Treachery At Gramercy

0:00:05 The Unsleeping City: Chapter II Lou Wilson as Kingston Brown; Ally Beardsley as Pete Conlan; Zac Oyama as Ricky Matsui; Siobhan Thompson as Rowan Berry; Emily Axford as Sofia Lee; and Brian “Murph” Murphy as Cody “Night Angel” Walsh Episode 16: Treachery at Gramercy < [Previous Episode] | [Next Episode] > [the chill vibes of The Unsleeping City theme are here] [Brennan's tapping the table because, hey, things are tense]

0:00:10 Brennan: Hello one and all, and welcome to another thrilling episode of The Unsleeping City. I am your humble dungeon, Brennan Lee Mulligan, with me as always are our Intrepid Heroes. Say hi, Intrepid Heroes!

0:00:21 All: Hi, Intrepid Heroes.

0:00:24 Brennan: Last we left off, it was mid December, winter in New York. Our champions-- Is that a big old Unsleeping City mug Ally just lifted up mid-recap?

0:00:36 Ally: [feigning ignorance] What's that?

0:00:37 Brennan: What's up? Hey, Ally, [raises a La Gran Gata mug] sláinte. You know what I mean?

0:00:39 Ally: [raising their Unsleeping City mug in sync with Brennan] Hell yeah.

0:00:41 Zac: Hey, Brennan, Ally. [raises and sips from a plain white mug]

0:00:44 Ally: Oh. [all laugh]

0:00:46 Ally: That's the… Is that a full-on bowl?

0:00:51 Brennan: Yeah, part of the joke is that Ally and I both had Unsleeping City merch but the—

0:00:55 Zac: The Unsleeping City trio. [laughter]

0:01:00 Brennan: Our champions of New York City were racing as fast as possible to the Gramercy Occult Society headquarters in the New York Public Library. For indeed, over the past month, the champions of New York realized an encroaching threat on the city of New York. Manifesting in Gladiator Industries, taking over the city in the waking world, manifested by an entity from beyond the depths of dreaming known as Null. This entity was confronted at Ellis Island where it captured the party's boon companion Iga Lisowski, the benefactor of the dragon. Who had birthed the egg of the new dragon of New York City, being held by Kingston Brown. Having collected all of the totems of Kugrash, the unicorn, the spicy pigeon, the juicy cockroach, And found the lost artifacts of the common world in Ellis Island. The bouquet of Marion Brown, Kingston's grandmother. Jackson Wei's baseball, a candle from the family being protected by Willie, the Golem of Williamsburg. A piece of ticker tape from the V-day parade from Alejandro Ortiz. A lucky coin, from, we never learned her name, but from Margaret McConnell, who's actually one of Pete's direct ancestors. A finger cymbal from Giancarlo Bicicleta, whose and with the eponymous bicycle in the photo. And Jackson's baseball pitched right to Cody, Jackson Wei's Mets baseball.

0:02:39 Lou: Oh, the leg.

0:02:40 Brennan: And Peter Stuyvesant's wooden leg from Holly Branch. You guys have all of these things, but had a devil of a time finding the hoard of the dragon of Bleecker Street. A feat that should have been easy given the arcane resources of the heroes of New York. Unless, it was being hidden from you purposefully. Unless somebody had tampered with the umbral engine in the heart of the Gramercy Occult Society. Which is exactly what you found out during, from Kingston Brown noticing there was Umbra in his own eyes, as he was unable to find the hoard. Having cracked that open, Sofia discovered a strange ray of sunlight illuminating pages of her memories of Dale Lee, that had been teleported to the Clinton Hill Chantry. Immediately after you discovered not only was Esther Sinclair gone, having been kidnapped by Tony Simos, but also our dear friend Ricky Matsui and Esther Sinclair joined to create a trio of expecting parents within the party. Gang, you have--

0:03:17 Zac: Wow. It’s a very dense moment.

0:03:53 Emily: It was nice to have someone to do it with. [all laugh loudly]

0:03:56 Brennan: A very, dense is right. This story is heating up, and we are here at the Gramercy Occult Society where you face down Tony Simos but see Esther Sinclair nowhere. I'm gonna ask everybody to log in to Roll20 and go check this out.

0:04:15 Emily: I am there.

0:04:19 Zac: Whoa. Whoa.

0:04:21 Siobhan: Whoa.

0:04:23 Emily: Is this the Umbral engine?

0:04:24 Brennan: This is the Umbral engine, and in fact, you see Tony has juiced it already. That Umbra is, you are floating in Nod. Umbra is coursing into the city [explodes] and everything else is fading away. Anyone here that wants to can make an arcana check, an insight check--

0:04:52 Emily: Can we get close-up of the Tony character?

0:04:55 Brennan: Actually…

0:04:56 Lou: Yeah.

0:04:57 Zac: These Concrete Fist monks look like--

0:04:59 Siobhan: They're so buff.

0:05:01 Zac: Yeah, they're just so muscular in these tiny little tokens.

0:05:03 Lou: They look juicy.

0:05:06 Ally: It's very like Bad Boys Club, remember those?

0:05:09 Zac: It's like Streets of Rage.

0:05:10 Murph: Yes. Oh, there you go. [all laugh]

0:05:14 Siobhan: They did not skip arm day! Zac throws some punches.

0:05:19 Murph: [slowly punching] These meaty NES arms.

0:05:22 Emily: Do I know them? Are they people that I would actually know?

0:05:26 Brennan: Sofia, you know all these people.

0:05:28 Emily: This is Tony?

0:05:29 Brennan: This is Tony right here.

0:05:31 Ally: Wow. What's with the beard?

0:05:33 Siobhan: Oh my god, those 90’s tribal tattoos.

0:05:34 Zac: He looks like a guy who will help you find a pair of running shoes that really support your heel. [all laugh]

0:05:42 Emily: I know! Wait, he looks kind of nice.

0:05:44 Brennan: He was kind of nice at first.

0:05:47 Ally: No.

0:05:50 Brennan: So, I'm gonna say anyone here real quick as you're approaching, give me an arcana check. If there's not enough time to try to understand all of it If you're trying to understand what's happening magically here, give me arcana. If you're trying to look at what Tony or the monks are doing, go ahead and give me insight. If you're trying to look at like what physically is happening in this space, go ahead and give me perception.

0:06:12 Lou: 26 perception.

0:06:12 Emily: Perception you said?

0:06:15 Brennan: Perception is good too, yeah.

0:06:16 Siobhan: I got it. Yeah, I got a 21 insight.

0:06:18 Ally: Ooh, baby.

0:06:20 Emily: I got 25 Perception, unless we need arcana in which case a 19 arcana.

0:06:26 Ally: I got 22 arcana.

0:06:28 Brennan: Okay.

0:06:29 Emily: So 25 perception,

0:06:30 Brennan: 25 perception,

0:06:31 Zac: 9 insight.

0:06:33 Brennan: Cool. So we got, who rolled perceptions here? We had a 29, a 25...

0:06:37 Murph: I got a 15 perception,

0:06:39 Brennan: 15. Awesome. Kingston and Sofie, immediately what you see is the Umbral engine, glowing brighter and spinning faster than you've ever seen it before. You can tell that your rushing here... you will probably, anyone trying to join you will have a harder and harder time because you remember back in the Holland Tunnel fight, when the readout for the umbral engine was up at about 150%? It's at about 300% right now, it is all being thrown wider and wider to pour more and more raw umbra into the city.

0:07:23 Emily: With that perception check, am I seeing any kind of control panel?

0:07:28 Brennan: You guys both specifically see that you are not seeing control panel and immediately also understand that… you guys immediately also understand that there isn't a like control panel for this because the wizards are very careful with it. Like Gramercy handles this stuff magically but I think on a 25 and a 29, both of you know Tony is manipulating this somehow in a way that you guys can't see. Like something, you're immediately like you're immediately, like, there's a there's like, you're like, there's a puzzle here. Something's going on with Tony. And Sofia, you would know that these Concrete Fist monks don't have a way to tamper with this unless they're being helped by wizards.

0:08:18 Emily: Yeah.

0:08:18 Murph: But we don't see the wizards right?

0:08:20 Brennan: You don't see the wizards.

0:08:22 Emily: Wizards might be invisible.

0:08:25 Siobhan: I have a way to see invisibility.

0:08:30 Brennan: So also Sofia, you recognize these Concrete Fist monks. These are one or two old-school monks from back in Tony's day. You would know that, you're not too.. These are tough. They're, they're skilled monks. They're nowhere near your level. And they're nowhere in your Tony's level, but they have, they some skills, right?

0:08:57 Emily: Okay. I guess I shout out to Tony,

0:08:59 Sofia: This was the best you could recruit? [laughs]

0:09:04 Brennan: He looks up… there's also a couple of young kids here that are hot shots, but are clearly the people that got like bamboozled by Tony's spiel, right? Yeah. Tony calls back to you and goes… [changing his mind] or, you know, he's focusing on the Umbral engine right now. Did anyone get above a 15 on an Insight check?

0:09:25 Siobhan: Yeah, I got a 21.

0:09:26 Brennan: 21, Rowan, you immediately see Tony looking regretful that he gloated over text message to Sofie. Now everybody's here, but you can see on a 22 Insight, full zealot, true believer mania in his eyes. You also see his, the way his blood is pumping is like intense, his veins are like throbbing right now. And I think you also see, he, it looks like he feels like he's close to something, but you can see I think an awareness that these monks are not the only people he's working with right now.

0:10:22 Emily: Can I, with my perception, would I understand anything about his ki or is what's happening nothing to do with it?

0:10:29 Brennan: You got a 20, you got a 25, right?

0:10:31 Emily: Yeah.

0:10:32 Brennan: You have that memory of Tony fucking up his heart. I think on a 25 perception, Sofia, you know that Tony is going to be immune to charmed and frightened conditions. And if he fucked up his heart badly enough, he may also be immune to stunning. Like he may have changed his physiology fully and completely in his body.

0:10:54 Ally: Wow.

0:10:57 Brennan: Arcana. Who's looking at the engine?

0:11:00 Ally: Me.

0:11:02 Brennan: Pete, JJ's research is being used here. Two things are happening simultaneously. Tony is attempting to flood so much umbra into this city, that nobody can perceive magic ever again. It will basically be...Tony doesn't understand what he's doing, but you remember talking to JJ about that quantum thing, which is basically like if nobody can perceive magic on a quantum level magic doesn't exist anymore. So Tony is just trying to complete his idea of the mission of the Concrete Fist, which is sever New York from dreams forever. You wonder, cause clearly Tony is the mastermind behind how this got tampered with and how the hoard got hidden from you. And you're like, how the fuck did Tony catch wise to that? And you see some of the stuff happened with the umbral engine, that in the way that it's been tampered with that is, I think on that, would you roll for arcana?

0:12:14 Ally: 22? 22, yeah.

0:12:17 Brennan: Not only do you see the ways in which the engine has been canceled to redirect Umbra to the hoard of the dragon of Bleecker Street to hide it from you, you also see that some of the arcane tampering with it aren't arcana from Gramercy wizards. They are from, the best way you can put it is corporate magic. There is an effect here that it looks like Tony is unaware of, like Tony, you realize is chasing his zealot's dream but the schematics that he has used or perhaps been given are bringing New York minutes in on the raw umbra and flattening them. This is the thing that didn't work in the machine in Queens that Iga found, will work here. And it will potentially work here right now.

0:13:17 Ally: Wow.

0:13:17 Emily: Oh god.

0:13:20 Brennan: So you are fighting one villain but you're fighting two different schemes happening in this moment.

0:13:28 Ally: Can I roll some sort of arcana or something to try to find the presence of Null, in this room?

0:13:37 Brennan: I'm gonna say on that 22 arcana, you know, the presence of Null. If the city is successfully flooded with raw umbra like you remember the fight at Ellis Island, Null had to retreat because A) you guys were successfully fighting it. But B) every time it was getting hurt, it was burning up more raw umbra. And you think about Nod. When Nod came to the Waking World, they were being burnt alive. When you had, when you saved them from the vampire nightclub back in season one, and you realize Null's the same way, Null can't… Null's a dream entity. They can't, Null, can't be here physically in the Waking World unless the world is so suffused with raw umbra that Null could move here openly because the world has become so divorced from magic, that it basically is void, the deep dreaming, right? So you realize Null is going to be able to show up and I'll tell you, like, you think if this thing gets to a thousand percent, if it fully gets like warp speed, Null will be able to manifest here physically, just like it did on Ellis Island.

0:14:48 Ally: Wow.

0:14:49 Brennan: That's what you guys all see there. Tony opens his arms wide as you guys rush up, you don't see Esther. He just goes,

0:14:56 Tony: Hey, welcome to Last Dance, everybody. Thanks for joining me. Glad you could be here to witness the completion of our mission.

0:15:06 Brennan: And he says this right to you, Sofie.

0:15:11 Sofia: I just want to say right now, what do you want me to tell Heather Simos when I find her and I say, "I'm sorry, Tony passed"? [Brennan and Murph laugh hysterically]

0:15:25 Brennan: He looks at you and you see his eyes go static for a second. And something throbs in his chest. And you see, he says,

0:15:38 Tony: [growling] The fact that I restrained myself from snapping your fucking neck when you put her name in your mouth is a testament to my good graces, which are—

0:15:48 Sofia: Well, I know when I met you, you called me Sofia Bicicleta several times instead of Sofia Lee so I think we've both been butchering names that matter to each other, all right? So, you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and say, don't restrain yourself. Come snap my fucking neck.

0:16:08 Brennan: [chuckles] He grimaces with a rage that lets you know he is going to take you up on that offer. Pete, kick us off, baby. You are first in the initiative order.

0:16:19 Lou: Woo.

0:16:19 Ally: Okay. [cast members woo in the background]

0:16:19 Ally: I guess...

0:16:24 Cody: Fucking kick his ass, Pete!

0:16:27 Pete: It's all on me! [all laugh]

0:16:30 Cody: This is personal for us. He was a dick to us.

0:16:33 Pete: I'm gonna freak him, honey.

0:16:34 Sofia: No, you guys showed everyone shoot to kill. [laughs] I'm not fucking saving this fucker. He had his chance.

0:16:41 Ricky: I mean like we don't do, we want to kill these other people?

0:16:44 Sofia: No, they're..

0:16:45 Ricky: They seem like normal people, right?

0:16:47 Cody: Man, fuck this dudes.

0:16:48 Sofia: Tony deserves death in my opinion. [laughs] He had his redemption chance yesterday and he fucking failed. [Brennan laughs]

0:16:58 Ally: I am going to run… Lemme see. Where am I going?

0:17:03 Zac: [laughs] You leave. [all laugh]

0:17:04 Ally: [laughs] I'm gonna run.

0:17:07 Brennan: “I'm scared, I'm leaving.”

0:17:09 Ally: Right here.

0:17:09 Siobhan: Just go to a bodega… Get a pack of cigarettes.

0:17:11 Brennan: Cool. Hell yeah, perfect.

0:17:16 Ally: Okay. And then I'm going to… I'm gonna cast Cone of Cold, right at the machine and Tony.

0:17:32 Brennan: Shit, you're gonna attack the Umbral Engine?

0:17:35 Ally: I guess?

0:17:37 Murph: Won't it kind of like explode and kill all of us?

0:17:40 Brennan: I will say--

0:17:41 Ally: I'm gonna use Careful Spell, and I'm gonna exclude it. [all laugh]

0:17:44 Murph: Doesn’t it contain the--

0:17:46 Emily: But what if that is the, what if that is...?

0:17:49 Ally: I mean that's kind of a last case scenario, is like then everyone sees magic & we just work from there.

0:17:56 Brennan: I think you guys, I think Pete would recognize that destroying the machine will-- I like, I'll tell you I'm not going to, I don't wanna choose to know what will happen if you guys just break the umbral engine while it's going faster than it's ever gone. I'll probably roll a bunch of dice on some kind of wild magic table to find out. It won't be, it won't be normal if you break the machine. [Siobhan and Murph laugh]

0:18:22 Brennan: However, I fully leave that up to you. If the fight's going bad, like if the fight is going bad and it's gonna save the world?

0:18:30 Ally: Yeah, yeah, exactly. First move out the gate, I'm not going to attack.

0:18:32 Murph: Just seems like, Pete, like the wizards worked really hard on it.

0:18:35 Brennan: Yeah. First quarter, first down Hail Mary doesn't feel like the move right here, but let's...

0:18:38 Murph: [chuckles] Just instantly.

0:18:42 Zac: Our webcams all turn off, like... [Emily laughs]

0:18:46 Brennan: Awesome. So yeah. You're gonna go, you're gonna try to hit Tony. I think he might need to move a little bit closer to to like this corner right here to be, maybe Pete, you wanna move like right here to hit Tony in the edge of that.

0:19:08 Ally: Oh gotcha. Sure. Yoink.

0:19:11 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:19:12 Ally: Cool. [high fantasy wizard voice, I guess?] One sorcery point. [Murph and Siobhan laugh]

0:19:19 Ally: Okay.

0:19:21 Emily: Wow. Wish we'd been doing this all season… [high wizardly voice] Two sorcery points!

0:19:27 Ally: [high wizardly voice] Two sorcery points.

0:19:27 Siobhan: [wizarding] That’s a lot of sorcery points.

