Pigeon Plus Ones

0:00:00 Brennan: We descend into Times Square with this strange, icy fortress.

0:00:06 Emily: Can I just heave that shit off me? [man grunts]

0:00:09 Brennan: You fling the entire chrysalis off into the sky.

0:00:12 Siobhan: What?

0:00:14 Ally: No! [members groaning]

0:00:16 Kugrash: Oh, is that Santa?

0:00:16 Ally: Santa!

0:00:17 Siobhan: Santa!

0:00:19 Brennan: Ah, it's crushing me!

0:00:21 Ricky: Hang on, Santa, I'm coming to get you. Brennan : You leap up and fully decapitate the entire--

0:00:27 Murph: Holy cow! Holy shit! Santa : [laughs manically] Ho ho ho! What the fuck happened here? The sleigh, where's my sleigh?

0:00:34 Kugrash: Still in the park.

0:00:35 Brennan: You guys arrive in Central Park. A full centaur walks up.

0:00:39 Epona: Any idea what happened here?

0:00:42 Kugrash: I saw some pixie stuff around here.

0:00:44 Misty: Maybe it was somebody trying to cover up and make it look like it was pixies because underneath it was infernal.

0:00:49 Santa: It's gone.

0:00:50 Sofia: The sleigh?

0:00:50 Kugrash: What's gone, Santa?

0:00:51 Santa: My list.

0:00:52 Kugrash: How powerful is this list?

0:00:54 Sofia: It's extremely important that we find this list and get it back.

0:00:58 Pete: I will say that there has been this dark force inviting me.

0:01:04 Santa: That sounds like something you all should check out. [END RECAP] [video scratches] Upbeat music plays, and there is the intro, which is the words DIMENSION 20, UNSLEEPING CITY over a skyline in a circle that rotates until it is upside down.

0:01:14 Brennan: Welcome back, one and all, to The Unsleeping City. My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan. These are our intrepid heroes. Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:01:20 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:01:22 Brennan: And last we left them off they were near the promenade in Central Park in a version of New York with magic around every corner, indeed. But we have gotten our first taste of The Unsleeping City. Santa Claus' sleigh has just been [whooshing] flown away by jolly old Saint Nick himself, and his eight tiny reindeer.

0:01:42 Siobhan: Bye Santa, we love you.

0:01:44 Brennan: And the cops who perceived it as a Toyota Camry being towed away due to the strange Umbral Arcana that prevents New Yorkers from noticing pretty much anything weird happening, have now begun to disband. You guys see Officer Epona Cirillo, a centaur cop, has entered now this piece of Santa's dashboard with this strange fae runes with some infernal underneath it. She's taking that to go enter it into evidence. The wind kicks up, a little bit of snow flies around. You six companions, bedraggled by some combat, but all standing at this point, now stand here in snowy Central Park as the crowd kind of chatters and talks to each other about this crazy car crash.

0:02:26 Pedestrian: Can you believe this shit? Some fuckin' drunk driver must have taken a car right into the tree, man, I tell ya.

0:02:32 Brennan: You are left with each other, snow whipping around you, the cold, brisk, New York day late in the afternoon. Pete, you feel that sweet peppermint tooth still in your head. Look around. Sofia, you now see the centaur walking away that a mere three days ago would have just looked like a horse cop to you, and the rest of these denizens of The Unsleeping City, you guys all know that something very strange indeed has happened. What do you guys wanna do? [dramatic piano music]

0:03:07 Kugrash: Hey Pete, lemme see your old tooth there.

0:03:10 Pete: Like my—

0:03:10 Kugrash: Yeah, your—

0:03:12 Pete: Should I just rip it out? I don't want this in my mouth.

0:03:14 Misty: No, no, no.

0:03:15 Pete: It's gonna rot in my teeth.

0:03:16 Kugrash: Ah, it's not appropriate.

0:03:16 Kingston: Nobody has to be rippin' teeth out, all right?

0:03:17 Kugrash: Let's have a vote. [raises hand] I say rip it out.

0:03:19 Sofia: I agree with Kug. [raises hand]

0:03:21 Kingston: Okay, I don't like any of this. As the trained medical professional here, nobody's rippin' teeth out of nobody's mouth.

0:03:28 Sofia: Truthfully, I just said it 'cause it sounded fun.

0:03:30 Kugrash: You know what? Ultimately, Pete, it's up to you.

0:03:32 Pete: I can't be missing a tooth and selling drugs. That's too dangerous.

0:03:36 Sofia: That's true.

0:03:37 Ricky: Probably shouldn't be doing either, yeah.

0:03:38 Sofia: These days, people hold drug dealers to a very high standard.

0:03:41 Pete: I'm gonna leave the tooth in and keep sellin'.

0:03:43 Kugrash: Can I look at it very closely?

0:03:45 Pete: Yeah.

0:03:46 Murph: [chuckles] Okay, I pry open his mouth and look in.

0:03:49 Brennan: The dirtiest rat fingers of all time.

0:03:52 Kingston: I mean, Kugrash, you're supposed to wear gloves or something, man.

0:03:54 Kugrash: Hey, it's fine, it's fine. You go camping, you're touching the dirt, and you're sleepin', you do whatever, who cares?

0:04:01 Misty: Where are you camping?

0:04:01 Pete: You touched the dirt?

0:04:03 Kugrash: I camp every night. I live in the subway station. [Misty gags]

0:04:06 Sofia: Don't worry, I've eaten so many sandwiches from his dirty hands.

0:04:10 Brennan: Kugrash, what are you rolling right now?

0:04:12 Murph: A Medicine check, maybe?

0:04:13 Brennan: Yeah, go for it!

0:04:13 Murph: Cool. [rolls, it falls off the table] Goddamn it. [rolls again] Ooh, 23.

0:04:20 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely! Well, you take a look. The peppermint tooth, it seems that Kingston's vaccine that he put in there earlier has fully stopped this transformation, but it looks... [suspenseful chime music]

0:04:32 Brennan: This shouldn't be here. Kingston's medicine should have reverted his tooth back to regular bone. Something about the intrinsic nature of Pete's DNA or maybe even something more profound and spiritual than that is keeping this peppermint tooth here. And though it tastes sweet, you don't see it corroding. You don't see the saliva eating away at it at all. If you had to guess, you had a very good roll. If you had to guess, the tooth is there because it wants to be and something about Pete means it's more fun if it's there than if it's not.

0:05:13 Murph: Hmm.

0:05:14 Kugrash: I mean, it's fine, it's fine. It's just a fuckin' peppermint tooth.

0:05:17 Pete: Good. Good, it's fine.

0:05:19 Kugrash: I don't know, you got a peppermint tooth.

0:05:20 Ricky: Here's some multivitamins if you wanna just take one if you're worried about the swelling.

0:05:23 Pete: Hell yeah, I haven't swallowed a pill in four hours.

0:05:25 Sofia: You do know that they’re a crock of shit, right?

0:05:26 Kingston: Those really are a crock of shit.

0:05:27 Sofia: They are a crock of shit.

0:05:27 Ricky: We're talking Vitamin C, B12.

0:05:29 Misty: Truly.

0:05:30 Kugrash: Should we talk to the wizards who—

0:05:31 Kingston: Yeah, you should go.

0:05:31 Misty: We should come out and see. Oh, I think they have a place near here, right?

0:05:36 Sofia: Real quick, 'cause I'm kinda new to this. Magic is just real?

0:05:40 Ricky: Yeah, pretty much.

0:05:40 Kingston: Yeah, I actually wanna check in with you two. Are you guys doin' okay?

0:05:41 Pete: I was gonna say.

0:05:43 Kingston: You guys woke up this morning and--

0:05:44 Pete: Just like talk to you privately.

0:05:45 Kingston: You wanna talk to me?

0:05:46 Pete: I would love to just run and get dumplings with Kingston if we have time.

0:05:48 Kingston: Hey, you wanna grab some coffee real quick?

0:05:51 Pete: [laughs] Yeah.

0:05:52 Kingston: Hey, we're gonna go grab some coffee for everyone. Do we wanna head somewhere? Do we wanna go talk to Alejandro at the Gramercy Occult Society? Maybe let him know what's going on with all the information we just got?

0:06:04 Pete: Yeah.

0:06:04 Kugrash: That's not a bad idea. You guys can walk ahead.

0:06:07 Kingston: Yeah, we'll walk ahead.

0:06:07 Sofia: And do you guys want, maybe someone could just refresh me on what you guys talk about. I just wanna know what's going on with magic.

0:06:13 Pete: I wasn't gonna do it this publicly, but you know what, it happens. I don't really know if I jive with any of you, but Kingston, I feel I can trust you.

0:06:20 Misty: Darling!

0:06:20 Pete: I got some questions.

0:06:21 Misty: Here's the deal. Magic is real and you get to see it. Isn't that great?

0:06:24 Pete: Let's go get some coffee. Okay?

0:06:26 Misty: It's so fun!

0:06:27 Kingston: Will you talk to her? [points to Sofia] I’ll talk to— yeah.

0:06:28 Sofia: That's enough for me, I suppose.

0:06:30 Brennan: As you guys head off, you see that the actual natural movements of the crowd as you get toward Columbus Circle and start walking, it's not too far of a walk from here to Bryant Park and the public library there, so you guys head off. The crowd naturally moves around Kingston and creates a little pocket of privacy. You guys stop. You have never in your life seen a dumpling cart in New York. [Ally makes a happy noise]

0:06:56 Brennan: But you go up and you see that there's a guy standing there who looks around for a second and goes,

0:07:02 Dumpling Man: [accented] Ey, Kingston Brown!

0:07:04 Kingston: Hey Ricky, good to see you, man. How are you? Ricky (Dumpling Man): How's it going? I appreciate, good to see you, man, you're looking fit. You're looking good.

0:07:10 Kingston: Hey, I like the mustache. Is that new? Ricky (Dumpling Man): It is very new. My girlfriend, she like the wax of the mustache.

0:07:16 Kingston: Oh, okay, I see, man. Ricky (Dumpling Man): She say she want to fuck the Pringles guy. What you can do, huh?

0:07:21 Pete: Oh.

0:07:22 Kingston: Hey, that's her business, right? Ricky (Dumpling Man): It's my business now, too. You know how it goes!

0:07:25 Kingston: Okay! Hey, my friend's tryin' to get a couple of dumplings. Can you hook it up?

0:07:29 Pete: Yeah! Can I get some hot and sour pork dumplings? Ricky (Dumpling Man): Oh for sure! You want some hot and sour pork.

0:07:33 Brennan: He reaches in [blows], throws some dumplings. You get these little plastic containers. It smells so good.

0:07:40 Pete: Fuck.

0:07:41 Brennan: He gives you these huge, heaping containers. You have these little spoons that go in 'em.

0:07:44 Ally: I'm rolling a blunt. [laughs]

0:07:46 Pete: I'm not about to eat this sober.

0:07:50 Kingston: Okay.

0:07:52 Ricky: My name's Ricky, too. Ricky (Dumpling Man): Hmm?

0:07:53 Ricky: My name's Ricky, too. Ricky (Dumpling Man): Oh, Ricky! You're named Ricky, as well?

0:07:56 Ricky: Yeah. Ricky (Dumpling Man): Nice to meet you, man. Here.

0:07:58 Brennan: And you see he says, Ricky (Dumpling Man): Hold out your hand.

0:08:00 Brennan: Hot, wet dumpling right in your hand.

0:08:03 Ricky: Thanks. [immediately eats it]

0:08:03 Pete: Whoa!

0:08:05 Brennan: You see, he puts these in there. You immediately eat this dumpling. You regain, it's been about a short rest amount of time, but you do regain five hit points from eating this.

0:08:16 Ally: Oh, cool.

0:08:17 Brennan: Kingston, I'm not sure if you're full or not, but you regain five hit points as well.

0:08:20 Lou: Great.

0:08:22 Brennan: You guys walk away from the dumpling cart chowing down on these bad boys.They are so tasty and delicious. [people chattering]

0:08:32 Ally: I'm smoking and eating, so I'm kinda just like, almost like drinking the dumpling.

0:08:37 Brennan: So you're full, you'd have to hork down an unchewed dumpling and smoke the spliff in the middle—

0:08:42 Pete: Oh, it's blueberry! I should've just picked a natural roll.

0:08:48 Brennan: Yeah, so you guys have a weird little amount of privacy and the noise of the snow, there's this beautiful thing. New York is a very noisy city, but with the thick snow around you right now, it's actually kind of muffled and you realize that you're having a hard time hearing the people around you and you have a feeling that anything you were to say right now would not be heard, something about the confidence you're keeping with Kingston means that what you're saying wouldn't be heard outside of your conversation right now.

0:09:12 Pete: Cool. Hey, so what is going on? What the fuck is going on?

0:09:17 Kingston: Well, you mean with all the magic and the Santa Claus, and all that bullshit?

0:09:20 Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:09:22 Kingston: Welcome to The Unsleeping City. New York exists in a plane of existence where just below it is The Unsleeping City and just above it is Nod or the Sixth Borough, and so New York is this magical place where The Unsleeping City, which has all these fantastical, magical elements that you keep seeing and shit, bleeds into New York. I don't know what has happened to you, but you, unlike most people in the city, are now able to see all this bullshit, trolls, that centaur person. You know, all of that shit.

0:09:54 Pete: I just thought I was always fucked up. I've been taking so many drugs for so long. I've seen all this stuff for a while. but I just thought, oh yeah, I was tripping.

0:10:04 Kingston: Yeah, well, for a while you were, but now something has clearly happened to you with that weird shit that happened back in my nurse's office. There's clearly some magic has been imbued in you.

0:10:16 Pete: Fuck.

0:10:17 Kingston: Hey, don't fret. [Pete laughs]

0:10:20 Kingston: It's gonna be all right, okay? You are in good company. Me and Misty have been doing this for a long time. We're gonna talk to Alejandro.

0:10:26 Pete: Is this like a full-time job or do I still have my life?

0:10:31 Kingston: You can still have a life, but I'll tell ya, it's gonna be a wild one.

0:10:36 Pete: Fuck.

0:10:37 Sofia: Hey, sorry, I just think this is information that I also really need to know, I don't want—

0:10:41 Murph: Kugrash is using his little rat ears and just translating for you, but in a shitty Kugrash way.

0:10:48 Brennan: Oh, okay.

0:10:48 Kugrash: So there's a real New York and there's a fucking fake one. You're in the real one now, so there's fuckin' magic everywhere. We're gonna save the world and shit like how we saved Santa, like that but all the time without fucking everything.

0:10:59 Sofia: Is this a full-time job?

0:11:01 Kugrash: Eh, it's gonna be a a wild one.

0:11:06 Sofia: A wild job? I'm in.

0:11:06 Kugrash: Yeah.

0:11:08 Brennan: As you guys walk along, the exact opposite of what's happening to Kingston and Pete is happening to you guys because you can't go fucking five feet in the city without people being like, Fan 1: [high voice, Midwestern accent] Misty!

0:11:17 Misty: [waving] Oh, darling, darling. Fan 1: God, I'm so sorry to bother you. I'm here with my kids, can you believe it? We're doing a trip for the holidays. [wheezes]

0:11:23 Misty: I love that! I love it. New York, it's the greatest city in the world. Fan 1: Ah, you're telling me! I always dreamed of coming here. It was this or Paris, and we just couldn't with my mom.

0:11:31 Misty: Oh, me too, I love Paris, but New York is New York! Fan 1: Oh my god, we see the Broadway shows and everything and the Statue of Liberty's from France, so it's almost like an extra free trip!

0:11:42 Misty: Exactly, exactly! There's so many beautiful French monuments right here in New York City. Fan 1: You're just talking to me like a regular person. I can't even believe it!

0:11:49 Misty: Oh, stop, everybody's a regular person.

0:11:52 Brennan: You see that as you continue talking to this family from the Midwest, their smiles light up, and again their adoration wisps off of them in streams of gold and silver and purple and pink. Misty sighs happily, and shakes her head, smiling. [Brennan slurping]

0:12:03 Brennan: You see she says, Fan 1: Well, thank you so much for taking the time, Miss Moore. You didn't have to and it really means a lot.

0:12:08 Misty: Please, I love my fans. It's not even my fans, you're like my family. Fan 1: Oh my God! Can you believe someone would say something so nice?

0:12:16 Brennan: You see that they all chatter excitedly. The dad, who's up to this point said absolutely nothing, just let his wife and his two daughters talk to you, leans in and says, Fan 2: [lower voice, deadpan, Midwestern accent] I thought your performance in that revamp of Assassins was remarkable. I thought it was really remarkable.

