2:42:25 Brennan: You can do a check, it's just a high DC check.

2:42:27 Emily: You've hung out with Sofia.

2:42:27 Murph: Yeah, I know, but he's a little kid.

2:42:30 Emily: Yeah, I know, I know.

2:42:34 Murph: What kind of check is it?

2:42:38 Brennan: Persuasion.

2:42:38 Murph: Oh, persuasion. (laughs) Just me bumbling and saying, "I'm Cody"? I got a 19, oh wait, I have bless, 21. [Siobhan laughs]

2:42:51 Brennan: 21?

2:42:53 Murph: Yeah.

2:42:53 Brennan: What does Cody say to this kid looking at him? You see a young Jackson Wei with his first Mets cap holding a baseball looks up and you and goes,

2:43:01 Jackson: Who the heck are you?

2:43:03 Cody: Um, I love sports and I'm a huge baseball fan. Throw one right down the middle, champ. [holds his hand out] [Lou claps] [Emily laughs]

2:43:14 Murph: And Cody has fully never played any sport in his life.

2:43:18 Ally: Oh, for sure.

2:43:18 Murph: And like goes like he's catching a football.

2:43:21 Brennan: You see Jackson looks, smiles, winds up, pitches. Baseball, bam, hits you, you grab it and blast out of the photo.

2:43:31 Murph: Phew.

2:43:35 Brennan: Iga, starting your turn within 30 feet of Null, there is an Annihilating Aura.

2:43:45 Siobhan: No.

2:43:47 Murph: Do I still have an action, Brennan, 'cause I...

2:43:50 Brennan: You still have an action, yeah.

2:43:51 Emily: You haven't used your timepiece yet.

2:43:52 Murph: I still got the ball. Can I— I guess, can I try to jump paintings and get to Iga's?

2:44:01 Brennan: Yeah, go ahead and give me a History check.

2:44:04 Murph: Okay.

2:44:04 Zac: So funny that Cody has one of the best History scores of—

2:44:08 Emily: I know.

2:44:08 Siobhan: Yes.

2:44:09 Ally: Yeah.

2:44:11 Siobhan: He did the work.

2:44:13 Murph: Oh, for a day. Oh my God, I did so good. [players laugh]

2:44:19 Murph: I got a, Jesus Christ, I got a 27.

2:44:22 Ally: Hell yeah.

2:44:26 Brennan: Cody, you leap into the painting with Iga.

2:44:29 Siobhan: Der Nachtengel!

2:44:33 Murph: And then I guess I'll just, oh boy, what can I even do here? I can't really heal you, right?

2:44:42 Emily: You could push her out of the aura.

2:44:44 Murph: Yeah, can I just get, can I just like-

2:44:45 Brennan: There's no pushing— The extra-dimensional space here doesn't work like that. There's not enough space to push her out of. Besides, even the idea of shoving someone 30 feet in a row would be a lot of Athletics checks.

2:44:58 Emily: Maybe just grab her out.

2:44:58 Murph: I will cast Warding Bond on Iga.

2:45:02 Brennan: Hell yeah.

2:45:04 Emily: Ooh, yeah!

2:45:06 Brennan: On your tarot—

2:45:06 Lou: Wait, the thing from the—

2:45:08 Emily: I knew!

2:45:08 Lou: From the cards!

2:45:10 Emily: Yes!

2:45:10 Murph: Yes, it's from the tarot!

2:45:12 Siobhan: (laughs) Okay.

2:45:13 Brennan: From the tarot.

2:45:14 Lou: From the tarot cards!

2:45:14 Murph: Oh my God.

2:45:15 Brennan: You cast Warding Bond. Iga, you are going to make the saving throw of your life.

2:45:23 Siobhan: Oh, God. (epic instrumental music)

2:45:23 Brennan: At the beginning of your next turn. And the beginning of your next turn is gonna come next week on the next episode of The Unsleeping City. (Zac sighs) (Lou cheers)

2:45:33 Brennan: Tune in and join us then, gang. We'll see you later.

2:45:33 Edited by: gluegunshots, Tillie the Paladin