Hall of Heroes

0:00:00 Brennan: Robert Moses is here, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. There is insane money magic happening here. And he is casting magic through this web in the dream realm, though he cannot enter it.

0:00:18 Emily: That is so mean! I hate this motherfucker! [Ally laughs]

0:00:21 Brennan: Those are vampires piloting kiosk mechs.

0:00:25 Robert: One of 'em's gotta go.

0:00:27 Brennan: You watch Pete's life leave his body.

0:00:30 Kingston: Come on! We got work to do!

0:00:32 Brennan: Boom! You are, whoom! Sucked out of the dream realm, back into your body.

0:00:36 Pete: Ahh, dad!

0:00:37 Brennan: And the door opens. [maniacal laughter]

0:00:42 Robert: I'll see you in the funny papers.

0:00:44 Brennan: Whoom, and you take his fuckin' head off. [imitates splattering]

0:00:47 Zac: That felt bad.

0:00:48 Alejandro: The door's open, the ritual is done, the paragon cannot come through without a great act of magic.

0:00:54 Rowan: Fuck, he wanted us to kill him! [END RECAP] [dramatic music]

0:01:04 Brennan: Play some D&D?

0:01:05 Lou: Sure.

0:01:06 Emily: Yes.

0:01:07 Siobhan: Spicy! D&D!

0:01:08 Lou: Yummy, yummy.

0:01:08 Brennan: Hell yes, some spicy D&D. Welcome, one and all, to another exciting episode of The Unsleeping City. My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan, these are our intrepid heroes, say hi, intrepid heroes!

0:01:21 Ally: Good morning!

0:01:23 All: Hi intrepid heroes!

0:01:25 Emily: Good morning!

0:01:25 Lou: Good morning.

0:01:26 Siobhan: It’s morning right now. We’re awake!

0:01:26 Ally: It's 7 AM!

0:01:27 Siobhan: Oh my God, it's so early.

0:01:28 Brennan: It's important for you guys to know if you're like, what's going on with this episode, we're shooting early today, because, because—

0:01:34 Siobhan: Brunches and Dragons. Both Siobhan and Zac are drinking coffee.

0:01:36 Brennan: Brunches and Dragons?

0:01:38 Ally: I spilled my peanuts everywhere.

0:01:40 Lou: That's how early it is. Ally's spillin' peanuts.

0:01:42 Emily: Put them back, dude, you're just eating—

0:01:44 Ally: I'm just gonna fish them out among my dice.

0:01:46 Siobhan: So nasty. All of those dice have been on the floor because you're so bad at throwing.

0:01:49 Ally: Fuck you, nat 20 and you die! 9!

0:01:54 Zac: A new die?

0:01:57 Brennan: Last we left off, our intrepid heroes were on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, many of them having been gravely injured by the foul, necromantic powers of vampires, and the lich Robert Moses. Some of our heroes have indeed had their hit point maximum drastically reduced, they are battered, bloody, bruised, and beaten, having spent many spells and much blood and some treasure, including the Holy Grail Detergent, fighting the forces of evil in the New York Stock Exchange. Robert Moses was destroyed, but his spirit fled out of the New York Stock Exchange across the city, you guys summoned Alejandro, who looks desperate and, or not you guys, but Pete summoned Alejandro, who looks frightened and scared and desperate, and you guys are now on the dais, having looked up in The Big Book of Bits and Bobbins, all that has to do with the time stone, you also have Santa's list here, which I don't believe I described last time, but if there are any questions about who is on which part of the list—

0:03:07 Ally: Am I on it?

0:03:08 Siobhan: Am I on it?

0:03:09 Brennan: You are not. Rowan is not a human, a person, so Rowan does not-- Humans don't get to be on Santa's list? Non-humans don't get to be on Santa's list? Emily is, confusingly, miming to Murph that he should eat the Bagel of All Things. They have a mouthed conversation that Murph doesn’t seem to understand.

0:03:19 Brennan: Fairies are exempt from the moral frameworks of mortals.

0:03:23 Siobhan: Great, well. Narnia it is for me.

0:03:29 Zac: Flash.

0:03:30 Brennan: What did you just take a picture of over there?

0:03:31 Ally: Sorry, the nuts look insane.

0:03:34 Lou: Brennan, if you can take pictures during games, we can take pictures as well.

0:03:37 Ally: Yeah. Is Pete on the list?

0:03:40 Brennan: Pete is on the list.

0:03:41 Ally: [strained] On the good list?

0:03:42 Brennan: Pete's on the naughty list.

0:03:43 Ally: No! Honestly, obviously.

0:03:46 Emily: I'm assuming Sofia's on the good list.

0:03:48 Brennan: Sofia's on the nice list.

0:03:49 Ally: Isn't it like an elastic list? Like if I'm starting to be good—

0:03:54 Zac: You're still selling drugs to children.

0:03:55 Ally: But I'm not happy about it.

0:03:57 Zac: You could stop.

0:03:59 Emily: How thick and bold is the print on Pete? Does it look like it's faded a little bit?

0:04:03 Ally: Yeah.

0:04:04 Brennan: All of the print here is a delightful, festive, jolly calligraphy in a bold, red fountain pen. It looks that Santa happily transcribed everyone's names on this list, at whatever point that he made them with the same festive, jolly spirit, even though half of these people on one half of the list are doomed to damnation.

0:04:25 Ally: Where's, hmm.

0:04:26 Emily: Where's Kingston?

0:04:26 Murph: Where's Kugrash?

0:04:29 Siobhan: It feels like also it makes me like Santa less that he's like, yes, absolutely, I will doom these people. And I'll put coal, so they'll have a miserable time during their lifetime, and then a miserable time--

0:04:39 Ally: Yeah, adding the hell factor is like, ooh, Santa.

0:04:42 Emily: Right, but did he know, did Santa know?

0:04:43 Siobhan: Yeah, he absolutely knew. He sold them to him, for money.

0:04:47 Zac: What?

0:04:48 Brennan: Santa didn't sell it for, no, not for money. He's just, he was doing a favor.

0:04:52 Siobhan: I just assumed.

0:04:52 Ally: Bold claim!

0:04:54 Zac: What are you talking about?

0:04:55 Siobhan: Look, he's gotta buy those presents somehow! How does he buy those presents?

0:04:57 Lou: Fuckin' Santa is an aggressive capitalist.

0:05:00 Siobhan: He's making the presents, but he gotta buy the materials.

0:05:02 Brennan: Because I think, who rolled the nat 20 investigate? Our last time?

0:05:05 Murph: Pete, it was--

0:05:06 Ally: Oh yeah.

0:05:07 Brennan: It was Pete. Yes, so you see Sofia, Ricky, and Kingston are all on the nice list. [Emily gasps]

0:05:14 Ally: That's good for you.

0:05:14 Siobhan: Well, the good side and the bad side.

0:05:15 Emily: Oh, yeah, cause me and Dale could be reunited.

0:05:16 Ally: Is Kugrich--

0:05:17 Siobhan: Good kids, bad kids.

0:05:18 Brennan: You see that, poor Kugrash is there on the naughty list with you.

0:05:24 Pete: Hey, man. We're both trying our best out here.

0:05:27 Kugrash: Yeah.

0:05:28 Pete: Well, I do agree that I could try a little bit harder.

0:05:31 Kugrash: You've done some sustained damage, and I did a lot of damage at once, sort of a heavy hitter, and you're just consistent, out there every day, [pretends to swing a bat] just doing a little bad, getting on base.

0:05:45 Pete: [laughs] Yeah, totally.

0:05:46 Ricky: Just constantly getting on base.

0:05:48 Pete: Yeah. Blasts.

0:05:50 Kugrash: So many RBIs. So many RBIs from Pete, I just come out there, A-Rod.

0:05:53 Ricky: Grand slam.

0:05:54 Kugrash: Hit a homer.

0:05:55 Pete: I sold, I sold speed to a babysitter yesterday.

0:05:59 Emily: Can I come over to the list and see Pete looking at his name, and then write his name on the nice part?

0:06:06 Brennan: The ink is immediately absorbed into the list, but it's a nice gesture.

0:06:08 Pete: It was worth a try.

0:06:09 Kingston: Hey, I think there is something we can all be doing to actually get these people on the nice list, and that's be talking about what we got going on this evening.

0:06:17 Pete: Let's do it.

0:06:17 Kugrash: You know what's fucked up, is that I know Santa, and that we're friends. I'm not saying that I should be absolved of my sins, but you'd think it would help a little bit.

0:06:24 Kingston: I mean, you know, you would hope that after the kindness you had done him, you know, earlier this month—

0:06:27 Sofia: Oh, shit, I forgot.

0:06:30 Rowan: I don't know, I mean, I don't think Santa takes into account personal favors.

0:06:33 Kugrash: You know what? Then that's why I respect him, that's why we are friends.

0:06:39 Zac: I have 50 points of Lay on Hands, how are people—

0:06:42 Ally: Whoa.

0:06:43 Brennan: Do you guys look around, you guys hear sort of the rolling of thunder out in the sky— [sound of thunder rolling]

0:06:49 Emily: Like a natural thunder, like a—

0:06:52 Brennan: [sarcastically] Yeah, natural thunder. No, extremely bad, apocalyptic—

0:06:55 Emily: Goddamn.

0:06:56 Brennan: Evil--

0:06:57 Ally: Has this thunder had work done?

0:07:00 Brennan: You guys also see, you know, the scraps of the ritual around here. You're very badly hurt, it is about nine o'clock at night on New Year's Eve.

0:07:11 Siobhan: Great.

0:07:12 Brennan: We have never taken a short rest before, but this is the exact time when a short rest comes into play. [Emily gasps]

0:07:18 Siobhan: Can we do it on the bus?

0:07:20 Sofia: No, I'm gonna get us, I'm gonna use my credit card, I don't care about worldly possessions. I'm gonna get us the nicest hotel room.

0:07:26 Pete: A penthouse—

0:07:27 Sofia: I want to get the penthouse!

0:07:29 Kugrash: We don't need to go to a hotel, the world's about to end! Let's get in the car—

0:07:33 Sofia: We deserve something nice!

0:07:34 Kugrash: Let's take, we'll do it after New Year's! He’s gotta go to Yankee Stadium!

0:07:36 Ricky: I have to go to Yankee Stadium right now! I'm sorry, I have, you guys can do that if you want.

0:07:41 Ally: Oh, can I pick up all the artifacts from the, what he did, I just stuff all the things he used—

0:07:46 Brennan: Yeah, oh, you stuff all—

0:07:47 Ally: Even though he used them.

0:07:48 Murph: Here's my feeling. I think that we need to get everybody that we know in on this. So you guys go to Yankee Stadium, fantastic. I think I should go to Grand Central Terminal and get the faeries on our side, and I think that if we can get Em and Willy and anybody else that we've ever met.

0:07:56 Sofia: Em’s my girl.

0:08:04 Rowan: How do you think the mummy is doing after he's spent the last 20 years trapped in an ankh? You think he's feeling like he's a better person?

0:08:11 Kingston: Ah, I mean, I don't know, I could talk to him. We can see what's up.

0:08:16 Zac: I'm, who needs to be healed, 'cause I'm gonna go now.

0:08:19 Ally: I have 19 points left.

0:08:21 Emily: I got 21, my max is now 58 after these vampires.

0:08:24 Murph: Does anyone want a Greater Restoration? It'd be my last fifth level spell, but I think that's fine. It's better to do it—

0:08:30 Siobhan: I mean, my max is only 54 right now, and my eventual max is 84, so—

0:08:35 Murph: I think I could heal somebody's hit point max back to its normal.

0:08:39 Lou: So you're 30 points—

0:08:41 Siobhan: I'm 30 down.

0:08:42 Murph: 30 down? Jesus.

0:08:44 Emily: I wouldn't mind a higher max, I wouldn't mind a higher max because then, that means that I can go to do, start doing radiant damage quicker.

0:08:54 Murph: Mm-hmm.

0:08:54 Siobhan: What’s your max...

0:08:54 Emily: But I don't, you know.

0:08:57 Ally: How much are you down?

0:08:59 Emily: My max is 84, and I'm currently, my max is 58.

0:09:03 Siobhan: Oh yeah, so do Sofia.

0:09:05 Murph: That’s really bad. Cool.

0:09:06 Emily: Are you sure you want to use a fifth level spell, though, right now?

0:09:07 Murph: I mean, what better time than to not waste an action and a spell, than to do it right now?

0:09:13 Emily: Okay.

0:09:14 Murph: Cool, I'm gonna do a Greater Restoration on Sofie.

0:09:18 Brennan: Kugrash, you push out your little paw, your friend Sofie, all those big mac and cheeses and alleyways outside of bars, little rat—

0:09:26 Sofia: The greatest restoration of all.

0:09:29 Kugrash: One more hangover cure. You fucking mess.

0:09:31 Brennan: Your hit point maximum is restored, Kugrash, you hold your paw out and cast this healing spell, you've been doing good deeds in this city for so many years, and look at your little name on that naughty list still. And but Sofia is healed, a selfless act, you, whoom, restore her.

0:09:49 Ally: I shoot Sofia's leg. No, I'm just kidding.

0:09:52 Emily: I'm okay to keep my hit points low, but it's nice to have my max be high.

0:09:56 Ally: Oh, right, oh, got it. I'm sorry, nevermind.

0:09:59 Brennan: So your hit point max is restored, what we're gonna do now, I will actually, I'm not gonna make you guys wait 'til the end of the short rest, because you're not engaging in any strenuous activity over the next hour, we're just gonna roll your guys' hit points now.

0:10:10 Emily: Woo! Feeling good!

0:10:12 Lou: Yee ha!

0:10:13 Emily: Sofia Lee.

0:10:15 Siobhan: And then I get my Bardic back. Woo!

0:10:18 Murph: Be nice if I had more Greater Restorations, you know, high level spells are good.

0:10:21 Siobhan: Yeah! Funny, that.

0:10:23 Murph: Believe it or not.

0:10:24 Brennan: Pete, as your Blink spell continues, by the way, you get flashes and images of Nod roiling in this insane dream storm. You look up, see the Golden Door fully open, the weird hex moving around it where the lock is keeping it open, and you see that that infection within the dream realm is just pouring power and trying to suck the thing out of the Golden Doorway. You see that there's a bunch of trash cans that are bouncing up and down the street, but sort of running, you're like,

0:10:55 Trash Cans: Man, we gotta get the fuck outta here! Let's go! [imitates metal clanging] Hey, man, if you got any fuckin' brains in your head, you gotta get the fuck outta here! [imitates metal clanging]

0:11:06 Brennan: You even see, up on top of the thing, holding on to a little railing, looking, is Pizza Rat with a little pizza tied to his belt.

0:11:13 Ally: Aww.

0:11:13 Brennan: Looking out,

0:11:14 Pizza Rat: [hand on its brow like a sailor] Things are startin' to look pretty bad out here!

0:11:18 Brennan: And you see that Nod appears next to you as you kind of phase in and out of reality. Nod looks and says,

0:11:25 Nod: This is as bad as it could be. Anything that you need to do, there is a very real chance that the world will change forever tonight.

0:11:34 Pete: Okay. What should I focus on?

0:11:37 Nod: I will be as close to the edge of the Dreaming as I can, but... [dramatic music]

0:11:43 Nod: This is the hour. This is it.

0:11:46 Pete: Okay, well, me and everyone that I was with before, we're gonna go and try to find Bob Moses. We know it has something to do with the ball that's dropping in Times Square.

0:11:57 Brennan: Nod reaches out, and sort of touches their head and says,

0:12:03 Nod: Something bad is happening at the Occult Society. At the library. And… Kugrash's son, something with Kugrash's son.

0:12:15 Ally: Okay. Am I able to Blink back, or do I control the Blink?

0:12:18 Brennan: Yeah, you actually, your Blink spell probably ends.

0:12:19 Ally: Okay.

0:12:19 Brennan: Just, duration-wise.

