07x20 - Spring Break! I Believe In You! (Part 2)

[bunniefuu]

("Burn Towns Get Money"
by Significant Figures)

♪ I just want to be rich and get money ♪

♪ And burn this town to the ground ♪

♪ So listen up 'cause
I'm gonna start a riot ♪

♪ And I don't care if
you see my underwear ♪

♪ Front kick to the face,
not a lady no grace ♪

♪ And I, I like to think
that I am the f*cking best ♪

♪ So let's go and make a mess,
tear it up, tear it down ♪

♪ 'Cause I wanna see
fire rise to the sky ♪

♪ So pour the gasoline out ♪

♪ I wanna swim in gold
and rival the stars ♪

♪ So get a match and throw it out ♪

♪ Stand by me, paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns get money ♪

♪ Stand by me, paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns get money ♪

♪ You don't have to be
rich to wreck shop ♪

♪ Just get a couple of friends ♪

♪ Who'll stay will you till the end ♪

♪ And head out to the wide world ♪

♪ Just your squad and your bass ♪

♪ Carve it onto its face
that the Sig Figs were here ♪

♪ You know you best and
you're better than the rest ♪

♪ f*ck what other people say,
tear it up, tear it down ♪

♪ 'Cause I wanna see
fire rise to the sky ♪

♪ So pour the gasoline out ♪

♪ I wanna swim in gold
and rival the stars ♪

♪ So get a match and throw it out ♪

♪ Stand by me, paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns get money ♪

♪ Stand by me ♪

♪ Paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns get money ♪

♪ Sometimes I miss the
safety that towns bring. ♪

♪ But then I remember I'm f*cking rich ♪

♪ And I don't need to live in a town ♪

Three, four.

♪ Stand by me, paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns, get money ♪

♪ Stand by me, paint the town with me ♪

♪ Repeat after me, burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns ♪

♪ Burn towns, get money ♪

("My Van Is A Boat" by
Significant Figures)

♪ I'm feeling really bad
and my van is a boat ♪

♪ I'm feeling really sad
and my boat is a van ♪

♪ These feelings that I have
like a frog in my throat ♪

♪ So I take Boggy by the hand
and, hey, are you my dad ♪

♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ Zelda's feeling bad
and my van is a boat ♪

♪ Zelda's feeling sad
and my boat is a van ♪

♪ My girlfriend's really
mad and she's also a goat ♪

♪ I'm fawning for a faun, I
don't know what's going on ♪

♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ Bad Kids, Bad Kids,
sometimes we're the sad kids ♪

♪ I'm mad kid, I'm bad kid,
I'm sorry for what I did ♪

♪ Bad Kids, Bad Kids,
sometimes we're the sad kids ♪

♪ I'm mad kid, bad kid,
I'm sorry for what I did ♪

♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪

♪ And my van is a boat ♪

♪ I've been so many people,
more than you'll ever meet ♪

♪ I've worn so many faces around ♪

♪ They now all go skin deep ♪

♪ I've made myself an expert
at letting myself fade away ♪

♪ Sometimes I can't help but fear ♪

♪ That I got lost in the haze ♪

♪ Light the pyre, baby
'cause I'm not slowing down ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar
spinning you around ♪

♪ I'm on fire, baby ♪

♪ Burning like a star ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar,
I've made it this far ♪

♪ Keep myself together,
everything goes wrong ♪

♪ Changing who I think I am
with each new tragic song ♪

♪ It's happening again ♪

♪ I see I've been here before ♪

♪ I know you so well, but as for myself ♪

♪ These days I'm still unsure ♪

♪ Light the pyre, baby
'cause I'm not slowing down ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar
spinning you around ♪

♪ I'm on fire, baby, burning like a star ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪

♪ I've made it this far ♪

♪ Can't tell the truth,
can't let it slip ♪

♪ Here's what I want,
here's how I get it ♪

♪ Can't tell the truth,
can't stop the lies ♪

♪ It's fine, it's all
part of my disguise ♪

♪ Can't feel a thing, can't be myself ♪

♪ I'm numb if I'm not someone else ♪

♪ Can't feel a thing, can't let it hurt ♪

♪ Those pretend feelings
and empty flirts ♪

♪ So light the pyre, baby
'cause I'm not slowing down ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar
spinning you around ♪

♪ I'm on fire, baby ♪

♪ Burning like a star ♪

♪ I'm an actor, a liar, I've made ♪

♪ The darkness closes in ♪

♪ And I am not myself tonight ♪

♪ Surrounded, I'm caged in ♪

♪ But I can't help but feel delight ♪

♪ Under night skies in the
moonlight I'm seeing clearly ♪

♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪

♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪

♪ But not to our hearts ♪

♪ Can you hear their song ♪

♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪

♪ Till your eyes burn bright ♪

♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪

♪ I'm invisible, but you see me ♪

♪ And for the first time
I'm not thinking 'bout ♪

♪ Where else I'd rather be ♪

♪ And though you scare
me like I scare you ♪

♪ I've got a feeling it'd
be scarier to run away ♪

♪ And truth was never my strong suit ♪

♪ But I want you to know me
and I wanna know me too ♪

♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪

♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪

♪ But not to our hearts ♪

♪ Can you hear their song ♪

♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪

♪ Till your eyes burn bright ♪

♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪

♪ I'll go dancing in the flames ♪

♪ If it means I dance with you ♪

♪ And I'll leave early from the party ♪

♪ If it means I leave with you ♪

♪ And I will sign my pride away ♪

♪ If that's what you want me to do ♪

♪ And I can't promise I won't change ♪

♪ But I wanna change with you ♪

- Hello one and all,
welcome back from our break

in this mondo remote finale

of "Fantasy High: Sophomore Year."

This is "Dimension 20 LIVE"

or as close to it as we could get.

I'm your humble dungeon
master Brennan Lee Mulligan.

With me as always are our Intrepid Heroes.

Say hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- [Players] Hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- Oh, we love it.

Well, you guys know what's
just been happening.

Our Bad Kids are reunited

in the heart of the Forest
of the Nightmare King

atop one of these islands
of stone in a sea of mist

with the forest growing out of the top.

In the Celestial Gallery in this island,

this insane, knotted, gnarled, dark forest

where we see celestials
hung up and trapped

like flies in a spider's web.

Fig, Riz, and Gilear rush
towards Ayda Aguefort.

- I thought it was Fig,
Gorgug, and Gilear.

- It's Gorgug.
- Oh, sorry.

I am incorrect, it is
Fig, Gorgug, and Gilear.

So the Cig Figs and their assistant rush

(Emily laughing)
into the forest together.

(Emily mimicking bass thumping)

- We're on tour.
- On tour, baby.

- We're on tour, baby.

We should get a tour griffin
instead of a tour van.

- (laughs) Are you guys
flying on Baxter or no?

- Yeah.
- I thought we were but...

- Yes, cool, you guys take off on Baxter.

Baxter doesn't even break the canopy.

Baxter just stays within the
trees zigging and zagging

and flying through them
as fast as possible.

Obviously Baxter's still
at three hit points, but-

- I thought he got healed for 20 from-

- 23.
- Ooh.

- Oh yes.
- News to me, that's great.

Okay, got healed for 20.
- May I also,

I've started going through,
since we have an aerial view

I'd also just like to keep
an eye out for Sandra Lynn.

- Cool, give me a perception check.

- Okay.

- Can I look, too?
- Yeah, go for it.

- Ooh, 23.
- 23.

- 16.
- 16.

Fig, there is a moment as
Baxter gets closer to the canopy

where you just have a
sudden feeling of dread.

Like the last thing you'd wanna do

would be to break the canopy right now.

You continue flying through the woods.

Gorgug, with that 16,
as you guys approach,

and again, Adaine and Fabian
are rushing off towards Aelwyn.

Riz and Kristen are going
to go look for Tracker.

You have this moment of dread

like showing your face
above the canopy right now

would be dangerous, you also
feel a change in pressure.

The Infaethable Bass is
attuned to energy damage,

and you see that it kind of
crackles with electricity

for a moment in a very subtle way.

Not like a big, flashy spell being cast

but just a momentary bit of static almost.

It's like a barometer as if
the temperature is changing.

Maybe the wind is moving
in a different way.

The air feels like it's
hanging low with moisture

and menace and darkness.

- Is this from my Sandra Lynn perception?

Is this related to that or is this

just as we approach the sanctum?

- As you approach the sanctum you think.

- Okay.

- You begin to move
through and as you do so

you get towards the Celestial Gallery.

Your perception is good,
you have the feather

so go ahead actually and roll
perception with advantage.

And Gorgug, I'll tell you what
you get on that 16 as well.

- I got a 17 for perception.

- Baxter continues to fly through

and as Baxter does so you see that

there, her arms up above
her, mouth covered,

her eyes still burning bright.

Ayda is up in these bonds.

Gorgug on that 16 you look
at see Zaphriel the Planetar

nearby off in the gallery.

Baxter lands, Gilear jumps off.

Ayda is up, bound, holding
on to your earring, Fig.

Her eyes look up at you
and just streaks of flame

come down her eyes.

What does Fig do in this moment?

- I'm beelining it, and
I'm just gonna untie her.

I don't care if that's reckless.

Hold me back, Gorgug, try.

- I hold Fig back for a second
and make an insight check.

Let's just, I don't know,
hang on, The Hangvan's here.

That's what The Hangvan looks like.

Can I make an insight check?

- Make an insight check for me.

- 19.
- Uh, 19.

You look at Ayda.

It is, you can categorically rule out

that Ayda is related to you in any way.

You give her a once over real quick

and you know for sure, not
your dad, not your mom,

not even really a cousin probably.

So on a 19 that's what you get.

Insight-wise though, we said 19?

- Yes, 19.
(Lou chuckles)

- The structure of the
branches and everything here,

there are a lot of branches
that come out at strange angles

almost like the trees
had attempted to grow

into unnatural angles.

Like, tress don't want to
have sharp 45-degree turns.

They don't want to do things like that.

It's almost like the trees
here were trying to look

like the structures of rafters
and rooves and a house.

- Ah.
- Are we in the sanctum?

- You may well be.
- Oh.

- I...

- Let's maybe try to fly
out and just see if it,

like real quick dip up then dip back down

just to see what our mobility is.

- Didn't you have like,

the feeling that it
would k*ll us? (laughs)

- Okay, then from here
then why don't I from here

60 feet away cast Shatter
on Ayda's shackles.

- You boom, hit the
outside of the shackles.

The shackles come undone.

You hit that chord on your bass.

And as you do so, you feel
(mimics reverberations)

magic reverberate around.

Of anything actually that
has happened thus far

that appears to weaken the feeling

that you're having in this moment.

You see that Ayda snaps one
arm out, snaps the other,

grabs the thing, pulls out of the,

and as soon as she gets a
hand free, she Misty Steps.

She appears in front of you.
- Yeah!

- And she picks you up in her
arms, twirls into the air,

and kisses you right on the mouth.

- Got there before I did, girl.

(group laughing)

- She looks at you-
- Are you okay?

Do you need heals or anything like that?

I don't know what you've been through.

I mean, I saw it a little bit.

I scried on you, not on purpose,

not in an invasive way, really
just to try to save you.

- You see, first of all
she takes your earring

and you see, clips it into her own ear.

She goes, "For safekeeping, I am okay."

Give me an insight check.
- Okay.

(dice tapping table)
(soft instrumental music)

18.
- Ayda is not possessed.

She, a different thing happened to her

than happened to your other allies.

Her celestial heritage trapped her

in this gallery of celestials.

You think you, Gorgug, and
Gilear are probably okay

because as you're looking around

at the captured entities you
see they are all angelic.

It very clearly is like, the
servants of divine entities

in the upper planes are
what got captured here.

You see, with a 19 insight
also, you see that Ayda is,

her legs are shaking
and she is lying to you.

She's saying she is okay
'cause she doesn't want you

to be scared, but you can see
many levels of exhaustion.

She's a very powerful wizard
so you don't think she's like,

out for the count so to
speak, but it is very clear

that she has been straining
herself against these bonds

unyieldingly for days.
- Okay, Ayda please,

just sit on Baxter with
me for a little bit

just even for my sake.

- Do you have a tincture?
- Me, I don't.

- I have one, I'm
wondering if it makes sense

'cause they're like technically,
I don't know if it's-

- Yeah, let's give her
a Greater Restoration

'cause she has exhaustion.
- I'm not sure,

is it the same thing as a
Greater Restoration for sure?

I wasn't-
- No, right?

- When Kristen does it, it
removes Kalina from it as well.

But you see, Ayda goes
to go sit on Baxter.

She looks up, she's crying so hard.

She looks up and says,

(sighs) "I told you that
if you ever spoke my name

while holding my feather I would come.

I heard it every time.

I'm sorry to...

A wizard should come
when their name is said

and to a gift they'd given.

I'm very, very, sorry."
- Yeah, but a wizard

is also allowed to be a person,

and you were in extreme situations,

and there is no part of me that
felt betrayed by any means.

- (sniffles) "I missed
you so much, I'm very-

- I missed you, too.

I wanna talk to you, but
Gorgug's here so. (chuckles)

- Should I walk further away?

- (laughs) No, I don't understand
if we have time or not.

Are there people down there
that we need to go save still?

- You see Ayda says, "I think
we are very close to the end.

I think that something
very bad is in the works."

You see Gilear says, "I
believe it would be wise

for us to return and join the
others as soon as we can."