0:12:32 Misty: Stephen Sondheim, my dear Stephen, it's such an astonishing talent, and to be alive when he is alive, we're all just so lucky. Fan 2: I mean you're a vision, and I'm sorry, I gotta go.

0:12:45 Brennan: He turns and walks away. Yeah, you guys continue walking down the street. You eventually arrive at the public library again [Map sound]

0:12:55 Brennan: Where you see the two giant stone lions turn to look at you guys.

0:12:58 Orlando or Rovias: Well, well, well, it seems our friends have returned. And how fared the battle in Times Square?

0:13:07 Kugrash: We're alive.

0:13:07 Sofia: Honestly, yeah, pretty good.

0:13:07 Kingston: We did well. Santa's alive. Killed a bunch of mutants.

0:13:12 Misty: I personally had a great time.

0:13:13 Sofia: If I had to be honest, I think that we saved Christmas.

0:13:16 Orlando or Rovias: Well, Christmas is saved. Splendid, splendid! Someone needs to save it every year. For that thing to go off, it's a tremendous amount of effort, certainly. Well, as we have said before, we are Orlando and Rovias, the guardians of the Gramercy Occult Society. [dramatic music] My brother always lies, I always tell the truth. Which of us… [music stops] wait, hold on.

0:13:41 Kugrash: I start to walk in.

0:13:44 Orlando or Rovias: Wait, hold it!

0:13:45 Brennan: A few of the stairs lower.

0:13:46 Orlando or Rovias: We're gonna get this right one time! [players laughing]

0:13:49 Brennan: You guys descend through the staircase, walking down, crazy M.C. Escher steps and this golden, warm, brown light, the clicking of that tile, there's so much echoey goodness in this place when you're in that giant stone kind of civic building. Tick, tick, tick of your shoes on the stone. Open a pair of doors. You see Esther is here, as is Alejandro. Alejandro has his little flat cap off. You can see his sort of bald head with a little wrap around of white hair. He looks down. You see that Ana and Amelia, who both look to be in their, maybe, late teens, early 20s, sort of college age, you see that they are laid back in chairs and that they have some injuries on them and they smell strongly of mint. Strong mint smell.

0:14:45 Sofia: Well, now that I'm magic, I might have some healing, so I go over to them and I lay my hands on them.

0:14:52 Brennan: You see that they look up, one looks up and says,

0:14:54 Ana or Amelia: [very teen girl] Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck are you?

0:14:56 Sofia: Hi, Sofia Bicicleta, newly magic, experimenting with my limitations.

0:15:03 Brennan: You see Alejandro looks over to you and says,

0:15:05 Alejandro: She can heal people or is this?

0:15:07 Kingston: No, not at all. But she helped us, so we're trying to roll her in soft.

0:15:11 Ricky: She's trying. She's doing a really good job, though. I could Lay on Hands someone, for real.

0:15:15 Lou: Can I come and just put an arm around her and be like,

0:15:17 Kingston: Hey, remember when you did a full flip around the Santa Claus rib? That's your shit.

0:15:24 Sofia: Okay. Okay.

0:15:25 Kingston: This is not. This is not your magic.

0:15:27 Sofia: I am so sorry.

0:15:30 Brennan: You take the hands off of them. Kingston, you go to work on these two—

0:15:35 Kingston: You do other cool shit, I promise.

0:15:37 Sofia: Okay.

0:15:37 Kingston: I promise. I promise.

0:15:38 Sofia: Okay, I'm not a healer. I have just learned, thank you.

0:15:41 Brennan: You see that Ana looks over at you who's one of the twins who's on the left and goes,

0:15:48 Ana: So basically, a bunch of these fucked up Santa Clauses came out, we were on 34th Street.

0:15:52 Brennan: You see Amelia goes,

0:15:52 Amelia: We're not on 34th Street. We were on 5th Avenue. But they came out,

0:15:56 Ana: Okay, but no, we were rounding the corner onto 34th Street—

0:16:00 Kingston: Ladies? [beat] All we need to know is what happened. [Emily laughs]

0:16:06 Ana or Amelia: [sighs] Sorry, it's just my sister is like. [makes a “head exploding” gesture, then scoffs]

0:16:09 Kingston: No, I understand, but what happened?

0:16:12 Ana or Amelia: Well, basically, we were going on patrol 'cause we knew that the clones were gonna be out 'cause Santa kinda was happening and a bunch of these mutants came out that were not bumbling around. They charged straight for us and bit us and now it feels like my bones are turning to peppermint or something.

0:16:24 Lou: Mm. Do I have what I need or do I need to go back to do what I did for Pete?

0:16:31 Brennan: Give me a Medicine check. We'll see--

0:16:32 Ally: Can I?

0:16:33 Brennan: If you have the ability to do it now.

0:16:34 Ally: Can I do a check and see if I recognize any of them?

0:16:36 Lou: 9.

0:16:38 Brennan: 9? Yeah, you need to take them to the hospital.

0:16:40 Lou: Okay.

0:16:42 Brennan: Go ahead. Yeah, give me a flat Charisma check.

0:16:45 Ally: Mm, cool. 19.

0:16:49 Brennan: You see that Amelia and Ana both turn up, look at you, and their eyes go wide. You have definitely sold weed to these two many, many times. You see they go,

0:16:59 Ana or Amelia: Whoa! Oh man, who are all these new people? Are they all new to The Unsleeping City? I've never seen either of these two people before. They are both brand new, both this person and especially this person, not yet, I haven't—

0:17:12 Pete: I think we've met. The twins stare at Pete with a shocked expression.

0:17:16 Pete: At a party, yeah.

0:17:16 Ana or Amelia: You? What?

0:17:16 Pete: We met at a party raising money for a political candidate.

0:17:22 Brennan: You see that Alejandro looks over and says,

0:17:24 Alejandro: I had no idea you two were getting involved in politics. That is so good to be civic-minded. That's incredible! Who was the candidate?

0:17:32 Pete: Oh, it was someone who didn't end up going forward, which is a bummer.

0:17:39 Misty: Honestly, I think politics is so important and every year I do one of those videos where I tell people to vote with a bunch of other theater people.

0:17:45 Pete: Oh, people love those.

0:17:46 Misty: People love those videos!

0:17:48 Ally: I lean into them and I'm like,

0:17:49 Pete: But we are taking donations for someone really similar and they're really good, what we've heard recently, they're really good. So it's 25 a pop. And they’ll really appreciate your support.

0:18:05 Alejandro: Oh you’re going around

0:18:05 Ally: I was talking to Alejandro? Yeah, I was talking to Alejandro.

0:18:10 Brennan: He says,

0:18:10 Alejandro: Cool, yeah, absolutely! I would be happy to donate, let me see here. Do you take Paypal, Venmo, or anything like that?

0:18:18 Pete: Yeah, I definitely take Venmo.

0:18:21 Ricky: I hand you $100.

0:18:23 Pete: Great!

0:18:23 Ricky: That's a lot for me.

0:18:24 Pete: Thank you everyone, thanks. [laughs]

0:18:26 Brennan: You see Ana and Amelia look at you and they say,

0:18:29 Ana or Amelia: Could me and my sister split a donation?

0:18:33 Pete: You could, yeah. Absolutely.

0:18:34 Ana or Amelia: Cool.

0:18:34 Pete: It's definitely splittable.

0:18:36 Ana or Amelia: It's enough to--

0:18:36 Pete: I actually donated earlier this morning and then had some dumplings and it was a great choice.

0:18:43 Brennan: They both nod.

0:18:44 Sofia: I thought you smoked weed before you had the dumplings.

0:18:47 Pete: Hmm?

0:18:48 Sofia: Hmm?

0:18:51 Brennan: You see that Esther crosses her arms and says,

0:18:54 Esther: This is the most poorly veiled innuendo I've ever heard in my life. Alejandro, this young man is a drug dealer.

0:19:04 Brennan: You see that Alejandro says,

0:19:04 Alejandro: How could you tell? It seemed like he was so civic-minded.

0:19:09 Brennan: And you see she says,

0:19:09 Esther: He's talking about selling weed to your granddaughters.

0:19:12 Brennan: You see, he looks and says,

0:19:12 Alejandro: Well, they're adults, it's their business, no problem of mine.

0:19:17 Pete: Fuck yeah.

0:19:19 Ricky: Esther, are you a politically-minded person? 'Cause I'm trying to get more involved.

0:19:26 Esther: Yeah, yes, I'm politically-minded.

0:19:27 Ricky: That's awesome.

0:19:28 Esther: Mostly I do a lot of canvassing for causes over candidates, generally.

0:19:35 Ricky: Oh!

0:19:35 Esther: There's a lot of rent justice and trying to fight for neighborhoods to be preserved, things like that.

0:19:42 Pete: Oh, for sure. Gentrification is ruining everything.

0:19:45 Kingston: Hey, real talk.

0:19:45 Esther: Where do you live?

0:19:46 Pete: Hmm?

0:19:46 Esther: Where do you live?

0:19:48 Pete: Brooklyn.

0:19:49 Esther: [nodding knowingly] Nice.

0:19:50 Pete: But I live in Polish Brooklyn, okay? It's fucking different.

0:19:52 Kingston: Hey, real quick, I'ma go get medicine for these ladies' peppermint bones. I'll be back in 25, 30 minutes.

0:20:01 Pete: I'll go with you.

0:20:01 Kugrash: Yeah, I'll also go with you.

0:20:02 Kingston: Everyone!

0:20:02 Sofia: Can I casually put my hand on the other twin that I didn't touch and just try to heal real quick, again?

0:20:08 Brennan: Give me a Medicine check real quick.

0:20:12 Emily: I got a 16.

0:20:12 Brennan: A 16? You see that she goes,

0:20:16 Ana or Amelia: That's not helping, but it does feel good.

0:20:20 Sofia: All right, okay. Magic of love, there's something to it.

0:20:24 Zac: Can I try and Lay on Hands them?

0:20:26 Brennan: Yeah, got for it.

0:20:26 Zac: For five points, it says I can cure disease.

0:20:27 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely! Ricky, you lay hands on one of them and you see that [blows raspberries] this light glows through them and you can feel the disease, the virus, being arrested in her body. It's still present there, but it looks like it's not going to spread any farther while they get to the hospital.

0:20:49 Zac: Cool.

0:20:51 Brennan: Cool! See Alejandro says,

0:20:52 Alejandro: All right, let's get these girls to the hospital. Perhaps I can come along with you and we can discuss everything that has happened.

0:20:58 Kingston: Hey, we all talk on the bus.

0:21:01 Brennan: You guys leave the public library with Alejandro. You see Esther looks at Alejandro and says,

0:21:07 Esther: Al, you want me to stay here?

0:21:08 Brennan: And he says,

0:21:08 Alejandro: If you could keep an eye on the society, that would be for the best.

0:21:12 Brennan: She looks at you [Ricky] and says,

0:21:16 Esther: ‘Cause you're still a little injured, right or no?

0:21:18 Zac: Yes, I guess I am.

0:21:19 Brennan: You see she says,

0:21:19 Esther: You all right, Ricky? You look pretty beat up.

0:21:22 Ricky: Oh, you know, it's just part of the whole thing, right? [laughs] I'm a little hurt, yeah.

0:21:29 Brennan: She nods and says,

0:21:29 Esther: Well, hopefully get Kingston to take care of that. I also heard that you decapitated the big guy, right?

0:21:35 Ricky: Yeah, I got kinda caught up in the situation and I killed the mutant Santa that was the biggest one, so I don't know. It was just such a threat, so just had to step in, so—

0:21:47 Ally: I'm watching because I'm just fascinated by this level of macho. And I'm just like,

0:21:51 Pete: Goddamn.

0:21:54 Esther: All right, well, thanks for hitting the talking points with me, Ricky. I appreciated it.

0:21:57 Ricky: Used two hands on it. And I jumped through the air. Clean off.

0:22:01 Esther: Great! I'm gonna look after some of the goings on here. We gotta take care of the engine, so best of luck.

0:22:09 Brennan: You guys head off, catch the bus as it heads uptown. As you're sitting on the bus headed back towards St. Owen's, Alejandro looks over at you and says,

0:22:20 Alejandro: Peter, Peter, it's a very—

0:22:20 Ally: I take out my headphones 'cause I'm wearing them like a teen on a road trip.

0:22:28 Brennan: You see he says,

0:22:28 Alejandro: So I took a quick arcane scan of your body and spirit before you left to deal with the menace in Times Square. This is a very special moment in the history of The Unsleeping City. Peter, you are what is known in arcane circles as a Vox Phantasmas. Do you know what this means?

0:22:58 Pete: No. Fox?

0:23:01 Alejandro: Vox, which is Latin for voice. And then phantasmas to mean an apparition or in this case a dream.

0:23:10 Pete: I'm a voice for the dreams?

0:23:13 Alejandro: That is correct.

0:23:13 Pete: I'm a dream voice.

0:23:15 Alejandro: A dream voice, it's true. There are certain people within The Unsleeping City who occupy positions of important weight and gravity. Not myself. As a wizard, I have had to, cómo se dice [how do you say in Spanish], bust my ass my whole life, work very hard to study magic to get to this point, but I'm not complaining. There are certain people who are instead innately magical because of how they are born or because forces and entities speak through them. Kingston is one such person. You are another. There has not been a Vox Phantasmas in this city since, I believe, the mid-1920s. In the history of New York, there has never been a Vox Phantasmas and a Vox Ppopuli at the same time.

0:24:15 Pete: And a what? Alejandro gestures to Kingston.

0:24:17 Kingston: I'm the Vox Populi.

0:24:19 Pete: What's that?

0:24:21 Kingston: As it was explained to me long ago, I am the spirit, the spirits of New York City saw fit to give me the strength and powers and blessings of New York itself. I guess, 'cause I was doing my part, New York invested its energy in me, and thus I was, about 30 years ago, I don't know, able to do magic. I'm assuming, I guess, similar to what you're going through right now, I woke up one day and I could touch people and make them feel better. I didn't need any of the medicine or tools that I had spent years learning how to do the exact same thing.

0:25:13 Brennan: You see that Alejandro nods and says,

0:25:19 Alejandro: New York is a place of incredible power for a number of reasons. Much of the magic of The Unsleeping City comes from the interplay between the waking world and the dreaming, what we call Nod, the Sixth Borough. The Unsleeping City is the place where those two planes touch and we find that beings from one place can enter into another. I will say as well here that there are opposing forces in certain cases. The magic of the Vox Populi comes from the power of the waking world, the places and people of New York itself. Your power does not come from that. It comes from the New York of the other side. Tell me, Peter, have you had any interactions with beings, entities, or locals that would perhaps deviate from the norm?

0:26:28 Pete: No.

0:26:29 Alejandro: No?

0:26:30 Pete: Mm-mm.

0:26:30 Alejandro: That is highly unlikely!

0:26:33 Ally: I make a look at Kingston that’s like, I'm not answering any more questions from this guy.

0:26:39 Sofia: You're a dodgy motherfucker.

0:26:41 Misty: Young man, I think you'll find it easier around here if you just start to tell the truth.

0:26:49 Kingston: Tell him, Misty.

0:26:50 Misty: Because whatever shit you think that you've seen, we've seen worse, and more.

0:26:56 Pete: I just—

0:26:56 Misty: And let me tell you—

0:26:57 Pete: All right, if you guys are cops, you have to tell me. Do you know that's the law? If you're cops—

0:27:00 Kugrash: Hey, I'm a rat, right?

0:27:01 Kingston: That man's a rat, we're on a magical bus, you—

0:27:04 Sofia: I'm definitely not a cop. With my family—

0:27:05 Pete: This just feels like the most elaborate sting operation. Now you're asking me if I've ever seen anyone—

0:27:09 Misty: And let me tell you.

0:27:11 Pete: Nefarious.

0:27:13 Misty: The Voice of Dreams back in the 1920s was a goddamn delight. It was so much fun, it was the 1920s, everything was roaring—

0:27:21 Pete: What was that person like?

0:27:23 Misty: Oh my god, so fun! Threw the most amazing parties. She was fabulous.

0:27:30 Pete: Huh!

0:27:31 Alejandro: She was really something else, Josefina Gatsby.

0:27:35 Misty: Oh, loved her.

0:27:35 Alejandro: Man oh man, she was great.

0:27:38 Brennan: You see that Alejandro looks at you and says,

0:27:44 Alejandro: I will tell you two things now. Number one, I promise you on my word, as a wizard and as someone who wants only the best for his city, I'm not a cop. Secondly, I watched you actively try to sell drugs to my two granddaughters not more than 10 minutes ago. So if this was a sting, probably I would have leaned into the microphone and say so by now.