0:19:31 Ally: Oh, sorry, I do backslash roll.

0:19:35 Brennan: And actually Pete, I'm gonna need, before you do that—

0:19:38 Zac: I knew it.

0:19:41 Brennan: Before you do that, we're gonna do something else really quickly.

0:19:48 Ally: It is a quick thing, right? Like just a little..

0:19:50 Siobhan: Just a quick little...

0:19:52 Emily: Brennan just has an email to shoot off to someone. [all laugh] [crosstalk]

0:19:57 Brennan: Yeah, got to do a real quick email.

0:20:00 Ally: [laughs] “Hey, do you like these shoes?”

0:20:01 Siobhan: Email my accountant, there were some receipts I forgot to send them.

0:20:02 Zac: “Following up about that Craigslist ad…”

0:20:02 Murph: Just in case there's saving throws coming up, cause I know people were doing spells just as we came in. Can I have cast on the melee? So me, Sofie and Ricky, Bless. As, like, people were doing Haste and stuff as we were coming in.

0:20:18 Brennan: Ricky, I know that Ricky's got Haste. Does anyone else have concentration spells active right now? So are you, so you hit people with Bless, right Cody?

0:20:26 Murph: Yeah. On the way up.

0:20:27 Zac: Oh, I actually, yeah. I should bring this up cause I forgot to talk about it. At the start of the fight, I guess I still have Locate Object on… And it was at, for one of something of Esther's.

0:20:40 Brennan: Oh. Shit.

0:20:41 Emily: Ooh.

0:20:42 Brennan: Yes you do. Ricky, something of Esther's is here, but not here. And that's all I can say.

0:20:47 Zac: Sure.

0:20:52 Brennan: You sense that it's here, but not here.

0:20:55 Zac: She's a ghost! [all laugh]

0:20:59 Brennan: Any other… then Kingston, you have a concentration spell cause Alejandro is here correct?

0:21:04 Lou: Yeah.

0:21:05 Brennan: Anyone else have any, anything concentration--

0:21:06 Emily: And I have Hexblade Curse on Tony, but that's not concentration.

0:21:10 Brennan: Cool. No one else has concentration up right now. That's okay. Awesome. Pete, right now, I'm gonna tell ya. You, what you don't want, you're casting Cone of Cold. What you don't want, is a 12 or higher I'm gonna roll in front of the board.

0:21:36 Zac: If I know what this is, I'm gonna Counterspell it.

0:21:39 Brennan: Okay. Let me see. Let me see what 60 feet on you looks like because, well first of all, already--

0:21:50 Zac: Oh, I may not be able to Counterspell if I can't see the target.

0:21:53 Brennan: However, them, let me just double check something real quick. [singing merrily] Ooh, complex, magic fight. Lots of magic going on!

0:22:05 Murph: Does the engine fuck up our spells I guess?

0:22:08 Brennan: The engine does not fuck up your spells.

0:22:11 Emily: I think there's invisible wizards.

0:22:12 Brennan: Bam.

0:22:12 Emily: Does anyone have Faerie Fire?

0:22:15 Siobhan: I don't, but I have See Invisibility.

0:22:17 Brennan: A Gramercy wizard appears from Invisibility, slinging a Counterspell. Ricky, if that is within 60 feet you can go for it.

0:22:26 Zac: I think it's a little further.

0:22:29 Emily: It is within 60 feet of me. [Sofia and Ricky are next to each other on the map]

0:22:31 Brennan: No fucking, what are the odds? That was a totally random placement. Ricky. Okay. You cast Counterspell, right?

0:22:40 Zac: Yes. Do I roll?

0:22:42 Brennan: They all, no roll needed, Counterspell is a third level spell and that's the level they cast it at. So a Gramercy wizard, a traitor to the society, tries to rip that spell out of the Vox Phantasma's hands. Ricky, what do you do as they appear?

0:23:00 Zac: I think I'll like, literally baseball bat their Counterspell back at them. [laughs hysterically]

0:23:08 Brennan: Ricky, wielding a magic bat feels so good.

0:23:12 Zac: Hell yes.

0:23:13 Brennan: Cause you realize like your old thing, used like you said as a tool. A bat isn't, a bat isn't an aggressive thing. It's a tool you can get that fucking spell right out of here.

0:23:23 Zac: Not aggressive at all. I just, as I hit a Counterspell into this wizard's face.

0:23:27 Brennan: Yeah… BAM! You can- you hear from the Hall of Heroes… [bugle call] Charge! Incredible. Pete, your spell goes off. Go ahead and roll damage for that Cone of Cold.

0:23:42 Ally: Yes. Okay. Sorry. I do backslash roll?

0:23:47 Brennan: Back, yeah, slash roll.

0:23:51 Ally: 8d8.

0:23:55 Brennan: Jesus… amazing, 38.

0:23:58 Siobhan: Nice.

0:24:01 Brennan: I'm gonna actually, just to make sure that we are totally above board. I'm gonna see what a 60 foot aura on you would look like real quick.

0:24:15 Emily: Is Cone of Cold dex save? What kind of save is it?

0:24:19 Brennan: Okay. So Pete, hold on one second. Cause that's what the edge of your aura would look like. So I think actually just to be clear because the arrows are a little bit screwy when you're moving diagonal. Pete, you may need to jump up on to the edge of the umbral engine to cast this spell.

0:24:49 Ally: Oh, like I can't move up a little bit, like right here to move my aura.

0:24:58 Brennan: Oh, shit, yes. You can move right there. That's perfect.

0:25:01 Ally: Cool.

0:25:02 Brennan: So that'll get… Yes, yes, yes. Awesome. So you can see there you're gonna be able to get Tony and those first two monks just fine. So you roll damage, we're gonna roll some saves for them. I'm gonna decrease your aura again. That sounds very spiritual in a way. [Zac laughs]

0:25:21 Ally: Don't try to decrease my aura.

0:25:23 Emily: Sometimes you need to decrease your aura, though, to protect yourself from other people's.

0:25:29 Brennan: It's true. Okay.

0:25:31 Emily: [laughs] I was joking…

0:25:35 Brennan: And these are con saves, correct?

0:25:36 Zac: Absolute.

0:25:37 Ally: These are con saves, honey.

0:25:40 Brennan: Okay.

0:25:41 Emily: So just so the spellcasters know, if, with monks, if you, we have Evasion. So like if we fai… if we...

0:25:47 Siobhan: Oh yeah, if they succeed… they take no...

0:25:53 Emily: Yeah.

0:25:54 Brennan: I’ll also say on Sofie's high perception check, you think that these junior monks are not, are not proficient enough to have that Eva--

0:26:09 Emily: They don't have Evasion yet. Never mind, dex away, baby. [all laugh]

0:26:13 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:26:16 Brennan: Hell yeah. Okay. We're gonna go, Tony makes his save, he's gonna take half damage. These dudes… However, these are Concrete Fist, so they are trained to fight magic sort of specifically. So they do have magic resistance. Okay. Oh, that's cocked, 9 plus 4 doesn't do it. Okay. So one of them takes full 38. The others are gonna take 19.

0:26:48 Ally: Including Tony?

0:26:49 Brennan: Including Tony, Tony takes 19 cold damage as well.

0:26:53 Emily: Yeah.

0:26:54 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:26:54 Pete: Add this to your cold heart. [Emily laughs]

0:26:58 Pete: Hurt people hurt people, Tony! Can’t muscle your way through heartbreak. [Emily and Brennan laugh]

0:27:03 Sofia: No let's not categorize him as a hurt person. He's a fucking piece of shit. I reached out to him, there was nothing left.

0:27:12 Pete: He's just decades hurt. He's calcified.

0:27:14 Cody: Throw a fucking Big Gulp at him.

0:27:16 Murph: I throw a Big Gulp at him.

0:27:17 Zac: It’s whipped up into the engine.

0:27:18 Pete: Dude, remember Big Gulp is Gladiator!

0:27:20 Cody: I stole it, I stole it!

0:27:21 Pete: Oh, okay, okay.

0:27:22 Brennan: Hey Pete, I'm gonna need a wild magic surge. You're on 1 through 10 right now.

0:27:25 Murph: No! [everyone screams]

0:27:27 Ally: Oh, I’ll roll this in front of the board.

0:27:29 Emily: I like them, they're cool.

0:27:33 Brennan: That's a 3, baby.

0:27:34 Siobhan: Okay, there we go.

0:27:34 Brennan: We're surgin'!

0:27:36 Lou: Here we go.

0:27:37 Brennan: Uh Pete, go ahead and give me 2d100 rolls.

0:27:41 Ally: You got it. 2?.

0:27:43 Brennan: Yeah. Cause you can have advantage.

0:27:45 Siobhan: Yes. You roll with advantage.

0:27:46 Ally: Oh incredible. 18. 58.

0:27:54 Brennan: You see, one of these is like, you feel two surges. One of them is harmless, dream frivolity. The other one is extreme danger that you might not be able to control that well.

0:28:12 Ally: [thinks and smiles] You know… I am gonna have to go with harmless dream frivolity. Because I'm a new guy. [all laugh]

0:28:23 Zac: I know how much that hurt. [laughs]

0:28:25 Ally: That hurt me a lot.

0:28:26 Emily: I know how much that hurt, I think that was cool.

0:28:27 Siobhan: [indistinct] Wow, Pete has changed.

0:28:28 Ally: Give me the blue feathers, Brennan. [all laugh]

0:28:33 Brennan: Incredible. So what this says in the wild magic surge, is you grow a long beard made of feathers- that remains until you sneeze-

0:28:38 Emily: He feather-bearded!

0:28:41 Brennan: At which point, the feathers explode out from your face.

0:28:45 Sofia: Pete, the testosterone salve is working.

0:28:47 Pete: Oh my God, crazy. They're feathers though. [all laugh]

0:28:53 Sofia: I mean, yeah if--

0:28:54 Pete: Cody, is this a dude thing? [all laugh]

0:29:00 Brennan: Incredible. Yeah. Pete you grow a long wizard beard of feathers, as you approach here as a sorcerer in the home of these wizards, Tony, as you do this, Tony looks at you with his beard. He's like,

0:29:14 Tony: You fucking making fun of me, dude?

0:29:18 Pete: Dude, Honestly, I just feel bad for you. You kind of remind me of my dad and I watched him get scared straight, it's really beautiful now. [all laugh hysterically]

0:29:28 Emily: I have a question, what does Pete's mustache look like with the beard? Or do the feathers?

0:29:34 Brennan: You have two small, actually the mustache is two fully functional, but small wings. There's just two little wings, flap, flap, flap. [all laugh] Ally moves their torso up as if floating up from the wings.

0:29:47 Zac: Your lip is just detaching from your gums a little bit.

0:29:49 Siobhan: Your top teeth are so dry.

0:29:52 Ally: What was the other thing? Fucking million cool fireballs go out—

0:29:56 Brennan: The other thing was anything you touch catches on fire. [laughs]

0:30:04 Ally: I mean... okay, we did make the right choice. That's the first round of the game, so.

0:30:11 Brennan: Okay. Pete, anything else from you that turn?

0:30:14 Ally: Nah.

0:30:15 Brennan: Cody, that's you baby.

0:30:17 Murph: Sweet. I'm going to look at this wizard and go,

0:30:22 Cody: The ninth level of hell awaits for traitors. That's right, I read a fuckin' book!

0:30:29 Murph: And then I'm going to--

0:30:31 Emily: [laughing] Wait, Cody read Dante's Inferno?

0:30:33 Murph: He read Dante's Inferno.

0:30:35 Ricky: You read Dante's Inferno?

0:30:37 Cody: Yeah. I needed to know about, like, Hell and shit. Cause I'm like a fucking demon.

0:30:41 Lou: Go off, Cody.

0:30:44 Murph: He's gonna ride at this mage. He, now at level 12, is a Mounted Combatant on his moped, so he rolls with advantage. I'm gonna do, I'm going to bonus action Thunderous Smite.

0:31:04 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:31:05 Murph: Which I think actually does that do an area of effect? No. Okay. [Cody’s nu metal theme starts playing]

0:31:10 Murph: So I'll do Thunderous Smite bonus action. And then I'm gonna do Great Weapon Master to do minus 5 to the attack roll to hope to do more.

0:31:21 Brennan: Cool.

0:31:21 Murph: Just taking the questing blade trying to… cut down on… [Brennan laughs]

0:31:27 Murph: That is, with Bless...

0:31:31 Zac: Oh right.

0:31:33 Murph: That is a 16 to hit.

0:31:37 Brennan: 16 to hit that Gramercy… The Gramercy traitor there, that is a hit absolutely.

0:31:45 Murph: Ooo, thank God.

0:31:48 Brennan: You said 17, right?

0:31:49 Murph: Yeah, no, 16 I said.

0:31:51 Murph: 16? 16 is a hit, this person really regretting that Counterspell right now cause a Shield woulda come in quite handy. [Emily and Murph laugh]

0:31:59 Emily: What is this person's name?

0:32:00 Cody: What’s your name?

0:32:01 Emily: How have I seen them around before?

0:32:04 Cody: I know their name, it's Judas. [all laugh]

0:32:06 Emily: Okay, Judas it is.

0:32:08 Cody: And you live in fucking hell now. Ninth level. Good luck fucking crawling out.

0:32:15 Ally: Oh my god. Guys like Cody are obsessed with Judas, yeah. [all laugh]

0:32:21 Zac: Betrayal is such a huge part of this.

0:32:23 Ally: Yes, huge part of it. A driving force.

0:32:26 Siobhan: Hope those 30 pieces of silver was worth it, bitch.

0:32:29 Brennan: Incredible.

0:32:29 Ally: Oh my god.

0:32:31 Murph: Sweet. Okay. So, okay. So 4d6 for the great, for the sword plus the Thunderous Smite and then I will do a first level smite, to do another 3d8 plus another d8, I have my greater smite thing that gives me a d8 every time plus 19, cause of Great Weapon Master.

0:32:49 Brennan: Um. Murph rolls a tremendous amount of dice.

0:33:07 Brennan: Jesus. [all laugh]

0:33:09 Murph: 50. [screams]

0:33:12 Brennan: Good God.

0:33:14 Ally: You just drive your moped up and kill a woman? [all laugh]

0:33:21 Brennan: Up to you, If you wanna do lethal or non-lethal damage here.

0:33:25 Murph: Jesus Christ. Don't make me choose that. Non-lethal I guess. After I say— [all laugh]

0:33:33 Emily: I think that's for the best.

0:33:36 Murph: Yeah.

0:33:36 Cody: Judas is waiting to meet you in hell.

0:33:40 Murph: And I just punch them so hard. [yells]

0:33:46 Brennan: I mean, these people are trying to like destroy magic. These are not good people, but..

0:33:50 Ally: I mean, we can't find Esther, yeah we're all really scared.

0:33:53 Emily: Yeah. We might as well keep Gramercy people around in case they can tell us where Esther is and I feel we should keep these little sad monks--

0:34:00 Murph: I think the wording of you just ride up on your moped and kill a woman followed by, do you wanna do lethal or non-lethal damage? Of course non-lethal damage, thank you very much.

0:34:11 Brennan: Hey, I tried to help you out. I let you guys fight fucking balloons and armor all season, you know?

0:34:18 Murph: Nonlethal damage, baby. Yeah.

0:34:19 Brennan: Yeah. Cody, you ride up and I honestly think, just run this woman over with your moped just. [enging noises] She of course, 50 damage, she's fucking done, dude.  She's unconscious. She's toast.

0:34:36 Murph: Great.

0:34:37 Ally: Judas! [mimes driving over a bump] Kuh-kah-huhhh!

0:34:40 Murph: And then… Yeah, somehow Judas is an atheist who hates Judas, I think is his deal. I am going to also, so I get a second attack but there's, I guess I have more movement ‘cause of my moped. Can I just ride up and go after this next monk here? Oh, let's see here, so this is, that's 40 feet I came down. I did about, I did about 70 feet already. I did 65, so with a dash, my warhorse can do 120.

0:35:24 Brennan: Yes.

0:35:25 Murph: So provided I can split up my movement I have enough.

0:35:27 Brennan: Yes, yes, yes, yes. You can split up your movement cause it's just happening on your, on your steed.

0:35:32 Murph: Great. Okay. I'm just gonna keep going. Part of me just wants to like swing around and hope to hit another invisible person. But that's just so dumb right?

0:35:44 Ally: I mean...

0:35:44 Zac: I mean, they gotta be somewhere, but I think that's, I mean the odds of it are pretty low.

0:35:54 Murph: [laughs] Yeah. It's like Brennan, can I just move to a square and just swing? They need to be literally exactly on that spot. It would be so funny.

0:36:02 Ally: I bet you could kill one of these like buff guys, cause one of them just took full damage from Cone of Cold.

0:36:07 Emily: Oh yeah.

0:36:09 Ally: I bet you could fully like take one out.

0:36:11 Murph: I will be not a complete moron, and I will go and I will go after...

0:36:18 Brennan: The dude closest to the engine, took the most cold damage.

0:36:21 Murph: Got it. Okay. I'll go after this monk.

0:36:22 Ally: Red hair.

0:36:24 Ricky: Use the sword art, Cody!