0:12:20 Pete: We have to go get Wally, he's at the Occult Society, and he's in trouble.

0:12:23 Sofia: Or is it the other son?

0:12:26 Pete: Oh!

0:12:28 Murph: I ask the bagel who is in trouble. Or, has it been, when did I use it last? I used it to see if Esther was the one who—

0:12:37 Brennan: I think you used it today.

0:12:38 Murph: I used it today, fuckin' fuck.

0:12:39 Pete: Let's—

0:12:40 Kingston: Call people.

0:12:41 Pete: Yeah, call her. We’re with Alejandro.

0:12:42 Zac: Wait, do I have time to go to—

0:12:44 Brennan: Cool. You guys are looking around, you don't have too much time, but there's a bunch of stuff you guys have to do.

0:12:52 Siobhan: Yeah.

0:12:53 Murph: Cool.

0:12:54 Siobhan: Yeah, I'm going to Grand Central.

0:12:56 Brennan: Cool, Rowan is going to Grand Central.

0:12:58 Zac: Wait, something's going on at the Occult Society?

0:13:01 Murph: I guess we'll go to the Occult, did we get the sense that the Occult Society and my family were the same thing, or they were separate?

0:13:09 Ally: It was at the Occult Society.

0:13:10 Brennan: I don't, I did not say that, I just wanted to say, I did not—

0:13:13 Ally: Oh.

0:13:14 Murph: Okay. I will go to Wally's house, then. Or Wally's apartment, and then I'll—

0:13:18 Zac: I think I have to go to the Occult Society.

0:13:20 Lou: I can handle it if you have business you need to take care of.

0:13:25 Zac: I just feel like, I think Ricky would go to the Occult Society.

0:13:29 Murph: Or it might be David, I don't know how to to fuckin' figure this out.

0:13:32 Ally: I can go to one—

0:13:33 Emily: I can call Jackson and I can just go check out—

0:13:35 Siobhan: Yeah, can you—

0:13:36 Zac: We're with Alejandro right now.

0:13:37 Ally: Yah, get Jackson to come with us.

0:13:38 Murph: Oh yeah, can--

0:13:38 Emily: I can call, but I can call him, and rather than going all the way down, I could just call him and be like, hey, come through, and then go check on your son.

0:13:46 Murph: That's interesting.

0:13:46 Kugrash: Alejandro, do you have any way to, for me to figure out which one of my sons is in trouble right now?

0:13:53 Brennan: [imitates whooshing] He just cast a Scrying on, he says,

0:13:56 Alejandro: Do you have an address?

0:14:00 Murph: Yeah, I give him Wally's address--

0:14:01 Brennan: [imitates whooshing] He scries on Wally's apartment, lights off, no one home.

0:14:05 Murph: Okay. What about David's house? [somber piano music]

0:14:08 Brennan: He looks, [imitates whooshing] you see a mostly dark home, Forest Hills, with one of the windows broken.

0:14:20 Murph: Goddamn it.

0:14:21 Brennan: A door slightly busted open.

0:14:24 Murph: All right. I gotta go to David's house.

0:14:26 Ally: I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna do a Greater Invisibility and try to go to the Financial District and look around.

0:14:31 Brennan: You're in the Financial District.

0:14:33 Ally: Or to Bob Moses's--

0:14:36 Brennan: Lair or something?

0:14:37 Ally: Lair, yeah, look around.

0:14:39 Emily: Could I call Jackson real quick?

0:14:40 Brennan: Cool, you--

0:14:41 Emily: And just see if I need to physically show up--

0:14:43 Ally: Also invite Em.

0:14:45 Emily: Yeah.

0:14:50 Brennan: Dope. You give Jackson a call, it goes to, as you give Jackson a call, you see that it goes to voicemail. As it does, Kingston, you have a little residual, give me an Insight check.

0:15:15 Siobhan: [whispers] Nice.

0:15:16 Lou: Very high, 19 plus 13. That's Perception, excuse me. Insight, that's also 13, 19 plus 13.

0:15:24 Brennan: 32?

0:15:25 Lou: Yes.

0:15:25 Brennan: You, from the little trickles of electricity from your Shutdown spell, you feel that call go out, and know that Jackson's phone is at the Occult Society.

0:15:37 Lou: All right.

0:15:37 Emily: Oh!

0:15:38 Kingston: I think there's a lot going down at the Gramercy Occult Society.

0:15:42 Ricky: Alejandro, do you know it's, do you sense anything about the Occult Society, there's something—

0:15:47 Brennan: He says,

0:15:47 Alejandro: I was, no, I was home, I was not at the Society.

0:15:50 Brennan: He says,

0:15:51 Alejandro: We should go now.

0:15:52 Lou: Can I text Emiko for an update on Liz?

0:15:55 Brennan: Yes, you can.

0:15:56 Lou: As we go.

0:15:57 Rowan: Sofia, maybe you can also get your family to come help, I mean—

0:16:00 Sofia: I was thinking of texting Mario—

0:16:02 Rowan: Get some muscle in there.

0:16:03 Sofia: I don't trust my dad. I think he would flip for whoever pays the highest price.

0:16:09 Rowan: You don't think he wants you back?

0:16:11 Murph: I'm out of the door.

0:16:12 Brennan: Cool.

0:16:12 Murph: I'm going to David’s.

0:16:13 Brennan: Kugrash is out the door, going to David's place.

0:16:16 Siobhan: Yeah, I'm headed to Grand Central.

0:16:18 Brennan: Rowan dips out.

0:16:19 Zac: I'm, do you guys, can we go three deep in this Maserati?

0:16:23 Brennan: You see that, yes, you absolutely can. Cool.

0:16:27 Siobhan: Sofia lying in the back, that shitty backseat. Where you have to put your knees way up in the air.

0:16:32 Brennan: Who all's getting in the Maserati with Ricky? Zac, Emily and Lou raise their hands.

0:16:35 Zac: The good kids.

0:16:36 Brennan: Cool, the good kids—

0:16:36 Emily: The nice list. [laughs]

0:16:37 Ally: Fuck you guys!

0:16:39 Emily: I want to, I am so excited to, I'm secretly kind of excited to be in a Maserati, so I put on a little thing and think it's going to be like wind in my hair, but I'm just in that shitty third seat.

0:16:49 Zac: You're just, it's shaking so much.

0:16:51 Brennan: Pete, you're staying in the Financial District, looking—

0:16:54 Ally: Inspecting and—

0:16:55 Brennan: Cool, go ahead and give me an investigation check.

0:16:58 Ally: Sure. Let's see. 9.

0:17:03 Brennan: Cool. So, you guys get in this fuckin' sick Maserati, you see that Alejandro takes his Juul out, says,

0:17:10 Alejandro: We'll catch up later, Peter. [inhales]

0:17:12 Ally: Cool. [blowing smoke]

0:17:15 Ally: I'll have Mindlink open with everybody, is that a thing I can do?

0:17:18 Brennan: Yeah. Whoom, make your Mindlink open, you see that Alejandro goes,

0:17:22 Alejandro: My God, this car is sick as hell!

0:17:25 Ricky: It's really outside my comfort zone. [sound of engine revving]

0:17:31 Brennan: You guys tear off down the street. You see that, Kingston, you get in the car, and traffic just, [sound of tires squealing] like the Red Sea parts in front of you. [engine revving]

0:17:41 Zac: It's Bruce Almighty?

0:17:42 Sofia: This really is like a fuckin' movie, when do you ever get to drive a Maserati through New York City with no traffic?

0:17:49 Kingston: Honestly, nobody needs to be driving anything in New York City, everyone should be taking public transportation, but that’s just me.

0:17:53 Rowan: But there are some jobs that--

0:17:55 Sofia: If public transport looked like this. [Zac imitates engine revving]

0:17:57 Kingston: But this is sick, I mean, I'm not lying. I prefer taking the bus usually, but this is dope.

0:18:03 Brennan: Awesome. Cool. Rowan, how are you getting to Grand Central?

0:18:07 Siobhan: I am going to jump in a cab.

0:18:12 Brennan: Cool.

0:18:13 Siobhan: And be like,

0:18:15 Rowan: This is it, man. We gotta get to Grand Central as fast as possible.

0:18:19 Brennan: You see that--

0:18:20 Siobhan: I'm sort of stand-sitting in the cab, like,

0:18:23 Rowan: Get me to Grand Central [sound of thumping] right away!

0:18:25 Brennan: See the cab driver says,

0:18:27 Cab Driver: I'm going to go at the pace that is— ...hello! Hi, yes.

0:18:31 Rowan: Now. [engine revving]

0:18:34 Brennan: The cab takes off, hops up on the sidewalk. [imitates thudding] Just dips into a bike lane, someone's like,

0:18:41 Pedestrian: Fuck you, man!

0:18:41 Rowan: Fuck you!

0:18:42 Pedestrian: Fuck you, hey, fuck you—

0:18:42 Rowan: Fuck you!

0:18:44 Pedestrian: Go fuck yourself!

0:18:44 Rowan: Fuck yourself!

0:18:46 Brennan: You see the cab tears off, you arrive at Grand Central. It is a strange night outside. [imitates thunder crashing] Thunder, a bunch of drunk people out already for New Year's Eve, [sound of cheering crowds] people are partying, you arrive at Grand Central a few minutes later.

0:19:04 Siobhan: Great. I'm gonna go to the Whisper Corridor, Whisper Corridor?

0:19:07 Brennan: Yep. Or the Whispering Gallery, yes.

0:19:09 Siobhan: Whispering Gallery, Jesus. And I'm gonna say,

0:19:17 Rowan: Now is the time, our people must assemble.

0:19:20 Brennan: You hear, [imitates ticking sound] Bing! Ding-dong-ding-dong. Boom, opens up Bilbry. [imitates squeaking] A little, you know, bike pedal ornithopter comes out.

0:19:32 Bilbry: Oh, oh, Miss Berry!

0:19:34 Rowan: Hi, how you doing?

0:19:36 Bilbry: Good to see you!

0:19:37 Rowan: Okay, we've all gotta go. We all gotta go.

0:19:41 Bilbry: What? The trumpets of war be blown? Assemble at the clock!

0:19:48 Rowan: Oh, and before we run off anywhere, is there anything that you can do to pimp up this umbrella a little bit, make it a little fancier?

0:19:56 Bilbry: Oh sure, let me take a look at, here.

0:19:57 Brennan: You see he snaps the knife off the front and takes a vial of mercury [sound of cork popping] and pours it on top of the umbrella, and a quicksilver knife of moving liquid silver—

0:20:07 Siobhan: Sick.

0:20:08 Brennan: Appears at the end of your umbrella.

0:20:10 Bilbry: That should do the trick in a pinch! All right!

0:20:12 Brennan: And you see that he takes off towards the Grand Central kiosk, the Umbral Arcana whips around it, and you see clock gnomes, sprites, pixies, dryads, you see that, in his little sort of tux with the bow tie untied, Priapus the satyr shows up.

0:20:29 Priapus: Oh my fuckin' God.

0:20:31 Rowan: God. We don't have time, but later.

0:20:36 Priapus: Three minutes!

0:20:37 Rowan: Later! [Brennan screams]

0:20:40 Rowan: And I'm so sorry, but I didn't say, but we do all have to go to Times Square on New Year's Eve, and I'm sorry about that.

0:20:44 Faeries: Boo!

0:20:45 Brennan: All the faeries,

0:20:45 Faeries: Boo!

0:20:47 Rowan: I know! But I want, I don't want to go either!

0:20:51 Brennan: I’m gonna need. To suggest to go to Times Square on New Year's Eve, I'm gonna need a persuasion check with disadvantage. [laughs]

0:20:56 Siobhan: But I have advantage on persuasion.

0:20:57 Brennan: Then you're just gonna roll a flat--

0:20:58 Siobhan: Oh wait, I don't have advantage on persuasion, goddamn. I just have it on performance. Goddamn it. Well, that is a nat one. I also got a 16. Fucking disadvantage.

0:21:12 Brennan: You see that everyone goes like,

0:21:14 Fairies: New Year's Eve, it's gonna be a zoo, it's gonna be a zoo out there!

0:21:19 Rowan: You can fly, you lazy motherfuckers! [Brennan growls]

0:21:23 Rowan: Goddamn, I should have just taken the crown.

0:21:26 Brennan: [laughs] You see that all of the faeries sort of speak, Aquamarine is here, you see that in his plaza bathrobe, he clearly was taking a bath, Bobby Goodfellow shows up and goes,

0:21:38 Bobby: Oh, what the fuck is going on over here? We're calling some kind of war meeting?

0:21:42 Rowan: Yeah.

0:21:43 Brennan: You see that all of them say,

0:21:44 Faeries: Times Square's gonna be full of cameras and, yeah, it's gonna be full of, you know, fuckin' there's gonna be Cold Iron there, people are gonna be smoking.

0:21:52 Rowan: Yeah, but also, Robert Moses, who is an absolute scumbag, is trying to destroy the American Dream.

0:21:59 Brennan: You see that one of the little sprites looks and says,

0:22:04 Sprite: [gasps] Oh no! [dramatic music]

0:22:05 Sprite: The vampires! You see, [imitates explosion] they're coming up in the Financial District.

0:22:12 Rowan: Now?

0:22:13 Sprite: Yes.

0:22:13 Rowan: To here?

0:22:14 Sprite: It looks like they're headed for Times Square.

0:22:17 Rowan: Everybody get on the goddamn seven train right now.

0:22:20 Brennan: You see that Bilbry says,

0:22:22 Bilbry: Times Square is a shit show. We, I don't think it's safe for any faerie to set foot there. But you are founder of the faerie realm of New York. We'll cut those vampires off at the pass.

0:22:35 Rowan: Excellent.

0:22:36 Brennan: You see he takes out a rifle that, instead of having a trigger section, just has a giant clock in it. [sound of ticking] And you see he says,

0:22:43 Bilbry: We'll shoot those motherfuckers to the end of time! Time gun style! [sound of gun racking] [Brennan imitates blasting]

0:22:50 Rowan: And Bilbry, before you go, I think I'm gonna need the crown, if you have it available to me.

0:22:56 Bilbry: Ooh. I, it's bad news. I did smelt it. But here you go,

0:23:03 Brennan: And he just tosses a chunk of silver bouillon to you.

0:23:06 Rowan: Great, I'll just put it in my pocket.

0:23:08 Bilbry: It's, all the power of fae is in there.

0:23:11 Rowan: Great!

0:23:12 Bilbry: But it's not, it's just a big chunk--

0:23:13 Rowan: Bulky.

0:23:14 Bilbry: It's just a little bulky right now.

0:23:15 Rowan: That's fine.

0:23:16 Bilbry: Feel free to hoist that bad boy up if you need to.

0:23:18 Rowan: Thank you.

0:23:19 Bilbry: All right! Let's kill some leeches!

0:23:22 Brennan: You see that the fairies charge out of Grand Central in this massive war party. Priapus leading the way, he's got his, you know, musical instrument in his hand. This big, did I say what his musical instrument was?

0:23:36 Zac: I don't—

0:23:37 Siobhan: I don't remember.

0:23:38 Brennan: I'm gonna say that he hoists, Priapus hoists a giant stand-up bass in one hand. He is fully erect and runs—

0:23:46 Siobhan: Oh God.

0:23:47 Brennan: Out of Grand Central. Bobby Goodfellow looks over and says,

0:23:51 Bobby: [shrugs] All right, well, let's do this thing.

0:23:53 Brennan: Runs out. Wonderful. [dramatic music]

0:23:59 Brennan: Everybody else, you guys head to Gramercy Occult Society, you guys arrive at the public library and you see on the steps, strange storm clouds in the sky. [sound of thunder rumbling] A weeping Orlando standing over the cracked body of Rovias. One of the stone lions has been cracked in half.

0:24:24 Ricky: Does anyone have a Mending spell?

0:24:26 Kingston: I mean, I have Mending, but I'm assuming this is— Brennan shakes his head.

0:24:28 Sofia: I mean, I'm discovering my spells every day, let me try.