- Ayda, I'm just curious if
you have a gauge on this.

What would happen if I cut
some of these trees down?

- Ayda looks around, she's
gonna make an arcana check.

(die taps table)
(soft instrumental music)

"I believe that could be very wise."

- Okay.
- "You are truly

the greatest wizard of this age."

- And I came right when
everyone called me.

(group laughing)

- Okay Gorgug, shh, no, no, no, no.

- I don't mean that as a dig.

- Ayda starts rubbing her head like-

- Hey, no, no, no, I'm
sorry, that came off wrong.

And I'm just gonna start
wailing on these trees.

- You walk over to Zaphriel.
- Yeah.

- The gravity axe hums. (mimics humming)

This tree is hewn in one fell swoop.

Zaphriel stands up, he goes,

"Bro, that is my dude, my guy, yes."

- What's up?
- "What's up, man?"

- This is what you look like?

- I'm like a huge, blue
guy with a bald head.

I got these wings.
- That's awesome.

That's awesome.
- Hell yeah, dude.

- When we get outta here, you
know, you don't have to be

in my van anymore if you don't want,

but you know, the job's
open if you want it.

- Dude honestly, here's the deal, dude.

I was kicked out of paradise.

I'm like, semi-fallen so...
- Oh.

- I have like a bunch of
cool-a*s stuff in that gem.

I have like, a private beach,
I have like, some coconuts.

I have a little hammock

so we're living that chill life, dude.

- Insane.
(Ally laughing)

- He looks at you guys and
says, "As you did that."

Actually I'm gonna say, Fig, give me a,

Fig and Gorgug actually,
both give me insight checks

with advantage if you'd be so kind.

- 15.
- 15.

- You guys both notice,

Fig, you just get a weird
kind of premonition.

You feel almost like vibrations
through your bass guitar.

And Gorgug, you are,

I feel like almost looking
through your crystal

like as you've mocked it up, by the way,

you are getting signal
here on your crystal.

- Oh, sh*t, do we wanna call anybody?

I'm just gonna text,

I'll text Zelda and be like,
hey we're in the forest.

Things are maybe not great,
(Lou laughing)

but I think we're on a upswing right now.

- (laughs) You get a
text immediately back.

You see Zelda text back and it says,

hanging with the other maidens.

Thanks for checking in,
I hope everything's okay.

Feel free to sh**t pictures.

Let us know if you are gonna take pictures

or video of anything 'cause
we'll try to stream it.

- Amazing, well, I'll
just stream the sanctum.

- You stream the sanctum.

You see a chat opens up
with the other Seven Maidens

who start doing bits in the
chat in the side of the stream.

- Hey guys.
- Like ooh, creepy, hate that.

The feeling you got on that 15, guys, was,

it wasn't chopping down the tree,

but when Zaphriel got freed,

you felt some the magic
of this place dissipate.

- So it's absorbing the
magic from the angels maybe?

- It looks-

- Is there anyone else in here?

- Tons all throughout.

- Let's just free them willy-nilly.

- I'm just gonna, yeah.
- You see Zaphriel,

yeah, you're bam, bam, bam.

- Shatter, shatter,
shatter, shatter, shatter.

- Zaphriel looks around at people.

Zaphriel looks at you,
Gorgug, and Fig and says,

"If you guys are trying to
beat feet and get outta here

you can live the homie
here, I'm strong as hell

and I got tons of magic.

I can get all these buds out."

- Amazing.
- Yeah.

- Hey, Zaphriel, good luck,
dude, the van's waiting for you.

- Gorgug, sincerely, one love, brother.

I'll see you after.
- Absolutely.

- Okay.
- And you see that Zaphriel

goes and starts freeing everybody.

Ayda looks around and
again seems to say like,

"The curses, all of the
trans-substantiations

took physical objects
and often changed them

either into other physical objects

or in some cases ephemeral,
hard to understand concepts

like a curse, but it seems that there is,

at least by attacking some
of the elements of this curse

we can, it feels like this
energy is going somewhere."

And Ayda goes, "Curious, very curious."

And you guys jump on Baxter.

Ayda is flying right
next to Baxter as well,

and you guys take off.

We're gonna cut over to Fabian and Adaine.

You guys rush back to the clearing.

You see Aelwyn is still
there on the ground.

Your father's body is
still there on the ground.

What do you guys do as you
rush into the clearing?

- Pick her up.
- Yeah, grab her.

- Between the two of us.
- Yeah, do a little

fireman's carry action.
- Yeah, I could even have,

if you'll allow it, have cast
Unseen Servant as we get there

so that we have the little unseen servant.

- All three-
- Fabian and Adaine,

you rush into the clearing together.

As you do so you see the body of Angwyn

and Aelwyn's body as well, what do you do?

- Can we say that I have
created an unseen servant

as we're running over here?
- Yes, absolutely.

- So we can have an unseen
servant pick her up?

- Yes, unseen servant picks
her up, begins to carry her

behind you, both of you make
a perception check for me.

- Oh no, ooh.
- 17.

- Only 12.
- You hear something

coming through the forest towards you.

- Is there like a place that we can hide

like a bush or something?

- Yeah, you guys can jump behind a bush.

- Yeah, let's do that.
- All right.

We hide behind a bush.

- Limping into the clearing,

dragging a broken hind leg is a hellhound.

You see a worried, wet-looking lava dog.

- Oh no.

- With black skin, it's like cracked

like the way that
volcanic rock gets cracked

when there's magma under it.

You see he's got magma eyes

and a mouth that's kind
of glowing with lava

and is limping into the
clearing sniffing around

and is covered with brambles and scratches

from the Nightmare Forest.

- Can I make an insight check?
- Make a what?

- Can I make an insight check?
- Yeah, please do.

- That is a, oh, why can't I find it?

There it is, that's a mod 20.

- Your dog has just
walked into the clearing.

Or your motorcycle if you prefer.

- Hang, Hang, Hangman?

- [Brennan] Master, master,
master, I found you!

- Oh, Hangman, you're a, you
have paws instead of wheels.

- I'm sorry, I know it's shameful.

I wish I was a motorcycle!
- No, no, this form

is cool as hell, you have
lava coming out of your mouth.

- It's terrible, I'm a stupid
dog, I'm just a dog, not a-

- You're such a cute dog!
- Oh no!

- You're so cute, I scratch
him behind the ears.

- He is not a cute dog.

He is not a cute dog.
- Oh, you're a dangerous,

you're a big, dangerous dog, aren't you?

Yes, you are, yes you are dangerous.

- I wish I was a motorcycle.

- Hangman, what are you doing here?

- Master, I returned to the
home of Grover Tillythatch

who returned to Holly
Hill, and I could not find

the weak man, the yogurt man and so-

- Yes.

- I knew that I had made a
mistake, and I sniffed him out

and I could only think that
he'd entered the forest.

And I begged and plead at the briar wall

but I was not a high enough devil.

And finally some high-ranking devil

allowed me to come in but
I had to shed my form.

I had to get rid of the
bindings of the motorcycle

that kept me if I wanted to
come and try to save you.

- Hey, Hangman, I don't love
you because you're a bike,

right, I love you
because you're villainous

and you're pure evil

and you'd run over anyone I asked you to.

And you could probably still
do that in dog form, all right?

So I'm glad you're here.

Can I get on him or?

I mean, he's hurt.
- No, no, he is hurt,

but he is enormous, he's like
bigger than a Great Dane.

He's like eight feet long.

His shoulders are like four
and 1/2 feet off the ground.

He's-
- Oh, hell yes.

- Yeah.
- Plus Hangman,

once you're back up to snuff, riding you,

I'm going to look way f*cking cooler.

- You see he goes, "Sire, you have seen me

not for how I appear,

but for the truly stained soul within me.

I can never thank you enough."

- Well, hopefully you'll
never have to thank me.

Hopefully we'll just
keep kicking a*s together

and it'll be f*cking dope.

- Yes, sire, this more than
anything is what I wish.

You see that, yeah, The
Hangman walks along with you.

Where do you guys go with
Aelwyn and The Hangman?

- Are we headed back, Adaine?

I mean, I'm not sure.
- Yeah, I think that

to where we were before
we sort of didn't agree.

- I mean, is there anything
to looking around here?

- We're all close together, right?

- Is there anything to looking around here

for tracks of your mother
or something like that?

- That's a good idea.
- I mean, I don't know.

That's The Ball's thing.

The last time I tried to look for clues

I bit glass so I'm not
100% sure I want to go-

- I'm pretty good at clues.

I can do a little investigation
check around here.

- I don't know.

- Cool, go ahead and give me
some investigation checks guys.

(dice tapping table)

- I got a 15.
- I got a 17.

- Bardy Boys.
- Bardy Boys.

- What's up, Bardy Boys, we're back.

- What's up Bardy Boys?

- Yes, you see Killian
and Arianwen's tracks

leading out of here, you can follow them.

- Well, let's get everybody
else and then head back here.

- Yeah, we know where they are.

- Hell yeah.
- Great.

- So we are now going to...

(tense instrumental music)

- Uh-oh.
- Over to Kristen and Riz.

You guys are looking for Tracker.

Go ahead and give me

investigation checks as
you look for Tracker.

(die tapping table)

- I only got a 16.

- I only got a 10.
- Copy that.

You do not find Tracker here.

You arrive at the edge of this spire,

this kind of like island of trees

which you can see is
sort of purposefully made

to be this jail for celestials.

It leads to a much larger, taller spire

off in the ocean of mist.

You look and see that there
is a side of the cliff

that is on this other island raised up.

So there's forest on the top of the spire

and then there is a chunk
that goes up even higher

to just a bald, rocky cliff face

almost like a little crescent of stone

raised up on the edge of
this one giant stone island.

And there is a large staircase going up

like 300, 400-foot staircase
headed up to this ridge.

On a 16 Riz, you look up and see a tree

at the top of that
staircase on the rock ridge,

a lone tree and you recognize
it from Adaine's scrying.

This is the tree.

And if that's the tree that
means that that is the island.

You feel that while you
have not found Tracker,

that Arianwen is that way.

You look up above you
and above that island

the clouds are dark, heavy, ominous gray.

(dramatic instrumental music)

You see a ripple on the horizon
and rain begins to fall.

(Brennan mimics rain pouring)

Down the cliffside from you
is a rickety rope bridge

that extends probably 2.000 feet

connecting the two islands
as rain begins to fall.

(mimics rumbling)

Thunder rolls and you
begin to see lightning.

Kristen, you don't need
to make any roll for this.

This lightning is coming
from a divine event.

This is not natural.

The storm is breaking here,
your time is running out.

Riz and Kristen, what do you do?

- This look like this is
where the Nightmare King

is being summoned?
- Yes.

- We have to get the others, right?

- Yeah.

- You don't have a way
to stop this, do you?

- Um, I don't think so.

I mean, I have, we could
go up there and see

what they're doing.

Ah f*ck, you're right-
- By ourselves?

- We do need the other, no,
no, you're right obviously.

- How far is everybody else?

- They're back on this little
spit of rock with you guys

not too far away.

- I have a signal flare.
- Oh yeah, do it!

- I mean, the forest is magic and evil.

Everybody knows where we are anyway.

- Yeah.
- What do you think?

All right.

sh**t it off.
- Fig, Gorgug, Fabian, Adaine,

you guys see from one side
of the island you're on

a signal flare go up.
- All right, let's-

- We gotta go.
- Riz.

- Steer in that direction.
- Oh yes, that's right, okay.

- Baxter, avoid the flare.
(Brennan laughs)

- I just directly sh**t Baxter.

(Zac squeals)
- Oh...

(Emily laughs)
- Incredible.

- What time is it right now-ish?

Like, would people be fully awake?

Is this like evening or do
we think people will sleep

and then this will take place or?

- You guys can do whatever you wanna do,

but you see sh*t is popping off.

- It seems like it's happening now.

- I think we gotta go for it.

- Let's roll.
- Yeah.

- Are you looking at your spell
slots and stuff right now?

- We have a full, delicious
eight hours of sleep.

- Yeah, oh you know what, I'm
gonna cast Vigilant Blessing

on myself and then bonus
action Step of the Brave

so that I can fly.

Is it dim, you would say?

- Yes, the storm has gotten
rid of all natural sunlight.

As you cast Steps of the Brave, Kristen,

a beautiful, illuminated, a
stick appears in your hand.

A silvery starlight
stick and as it does so

you see the longest
silvery starlight ribbon.

And you ribbon dance into the air, baby.

(group laughing)
- Riz weeps.

- I wrap it around Riz.
(group laughing)

- Kristen, something bad always happens

when you and I are together.

- Oh no, oh no, you're right, oh no.

- Anytime we go off on our own.

- What else has happened?
- What have we done?

- I actually can't remember.

- Garthy and Sandra Lynn,
we tried to stop them.

Didn't work, Nightmare
Forest Kristen almost dying

slash Tracker-
- Oh yeah, you're right.

- Oh, yes.
- Okay, sure.

- We're O for three team Rizten.

- We are, we simply are.
- Yeah.

- Rizten.
(Ally and Zac laughing)

- Rizten.
- Incredible.

- Can I do something that
might attract Tracker to this?

Like, I mean, I'm still
bleeding, can I kind of like...

- Can you howl?
- Can I howl, yeah.

- Go for it baby, howl.

- Okay, I howl my freaking
heart out. (howls)

- Can I hear Kristen
howling and then Thaumaturgy

so that it echoes throughout the forest?