0:36:26 Sofia: Tell him that he fucked over Cindy. See if he feels bad. [Murph laughs]

0:36:34 Cody: Sword art, finishing blow.

0:36:34 Murph: And then I will, oh, shit Jesus. Should I do? I'm not gonna do Great Weapon Fighting cause that was, I almost missed the mage. [Emily laughs]

0:36:43 Murph: And it's a good thing I didn't. That is 13 plus 9, 22.

0:36:57 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:36:58 Brennan: 22 to hit or 22 damage?

0:37:01 Murph: 22 to hit.

0:37:02 Brennan: 22 hits. Absolutely.

0:37:04 Murph: Great. Okay. I will do a second level smite on this person.

0:37:14 Brennan: Actually, this dude casts Shield, and you still hit.

0:37:18 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:37:19 Cody: Nice job, you fucking idiot.

0:37:22 Emily: Wait, the monk casts Shield?

0:37:26 Brennan: Yes. You see that they, some kind of Gramercy, like the wizards are helping--

0:37:30 Emily: Okay, it wasn't another Hexblade monk, okay.

0:37:33 Brennan: No.

0:37:34 Murph: Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and roll my damage with a second level of smite. So it's 2d6 plus a second level smite with my bonus is 4d8 plus... terrible rolls. Yikes. Okay. That's still pretty good.

0:38:00 Brennan: How much damage is it?

0:38:01 Murph: 23.

0:38:02 Brennan: Hell yeah. This dude is looking hurt-hurt. As you slash into that monk there, boom.

0:38:14 Cody: He survived Sword Art Finishing Blow? Impossible. [all laugh]

0:38:23 Brennan: Awesome. After Cody, it's gonna be Tony Simos.

0:38:30 Emily: I wanna see what this fucker does.

0:38:33 Brennan: Okay. He's gonna use 15 feet of his movement. [suspenseful music]

0:38:42 Brennan: Tony strides over, is going to take his first attack. He is going to make an attack on your moped, Cody.

0:38:55 Murph: Oh, I can make it hit me instead. Cause I'm a mounted combatant. So I just stick my face down. [all laugh]

0:39:02 Cody: Punch me, you fucking dick.

0:39:06 Brennan: He hits you. How many times can you do that?

0:39:11 Murph: Lemme see.

0:39:14 Brennan: Is there a reaction to do it?

0:39:17 Murph: No, I don't believe so. I think it's just… [reads] "Mounted Combatant: While you are mounted and aren't incapacitated you have advantage a melee rolls against unmagic creatures that are smaller than your mount. You can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead.”

0:39:29 Brennan: Damn, wow. Okay. Cool. So he's just gonna go after you.

0:39:34 Emily: Wow Tony, off to a good start, huh? Murph ducks about.

0:39:37 Ally: What's your AC, Cody?

0:39:40 Murph: Bad, 16.

0:39:42 Ally: Eh, that sounds good.

0:39:45 Brennan: Okay. He comes up, hits you for two attacks. The first attack he hits you for does… 22 points of damage.

0:39:59 Murph: Okay. I'm gonna Hellish Rebuke.

0:40:02 Brennan: Cool. And give me a concentration saving throw.

0:40:05 Murph: Ooh. Okay.

0:40:07 Brennan: That's a DC 11.

0:40:11 Murph: Ooh baby. Nat 19.

0:40:13 Emily: Yeah.

0:40:13 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:40:14 Ally: There's the rolls.

0:40:17 Murph: I'm gonna Hellish Rebuke, I'm trying to think what level I should do. You know what? I'm gonna hit him with a, this is kind of crazy, but I'm gonna hit him with the third level Hellish Rebuke--

0:40:22 Lou: Wow.

0:40:26 Murph: --to do 4d10s.

0:40:29 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:40:32 Emily: Hit him with ice, then hit him with fire. [laughs] This is like--

0:40:36 Zac: The two dragons. [Ally laughs]

0:40:38 Emily: Yeah. [laughs]

0:40:41 Murph: Yeah, I'm wearing the dragon shirt. You know what actually I'm just gonna do a first level because it's, I think it's a dex save so. I know he's just gonna take half. But this is the Hellish Rebuke damage.

0:40:53 Ally: Hey.

0:40:54 Brennan: Cool.

0:40:54 Lou: We’ll take it.

0:40:56 Siobhan: We'll take it.

0:40:57 Murph: 12.

0:40:58 Brennan: You see Tony does have Evasion. He dodges fire… as you summon that, he says,

0:41:06 Tony: Fucking cut it out with that goth bullshit!

0:41:08 Brennan: And smacks the flames out of the… [Siobhan laughs]

0:41:12 Brennan: [chuckles] Just like, just his personal lack of playfulness and whimsy appears to be protecting him from a lot of forms of magic.

0:41:25 Cody: Have you even seen The Nightmare Before Christmas?

0:41:29 Tony: What the fuck? Dude, I watch Death Wish every day.

0:41:33 Murph: [laughs] Death Wish?

0:41:37 Tony: Fucking love Bronson, dude.

0:41:41 Ricky: You just kill people on the subway all day?

0:41:45 Brennan: The second, his second attack does 23 points of damage. I'm gonna need another saving throw, or another concentration check.

0:42:00 Murph: [groans] Oh my god, a nat 18.

0:42:02 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:42:04 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:42:04 Zac: It's hard to tell with Murph.

0:42:08 Murph: Literally, the only dice I've had that have rolled well, are these red, white and blue dice that I got from a random pack.

0:42:13 Emily: I got those for you. I got those for you because we had just been to England for NADDPod.

0:42:20 Brennan: So here's so here's the deal. Here's the deal Murph. I'm gonna need, I'm gonna need a DC 19. I'm gonna ask for three saving throws in a row. Tony is not even close to done.

0:42:26 Murph: Cool.

0:42:33 Brennan: Give me a, I'm gonna need a strength saving throw.

0:42:38 Murph: Okay. Strength is good. I'm Blessed. I might be okay. Okay, 22.

0:42:48 Brennan: Cool. Give me another strength saving throw.

0:42:50 Murph: Okay. Oh my god. So good, 28. [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

0:42:58 Brennan: Hell yeah. Now I'm gonna need a final one. This one's only a DC 15, but this one's for the stun.

0:43:06 Murph: Okay. Is this dex or strength?

0:43:08 Brennan: This one is constitution. DC 15 constitution. To… He's attempting to stun you.

0:43:15 Murph: Okay. 6, fuck! 12.

0:43:21 Ally: Bend Luck!

0:43:23 Brennan: 12, Bend Luck? Okay. This is, is there a range on Bend Luck? Number one?

0:43:29 Ally: Let's find out.

0:43:31 Murph: Please Bend Luck, being stunned sucks so bad.

0:43:32 Brennan: Oh, you can see. Okay. So you got a 12, so all right. Roll in front of the board. You need to hit a three or higher here.

0:43:39 Cody: Come on, Pete.

0:43:40 Ally: You got it.

0:43:40 Pete: I got you dude, cool shirt! Ally rolls a 1.

0:43:45 Zac: Fire and miss. [all scream] Ooh!

0:43:51 Ally: Fucking damn it.

0:43:53 Brennan: Okay, so this is not as bad as Null's stun. This isn't until the end of Tony's next turn. You… this is a more classic monk stun.

0:44:07 Murph: Okay.

0:44:08 Brennan: But he hits you with that, with that. So you were stunned until the end of Tony's next turn. You also feels he stuns you, I'm gonna say Sofia or Pete, make perception checks here for me with Tony's stun.

0:44:26 Ally: Absolutely.

0:44:28 Emily: Okay. That is, hold on. I gotta go back to perception. That is a 15.

0:44:33 Brennan: 15. Cool. Pete, did you get a 15? Nope. Are you muted Ally?

0:44:41 Ally: [barely audible] That's a nat one.

0:44:43 Brennan: Pete, you have no idea what the fuck is going on. Sofia, you see something in Tony's stunning attack. The ways he's protected himself with his, the way he fucked up his heart, ki doesn't flow through him normally anymore. You can tell that there's something wrong with his stunning technique. Cody did not have a way to overcome it but you feel that there might be a way for other people here in the party to deal with Tony's stunning strikes ‘cause you see he didn't spend ki to do that stunning strike which makes you think that it would be possible for someone to potentially spend ki to resist it.

0:45:34 Emily: Oh. Does that look like someone could Dispel Magic on it or something? Or it's much more of like a, oh it's bad ki.

0:45:44 Brennan: It looks like it's bad, you think that someone with ki could potentially resist Tony's stunning strikes. However, the stunning could be done away with with like a Lesser Restoration, but that's someone taking their whole turn to give Cody his whole turn.

0:45:59 Emily: Yeah, okay, cool. [laughs]

0:46:04 Murph: Not to tell on myself, but does Bless break? Does stun break concentration? I don't know if it does.

0:46:11 Brennan: Let me look that up real quick.

0:46:12 Emily: I don't know that it does, ‘cause you can still, you can still speak falteringly. [Murph laughs]

0:46:19 Siobhan: Your brain is still working, your body just isn't.

0:46:21 Emily: You're just, you're Blessed, you're Blessed.

0:46:23 Brennan: Anything that makes you incapacitated will end concentration.

0:46:28 Emily: Okay, I think stun is incapacitated.

0:46:31 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely. Let's just double check that real quick so we're being as diligent as possible. Stunned is incapacitated. Bless is gone.

0:46:42 Emily: But you got to use it to make some strength saves. So that's worth it.

0:46:45 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

0:46:48 Murph: I might've been knocked out if it was really bad.

0:46:50 Zac: Yeah, he could've ripped you in half. [all laugh]

0:46:53 Ally: Like a phone book. [Emily laughs]

0:46:58 Brennan: Tony, Tony has 70 feet of movement. Let's see if he can make it to Pete.

0:47:06 Zac: Hold on, how many turns does Tony have? God damn.

0:47:10 Siobhan: Monks just keep going.

0:47:12 Emily: Well, no, he's doing stuff that Sofia can't do.

0:47:17 Zac: He’s made like six attacks. And then, he's going to move 70 feet and then maybe attack again.

0:47:19 Siobhan: Maybe he has like Haste cast on him.

0:47:22 Zac: Yeah.

0:47:23 Emily: Ooh, yeah.

0:47:24 Brennan: You guys, Tony is, you guys know Tony is a legendary opponent. He closes with Pete, is gonna make his last two attacks on Pete.

0:47:35 Zac: He has eight attacks?

0:47:37 Brennan: Four attacks.

0:47:39 Zac: Four? How did I get eight?

0:47:40 Murph: Yeah, I only got hit twice.

0:47:44 Lou: Tony Simos has 15 attacks?

0:47:47 Brennan: 15?

0:47:48 Zac: He's gonna close on Pete, take 9 more attacks.

0:47:50 Sofia: I just want you to know every hit you make, I'm not gonna tell Heather Simos about. She's gonna think you died a coward not having landed a single hit.

0:47:58 Rowan: Just shit yourself in front of everybody.

0:48:02 Brennan: Pete, you are hit twice by Tony.

0:48:08 Ally: Damn, used my reaction.

0:48:12 Brennan: Yes, that's right. Tony hits you twice and he is going to...first attack deals… 7, 2, 9… deals 19 damage. Give me a DC 10 concentration check.

0:48:32 Ally: 19.

0:48:33 Brennan: Hell yeah. Next one deals 16 damage. Go ahead and give me a DC 10 concentration check.

0:48:39 Ally: So that was 10 and 16?

0:48:41 Brennan: Yep.

0:48:44 Ally: Ooh, that's only a nine.

0:48:48 Brennan: You lose Haste.

0:48:48 Ally: Oh wait, no, no, sorry. What do I add to that?

0:48:51 Brennan: Whatever your...

0:48:51 Zac: ...con saving throw is?

0:48:55 Brennan: Con saving throw is. You got a +6.

0:48:56 Ally: Oh, we got it. Okay, yeah.

0:48:57 Emily: Ooh yeah.

0:48:58 Lou: Oooh, my heart.

0:49:00 Ally: Yeah, sorry.

0:49:01 Murph: Doesn't after you lose Haste, doesn't the person lose a turn?

0:49:05 Siobhan: Yes, they do.

0:49:06 Brennan: Yeah. Absolutely.

0:49:07 Zac: But he didn't lose it right?

0:49:08 Brennan: Did not lose it.

0:49:08 Siobhan: No, he didn't. [suspenseful music]

0:49:16 Brennan: Okay, now I'm gonna need, let's go ahead and do that. Let's go ahead and do that, I'm gonna need three Constitution saving throws in a row from Pete.

0:49:34 Siobhan: Counterspell.

0:49:35 Brennan: They're not spells.

0:49:36 Siobhan: Oh no, this is stunning.

0:49:40 Brennan: It's stunning and two other effects that Tony's got planned for Pete.

0:49:45 Ally: So I have plus 6, to these rolls.

0:49:48 Brennan: You have plus 6 to these rolls.

0:49:53 Ally: Yeah, that's right, bitch. 23.

0:49:56 Brennan: You avoid the stun.

0:49:57 Ally: 21.

0:49:58 Murph: Nice.

0:49:58 Brennan: You avoid the next thing.

0:50:00 Ally: Oh, 9.

0:50:03 Brennan: Pete, you rush up. Tony, bam! Bam! Is just laying into you and goes,

0:50:09 Ally: I'm like,

0:50:09 Cody: Hey man, the first two people you attacked in his fight were a moped and a guy with a feather beard. You fucking coward. [all laugh]

0:50:19 Brennan: You see, he looks at you and says

0:50:21 Tony: I know what you fucking are.

0:50:23 Pete: You the kind of guy who only attacks people you think you can beat, you're so fucking sad.

0:50:30 Sofia: Yeah, it's kind of pathetic you didn't come after me.

0:50:32 Pete: Yeah. You have a clear number one rival here.

0:50:36 Brennan: Pete, as you were fighting, throwing magic up. Tony leans in grabs the back of your neck with his left hand--

0:50:45 Ally: I kiss him.

0:50:46 Brennan: Right after you kiss him, he crushes your wind pipe with an elbow strike.

0:50:52 Pete: Oh no.

0:50:53 Brennan: You are, Pete, he damages your ability to, you cannot create the verbal components of spells right now. He has special Concrete Fist techniques for spellcasters. He removes your ability to create the verbal components of spellcasting. That's the end of Tony's turn. Ricky. That is you.

0:51:21 Zac: Is… is Haste still up? Did that stop his-? [touches his throat]

0:51:27 Brennan: Haste is still up. Yeah. You see he's just, he was like,

0:51:30 Tony: Yeah, Keep talking shit.

0:51:32 Brennan: And you see this like elbow strike into your throat.

0:51:35 Ally: I have Subtle Spell. You sad, sad man. [Emily laughs]

0:51:38 Brennan: [loudly gasps] Oh, shit, wait, you took Subtle Spell?

0:51:42 Ally: Didn't change shit. As I'm being crushed, I pull a copy of the Artist's Way out of my pocket and I slip it into his jacket and I go

0:51:50 Pete: [weakly] Take the silverware too.

0:51:54 Brennan: Ricky, that's you. Oh my god. I thought I had this cool mechanic to be scary and Pete is unstoppable. Ally sticks their tongue out and mugs for the camera.

0:52:02 Zac: Jesus. I— Ricky's gonna use Ox's movement to get up in the mix.

0:52:07 Brennan: Hell yeah.

0:52:08 Zac: I mean, I don't really have to but I think it might as well, to get here.

0:52:17 Ally: That's right baby.

0:52:19 Zac: And I'm just freaking um, trying to, fucking home run derby over here. [all laugh]

0:52:27 Cody: Omni-bat Ricky, Omni-bat!

0:52:31 Ricky: Hell yes. What's an Omni-bat?

0:52:33 Murph: It’s like Omnislash, but with a bat!

0:52:35 Ricky: Okay.

0:52:35 Zac: And I get...with Haste I get an extra attack or an extra round? Like...

0:52:43 Brennan: You get an extra attack.

0:52:46 Zac: So I'm gonna take three attacks--

0:52:46 Brennan: Jesus.

0:52:46 Zac: --on him. First attack… Does a 12 hit? No, probably not. Second attack, does a nat one hit?

0:53:03 Emily: Oh no.

0:53:05 Murph: Dude. Brutal.

0:53:06 Emily: Hey, I've been there Ricky, I've been there, you know.

0:53:09 Lou: We got one more, we've got one more.

0:53:12 Zac: Does a 21 hit? I'm sorry, 22 hit?

0:53:18 Brennan: Zac, 22 exactly hits.

0:53:20 Lou: Fuck.

0:53:22 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:53:23 Zac: Okay. Yeah. Third level divine smite.

0:53:25 Murph: Nice.

0:53:28 Zac: And wait, I can stack smites too, right?

0:53:32 Brennan: If you do, did you cast a bonus action smite this turn?

0:53:37 Zac: No. ‘Cause I haven't hit. Oh, do I have to cast before I hit?

0:53:42 Brennan: You have to cast it before. I'll let you throw it on there if you want to. But in general, you have to cast it before.

0:53:47 Zac: You know what, weirdly I don't have it in my, I think I accidentally forgot to prepare that. [Emily laughs loudly]

0:53:54 Murph: Do you have Thunderous Smite or anything?

