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Last we left off.
Oh boy.
Oh dear.
- What happened last week?
- Oh yeah.
- I don't remember.
- Well.
- I think we
had a great episode.
- Last we left off.
- I definitely
haven't used my Portent rolls.
- You see, you see, g*ng, the Bad Kids
are a group of adventurers
from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy,
you can see right here,
the preeminent high school
for heroes in all of Spyre.
And their spring break is being spent
doing their sophomore year project
for 60% of their grade,
which is retrieving the
Crown of the Nightmare King.
That quest has brought them
to the Pirate City of Leviathan,
where they've met certain allies
such as Garthy O'Brien,
the half-orc Aasimar,
and tender of the Gold Gardens.
And they also have met
some enemies, including
Captain James Whitclaw
of The Crimson Claw,
the illithid pirate, an old rival
of Fabian's father, Bill Seacaster.
While our intrepid heroes-
most intrepid heroes were busy
uncovering a little mystery
of potential infidelity
on behalf of one of their
hirelings and Fig's mom,
Sandra Lynn, Fabian
had gone off on his own
and was having a feast with
the followers of his dad,
warlocks of the multi-level marketing cult
of Bill Seacaster, a
bunch of broke warlocks
that are now almost all dead.
- You okay there, Lou?
- No.
- Through deeply in-character choices-
- Thank you.
- We ended up seeing Fabian
Aramaris Seacaster, bloody
and suspended from ropes
at the bottom of Crow's Keep
after having been cursed
by Chungle-Down Bim
and abandoning young Alistair Ash
to the clutches of, you
know, Captain Whitclaw.
We also later saw some horrifying dreams
with the souls of those
warlocks going to Hell.
And we had some fun
with Fig impersonating Jamina Joy
as her and Gorgug rocketed at close
to 200 miles an hour.
- Another deeply
in-character...
- In-character choice.
- I thought that was solid.
I stand by that decision.
- It's incredible.
It was the best.
- Had I rolled correctly,
I think, yeah.
- Absolutely.
And finally, we ended with some
really troubling news.
Fabian ended up in the ocean
after failing some Wisdom saving throws
because the sleep had been interrupted.
The Moon Haven did not last
long enough to cover everybody.
Murph, as Riz, had a terrifying encounter
with Kalina, the Shadow Cat,
who eventually pulled
some information from Riz
concerning the fact that Ragh Barkrock
had spilled the beans about
being able to see her.
She threatened to k*ll Lydia Barkrock,
Ragh's mother, back in Spyre.
And our intrepid heroes
headed out the next morning,
having recovered Fabian from the sea,
to head to Crow's Keep with a note
from Garthy O'Brien to find their friend,
a woman named Ayda Aguefort
in the Library of the Compass
Points in Crow's Keep.
You guys have suffered
some pretty harrowing defeats.
It is a new day as Baxter,
The Hangvan, and the party trundle off
towards Crow's Keep.
With that being said,
are there any questions
about anything that we did
not cover from last...?
- Is The Hangman
dead? It's got like a-
- Yeah, is The Hangman-
- The Hangman is on top of the van,
Sword of the Seacasters
through the engine block
with oil spilling out.
- Do we have have...
- So is it dead?
- Did we find Fabian?
- I'm in the car with pneumonia.
- With pneumonia.
That's correct.
- Listen, guys.
Or do, have we started?
- So a new day dawns
over the wide city of Leviathan.
Mist and fog rise up from the city's edge
as the smell of rotting
wood, pirates, grog
and the brine of the
sea air wash over you.
You hear the cawing of gulls
and the creaking of the many decks
as you wend your way in
the early morning light
to one of the many pulleys
and rigs that will take your large cargo,
van, and everything else,
up to the raised platform
village of Crow's Keep
high above the rest of Leviathan.
Looking up at the Crow's
Keep in the morning air,
you guys spy something like dark smoke
curling from a corner of the Crow's Keep
as you make your way there.
Does anyone else have any questions?
Or what do you guys do as you approach?
- I guess, can we do...
- Yeah.
- Do you guys...
I guess, first off, let's
do a Perception check.
- Yeah.
- See if we could see
what the smoke is.
- Yeah.
- And if not, I can
sneak. I've good stealth.
Nat 20 on a Perception check.
- Hey, yes.
- Ooh.
- It's a small plume of smoke
as a single building
burns in the Crow's Keep.
With a nat 20, you know it is not
the Compass Points Library.
So your destination is safe, that-
- But a building was burned down.
- I'll go check it out.
- It looks like a
building was burned down.
- Nobody needs to check it out.
- All right. All right.
- Fabian, I can't
see you down there.
- Oh yeah.
- Nobody needs to go
check out the building.
I was there.
- Oh.
- I'm the reason there's a fire there.
Yep.
- Are you gonna put
your eye patch back on?
- No.
- Okay.
- Well.
- Do you wanna hold Boggy?
- Yeah, I feel like we need to
clear the air on this, okay?
- I give Fabian Boggy.
- Fabian, you made
a bad choice, and then
something bad happened to you
that you couldn't control.
Although technically, we
did have the moonstone
set up for a full night's sleep.
So yeah, it was actually way your fault
that none of us could-
- Here's my question.
- Sorry!
- Why aren't you having nightmares?
- You don't go to sleep, right?
- Me?
- No, Riz
has nightmare- right?
Riz goes to sleep.
- Yeah, I've been attacked
several times in the night.
- But you haven't had nightmares.
- In a way, my life is a nightmare,
but I haven't had actual nightmares,
that's true.
- Have you had any dreams?
Do you know?
- No, I got grabbed
by a mirror monster one night.
And then the other night-
- You weren't trying to sleep in.
- You were asleep, and then Kalina...
- Was he asleep
when Kalina grabbed...?
- No, I just woke up, and I was paralyzed.
- I wonder if there's some
reason that she protects you.
- I don't know. She seemed pretty-
obviously concerned
that Ragh had seen her.
And she knows that I know she exists.
Seems like she doesn't
want anybody to know that.
- And then Garthy didn't see her
and then saw her.
And same with Tracker.
- Right.
- Is it possible that she's masquerading
as someone else or something?
- Or maybe if she
finds out-
- 'Cause, like, why
would Garthy have...?
- But you've always been able to see her.
- I've always been able to see her,
but she was my dad's partner at one point,
so I had seen her before.
- Right.
- Interesting.
- It seems, like,
you have to have seen her before.
- But Tracker, who have
you seen that we haven't?
Have you been off on your own?
I don't think so, right?
- No.
- No.
I haven't been off on my own at all.
- Weird.
- And you haven't had any dreams
with the Shadow Cat, right?
- No, I haven't had any-
like, even when we first started, like,
I didn't have any really weird
dreams other than normal.
Like, I have intense dreams,
but that's because of my condition
more than anything else.
- Right.
- Yeah, totally, huh.
- Weird.
- Okay.
- Okay,
well, we better get the word out
to Ragh's mom.
- Definitely.
- Make sure she's okay.
- Yes, let's go to the library
so we can get this spell.
- That's where we're going to right now
- Yeah.
- Lovely. You guys ascend up
to the Crow's Keep.
You begin to approach
the Compass Points Library,
huge emblems of, like,
a massive bronze sextant
govern the entrance
to the library.
- Nice.
- And you see giant sort of golden towers,
and they all are made of wood.
You also see that there
is a collection here
of just figureheads from various ships
that cover this place
almost like a cathedral,
but the, like, spars and
splinters of the ships
that they were taken from
still extend past from the figureheads.
So it's this strange,
almost like a Library of Alexandria,
a place of, like, cultural significance
and wonders but, splintered and fractured
because all of it had to be fought for
and protected from the drunken
depredations of pirates
that might not have as active an interest
in the preservation of
their own pirate culture.
- But also, are
these books in here,
like, all stolen?
- Extremely so.
- All right, this is my kinda library.
I sign up for a card.
- You go to the front desk
as you guys approach this place,
and you see that there is an ancient,
long gray-bearded, hunched-over pirate
who you see, he has like a thick sash
spell book in front of him,
long rings on his spindly fingers,
little sort of tricorne hat.
- Ahoy.
- Ahoy. Welcome to
the Library of Compass Points.
- I feel like there aren't
a lot of spellcasters on-
Can I do an Insight check
to see if he's also-
like, Fabian's dad is giving him spells?
- Sure.
- Ooh! Oh, goddammit. 11.
- You would clock this guy
actually at first as a wizard.
You see that he has
a sort of holster at his side,
which is chained and buckled.
And it looks too chained up
to be able to, like, access it easily.
And it is a massive tome
that has a giant Jolly Roger on it.
And written in scratched red ink
on the surface of the leather-bound book,
it says, "Here be pirate spells."
So you're guessing he's probably a wizard.
- Can I rent that book?
- What? This book is not
a part of the library's general stock.
This is my personal book.
- Can I rent that book?
Please?
- My book of pirate spells?
- May I?
- Why?
- Is it making you
sad that we're asking?
- You are a whisper of a man.
- In our culture,
that's a compliment.
- A faint idea.
- Many of the spells have taken
a hefty toll on my constitution.
There are spells within here.
There are spells that only the most
powerful pirate wizards can conjure.
There's a spell to turn
bananas into gold coins.
- Huh, I'm not interested in that.
- There are spells to turn-
- It's pretty cool.
- I think bananas
are pretty important
on the sea, right?
- Well...
- Yes, it's a good source of
vitamin C and potassium.
- Does it go the other way?
- Well.
- Could you turn gold coins into bananas?
- That knowledge has been lost,
but there are spells to
turn parrots into bananas.
- Okay.
- Okay, so if you
had a bunch of parrots
and you wanted gold coins-
- Yeah.
- You could turn them to bananas and then-
- Banana to gold.
- But the transmutative
properties do make it rather taxing.
So if let's say that I wanted
to have a single gold coin
but I had to start with parrots,
I would probably need about 50 parrots.
- So 50 parrots turn into 25?
- One?
- Turn into 10 bananas.
- 10 bananas.
- And 10 bananas turn into one gold?
- You're correct.
- Wow.
- How many parrots
- I just feel like
- Have you eaten?
- an honest day's work
will get you more gold.
- What?
- Yeah.
- Wait, how many parrots have I eaten?
- We're looking for
Ayda Aguefort.
- Yeah.
- Well, one time I turned
a community of parrots
into a bunch of bananas,
and there were about eight
bananas in the bunch.
So you can assume 8 times 5 is 40.
So I've eaten about 40 parrots.
- And what about
the gold you'd used for-
- Sorry, 42 parrots.
There were another two occasions
where I just ate a parrot the normal way.
- What's the normal way?
- What's the normal way?
- You cook a parrot.
- Just pop in
a parrot, yeah.
- So we are
looking for Ayda Aguefort.
- Ah, the mistress of the library.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- She who is the quartermaster of
the knowledge of Leviathan.
Pirates are not a
scholarly bunch.
- Except for you.
- Except for we, the few
who maintain the Compass Points,
the charts of the stars
and the maps of the sea and its currents.
We who know the comings
and goings of Leviathan.
Would you like to sign
up for a library card?
- I actually would, yeah.
- I would too actually, yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm looking for books
on religion. Anything
but Helio, at this point.
I feel like I've got that covered.
- Well, very well. We would be happy
to instruct you into some
religious texts or manuals.
Right after- this way, I'll sign you up.
It costs nothing to join,
but we receive more funding
from the city government,
the more people sign
up for a library card.
- Oh, that's fantastic.
- Yeah.
- Okay, I've got a couple-
I've got a couple of burner phones.
I can make up some personalities.
- Ah, we actually receive double funding
for invented personalities.
- Really?
- I'm your girl.
I'm your girl.
- That's very pirate.
I like that.
- Yes, absolutely.
- You don't happen to have any books
on a guy called the
Nightmare King, do you?
- Oh, the Nightmare King?
I am sure if it is forbidden
knowledge you seek,
then it shall await you in the rows here
of the Compass Points
unless it has been stolen,
which it happens a lot.
We have a lot of stolen books.
- May we steal books?
- Please don't.
- Can I steal his book?
- Give me a Sleight of Hand check.
- It's changed too.
- I would like to do a-
- 14!
- 14.
- I would like to stop you.
I feel so bad for him.
Can I try to beat that?
- I was gonna steal it and
then give it back.
- I'm gonna say that makes
you roll with disadvantage.
Give me a roll.
- Okay.
- See if you roll lower than 14.
- I got a nat one.
- Okay, I'm gonna need you
to make a Constitution check.
- No! I'm so sorry.
I just feel bad for him.
- Power Word k*ll.
- Constitution savings throw.
- I got a 16.
- 16.
You see that the dude
blasts you with a spell.
And there is a tiny
horned parrot fluttering
where Fig just was a moment before.
- What? Come on!
- Oh, don't eat her, don't eat her.
- Dude, it was a joke!
Turn me into a banana.
