Borough of Dreams

0:00:00 Kugrash: Live like a rat, die like a rat. [squealing]

0:00:04 Brennan: A helix of rats swarms over her [growling] and as they crash down, she is gone. We're looking for a 16 or higher. [mumbles]

0:00:15 Lou: No fucking way.

0:00:16 Murph: 20!

0:00:18 Ally: 20! [screaming]

0:00:19 Train: Hey everybody, let's take a little trip to Dreamland, slumber slumber, z z z. [booms]

0:00:27 Brennan: The train rockets.

0:00:29 Lou: I make eye contact with Pete, and in my mind say,

0:00:32 Kingston: I owe you an explanation and an apology.

0:00:35 Nod: Come. Let us walk here in the Sixth Borough. [END RECAP] [dramatic music] The cast is all pretending to martial arts punch the air.

0:00:48 Brennan: Welcome, one and all, back to another episode of The Unsleeping City. Oh, you're spicy today.

0:00:53 Murph: So loud!

0:00:57 Brennan: Look at this! Say hi, intrepid heroes.

0:00:59 All: Hi, intrepid heroes!

0:01:02 Brennan: Last we left our intrepid heroes off, they had miraculously fought the ghosts of New York's crooked cops, commanded by the onyx badge of Epona Cirillo, sensed hastily by rats, and summoned the train to Dream, making the L Train run on time for once. As the train to Nod pulled into the station, the heartbreak of Pete's knowledge that words had been said about possibly having to deal with Pete through means of violence had left the party shaken, trust damaged. However, arriving at Nod, apologies and amendments were offered not only by Kingston Brown, but also by Nod, the Monarch of Dreams, who also said an apology and an explanation was owed. The shimmering star-filled skies of the Sixth Borough, snow rising from the streets, into the celestial heights, all of you exit the L-Train. Purple, sparkling with gold, the unicorn skitters off into Nod.

0:02:16 Unicorn: See y'all later! Make sure to hit me up if you got some time to party!

0:02:19 Pete: How?

0:02:23 Brennan: Exiting the train is the six of you, Nod, who begins to float towards a diner, and--

0:02:29 Ally: Oh yeah, in like a creepy way.

0:02:31 Brennan: Creepy way, just sort of still, jet-black eyes unfocused, staring ahead.

0:02:36 Siobhan: This is fine.

0:02:38 Brennan: Alejandro walks off the train as well, takes his hat off, and goes,

0:02:43 Alejandro: I can't believe it. Nod, Land of Dreams. This presents a ripe opportunity for some study. I can't believe I am seeing it here in the flesh and not through a crystal ball. This is really cool.

0:03:02 Sofia: You have a crystal ball?

0:03:04 Alejandro: I have like 100 crystal balls--

0:03:06 Sofia: Can you show me my way around one one time? I just... I got an ex-husband. I'm curious. I know it's not healthy.

0:03:14 Alejandro: For sure.

0:03:15 Misty: Darling, I gotta tell you, look.

0:03:17 Sofia: Yeah?

0:03:18 Misty: Between you and me, I've been married many, many times. The first time is rough but you get used to it.

0:03:25 Ricky: We're in an...this place is crazy.

0:03:28 Sofia: You're right, you're right!

0:03:29 Brennan: You guys see that the little driver's door of the L Train opens, the driver door opens up, and Wally walks out and he goes,

0:03:40 Wally: Aw, dang, this is not Canarsie! Kugrash and Kingston stutter in surprise for a moment.

0:03:47 Kugrash: This is my son, Wally.

0:03:49 Sofia: Oh my god, go say hi!

0:03:51 Pete: Yeah!

0:03:52 Kugrash: I'm a rat.

0:03:53 Sofia: Okay, I'll go over. Excuse me, sir.

0:03:55 Wally: Oh, dang, okay.

0:03:57 Sofia: Hi, excuse me, sir! Hi!

0:03:59 Ricky: I'm a firefighter, I'm here if you have any questions.

0:04:02 Wally: Yeah, thanks sir, thank you. I got turned around, they promoted me to conductor, but I think I took the train to the wrong dang place.

0:04:10 Ricky: You— [somber music]

0:04:11 Kugrash: Wally, I'm your dad!

0:04:13 Wally: What?

0:04:14 Kugrash: Can you see me?

0:04:16 Wally: Rat Jesus?

0:04:18 Kugrash: It's—

0:04:19 Wally: You're my da?

0:04:20 Kugrash: I'm your da, I'm your dad.

0:04:22 Wally: Listen, I'm so, that explains so much, but my real dad is the man who raised me and his name was Bruce Kugrich and I understand that you might be my biological father but somewhere out there is Bruce and he's the man who raised me. God, am I part rat? Can I fit through stuff?

0:04:47 Kugrash: Wally, the way you're, you're not believing the wrong, like we're in a magic world, can you see? What do you see here, Wally?

0:04:55 Sofia: Does it look like a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper?

0:04:57 Wally: It does look like a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper.

0:04:59 Sofia: I think he's seeing all right.

0:05:01 Kugrash: Wally, I am Bruce Kugrash, I was… I was, Kugrich rather, I was turned into a rat.

0:05:10 Wally: Huh? [crying]

0:05:15 Brennan: And he just starts crying and sits down, he says,

0:05:17 Wally: So wait, all those messages from Rat Jesus, it was my dad the whole time?

0:05:23 Kugrash: Yeah, exactly. Wally, I've been… I didn't know how to tell you 'cause I thought that it would, I guess I didn't give you enough credit, I thought this would… Screw you up more, knowing that your dad was a rat, but I think maybe I just prolonged it and—

0:05:44 Wally: Wait a minute. So, David said that you did a bad thing. That you were bad and you had to flee the country and you were on a tropical island with a bunch of stolen money.

0:05:58 Kugrash: That part is not, see, David's a ball-buster. He's mostly right, I am a piece of shit, but I never got away. I was Polymorphed, you don't know what that is, I was turned into a rat permanently by a curse. By somebody who I screwed over. So your brother's right about most of the stuff. About me being, you know, a bad guy.

0:06:29 Brennan: He takes his hard hat off.

0:06:31 Wally: Whoo, that's a lot to take in!

0:06:34 Kugrash: Yeah. That's a, but you know, Wally, I was gonna, there's this whole other magic part of New York and you know, I've been afraid to kinda show myself to you for my own selfish reasons but I think this is really good, I think, you know, I know you've been lonely, kid, and I think maybe we can, you know, make you some friends. Pigeons talk and stuff.

0:07:02 Wally: What?

0:07:03 Kugrash: Yeah!

0:07:04 Sofia: There's a pigeon that's got a hard crush on your father.

0:07:07 Kugrash: Yeah.

0:07:07 Wally: Oh! What's his name?

0:07:10 Kugrash: Perry.

0:07:12 Wally: That's cool.

0:07:14 Kugrash: Should we hug? Is that cool, are you mad at me?

0:07:18 Brennan: You see he looks at you and says,

0:07:20 Wally: I thought you were mad at me.

0:07:22 Murph: I absolutely start bawling.

0:07:25 Kugrash: I could never, ever be mad at you, Wally, god dammit.

0:07:29 Brennan: He picks you up and goes,

0:07:30 Wally: You're way fluffier than most rats.

0:07:33 Emily: Sofia takes out a disposable camera and gets some pictures.

0:07:37 Zac: Ricky's just openly weeping.

0:07:40 Sofia: [clicking] Oh god, this is beautiful.

0:07:41 Brennan: He gives you a big hug and says,

0:07:44 Wally: I always thought, I always knew there was a big rat in the sewers and the tunnels that was looking out for me, nobody ever believed me none, and I always thought it was Rat Jesus, 'cause it was like, you know, I lost having a dad when I was young and then, sort of like, I dunno, the city or someone upstairs was looking out for me. [crying] It means a lot more to know it was you the whole time, Dad.

0:08:08 Kugrash: Wally, I do not deserve you, you absolute beautiful bastard. No, truth be told, you helped me when I was first, your brother was right, I did a lot of bad things, I stole a lot of money from people, and I was punished for it. I was turned into a rat, that's why I don't look like I used to, and I was a bitter, angry person and I was just hiding in the tunnels wasting away, but you know, I would watch you and I would see the way that you know, you treated people, and you know, you helped me more than I could ever help you, Wally.

0:08:53 Wally: [wiping his nose] Well shucks. That means a whole awful lot. And now that we know, we can find a way to turn you back from a rat!

0:09:02 Kugrash: Yeah, you know, I kinda don't mind it at this point, my life's been a lot better since I've been a rat.

0:09:08 Sofia: Yeah, you should see him with a perm, he's actually very attractive.

0:09:11 Wally: Okay, then we'll turn me into a rat!

0:09:14 Kugrash: That would be cute as hell, do you wanna be a rat, Wally?

0:09:17 Kingston: All right, you—

0:09:18 Ricky: Hey, I don’t know…

0:09:18 Misty: You know...

0:09:18 Kugrash: This is the gang, by the way, Wally, this is—

0:09:20 Misty: Hi!

0:09:21 Wally: My name's Wally Kugrich, I work for the MTA. This was supposed to go to Canarsie but we're gonna get this as a maintenance issue so we're gonna get this fixed as soon as possible.

0:09:29 Kugrash: Wally, you don't have to, you don't have to do that.

0:09:32 Wally: Okay.

0:09:33 Kugrash: Just enjoy it.

0:09:34 Ricky: Why don't we go get some food?

0:09:35 Misty: Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

0:09:37 Brennan: Nod is already sort of progressed down—

0:09:39 Pete: Oh, the gray baby!

0:09:42 Brennan: You see Nod turns around and says,

0:09:44 Nod: Nod. I prefer Nod to gray baby. I am gray but I'm fully not a baby. Nod begins to float away again.

0:09:48 Zac: Not a baby.

0:09:53 Pete: What did the gray baby say, it's too far away.

0:09:53 Kugrash: Wally, note that, don’t call it, that...

0:09:54 Sofia: Don't call it the-- Would you say you're Nod a baby, Nod yet a woman? Or a man, that was a Britney Spears reference. I'm so sorry!

0:10:04 Ally: I'm Nod a girl!

0:10:06 Sofia: I’ll show myself out.

0:10:07 Siobhan: I'm just making eyes at Kingston like, how did we get involved with all of these fucking idiots?

0:10:13 Kingston: This is easily, this is some of the wildest shit, We're in Nod.

0:10:16 Misty: And all of these people are focused on like, whatever.

0:10:18 Kingston: The rat man just met his son, and...

0:10:22 Brennan: You see that Wally, without even asking, picks you up and puts you on his shoulder.

0:10:26 Murph: Hell yeah.

0:10:27 Ally: Hell yeah.

0:10:28 Brennan: As you ride around, he goes,

0:10:29 Wally: [singing] My dad's a little rat wizard!

0:10:32 Ally: Wizard?

0:10:33 Murph: Just absolutely--

0:10:34 Sofia: Oh my god.

0:10:36 Kugrash: Who does, we don't deserve you.

0:10:37 Ally: I'm crying too.

0:10:38 Kugrash: We don't deserve you, Wally.

0:10:40 Ricky: Yes!

0:10:42 Brennan: Ox is playfully jumping around as you walk. Everyone here, make Perception checks if you'd be so kind.

0:10:50 Lou: Everything was so sad--

0:10:50 Ally: 17.

0:10:51 Siobhan: I would also like to take a look around with my Mirror of Manannan.

0:10:54 Brennan: Manannan.

0:10:58 Siobhan: Manannan, and See Invisibility.

0:11:00 Emily: Did you, ooh, what'd you get?

0:11:00 Zac: Advantage.

0:11:01 Siobhan: Is it Perception?

0:11:02 Brennan: Perception, yes.

0:11:03 Ally: 19.

0:11:04 Lou: 16.

0:11:05 Brennan: 19, 16.

0:11:05 Lou: Do I still have magic, do I still have my powers?

0:11:10 Brennan: As you guys walk, so anyone that beat a 15 on a perception check, as you're walking, you kinda suddenly going, Wally's kinda talking subtly, also Alejandro's casting Identify on the different magical items you guys got from the bodega. So that's the kind of stuff going on and it feels really wild and fun here. Also there's a lot of noise coming from Nod. I would say that there are, at any given point, between five and twenty shooting stars crossing the sky here, and they do make a kind of [whooshing] noise and you can hear kind of bubbling and chattering from inside various buildings, although the streets are kind of open and not very populated here. Those that beat a 15 notice, as Kingston walks through this realm, everything here is mist on the ground that goes up to about your ankles. Where Kingston walks, the mist recedes from Kingston a little bit, and Kingston is walking on sidewalk that appears underneath him.

0:12:09 Ally: Cool.

0:12:11 Brennan: And therefore the snow doesn't kind of hit him 'cause the snow is issuing from the mist. You got a 19, right, Pete?

0:12:18 Ally: Mm-hmm.

0:12:19 Brennan: You look at this and it is somewhat melancholy as you look at it. The Dream World is receding from Kingston out of respect for his station and the power that he represents in the same way that you're able to tap in to wild abilities when you're in the Waking World, but as a result of that, this sense of whimsy and wonder and joy that everybody else seems to be able to partake in while they're here seems to, out of respect and deference, but abandon Kingston. Kingston doesn't appear able to see the reflections that you guys are seeing, the funhouse mirror of the glassy buildings that you pass by where you guys see all these strange potentials and images and fun illusions, Kingston's reflection remains his own here and doesn't change into something else and there is a stoic silence that reflects a deep sadness as Kingston walks through this place.

0:13:31 Ally: Whoa.

0:13:32 Emily: I'm glad I rolled low on that Perception check.

0:13:34 Siobhan: It's so sad.

0:13:35 Emily: It's kind of a burden.

0:13:36 Siobhan: Yeah, yeah.

0:13:37 Brennan: I think it was made even sadder by the fact that nobody else notices, and everyone's just like wow.

0:13:41 Misty: Wow! Hey gray baby, can I fly?

0:13:46 Nod: Do you wish to fly?

0:13:47 Brennan: You begin to [whooshing] float up into the air.

0:13:50 Zac: I grab her ankle.

0:13:53 Emily: I grab his ankles!

0:13:54 Brennan: You see that Misty, your umbrella pops open and you—

0:13:57 Ricky: I got you, I got you!

0:14:00 Brennan: You see that Ox jumps up and grabs onto your purse, Sofia.

0:14:05 Sofia: Good dog, good dog.

0:14:06 Brennan: And [whooshing] you guys whisk away, off into the night sky. You see that the woman in the moon turns around and goes,

0:14:12 Woman in the Moon: Oh, lovely, it's been so long.

0:14:15 Misty: It's been so long, you look great.

0:14:17 Woman in the Moon: You look great.

0:14:17 Misty: You look great!

0:14:19 Brennan: You see she [magical noises] swirls a wind of moon dust around you, all of your clothing sparkles, and you see that all the denizens of this place start going,

0:14:29 Denizens: Hey, it's Misty Moore! [clapping] Misty waves down at them, smiling.

0:14:32 Brennan: And they start clapping.

0:14:33 Zac: [holding his arms up] Just like kind of shaking.

0:14:38 Brennan: As you--

0:14:39 Siobhan: No days off.

0:14:40 Brennan: As you fly away, you see that there is this incredible marble statue at a flying grand piano that begins to twirl around you in the air and says,

0:14:53 Statue: Ladies and gentlemen, the incomparable, the one and only, Misty Moore.

0:14:58 Misty: [singing] Fly me to the moon. Let me sing among the stars.

0:15:03 Brennan: Go ahead and give me a Performance check with advantage.

0:15:05 Sofia: A free Misty Moore show?

0:15:08 Siobhan: That is a 26.

0:15:10 Brennan: Incredible! Misty, your illusion magic doesn't even cost spell slots here. You watch the most heart-rending performance of "Fly Me to the Moon" as this statue plays the piano in accompaniment, you actually fly up to the moon and as you sort of hit the last, final note, the moon actually leans and kisses you on the cheek. You are effectively Blessed.