0:53:57 Zac: No, I have Branding Smite but I don't have it on my spell list I realize, well, I fucked up. Okay, well let's just do a third level Divine Smite. And then, so that's how many d8 is that?

0:54:12 Brennan: It's going to be 4d8 plus 1d6. Lightning damage.

0:54:19 Zac: Oh yeah. 4d8 plus 1d6, and that's including improved divine smite or no?

0:54:25 Brennan: Oh no, that should be, if you're doing a third. You're doing a third level divine smite? That's already 4d8, so it should be 6d8 plus 1d6.

0:54:37 Zac: 6d8 plus 1d6, okay.

0:54:39 Brennan: 6d8 plus 1d6 plus...

0:54:46 Zac: Sorry, I'm gonna do it in front of the board. Plus 1d6, umm, yeah.

0:54:55 Brennan: Wait a minute. Yeah, hold on. This should be, yeah, it's plus seven at the end. So 6d8 plus one D6 plus seven.

0:55:07 Zac: Okay. All right. Not amazing. 6d8, so that's 27 damage. Damn, those are low rolls and I'm gonna push him five feet into the engine. [chuckles]

0:55:27 Brennan: Hell yeah. Awesome. You push him. Let me just double check. Does he get any save as to that?

0:55:38 Zac: Well, let me double check. “Once per turn when you hit a creature with your attack deals bludgeoning damage, you can push them five feet.” I won't, I mean like if that feels like--

0:55:48 Brennan: I think this is UA right now. I'm gonna give him a strength save because the fact that you can do that on every single attack is pretty--

0:55:59 Zac: You can't, it's only once per turn.

0:56:00 Brennan: Oh, it’s only once per turn, okay, cool. I'm gonna give him a strength save. Your DC here is 16. I will roll in front of the board. He's really got to make this, but he does have a high, his saves are bananas. So he just needs a four or higher here. If he rolls a 1-3, he's in a lot of trouble. 18. Okay. But you crack into him. How much damage does that again? You did 27 damage?

0:56:33 Zac: 27 damage.

0:56:35 Brennan: Okay.

0:56:35 Zac: Not the best rolls over here.

0:56:36 Brennan: Yeah. That's gonna be...

0:56:36 Emily: I've been there.

0:56:46 Brennan: Uh, hell yeah. Huah! Into the side of him. Ricky, at the end of your turn, you see he calls back. He just says,

0:56:53 Tony: Keep juicing it!

0:56:53 Brennan: And does something on his legendary action to bolster all of his allies.

0:57:05 Emily: [sighs] With that perception check, do I get like earlier, do I get the sense that they need line of sight on this machine?

0:57:14 Brennan: You do get the sense that they need some kind of line of sight on this machine.

0:57:25 Zac: Oh, can Ox take his attack? [laughs]

0:57:27 Brennan: Yeah.

0:57:28 Emily: Yeah! Dalmatian go after Tony!

0:57:30 Zac: Pack Tactics, baby. He rolled like 18. He's not going to hit Tony.

0:57:36 Brennan: Cool. That's going to now be… Buh-buh-buhmm… JJ looks over at Kingston and Sofia who are still with him. He's got a spell ready to cast on somebody and he goes,

0:57:49 JJ: Who needs protection?

0:57:52 Sofia: Ah, give it to Kingston.

0:57:56 Kingston: Are you sure? You're about to go toe to toe.

0:57:58 Rowan: You’re about to...

0:58:00 Sofia: Yeah, but I'm cool with a little damage, remember? And you're our healer.

0:58:05 Kingston: You heard the lady.

0:58:08 Brennan: JJ steps forward and… grabs on this Umbra, spins Umbral arcana in a protective shield around Kingston. Kingston, you have the Blur spell active on you.

0:58:23 Lou: Okay.

0:58:24 Sofia: Wow, Kingston this is trippy.

0:58:29 Kingston: Yeah. JJ, what the hell did you do to me?

0:58:32 JJ: Kingston, it’s just that you're hard to see, people will have a hard time and so they won't be able to really hit you as well.

0:58:38 Kingston: Okay.

0:58:39 Brennan: People have disadvantage on attack rolls against Kingston.

0:58:42 Lou: Sick.

0:58:44 Emily: Amazing.

0:58:44 Brennan: Awesome.

0:58:44 Lou: There you go JJ, there you go, JJ.

0:58:47 Brennan: Hell yeah. That's going to now be Rowan, that's your turn.

0:58:54 Siobhan: Pete, are there any spells that you can do without verbal?

0:58:58 Emily: Yeah, Subtle Spell.

0:58:59 Ally: Oh, I can use sorcery points and still cast spells.

0:59:03 Siobhan: Oh, great. Okay. So it seems like Tony's pretty immune to magic, right? He seems to have some kind of immunity against magic.

0:59:16 Brennan: He has, all of his training is in fighting extraplanar and magical beings, yeah.

0:59:22 Siobhan: Sick. Oh, does using my Mirror of Manannan to See Invisibility, is that an object interaction?

0:59:29 Brennan: No, that's casting a spell.

0:59:31 Siobhan: Okay. Well then I will do that so that we know where all of these dang wizards are.

0:59:34 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:59:36 Brennan: Oh, baby. Hold on one second.

0:59:40 Ally: This is gonna be insane.

0:59:49 Brennan: Might not be as insane as you imagined. Rowan, you, so you're right there right? Oh, but the walls are all gone. Cause you're in trippy land. So that doesn't actually matter too much.

1:00:03 Siobhan: And there's no range on it, I can just see them.

1:00:06 Brennan: Rowan… blam. 3 wizards appear on the various staircases around you as you cast See Invisibility.

1:00:18 Siobhan: Great. And does it count as me casting that or does that count as the mirror casting that?

1:00:26 Brennan: You cast it using the magic item.

1:00:29 Siobhan: Mm. Okay. So I can't use a bonus action spell. Interesting. Interesting. Then I will cast Vicious Mockery on our boy, Tony Simos. And I'll say,

1:00:44 Rowan: Those tribal tattoos are derivative. [Brennan laughs]

1:00:51 Siobhan: And it's, so it's just..

1:00:56 Brennan: He succeeds on his Wisdom save to resist that spell.

1:00:59 Siobhan: Oh damn. Well

1:01:02 Brennan: Also I think Vicious Mockery is an action. Casting time is one action.

1:01:09 Siobhan: Yeah. Well, I, what do I do? I guess I move towards where...

1:01:13 Brennan: Your bonus actions are Misty Step, Blinding Smite or Bardic Inspiration.

1:01:20 Siobhan: Oh, I can.. [laughs] I haven’t played this character in a while. I can give people Bardic inspiration.

1:01:26 Rowan: Sofie, I can't wait to see you absolutely just destroy this man in the most revolting and humiliating way possible.

1:01:37 Siobhan: And you have bardic inspiration.

1:01:39 Sofia: Rowan, thank you so much. And if we have time after this I'd love to go pantsuit shopping.

1:01:42 Rowan: Oh my goodness. What a delight. What a joy.

1:01:46 Siobhan: And it's a d10 Bardic Inspiration.

1:01:48 Ally: Oooh!

1:01:50 Emily: Yeah.

1:01:51 Ally: Holy shit.

1:01:53 Brennan: Incredible, Kingston, that is your turn.

1:01:57 Lou: Can I turn to Alejandro and just be like,

1:02:00 Kingston: Well, how are they juicing this?

1:02:03 Brennan: Yeah, Alejandro says,

1:02:03 Alejandro: Announcing this to all of the Gramercy traitor wizards here in this room. So deeply disappointed. You were around when I was still here. So I don't know why this..

1:02:16 Brennan: You see Alejandro looks and says,

1:02:20 Alejandro: They are casting Dispel Magic into the Umbral engine. They are removing the, we had restraints because we knew this was a possibility. So they are dispelling the wards on the inside of the engine. We have to stop them from doing this.

1:02:33 Emily: Now that we see them, will we be able to see-- Oh wait, but they're too far away.

1:02:37 Brennan: Only Rowan can see them. So Rowan has called out where they are. Cool. So like, you guys will still need to hit high perception checks to be able to, even if Rowan's like, “There's one on the middle of the staircase.”

1:02:47 Emily: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:02:57 Brennan: Cool. But that's what Alejandro says that the wizards are casting dispels on the engine.

1:03:00 Ally: Incredible.

1:03:04 Lou: Great. I look at Sofie and I'm like,

1:03:06 Kingston: You go kick his ass. We’ll go figure these wizards--

1:03:09 Sofia: Okay, I can also go stun wizards or something.

1:03:12 Kingston: Hey, your choice. Me and Alejandro, we'll go drive, fuck some shit up.

1:03:15 Sofia: [laughing] Okay.

1:03:18 Lou: And I think me and Alejandro will take off to the right side.

1:03:23 Brennan: Actually. You know what Kingston? Alejandro is going to take a full dash, pick you up and fly you over there.

1:03:30 Lou: Wow. Look at that. [group cheers]

1:03:32 Brennan: So that's... Alejandro can get 80 feet. So, picks you up.

1:03:39 Zac: [laughs] Like carrying you through the threshold.

1:03:43 Kingston: I hate this. Ricky was trying to get me to go on his shoulders earlier. I do not like being picked up. All right? I'm a grown man. I have two feet. I like to use them.

1:03:55 Brennan: You see Alejandro is just going like,

1:03:59 Alejandro: Don't you see how strong I am now? It's incredible! This body is made up of celestial. Let me have some fun! You're a big guy, I never get to pick you up when—

1:04:06 Kingston: Put me down! Okay, okay fine. Oh, you had your fun, now drop me.

1:04:09 Lou: And I'm gonna cast, fuck it I'm gonna cast True Seeing on myself.

1:04:16 Ally: Hell yeah. [cast oohs]

1:04:19 Lou: Hey, go burn my sixth level spell but I could see these fucking wizards, but yeah we'll fly over there and I think that's, I think that's my turn.

1:04:29 Brennan: Cool. Hell yeah. That's going to be, That's gonna be these Concrete Fist monks. Let's see here. Lou measures the distance between Kingston and a monk.

1:04:47 Lou: It's 31.8, you know? So I don't know if it's--

1:04:51 Ally: So that's with disadvantage if I've ever seen it.

1:04:54 Lou: Yeah, exactly.

1:04:55 Siobhan: Sure seems like disadvantage to me.

1:04:58 Ally: A whole foot point eight?

1:05:00 Lou: Yeah.

1:05:00 Kingston: Yo, Alejandro, don't drop me yet. Let's stay up in the air. Stay up in the air. I'm sorry. I was joking. I was joking. Please don't put me down. [group laughs]

1:05:11 Brennan: Oh, incredible. Kingston's armor class is 18.

1:05:14 Emily: Isn't it buffed though, because, oh, but you're blurred.

1:05:17 Brennan: Yeah, they have disadvantage on all of these. That's a miss, would have been a nat 20. That is still a hit.

1:05:29 Lou: Okay.

1:05:30 Brennan: Miss… ...bare miss. That's a hit… ...and a miss. Two of them hit. Kingston you take 4, 10. You take 22 points of damage, need two DC 10 concentration saving throws.

1:05:56 Emily: From what I can tell though, those are probably for stun, but from what I can tell, True Seeing is not concentration. So you wouldn't lose it right? If you became stunned.

1:06:04 Lou: True seeing I'm good. It's about keeping Alejandro in the mix. But wait are these, these are to hold my spell, right?

1:06:11 Brennan: Yes will hold your spell.

1:06:13 Lou: Okay, Great. First one, first one… it's DC 10?

1:06:18 Brennan: DC 10.

1:06:19 Lou: First one, pass. Don't even need advantage yet. Second one, plus 7...11.

1:06:25 Brennan: Hell yeah, you're good.

1:06:25 Lou: We’re good.

1:06:28 Kingston: Alejandro, you ain't done yet.

1:06:31 Alejandro: Please, Kingston, I know it can be hard for you. Not the toughest guy in the world, but try to hold onto this spell to keep me around.

1:06:40 Kingston: All right. I'm pretty tough, all right. I don't know why everyone's trying to act like I can't scrap. All right. We gon’ scrap.

1:06:46 Alejandro: You are the one who is three years older, I stopped aging, so.

1:06:49 Kingston: Do not, do not right now. [all laugh]

1:06:54 Brennan: Alejandro's so happy to be with Kingston again. These other monks are gonna wail on Cody's ass hard. [Murph laughs]

1:07:03 Cody: Oh God, this is high school all over again. [Emily and Siobhan laugh]

1:07:10 Brennan: And they are all, unlike Kingston, they are all rolling with advantage.

1:07:13 Zac: Oh no.

1:07:15 Murph: Cody’s like,

1:07:16 Cody: Check out my new moped.

1:07:16 Emily: Oh, cause you’re stunned.

1:07:19 Zac: Cody, are you okay? What’s--?

1:07:23 Murph: Yeah. We'll see. I've taken a lot of damage already. I'm at 55.

1:07:27 Brennan: Hits… Miss...

1:07:31 Murph: Miss? Wow, incredible.

1:07:35 Brennan: Two hits, a crit… [cast groans]

1:07:38 Ally: Oh, okay, those you were quiet about.

1:07:41 Brennan: Three hits and a crit. You don't have concentration or anything right?

1:07:48 Murph: No, I'm absolutely stunned.

1:07:51 Brennan: So that's gonna be..

1:07:52 Murph: Stunned thinking about whether or not Cody would like Death Wish, he's grappling with himself.

1:07:59 Zac: It just feels old. [all laugh]

1:08:00 Murph: Yeah.

1:08:02 Zac: It's too old.

1:08:03 Murph: He doesn't wanna connect with Tony in any way.

1:08:07 Brennan: And we're gonna roll this in front of the board, Cody. It's gonna be 10d6 plus...

1:08:15 Murph: No!

1:08:18 Brennan: 16.

1:08:20 Zac: [in disbelief] 10d6 plus 16?

1:08:21 Murph: You fucking absolutely hate to see it.

1:08:24 Brennan: 53 damage.

1:08:25 Murph: Oh! I'm still up. I’m still up! [Emily laughs]

1:08:30 Murph: Barely, good lord!

1:08:31 Sofia: Cody, you deserve it at this point.. I feel like you're still up because of the work you've done on yourself.

1:08:36 Brennan: Yeah. A stunned Cody. These dudes just fucking are wailing on like a Cody with his bell rung. [mimics impacts]

1:08:46 Ally: I mean, can your moped take damage for you? Or are you just kind of in an uneven relationship with it?

1:08:52 Murph: I'm just happy they haven't touched my moped.

1:08:55 Brennan: Sofia, that is--

1:08:56 Ally: It just sparkles.

1:08:58 Brennan: Sofia, that's gonna be you.

1:08:59 Emily: That's me. Okay. So I've got Bardic but I'm not Blessed. I know that I've got this like idea to use Darkness to hide the Umbral engine in the, in my back pocket. But I just, I spent the entire last fight stunned. I would like to fight someone.

1:09:18 Brennan: Also Darkness is 20 feet, right?

1:09:22 Emily: Darkness is a 15 foot radius.

1:09:24 Brennan: So 15 foot radius. So you would not, you'd be able to cover a large amount of the Umbral engine?

1:09:30 Siobhan: Radius, 60 foot diameter.

1:09:32 Emily: No, 15 foot radius. So 30 foot diameter.

1:09:34 Brennan: 15 foot radius. Cool. So, Sofia go for it.

1:09:38 Emily: Okay. Yeah. I'm just gonna run up to Tony and let's do this, I won't be using any Stunning Strikes on him, but wait, where is he? Yeah, I'm just gonna throw myself in the mix. He's got a Hexblade Curse on him. You know, I'm hoping for the gods to be good to me. [rolls] Oh my god. My first roll was a 3.

1:09:51 Brennan: Oh no.

1:10:04 Emily: Let us see a three, 12 with a Bardic. I would need to roll a 10. Okay. Miss with my first one, a 4.

1:10:16 Brennan: Oh God.

1:10:18 Emily: I'm not going to use that. I'm not going to use Bardic yet. Cause I don't think that would necessarily hit. Okay, 18. I'm going to Flurry of Blows. Unfortunately these are my regular attacks. So that's 8 plus 4, 12. And then one final one, which is a 10 plus 9. I will use my Bardic for that. Okay. That's going to hit and a seven plus, 7 plus a 4...plus 4, 11. So 11 and 12. Sofia feels like fucking shit. [all laugh]

1:11:07 Emily: Yeah. Pretty much since I've been pregnant, my life sucks.

1:11:12 Brennan: I will say Sofia, you did move Tony to having taken 69 points of damage exactly. So that's fun.

1:11:20 Ally: Nice.

1:11:21 Emily: You know it doesn't cheer Sofia up.

1:11:26 Brennan: Okay. That, Sofia rushes in, starts to combat Tony. At the end of Tony's turn, he's gonna take another legendary action to, he's gonna take another legendary action to make a just an unarmed strike against Sofia.

1:11:58 Emily: I'm not even gonna Shield because I want the damage.

1:12:01 Brennan: That's a hit. I'm gonna need, but he doesn't. The stunning effect does not happen yet. Go ahead. But he's going to deal you. Ooh, 14, 24 points of damage. He deals 24 points of damage to you and I'm gonna need a strength saving throw.