- I could only turn you
into 1/5 of a banana.
- I Dispel Magic.
- Fig, you pop back.
- It was a joke,
dude. Get a sense of humor.
- Do not attempt to take from me
my tome of pirate spells.
- So, great.
Wait, is Ayda Aguefort here?
- Yes, she is now in the observatory
mapping the movements of the stars.
Or I guess, it's day,
so she might be napping.
- Let's go.
- Mapping and napping, got it.
- Can we go up there?
- Yes, the observatory is open to all.
Not forbidden.
Please do not go into the
forbidden areas though,
if you find them.
They will be clearly marked.
They are often intruded upon.
Please don't.
- Yes, we won't.
- Do not wink at me.
I am being sincere in my objection.
- Can we go in if
we have a library card?
- I need to look that up.
I think maybe, but I don't know.
- Okay, we'll leave you alone.
- The rules seem
vague enough that we might.
- The rules are quite specific.
As you guys wend your way
away from the front desk-
you guys all, by the way,
get your library card
so all of you can, in your inventory,
put Compass Points Library card.
You know, membership to another
prestigious organization.
You guys all, sort of, en masse
head up to the observatory.
As you arrive at the observatory,
you guys see a massive wooden dome
that has a huge gilded spyglass.
But it is the size of, like,
an observatory's telescope,
so this, you know, 60-foot monolith.
But you see that it is
still like a spyglass
in that it has like golden filigree work.
There's like fleur de lis on it, shapes
and busts on the side of the telescope.
You see...
You don't look...
You look around, there's a couple people,
like, napping in here and
sleeping, it looks like.
There's a couple people, like,
playing chess in a corner.
A lot of the places in the library
seem to be more social areas.
Some people appear to...
It doesn't feel like a library.
Again, library and pirate
city aren't two vibes
that go very well together.
So there is some clashing.
- So you're saying
it's like an LA library?
- It's a lot like a Los
Angeles Library, yes.
So you guys mosey your way through.
There is a large bit of
arcane rune work
going around the outside
of the observatory.
There's an enormous sort of
tropical-looking red, orange,
and yellow bird that
has, like, covered itself
in its wings and is swinging
from a little perch.
The bird is about,
maybe, six or seven feet tall.
Go ahead and make Perception checks,
anyone that would like to.
- 15.
- Six!
- 18.
- Nat one.
- Dirty 20.
- Two.
- Oh, Fabian.
- Nat one for Fabian.
Fabian, you cannot see
anything in this room
because your eyes are turned only inward.
Riz, you look up at
that bird in the corner.
You actually can't tell if it's a bird.
You see two large yellow talons.
The talons might be
about two feet long.
And the wings are wrapped around,
but they're sort of creating a little
night thing for the bird.
So you actually can't see its body.
It's sort of like a little shield of wings
and two talons sticking out from under it.
- Excuse me,
- Shall we say hello?
- Ms. Aguefort?
- You wanna go talk
to that bird?
- It might not be a bird.
- Gorgug does.
- What?
- As you say, it might not be a bird,
you hear.
- And the wings spread.
And a resplendent beautiful woman,
who, from the knees down,
has large talons.
She also has digitigrade ankles.
She has those ankles that kind of
kick back like a lot of animal feet do.
So from the knees on down
become these like gold,
almost like metallic golden talons.
She bears a striking
resemblance to Arthur Aguefort
the moment you look at her.
- She a harpy?
- She looks kind of harpy-esque
until you realize that she does have arms
in addition to wings.
So she has these incredibly-
And as they spread, deep red wings
that as they approach
the tips of the feathers
sort of change into orange.
And by the time they get to yellow,
flicker in a little edge of flame
along the outside of the wings.
She's dressed in sort of
like white linen pants
with, like, a pirate's sash on them.
No g*ns or anything you
can see. A sort of vest.
A lot of sort of orange
runes tattooed on her arms.
You see that she has a short shock
of sort of red hair.
It seems to be not on the
sides or back as much,
but almost like a plume of red, fiery hair
that comes out the top of her head.
And her eyes have pupils in them,
but are otherwise clearly
roiling ba*ls of flame.
- Guys, I think this is the creature
Arthur Aguefort made for me.
- No.
- No.
This is a full person. This is
a full sentient person.
- You see that there's a-
- Just kinda wishful thinking.
- This woman lands in front of you.
You see that she does have two scrolls
at the side, on her bandolier
and similarly to the guy downstairs,
but sort of- she has almost,
like, those leather harnesses
you would have for g*ns.
But it's two small books
strapped under each arm.
- She like-
- I say,
Fig, you should feed it.
- I hold out food.
- What do you- I- excuse-
- Do you offer this food to me?
- I turn her back into a parrot.
- She says, "Do you offer
this food to me as a gift?"
- Yes.
- Then I do not accept.
I will be in no one's debt as a wizard.
- What? Okay.
- Oh, okay, I eat the food.
- Are you now in your own debt?
- Are you eating bird seed?
- I owe myself.
- Ah, you're trapped inside of-
- Are we not
all in our own debt?
- Ah, are we all in our own debt?
She takes one of the books out
and begins to scribble something in it.
Anyone here can make an Insight check
if you would like.
- I need to know
if this is Fig's animal.
- Oh, I got a nat one.
I guess- can I have Boggy help me?
- Yes, go for it.
- Great.
- Five.
- 18.
- 18.
- Nine.
- 13.
- 12.
- You immediately recognize- this is-
you know what it's like to have famous
and notorious parents
and kind of be a little-
what that does to you growing up.
This is Arthur Aguefort's daughter.
- Oh, he really did f*ck anything.
- You're
being- everybody's being
very rude.
- Don't talk about my creature
that way.
- Stop saying things out loud.
- I'm sorry, did you just
refer to me as your creature?
- I'm sorry, it's just wishful thinking.
See, Arthur Aguefort promised me
he'd make me the coolest creature.
- Arthur Aguefort!
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
- His name
is my father's name.
- Yes, we're students at the
the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
- What are you doing here?
- I'm Adaine Abernant.
- Ah. You see that she
grabs you to shake it,
turns it, turns it around, looks at you,
and says, "The Elven Oracle in the flesh."
- Yes, hi.
- I thought you died.
- No, it gets passed on.
- Ah, much like a phoenix. Curious.
- Well, actually
it's quite different
from a phoenix.
- Are you part phoenix?
- Half-phoenix to the exact.
- That's so cool.
- Wait, so did Arthur Aguefort
sacrifice his wife when we died?
- No, that was like an egg.
- Egg.
- Oh!
- No, it's- you're-
- Wait, was that his kid though?
- Is one of your parents a full phoenix?
- Yes. When it comes around,
my mother is a full phoenix.
She is an adult most of the time
and then becomes a kid every so often.
It's complicated. If
you're weirded out by it,
join the club.
- If you guys had read his
very spicy autobiography,
you would've already
known all this, so.
- We died, but we're brought back
to life by a phoenix egg.
- Ah, the last phoenix egg.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Was that a relative of yours?
- Most likely. Phoenixes are all
related, as celestial creatures.
- Oh.
- This is
the Compass Points Library.
Who are all of you?
- It's so nice to meet you.
I'm just here to learn a spell.
- Riz Gukgak, yes, we're here
for a spell.
- I'm Figueroth Faeth,
and we're taking down the Nightmare King.
- Did Arthur Aguefort promise
you a creature of some kind?
- Yes. I paid him handsomely to make me
a really cool creature
I could ride around on.
- Also, we're not taking down
- Then we got really cool
- van, so we haven't really
- The Nightmare King. We're
- needed it.
- just getting his crown back.
- I just wanna make that clear.
- I apologize to you, Figueroth Faeth.
Though you have insulted me
almost immediately upon meeting me,
you find yourself in the unfortunate
but all too common position
of having been lied
to by Arthur Aguefort.
- You think he scammed me?
My principal scammed me?
- You are adventurers of the
Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
- Yes, yeah, absolutely. Also-
- I'm Kristen Applebees,
no relation to apple bees.
- That's nothing.
What you are about to
say would be crazy to say
because there's no relation to anything
'cause why would there be?
- I was saying Applebees like when you
go to an apple store and
you get bit by a bee.
- I have a spell for that, if you'd like.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Wait.
You're saying that us as students
going to stop the Nightmare King
for 60% of our grade
and being put in
life-threatening situations
nearly constantly is a scam?
- Is he a scam
artist? Is school a scam?
- Hm. Hm.
- I like school a lot.
- I bet you would.
- Oh! Battle, battle!
- Dance battle.
- We're here to learn the Sending spell.
And by we, I mean I.
I don't know why my friends are here
because they are embarrassing me.
- I understand. Listen.
There is an obstacle before us
if your quest here is to learn a spell.
And that obstacle is this,
I don't want to help you.
- Ah.
- Oh, so by us,
you mean us?
- What?
- And not you?
- Well, we're not-
- I require seed.
She flies out the window.
- Wait, wait.
- Wait, wait.
- Is there anything we can do for you?
- I cast- wait, wait! I cast-
I don't have it.
- Garthy O'Brien sent us.
- What?
- Garthy O'Brien sent us!
- Yes.
- You see, she flies around
and says, "That name!"
- Do you have your letter?
- Is a good one?
- It's the name of my close friend.
- They're tough to read.
- They gave us a
a slip that says that-
- Oh yes, I
have a piece of paper.
- Yes. We're not here just because.
- Why? Are you bragging?
I have many slips of paper.
- It's specific.
- It's a specific piece
of paper with a letter from Garthy on it.
- Do you give this as
a gift or as a message?
- I give it as a message.
I would never give you a gift.
You've made it clear
that you do not want one.
- I wish for no gifts.
- But if you would like to
buy this message off of me,
you're more than welcome to.
- Much as a candle can
light a second candle
without diminishing its own light,
I give you back your message unchanged
for I have your message now, as do you.
- This is so
painful 'cause this is what
I'm like emotionally, right?
- No.
- What am I like emotionally? Explain.
- Oh, no, no, no. I'm saying what the way
that you are so transactional,
never allowing for any
moment of tenderness,
that's me in my life.
- I think people
think you're very tender.
- Tenderest person that I know.
- Have I given you any reason
to believe that I'm not tender?
- No.
- There's a lot.
There's an intensity in your-
- Why?
- There's a lack of vulnerability.
You know, the fact-
- Where?
- I think you're cool.
- The fact that you fear
a debt when sometimes
our debts to each other
are what bond us to each other
in the most beautiful way possible.
My god.
- Society is built on debt.
- We don't need
to save everyone's debts.
- I hit you and I'm like,
Get some seed out of the jacket.
- What? I'm not-
- Do not feed this person.
- Listen.
- So you're friends with Garthy, huh?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we love them.
- I can teach you a spell
if you teach me a spell,
then the transaction is clear.
- I will teach you a spell
for the going rate of 50
gold pieces per spell level.
- What level is Sending?
- Three.
- Oh, it's a third-level spell
so that's 150 gold.
- I'll throw in 50.
We all gotta send some messages
back to the mainland.
- Ah, I see.
You have discovered
information here on Leviathan
that you dearly wish to
communicate to your friends
and allies on the mainland.
- Yes.
- Fascinating.
- Someone's mother is in danger.
- Whose?
- My girlfriend's really mad at me.
- Whose? Yours?
Why? What have you done?
- Yeah, well.
Oh god, this feels kinda complicated
to explain right now.
- Our friend's mom might die.
This is more impor- sorry, it's more-
- Your friend's mother might die.
Does she then possess some
chance at immortality?
- She's being hunted.
- She will have died- we will
all die eventually I think.
- Okay, so but
she's gonna die sooner.
- I would love
to give you 150 gold
for this spell.
- Can I give you 400 gold to get-
- What?
- No.
- To get, wait, oh, actually 200 gold
to get Greater Invisibility.
- That's not how bards work.
- If you would like a copy
of the wizard spell Greater Invisibility,
I would be happy to take 200 gold.
- Well, it is also a bard spell.
- For sure.
- So, you know Garthy and so do we.
And it kinda seemed
like since they sent us,
maybe this could be a little bit easier?
Are we bothering you?
Does Garthy send a lot of people this way?
- I'll answer your question truly.
I find you tremendously bothersome.
- Thank you.
- However, there's also
much that you bring in
the way of information,
and I find myself transfixed
by your strangeness.
- Yes, very mutual.
- Her eyes do that eagle thing.
And they're made of fire,
so she is extremely hard to read.
She looks at you and says, "Yes,
you are looking for answers in a book
for a question you have long posed.
Questions are good,
are they not, to seek something?
But what if there is nothing
at the end of your
journey, nothing to find?
And the long years of questioning
lead you thirsty and
mad, filled with hunger?"
- I would be bummed, but
maybe asking questions is the answer.
- Probably not.
- Would...
I think we have maybe
some larger questions,
but then also some smaller questions
that have very specific answers.
- Very well, I shall answer them if I can.