0:15:35 Siobhan: Obviously.

0:15:36 Brennan: You see she says,

0:15:37 Woman in the Moon: I loved you my whole life.

0:15:39 Misty: Oh no, I loved you my whole life.

0:15:42 Brennan: You see she looks at you—

0:15:43 Siobhan: I make out with the moon. [sexy guitar music]

0:15:45 Brennan: You see the moon, you guys see Misty and this giant moon start really kinda going at it.

0:15:51 Ricky: What's happening up there?

0:15:52 Ally: You're holding onto her leg.

0:15:53 Emily: I'm holding on.

0:15:54 Murph: Her mouth goes open, her [mumbling]

0:15:57 Siobhan: Oh yeah, full 1940s Hollywood, there's like a lot of laws about how much you can kiss, so it's like full closed mouth, but moving back and forth.

0:16:06 Emily: I like to think there's one little cruel intention spit that falls on us.

0:16:11 Siobhan: Ah, so nasty.

0:16:15 Brennan: Misty, you feel incredible here. You also have a lot more control here over how you appear. Your illusion magic, you think you can kinda cast it here, kind of without too much trouble at all.

0:16:22 Siobhan: Okay, great

0:16:29 Brennan: So it feels very elementally similar to Faerie here which you haven't been back to—

0:16:34 Siobhan: Great.

0:16:34 Brennan: In centuries. The only difference between this place and Faerie that you can kind of feel intrinsically is weirdly, Faerie is a little bit more conservative than this place is.

0:16:45 Siobhan: Mm-hmm.

0:16:46 Brennan: Faerie has kings and queens and hierarchy and laws about eating food in places and doing favors for people.

0:16:54 Misty: Ugh, why else would I leave? No kings, no masters, that's what you get in New York City.

0:16:59 Brennan: Exactly, so you're having a ball here. You eventually descend back down. You guys follow Nod towards the banks of the East River and you see that Nod just starts walking into the East River just submerging in the water and starts to kind of glide effortlessly underneath the water of the East River.

0:17:23 Emily: I'm gonna follow.

0:17:24 Brennan: You guys follow—

0:17:25 Emily: I take out a little nip,

0:17:25 Sofia: [knocks back a drink] Let's do this.

0:17:28 Brennan: You guys go down, the water exists purely kind of on the surface, and as you go through, the sound is the quality of being underwater but you're not wet, it just feels very chilly and brisk down here.

0:17:43 Siobhan: How's Kingston doing?

0:17:45 Lou: Yeah, is this—

0:17:45 Siobhan: Is he just sopping wet and unable to—

0:17:47 Lou: Did I, I see all of these things, like I watch her kiss—

0:17:51 Brennan: Make out with the moon, yes.

0:17:53 Lou: It's just for me, there's no flying or those sorts of—

0:17:56 Brennan: You are unable to fly here and as you approach the water, the water parts as you got here.

0:18:01 Ally: Can I run up to Kingston and hand him a little Tupperware salad that I had in my pocket?

0:18:08 Brennan: You hand Kingston a Tupperware salad.

0:18:10 Pete: Hey, man, I got this to go at a restaurant I was at earlier. I don't know if you're getting hungry.

0:18:15 Kingston: Oh.

0:18:16 Misty: Are there drugs in the salad?

0:18:17 Pete: No.

0:18:18 Misty: Did you put drugs in the salad?

0:18:19 Ally: It's sober, it's actually a sober salad.

0:18:20 Kugrash: It's just a salad.

0:18:21 Misty: I mean, the fact that you have a word for a sober salad as opposed to—

0:18:23 Kingston: I mean, its funny that you have to discern...

0:18:25 Pete: This one is a sober salad.

0:18:26 Ricky: What's not a sober salad?

0:18:27 Pete: You just put ketamine over the tomatoes. It's fun.

0:18:31 Emily: That sounds good for a—

0:18:32 Kingston: Absolutely wild.

0:18:33 Pete: But this one isn't like that!

0:18:34 Kingston: Thank you, Pete.

0:18:35 Pete: Yeah.

0:18:37 Kingston: [mumbling] Maybe I'll eat it later.

0:18:40 Pete: Yeah, cool.

0:18:41 Brennan: You hold this sweet thing, as you hold the salad from Pete, you feel, Kingston, a little bit of the joy of the Dream Realms seep in through your fingers, through this little Tupperware of salad, and you see that a bunch of the little cherry tomatoes in the salad turn around and eyes pop out and they go,

0:18:59 Tomatoes: [squeaky] We're good for ya!

0:18:59 Kingston: Fuck this! [throws the Tupperware] I thought you said it was a sober salad!

0:19:04 Pete: It is a sober salad!

0:19:06 Kingston: Why are the cherry tomatoes talking to me?

0:19:06 Pete: We're in the Dream World, man.

0:19:09 Kingston: Okay.

0:19:10 Kugrash: Wally, look at the tomatoes!

0:19:11 Murph: I hold it up to him.

0:19:12 Wally: Oh, look at that, what ya guys' names?

0:19:15 Brennan: And you see they say,

0:19:15 Esteban: We're all named Esteban.

0:19:19 Zac: I take some of the cherry tomatoes and eat them.

0:19:21 Siobhan: Jesus Christ.

0:19:22 Esteban: We all have the same name! We're gonna make him strong and healthy! [chewing]

0:19:26 Ricky: Thank you, tomatoes, for your nourishment.

0:19:28 Pete: Are you religious?

0:19:29 Kugrash: I feel like you and Wally should hang out, Ricky.

0:19:31 Brennan: You see Wally says,

0:19:33 Wally: Aye! Oh man, look at you!

0:19:35 Brennan: He says,

0:19:35 Wally: I think I seen you before, I got the Fireman's Calendar 'cause I love heroism.

0:19:41 Ricky: Oh yeah, definitely, I'm Mr. March in that.

0:19:43 Wally: Hi, I'm Wally Kugrich, I work for the MTA.

0:19:45 Ricky: Nice to meet you, Wally. We could be really good friends, if you'd like.

0:19:49 Wally: Okay!

0:19:50 Ricky: Okay, great.

0:19:51 Wally: Okay, you're my best friend!

0:19:53 Ricky: Awesome, you're my best friend.

0:19:54 Wally: Awesome!

0:19:55 Brennan: He puts an arm around your shoulder.

0:19:57 Zac: I think that Kugrich is on.

0:19:58 Murph: Just crying on both of you.

0:20:00 Emily: Oh my god, this is—

0:20:02 Siobhan: Just such disgusting grubby tears. [Kugrash coughing]

0:20:05 Brennan: [mimes walking with two fingers] You guys begin to walk along the floor of the East River. As you walk along the floor of the East River, you see there's a bunch of sort of toilets filled with treasure down here, and bathtubs overflowing with silver coins. You see that on little anchor chains covered in algae and sort of seaweed, there are these giant king beds that are just floating partially in the water and you see that each bed has a little mobster in a pinstripe suit [mimes a stereotypical child’s peaceful sleep pose] with a bunch of fishes—

0:20:35 Siobhan: Aww, he's sleeping with the fishes! [Brennan snores]

0:20:39 Emily: Are they pixies?

0:20:40 Brennan: Human mobsters.

0:20:41 Ally: Oh my god. [Brennan snoring]

0:20:44 Sofia: I mean, that's so peaceful, do these kind of bad guys deserve such a nice end?

0:20:50 Pete: Yeah.

0:20:51 Misty: Look, as again, they may be mobsters but they're great supporters of the arts.

0:20:55 Emily: So, can I try to wake one up? [snores]

0:20:59 Mobster: Oh. [mumbling] I'm trying to sleep here. You’re wakin' up all my fishes.

0:21:04 Brennan: You see the fishes just start swimming around.

0:21:06 Sofia: What’d you do to sleep with the fishes?

0:21:09 Mobster: Hm?

0:21:09 Sofia: What’d you do to sleep with the fishes?

0:21:11 Mobster: I crossed the Don, I ratted him out to the feds.

0:21:13 Sofia: Oh.

0:21:13 Ricky: Which Don? Don Confetti?

0:21:16 Mobster: Oh, no, Lucky Luciano.

0:21:19 Ricky: Oh.

0:21:20 Sofia: Okay.

0:21:21 Ricky: Had to try.

0:21:22 Sofia: All right.

0:21:23 Kugrash: Well, good work.

0:21:23 Pete: Well Ricky, you're gonna get a clue soon, I'm serious, man.

0:21:26 Ricky: I feel like it's coming. I feel like eventually I'm gonna figure a thing out.

0:21:30 Misty: Yeah, you can text Esther about it.

0:21:33 Ricky: Do I have service?

0:21:36 Brennan: Only people that have Sprint have service here.

0:21:39 Sofia: Oh, amazing! [gentle jazz]

0:21:43 Brennan: You guys continue on. You see this enormous diner at the bottom of the East River called Poseidon's Diner and you see there's a huge statue of Poseidon holding a trident up on the top of it but inside it's like chrome milkshake machine form like a countertop. You see that there's a bunch of merfolk waitresses but they are like, you see that there's a very big, broad mermaid woman, older, in her fifties, she's looking at a cigarette, and those horn-rimmed glasses with a chain around them, seashell bra, but then a little waitress apron around her fish tail, swimming around, and there's a little name tag on the seashell bra that says "Helen" on it.

0:22:30 Helen: [chain-smoker voice] Hey, you guys trying to sit down and eat?

0:22:33 Pete: Yeah.

0:22:33 Sofia: Yeah.

0:22:34 Pete: We'd love to!

0:22:34 Kugrash: Get a big table.

0:22:34 Misty: I do have a little quick question about, I don't want to be rude, but, as a faerie, you know where I'm coming from. If we eat here, we can still leave, right?

0:22:46 Helen: Oh yeah, there's no rules about that here.

0:22:48 Misty: Okay.

0:22:49 Pete: You're not worried about that.

0:22:50 Misty: I just needed to know.

0:22:51 Sofia: That’s good that she's looking out for us.

0:22:52 Misty: Look, there are a lot of strange rules in these other dimensions and it's better to--

0:22:57 Ricky: Do you have turkey burgers?

0:22:57 Misty: When you go to another place, it's good to know about the culture.

0:22:59 Helen: We have turkey burgers.

0:23:00 Sofia: Do you have a low-cal menu?

0:23:02 Helen: Oh, for sure, sweetheart.

0:23:03 Sofia: Okay.

0:23:04 Helen: Yeah, we got the whole,

0:23:05 Brennan: And she hands a little thing,

0:23:05 Helen: It's at the very bottom, after the beverages on the last page.

0:23:08 Sofia: Oh, this is great, it's not just cottage cheese everything.

0:23:11 Helen: Oh, cool, I understand.

0:23:13 Brennan: You see that the menu is the thickest menu in the world, gleaning diner mints in a silver bowl up at the front counter, and a bunch of these mermaids sort of swim around, you see there's gonna be a lot of different Greek myths here, you see some dryads over in a corner, there appears to be some tritons and various, there's a parking lot outside that has a bunch of hippocampi, like giant seahorses and stuff like that.

0:23:40 Zac: Can I look at the mints?

0:23:41 Brennan: Yeah you do, you see some little mints there.

0:23:43 Zac: Okay, and I'm just gonna take one.

0:23:44 Ally: Question them about Don Confetti.

0:23:48 Brennan: Cool, you take a mint, you see that the mint looks up at you and goes,

0:23:51 Mint: [British accent, very dramatic] Know this. I am intended to be eaten after the meal to freshen your breath. Should you hold onto me for too long, I will get chalky and crumbly in your pocket and you may wash your clothes with me and there will be a sticky patch on them for eons to come.

0:24:09 Ricky: [very seriously] It's a risk I'm willing to take.

0:24:12 Sofia: Ask the mint if it's true that's lots of pee on them. I saw a 20/20 and they said there's lots of pee on mints. [dramatic music]

0:24:22 Ricky: Just a quick question. What's your name?

0:24:24 Ronaldo: My name is Ronaldo Manticaster.

0:24:28 Ricky: Ronaldo Manticaster, do you, are you covered in pee by any chance?

0:24:33 Ronaldo: Only my own.

0:24:35 Ricky: [nods, puts it in his pocket] Thank you.

0:24:38 Murph: Kugrash eats a mint.

0:24:39 Brennan: You guys see at this giant corner booth, Alejandro finishes identifying the objects and he says,

0:24:45 Alejandro: These are truly some remarkable treasures from the bodega of La Gran Gata that you have discovered. During Alejandro’s talk, Brennan hands out item cards to Lou, Zac, and Murph.

0:24:53 Brennan: You see he says,

0:24:54 Alejandro: This here is the Grill of Persuasion. By putting it in your mouth, you have honeyed words that can affect the hearts of those that you speak to.

0:25:04 Pete: Sick.

0:25:07 Alejandro: This is the Holy Grail Detergent. It can restore not only the clothes, but the very soul of the wearer. This is a really jacked-up thousand hour energy, it can, I mean, this will put some pep in your step for a long time. And this is the Bagel of All Things.

0:25:33 Brennan: You see he says,

0:25:36 Alejandro: The bagel's toppings contain everything in creation, in microcosm, simply shake some of the toppings onto a paper plate and you can read the fortune of the world in the toppings themselves.

0:25:50 Siobhan: Sick.

0:25:51 Murph: Hell yeah.

0:25:53 Lou: Oh, cool.

0:25:53 Emily: Oh my god.

0:25:54 Pete: I'm glad you didn't eat it.

0:25:55 Kugrash: Yeah, I definitely almost ate it.

0:25:56 Sofia: I am so sorry, I really encouraged you to eat it.

0:25:59 Misty: I mean, your shits would've told some real stories there.

0:26:01 Brennan: He says,

0:26:01 Alejandro: if you consume the Bagel of All Things, you will disperse your essence throughout the universe.

0:26:12 Sofia: [gasps] What a way to go!

0:26:14 Ricky: Is that good?

0:26:15 Alejandro: It's supposed to be, it will destroy your ego and your identity, but bring your consciousness into alignment with all of the cosmos. Also, it's very good toasted. I hear you should get it toasted.

0:26:26 Murph: Maybe I'll get it toasted and then maybe if I'm like about to die, I'll pop it.

0:26:30 Sofia: Okay, yeah.

0:26:30 Kingston: You'll pop it?

0:26:31 Misty: Yeah, that makes sense.

0:26:32 Kugrash: I might pop it, I might pop a bagel.

0:26:33 Pete: I’ll pop it.

0:26:33 Zac: It lasts for for forty-two days?

0:26:35 Kugrash: I can unhinge my jaw, did you see how many mints I just ate?

0:26:37 Zac: Should I just drink this now?

0:26:39 Sofia: Yeah, his thousand hour energy will last for forty-two days.

0:26:39 Zac: Lasts for 42 days.

0:26:44 Siobhan: Geez Louise.

0:26:45 Murph: Wait, so you just don't sleep?

0:26:48 Zac: Once consumed, the imbiber is immune to sleep effects and exhaustion, could I just not sleep for 42 days?

0:26:53 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

0:26:55 Sofia: [gasps] Oh my god, I'm not telling you what to do, Mr. March--

0:26:56 Pete: Dude, eat first, don't drink that on an empty stomach.

0:26:59 Sofia: Yeah.

0:27:00 Pete: Let's grab some food, do you have huevos rancheros here? Can I talk to—

0:27:03 Helen: Oh yeah, for sure, we got huevos rancheros.

0:27:04 Misty: Oh, I would actually love some cottage cheese with some fruit on top.

0:27:07 Helen: Cottage cheese.

0:27:08 Kingston: Can I get an egg cream?

0:27:09 Helen: Yeah, we gotcha egg cream for sure.

0:27:12 Pete: The fuck is an egg cream?

0:27:13 Helen: You haven't had an egg cream?

0:27:14 Misty: Oh my god, an egg cream is a classic.

0:27:16 Kingston: All right, can we get two egg creams?

0:27:17 Sofia: Actually, I'll get one too, I love an egg cream.