1:12:29 Emily: The strength saving throw. Okay. Hm. What low number will I roll today? [Ally laughs]

1:12:38 Zac: Sofia, let's… [chuckles]

1:12:41 Emily: Okay, a 21.

1:12:43 Brennan: Cool. You are not knocked prone. He goes for the legs, you leap over it. He hits you for that damage. It is gonna be Pete's turn again.

1:12:52 Ally: Okay.

1:12:53 Brennan: Oh, sorry, sorry. I almost skipped past some other people I should really not have skipped past, which are the fucking wizards themselves. You guys see upper left, this wizard, hits the umbral arc… sorry. Actually, this wizard upper right, hits the engine with a Dispel Magic. It goes-

1:13:22 Siobhan: Counterspell!

1:13:25 Brennan: Way past 60 feet from you.

1:13:28 Siobhan: Dang. Oh it's this one over here.

1:13:30 Brennan: Upper right. Yeah.

1:13:33 Emily: Can we say that I actually used my... oh no.

1:13:37 Brennan: Actually you know what, It is the one on the upper left hand side. So upper left hand....

1:13:42 Siobhan: No. It's still too far.

1:13:44 Brennan: Still too far, does it--

1:13:47 Emily: Can I have used the rest of my movement? Although I guess no, I couldn't, whatever.

1:13:53 Brennan: So hits the, the Umbral engine...

1:13:57 Umbral Engine: [pleasant computer voice] 450%.

1:14:02 Brennan: You see... Kingston. I am going to need a Charisma saving throw from you. I'm gonna need a DC 14 Charisma saving throw.

1:14:28 Lou: Whoa, baby. 15.

1:14:34 Brennan: [laughs, impressed] The wizard on the lower right, attempts to Banish you. You resist that.

1:14:42 Kingston: I don't leave New York. [all laugh]

1:14:48 Brennan: Incredible. And this other one, okay. Is gonna make some attacks on Cody with advantage, three different attacks.

1:15:10 Ally: Whoa.

1:15:10 Brennan: Scorching Ray. That's gonna be, that's a hit.

1:15:14 Emily: Wait, who's-? Oh, the one up there.

1:15:16 Brennan: Upper right, miss on the second ray, hit on the next one. One, two, three… Cod-

1:15:24 Murph: I'm down, I'm down no matter what. I'm at two.

1:15:26 Brennan: Cool. Cody, you hit the deck. You hit the deck at zero making death saves. Those are those Gramercies there. That's going to go to the top. Pete, that's you.

1:15:46 Ally: Okay. So I would like to, I'm like, [Pete makes choking noises]

1:15:51 Ally: And then I want to look at Tony and pretend like I'm realizing I can't use any of my spells, like, [Pete continues choking with a startled expression]

1:15:59 Ally: And then look up at him and go, Pete smiles and holds a finger to his mouth.

1:15:59 Ally: And cast a let's see, we'll do fifth level Fireball on that wizard up in the corner. So since it's like a 20 foot radius I think I should be able to hit them without any like disadvantage or anything. Cause it's that whole area.

1:16:20 Brennan: Yeah. Where are you hitting them? You're hitting them, which one, sorry?

1:16:25 Ally: The one in the top left. Top left. It's a 20 foot radius sphere.

1:16:29 Brennan: Are you doing, are you doing Fireball on them?

1:16:32 Ally: Yeah.

1:16:33 Brennan: Go ahead and roll damage. I think it's 10d6 fire damage. [someone whistles]

1:16:39 Ally: 30, 9d6.

1:16:43 Brennan: Oh, 9d6. Okay.

1:16:45 Ally: So that's my sassy little moment where I'm like, Oh no. And then I'm like, [grins and puts a finger to their lips] Fireball shoots out from me to one of his little wizards.

1:16:55 Brennan: Past 60 feet, can't counter, takes 30. That wizard is looking badly hurt. And Pete yeah, you don't need your, you see Tony looks horrified, that his like anti-magic shit does not seem to affect you in any meaningful way.

1:17:15 Ally: And then I'm going to take a little dash? I mean not a dash, sorry, but I am just gonna run towards Cody.

1:17:27 Brennan: Go for it. [Ally makes a cool noise]

1:17:31 Brennan: As you leave, Tony's gonna take an attack of opportunity on you. Hits.

1:17:37 Ally: Shield.

1:17:40 Brennan: Still hits and deals you—

1:17:47 Ally: Oh wait, hold on. Okay, Yeah. Whatever.

1:17:51 Brennan: Deals you 20 points of damage. Deals you 20 points of damage and hold on. And I'm going to need a, I'm gonna need a dex saving throw from Pete.

1:18:12 Ally: Nat 20.

1:18:13 Murph: Nice.

1:18:13 Brennan: Hell yeah, you dodge, end of Pete's turn. He's gonna take another attack, hits Sofia and deals Sofia 20 points of damage as well. Also—

1:18:27 Emily: Cool. I might as well, what're you gonna say?

1:18:29 Brennan: Give me a strength saving throw, and a con saving throw.

1:18:34 Emily: Okay. Strength save. Oh boy, I think that's gonna save. Strength save, that's gonna be a 20.

1:18:51 Brennan: You do not go prone again. Give me that con save.

1:18:56 Emily: Con save is definitely gonna fucking save. That's a... Oh, okay, that's just 20.

1:19:01 Brennan: Hell yeah. You are good on both counts. Cody, I'm gonna need a death saving throw.

1:19:06 Murph: Yeah, I'll roll it in front of the table.

1:19:14 Zac: Come on, Cody.

1:19:16 Siobhan: Come on, Cody. Murph rolls a 17.

1:19:19 Siobhan: Yes, Cody.

1:19:20 Murph: Nice.

1:19:21 Zac: Yes, Cody.

1:19:21 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:19:21 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:19:21 Murph: This is, one time Cody at the mall threw a Big Gulp at the dudes at Modell's who had bullied him at the Hot Topic. And then they kicked his ass in the parking lot near mopeds. Cody's getting flashbacks. This is nothing out of the ordinary.

1:19:39 Ally: They beat you with those little like weird wire mixing balls from their, like, protein shakes. [Murph laughs]

1:19:43 Ally: Just like, [makes a metal clanging noise].

1:19:47 Brennan: That's gonna be Tony, Tony is gonna go in four attacks on Sofia.

1:19:53 Ally: Well, that's gonna be Tony? It's finally his turn?

1:19:59 Brennan: [laughs] Oh God, everyone's got some fucking shit to say, huh? [Ally laughs]

1:20:05 Zac: He's got 15 attacks, and they're going in on Sofia right now.

1:20:09 Brennan: Incredible.

1:20:10 Lou: Tony will now take his 15 attacks. If everyone in 120 foot radius can make a chaos throw, a chaos saving throw. [Ally and Murph laugh]

1:20:21 Brennan: Sofia's AC is 19 right?

1:20:23 Emily: Yep. Let me know one by one because I might take one attack and then cast Shield.

1:20:29 Brennan: Okay. That's a miss on the first attack. Ah, incredible. Hold on. That was cocked. That's a hit.

1:20:41 Emily: Okay.

1:20:42 Brennan: That's it. That's a hit.

1:20:43 Emily: Okay. I cast Shield after the first hit.

1:20:47 Brennan: After the first, okay. He rolled a 9. Yours is 24. He misses on his third attack. La Gran Gata swirls around. He says,

1:20:58 Tony: Get that fucking cat out of here!

1:21:01 Sofia: Thank you for the damage. Now I'm gonna do radiant, extra radiant damage. And I really appreciate that, Tony.

1:21:08 Brennan: Incredible. He hits you twice.

1:21:12 Emily: Even with the Shield after that?

1:21:14 Brennan: Oh, no. The two out of four attacks on his turn hit you.

1:21:16 Emily: Okay.

1:21:18 Brennan: So he, that's gonna be 10, 14. He deals 34 points of damage to Sofia. Boom, boom, boom! You've still got Shield active. Oof, Tony, you should have imposed the no reactions thing instead of that prone thing, buddy.

1:21:36 Zac: I'll take a, one of my, one of those attacks. Would you like to not be hit by one of those Sofia?

1:21:42 Emily: Yeah, that's fine with me. I only needed 6 damage to get down to radiant damage.

1:21:46 Zac: Okay, the one that was 14 damage, the second one, I guess? Could I take that hit from my Aura of Guardian?

1:21:53 Brennan: Oh, sure. You wanna take the second one?

1:21:56 Zac: Yeah. So I'll just take the damage of that. I don't take any… the status stuff still happens, but--

1:22:01 Brennan: Sofia, you take 20. Ricky, you take 14 points of damage. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh, Pete? Did you get hit by that opportunity attack or no? No, you did not.

1:22:16 Ally: I did. Yeah, I did.

1:22:17 Brennan: Give me a concentration check for Haste. Yeah.

1:22:20 Ally: Oh yeah. That's 18.

1:22:23 Brennan: Cool. Good, good, good.

1:22:25 Ally: I keep forgetting what my, I really can't find where it says plus 6 about this, but I do believe you.

1:22:31 Zac: On D&D Beyond, there should be on, like top left under your stats.

1:22:37 Ally: Ohh!

1:22:38 Zac: Saving throws.

1:22:39 Brennan: Sofia, go ahead, give me a dex saving throw.

1:22:45 Emily: Okay. Yeah. That's gonna be good. That's a 22.

1:22:49 Brennan: Give me another dex saving throw and then a con saving throw.

1:22:53 Emily: Why three? Oh. Cause he's using multiple ki points.

1:22:56 Brennan: Yeah.

1:22:58 Emily: Only 13 for the second dex and then 19 for the con. Oh wait. No, no, no no. 17 for the con.

1:23:10 Brennan: Cool. You are not stunned. You do go prone, he, bam! Moves you to the ground. Ricky, that's gonna be your turn.

1:23:16 Ally: Oh. And with Haste, your added action can be an attack or a disengage or a object interaction. It's just like an extra.

1:23:24 Zac: Oh, okay. It's just like a physical thing? Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Ox is just gonna get in there. Like, might as well, Pack Tactics. My buddy is gonna do, he's not gonna hit cause it's 22 is the AC, right?

1:23:36 Brennan: Uh-huh.

1:23:47 Zac: Okay. Now Ricky is gonna take his attacks. First attack… Does… a 20 hit?

1:23:57 Brennan: 20 does not hit.

1:23:59 Zac: Second attack 19 on the dice, so that will hit.

1:24:03 Murph: Nice.

1:24:04 Brennan: Hell yeah, and you're adding because, for some reason your weapon in your thing, doesn't look right to me. I just wanna make sure that you have the correct thing here cause you should be adding plus 11 to these attacks.

1:24:20 Zac: Oh, shit. I think I still have the like Defender kind of a fighting style rather than the Dueling fighting style.

1:24:29 Brennan: Yeah. Ricky, you should be adding plus 11 to your attacks.

1:24:31 Zac: Okay. Wait, so I rolled an 11 on the first one then.

1:24:34 Ally: That’s exactly it.

1:24:36 Murph: That’s exactly it.

1:24:37 Zac: So that's 22 twice then. Okay. Yeah. And then my third attack, 16 on the dice. So three hits.

1:24:44 Lou: Woo!

1:24:48 Brennan: Hell yes.

1:24:52 Murph: Dude, just smite his ass.

1:24:53 Zac: I'm going to, I wanna save one. I've used two third level spell slots already. So I'm gonna save one just in case, I'm gonna, do one first level smite and two second level smites. I'm gonna smite three times.

1:25:12 Brennan: Jesus.

1:25:13 Zac: I think. Is that crazy?

1:25:14 Brennan: So that's gonna be...

1:25:16 Murph: No dude. Go for it.

1:25:18 Brennan: So that's going to be...

1:25:22 Zac: Cause each one gets an improved divine smite as well.

1:25:24 Brennan: So just your attacks with improved divine smite is 6d8 which becomes 8d8 on the first divine smite, 10d8… And then your second level bumps that to 13d8. That's 13d8 plus 21.

1:25:44 Zac: Plus the d6 of lightning damage right?

1:25:47 Brennan: Each time. So that's 13d8 plus 3d6 plus 21.

1:25:52 Lou: Whoa…

1:25:53 Siobhan: Jesus Christ.

1:25:54 Ally: FINALLY!

1:25:56 Brennan: 3d8 plus 21.

1:25:59 Ally: Incredible.

1:26:00 Lou: Damn.

1:26:00 Zac: 3d6 though, 3d6?

1:26:03 Brennan: Six, yeah. 13d8 plus 3d6 plus 21.

1:26:07 Zac: Okay.

1:26:09 Ricky: Tony… Get fucked, dude. [all laugh]

1:26:14 Kingston: Did Ricky say 'fuck?'

1:26:16 Rowan: [gasps] That’s pretty rude.

1:26:17 Ricky: [puts a hand over his mouth] I don’t usually curse.

1:26:18 Murph: I can't believe Cody was out and missed that.

1:26:19 Zac: 90...

1:26:21 Siobhan: Wowwwww...

1:26:23 Brennan: Jesus fucking Christ. Tony is a legendary opponent. Ricky, as he slams Sofia into the ground and stands back up, it's [baseball bat crack] once across the jaw, once across the head, and [baseball bat crack] slam into the stomach crackling with lightning and radiance. Tony hasn't looked hurt this whole time. Tony looks hurt. Tony looks hurt.

1:26:36 Ally: Hell yeah.

1:26:49 Zac: Can I try to push him five feet away?

1:26:51 Brennan: Yes. I'm gonna go ahead and make this again. He, again, if he gets a 3 or lower, it is fucking bad. 9, he's okay. Uh, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Laying into him, at the end of your turn… He's gonna start focusing on Ricky now. That's what he's, that's what he's gonna do.

1:27:05 Emily: Yeah, that’s fine.

1:27:19 Brennan: Oh, he's gonna go for Ricky. Misses, and wastes a legendary action doing so. Incredible. That's going to be JJ. JJ's gonna go ahead and hit one of the people attacking Kingston or actually no, he's gonna hit Tony. He sees Tony getting messed up. Ricky's his boy, 4d4 plus four and blasts Tony for 11 points of damage, way to go JJ.

1:27:39 Zac: Hell yeah, JJ!

1:28:00 Lou: Way to go. Points on the board, JJ.

1:28:01 Ally: [quietly] Hell yeah.

1:28:03 Brennan: That's going to be Rowan.

1:28:06 Siobhan: Okay. I'm gonna cast Dimension Door and move myself to right here. And do smites count as spells? Can I cast Blinding Smite as a bonus action?

1:28:22 Brennan: You can—

1:28:23 Siobhan: Where are my spell slots?

1:28:25 Brennan: Yes. I see that Blinding Smite...

1:28:30 Zac: I think it's, you have to hit--

1:28:32 Brennan: You have to hit with a melee attack for Blinding Smite.

1:28:33 Siobhan: Yes. I am planning my next round.

1:28:37 Brennan: Gotcha. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. You can cast that as a bonus action but you can't cast two spells in one turn is the issue.

1:28:44 Siobhan: That's why I was asking. Does a smite count as a spell?

1:28:47 Brennan: Yes.

1:28:48 Zac: Divine smite doesn't.

1:28:49 Siobhan: But Blinding Smite does, cool. In which case I will say,

1:28:51 Rowan: Cody, I don't know if you can hear this, but it seems like you're… [pained pause] it seems like you've really, a lot of thought into the aesthetic. Like there's a lot of thought put into it and I appreciate that thought.

1:29:01 Murph: Just knocked out on my back. [all laugh]

1:29:07 Zac: Almost a stranger to her.

1:29:09 Murph: Just under a moped, covered in blood.

1:29:12 Rowan: ...a lot of effort. You’ve really--

1:29:16 Brennan: Okay. That's Rowan, Kingston, that's you.

1:29:21 Lou: Okay. Let's do some stuff, I'd like to cast or not cast, but Channel Divinity and use Spirits of the City. I present my holy symbol and I don't know, it's… I guess this question of whether, where we are in space. If we're in the city, “every hostile creature within 30 feet of me makes a charisma saving throw on a failed save, the creature's knocked prone or restrained…” my choice, or your choice by what. “But the restrained creature can escape by making a successful strength or athletics check.”

1:30:01 Brennan: Incredible. And it's a charisma saving throw?

1:30:05 Lou: It's a charisma saving throw, DC 17.

1:30:08 Brennan: And it's everyone you can see?

1:30:10 Lou: Or everyone within 30 feet of me.

1:30:12 Brennan: Okay, cool. You might imagine these monks are not great at charisma saving throws, but they do have magic resistance. So...yeah. Oh, this is… they have to get 16s or higher. Fail. Succeed. Succeed. One of them is restrained.

1:30:43 Lou: Great. Okay. One of them is restrained. I am going to take, Yeah. I'm gonna take a disengage and move up toward Cody.

1:31:03 Brennan: I believe that you've used an action already, with the Spirits of the City.

1:31:08 Lou: Oh, in that case, what do we do?

1:31:12 Zac: Can Alejandro move you?

1:31:16 Lou: I think I'll still take opportunity attacks. I think I'm gonna have, I'm gonna use the Gotham Timepiece. Take a level of exhaustion.

1:31:21 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:31:27 Lou: Disengage, and move 30 feet.