0:28:09 Pete: Yeah, okay.

0:28:11 Alejandro: Something to consider.

0:28:12 Misty: Also, cops don't have to tell you they're cops.

0:28:14 Alejandro: Oh, that's extremely important.

0:28:15 Misty: You should know that by now!

0:28:15 Pete: Really?

0:28:17 Alejandro: They really don't have to tell you.

0:28:18 Misty: They don't. That's stupid! It's a very stupid thing to believe.

0:28:23 Pete: But then in court, it could get thrown out if they lie.

0:28:26 Sofia: No!

0:28:26 Kugrash: Pete, just tell them the stuff, goddamn it.

0:28:27 Pete: All right, fucking fine!

0:28:29 Ally: I take a microdose of acid pill out of my pocket and swallow it.

0:28:33 Pete: [groans] Great. All right. Yeah, okay, so I saw someone killed my dad, but not like it's a sad way, like in a good way.

0:28:48 Kingston: What?

0:28:49 Pete: Then there was a big happy face button. Someone asked me to push it and I did and he said, "Spread the word, I'm free." And I think his name was… Fuck! [groans] Lazarus. He said, "Spread the news I'm leaving today." So whoever Lazarus is, I guess I let out [sighs] by pushing the button.

0:29:16 Ricky: Your dad's dead?

0:29:17 Kingston: Yeah, what was that part?

0:29:18 Pete: He's a piece of shit, man.

0:29:20 Sofia: I mean.

0:29:22 Kingston: Okay.

0:29:23 Pete: He sucked and I guess I do kinda like feel in contact with this voice still.

0:29:30 Alejandro: So there is a voice in dreams that you spoke to and released from some kind of bondage.

0:29:39 Pete: That's kinda what it felt like, yeah.

0:29:42 Alejandro: Okay, that has the potential to be very bad.

0:29:45 Pete: Hm?

0:29:47 Alejandro: That has the potential to be very bad.

0:29:49 Pete: [grinning] Hm?

0:29:51 Alejandro: That has the potential to be extremely bad. So what I will say to you now is this. It is important that you learn to govern these abilities. You are dealing with an extreme amount of power. That power, if wielded recklessly, could tear this city apart. So I know it is not fair to you, but you have become someone of great significance, and your decisions, should they be reckless, selfish, and dangerous, will carry an impact far greater than they would have, even a week before now.

0:30:17 Pete: [very quietly] Fuck. [starts to reach down to his pocket]

0:30:43 Alejandro: Are you about to microdose again? Does that feel responsible? Pete takes something out of his pocket and puts it in his mouth.

0:30:45 Kugrash: Pete, what are you doing?

0:30:48 Misty: I mean, at what point does a microdose—

0:30:49 Pete: It's so little, it's so little, the kind I dose.

0:30:51 Sofia: I gotta say, I think that what Pete is doing, there could be some value for that. There hasn't been enough research into what—

0:30:57 Kingston: There is research out there, there's just this--

0:30:58 Pete: There's research out there!

0:30:58 Sofia: Psychedelics would do for—

0:31:00 Kugrash: It's not micro-doses if you keep taking it, right?

0:31:03 Pete: It was two small micro-doses.

0:31:05 Ricky: Pete, I can get you a guest pass to my gym.

0:31:08 Pete: What?

0:31:10 Ricky: We can do some sets together. We can just hit shoulders.

0:31:13 Pete: I mean, I'll think about it, man, that's really nice.

0:31:16 Sofia: They got a spectator pass?

0:31:17 Kugrash: Really?

0:31:18 Brennan: You guys pull up to the hospital.

0:31:19 Ricky: I don't know!

0:31:21 Brennan: You guys pull up to the hospital, you get off, Ana and Amelia walk with you. Go ahead and make some Medicine checks with advantage.

0:31:27 Lou: Oh, threes.

0:31:28 Ally: Ohh!

0:31:28 Lou: Okay, great, that's 18. Less than 18. And that's very high, it's 26 and 25, so [mumbles] 18 and—

0:31:43 Brennan: 26.

0:31:43 Lou: 18, 26.

0:31:45 Brennan: You go ahead, you perfectly cure Ana, and then Amelia, who actually was the one who had the virus stopped, you're able to take it the rest of the way over and they are both healed.

0:31:57 Ally: Nice.

0:31:58 Brennan: You see Alejandro looks over and says,

0:32:02 Alejandro: I know we're in a hospital. Is it cool if I light up in here or no?

0:32:05 Kingston: In my office, sure. Everywhere else?

0:32:08 Ricky: I'd actually prefer you not. [cast laughs]

0:32:11 Brennan: He nods. You see he takes this old, crazy wooden pipe and puts it back in his coat.

0:32:15 Ally: I hand him a Juul.

0:32:17 Pete: Here you go, man.

0:32:17 Alejandro: What is this? What am I looking at right now?

0:32:19 Pete: It's an e-cigarette, you can plug it into your computer. That one is cucumber habanero flavored. [smoke sizzling] It's just like a tobacco pipe, my brother.

0:32:30 Alejandro: [blows out] Peter, this is extremely rad. Can I buy this from you or I can just get this anywhere?

0:32:37 Pete: You can have it, man. If you need a re-up, though, then you gotta pay.

0:32:42 Alejandro: Peter, you are an extremely cool dude and I very much appreciate that you have given me this gift.

0:32:48 Pete: Thanks.

0:32:48 Alejandro: Know this. [quiet, dramatic music]

0:32:50 Brennan: You see that one of his eyes turns into a golden point of light and you see that in a mirror, his reflections begin to double up and extend infinitely away. He says,

0:33:01 Alejandro: Do not take it lightly that a wizard is in your debt. Call my name thrice and I shall appear in a moment of need for you.

0:33:13 Pete: [very quietly] Wait, I'm so sorry but as a Lady Gaga fan, I might accidentally say Alejandro multiple times, and I'm not calling you.

0:33:21 Alejandro: Okay, if you do it to the tune of the Lady Gaga song, I will know not to come.

0:33:25 Pete: Ale-Alejandro, okay, great, cool. All right, good, good, good! I'm just double-checking.

0:33:28 Alejandro: Oh, for sure. It's not like I'm bound by this. Just that I have a thing in my office where if someone says my name, a little wisp of smoke goes into a glass bulb.

0:33:36 Pete: Oh, cool!

0:33:37 Alejandro: So really, it would be cooler to say it's just magic where I just appear, but it's actually I just see it and then I teleport there.

0:33:44 Pete: That's really generous, man.

0:33:45 Alejandro: No problem!

0:33:45 Pete: Thank you so much. Put it in.

0:33:46 Brennan: He says,

0:33:46 Alejandro: Oh Peter, come here! I don't know why I'm giving my tricks away. I should not do this. This thing, this is crazy, and it has a kick to it, a flavor!

0:33:55 Pete: Isn't it nice? Yeah!

0:33:55 Alejandro: The flavor is not a bad part of it.

0:33:57 Pete: Do you have a phone? Put my number in. You can hit me up anytime for anything.

0:34:00 Kingston: Alejandro!

0:34:01 Alejandro: Sorry, I'm sorry.

0:34:01 Kingston: What are you doing, man? You're a grown ass man.

0:34:05 Alejandro: Don't talk to me about a grown ass man.

0:34:06 Kingston: No, you a grown ass man, then why you acting—

0:34:08 Alejandro: I'm old enough to be your father. I don't need you to tell my business. I can't have a good time with the young man?

0:34:11 Kingston: No, you know what I mean? You don't need some kid's number to buy drugs, man!

0:34:13 Alejandro: Kingston! All right, look, thank you very much for this Juul.

0:34:17 Pete: Thank you.

0:34:18 Alejandro: I will treasure it forever, I am in your debt. [puts it away]

0:34:21 Pete: Well.

0:34:21 Brennan: He says,

0:34:22 Alejandro: Now, there is something very sinister at work. The Dream Realm is an area which even for the wizards of the Gramercy Occult Society exists outside of their realm of knowledge. We know a fraction of what there is to know about the Dream Realm. We have hardly enough time as it is simply to map out The Unsleeping City, and those things which are able to issue forth from the Dream Realm into the waking world. The actual Dream Realm itself is far beyond our understanding. However, there are things there vaster and more potent than I can describe in words. And if you have already engaged in powerful magics there as the Vox Phantasmas, then it is hard to say what may have happened. How did you come to know this being was released? I can see on your bracelet that that is a source of your power, so if you were to press that brace—

0:35:25 Pete: That's exactly what happened. Yeah, I saw a gold rectangle appear and then I was able to push this button to release. They asked me if I wanted to, and I did want to.

0:35:38 Alejandro: [frowns] A gold rectangle. And that is when the voice started to speak to you?

0:35:43 Pete: Yeah.

0:35:43 Alejandro: It was the same voice the whole time or different voices?

0:35:47 Pete: Felt like different voices, maybe.

0:35:50 Alejandro: Okay.

0:35:51 Pete: There was a gray baby.

0:35:52 Alejandro: A gray baby?

0:35:53 Pete: Mm-hm.

0:35:53 Alejandro: [intensely] A gray baby. A gray baby.

0:35:57 Pete: It's starting to lose all meaning, those words are—

0:35:58 Ricky: [crosstalk] Gray baby.

0:35:59 Pete: [crosstalk] Gray baby, gray baby.

0:35:59 Alejandro: A gray baby? Interesante [interesting in Spanish], okay, hold on.

0:36:01 Pete: Gray baby, gray baby.

0:36:04 Alejandro: I am going to, this requires, I don't the book is still at our main chapter, but maybe out at the Clinton Hill Chantry or somewhere else. I must go! [taps table]

0:36:11 Brennan: You see he says,

0:36:11 Alejandro: Ana, Amelia, you guys need cab fare?

0:36:14 Brennan: And you see that they look and they say,

0:36:16 Ana or Amelia: Grandpa, it's Lyft now or Uber or we'll just take a fucking subway.

0:36:20 Alejandro: Okay, I can give you cash if you need it. I just care about your safety because today you almost died. [kisses] My granddaughters, mijas! All right, I'm going to head out. [teleportation sound]

0:36:30 Brennan: And a bunch of—

0:36:30 Ricky: Did he say he's going to Hell?

0:36:32 Kingston: He's heading out.

0:36:32 Misty: He's head out.

0:36:33 Ricky: Oh.

0:36:33 Sofia: Oh, I heard Hell, too.

0:36:37 Brennan: Ana and Amelia say,

0:36:37 Ana or Amelia: Kingston, thank you so much.

0:36:40 Kingston: Of course.

0:36:40 Ana or Amelia: Appreciate it. Well, listen, do you need anything from us before we head out? 'Cause we can redo some of the enchantments on your nurse's office or if you need anything else.

0:36:51 Kingston: That would be lovely, but if you guys got places to go, I can happily handle it.

0:36:53 Brennan: You see that one of them is on their phone already clicking. You see the other one begins to [magic noise] cast some enchantments that, again, all have. You see these circular gyroscoping images of light that look like New York City manhole cover made out of green and orange neon light begin to [magical music] go into the walls all around your nurse's office. She says,

0:37:17 Ana or Amelia: Cool, that should do it. Thanks Kingston, bye!

0:37:18 Kingston: Thank you so much.

0:37:20 Sofia: Oh, before you guys leave, you two are just so cute. If you ever want a haircut or anything, and I give them a business card.

0:37:27 Ally: Aww!

0:37:28 Brennan: They look, go ahead and make a little Persuasion roll for me.

0:37:31 Sofia: Well, it's on the house.

0:37:34 Emily: But that is a 12.

0:37:34 Brennan: A 12! You see they look and so they say,

0:37:38 Ana or Amelia: Oh, that'd be fun. On the house? Sure! Your hair looks awesome.

0:37:43 Sofia: Thank you.

0:37:46 Ana or Amelia: Where is your haircut place?

0:37:48 Sofia: It's on Staten Island.

0:37:48 Ana or Amelia: Okay, have a good one!

0:37:51 Sofia: It's just a ferry ride away.

0:37:51 Ana or Amelia: Bye!

0:37:52 Sofia: They have beers on the ferry.

0:37:53 Ana or Amelia: 'Kay, 'kay! Lovely to meet you!

0:37:54 Sofia: Okay.

0:37:55 Brennan: So they head out.

0:37:55 Sofia: All right. We're gonna get a subway stop one of these days, I'm sure of it.

0:38:02 Brennan: Great! And it's just you guys left here, that are left here in Kingston's office.

0:38:12 Kingston: Well, well, well.

0:38:13 Misty: Just like old times.

0:38:15 Kingston: I'll tell ya, Vox Phantasma.

0:38:19 Pete: Yeah, sorry to be such a dick about it. There's a lotta cops after me, and I move a lot of product through the city, so I didn't wanna be taken down, you know.

0:38:29 Kingston: Hmm.

0:38:29 Ricky: Hmm.

0:38:30 Kugrash: I think you're cool. I think you don't really have to worry about, you have magic now, so you're cool.

0:38:35 Pete: Yeah, I wasn't sure.

0:38:37 Ally: [laughing] I hand you like, four Xanax.

0:38:40 Kingston: Okay, stop giving people drugs.

0:38:43 Misty: I mean I will take some Xanax if they're going.

0:38:44 Pete: There you go!

0:38:46 Kugrash: I weigh like, this will kill me This absolutely will kill me, please take this back.

0:38:50 Pete: Ah, okay!

0:38:51 Kugrash: Hey please, I'm a tiny rat.

0:38:53 Ricky: Do you have a place to stay?

0:38:55 Pete: Yeah, yeah, I got a house and everything.

0:38:57 Ricky: Okay. Good.

0:38:59 Pete: Fuck! [quietly] I may have been kicked out of my house.

0:39:04 Sofia: Well, if anyone needs a place to stay, I'm but a ferry ride away.

0:39:07 Pete: [to Ricky] So where do you live?

0:39:11 Ricky: I am in a studio apartment in Brooklyn.

0:39:16 Pete: Oh, sick.

0:39:17 Kingston: Pete, I have another bedroom. If you'd like to stay with me, that's also an option.

0:39:20 Pete: Ooh, yeah. A lotta options, you guys.

0:39:21 Sofia: I have a whole house.

0:39:24 Kingston: Oh!

0:39:24 Pete: Whoa.

0:39:26 Sofia: On Staten Island.

0:39:27 Pete: Ah, okay, [to Kugrash] so where do you live?

0:39:28 Kingston: Every time.

0:39:29 Kugrash: I live in the subway tunnels. If you wanna curl up in a—

0:39:31 Pete: That’s man...

0:39:33 Siobhan: I just get very quiet and edge away from this conversation because I definitely don't want Pete staying with me.

0:39:39 Sofia: It's a guest bedroom with a California king.

0:39:42 Kingston: That is all lovely.

0:39:44 Pete: That's really nice.

0:39:45 Ricky: I guess I'm on fireman time is the other thing you should know. I'm waking up pretty early and as soon as I leave the house--

0:39:50 Pete: Yeah, Kingston, it would be really cool to crash with you maybe.

0:39:51 Kingston: We can work something out.

0:39:53 Sofia: Private bathroom for the guest room.

0:39:55 Pete: Oh, that's pretty cool.

0:39:57 Sofia: On Staten Island.

0:39:57 Pete: Hey, Kingston, when can I move in?

0:40:01 Kingston: Okay, moving in is a strong word. You can stay with me until we figure something else out.

0:40:06 Kugrash: All right, why don't we all meet at Kingston's apartment tomorrow morning?

0:40:10 Kingston: Great.

0:40:10 Sofia: Okay.

0:40:11 Kingston: Everybody can come on over here.

0:40:12 Kugrash: Headquarters.

0:40:12 Kingston: Great, I'm on the top floor. You guys say hello to my mother on the way up, all right?

0:40:17 Kugrash: Okay.

0:40:17 Sofia: Okay.

0:40:18 Kingston: Do you know what I mean? Have manners.

0:40:19 Misty: I love visiting Kingston 'cause there's this little place that does cafe con leche for 75 cents!

0:40:23 Pete: Oh, really?

0:40:25 Kingston: That's fantastic.

0:40:25 Misty: Down on the bodega on the corner, oh!

0:40:28 Pete: That's what living in New York's all about.

0:40:29 Misty: All about it!

0:40:29 Pete: It's crazy when you can get coffee for less than a dollar. I mean, honestly.

0:40:32 Misty: Less than a dollar! It's beautiful condensed milk and espresso. Mm!