0:27:19 Misty: You know, I'll do an egg cream. I want a chocolate egg cream!

0:27:21 Sofia: Everybody get an egg cream.

0:27:22 Ricky: Egg cream please?

0:27:22 Brennan: And you see Nod says,

0:27:23 Nod: Helen. By the order of Nod, egg creams for the entire table. [whooshing]

0:27:30 Brennan: And you see that Helen brings out your various orders. They come out right away, it's diner food, it's the best. The lighting in here's perfect, you guys can talk as loud as you want and you just have this feeling of wholeness and oneness here.

0:27:42 Ally: I'm slicing into my egg cream. [mimes cutting something]

0:27:44 Sofia: Oh my god, it's—

0:27:45 Kingston: You need to get your egg in that fork and knife out of the glass.

0:27:49 Sofia: It's a drink.

0:27:50 Brennan: You get an egg cream, which is an old Depression-era New York delicacy. It's seltzer, chocolate syrup, it's sort of a—

0:27:58 Ally: And eggs?

0:27:59 Brennan: No eggs in it.

0:28:00 Emily: But there's milk in it.

0:28:01 Brennan: I think it's basically a—

0:28:02 Siobhan: It's sparkling milk. Sparkling chocolate milk.

0:28:04 Brennan: Sparkling chocolate milk, it's a low-rent milkshake from the era of the Great Depression.

0:28:10 Pete: [sips, makes a face] No.

0:28:12 Kingston: That's fine, it's not for everybody.

0:28:13 Pete: But thank you, but thank you, but thank you.

0:28:14 Kingston: Egg creams aren't for everybody.

0:28:15 Pete: There's a Turkish carbonated yogurt drink that I tried a little while ago, and I felt the same way about that.

0:28:21 Kingston: Oh, I might like that.

0:28:22 Pete: Yeah, maybe.

0:28:24 Misty: Fermented things are very good for you.

0:28:25 Brennan: You see that Nod is sitting next to Pete and Nod is just leaning their head against Pete's arm and kind of, Nod looks very much like a little kid whose beloved older brother has just come back from college and is just holistically and warmly just obsessed with Pete, leaning their head against Pete's arm. And you see that Nod looks up and can sort of hear your bottles of stuff rattling around in your coat and just opens up their hand and makes a bunch of insane purple gold-flecked pills show up in their hand. [magical sounds]

0:29:05 Pete: What? What is that?

0:29:07 Nod: If you want it, I don't know. It just seems like you like that kind of stuff so I thought I'd make some for you.

0:29:11 Pete: Oh, that's, well that's a perfect segue, you guys, I'm gonna try to rein in the drugs.

0:29:23 Misty: Oh, great.

0:29:24 Pete: You know, it's, I get it, there's a lot of things I'm learning right now so, it's gonna be hard enough sober so why, you know, why add mushrooms?

0:29:32 Ricky: You want a drug? Go for a run.

0:29:35 Pete: Anyway, Nod, thanks again. I'm gonna just pretend that I didn't scroll past that in my feed. That's really nice of you, I'll just keep these, you know, but thanks.

0:29:47 Brennan: Nod smiles.

0:29:51 Nod: As I've stated before, welcome, all of you, to the Dream Realm. Nod. I'm so happy that you're here. Pete, you saved my life. Thank you so much.

0:30:05 Pete: Yeah.

0:30:07 Nod: As I was saying before, I owe you an apology and an explanation. Dark forces are moving against the will of New York City, both the Waking World and the Dreaming. Every so often, in a time of great peril and change, it has fallen to me, the Gray Orphan of New York, to select a champion to fight for and advocate and wield the power of the Dream Realm. Because of the dismissal that most humans give to their dreams, forgetting them upon waking, and the cynicism and realism that pervades most people's waking minds, the Dreaming cannot send a message to this champion beforehand because these messages would be dismissed and batted away. Even you, Pete, for so long, believed that your role as the Vox Phantasma was simply an illusion or a hallucination.

0:31:20 Pete: Yeah, I thought I was going crazy.

0:31:23 Nod: And I'm so sorry for that.

0:31:25 Pete: No, that's fine, I mean [to Sofia] you just entered this too, right? This is nuts.

0:31:29 Sofia: I mean, I thought I was drunk for a while, which I was, I shouldn't say I wasn't drunk.

0:31:33 Pete: I thought I was high for a while, which I was.

0:31:36 Sofia: Which you also were, yeah, I could tell.

0:31:39 Misty: Yeah, maybe you should start a sobriety club.

0:31:41 Sofia: I'm gonna do a dry January but I'd like to enjoy the holidays.

0:31:45 Misty: That's all right.

0:31:48 Brennan: Nod looks over and says,

0:31:50 Nod: So, unfairly and unfortunately, the only way for me to make contact with the Vox Phantasma is to choose one, which means that you didn't get a say in receiving these powers and for that I'm sorry.

0:32:06 Pete: Yeah, that's okay, it's been cool so far.

0:32:10 Nod: I'm glad. I think I chose right. You saved my life and I think, for whatever it's worth, Pete, you're a pretty good hero.

0:32:19 Pete: [strained] Oh, god, this means a lot to me. Thank you, thanks.

0:32:26 Brennan: You see that Nod looks out and says,

0:32:28 Nod: There's some other business to discuss though, which is that Robert is moving against New York City.

0:32:36 Sofia: Yeah.

0:32:37 Ricky: What is Robert's deal?

0:32:41 Sofia: Why does he wanna control the flow of magic?

0:32:43 Kugrash: He also—

0:32:44 Sofia: Why does he, it seems like he's trying to create spaces that cannot be accessed by magic and scried upon and are confusing magic in other boroughs.

0:32:57 Nod: Robert Moses constructed what the Gramercy Occult Society understands as the Highway Hex.

0:33:04 Brennan: You see Alejandro's eyes go wide as this is said. You see he goes,

0:33:08 Alejandro: This...I can't believe that that's true. You see that—

0:33:11 Sofia: Does he have anything to do with the Faerie?

0:33:14 Brennan: You see that Nod sort of acknowledges that and says,

0:33:21 Nod: Mr. Moses wanted wealth and power above all else and therefore sold his soul to Hell and to Faerie.

0:33:37 Sofia: Oh!

0:33:38 Misty: That double-dealing motherfucker.

0:33:40 Sofia: I actually meant a different faerie but go on.

0:33:43 Brennan: You see Nod looks up and they say,

0:33:48 Nod: If nothing else, Robert Moses is one of the most proficient deal-makers and power-brokers of all time. By selling his soul to Hell and to Faerie, he was able to capitalize on both sources of power through magic for most of his living career and when the time came for him to die, neither party could collect without risking angering the other faction.

0:34:17 Sofia: So it was just double-dealing, he pretended like, how do you sell your soul twice? Isn't there some sort of proof that you would still have it?

0:34:25 Misty: I mean, look. I gotta say, Faerie is not great at paperwork. [sucks in a breath]

0:34:29 Sofia: Okay.

0:34:30 Brennan: You see Nod points to Misty and says,

0:34:33 Nod: He made the deal with Faerie first, knowing that their bureaucratic record-keeping wouldn't reach Hell in time.

0:34:39 Misty: Which is like, it's no fun. We're like a real fun-focused people. We don't love paperwork, it's like oh, we trust you.

0:34:42 Sofia: I understand.

0:34:46 Misty: Bad idea, always bad. [tense, low music]

0:34:49 Brennan: You see that Nod says,

0:34:53 Nod: Robert, I do not know Robert Moses' plans, I do not know what he is doing or why he is moving against us, but I do know that his mind is fixed on that thing which Pete summoned forth at the beginning of his powers, which is what I was referencing when I mentioned the words of Lazarus.

0:35:20 Brennan: Misty, would you be kind enough to share with us the New Colossus? Emma Lazarus was a very powerful caster. Siobhan gets out her phone and begins to search up the poem.

0:35:29 Misty: Yeah, this is definitely a thing that I know off by heart. Just give me a second to remember what it is.

0:35:38 Pete: Why did I have to look in a mirror to get you, why did Robert Moses have me look into a mirror?

0:35:45 Brennan: You see that Nod looks at you and says,

0:35:50 Nod: The Dream World is a reflection of the Waking World and there's a powerful connection between dreaming and mirrors and reflections of all kinds, if you remember falling through that puddle the first time you came here. They're an easy way to access these other realms.

0:36:08 Pete: Whoa.

0:36:09 Nod: Dreaming and the Waking World have some… They can exist in harmony, but more often than not they exist in conflict and a lot of that has to do with the values that are espoused by each.

0:36:27 Pete: Hmm.

0:36:28 Brennan: You see Nod looks at you and says,

0:36:31 Nod: The nature of this realm is a chimeric one. And by that, I mean it is the ephemeral axiom. In Dream...

0:36:41 Brennan: And you see that Nod summons a little twirling thing of smoke and light and says,

0:36:48 Nod: Take for example, a child's wish.

0:36:51 Brennan: And you see [whooshing] this child's wish kind of manifests in the smoke and you see it is a trip to Disneyland and a new bicycle and having a superpower to stop a bully at school, and this other thing, shifting and shifting and shifting and shifting and shifting and shifting and shifting and then Nod looks at you and says,

0:37:09 Nod: But, well, you already know, Pete, that when you cast your magic in the Waking World, a thing that can be multiple things, when it comes into contact with the Waking World, [whooshing]

0:37:22 Brennan: You see there's just a bike, stationary.

0:37:25 Nod: Has to be just one thing.

0:37:26 Pete: Mm, mm-hmm.

0:37:28 Nod: That's the power of the Waking World. When you take a dream from the Dreaming and you bring it to life, all the things it could've been die and only the thing that it is survives.

0:37:40 Brennan: As soon as Nod says that, Sofia, you in your head hear, Voice 1: It is what it is.

0:37:49 Brennan: You see that Nod looks sort of blankly ahead, Wally kind of goes,

0:37:54 Wally: Wow, I get that!

0:38:01 Misty: I do have a little bit of signal down here even though I don't have Sprint.

0:38:04 Sofia: You can borrow mine if you want.

0:38:05 Misty: No no, no, it's fine, oh what is that, a Galaxy Note 5?

0:38:10 Lou: That's huge, that's a massive phone.

0:38:13 Sofia: Yeah, I like it, I can see a little better, I can read it like a magazine. Misty clears her throat and begins to read Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” off of her phone.

0:38:18 Misty: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

0:39:10 Brennan: At the words "golden door," Pete, you feel above the sky here in Dreaming, in New York City, [Brennan draws the shape of a rectangle in the air with the sounds of lasers accompanying it] the golden rectangle that first appeared to you when the voice started speaking. Voice 2: Start spreading the news.

0:39:30 Brennan: Nod looks up.

0:39:32 Nod: The Golden Door.

0:39:34 Pete: What?

0:39:36 Misty: Did I do that?

0:39:37 Pete: What was that? There was a golden rectangle and I think Lazarus was talking about...

0:39:44 Nod: Lazarus was a powerful Vox Phantasma. In her time, in the mid-1800s, she was the voice of Dream and the dream behind the golden door was what those tempest-tossed were seeking.

0:40:05 Brennan: You see that—

0:40:07 Pete: Citizenship.

0:40:08 Brennan: You see that they kind of actually nod and say,

0:40:13 Nod: But the Mother of Exiles lifts her lamp beside the golden door. Prosperity, opportunity...

0:40:22 Brennan: And you see that the black eyes shimmer,

0:40:25 Nod: The American Dream. It's a very powerful dream indeed.

0:40:30 Brennan: You see that Nod looks and says,

0:40:34 Nod: When you call a little wish or a figment into the Waking World, it can become a spell. A moment, a flash, a joke, a little bit of joy. There are dreams that are so large and important that they represent a threat to the cosmos if they are brought into the Waking World. They're called paragons. Dreams of such magnitude and importance that causing them to manifest in waking life would break or rupture them. Just in the way that that wish becoming a bicycle destroys all the other versions, bringing something from Dream to Waking, if that thing is a paragon, destroys so much.

0:41:41 Pete: Hm.

0:41:42 Nod: There have only been three paragons before this one. The Golden Door is what we call a paragon doorway. It is something that is created when a dream is so powerful that its meaning keeps moving back and forth from Dream to Waking. The Golden Door exists because of all the people that came here looking for it and all of their belief in it and questing after it means that it starts to become realer and realer. These doorways happen and they represent a success of a dream becoming so important but also great danger in its ability to be pulled into the Waking World.

0:42:30 Misty: What are the other two?

0:42:31 Ricky: Was one of them the Grand Canyon?

0:42:35 Brennan: [laughs] You see that Nod shakes their head, looks up and says,

0:42:38 Nod: There were three before and they were all a long time before, not even anywhere near this part of Nod, The three paragon doorways that existed before were the Pearly Gates, the Mouth of Hell, and the Road to Faerie.

0:42:57 Pete: Mm.

0:42:58 Kingston: So, let me get this straight. What I hear from you is that the American Dream is one of these paragons and you think that in some way, Robert Moses is trying to bring the American Dream into the Waking World? Nod shrugs.

0:43:18 Misty: And so that there's a static meaning for the American Dream? That’s not ephemeral?

0:43:22 Sofia: So as to destroy it.

0:43:24 Ricky: I think he wants to create a fourth space, right?

0:43:30 Kingston: Like a fourth—

0:43:30 Sofia: Oh, like there is..

0:43:31 Ricky: Like Heaven, Hell, Faerie, American Dream.

0:43:34 Siobhan: Can I do a History check on this?

0:43:36 Brennan: You can make a History check.

0:43:37 Emily: Waking world, dream...

0:43:39 Siobhan: How is my History? [mumbles] How 'bout a 9?

0:43:45 Brennan: You've got no, so the guesses so far were creating a fourth space, and then also this idea of like bringing it out would create that fourth, or yeah, dragging it into the Waking World would give it a static meaning. You see that Nod looks at you and says,

0:44:09 Nod: Taking the paragon doorway that has existed in New York City for centuries and bringing it into the Waking World—

0:44:21 Sofia: Would close it?

0:44:24 Nod: Dreams shouldn't have just one meaning. Not dreams that big and not dreams that important.

0:44:36 Misty: I agree.

0:44:37 Ally: So then who was saying "spread the news, I'm leaving today?" [spooky, atonal music]

0:44:41 Brennan: Nod shrinks a little bit at that and says,

0:44:47 Nod: Whatever was on the other side of the door.

0:44:52 Misty: Oh god, it's not the Protestant work ethic, is it? 'Cause that is exhausting and I've had enough of it.

0:45:00 Kugrash: So this guy Robert Moses also does a lot of business in the Waking World, 'cause I knew him in the 80s.

0:45:09 Sofia: Yeah.

0:45:11 Kugrash: So—

0:45:12 Pete: So this could be business-driven.

0:45:14 Kugrash: So what does all of this have to, why would he wanna hurt you? Why did he wanna kill you?

0:45:20 Nod: Because I've barred his entrance into Nod. I think he saw it as an opportunity to capture me and finally get access to the door, I haven't allowed him entrance here.

0:45:33 Ricky: He deals with real estate, right? Is it like a certain amount, does he wanna be the first person to get all this land?

0:45:42 Brennan: You see Nod kinda shrugs and says,

0:45:45 Nod: I don't know what Robert does or doesn't understand about this place. Robert is, or was, undead. Undreaming. Can't come here other than physically.

0:46:00 Misty: You know, I am old enough to remember when motherfuckers like that used to live in goddamn Westchester. [Brennan laughs]

0:46:08 Kugrash: Does he want it?

0:46:09 Misty: Why they think they can come into my New York City...

0:46:13 Ricky: Hey Wally?

0:46:14 Wally: Yeah?

0:46:15 Ricky: What were you, where were you on the train?

0:46:18 Wally: I was in the conductor's little room. The little conductor's place where you drive the train?

0:46:23 Ricky: And there wasn't, you were by yourself?

0:46:27 Sofia: I think it was Alejandro's music.