1:31:33 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:31:35 Zac: Fully forgot about that

1:31:38 Murph: Yeah. That's a good call, Kingston.

1:31:41 Brennan: Kingston, as you use the Gotham timepiece, everyone in the fight give me a Perception check.

1:31:47 Emily: I got a 2.

1:31:49 Murph: Nat 20. Oh no, I'm knocked out.

1:31:51 Brennan: Totally knocked out.

1:31:53 Zac: I got a dirty 20.

1:31:54 Siobhan: Oh no! I got a 26, I got a 26.

1:31:57 Brennan: Rowan, you see, as that Gotham Timepiece gets used, New York minutes are everywhere in here with the tide of Umbra coming in tons of them are hitting Kingston's egg, obviously. [high-pitched pinging] And tons of them are hitting something on Sofia's person that you can see.

1:32:20 Rowan: Oh, I love this city!

1:32:24 Brennan: Kingston, you disengage, you move, that's gonna be Alejandro.

1:32:28 Lou: Hold on. And then I'm gonna use my bonus action to cast a third level Healing Word on Cody.

1:32:38 Murph: Much appreciated.

1:32:39 Brennan: Ooh baby, hell yeah.

1:32:42 Lou: So let's go 3, 4, 3, 15 to Cody.

1:32:54 Brennan: Cody is back up, baby.

1:32:56 Ally: Woo!

1:32:59 Brennan: Hell yes. That's gonna be Alejandro.

1:33:02 Lou: Alejandro is just going to close with the other wizard.

1:33:08 Brennan: Oh shit.

1:33:10 Lou: Yeah. The boys can decide what they want to do on their turn. The boys are not important here.

1:33:18 Brennan: And I think Alejandro...

1:33:20 Lou: I think he'll have to use a full dash.

1:33:23 Brennan: Let me see real quick what 40 feet looks like for him. Yes. He'll have to use a full dash.

1:33:31 Lou: Yeah. And is he within their threatened area?

1:33:36 Brennan: Yes. So they'll get swings on him.

1:33:39 Lou: Well, two of them will.

1:33:41 Brennan: Yes, absolutely. That's right. Yes, yes, yes.

1:33:43 Lou: Yeah. He'll full dash and meet this woman.

1:33:48 Brennan: One of them hits Alejandro for 14.

1:33:52 Lou: Cool. He drops from, or no, I think it's, yeah, he drops from 58.

1:34:01 Brennan: That's now going to be, now it's these Concrete Fist monks.

1:34:04 Murph: [quietly] Fuck.

1:34:07 Zac: Oh no.

1:34:08 Brennan: Cody luckily, Cody--

1:34:10 Murph: I don't have a disadvantage anymore.

1:34:12 Brennan: You don't have a disadvantage anymore.

1:34:13 Murph: I'm not stunned.

1:34:14 Brennan: Actually did you..

1:34:14 Siobhan: And you have a Bardic.

1:34:17 Murph: Oh! Yes. But I'm still gonna get knocked out.

1:34:22 Brennan: Here's the issue: when you get knocked unconscious, you go prone, I don't think you've been able to come up from prone yet.

1:34:30 Siobhan: He is on his moped.

1:34:32 Brennan: Not after getting knocked unconscious. He's not on his moped, he's on the fucking ground.

1:34:35 Siobhan: He fell unconscious-- [leans her torso forward to demonstrate] He’s on the front of the moped and [sits back up] he popped back up.

1:34:39 Murph: If I roll a nat 20, Brennan, can we say I fell on the moped? [laughs]

1:34:42 Brennan: Yes, hit a nat 20 right now, and you fell on the moped.

1:34:45 Murph: Okay. Guaranteed nat 20 coming up.

1:34:48 Siobhan: Guaranteed, guaranteed, nat 20 right now.

1:34:51 Murph: Guaranteed nat 20. Guaranteed nat 20. Absolutely guaranteed nat 20.

1:34:51 Siobhan: Guaranteed nat 11 right there.

1:34:56 Murph: That’s an 11. That’s a natural 11.

1:34:56 Siobhan: That's what Brennan said though, if you rolled an 11.

1:34:59 Brennan: Even with advantage, even an advantage, first one misses. Hit.

1:35:02 Murph: God dammit.

1:35:04 Brennan: Hits.

1:35:08 Murph: Did any of these guys work at Modell's?

1:35:10 Brennan: Hit. Miss.

1:35:12 Lou: Come on, one of them has gotta have worked at Modell's.

1:35:15 Brennan: Okay. Four hits is probably gonna drop you again.

1:35:18 Murph: Yeah.

1:35:21 Siobhan: Wait, Cutting Words to one of them.

1:35:27 Brennan: Three, only three hit. They were all close enough.

1:35:29 Murph: Thank you.

1:35:31 Brennan: Go ahead and roll your d10, let's just make sure.

1:35:34 Murph: I think I'm still gonna go down no matter what.

1:35:36 Siobhan: Three.

1:35:38 Brennan: Okay. We're gonna do this. Let me know when you drop, because there's gonna be some potential death save failures here.

1:35:44 Murph: Great.

1:35:46 Brennan: First one is 9 damage.

1:35:49 Murph: Still up.

1:35:52 Brennan: Next one is 14 damage.

1:35:55 Murph: Super dead, down.

1:35:58 Brennan: Last one is two death save fails.

1:36:02 Zac: No one's attacking the moped?

1:36:04 Brennan: They can't, Cody stopped them from doing that.

1:36:08 Zac: Dying to protect your moped...

1:36:12 Murph: Taking a kick straight to the nads... [laughs] Just getting punted in the face so that I could protect my moped.

1:36:20 Zac: Just got a wax.

1:36:23 Murph: The moped just absolutely looks pristine.

1:36:30 Brennan: Does this guy have a plus 6 to athletics? No, does not. Other guy's still restrained trying to get out of your, you see spirits of New York are holding him in place. Other two are gonna come for you Kingston. They all still have disadvantage. Miss, miss… Lou raises a fist in victory.

1:36:53 Brennan: Hit… Lou lowers his fist.

1:36:57 Brennan: Miss. Kingston...

1:36:59 Kingston: JJ! [Ally chuckles]

1:37:02 Brennan: Kingston you take 9 points of damage. Give me that concentration check.

1:37:06 Lou: Okay. First one is a DC10.

1:37:10 Brennan: DC10.

1:37:12 Lou: I have to hit a 10 to hit it, right?

1:37:14 Brennan: Yes.

1:37:14 Lou: Great, did it on the first one, we're good.

1:37:17 Brennan: Hell yeah. Sofia, that's going to be you.

1:37:20 Emily: [resigned] Okay. Sofia knows her place. Sofia knows that her purpose is not to do anything but stun people and Tony can't be stunned. So she's gonna run up to these monks and she's just gonna start stunning them. So they can't put Cody back down next time Kingston brings him up.

1:37:44 Brennan: You're gonna get an attack of opportunity... oh, did Tony..

1:37:49 Zac: He hit Pete when Pete ran away.

1:37:51 Murph: Yeah.

1:37:51 Brennan: But Tony's gone since Pete ran. So this the first time..

1:37:56 Emily: Let me know if it hits.

1:37:58 Zac: Did he go since?

1:37:59 Brennan: He was using legendary actions. So he's gonna, he's gonna go ahead and roll. I'm gonna roll in front of the board. You still have Shield up. So he's got to hit… So he's got to hit a...

1:38:10 Emily: 24.

1:38:11 Brennan: He's got to hit a 24. he needs a 10 or higher. 9! Sofia skids away. Go ahead and take your attacks.

1:38:23 Emily: All right. Hmm. First one's going to be an 18. Does that hit?

1:38:31 Brennan: 18 hits.

1:38:32 Emily: Okay. That's a 10 damage and ki point to stun him.

1:38:38 Brennan: He fails, stunned.

1:38:40 Emily: Cool. He's stunned, I move to the one next to him.

1:38:43 Murph: I think dude with the red hair is super hurt too.

1:38:46 Ally: Yeah. You could just [pop]

1:38:46 Emily: Yeah. I'm just trying to stun them so that they can when you get brought back up, you won't be able, they won't be able to attack you back down again.

1:38:55 Brennan: Remember, also, Sofia, you had to add that extra radiant damage too.

1:38:59 Emily: Oh, right. Yeah.

1:38:59 Ally: Amazing.

1:39:02 Emily: So an extra 2. So that was 12 to the first to that guy, he's stunned now. Guy with the red hair, that's gonna be a 17. Does a 17 hit?

1:39:17 Brennan: 17 does hit, yes.

1:39:18 Emily: Okay. That's gonna be a, wow, I rolled two 1s. It's gonna be a seven damage and I'm gonna spend a ki point to try to stun him.

1:39:34 Brennan: He is stunned as well.

1:39:36 Emily: Okay. And then I'm just gonna move on to the next one. There's only three surrounding Cody, right?

1:39:42 Brennan: That's correct, yeah.

1:39:44 Emily: Okay. That's gonna miss. So I'm going to Flurry of Blows… and does a 17… or 17 does hit, so that is a 9 plus 5, 14. And I'm gonna try to stun him.

1:40:05 Brennan: 14… he is stunned as well. All three.

1:40:11 Murph: Nice. [all cheer]

1:40:13 Ally: Hell yeah, dude.

1:40:16 Brennan: Pow! Sofia, they are, you have stunned all the people surrounding Cody, at the end of your turn, Tony is gonna make an attack against Ricky. That's gonna be a crit.

1:40:28 Murph: Yikes.

1:40:35 Brennan: 10, 19, 22… Ricky, you take 32 points of damage.

1:40:42 Zac: From the first attack?

1:40:44 Brennan: From his first attack.

1:40:45 Zac: I will Channel Divinity and Rebuke the Violent.

1:40:50 Brennan: Ooh.

1:40:51 Ally: Hell yes.

1:40:54 Brennan: Tony's… He takes that, does not like it. I'm getting--

1:41:00 Zac: I'm sorry, was it 32 damage? Is that what you said?

1:41:03 Brennan: Yes. I'm gonna need a strength saving throw from Ricky and then I'm gonna need a constitution saving throw.

1:41:10 Zac: Strength saving throw… I'm gonna use a luck point.

1:41:17 Brennan: Okay.

1:41:17 Murph: Nice.

1:41:21 Zac: [winces] Wait. Is a 18 gonna cut it?

1:41:25 Brennan: He knocks you to your feet. Sorry. This would be a dex saving throw. So it's even lower.

1:41:30 Zac: The first one was a dex.

1:41:31 Brennan: First one was a dex, yeah.

1:41:33 Brennan: He puts you to the ground, you go prone. And then this is the con one, this is the big one.

1:41:39 Zac: Okay. That's 16.

1:41:48 Brennan: That's enough to overcome stunned. You are not stunned.

1:41:52 Ally: [whistles] Nice.

1:41:55 Brennan: Hell yeah. That is, that's gonna be, these wizards are gonna start throwing some stuff. Lower right by Alejandro is gonna hit the engine with another Dispel.

1:42:10 Umbral Engine: Umbral engine at 600%.

1:42:16 Emily: Sweet. Let me know what the upper left does. I mean, the yeah, upper left.

1:42:21 Brennan: Upper left? Upper left is gonna try to hit Pete with a Banishment spell.

1:42:27 Emily: Counterspell. You could put a counterspell in my leopard print.

1:42:30 Siobhan: I did.

1:42:32 Brennan: Okay. Banishment is fourth level.

1:42:37 Emily: It's a fifth level. She put a fifth level Counterspell.

1:42:38 Murph: Oh, she did put a fifth level! [nodding excitedly]

1:42:39 Siobhan: It’s a fifth level. Put a fifth level Counterspell in.

1:42:40 Brennan: Jesus, incredible. Done.

1:42:42 Sofia: Iga! This is for you!

1:42:46 Pete: I love you!

1:42:46 Ally: Er, I can't say that. [Pete gurgles] [Emily laughs lightly]

1:42:53 Siobhan: [Iga voice] Someone, somebody is squeaking at me.

1:42:56 Brennan: I'm gonna need a charisma save from Rowan as well.

1:43:00 Siobhan: Counterspell.

1:43:03 Brennan: Okay. You're casting Counterspell?

1:43:05 Siobhan: Yeah.

1:43:06 Brennan: Okay. This is still a fourth level spell so--

1:43:09 Siobhan: Fourth level counterspell.

1:43:11 Brennan: Okay. I'm gonna make an arcana… Give me a DC 14 arcana check to know what the level of the spell is as you're casting it.

1:43:21 Siobhan: I do not make it. So I'll cast it as a third level. And then I'll do my roll.

1:43:27 Brennan: Yeah. So you're gonna need to hit a DC 14 on a charisma check.

1:43:33 Siobhan: Okay. [nods] Yeah, I got like a 28.

1:43:40 Brennan: Okay, great. You knock that spell out of the air. Those are the wizards. Back to the top of the order. That's going to be Pete.

1:43:52 Ally: Great. You know, I'm just gonna cast another Fireball on this person in front of me using Careful Spell.

1:44:04 Brennan: Hell yeah. They're gonna attempt to Counterspell it.

1:44:08 Ally: Do they know which level I'm using?

1:44:10 Brennan: No, they don't. So they're gonna have to beat it on a roll.

1:44:13 Ally: Gorgeous.

1:44:15 Brennan: They are gonna need, it's a third level. Oh no. You're casting Fireball right? They auto Counterspell it, blam, third level spell.

1:44:25 Ally: But I'm using it as a slot higher.

1:44:28 Brennan: Okay. So it's a 14, so they're gonna need to roll, they need, I believe, yeah, they need an 11 or higher here.

1:44:37 Ally: If I'm casting it as a fifth level, does that change anything?

1:44:41 Brennan: I'm gonna say that you said you're casting it at fourth level, so we're gonna keep it at fourth level.

1:44:46 Ally: Oh, when did I say fourth?

1:44:47 Zac: Just a second ago.

1:44:49 Brennan: Just a second ago. [Emily laughs]

1:44:51 Ally: Wait, what? No.

1:44:52 Brennan: Yeah, you said “I'm casting--”

1:44:54 Murph: You said a, you said a slot up.

1:44:56 Brennan: Do you wanna cast it as a fifth level?

1:44:57 Siobhan: Yeah you said--

1:44:58 Ally: No, I'm casting it as a fifth level again. So it's another 9d-whatever, yeah.

1:45:04 Brennan: It would actually be 10, it's 10d6 at fifth level.

1:45:08 Ally: I don't remember saying fourth.

1:45:10 Brennan: So they're gonna need a 12 or higher to beat this.

1:45:14 Ally: Ya love to see it.

1:45:16 Brennan: That’s a 3.

1:45:17 Murph: Nice.

1:45:19 Brennan: Pete immolates, the wizard’s blasted back through the windows that shatter behind them. That wizard is no more. Pete, any movement from you?

1:45:33 Ally: Oh, I don't even have to roll for that damage, it’s just--

1:45:37 Brennan: No, they're so close, they're toast.

1:45:42 Ally: Cool. Yeah, definitely. I'm gonna come and… I'm gonna cast… So that was using subtle because I can't talk but then I'm also gonna do quicken. So that was a bonus action. So I can do like an untrained medicine check on Cody.

1:46:06 Brennan: Oh, okay. Yes, yes, yes. Go ahead and… sorry, Pete, you can't do that quicken. The reason being you have to use care, you have to use subtle spell every time to overcome that crushed windpipe.

1:46:23 Ally: Yeah totally. So I was just gonna spend-- Oh, I can only do one per...

1:46:27 Brennan: You can only do one metamagic per spell.

1:46:29 Ally: Oh, okay. Cool. Then I have way more sorcery points than I thought I did. Okay, cool.

1:46:35 Murph: I have Bardic, I have Bardic so if it gets to my turn I could die, but I, the odds are in my favor.

1:46:44 Ally: Oh okay, cool. Then I'm just gonna be here in the mix. You know, actually just fuck it. I'm gonna do a double.

1:46:53 Brennan: Cool.

1:46:55 Ally: Cool.

1:46:58 Brennan: Pete, go ahead and give me a wild magic surge roll.

1:47:00 Ally: Oh right. Nat 1. [various gasps]

1:47:06 Brennan: Gimme two d100 rolls.

1:47:10 Emily: I just realized that you’ve had a beard of feathers this whole time. [all laugh]

1:47:15 Ally: [laughs] Yeah. All right, that's a 92, and it's a 28. [suspenseful "oh no Pete" music]

1:47:26 Brennan: There is something that will dramatically help your spell casting. And there's something here that has to do with the magic of life and death.

1:47:38 Zac: [chuckles] Two sides of the same coin.

1:47:40 Ally: Two sides of the same coin, let me think about it.

1:47:43 Murph: Cody just whispering to himself.

1:47:46 Zac: Leaking all over his moped.

1:47:50 Siobhan: Does this guy have a cat fight?

1:47:51 Ally: Ya know… I'm gonna go with life and death.

1:47:55 Brennan: A tether of wild magic springs from you to the heart of the Umbral engine. We will come back to you and what you have just done to the nature of the magical cosmos later, baby!

1:48:14 Ally: Wow.