0:24:31 Kingston: Okay, Sofia, Sofie, this is not the time.

0:24:33 Sofia: Let me try. I got it!

0:24:33 Kingston: This is not the time.

0:24:34 Brennan: You see—

0:24:35 Sofia: Hang in there, little stone guy!

0:24:36 Ricky: Orlando, what happened?

0:24:37 Brennan: You look around and Sofia, you see very fresh, there are injured and wounded and dead bodies of monks, of the Order of the Concrete Fist here. Looks like a huge fight happened on the steps.

0:24:50 Sofia: My God.

0:24:52 Lou: I run downstairs.

0:24:53 Sofia: Yeah. Yah, I think we both just run downstairs.

0:24:54 Brennan: You run downstairs. Alejandro runs with you. You see that Orlando looks up and says,

0:25:02 Orlando: Oh, vampires came and attacked here, we destroyed as many as we could.

0:25:07 Brennan: And you do see clumps of ash around the steps.

0:25:11 Orlando: [crying a little] My boyfriend. Rovias. My sweet lover. Oh!

0:25:18 Brennan: You see he pets his giant, stone mane.

0:25:21 Orlando: I… He died defending the library. What is happening?

0:25:30 Brennan: Alejandro looks, can't think of anything to say, just charges into the library.

0:25:35 Zac: I give the lion a hug.

0:25:36 Brennan: He nestles into you.

0:25:39 Emily: Still trying to medicine it.

0:25:41 Brennan: Go ahead and make a Medicine check.

0:25:43 Emily: 1.

0:25:46 Siobhan: No!

0:25:47 Ally: A one, a nat one?

0:25:48 Siobhan: You killed that lion!

0:25:49 Emily: I didn't kill him!

0:25:51 Brennan: You go over and touch the body, and a bit more stone crumbles off, Orlando goes, [deep wail].

0:25:57 Sofia: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!

0:25:59 Ricky: Are they still fighting, is there still anything going on inside?

0:26:02 Orlando: Some of the greatest warriors were slain here on the steps, but some snuck past, some rose, mist form, made their way past here. [imitates roaring]

0:26:17 Brennan: This huge, mournful roar.

0:26:18 Zac: I run inside.

0:26:21 Brennan: You rush inside. You go in, you see a couple of the monks recognize you, Sofie, bloodied and battered.

0:26:29 Sofia: What's going on, tell me what—

0:26:30 Brennan: They say,

0:26:31 Monks: Don't worry, we beat 'em. They're defeated, but they made their way to the Chamber of the Umbral Engine.

0:26:37 Sofia: Where is that?

0:26:39 Monks: In the heart of the library.

0:26:41 Brennan: You rush past. You get to a room, you know, crazy steps, M.C. Escher, you get to this giant chamber buzzing with arcane energy. [sound of ethereal humming] You see a bloodied Esther on a knee, next to what looks like an unconscious Jackson.

0:27:07 Zac: I'll, I guess I can Lay on Hands. Both of them?

0:27:11 Brennan: Cool. You start to do Lay on Hands them.

0:27:15 Zac: For 10 points each.

0:27:17 Brennan: 10 points each. Cool, Esther still looks somewhat injured, but you reach down. [gasps] You see that Jackson comes to. You see that, in the center of the room, the Umbral Engine, an elaborate, huge orrery, this cosmic thing of a central brass globe covered in runes, spinning, gyroscoping wheels and sort of celestial bodies hovering around it. And you see that something has happened to it. There is some whirling necromantic energy, and it is fritzing and clicking against itself.

0:27:53 Sofia: Okay, so all the people of New York can see magic for tonight.

0:27:56 Ricky: You sure?

0:27:58 Sofia: How does that help them do something?

0:28:02 Ricky: They want people to witness the event, right? So maybe the Umbral Engine would have normally stopped them, is that right?

0:28:11 Ally: Whoa.

0:28:13 Brennan: You see that Jackson coughs, looks up, something else, go ahead and give me a Medicine check, anyone that wants to.

0:28:20 Emily: I'm maybe not going to. [laughs] I'm gonna let you guys--

0:28:22 Lou: Nat 20.

0:28:23 Emily: Ooh!

0:28:24 Siobhan: Aw, hell yeah.

0:28:26 Brennan: Cool. You see that there is, that Jackson's basically life force has been greatly diminished, his constitution score has been dramatically removed. I'm also gonna say that with that nat 20, you can just tend to their wounds, Esther and Jackson are back up at full hit points. But you see that Jackson's hit points are greatly diminished as his constitution has been dramatically reduced.

0:28:54 Lou: Is there something, do I think there's something I can do spell-wise in order to restore that?

0:28:59 Brennan: On a nat 20, potentially there's something you could do to restore that.

0:29:04 Zac: It's not a disease, right?

0:29:05 Brennan: It's not a disease. But it, there's is a high risk that whatever you did, in other words, you'd have to make a roll. So it'd be a roll of the dice, and it would take a great resource to be able to do it.

0:29:18 Lou: Okay.

0:29:19 Emily: Yeah.

0:29:20 Brennan: You see that Jackson is lying there. You see that Alejandro's talking to another member of the Occult Society, they can't find Ana and Amelia anywhere. It just looks bad here. You see Jackson looks up at Sofia, kind of smiles, he goes, and sees Kingston too and he goes,

0:29:47 Jackson: [weakly] What the hell, pal? Good to see you.

0:29:49 Brennan: You see he reaches up and touches the side of your face.

0:29:53 Jackson: [sighs] How you doin', pal? You good?

0:29:56 Kingston: I mean, things are wild right now, but I'm doing all right.

0:29:59 Jackson: No shit. You took care of Moses?

0:30:04 Sofia: I, his spell was successful. We're not done yet, ask me tomorrow, and the answer will be yes.

0:30:13 Brennan: You see he nods and smiles, he goes,

0:30:17 Jackson: [sniffs] Ah, it's fucked up, why do we keep doing this shit? I'm glad we got some fresh blood in here, 'cause I could use retirement.

0:30:29 Sofia: Well, for tonight, I think just, I think you do your thing. I mean, stay in, watch a movie, I don't know, don't watch the ball drop, I think that's gonna be a shit show.

0:30:41 Jackson: Yeah, what am I gonna do, watch the fuckin' ball drop? Oh, my fuckin' Mets windbreaker, what the fuck, it's covered in blood, these assholes, you gotta go to the Mets store.

0:30:51 Zac: Speaking of the Mets, the Yankees.

0:30:54 Sofia: Oh!

0:30:55 Zac: Do you, Esther, do you know anything about the Yankee Stadium, I have something, I guess it's not speaking about the Mets.

0:31:02 Brennan: You see that Esther looks at you and goes,

0:31:04 Esther: Did you get some kind of vision or inclination?

0:31:06 Ricky: There's, something happened when I was trying to remove the curse from Liz that I just saw a flash of Yankee Stadium, I don't know why, but—

0:31:14 Brennan: You see that she says,

0:31:15 Esther: Well, it's, she says, it's about 9:30, 9:40 now, if you got a vision, do you want company on the way?

0:31:25 Ricky: Yeah, let's go.

0:31:27 Brennan: You see she says, all right.

0:31:28 Esther: I'm gonna go with Ricky. Great. We'll be back in a little while.

0:31:33 Brennan: You see that Ricky and Esther head out together. [Zac imitates engine revving] [sound of tires squealing]

0:31:40 Brennan: You rush off to Yankee Stadium.

0:31:41 Ricky: I got a new car, by the, I don't--

0:31:43 Brennan: You see, she looks at, go ahead and give me a Persuasion roll?

0:31:46 Murph: Oh no!

0:31:48 Emily: Oof!

0:31:50 Zac: 5.

0:31:52 Brennan: You see she goes—

0:31:53 Zac: Oh, excuse me, 6.

0:31:54 Brennan: Oh, 6. She goes,

0:31:55 Esther: Ugh, this is kind of gaudy, did you buy this?

0:31:59 Ricky: I didn't, no. Pete bought it for me.

0:32:03 Esther: Pete, so… Do you think Pete got it honestly?

0:32:09 Ricky: Honestly, I don't, I don't think so. And it's kind of tearing me apart. It's really tearing me apart.

0:32:12 Emily: Ricky driving a Masaradi bought with drug money.

0:32:16 Esther: These things just guzzle gas.

0:32:17 Ricky: It's really bad in a lot of ways. I feel really uncomfortable driving it. But it is very fast. Hey, look, I mean, you know I would never choose this, right?

0:32:29 Brennan: You see she says,

0:32:29 Esther: I mean, yeah, I guess, yeah. I guess.

0:32:33 Brennan: You see that—

0:32:34 Zac: Just kind of like, silent driving for a—

0:32:37 Brennan: You see Esther opens her, opens her spellbook up, and does something, [imitates whooshing] as you guys start heading out from the library, and you see that this spectral road just made of pure light peels off.

0:32:53 Ricky: Look at that.

0:32:53 Brennan: She goes,

0:32:53 Esther: Take this.

0:32:55 Brennan: [sound of tires squealing] as she holds concentration on this spectral road. And you peel off into the sky on this Maserati—

0:33:00 Ricky: Awesome. [Brennan imitates engine revving]

0:33:03 Brennan: Headed off towards Yankee Stadium. Jackson sort of on the ground, looking very fucked up. He looks up at you, Sofia, and you see he says,

0:33:15 Jackson: [groans] How you holding up, kid? You all right?

0:33:19 Sofia: Yeah, I'm doing fine. Yeah. Kug gave me a fuckin' fat ass fifth level spell, so I'm doing excellent. I'm doing better than I should be.

0:33:31 Jackson: So what's the deal? Moses got his spell off, what kind of spell is this? What are we lookin' at?

0:33:36 Sofia: He's making, oh, did I not fill you in on any of this? He's making a lock to go, he wants to go to Nod. Nod made it so that no one could come into Nod, he created a lock, and Sinatra's Law, he created a lock here so that he could create one over there. And now I'm assuming he's doing something, I'm assuming he's made some sort of thing with harnessing a time thing, what is the time thing called?

0:34:04 Kingston: The time stone, time stone, no you got this. You got this!

0:34:07 Sofia: So yeah, I think he's making a time stone using the auspicious timing of midnight. The energy of, you know, the ball dropping.

0:34:16 Jackson: And he's and what's, he's doing that to what, live forever?

0:34:20 Kingston: I mean, we believe based on the Book of Bits and Bobbins that he's using the time stones to—

0:34:26 Jackson: Which Book of Bits and Bobbins?

0:34:27 Kingston: The time gnomes’ Book of Bits and Bobbins.

0:34:29 Jackson: No, but is it the little one or the big one?

0:34:30 Kingston: No, it's a big book, it's a big book.

0:34:31 Sofia: It's a big book.

0:34:32 Jackson: Gotcha.

0:34:33 Kingston: Yes, I'm not.

0:34:34 Sofia: Not the Bitty Book of Bits and Bobbins.

0:34:36 Jackson: The Bitty Book of Bits and Bobbins. We wish. [coughs]

0:34:41 Sofia: I think he's trying to turn Manhattan into a place where only the undead can hang out.

0:34:45 Kingston: Yeah.

0:34:46 Sofia: Or some sort of—

0:34:47 Zac: Paragon or—

0:34:48 Sofia: Place where only he and his folk can be.

0:34:51 Kingston: On the level of Heaven and Hell.

0:34:53 Sofia: Yeah.

0:34:54 Kingston: Manhattan will become.

0:34:55 Sofia: He's making a realm. [Jackson sighs]

0:34:59 Kingston: It's heavy stuff.

0:35:00 Jackson: This is heavy stuff.

0:35:01 Sofia: Yeah, it's a lot.

0:35:02 Brennan: You see Alejandro's looking around, he looks very distraught like, he's scrying for his granddaughters. He turns, he sort of uses up his Scrying spell, and then turns to one of the other wizards, says,

0:35:16 Alejandro: All right. Fine, I'll try to find Ana and Amelia.

0:35:19 Brennan: You see he turns to Jackson, Jackson says,

0:35:21 Jackson: Alejandro, oh, good to see you, bud. So this is it. They're gonna try to pull it out of the dream realm, the Golden Door.

0:35:31 Sofia: Yeah.

0:35:33 Jackson: Fuck. Well, I'm… This is bad. [sighs] This is what Dale was warning me about. He thought this was gonna happen.

0:35:47 Sofia: Dale? Thought this was gonna happen? Goddamn, he had a whole fuckin' life without me. I had a fuckin' book club.

0:35:55 Brennan: [laughs] You see he goes,

0:35:57 Jackson: Yeah, that's, Dale was into that whole chosen one bullshit. [somber music]

0:36:02 Jackson: He… He thought there was gonna be a time where the dream realm would try to fully destroy New York. And he was a fuckin' new kid, but he had a lot of big ideas about, you know, the symbol of our order is that yin and yang, right? And specifically between the energy of dream and of the waking world. And the stuff he found, the scrolls and the monastery that talked about the chosen one, they all, he was on this trip about the fact that those forces should be combined and used together rather than us as monks standing as a guard against the dream realm. [sighs] He believed in it, and he went and found the pinnacle, he went all the way up there, and… It was all bullshit. Nothing happened.

0:37:09 Sofia: Where's the pinnacle?

0:37:12 Brennan: You see he looks at you, make an Insight check.

0:37:20 Emily: 15. No, 16.

0:37:22 Brennan: He's looking at you with kind of a look of, why do you want to know?

0:37:27 Emily: I give him a look of, because I asked, because I want to know.

0:37:30 Brennan: You see he goes,

0:37:33 Jackson: What'cha gonna do? You want to… [sighs] All right. Well, fuck it. I'm out of commission. It is what it is. The scrolls talked about a place that, at the time, was unreachable, except for powerful monks, but they ended up, but they ended up building the Empire State Building to reach it.

0:38:00 Sofia: I was kind of thinking you might say that. All right.

0:38:06 Brennan: He says,

0:38:07 Jackson: But Dale was, you should know, don't get your fuckin' hopes up, it's not a dream, kid. This is the real world.

0:38:13 Sofia: I get it, it is what it is. You taught me well.

0:38:15 Brennan: You see he says,

0:38:17 Jackson: There are—

0:38:18 Sofia: I'm gonna put that in my back pocket maybe after I slay the dreams of Robert Moses, to save the dreams of others. I'll go to the observation deck.

0:38:28 Brennan: You see he says,

0:38:32 Jackson: He thought that there would be, he got up there, and there were no spirits, there were no ancestors, there was no sphinx, the fuckin' make, to choose the one. So it was all fuckin' bullshit, so just keep your eye on the prize, I don't know, maybe we all die. Mm, it is what it is.

0:38:59 Sofia: All right, I'm gonna go get, maybe a Jamba Juice or something. I'll be back.

0:39:06 Brennan: Alejandro goes,

0:39:08 Alejandro: A Jamba Juice?

0:39:09 Sofia: Yeah, I need a little—

0:39:10 Alejandro: On New Year's Eve? Will they even be open? That would be crazy.

0:39:14 Sofia: This is true, that's somewhat cruel to patronage somewhere that--

0:39:18 Alejandro: Well, if you want a Jamba Juice, can you get me an energy boost guava mango?

0:39:23 Kingston: And can you get me one of them waffles?

0:39:24 Sofia: Yeah, yeah, I'll bring 'em, I'll meet you at Times Square.

0:39:28 Alejandro: You're going to ask Sofia to get you a waffle from Jamba Juice?

0:39:30 Kingston: Jamba Juice they sell a waffle, it's like a pastry, but it's like a waffle. It's in the clear thing.

0:39:35 Alejandro: All right, well—

0:39:36 Kingston: Don't come at me, mister—

0:39:37 Sofia: I know exactly what he's talking about.

0:39:39 Kingston: Thank you!

0:39:40 Sofia: I will get you a waffle.

0:39:40 Alejandro: It's like, hey, let's go to like a halal place and get, you know, fries there, it seems like, go to Jamba Juice to get juice, you know?