0:46:30 Brennan: He goes,

0:46:30 Wally: Yeah! I was there by myself!

0:46:34 Murph: I cast Dispel Magic on Wally. [Emily gasps] [magical sounds]

0:46:39 Brennan: You see Wally goes,

0:46:43 Wally: [screams] Wow!

0:46:44 Kugrash: Just making sure, bud.

0:46:46 Wally: Okay.

0:46:48 Kingston: Hold on Nod, I got one more bone to pick with you. With regard to the Dreamfolk who we had to deal with in Brooklyn, I mean what was that about?

0:47:00 Pete: The Bugsters.

0:47:01 Brennan: You see Nod says, Nod looks a little bit troubled at that, and kind of almost glares at you a little bit, Kingston. Nod says, [dramatic music]

0:47:12 Nod: They escaped because Pete gave them permission to leave, Pete wields the power of this realm. Some… Something was able to tip them off.

0:47:26 Kingston: And what was that, gray baby?

0:47:30 Nod: I don't know. I don't know. In order to create a Vox Phantasma, I have to give a piece of myself and it means that I'm not as powerful here as I would otherwise be.

0:47:47 Pete: Who did you give a piece of yourself to? Nod points at him.

0:47:51 Ally: I start crying.

0:47:55 Pete: [through a sob] Which piece?

0:47:56 Kingston: So you're telling me that there's something going on here in Dreamland that is leading to people wanting to come to, the folk of Dreamland to come to New York and you don't know about it?

0:48:11 Nod: The Vermians that went to Astoria, they're around here, they're kind of a pest or a parasite, mostly the rest of the Dream World can keep them at bay but something managed to make its way here and tip them off, not Robert who can't come here.

0:48:27 Sofia: What do you mean by tip them off though?

0:48:30 Nod: Let them know where Pete was going to be and trick him or take advantage of Pete not understanding his powers to get into New York.

0:48:38 Sofia: I think what Kingston is saying though is, what is creating the desire to leave the Dream World for the Waking World or is that just—

0:48:46 Misty: It's great here, why would you ever wanna leave?

0:48:48 Sofia: Yeah, why would anyone wanna leave?

0:48:49 Brennan: You see that Nod says,

0:48:51 Nod: Every night, millions of people come here. So why wouldn't the people here wanna go to the Waking World sometimes?

0:48:57 Misty: Oh, you're right. Hey look. If you want tickets to the premiere of "Midsummer Nights," here, let me just—

0:49:03 Nod: Wow! They have popcorn?

0:49:06 Misty: They don't have popcorn but you can get a little bag of mixed nuts.

0:49:10 Nod: Okay!

0:49:11 Misty: And a tiny little sippy cup of wine, like you're a tiny child but you're drinking wine. It's great, I love it.

0:49:16 Sofia: I love those, you just rip the top off.

0:49:18 Misty: No, you just sip it from the sippy cup.

0:49:19 Brennan: Nod goes,

0:49:19 Nod: I like the sippy cup part.

0:49:21 Brennan: You see that Nod says,

0:49:26 Nod: But, what's important to remember also is that... [suspenseful music]

0:49:35 Nod: Within the aspect of all the things happening here in Nod, Pete saved me and Robert is not allowed to come here. There is a degree to which the Golden Door has already started to slip into New York. Since Emma Lazarus wrote that poem, it's been partially there in the Waking World, but mostly it's still here in Nod and I have taken precautions. Robert Moses can't come here. Also, the door is locked and can't be opened.

0:50:15 Pete: Key to the city.

0:50:17 Sofia: The key to the city, someone has it, someone stole it from the bodega.

0:50:18 Misty: He has the key to the city.

0:50:20 Kingston: If he has the key to the city, could he open the door, gray baby?

0:50:25 Nod: [whispering threateningly] I would thank you not to call me that again.

0:50:30 Misty: He means it in a respectful way, like hey, baby, that happens to be gray like a term of affection, not that you are a child.

0:50:37 Brennan: You see that Nod, Nod sort of acknowledges that and goes, Nod closes their eyes, and something magical whooshes.

0:50:48 Brennan: And you [Pete] feel something change in the Dreaming. Nod goes,

0:50:50 Nod: Okay. I'm glad to know. There is no longer a lock on the Golden Door.

0:51:03 Sofia: Like a punch code? You can trust us.

0:51:07 Brennan: You see Nod shakes their head and says,

0:51:10 Nod: So the door is both locked right now but also does not have a lock any longer.

0:51:17 Sofia: Okay.

0:51:18 Misty: Does that mean that the American Dream is unavailable for the people coming to New York now? It’s done?

0:51:22 Sofia: [crosstalk] I do have—

0:51:25 Brennan: You see that Nod looks at you and says,

0:51:30 Nod: Maybe you can all go back to the Waking World and then I can open the door again, or at least let it be unlocked so that those coming here can go through. But for maybe a day or two.

0:51:42 Brennan: You see that Nod kinda looks sheepish.

0:51:45 Nod: Maybe for a day or two, it'd be better just to keep it shut all the way.

0:51:53 Sofia: So as the door slips from Dream World into the Waking World, does that mean that the many paths to success become less and less and fewer and fewer and fewer?

0:52:05 Brennan: You see Nod sort of agrees.

0:52:07 Sofia: If there's like a gradient?

0:52:09 Brennan: They say,

0:52:11 Nod: The paragon doorway is the vessel through which the paragon comes so the Golden Door becoming more and more real makes the risk higher and higher that something could draw the full paragon on the other side through into the Waking World and the closer that is to happening, the closer we are to it being one thing forever.

0:52:33 Sofia: Destroying many paths, yeah.

0:52:35 Misty: He can't come here, but can he go to Faerie? 'Cause Faerie, I know, is adjacent.

0:52:41 Nod: Robert Moses won't leave New York City. He owes his soul to both Faerie and Hell and they sent people to collect on his debt and by the time they got there, he had finished building the highways and they could no longer scry through or enter. I'm sure you're well aware, Misty, that no one's been able to come seeking justice for things owed to them for a while. When she’s addressed, Misty’s eyes widen, then she looks down and clears her throat.

0:53:07 Misty: [stutters] Yeah, no—

0:53:08 Kugrash: What does that mean?

0:53:09 Pete: Why would you know?

0:53:11 Misty: Oh, well,

0:53:13 Zac: Can I make a Perception check?

0:53:14 Misty: I may not have left Faerie on the best of terms but look, everybody comes to New York City for a reason. I felt like Faerie wasn't, you know, I wasn't growing in Faerie. There's a very strong hierarchy there and you're just like, whoa, God, how many more hundreds of years do I have to pay my dues? You know what I mean?

0:53:33 Sofia: So they're just coming to claim your presence?

0:53:36 Misty: Well that and I may have taken a little tiny baby little souvenir with me.

0:53:42 Pete: A baby souvenir?

0:53:42 Sofia: Was it a baby?

0:53:44 Ricky: Like a rattle?

0:53:45 Misty: It was not—

0:53:46 Sofia: Like a gray baby?

0:53:47 Misty: Well look, you may, faeries are pretty allergic to iron and iron is pretty prevalent in the Waking World and especially—

0:53:57 Sofia: Don't worry, [showing off her jewelry] all this is real gold.

0:54:00 Misty: Thank you, I appreciate it, but you may have noticed--

0:54:01 Ally: Can I do an Investigate to see if that's actually gold?

0:54:03 Sofia: It's all real gold, I get it from—

0:54:05 Ally: Ooh, I got a 5.

0:54:07 Brennan: Dude, that's real gold.

0:54:08 Ally: Okay, cool.

0:54:09 Sofia: Ebay, they have to verify.

0:54:11 Misty: Oh yes, no, it's beautiful. They're beautiful rings. Yeah no, my shoes may have, technically still belong to [clears throat] Titania but she wasn't using them, she never leaves Faerie, like what a waste of a beautiful thing, do you know what I mean?

0:54:33 Kingston: Titania from the show?

0:54:35 Misty: Oh, Titania, oh, well, [stutters a little] Titania from the show, but also Titania from Faerie.

0:54:40 Sofia: Wow, so you embodying her on stage is kinda like a fuck you to someone you already stole from?

0:54:45 Misty: No, I would say it was a tribute or an homage.

0:54:47 Sofia: Just digesting. [laughs]

0:54:49 Kingston: An homage, okay.

0:54:51 Kugrash: She's gonna kill you.

0:54:52 Misty: Only if she can get here, and I have her goddamn shoes.

0:54:59 Kingston: [laughs] God damn, Misty.

0:55:01 Sofia: Wow, Misty, I mean, I didn't think I could love you any more.

0:55:06 Kingston: Jesus.

0:55:07 Brennan: You see that Nod smiles and seems so happy with all of you being here. Alejandro's just in a daze looking around. The diner food is delicious—

0:55:18 Emily: I put a little Kahlua in my egg cream.

0:55:22 Misty: That sounds real—

0:55:23 Pete: That's disgusting!

0:55:23 Misty: That does sound great, I will have some Kahlua.

0:55:25 Sofia: Yeah, I know. Thank you. It’s really good.

0:55:26 Kugrash: Do we wanna use the bagel to, do we have a theory about--

0:55:31 Kingston: What's the bagel do?

0:55:32 Kugrash: The bagel lets me do a Divination, kinda like ask—

0:55:35 Kingston: Okay.

0:55:35 Kugrash: A god of the world.

0:55:36 Sofia: Oh.

0:55:37 Pete: Yeah, let's figure out what's really going on with Bob Moses.

0:55:39 Sofia: My feeling is that there's still, maybe I'm harping on an old thing that no else is still thinking about—

0:55:44 Pete: The laundering souls.

0:55:45 Sofia: The laundering of the souls and trying to, I almost wonder what's going on there, is he trying to like, I don't know.

0:55:53 Kugrash: I guess the question is, is he trying to get into these type of places or is just trying to like—

0:55:59 Sofia: Keep people out.

0:56:00 Kugrash: Keep people out.

0:56:00 Ricky: I think he's trying to make his own—

0:56:02 Kugrash: He's trying to be the king of New York.

0:56:03 Sofia: Oh yeah.

0:56:04 Kingston: I think he needs to be somewhere, he can't be, like, I dunno, in Hell and Faerie, he can't leave New York, yeah, I think he needs his own—

0:56:12 Kugrash: What about the Pearly Gates, though, that's a different thing. Is he trying to get to heaven?

0:56:14 Sofia: That's exactly what it is, if he sold his soul to two people, he's trying to make it harder for other people to get into New York.

0:56:19 Kingston: It's his soul he's trying to launder, I don't think there's any other souls involved. I think Robert Moses is trying to make himself—

0:56:25 Sofia: Dang, I have this really good theory, I guess I'm just gonna...

0:56:28 Kingston: A new soul so that he doesn't—

0:56:28 Pete: Can sell it to Heaven?

0:56:29 Kingston: Maybe, maybe a third place?

0:56:32 Sofia: You're right.

0:56:33 Brennan: You that Nod speaks up and says,

0:56:35 Nod: If you wanted to investigate, remember, those three realms, Hell, Heaven, and Faerie, all used to be dreams before they were so loved that they became real, so--

0:56:47 Sofia: Are there any other, oh my.

0:56:49 Kingston: Can we go to Heaven?

0:56:50 Misty: Again, I don't feel super great about going, let's go to Hell! Hell sounds great! It's warm.

0:56:56 Brennan: You see that Nod smiles and says,

0:56:58 Nod: Misty, I would never send you into harm's way, but there are some neighborhoods where those doors— [Lou sneezes]

0:57:05 Brennan: Bless you. Says,

0:57:06 Nod: There are some neighborhoods where those doors used to be, so there's a big faerie neighborhood up near Carnegie Hall where the Road to Faerie starts.

0:57:15 Misty: Oh, great, do they have mana there, do they make, I just have not had a good drink of mana.

0:57:20 Brennan: You see Nod kind of like goes, you see that Helen actually, no, Helen, your mermaid waitress, says,

0:57:26 Helen: Oh, they do a Manahattan there that'll knock your socks off.

0:57:28 Misty: Oh!

0:57:29 Sofia: Oh my god.

0:57:30 Misty: I love a Manahattan! This is what's so great about New York! You take these fusions of ideas and foods and thoughts and dreams!

0:57:38 Brennan: And you see that Nod also says,

0:57:40 Nod: Way far into Brooklyn also, the Pearly Gates are near there as well. You could go—

0:57:46 Sofia: Oh.

0:57:47 Nod: You could, or where the Pearly Gates used to be before they left, but there are forces around there, it's the border of the Dreaming where it borders on these other realms if you wanted to go and investigate.

0:57:57 Sofia: I wanna…

0:57:57 Pete: Could we investigate these three spots and then use the bagel with what we found?

0:58:01 Sofia: Yes, I think that's a good idea. I do feel compelled to also meet up with my brother. As much as I don't wanna see anyone from—

0:58:10 Misty: Can we get him to come over to Brooklyn? We can tube or, oh, where's Hell? How do we get to—

0:58:15 Ricky: Hell's Kitchen?

0:58:16 Misty: Hell's Kitchen?

0:58:17 Brennan: You see that, yes.

0:58:19 Ricky: Got a clue.

0:58:20 Pete: Hey, good job, man.

0:58:21 Sofia: I thought it was gonna be Staten Island.

0:58:21 Misty: You did it.

0:58:22 Pete: I've grown to really like Ricky. He's just honestly pure.

0:58:26 Misty: He's just a good boy.

0:58:26 Pete: I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and you to be a piece of shit, but—

0:58:28 Misty: You know, sometimes you're just a skeptical person, and you're like, there's no way that this guy is this nice.

0:58:31 Pete: I read people, I read people for a living, you know, and I was just waiting for it.

0:58:33 Ricky: Oh. [nods understandingly]

0:58:34 Brennan: You see Nod says,

0:58:36 Nod: There's a bunch of ground for us to cover while we're here. Also at some point, Pete, and anyone else is welcome to come as well, I know that you've been struggling with your magic. I would love to fix that up for you. We could head over to the Metropolitan Museum of Memories and give you all the knowledge of arcana of all the past Vox Phantasmi.

0:58:54 Pete: Yes, I would really appreciate that.

0:58:55 Sofia: Oh my god.

0:58:56 Pete: [haltingly] I try to do a good job, okay. I work hard, and really the only thing I'm good at is drugs. Okay?

0:59:05 Sofia: Hey, don't say that.

0:59:06 Pete: [about to cry] And so sometimes when I'm not doing good at something else, I go back to what I'm good at, I dip back in the well.

0:59:10 Ricky: You know...

0:59:11 Ally: My hand instinctively reaches to a Ziplock bag and I whip it out.

0:59:14 Kugrash: Don't, don't, you don't—

0:59:16 Misty: Hand 'em over, kid, hand 'em over. Hand 'em over, I'll take them for safety's reasons. [winks] Pete takes out a bunch of drugs, including one massive one the size of his whole waist.

0:59:21 Brennan: Incredible.

0:59:22 Misty: And the other one, and the other one. Pete gives at least one of the drugs to Kingston.

0:59:23 Brennan: Pete hands out all of his drugs and you see that each time you empty a pocket, you see that Nod, each time you empty a pocket, Nod fills one of your pockets that is empty with material components for spellcasting so like, a little bit of magic gold dust and a deck of tarot cards covered in runes and a bunch of dope magic shit starts going into your pockets.

0:59:44 Pete: The backpack, here.

0:59:45 Ricky: Awesome jacket.

0:59:47 Kingston: Damn, Pete, you look much thinner.

0:59:49 Kugrash: Yah Pete. I thought you were kind of a chunky kid but you’re thin.

0:59:50 Pete: What do you mean?

0:59:52 Kingston: You just went down, exactly.

0:59:53 Sofia: I thought you were stocky.

0:59:54 Pete: I just had kilos on me at all times!

0:59:56 Kugrash: Very thin!

0:59:57 Kingston: You just dropped 22 pounds!

0:59:59 Pete: Stop it!