0:40:37 Brennan: Wonderful! While you guys take off from there, going to your various places, let's go around. You've had this weird meeting of all these different various forces at work and it's sort of come together and it seems like some momentous things are underway. We'll just go around the table. Ricky, what does Ricky do as he leaves from there? Where is he headed to?

0:40:58 Zac: Ricky's just going home. He's gotta get a good eight hours in. This hasn't registered to him that this is anything that crazy.

0:41:09 Brennan: Anything special.

0:41:10 Zac: Made some new friends today, cool, and then jogged home.

0:41:13 Brennan: Hell yeah, you jog home. In your studio, you have all your jam and workout equipment in there, do a couple quick reps. You get a little message as you do every single night, from your mom and dad saying, sending our love, hope you had another great day, saw you on the news, love our boy.

0:41:34 Zac: Text them a picture of me working out. No days off, love you, Mom and Dad.

0:41:38 Ally: [laughing] No days off, you fucker!

0:41:43 Brennan: You get a text back of your mom way in the foreground with her face kind of clipped off going like, [screams] and your dad completely in a newspaper not looking, and she says the text under it is, "Your dad says 'Wow, so strong!'" Heart eyes, heart eyes, heart eyes.

0:42:00 Ricky: Sounds like Dad. [grunts as he lifts a weight]

0:42:05 Brennan: Where does Sofia head off to?

0:42:06 Emily: Okay, well, Sofia is heading back to Staten Island, but the looming disappointment of her very empty, once marital bed is haunting her, and so she immediately turns back around and she goes,

0:42:22 Sofia: Kug, do you wanna grab a drink or something? Also, I've got an amazing detangler. Let me at your fur, it's all matted and destroyed.

0:42:32 Kugrash: Yeah, yeah, yeah I kinda like it like this. Are you sure if you wanna?

0:42:35 Sofia: Yeah, I think so.

0:42:37 Emily: And then I think I just wanna work on Kugrash's fur and give him a little styling.

0:42:43 Ally: You're gonna straighten Kugrash's fur.

0:42:46 Brennan: So you guys are in a speakeasy around the corner and you're chemically de-tangling.

0:42:52 Murph: Do I just look like a little ugly dude to non-magic people?

0:42:57 Brennan: I'm gonna actually ask you to roll a Charisma check.

0:42:59 Murph: I might just look like a rat.

0:43:00 Brennan: Roll a Charisma check.

0:43:02 Murph: I've gotta try to not look like a rat.

0:43:05 Ally: You have negative Charisma!

0:43:05 Murph: Oh, I'm so bad at Charisma! I rolled a 13 but I have negative two, I got an 11.

0:43:10 Brennan: 11, okay! So you're there de-tangling this rat's fur.

0:43:15 Emily: But also giving it some volume.

0:43:18 Siobhan: Tease it a little bit.

0:43:19 Brennan: Kugrash...

0:43:20 Kugrash: It feels good.

0:43:20 Brennan: You look in the mirror, you're starting to look like a full chinchilla. You're just so poofy. You see that a maitre d' walks over, this is a restaurant and bar, walks over and says,

0:43:32 Maitre D’: [soft voice] Hi, ma'am, I've never had to do this before.

0:43:40 Sofia: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. I know what you're going after and I'm not married, but I was recently, so I still kind of consider myself married. I'm so sorry.

0:43:53 Maitre D’: In no world could that have been what I was going for.

0:43:58 Murph: I try to start dancing.

0:44:00 Ally: [laughing] What?

0:44:02 Murph: As a rat, like I'm a trick rat.

0:44:05 Brennan: You don't know what you look like right at this moment and you see that the person looks down at you and says,

0:44:10 Maitre D’: Ma'am, you have to understand how far it has gotten for me to say this.

0:44:19 Emily: Do I see him dancing?

0:44:20 Brennan: You see him dancing as Kugrash. But you see that the guy looks at you and says,

0:44:26 Maitre D’: Your baby is so hairy that it is—

0:44:30 Murph: Oh my god.

0:44:30 Maitre D’: Upsetting other customers and I'm going to have to ask you to take your child out of the bar.

0:44:37 Sofia: Oh my god, seriously? You're gonna be against children? God, new mothers just can't go anywhere.

0:44:48 Maitre D’: Your baby's covered in hair and everyone's upset. I need you to… We're gonna comp your drink, so your drink is on us, but you need to take your baby—

0:44:59 Kugrash: Free drinks, get one more! Get one more for me and then let's go.

0:45:01 Sofia: For one more drink, I'll leave.

0:45:03 Maitre D’: Okay, we're gonna do that.

0:45:04 Sofia: Okay. [laughs]

0:45:05 Kugrash: Yeah, right!

0:45:06 Brennan: You get a little to-go coffee cup of the alcoholic drink.

0:45:11 Kugrash: This is a good scam!

0:45:11 Sofia: I know, Kug.

0:45:13 Kugrash: You go in there, you got a hairy baby, people don't want to ask you to leave, you get.

0:45:18 Sofia: I think we gotta run this scam on a couple more bars.

0:45:21 Brennan: You guys end up running that scam. Make an Insight check, Kugrash.

0:45:26 Murph: Okay. 22.

0:45:32 Brennan: 22, you can tell after the third bar you guys run hairy baby on—

0:45:40 Sofia: This is the best night.

0:45:43 Brennan: You can tell that Sofia's trying to not go home.

0:45:46 Murph: Oh.

0:45:47 Sofia: Okay, where to next?

0:45:50 Kugrash: You know what? [finger guns] Let's go to Staten Island, huh? You got a basement I can curl up in, like a dirty rag or something?

0:45:59 Sofia: No, you know what? You can sleep in my bed and I'll sleep in the guest room.

0:46:06 Kugrash: Yeah, all right.

0:46:08 Sofia: Okay, yeah.

0:46:09 Brennan: You guys toddle off. You're blasted, Sofia. You guys wander—

0:46:12 Ally: Now you're dancing.

0:46:15 Brennan: Through the park. Ally and Emily are both doing some kind of strange hand dance.

0:46:16 Emily: What was the dance you were doing, Murph? Murph and Siobhan both do an odd little hand dance at waist level.

0:46:18 Brennan: Go ahead and make me a Constitution saving throw, real quick.

0:46:20 Emily: Okay.

0:46:20 Lou: Oh shit.

0:46:22 Murph: Me too or just her? Oh, she's drunk.

0:46:23 Brennan: Yeah.

0:46:25 Emily: That's gonna be 17.

0:46:27 Brennan: Hey, you're feelin’ great, you're all right. You're just a little tipsy. You guys are wandering through Central Park at night, snow kinda kicking around again. You get to a certain point, and are you still wearing your plastic bag shoes or did—

0:46:42 Emily: Have I seen any shoes on the street?

0:46:46 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Investigate.

0:46:47 Murph: Yeah, I'll look around for shoes, too.

0:46:49 Brennan: Make an Investigate check.

0:46:49 Murph: I'll crawl in some dumpsters.

0:46:51 Brennan: Oh!

0:46:51 Murph: I got a 19.

0:46:52 Emily: I got 12.

0:46:53 Brennan: You got 19, Kug knows where to look for 'em, so on your way through the park, you look around and you find the boathouse has some lockers in it where people keep shoes sometimes, and the lockers are very, very old. So on the way through the park, you [metal thuds] bust into one of the lockers and there's a little pair of just some comfy loafers.

0:47:13 Sofia: I think no, I'll just stick with the plastic bags.

0:47:14 Kugrash: Eh, they're rich people, they're fucking loafers.

0:47:17 Sofia: I know, but they’re not very— but I go for a little more flair in the way I decorate myself. Thank you, though, I really appreciate it.

0:47:23 Kugrash: All right, yeah.

0:47:25 Brennan: You guys wander away from the boathouse and you guys actually end up crossing through Bethesda Fountain, which is known as the giant fountain in Central Park right next to the lake with this giant statue of an angel. It's a beautiful angel in Central Park. You're walking through. Each of you guys make a Wisdom check. A Wisdom check.

0:47:52 Murph: 14.

0:47:53 Emily: 6!

0:47:55 Brennan: The tipsiness kind of hits you a little more, Sofia. You look up and are entranced by this angel. She's just so beautiful to you.

0:48:07 Sofia: God, that's a nice figure.

0:48:12 Brennan: The head of the angel [stone grinding] turns to look at you and says,

0:48:15 Em: [heavy New York accent] You're not so bad yourself.

0:48:17 Sofia: Oh my god, being magic is awesome. Hi, I'm Sofia Bicicleta.

0:48:21 Emily: I hold out my hand to it.

0:48:23 Brennan: The snows swirls around in the moonlight and the angel soars down on wings and as she lands, boom! You see she's made of metal. You see she says,

0:48:34 Em: Charmed, I'm the Angel of the Waters. You can call me Em.

0:48:39 Sofia: Oh, hi Em, nice to meet you.

0:48:42 Em: So what, bags are in now?

0:48:44 Sofia: [chuckles] Well, it was this or loafers.

0:48:48 Em: Oh god, loafers in the middle of winter?

0:48:50 Sofia: I know. I know.

0:48:50 Em: What is this? What are we, in The Hamptons or something? Give me a break.

0:48:52 Sofia: I know. I don't need yacht slippers.

0:48:55 Em: No yacht fashion, thank you.

0:48:55 Sofia: No thank you.

0:48:57 Brennan: You see she looks down and says,

0:49:00 Em: Kugrash, I don't know if we've formally met, but you do really good work around here in the Park.

0:49:04 Kugrash: Oh, thanks, yeah. It's good seeing you. Did you happen to see anything weird going on in the park tonight, y’know, what with the Santa being kidnapped and all?

0:49:17 Brennan: You see she says,

0:49:17 Em: Oh God, I heard about that yesterday. Yeah, that's awful. Well, I'm pretty stationary as far as things go. I have to guard these waters or all hell breaks loose. But I did hear, it's interesting about the pixies. I heard a rumor going around that it was them or something like that. But I will say that seems a little odd cause Don Confetti's daughter is getting married. So it seems like—

0:49:45 Sofia: Oh! So why would they be dabbling in some sort of—

0:49:48 Em: Seems like it's being stretched pretty thin, I don't know. I mean, maybe it's a perfect time for him to get up to some trouble or something.

0:49:54 Sofia: Have you not heard—

0:49:55 Kugrash: Who's she getting married to?

0:49:57 Em: Some pigeon.

0:49:59 Kugrash: Pigeon. Oh, [sighs] These pixies are gettin' fancy. A real rat bird, huh?

0:50:09 Sofia: Have you ever heard of pixies getting involved with the infernal?

0:50:14 Em: The infernal?

0:50:14 Sofia: Yeah!

0:50:15 Em: These pixies? No, Don Confetti's a fucking idiot. I don't think he has the smarts to tangle with any kinda real envoy of Hell or anything like that. Hey, if it was gonna happen anywhere, it would happen here, right?

0:50:27 Sofia: Mm, yeah, I guess that's true.

0:50:33 Kugrash: Do you— are people— Is this an actual pigeon that she's marrying?

0:50:35 Em: Yeah, Ronald Pigeon.

0:50:37 Kugrash: Ronald Pigeon.

0:50:39 Sofia: Maybe he's trying to ruin the wedding?

0:50:41 Murph: Do I know if Ronald's a shithead or if Ronald's a good pigeon?

0:50:42 Brennan: Make a Nature check for me.

0:50:43 Murph: Okay.

0:50:43 Sofia: When is their marriage?

0:50:47 Murph: 13.

0:50:48 Brennan: 13. Most pigeons are exactly the same level of stupid.

0:50:54 Murph: Okay.

0:50:54 Brennan: And Ronald Pigeon just comes from a good pigeon family.

0:50:59 Sofia: So is this an alliance?

0:50:59 Kugrash: And he comes from good stock.

0:51:03 Sofia: Is this a political marriage? Are the pixies trying to make an alliance with the pigeons?

0:51:07 Em: Honestly, I don't think so. The pigeons don't really have—

0:51:10 Sofia: So you think it's true love. They just really love each other and outside, they're just marrying outside of the family.

0:51:15 Em: I think they're just marrying outside of the family. It's also his youngest daughter, so I think that she has a little more—

0:51:19 Sofia: Okay, it's not as much pressure.

0:51:20 Em: Not as much pressure as her older sisters. It is what it is. Well, listen, it was lovely seeing you here.

0:51:29 Sofia: Yeah! It's nice to meet you. My friends call me Sofia Bikes, so if you wanna say that, you can.

0:51:35 Em: Sofia Bikes, well, you can call me Em, as I've said. Nice to meet you, Sofia Bikes. You want some water on your way home?

0:51:43 Sofia: Yes, that would be wonderful.

0:51:44 Brennan: You see that she holds a hand up to the fountain, which has been shut off for the winter, and some of the water comes out into her hand and she holds it out and it holds its shape  as though there is a cup or bowl there, and pours it into your hand, and it holds the same shape as though held there by some invisible force.

0:52:02 Emily: I marvel at it and then I throw it back like a shot.

0:52:06 Kugrash: Do you mind if I take a quick bath in this?

0:52:09 Brennan: Oh, she says—

0:52:09 Sofia: [upset] Oh, I just did your hair.

0:52:12 Kugrash: Nevermind, I'll just have a little drink.

0:52:15 Brennan: She gives you a drink, as well. You guys are healed all the rest of any hit point damage you had left over.

0:52:18 Murph: Oh, nice.

0:52:21 Brennan: And the water also, you see that actually even just drinking the water, a lot of the dirt and grime comes off of you. For you as well, it feels like this weird, purifying thing where a lot of your drunkenness leaves you. It almost sobers you up a little bit, but it doesn't leave you feeling anxious or edgy again. It leaves you feeling a little bit clear but solid like you're anchored to something.

0:52:47 Sofia: Em, do you mind if I take a flask of this?

0:52:51 Brennan: She says,

0:52:51 Em: Oh, this is pretty potent stuff, but of course, [winks] I'll do it for you.

0:52:55 Sofia: Thank you.

0:52:56 Brennan: You see she pours some into your--

0:52:57 Emily: I take out one of those tiny nips of Smirnoff Ice. I dump out the Smirnoff Ice and then.

0:53:05 Brennan: Some of the water goes into it and she says,

0:53:06 Em: All right doll, take care of yourself. It's a long ferry ride back.

0:53:09 Sofia: Eh. [shakes her head]

0:53:10 Brennan: And she flies back up to her stance, goes back into her stance, and the snow begins to collect on her wings again. Wonderful! What's Kingston doing?

0:53:22 Lou: I guess me and Pete are together on the bus. We're on the bus going back to my apartment building.

0:53:32 Brennan: Cool, you get on the bus. You head back to Kingston's apartment. You walk up the steps.

0:53:39 Lou: What time is it?

0:53:40 Brennan: It's about 11:30 at night. Your folks are probably asleep.

0:53:43 Lou: Yeah, great.

0:53:43 Brennan: Probably Claude and his family's asleep, as well. But you guys get up into Kingston's apartment. Kingston's apartment is lovely. It has that rich smell of cool old antiques and good books and a lot of coffee grounds. All those kind of musky, deep smell that immediately you're like, oh, I'm in someone's nice home.

0:54:05 Ally: I love this shit. But I'm standing like this [puts their hands in their pockets] the whole time, like awkward.

0:54:09 Kingston: Hey, you want a glass of water or something?

0:54:12 Pete: Yeah, sure.

0:54:12 Kingston: All right, word.

0:54:15 Lou: Can I put on just a jazz record and get him a glass of water?

0:54:19 Brennan: You see a for real old vinyl starts playing some great fucking jazz. Go ahead, actually, and Kingston, give me a Medicine check.

0:54:34 Lou: 24.

0:54:38 Brennan: Kingston's mere presence, glass of water is great, New York tap water. Best tap water in The USA, by the way.  And the music playing, you feel yourself. Pete has whatever reservations he has, but physically you feel your body relaxing a little bit.

0:54:58 Ally: Cool. [soft jazz music]

0:55:00 Kingston: Wild day, right?

0:55:02 Pete: [takes a drink] Yeah, that was crazy.

0:55:08 Ally: I think I'm texting my guy. I'm just letting him know that I was kicked out of my old place, but there wasn't anything there.

0:55:19 Brennan: You get a text immediately back saying, Copy. Come to my place to re-up. One time thing while you're figuring shit out.

0:55:28 Ally: Okay, cool.

0:55:29 Kingston: All right, you're gonna be stayin' in the master bedroom.

0:55:32 Pete: Why?

0:55:34 Kingston: Honestly, I sleep in the guest bedroom now, so you'll be in the master.