1:48:15 Brennan: End of end of your turn. Tony is gonna take his last legendary action for the round and hits Ricky Matsui. And he's gonna deal Ricky, Jesus! 28 points of damage.

1:48:30 Zac: Okay.

1:48:34 Brennan: Let me actually, he might've crit on that… no he did not.

1:48:35 Zac: Wait, does Haste change my armor class?

1:48:39 Brennan: Goes up by one. I've already been factoring that in.

1:48:41 Zac: Oh yeah, cool.

1:48:43 Ally: It goes up by two, but yeah.

1:48:45 Brennan: It goes up by two? Okay. So that is going to go and be Cody's turn.

1:48:55 Zac: Do I have to make any kind of saving throw?

1:48:57 Brennan: You don't, he only stuns on every second attack, so you're okay. And he's already knocked you prone. Yeah. He's, you know what, actually he's gonna hit you with a thing that prevents you from taking reactions until your next turn.

1:49:08 Zac: Ow. [laughs]

1:49:18 Brennan: So that's gonna be Cody, death save Cody.

1:49:23 Murph: All right. I'll roll it in front of the table, if I-- Oh my god. Okay. I think no matter what Bardic can save me, even if it's a terrible thing, unless I get a one, in which case it will likely be rolled an auto fail. So let's see what happens. Please be good.

1:49:45 Siobhan: Yes!

1:49:46 Brennan: 12.

1:49:49 Murph: Okay. Don't even need Bardic.

1:49:51 Brennan: Cody, you are one death save away. You are one death save away from all of this roiling Umbra. You see dimensions fading around you. You get a success, you see… a fiery set of gates near you. [nu metal plays]

1:50:20 Brennan: On that success and because sort of realms are being torn apart here by all this raw umbra you see the Gates of Hell open. Walking out in an extremely metal t-shirt is a 120 foot tall demon. Wreathed in fire who comes out.

1:50:54 Demon: [deep voice] [takes a drag] Are you Cody fucking Walsh, man?

1:51:00 Cody: Yeah. Some people call me the Night Angel. Others call me the Jersey Devil.

1:51:06 Demon: Sick.

1:51:08 Cody: Dude. You're so much cooler than the other devil I know… Do you know Bazathrax?

1:51:14 Demon: Bazathrax is a fucking dick.

1:51:18 Cody: He kind of is, he just lives in my chest and he just smokes and fucks around and never knows what's going on.

1:51:23 Brennan: He reaches out, just like picks you up in his massive hand and goes,

1:51:26 Demon: Your soul belongs to Hell. [looks up] But it looks like your time might not be over yet. We need to move fast.

1:51:37 Brennan: And he starts to move back in, back in.

1:51:44 Demon: [takes a drag] Nice to meet you. I'm Lucifer.

1:51:48 Murph: Oh fucking hell yes!

1:51:54 Brennan: We dip back into battle. [Brennan & Murph laugh aloud]

1:52:00 Murph: [laughing] Lucifer's just an edgelord, that's so fucking funny.

1:52:07 Brennan: Lucifer… you see, actually the last thing Lucifer says as he looks out and sees like the umbral engine, sees Hell, sees Faerie, and looks up and sees the pearly gates is he looks up and looks at the pearly gates and goes,

1:52:19 Lucifer: [takes a drag and shakes his fist at the sky] Fuck you, Dad, fuck you!

1:52:27 Murph: [laughs] I also just start screaming, “Fuck you, Dad.”

1:52:29 Brennan: “Fuck you, dad.” And you walk into hell with Lucifer, back into the combat. That is going to be Tony Simos' turn. Tony is going to take his attacks on Ricky. Okay.

1:52:56 Zac: Starting to feel like Shield of Faith would have been a good idea.

1:53:04 Brennan: That's a hit. That's a hit. That's a miss. That's a hit. Oh shit, no, you're prone, right?

1:53:16 Zac: Yeah.

1:53:20 Brennan: Yeah. That's four hits.

1:53:22 Zac: I'm probably down.

1:53:24 Brennan: We're gonna roll these damages one by one, Ricky. And we'll do the saves for them as we go. [suspenseful music]

1:53:39 Brennan: That's gonna be-- Our first one is going to be… 25 damage. Next one is…

1:53:55 Zac: I'm at 16.

1:53:57 Brennan: Next one. Next one puts you down.

1:54:06 Zac: Can I use one of my luck points to try to make, he's got advantage. So it's like, I dunno. It isn’t necessarily worth it.

1:54:14 Brennan: The next one puts you down. Tony is going to-- He's got you at zero. He thuds a fist into your chest to give two death save failures but saves his last attack.

1:54:37 Zac: I mean, if he would kill me, he can kill me.

1:54:41 Brennan: I actually don't think he would. I think he wants to kill you and Sofia in the same round. If he can. Yeah. ‘Cause he wants, he needs those legendaries to be able to hit Sofia. So he's gonna move here.

1:54:56 Zac: Ox can take an opportunity attack.

1:54:58 Brennan: Yeah. Have Ox go for the opportunity attack.

1:55:02 Zac: He doesn't hit.

1:55:05 Brennan: He swings, hits Sofia.

1:55:14 Emily: I don't think I've-- Oh, no, I used my reaction to Counterspell.

1:55:17 Brennan: Yeah. Sofia, you take 19 points of damage. I'm going to need a strength saving throw from Sofia.

1:55:31 Emily: Okay… [sighs] Oh, 19 on the die.

1:55:38 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:55:38 Emily: So that becomes… That becomes 25.

1:55:45 Brennan: Hell yeah. Okay.

1:55:48 Emily: That would have been a crit if I had used it against him.

1:55:54 Brennan: [groans in sympathy] Both your Paladins are down. Tony has closed with Sofia. Ricky, that's your turn, I'm gonna need a death saving throw at the top of your turn.

1:56:05 Murph: You have those luck points. You have luck points.

1:56:08 Emily: You have luck points.

1:56:09 Zac: 19. [cast cheers]

1:56:10 Brennan: Hell yes.

1:56:13 Zac: It would have been nice to get a 20.

1:56:17 Ally: Is that two saves?

1:56:19 Zac: A 20 is, you come back up at one.

1:56:21 Siobhan: 20 is you pop up at 1.

1:56:22 Murph: 20 is you pop up at 1.

1:56:23 Zac: Remember Kristen?

1:56:26 Ally: Ya know...you're right.

1:56:28 Murph: Brennan, even though I was knocked out, even though it's flavored as a moped, it is still like a magical thing. Can I have sent it to Kingston?

1:56:38 Brennan: Yes you can.

1:56:39 Murph: Okay.

1:56:40 Brennan: Moped scoots over to Kingston. Incredible.

1:56:45 Lou: Kingston regards the moped. [all laugh]

1:56:49 Lou: But does not initially mount it.

1:56:51 Murph: It absolutely revs.

1:56:53 Brennan: End of Ricky's turn. Tony's gonna take another swing at Sofia. That's a hit.

1:56:57 Zac: Can Ox go?

1:56:58 Brennan: Ox can go, yeah, absolutely.

1:57:00 Zac: Ox is gonna close with Tony.

1:57:04 Brennan: Hell yeah.

1:57:05 Zac: Or actually..

1:57:07 Siobhan: He would get a charge attack as well, right? Cause it's more than 20 feet?

1:57:09 Brennan: Yep.

1:57:10 Zac: Yeah, if it's, yeah, sure.

1:57:13 Siobhan: Knock this bitch prone.

1:57:15 Zac: I don't see that necessarily happening, but sure.

1:57:18 Siobhan: You can try.

1:57:20 Ally: Where there is a will, there is a way.

1:57:22 Zac: Sorry, and looking at his charge attack. Okay. So it's just a bite and he gets Pack Tactics cause people are near?

1:57:33 Brennan: Yes.

1:57:33 Zac: Okay. I don't think he even hits. So he just ran up there.

1:57:40 Brennan: Oh, he's helping. He's a helping boy. Sofia, you take 20 points of damage.

1:57:48 Emily: I'm down.

1:57:52 Brennan: That, you're incapacitated, you are going to auto fail the next saving throw that Tony would have imposed on you. You run up, all the other monks are stunned. Tony runs up, grabs Sofia, goes,

1:58:13 Tony: My wife was an angel, and let me send you to see yours.

1:58:21 Sofia: Just so you know, you're doing this to a pregnant woman.

1:58:26 Tony: Shouldn't’a… [shrugs] I don't feel great about that. [Emily laughs]

1:58:29 Brennan: And he tosses you, Sofia, you go unconscious. He tosses Sofia 15 feet into the Umbral engine.

1:58:39 Ally: Does he, does he have to make a roll for that?

1:58:41 Brennan: Sofia would have had to make a roll. That's what those strength saving throws for us has been about, that Sofia has kept succeeding on. He tosses Sofia into the Umbral engine. At the beginning of Sofia's next turn, some kind of shit is gonna happen to her. Pete, your wild magic surge. You have a choice right now. Do you want to connect that wild magic surge to Sofia? Pete, it's a wild magic surge, Pete doesn't fully understand what it is, but you know that she is flying off and is going to be, she will be erased from all of everybody's memories.

1:59:23 Ally: Yeah. I mean, definitely. Yeah, definitely.

1:59:27 Brennan: Incredible. Sofia vanishes from everyone's sight going through the Umbral engine and Pete lassoes her with his wild magic surge. Pete, you are pulled, slam, hit the railing of that thing and a tether of raw wild magic coming from your navel is you are like holding with a rope of magic onto Sofia as she has gone like through the portal, into time and space.

1:59:59 Ally: I mean the birth imagery in this season is incredible. Incredible. Fucking like pregnant Spider-Man. [all laugh]

2:00:10 Ally: Fetus Spider-Man.

2:00:11 Brennan: Please give us the art. Please give us the fan art of pregnant Spider-Man. Incredible. Okay. You feel… Pete, your life force is tethered to Sofia's right now through this wild magic surge. That… Ricky has succeeded on his save. JJ…

2:00:38 Emily: Do I have to do a death save or anything? Oh no. It's not my turn.

2:00:40 Brennan: Not your turn yet. You're good for right now.

2:00:43 Ally: So am I just like...here?

2:00:46 Brennan: No, no. You're up where you were against that, you're, do you see that marble bannister around the edge to keep people from touching it. You're like horizontal, like someone up against the side of a ship with like a lifesaver on a raft. JJ… Ah, your buddy, what are you gonna do? JJ doesn't have any healing, but he's gonna run up and give the help action to Ricky's next saving throw. He goes like, full crying, He goes like,

2:01:15 JJ: Rick! Rick, man, come on.

2:01:17 Brennan: And collapses on top of you. And that's going to be Rowan Berry.

2:01:25 Siobhan: This what I would like to do, I'd like to move to here… Before actually, before I do this, can I use my… If I steal Cody's watch, Gotham watch can I cast two spells? I'll just take my level of exhaustion.

2:01:52 Brennan: If you steal Cody's watch, can you…  I think you can, you still can't… Give me a sleight of hand check.

2:02:09 Siobhan: 25.

2:02:10 Brennan: Great. You nab the watch, throw it on. What does Rowan do?

2:02:15 Siobhan: Okay. I would like to cast Cure Wounds on Cody.

2:02:21 Brennan: Okay.

2:02:22 Murph: Thank you.

2:02:23 Brennan: ...at, let's say, a fourth level Cure Wounds.

2:02:28 Brennan: Hell yeah.

2:02:29 Siobhan: So that's 4d8 plus 5, so that's 28 to Cody.

2:02:33 Murph: Thank you.

2:02:37 Siobhan: And then use the watch to cast Steel Wind Strike. So it's a melee spell attack within, of against any one within 30 feet. So I can get all of these three monks who I believe are still stunned right? So I would roll against them with advantage?

2:03:02 Brennan: Yes, you roll against them with advantage.

2:03:03 Siobhan: And also Tony and it's 6d10.

2:03:09 Brennan: Ooh, Jesus.

2:03:13 Siobhan: So I guess I'll go down this line of monks

2:03:16 Zac: And it's, what is it?

2:03:18 Brennan: On a hit, a target takes 6d10 force damage. So roll with advantage against these monks.

2:03:22 Siobhan: So this first one I got 26.

2:03:25 Brennan: 26 hits.

2:03:28 Siobhan: Second one I rolled two nat 1’s.

2:03:30 Brennan: Terrible.

2:03:34 Siobhan: Third one, I, this both of these are cocked. Third one, I only rolled a 14.

2:03:47 Brennan: 14. The fourth one you only rolled a 14?

2:03:51 Siobhan: Third one, I rolled 14.

2:03:52 Brennan: Okay. You did not hit that one either.

2:03:54 Siobhan: Okay. And then against Tony, I rolled a 21.

2:04:00 Brennan: 21 misses.

2:04:00 Siobhan: Shit.

2:04:00 Brennan: But you do hit the first one for 6d10 force damage.

2:04:06 Siobhan: All right. 29, yeah, that's low.

2:04:11 Brennan: Okay. 29. But you do bring Cody back up, looking at the turns now. Rowan, you cast this strike, harm one of the monks that's still stunned next to Cody. Cody, in Hell, Lucifer is walking with you, goes,

2:04:38 Lucifer: Oh, so you want to be a servant of the darkness, huh?

2:04:45 Cody: Actually, was thinking more like I could be a Lord of the darkness. [takes a hit off a cigarette butt]

2:04:51 Lucifer: Where the hell did you get the cigarette butt? [all laugh]

2:04:58 Cody: The past couple, somebody took my jacket which had all the butts in it. But I've been collecting butts for a couple of weeks now.

2:05:06 Brennan: You see, he looks at it and goes

2:05:08 Lucifer: Sick. It's that, where'd you get that duster? Is that a fucking, like, eBay duster?

2:05:17 Cody: No, this isn't… the, there were actually some Satanists in New York who are like leather workers and shit. So this is like, real, like, Lucifer-type dudes.

2:05:32 Lucifer: You've passed the test. [Murph and Brennan laugh loudly]

2:05:40 Brennan: You see Lucifer walk out with you. You see Lucifer walks forward with you and says,

2:05:50 Lucifer: Looks like you need a little bit of time.

2:05:52 Brennan: And you see he taps a giant finger on the flickering image of your Gotham timepiece as Rowan takes it, uses that magic to create a bubble, slides an anvil in front of you, a flaming hot forge of hell, and says

2:06:12 Lucifer: You know what to fuckin' do. Get to work. You have as much time in the bubble as you need.

2:06:22 Cody: Fucking hell yeah, dude.

2:06:26 Brennan: Lucifer looks at you and says,

2:06:30 Lucifer: Night Angel, you have a lot of choices in front of you. You hold the Questing Blade. And yet, perhaps that is not the power you seek. [Cody nods as he takes a drag]

2:06:45 Lucifer: Here, you may forge a new blade for yourself. When you return to the mortal world, go with the fires of hell.

2:06:55 Brennan: Oh, you see, he touches your tattoo, rips Bazathrax out of it, looks at him and says,

2:07:05 Lucifer: Lemme see that contract.

2:07:05 Brennan: And gestures to you.

2:07:09 Murph: [laughs] I hand him the WWE poster.

2:07:12 Brennan: Lucifer says,

2:07:12 Lucifer: Is this on a fuckin' WWE poster?

2:07:17 Cody: Yeah, we, it was a rush job to be sure.

2:07:22 Lucifer: Who's your favorite wrestler?

2:07:24 Cody: My favorite wrestler is Jeff Hardy, dude.

2:07:27 Lucifer: Jeff, fucking Hardy boys, man I love the fucking Hardy boys. [both talk over each other]

2:07:31 Lucifer: Fucking sick, jumps off ladders and shit.

2:07:33 Lucifer and Cody: Fucking sick, dude.

2:07:34 Cody: Fucking awesome.

2:07:36 Brennan: Satan creates a massive Jeff Hardy poster. [all laugh]

2:07:42 Murph: Oh my god.

2:07:44 Brennan: Pens you a new contract with him on the back. Says,

2:07:49 Lucifer: Sign here.

2:07:54 Cody: Listen, Lucifer, the only, so when you were like saying like, fuck you to heaven and stuff, I just wanna like, honestly, since I am gonna be like a Lord, but like a Lord under you, I don't wanna like go above my pay grade here. But I just wanna say that we are two sides of the same coin. So I will be fighting, I will be using the fires of hell to bring the light to the mortal realm.

2:08:31 Lucifer: [takes a drag] The first test was a fake test. You just passed the real test. [all laugh]

2:08:36 Murph: I absolutely sign in my blood. [all laugh]

2:08:44 Brennan: The contract reflects that as a lord of hell, you are now getting your powers from Lucifer but that Lucifer also that you, as a lord, there is respect because as Lucifer said “fuck you” to his dad, he provides you license to say “fuck you” to your lord because it would not be in keeping with the traditions of Hell if you could not say “fuck you” to him. So he basically in the actual clause, says “the Night Angel AKA Cody Walsh retains all rights to fuck shit up and go metal in his own way and do his own shit” and the contract is created in flame, poster is given to you. Lucifer looks at Bazathrax and goes,

2:09:29 Lucifer: I'm demoting you. You work for Cody now.

2:09:32 Brennan: And flicks him back into your chest, when he goes,

2:09:35 Bazathrax: Oh what the fuck, dude?