1:00:00 Misty: Does anybody have a bag of infinite holding 'cause actually, this stuff is very heavy and I'm a small old lady.

1:00:03 Ricky: I can carry it. [puts the drugs on like a backpack]

1:00:05 Pete: I feel so much lighter, everywhere.

1:00:08 Kugrash: Pete, if you can't make money now, I'm sure Wally, you know, might have a place for you to crash. He's kinda—

1:00:16 Sofia: I've also got that guest room in Staten Island.

1:00:20 Pete: Cool, cool. Yeah, I… Well, I was kinda staying with Kingston.

1:00:27 Kingston: It's still open to you.

1:00:28 Pete: [whispering] Yes! [normal] Cool, yeah, then I'm sorted, thanks.

1:00:33 Brennan: Cool, so you see that you guys wrap up, you see that Helen comes over with the check, puts it down, you see that Nod looks up at you and says,

1:00:41 Nod: [whispering] I rule this entire realm but I don't have any money, I'm a kid.

1:00:44 Pete: Oh cool. Um, yeah, we can help out.

1:00:46 Emily: I take out a Visa gift card.

1:00:48 Brennan: You put it down.

1:00:49 Sofia: Dale got this for me for my birthday and I've been waiting to spend it.

1:00:53 Brennan: Helen runs the thing, you come over, you sign for the check.

1:00:56 Kugrash: Your husband got you a Visa gift card?

1:00:58 Sofia: Yeah, I told you things weren't going well.

1:01:00 Kingston: That's progress, you know. That's progress.

1:01:02 Sofia: Thank you, I know, I've had it for a while. Feels good to spend it.

1:01:05 Brennan: You see, You see the check is settled up, and Nod smiles and says,

1:01:11 Nod: While you are here, none may harm you. Feel free to cover as much ground as you like. I've told you the location of the other paragon doors, if you wish to go and investigate them.

1:01:22 Misty: And, just to double check, again, Faerie, just generally distrustful of riddles and twisted words, is there a person or a being called None who can harm us?

1:01:35 Nod: You're so good at this. No, there's nobody that's gonna harm you.

1:01:38 Misty: Okay! What about Nobody? Is Nobody gonna hurt us?

1:01:42 Brennan: You see Nod goes,

1:01:42 Nod: I don't know.

1:01:44 Misty: God dammit. Well, we'll see.

1:01:45 Sofia: Yeah. I'll be mistrustful if I encounter any… I have a question, while we're here, can we spy on other people's dreams?

1:01:54 Nod: Yeah.

1:01:55 Sofia: Holy shit.

1:01:57 Nod: You can do that.

1:01:57 Kingston: Yah, but you'd have to go all the way to Staten Island.

1:02:00 Brennan: You see that Nod says,

1:02:01 Nod: Shouldn't be hard, you can all [cheerfully, arms up] fly! Up up and away! [whooshing, exciting music]

1:02:07 Lou: Can I fly?

1:02:08 Brennan: Kingston, you can't fly. [jangly, sad, minor chord]

1:02:09 Lou: I can't fly?

1:02:10 Siobhan: Can I pick up Kingston?

1:02:12 Brennan: You can pick up Kingston.

1:02:13 Ricky: I got his bottom right arm.

1:02:14 Kingston: I don't like this. I don't like this at all.

1:02:17 Siobhan: You each have an ankle, you're just like--

1:02:21 Brennan: And then Nod looks at you and says,

1:02:23 Nod: Pete, you wanna head over to the museum?

1:02:25 Pete: Yeah, sure! The Museum—

1:02:27 Nod: The Metropolitan Museum of Memories.

1:02:29 Pete: Memories, cool.

1:02:32 Brennan: Rad. So where are you guys all taking off to? We'll start with whoever wants to go wherever.

1:02:38 Lou: Some of us should go to the Fae and some of us should go to Heaven.

1:02:41 Murph: Yeah.

1:02:42 Ally: And Hell?

1:02:45 Lou: I think we're good on Hell.

1:02:46 Ricky: I can…

1:02:46 Kugrash: I feel like I kinda belong in Hell, I'm a bad guy. I could go to Hell.

1:02:51 Zac: Could I go to the Statue of Liberty, just to check it out?

1:02:55 Emily: I have a question, so I can't talk to my brother right now 'cause we're in the Dream World, right?

1:02:59 Brennan: Yes, that's correct.

1:02:59 Sofia: Okay. Where would we go to spy on someone else's dream, I'm not saying I'm going to do it.

1:03:06 Brennan: You see Nod says,

1:03:06 Nod: You just have to find 'em.

1:03:09 Sofia: Oh. But if we couldn't find them in real life, it'd probably be equally hard to find them in Dream World.

1:03:15 Nod: It'd probably be easier to find them here.

1:03:17 Sofia: Hmm, okay.

1:03:20 Kugrash: So if you need some support, I'll go with ya if you wanna—

1:03:23 Sofia: No, I'm thinking of a selfish mission that has nothing to do with the greater good.

1:03:27 Pete: Sof, I have a completely fake set of online accounts to stalk my ex and it always sounds like a good idea but boom, five hours is gone, its 4:30 in the morning, there's a piece of pizza on your chest 'cause it's resting there while you scroll and it's just, you got nothing there.

1:03:52 Sofia: Yeah.

1:03:52 Pete: You know?

1:03:53 Sofia: You're right, that's a dead end.

1:03:54 Pete: It's not worth it—

1:03:55 Sofia: I'm gonna end up with pizza on my chest.

1:03:56 Pete: The past is dead and buried. Focus on the pizza.

1:04:00 Sofia: Focus on the pizza, thank you so much, Pete.

1:04:03 Misty: Men are dessert, you know? It's nice to have 'em but you don't need it.

1:04:07 Sofia: Oh my god, I love you.

1:04:08 Kingston: That's fair, I'll take that, I believe men are dessert.

1:04:09 Sofia: Yeah.

1:04:11 Pete: I don't...that's gross.

1:04:13 Ricky: What, I'm a firefighter, I could just go to Hell.

1:04:16 Kugrash: You wanna go to Hell?

1:04:16 Ricky: Yeah.

1:04:17 Pete: Whoa!

1:04:18 Kugrash: Wally, you wanna go to Hell?

1:04:19 Sofia: You know what, I'm gonna go to Hell.

1:04:20 Wally: Okay Dad, sure thing!

1:04:21 Kingston: All right, so is everybody going—

1:04:22 Misty: Look, Faerie is gonna be much more fun.

1:04:25 Kingston: I'll come to Faerie then.

1:04:27 Misty: Great.

1:04:27 Sofia: So no one's going to Heaven, I'll go to Heaven then I guess.

1:04:29 Brennan: You see that Alejandro says,

1:04:31 Alejandro: I will keep you company to Heaven.

1:04:32 Sofia: Okay, yeah.

1:04:33 Brennan: So Alejandro and Sofia are going to Heaven, Kugrash and Ricky are going to Hell, Kingston and Misty are going to Faerie, and Pete's going with Nod to the Metropolitan Museum of Memories. Let's go ahead now and see—

1:04:48 Ally: Cool.

1:04:49 Brennan: Where we go first. Cool. Awesome. Ricky and Kugrash, you guys head out with Wally and Ox. You make your way all the way to Hell's Kitchen.

1:05:02 Murph: Our two familiars. [cast laughs, a little sarcastically]

1:05:05 Brennan: Hell's Kitchen is fully burning. Huge [gargling] just like raging fire here, it's like Nightmare has a lot of pull in this realm.

1:05:16 Zac: I got just a rag out, and I put some water on it, and just kinda [covers his mouth]

1:05:21 Brennan: You're walking along, you hear a [whip cracking] Yah! Yah! And you see that there's a bunch of demons crouched like gargoyles around here and again, you're not in Hell, you're in Dreaming, so these might be demons or they might be nightmares that are wearing a demonic guise. Whatever the case, it looks like it's sort of elementally-aligned with that place and you see that a gate opens up, [ringing] you hear a [bang] shot go off, and you see thousands of little rat men looking much like Kugrash looks, same height, same kind of build, all wearing suits start running after a sack of money strapped to a little zipline like at a dog race, going [panting] and all these rats [thumping] start going and you see that they're knifing each other and biting each other.

1:06:14 Ricky: This is a rat race?

1:06:15 Kugrash: Ooh, this isn't subtle at all. Fuck. This is, that's me.

1:06:19 Brennan: You see that one of the guys looks over and goes,

1:06:22 Randy: Holy shit! Bruce Kugrich!

1:06:26 Kugrash: How you doing, Randy?

1:06:27 Randy: I'm out of the race!

1:06:28 Brennan: You see he's holding his guts spilling out of a slit stomach.

1:06:32 Randy: Holy shit, man!

1:06:32 Brennan: Slap slap, bloody handprint on your little cape.

1:06:36 Randy: You look good, man, how's it going?

1:06:38 Kugrash: Yeah, man, you look great, life was awesome when we were partying all the time and shit, right?

1:06:41 Randy: Dude, are you still alive?

1:06:43 Kugrash: Yeah!

1:06:44 Randy: [incongruously excited] Dude, I lost all my money in 2008 and I blew my fucking brains out in a closet, dog!

1:06:49 Kugrash: Holy shit, man!

1:06:51 Randy: [laughing] Dude. Hey, do you have any money?

1:06:54 Kugrash: No, I live in the trash.

1:06:56 Randy: Fuck, dude, I hear that. I found I'm always in pain, dude.

1:07:00 Kugrash: Dude, me too. Life sucks so goddamn bad.

1:07:03 Randy: We are fucked, dude.

1:07:04 Kugrash: We are so fucked.

1:07:05 Randy: We are so fucked.

1:07:06 Kugrash: I've got my son Wally, got to reconnect with my son!

1:07:08 Randy: Hey, do you have any money, dude?

1:07:10 Brennan: And you see he takes a little knife out.

1:07:11 Kugrash: Don’t, no, don't give him money, Wally!

1:07:13 Randy: Ah, dude, my feet are always burning!

1:07:16 Murph: I try to smother him.

1:07:19 Randy: Ah, it fucking hurts, dude!

1:07:21 Murph: I try to kill him.

1:07:21 Randy: Oh, we gotta go, dude!

1:07:22 Brennan: And you see they start taking off. [squeaking, panting]

1:07:27 Lou: Aw, shit.

1:07:28 Emily: This is fucking horrifying.

1:07:30 Ally: Yah.

1:07:31 Brennan: You see, Ricky, do you have your Divine Sense active?

1:07:37 Zac: I can...

1:07:38 Brennan: Or no, actually, both of you guys make a Perception check for me.

1:07:42 Murph: Cool. I'd also like to, I still wanna see if, 'cause I'm seeing all these rats. I was turned into a rat by Gabriela, I guess I wanna see if I sense any kind of witch magic or anything like that.

1:07:54 Brennan: Mm-hmm, go for it.

1:07:58 Murph: Perception...

1:07:58 Zac: I got perception, 20, not nat.

1:08:00 Murph: I got a 17.

1:08:01 Brennan: Cool. You're looking for magic stuff, you're looking for the Perception stuff. You see that it seems like there is still some connection, like you could reach Hell through this place. Your axe is gleaming very brightly and you actually hear your axe kind of saying to you, you for the first time hear your axe speak,

1:08:23 Axe: [dramatic, low] This is a wicked place. Ricky—

1:08:25 Ricky: [lifts axe to his ear like a phone] What's up?

1:08:27 Axe: I'm saying this is a wicked place, Ricky Matsui.

1:08:30 Ricky: It's a wicked place. Kugrash, I got a call on my axe.

1:08:34 Kugrash: Okay.

1:08:35 Ricky: This is a wicked place.

1:08:37 Kugrash: Just so you know, I think it means wicked like bad, not wicked like awesome. Just so you know.

1:08:43 Ricky: [to the axe] Do you mean wicked like bad—

1:08:44 Kugrash: He means bad, he means bad.

1:08:45 Ricky: Or wicked like cool?

1:08:47 Axe: Wicked like bad, it's a bad place.

1:08:48 Ricky: Oh, okay.

1:08:51 Brennan: You start to notice something,

1:08:52 Emily: I love the one plugged ear.

1:08:53 Brennan: Which is as you're looking for witch magic, you see that the thing that turned you into a rat, that magic, weirdly, has a sense of justice or purpose to it.

1:09:04 Murph: Mm-hmm.

1:09:05 Brennan: Like, you were turned into a rat because you deserved to be. The reason you became a rat is because your soul already looked like this. In other words, that spell didn't—

1:09:17 Murph: If I was a good guy, it wouldn't have worked.

1:09:19 Brennan: If you were a good guy, it wouldn't have worked. And the reason that your body turned into, in other words, Gabriela didn't turn you into a rat, Gabriela made your body take the form of its soul and you were destined to look like this and had you died, you would have been with these rats.

1:09:37 Kugrash: Thank you, Gabby. Fuck me.

1:09:43 Brennan: You see, you also notice and see little sort-of burning scraps of money flitting around and as you look, you see this weird thing, Nod is already kind of ephemeral, but you see, at the corner of your vision, dollar signs moving around. Ephemerally, even for Dream, they're illusory but you look up and see in the distance, the Golden Door hanging in the sky over the city and you see that literally, the thing far away in the harbor that the torch of the Statue of Liberty is lifting towards, she is pointing to the Golden Door hanging over the city and as you look up, you see there's something there that's gonna require you to look for magic, basically, but you get a feeling of—

1:10:40 Zac: Can I?

1:10:40 Brennan: Yeah.

1:10:41 Zac: Can I go to the torch of the Statue of Liberty?

1:10:43 Brennan: Yeah, you guys can fly over, absolutely.

1:10:44 Murph: Yeah, I wanna see that. [whooshing]

1:10:46 Brennan: You guys fly out. You start flying there and you see the statue turns to you,

1:10:50 Statue of Liberty: [very French accent] Hello hello, how are you doing this way, looking to see Statue of Liberty, are you here for our guided tour?

1:10:55 Ricky: I'm not here for the guided tour, I wanted to talk to you about the Golden Door and also your torch. What's going on with your torch?

1:11:02 Statue of Liberty: I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door.

1:11:05 Zac: I hold up my axe.

1:11:06 Statue of Liberty: Oh!

1:11:07 Ricky: Similar.

1:11:08 Statue of Liberty: Tres bien, it's good to see you!

1:11:10 Ricky: It's good to see you.

1:11:11 Statue of Liberty: You are one of New York's bravest, yes?

1:11:13 Ricky: I'm just doing my job.

1:11:15 Statue of Liberty: To spend your life saving those who are still doomed to die, it is an act of heroism but also of loss. You are truly a hero, Ricky Matsui.

1:11:26 Ricky: [shaking his head] Okay.

1:11:30 Brennan: You see that the statue turns to you, Kugrash, and says,

1:11:35 Statue of Liberty: Ah, and you a sturdy little rat man!

1:11:37 Kugrash: Yes.

1:11:39 Statue of Liberty: You have come here to see where I point. You can see the Golden Door. But, there is something dark at work.

1:11:48 Brennan: You guys, from this vantage point, you see that the Statue of Liberty casts this incredible glow over the city and you see that there is something issuing from and towards the Golden Door and she illuminates almost this sickly, branching cardiovascular system that appears to be overlaid on top of Dreaming and you see, like blood moving through veins, thick green dollars moving all throughout this realm. You see that they go towards the Golden Door and come from the Golden Door as though a heartbeat over the city.

1:12:31 Ricky: Is this like the wants of people? Are people dreaming about, is this like greed?

1:12:38 Kugrash: Being corrupted by money, yeah. Could we—

1:12:41 Ricky: People are always just dreaming about the things they want, right?

1:12:44 Kugrash: Yeah.

1:12:45 Brennan: You see that the statue says,

1:12:47 Statue of Liberty: The Golden Door, beyond it is a life worth living, prosperity, opportunity, the things that people came here to seek. And yet, that dream, however pure, it can be accomplished through these acts of power and wealth. The danger of course lies in losing the dream in the pursuit of your ability to obtain the dream.