(Ally laughs)

- An enormous howl
echoes off into forever.

- Okay and then I say,
Riz, ready the like...

- Dart.
- Dart, yeah.

- Incredible.

I am going to need, so
all of you gather again

on the edge of the island.

As you do so you begin
to feel the storm break,

the rain is pouring down.
(mimics rain splashing)

You guys are all near that rope bridge

going across to the next island.

- Well, Baxter can fly
three of you guys across.

If Kristen can carry Riz and fly,

I can cast Fly on The Hangman

and The Hangman can fly
the rest of us across.

- Great.
- Incredible.

- 'Cause this rope bridge, I would,

let's just not deal with it.

- Do you need to save a spell
slot or anything because I-

- Yeah, what if-
- This is my last

third-level spell, I have no
fourth or fifth-level spells.

- So what if-
- I can glide

with my thing so I can't really fall.

- Could I use disguise
self to give myself wings

since this is illusionville?

- Oh yes, Ayda can fly somebody.

- Yes, you could use disguise
self to give yourself wings.

- Great, I give myself
dope hellish wings of fire

and I say-
- I counterspell.

Just kidding.
That would really be sad.

(group laughing)

And anyone who wants to hop aboard can.

- I'll just ride Baxter.
- Yeah, you can ride Baxter.

I'm just giving us another,

so that Adaine doesn't have
to use a third-level spell

'cause disguise self is
only a first-level spell.

- Oh yeah.
- Cool.

- I'll go with Kristen or Fig.
- And they can just fly right?

- Yeah, Kristen can fly,
it's a bonus action.

- I'll ride with Gorgug.
- Ride with Gorgug.

Gilear and Aelwyn are
with you guys as well.

- Gilear and Aelwyn and The Hangman.

I mean, still I think I just
have to cast fly on The Hangman

because The Hangman is probably
too heavy for this bridge.

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- Let's fly over the bridge
just in case there's like,

something that dispels
magic or anything like that.

- Gilear also says, "If you need to,

perhaps Baxter could make two trips.

I'm not sure if that's."

- Oh, that's true.
- Oh yeah.

- Yeah, if we get over
and it's not going down.

- Kristen, can you heal Aelwyn
just a little bit or Fig?

- Definitely, of course,
I cast like a cure wounds.

- Cool, how much do you cure her for?

- I cast, let's see,
we'll do a second level

so it's four, six, 10.
- I whisper to Kristen,

"I think maybe Ayda might
also need some curing."

- Oh, plus-
- Actually, Fig,

Ayda doesn't need curing,

she's just exhausted so-
- Okay.

- But wouldn't a Lesser Restoration

or Greater Restoration absolve that?

- It would get rid of one
level and she has multiple.

- Okay.
- She just needs a break.

- She actually got 19 with my
spellcasting ability modifier.

- Oh, incredible, great, great, great, 19.

Awesome guys, cool.

All of you fly across
this, through the storm.

As you do I'm gonna roll
a little luck check here.

Flying across (mimics rain
splashing) battered by rain

and wind all of you flying to this island

as the storm clouds
gather and begin to swirl

in a maelstrom overhead.

You see lightning
(mimics thunder crashing)

strikes the rope bridge

and it collapses and falls into the mist.

All of you land on the far side.

- Can I do a perception check

to see if we just left
where we might be able

to find Tracker or if she
might be on this side, too.

- I think in this crazy
storm there's no way.

You will just not be, you don't know

where Tracker is right now.

She's out of pocket.

- How big is this tree?

- How big is this tree?

Pretty enormous.

As you guys are flying.

Hold one one second, you
get to the other island.

Who all is on Baxter?
- Me and Fabian.

- Copy that, hold on one second.

- No, we should, let's just land, we land.

Just say we land.
- We landed on the ground.

- Yeah, it seems like we landed.

- We landed, stop looking
things up, say we landed.

- Our feet and Baxter's
feet are on the ground.

- What is that tongue and
why is that tongue out?

- Put your tongue in your
mouth and say we landed.

Use your tongue to enunciate the words.

- Roll that tongue back up in your mouth.

- Cartoon-style roll the
tongue, that you landed.

(tense instrumental music)

Do it!
(group laughing)

Say we landed!
- Oh God this is so stressful.

- As you guys are coming in
to land on the opposite side

from the far ridge two arrows

streak through the sky, hit Baxter.

I'm gonna need dexterity saving throws

from Fabian and Gorgug.

- Jesus.
- What kind of arrows?

- You know what kind.
- Yes.

- From the side that we just came from

or the side that we're going towards?

- The side you're going
to, you were out of range

and you just came into range.

- 16.
- 16, okay.

Both of you guys beat a 15.

You guys both stumble, skid,
do not take falling damage

as you leap from Baxter.

Baxter lands on the ground
but is once again at zero

making death saving throws.

- I'm gonna Spare the Dying on Baxter.

- You cast Spare the Dying on Baxter.

Baxter's breathing.

For everybody else, do you go

to accompany Gorgug and Fabian?

- Yeah, I'm gonna go do a
bonus action, Healing Word

to Baxter just to get him up in case

we still need to be
moving around with him.

- Copy that.

- Can I do a perception check

about where those arrows came from?

- Can I also do it?
- No perception check needed.

They came from the far ridge.

They came from-
- Like from where we...

- Where we're going?
- From where the tree is.

The giant, towering ledge on
the edge of the new island.

- 13 hit points for Baxter.
- Okay.

Baxter is up again.
- Okay.

- Now, all of you are here.

The arrows stop as you are
now once again within forest

'cause you have total cover.
- All right then.

I'm just gonna do Thaumaturgy
on myself and say,

"Mom, come out, stop
sh**ting us from the trees!

Come out and talk."

- You say that.

There's probably about,
you know, a quarter

to 1/6 of a mile of forest in between,

like not that much, you guys,

a couple, like a few
minutes of running you guys

could get to the base of
the staircase that goes up.

- Should we run for it?
- Yeah, let's do it.

- Let's do it.
- As we're doing it,

can I see them enough to cast Faerie Fire

and try to get anybody
up there who's invisible,

but try to outline them so
that we have an advantage.

- You're way out of range
on Faerie Fire right now.

- Oh, okay, okay.

- You're hundreds of feet away.

What I'm gonna bring up right now is,

Aelwyn who is once again with
you speaks up and she goes,

"Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Before anyone rushes off there,

the only way to defeat the
Nightmare King is either to,

look, I agree, let's run
and try to stop them.

If we are unsuccessful and
the Nightmare King returns

we need a plan to break those curses.

We need a plan to undo
the trans-substantiations,

all five of them.

They are what anchors
the Nightmare King here.

Even if you defeat him,
you cannot truly defeat him

unless those trans-substantiations
are gone, are destroyed."

- Don't we only know of four
of the trans-substantiations?

- We only know four of them.
- Who still has money?

- Do you know the fifth one, Aelwyn?

- I do, I still have a bunch of gems.

Do I need to get rid of them?
- Get rid of all,

everybody get rid of their money, right.

- Get rid of your money.
- Yeah.

- Gorgug, can I borrow your phone?

I need to call the bank.
- Okay, yeah,

I start to get rid of all of my money.

- Oh, okay.

- I throw it down where that bridge went.

- This breaks the curse for us,

but it doesn't break the
curse for the world, right?

- For Kalvaxus's hoard?
- Yeah, if we-

- No, it is actually
possible 'cause you guys-

- You have to know about it, right?

- You have to know about it.

So it's about knowing
where the wealth came from.

So you guys could possibly
get rid of it right now.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- Let's break it.
- All right,

Gorgug, give me your crystal.
- Yeah, I do that.

- Adaine borrowed it.
- Yeah sorry.

I'm calling the bank and
then I'll give it to you

to call the bank so I-
- Call the bank!

- I'm calling the bank!
- It's raining, lightning.

- Oh my God, there's
just so much hold music,

it's so soothing.
- Just keep pressing zero!

- So Aelwyn, we left the sanctum

and it seemed like we were leaving-

- It seemed like it was
gonna break the curse.

- Go ahead actually and the
people that were in there,

so Fig and Gorgug, give me
perception checks again.

(dice tapping table)

- I'm not good.
- 24, 24.

- Cool, go with that.
- 24, Gorgug, you look up

on the ledge, there was only a tree there

a little bit ago, you see
a faint translucent outline

of a cottage up there
beginning to appear slowly.

- Oh, it's moved.
- From, from, wait sorry.

- So the sanctum has
turned back into a cottage?

- Right, Zaphriel's doing it.

He's taking the curse.
- Oh, so it is, it's breaking!

- Yeah, okay.
- Yes, cottage broken.

- So Fabian, Adaine, you
guys pull the trigger.

You do your online banking.

- I'm donating all of my money.

I'm giving all of my money
to the Elmville Country Club

as a generous donation.
- Laptops for seniors.

- No, laptops for seniors.
- Laptops for seniors.

- No, I've got to give it to-
- Seniors don't

have any laptops.
- Especially in this day

and age seniors need
access to good technology.

- No, I'm giving it to
the Elmville Country Club.

I'm going to get something.

- As you're giving away all this stuff,

you do your online stuff,
Kristen, you toss your gems.

- Yeah, I donated it all
to laptops for teens.

- Yeah.
- I'm okay with that, too.

- You throw away all your gems.

- Yeah, I know, no more Revivify.

- I can try to keep
doing Prestidigitation.

- Oh yeah.
- Yes.

- To try and make diamonds that way.

- Now, what I will also say is this.

As you do your online banking you guys

also begin to throw away
the gold coins you had here.

You start throwing them all away.

I'm gonna say, Fabian and Adaine,

just give me flat d20 rolls,
just give me a luck check.

- (groans) Five.
- Nine.

- What about me?

- Oh, do you have gold
pieces on you, Kristen?

- I don't know, I think if I was carrying

all those diamonds I maybe would, too.

- Yeah, so go ahead and give
me a d20 roll luck check.

- Oh, y'all are gonna turn into dragons.

- Eight.
- Eight.

You're all tossing it away.

No, you guys are all
committed, you're doing it.

You toss away all of this dragon wealth.

It feels very crazy but also empowering

to do something so against
what you wanted to do.

Fabian, I think you have
the hardest time with it.

- I cry a little bit.
(Brennan laughs)

I throw 1.000 gold pieces
just off a f*cking cliff?

Okay.
- Fabian, I'm working on an EP

I'll tell you what, you
can have all the money

that comes from it 'cause guess what?

Songs just flow out of
me, I'll make another one.

- Give it to the country club.

I don't need your charity.
- You can have all 30 pieces

from merch sales. (laughs)
- Fabian, you take the money

that was in The Ball's briefcase
for safekeeping and toss it

and then you reach into your own pockets,

start throwing those coins away.

As you throw the last
handful, your hand goes down

for the very last gold
piece in your pocket.

You pull it out and a glowing gold coin

with the rune Adaine found on
the mural and in the books,

the last coin in the hoard
is the coin of the hoard,

and it appears in front of you.

- Fabian.
- What?

- Do you see what you have?
- Eat it.

- Throw it away.

- Do we have to destroy it?

- It looks like there is magic on this.

You have one of the
trans-substantiations in your hand.

It's just a magical effect.

It was put there by a very powerful being,

but you see there is, it's just a spell.

You could potentially-
- Can I just counterspell it?

- What if I just cast, yeah.

- Counterspell has to
be done while you are-

- Can I-
- Sorry, yeah.

- I'm out of third-level spells.

- Can I just hit it with my axe?

- I have Remove Curse.

- Can I just hit it with my axe?

- I have Remove Curse.
- You have Remove Curse?

- Yeah.
- You go up,

hit it with Remove Curse.

You see the coin vanishes.
(mimics expl*si*n)

- No!

- The last gold coin is gone.

You see all of the trees bend and buckle

in a hurricane-force wind.

One of the great curses in this
forest goes (snaps fingers)

and it's that mycelium web, right.

All the other curses weaken as a result

of that curse being gone.
- Amazing.

- Okay, so the sanctum is being worked on,

the gold is done, now we
just have freaking Kalina

who we've already weakened.

- Can I make a perception
check for Kalina?

- Yes, go for it.

- Does anyone still have the Kalina curse?

- So we have to-
- I mean, all the NPCs

so Ragh, Sandra Lynn-
- Gilear doesn't.

- I might.
- I dropped a dice

on the ground and the
other dice was a nat one.

- Oh no.
- You got...

- Kristen, you were healed, I think.

- Aelwyn, can I ask you, what
do you know about Sandra Lynn?

Is she just being affected by the forest

or did you work with her at any point?

- She looks up and says, "If your allies

are trapped by the forest then that's,

it's very likely that it is

that the Nightmare King
has taken them over,

that they are possessed."
- I see, okay.

- You see the tree up on the hill.

You see the cottage appearing there

as Zaphriel finishes his
work on the other island.

And then you don't know where Kalina is,

but you do know that that
tree and that cottage

are gonna be up there.

- Okay, and then what is the fifth?

I think we only know of four.
- No, the name.

- We don't know the fifth
one, we just know the name.

Do we think it could be a person?

- Can I try to contact my new god?

- Yeah, give me a religion check.

- The name has been turned into something.

I just think it must be a person.

- 23.
- Or a thing.

- 23, you remember something.

There was something that the
Goddess when you spoke to her

or a memory of her or
however it works said to you,

"It's a relationship of
names, like what names mean."