2:09:39 Cody: This is arguably worse, but I'm happy to stick it to Bazathrax.

2:09:44 Brennan: Lucifer goes,

2:09:44 Lucifer: Fuck yeah, metal as hell, bro.

2:09:49 Cody: Fuck yeah, dude. Thanks, Lucifer.

2:09:51 Brennan: Cool. And leaves you with this forge. What does, what does Cody do here? You know, frozen in time before that Cure Wounds takes place?

2:10:02 Murph: Oh boy. I think, despite the fact that he just had this absolutely metal moment with Hell he can't undo everything he's learned and go like full ridiculous video game. So I think he's just going to make his sword into the most just like bad-ass two-hander, like, kind of like viking barbarian sword.

2:10:36 Brennan: Hell yes. And are you, you're doing this to the Questing Blade, right?

2:10:42 Murph: I think I'll ask the Questing Blade,

2:10:44 Cody: Questing Blade, is this like cool If I just make you like just a, a reasonable, big cool sword? Like there's a name for it and everything. It's just like a two-hander.

2:10:56 Brennan: Yeah. The Questing Blade looks to you and says

2:10:59 Questing Blade: It would be an honor to serve in the fashion you would have me, Night Angel. [Murph chuckles]

2:11:06 Cody: Sick, and also as is my contract with Lucifer, you can also say "fuck you" to me if you want.

2:11:13 Questing Blade: I do not see an occasion for that on the horizon but it is good to know.

2:11:20 Brennan: Cody, I'm adding something to your inventory right now. As you forge this sword… Go ahead, refresh your sheet. The Questing Blade, AKA, you name it what you want to name it, but check your sheet for it. Rowan, Cody is brought back wreathed in flame. [demon noises] [metal plays]

2:11:53 Brennan: And you have been to Hell and back. You are literally a resurrected dark fucking knight of Hell.

2:12:05 Murph: Absolutely hell yeah. I don't even notice that somebody stole my watch. [all laugh]

2:12:11 Brennan: And you have a new greatsword with those following abilities there. Dope as hell.

2:12:21 Siobhan: How many swords is that now that Cody's had, like eight?

2:12:25 Emily: [laughs] I know, right? This campaign has just been like a bouquet of swords.

2:12:29 Brennan: That's what we should call it. Incredible, Kingston, That is your turn.

2:12:37 Lou: Okay. What is the distance on this moped?

2:12:48 Brennan: I think the speed is 50 or something like that.

2:12:51 Lou: 50. Okay. Ooh. Okay.

2:12:54 Zac: You can double move too, right?

2:13:01 Lou: Great. Yeah. I'm gonna use a disengage.

2:13:04 Brennan: Cool.

2:13:05 Lou: Hop on the moped, ride the moped, though I do not love it. [Murph laughs]

2:13:11 Lou: A full, like I think it's 20, 25, another 20. So that's 65 and then I will, Yeah. So then we'll go and I'll drive, I'll ride 25 feet past Ricky. There you go, and then we'll cast Mass Cure Wounds. And we'll hit Pete. We’ll hit Cody, Ricky… Pete, Cody, Ricky. Rowan, are you okay?

2:13:49 Siobhan: I'm fine, get Sofia.

2:13:50 Lou: So can I hit Sofia? Is Sofia in our space and time?

2:13:55 Brennan: Pete, as that healing hits you you feel the potential to pass that healing away from you through the tether.

2:14:04 Ally: Absolutely. Okay, cool.

2:14:06 Lou: With that knowledge, can I give it to Pete twice? Is that possible?

2:14:12 Brennan: Yeah. I'll say, yeah. Give it to Pete twice.

2:14:14 Lou: Great. So it's double up on Pete. Double up on Pete, Ricky, Cody, I'll hit myself. That's, I mean, I still get one more. Can I double up on Ricky? I mean, is double up a thing now? No, those five and then Ox, is Ox hurt?

2:14:29 Zac: No. [Brennan laughs]

2:14:43 Lou: Great. Then I just hit those five.

2:14:45 Brennan: Kingston, this is a powerful act of healing. What do you say to the—

2:14:49 Lou: Oh, excuse me, to do it, I am hitting the time piece a second time. So I have two levels of exhaustion.

2:14:55 Brennan: Oh, sorry. I don't, you actually can't hit the time piece more than once per long rest.

2:15:01 Lou: Great. Then let me take two opportunity attacks from those gentlemen up top.

2:15:04 Brennan: Cool.

2:15:07 Emily: Wait, which gentlemen, are they the ones who are stunned?

2:15:10 Brennan: No, one's down a little bit right here.

2:15:11 Murph: He’s on the other side of the room.

2:15:13 Brennan: Kingston, you take 10 points of damage. Give me a DC 10 concentration.

2:15:17 Lou: Okay… Pass. Great. But yeah. So without doing... 3d8, one, two, three, Oh we love to see it. That's gonna be 13, 14, 19 to everyone. [gentle healing music]

2:15:47 Ally: Hell yeah. I pass that to Sofia through the umbilical cord that she's attached to.

2:15:55 Siobhan: In many ways, Pete is Sofia's baby.

2:15:59 Emily: Like, whose baby is who, you know? The umbilical cord goes both ways.

2:16:04 Ally: Who's the baby now?

2:16:06 Brennan: The t-shirt from this season has to be “this umbilical cord goes both ways.” Amazing. Cool, incredible healing from Kingston. That's going to be boom, boom. Cool. That's Alejandro, baby.

2:16:25 Lou: Two attacks on the wizard. First one is for 13.

2:16:31 Zac: Do you still have Blur?

2:16:33 Lou: I do have Blur.

2:16:34 Brennan: JJ hasn't been hit.

2:16:35 Zac: Oh.

2:16:35 Murph: Nice.

2:16:37 Lou: First hit on the wizard for 13.

2:16:41 Brennan: The wizard casts Shield.

2:16:44 Lou: Ah, damn. Second hit is for 15.

2:16:48 Brennan: 15 is gonna miss with that as well. Alejandro, fighting in the halls of his ancient society once more. That's going to go from Alejandro to be these Concrete Fist monks. These two… are going to make--

2:17:08 Zac: Are they still stunned?

2:17:10 Brennan: They're stunned until the end of Sofia's next turn, right?

2:17:14 Emily: Yeah. The three ones up here are stunned.

2:17:17 Brennan: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So they're still all stunned but they're gonna come out of it right now. These two--

2:17:23 Emily: No, ‘cause won’t they, they'll come out of it on my turn.

2:17:26 Brennan: Yes. Sorry on your turn, exactly. Then these two dudes, hoo, the, they are far away from everybody. Let's see here. Where can they even go? That guy's gonna try to break out of the restrain, does not, still restrained by Spirits of the City. These two are going to move and close with Alejandro down here, but they don't get to attack. That's now going to be, after them is Sofia. Sofia is in the void right now, cause I wanna end the episode on Sofia. So we're gonna resolve Gramercy really quickly. This one right here has already, I mean, they've already used their Banishments. This one's going to try to Dispel Magic.

2:18:33 Siobhan: Ah, Counterspell.

2:18:35 Brennan: You're a million miles from that.

2:18:37 Siobhan: Oh, there's this one down here.

2:18:38 Brennan: Yeah lower right, yeah. Actually, you know what? That one on the upper right is gonna try to cast Dispel Magic. Yeah, go ahead and Counterspell. It's a third little slot, you auto Counterspell it. The one in the lower right is gonna hit with a Dispel as well. No one's within 60 of that. You hear the Umbral engine go…

2:19:00 Umbral Engine: 750%.

2:19:07 Brennan: One more dispel on the umbral engine is gonna get the job done. [dramatic orchestral music]

2:19:19 Brennan: Sofia, you come to… You are flying through the Umbral arcana through time. You look in two different directions around you and actually, at the beginning of it, you know, you're cured.

2:19:29 Emily: Yeah, I’m alive.

2:19:39 Brennan: You're alive. You look and see the dreaming. You see Null approaching, pushing all possible future past this day like water coming in a tsunami and see it all collapsing on this moment. You see the present where everyone is forgetting magic, their ability to see magic disanimating. You look in the other direction and see the past, all of New York City's past being moved in front of you. You see this tether going to you and you see your Gotham timepiece. This is the enemies trying to deliver the killing blow. In delivering the killing blow, they're pushing more raw umbra to the city than there has ever been before. That means there are more New York minutes than there have ever been before. They are everywhere, all around you, Sofia, all around you, your Gotham timepiece. And one other thing that you are holding because you found it earlier today, which are all those letters you wrote about your life with Dale. Sofia, I'm gonna ask you to re-read the powers of the Gotham timepiece. And I'm going to ask you to remember what the book said about Paradise's relationship with resurrection.

2:21:33 Emily: Okay.

2:21:34 Brennan: This is a heavy, this is a heavy one.

2:21:36 Emily: This is gonna be yet another “I choose myself” kind of I don’t understand what's going on for a while. Okay. “Time travel into objects with variable DC based on the object's connection to the past.”

2:21:53 Brennan: Sofia looks at those pages. Very few things could be said to have a stronger connection to the past.

2:22:01 Emily: Yeah, that was the one I thought would be the case. And then what do I remember that I read about heaven?

2:22:08 Brennan: Heaven always releases souls… If they've made a mistake and collected a soul that they shouldn't have. And the issue you've always had is that heaven always had proof that Dale was killed by Isabella Infierno, they didn't make a mistake. If they had made a mistake and collected Dale's soul if he hadn't died, they would of course have to return him. And Sofia, I'm gonna say, go ahead and give me a, actually this is just a perception check cause you're looking at that stuff being pushed on the Umbra towards you.

2:22:58 Emily: It's a dirty 20 perception check.

2:23:01 Brennan: Hell yes. You look at all the past approaching you when you were in Ellis Island you only had these gateways that were very limited and Gotham timepieces only work in areas of heavy Umbra anyway, even in normal magic New York you can't really time travel with these. All of New York's past is being shoved through the umbral engine, right at this moment not just the past here, the Gramercy Occult Society.

2:23:34 Emily: Is this a fucked up thing? Like I can change this one moment in the past and make it so that he wasn't killed by Isabella Infierno.

2:23:44 Brennan: You could change any moment in the past that you had access to a physical object of but you only have physical objects of your memories of Dale. You can go back to a moment in Dale's life.

2:24:02 Emily: Oh, okay. So I use the Gotham timepiece to go into my own writing.

2:24:07 Brennan: Sofia… words are moving past you. All of New York's past is behind you. You see you meeting Dale on Staten Island. You see him coming in to get haircuts at First Class Luxury Beauty Salon. Emily smiles.

2:24:26 Brennan: You see you guys eloping and getting married. You see all of this coming back at you. New York minutes are flooding around you. You see through the stream, you see the gates of hell where, where Cody just was. You see Faerie and you see paradise and you hear through the distortion of all the Umbra the spinning of the engine. You hear,

2:24:58 Dale: Let me go, let me go! I didn't really die!

2:25:04 Brennan: And you hear a cry,

2:25:04 Dale: My kid's out there somewhere!

2:25:10 Brennan: And you move through your writing, see yourself, see the moment where Dale says goodbye to you for the last time. It was,

2:25:23 Dale: Hey, hon, I got some work back at the office. I gotta go take care of. I'll be back in a couple hours.

2:25:30 Brennan: This world is made up of everything in your handwriting. So you see your signature in the shape of your own silhouette and it's you from the past going "Bye, sweetie." Like, "See you the next time." You are here in the moment as like a ghost, a vision, a memory. What do you do as you hear the car start out in this insane past memory landscape.

2:25:59 Emily: I run in front of the car.

2:25:59 Sofia: Wait!

2:26:03 Brennan: A car, which is basically just a collection of like hood, wheels… You're looking at it like a Staten Island… It's like flickering into three dimensions. You see Dale gets out of the front seat… And goes,

2:26:18 Dale: Sweetie, is that you? Why you, did you just change?

2:26:27 Sofia: Yeah. I just feel like work can wait till tomorrow.

2:26:34 Brennan: You see that… [umbral blasts, sorta in the tune of the Terminator theme] all of this sort of moves around and you can see the rest of time, like coming around to like, push the time stream back into the shape it was ‘cause like, all the events that happened, if Dale had like, if Dale had like never died, how would all of the events of three years ago have happened? How would all this other stuff have happened and you see you move through the Gotham timepiece, see Dale go,

2:27:06 Dale: Okay, I, if you want me to stay I'll...

2:27:11 Brennan: And he suddenly is back in his car and drives off, moves back and his car is taking off down the road.

2:27:19 Emily: I run after the car.

2:27:20 Brennan: You're sprinting after the car. You keep seeing him flick--

2:27:22 Emily: I wanna get the car and I wanna throw a high heel to try to break the wheels on the car.

2:27:28 Brennan: Make an attack roll!

2:27:33 Emily: Okay...

2:27:33 Emily: That's a 25.

2:27:35 Murph: This just looks like an insane breakup. [laughs]

2:27:39 Murph: Classic Staten Island breakup.

2:27:40 Sofia: I really wanna fucking hang out tonight. We work too much, we need more quality time!

2:27:49 Brennan: Sofia, you begin to run and through your own, like, hit the car, boom. Time pushes you back. You are single-handedly fighting time itself right now.

2:28:04 Emily: Does this feel like I'm doing something wrong? Am I gonna like fuck over the world? If I change, if I try to change this?

2:28:12 Brennan: Give me an insight check.

2:28:18 Emily: That's gonna be an eight.

2:28:20 Ally: Through my umbilical cord, can I give her the help action?

2:28:23 Brennan: Oh shit Pete, give me an arcana check.

2:28:27 Ally: Oh, that's great. 21.

2:28:29 Brennan: Pete. You're looking through… [dramatic violin music]

2:28:34 Brennan: Sofia… Sofia, can't bring Dale back in the past because then none of you would've met and none of these things would have ever happened. Pete, Sofia… doesn't need to save Dale.

2:28:56 Emily: She needs to make sure he, they don't kill him. Let them take your soul, but don't let them kill you?

2:29:03 Brennan: Yes. And you see Sofia, you need to move through Pete, on that 21 as well. Yeah. So exactly. You need to go to the moment where Dale died.

2:29:13 Ally: I mean, I have Mind Link. I can try to Mind Link with her and tell her my--

2:29:17 Brennan: This is the dream shit.

2:29:18 Ally: --hypothesis.

2:29:20 Brennan: Yeah. You have Mind Link, So you have like, like a man in the van. Who's Pete back in the real world going, Sofia, you see Dale on a computer in his accounting firm looking and see Isabella Infierno about to immolate him in fire, hiding from the shadows.

2:29:45 Emily: Is she going to take his soul first and then kill him?

2:29:49 Brennan: It looks like she's just going to kill him.

2:29:53 Sofia: Hey! [snaps her fingers] Isabella, we haven't met yet.

2:29:56 Brennan: She turns to look at you. She turns, goes to immolate Dale. Give me one last arcana check from Pete. One last perception check from Sofia.

2:30:09 Ally: Okay. 20, but not nat.

2:30:13 Emily: 21.

2:30:15 Brennan: Sofia. You don't, Sofia, you look and see her as she looks at you go, is amazed you're here, goes to finish her spell. You realize she's about to immolate the seat with Dale in it. You don't need to save Dale, you need to kidnap Dale. You can't change the past, but you can change the future.

2:30:46 Emily: All right. I tackle Dale out of the seat. [laughs]

2:30:50 Brennan: You… boom!... tackle Dale.

2:30:53 Emily: Missing a shoe. [Murph laughs]

2:30:56 Pete: Do you need me to pull you up?

2:30:58 Sofia: I don’t know yet.

2:31:00 Brennan: Pete, give me an athletics check with advantage.

2:31:07 Ally: Hell yeah. Okay. That is a...what's my athletics? Pretty good, pretty good. Okay. That's a 15.

2:31:18 Brennan: You hit a 15, you yank on it. Sofia, you grab Dale. Isabella immolates the chair in the past, as you were both covered in flame and you are yanked out of that time, leaving Isabella believing that she has just completely destroyed Dale Lee. You begin to fly through time. As this version of Dale looks at you and goes, Past!Dale: Hon? I'm a little bit confused.

2:31:50 Brennan: And as you approach the present moment, he says, Past!Dale: Hon, what's going on, is everything okay?

2:31:56 Sofia: Yeah, I'm pregnant and I wanted to tell you.

2:31:59 Brennan: You hear another voice say, Angel!Dale: [frantic] Hon, I know you're pregnant. I heard you at the airport.

2:32:04 Brennan: You see angel Dale moving through time and Dale from the past, As you change the past and pull Dale's body from three and a half years ago, Dale's soul from heaven gets released - because Dale Lee never died. Sofia and Dale Lee explode from the Umbral engine. [Emily laughs in disbelief] Murph and Zac clap.

2:32:41 Emily: Wait. Are there two Dales now?

2:32:44 Brennan: No, cause it was Dale's body from the past and Dale's soul from the present.

2:32:47 Emily: Oooohhhh! [laughs] Cool. We immediately make out. [all laugh]

2:32:55 Brennan: That's all for this episode of The Unsleeping City. Tune in next week for the thrilling conclusion to the fight at Gramercy.

2:32:55 Edited by: Tillie the Paladin, gluegunshots, solsys