1:13:17 Brennan: And Kugrash, the second she says that, you think back to your early life and what made you want to be rich in the first place. To, you know, have the power and wealth to determine your own life, freedom, your family, having them go to whatever college they wanted to go to, and at some point in the pursuit of whatever lay beyond that door, you were unfaithful to your wife, you abandoned your kids, you never went home, and you see that the Golden Door is shining but this weird overlay of rooting money is in and of itself like a virus that has wedged itself in between the door and the people seeking it and is feeding off of the dreams of this city.

1:14:06 Kugrash: Deep. Let's fly up and get a closer look at that.

1:14:10 Ricky: Okay.

1:14:12 Kugrash: Ball of dollars. To put it poetically.

1:14:14 Emily: Ballers. [giggles]

1:14:17 Brennan: You guys fly closer, go ahead and give me an Investigate check.

1:14:20 Zac: Oh, not Perception.

1:14:23 Murph: Come on. 16.

1:14:26 Zac: Investigate, 14.

1:14:29 Brennan: You guys snoop around up there. Are you guys using any magic or spells at this point or no?

1:14:36 Murph: I'm getting pretty low on spells. You know what, I might, I think I do have a level 1 spell left. I'm gonna cast...

1:14:45 Zac: Eating wasn't a short rest, right?

1:14:46 Brennan: Eating was a short rest.

1:14:47 Zac: Okay.

1:14:48 Emily: Mm!

1:14:50 Murph: I wanna try to cast Cure Wounds on this virus money that's up in the thing.

1:14:56 Brennan: You cast Cure Wounds and you see that a lot of the money shrivels and turns to dust under your hand as it would do, you think, with certain healing spells working on, it's hard to say, you wish you could've gotten a better glimpse of it, but as you burn it, you get a smell of the burning money, Ricky, and a similar smell flashes into your head that you smelled a little bit at Bethesda Fountain and it is the smell of undeath.

1:15:27 Zac: I cast Divine Sense.

1:15:29 Brennan: You see [blowing] this weird, infected blood system in the Realm of Dream and somewhere deep within it in the tangle, as it goes downtown, there is some force of undeath that is tapped into this and is not fully responsible for it but is able to command it to some degree.

1:15:53 Kugrash: The vampires, right?

1:15:55 Ricky: Seems right, yeah.

1:15:58 Brennan: And that is all that you guys are able to glean from there. And we're going to cut over to Sofia! So how's it going, you and Alejandro are flying on just like—

1:16:12 Emily: As we're flying, I just wanna turn to Alejandro and say,

1:16:14 Sofia: Alejandro, I got pretty fucked in that fight and then we had a short rest and, you know, I can roll the dice as it were to see how much I, but you have like a heal on you or anything like that?

1:16:27 Alejandro: I have nothing on me, I'm afraid, so—

1:16:29 Sofia: Kay, all right then.

1:16:33 Brennan: You, arriving, Sofia's mind is also on Dale, right? At this point?

1:16:38 Emily: No, no, that was a good pep talk that they gave us.

1:16:41 Brennan: Cool.

1:16:42 Emily: So I'm not, it's kinda like I use the gift card, I feel like I took a step in the right direction.

1:16:49 Brennan: Cool, you get to the Pearly Gates, you fly all the way off into, you're actually near, you see that the Pearly Gates are kind of hanging over where JFK Airport is.

1:16:56 Sofia: Oh my god. [magical sounds]

1:17:00 Brennan: And you see that sort of through there, you see there's like [whooshing] airplanes kinda coming in and out through Dream.

1:17:05 Emily: Okay, I like that.

1:17:08 Brennan: And you see that there's a bunch of people that kind of are passing away in New York City that get into this little airport and take off, you see way in the distance there's like pearly gates.

1:17:18 Siobhan: Wait, you gotta pay five bucks extra to take the air train to heaven? Goddammit. Everything in this city is a grift.

1:17:27 Brennan: [laughs] You and Alejandro look out and are looking up at these pearly gates. Go ahead and give me an Investigate check.

1:17:36 Emily: Okay. Hmm. It's gonna be 7.

1:17:42 Brennan: So you're kind of just sort of flummoxed by it, you're looking around, this place doesn't feel as, you know, Heaven, the force of celestial, and you see too, the Pearly Gates, you can even sense through there's other divine realms too, like maybe it's the Pearly Gates to Heaven but there's also maybe the Roman Elysium past there, maybe Valhalla somewhere past there as well.

1:18:01 Emily: Ooh.

1:18:02 Brennan: There are all of these realms but of reward and peace and lives well-lived. You are kind of taken in by the peacefulness of it and just the sort of [blowing] of these dreamy airplanes. Alejandro kind of smiles along with you and goes,

1:18:20 Alejandro: Some day I am going to go through those gates.

1:18:23 Sofia: What do you think is on the, where do you think your plane lands?

1:18:28 Alejandro: Where does my plane land?

1:18:29 Sofia: Yeah.

1:18:30 Alejandro: It lands on a runway next to beautiful buildings and happy people, kids playing out on the street with hopscotch, and my wife.

1:18:45 Sofia: Wow.

1:18:46 Alejandro: I have missed her for quite some time.

1:18:49 Brennan: As you say that, you suddenly hear,

1:18:51 Angel: Sir! Sir sir sir sir!

1:18:54 Brennan: [thumping] And you look and see a commotion up at the Pearly Gates. You see a bunch of angels absolutely getting their asses kicked.

1:19:03 Sofia: [claps] Alejandro, let's get into this!

1:19:05 Brennan: He looks up and says,

1:19:06 Alejandro: I think if we go there we might actually die. That's beyond Dreaming. That is Heaven through there.

1:19:11 Sofia: Okay, well someone's in need, so we should probably go.

1:19:14 Brennan: You see some insane [thumping] and in that sort of anime way, a bunch of [shouts] angels all fly back in a circle at the same time.

1:19:23 Sofia: Oh my god, this is like a Renaissance painting.

1:19:25 Brennan: And you see Dale, in a little white short sleeve button-up shirt, little skinny black tie, black pants, thick black-rimmed glasses, kicking a bunch of angel ass, and charging out of the pearly gates and zooming with this incredible otherworldly leap, [blowing] tears streaming down his face. Dale has the most cherubic, handsome boyish face and is just jacked as hell, incredibly muscular with a couple little, you know, little name tag for the accounting firm where he used to work and he [blowing] bam! Lands on the ground in front of you.

1:20:17 Emily: Can he see me?

1:20:18 Brennan: He can see you.

1:20:20 Sofia: Dale, what the fuck are you doing here?

1:20:24 Dale: Listen, I don't have a lot of time, sweetie. They're gonna drag me back there in a second.

1:20:31 Sofia: I don't understand. I thought you were with Isabella Infierno.

1:20:35 Brennan: He reaches out, takes your hand, and says,

1:20:41 Dale: That text was very sweet. Sweetie, I would never. I've been there.

1:20:51 Brennan: And he points to the Pearly Gates.

1:20:54 Dale: Isabella is the reason that you haven't seen me, but not for the reason you think. I haven't been in the Waking World for quite some time.

1:21:07 Sofia: So you're in Dream World?

1:21:11 Brennan: You see that you can hear angels coming. He looks down to you and says,

1:21:16 Dale: Sweetie. I know this is hard and we don't have time. I'm not alive anymore.

1:21:25 Sofia: [quietly] That's really fucked up.

1:21:27 Dale: I'm sorry that I left. You know it wouldn't have been my choice. I'm so sorry.

1:21:34 Brennan: He looks, the angels are coming closer, he's like,

1:21:38 Dale: You'd have to be crazy to leave Sofie Bikes. And I got your text. I wish you the best too.

1:21:44 Brennan: You see tears stream down his face. He goes,

1:21:49 Dale: When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like, but there is someone there, there is someone there.

1:21:56 Sofia: The top of what?

1:21:57 Brennan: You see angels grab onto his arms and begin to pull him back.

1:22:03 Emily: I'll fight the angels. I attack an angel, I use all my Ki points attacking an angel.

1:22:09 Brennan: You see Alejandro says,

1:22:10 Alejandro: I cannot, I am a bystander to this, I'd rather not attack an angel.

1:22:14 Brennan: You see that as you're hitting the angels, each time you wallop one of them you see they go,

1:22:18 Angels: I get it! Fair! I'm not taking it personally!

1:22:21 Brennan: As [pounding] But you see, eventually, go ahead and give me an Athletics check.

1:22:30 Emily: I got a 23.

1:22:31 Brennan: That's not gonna beat a Nat 20.

1:22:33 Emily: What? No they didn't!

1:22:35 Siobhan: They're angels, baby.

1:22:37 Brennan: You see they restrain you and they're bleeding from the nose and they're like,

1:22:40 Angel: We do not hold it against you, we know that you're coming from a place of rage, we get it, and we're not gonna be assholes.

1:22:45 Sofia: Oh my god, do not speak down to me!

1:22:47 Angel: Hey, no one's speaking down—

1:22:48 Sofia: But don't tell me you're just doing your job here!

1:22:50 Angel: We can't, he's gotta be, he can't be coming down here.

1:22:53 Sofia: [crying] He has a job to do on Earth! He's got deer in the backyard to watch, who's gonna watch the deer?

1:22:59 Brennan: You see Dale is almost back at the Pearly Gates and he yells out and he says,

1:23:03 Dale: Also, what's the problem with a Visa gift card, you know what you like the best!

1:23:10 Brennan: And [blowing] disappears.

1:23:11 Sofia: It was very practical!

1:23:13 Brennan: He says,

1:23:13 Dale: I try to always be practical! Tell Jackson I said hi! [whistling]

1:23:20 Sofia: Jackson?

1:23:21 Brennan: All of this—

1:23:22 Sofia: What the actual fuck? My husband is fucking dead?

1:23:27 Brennan: Alejandro looks around and says,

1:23:30 Alejandro: Well, this is a lot to process.

1:23:34 Sofia: Oh, oh okay, let me, sorry, let me fucking hold your hair back while you fucking process this. My husband's fucking dead! I thought he left me and now I find out he didn't leave me which is a cool thing but you know what's worse than that? Him being dead. So let me hold your hand through this, Alejandro.

1:23:56 Alejandro: [mumbling] So what I said, I do take back. [mumbling] That was the wrong thing to say.

1:24:01 Sofia: Yeah. I thought you might, we've all said wrong things and this was your fucking turn. Wait, so Isabella Infierno killed my fucking husband?

1:24:17 Brennan: As you say that, you feel a crackle of something around yourself and [squishing] a bunch of magic wraps around your fists as you say that.

1:24:30 Sofia: I'm gonna fucking kill her. And I don't think she's going to the great big airport in Brooklyn.

1:24:40 Brennan: We're gonna cut from there over to Glamour. Over near Carnegie Hall, this incredible three-story very swanky faerie bar [whooshing] appears and it is just decked out and gorgeous. This is very much one of those Broadway, where the stars come to drink kind of place.

1:25:00 Siobhan: I am gonna cast Disguise Self on me just because I don't want anybody snitching to Titania but it's, I'm just basically like Eliza Doolittle at the beginning of fucking...

1:25:15 Zac: Dr. Doolittle?

1:25:15 Brennan: Oh, "My Fair Lady?"

1:25:16 Siobhan: "My Fair Lady," thank you, I was like, "Pygmalion," that's not right. So I just have very obvious dirt splotches across my face and then a very silly little hat with flowers coming out.

1:25:25 Ally: I can see my dick!

1:25:26 Brennan: Incredible.

1:25:26 Misty: [exaggerated London accent] Blimey, this bar—

1:25:28 Ally: That’s not Dr. Doolittle.

1:25:29 Kingston: Do you want me to call you something else? Are you still Misty or...

1:25:35 Misty: How 'bout Liza? Cor blimey, look at this bar then!

1:25:41 Brennan: You see a little--

1:25:41 Misty: Cor blimey!

1:25:43 Brennan: You see that riding a little pot of gold is a tiny little leprechaun, crazy red muttonchops and a bowler hat with a shamrock.

1:25:51 Leprechaun: [very Irish accent] Right on and welcome to Glamour! Ho ho! Bring! [coins jingling]

1:25:54 Brennan: Gold everywhere!

1:25:55 Leprechaun: And can I be gettin' ya a drink then?

1:25:58 Misty: Yeah, I'll take one of your Manahattans, please!

1:26:01 Leprechaun: One Manahattan coming right up and for you, sir?

1:26:03 Kingston: I'll just take water? The leprechaun stares at Kingston with a flat expression for a moment.

1:26:06 Misty: He'll have a Manahattan too!

1:26:08 Leprechaun: [singing] Oh, the days of the kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper's tune!

1:26:13 Siobhan: I stand on the bar and start [waving her drink back and forth].

1:26:14 Leprechaun: [singing] Oh, for one of those hours of gladness! Gone alas like our youth too soon.

1:26:21 Brennan: [magical sounds] Two beautiful sparkling faerie drinks appear in front of you. Are you crying?

1:26:29 Ally: [wiping their eyes conspicuously] I'm fine.

1:26:30 Brennan: These two drinks appear. Yeah, two Manahattans appear. They are delicious. Go ahead and roll Investigation checks, what are you guys checking out while you're here?

1:26:40 Siobhan: Ooh, Investigation I have very low.

1:26:43 Lou: I have very high,

1:26:43 Kingston: What are we looking for?

1:26:46 Misty: [normal voice] I don't fully understand.

1:26:48 Kingston: I mean, I guess we just came to have two delicious drinks.

1:26:52 Misty: I'll have another round of Manahattans!

1:26:55 Brennan: Cool, you guys just get fucking blasted, I guess. You guys fully...

1:27:00 Kingston: What are we doing here, no, we're supposed to be looking for something, what are we—

1:27:04 Misty: See, those are the thing with Faerie, you come here for one reason and then you're like, oh, god, I can't remember.

1:27:10 Kingston: We're looking up what you see about, oh, we should—

1:27:13 Misty: The door!

1:27:14 Kingston: And his soul, we should be seeing about--

1:27:15 Misty: The soul.

1:27:16 Kingston: The soul is there.

1:27:17 Siobhan: Is there anybody around here that I feel like, let's roll for an investigation check.

1:27:22 Misty: Have you got any tiny nuts?

1:27:24 Lou: Modified 20.

1:27:26 Brennan: You see, a modified 20.

1:27:28 Siobhan: I also got a 10, that's pretty helpful, right?

1:27:30 Brennan: You see that the leprechaun goes,

1:27:33 Leprechaun: Oh, you want some snacks then? [singing a cheerful Irish jig] Misty dances along.

1:27:40 Brennan: And you see that a little ring of perfect red with white spot mushrooms grow out of the bar in a little circle.

1:27:47 Leprechaun: And good to eat they are, and good for ya as well!

1:27:49 Misty: Oh, thank you, [to Kingston] maybe you shouldn't eat these. I don't know what the human digestive system would do.

1:27:54 Kingston: Yeah great, I, you know, am good.

1:27:56 Misty: I love, thank you, this is my favorite!

1:27:58 Brennan: You see in a long, beautiful navy peacoat, this coifed, stunning man with purple eyes and sort-of elven ears, at the end of the bar, speaks to the leprechaun, and he comes over with another two small things of little absinthe shots with floating Lucky Charms in them.

1:28:19 Misty: [exaggerated accent again] Well, thank ya kindly, good sir! We are two but humble normal people here.

1:28:28 Kingston: Yeah, we're both humble and normal.

1:28:30 Brennan: You know that this guy, this person at the end of the bar, clearly is in some awareness here and you can also tell Kingston, Dream Land or not, you know when people are new to town, and this guy's new to town.

1:28:41 Kingston: Hmm. Oh, what's your name, sir?

1:28:45 Bobby: [New York accent] Oh, it's nice to meet you, my name's Bobby Goodfellow.

1:28:48 Kingston: Oh!

1:28:49 Bobby: New Yorker born and bred.