0:55:38 Pete: All right, thanks.

0:55:39 Kingston: All good, man.

0:55:40 Lou: And I go, can I just do classic host stuff and just get towels?

0:55:45 Ally: Oh, this is making me feel so awkward. I'm just like, thanks so much!

0:55:49 Lou: A bunch of travel-sized one soap, one shampoo.

0:55:54 Pete: Oh, that is so nice, thanks so much.

0:55:55 Kingston: Of course, man. Whatever you need until you get on your feet.

0:55:58 Pete: Ah yeah, thanks, thanks again.

0:56:01 Kingston: Just be kind to my family, and if I catch you sellin' any drugs to my cousins or my parents or my other cousins...

0:56:09 Pete: Okay.

0:56:09 Kingston: We're gonna have a problem.

0:56:10 Pete: Okay, all right, all right, all right, oh yeah, yeah.

0:56:11 Kingston: We're gonna have a big-ass problem. We're gonna have a huge-ass problem—

0:56:14 Pete: I get it!

0:56:14 Kingston: From which we cannot come back.

0:56:18 Pete: I just wanna say I don't create the desire in other people. What you should be worried about is the desire that is there already.

0:56:24 Kingston: Well, let me tell you something right now, dawg, all right? The desire is not there. If for some reason you enter the home and create the desire, we gon' have a problem.

0:56:33 Brennan: You see as you guys have this little interaction, there's a cool little piece of art on the wall that has some mirror or reflective stuff in it. You see the kind of soft, golden light and sort of rainbow light in a corner of it, [ethereal music]

0:56:49 Brennan: Create a little bit of sparks and you guys hear a loud noise as the painting rattles and falls off the wall.

0:56:56 Kingston: Man, this is that same old bullshit, us two being two Voxes here at the same time. Man, we need to figure this shit out.

0:57:04 Pete: All right, yeah, yeah. I won't sell anyone in your house drugs. I’m not gonna— I really won't.

0:57:09 Kingston: Thank you.

0:57:09 Pete: I won't.

0:57:10 Ally: I take out a bunch of little holders and vials and stuff that I just have on my own.

0:57:15 Pete: This is just my own supply.

0:57:16 Kingston: Goddamn, Pete. How are you standing up?

0:57:20 Pete: It's like a mixologist. You're just constantly re-navigating where you're at.

0:57:27 Kingston: I tell you, I did dope one time in 1978. It was the craziest thing that ever happened. You know what? Whatever. I'm going to bed. Good night, Pete.

0:57:37 Brennan: Kingston goes off to bed. You're just kinda kicking it, waiting to--

0:57:40 Ally: I'm gonna be awake for five more hours. Sitting there, I'm just like.

0:57:45 Brennan: You look around. What's Pete doing awake at Kingston's apartment?

0:57:49 Ally: I'm trying not to go through anything. I am trying to be a good guest, so I'm just kinda like. [staring around]

0:57:54 Brennan: Give me a Perception check.

0:57:55 Ally: Yeah, cool. Nat 20.

0:57:59 Brennan: Nat 20! [Emily cheers] [gentle, slightly mysterious music]

0:58:03 Brennan: You see on top of the refrigerator, just a little light layer of dust on it, there's a big glass vase full of corks. There's some takeout menus. You also see that wrapped in ancient, stinking gauze is an obsidian ankh, this old Egyptian symbol of life. You immediately pick up some weird magical sensations from it. You see that it's under a clear salad bowl, so it's like there's a salad bowl was put on top of it. And you see that there's also what looks like a framed photograph that's fallen down onto the face of the photograph, so that you can't see what the photo is.

0:58:47 Ally: Okay, I lift that up, I gotta look at it.

0:58:49 Brennan: You see there is a young Kingston Brown. His dreads not yet silvery white, but instead sort of salt and pepper. [looks to Lou] Clean shaven.

0:58:56 Lou: Yeah.

0:59:03 Brennan: You see that there is a younger Hispanic woman in her 30s, beautiful, classic high cheekbones. You see that there are wedding rings on their fingers and that they are standing in front of City Hall.

0:59:21 Ally: She's pretty cute. I feel sad. [laughing]

0:59:29 Brennan: Yeah! Wonderful! Misty, you get back to your lovely penthouse. There's some notes, some sticky notes left from Alissa, there's one big one on your kitchen table. I assume you're going back to your penthouse, by the way.

0:59:50 Misty: It's Monday, we're dark on Mondays, it's fine!

0:59:55 Brennan: And you see that there is an invitation that has been on your to-do list for a little while. You've frankly forgotten about it, but there's a little Post-it saying, "Last day to RSVP." highlighted by Alissa. In little birch bark and ivy leaves is an invitation to the wedding of Angela Confetti and Ronald Pigeon. Lou laughs. Ally shakes their head.

1:00:21 Siobhan: Well, I don't super wanna go, but also the Confettis are one of those crime families that also are great supporters of the arts. They're like, oh, it's my cousin's birthday. We're gonna bring five incredible Broadway stars and have them sing at the birthday. As patrons of the arts, I have to go to this wedding.

1:00:52 Brennan: There you go.

1:00:53 Siobhan: And so I RSVP yes in my most beautiful [writing massive loops] purple ink calligraphy.

1:01:00 Brennan: You see that as you RSVP, the invitation [chitters] turns into this little twig blight and goes [chitters].

1:01:09 Misty: Go on, go along!

1:01:10 Brennan: You see it runs and hits its head into your door. Backs up, runs, bam, head again.

1:01:14 Siobhan: I open the door.

1:01:16 Misty: You're stupid, go through the doors!

1:01:18 Twig Blight: Thank you!

1:01:18 Brennan: And [blows raspberries] takes off running down the hall. Lovely. You guys all variously go to sleep that night. The only person that I wanna cover what happens when they're asleep is Pete. Pete, you crash in the master bedroom, a big wide bed in Kingston's apartment, and you come to... [ethereal music]

1:01:48 Brennan: ...floating above the dream-like city of New York. The skyscrapers and buildings are all a polished dark glass, like a window looking into an empty night sky with the reflections of the starlight above them as the snow drifts up off the ground going into the sky surround you. You feel weightless here, as though you could swim around or move in any direction.

1:02:18 Ally: I think I… I think I go to Priya's house.

1:02:26 Brennan: You swim through the dreaming of New York and you arrive right near Union Square, sort of close to StuyTown and you see a gorgeous, opulent apartment all done in this illuminated nighttime glass, and you see that there is a little bubble, something imperceptible, flashes of light and color, and you get the sensation that Priya is dreaming in that room.

1:03:02 Ally: Cool. I know I shouldn't do this, but I just go anyway. I try to look in at the dream. [water bubbling]

1:03:11 Brennan: You pop your head in and you see that there is a tea party on top of a clock in a strange dark forest and you see that Priya is talking to a fractured man as she's sitting at this little tea table. She looks gorgeous, by the way. You see that she looks up and says,

1:03:35 Priya: [British accent, a little posh] Well, the collection didn't meet my standards, at lease for myself, and I think that oftentimes, we find ourselves trying to create a body of work or find a theme or a central thread through something, we end up elaborating on subconscious ideologies. Culture works on us in ways that we can't even quite estimate or imagine from our conscious mind.

1:03:59 Brennan: And you see that she's just talking to this fractured man, this babble of stuff about her art and what she's working on. Go ahead and make a stealth check for me if you'd be so kind.

1:04:11 Ally: [chuckles] Okay. Let's see. That's 13.

1:04:17 Brennan: She looks up. She looks at you and she says,

1:04:23 Priya: Peter, what are you doing here?

1:04:29 Pete: What?

1:04:32 Priya: Peter, have you come back to help me? Well, it all feels so strange.

1:04:37 Brennan: You lose your grip on the outside dreaming world and are now just in this forest. The clock starts ticking underneath the tea table. You see that the fractured man gets up, [water rushing]

1:04:50 Brennan: And takes a little top hat and cane, and starts dancing very slowly.

1:04:57 Ally: I've made a mistake.

1:04:59 Priya: Peter!

1:04:59 Pete: Hmm?

1:05:01 Priya: [confused] My goodness.

1:05:01 Pete: How are you?

1:05:05 Priya: How am I? How am I? It's so funny you ask that. I don't think any of us ever really knows how we are or if we do, it's a narrative we're projecting.

1:05:19 Ally: I run. [laughs] I run through the forest.

1:05:20 Brennan: You run through the forest and you see that the slow dancing man starts dancing after you. [slow waltz music, clockwork ticking]

1:05:24 Ally: Jesus Christ.

1:05:29 Brennan: And he tries to— [Ally screams]

1:05:31 Brennan: Cool!

1:05:31 Ally: No!

1:05:34 Brennan: Go ahead and make a wild magic surge for me, if you'd be so kind.

1:05:36 Ally: Oh, great! That's just a D20?

1:05:38 Brennan: D20, yep.

1:05:39 Ally: Eight.

1:05:39 Brennan: Eight, cool. You snap awake in the master bed, not having blown up or anything, but you are covered in a cold sweat.

1:05:54 Ally: [sighs] I get up and I start doing some pushups on the ground.

1:05:59 Brennan: [laughs] Wonderful! The next morning at Kingston's apartment, you guys begin to arrive there the following morning. You see that there is a small chair on the second landing of the building that has a little sign out. The sign says, “Gone to church. Help yourself to a cinnamon bun.” And you see that there is a big plate of fresh-made cinnamon buns steaming as you guys arrive there on the landing.

1:06:27 Murph: I touch all of them, just looking through for the best one.

1:06:29 Kugrash: I gotta find the goopiest one.

1:06:31 Sofia: No, no, no Kug, just take the top one.

1:06:33 Kugrash: [laughs] All right. I'll take the one at the bottom, it's good.

1:06:35 Murph: I Jenga it, pull it through.

1:06:35 Pete: Oh, gross!

1:06:37 Emily: I pick all of the rat hair off of mine.

1:06:41 Zac: I come up just after them like,

1:06:41 Ricky: Oh, cool. [eats it without question]

1:06:44 Murph: It's just a full mound of rat hair.

1:06:47 Brennan: You guys find yourself in Kingston's apartment.

1:06:50 Lou: What does Kugrash look like right now?

1:06:53 Sofia: He looks great, I styled him this morning.

1:06:55 Brennan: He looks like full chinchilla. He's the poofiest rat. He's almost spherical, he's so poofy.

1:07:02 Murph: I act like nothing's changed.

1:07:04 Kugrash: What's up, guys? How's everybody doing this morning?

1:07:06 Misty: Kugrash, darling, you look fabulous!

1:07:08 Kingston: Honestly, Kugrash, this is my favorite look you've had.

1:07:10 Kugrash: Really?

1:07:10 Kingston: Yeah. I think it's the second look you've had, but I'm into it.

1:07:14 Kugrash: Oh. Hey, thank Sofie, it's her work.

1:07:16 Sofia: Oh, I wasn't gonna take credit, but yes I did do it.

1:07:18 Pete: Wow!

1:07:19 Sofia: But I had a good canvas to work with.

1:07:21 Kingston: All right!

1:07:22 Murph: And I do my dance again. [strange little leprechaun dance]

1:07:25 Sofia: That gets us free drinks.

1:07:25 Pete: What are you doing?

1:07:27 Sofia: We get free drinks when he does that.

1:07:28 Ricky: You look like a hairy baby.

1:07:33 Kugrash: So we talked to the fountain.

1:07:34 Sofia: Yeah, I was gonna say, does anyone know? Don Confetti, that pixie, his daughter is getting married to a pigeon.

1:07:42 Kingston: Ooh!

1:07:42 Pete: Ugh.

1:07:43 Kugrash: Ronald Pigeon, good stock, good pigeon family.

1:07:45 Misty: Oh, I guess, I just RSVPd to the wedding last night.

1:07:47 Kingston: Oh!

1:07:47 Pete: Good going!

1:07:48 Sofia: How many plus ones do you get?

1:07:49 Misty: Yes, I love a wedding!

1:07:50 Kugrash: So we're going with you.

1:07:50 Misty: Oh, I don't know.

1:07:52 Kingston: We're going to the wedding?

1:07:52 Ricky: You have plus five?

1:07:54 Kugrash: If Misty's going, we're all going, right?

1:07:55 Misty: I don't think I have plus five. That's seems like an insane—

1:07:58 Kugrash: I could just fit in your bag, right?

1:08:00 Sofia: I'm sure I could be your stylist or something like that.

1:08:04 Misty: I do need a stylist.

1:08:05 Kingston: When is the wedding?

1:08:07 Siobhan: When is the wedding?

1:08:07 Brennan: The wedding is tonight.

1:08:09 Misty: The wedding's tonight! I RSVPd for a wedding that is tonight. I am an asshole.

1:08:13 Pete: Oh wait, I have been getting hit up so much. Where is this wedding?

1:08:17 Misty: Oh, it's in Central Park. It's at the boathouse.

1:08:21 Siobhan: [looks to Brennan] Is it the boathouse, is it really?

1:08:22 Brennan: It's actually in the Ramble near Belvedere Castle.

1:08:24 Misty: Oh, great.

1:08:25 Brennan: Which is right near—

1:08:25 Misty: Oh, beautiful! It's at the Ramble.

1:08:27 Pete: Okay. I've been getting hit up non-stop by people who want coke for this wedding. So I was gonna be there already.

1:08:33 Kingston: Not to slow it down, but we're just gonna run up in the pixie mafia's wedding? Is that our plan?

1:08:39 Kugrash: I can probably talk to some pigeons and maybe get us invited by some lonely pigeons—

1:08:41 Sofia: Oh!

1:08:43 Kugrash: If you'd like to be a date.

1:08:43 Sofia: That's a good idea.

1:08:44 Kingston: Two more pigeons?

1:08:44 Ricky: The plus ones of a bunch of pigeons?

1:08:45 Kingston: Oh yeah, I'm not gonna—

1:08:47 Sofia: [waving excitedly] I wanna be a pigeon's plus one!

1:08:51 Kingston: I will say, though, the markings from the pixies, they're really the only thing we've got to go on right now, but running up in a mafia's wedding is not a good way to get answers. It's a good way to get hurt, it's a good way to get the shit kicked out of you.

1:09:03 Misty: I agree. Don Confetti is a sweetheart, but he will kill you, and all of your family.

1:09:09 Sofia: But that's why we just go with the pigeons.

1:09:10 Kugrash: We're just gonna go with the pigeons. We just get a pigeon date. I'm gonna go out and find some pigeons, see if there's any horny pigeons out there.

1:09:16 Kingston: You know Kug, you've had crazier plans. Let's do this.

1:09:22 Murph: I have my Spirit Totems as a Circle of Shepherd. Normally, I think it's bear, hawk, and unicorn, but mine are juicy cockroach, spicy pigeon, and unicorn. I would like to use a spicy pigeon Aura and then just see if I can find any pigeons.

1:09:40 Brennan: Cool! You have to go over to the window of Kingston's apartment. You guys see that Kugrash spreads his little rat arms and before you hear anything, the street darkens and you see people go,

1:09:53 Pedestrian: Ah, get outta here!

1:09:57 Brennan: And start running down the street. [pigeon coos and flying noises]

1:10:01 Lou: Are they coming into my house?

1:10:04 Brennan: Like a fucking fire hazard.

1:10:05 Kingston: No, no, Kugrash! No!

1:10:09 Kugrash: I come, I summon the spirit of a spicy pigeon. [Brennan cooing]

1:10:10 Kingston: Oh my God.

1:10:11 Kugrash: Pigeons, come to me, my babies.

1:10:12 Ricky: Did you say spicy?

1:10:14 Ally: I'm helping you shoo them off furniture.

1:10:16 Lou: Yeah, I grab a couple--

1:10:16 Pete: But you're like--

1:10:17 Kugrash: Hey, hey, these are gonna--

1:10:19 Emily: I'm in the bathroom touching up my makeup, so I can be a pigeon plus one.

1:10:22 Brennan: You hear a very gentle knock on the bathroom door. [door creaks]

1:10:26 Brennan: You open the door. [door explodes] [bird squawking]

1:10:30 Kingston: Kug, what the--

1:10:30 Kugrash: All right, is anyone here from the pigeon family? Is anyone here related to Ronald Pigeon?

1:10:34 Pigeons: [pigeon coos] I’m related, oh I’m related...

1:10:38 Kugrash: Is anyone looking for a date tonight to the wedding?

1:10:42 Brennan: You see that a ton of wings start going up. Actually, make a Charisma check, make a Nature check for me.

1:10:48 Murph: Oh Nature check, I gotcha.