- Can we have that spell?
- Yes.
- Can you see this cat?
- There is no cat in this photograph.
- Yes, but do you see-
who do you see in that?
- I see a goblin man.
- Do you listen to music?
- Yes.
- Wait, hold on.
Let's keep on the same
line of questioning.
- What school of magic
do you study?
- What's that?
- What school of magic do you study?
- Divination.
- Me too!
- Fascinating.
- Fascinating.
- Can we-
- Are you aware
of any kind of creature
that would only be visible to someone
who had seen it before?
- How would that work?
- So we see a cat in this picture.
- I don't.
- If you can only-
- Some of us can't see it.
- If you can only see it
if you've seen it before,
then only the people
who can already see it
would ever be able to see it,
and nobody new would
ever be able to see it.
- Yeah, that's what
we think is happening.
- Yeah, well, no, there's a-
- But nobody-
- See them in real life,
and then you can see them
in the picture, maybe.
- The rules of the game
have changed perhaps.
- Or not. The logic doesn't hold up,
but it is fascinating.
- I find that the most
curious instances of magic
are those where the logic
specifically doesn't hold up.
Study of magic is, of course,
a study of the edge
cases and the marginal,
where the rules of physics
and reality bend to the
will of individuals.
Very curious indeed.
Did my father talk about me?
- All the time, constantly.
- Give me a Deception check.
- Can I give her the Help action?
- Yeah, if you want.
- 21.
- 21.
She looks at you and says,
"Deeply unlike him,
but I find myself very moved."
- Yeah.
- You know, your father
was often pissed off by the things
I said unintentionally.
- Yes, why?
Are you bad?
- I would say things-
I don't think I'm bad.
I think I would accidentally make him mad
by saying things that maybe
threatened him in some
way. Not physically.
- I understand. You seem
simple, to me.
- Oh, thank god. Yeah.
- You see, she says, "It's
an enviable position.
There is no way to pursue the craft
that my father and I both pursue
and your friend Adaine, as well."
- I could probably do it.
- Oh?
- What is-
- I spit my tea.
- What's a telescope
but a spyglass pointed at the stars?
- Whoa, that's so good.
That's gonna be one of our songs.
- What's your favorite spell?
- What?
Hush, I must solve this riddle.
And you see that she flies up to a perch.
What is a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars?
Anyone can make an Insight
check that wants to.
- 19.
- Nat 20.
- Ooh.
- Nat 20.
- You're looking at her,
and she is just extremely
her father's daughter. She is just-
- Anytime, with that spell.
- Gorgug?
Your name is Gorgug?
- Yeah, yeah.
- That is my name.
- I believe you'd be the
greatest wizard of this age.
- I look at Adaine, whoa.
- Let me-
- I don't look at anyone.
It's too awful.
- Should I learn the Sending spell?
To be frank, gotta be clear.
Clean slate, no spells.
- Yes, a clean slate.
The mind clutters
as the years of study
wear on and on.
Sometimes I think that
the greatest wizards
are themselves burdened by
the taxing mental weight
of all their past knowledge.
A clean slate, you may be capable
of the greatest spellwork in generations.
Give him the Sending spell.
- So...
Do you just read it until you know it
or how- do you...
- Very good.
You're hired.
- Hired?
- Good for you, man.
- 150 gold pieces.
And I will honor this favor
of my friend, Garthy O'Brien,
and give you the spell.
- Let's do it.
- Yep.
- Yep, thank you.
- Cool, you guys erase that gold.
- Who? Who paid for it?
Do we need more?
- I'll pay for it for now.
I've got it.
- I can also go in.
- We'll pay you back later.
- Great.
- You see that...
You get the Sending spell.
It's given to you, the manuscript.
You can make a little
mark in your spell book
as you put Sending, which is
a third-level spell in there.
This is actually a modified version
from a pirate spell book.
- Okay.
- Sending normally
has a 25-word limit
in the message that goes out
and the message that comes back.
Ancient pirate mages of long ago
found a way to slightly modify the spell.
So curse words and swears
don't count against the word limit
of this version of the Sending spell.
So if you get creative,
you can actually, you know,
transmit really long messages with this
as long as they are...
- Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- Are we not supposed to curse?
Well, there you go.
- What about pirate curses?
- Yeah, pirate curses, exactly.
- Shiver me timbers, et cetera.
- Et cetera, et cetera.
- Timber's a curse, right?
- Yes, yes, yes, of course.
- So you're a timber.
- So that would be two words.
- Yeah, we're
absolutely timbered.
- Oh, a lot of math
conversions in this session.
- You guys see-
So Adaine, it's gonna take
you six hours to sit down-
- Great.
- and fully transcribe
this spell.
- Thank you so much,
everybody.
- While that's happening,
does anyone wanna look
for a forbidden section?
- Yup.
- Cool.
- Can I...
Are there any sort of
"Intro to Wizard" books
I can just...
- She comes over to
you, looks at you again.
- Keep in mind, I just
wanna be completely clear,
eight Intelligence.
- She comes over to you
and holds your head in both hands.
I'm looking at a perfectly serene lake
of still, clear water.
Unburdened-
- Where? Oh.
- It's a metaphor. Hold on.
- Okay.
- You are completely
unburdened by the weight
and sorrow of intellect.
Your mind as empty
and free of trappings
or weight as anything I've ever seen.
It is like staring at a clear
and cloudless sky, completely beautiful.
I forbid you to ever read
a single word of wizardry.
- Got it. I won't.
Give me a book and I'll cut it in half.
- You are beautiful to me.
- Thank you.
- Wow,
Gorgug's got a new girlfriend.
- I don't! Come on.
- No one tell Zelda.
- Gorgug's gonna get HPV.
- You're dating the headmaster's daughter?
- Immediately assume she has HPV?
- No, I just mean that-
your parents would-
- You guys have been crazy
rude since you got here.
- Look, I didn't mean
to say that within earshot.
Wanna go look for books
on the Nightmare King?
- Yeah, I do, I do.
- You wish to study the Nightmare King?
- Yes. I also have a question,
and it's a sincere question.
You're studying the sky.
Do you think that there's anything-
And you're a divination wizard.
Do you believe that the sky
has any insight into the future
or even the present?
Or do you study it as a matter
of curiosity of the stars?
- I study it so I can know
where this big city is floating.
- Okay, that's a very
practical reason.
- That's a reasonable...
- Sort of navigational.
- Yeah, that's honestly
why I asked, cool.
- Yeah, good.
- So I don't have any
interest in the stars.
- Do you know?
- Can you also
look for books on the Elven Oracle?
Feels like this might be a place
where there will be more information.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Yeah, do you know much
about the Nightmare King?
We're trying to get the crown.
- I actually have another thing.
- Yes.
- Do you have any books on cursed gems?
- Books on cursed gems?
I might like to read.
- You might be surprised
to know that the interest of pirates
in various cursed gems is quite high.
- That's what I thought.
- Yes, absolutely.
Each of you guys can go ahead
and make an Arcana check with advantage
as you are in this library.
- Can I investigate?
- Sure.
- 19!
- 19, hell yeah.
- Nice.
And that's with plus two
Arcana, so.
- 13.
- Ooh, I got a 27.
- Cool. You got 27 for Investigation?
- 13.
- 13.
We'll start with Kristen.
What's Kristen looking for here?
- Anything about the Nightmare King,
I think I'm looking for a project.
- I think I'm also looking
for Nightmare King as well.
- Can I look for something, too?
- Yeah, for sure.
What'd you get?
- I got two.
- Two? Okay.
- I'm looking for a book on
"so your friend's sad."
- So your friend is sad, yeah.
- Can I go check on- is The
Hangman outside the library?
- Yes, the van is still out there.
- Can I go check on him?
- Yes.
- Can I grab him
as he's about to leave and be like, "No"?
- Just going outside.
- No, just think- it's buddy
system from here on out,
and we almost lost you.
- I'm gonna be right outside
with the van.
- You see Ragh looks at you, Kristen,
and says, "I got him. I'm good, I'm good."
- Okay.
- Ragh goes out with you
to check up on The Hangman.
Cool, you go outside to
check up on The Hangman.
What do you do to sort of check on it?
- Can I get...
I don't know what a mechanics check is,
but can I see how badly I've damaged it?
- This is gonna be an
untrained Intelligence check.
- Great. I love that.
It's a nat one.
- What?
- Get new dice!
My Lord.
- Fabian's gonna
have to do backflips
to keep this thing alive.
- The Hangman is fully gone.
On a nat one,
it's full- it's destroyed.
The sword went directly through it.
The motorcycle is broken.
As you go to investigate,
you fumble through.
And, you know, just a big chunk
of the engine block falls out.
And Ragh goes, "Oh,
man, you can probably fix that."
- I probably can, Ragh.
I can probably fix that.
I know I can.
- Do you wanna get under
some blankets, man?
You're sweating so much.
- I think I have pneumonia.
I'm not used to being sick.
I'm so rich,
I don't normally get normal sickness.
- Yeah, like poor people sick?
- Yeah. I'd get, like, rich people sick,
like ate too much caviar
or like I smoked, you know,
I smoked cigar for too long.
I don't get, like, poor, normal sick.
- I wouldn't know anything about that.
See he goes, "Okay, man, hey!
Dude, there you go, dude, just get it out.
Just f*cking boot and rally, dude.
You're good, man, just..."
Okay, well.
- Hey, Ragh.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I don't feel good.
I just don't feel good.
- I hear you, man.
I think, you know, I am- you know,
I have one emotion that
I use to process stuff,
and it's rage.
And I don't know how to be angry
if my mom is dead a full continent away.
You're going through
some stuff with your dad.
We've full stop, you know, dude.
We are some dudes who,
for real, have not processed.
And honestly, you know,
when I think about what
I would have to do, you know,
I get pissed. You know?
'Cause it's like I just made it here
to where I'm, like,
comfortable in my own skin.
You know what I mean?
And then something bad
happens on top of that,
and it's like, "Hey, is this bad enough
that I'm gonna lose all
the progress I made?"
You know what I mean?
And I'm like, "I have gotta
k*ll something, you know?"
- Yeah.
- So you know, hoot, growl!
- Growl.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- You wanna sit in the back of the van?
Just sit? Yeah.
- He covers you with some blankets
in the back of the van.
Cathilda comes in a moment later
as the two of you are sitting
in the back of the van.
Ragh is just dead-eyed
thousand-yard stare.
Cathilda comes in with food for you both,
with some piping hot soup.
She sits next to you and she says,
"Well, Master Fabian, have you
taken a look at your motorcycle?
It's not looking too good, is it?"
- It's looking really bad, Cathilda.
It's like- I, like,
did a great job in doing a bad thing,
like, really stabbed it well
in a moment where I wish
I hadn't done a good job.
- Oh, Master Fabian, I'm so sorry.
It's been a hard day.
Well, here's the truth.
Hard days come and they go, and as
impossible as it might seem right now,
you'll take one step, and then the other,
and it'll be hard as can be,
and step by step, you'll move further
and further away from
this bad day, all right?
- But for what, Cathilda? What?
Just a bunch of, I don't know.
Maybe I'll just be eating banana yogurt
in a mansion
filled with mementos
to a life that wasn't mine.
- She looks at you and says,
"There's no pirate
who can see the horizon in a squall.
That doesn't mean it's not there."
And she starts to rub
little circles on your shoulder.
And she starts to sing
a little song in Halfling
that you recognize.
There's a little song in Halfling
that you remember.
She used to sing it to you.
She hasn't sung it to you in years,
but she used to sing
it to you all the time
when you were very little.
And your dad would be gone
for long periods of time.
And your mom was sort of,
like, on a long bender.
And there'd be times when you were back
at like Castle Bonvois on the open seas.
And it's just a light
little Halfling tune.
And you have tons of memories of, like,
skinning your knee, or
falling on a ship deck,
or something like that,
and her finding you and making you well.
And you remember the hundreds of times
that Cathilda has done this for you
although it maybe hasn't
happened in, like,
years at this point.
You watch as she like,
you know, trails off.
And after a certain point,
you can feel a little bit your
shoulder start to relax.
Go ahead and give me a
Constitution savings throw.
- Nat one.
- I'm taking them.
I'm taking them.
- I can't believe this.
- And I'm gonna throw them in the garbage.
- What?
- You have- mark down
that you have a level of exhaustion,
and you are also...
We're actually gonna put you
at two levels of exhaustion, cool?
- Good lord.
- Two different dice.
- So your speed is halved.
- Stop here.
- Speed is halved, skill
checks at disadvantage.
- Keep your dice.
- Cool. Back inside,
our investigating crew-
I'm gonna say that
Riz and Kristen-
- Riz and Kristen.
- I'm glad Fabian's
getting some air.
He probably needed it.
It's probably doing him some good.
- Probably doin' great.
- Yeah.
- Riz and Kristen, you guys are both
looking for Nightmare King stuff,
so I'm saying that you guys look together.