0:39:50 Kingston: You ever have the fries at a halal place?

0:39:52 Alejandro: They're-- They are really good.

0:39:55 Kingston: They're delicious.

0:39:55 Alejandro: Actually, you know what? Kingston it seems like they have some stuff to take care of,

0:39:58 Kingston: Two waffles.

0:39:59 Alejandro: My granddaughters are missing, I can’t find them—

0:40:00 Kingston: Can I help you?

0:40:02 Alejandro: You want to get a chopped cheese at the corner?

0:40:03 Kingston: Me and you want, you don't want to try and find your daughters, you want to go get a chopped cheese?

0:40:08 Alejandro: I don't know, man. I can't find them.

0:40:09 Kingston: Fuck it, let's get a chopped cheese. You go get a—

0:40:11 Sofia: If you are getting chopped cheeses, am I still getting waffles?

0:40:15 Kingston: No. We're good on waffles.

0:40:16 Sofia: Okay.

0:40:17 Alejandro: All right, we're getting chopped cheeses, you get your Jamba Juice.

0:40:19 Brennan: Cool. You guys head out. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

0:40:25 Emily: I go immediately to the Empire State Building.

0:40:28 Brennan: Hell yeah. Dope as hell.

0:40:32 Siobhan: Climbing up the outside like King Kong.

0:40:33 Emily: [laughs] I bet I could! Wait, how tall is the Empire State Building?

0:40:37 Siobhan: It's really fuckin' tall.

0:40:39 Murph: You could still probably run up it, you're a superhero.

0:40:41 Brennan: We're gonna cut over real quick to Pete.

0:40:44 Ally: Okay.

0:40:45 Brennan: So you got a 9 on your investigation, so they peel off, you run out into the street, and you start investigating. You're looking at Wall Street, there's a post office box.

0:40:54 Ally: I pull out my business card from Bob Moses, I go to his work.

0:40:58 Brennan: Awesome. You arrive at his—

0:41:02 Ally: I cast Minor Illusion to make myself look like a vampire.

0:41:07 Brennan: Awesome.

0:41:07 Ally: And then I go up to the front and I look like the most intimidating vampire possible.

0:41:15 Brennan: Rad! Let me roll a little check here. Cool. You arrive at the front, and you see that there's a, kind of like, just graduated ivy league, huge party school frat lookin' vampire, who's standing at the outside of the building as you walk up, and he goes,

0:41:37 Vampire: 'Sup, bro?

0:41:39 Pete: Hi.

0:41:40 Vampire: Hey, what's up?

0:41:41 Pete: Is he here?

0:41:44 Vampire: Is who here?

0:41:46 Pete: Is the boss in?

0:41:48 Brennan: Give me a Deception check.

0:41:49 Ally: Mkay. Yeah, 28.

0:41:53 Brennan: He goes,

0:41:54 Vampire: Nah, dog. He's at the Stock Exchange doing fuckin' rituals, so...

0:41:59 Pete: No, that's over, man. Where is he now? I just talked to him, I think he's here.

0:42:06 Vampire: You're welcome to go fuckin' check, brah, but—

0:42:09 Pete: All right.

0:42:09 Vampire: Probably you should be up with the push, right?

0:42:12 Pete: Buzz me in.

0:42:14 Vampire: Dude, it's chill. Don't be a fuckin' dick, bro.

0:42:17 Pete: I don't have time for this.

0:42:20 Ally: I flex my fake fangs.

0:42:21 Brennan: He goes, oh. [hisses] [Ally and Brennan hiss]

0:42:26 Ally: I fucking deck him!

0:42:27 Brennan: He goes,

0:42:27 Vampire: Uh! Fuck, bro, I'm sorry, fuck!

0:42:30 Brennan: Buzzes you in.

0:42:32 Vampire: Fucked up, fuck. [Zac mimics hissing] [Ally hisses]

0:42:38 Brennan: Cool, you walk into this...

0:42:43 Ally: I try to get to his office and look around. I don't know.

0:42:47 Brennan: You get to his office, and you see that there is a enormous, there is an enormous, there is an enormous arcane kind of lock on the door of his office. The door to his specific office is warded with some crazy magical shit.

0:43:08 Ally: Hmm.

0:43:10 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an Arcana check.

0:43:12 Ally: Sure. 7!

0:43:15 Brennan: Cool. You're looking at it, you don't think that, it looks like a big mamma-jamma, like a Dispel would have a slim chance of success here. You see that there's a arcane passcode for it. But your arcana does not reveal it to you what that code would be. We're gonna cut over to Kugrash. Kugrash, how are you getting over to Forest Hills, which is a long way away.

0:43:42 Murph: Giant eagle. [Brennan screeches like an eagle]

0:43:44 Brennan: [imitates whooshing] Bald eagle flying, or maybe a dirty--

0:43:48 Murph: Bald because, not a bald eagle...

0:43:49 Siobhan: Literally bald.

0:43:50 Murph: But a bald eagle, if it makes sense.

0:43:53 Brennan: [flapping like a swimmer] Dirty trash eagle flying across the city skyline.

0:43:56 Ally: Flying this way?

0:43:58 Brennan: Yeah, a breaststroke. [gasps]

0:44:00 Murph: I like to think I put in a lot of effort and then fall for a while, and then put in a lot of effort and fall—

0:44:06 Lou: It's mostly gliding.

0:44:09 Emily: Just running into telephone poles. Zac mimes with his hand an extremely crooked flight path.

0:44:12 Brennan: You get to David's house. You see there are now cop cars here. [suspenseful music]

0:44:23 Brennan: It looks like Diane and Matt and Delia are outside the caution tape, kind of crying, and you see that Wally is there with them.

0:44:32 Murph: Okay. I'll fly up to Wally.

0:44:36 Brennan: All right.

0:44:37 Murph: Actually, you know what? Let me… I want to fly in, while I'm still a bird, I want to fly into the house.

0:44:47 Brennan: Give me a Stealth check with disadvantage, if you'd be so kind.

0:44:50 Emily: A bird flying into a house?

0:44:51 Siobhan: A fuckin' giant eagle in Forest Hills.

0:44:53 Ally: The Umbral Arcana is gone, So they’re seeing a giant actual eagle—

0:44:55 Murph: They'll just fuckin' wave me away. Okay.

0:44:59 Ally: Yeah!

0:45:00 Murph: 11 was my bad one, buh-buh-bah. 19.

0:45:05 Brennan: [laughs, impressed] You see that there's a cop at the door going,

0:45:07 Cop: [into a shoulder pager] This is a crazy New Year's, we've had a B&E and an assault, Forest Hills.

0:45:12 Brennan: He turns, an eagle, whoosh!

0:45:14 Cop: The fuck was that? [sound of radio beeping]

0:45:18 Zac: Just the wings tucked in?

0:45:19 Cop: Little APB, guys, keep an eye out for a very large pigeon.

0:45:24 Murph: Just like a piece of trash.

0:45:27 Brennan: Yeah, you kind of flop in. There's a bunch of cops walking around in here. And you are literally like, [singing] bum-ba-da-bum-bum, bum ba-da, and you're kind of like walking in that weird way that birds walk. [bouncing his shoulders like a pigeon]

0:45:40 Murph: Yeah.

0:45:41 Brennan: Like behind the sofa, under a little desk.

0:45:43 Zac: This is a Pixar short film.

0:45:45 Ally: I'm such a fan.

0:45:46 Emily: Your investigation looks like this. [jerks head around like a pigeon]

0:45:49 Ally: Yeah. Head all the way around.

0:45:51 Brennan: Go ahead and give me an Investigation, there's a bunch of stuff in here that's obvious to see, but go ahead and give me an Investigation check.

0:45:56 Murph: Fuck! Fuck. Buh-buh-bah. So bad, 4.

0:46:01 Brennan: 4, cool. You are in here, you around, you see David is...

0:46:14 Murph: Fuck!

0:46:15 Brennan: Bitten on the neck. His computer is open, and there's a small box next to it. He's unconscious, bitten, it looks, give me a Medicine check.

0:46:34 Murph: Okay. 13.

0:46:40 Brennan: It's hard to tell what's happening with David.

0:46:42 Murph: Mm-hmm.

0:46:44 Brennan: But it's bad.

0:46:45 Murph: Okay. Do I see if any of the cops are vampires?

0:46:50 Brennan: Sure, yeah, go for it. Make a Perception check. [sniffs]

0:46:55 Murph: 13.

0:46:56 Brennan: You do not believe that any of the cops are vampires.

0:46:59 Murph: Okay.

0:47:01 Brennan: You see the computer, though. And there's a small box on the desk next to it. You would have to get closer to take a look.

0:47:12 Murph: Okay, I'll go closer.

0:47:14 Brennan: Give me another Stealth check.

0:47:15 Murph: Okay. Actually, oh God, I was gonna say, I'll touch him with my cockroach or something, but they're going to be stupid, they're not gonna know what they're looking at. 18.

0:47:25 Brennan: Cool. You flutter up to a chair, there's a cop literally just looking at his phone. You eagle up to this chair, he's not facing away from you, he's facing towards you, he's just very into what he's doing. You look at—

0:47:40 Murph: Eagle eyes, I can see.

0:47:42 Brennan: Eagle eyes, you see it! You look at the computer screen, and you see that there's an open email to you on it, from David.

0:47:51 Murph: [whispering] Goddamn it.

0:47:52 Brennan: The email says, there's no emotional language in it, nothing like that. You see that it just starts with,

0:48:03 David: Pulled up some info on RM.

0:48:06 Murph: Mm-hmm.

0:48:07 David: Found the following. This guy was a real fuckin' crook and a dirtbag. I don't know why you need this, but if this helps, then here it is.

0:48:21 Brennan: There are, you get your little mouse, you get your little eagle talon on the mouse, start scrolling. [sound of scroll clicking] And...

0:48:29 Lou: What is my man looking at on his phone?

0:48:33 Zac: Just scratching a laptop.

0:48:36 Brennan: You look at a series of financial documents, records, stuff like that. And you see there is a… There are a couple... [suspenseful music]

0:48:50 Brennan: Very old photographs of Robert Moses that are in here, there's one of him at his office, and you see that, it's him sort of breaking in the new office down on Wall Street.

0:49:07 Murph: Mm-hmm.

0:49:08 Brennan: And you see that there's a little funny ribbon cutting ceremony, like a small kind of joke ribbon cutting ceremony. And that he has, there's little pins with him and some other people here, and the pins are these little gag gift things that say Rosebud on them.

0:49:28 Murph: Uh-huh. [suspenseful music]

0:49:30 Murph: Rosebud.

0:49:33 Siobhan: It's Robert Moses's sled!

0:49:36 Emily: Yeah, that's it.

0:49:39 Brennan: You also see, in the box next to the computer, a ton of envelopes, sealed, addressed to dad.

0:49:53 Murph: Cool. I'm gonna, hmm. All right. I'm a bird. So I can't do too, too much. But I am, goddamn it, all right. He's been bitten by a vampire. [sighs] I want to try to take a little, I have a spell I could maybe do in a couple days if he's dead. I'm gonna try to steal some of his hair.

0:50:22 Brennan: Okay.

0:50:22 Murph: To have a piece of his body.

0:50:23 Brennan: Okay.

0:50:24 Murph: Not for— [laughs]

0:50:26 Lou: Okay.

0:50:27 Murph: I don't need to, you're not here! [laughs]

0:50:29 Ally: [laughs] You're not here!

0:50:30 Murph: I'm trying to save his life! [laughs] I know I'm a fuckin' rat. Do I need to do a Stealth, I assume?

0:50:35 Brennan: Yes, you do.

0:50:36 Murph: Okay, that's 23.

0:50:38 Brennan: Incredible.

0:50:39 Murph: It's the only thing I'm rolling good on.

0:50:39 Brennan: You go over, snip some hair off with an eagle's talon, cop does not see you.

0:50:43 Murph: I would like to grab the letters and just leave.

0:50:46 Brennan: Cool.

0:50:47 Murph: It's just right in front of his—

0:50:48 Brennan: You grab a full thing of letters, walk out of there. You actually, it's you dragging the box behind you. One of the cops—

0:50:56 Siobhan: Flapping slow like—

0:50:57 Brennan: You see that, as you drag it out, a couple of cops step over you, just very talking to each other. You Mission Impossible your way out of the house. And you get all the way to the rest of the family.

0:51:10 Murph: Yeah, I'll talk to Wally.

0:51:13 Brennan: Dope, awesome. You get out there, Diane's there, you see that Wally looks over, sees you, and goes,

0:51:18 Wally: Oh, look! That eagle is writing a bunch of letters to its dad! [Murph laughs]

0:51:24 Kugrash: Sort of, you're the only, you're very perceptive, Wally. It's me, it's me, your dad.

0:51:29 Wally: What?

0:51:29 Kugrash: Yeah, you know I can turn into animals.

0:51:31 Wally: Oh. Right, yeah, yeah, I remember that.

0:51:36 Brennan: Are you standing, are you like—

0:51:38 Murph: I'm gonna, I feel like I'm gonna signal for Wally to come, I feel like—

0:51:42 Brennan: Yeah, Wally—

0:51:43 Murph: The children and stuff have had enough of a day.

0:51:45 Brennan: Yeah, Wally?

0:51:46 Murph: Just Wally, yeah.

0:51:47 Brennan: Yeah, comes over to you.

0:51:48 Wally: What's up, dad?

0:51:49 Kugrash: What happened with David here?

0:51:52 Wally: Oh, it was an attack, someone broke into their house and beat the crap out of him. But I think he was maybe workin' on that stuff that you asked for.

0:52:02 Kugrash: Yeah. Goddamn it. All right, Wally. You got... [sighs] Where you gonna be tonight?

0:52:13 Wally: I was probably gonna go home, make some hot dogs with string cheese.

0:52:17 Kugrash: Okay. I was gonna tell you to, why don't you take… Take Diane and the kids with you? Maybe you all go?

0:52:29 Wally: Go to Denny's?

0:52:30 Kugrash: Yeah, go to Denny's, go to a public space!

0:52:33 Wally: Oh boy!

0:52:35 Murph: I give him some gold to take the family to Denny's. [laughs]

0:52:38 Kugrash: Take the family to Denny's on me!

0:52:41 Brennan: You give him some gold, [laughs] so you drop some gold—

0:52:43 Murph: Gold, I'm playing D&D.

0:52:44 Lou: Gold...

0:52:45 Brennan: He goes,

0:52:45 Wally: Okay! He goes, hey guys! We're gonna go to Denny's! We're gonna pay with these Spanish doubloons!

0:52:53 Kugrash: I found some gold in the trash!

0:52:55 Wally: Hey guys, it's Christmas.

0:52:57 Brennan: You see that he--

0:52:58 Zac: It's not Christmas.

0:52:59 Brennan: Fully not Christmas. You see that Diane suddenly says,

0:53:05 Diane: Wally, where did you get those gold coins? What's happening?

0:53:09 Wally: I got 'em from this bird! He's my friend— [sighs] He's my dad.

0:53:15 Brennan: And you see she goes,

0:53:16 Diane: Wally, come here, we're gonna, okay, we can go to Denny's.

0:53:20 Wally: Okay! I'm buying! Moon Over My Hammy!

0:53:26 Ally: I always want that and I don't want to say it. I say, this ham sandwich thing, please.

0:53:33 Brennan: You see, cool, they take off, you get this box full of letters.

0:53:38 Murph: And my son's hair.

0:53:39 Brennan: And your son's hair.

0:53:40 Murph: Fuck me.

0:53:41 Lou: Don't forget he's got his son's hair. [Emily laughs]

0:53:44 Brennan: What's Kugrash do now?

0:53:45 Murph: I wish I had a Greater Restoration or something more that I can do, but I don't think I can—

0:53:49 Emily: I'm sorry that you wasted it on me.

0:53:51 Murph: Super help. Okay, let me—

0:53:53 Emily: I'll help prevention.