And you just hear a whisper in your head

or maybe you read it in
your world religions book

of like, a name isn't who you
are, but it is who you are.

And it's an act that you create
to tie yourself to a symbol

and it anchors you to your
life and the world around you.

On that 23 that's all you can think of.

- Do you think-
- Could it be the crown?

- Could it be the crown?

I don't know.
- If that anchors it

to this plain, it anchors it to this life.

- Yeah, it could be.
- Well...

- Or is it just like
the concept of mystery?

Would she respond?
- Well, we know that

breaking a curse weakens
all the other ones,

and we have one big curse
right in front of us.

- And it seems like
destroying a nightmare crown

is never a bad thing so
we can just assume it.

- Agreed
- Why don't we

try to get rid of this tree?

- Yeah, let's go for the tree, right?

- How's that axe feeling?

- You guys-
- Pretty light.

(group laughing)

- Can I lift his axe yet?

No, 17 strength, right?
- 17?

- Yeah, you need 17.
- All right.

- The only people in the
party that can lift it

I think are Gorgug and Ayda.

- Ooh!
- What up.

Wow, Ayda's so buff.
- Oh yeah, definitely.

- What up?
- Hell yeah.

- You guys head off.

As you do so, so you
know the tree's up there.

You know the cottage is up there.

You've just destroyed the coin.

By the way, you see,
Gorgug, there's a message

from your parents, the Thistlesprings

that the 35 gold pieces
you paid them for the van,

they donated as soon as they got 'em.

- Thank you Mom and Dad.

Appreciate it, love you, also..

We're in the Nightmare King
Forest and it's pretty bad,

but I think we'll be okay.

- Okay wait, what if I, oh
wait, I've never seen Kalina.

I don't know what Kalina looks like.

No, we do have footage of her.

What if I disguised myself as Kalina

and you can just livestream me

and we can continue to
weaken her that way?

I'll alter myself to be Kalina.

- Whoa.
- Whoa.

- I do that.
- That's incredibly rad.

- Uh, Kalina's-
- Someone put your live cam

on me and I'll just keep
walking around being Kalina.

- f*cking, Emily Axford-
- GoPro me, b*tch!

- Is holding me to my g*dd*mn
world building right now.

(group laughing)

Kalina appears in front of you.

Gorgug, you've got your crystal.

You got the camera on it.
- Yeah.

- Riz and Gorgug, give me
an insight check with that.

- Wait, does Kalina appear
in front of us in that Kalina

appears in front of us or?
- Five.

- No, Fig is just, yeah.

- I go, "Psst hey, it's me, Fig."

- I got a 26.
- I got a five.

- Riz, you know that Kalina
has a ton of illusion magic,

can disguise, et cetera.

You know that the camera on your tie

has a detect magic ability on it.

If you were to use your
tie with Gorgug's phone

it's possible that you
would always be able

to keep some track of what Kalina

was doing on a b*ttlefield
and be recording Fig

at the same time as a disguised Kalina.

- Great.
- I give Riz my phone,

my crystal and go like, maybe
just, do you have a dongle?

(group laughing)

- Actually Gorgug, give me
a tinkerer's tools check.

- Oh God.

24.

- You reach into your backpack,

take some old wires out of your backpack

and you just turn your
phone into a hotspot.

I know we've been doing
all this remote recording

and it's leaking into my
world design for the game now.

But you hotwire your phone to Riz's tie.

You guys are as of this
moment live streaming

through Riz's tie with
detect magic filters

through Gorgug's phone.
- Hey y'all, my name's Kalina.

I just wanted to enter the YouTube sphere.

This is what I look like,
here's me from the front,

here's me from the side,
here's me from the back.

Get it in.
(group laughing)

- Incredible, you guys
rush off into the forest.

As you head off
(stirring instrumental music)

Gilear, Aelwyn, The
Hangman, Ayda are all here.

Are there any people that
you are leaving behind

or are you taking anyone with you?

Baxter's looking pretty
hurt, Baxter might remain.

- Maybe Baxter can be with Gilear.

- Yeah, they could fly
off if things get bad.

- Gilear salutes and says,
"I'll be high in the sky

"in case anything goes
wrong," is with Baxter.

Aelwyn, The Hangman, Baby,
and Ayda come with you.

- Yeah, baby!

- Aelwyn looks over at Fig
and Ayda by each other,

raises an eyebrow, she has four
levels of exhaustion as well

but she looks over and says,
"Oh dear, do I have to what,

count myself as one of
the, (snaps fingers)

oh that's right, The Bad Kids now?"

- No, definitely not.
(group laughing)

- You're not part of us.

- You're here because of you're sister's-

- Yeah, you might not have
to prove yourself to Adaine,

but the rest of us are a little wary.

- Yes.
- You see Aelwyn shrugs.

Ayda looks over and says,
"Well, whatever the case

"I in my heart

feel deep down

that I, too, am a low-quality child."

(group laughing)
- You're a Bad Kid.

- Ayda, you're definitely a Bad Kid.

- You've been a Bad Kid for a while, Ayda.

- You're definitely a Bad Kid.

- A Bad Kid.
- You had to drown hell.

- Do you realize that?
- That's pretty bad.

- Even bad has a couple of
definitions I should say.

- Yeah, bad with two Ds.

- All of you guys streak
through the forest together.

The rain comes down in
torrents through the leaves.

You guys rush forward, you
arrive through the woods

to the base of the staircase.

As you do so you look all the way up

like about 200 feet up to
the top of the staircase.

You see at the top of the stairs Kalina

looking down at you.
- Looking down at Kalina.

- Looking down at Kalina.

Kalina smiles.

- Hi, b*tch.

- Well, well, well, looks
like you all came out to play.

It's very exciting.

To all of you, I am so glad
that you will be the first

to join the retinue of
the King of Nightmares.

Court of Elders, it's
time to do your work.

- Court of Elders?

- You all see surging

(dramatic instrumental music)

down the staircase, you see
appearing behind Kalina,

first one then the other,
that wood elf that Adaine saw,

the pustulant one with vines in his mouth.

You see the visions that
Kristen saw earlier.

There is a statue made
of rotting wood and stone

in the shape of a centaur
with its jaw hanging loose,

flat where the eyes should be.

You see this husky, shedding paper,

coming apart little sprite,
and you see a massive tree

bound with bands of iron and they begin

to thud down the staircase
after all of you.

As they power down the
staircase you look up

and see at the top of the
stairs three more figures

join Kalina as Kalina
turns her back on you

and walks towards the ledge.

You look up and see as
Kalina turns her back

three figures appear at
the top of the staircase.

- Ugh.
- You see an elven woman

with a long bow, a hulking
half-orc with a glaive.

- Damn.
- And a giant howling wolf.

I'm gonna need everybody here-

- f*ck!
- To roll initiative.

(players groaning)

- All right.
- I lost my dice.

(yelps) I lost my dice.

- I got a seven, Brennan.

- Hold on one sec, hold on
to these until I ask for,

I'm gonna just make sure
I got everything here.

Badda boom, badda bam.

(dramatic instrumental music)

Baxter and Gilear you guys left.

Hangman's coming with.

Zaphriel you guys left.

- How is Hangman?

Does Hangman have new stats?

- Yes, Hangman has more hit points.

Hangman has 45 hit points now.

- Yeah.
- Nice.

- But he's got levels of exhaustion

so he's at 22 right now.
- Okay.

- Okay.

- Do any of us have exhaustion right now?

- No, you guys did your
awesome improvised ritual

so you're all okay.

You guys made it through the
forest doing weird time magic

'cause you were all tripping ba*ls.

Okay.

Here we go.

Go ahead everybody, Siobhan,
give me your initiative.

- Seven.
- Gorgug, give me yours.

- 13.
- 13, Fabian, give me yours.

- 23.
- Ooh baby!

- Let's go.
- Nice.

- Fig, give me yours.
- 20.

- 20, Riz, give me yours.
- 21.

- Woo, we got some high initiatives.

- Wow, okay.
- And Kristen, remember,

you roll with advantage.
- I did, I did, yeah.

I got a 15.
- 15, hell yeah.

- Even with my advantage.

(dark instrumental music)
- Dope, dope, dope.

- We're just anime running so fast.

- Yeah.
(Siobhan screams softly)

- It's not as cool from the front.

- Look how weird my arms look.

- Okay, we are gonna jump right into this.

Sandra Lynn is gonna be first to act.

- Oh no.

(Siobhan groans)

Wait, what were the
three figures at the top?

- It was Sandra Lynn.
- Sandra Lynn.

- Sandra Lynn, Ragh, and-
- Ragh and Tracker.

- Tracker.

- Tracker...

- You said you had
three tranquilizer darts

with tincture in?
- I have one.

- You have one.

- You have one and three vials.

- Do we have any more tincture?

- Three vials.

- Yeah, we have three tinctures.

- I have a tincture on me.
- I have a tincture on me.

- So we have enough for our friends.

- Okay, but since I'm
higher in initiative order

I might try to grab
one of those tinctures.

- I mean, we have to get them
to drink it willingly, right?

- Right, yes.
- Oh, really?

- Yeah, unless it's right where the...

- Fig, what is your hit
point total right now?

- I think it's actually only 39.

I haven't been hurt, I
mean, I haven't been healed

since I got hurt.
- Gotcha.

- I think I got hurt.

I have the S39 on my thing.

- You take 16 points of
damage as Sandra Lynn

puts two arrows into you
from the top of the stairs.

- [Lou] Jesus.
- She walks down the stairs,

her face set, puts two arrows into you.

- All right, card's on the table, Mom!

- She calls down and says,

"Fig, I want you to know something."

- Yeah?

- "I'm awake for all of this."

And that is going to
be, that's Sandra Lynn.

- What does that mean?
- Don't trust it.

- Like she's not under
a spell or something.

- All right why then, Mom?

You know what, I'll
take it as a complement.

My mom is showing me attention

even if it's negative attention.

This is better than when you
just hijacked my spring break!

- Hold her back, hold her back!

- Hold her back!

- [Ally And Brian] Hold her back!

- Hold her back, Fabian, that is you.

The nearest adversaries to
you are the Court of Elders.

The elder wood elf and the
elder, like this centaur

are both taking the lead.

Flying just behind them
is the elder sprite,

and the elder treant

is thundering down the steps after them.

To give you an idea of how
far away these people are,

the wood elf is 50 feet ahead of you.

- Okay, so it would be
like, none of them are,

like I couldn't get to them on a turn.

I would have to dash to make it to them.

- Yes, they're sprinting
down towards you right now.

- Okay.
- But you also have

The Hangman here with you.
- Great.

I look back at my friends.

We are going to k*ll all of these people.

- Yep.
- Or are we just trying

to get past them?
- We're not gonna k*ll

our friends, but we'll k*ll-
- No not them.

The people between us.
- Yeah, there's a tree guy.

f*ck the tree guy!
- f*ck the tree guy!

Hangman, to me!
- f*ck the tree guy.

- Let's let our friends attack us

while we f*ck the tree guy.
- Yes, great.

- That guy's the furthest
away though, right?

- I'm not going for the tree guy,

but I do like the battle cry.
- Oh, well, f*ck the tree guy.

- f*ck the tree guy.

- Yes, that is just the
general yeah, rallying cry.

- I have The Hangman right up next to me

and grab onto him and weird
like Legolas "Two Towers" style

swing underneath his head
and up on top of him.

- Just the worst CGI in the whole game.

- Exactly.

- So because you are
charging up a staircase

this is difficult terrain, but The Hangman

has a speed of 50 so
with a move and a dash

The Hangman can make it to the wood elf

and you'll have your full turn.

- Great, yeah, I'll go for the wood elf.

Is the wood elf, by any chance,

is anybody near a edge of the stairs?

Or do these stairs, are they
like walls on either side

or is there one side?
- There are no railings.

There's like a little bit of stone molding

at the edge of them.

It's one of those monastery-style, tall,

incredible, ancient stone staircases.

- I guess what I'm
asking, if I kick somebody

off the staircase would
they fall into infinity

or would they just fall like 20 feet?

- No, they will fall at this point

probably about like 50 feet.
- Okay, cool.

- That'll do.
- How close is the wood elf

to the edge?
- The wood elf is two squares.

He's in the third square
away from the railing

so he's got 10 feet of
open ground between him.

The staircase is about
40 feet wide, by the way.

- Great, I ride to the wood elf.

And if anything, yeah, I ride up

and I jump off of The
Hangman and engage him.

- This pustulant,
diseased, ancient wood elf

stands in front of you.

Do what you're gonna do, baby.

- Great, we'll take our first attack.

That is c*ck.

That's a 13.

- 13 misses.

- 13 misses, swing again.

That is a mod 20.

- 20 hits.

- Great, I'm going to, I will
burn a first-level spell slot

on Fandrangor and then I'll also make this

a trip attack DC 17.

- Hell yeah, DC 17, and that's
a strength saving throw,

correct?
- I believe so.

Yes, strength saving
throw, that's 1d8 plus 1d6

- He succeeds on the
strength saving throw,

does not go down.
- Great.

1d8 plus 1d6 plus one more
D8 for a total of eight

plus seven, thirteen,
plus four, 17, plus nine.

Why can't I do, what is that?
- 26, 17 plus nine?

- 17 plus nine is 26.
- 26 points of damage.

- Hell yeah.

You only hit with one of
your two attacks this turn,

and Fandrangor alights,
you leap off of The Hangman

as he (panting) goes up,
sheet wraps around, you spin.