You end up going into a
religious studies section.
- Oh, cool.
- Of the library, where Riz,
you're kinda investigating
the Nightmare King.
There's, you know, a fair amount.
The library here's kinda sparse
when it comes to this,
like, high-occult stuff.
It's a much more practical library
for the most part.
But you do find some stuff
about the hidden gems
and jewels of Sylvaire.
There's a lot of maps here.
And you find in these old
treasure maps of Sylvaire that
there are religious texts
to a temple of a forgotten god.
You rolled a 27 on your
Investigation check, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- It looks like there is a temple
somewhere in this place that, like,
might've had some treasure
that pirates long ago
would've gone and sought
out or tried to find
prior to, like, the reign of Kalvaxus.
Looking at the information
available to you in this book,
as you get into the section of maps
that talk about Sylvaire,
you look at this religious text, Kristen,
that Riz has sort of found.
Go ahead and make a Religion check for me.
- What a ride, okay.
- Rolled for a while.
- It's a nine.
- Cool, there's a lot of mystery here.
The main thing you come away with is that
that god is never named
in any of the texts.
And you know enough about religion
to know that that is really damn weird.
- Yeah.
- Because there's a lot of specifics.
There's imagery of like wood elves
and centaurs and unicorns.
There's specific names
for some of the relics
that were in this dungeon.
There's a lot of stuff, you
know, about what pirates-
Some of them were, like, crossed out.
There's notes in the market
from certain pirates being like,
"Yeah, we went here and
successfully stole this stuff."
But there's just never
a mention of the name
of the actual god in question.
- And this is on an island?
- This is in Sylvaire.
This is in the Forest
- This is in Sylvaire?
of the Nightmare King.
- Yeah, this is
in the Forest of the
Nightmare King, right?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Does it look like-
- Can you guys, like,
take a picture on your crystal of-
like, if there's any pictures that
might look like this temple?
- I think we're
just gonna steal it.
We're just gonna take the book.
- Riz, welcome to the dark side.
- Go ahead and give me
a Sleight of Hand check
if you could be so kind?
- Sweet. Kristen, cover me.
- Mm-hmm.
Can I get advantage?
- You may get-
- I say, you know-
- You have to beat a 10 on a Stealth check
to give Riz advantage.
- Okay.
- Kristen.
- I say, you know a
lot of people have HPV!
Hey, here we go, okay.
Oh, negative three, okay.
That's nine!
- That's a nine!
You do not get advantage
on your Stealth check.
- Right.
- You're a little.
- Kristen won't stop talking about HPV,
and it makes it very hard
for you to do anything.
- I'm just saying.
- Stealth or Sleight of Hand?
- Sleight of Hand.
- Not as good.
14.
- I'm gonna roll this and-
Actually, let's bring out our old friend,
the Box of Doom!
- No.
- Which is now successfully
ready for our little live stream.
Hold on one second. Cool.
- Aw.
- Our old buddy, the Box of Doom.
You had a 14.
- Yep.
- The pirates here have a
plus six to their Perception.
- Great, good.
- Eight or higher does the trick.
Seven!
- Yay! Yes.
- How about it?
- Wow.
- Lovely.
So you grab this tome,
slip it into your inventory,
and walk away.
What else are we looking for?
- I'm looking for
anything about cursed gems
or people being kept in objects.
- Hell, yeah. And you got a 16?
- I got a 19.
- Oh, you got a 19.
- Yeah.
- Awesome.
- Which is I only have plus two to Arcana,
so I rolled really high.
- That's great.
You do find- I'm gonna
say it's a pirate library.
You see that there is a
large tome of various curses
and charms called "Breaking the Evil Eye,"
and there's an entire chapter in it
that seems to be successfully stealing
and breaking the curses on treasure.
- Okay, I desperately wanna steal this,
so I'm gonna use a disguised self
to look like the guy from the front
and then walk out with the book.
- Great, give me a Deception roll.
- Don't you have to walk
past the guy?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna walk out one
of the back entrances.
Back exits.
- Cool, very good.
Go ahead and roll that for me.
- That's gonna be a 17.
- Okay, plus six.
Back in the Box of doom.
- Here we go now.
- Is it 11 or higher?
- 11 or higher.
That's a nat two!
- Oh, yes! Yes!
- So you walk out.
- My Sleight of Hand is bad, man.
This is how I had to do it.
- Yeah, you see that Ayda Aguefort,
by the way, comes up.
Oh, by the way, and Ayda, her name
with on when you actually
hand the note over
is spelled alliteratively.
- A-I-D-A.
- So it's A-Y-D-A Aguefort.
You see that Ayda Aguefort
looks at you and says,
"Rawlins, where are you
going with that book?"
- Yeah, it's my lunch break.
I deserve a break, too.
- Debatable. I'm not sure
that you deserve a break
or that any of us do.
However, I don't feel like
stopping you right now.
- Look at how fast I could run.
And then I run.
- You see that she peers down
and just observes you running.
She says, "Faster than
I imagined, Rawlins."
- Oh my god.
Oh my god.
- Wonderful. So I think the only people
that are sort of left that are not
stealing from the library
are Adaine and Gorgug.
- Yet.
- Yeah, Gorgug's just gonna
go up to the real Rawlins
and talk to him. Hey.
- Can I help you? Yeah.
- So I'm looking for just any sort-
is there a section...
I am allowed to read wizard books
that aren't about wizarding, right?
- Yeah.
- You know, right?
- You're allowed to read anything.
- Look.
- You're allowed to read
whatever you like.
- Awesome. So I'm just trying-
My buddy kinda had a big old bad day,
and I'm looking for anything
that's like about cheering up friends,
helping them get through some
hard times.
- Aw.
- And if there's any kind
of book section on that?
Are pirates big on books on
cheering up your friends?
- Go ahead and give me
just a flat Intelligence check.
- Ooh.
- Well, 14 minus 1, so.
- Oh, you see, he looks and says,
"Oh, I can bring you to
the Friendship section
if you would like."
- Pirate friendship.
- That's so cute.
- Yes. Here on Leviathan,
we just call it the Friendship section.
Because everything here is pirate.
So we don't-
- All right. I don't
have to add that?
- You don't have to add that.
- Cool.
- Right this way.
As he walks off, he says,
"I haven't seen your young friends about.
Are they perusing the selection?"
- Yeah, I think, I don't know.
- This is the Friendship section.
And you see he gestures to a small
little dusty shelf
with a couple of little books and-
- Those big Legos?
- The little books, and parchments,
and stuff like that.
So he says, "Here is
the Friendship section."
- Okay, kinda not as
much as I was hoping for.
- You see, he's sort of, he smi-
Oh, make an Insight check.
- Nat one.
- Nat one, he's mad at you.
- If you didn't have a Friendship section,
you could have just told me.
- We do.
- We can talk.
- We do.
- I mean,
you don't have to, like,
mess around with me.
- I'm not- are you accusing me
of messing around with you? - It
just feels like you're kinda trying
to prank me right now.
- I run.
- There I go.
- There I go pranking people again?
- No, literally, there I go.
I'm running so fast.
- This is just a weird
old man prank, clearly.
What? This is like, you
know, sticking humor.
- Who are you calling an old man?
- You, you're a stupid old man.
- Hey, I command the seven winds
and the nine stars.
Secrets of the deep have I learned.
I can summon the ancient krakens
of seas long gone.
Spirits of wind and wave do answer my call
and at my beck and command.
- I steal his book.
Go ahead and give me a
Sleight of Hand check.
- Okay.
- Oh god.
- Can I have Boggy help me?
- Yes, you can.
- I got a not nat 20.
- You yank the book out of his chains.
He turns into a skeleton
and collapses in a pile of bones.
- Ah!
- I put the book back.
- You put the book back,
and he comes back together in a pile
and starts screaming.
That just gives me meat.
The book in the chains just gives me meat.
It doesn't put me back the right way!
- Yes?
- Can I help you? I'm sorry.
- Take the book out!
Hiding those.
- I take the book.
- Bones.
- Okay, let's arrange the bones in the way
that would make it a human being.
- I'm gonna keep doing the studying.
You do that.
- Ah.
Why have you done this to me?
- Wow, wow!
- Why have you done this to me?
- Wow!
- I just wanted to learn how
to control the seven
winds and the nine stars.
- I'm gonna look at the
shelf on friendship.
- Cool.
- Just leaves him in a pile.
- What do you, what do you...
Do you start looking for something,
a book on friendship?
Go ahead and just give me
a Dexterity saving throw,
which you'll give me with advantage.
- I have advantage, right?
- Yeah, you have advantage.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's only a seven- no, five.
Yeah, five.
- Ooh, only a five.
You end up going in.
You push the shelf,
and you see that it's
open as a secret door.
You look in golden light,
vast and countless towering shelves,
with ladders attached to rails
that wheel around the
outskirts, are hundreds
or perhaps thousands of tomes
dedicated to the subject of friendship.
- Oh.
- They love
friendship here.
- On the back of the little
shelf that you see there,
you see that there's an inscription.
And you see it says,
"Much like this shelf,
friendship may at first seem humble,
but beyond the drab exterior
lies a golden treasure
greater than any ship's bounty.
Go with love, me hearties."
- Gorgug cries a little bit
and walks into this room.
- Great. You walk to the room.
The little door closes behind you,
and you're in a vast room
devoted to friendship.
- Hello?
Okay, well,
I'm gonna take out my
Compass Point Library card
and see if it points to anything.
- You see that the Compass Points Library
does start to point.
You see the little compass things,
which shifts around a little bit.
And you see that there is
a small book on a shelf
called "Cheer Up Me Hearties."
- I'm going to pick that one up
and exit the- .
- You exit from the shelf.
And you see that several
large muscle-bound pirates
have apprehended Gilear
and have him face down on the ground.
And they're like, "What
did you do to Rawlins?"
And he's like, "I've done nothing to-
I don't understand.
I just found these bones,
and I started to pick them up!
I thought I was helping."
- Someone else did that.
- Was that?
- Someone else did that.
- Wait, how do you
know? You didn't see it.
- I did see it,
but I didn't know what to do about it
'cause it seems hard to figure-
Do you know how to fix him?
- Are you still holding the book
by the way?
- Yeah, yeah.
- He's like, "You got
Rawlins's book in your hands!"
- Wait, this is the
"Cheer Up My Hearties."
- Oh no, you,
because you were gonna fix Rawlins,
so you're still holding
Rawlins's book, right?
- Oh, right, okay.
- The pirate magic.
- Listen, I have two books in my hand.
One of them is his book.
Yeah, this is his book.
But I took it out 'cause
when I put it back in,
I'll put it back in for a second.
- Ah, please, it's worse than death!
- So I just thought it
would be be better for him
to not have it on him.
- You see, they look...
Go ahead and give me a Persuasion check.
- Ooh.
19.
- Hey.
- They look and they
say, "It's a good man.
That's a good man, what you done
for poor Rawlins here.
Not like this lousy layabout!"
They start shaking Gilear.
- I really- he didn't do anything.
I don't even think he was here when-
- I've never done anything!
I've never done anything!
- He's never done anything, that's true.
- With my life, with anyone, please help.
And you see that the two pirates say,
"Is this codger yours?
He's one of your mates?"
- Yeah, he's kind of-
well, he's like my friend.
- Please speak more enthusiastically
on my behalf, Gorgug.
- Yes, you know what?
He is one of my mates.
- Oh, it hurts to have to ask for it.
You see the pirates let go of him,
and they say, "Well, this is not
the first time this has happened.
We'll take the book off your hand,
and we'll take Rawlins,
and we'll sweep him up,
and get Ayda to put him back together."
- Okay. You are all
good friends to him.
- Do you mean that?
- Yeah.
I got you.
- Well, you're a good man.
- I'm also-
- What?
- I'm a wizard too, so.
- Is that true?
- Yeah, pretty much.
- Ayda mentioned the
greatest wizard of the age.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, now I see it.
You see the two of them
sweep up the bones,
get the book, leave from that place.
The rest of you guys kinda
meet up out by the van.
And pretty much, I think,
it's Adaine is here with, I think,
Sandra Lynn would've stayed by your side
to let everyone else sort of run around
and do their shenanigans.
But the rest of you guys
sort of meet up by the van.
Couple hours pass by. You guys
do see that plume of smoke up
in the corner of the Crow's Keep.
- Can I start reading my book?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- And see if I find
anything about cursed gems?
I'm also kind of interested
if there's something about, like,
taking a soul that's
been bound in an object
after the object's been
destroyed and saving it.
You don't find anything about-
'cause pirates wouldn't have any interest
in destroying a piece of treasure
that they were trying to get.
- I see, okay.
- But they do talk about
specifically things
that are bound to gems.
And you see that there's a little charm
that can affect the Plane Shift spell.