0:53:55 Murph: I feel like I'm pressing my luck constantly, poking in and out of that house, but I'm gonna, I'll try, I don't think a Healing Word's gonna do shit for him, but I'll try to do, I'll try to just get near the windows so where I can get eyes on him and just try Healing Word, and see what happens.

0:54:10 Brennan: Dope. You jump into a Healing Word, and you see that he, [gasps] wakes up.

0:54:16 Murph: Oh fuck! Okay.

0:54:20 Brennan: The cop does not notice.

0:54:22 Murph: [laughs] Goddamn it.

0:54:23 Lou: Same one?

0:54:24 Brennan: Same one on his phone.

0:54:24 Lou: Hey—

0:54:25 Ally: He's watching Last Week Tonight. With subtitles.

0:54:30 Siobhan: This world, this world.

0:54:32 Lou: Dialysis is fucked up.

0:54:34 Murph: All right, if he's awake, then I gotta come out of, fuck, I've only got two Wild Shapes for the day. All right. Oh wait, I lost my Wild Shape, 'cause I had to do that to cast a spell. Dope. I'm fucked. I'm just gonna cast Pass Without a Trace on myself.

0:54:50 Brennan: Cool.

0:54:51 Murph: So that I could go in and try to talk to him.

0:54:53 Brennan: Cool. Go ahead and give me a Stealth check.

0:54:55 Murph: Cool. 22.

0:55:00 Brennan: Cool. You dip in, as you sneak past, you see that they're talking to, they're just talking to David as he's waking up, paramedics are now in there talking to him. He's trying to not go. You see that he looks at, he notices you.

0:55:16 Murph: Yeah.

0:55:17 Brennan: And goes,

0:55:17 David: Excuse me, I gotta go to the bathroom, hold on one sec.

0:55:20 Brennan: And he walks in, he walks into the bathroom, goes,

0:55:26 David: Dad?

0:55:27 Kugrash: Yeah, you were attacked?

0:55:30 David: Some fuckin' asshole broke in here and beat the shit out of me, fuckin' bit my neck and shit.

0:55:36 Brennan: You look and see that David's reflection in the bathroom mirror is transparent. [ominous music]

0:55:43 Kugrash: Hey David, buddy. Do you feel weird?

0:55:46 David: Hungry.

0:55:47 Lou: Oh!

0:55:48 David: Go for like, I could go for a rare steak. Like, a rare steak.

0:55:53 Kugrash: Dammit. All right.

0:55:55 Emily: Make him a beet smoothie.

0:55:58 Kugrash: Oh God. David.

0:56:01 David: Yeah? [ominous music]

0:56:06 Kugrash: You--

0:56:07 Emily: [whispering] Knock him out.

0:56:08 Murph: [whispering] I don't want to—

0:56:09 Emily: [whispering] He's a danger.

0:56:12 Lou: That little Sofia voice in the back of your head never says good things.

0:56:20 Murph: Oh God!

0:56:22 Brennan: As he looks at you and says,

0:56:23 David: Dad, I was making an email about Robert Moses and shit. Look…

0:56:29 Brennan: Do you still have the box of letters with you, by the way?

0:56:31 Murph: Yes, I do.

0:56:32 Brennan: You see he looks and says,

0:56:33 David: Did you take that?

0:56:35 Kugrash: Yeah, I figured they were, yeah, I kind of stole them. I'm sorry, I saw they were labeled to me.

0:56:39 David: Fuckin' rat piece of shit.

0:56:41 Kugrash: I'm fuckin' sorry, they were written, my name was—

0:56:43 Ally: Your hair is sticking out too.

0:56:44 Brennan: You see that he looks and says,

0:56:47 David: They're fuckin' stupid. Don't, there's nothing worth, there's nothing worth reading in there, if shit's about to hit the fan.

0:56:54 Murph: I'll read it.

0:56:55 Brennan: You open one, he says,

0:56:55 David: No, don't.

0:56:58 Brennan: And you see, it's backdated many, many years. And it's a… There's probably, you've been gone for a couple decades, right, there's probably 50, 60 letters in here.

0:57:12 Murph: [whispers] Goddamn it.

0:57:12 Brennan: And you see that, it says,

0:57:16 David: Hey dad. Don't know where you are. Matt did great in school this year, we're real proud of all the work he's done. It looks like he might get to take some advanced classes next year. Diane got a promotion at work.

0:57:33 Brennan: And it's just letter after letter of him writing to you over the years, letting you know what was going on in his life.

0:57:40 Kugrash: Oh God, David. I'm… I would say sorry, but there's just, there's no… There's no apology I could give you for not being around.

0:57:58 Brennan: You see David looks at you and goes,

0:58:03 David: I don't know, dad. Talk is cheap. I don't really give a shit about an apology.

0:58:14 Murph: Yeah—

0:58:15 David: Actions… I'm helping you because Wally told me what you've been doing in your time. I would have, I would have loved for you to figure out how to not be a piece of shit when you were around me. But you'd have to be an asshole not to recognize when someone's trying not to be a piece of shit in general. And… I don't know that we're good, but that doesn't mean you're not good. And… I guess you're worth helping.

0:59:02 Kugrash: David, you are such a goddamn ball buster. And I'm so proud of the man you've become. I know it doesn't—

0:59:13 Brennan: [moans, gestures to his eyes] Just proud of the man you've become, fucker's crying,

0:59:15 David: You fuckin' asshole piece of shit, make me cry.

0:59:19 Brennan: Just blood coming down his face.

0:59:21 Kugrash: Oh God! David, look.

0:59:24 David: The fuck is wrong with me? [screams]

0:59:25 Brennan: Looks in the mirror.

0:59:26 Kugrash: Yeah, so all this magic stuff, the guys who attacked you, Robert Moses is, you know about vampires. The movies and stuff.

0:59:34 David: I don't go in for that shit. I like Rudy. You know—

0:59:39 Kugrash: You know you can't see yourself in a mirror.

0:59:42 Emily: Rudy?

0:59:43 Kugrash: I have not, I don't think I've seen the film Rudy. I would, I became a, one day we'll watch Rudy, me and—

0:59:51 David: Yeah, and Wally. If we're all still alive, we'll watch it.

0:59:56 Kugrash: But I think— Ally has their eyes squeezed tight shut and their hand in a fist in front of their face, laughing silently.

0:59:57 Brennan: Ally really liked that.

0:59:58 Ally: Oh my God.

0:59:59 Zac: Did tea go in your nose?

1:00:01 Murph: Yeah.

1:00:01 Ally: Tea from long ago.

1:00:05 Kugrash: But David, you've been infected by whatever it is that Robert Moses has, by the, there's an arcane evil in addition to the regular kind of—

1:00:19 David: Gotcha.

1:00:20 Kugrash: White collar bullshit that's going on, so you are going to turn into something that's gonna be able to hurt your family and your friends.

1:00:30 David: Fuck!

1:00:31 Kugrash: Yeah, it's fuckin' bad, man.

1:00:33 David: Stop it!

1:00:34 Kugrash: Yeah, I will, I would stop it, I don't have a way to stop it right now except to like, I can bring you with me and just tie you up. I think this is all gonna be, basically the world's gonna end or it's not gonna end in a few hours. At midnight, Robert Moses is doing this whole thing.

1:00:51 David: All right. I'm gonna sit tight, I don't, these cops,

1:00:54 Brennan: You see that one of the cops goes,

1:00:55 Cop: Everything all right in there? You need some toilet paper or what's…

1:00:59 David: [yelling] I'm good! [quiet] Look, if you guys shut the deal, the world's gonna maybe end in a couple hours?

1:01:05 Kugrash: Yeah, like I was saying, Robert Moses has, is doing some kind of ritual to make all this magic stuff kind of come take over.

1:01:14 David: Ok. Yeah, I was doing it, but the email I was gonna send you, there's some shit there—

1:01:19 Kugrash: What is Rosebud, do you know what Rosebud is?

1:01:22 Kugrash: Rose, oh, that's not finance shit, that's just like, that was a gag. Citizen Kane was big the year that they opened the office downtown, so they refer to the office as the Rosebud Club, there's a bunch of rosebud shit everywhere, just kind of a gag.

1:01:35 Kugrash: Okay.

1:01:38 Brennan: Pete, what are you doing down there?

1:01:42 Ally: I have proficiency in thieves' tools. Can I try to start hacking or—

1:01:48 Brennan: It's an Arcane Lock, so you're gonna roll with disadvantage, but you can go ahead and roll.

1:01:51 Ally: Okay, cool.

1:01:52 Murph: Do I know that Pete is at the office, 'cause when we split?

1:01:56 Brennan: Yeah, I think you do know that.

1:01:58 Murph: I want to text Pete and say,

1:02:01 Kugrash: I don't know if this means anything to you, but Rosebud. [laughs]

1:02:09 Pete: What?

1:02:09 Kugrash: Rosebud is significant to Robert Moses, it's some kind of gag, some kind of secret thing.

1:02:14 Lou: Are we all in a chain?

1:02:16 Murph: Yeah, yeah, I'm group chatting.

1:02:17 Siobhan: Oh, we've got Mindlink on. Right?

1:02:19 Ally: It's only 30 feet.

1:02:20 Siobhan: Oh, okay, nevermind.

1:02:21 Emily: Sofia starts texting anagrams of Rosebud.

1:02:24 Ally: I put in Rosebud.

1:02:26 Brennan: Beep beep, beep beep beep beep. [imitates metal clanking] Whoom! Opens.

1:02:33 Ally: Fuck yeah, I walk in.

1:02:34 Zac: I'm completely ignoring it 'cause I'm driving.

1:02:37 Ally: Oh yeah, you have that thing that texts all of us a message that's like, I'm driving.

1:02:41 Zac: Yeah.

1:02:43 Brennan: You see Esther in the shotgun thing says,

1:02:45 Esther: Do you want me to answer that?

1:02:46 Ricky: I probably shouldn't.

1:02:48 Esther: Do you want me to?

1:02:49 Ricky: Oh… If you feel comfortable.

1:02:52 Esther: Why would I not feel comfortable?

1:02:54 Ricky: I mean, just 'cause the car's moving.

1:02:56 Esther: I'm riding as a passenger--

1:02:58 Ricky: You know what, you can do it, I think it's, the stakes are high enough.

1:03:01 Brennan: She starts to go into your pocket to get the phone.

1:03:07 Esther: Sorry, can you just raise your, 'cause the, you're making a crease in your lap. Could you just raise your pelvis up a little bit to open the pocket up?

1:03:12 Ricky: Like this? [awkwardly lifts his hips]

1:03:17 Esther: That's good, that's fine, thank you. Good. [clears throat]

1:03:22 Ally: And it just says, Rosebud.

1:03:23 Brennan: And she starts relaying the texts to you. And yeah, she starts to relay the texts. As she does so… You see she starts to go through your phone, and she says,

1:03:43 Esther: You text your friends, John, John, and John, your mom, your sister, and me.

1:03:54 Ricky: Yeah, pretty much. Those are the people I text.

1:03:58 Esther: God, that's a lot of selfies.

1:04:00 Ricky: Oh, I just, I just like to let people know what I'm up to. [Emily laughs]

1:04:05 Brennan: She looks over at you, shakes her head.

1:04:07 Ricky: Selfies are good because you can get yourself and then what you're doing in one picture.

1:04:13 Esther: Right, but wouldn't the presence of a photograph coming from your phone kind of imply your presence there?

1:04:18 Ricky: [nods] Okay. Yeah, I see that.

1:04:21 Esther: It's all right.

1:04:23 Brennan: You see— You tear off in the car. Pete, you walk into this place. Give me another investigation check.

1:04:32 Ally: Cool.

1:04:38 Murph: Fuck!

1:04:39 Ally: What do you think it was?

1:04:40 Brennan: I think it was a nat 1.

1:04:41 Ally: It was.

1:04:42 Brennan: A nat 1?

1:04:43 Ally: It was absolutely a nat 1.

1:04:44 Brennan: Cool. Awesome. You walk in, you—

1:04:47 Ally: Is there a way to use Intimidation or—

1:04:50 Brennan: You can do--

1:04:51 Ally: Persuasion--

1:04:52 Brennan: You can do an Arcana check.

1:04:53 Ally: Can I?

1:04:54 Brennan: Yeah, go for it.

1:04:55 Ally: Thank God. 19, five, 24.

1:04:58 Brennan: Okay, so you're not able to, you're trying to snoop around and it's like, you're like, God, I've never worked an office job, I have no idea where shit goes in a fuckin' office. What you do find, though, is there is a small felt, [eerie music] sorry, a small velvet lined, ancient mahogany box that you detect the scent of this, for decades, held Robert Moses's phylactery. The place where his lich's soul lived. It is not here anymore. But you see the tiniest little print of the beginning of a rune that would have been drawn on the phylactery. With that 24 arcana check, you know that [eerie music] this rune begins a sequence that if spoken aloud, would allow somebody to destroy the phylactery. Robert Moses's body was destroyed, and liches don't come back for, he's, let me just double check, I don't think they come back for days... Fuck it, I'm the DM. They don't come back for days. You see that, so Robert Moses will not be able to reconstitute physically for days, and if his body is destroyed, and his phylactery is destroyed, he will be permanently unmade. But you don't have the whole phylactery, you only have this little bitty beginning of a rune.

1:06:39 Ally: I take a ton of photos and send it to the group, including Alejandro, so maybe he can—

1:06:44 Brennan: Cool.

1:06:45 Ally: Do some work on that or tell me what to look for in this office.

1:06:49 Brennan: Awesome. Yeah, you see Alejandro texts back and says,

1:06:53 Alejandro: I will begin to research immediately.

1:06:55 Brennan: You see Alejandro's getting, goes,

1:06:58 Alejandro: Holy shit, we have the beginning of the rune sequence of Robert Moses's phylactery.

1:07:05 Kingston: Bam. Okay, Pete!

1:07:07 Brennan: You see he goes,

1:07:09 Alejandro: [eating chopped cheese] God, this is so good.

1:07:10 Kingston: It's very good.

1:07:11 Alejandro: You know, when there's a fight about to happen, it's like, you can sort of pile on the calories 'cause you're going to be--

1:07:16 Kingston: Right, we gonna burn all this off. [Emily laughs]

1:07:18 Ricky: Can you ask Alejandro if he can identify things through a picture?

1:07:24 Brennan: [laughs] You see she texts on your phone, Alejandro texts back a little gif of someone doing, he texts back that Robert Redford gif of him doing the slow nod. [Emily laughs]

1:07:36 Zac: From Jeremiah Johnson? [Editor’s Note: This guy.]

1:07:37 Brennan: [laughs] The Jeremiah Johnson one. And you see that he says,

1:07:41 Alejandro: Ana and Amelia told me how to use [pronounced with a “j” sound] gifs.

1:07:44 Kingston: What's a gif?

1:07:45 Alejandro: A gif is like a little movie, but it's like for a joke, it's a sassy kind of—

1:07:50 Kingston: I don't get it, why don't people just say what they mean, you know?

1:07:54 Alejandro: Kingston, you know, you're younger than me, you could live—

1:07:57 Kingston: I don't—

1:07:58 Alejandro: We could all die tonight! You have to enjoy life a little bit!

1:08:01 Kingston: I enjoy life perfectly fine, I just don't need little movies to do it.

1:08:08 Alejandro: You are the Vox Populi of New York City, which means you speak on behalf of its people. And do you know what I think?

1:08:17 Kingston: What do you think, Alejandro?

1:08:18 Alejandro: There is one person in New York who you have always refused to speak for. And I'm looking right at him. [ethereal music]

1:08:29 Kingston: Get out of here.

1:08:31 Alejandro: I'm not going to get out of here!

1:08:32 Kingston: Okay, what, because I won't use gifs?

1:08:35 Alejandro: Because you won't use a gif to have a good time!

1:08:37 Kingston: Okay.

1:08:38 Alejandro: That's what I think!

1:08:39 Kingston: Okay.