(grunts) Fandrangor takes, this
is a hefty amount of damage

and while the wood elf
is not on death's door

this is a sizable hit into
one of the combatants.

- Spring break you stupid m*therf*cker!

(group laughing)
- Hell yes, awesome.

- Let's do it.
- Anything else?

Any bonus actions that
turn or is that everything?

- That, I think for me,
that'll be everything.

- Cool.
- So can we recap?

Who did you hit?

You hit the wood elf-
- The wood elf.

And Drangor or those are the same people?

- No, Fandrangor is-
- Fandrangor is my blade.

- Yeah.
- Oh, okay, I see, I see.

- Riz Gukgak, baby, that's you.

- Sweet, Riz is gonna take
off running anime style

up the stairs.
- [Lou] f*ck yes.

- Then dive down and take a
high dash like in the steps

to get advantage and then
I'm gonna poke back up

and I'm gonna sh**t at
Tracker with the antidote.

- Okay, you may be out of range.

Give me the range on your g*n again.

- I don't have...
- Also, are you gonna do

a cunning action because
again, it's difficult terrain

so your speed is I think 25, right?

- Okay, I assume, does
anybody have shortbow stats?

I think it's shortbow-
- I can look it up.

- I've got your stuff right here, man.

I'll take a look at
that for you right now.

- Thank you.
- But how many movements

are you taking up the staircase?

- I guess I'll go 15 feet.

I only have 30 feet of speed.

- You only have, how many
feet of speed do you have?

- 30.
- 30, so good news bad news.

You only move 15 feet up the stairs,

but the long range on your g*n is 320 feet

so you can absolutely
sh**t Tracker from here.

- Great, awesome.

So I'll use my hide action first.

So do you want me to roll a stealth check?

(dice tapping table)

- Yeah, go ahead and
roll the stealth check.

- Okay, 28.

- You bypass passive perception.

- Sweet.
- You roll with advantage

so your disadvantage is canceled out

'cause you're in long range for the g*n.

(groans)
- Oh, we can just wait

until you're closer,
we only have one dart.

- Yeah.
- Hold your action

for mine, Murph.
- Okay, I'll hold for Fig.

- Okay, so you're readying an action

for Fig to do something.
- Yeah.

- Okay, cool.

- I'll climb the stairs
and then look to Fig.

- Okay Fig, actually you go next.

- Okay, I'm gonna run, grab Riz

and Dimension Door to Tracker.
- Oh, sh*t.

(Brennan laughs)
- Hell yeah.

- What's the range on
Dimension Door again?

- Incredible.
- 500 feet.

I think, hold on, let
me double check that.

- It's 500 feet, it's for sure 500.

- It is.
- It's 500 feet.

- 100% 500 feet.
- Yeah.

- I'll bet my life that it is 500.

- It says 500 feet.
- Okay.

- We can definitely read that.
- Yeah, can you do that again?

Sorry we didn't-
- Yeah, absolutely.

- A back, sideways, blurry card.

- Okay great, I'm caught up, thank you.

- I really wanna hold up
the wrong thing again.

- Ice Feast?
- Ice Feast.

- Yeah, that was Ice Feast.

I think you held up Ice Feast.

I don't think you held up...

- Okay, so you're gonna use
your movement to close with Riz.

- Mm-hmm, I'll use part of my movement

and then I'll still have my
skateboard so I can skateboard

once I'm up there.
- Hell yes, hell yes.

- Sick.

- So I think, like, let me
know what I'm landing in

and I'll let you know
if I want to move away.

- Are you gonna go to the
top landing of the ledge

or just on the steps
beneath Tracker and Ragh?

- I think I'd like to
go to the steps below

and then I'll take my skateboard

to use my dash to try to
get to Kalina, I guess

if she's walking away.
- Okay.

- Is that a problem?

- I think we're separated now.
- Yeah, careful running off

by yourself.
- Yeah, we're spread out.

- Okay, then I won't do
that, I'll just stick around.

- Okay, Sandra Lynn is
30 feet down the steps

from Tracker and Ragh who
are still up at the top

of the steps, do you wanna
be, like how many feet away

from Tracker down the steps?
- Okay.

I see what you're saying, I
wanna get in range for Riz.

So I'll just dimension door us smack dab

in the middle between them.
- Perfect, great, copy that.

You are 15 feet away from
Sandra Lynn, Ragh, and Tracker

in between Tracker and
Ragh and Sandra Lynn

on the other side of you.

Riz, you have a readied action.

- Let's even these odds or
put them in our favor rather.

Tracker, get over here.
(dice tapping table)

Okay, that's a 17 to hit Tracker.

- Oh wait, so can I Bardic Inspiration?

Oh wait, the 17's gonna hit.
- Yes.

And 17 absolutely does hit.
- Yes!

- 100%.
(players sigh in relief)

Great, great, great,
so hold on one second.

Badda boom badda bam,
yes, 17 absolutely hits.

You administer a hit, you hit that dart.

It goes in, it immediately works.

And here's the great part,
because you guys, so...

Only wait a minute, what do I do here?

Oh no, my plans, all my plans!

(Siobhan hyperventilating in excitement)

Yeah, you see the dart hits.

Tracker is going to make a saving throw.

You see Tracker's rage ends.

The full moon effect is gone.

However, both of you guys
make an insight check,

Riz and Fig.
- Okay.

- 21.
- I got a nat 20.

- Nat 20.
- Hey!

- You hit Tracker with that immunity.

You can tell that it has
further weakened Kalina.

But you know that the
effect on Tracker, Ragh,

and Sandra Lynn right
now is the possession.

It's the same thing that made
Fig kidnap and try to k*ll you

so Tracker, Sandra Lynn, and Ragh

are all under a possession
effect right now

that has not abated,
but Tracker is no longer

affected by Kalina's sh*t at all.

- Okay.
- So one of two effects on her

has vanished.
- So if we removed curse

on her or something she might come back.

- Exactly, 100%.
- All right I yell down

to Kristen, "We're halfway
there, she's still mad."

- What?
(group laughing)

- It 100% worked, but it like 50% worked.

- Incredible.
- Okay.

(Lou laughing)
- Oh dear.

- Great and Fig, you have a bonus action

still if you want it.

- I have a bonus action,
I think that yeah,

I think I'm just gonna use my bonus action

to give Riz some Bardic Inspiration.

- Thank you.
- Hell yeah.

- 'Cause I think you're probably

gonna be administering more stuff.

- I think I'm gonna stay
because I know Fig is hurt, too.

I'm gonna stay not hidden
on the stairs there.

- Cool, copy that.
- The Ball.

- We're back to back.
(group laughing)

- What is the range on that spell?

Oh boy.
- Boo.

- Boo.

- Boo.

Only 50% of the way there?

I was like 100% like, oh,
we're about to just start,

we're about to get this team back.

Like, Tracker's gonna, like
we're gonna get Tracker back.

She's gonna be like,
yo, Greater Restoration,

Greater Restoration, we're all good.

- Yeah, I know, I was thinking the same.

- Like, I thought we
were gonna sandwich it.

I know that tree guy was
gonna get straight up f*cked,

but no, no, got more work to do.

- I got plans for that
tree guy, don't you worry.

I got mad plans for that tree guy.

- Mad plans for that tree guy.

- It's Grafmy Rootdrinker, right?

- Yeah, maybe.
- I definitely wanna do

some fire damage on him
'cause I'm like, a tree?

- Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.

- We had to get Riz up there to do.

I thought that that would be.
- You did the right thing.

- Ally, when you say Grafmy Rootdrinker

I forget what the lore of this was.

- He was the druid that
formed the Nightmare Kingdom.

- He's trying to reclaim
the forest, I think.

Trying to reclaim parts of the forest.

- I thought that was a bit.

I was trying to remember what bit we did.

- No, yeah.
- Like the name,

Grafmy Rootdrinker.
- That just sounds like a IPA.

- Yeah, exactly.
- Yeah, yeah.

- Or like an instruction.
- But if it is him is he bad?

Would they also be under a spell?

Weren't they all good?
- No, I think he was like,

chill, they like wanted to
get the forest back from the-

- I think that these are zombies.

I think that these guys are undead.

- That centaur doesn't have a jaw.

- Or eyes.
- Like running at us.

- We can save him. (laughs)

- You guys see, sorry hold on one second.

6d6.

- 6d6, why did he just say 6d6?

- Wait, is it, if you're casting a spell,

are you casting a spell?

- You're gonna-
- I am casting a spell,

but you're gonna like-
- Counterspell!

- You don't wanna do that.

First of all, you're out of range.

- Oh, okay.
- Aelwyn-

- Oh, hell yes.

- Weakly stumbles up
the steps a little bit.

She looks up, looks at
all of you and says,

"I hate to think about the
last time I cast this spell.

Hopefully I can redeem myself at least."

- Just cast the spell.
(Emily laughing)

- (mimics expl*si*n resounding)
A raging cone of cold

soars up the steps and
blasts the centaur statue

and the little husk doll sprite

dealing a bunch of damage to both of them.

- Great.
- And that's Aelwyn's turn.

Going from Aelwyn, that is gonna be Ragh

who is going to charge.

As Ragh charges down he,
and you're not hiding,

right Riz?
- Right.

Ha, just like old times,
Ragh kicking my a*s.

(group laughing)

- Ball.

- I smile and nod at him.
- This feels right.

This feels right.
(group laughing)

- Okay.

- (sighs) You absolutely hate to see it.

- You hate to see it, folks.
- This you hate to see.

- Ragh misses you twice.
- Hell yeah.

- You guys f*cking k*lled
me, you think I'm a joke?

You think I'm just a f*cking joke, dude?

- We didn't k*ll you, man.
- We didn't k*ll you.

- You just sh*t your pants and it's fine.

- You sh*t your pants
and we kept your secret.

- We love you, we're you're friend, yeah.

- Oh, I guess we did k*ll you.

- We did terrorize him and Fig
became his worst nightmares.

- We did k*ll him a couple of times.

- There was some mutual bullying,

but I think we'll all come
out of this good. (chuckles)

- We know you're not yourself right now.

Everything that you're
saying is just a manipulation

of this world.
- Spring break.

- Spring break, we believe
in you, hoot, growl!

- We forgive you, spring
break we forgive you.

- Spring break, I believe in you, Ragh!

- You guys see Tracker.

- No!

- (growls) bounds down the steps.

Some kind of spectral
teleportation happens.

She actually allows herself
to take falling damage

to get down the steps fast enough,

like teleports out into
the air to fall farther.

She appears in the knot in
the bottom of the staircase

in between Aelwyn, Adaine, and Kristen.

And she is going to
full on attack Kristen.

She is going to...

- Hey babe, where have you been? (laughs)

(Brennan growls)

- Nat 20 on the claw attack.
- No!

- And then here comes the bite,

which is the one you
really have to worry about.

- Oh my God.
- Who's she going after?

- She's going after Kristen.

She hits with her claw attack
and she's going to deal

eight, she deals 14
damage to you, Kristen.

(growls fiercely) Just
going mad, she says,

"Why are you worshiping her?" (screams)

And you can see that she is
getting some kind of like,

input or vision from somewhere beyond.

And she deals that damage to you.

And poetically enough,
Kristen, you are next.

How much are you at right now?

- 66.
- Cool.

- Okay, I say,

"You know, clearly you're not yourself

"right now, Tracker."

I use my staff to Dispel Magic.

- Hell yes, so with Dispel Magic.

Oh that's right, you used
the Staff of Doubt, hell yes.

So what I'm gonna need from
you, Kristen, is a check here

because you're gonna use
your primary ability here.

Using the Staff of Doubt you
can also expend more charges

to do a higher-level version
of Dispel Magic if you want.

- Yeah, I'll do that.

- Cool, you're gonna use five charges

so you'll get a +2 on this roll.

- Okay.
- The DC is 15, you have a +7.

- Okay.
(dramatic instrumental music)

That's a 22, yeah.
- Ooh, baby!

Tracker lashes out at you, cuts you.

You see that something is torturing her.

You hold this staff.

Tracker's not bad, she's just confused.

How does Kristen cast
Dispel Magic in this moment?

- So she scratched me so hopefully her arm

is still kind of like cross
her body so I hug her.

- You hug her-
- I hug her and try

to hold her arms down.
- Aw.

- The illusion of the full moon leaves.

Tracker, the magic is broken

and Tracker melts into a
sobbing puddle in your arms

coming out of her wolf form.

Immediately you see four
levels of exhaustion set in.

She's like weeping, crying in
your arms just like adrenalin

and rage was what was
keeping her going basically.

But she is with you again,

and you have saved your
girlfriend, congratulations.

- Awesome, nice save.
(Zac cheers)

- I mean, some of us
already did that today,

but I guess it didn't come up.
- Two girlfriends saved.

- I think I heard something,
someone's talking sh*t.

- I checked in with my girlfriend.

- Somebody that is so small.

- I k*lled my dad.
- Oh my God!

- Oh by the way, Fig, did you
leave Baby in his bindings

or is he acting on your turn?
- Oh, I forgot about Baby.

I think, I mean, Baby just kind of like

clutches around my leg right?

- Yes, absolutely.
- So Baby's just at my leg.

I think I'm gonna make him go invisible

and send him after Kalina.

- Okay, he is happy to do that.

He invisibly flies up onto
the platform ahead of you.

- Yes, of course the Baby
is latched to your leg.