1:10:48 Brennan: Just make a Nature check.

1:10:51 Lou: So my house is just covered in pigeons right now?

1:10:54 Brennan: Covered in pigeons everywhere.

1:10:56 Kingston: [shaking his head] Mm, mm, mm.

1:10:57 Emily: I'm looking for the hottest one.

1:11:00 Murph: I almost had a 19, but instead I got 3. I have a 7.

1:11:05 Brennan: It looks like a lot of the pigeons are already settled up. [Lou laughs] You see that they say,

1:11:08 Pigeons: Oh, well, I don't know. I had my date, I had my people set up. All the people that I'm going with are all there.

1:11:16 Emily: I think I'm gonna do a sultry lean up against the wall and say,

1:11:19 Sofia: [brushes hair out of her eyes] If anyone needs a plus one, [clears throat] I'm available.

1:11:26 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Persuasion check.

1:11:29 Emily: Oh dear.

1:11:29 Murph: Let's all just turn into bugs, so you guys are bugs per se.

1:11:31 Emily: I got a nat 1!

1:11:31 Kugrash: Goddammit guys. We gotta impress these pigeons.

1:11:35 Ricky: Maybe I should try it.

1:11:35 Kugrash: Ricky, please!

1:11:38 Brennan: You see as you say that, you're gonna be all, you see the pigeons all come over and say,

1:11:42 Pigeons: Do you have crumbs? [birds cooing] [feathers fluttering]

1:11:44 Sofia: I'm sorry?

1:11:46 Pigeons: She doesn't have crumbs! Who needs her?

1:11:47 Misty: Darlings, I have so many crumbs!

1:11:49 Siobhan: And I take one of the cinnamon rolls and I—

1:11:51 Emily: Oh!

1:11:51 Kingston: Okay. Stop throwing cinnamon rolls around my damn apartment!

1:11:53 Ricky: All right, I'll do as you say.

1:11:54 Emily: I follow suit.

1:11:55 Ally: I'm helping you clean.

1:11:55 Kingston: Everybody says, goddamn!

1:11:56 Ally: I'm helping you clean.

1:11:58 Zac: I take off my shirt and I put some crumbs on my chest.

1:12:02 Kingston: Ricky!

1:12:03 Zac: And I'm trying—

1:12:03 Brennan: Make a Charisma check.

1:12:05 Ally: I'm watching, I am shocked.

1:12:07 Brennan: Make a Charisma check with advantage if you'd be so kind. Go ahead and have an advantage.

1:12:10 Zac: 17 and three. So 17 plus three, so I had a 20. Sofia fans herself.

1:12:15 Brennan: Oh, you see that there's one pigeon who says,

1:12:18 Pigeon: [cooing] Oh, this guy's covered in crumbs. You can be my date anytime, mister.

1:12:21 Ricky: Awesome, I'd love to go to this wedding with you. Do you wanna eat some crumbs off me?

1:12:25 Brennan: You see that she hops up and begins to peck crumbs off of your chest.

1:12:29 Emily: I'm kinda jealous, I poke her.

1:12:30 Ricky: Ow, ow, ow.

1:12:31 Lou: I lean over to Pete and I'm like,

1:12:32 Kingston: I've been magical for 30 years. This is the craziest shit I've ever seen in my entire fucking life.

1:12:36 Pete: I've been studying men for a really long time, and I can't stare at Ricky enough.

1:12:43 Murph: I have Guidance. I wanna touch Sofia and,

1:12:44 Kugrash: Try to seduce one one more time.

1:12:50 Emily: Okay, what does that mean?

1:12:52 Murph: You get to add a d4 to an ability. One ability check.

1:12:53 Emily: I'll go for another one.

1:12:57 Sofia: Still here to be a plus one!

1:13:00 Murph: I added three to it.

1:13:00 Zac: Oh.

1:13:02 Emily: Okay, that's gonna be a 10.

1:13:07 Brennan: Did you do anything with the crumbs or no?

1:13:09 Sofia: Yeah. Oh, I don't wanna put them anywhere indecent.

1:13:16 Murph: I just throw crumbs all over her.

1:13:19 Emily: I think I'm gonna be really polite with the crumbs and make a crumb trail all the way up to my mouth.

1:13:24 Brennan: You see one pigeon looks over and says,

1:13:24 Pigeon: It's a trick!

1:13:26 Brennan: And then they start walking away.

1:13:28 Sofia: Oh my god, what is wrong with me?

1:13:30 Zac: Can I cast… Is it a waste to cast Suggestion on this?

1:13:36 Brennan: You can totally cast Suggestion, go for it.

1:13:38 Zac: Yeah, I'm gonna cast Suggestion on just another pigeon.

1:13:42 Lou: Oh!

1:13:42 Brennan: Cool.

1:13:44 Zac: Let's see, ready?

1:13:45 Brennan: Oh, the pigeon completely fails. Goes,

1:13:47 Pigeon: Huh? [feathers fluttering]

1:13:47 Ricky: I think my friend wants to go to the wedding if you need a date.

1:13:51 Pigeon: You can come with me, you can be my plus one.

1:13:54 Sofia: Oh my god, it worked! I'm so charismatic, yes!

1:13:57 Pigeon: Anything you want, Mr. Crumbs! I'm happy to help.

1:13:59 Ricky: Ow, ow, ow.

1:14:00 Ally: Can I lean over and tell Kingston,

1:14:02 Pete: Seriously, people have hit me up for this wedding, so if you just wanna look like muscle, we can both go in there as dealers.

1:14:09 Kingston: I would much prefer that to the idea that I'm walking in there with a pigeon that I am possibly romantically entangled with.

1:14:16 Misty: Kingston, you can be my plus one.

1:14:18 Kingston: All right, fantastic.

1:14:20 Kugrash: Why did no one else get that offer?

1:14:22 Kingston: Honestly, Misty, thank you so much. I appreciate it.

1:14:24 Misty: You're so welcome.

1:14:25 Pete: I would've loved to see you in street clothes, though.

1:14:29 Kingston: I wouldn't have liked it. This is much better.

1:14:31 Misty: You've got a nice suit, right?

1:14:32 Kingston: I do, of course, I have a nice suit.

1:14:33 Pete: Come on, I'm gonna dress up really great for this wedding. You're gonna love it.

1:14:36 Kingston: Okay.

1:14:37 Pete: I can lend you some cool clothes.

1:14:39 Kingston: Real quick, can we do a quick? So everyone's got a way to get in? Everyone's got a pigeon date?

1:14:43 Kugrash: Do I have a pigeon date?

1:14:45 Brennan: Kugrash, I don't think you have a pigeon date.

1:14:46 Pete: Kugrash, you're in my pocket.

1:14:47 Kugrash: God dammit.

1:14:48 Emily: I ask my pigeon,

1:14:48 Sofia: Do I get a plus one? As your plus one, do I get a plus one?

1:14:53 Pigeon: Oh boy!

1:14:59 Murph: I'm gonna cast Guidance on myself and try one more time to seduce a rat. All right, 9, but if I can use Nature, 13.

1:15:10 Brennan: 13? You see that one of the pigeons says-- [wings fluttering]

1:15:13 Kugrash: We can just go as friends.

1:15:15 Perry the Pigeon: That's gonna make me look a little desperate. Don't you think? That I can't get a date to the wedding?

1:15:19 Kugrash: All right, we can go as—

1:15:21 Sofia: Why don't you just go in my handbag?

1:15:23 Kugrash: No, pigeon, do you wanna be dates? Do you wanna go as--

1:15:26 Perry the Pigeon: Do you wanna be real dates?

1:15:28 Kugrash: I'll go with you. I'll be a real date with you.

1:15:29 Ally: Oh, okay.

1:15:31 Perry the Pigeon: We can be a real date?

1:15:32 Kugrash: We can be a real date.

1:15:34 Perry the Pigeon: Oh gosh, I've thought about you a lot.

1:15:35 Sofia: Oh no.

1:15:36 Kugrash: [unconvincingly] Yep, I've thought about you, too.

1:15:38 Sofia: Oh no!

1:15:38 Lou: Is this conversation just happening in a room with thousands of pigeons?

1:15:41 Brennan: They all just— [wings fluttering]

1:15:43 Emily: Oh like. [wings fluttering]

1:15:44 Kugrash: I'm super popular with pigeons.

1:15:45 Ally: I could be wrong about this, but I feel like maybe I've dealt drugs to these people, but I didn't realize that they were pixies, like I saw them—

1:15:52 Brennan: Yes.

1:15:53 Ally: Okay, cool, cool.

1:15:53 Brennan: Yes, you absolutely have dealt. You look back over your text history and you're like, huh, some of this doesn't make sense that I would've been okay with it. I have to leave the drugs in a circle of mushrooms, in a weird pa— Stuff like that.

1:16:09 Ally: In a birdhouse.

1:16:10 Brennan: In a birdhouse. Yeah, exactly. Cool! You see the pigeon says,

1:16:16 Perry the Pigeon: Wow, I guess dreams really do come true, huh?

1:16:19 Kugrash: They sure, you know what? This is gonna be a—

1:16:20 Pete: You guys should kiss.

1:16:21 Kugrash: Sure!

1:16:21 Sofia: Yeah, I think so, too.

1:16:22 Kugrash: Get over here, Perry.

1:16:24 Murph: I put my lips out.

1:16:26 Brennan: You see that the bird just inserts its closed beak into your pursed lips.

1:16:29 Kingston: Oh my God.

1:16:31 Murph: This is fine.

1:16:32 Kingston: All right, none of that in my house. All y'all pigeons, a broom is coming. Kingston swings a broom over his head like a helicopter blade. [wings fluttering]

1:16:37 Kingston: Everybody out Everybody out!

1:16:39 Kugrash: Meet you guys at the wedding!

1:16:40 Kingston: Everybody out of the house!

1:16:41 Kugrash: We'll meet you guys outside the venue!

1:16:42 Kingston: Everybody get out my damn house!

1:16:43 Ally: Does the pigeon leave your chest or is it—

1:16:45 Brennan: Yeah, the pigeon does leave your chest.

1:16:47 Ricky: I didn't catch your name.

1:16:48 Brennan: The pigeon flies away. [cooing subsides]

1:16:52 Kingston: Kugrash, don't ever do that bullshit in my house again.

1:16:55 Kugrash: Listen, I just got us into the wedding, all right?

1:16:56 Kingston: Well, next time tell me—

1:16:58 Kugrash: You should thank me.

1:16:58 Kingston: We'll go on the roof next time! I have a roof, I have roof access. This does not—

1:17:03 Pete: That's so cool.

1:17:04 Kingston: [aside] Thank you, Pete. This does not need to happen in my living room.

1:17:07 Kugrash: All right, all right.

1:17:09 Brennan: Oh, it is a fucking disaster zone in here of just feathers and debris.

1:17:16 Ally: I'm already helping to clean up.

1:17:17 Kingston: This is fine!

1:17:17 Ally: I'm spraying counters and—

1:17:19 Kingston: Pete, it's fine, I'll call somebody.

1:17:20 Siobhan: I'm pretending to help, but I'm just like.

1:17:23 Kingston: All right, everybody stop wasting they time.

1:17:26 Lou: Can I call a cleaner friend of mine?

1:17:29 Brennan: Yeah, absolutely.

1:17:30 Murph: I can't tell the way things are supposed to look. I'm just like,

1:17:32 Kugrash: This is fine.

1:17:35 Brennan: There's a woman who lives on the block who always comes 'cause you have such a crazy schedule and you've been working with her, she's fucking great.

1:17:40 Kingston: Great.

1:17:42 Brennan: You get a little text back from her being like, "Nothing's gonna jump out or scare me this time, is it?"

1:17:48 Kingston: No, just too many feathers.

1:17:52 Brennan: You see that there's a little ellipsis and then a question mark and that it says, "Better not to ask." is the text you get.

1:17:58 Kingston: Yeahhhhh, with a bunch of Hs.

1:18:02 Brennan: Cool! That evening rolls around. You guys head off to Central Park. Do you guys do any preparation before you guys head there, or what do you guys do?

1:18:15 Emily: I hit up Conway's for some discount padded bras and whatnot and I squeeze myself into something provocative.

1:18:27 Brennan: Awesome, great.

1:18:28 Murph: I guess I would like a little suit. I guess I'd buy a suit off a doll. I ask Sofia to buy a doll suit for me. Like a dummy, a ventriloquist dummy suit.

1:18:38 Ally: And you look really good.

1:18:40 Kugrash: Fits well, it's like it's tailored to me.

1:18:43 Brennan: Wonderful.

1:18:44 Ally: I think I go and get supplies and stuff.

1:18:47 Brennan: Cool, rad. Do you head to Seven to do that or just your own supplies?

1:18:52 Ally: I feel like Seven and I have spot that's a karaoke bar at night, but during the way, we go and do inventory, and that's where we keep everything stashed.

1:19:00 Brennan: Rad, very cool.

1:19:00 Ally: So I go there.

1:19:02 Brennan: Cool! You meet up with Seven very briefly. Seven's got long sideburns, he's a rail thin thick eyebrowed guy. He's one of those very high-strung New York acidic nerds, just very nerdy about stuff. He meets you up at this old karaoke bar. 53\/3N: [sighs] Hey there.

1:19:22 Pete: Hey! 53\/3N: [very fast-talking] How's it going, pal?

1:19:23 Pete: Good man, how are you? 53\/3N: What happened with the home situation? Girlfriend kick you out?

1:19:27 Pete: [sighs] No, it's fucking stupid. She thought I was selling drugs. 53\/3N: So you've been made.

1:19:35 Pete: Hmm? 53\/3N: So what you're telling me is you've been made.

1:19:37 Pete: No, no, no it's nothing like that. No one knows anything. 53\/3N: [sighs] Okay, what we are doing here, is we are tapping into a market that has an incredible demand and not enough supply.

1:19:47 Pete: Okay, so what I need is multiple eight balls for tonight. 53\/3N: I can do that for you, but what I have to understand is do you have the vision for the organization in mind? Are you gonna be a company man? Do you have what it takes? [sighs] For example, have you upgraded to Bitcoin yet?

1:20:05 Pete: No, okay? I don't do cryptocurrency. I don't wanna go to one of those cafes with you. 53\/3N: I could have you set up in 20 minutes and your money is making money for you.

1:20:14 Pete: The coins that you're investing in sound made up, okay? I'm not trying to waste my money! 53\/3N: Money is made up [taps his forehead] by the government, dude.

1:20:21 Pete: Okay! 53\/3N: It's a fiat currency! I don't need to talk about this with you right now. Okay, how many eight balls you need?

1:20:26 Pete: [sighs] Give me as many as we have. 53\/3N: All right.

1:20:29 Brennan: You see he takes out fucking enormous amount of drugs, hands them to you. You see he says, 53\/3N: Look, honestly a prediction. I read trends, I am on my computer all day every day working this shit out. In the next five to 10 years, the United States of America will not have currency, fact.

1:20:52 Pete: Hmm. You are usually right about shit, all right.

1:20:55 Ally: Yeah, I hand him $800 in cash and I'm like,

1:21:00 Pete: Can you invest this for me? 53\/3N: [sighs] Do you want me to take this and go buy Bitcoin for you?

1:21:07 Pete: Mm-hmm. 53\/3N: I want you to set it up yourself. I want an organization—

1:21:11 Pete: I don't know, I looked it up. You have to get a fucking wallet or something. I don't want my name on anything, here.

1:21:17 Brennan: You see he takes $800 and says, 53\/3N: All right, I'm gonna invest this. You're not gonna regret it, all right?

1:21:21 Pete: All right. 53\/3N: The future is happening now, which means that now already happened and if you're too asleep to realize it, you need to [snaps fingers] wake up.

1:21:28 Ally: I'm adding his name to a note in my phone of people who owe me money and people that I have stuff out to.

1:21:33 Brennan: Awesome! You get the drugs, you head out. Anyone else preparing or doing anything?

1:21:38 Lou: I have a sad moment where I'm going through my closet and there's a tuxedo from my wedding, and I push past it slowly, and then just grab a white shirt and a black tie and just [pats his face] some little aftershave.

1:21:54 Ally: Maybe, do I come back there at the end of this sad moment?

1:21:58 Lou: Oh yeah! Pete just catches me standing in my closet just like look,

1:22:01 Kingston: Oh, Pete!

1:22:01 Pete: You good to go, man?

1:22:04 Kingston: Yeah, let's do it. Are you good to go?

1:22:09 Pete: I'm great, man, yeah.

1:22:09 Kingston: Okay, great.