1:28:50 Kingston: Mmm.

1:28:51 Misty: [whispering] Ask him if he's related to Robin Goodfellow.

1:28:55 Brennan: The second you say that, you recognize this person's eyes. The form is different but the eyes are the same and you speak to the Puck himself.

1:29:04 Misty: [normal accent] Oh, hello. Darling, it's so good to see you.

1:29:08 Bobby: Good to see you. I understand that I guess all of our mutual glamor's fallen away.

1:29:14 Misty: Ah, well, you know. L’chaim!

1:29:18 Bobby: Hey, sláinte. [sipping]

1:29:21 Kingston: Do you know each other?

1:29:23 Bobby: You might've read about me. Puck, Robin Goodfellow, if we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended?

1:29:28 Misty: He does a great bit where he pretends to be a stool and then whips himself away at the last minute. If that's ever happened to you, that was probably him.

1:29:36 Bobby: That's me.

1:29:37 Misty: It's a great bit, it's a great bit, every time you do it, it's funny.

1:29:40 Brennan: You see that the costume of Bobby Goodfellow disappears and there is a tiny little butterfly-winged goat satyr boy standing there with fuzzy ears with a little wineskin hanging around his bare chest.

1:29:55 Misty: How's that bitch Peaseblossom?

1:29:57 Brennan: He says,

1:29:59 Robin: [London accent] Oh, she's just awful, she's always chattering on—

1:30:02 Misty: Oh god, still?

1:30:04 Robin: Terrible, yes, true! [seriously] Listen, love. I've come to tell you she's coming for you.

1:30:14 Misty: How?

1:30:15 Robin: You got my mirror, didn't you?

1:30:17 Misty: That was your mirror?

1:30:18 Robin: Sorry, gotta do what the orders are, Lord Oberon demanded it.

1:30:22 Misty: [disapproving] Oh no, she's not back with Oberon, is she?

1:30:26 Robin: I think they're just fucking, I don't think that they've moved in together again.

1:30:30 Misty: God, it's the worst when they're together because then they're like trying to one up each other with helping but it just fucks everybody else over and then, ugh, it's exhausting.

1:30:40 Kingston: You're talking about all the characters in the play, right, the play you're doing? These are real people?

1:30:45 Misty: Yes, I mean Shakespeare was a great bard and spent a lot of time in his youth in Faerie.

1:30:52 Brennan: You see that Robin looks at you and just goes,

1:30:58 Robin: I've come to warn you, right?

1:30:59 Brennan: And looks around [whooshing] puts Bobby Goodfellow back up.

1:31:03 Bobby: Darlin', you gotta understand, you owe centuries of glamor. She's coming for you and she's coming for the Don as well. [waggles his fingers] He has not been paying his taxes like he should.

1:31:17 Misty: [exaggerated accent] Darling, I get my glamor from the people of New York City and all of the bridge and tunnel people that come and watch my shows, I don't owe nothing to Titania.

1:31:26 Bobby: Well, you and her are gonna have to hash that out.

1:31:29 Brennan: You see this is like the most theater bar in the world 'cause everyone's changing their disguises and doing accents for each other. Someone's all,

1:31:35 Faerie: [Scottish, camp] Right no, a Scottish accent's like this, no this, no this, like this, no, deeper, deeper, from the resonant here.

1:31:43 Brennan: Just a bunch of faerie actors all talking to each other.

1:31:46 Siobhan: Nightmare.

1:31:47 Brennan: He looks over at you and says,

1:31:50 Bobby: Also. You gotta know, sweetheart, Titania's heard. Something's happening in New York. The world of mortals is not long for this world. Come home. We miss you.

1:32:07 Misty: [groaning] Ah.

1:32:08 Kingston: Hey, buddy, what was that? What was that you said about the world of mortals?

1:32:13 Bobby: Hey. Best of luck to you.

1:32:17 Brennan: You see he looks and says,

1:32:18 Bobby: You wanna throw in your lot with a bunch of humans?

1:32:22 Misty: I mean, look. Here's the great thing about humans. They're mutable, they're changeable, everything in Faerie is just always the same and then you're just there and you're immortal and then you're like, I guess I'll throw out these flower petals on the bed again 'cause that's the thing that I do every day and then I'm, it's like, the only, that's why people are always doing tricks, you know, 'cause it's so boring there, it's like, well, all I can do is go to the mortal realm and fuck with people!

1:32:51 Brennan: You see that Bobby Goodfellow says,

1:32:55 Bobby: Your call.

1:32:56 Misty: Aren't you… baby, come here, I have a great agent and I'm sure he would love to see you come and play in New York.

1:33:04 Brennan: You see he smiles and says,

1:33:06 Bobby: When the chips are down, remember who your people are, Misty.

1:33:10 Brennan: And vanishes.

1:33:12 Misty: I will! I'll remember!

1:33:14 Brennan: You see that [blows] he vanishes and Kingston, you look around at all these faeries looking at you like they know something that you don't.

1:33:22 Kingston: I don't like this place. I felt like I had no, I'd like to leave. Can we go?

1:33:30 Misty: Folks, if you wanna learn an authentic New York accent, you talk to my friend Kingston Brown over here.

1:33:36 Brennan: A bunch of faeries,

1:33:36 Faeries: Teach us your accent! Teach us his accent!

1:33:39 Kingston: No, I'm good, I don't really, I don't really have one, I don't talk like… I don't, goodbye!

1:33:46 Brennan: You split, awesome. Pete, you head over to this incredible museum that is in the middle of Central Park where in real life there is no museum, it's halfway between the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's resting there, it's at a weird, funny little angle, and you see that there's all this magic pouring into it of all the memories of people in New York.

1:34:10 Ally: Cool.

1:34:11 Brennan: And Nod, actually says,

1:34:15 Nod: Come on in.

1:34:16 Pete: Is there entry or is it like a pay what you can kinda thing?

1:34:19 Nod: There's a suggested donation but—

1:34:20 Pete: Fuck yeah, let's go. Let's just go walk right in, just kinda, you know.

1:34:25 Brennan: And you see Nod kind of pulls out their little dress pockets and a little dream moth flies out, and you see it says,

1:34:31 Moth: Bunch of bums, you’re bums!

1:34:34 Pete: Art should be free!

1:34:37 Brennan: You fucking walk in and start looking at this place. You feel, as you walk in here, your wild magic surge at the vampire club coupled with your True Strike that you cast on Robert, as you're walking through the thing of memories, you start hearing his voice in your head but you think that it is not him talking to you. You think you might have fucked him up so much with your explosion that you're walking around in his mind right now.

1:35:10 Ally: Okay, like the room I'm in is his mind.

1:35:13 Brennan: Yeah, well you can feel him in your mind as you start walking through all these exhibits and the exhibits are of the incredible deeds of all the previous Vox Phantasma that have been in New York City. And Nod just starts to kind of show you things, the art kind of comes to life and moves around, it's like the dopest museum you've ever been in because all of the exhibits are moving and changing and chimeric and flowing. And we can actually update two things on your sheet right now.

1:35:41 Ally: Cool!

1:35:42 Brennan: You are proficient in Arcana as of this exact moment as you begin to absorb all the memories of the previous Vox Phantasma.

1:35:47 Ally: What does that mean? What does it go up to?

1:35:49 Brennan: You add your proficiency bonus.

1:35:50 Ally: Oh, sick.

1:35:52 Brennan: Add your proficiency bonus.

1:35:54 Ally: Damn! Yeah!

1:35:55 Brennan: Aw hell yeah. And Nod asks you as you start to absorb all this awesome and you are fully getting, like you see this rich woman in the 1920s throwing these giant parties and making the dream of the Gilded Age come to life and you see Emma Lazarus in the mid to late 1800s writing "The New Colossus" and this dream of America being this place and people coming to New York to start a new life and basically that each Vox Phantasma has summoned forth this time of dreams and change and chaos and it was up to them whether that chaos would change things for better or for worse.

1:36:34 Ally: Cool.

1:36:37 Brennan: You see that, as you're running through, Nod says,

1:36:42 Nod: For your magic, I leave it up to you. Do you wish to have the wildness of your magic be restrained or do you wish to embrace it and by embracing it, seek to mold it towards your vision?

1:37:06 Pete: Ooh.

1:37:07 Brennan: You see that Nod explains,

1:37:09 Nod: You will, if you choose to restrain it, your bursts will happen more infrequently. If you choose to embrace it, they will happen as often, but you may have some say in how they manifest.

1:37:25 Pete: I like that. So far they've been great. They've really protected me and looked out for me but what's the worst thing that could happen in a wild magic surge?

1:37:34 Brennan: You see that Nod, they shrug and go,

1:37:38 Nod: Chaos is chaos. Dreams have a role to play in the Waking World and sometimes, it shakes things up.

1:37:46 Pete: Could I kill everyone I love?

1:37:50 Nod: There's a risk of that, but, whether you choose to embrace it or restrain it, you will have powers at your disposal to help you avoid that.

1:38:02 Pete: I say embrace it. [whooshing]

1:38:04 Brennan: You continue to roll Wild Magic normally, but now you will roll with advantage on the D100 that I roll back here.

1:38:13 Ally: Oh, cool.

1:38:14 Brennan: Meaning that you'll get two possible effects and you can choose between them.

1:38:16 Ally: Fuck, cool!

1:38:17 Siobhan: God, that's dope.

1:38:18 Emily: Yeah.

1:38:18 Ally: That's awesome. Fuck, Yah!

1:38:21 Brennan: Yeah, you see, you're beginning to understand your magic, you're learning it and teaching it.

1:38:25 Ally: I reach into my pocket and pull out a little baggie but it has cherry tomatoes in it.

1:38:32 Brennan: Pop a cherry tomato. Nice healthy snack, you're learning your shit.

1:38:35 Pete: Ricky's got a lotta great tips.

1:38:40 Brennan: As you walk through, but yet you do hear Robert's voice partially and you're partially in his mind.

1:38:45 Ally: Cool.

1:38:48 Brennan: As you walk through, you see you enter a little hall here 'cause this is all the memories of everyone that's ever lived in New York. You do see a hall here and see that there are names on the exhibits of Kugrash, Misty Moore, Ricky Matsui, Sofia Lee, and Kingston Brown.

1:39:09 Ally: I look at them.

1:39:11 Brennan: You think that it's getting late, late as the hour of the day, you could probably have time for one.

1:39:19 Ally: [sucks in a breath] I mean Kingston, duh.

1:39:23 Brennan: You begin to walk through Kingston Brown's life.

1:39:31 Ally: I feel bad that I'm doing this but I'm just like, that's the person I'm connected with, for better and worse, the most.

1:39:38 Brennan: You walk through and you hear two voices running through you. It gets really weird and trippy here as you're going into someone's active memories. You hear Nod speaking and at the same time, you hear Robert's subconscious mind speaking as well, like almost as though he is unfocused and getting weird images of this, not in his conscious mind, but in his subconscious somewhere.

1:40:04 Ally: Oh, wait. If I'm doing this, will Robert then have some of Kingston's memories at his disposal?

1:40:11 Brennan: You don't think so.

1:40:13 Ally: Okay okay, cool cool.

1:40:15 Brennan: You think that weirdly it's like, you just have a weird connection to Robert now because you surged on him so hard.

1:40:20 Ally: Cool, cool cool.

1:40:23 Brennan: You start to go through Kingston Brown's life. You see, you know, in the late 60s, early 70s, a young boy running through the streets of Harlem, surrounded by family and community.

1:40:41 Pete: Ah, look at you.

1:40:43 Brennan: Lou, you see passing images of things. Lou, I'm gonna throw a curveball at you right here,

1:40:52 Lou: Of course.

1:40:53 Brennan: I'm gonna ask you to play Kingston Brown throughout the ages.

1:40:54 Lou: You got it. [soft jazz]

1:40:58 Brennan: You see Kingston Brown as like a six year-old watching as a young girl on this playground outside of a public school is crying over in a corner with a skinned knee, having been pushed down by some of the other boys here on the playground. What does Kingston, young, seven, eight year-old Kingston do?

1:41:21 Kingston: Excuse me?

1:41:23 Young Girl: Yeah?

1:41:24 Kingston: Do you need a band-aid?

1:41:26 Young Girl: They wouldn't let me play the game with them.

1:41:29 Kingston: Hey, that's fine. Kids can be mean but we can get that patched up, and then we can play.

1:41:36 Brennan: You see [whooshing] the scene shifts to Kingston—

1:41:39 Pete: What a good guy.

1:41:40 Brennan: Kingston giving up his own recess to walk this little girl to the nurse's office and showing up there and being there with her while she gets a band-aid on her knee. We cut over to [whooshing] Kingston in his sort of teenage years, a little bit younger. You see that Kingston, this is a time in your life where your grandmother, who's no longer with you in the present day, is very ill, and you see that there's a meeting at school where there is sort of a teacher talking and speaking to both of your parents, Winston and Victoria, and saying,

1:42:22 Teacher: Kingston is a very gifted athlete. We would be able to take him around the country, you'd travel around, he would obviously not be able to be here in New York, but this is a potential for Kingston to really shine.

1:42:39 Brennan: And you see your parents kind of look at each other and look at Kingston.

1:42:44 Kingston: I can't. Not when Grandma's sick. Maybe we can talk about it in the future but, I'm sorry, but I need to be here. [whooshing]

1:42:55 Brennan: We see a Kingston in his college years speaking to an admittance counselor to high school saying,

1:43:04 Counselor: With these scores, Kingston, if you're interested in medicine, you could be a doctor, you could be making hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, I mean that's hyperbole, but you could be making a lot of money.

1:43:16 Kingston: Yeah, but the problem, I mean, is there anywhere in my neighborhood where I could stay because I'm not really trying to be too far away, I mean, especially 'cause I know it's about eight years of school and that's just a long time to be so far.

1:43:27 Counselor: But we're talking about scholarships to Cornell, we're talking about places where you could… Think of yourself!

1:43:34 Kingston: Yeah, I mean, that's easy to do. But there has to be a way to make this work here. [whooshing]

1:43:43 Brennan: You see a Kingston around the age of 30. This whole time in your head, you hear Nod going,

1:43:51 Nod: Dreams and the Waking World. You represent the force of an individual's dream, the need for a person to be themselves and shine their own light. Kingston represents the other side. He has always and forever made the choice to serve those around him.

1:44:14 Brennan: And you hear Robert going,

1:44:16 Robert: Fuckin' schmuck. Look at this fuckin' idiot. Every advantage and opportunity thrown away and for what?

1:44:24 Brennan: And you see [whooshing] Kingston is 30. There is this insane dragon on Bleecker Street, like this long, multi-legged dragon handing him this subway token and saying,

1:44:37 Dragon: [deep, important voice] You will be the Vox Populi of New York City.

1:44:41 Kingston: You're gonna have to say that again, Vox what?

1:44:46 Dragon: You have given of yourself time and time again

1:44:50 Brennan: And now images staggered up and up and up, just like Kingston missing a party to help someone move, Kingston showing up at someone's doorstep with food, Kingston showing up at a rally for the neighborhood, Kingston showing up at City Hall to speak on behalf of people that can't speak for themselves, like over and over and over and over and over again and the entire city, you can hear,

1:45:11 New Yorkers: Thanks, Kingston, thank you, thanks, Kingston, thank you, thank you.

1:45:14 Brennan: And all of those "thank yous" [whooshing] flooding into Kingston's body, and you hear Robert in your head say,

1:45:22 Robert: No. Everybody's got one time they do something selfish. Everybody's got one time. They make the call to enrich themselves. That's in our nature.

1:45:34 Brennan: And you see a young Kingston Brown looking at Liz Herrera walking down the street and Nod saying,

1:45:42 Nod: To invite her into his world would be taking all of what was destined for her and forcing her into the madness of the Unsleeping City.

1:45:53 Brennan: But you see this bond of true love connecting the two of them and you see Kingston's heart break and reach out and he and Liz twirl around in memory until many years later, you see him and Liz and Liz saying,

1:46:10 Liz: We could have a house, we could have a car, we could have kids!