- Incredible.
(group laughing)

- Of course.
- I think he was probably

like attached to my leg this whole time.

- Of course, yeah.

- Incredible, incredible.

You guys see, so Kristen,
that is your turn.

Any movement that turn?

- Yeah, heading up the stairs
towards everybody I guess.

What is Tracker up to?

Does she need to like sit and?
- Tracker will hustle with you

as you move up the steps.
- Are we still flying?

- It only works for one turn,

but I can cast it on myself
again as a bonus action

so yeah, I'll do that, I'll
cast another Steps of the Brave.

- Okay, you cast Steps of the Brave

which Tracker can also cast

so you ignore difficult
terrain 'cause you're flying.

- Awesome.
- You begin to sh**t up.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Yeah, you go 30 feet
up with a bonus action

as the ribbon twirls around you.

Tracker looks up weeping,
very badly traumatized clearly

but just goes, "Wow, that's
hot, what's going on?

I'm out of the loop."

- It's a new thing I got.
(Brennan laughing)

It's a new old thing.
- (cheers) Incredible.

- (laughs) A new old thing.

Ribbon dancing.
- Hell yeah.

You see,

(hums) hold on one second.

Gonna go.
- I can't wait to go.

- Love it.
- It'll be great. (laughs)

- I know, this is a long battle.

- Welcome to my world, Zac, okay. (laughs)

- But you already went.
- f*cking k*ll it.

- Yeah, but I'm usually
exactly where you are.

- Oh right, 'cause your dex is bad.

- My -3 to initiative rolls.

- Incredible, this thing is going to...

- This thing?

- Yeah, hold on one sec.
- Is this the tree?

- No, this is the sprite.
- Ooh, the sprite.

- Unimportant, the tree is the...

- Yeah, I only care about the tree.

- I can't really f*ck up the sprite.

- Why?
- I feel like I won't

be able to hit it, it's flying
this little flying thing.

- Okay.

This thing is going to sh**t down and...

(stirring instrumental music)

Yeah, this thing is gonna
fly down to Kristen.

There is a humming coming
from the papery sprite

that as it gets within range of you guys

begins to hurt your ears and your mind

just like its presence here near you.

It's going to attack
Kristen, that's a miss.

It begins to crawl on
your back and shoulders,

Kristen, looking to bite into your neck.

This like little papery, vampiric fairy.

That is now going to be Ayda, baby!

Ayda has a speed of 80, but
that is now halved to 40

because she has exhaustion.
- [Emily] Aw.

- She is going-

- Ayda, you can't carry me, can you?

- She looks at you and says,

"Why wouldn't I be able to carry you?

I'm very strong."
- No, I just,

it just seems like I thought

you might have something else you'd wanna-

- She can carry your
axe, she can carry you.

- Yeah.
- Ayda is going to fly.

One, two, three, four,

five, Gorgug, she picks you up

and begins to fly up with you.

She forgoes casting a
spell and gets you, yeah,

she gets you like 40 feet up.

- Hell yeah.

- And begins to carry you up
the side of the staircase.

(mimics wind rushing) That is going to be,

Gorgug, that's your turn,
you're being carried right now.

- Hell yeah, okay, am
I close to the Elders?

- Yes, you're equidistant.

Ayda could drop you on
the sprite, the centaur,

or the wood elf right now.
- Gosh.

I guess I'll just drop down
on the sprite, I was wrong.

And I'm gonna take reckless
attacks on the sprite

as I fall down and frenzied.
- Hell yeah, baby.

Take your attacks.
- Okay, first attack.

- The sprite's on my neck, right? (laughs)

- [Brennan] Be careful.
- Does a 29 hit?

Second attack, 26.

Third attack-
- God damn.

- Yeah, that all hits.
- Third attack, another 26.

- Nice.
- That'll do it.

- It's a hot day, it's a hot day.

- Hell yeah.
- Sun's out.

- So that would be...

(dramatic instrumental music)

3d12.

(Ally whistles)

10 and an eight and an
11 plus eight, 16, 24.

- 29 plus 24?

- 10, eight, 11, 29 plus
24, is what you said?

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

So that's 53 points of damage.

- Jesus Christ!
- Wow.

- You wail into this
thing. (mimics air rushing)

And as you do so it goes,
like tons of husks and skin,

like it's shedding its
skin over and over again

litter the steps under the rain.

This thing is on death's
door after three attacks,

almost completely gone.

- Get out of here you paper lantern.

(group members laughing)

- Okay, however now this
centaur is going to charge.

You see

this centaur, I'm going to need a

(tense instrumental music)

a DC 15 constitution saving throw

from both Adaine and Gorgug.

- Ooh, DC 13?

- 15 or 13?

- 15.
- 15.

Okay, I have 15.
- 23.

- Okay, what you see
occurring to you now...

Let's roll some damage, baby.

- I don't like you.

- It's personal.

(tense instrumental music)

- Hot dog.
- Nine.

17, 23, 30.

Adaine and Gorgug each take
18 points of necrotic damage.

Gorgug, that is not halved for you.

Tracker and Aelwyn...

Tracker and Aelwyn both fully go down

and are at zero.

As this centaur (growls
deeply) just opens its rotting,

wooden jaw and bellows out
this blast of decaying,

moss-covered, rotten wood
necrotic energy, Tracker-

- This isn't a spell, this is an effect?

- This is an effect, yep.
- Okay.

- That is its turn.

That is going to be Adaine, that's you.

- Okay, did you say that the
centaur was also made of wood?

- Yes.
- Great, then I would like

to cast Chromatic Orb at a
second level on the centaur

using fire damage.

- Absolutely.

Also cool, you cast using fire damage.

Go ahead and make your attack roll.

- That is a 21 to hit.

- 21 hits.

- Great, oh God.

Five plus eight is just 13 damage.

- 13 damage.
- I rolled two ones.

- No worries, you deal
13 points of damage.

- But that's fire damage again.

- Fire damage. (mimics fire roaring)

- And then I'll take as much
movement as I can up the stairs

which is only 15 feet, but I'll take it.

- Yeah you begin to surge up the steps.

You rush up, Aelwyn and
Tracker are both now behind you

unconscious on the ground.

That is going to be...

(energetic instrumental music)

You guys hear lightning
striking up on top of the ledge

and you see light as
something magical occurs

up on the ledge above you.
- Oh, God.

- Guys, I think we gotta get up there.

- Yeah.

- Even if it means splitting up.

- This thundering, massive
treant, boom, boom, boom,

heads down and is gonna
take some swings at Fabian.

- Bring it on.
(group laughing)

(stirring instrumental music)

- Fabian, you take nine, 18, six, 24,

you take 36 points of damage
as this thing wails you twice.

Boom boom, what's Fabian at right now?

- 55.

- You take 55 points of
damage. (mimics blows landing)

And that is going to
be the wood elf's turn.

- You said 36 points of damage, correct?

- I did, yes.
- Great.

- That's a miss on Fabian.
- Hell yes, riposte.

- Nice.
- Hell yeah, go for it.

The wood elf misses you twice.

- I think I can only
riposte once, 21 to hit.

- 21 hits.
- Great.

13 plus nine, 22 points of damage.

- Ooh, baby, 22?

- Yes, 22.

- 22, you lash out. (mimics blows landing)

Fandrangor scores across him again.

This guy's looking hurt right now.

That is the wood elf.

We are back to the top of the order.

It is Sandra Lynn's turn again.

She is gonna turn around
and fire twice on Fig.

- Bring it on.

Bring it on, Mom.

You'll only make me stronger, huh.

- It's not her, Fig, it's not her.

- Bring it on, I get it, this is personal!

- No, it's not personal, it's
the opposite of personal.

- Fig, she hits you once
for nine points of damage.

- I'm going to, I was saving my reaction

in case I needed to Counterspell,

but I'm going to Cutting Words.

And subtract seven from that attack.

- The attack misses.
- Nice.

- What's your current HP total?

- My current HP is not good, it is...

- 16 or something?
- 23!

- Oh, 23.
- 23, copy that.

You snark at your mom, the arrow flies off

and does not strike true.

Fabian, I'm gonna need a
constitution saving throw from you.

- What, why?

- The beginning of your turn, that's why.

- 15.
- You pass, the drone

of that sprite does not
knock you unconscious

like it wants to.

- Did it move towards him?
- Oh, hot.

- What's that?

- Did it move to Fabian from me?

- It did not move towards
him, it's just, it's an aura.

Fabian, that's your turn.
- Great, can I have

The Hangman attempt to
grapple the wood elf?

- Yes, The Hangman also in this form

has a fire breath ability.

- What, when were you gonna tell me that?

(group laughing)

Hangman, spit lava at that
big tree m*therf*cker!

- He goes, "Sire, I can
get the elf and the tree."

- Oh, yes!

- Awesome.
- MVP, The Hangman.

- I love...

- Okay, baby.

- And I'll take my first of
two attacks on the wood elf.

- Hell yes.

That wood elf is struggling, baby.

The Hangman (roars) just
belches fire at both of them.

Go ahead and take your attacks.

- First one hits for 27.

- That is great.

- I'll burn another first-level
spell slot for Fandrangor.

Great, d8 plus d6, awesome.

That'll be 15 on the first hit.

- 15 hits.
- Or no, 15 damage.

- Or 15 damage.
- On the first one.

- Oh, on your first attack

you skewer the elven
elder through the head

and he collapses into boiling
pustules and slimes away.

- Ooh.
- Great.

And then I guess I'll move to
engage with this big treant.

- Am I next to slime?

- You're about like 20 feet away.

- Oh, never mind, sorry, okay.

- Yeah, I'll swing on this treant.

- Yeah, go for it.
- That's gonna be, ooh,

that's really good, that's 30.

- Kristen thinks it's Gak.
- I wanted to take some.

- And I'll make this-
- Put it on some newspapers.

- I'll make this a defensive
flourish so another d6.

Hell yes, oh, that's good.

That's 17 damage to the ent.

Excuse me, 17 plus six
so 23 damage to the ent

and my AC for the next round is 25.

- Wow.
- Oh my god, incredible.

(Emily cheers)
- Yes.

- Okay, and how much damage
is that again, sorry?

- I did 14 plus nine for...

- 23 points of damage, hell yeah, awesome.

You skewer the tree, defensive flourish,

moving as fast as you can.

As you do so you leap
under its swinging branches

just doing your absolute
best to stay away.

After Fabian that is going
to be Riz, that's you, baby.

- Sweet, is there, I know
Fabian asked this before,

but is there any area
that is like a big fall

by the side of the stairs
or is just like 50 feet?

I mean, 50 feet's a decent fall, but.

- Oh, 50 feet, you're way up so your fall

is more like 80 or 90 feet.
- Okay.

- 'Cause you're higher up the stairs

so kicking someone over the
edge would be a farther fall.

- Okay.

Sweet, okay, I'm gonna ask
a shenanigans question.

- Go for it.
- Okay.

So I have a grappling canister.

It grants me a fly speed but I imagine

it being almost like a
grappling hook thing.

- Yes, absolutely.
- I would like to

channel Emily Axford in a different game

and jump off the edge and try
to sh**t the grappling thing

at the centaur to pull him off with me.

- Ooh, thorn whip!
- Yeah!

- Improvised thorn whip, yes, yes my man!

- Okay, give me an attack
roll to hit the centaur.

- That is absolutely sick.
- Sick, so sick.

- This is badass.
- Here we go.

- Secret agent The Ball for sure.

- Oh yeah.
- Absolutely rad.

- [Lou] Big time.

- [Brian] Oh baby, that's a 27.

- Yes!
- Definite hit.

- Oh, yes! (laughs)
- Okay.

- Riz, you look so hot.
(group laughing)

- Wow, The Ball.
- I think he's doing it.

- He's doing it, he's really doing it.

- I'm gonna say that this is-
- That confidence.

- Just I have cool hair
under my stupid newsboy cap

that comes off in the rain.

- You've had that cool
haircut the whole time?

- You're like the guy in "The
Expanse" that takes it off-

- Timothee Chalamet hair that comes down.

- And has a really intense haircut.

- You just have amazing hair
and you never showed it off.

- Damn, The Ball.
- I've literally never

seen him without his
hat, even in sleepovers.

He always wears his hat.
- He's hot without the hat.

(group laughing)

- I'm gonna ahead and say
that this is the same DC

that your other b*ll*ts
are, we'll call it a DC 15.

This centaur is gonna roll
a strength saving throw

to try to avoid this, I'll roll right now.

(intense instrumental music)

That is a natural one.
(group cheering)

You run sideways, even the
possessed Ragh and Sandra Lynn

and everybody, Ragh is
gonna get a swing on you

unless you want to bonus action
disengage which you could.

- I need a bonus action to live.

- Oh, gotcha, yes, yes, yes, for sure.

So you rush to the side.

As you do so you, oh, so he's
gonna get a swing on you.

- Yeah, he gets a swing.

- Ragh doesn't have sentinel
or anything, does he?

- He does not.
- Okay, cool, then I won't.

- He misses you.
- Great.

- You leap off the side, grappling,

wraps around the centaur,
the centaur. (growls)

Snap, bam, and as you fall
the weight of you flying off,

you swing, the centaur
goes up on its hind legs,

takes a couple faltering steps back,

goes over the side and is about 60 feet up

so will take 6d6 points of falling damage.

Riz, go ahead and give me
that falling damage, roll 6d6.

- Sweet.

- Damn, The Ball, God damn.