1:22:10 Pete: Hey, thanks for letting me stay here again.

1:22:11 Kingston: Of course, man.

1:22:11 Pete: It's been great.

1:22:13 Kingston: You need a toothbrush or something, you good?

1:22:16 Pete: No, I'm good, actually.

1:22:16 Kingston: Okay, great.

1:22:18 Emily: Oh, I also go to a Sephora and use free makeup. 'Cause I don't wanna go home.

1:22:24 Brennan: You guys arrive in Central Park. [Map sound]

1:22:29 Brennan: Snow's actually starting to melt a little bit more today. Even though New York stays colder in the winter, the snow often just melts. It's not below freezing. So you're in the lovely Ramble, a little bit less lovely now that all the leaves have fallen off the trees. But the thick trees intertwine away from the lake. You guys arrive with each other in your nice duds and you see that there is a clearing through the trees where it appears that pigeons are beginning to descend. [wings fluttering]

1:23:04 Kugrash: All right, let's go pick up our dates.

1:23:07 Pete: You three have fun fuckin' a pigeon tonight!

1:23:11 Sofia: I take Kug aside and I give him a corsage I picked up for him to give to his date.

1:23:16 Kugrash: I don't actually want to fuck this pigeon.

1:23:18 Sofia: It seemed like you had a really good connection.

1:23:21 Kugrash: Perry and I are friends. He's a pigeon, I'm a rat.

1:23:26 Sofia: I know, I'm just sayin'.

1:23:29 Ricky: I text Esther, "Just in case you hear about this, I am going to a wedding with a pigeon. Just thought I should let you know."

1:23:40 Ally: I'm reading over his shoulder.

1:23:41 Brennan: Immediate text back, "Why would I need to know this?"

1:23:48 Ricky: Nevermind.

1:23:52 Lou: I offer my arm to Misty. We head off.

1:23:58 Siobhan: You're so much taller than me. I'm maybe up to your elbow. I'm holding your arm, but it's like this. [her arm is nearly straight up over her head]

1:24:05 Ally: I take out a selfie stick and just look like I'm a tourist, taking pictures in the park so that I can stay in one area for a long time.

1:24:12 Emily: I think that we're all just getting together for a group photo.

1:24:15 Ally: It's just you and me in all my photos.

1:24:17 Zac: I'm in there, too. Emily and Zac pretend to take selfie-stick photos together, flashing peace signs and leaning back-to-back.

1:24:19 Brennan: You guys arrive at [laughs]. You see that two pigeons land on each of your shoulders.

1:24:24 Ricky: Oh, okay.

1:24:24 Brennan: Your dates land. And Kugrash, you as well, a little pigeon lands there. [camera clicks]

1:24:30 Lou: Pete just takes a selfie of all, aw that's cute.

1:24:34 Brennan: You see the pigeon says,

1:24:34 Perry the Pigeon: Wow, you look beautiful.

1:24:37 Kugrash: Thanks, you look great, too, Perry.

1:24:39 Perry the Pigeon: Okay, oh good! [sighs] Big day.

1:24:43 Kugrash: Big day, Ronald Pigeon's getting married. My life sucks so much ass. [cast cackles]

1:24:51 Brennan: You walk through the Ramble, off the Ramble. [gentle piano music, minor key] You arrive at an old, not a doorway, but it's just an area where two birch trees grow side by side and in a little arch, two of their branches intermingle and ivy has grown up in between them. You guys are walking in here. I assume that Kingston and Misty are going ahead. As Misty approaches, you see that the leaves of the vines begin to shimmer and twinkle and part, showing a separate part of the park beyond what you saw as you were approaching, and you see a beautiful wedding tent in a clearing and little lights everywhere that you see the lights are themselves, sprites and pixies and fairies.

1:25:42 Sofia: [gasp] So cool.

1:25:42 Brennan: And a small Faerie Glen opens to you. You see that there is a big buffet table. There's a band playing. You see the band is a couple of working musicians. It's a bunch of satyrs and fauns. You see that there's some dryads over in a corner that are smoking, and you see that there is a giant ogre that just has a huge tray of hors d'oeuvres. Many of the sprites and pixies are on the tray hanging out [wings buzzing] as they're eating hors d'oeuvres. Huge tent, and you see that there is a smaller area which looks like a little hunting lodge. That has a bunch of pixies that appear to be in very nice suits, some of them pinstripe, and the lodge has an open door, but also some entrances that are pure pixie-sized, maybe like an old Central Park groundskeeper's cottage that has been renovated and is now held by the pixies. That seems to be where a lot of the family is, while more of the guests and pigeons are in the tent and out on the lawn. You see that there's some lawn darts, some bocce ball. People are just having a great time here. Looks like the ceremony hasn't started yet. But you guys enter. What do you guys do as you enter the wedding?

1:26:57 Siobhan: I say so loud,

1:26:57 Misty: Oh, what a beautiful wedding! Oh! Oh my, oh! I love a wedding!

1:27:08 Murph: What?

1:27:09 Misty: Everybody pay attention to me!

1:27:10 Pete: Who are you talking to?

1:27:10 Misty: I love a wedding!

1:27:12 Brennan: You see that the band quiets down for a second and one of the satyrs looks over and goes,

1:27:16 Priapus: [a little raspy, lower] Well, well, well, well, well, if it isn't—

1:27:19 Misty: [hand over her heart] Oh!

1:27:20 Brennan: You see he shrugs his head and says— You recognize this guy, his name is Priapus.

1:27:25 Misty: Priapus, oh, my darling, I haven't seen you since, oh what was that show that we did together you were in the pit for?

1:27:31 Priapus: A Midnight Cabaret, downtown.

1:27:33 Misty: Oh, Midnight Cabaret. I love doing Broadway, but there's something about the visceral nature of the cabaret that just, you can see the people, the people can see you, you can touch them and smell them and steal their food.

1:27:47 Priapus: I'm not gonna lie, you look good.

1:27:50 Misty: Oh darling, you look good.

1:27:53 Priapus: No, I'm talking. I'm attracted to you. I'm sexually attracted to—

1:27:55 Misty: Darling, I'm sexually attracted to you, too. [Priapus sighs]

1:28:00 Pete: That was really straightforward.

1:28:01 Brennan: You see he says,

1:28:01 Priapus: Any chance we can get you up on that bandstand later tonight after you've had a few drinks?

1:28:05 Misty: After I've had a few drinks, you know me. I love to perform, I love my people, I love my audience.

1:28:10 Priapus: I would bed you on the grass right now.

1:28:14 Misty: I'm a little busy right now and I do have some things to do, but, maybe later.

1:28:18 Priapus: I am possessed with the spirit of the wild and there are things that are happening to me.

1:28:22 Kingston: Hi, I'm Kingston.

1:28:25 Misty: This is Kingston, my friend Kingston.

1:28:26 Kingston: Nice to meet you. I'm Kingston, I'm Misty's date this evening.

1:28:30 Priapus: Oh, okay.

1:28:33 Misty: [behind her hand] We're just friends.

1:28:34 Priapus: Gotcha.

1:28:35 Misty: But also, if you feel like having any kind of—

1:28:35 Priapus: If you wanna jump in.

1:28:35 Kingston: I'm sorry, what?

1:28:37 Priapus: If you wanna jump in.

1:28:37 Misty: Yeah, if you wanna jump in.

1:28:39 Priapus: You are a beautiful man.

1:28:39 Kingston: Misty, I'mma take a walk. I'll be right back. You and your friend can—

1:28:42 Misty: No, that's fine. [to Priapus] I have been trying to fuck that man for 40 years.

1:28:49 Brennan: [laughs] He says,

1:28:49 Priapus: Oh, he's hard to get, huh? [cheers] Well, we'll get the wine flowing and we'll see what happens.

1:28:55 Misty: Us theater people, we just have a different code.

1:28:58 Priapus: Oh, it's the theater! We're artists, it's New York!

1:29:02 Misty: It's New York!

1:29:03 Priapus: I've fucked every member of my band.

1:29:05 Misty: Great.

1:29:06 Murph: Do these people have a lust spell cast on? Can I check him?

1:29:12 Brennan: You see he's a satyr.

1:29:12 Murph: Oh!

1:29:13 Brennan: He is a spirit of lust and revelry.

1:29:14 Kugrash: Oh, okay. I know these guys are horny.

1:29:20 Brennan: Wonderful, what do the rest of you guys do at this lovely wedding?

1:29:23 Zac: I look around just for snacks to see if they have any little        plates going around.

1:29:27 Brennan: You see that there is another ogre that's kind of dressed, clearly, the ogres are the caterers. He's just kinda tossing birdseed out to a bunch of the pigeons. You see that the pixies are all looking at these pigeons, very nonplussed and unimpressed.

1:29:44 Murph: Okay.

1:29:44 Brennan: It's like they're not into it.

1:29:47 Zac: I try a handful of birdseeds.

1:29:50 Murph: I guess I'll talk to my date. Onscreen is Perry’s character card, which reads “Perry Pidgeon: madly in love with Kugrash.”

1:29:52 Kugrash: Hey Perry, how do the pixies feel about the pigeons?

1:29:57 Perry the Pigeon: Huh, well, it's love, I guess. I think they love us, right?

1:30:01 Kugrash: They love you?

1:30:01 Perry the Pigeon: Maybe, I don't know.

1:30:04 Kugrash: Jesus Christ, Perry.

1:30:04 Perry the Pigeon: That was a hard question.

1:30:07 Ally: That was a hard question.

1:30:07 Kugrash: No, no, it's okay. You're fine, I think my--

1:30:09 Perry the Pigeon: Oh, wow!

1:30:11 Kugrash: Excuse me!

1:30:11 Ricky: Wait.

1:30:14 Kugrash: Let me go get you some birdseed?

1:30:15 Perry the Pigeon: Okay.

1:30:15 Kugrash: And you stay right here.

1:30:16 Perry the Pigeon: I am in love with you!

1:30:16 Murph: I walk away.

1:30:20 Kugrash: Absolutely fuck me.

1:30:23 Ally: Is there a door person or—

1:30:27 Brennan: Yeah, there's an ogre over by the door you can talk to. He's kinda dressed up. You see the ogre goes,

1:30:30 Ogre: [very deep voice] Hey, how's it goin'?

1:30:34 Pete: Hey, good.

1:30:36 Ogre: You the plug?

1:30:36 Pete: Yeah, yeah, so if anyone talks to you, find me, I'll be around.

1:30:40 Ally: And then I just go around talking to the bartenders and stuff.

1:30:43 Brennan: Cool. You see he says,

1:30:44 Ogre: Hey if you wanna drop a ball over by the food tent, go for it.

1:30:48 Brennan: And you see that he throws a bunch of cash in your hands. You look at it, this is ancient British pounds from the 1700s.

1:30:57 Pete: Hey, no, I need—

1:30:57 Ogre: What? This is what they use in New York, right?

1:31:01 Pete: No, no, it's dollars, they're green.

1:31:03 Ogre: The hell is a dollar?

1:31:03 Pete: I show him, for example, this.

1:31:06 Ogre: Oh, shit. I just got here from Faerie, man.

1:31:09 Pete: [sighs] You're killin' me. All right, I'll leave something back there. I’ll leave something for you.

1:31:12 Ogre: Okay, I appreciate it.

1:31:12 Pete: You can help yourself with that. But if anyone hits you up, you hear rumblings, tell 'em where I am.

1:31:17 Ogre: All right, God save the king, man, you got it. Pete stares after him with a nonplussed expression.

1:31:21 Zac: Can I talk to one of the ogres for a second?

1:31:23 Brennan: Yeah.

1:31:24 Ricky: Hey, I don't know that much about this kinda stuff, but is it normal for a pigeon to marry a pixie?

1:31:34 Brennan: You ask an ogre, you see he says,

1:31:36 Ogre: Hey man, I don't fucking know, I just work here, right? You want some beef wellington?

1:31:41 Ricky: Yeah.

1:31:43 Ally: Trying to get those macros.

1:31:47 Zac: [eating noise] I don't have enough napkins. My hands are gross.

1:31:51 Siobhan: Peeling off the pastry 'cause it's too much carbs.

1:31:55 Lou: Can I walk up to Kugrash and Misty and kinda gesture to the hunting lodge and be like,

1:32:02 Kingston: Feels like whatever we need to get done is in there.

1:32:05 Kugrash: Do we think Ronald Pigeon might be in danger?

1:32:09 Kingston: I mean—

1:32:10 Kugrash: 'Cause these pixies do not seem happy.

1:32:12 Misty: I mean, look. Nobody's happy at a wedding.

1:32:16 Kugrash: What is your sad life, Misty?

1:32:19 Misty: No, I'm not saying that weddings can't be joyous, but joy and happiness are not the same thing. And there will always be people who are miserable. Weddings have their own kind of magic. That's why people who shouldn't fuck always fuck at a wedding. Suddenly, the fight that you've been meaning to have for the last five years, suddenly you're having it in the middle of the dance floor. It's a strange magical place and you just have to go with it.

1:32:44 Kugrash: I think the mob is up to something.

1:32:46 Kingston: Yeah, I agree. But, I don't know, I feel like, do you have a relationship with Don Confetti?

1:32:53 Misty: I have a relationship with Don Confetti. He's, as I said, a sweet man. He will kill you, but he's a sweet man. So I can go and talk to him, absolutely.

1:33:02 Kingston: Could you make introductions for us or something?

1:33:04 Brennan: Yeah, you guys walk up. Who all’s going to the lodge with Misty?

1:33:11 Emily: I'm not, because seeing this wedding is bringing back memories, so I grabbed a champagne flute and entered the first closet I could find.

1:33:20 Ricky: Oh, hey. Hey guys, I just thought of something. You ever seen that movie The Godfather?

1:33:28 Kingston: Yeah.

1:33:28 Misty: Yes, that movie—

1:33:29 Ricky: You know how they have to do the favor? The Don has to do favors for people on the day of his daughter's wedding?

1:33:36 Kingston: Yeah.

1:33:37 Ricky: Is that--

1:33:37 Kugrash: Is that a thing?

1:33:38 Ricky: I think so.

1:33:39 Kingston: In The Godfather it is.

1:33:41 Kugrash: It's based on real stuff, right?

1:33:43 Kingston: Okay, but that's based on human people. These are all—

1:33:46 Ricky: I don't know, it's a really old movie.

1:33:47 Kingston: Matrimony of pixies!

1:33:49 Ricky: It's so long.

1:33:49 Pete: Hey Ricky, do you have a Godfather poster up in your room?

1:33:52 Ricky: Yeah.

1:33:53 Pete: Cool, I thought so.

1:33:53 Misty: How about a Scarface poster? You got a Scarface poster up in you room?

1:33:56 Ricky: Yeah, I got both of 'em.

1:33:57 Pete: That's sick, man.

1:33:57 Kingston: A little about—

1:33:58 Ricky: Those are my two posters.

1:34:02 Brennan: The door to the hunting lodge opens as you approach and Misty, you look inside. You see that it smells so good. There's so much food in here, there's pixies everywhere. There's also grigs and sprites and other little types of fairies. You see that on a countertop, sitting, [slow jazz music]

1:34:23 Brennan: You know those little pizza tables, the little plastic pizza things? You see that sitting at one of those, smoking a cigar, is a very old pixie in a pinstripe suit, weathered face, fedora hat, rings on his fingers. Onscreen is a character card that reads “Don Confetti: Minute mafia mastermind.”

1:34:40 Brennan: The gravitas of this tiny little man, again, about that tall. [holds his fingers a few inches apart] Pulls the cigar from his mouth, looks over and goes,

1:34:52 Don Confetti: [very high, buzzy voice, thick Italian-ish mafia accent] Well, well, well, if it isn't Misty Moore.

1:34:57 Misty: Donny, darling, you look fabulous.

1:35:01 Don Confetti: So, I see you brought some acquaintances here. Didn't know I gave a plus five on your invitation.

1:35:07 Misty: I don't have a plus five. I have a plus one and these other people—

1:35:10 Kugrash: We're guests of the pigeons.

1:35:12 Ally: I'm kinda walking off on my own to drop off the ball where I was supposed to.

1:35:16 Emily: I'm watching from the closet where I'm drinking by myself.

1:35:20 Misty: This food smells amazing. Did you bring it all the way from Faerie?

1:35:25 Brennan: You see he looks and says,

1:35:25 Don Confetti: What? No, this is from Fat Sal's.

1:35:29 Misty: Oh, I love Fat Sal's.

1:35:32 Don Confetti: It's great, I think much like yourself, Ms. Moore, I haven't been to Faerie in some time. It's a real hard time getting all the way back there, especially from places like here.