And it basically says,
if a curse has effects
hidden within a cursed object
that are effectively obscured
or obfuscated from your
ability to interact with them,
what you can do is actually Plane Shift
inside of the cursed object
to get an interior landscape
to see the hidden effects.
So in other words, the contingency effect
that would k*ll Gorthalax
if you tried to break this curse,
you could potentially
Plane Shift into the gem,
dispel that effect,
and then break the original curse.
- Adaine, do you have
seventh-level spells?
- Okay, something to work for.
Okay.
- Is Plane Shift seventh level?
- Yeah.
- I was wondering if I can-
- I have Blink that changes
the plane that I'm on,
but only onto the Ethereal Plane.
- Oh, okay.
- Can I look at my "Subject
of World Religions" book,
and try to start cross referencing that
with this thing that we have to see
who may be the unnamed deity is?
- Yeah, absolutely. Give
me another Religion check.
- Got it. All right.
- And just to be clear,
does it look like there's
a name omitted or is it-
- Let's see this roll, and I'll see
what you guys find.
- Okay.
- Eh, there we go, 20 but not nat.
- 20, not nat.
You look at this.
There are a lot of gods
that existed in Sylvaire
back in the days of old.
The wood elves had their own god,
the centaurs did as well.
The gods of, like, the treants
are a little bit mysterious.
The faeries that lived
there kind of were chaotic
and kind of almost celestial
themselves, a little bit.
They were sort of otherworldly themselves.
And then very little is written
about the role that unicorns
played in that forest.
But you do see that there is...
In other words
there are a lot of things
that this god could have been,
and there are elements of like,
oh, there were other deities at the time.
This could be this person,
it could be this person,
could be this person.
With a dirty 20,
a lot of it doesn't match for you.
Like, you're looking at what
your book has to say about it,
and it's sort of- you are able
to, kind of frustratingly,
rule out a lot of the things in the book.
In a way, that makes you confused.
You're like, "Man, this is, like,
if there's this treasure
map in this thing,
where the name is-"
and like you're saying,
Riz like, almost omitted,
it would be weird that it
wouldn't be represented here.
And yet, you're looking at it,
and you're like, "Yeah, there's
nothing here about this."
- Adaine, could you maybe
Dispel Magic on this
or sense if there's magic?
- I could, but if
it's Illusory Script,
then a Dispel Magic will destroy it.
- Ehh.
- I mean, the original script
and the illusion both disappear,
is what happens if it's Illusory Script.
- I could cast Detect Good and Evil,
and see if we're getting a
vibe from either of those.
'Cause wouldn't Nightmare King-
- I could do a Detect Magic on it.
- Do you wanna do Detect Magic?
- Mm-hmm.
- That's not a bad idea.
- Yeah, or I could also
do the Identify spell.
- Would that tell us if it was
- Enchanted?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it says if it's a magic item.
- Okay.
- Or a magic-imbued object.
- Cool, let's do it.
- Great. I cast the Identify spell
on this book about this unseen god.
Unnamed god.
- Okay. You-
- Great.
- You're casting...
On this book of religion
of this unseen god,
the one that has the original maps on it?
- Yeah.
- Cool.
You go ahead and cast the Identify spell.
Ah, yes, this is another
use of the Identify spell.
The hefty tome that you
now hold in your hands
is a perfectly normal book.
- Well, at least
he was efficient. - Well.
- Great.
- Oh, great.
All right.
- Okay.
- Why is the voice in my head a man?
- So.
- Why would you assume that?
- Wow!
Wow. Wow, Adaine.
- Ooh, open your mind.
- Damn, Adaine.
- It's my brain, guys.
It's my brain.
- Wow.
- What if you take a picture
on your crystal of the picture?
- Oh, and see if it's,
like, the Shadow Cat?
- Yeah, can you see and-
- And see if things don't show up?
- I'm curious to see if you took a picture
of the picture, if we could see it.
You know, if it's a picture you took.
- Oh, so nothing to do with the book,
just take a picture
- Oh, of the Shadow Cat.
- of the picture?
- Yeah, I like it.
- All right, I'm gonna take a picture
of the Shadow Cat picture.
- Okay, you take a picture
of the Shadow Cat picture on your crystal.
- Yeah.
- Hold on one second.
- And then put it
into Photoshop and see what
the color profile is.
- And then if you see it...
- Yeah, change
the contrast on it.
- The picture you took
can maybe-
- Okay, you take a picture of the picture.
You can see the Shadow
Cat in your crystal.
You guys cannot.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Right.
- Interesting.
- I'm just ruling out things.
- Great.
- Cool.
- So this is the last time- so...
What do we know about the unicorn again?
It was- the last time people saw it
was when the Nightmare King
came into our realm, right?
- The great unicorn?
- The great unicorn or
something like that.
What did this say about the unicorn?
- Just that the unicorns-
there wasn't much known about
who they worship?
- There wasn't much known
about them, yeah.
In the treasure map that
you guys see of that area,
whatever this sort of unnamed god is,
you find stuff in it
that seems to include elements
of every culture that was present
in Sylvaire at the time, in these temples.
So a god big enough to
be partially revered
or at least acknowledged by five separate
types of beings that inhabited Sylvaire,
not being anywhere
in your religious text is weird.
It is weird enough that
it is actually extremely noteworthy.
- Yes.
- Did they reference
how this god was
celebrated, or worshipped,
or what the practices were like?
Because what if the Nightmare King
is just a god who got pissed?
A vengeful god?
- Is there some kind
of cleric on Leviathan?
- Well, isn't
Tracker?
- Garthy?
- Isn't Tracker?
- Yeah, but maybe like a pirate
cleric.
- Oh, got it.
- Oh, there are a lot
of pirate clerics here.
Pirate clerics tend to
subscribe to a model
where they will often keep shrines
to every single god
they've ever come into
contact with to, like,
hedge their bets.
- So maybe they
know a lot about a lot of gods.
- That'd be cool.
- That's interesting.
- It feels like this god, and
forgive me if I'm stating the obvious,
is removing itself from history.
- It sounds like the Shadow Cat,
yeah.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- Yeah, I was wondering
the same thing.
- There's a lot of power
in people not knowing you exist.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, Zaphriel
also didn't know anything
about himself, the van.
- Yeah. Was that
something that was done to him, though?
- We don't know.
- Yeah, we don't know.
- He might have done it to himself.
He might be lying.
- Well, my dream
- We don't know
- before we took off
- anything about him.
- was that I couldn't draw
the face of my god. When
we all had our nightmares
before we took off?
- Oh, well, does that...
- That maybe you've been worshipping some
unnamed god by mistake?
- I don't know.
- Whoa.
- Are they trying to make
us forget everything?
- Everybody shut up, I
need to do my homework.
- Adaine eventually finishes her homework.
You guys have sort of eaten.
Fabian's very sick in the back of the van.
Ragh is back there having
a hard time, as well.
Cathilda is just tending
to the both of them.
Sandra Lynn is kind of
guarding over Adaine
while she studies.
Gilear is also playing it safe
in the van at the moment.
You see, eventually,
Ayda comes back over to you
as you are almost finished.
And you see she looks at you and says,
"I take it you're almost
done with the spell?"
- Yes, thank you. Yes.
- Very good, all right.
- If you see my father...
- Mm-hmm?
Tell him whatever you want.
No concern of mine.
- Oh, we can hang out if you like.
- What?
- I don't have any wizard friends.
- Why?
- I'm a wizard.
- I don't have any wizard friends.
- Are you hard to be around?
- No, I- no.
Are you hard to be around?
- Yes.
- Oh, do you want a friend?
- Desperately.
- Oh.
- I'll be your friend.
Would you like to hold my frog?
It's not a gift.
- She takes Boggy.
Utterly fantastic.
- Isn't he good?
- What level spell is this?
- Oh, it's just Find Familiar, it's-
- How?
- I can teach you it.
It'll cost you 50 gold per level.
- Very good.
- This is a first-level spell.
Your spellcraft would make it
seem much higher than that.
- Thank you!
- She hands Boggy back to you.
A truly fantastic frog.
I've misjudged you.
- Do you like my- he has a backpack.
- You see she says-
her eyes go wide.
You haven't seen her display much emotion,
but she says, "He has a tiny little
backpack that he wears?"
- It's just a tiny little
backpack. No, that I
wear that he lives in.
Oh, but you know what?
- Oh, that's also good.
- He should've, hang on.
I pull out a tiny little backpack.
- You see she goes, "No, it's too cute!"
Boggy happily puts on
a tiny little backpack
that he now wears.
- He wears a
backpack in a backpack?
- In the backpack, she says,
"There's a frog in that backpack
wearing a tiny little backpack."
- What's in his backpack?
- Oh, maybe a smaller frog.
You see Ayda looks at you and says,
"I cannot believe that I've met the two
greatest wizards of this
age on the same day.
You and your friend Gorgug
will surely either k*ll each other
or save this world."
And she begins to stride out of the room.
- I say, "Make it three."
And then I dismiss my Disguise Self.
- Rawlins, why have you disguised yourself
as this young woman?
- Oh, this is gonna be hard to explain.
I turn back into Rawlins.
- Rawlins, get back to the front desk.
- Okay, watch me run.
Watch-
- You see she looks at you and says,
"You did a very good job running earlier.
But I could do with even faster,
I'm being honest.
Many people steal books
from here, and we should
catch more of them."
- I desperately wanna please
her, so I run even faster.
- Very good. Faster, Rawlins, faster!
- I'm faster than her.
- You see she says,
"Adaine Abernant, you're welcome here
at the Compass Points whenever you wish.
And your companion Gorgug
Thistlespring as well.
Whatever knowledge that I can offer you,
I shall offer you a fair price for it.
Not only because you are gifted wizards
but because you took the time
to fill out a library card,
and we really need the funding.
I appreciate it."
- You're welcome.
- You see she turns around.
You guys return to the van and have
your Sending spell.
- I have a real quick question.
Was my book in a forbidden zone?
Or was it just a regular?
- It was, yes.
- Okay.
- So I don't have a card for Sending.
I can just-
- You need a card?
- A spell card.
- Oh.
- I have two third-level
spells left this day.
Do I send one...?
- You get a free response with it.
- Great. So I wanna send one
to Aguefort.
- To Ragh's mom.
- Yeah, 'cause she's kinda laid up,
yeah.
- Oh, right, yeah.
- And then one to Zelda.
- Yeah. Well, do you get,
could we just have Aguefort message Zelda?
I mean, I think-
- No, I'm saying
we could-
- I should talk to her.
But I also-
- I'm saying we shouldn't.
- Right, and I'm saying-
- We have 25 words per Sending.
- Yes.
- Plus curses and swears.
- Okay.
- That are PG-13 appropriate.
- So you can do two
third-level spells today?
- Yes, I have two fourth-level
spells as well but...
- I think the only thing...
I don't want you to use a spell on this
if you can use it tomorrow
'cause one is like a
life-threatening situation,
one is a situation
where I feel like I definitely
should handle but also
don't wanna need that spell
later in a fight or something.
- Okay, well,
let's come up
with a 25-word message to Arthur Aguefort.
"Avast, headmaster,
can you please check on Ragh's mom?
We think she might be in danger."
- Yeah, we could-
- I think let's be specific,
right?
- Yeah.
- Shadow Cat wants to k*ll
Ragh's mom.
- Shadow Cat threatened Ragh's mom,
wants to k*ll Ragh's mom.
Please keep her safe.
- Stop.
- Yeah, keep her safe.
- Batten down the hatches.
- Go immediately.
- Please protect her.
That's nine.
- Yeah.
- Maybe could tell my mom.
She could get the cops there, too.
- Yeah, get a detail on her.
- Yeah.
- Okay, tell-
- Can we tell- So,
Shadow Cat wants to k*ll Ragh's mom,
please protect her.
- Tell Sklonda.
- Tell...
- Sklonda.
- Does Aguefort know who Shadow Cat is?
That's sort of just what
we call this creature.
- I mean, her name is what, Kalinda?
- Kalina.
- Kalina.
- Kalina.
- Shadow Cat, AKA...
- Nightmare King-
- Nightmare King's agent Shadow Cat-
- Yeah.
- Perfect.
- One, two.
- Cool, that's all under 25.
- Nightmare King's agent
Shadow Cat.
- We got it, we got it.
Yeah, that's all we need.
- You guys send that off.
- Tell Zelda I'm sorry.
- You guys get a response
back almost immediately
from Principal Aguefort going,
"Ah, wonderful,
the use of a pirate Sending."
A spree of profanity
that is so specific that it actually
communicates a kind of intricate message
that he's gonna go check up on it.
And he says, "Stay where you are.
I'm gonna scry on you,
and then send a screening.
I'll send a screen to communicate with you
more in person."
So you guys are all in the van.
A minute or two later, a
screen
goes across the windshield of the van
that is kind of tilted to,
even though the windshield's at a tilt,
it just shows Arthur Aguefort there
in his suit.
- I was driving.
- While you're driving.