- This'll hopefully take
him out for a while.

Literally stolen from Emily.
(Brennan laughs)

(Emily cheers)
- Steal from the best.

- That's just-
- Leap off, Thorn Whip,

Misty Step back.
- 16 damage.

- 16 damage.
- Yeah.

- Okay.
- Wow.

- Hell yeah.

But you get him out of the
fight, he's off the staircase.

(groans) (mimics thudding
landing) Centaur hits the bottom.

You however are now
also off the staircase.

- Sweet, I will use my once-a-day
Misty Step with my sword

to (mimics wind whipping) back.

- Sick.
- You're back on the staircase

baby, bam.
- Yeah, buddy.

- That is Riz's turn, Fig, that's you.

- Okay, I wanna use my skateboard

to get to where this ritual's happening.

- Hell yeah.
- This ritual's happening

on the ledge outside, right?
- Yes, up above you.

- Okay.

- Do you still look like Kalina?

- Yeah, baby, I still look Kalina.

- Kalina on a skateboard.

- (laughs) Kalina's really
good at skateboarding.

- Kalina grinding.
- Before I go

because I don't know which I'm
gonna do once I get up there,

I run and real quick say, "Hey Kristen,

"show me that picture
you drew of your Goddess

"just so I know what they look like."

- My blood photo?
- Yeah-

- My photo that I drew with
my own blood, of course.

- Yeah, you, yeah. (laughs)
- Okay, cool, I do, it's huge.

- Just so I know, thank you.
- Oh, God.

- And then I wanna use my skateboard

to get to where the ritual's happening

and then I wanna know what
the scene looks like up there.

- Hell yeah, one, two, three.

You get to the ledge.

Here is what you see up
above you on the ledge.

(epic instrumental music)

(sinister instrumental music)

Crashing thunder and lightning.

The cottage has fully appeared up here.

The tree is at the edge hanging
over the side of the cliff.

Arianwen is 40 feet above the ground

surrounded by a cyclone.

As you get to the top,

you see the unicorn turns to look at you.

Killian turns to look at you,

and Kalina is leaning with
her back against the tree,

smiles, and waves at you.
- Okay.

- [Brennan] That is the scene you see.

- I think what I'm gonna do,

so a phantasmal image would be
extra powerful here, correct?

Like anything that had a description in it

that had a phantasmal
image would have double

the illusion magic or something?

- Correct.
- I want to cast Fear

and create the image of this goddess

that Kristen told me about
in the minds of all of them.

- Hell yes, you go ahead
and cast Phantasmal.

What level spell is that?
- This is Fear.

It's a level three, you
project a phantasmal image

of a creature's worst fears.

I'm assuming that this
goddess coming back to life

would be scary to at least the unicorn

who it seems conspired against them.

And each creature within a 30-foot cone

must succeed a wisdom saving throw

or drop whatever it's holding
and become frightened.

- Gotcha.
- So I'm hoping

to disrupt the ceremony.
- You throw that awesome spell

which would be dope as hell.

Arianwen hits you with a
Counterspell. (snaps fingers)

- Counterspell, can't I Counterspell hers?

- Ooh, you can Counterspell hers!

- Yeah, now I'm out of third-level spells.

Hope no one needs a Revivify. (laughs)

- Cool, you cast Fear.

Hold on, I just wanna
read the actual wording

of the Fear spell real quick.

(intense instrumental music)

So it's, you project a phantasmal image

of a creature's worst fears.

Each creature in a
30-foot cone must succeed

on a wisdom saving throw or
drop whatever it is holding

and become frightened for the duration.

It has to take a dash action.

And you're casting it on
Killian, Kalina, and Arianwen

right now, correct?
- Yeah, and the unicorn.

- The unicorn is off to
one side near the cottage

and you can't hit them both
from where you're standing.

- Okay, then yeah, I will
favor those first three

that you said.
- Those people, awesome.

I'm going to roll some saving
throws right now for them.

This is a wisdom saving
throw I believe, correct?

- Can I use Reckless Shred to
give one of them disadvantage?

- The way Reckless Shred works now

is you've gotta do it first.
- I see.

- So you've gotta take disadvantage first

and then do it to someone
else the next round.

- Okay, I see.

- Hold on one second.

You see, (hums) okay, we'll
roll these real quick.

Kalina is immune to the
frightened condition.

- But wouldn't she still have to contend

with the reality of
the goddess being there

'cause it's like a scary
image but it's illusion magic

or am I incorrect in...

- I think the wording of the spell is,

you project a phantasmal image
of a creature's worst fears

so I don't think you get
to dictate necessarily

what the image is that they're seeing.

- Oh, okay, in that case can I
just do phantasmal force then

on one of them?
- Sure, yeah, absolutely.

- Which creates an
illusion that takes root

in the mind of a creature
and I'll try to do it

on Arianwen, and I want
to create the illusion

that she lost her magic powers.

- Ooh, that's really good.

Okay, let's see this.

(intense instrumental music)

She succeeds on her saving throw

and resists the Phantasmal Force.

You see that she is surrounded
by these crazy winds

that whip all around her.

As she does so you see that
she looks over at you and says,

"Not enough time, not enough time!"

Rips open a seam in
space and pulls the crown

of the Nightmare King out
of an extradimensional space

in front of her.

Any bonus actions from Fig on that turn?

- Yes, I would like Baby invisible

to try to go grab the
Nightmare Crown. (chuckles)

- Hell yes.
- This is what he's for.

This is it, this is his mission.

- All right, opposed athletics checks.

Go ahead and roll for baby
if you would be so kind.

- Oh, hell yes, it's already happening?

I love it.
- He flies right up to her.

- Let's go Baby.
- The two strongest people

in the world.
- Come on, Baby.

- Let's go, Baby.
- Come on, Baby.

- He's invisible, wouldn't
that be advantage?

- Baby versus Mommy.

- Not on an athletics check.
- Come on Baby what's up Baby?

- 12.
- 12.

- You got it, Baby.
- Oh, okay.

- Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

- You see that Arianwen does get f*cked up

as Baby starts going like,
(laughs) "Let me touch it!"

And she goes, "What the, what?"

That is Fig's turn.

- So just so I can be clear,

did we use those counterspells or not

just because I didn't use the Fear thing.

- Yes, you did make her

use one of her Counterspells, absolutely.

Death saving throw for Aelwyn.

Okay.

- Um, sh*t.

- What was that?

- A death saving throw for Aelwyn?

- If no one's making a medicine
check on her, no one knows.

- f*ck, God damn it.
- I have an idea.

I have an idea.
- Okay.

- Okay, Ragh is going to
rush over to Riz again.

And he's gonna keep wailing on Riz.

- This isn't you anymore,
Ragh, this isn't you anymore.

- He hits once and is going to
deal Riz 14 points of damage.

- Cool, I'll use uncanny
dodge to halve it.

- Cool, how much is Riz at right now?

- I am now at 44.

- 44, baby, that is going to be,

Tracker is going to make
a death saving throw.

- Okay.

(intense instrumental music)

- That is going to be Kristen.

- Okay-
- I'm actually gonna need you

at the beginning of your turn

to give me a constitution saving throw.

- Okay.

- We gotta get rid of this sprite.

- The sprite's on death's
door I think, right.

- Yeah, Jesus, this f*cking sprite.

- Nat one.
- Kristen goes unconscious.

- f*ck.
(Emily groans)

- f*ck.

- Full unconscious.
- I'll come back, guys.

- Wait, didn't the sprite
get hit like three times?

Wouldn't that have knocked it off of me?

- No, it's its drone ability.

When your turn starts you
have to roll constitution

or get knocked unconscious.
- Oh, human determination?

Do I still have that?
- You do still have that.

- Okay, I get get to re-roll one thing.

- Come on.

- Go for it.
- Yes, this is it.

- 19, 19, 19!
- Yeah, baby, all right.

You got the grit.
- f*ck yeah, thank God.

- My heart, dude. (laughs)
- Go for it.

- Okay, I'm gonna run to
be next to Tracker and...

- And Aelwyn?
- Yeah, and Aelwyn.

- Cool.
- And then I'm going to cast

Aura of Life so 30 feet,
people who are at zero HP

bump up to one.
- Hell yes.

- And they have resistance
to necrotic damage

and they can't lose any HP
and this lasts for 10 minutes.

- Holy.
- They can't lose HP?

- But it's concentration.
- Aura of Life.

Oh my God, that's amazing.
- One of my new things.

- Resistance to, and
its hit point maximum.

In addition, a nonhostile, living creature

regains one hit point, oh, sorry.

In addition, a nonhostile, living creature

regains one hit point
when it starts its turn

in the aura with zero hit points.

So on their next turn they pop back up.

- Okay, cool, so I have
to stay there I guess

to keep them in my aura.
- You have to stay there.

You cast the spell, that is
now your concentration spell

that is active.
- So if I Mass Healing Word

can I hit them to pop them back up?

- Yeah, you wouldn't even have

to run back down the staircase to do that.

You could just Mass Healing
Word them right now as well.

- Okay, then skip the Aura of Life.

- It might be better to, yeah.
- Yeah, forget that.

- Cool.
- You could also sh**t

a cantrip at the sprite, too.

- I think I'm gonna do
Channel Divinity Turn Undead

because then wouldn't
these full undead people-

- Yeah, they're full undead.
- Maybe.

- They'd have to hit a wisdom DC of 17

or else they have to start running away.

- Yes.
- Is that an action

or a bonus action?
- It's just the tree

and the sprite now, right?
- It's an ability.

- But it is an action or a bonus action?

- Oh, it's just an action
so then I could bonus action

Mass Healing Word and pop
Tracker and Aelwyn back up.

- Go for it.
- And Ayda as well.

- Okay.
- Hey, Ayda's down?

- I think so, yeah.
- No, Ayda's not down.

- Ayda's not down.
- Oh, it's just Tracker

and Aelwyn?
- 13.

- 13, cool, how many targets can you pick?

- I can do up to six so I'll do-

- Hey, throw it around, baby, so Aelwyn-

- Yeah, yeah, Aelwyn, Tracker.
- I'm at 35 right now.

- Did we just say that Ayda's looking bad?

- Ayda has not been injured
at all so don't hit Ayda.

- Oh, nevermind.
- I'm at 35 and Fig is at 23.

- Okay yeah, we'll hit you, we'll hit Fig.

Am I close enough to Fig?
- You're not close enough

to Fig, Fabian is here and Gorgug is here.

- I mean, I could use it if you're...

- Yeah, cool.
- Cool, awesome.

So Adaine, what's your new total?

- I don't know, what?
- 13.

- Oh, adding 13 is 48.

- And Fabian and Gorgug,
what's your new total?

- I'm at 116.
- 68.

- Hell yeah.

Mass Healing Word is very good, awesome.

That's your bonus action,
what's your action gonna be?

- My action is to do
Channel Divinity Turn Undead

on the last of these elders.
- Ooh baby, let's do it.

- So the wisdom DC is 17
or else they gotta run.

They're gonna run off the cliff.

- They gotta run off the damn cliff.

- Run away you damn tree!
(group members laughing)

- Sprite fails.
- Nice

- f*ck off, sprite! (laughs)

- Treant succeeds.

I'm gonna say that the sprite
was at such low hit points

that you just sunder the sprite.

It is fully f*cking gone.

- Yeah.

- You watch the sprite

be utterly just unmade in this moment.

- Sweet.
- Boom.

Sprite and its horrible drone
are gone, treant resists.

Awesome turn from Kristen.
- Human determination.

- Whew, big difference that made.

- Yeah. (laughs)

- It is Ayda's turn.

You know what your girl
Ayda is doing, baby.

Ayda soars up that f*cking staircase

right to her girl's side.

- What up, girl?

- She leaps into battle.
(group members laughing)

You see, Fig, you are in
tremendous danger right now.

Killian, the unicorn, and Kalina

are all making moves to go to you.

Ayda lands-
- Ayda, just so you know,

I do have Cutting Words
so, you know. (laughs)

- You see Ayda looks at you and goes,

(gasps) "A terrible
situation, this is quite bad."

You see she looks over at you and says-

- I was just trying to
disrupt the ceremony.

I figured we had to do it

even if it meant someone went down.

- No she says, "Oh, I mean
all of these villains.

"You're a genius and I love
you with all my heart."

- Aw, we really have to
have a little one on one

at some point 'cause we're
just always in battle

when we see each other.

- Make a perception check for me, Fig.

- [Emily] Nat one, my
second nat one of the day.

- Ooh, no, okay.
- You have luck points, right?

- Oh yeah, luck point.
- Burn it.

- I mean, my perception isn't
good, it's still only a 12.

- You see Killian walking towards you.

Fig, you look at Killian as he struts,

he has all the power of a
pit fiend at his disposal.

There is a gem in his chest.
- Oh, a ruby?

- Ayda, do you wanna Plane
Shift into that chest gem?

- You've got your ruby.
- Yeah.

I think if we Plane Shift in there

and then I. (mimics strumming guitar)

- You see Ayda looks at you
and says, "Fascinating."

- Just saying like, sometimes
couples go on trips together.

- She smiles so wide.

I mean, Ayda keeps her cards close

and has just this broad
grin breaks across her face

and she goes, "A trip sounds lovely.

And you know what they say,
keep your friends close

and your enemies as close as possible."

She picks you up in her strong arms.

- Pretty close, pretty close.
- And flies straight

at Killian, you are
surrounded by shifting runes

of orange flame and both of
your rocket inside of the gem.