1:08:39 Alejandro: That's my, that's one man's opinion.

1:08:40 Kingston: All right.

1:08:41 Alejandro: Okay, so—

1:08:43 Lou: How much time do we have left?

1:08:44 Brennan: You, it's probably, for you it's probably right around 9:50.

1:08:48 Lou: Can I head uptown?

1:08:50 Brennan: Yeah, you can absolutely, you get on your bus. Alejandro says,

1:08:53 Alejandro: Okay, I'm gonna go research this. Hey, whatever this is, I approve.

1:08:57 Kingston: Get out of here!

1:08:58 Alejandro: Okay!

1:08:59 Brennan: He gives you a little golden eyed wink. [ding]

1:09:00 Kingston: Get out of here!

1:09:01 Alejandro: I'm 94, I can have a fun time if I want! [wiggling his shoulders]

1:09:02 Kingston: Okay.

1:09:03 Brennan: You see that he heads up into the library. Ally and Emily both mimic Alejandro’s shoulder wiggle move. Emily is laughing.

1:09:12 Brennan: You guys— Rad.

1:09:15 Siobhan: I feel like this is Pete's new look. It's a cantrip you can cast it whenever you want, you're just like—

1:09:21 Brennan: Dope as hell.

1:09:21 Zac: Keith would get implants of— [mimics fangs]

1:09:23 Siobhan: Absolutely.

1:09:24 Ally: Absolutely would.

1:09:24 Brennan: Keith?

1:09:26 Ally: Keith from Buzzfeed.

1:09:28 Brennan: The Maserati pulls in right outside of Yankee Stadium, you see that mist kind of flows around it. You hear the questing blade go, [eerie music]

1:09:42 Axe: [deep, British accent] it has chosen this place to appear.

1:09:45 Zac: What has chosen this place?

1:09:49 Axe: The Hall, the Hall of Heroes descends now.

1:09:56 Brennan: You see that Esther goes,

1:09:57 Esther: Are you, is your ax talking to you? The questing blade.

1:10:01 Ricky: [holding the axe like a phone, puts it down to talk to Esther] Sorry. It said this is the place where the Hall of Heroes has chosen to appear.

1:10:06 Brennan: You see that Esther texts that out, you see that not that anyone's still there anymore, [laughs] but you see that Alejandro goes into, or Alejandro texts everyone back, he says,

1:10:20 Alejandro: Jackson would like everyone to know that he thinks it's bullshit that the Hall of Heroes is appearing at Yankee Stadium. And I quote, go Mets.

1:10:31 Ricky: I think that's very honorable that you support your team in that way.

1:10:36 Brennan: You see that, you know, it's nighttime, but the doors open, you see a spectral figure appear. First with this gleaming silver of a questing blade, and you see that a questing baseball bat appears in the air, and you see the Bambino himself, Babe Ruth tips his cap to you and goes,

1:10:59 Babe Ruth: [raspy, old-timey voice] Holy shit, pal! Look at you! What do you got, you're built like a brick house!

1:11:11 Zac: I sort of just bow to him.

1:11:13 Emily: Aww!

1:11:14 Brennan: You see he says,

1:11:15 Babe Ruth: As one member of the Order to another,

1:11:16 Brennan: And bows to you. He goes,

1:11:20 Babe Ruth: Come on in, champion.

1:11:22 Brennan: You see that Esther goes to follow and he says,

1:11:24 Babe Ruth: I'm sorry, my lady, but champions only beyond this point.

1:11:29 Brennan: She looks out at the Maserati and goes,

1:11:31 Esther: Fuck, okay, fine. Wicked. [laughs]

1:11:33 Brennan: As he walks with you, you see that Esther conjures a weird little spectral eye and just sends it in after you and is like,

1:11:40 Esther: I'm gonna fuckin' do what I want. Fuckin' Babe Ruth.

1:11:44 Emily: Yeah, girl. Take down that boys club!

1:11:46 Siobhan: Don't tell me what to do, Babe Ruth!

1:11:49 Lou: The patriarchy ends today!

1:11:52 Brennan: You see that Babe Ruth walks through Yankee Stadium with you and says,

1:11:59 Babe Ruth: How you holding up, kiddo, you all right?

1:12:02 Ricky: I think I'm doing okay, I just… There's a lot happening right now, and I'm worried we won't be able to help everybody. [ambient music]

1:12:13 Babe Ruth: The Hall of Heroes is always stood, it and its questing blades to protect those shining beacons of hope and civilization, you know? People have always liked to talk a lot of shit about this town. Just like they did about London and Rome and Ur long before.

1:12:33 Brennan: You see these visions of other cities in the past, and these various people holding questing blades aloft. You see Camelot appears and these other place where people hold these shining weapons aloft.

1:12:46 Ricky: Awesome.

1:12:47 Brennan: He walks out into Yankee Stadium and you're just in the, just on the field now. And you see he says,

1:12:55 Babe Ruth: I wanted you to come out here and meet the rest of your Order. You know, there's the glitz and the glamor and the madness and the dream realm, but there is a power here to the waking world as well. Even the [points to himself] Sultan of Swat knows that.

1:13:18 Brennan: You see he look out and says,

1:13:21 Babe Ruth: Places like this have as much heart as anywhere else, because of people like us. Go out there and get the work done.

1:13:30 Brennan: He kind of pokes your thick chest as he does it. And you see he says,

1:13:35 Babe Ruth: So, it's time for you to receive your blessing here in the Hall of Heroes. [reverberating, announcer-like shout] Heroes!

1:13:43 Brennan: And you see there's a flicker, and you see an image of Lou Gehrig out in the middle of the field going like, [whispering]

1:13:49 Lou Gehrig: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man... [imitates whooshing]

1:13:55 Zac: Just starts crying.

1:13:56 Brennan: He's crying! You see Babe starts crying as well, and salutes Lou. And you see that, walking out of the mist, you see an old man with a mustache and a little pilot's pin comes out and he goes,

1:14:09 Sullenberger: Hi, I'm Sully Sullenberger. The hero—

1:14:13 Ricky: Are you dead?

1:14:13 Sullenberger: No. No.

1:14:16 Ricky: Are you really here?

1:14:16 Sullenberger: No, this is my ghost, but I'm also still alive.

1:14:21 Murph: Zero questions from Ricky.

1:14:25 Brennan: You see that also he goes,

1:14:29 Sullenberger: If I can land that plane, you can save this city from the apocalypse. You see that—

1:14:35 Ricky: Are we against geese? I'm just making sure.

1:14:38 Sullenberger: You are against Robert Moses. And I was against geese. Different heroes have different enemies.

1:14:46 Ricky: So wait, are you telling me that those geese were knowingly flying into those jet engines?

1:14:50 Brennan: You see that he holds a silvery pilot yoke, like a yoke of a plane aloft. And you see that there's an image of a group of hooded geese going,

1:15:01 Geese: [deep, evil voice] Tomorrow we strike! Though we shall not all survive, we shall destroy Sullenberger once and for all.

1:15:09 Ricky: Wow.

1:15:10 Brennan: You see that two other figures come out of the mist. So it's Babe Ruth, Sully Sullenberger, and you see Carl Sagan holding a silver telescope, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg holding a silver gavel all walk out. You see they say, you see that they both nod,

1:15:25 Ginsburg: Hello, I'm also still alive.

1:15:29 Brennan: And you see Carl Sagan says,

1:15:30 Sagan: I'm not. But I can recognize someone who has devoted themselves to a better world. And it begins here, my fellow passenger on Spaceship Earth.

1:15:41 Ricky: We're on a spaceship. [Brennan laughs]

1:15:44 Brennan: You see that Babe looks out and says,

1:15:50 Babe Ruth: The champions of the Hall of Heroes have always stood to do what must be done, even at great cost to themselves. You hold the questing blade. And this blessing is yours, if you'd claim it. [ethereal music]

1:16:07 Babe Ruth: Do you claim this blessing?

1:16:09 Ricky: I shall claim it.

1:16:11 Babe Ruth: Right. To perform the ritual, you've got to play a little game of catch.

1:16:15 Ricky: We have to? Or get to?

1:16:19 Brennan: See he says,

1:16:19 Babe Ruth: All right. Head on out there, Rick.

1:16:22 Brennan: And you see he tosses a ball to you. Cool. You, Babe Ruth, Sully Sullenberger, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Carl Sagan play a little bit of catch.

1:16:31 Siobhan: What position is Ruth Bader Ginsberg in?

1:16:33 Ally: I was like, don't make Ruth catch anything. Preserve Ruth.

1:16:38 Lou: Preserve.

1:16:39 Siobhan: She breaks all the bones in her body.

1:16:40 Ally: Put Ruth in amber now!

1:16:44 Brennan: You see that they place a blessing in the questing blade as you guys play catch. I'm gonna hand this to you, and I'm gonna ask you to not read it aloud, but read it only to yourself.

1:16:56 Zac: Okay.

1:16:57 Emily: [holding her hands between herself and Zac] I wouldn't not be, even I want to so bad.

1:16:58 Lou: Everybody look at his face through.

1:16:59 Ally: I just want to say if, at the time that this airs, Ruth Bader Ginsberg has passed—

1:17:03 Emily: Oh God, if we, I have been thinking that.

1:17:05 Ally: The saddest thing ever. I love you. You are an inspiration.

1:17:07 Emily: Motherfuckers.

1:17:09 Siobhan: We love you, Ruth.

1:17:10 Brennan: Dope. After a few minutes, you walk back out of there. And you see that Babe Ruth, all of them hold their questing blades aloft.

1:17:22 Babe Ruth: Take care, Ricky Matsui.

1:17:25 Ricky: Thank you, heroes.

1:17:27 Brennan: [laughs] They fade into the mist. You walk from Yankee Stadium, and you see that Esther says,

1:17:31 Esther: All good?

1:17:35 Ricky: Great.

1:17:37 Esther: Good.

1:17:38 Ricky: Awesome. Should we, yeah, let's get out of here.

1:17:41 Esther: Let's get out of here. [imitates car revving]

1:17:42 Brennan: You guys take off. Wonderful.

1:17:48 Ally: Can I do something really quick?

1:17:50 Brennan: Yeah!

1:17:51 Ally: Is Financial District near Times Square?

1:17:53 Brennan: No. Farther away.

1:17:55 Ally: I wanted to hang up posters in Times Square advertising for other parties to get people not to show up there.

1:18:02 Siobhan: I mean, they've been there for 12 hours. People wear diapers and shit.

1:18:07 Brennan: You can absolutely just summon a bunch of dream paper if you want to start—

1:18:10 Ally: Okay, yeah. I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna advertise for two very different parties. One is gonna be—

1:18:14 Emily: Lower East Side.

1:18:15 Ally: Meet the cast of SNL and Fun Home live at this address that's way across town. And then the other one is unlimited drugs warehouse all night party, a completely different address in a different area. Flyers go everywhere all over Times Square.

1:18:31 Emily: I think you just got yourself on the nice list. That’s an act of true heroism.

1:18:36 Brennan: What was the second party, sorry?

1:18:37 Ally: It was unlimited drugs, all night, back to back famous underground DJs.

1:18:43 Brennan: In-fucking-credible. So I'm gonna cut now over to, buh-buh-buh. Sofia.

1:18:53 Emily: Yeah. Okay, so I show up to the Empire State Building.

1:18:59 Brennan: You see it's, the observation deck is closed.

1:19:02 Emily: That's fine, I'm not going inside. And then I'm just gonna Otherworldly Leap myself and try to, ideally what I'd like to do is I'd like to climb it like a rock climber.

1:19:15 Brennan: You, bah, just scale with pure force of will. [clanking noises] Give me an Athletics check. With Otherworldly Leap we'll say with advantage with Otherworldly Leap.

1:19:25 Emily: Okay. 19. [sound of clawing on metal]

1:19:32 Brennan: You fully scale the Empire State Building. Storm clouds, [imitates rumbling thunder] roiling, strange color, green and purple lightning. [imitates lightning cracks]

1:19:44 Emily: Okay. I'm just gonna say,

1:19:47 Sofia: Okay, all you sphinxes and you choosers of the Chosen of the Concrete Fist, you weren't there for my husband Dale, and look what that got him. So I don't really care about being your chosen. Honestly, I know that this is probably an off-putting way to do this, but I don't give a shit about being your chosen. I'm honestly just trying to fuck some shit up tonight. Death has no fear for me. I'll die easily, I'm on the nice list, I'll go get to be with my husband. It'll be fucking dope. So just choose me for the fucking night. You let Dale down, now show the fuck up. [imitates whistling wind]

1:20:29 Brennan: [whispers] Make a Perception check.

1:20:34 Emily: 12.

1:20:36 Brennan: You look around. Nothing but the wind howls up here.

1:20:46 Emily: All right, I'll go to the other side.

1:20:48 Brennan: Cool.

1:20:49 Emily: Are there any other, are there any gargoyles or anything adorning the top of the Empire State Building?

1:20:54 Brennan: Make an Investigation check.

1:20:58 Emily: Mm, 13.

1:21:00 Brennan: No. There's no gargoyles up here.

1:21:03 Siobhan: [whispering] Go to the top.

1:21:04 Emily: Am I not at the top?

1:21:05 Brennan: You're at the observation deck.

1:21:06 Emily: Oh, I meant to go to the top. I want to go to the very fuckin' top.

1:21:09 Brennan: Give me another athletics check.

1:21:11 Emily: Kay. Ooh, 13.

1:21:15 Brennan: You, takes a long time getting up there. And you so poured your heart out into that statement and then for it to be met with silence is so brutal. Sofia, where's Sofia at right now as she gets, you perch like fuckin', you're like—

1:21:32 Sofia: I'm just determined. I don't fuckin' care, I'm really, right now, I feel like I'm dealing with fuckin' cowards, and I think they need to show themselves. Because honestly, if you don't fuckin' show up now, there might not be anyone to fuckin' choose ever again. So then you'll have had this little gift you could have given to someone, this little choosing you could have done, and you will never do it to anyone. It's like letting food go bad, I hate when people let food go bad! [imitates wind whistling]

1:22:02 Brennan: You look out. You know, Sofia was raised in a very conflictful home. And for you to be pouring your rage out and to not be met with anything, is so maddening at this moment. You're filled with determination. Go ahead and make an Insight check for me.

1:22:26 Emily: 14.

1:22:28 Brennan: You look down and see all the busy people in New York, moving to and fro. You see all of them waiting for a lucky break, all of them with these dreams and, you think about what Jackson said about the realm of dreams and Pete and Kingston and what they represent, and this weird schism in this place where people come to pursue some completely lofty, far away goal, and yet life from day to day can be so dreary and miserable and hard. And the gap from dream to reality feels insurmountable.

1:23:09 Emily: All right.

1:23:10 Brennan: You look around and you also remember Dale's words to you.

1:23:17 Emily: It is what it is.

1:23:19 Brennan: That's not what Dale said.

1:23:20 Emily: Oh, at the top, what did he say? He said, at the top—

1:23:24 Siobhan: It's gonna feel like there's not anybody there, but there is, there is somebody there.

1:23:28 Emily: Mm. All right. So at the top, it's gonna feel like there's no one there, but there is someone there. So I guess I'll just kind of be like,

1:23:39 Sofia: All right. If this is how we're doing it, this is how we're doing it.

1:23:43 Emily: And I'll just basically meditate here until I gotta go to Times Square. Siobhan makes a strained squeak at Emily. She knows something.

1:23:52 Emily: [to Siobhan] What? I don't have any spells.

1:23:56 Brennan: You start meditating, you enter your meditative trance, you, the techniques you learned at the monastery. Ooh. You are standing on one foot on top of the spire at the top of the Empire State Building. You look down at New York. Dale believed there was something here. [ethereal music] Roll an insight check with advantage as you meditate.

1:24:23 Emily: Nat 20. And a 19.