Ah!
- Ah!
- You see he goes, "Ah,
wonderful. My fine students.
Here, take a look!"
And he adjusts the screen.
Ragh's house is a smoking crater.
It is completely-
- I hold Ragh in a way
that turns him away from it.
- Ragh puts his head in his hands.
You see that Arthur looks
and says, "Utterly destroyed."
- And why did you
say that so enthusiastically?
- With everyone in it?
- Where's his mom?
- Well, a dead body.
- No!
- Who was in the-
- Just one dead body?
- Yes.
- Is it Ragh's mom?
- You see that he look in,
and you see that he says,
"Well, the body of Lydia Barkrock, yes."
- Oh.
- Can you bring her back?
- Was anything taken from her?
Didn't she have a gem?
- Crystal?
- A crystal inside of her?
- Yes, yes, she did.
- Can I do a Percep-
an Insight check to see?
- You wanna do
an Insight check?
- To see if this is actually Aguefort?
- Sure.
- 15.
- Aguefort doesn't seem that perturbed.
- Yeah.
- You see he says, "Yes,
the body of Lydia Barkrock
was k*lled, destroyed here."
And we're gonna have to get her
a new one, I guess, but...
- What are you talking about?
- What are you talking about?
- You can just get her
a new body? Reincarnate?
- Oh!
Yes, I've been meaning
to do this for some time.
Lydia Barkrock had a demon,
a very important demon, in a gem
that she had implanted into her chest.
So what I did was I went and cloned her,
took her real body,
put it into a temporal stasis
with the real gem in it,
took a sort of piece of
glass shaped like a gem,
a fabricated one, cast
Nystul's Magical Aura
so it would read as an artifact,
stabbed that into the clone.
And then what I did, is I Magic Jar
projected Lydia's consciousness
into this kind of puppet body
so that she would be
able to see, and speak,
and pilot it even though her real body
is actually in extradimensional space
about a mile underground beneath the
Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
- So she's not dead?
- Magic Jaw?
- Yeah, you said Magic Jaw.
- Jar.
- Jar, Magic Jar.
- In my accent, I drop the hard Rs.
- But that's a spell that
we've heard before.
- You see, Ragh says,
"Is my mom f*cking dead or not?"
- No, she's not dead!
- She's not dead.
She's not dead.
- And he says,
"Well, it's an interesting philosophical
point because one of her
bodies has been destroyed,
so her consciousness shot
back to her body prime.
But in a sense, she did experience death,
so... Very interesting."
- But she's still alive.
She's still alive, Ragh.
- Okay, good. I'm glad.
Were you ever gonna tell
me that you did that?
You see Arthur Aguefort says,
"My dear boy,
I truly forgot that I did that stuff.
It was on a list somewhere,
and I was going to eventually tell you.
But very troubling indeed
that somebody believes they
k*lled Lydia Barkrock."
- We saw your daughter.
- Which one?
- Oh.
- Ayda.
- Ayda! How is she doing?
Oh, I forgot her birthday.
I've forgotten many of her birthdays.
- Ooh.
- Where's my creature?
- Oh, I have many!
I've been working on it.
You didn't get back in touch with me.
- Yes, well, I'm in touch with you now.
Send it to-
I send him a pin.
- Oh, wonderful. They cost a
tremendous amount of money.
- Yeah, remember, I gave you money.
- No, you didn't.
- Okay, well, I said I'm
gonna give you money.
- Oh yeah, for sure.
You said you were going to.
Saying that you were going
to give someone money
and giving them money,
two of the most different
things in the world.
- I think if you're a rockstar,
they're actually the same.
- Yeah, everyone just
knows I'm worth the money
'cause they see all the
posters with my face on it.
- A lot of very famous artists
and creators are quite broke.
- Yeah, well, what do you got for me?
- Well-
- We'll talk about it another time.
Maybe this is the wrong day.
- Okay, the cheapest option
is the pentacorn, that's 30,000 gold, so.
Okay, I'm gonna Google
that and then we'll talk.
- All right.
- Pentacorn.
- Well, I'm very glad
that young Mr. Barkrock
is not without his mother.
I will get to work on making
another clone very quickly.
He goes, "Wait, so, like,
when I've been cuddling my mom
and stuff for, like, years,
it's not been her?"
And he goes, "No, my
boy, her consciousness
has been inhabiting a perfect replica
of her own real body
while her real body has been sort of
incorporeal and lodged in temporal stasis
deep beneath the crust
of the Earth.
- What level is-
- Magic!
- How do I learn a Magic Jar spell?
- Oh, it's very powerful.
- Why do people put people away
in stones with it?
- Why wouldn't you?
- How do you break one?
- Well, there's a couple ways.
A Wish spell would do it.
- Cool.
- A ninth-level spell?
A ninth level spell
would do it.
- A ninth-level spell, yes.
The good, the good stuff, yeah.
- This family is wild.
- Professor Aguefort.
- Yes.
- While I got you here,
do you know anything about unicorns?
- Oh, I know a tremendous
amount about unicorns.
- Who did they worship?
- I think I've quite forgotten.
- You forgot?
- Yes, I've forgotten.
I used to know and I don't know anymore.
That's troubling.
- No way.
- Is this like a forgetting thing
like you did with Lydia
Barkrock's body or like-
- Lydia Barkrock, I need to
tell her son that I've put-
- Okay, heavy forgetfulness.
- Can unicorns
turn into other things? Is that a thing?
- Forgotten to tell Lydia
that I've done that.
Lydia doesn't even know, I did it
while she was asleep.
- Can you see this cat?
- What?
- Do you see a cat?
- Hold on one second.
- Or a person
that looks like a cat?
- Right. It's-
- We don't know if-
I don't want him to take it very literally
and then be like, "I don't see a cat."
- You gotta be careful.
- Am I the only one of our little crew
that can see the cat?
- Tracker can see it.
- Tracker.
- And Tracker, like, over-
- And Sandra Lynn.
- Sandra Lynn.
- Sandra Lynn.
- Can Ragh see it?
- Ragh, yeah.
- Ragh can see it, yeah.
You see that Arthur says,
"I'm afraid I can't see a tabaxi
in that photograph, how strange?"
- Oh, that's so crazy
'cause we didn't say tabaxi,
we just said, "Do you see a cat?"
- Hmm?
- We just asked you, "Do
you see a cat in this?"
And you said, "I don't see a tabaxi."
- I read from your intonation
that you were using the
term cat to mean a tabaxi,
which, by the way, is extremely offensive.
- That's- I buy that.
- That's the last thing
to worry about.
- Yes, for sure.
Well, it seems like we have all
of this covered up.
- Can I do an Insight check?
I don't know if I can over
this screen but-
- Oh, sure, yeah.
- All right.
- We should steal
a book about unicorns.
- 17.
- 17, Arthur doesn't seem
more strange than usual.
You see Arthur looks and says,
"Well, I'm glad to tell you
then that Lydia is alive.
The person or peoples that did this
were not able to get the demon gem
from within her body,
so kudos for us. apocalypse averted.
Hurray, Aguefort.
Put another W up on the board!"
You see he says, "However,
Ragh, my good boy,
you are officially homeless,
so good luck with that."
- Principal Aguefort,
you've gotta get better
at talking to kids.
- Why?
- I mean, the entire family
is just seemingly awful.
- He's a principal though.
- Ragh, you can
live in Mordred Manor with us.
- You see Ragh goes, "Okay,
good, my mom's alive.
We've got a home."
- Yeah, you got bases covered.
- Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
Mordred Manor's actually extremely chill.
- It's really cool.
- I live in a tower.
- I live
- You know, I'm super psyched,
- under a piano.
- I would love that.
- Be part of the party house, yeah!
- Absolute party house.
- You see Aguefort says,
"Is there a party house around?"
- No.
- No, that's just what
we call a study hall.
- Yeah.
- For a discount
on that pentacorn, there is.
- You drive a hard bargain,
Miss Faeth.
All right, I'm going to go.
Ragh, should I make
your mother a new body?
I would probably have to deposit her
here in this wreckage.
Should I just hold tight on that?
I probably should tell
her that I made a body,
and I did a bunch of jibjabs.
- You probably should-
- Yeah, wait until
- Seems like you should
- she has a place to be
- explain you did that.
that's not on fire.
- Yes. Ooh, her consciousness probably
has returned to the
molten core of the Earth.
I should get on that.
As Ragh goes-
- The molten core?
- What?
- The molten core?
- Wait, how many miles down did I put her?
I'm going to check.
Form of Earth!
He turns into an earth elemental
and burrows into the ground.
- Okay, wait, Ragh. When you were saying
and you met the tabaxi woman,
who had she talked to?
Was she talking to Aguefort at any time?
- You see he says,
"No, I never saw her talking to Aguefort."
- Saw her talking to Adaine's mom.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and Jace.
- Yeah.
- The biggest thing is Tracker,
and Tracker seeing it overnight.
- Oh yeah, that is very strange to me.
- Very strange.
- So Tracker-
- Can we look in the library?
'Cause we're right outside
the library right now, right?
- Yeah.
- Can we check
in the library for
some kind of book on invisibility?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Or the magic
- Didn't Ayda say
you could ask her anything?
- Everybody here make a
Perception check for me,
if you'd be so kind.
- You can get help from
her though, like, librarian.
- 20.
- Nat 20.
- Ey!
- Cool.
Nat 20.
You look off and see that the smoke
coming from the edge of Crow's Keep
is finally stopped down.
But you got a good look at it.
I mean, you're with Fabian.
I don't think Fabian has described
the events of last night,
but Fabian has basically
been like, he's like,
"Oh, I know what that was," or whatever.
- Yeah.
- It's on the wrong side of Crow's Keep
from where Fabian fell.
It's not the place that
Fabian would've fallen from.
On a nat 20, you're just, like,
triangulating where you guys got him.
So that smoke's not coming
from where Fabian fell from.
- Hey, Fabian.
- Hmm.
- Well, first off, real quick,
I hand him an orange.
I read somewhere that
you give your friends oranges
so they don't get scurvy.
But anyways, the other thing is-
- Ragh tears up.
- And you can have an orange too.
- f*ck.
Oh, it's a good day, dude.
Did all those hugs from my mom count?
They counted, right?
- They counted.
- Yeah.
- Okay, yeah, it's just so-
- They absolutely did.
- She, like, had a mech of her own body
made of normal body stuff.
That's normal.
- Yeah, but her brain
was in it,
so that's the same thing.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Ragh, is this not a hug?
And I hug the gem
that Gorthalax is trapped in.
Is this not a hug?
Does this not count?
- You see, he gives you a hug.
He gives you-
- This counts, this counts.
It counts.
- Everyone in the van is crying.
- It gets super hard, guys, super-
- My parents never hugged me.
- Oh, I just hold.
I hold Tracker's hand
just kind of quietly.
- I don't think that's what you're talk-
it seems like that's a different fire.
- Oh, I got a 16 Perception.
Can I tell that that's not...?
- It's not the building.
- Oh, oh.
- You would know where that is.
You look at the building.
That used to be The Ramble.
- Oh, that's-
- What's The Ramble?
- Oh, The Ramble, that's the main head of,
it's like the government here.
It's like the top of the government here.
- What?
- Oh.
- Is Jamina in trouble?
- Probably not Jamina.
It's probably James
making some kind of move
to take over Leviathan, is my guess.
'Cause he was up here earlier.
- Okay, so let's attack him.
Let's fight him.
That's fine-
- Oh, we shouldn't do that.
Oh, we shouldn't.
- Yeah, in fact if anything,
hey, we need to get revenge
on what he did to you last night.
- Yeah, you're right, you're right.
We shouldn't fight him at all.
- No.
- You should fight him one-on-one.
- No, none of us should fight him.
Our goal is to get a C+ on this assignment
by getting the crown of the Nightmare-
- No, our goal is to get an A.
- All right, either way,
the Nightmare King's crown is our goal.
I don't think we should stay here
longer than we need to.
- The Nightmare King's goal...
This is personal,
and I don't like seeing you like this.
It scares me.
Where is your sword?
Where is your eye patch?
- Fabian, this is real Gilear energy.
- Yeah.
- Gilear goes, "Hey."
- Yeah, hey! I slap Riz.
- as*ault.
- I grab a lemon yogurt from near Gilear.
There's an ant in it.
- You see, he says,
"No. Oh, sometimes ants
get in there. It's okay."
- I say, look, hold this.
Does this feel comfortable in your hand?
It's warm yogurt.
You know how Gilear says yogurt?
- Yes.
- Okay, everyone, everyone.
- Do you wanna be a sad, sad elf man?
- I think
somebody cursed Fabian.
- Huh, Fabian?
- I don't know
if there's any other explanation.
- I haven't been cursed.
All right, here it is, here it is.
While I was off on my own last night,
I ran into Alistair Ash,
and he introduced me
to all of my father's followers.
And we all had a great time, and then-
- Great, so
we can get them to help.