1:46:14 Kingston: I can't leave the city. I've explained this before, all right, you can go but I have to be here.

1:46:20 Liz: Where are my… You could get your doctorate and we could have a good life together.

1:46:27 Kingston: I don't, that's not a good life. Not for me. My good life is here. And with you. But it has to be here.

1:46:37 Brennan: You see she looks and says,

1:46:39 Liz: Then I think our lives shouldn't be together.

1:46:41 Brennan: And vanishes, and you see that images of possible futures, you're at the edge of memory now, going back into dream, and you see Kingston with an ephemeral changing happy child in his arms and that [whooshing] vanishes. And you hear Nod say,

1:47:06 Nod: Dreams and the Waking World, often at odds.

1:47:10 Brennan: And Robert says,

1:47:12 Robert: Only a fool would give up what he wants. Look at all that that idiot sacrificed and for what? To be alone and sad.

1:47:23 Brennan: And [whooshing] vanishes, and you are at the exit of the museum.

1:47:28 Pete: Whoa, dang.

1:47:33 Brennan: You see that Nod holds your hand and says,

1:47:38 Nod: Dreams and wishes are your domain. Not Kingston's, I'm afraid.

1:47:43 Pete: Yeah, dang. Well, cool. I feel like I understand him a lot more.

1:47:49 Brennan: You see that Nod sort of agrees and goes,

1:47:53 Nod: I think a lot of what's different about you probably makes sense. Kingston's given his whole life to make sure that people and places and communities thrive based on his effort and sacrifice. But those things, like family and community, were never there for you.

1:48:11 Pete: Yeah. Yeah, I don't have that connection at all. Whoa.

1:48:16 Brennan: You see Nod looks and says,

1:48:17 Nod: I know I'm not supposed to say this because I'm [points up] Team Dream, but there's something to be learned from both, I think.

1:48:24 Brennan: And you guys come back from your various quests and missions. You guys appear back at the L Train. Wally gets it moving again, Nod waves and says,

1:48:38 Nod: I'll see you guys in a little while, I'll be here and again, I'll keep this place as safe as I can.

1:48:43 Brennan: You guys look variously blasted from Manahattans, and also extremely haunted.

1:48:49 Ally: I go straight up to Kingston like,

1:48:50 Pete: Kingston, look, I went to this museum and I got to pick one person from the party whose life I could go through—

1:48:55 Misty: [singing] I wanna be a part of it!

1:48:56 Pete: And I picked you and I feel like I've seen a lot of things you didn't tell me and I'm sorry.

1:49:00 Misty: New York, New York!

1:49:01 Kingston: What?

1:49:02 Ally: And then I hug you.

1:49:05 Kingston: Aww. [hesitantly pats his back]

1:49:06 Brennan: As you leave Dreaming and cross Dreaming to the Waking World and Pete gives you this hug, your see that both of your magics intertwine, intermingle, and for a second, Sofia, you look and see that yin and yang from the Monastery of the Midnight Sun complete above their head and something broken in New York is made whole. You continue on your way, you've arrived back at the Union Square Subway Station.

1:49:35 Misty: There's a great pizza place and I really want some pizza, just, on University Place, just right by the bookstore, we could… Does anybody wanna buy a book?

1:49:46 Ricky: We saw, we saw--

1:49:47 Kugrash: Yeah, we saw some kind of greed money ball as it were, not the film, or the book.

1:49:53 Pete: I love that...

1:49:58 Kingston: You guys watched "Money Ball" during this?

1:50:01 Pete: You guys just watched "Money Ball?"

1:50:02 Misty: I love that movie.

1:50:03 Kugrash: We didn't watch "Money Ball!" We think that

1:50:05 Ricky: I could go watch that movie.

1:50:05 Pete: With skinny Jonna?

1:50:06 Kugrash: Greed, okay, greed--

1:50:07 Sofia: Wish I watched fucking--

1:50:08 Kugrash: Greed has some part to play in what's going on here, there was some kind of sort of cosmic greed that was sickening the city and we, there was blood, cursed blood too, it's vampire stuff, it seems.

1:50:22 Pete: Hmm.

1:50:23 Ricky: I think I'm just gonna drink this 1000 hour energy right now.

1:50:26 Pete: Cool. Ricky downs it.

1:50:26 Kingston: Should we head to that—

1:50:28 Kugrash: What's it, Sof, are you okay? You look shocked and angry.

1:50:32 Sofia: Doesn't really affect any of your lives, but my husband is dead.

1:50:35 Pete: What?

1:50:36 Sofia: He didn't actually leave me, he was killed.

1:50:39 Misty: Oh, that's good— is that bad? Is that good?

1:50:40 Sofia: Or killed, I don't know, honestly, we didn't really speak in, it was all sort of vague--

1:50:45 Misty: So what's up with that bitch who stole your husband? Do you want us to go fuck her up?

1:50:50 Sofia: Yeah, I do wanna fuck her up.

1:50:52 Kugrash: What?

1:50:53 Sofia: I don't even know though, if she killed him or—

1:50:54 Misty: I'll fuck her up!

1:50:55 Sofia: I think she killed him, but I can't even leap to those kind of conclusions, all I know is that he did not, in fact, leave me and he is, in fact, dead.

1:51:04 Zac: Do I still have Divine Sense active?

1:51:05 Brennan: Yes, you do, yeah.

1:51:06 Zac: I'm just wondering if there's anything near.

1:51:09 Brennan: While you guys are looking around, you guys are also still very fucked up from the battle so you guys might wanna like head home and rest and recuperate and stuff like that. The next day, you guys see that actually, this next day—

1:51:23 Siobhan: Ah, thank god.

1:51:24 Brennan: Is the 20th of December, which is Priya's art show over in Brooklyn.

1:51:30 Ally: Oh, great. I've given the Polaroid around to everyone as the invite and only Kugrash refused.

1:51:37 Kugrash: I'm not fucking taking, that's weird--

1:51:39 Pete: It's cool!

1:51:40 Kugrash: I'll crawl through a fucking vent before I do that.

1:51:42 Pete: Ah, come on.

1:51:43 Brennan: So you guys all have this invitation to this art show that you're headed to. That day, before the art show, some people, I'm sure, have stuff they gotta do, Sofia.

1:51:54 Emily: I wanted to stop by and see Mario. I think I'll probably still go through the motions of that.

1:52:00 Brennan: You find Mario on Staten Island. He's not there with the whole family, but you stop by the family house while Mario's there.

1:52:09 Emily: Okay.

1:52:10 Brennan: He looks up and goes,

1:52:11 Mario: Hey, Sof, finally, geez, cancel at the last minute, what's the fucking deal? You got started to look at some alligator shoes, I actually think I fixed the prob. [tense bass music]

1:52:18 Sofia: Okay, I don't need this whole fucking dog and pony show, I'm honestly more of a cat person, so just get to the fucking point of it. What the fuck is our family doing consorting, also how long have you been seeing the Unsleeping City and you never once thought to mention it to your sister?

1:52:36 Mario: Look. We fucked up. You know that Dad had ties to the mob for a long time. We pushed our luck a little bit and got into the Confettis. There's something going on with Confetti and there's a representative from—

1:52:56 Sofia: Is it Robert Moses?

1:52:58 Brennan: He looks shocked that you know that name. He goes,

1:53:03 Mario: Basically, Robert… Robert asked us to shuttle money, launder it from the Confettis, and by money, I mean crazy shit like baubles and you know, chunks of magic shit and all this crazy stuff that was part of stuff that Confetti was paying to a representative from Hell.  This is a person who's been working with Moses for a long time.

1:53:36 Brennan: Make an Insight check.

1:53:40 Emily: 15.

1:53:43 Brennan: He's—

1:53:44 Emily: Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, 17.

1:53:47 Brennan: He's treading carefully around a thing that has to do with Dale, you can tell.

1:53:53 Sofia: Okay. Again, just be way more direct, I know that Dale is dead, I know that he's not with Isabella Infierno, I don't know what the fuck happened but I have a feeling that you do.

1:54:05 Mario: Okay. You know how you often called Isabella Infierno a succubus?

1:54:12 Sofia: Yes? It was small of me, I know, I hate it when women go after other women—

1:54:17 Mario: Sofie, Sofie, shut up shut up shut up.

1:54:19 Sofia: I know there was—

1:54:19 Mario: Sofie, it's not, no. You—

1:54:22 Sofia: Look, I don't need you to preach to me why I was—

1:54:24 Mario: Sofie, she is a succubus!

1:54:26 Sofia: Oh my— Nod. [cast laughs]

1:54:30 Ally: Oh my Nod?

1:54:31 Brennan: Oh my Nod.

1:54:32 Mario: Sofie, you were fucking right. Isabella was a succubus. We were laundering money from the Confettis to her and Dale was—

1:54:42 Sofia: To her, she's the representative?

1:54:44 Mario: She was sent from Hell to look at—

1:54:47 Sofia: So she's tied in with Robert Moses.

1:54:50 Mario: Yes. And Dale started, you know, Dale was an accountant, and he started looking at the books and adding things up and he got close and—

1:55:05 Sofia: So who called the shot to have my husband killed because right now, I cannot confidently 100 percent say that it was not my own fucking family.

1:55:16 Mario: Look. Did we know it was gonna happen? Yeah, but he wasn't from the neighborhood. He was not right for you. He was a... he was a… You know, he was a, this… You know that he was into some kind of magic, right? He was like a chosen one from this monastery or whatever. He was some champion who was trained to stop something or other and he was fucking around and he was nosy and he got his nose into some bad people's business. Did we do it, no. Did we call the shot, no.

1:55:50 Sofia: All right, well, the only reason I'm not gonna go after you right now is because I'm not organized enough to give you the fucking revenge you deserve.

1:56:00 Brennan: You see that he just sort of shakes there a little bit and he's like,

1:56:04 Mario: Sof, if you go after Isabella, you got no idea how fucking powerful she is.

1:56:10 Sofia: Maybe you should've said that to Isabella before she went after me.

1:56:14 Brennan: You see… You hear a purring behind you. [purring] And raised hackles and extended claws.

1:56:25 La Gran Gata: Mija. Let's go hunting together, you and I.

1:56:30 Sofia: Yeah. I'm ready to sniff out, not rats though, rats are my friends. Kug is a rat, we're not going after rats.

1:56:36 La Gran Gata: We could get some rats later.

1:56:38 Sofia: Okay, no rats, can we just do mice instead of rats? La Gran Gata nods, appeased.

1:56:41 Brennan: You see—

1:56:41 Sofia: Okay.

1:56:45 Brennan: And you take off into the city. The rest of you guys variously show up at this old Brooklyn brownstone loft art space. Ricky, immediately you're looking around, and it's like, the windows are barred with iron and there's no active sprinkler system and—

1:57:07 Ricky: [thumping on the wall] I don't know.

1:57:09 Pete: We gotta go in, man, come on.

1:57:10 Ricky: We do, okay. But if I see anything, I'll say something.

1:57:14 Pete: Okay.

1:57:16 Brennan: You guys enter the space. You know that Priya wanted to talk to you here. You look up into this loft space and see a bunch of people gathered around this kitchen table and you see that there's also a roof party sort of upstairs. As you go, Priya goes,

1:57:35 Priya: Peter, darling, I'm so glad you're here. Come with me.

1:57:39 Brennan: And she takes your hand and leads you through this art space to this table in the middle of a bunch of onlooking people and has you sit down and says,

1:57:49 Priya: I present to all of you, "Cruelty: An Exploration of a Relationship." Peter, put your hands in my hands.

1:58:04 Pete: Not only is this so fucked up, this is a pure ripoff of a very popular performance art piece. This is so dumb.

1:58:16 Brennan: You see everyone gasps and Priya goes like,

1:58:20 Priya: What the fuck is wrong with you?

1:58:21 Pete: If you're gonna publicly fuck with me, at least let it be original. [cheering]

1:58:27 Siobhan: [clapping] Yes, bitch!

1:58:29 Brennan: You see—

1:58:29 Kingston: [yelling] Picasso is art, this is bullshit!

1:58:33 Sofia: Is there free wine at this?

1:58:33 Brennan: You see as Kingston—

1:58:34 Ricky: This place is not up to code!

1:58:37 Brennan: As Kingston yells that, you feel your heart, Kingston's approval of this moment fully heals your broken heart. Ally, grinning fiercely, takes a deep breath and lets it out, relieved.

1:58:44 Brennan: You can write down on your character sheet, "Over Priya Danger."

1:58:48 Ally: Yeah!

1:58:51 Brennan: Sofia—

1:58:52 Siobhan: Her last name is Danger? I hate this bitch.

1:58:54 Sofia: Priya Danger.

1:58:56 Brennan: Sofia, you burst through the door downstairs and with that, I think, we'll decide where some of you are in a moment. Who is, there's also a big rooftop party where there's food and stuff, who thinks they would be upstairs at the bigger party with the food, who thinks they'd be on the middle story watching Pete and Priya?

1:59:16 Siobhan: I mean, I'll always see a show.

1:59:19 Brennan: [points to Siobhan] Middle.

1:59:19 Lou: Pete.

1:59:20 Brennan: With Pete.

1:59:21 Murph: I'm probably on the roof.

1:59:22 Brennan: On the roof, scarfing food. Sofia, you burst through the lower level.

1:59:26 Zac: It's just two levels?

1:59:28 Brennan: Three levels, there's a rooftop party happening as well. Actually Sofia, you have crazy jumping, I'm gonna say that you probably show up on the roof as well.

1:59:34 Emily: Yeah.

1:59:35 Brennan: With La Gran Gata.

1:59:36 Emily: I think I'm just jumping roof to roof.

1:59:37 Brennan: Yeah.

1:59:38 Emily: Any time that there's a rooftop party, I'm grabbing a drink along the way. [sipping] Ally laughs and, with their fingers, mimes a little person jumping between buildings and stopping to sip.

1:59:43 Zac: I think I'm at the entrance to the second floor.

1:59:46 Brennan: Cool.

1:59:47 Zac: 'Cause like, figuring out what's okay.

1:59:49 Brennan: Cool, awesome. Rad. You, as you say this the people start [cheering] Ricky, you're looking around. You smell smoke.

2:00:02 Ricky: Fire! Everyone!

2:00:05 Brennan: You hear up on the roof, Sofia, a voice say,

2:00:10 Isabella: Oh, Sofie Bikes. I didn't think you were classy enough to go to an art show.

2:00:16 Brennan: And you see Isabella Infierno, and all around her on the roof [whooshing] fire and people scream.

2:00:24 Sofia: This from a fucking woman who went to a David's Bridal, bought a dress, and doesn't even have a wedding?]

2:00:32 Isabella: [offended] I do have a wedding. Just not to your stupid, dead husband.

2:00:38 Emily: I mean, I attack her. [cast laughing]

2:00:40 Brennan: Roll initiative! And that's it for this episode of The Unsleeping City. Tune in next time, where things heat up at this art show. See ya then! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 10: Panic at the Art Show] [NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION 20]

2:00:53 Brennan: Ah, there's a fire in the building! The downstairs is already fully engulfed in—

2:00:57 Lou: Holy fuck.

2:00:58 Brennan: You see a water tower, this is an old condemned building, there may be water in it, there may not be. You breathe in the noxious smoke.

2:01:05 Sofia: Oh my god, I'm gonna go down before I kill this bitch.

2:01:07 Brennan: A bunch of artsy devils appear.

2:01:11 Siobhan: These guys have already fucked us up so much and I don't know how to stop 'em.

2:01:14 Kingston: Willy, is that you?

2:01:16 Art Devil: Is this your dog? Dalmatian?

2:01:18 Ricky: Yeah, why?

2:01:19 Isabella: All of you fucking bitches are gonna burn. You're all gonna burn.

2:01:24 Emily: You fucking kidding me?

2:01:26 Siobhan: What, are you fucking kidding me? Edited by: gluegunshots, Tillie the Paladin, rowan solsys