1:24:25 Siobhan: Fuck, man. [ethereal, humming music]

1:24:28 Brennan: You look out, what Dale believed was that Jackson's interpretation of the monks' mission was maybe not fully correct, the monks are from the waking world. But the idea of the dream being something they have to oppose, he didn't agree with by coming here to seek it out. He thought, just in the same way that yin and yang are opposed but complementary, that these two forces here were as well. And you've seen what happens when Pete and Kingston's magic works together. The nat 20 insight. You look at all those people down there. And a true born and bred New Yorker, you look down and realize that all the dreams that are being chased down there, that the true spirit of this place is to meet dreams with concrete, to hustle in the muck and the grime and grind a way to make something miraculous happen, in that the spirit of this place is that these people make it happen for themselves. You look around. Who is here at the top of the Empire State Building?

1:25:59 Sofia: Motherfuckin' I'm here.

1:26:02 Brennan: Fwoom, you open your eyes and look around. [sound of rumbling] Potential crackles in the air around you.

1:26:16 Emily: [whispers] Am I supposed to do something? What am I supposed to do?

1:26:20 Brennan: You see that potential crackles in the air around you, a reverberation leaves and surrounds you as you say, I'm here. And you can feel Dale smiling down on you. [imitates whistling wind] There is someone at the top of the Empire State Building.

1:26:47 Emily: I put my hand out.

1:26:49 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:26:50 Emily: For, if there's anyone else.

1:26:52 Brennan: There's nobody else.

1:26:54 Emily: All right. What am I not getting? What the fuck am I not getting? Everyone's looking at me like I'm supposed to do something.

1:27:01 Brennan: No, no, no. You see that, yeah. On that nat 20, when you said, I'm here—

1:27:08 Ally: It's the worst feeling ever!

1:27:10 Brennan: No, no, no.

1:27:10 Emily: I feel like everyone's like—

1:27:12 Brennan: No, no, no, no.

1:27:13 Emily: What? Ally is staring intensely at Emily, grinning and rocking back and forth in their seat.

1:27:14 Brennan: As you're saying I'm here, you never saw these scrolls, but in all the things that Jackson described, it was never clear who the spirits were that select the chosen one. And the scrolls never mentioned who they were, so there's no, no one knows who picks the chosen one.

1:27:31 Sofia: Okay. So I guess I just choose myself to be the chosen one?

1:27:35 Brennan: Boom! [sound of explosion] [crackling explosions]

1:27:44 Brennan: You are filled with power, you hear a purring in your heart, [imitates purring], the claws [shing!] appear at your side. There is nothing more in the spirit of this place than to rely on nobody else but yourself to decide that you will be chosen.

1:28:03 Emily: All right, fuck yeah.

1:28:06 Brennan: [laughs] I'm going to go ahead. Brennan gives Emily an item card.

1:28:10 Emily: This is a secret one?

1:28:12 Brennan: You don't have to tell anybody, but you're also welcome to if you'd like.

1:28:16 Emily: Woo-hoo!

1:28:17 Ally: Is it a secret one?

1:28:20 Brennan: You—

1:28:21 Ally: Oh, we're not here, I guess.

1:28:22 Brennan: You are filled with power—

1:28:22 Emily: Honestly, it's not that thrilling, I can just, I can replenish a ki point each time you are dealt damage.

1:28:27 Ally: Nice!

1:28:28 Siobhan: Oh, that’s sick.

1:28:28 Emily: So I'm telling you guys, 'cause there wouldn't be a big reveal, but it's dope.

1:28:33 Brennan: You also feel that there is another element even beyond that, that you, you can actually make an Arcana check to see if you understand the secondary power. Emily rolls the die, then looks at her roll dismissively and shakes her head a little.

1:28:42 Brennan: So you, but you do feel another power that you know somebody more magical than you could probably identify or see.

1:28:49 Emily: Okay.

1:28:50 Brennan: But you have, here at the top of the Empire State Building, the ultimate, there was no authority higher than your own, and nobody would have been as meaningful to select yourself as you.

1:29:05 Emily: Yeah! Get it, bitch!

1:29:07 Brennan: You can—

1:29:09 Ally: It's beautiful.

1:29:10 Brennan: [laughs] You hear a voice on the wind say,

1:29:14 Dale: [whispering] I love you, I'm so proud of you. This is even more beautiful than the deer in the backyard.

1:29:21 Sofia: Oh my God, I thought it was me talking to myself for a second until you said the deer. Dale! I'm coming for you! I'm coming for you, Dale!

1:29:32 Brennan: Cool, you head off. Kingston.

1:29:35 Lou: Mm-hmm.

1:29:35 Brennan: You make your way uptown. You arrive at the hospital. Emiko greets you at the door,

1:29:46 Emiko: Hey Kingston, stable for the moment. She's actually conscious, she's awake. Whatever you did, do you want the room to yourself?

1:29:59 Kingston: Yeah, just for a minute.

1:30:02 Brennan: You walk into the room, beep, beep, beep. Liz is there. [sighs]

1:30:13 Kingston: How you doing, Ms. Herrera?

1:30:15 Liz: Fuck you. [heart monitor beeping] You did this, you saved me?

1:30:23 Kingston: It wasn't actually me, it was actually, you know Mr. March from the fireman calendar?

1:30:29 Liz: Mr. March? Oh my God, yeah.

1:30:32 Kingston: Yeah, it was him. I helped, but he did most of the heavy lifting.

1:30:36 Brennan: You see she goes,

1:30:38 Liz: Wow, well feel free to give him my number.

1:30:41 Kingston: All right.

1:30:43 Brennan: You see, she looks out and goes,

1:30:50 Liz: What happened, some fuckin' bitch in a fuckin' pantsuit jumped me.

1:30:55 Kingston: Yeah.

1:30:57 Liz: It was awful.

1:30:58 Kingston: It was a vampire, you know. It's a big old politician-slash-finance guy who's been alive for 400 years, he's a lich, he sold his soul. Fae and, you know. All the, same ol' bullshit.

1:31:18 Liz: Well, looks like I got my fuckin' legs broke, 'cause I'm an extra in your story.

1:31:29 Kingston: Okay. I… I mean, I don't know what to say, Liz. This wasn't supposed to happen to you. And I promise you, you know, my other friend, the person who did this to you tried to turn into a gas, and this person still beat the shit out of them. So they got what was coming to 'em.

1:31:53 Liz: Honestly? I'm very happy to hear that, I want that fuckin' lady stopped.

1:31:57 Kingston: I thought you would.

1:32:02 Liz: [sighs] So what, this is it, we're all gonna die and there's an apocalypse, something's gonna happen?

1:32:06 Kingston: Well, you know, I'mma try and do my best to stop it, but—

1:32:09 Liz: Oh, your best has always been pretty good, Kingston.

1:32:11 Kingston: Oh, well.

1:32:16 Liz: Why'd you come up here?

1:32:18 Kingston: Yeah, I don't know. Just thought I'd, you know, we've got to put it all out there. You just, you want to make sure that you got a chance to say everything that you wanted to say and be everywhere you wanted to be.

1:32:34 Liz: You want to be here with me?

1:32:37 Kingston: Ah, I guess so, well, really I just want to show up and, you know, tell you how I saved you real quick.

1:32:44 Brennan: You see she laughs, painfully. She looks and goes, make a Persuasion and an Insight roll for me, if you'd be so kind.

1:33:01 Lou: Persuasion and an Insight roll?

1:33:02 Brennan: Huh?

1:33:03 Lou: And an insight roll.

1:33:04 Brennan: Yep.

1:33:05 Lou: Okay, insight first. That's gonna be a 28. Persuasion, Nat 20. [Brennan laughs in incredulous shock for a second]

1:33:19 Brennan: She begins to, she begins to weep a little bit, there. She's like,

1:33:27 Liz: It fuckin' hurts, you're making me laugh.

1:33:35 Brennan: You look at her, she looks back at you. She knows that you can already tell this, just by looking at her. But it's been a long time for her to say it. You see she says,

1:33:52 Liz: You know, I think everybody deep down wants somebody as a partner that would, that you know would lay down their life for you. And when I met you, I knew you would do that for me. And then I figured out that the reason you would do that for me is because you'd do it for anybody. That's what a hero is. Makes me feel kinda selfish, you know? You want to be someone's everything, and you're everybody's everything. Made it real hard to feel special. And I feel like a piece of shit for wanting to feel special, 'cause you're the most selfless person I've ever known.

1:34:53 Kingston: No, no.

1:35:05 Liz: I don't want to take up any more of your time. People need you.

1:35:09 Kingston: Well, hey. I mean, I can't visit everybody. That's also because not everybody's worth visiting.

1:35:18 Brennan: You say that, and she looks up and, again, what had for a moment stopped just starts streaming down her eyes.

1:35:30 Liz: That’s such a bitchy thing to say, and it means the world.

1:35:36 Kingston: Liz, you are, I mean, I don't know else to say it, but you, you were everything to me. Just because I have to be something for everybody doesn't mean I can't be something more for you. And I'm sorry that I didn't find that space in which to do that. And I'll spend the rest of my life wishing that I could have done it right. But, you know. Who knows? Rest of my life maybe won't be too much more, so I ain't got much more time to worry about it, so.

1:36:26 Brennan: She thinks long and hard about what you've said.

1:36:42 Liz: There is something that you and I have always shared, we got thick heads, and we're pretty stubborn. And I think now, after a long, long time, I think it's safe to say we probably share something else too. You're not the only person that has regrets. Kingston and Liz share a long look.

1:37:19 Liz: You gotta go.

1:37:20 Kingston: Yeah, I should. You going anywhere?

1:37:23 Liz: [laughs] Ow!

1:37:25 Kingston: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm sorry, that's on me.

1:37:28 Brennan: You see she says,

1:37:32 Liz: If somebody would fuckin' teach me how to do magic, I'd come help you whoop ass. I'm from the fuckin' Bronx.

1:37:37 Kingston: Okay, okay. Well, we can talk about that if the world's still around tomorrow.

1:37:43 Liz: If the world's still around, I'd love to talk.

1:37:47 Kingston: Great.

1:37:51 Brennan: Kingston leaves the hospital.

1:37:53 Lou: Can I head home?

1:37:54 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:37:56 Lou: Can I, you know, sneak into my parents' room?

1:37:59 Brennan: Mm-hmm?

1:38:00 Lou: Kiss 'em both on the forehead?

1:38:02 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:38:02 Lou: I don't know if, I'm assuming they're awake, actually.

1:38:04 Brennan: Oh yeah. Yeah, you sneak into their home, you see they're getting ready, they have the, they have some tea made and watching the ball drop.

1:38:10 Kingston: Yeah. Hey, I'm headed downtown for the thing, so I just wanted to, you know, tell you I love you.

1:38:18 Victoria: Kingston, I love you so much, come here!

1:38:20 Brennan: You see she comes over, mwah, kisses you. Tupperware full of muffins in the coat pocket.

1:38:26 Kingston: Okay, and you know, I'll give these to somebody.

1:38:30 Brennan: You see that your pop comes over and goes,

1:38:34 Winston: Very well, be headed downtown.

1:38:37 Kingston: Big day.

1:38:38 Winston: Big day, huh? You on call, paramedic, is it all the people down there?

1:38:43 Kingston: Yeah, something like that.

1:38:45 Winston: Something like that. [sighs] All right. Well, be careful down there, all right?

1:38:52 Kingston: You know I will. Hey, and pop?

1:38:53 Winston: Mm-hmm?

1:38:54 Kingston: You gotta give that $400 back to Pete that he lost on Christmas during dominoes. You can't keep that money from him.

1:39:01 Winston: What? I won that money fair and square.

1:39:04 Kingston: You have to give it back to him! He didn't know, he don't play dominoes with black people, he didn't have a chance. He didn't have a goddamn chance!

1:39:10 Winston: Oh, so if someone comes in and they're fool enough, he's got writing on his fingers, I can't school a young man in a game of dominoes?

1:39:17 Kingston: You know what? It's a big night, this is not the last conversation I want to have with you, I love you, pop.

1:39:21 Wisnton: I love you too, you tell that boy if he wants to come learn some more, he can come by and play dominoes anytime he likes.

1:39:26 Kingston: Okay, all right.

1:39:27 Lou: And then can I head upstairs real quick. Flip the frame on top of the refrigerator up.

1:39:33 Brennan: Mm-hmm.

1:39:34 Lou: Hit Cosmo's for one last cup of coffee, and head downtown.

1:39:37 Cosmo: Kingston Brown. Cup of coffee.

1:39:40 Kingston: Thank you, Cosmo.

1:39:41 Brennan: It is hot and it tastes good.

1:39:43 Lou: Ooh.

1:39:44 Brennan: You head downtown. You get down from the Empire State Building, where is everyone headed, so Ricky and Esther get back to the Occult Society?

1:39:55 Emily: I'm gonna be jumping rooftop to rooftop to get to Times Square so I won't be getting down.

1:40:00 Brennan: Gotcha, boom-boom-boom.

1:40:02 Emily: But I have cell phone service up here, right?

1:40:04 Brennan: Yes, you do. So you're like, I'm on my way.

1:40:05 Emily: Cool.

1:40:06 Brennan: Rowan, you're heading over from, you're taking the seven?

1:40:08 Siobhan: Actually, is there a dragon train that goes to Times Square?

1:40:11 Brennan: Oh fuck yeah.

1:40:12 Siobhan: So I don't have to take the seven? Great, then I will do that.

1:40:14 Brennan: You go up to one of the dragons. [Dragon screeches infernally, snarls, growls]

1:40:23 Rowan: You're so cute. [pats it] [Dragon panting]

1:40:27 Brennan: You crawl into its body. Vwoom, rockets up.

1:40:30 Siobhan: As I'm going, I want to text every fuckin' Broadway superstar, I'm texting Sondheim, I'm texting Bernadette Peters, I'm texting Audra McDonald, any goddamn person that I can think of to be like, the theater as we know it is under threat. Come to Times Square immediately.

1:40:47 Emily: But aren't they all like, who is this no-name texting me?

1:40:48 Ally: I was gonna say, is this from a dead person's number?

1:40:51 Siobhan: Also it's coming from Misty Moore's number. [Brennan laughs]

1:40:56 Ally: Wow.

1:40:57 Siobhan: And also Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin, 'cause they're gonna be in Times Square doing their, and Andersoon Cooper, there's definitely something magical about him. Nobody's hair is that white at that young of an age. It's not for some kind of—

1:41:08 Brennan: Anderson Cooper is canon fae in this universe.

1:41:10 Siobhan: Fantastic, yeah. The Rockefellers are all up there.

1:41:13 Lou: Yeah.

1:41:15 Brennan: You shoot off, you… You get texts back from, not everyone texts back right away. Stephen Sondheim texts you back immediately.

1:41:29 Siobhan: Great.

1:41:30 Brennan: You see that the text just says,

1:41:32 Sondheim: The plot thickens… Ms. Berry. ;)

1:41:37 Rowan: Love you!

1:41:38 Emily: I also want to text Mario.

1:41:40 Brennan: Cool.

1:41:41 Emily: And say,

1:41:41 Sofia: If you want to redeem yourself, you can, we're going after your boy Robert Moses in Times Square.

1:41:53 Brennan: You, there's a pause. You get a text back.

1:41:59 Mario: On our way.

1:42:00 Siobhan: Great. Oh, and Em as well, I would love to text Em, just to make sure that she's—

1:42:04 Emily: I don't know if that helped or hurt.

1:42:05 Siobhan: Oh, and Don Confetti as well.

1:42:06 Emily: I don't know if Mario's gonna be on our side.

1:42:07 Siobhan: Fuckin' Don Confetti.

1:42:08 Brennan: Cool, you text—

1:42:09 Lou: I text Willy, I tell him to get his ass to Times Square.

1:42:15 Brennan: Incredible.

1:42:17 Siobhan: What about magical butt guy?

1:42:19 Brennan: Lowell Masters?

1:42:21 Lou: I mean, Lowell's—

1:42:23 Siobhan: Maybe he can—

1:42:24 Ally: Yeah, hell yeah!