- No, no, no.
I.
- Are they okay?
- No. Okay.
- They quit being
pirates,
- No.
- I bet they
have real fun names.
I can't wait to meet 'em.
- They did have fun names.
They did have fun names.
There's Chungle-Down Bim.
- What? Are you having a stroke?
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Maybe it's an anagram,
it must be an anagram.
- No, it wasn't an anagram.
His name was just Chungle-Down Bim,
and there was also one
named Old Young Benjamin,
who was old but also young.
And there was another one.
There was another one that jumped out
when they all found out
that I didn't k*ll my father
like I said I did.
Well, I did k*ll my-
- You did?
- No, but I didn't k*ll him
the way that they all thought I did.
I didn't, like, fight him in combat.
And they all said that we were gonna die,
and they challenged James to a fight.
And I said, "Well,
come on, I'm Fabian Seacaster.
Like, we could beat him."
And then he was walking by.
He was walking by.
And I jumped out of the door.
And I Captain James.
And I stabbed him.
And I stabbed him really good.
And I didn't do a good job.
- So it's fine. So he's dead?
- No.
- You didn't k*ll him?
- No!
- Did you almost k*ll him?
- No. I mean, I thought I did.
I thought I did some good damage.
I thought- I really hit him hard,
and then the next thing I knew,
his tentacles were on my head,
and he was gonna eat my brain
when he told me
that he'd eaten my siblings' brains.
So I guess I have brothers and sisters,
but I didn't have enough
time to process that,
because by the time I escaped,
he m*rder*d, like, all of 'em.
He m*rder*d all of my.
He m*rder*d all of my father's followers,
like, all of them in one hit.
It was, like, he just went hard
and then it-
- Is Alistair dead?
- No, the only four that
survived were Chungle-Down Bim,
Old Young Benjamin-
- Well, didn't Chungle-Down Bim help you?
- No.
- Chungle-Down
Bim probably saved you.
- We should go
to Chungle-Down Bim.
- No!
- To Chungle-Down Bim.
- How did he help you
in the fight? How did he help you?
- I've got a phone book here.
I'm looking for Chungle-Down Bim.
- No, please don't. He told me-
- He's on the line.
- He told me he was
gonna sh*t in my mouth.
- Great stuff, Fabian.
- He told me
he was gonna sh*t in my mouth!
He was gonna sh*t in my mouth,
and that I would never be a real pirate,
and that I was a disgrace
in my father's memory.
- Huh, hang up.
- And then Old Young
Benjamin's hiding somewhere.
And Alistair Ash was crying as I ran away.
- But you grabbed him
when you ran away though, right?
- No, I abandoned him, like, confidently
'cause I knew that the only way
I would survive is if I ran away.
So the only ones of my followers
left are Chungle-Down Bim,
who probably works for
James, Old Young Benjamin,
who's doing a monkey
thing up in the rigging,
and then there's, honestly,
I probably have one follower
who's running around.
He's not even mine, he's my father's,
just like everything else I have.
And I don't know.
So we shouldn't fight James.
He's just going to m*rder all of you,
and I'm going to feel awful,
and I'm just gonna end
up eating banana yogurt
in a house that I build
in memory of my father.
- I slap him.
- Ow-uh!
- Fabian.
- Tracker looks at you and goes, "Jesus."
- Fabian Aramaris Seacaster,
we need you, okay?
We brought one Gilear,
we made that mistake.
We did not mean to bring two.
- Okay.
- Real quick, I need to cast-
- You have more
than your father!
- Suggestion on Gilear,
and tell him to believe in himself.
'Cause a lot of mean
stuff is getting said.
- We need that here!
- You see- well, I'm gonna roll a save
for him real quick.
Oh, he fails his save.
You see he says,
"I'm okay with the fact
that it takes mind control
to make me like me.
I'm okay with that."
- Well, we'll deal
with that later, I just,
everything's gonna keep
being really against you, so just
buck up.
- No, no.
I am looking up from the bottom,
and I'm seeing how close
Fabian is sinking towards me.
And it is alarming,
even to me. I won't lie.
- Okay.
- Fabian,
you have so much more
than just being your father's son.
- Everything you have
is not your father's.
- None of us are friends with you
because you're Bill Seacaster's son.
- Yeah.
- We're friends with you
because you're Fabian.
- It's true.
- Yes, but the reason
I'm at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy,
the reason I'm a Bad Kid,
the reason I have the sword that I do
and the bike that I do is all because-
- You got that
bike because you won it fair
and square because we
k*lled a lot of people.
- Yeah, but you know who was in my head
when I k*lled Johnny Spells?
My father, my father, my father.
- Does he have any-
- Hey, just because he
started you off on this journey
doesn't mean that he needs to follow you
everywhere you go.
He just gave you a headstart.
- Yeah, he's
always gonna influence you.
- You know what?
I'm who I am because of my parents.
- You're like the opposite.
- Exactly, and you can be that, too.
Or the same. It doesn't matter,
but we're not friends with you
because your dad was famous.
Actually, if I'm being honest,
that's the least likable thing about you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it's pretty
insufferable sometimes.
- Yeah, it's
kinda like, "Get over it,"
you know?
- Yeah.
- You see Tracker looks up and says,
"I think there's a lot of true things
that have been said here, and
you know, just from the outside
of this friend group looking in,
seems like Fabian might be
struggling with depression.
And I think that we've all
reacted in a way, you know,
where you see a depressed person,
and we all shout at them.
So, you know?"
- Okay.
- I feel like
you can't be depressed-
like, depression is like
a long-term illness,
and not just a thing that
happens to you on one day.
I think what you mean is that he's sad,
and that's different.
- Sure.
- Fabian's life
rules 95% of the time.
- Yeah, he's had
one vaguely mediocre day.
- It was a bad day.
It's a bad day.
- I watched 14 people
die on my orders.
- All right, you've had
one bad day.
- It's bad, super bad.
- Chungle-Down Bim said
he'd sh*t in my mouth!
- So you had a bad day.
- You see that Tracker says,
"I'm gonna stand by-
we might be catching this
at the beginning of this process."
- I think you're right.
- Call him.
Call Chungle-Down Bim because I'm gonna-
- Do not call Chungle-Down Bim!
- I actually can't.
I called him a couple times
during that rollercoaster,
and now he's got my phone call blocked.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and also you see
that Gilear looks and says,
"What actually is a
phone book for Leviathan
because that's fully nothing?"
- Oh, it's some animal hide
with a bunch of numbers.
- Yes, these are the
scrawlings of a mad man.
These are not, this is-
- He just found this in the bathroom.
- Yeah, this is nothing.
- Oh.
- Fabian.
- It does what I-
- It does say Chungle-Down Bim in it.
- Fabian, I think you're gonna have to...
We obviously can't fix this overnight,
and obviously, I want you take time
to figure out what is going on
and recover from what a
bad situation that was,
but I think we need to check this out,
with or without you.
- Yeah.
- But also, Fabian, you know,
we all draw strength from each other.
You went in without your crew.
What's a pirate without his crew?
- I did have, like, 14...
- No, you had randos.
- They're not as good as us.
- No.
- You had randos.
Yeah.
- Yes, they're not as good.
They're not as good.
- That's like you trying
to do an escape room
with just a bunch of
strangers you just met.
- Yeah.
- No, thank you.
- I think also,
if something's going on,
I understand that maybe
it feels really hard,
but it might not be something
we can avoid right now.
Although it is the politics
of a city that we're not from.
- Yeah, but if he
takes over the entire city,
it might be hard to get away.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Yeah.
- Let's check it out, at the very least.
- Let's do it.
- You see that...
This is the first time that Cathilda
has heard the whole story.
So you see...
The van pulls away.
You guys start heading towards the smoke
at the edge of Crow's Keep.
As the van is pulling away,
you see Cathilda looks
up at you and she says,
"Master Fabian, are you...?"
She sort of has the blanket over you
'cause you have your
pneumonia, you're messed up.
She looks at you and says,
"I want you to know something."
And as she-
You know, the noise of the
van, you guys are driving away.
She looks up at you and goes,
"My children
passed away before you were born.
And I've never spoken about it with you
because I...
It's something that I
never truly intended,
I think, to share. You know?
You're becoming a young man.
And throughout your childhood,
the conversation has moved
farther and farther away,
and I don't know if there
ever would've been a day
where I would've brought it up.
Your father loved you
the moment he laid eyes on you
when you were nothing
but a whimpering babe.
You had no exploits to your name.
There was nothing heroic.
You were a little ball
of wailing and waggling your arms
and legs around, and...
You are worthy of love
no matter what it is that
you do in this world,
and there are those that love you.
And I hope you know that I love you."
- Yeah, yeah, I know that.
- I never wanted to overstep my bounds.
And your father
built you up a great deal,
and I don't think he ever prepared you
for the sudden fall.
Maybe I should've done
something about that before.
You are a good lad.
And nobody is defined by their worst day.
(nostalgic music resumes
- Sure, sure.
- I'm sorry that you
had to go through that.
And worst of all, I'm sorry that you
had to go through it without your family.
You see a look come over Cathilda's eyes.
It's creepy to look at.
She has normally sort of
brown, dark brown eyes,
and her face is always so creased
in a perpetual smile that kind of like,
the pupil and iris of her eyes
fills out most of her eyes.
Her pupils dilate
and her eyes, like,
lose their luster a little bit
in what you can only describe
as a look of such pure menace.
Like, you've heard the expression
when someone goes black in the eyes.
This is the first time you've seen that,
where someone, like,
looks like any shred of empathy, remorse,
or hesitation leaves from her expression.
She says,
"You are Bill's son,
his darling boy.
And you are mine as well.
And that squid
put his hands on you,
and he's gonna pay handsomely for it
with every last thing he's got.
Do you hear me?"
- Yes. Yes, I do.
- That's good, Master Fabian.
Pinches your cheek.
And you guys head off
to the edge of...
the edge of the Crow's Keep.
- I try to hold Cathilda's
hand as we walk.
- She squeezes your hand, "Oh, deary."
- You're hot.
- What?
- What? Nothing.
- You know, I don't think you're wrong.
I think I'm quite a catch.
- It's so true. Right, Tracker?
- You have to like yourself.
You have to, you know.
I don't have a problem
saying it, I'm a catch.
- It's like- yeah,
it's like that Tweet song, "Oops Oh My".
She's done dressing in front of a mirror
and just kinda taking it all in.
- What a world-shattering reference.
You see, she...
An impossibly deep cut.
I can't believe where your mind
flashes to in the
briefest possible moment.
- Ey, listen to it. It's
a great pump-up song.
- It's a banger.
You see, Crow's Keep.
You see
The Ramble.
The Ramble used to be this giant
sort of, you know,
almost like "Walrus and the
Carpenter"-esque ramshackle,
multi-level tavern
that was home to-
the building The Ramble was home
to the actual Ramble itself,
which was a collection of
Leviathan's oldest pirates
that would sit here,
and smoke, and drink, and tell tales
of great acts of piracy
in the distant past.
It was kind of like...
How to put it?
Similar to what a courthouse would do.
It was like the repository
of the judicial system of piracy,
where people would come
before these ancient pirates,
who wouldn't really hold trials
but would just, like, ramble
and wax philosophical,
and eventually, a decision would come out
through the assembled wisdom
of the elder pirates gathered here.
It is now a smoking ruin.
You see that there are a bunch of pirates
that have gathered here that
are kind of salvaging what
they can from this place.
Some other people are here.
You see that Jamina Joy is here, as well.
So you see that the bosun has come up
from the Maelstrom's Maw
to help salvage this place.
What do you guys do as you approach?
- I guess we'll ask Jamina.
Jamina, what happened here?
- Captain Whitclaw destroyed The Ramble.
He came here last night
and asked what need to be done
for there to be a new king in Leviathan.
- What needed to be done? Destroy that?
- You see she says, "The
elders of The Ramble
said that it was merely
the words of Old Bill
that had kept a king from the throne
of the helm for a generation.
So the
elders of The Ramble
said that all that need be done
would be for a captain to claim the crown
from the head of the Pirate
King in Gibbety Square
and to head to The Row & The Ruction there
to crown themselves as Pirate King.
Captain James need not
have destroyed this place.
He did so
from what I can only say is malice,
to destroy the wisdom gathered here
and have there be no other elders to claim
court or principle in
the City of Leviathan."
- Do you know where he is now?
- If his aim was to
become the Pirate King,
I can only assume
he will have headed to Gibbety Square
to claim the crown.
- Yeah.
How do you feel as the person
who takes-
- Pibbety Square?
- Gibbet. What did you say?
- I thought it was Pib- never mind.
- No, Gibbety. Gibbety. Yes.
- Oh.
- It's Gibbety.
- As the person
who watches over this city,
and has its interest at your heart,
that's an assumption I'm
jumping to about you-
- I have no heart.
I am an automaton.