1:35:45 Misty: It's a hard time and maybe there's some people there that I don't wanna see.

1:35:49 Don Confetti: Oh, is that so?

1:35:51 Misty: Oh, you know!

1:35:52 Don Confetti: That's real funny to me. Let me ask you a question. I heard you're doing a new play. Who are you playing in the play?

1:36:00 Misty: [suddenly a bit nervous] Oh, you know, it's just a queen.

1:36:06 Don Confetti: Yeah, that's what I thought. Tell me, let me ask you a question here if I can. Does Titania know?

1:36:15 Misty: What a beautiful wedding, it's really. So is your daughter, I mean, she's probably getting. I'm so honored that you invited me.

1:36:23 Don Confetti: [shrugs] My daughter, she fell in love with a bird.

1:36:26 Misty: Love is love. I fell in love with a bird once back in 1783, but really it was a fleeting affair. I thought it was love, but really it was just sex.

1:36:34 Don Confetti: The only bird I ever loved is a bird I killed when a crow tried to eat my babies.

1:36:39 Misty: Mm.

1:36:40 Ricky: Sorry, you loved?

1:36:42 Don Confetti: I loved that he was dead.

1:36:45 Kugrash: Do you not like the bird that your daughter's marrying?

1:36:49 Don Confetti: Who, Ronald Pigeon?

1:36:49 Kugrash: Ronald Pigeon. He's a good pigeon.

1:36:52 Don Confetti: He makes my daughter happy, what can I say? Listen, you people come here to my faerie glade, middle of Central Park. You come in here in the middle of my little pizza table.

1:37:05 Zac: Is that the little center thing on a pizza, you're sitting at? Brennan nods.

1:37:11 Don Confetti: What do you people want, huh?

1:37:12 Misty: We're here to celebrate.

1:37:15 Don Confetti: Well then, celebrate away. Be my guest. Mangia [eat in Italian], this food is for you, all you fine people. I shall be here until the ceremony begins. I hope you enjoy yourselves.

1:37:27 Kingston: We did have a question.

1:37:31 Don Confetti: Kingston Brown from Uptown, huh? Your reputa—

1:37:34 Kingston: Hello, Don. What?

1:37:37 Don Confetti: Your reputation precedes you.

1:37:38 Kingston: Oh, as does yours.

1:37:41 Don Confetti: I hope it does, because I am the mastermind behind all the tiny little crimes that happen in New York City.

1:37:51 Kingston: The tiny crimes are abundant.

1:37:55 Misty: Oh, by the way, I did lose an earring a couple weeks ago. I don't know. I'm not accusing you guys of anything, but I don't know if you found it on your travels, did you?

1:38:06 Don Confetti: Who's to say? Certainly not me. Those things which become lost in New York, only some portion end up in the pixies’ coffers, although we do well for ourselves, I won't lie. Mostly, these days I'm an honest businessman.

1:38:22 Misty: Yes, just like I'm an honest Broadway star.

1:38:25 Don Confetti: [laughs mockingly] Yeah. Well, gotta feed the fire, right?

1:38:31 Misty: Gotta feed the fire.

1:38:31 Kingston: Santa's sleigh.

1:38:33 Kugrash: Yeah, what happened to Santa? Do you know?

1:38:34 Kingston: I'm sure you were aware.

1:38:39 Don Confetti: I heard about it. Seems like some pixies got the wrong idea, huh?

1:38:42 Murph: Can I do an Insight check on him?

1:38:44 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

1:38:44 Murph: And I toss.

1:38:45 Lou: I'll also make an Insight check.

1:38:47 Murph: 16.

1:38:49 Lou: Less than 16.

1:38:49 Siobhan: 24.

1:38:51 Lou: 12.

1:38:52 Brennan: Misty, he knows.

1:38:54 Siobhan: He knows.

1:38:54 Brennan: He knows. You see he says,

1:38:55 Don Confetti: Looks like two acquaintances of ours, two boys that have done a little bit of trouble in the past got a bright idea, went rouge, acted on their own. They're in police custody now, Pinky and Twinkle. But they were not made men, not friends of the family. Looks like they might be going away for a long time. I, for one, am acting in full cooperation with law enforcement, as I should.

1:39:33 Misty: Now, I don't wanna worry you, but it seemed to me there was something more than just pixie dust.

1:39:44 Don Confetti: Oh?

1:39:44 Misty: Maybe a little hellfire as well.

1:39:48 Don Confetti: Am I being asked these questions on behalf of any state or legal entities?

1:39:53 Kugrash: I'm an actual rat man. I can't really speak to the police.

1:39:58 Ricky: I'm not speaking for the fire department.

1:40:01 Murph: He’s just this ultimate narc standing there.

1:40:04 Brennan: You see he says,

1:40:04 Don Confetti: If there's no official capacity then I think I have business to conduct. Please avail yourselves to the hors d'oeuvres. Have a good time at the wedding.

1:40:15 Brennan: You see that some pixies go to usher you guys back out. You're hidden in the closet. Actually, give me a Stealth check.

1:40:21 Emily: What I would like to do. Okay, I'll give you a Stealth check. I got a nat 1.

1:40:26 Brennan: The closet opens.

1:40:29 Ally: No.

1:40:30 Brennan: And you see your brother Mario looking right at you.

1:40:34 Sofia: Mario, what the fuck are you doing here?

1:40:35 Mario: Sofie, what the fuck are you doing here?

1:40:37 Sofia: No, I asked you first, what are you doing here?

1:40:40 Mario: What do you see right now?

1:40:43 Sofia: [slowly] Uh, I see Central Park at its finest and a Toyota Camry. What about you?

1:40:50 Mario: Sofie, funny running into you. I'm just running some errands. I'll tell you about it when I get home, I gotta go.

1:40:56 Brennan: You see he grabs a bag off a counter, looks over at Don Confetti who doesn't look at him, and heads out.

1:41:04 Sofia: What, Mario!

1:41:06 Emily: I'll chase him.

1:41:08 Brennan: You run out after him. You see he says,

1:41:09 Mario: Sof, funny runnin' into you here in the park, I gotta head out. I'll talk to you later, all right?

1:41:13 Sofia: What are you doing with Don Confetti?

1:41:16 Mario: You can see it.

1:41:17 Sofia: Yeah, I was feeding you shit before.

1:41:20 Brennan: You see he looks at you and says,

1:41:24 Mario: Look, let's talk about this later, all right? It's dangerous here. I'll talk to you at home, okay?

1:41:28 Sofia: What's in the bag?

1:41:31 Mario: [looks behind him] None of your fucking business, that's what's in the bag.

1:41:32 Sofia: I think it's my business, you and I share blood.

1:41:36 Brennan: He turns to run. As he turns to run, you feel the flask full of water from Bethesda Fountain get burning hot in your pocket. [water sizzling]

1:41:48 Emily: Oh, I don't wanna use that.

1:41:54 Brennan: Actually, it's just burning your skin. It's just hurting you.

1:41:58 Emily: [sighs] Okay, I'll just chase after him, then.

1:42:00 Brennan: Cool, go for it. Make an Athletics check.

1:42:06 Emily: Okay. It's gonna be 25.

1:42:10 Brennan: Hell yeah. You grab him, boom, into the wedding he goes.

1:42:17 Emily: I wanna backpack him and then pull him back in.

1:42:21 Brennan: You backpack him, you pull him back in, you see he turns around, looks at you, he says,

1:42:26 Mario: The fuck are you doing?

1:42:29 Sofia: Show me what's in the bag!

1:42:32 Mario: [whispering] I can't show you what's in the fuckin' bag. Look, I will tell you everything, just talk to me later. Don't fucking pull me down, these people will… They'll come after Ma.

1:42:43 Sofia: Okay. Okay. I don't know if you're abusing Ma's name right now, but okay.

1:42:48 Brennan: He gets up, says,

1:42:48 Mario: Come to the house later, we'll talk.

1:42:51 Brennan: He takes off.

1:42:52 Sofia: Okay, we better.

1:42:54 Brennan: He takes off. The flask is now, you can feel your skin is actually starting to burn. [skin sizzling]

1:42:58 Emily: Okay. I find some piece of cloth to hold it with.

1:43:06 Brennan: You hold it with some cloth. You see that it's getting red hot.

1:43:10 Emily: I guess I. Oh, I don't know what to do. I guess I'll just drink it!

1:43:15 Siobhan: Jesus Christ.

1:43:17 Brennan: As you lift it up, get it too close to your thing, your flask bursts open and the water goes everywhere. It looks like the water inside of the flask was boiling.

1:43:27 Sofia: What the fuck?

1:43:29 Brennan: These guys come out of the cottage.

1:43:31 Emily: Does it feel like it was from seeing Mario that my flask started boiling?

1:43:34 Brennan: No, unrelated, it feels like something—

1:43:37 Ricky: Ooh, can I—

1:43:38 Sofia: [gasp] Something's gone wrong with Em! Something's going wrong with the angel of the Bethesda Fountain.

1:43:44 Kingston: What?

1:43:47 Sofia: I run and I find you guys. Guys, I have a flask from the angel of the Bethesda Fountain and it started boiling. I'm worried that something is wrong with the water.

1:43:56 Siobhan: How far is the Bethesda Fountain from the Ramble? Pretty close, right?

1:43:59 Brennan: Right next to it.

1:44:00 Kugrash: Okay, yeah, let's run to get over there.

1:44:02 Sofia: I'll run and check it out.

1:44:04 Brennan: You guys take off from there, rushing as fast as you can. You arrive at Bethesda Fountain to see people looking around a little bit confused, but it doesn't seem like anything weird is happening. The statue of the angel is gone from the fountain.

1:44:24 Emily: [gasps] I guess I'll just get into the fountain and start looking for it.

1:44:28 Brennan: Anyone can make an Investigate or a Nature check if they want.

1:44:30 Emily: Yeah, I'll make some kind of check.

1:44:32 Zac: I think I have a card for it, but do I have Detect Good and Evil?

1:44:35 Emily: I only got a 7.

1:44:35 Brennan: [to Zac] Yes you do.

1:44:36 Lou: I got 24.

1:44:36 Zac: Wait, no, I have protection.

1:44:39 Brennan: 24 on Investigate?

1:44:39 Lou: Mm-hmm.

1:44:41 Brennan: It's not hard. You see that there's clear scrapes in the stone, something dragged this thing outta here towards a section of road with a manhole cover in it.

1:44:51 Emily: Okay, I'm gonna smash my champagne flute and then be like,

1:44:55 Sofia: Actually, that was premature. Let's just go down the manhole.

1:45:00 Brennan: What did you get on your Nature check?

1:45:01 Ricky: Can I see it?

1:45:02 Murph: I only got a 7.

1:45:02 Brennan: Cool.

1:45:04 Siobhan: I got a 19 on my Investigate check.

1:45:06 Brennan: 19, investigate. You don't detect any fae anything here. Ricky, you're casting Detect Good and Evil?

1:45:11 Zac: I thought I had it. I don't see the card.

1:45:12 Brennan: You have Divine Sense.

1:45:14 Zac: Yeah.

1:45:14 Brennan: You just cast Divine Sense. You do not detect any celestial or infernal. You detect the faintest little whiff of undead, but then it's gone a second later.

1:45:31 Lou: I'm at the manhole trying to—

1:45:32 Emily: Yeah, I'm there, too, I'm helping you trying to—

1:45:34 Brennan: You guys open the manhole cover up. [metal scraping] You guys clamber down real quick.

1:45:40 Murph: Scramble down there. [ominous music]

1:45:42 Kingston: Kugrash, where the fuck are we? Where are we?

1:45:45 Emily: I don't know. Are there tracks 'cause it was dragged?

1:45:49 Brennan: Yeah, you see scrapes on the wall. You can even see scrapes on the wall. Clearly the statue was somehow removed from the fountain and dragged down into the sewers.

1:45:56 Murph: Can I see--

1:45:56 Emily: Let's follow the scrapes.

1:45:57 Murph: If there's any bugs or cockroaches or anything down here?

1:45:59 Brennan: Make a nature check.

1:45:59 Murph: Or rats?

1:46:01 Brennan: Yeah. [ominous music]

1:46:04 Murph: 6.

1:46:07 Brennan: Not that you can see, no.

1:46:09 Emily: Can I do a Nature check just in case?

1:46:10 Brennan: Yeah, do a Nature check. [ominous music]

1:46:13 Emily: 18!

1:46:13 Brennan: 18. You're looking around very closely for those creatures that would be here. You notice something, which is you stop, you actually hear in the distance [chittering] and now that you're not looking for it, you hear it, too. You hear a chittering noise. You hear the rats speaking in a way you've never heard rats speak before.

1:46:47 Rats: [high voice, lisping] My brothers, my brothers, the hour at hand! The clarion trumpets call! Let fly the flags of war! The drums beat, the trumpets play, the king has returned! The king, the king!

1:47:00 Kugrash: Oh, is this the fucking Rat King? This guy is such a douchebag! Oh, this guy's not the real Rat King. This is fucked. This guy sucks.

1:47:10 Zac: Do I detect any more? How is the Divine Sense?

1:47:13 Brennan: You detect no more, there's no infernal, celestial, or undead down here.

1:47:17 Ally: Can we see anything or is this just all hearing at this point?

1:47:21 Brennan: Sorry, you do detect a trail of celestial magic. You see a trail of celestial magic left by the angel as clear as light in front of you.

1:47:30 Kugrash: Oh fuck, there's a Rat King.

1:47:30 Ricky: Follow me!

1:47:31 Ally: I just take off running with you guys.

1:47:33 Emily: Running, yeah.

1:47:35 Brennan: You guys take off running. You hear the chittering chattering all around you.

1:47:40 Rats: At once, at once, the banners ring! The day of men is over!

1:47:44 Kugrash: Don't follow the fucking Rat King! He's a dope!

1:47:47 Rats: A day of rats now comes.

1:47:47 Kugrash: No, goddamn it.

1:47:50 Rats: Brothers in arms, cheese for all!

1:47:53 Lou: To us, is Kugrash just screaming?

1:47:55 Brennan: Screaming and rat chittering.

1:47:56 Kingston: Kugrash, shut the fuck up.

1:47:57 Kugrash: No, dude.

1:47:57 Sofia: Oh, he does this, he does this.

1:47:59 Brennan: You guys vault through the sewers, going through from place to place. You guys see this big old steel door you have to open. [door creaking]

1:48:07 Brennan: You're in this giant cistern beneath the Central Park reservoir. As you walk into the space, you hear a voice of many rats speaking as one.

1:48:20 Ally: I turn to Kugrash. Onscreen is the Rat King’s character card, which has the subtitle “It depends on who you ask”.

1:48:23 Rat King: [many overlaid rat voices] Oh, you are too late, I'm afraid, for the Rat King of the sewers now has his day. And I have been gifted my bride! She shall be queen to me! A queen to a king, [laughs maniacally] a day of the rats one and all!

1:48:43 Kugrash: You can't marry a statue, you fucking freak! This Rat King sucks! He's not the real Rat King!

1:48:48 Rat King: Try and stop me, brigand. I shall marry this rat queen at once!

1:48:54 Kugrash: All right, we need to do this for the good of the rats. Right, gang?

1:48:58 Brennan: Boom! [door bangs] The door shuts. I'm gonna need you all to roll initiatives. [ominous music]

1:49:05 Murph: This is our fight. Oh, nat 1.

1:49:08 Brennan: And that's where we're gonna stop for this episode of The Unsleeping City! Tune in next time for a game of kings and queens!

1:49:18 Siobhan: Gross, so gross. [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 3: Pigeon Plus Ones] [NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION 20]

1:49:20 Brennan: We find them deep underground in sewers of New York City. Our heroes face [rat voice] the Rat King.

1:49:28 Kugrash: This dude sucks, he's a dumb ass.

1:49:30 Kingston: This is disgusting. Why am I here?

1:49:32 Rat King: Cry me a river. Beep! [water rushing]

1:49:36 Brennan: Water starts to course in out of the pipes into the room. Albino alligators.

1:49:41 Emily: Oh!

1:49:41 Ally: What? They're huge!

1:49:44 Kingston: Drop it! [Brennan growls] Drop! [Brennan whimpers]

1:49:46 Nod: Dreams are anything you make them.

1:49:49 Brennan: Sofia is frozen in place.

1:49:52 Sofia: Sofie, remember it is what it is, whatever that means. [tense music]

1:49:52 Captions extracted by: Janchovies

1:49:52 Edited by: Tillie the Paladin, gluegunshots, rowan solsys