1:42:25 Lou: Are that he can put things up his ass and identify them, I feel like—

1:42:29 Zac: Does he have anything that he could—

1:42:30 Siobhan: Yeah, maybe he can bring some shit down?

1:42:33 Brennan: Kingston, are you heading right to Times Square?

1:42:35 Lou: I think I'll hit the Gramercy Occult—

1:42:37 Brennan: Cool.

1:42:37 Lou: And walk over with—

1:42:38 Brennan: With, cool. So yeah. So Esther, Ricky, Kingston, and Alejandro all just start walking over from the Gramercy Occult Society, you actually got some other texts. Pete, you grab your flyers and head to Times Square.

1:42:55 Ally: Yeah.

1:42:56 Brennan: You just start flyering every—

1:42:58 Ally: Cool.

1:42:58 Brennan: As much you can. Kugrash, you're trying to get back from Forest Hills. How are you doing that?

1:43:03 Murph: I guess I have to, how long is a short rest, could I potentially, obviously you burn your hit dice each short rest, but could I potentially do another one to get a Wild Shape back if I fly back?

1:43:18 Brennan: Yes, I'll allow you to go ahead and do that.

1:43:21 Murph: Sweet, then I have to, I tell David,

1:43:22 Kugrash: Yeah, so, we'll catch up later, hopefully after tonight you won't be a vampire anymore. But for now, you're a vampire. So, if uh,  feel like you want more than just a steak, maybe chill out. Maybe spend a quiet night at home.

1:43:38 David: Oh, I will be careful. I will be careful.

1:43:41 Brennan: You get back to the Gramercy Occult Society, you see the steps, you see the horror, you know the bodies, which now are being partially cleaned up. You also see Esther casting an Identify spell, partially on the Maserati and some other magical stuff, but they're like, she and Alejandro are considering bringing to the fight with them.

1:44:01 Murph: Got it.

1:44:02 Ally: Oh, yeah, let's get a Maserati at the fight.

1:44:04 Siobhan: Awaken the Maserati!

1:44:07 Kugrash: Hey Esther, would you mind taking a look at my crown here?

1:44:11 Brennan: You see she goes,

1:44:12 Esther: Oh, sure Kugrash, yeah. Yeah, I can take a look at that.

1:44:16 Brennan: She, [imitates humming] casts Identify on it. [ethereal music] The stuff you already know.

1:44:23 Murph: Mm-hmm.

1:44:24 Brennan: And the ability past that. She looks at it and goes,

1:44:36 Esther: There's a powerful… There's a powerful curse breaker in here.

1:44:47 Siobhan: [whispering] Oh shit.

1:44:48 Esther: Because the crown, any human that wears the crown quickly turns into a rat, there is a powerful spell energy locked in here that,

1:45:01 Brennan: And you see that she kind of gets choked up for a second, and steels herself, like.

1:45:09 Esther: [sharply breathing] It's a powerful spell energy that can break extremely powerful curses. [ethereal music]

1:45:16 Murph: I nod. Do you, why, I guess can I do an Insight check--

1:45:24 Brennan: Yeah, do an insight, yeah.

1:45:25 Murph: I probably saw that she was upset. 20— something. 24.

1:45:34 Brennan: You look at her and she says,

1:45:39 Esther: I've just never seen, I've just never seen a curse breaking that powerful.

1:45:44 Kugrash: Is there something personal to you that you--

1:45:49 Esther: You said you knew my mom, right?

1:45:53 Kugrash: Yeah.

1:45:56 Esther: My family's been cursed for a long time. We have certain… We've been cursed for a long time. And my mom has been out of my life for a long time as a result of that curse. She was betrayed by someone very close to her, and it took her away from me, my dad, family.

1:46:36 Kugrash: [very strained] This probably isn't the best time, but that was me.

1:46:40 Esther: What?

1:46:42 Sofia: [whispers] Don't make her emotional! I know, I know you're right, it's good. I'm sorry.

1:46:47 Kugrash: I… If whatever happened to her was because somebody betrayed her, then it might have been me. We used to work together. And, I wasn't a good guy. She turned me into a rat, because I'm a rat. But I want you to know that I would like to use the crown to help her. My son is also a vampire, so I might need to use it on him. But I'm willing to spend the rest of my life as a rat if it means I can help your mom. Or you can help my son, so I'm, I'm sorry, I can only do, I can only try to do good things, I can't fix what I did.

1:47:35 Brennan: You see, she looks at you, Ricky and says,

1:47:38 Esther: Ricky, can I borrow the Maserati?

1:47:41 Ricky: Of course just, you know, the seat belt and all that. [Emily laughs]

1:47:47 Brennan: You see she, you see—

1:47:53 Ricky: I can't help myself sometimes, I'm sorry.

1:47:55 Brennan: You see that Esther, Esther gets into the Maserati with, and she opens up the suicide doors, and says,

1:48:12 Esther: Get in.

1:48:14 Kugrash: All right. All right!

1:48:18 Ally: None of us are here, bro. [laughs]

1:48:20 Brennan: You see that Esther looks at Alejandro, Ricky, and Kingston and says,

1:48:25 Esther: If you walk over, I'll be there in time.

1:48:28 Kingston: Hey, just don't be late. This is big stuff.

1:48:31 Esther: I understand, I understand. I do understand.

1:48:34 Sofia: I think this is good.

1:48:35 Ally: Kugrash.

1:48:35 Brennan: You see she peels off in the Maserati. [sound of engine revving] She is going,

1:48:41 Esther: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

1:48:45 Brennan: And starts crying a little bit and you see some like...

1:48:49 Kugrash: No, it's all good! We're good! [laughs]

1:48:54 Brennan: You're, that Insight check you rolled was very high.

1:48:56 Murph: Okay.

1:48:57 Brennan: Her emotion is sorrow. Other strong emotions will not trigger her curse.

1:49:05 Emily: Oh, good.

1:49:06 Murph: Got it, okay.

1:49:08 Brennan: But it looks like she's feeling some kind of sorrow right now.

1:49:13 Murph: Okay.

1:49:14 Brennan: So she's driving. [imitates engine revving]

1:49:15 Esther: Oh God.

1:49:17 Kugrash: It's all good. We're, you know, we're gonna figure this out, we got the crown, that's good, right?

1:49:23 Brennan: You see that the flood of emotion has brought back all of the years she lost and the life she lost. And you can see her starting to change, as she drives the car. As the sorrow keeps setting in, she's driving and driving.

1:49:44 Kugrash: You know, look, your mom was a great person, I know you didn't get to be around her much.

1:49:49 Brennan: That's just making her sadder.

1:49:50 Murph: Fuck!

1:49:51 Emily: Change your subject, pivot!

1:49:53 Murph: That doesn't—

1:49:54 Siobhan: Sing a song!

1:49:55 Zac: Be an asshole.

1:49:56 Ally: Yeah, exactly, another--

1:49:57 Emily: Ooh.

1:49:58 Murph: I, fuck, I'll use, this is a bad idea, I'm gonna use my last fuckin' Wild Shape of the day and I turn into a golden retriever and lick her face.

1:50:10 Brennan: Give me a Persuasion check.

1:50:13 Murph: Goddammit, I'm so--

1:50:13 Siobhan: With advantage, 'cause he's so cute?

1:50:16 Brennan: I'll say with advantage, 'cause you're so cute.

1:50:18 Murph: Oh, can I have dog stats now? 'Cause I have a minus two, 'cause I'm a rat. Fuck. [suspenseful music]

1:50:25 Murph: With my persuasion a 13.

1:50:28 Brennan: Okay, 13. You lick her face, it's slightly enough, she's, [sound of tires squealing] you see she's pulling up to Tompkins Square. But yeah, it doesn't look like, it doesn't look like it's working that well. [Ally laughs]

1:50:40 Murph: Dammit.

1:50:42 Brennan: What does Kugrash do?

1:50:44 Murph: Oh my God.

1:50:49 Brennan: You see she sinks into her seat, and her eyes start to go silvery, milky. [raspy breathing]

1:50:54 Kugrash: All right. Gabby, I, fuck.

1:50:59 Zac: Do we know, are we texting at all right now?

1:51:02 Ally: Yeah, fully. [laughs]

1:51:03 Zac: Just like—

1:51:05 Murph: I—

1:51:06 Zac: That's like, you know that it's a curse on her whole family, right?

1:51:10 Emily: Yeah.

1:51:12 Zac: Just wondering.

1:51:12 Kugrash: All right. Oh fuckin', I'm sorry, David, I gotta let you down again.

1:51:18 Murph: And I cast the Remove Curse on her.

1:51:22 Brennan: Cool. You get to Tompkins Square Park, you see at the edge of the park her mother and grandmother float out, and you see, as she stumbles out of the car, you hold the crown on your head and [humming] [magical explosions] [gasps] Their eyes uncloud. You see Esther looks up at her mother and grandmother. Esther, weeping uncontrollably. Gabriella looks up at her daughter, looks at you, looks back at her daughter. The grotto, the trees just move to surround the Maserati. [laughs] And suck it into the park. She rushes and picks up her daughter, they look at each other, and just begin to weep and hold each other. Her mother is crying, holding her, kisses her on the head. And you see that Esther's sort of just kneeling, her head against her mom's stomach, her grandmother gently petting her shoulder. And all three women turn to look at you, no longer furious but instead three extremely powerful witches.

1:52:42 Kugrash: Hey, Gabby. It's been a while. You know, you, in a weird way, you turning me into a rat kind of saved me. So I'm happy to get to kind of help you guys out.

1:52:57 Gabriela: Bruce, you dumb motherfucker, you think I don't know how a fuckin' curse works?

1:53:02 Kugrash: All right, the Maserati's not me, I'm not that big of a douchebag anymore.

1:53:05 Gabriela: You understand, I understand you learned your fucking little rat lesson.

1:53:09 Kugrash: All right.

1:53:10 Gabriela: That's why I didn't kill you, I could have killed you.

1:53:12 Kugrash: You know, I appreciate it. I kind of like being a rat now. Again, the Maserati's not mine, it's my friend's, it's actually, he doesn't, he's not a Maserati guy.

1:53:21 Brennan: You see Esther's going,

1:53:24 Esther: [sobbing] It's Ricky's, he's so hot! I want to fuck him so bad!

1:53:28 Emily: [clapping] Oh yay!

1:53:31 Esther: [wails] I haven't been able to say it! Mom, he's so hot! He's got 20 abs!

1:53:38 Murph: I'm recording this on video.

1:53:41 Gabriela: Shh-shh-shh-shh. [pets Esther’s head]

1:53:42 Brennan: Gabby's like,

1:53:42 Gabriela: I know, I know. We, listen, we were the Furies of Tompkins Square Park, we saw all, we saw how hot he is.

1:53:48 Brennan: You see that her grandmother says,

1:53:51 Patricia: [elderly voice] It's true, we saw, he's Mr. fuckin' March, you can't deny that.

1:53:57 Brennan: Esther looks up, as she's weeping she's like,

1:53:58 Esther: Mom, I can't believe you're back!

1:54:01 Kugrash: Do we want to have a family reunion after we save the world? Do you guys all want to maybe go one last job, Gabby?

1:54:10 Brennan: You see that Gabriela looks at you and says, says,

1:54:13 Gabriela: I'm going to catch up with my daughter. I've earned that.

1:54:20 Brennan: And you see that the grandmother looks at you and says,

1:54:24 Patricia: Patricia, nice to— we met I think at a holiday party.

1:54:27 Kugrash: Oh God, that just makes it, yes, I remember you. Goddamn it, I'm a rat.

1:54:32 Patricia: Before I became this, but, just want to say, you'll have your, there's plenty that we can do.

1:54:39 Brennan: See [imitates crackling] lightning crackles from her fingers.

1:54:41 Patricia: Plenty we can do from here.

1:54:43 Murph: All right.

1:54:44 Brennan: You see that Esther says,

1:54:46 Esther: I'll be along. I can get there. You take the Maserati if you want.

1:54:52 Kugrash: I mean, yeah, it's not my kind of car, but yeah, yeah.

1:54:53 Murph: It is kind of Kugrash's kind of car, 'cause Bruce was that guy.

1:54:58 Ally: You're wearing the Rolex.

1:54:59 Murph: I feel, yeah, I'm wearing the Rolex, and I go back in. And it is 1985 again.

1:55:04 Brennan: You peel off to Times Square, you leave Esther weeping and with her mom and grandma, they hug each other. And you see the grandma says,

1:55:14 Patricia: All right, well! Looks like it's time to brew up something special for New Year's! [cackling laugh]

1:55:23 Brennan: And takes her little knobbly staff and starts doing something with it. You peel off, Ricky, Alejandro, Kingston, Rowan, you come surging out of the subway, Pete, you're flyering everywhere. Sofia on the rooftops, Kugrash, you whip up in the Maserati.

1:55:39 Zac: I think I also ran up onto the rooftops, 'cause that's my thing as--

1:55:42 Siobhan: Oh, can I also figure out what is up with this crown, what it gives me, or I can ask Alejandro to—

1:55:49 Brennan: You can ask Alejandro to—

1:55:50 Rowan: Alejandro, what does this ball of silver do for me?

1:55:54 Brennan: You see that he goes,

1:55:57 Alejandro: Oh, that appears to be a token of your station, it looks like it doesn't have any specific powers, it has been melted down. But it should make it hard for, you know, fiends, celestials, fae to do things to you if you don't want them to.

1:56:12 Rowan: I probably don't want them to.

1:56:14 Brennan: You see that—

1:56:15 Rowan: So that's something.

1:56:15 Brennan: You guys pull up, you hear, you know, Anderson and Kathy going,

1:56:19 Anderson and Kathy: Incredible night out here at New Year's, we're about to see the ball drop. Storm clouds are gathering overhead and sickly lightning in colors that we've never seen before are raking across the sky. Deeply unsettling as we enter into 2019, but what a festive occasion, here we go, Ms. Jackie Evancho!

1:56:39 Brennan: You see that people are singing, there's dancing, celebration. You hear, ten! Nine!

1:56:48 Siobhan: Shit.

1:56:49 Brennan: Eight!

1:56:50 Emily: I'm gonna cast Otherworldly Leap…

1:56:50 Brennan: Seven! Six!

1:56:51 Emily: Right before it hits one.

1:56:52 Brennan: Otherworldly Leap.

1:56:53 Lou: Can I pop this chocolate, this delicious semi-sweet chocolate?

1:56:56 Brennan: Yes you can.

1:56:57 Zac: Do you have the time guns?

1:56:58 Brennan: Gobble it down!

1:56:59 Siobhan: Yeah, I'm gonna touch Ricky's abs and give him Freedom of Movement.

1:57:04 Brennan: Ten, nine, eight, Five! Four! Three! Two! One! [imitates magical explosion] [sound of explosion] Happy New Year. The phylactery shatters. [sound of shattering] The time stone breaks. [imitates shattering] A tornado, wah, of raw smoke and red, green, and purple energy, [imitates crackling] surround, at the center of the hurricane's eye, the Golden Door opens. [sound of metal creaking] You see the American Dream begins to emerge. I'm gonna need everybody here to roll initiative.

1:57:49 Siobhan: Don't fail me now!

1:57:51 Brennan: That's all for this episode of The Unsleeping City! Tune in next time! [NEXT EPISODE - Episode 16: Times Squaremageddon] [NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION 20]

1:57:58 Brennan: The paragon that moves here beyond the Golden Door looks like many things.

1:58:04 Siobhan: I see choices.

1:58:05 Zac: Like an immigrant's journey.

1:58:07 Ally: He sees the process of his transition.

1:58:10 Lou: Kingston sees sacrifice.

1:58:12 Murph: Having fun in their family, and he's not thinking about material things.

1:58:16 Emily: Sofia sees love. Just getting to love who you want. [sound of rolling thunder]

1:58:21 American Dream: This… is a wicked place. I would see this changed. [mournful piano music] Edited by gluegunshots, Tillie the Paladin, rowan solsys