- Right, but it's programmed in you
to care about this city.
Whatever, let's not debate this.
Do you think it's good?
Do you support his claim?
- I was the bosun of the Leviathan
under the last Pirate King.
When Bill Seacaster came here,
cut off his head,
stuck it to the mast of Gibbety Square,
and said that there would be no king
in Leviathan, everything changed.
Everything may change again
with James Whitclaw.
- Oh, so you're saying
you're apolitical?
- Hey, you know,
I keep the ships floating.
- Right, you just obey orders.
- What's your deal? You have some dog
in this fight?
- What's your deal?
- What?
- What's your deal?
- I work from the moment
I come from my maintenance
to keep this massive city afloat.
- Why?
- Somebody's gotta do the actual
work of this city floating, all right?
Is it so crazy for me
to ask that the citizens
of Leviathan keep the
politics in line and afloat?
- When there's a bad person-
- How about this?
I'll run my crew that keeps the city
from literally sinking into the ocean!
I'll do that by myself
with the crew that works for me!
And how about the other 98% of people
keep an evil king from happening?
- Why don't you be the evil king?
- Okay, you've said evil king though.
The only reason I was asking
is because I feel like you know
this city better than I do,
so I wanted to know if you
supported this claim or not.
But you said evil king...
- Yeah, if you're the one
that's keeping it afloat, you're
the one that's running it,
you should be the king.
- Look.
- If there's anyone.
- You come from a democracy, right?
- No, I come from Fallinel.
- Okay, you come from a magocracy.
But my point being that
when something goes extremely wrong
in your country,
do you go find the like snowplow drivers
and, like, the mail people?
- We need to go
to Gibbety Square, people.
- We need to go to Gibbety Square.
- This person's not gonna help us.
- You're the
head of the civil service.
That's different.
- I feel like this is an-
- Everyone leave the room.
- You should resign.
- Oh,
do you wanna throw down?
Do you want my job?
- No, I want you to be-
no, I want you to go
and be your own pirate
captain on your own,
and be really good at being a pirate,
and let Leviathan sink
under this bad, evil king.
- So you all think it'd
be better for Leviathan
to sink into the waves?
- Yes!
- No, we don't agree.
Let's go to Gibbety Square!
- What are you talking about?
- Right?
- I didn't mean
to start any of this.
I totally just wanted
to know what you thought
'cause I trusted your opinion.
- Well, I'm the only one
here with a job, all right?
I do my job. I keep the city-
- We all have jobs.
- Riz, start doing your...
Oh no, that was a different one.
Your baby dance.
Completely different worlds.
- I take Kristen's ribbon dance
and try to distract everyone.
- Yeah, he goes mad.
- I start sprinting
towards Gibbety Square.
- Let's go, let's go.
- Yeah, let's go.
- You guys take off from Gibbety Square.
- I think you'd
be a really good king!
- I would be a queen of this place.
And if I was,
it would sink to the bottom of the ocean
because I am not gonna-
You guys drive away.
So you all head off.
As you do so, you go
down the pulley system
back to the lower levels of Leviathan,
where you
drive over to Gibbety Square.
As you arrive in Gibbety Square,
you see that the crown has already
been pulled off of the
head of the Pirate King.
You see a gruesome sight, by the way,
just a giant mast that has an artificially
preserved bearded pirate's head
with a dagger through the tongue,
pinning it so it hangs from the tongue
off of this thing.
- Gross.
- And no crown on the head.
- All right, so he's
already going to the place
where he needs to crown himself.
- Yeah.
- The Row & The Ruction.
- Let's head there.
- Yeah, let's go.
- You guys head
to The Row & The Ruction.
- Where is that?
- It's nearby Gibbety Square.
- As you guys get to
The Row & The Ruction,
you see a massive,
like, pirate warehouse
in the Aftward neighborhood.
These are more classical
buildings. They're well to do.
It's not all ships' hulls here.
These are actual platforms,
streets, buildings.
And you see a colossal building.
You guys hear a crazy amount of noise
from this, a pitched fighting.
So The Row & The Ruction
are two separate fights going on.
The Row is a massive fistfight
on the sort of sawdust-covered
and bloodstained floor
of this massive warehouse.
It is a fistfight that's
been going on for 150 years.
They have been bringing in new pe-
It's just a fight.
It's been going on forever.
The Ruction is a series of planks
and barrels hanging from a net
about 20 feet above The Row.
The Ruction is people
using flintlock pistols,
swords, weaponry, all that kind of stuff.
It basically forms a bicameral legislature
for the City of Leviathan,
where the lower house is
this bar fight/fistfight.
The Row has been going on for 150 years.
The Ruction sort of is
partially in session
from time to time.
When the fight gets rowdy enough,
the people can actually climb up
and get the weaponry and
stuff aboard that other fight.
You're not allowed to, like, bring your
own weapons into The
Row, or if you do bring,
then you have to hide
them and not use them.
Again, if you do use them, that's fine.
Everyone will just g*ng up
on you and k*ll you, right?
So the way it works politically
is you've gotta have
enough people at your back
to go into this fight to start winning it,
to get enough ground, to
climb up into The Ruction,
which means you start taking
over that second level.
And basically, if you can
hold The Row & The Ruction
for long enough, you can
make political decisions
for the city.
Cool!
- Wow.
- Oh, cool.
Can I use magic in The Ruction?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- But you have to go through
The Row to get to The Ruction?
Theoretically, you could
probably fly over it
straight to The Ruction if you...
You might be surprised to learn
it's pretty rules-light here
in The Row & The Ruction.
- Okay.
- But you guys walk in,
and you see that The Row is going on.
You guys arrive here just on the heels
of Captain James and his crew,
who have all gone to get
drinks on the other side,
and are basically
preparing to enter The Row.
As you walk in, you know,
you see your-
you know, fists flying, people fighting.
You see across from
this massive fistfight,
underneath this suspended
net with platforms
and stuff like that,
you see Captain James
turn to look at you guys as you enter.
Is anyone staying outside
with the van or anything else?
Everyone's going in?
- Unless we need someone to do it, I think
I'm probably going in.
- Fabian.
- I think I'll-
- Can you Revivify
Fabian to make him not
two levels of exhausted?
- Oh, yes.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Oh, is there,
it's like Greater
Restoration or something?
- Greater Restoration.
- Yeah, I have a bunch
of stuff. Let's do-
- What gets rid of exhaustion? Can he-
- Yeah, I don't know what gets rid-
- I don't know if you'll have anything
to get rid of exhaustion right now.
- Okay.
- I think I'd like to-
I don't wanna wait by the van or anything,
but I'd like to be, maybe, stealthing.
- Cool.
- Just so I can, like,
be their backup, just
kinda hovering around them.
- Hell yeah.
- 26.
- 26, hell yeah. You are a shadow
in the corners of The Ruction.
- I guess I'm just gonna
cast Resistance on him.
- Okay, it's not gonna get
rid of your exhaustion.
- It'll just give him advantage on-
you can add a d4 to your saving throws.
- Cool.
- Just your next one, I think,
if right.
- You guys approach.
You guys see Captain James Whitclaw
turn up to you
as you guys come in here.
You see he
puts a hand on his crystal saber.
As he does so, he looks up
and specifically catches Fabian's eyes.
What do you guys do as you approach here?
- I want to-
just to cover our bases,
I'm gonna use Countercharm,
which is I'm just gonna play a little song
that makes us all brave
so that at least for a round,
we won't get frightened or charmed.
- Gotcha. Cool, you start
doing your Countercharm.
- I'm gonna take
the Sword of the Seacaster
and plant it in the
ground in front of Fabian,
and say, "Do whatever you need to do,
but here's this if you need it."
- Yeah, I pull the
eyepatch out of his pocket
and put it on jauntily.
- I pat him on the back
and I cast Warding Bond.
- Cool, great.
- So there's- one side is, like,
balancing and stuff,
and one side is just fistfighting.
- So it's the lower level's a fistfight,
and then there's not really anyone
in The Ruction right now,
which is the sort of net with planks,
and barrels, and stuff up above it.
You see across, Captain James actually
walks around the fight that's continuing.
He has not, like, entered
it with his men yet.
- How many- oh, sorry.
- He comes around, looks at you and says,
"Hey there, boyo.
Had yourself quite a bit of a run
last night, didn't ya?"
- Oh, Captain James,
you're not going to be king.
We're gonna stop you.
- Hey, Fabian, you got this.
- You see, he says-
- Bardic Inspiration.
- He looks at you.
As he does,
he goes,
"You're gonna stop me, boyo,
is that right?"
- I'm not gonna stop you.
Me and my crew are gonna stop you.
- Not made of stern stuff, are ya?
Needed your friends to come and help ye.
You know, your father was not made of such
stern stuff, as well.
Took off and ran.
Took that forgiveness
they offer in Solace, didn't he?
- So you have no friends?
You didn't have any friends
with you last night?
- Seems like you got a
bunch of friends here.
- Seems like a lot of friends here.
You seem like a friendly guy.
- I got this book
on pirate friendship,
and I've learned a lot about it,
and it looks like you got a bunch
of friends here.
- You want an orange, pal?
- Oh, I am hungry,
but not for an orange, girl.
I can smell the smarts on you from here.
- I'm sorry, was that
supposed to be scary?
- Oh, it is.
I'm gonna eat your brains.
- He's gonna eat
your brains. It's very-
- This is my impression of you.
- Hey, it can be silly
but it's gonna be real bad
when your brains are gone.
- Okay.
- You know what?
My friend Fabian's gonna eat your brains.
- Yeah, we're gonna eat your-
all of us eat your brains.
- You see, he-
- We're gonna sh*t in your mouth
and eat your brain.
- We're gonna eat your brains.
We're gonna eat your brains as a snack
'cause that's how small they are.
- You see,
he looks at all of you,
and you see that he goes,
"Well, son of a coward
and running off like a
coward to his friends,
I'd be happy to mince
them in front of you.
You have no true pirates here."
You guys hear a noise behind you,
and you hear.
You hear a little voice go,
"Shut that squid mouth,
you dirty pirate piece of sh*t."
And Cathilda steps out.
And you see that there's
even a noise of, like,
the kind of The Row quiet.
People are looking and punching,
like, looking away to
look at Cathilda, punch.
Cathilda has fully changed.
She's wearing seven-league
boots, a black dress.
She looks like a widow in mourning
in, like, a black dress
with a high white collar
and a black tricorne hat.
- Oh, I'm so
sorry. We've been so rude.
This is our friend Cathilda the Black.
- You see James looks at her and says,
"Huh, Cathilda the Black, eh?
Well then. She's still no captain.
I hear she's nothing more than a maid."
You see she goes,
"Right you are, James.
That's right, I'm a maid.
And as such, I can tell you
that I've got all the breadcrumbs ready,
and all the spices, and seasonings,
and a nice lemon wedge
for when I turn your f*cking face
into a plate of calamari.
It's gonna taste delicious going down.
And I'm gonna keep you alive to watch it.
I'm gonna feed it to you
'cause it's not healthy
just to be eating brains, James,
and I care about your health
and your wellbeing."
- And I'm gonna kick your a*s.
- Yeah.
- You see Captain James
looks over and goes...
And I'm gonna make a little roll for him.
He's shaken by what Cathilda said.
You see he says,
"Well then, if it's a fight you want,
it's a fight you'll get.
But you know, I'm not the only enemy
that you've made here in this place.
I'm not the only enemy
that you've made in the wide world beyond.
So you'll have to forgive me
if I don't fight fair."
Everyone here make a Perception check.
- Oh no.
- 19.
- 21.
- 17.
- 10.
- Did anyone beat a 20?
- 21.
- You see a Scrying sensor
like you saw before,
up in The Ruction looking down at you.
- Oh.
- Where's Garthy?
- A moment afterwards, James says,
"A fight then, for the soul
of the City of Leviathan.
And maybe a fight more than just that,
but I'll only be fighting on one front.
You'll have to be fighting on two."
Three beautiful elves
in long, flowing robes
appear before you.
You see them surrounded by motes
of silvery-white light
as they appear in The Ruction.
One of them has a small will-o'-wisp
in their ear.
And you see that they raise a hand,
look directly at Adaine and say,
"We found the Oracle.
We'll be returning with her shortly."
- I don't think so.
- I'm gonna need everybody here
to roll Initiative.
g*ng, that's gonna be all
for this week!
- Whoa!
- No!
- On "Dimension 20 Live!"
Tune in next week for
The Row & The Ruction
in the Pirate City of Leviathan.
Captain James Whitclaw
and some friends from the
elven nation of Fallinel
doing a classic shift-to-battle sign-off.
We have two more weeks
of shows in December.
And then we'll take a little
break through the New Year,
but we'll be back in January.
Thanks for watching.
Check us out on Dropout,
and we'll see you guys
next week 7 p.m. Pacific! Bye-bye.
- I wanna play now!
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07x07 - The Friendship Section
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
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