(roars) You are standing in roiling flame.

Your big daddy Gorthalax is
bound in the center of this gem,

looks at both of you and goes,

"Fig, I can't believe you're here!"

- Hey, I did this to you,
but now me and my girlfriend

are gonna undo it to you.

- You see he says,
"Girlfriend, oh, is this?"

- You see Ayda says, "Gorthalax
the Insatiable, master of,

or I should say former
master of the Bottomless Pit.

I am the wizard Ayda Aguefort.

I am your daughter's paramour."

- And she is my, whatever pit fiends have.

Perhaps my succubus.

- You see Ayda, her eyebrows
both go way up and she's like.

"Fascinating, that's incredible."

(group laughing)
That is Ayda's turn.

You have both Plane Shifted into the gem

in the center of Killian's chest.

- All right, I'll us
out of here in a second.

- Gorgug, that's you, baby.

- Can I make a perception check
to see where that centaur is

if it seems like it's gonna
come back up behind people?

- Yes, it looks like it's still alive,

but it will take a long time

getting up the staircase after you guys.

- Okay, in that case I am just going to,

is the treant next to
the edge or not really?

- It's kind of in the
middle of the staircase?

- Okay, I'm just gonna
get behind this treant

and take three reckless,
you know, frenzy attacks.

- Oh hell yeah, go for it.
- Timber, baby.

- Timber.

- [Ally] Timber!

- [Zac] Oh, does a 23 hit?
- Yes, it does.

- Okay.

Here's the real test, does a 17 hit?

- 17 hits.
- Nice.

(Lou cheers)

- Does a 25 hit?
- Hell yeah.

- I can't crit even when I can crit on 19.

(group laughing)

14, one, so 15 plus,

well, actually it's nine now.

- Yes.
- Okay, so nine, 18, 27.

So 15 plus 27, 30...

- 42?
- 42.

- 42.
- Damn, okay.

(pulsing instrumental music)
Incredible.

The gravity, you're
fighting a big, giant tree.

This gravity axe hums, baby, (hums) bam!

Just like wood chips go flying as you hew

just giant 40-degree wedges
out of the side of this treant.

(Ally cheers)
- Sorry about it.

- You see, awesome turn.

The centaur gets back to
the bottom of the staircase

and then it is Killian's turn.

(epic instrumental music)
(chorus vocalizing)

Five, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Riz, Killian, eyes burning
red, flaming chest open

advances on you with all
the power of a pit fiend.

He is going to unload on you.

(Brian groans)

I am going to...

- Ooh, boy.

(dice rattling)

- And my reaction I
used this round, right?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- Okay.

Riz, first let me know when you drop

'cause you're gonna drop.
- Okay.

- Oh, bold, bold, Brennan.
- 21 points of damage.

- Still up.

(epic instrumental music)

- [Zac] Is he...

- Is it too much of a stretch to say

I could Cutting Words from inside the gem?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- 29 plus you take 37 on the next attack.

- I'm down.

- Riz is fully dead.

He gets two more attacks on you.

Killian's hands are covered in flame.

He grabs Riz's throat,
chokes him, picks him up,

slams him into the stone steps.

They crater, rubble, Riz is fully dead.

- For the record, I do have
a third-level spell left

'cause when I switched
to Phantasmal Force,

that's a second-level
spell just for the record

so that everyone knows.
- Cool.

- Cool.
- So we do, but we yeah.

I also have a reviving spell,

but we need you to make me a fake gem.

- I can do that.
- All of you watch Riz die.

You sense how powerful
your enemies are here,

how exhausted your allies are.

You feel no matter how brave you are

with all your friends here,

at the edge of your mind is fear.

This might not happen for you.

Following,

Adaine, that's your turn.

- Okay, I'd like to talk to Aelwyn.

- Wait, is it not Fig's turn?
- Fig already went.

- Yeah, that wasn't, Riz got attacked,

but that wasn't Riz's turn.
- That was Killian's turn.

That is going to be Adaine.

You can talk to Aelwyn.
- Aelwyn, okay.

We're here and we need to be there.

Do you have anything
that can get us up there?

- [Brennan] You're gonna
actually have to delay your turn.

- That's fine.
- Cool.

- Or if she has like a, I don't know

if she has a Dimension
Door or a Thunder Step

or something like that or Fly.

- She may, she may.

- But can I not talk to her now?

- It hasn't gotten to her turn
yet so she hasn't popped up.

Oh no, Mass Healing Word,
I'm crazy, nevermind.

You can absolutely talk to Aelwyn.

Aelwyn says, "Stay where you are, hold.

I can get us up to the top."

- Great, I'll hold my action for Aelwyn.

- You hold.

(exhilarating instrumental music)

You see...

In a blast of ice, Arianwen destroys Baby.

(Zac groans)
- No!

- I'm not there, though, I
am in the gem, right, do I?

- [Brennan] You feel Baby go.
- [Brian] Oh no.

- But, but, he just wanted
to whisper and scream.

- He probably died doing what he loved.

- You're right, stealing.
- You know,

being a little rascal.
- Screaming, grabbing things.

- I think I make a solemn
promise in my heart

that Baby, I will make you again.

I made you once from my
blood, I can make you again.

(somber instrumental music)

- You guys, Baby goes and you
guys can see over the crest

Arianwen has risen up
even higher into the sky.

She releases the crown
and it floats off the edge

of the ledge, lightning
strikes, and you see

like a cyclone descending
to touch the earth,

the clouds (roaring) form a column.

And from that swirling
tornado of cloud and storm

you see two limbs of
cloud as though something

were standing up, balancing
itself as tall as a mountain

preparing to stand.

You see...

That is going to now be...

(spooky instrumental music)

That is now going to be the elder treant.

Hold on one second.

(dramatic instrumental music)

You see that the treant

is gonna go and swing on you, Gorgug.

- Can I impose disadvantage
on one of those swings?

- On the first one which means
it will be a straight roll.

- As a protector I'd like
to protect my friends.

- Protect me, Fabian, please.

Nah, I can handle it.

- Fabian, it comes down
about to rain a blow

on top of Gorgug and as
it does you leap forward,

skid, and kick one of
its giant tree limb legs.

It stumbles and smashes into the ground

an inch away from Gorgug.

- Spring break, I believe in you.

I've lost one friend, that's too many.

- It's gonna take its second swing on you

as punishment for doing that.

What's your AC now?
- 25.

- That is a full-a*s miss, my guy.

- What's up.
- This thing has a +10 to hit.

- There you go.
- Okay, wood elf is dead.

Back at the top of the order.

That is going to be, Sandra
Lynn is going to fire on Gorgug.

That's a hit and a crit.

12, 17.

(epic instrumental music)

29 halved to 14 damage to Gorgug.

- Okay.

I'm at 102.

- Ooh, baby.
- Wow.

- That's Sandra Lynn, Fabian, that's you.

- How far is Riz's body from me

and how bad does this treant look?

- Treant is still standing.

I mean, it's taken some
damage, but it's still up.

- Yeah, how far is Riz's body?

- Riz's body is probably

about like 80 feet up from you.

- Oof, and how far is Kristen from Riz?

- Kristen is even farther.

She's about 15 feet down
the stairs from you.

- Great.
- Riz is full dead right now,

right?
- Full dead.

- Correct.
- Yeah, full dead.

We gotta conjure a
diamond and get a revive.

- And Killian is over Riz?

- Yes, Killian is over Riz.
- As soon as Fig is able

to get out of Killian you'll
be right over Riz, okay.

In that case I think I'm gonna
keep swinging on this ent

so I'll take two attacks on him.

- Go for it.

- First one's a 22.

- That'll do it.

- I'll burn my last first-level
spell spot for Fandrangor.

That's gonna be eight,
17 points of damage.

- Hell yeah.
- One second.

That's gonna be 29.

- 29 all together?

- No, 29 to hit.
- That hits.

- And I'm gonna, I'm just gonna roll flat.

- Cool.

- God, and that's only 10
damage on a second hit.

- Bam, bam, you hit it.

(mimics blows landing)
Fandrangor comes out,

hits this thing again.

Also The Hangman goes.

- Oh, how often can it
use that breath weapon?

- Roll a d6, he recharges
on a five or six.

- (groans) Four, he'll
just take a regular attack.

- Cool.

- Do you want me to roll that or will you?

- Yeah, you roll it, +5.

- 21.
- That hits.

Roll 1d8 plus 2d6 plus three.

- Jesus, 1d8 plus 2d6
plus three, I love that.

- Wow.

- Got a lot better.
- Eight plus 13 plus three.

16 points of damage.

- Hell yeah.

- And I will use Second Wind

for 14 more HP.

- Hell yeah, that is...
(dramatic instrumental music)

That is going to be...
- Fig?

- I think so.

Hold on one second.

Riz is fully dead, Figueroth.

- Okay.
- That is you.

- Sorry, you see the contingency,

the thing that kills Gorthalax

if the gem is f*cked
with around you as well.

- That needs to be dispelled?
- That needs to be dispelled.

Ayda looks at you and can take care of it.

- Okay, Ayda, I need you
to, here's what I wanna do.

I wanna hold my action
until Ayda dispels it

then I wanna shatter the rubies.

I don't know if that
takes a full action to do,

but then I wanna see
if the shattered rubies

can be enough to cast a Revivify with.

Like if the value of it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I don't know enough about
how spell components work.

- I'll say depending on how hard you shred

when you shatter rubies, we'll
make it a performance check.

If you can beat the DC,

you can keep enough rubies to Revivify.

- Okay.

- Let's go.

- So I'm holding my action for Ayda.

- You hold your action for Ayda.

Aelwyn is next to go.
- Great.

- Aelwyn is going to,

Aelwyn goes in between.

Aelwyn rushes up the steps actually

to be next to Kristen and
readies an action to cast,

'cause Adaine, were you
holding your action?

- I was holding my action to get to,

'cause she said she could
get us up the stairs.

- Okay, in that case, and Kristen can fly.

- Yeah.
- So in that case

Aelwyn does not hold any longer

because too many people are holding.

She runs in between Tracker and Adaine

and straight up casts Teleport.

- Sick.
- Whoa.

- Uses her seventh-level spell shot.

She goes, (groans) "Waste of
a teleport to go 100 feet,

but (claps hands) time is of the essence."

You see that she...

- Never a waste, very cool.

Can't wait to learn that spell.

- She looks at you and says,

"Adaine, I would love to teach
you this spell," high fives.

Cool, that's gonna be,

boom, boom, and then Tracker.

Where is Tracker?

Hold on a sec here.

- Tracker went right
before Kristen, right?

- Yes, you see that...

Hold on one second though.

(intense instrumental music)

You see...

You guys all appear, boom, on the ledge

watching this insane
mountain-sized humanoid-shaped

storm cloud begin to push
itself up using its hands.

Tracker, Aelwyn, Adaine

all appear in front of the
cottage on the ledge above.

The nearest thing to you
is the great unicorn.

You can also see your mother and Kalina.

And that is Aelwyn's turn.

- Okay, so it's my turn now?
- It's your turn now, yes.

- Okay, does it look like
there's more to this spell

that my mother needs to do?

- It looks like she's done.
- Or she's done?

- She's done.
- Oh.

- Okay, well here, how about this.

The tree is here, right?
- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, I would like to do
a second level chromatic orb

fire damage on the tree.

- Hell yeah, go for it.
- Great.

(groans) that's a 12.

Does a 12 hit?
- A 12 does hit.

It's a big ol' tree, you
can hit the tree on a 12.

- Great.
- You could hit the tree

on a 12.
- Okay that's a little better.

That's a 22.

22 damage to the magical tree.

- 22 damage to the magical
tree which becomes 44 damage.

- Nice.
- Yes!

- Hell yeah.

(mimics wind howling) Kalina starts

in a dead sprint towards you, she goes,

"Oh, that's enough of that." (panting)

You cast that chromatic orb.

That is Adaine's turn.

Yeah, you've used your readied action.

Five, 10, 15, 20,

30, 40, 45, 50, 60.

Ragh uses a movement and a dash

and closes with all three of you

but is not able to attack but
is just screaming in rage.

After him is Tracker.

Tracker calls down, and says,

"Kristen, babe, you got this!"

Reaches behind her and
on a roll of a natural 19

touches the cottage and breaks the second

of the five trans-substantiations.

- Whoa!
- With a dispel magic.

- Great.
- Yes!

- You see way off on the
other island moats of light

as all these celestials are returned

to the planes they were captured from.

Two down, three to go.
- Three?

- Yeah, we gotta figure out that name.

- Kalina, names, and the tree
- Kristen, that's you.

- Wait, the tree isn't done yet, right?

- You're fighting the treant on the steps.

- No, no, I mean sorry, of
the trans-substantiation.

- The tree is not done yet, no.

- I just did 44 damage to it.
- Awesome, I have a question.

If Kalina, if I'm not quite alive

am I able to attack and hit Kalina?

- You are alive, you've
resurrected yourself

so you're back.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.

- You are flesh, blood,
and spirit all again.

- Can I do an insight
check on how to potentially

get rid of Kalina?

Like a religion or is there
anything that I would know?

- What if you did Greater
Restoration on Kalina?

- Greater Restoration could do it.

You could potentially just
defeat her physical body here.

You think that with these
curses there's a couple ways.

- I have Remove Curse.
- That could possibly-

- Can I just cast Remove Curse on Kalina?

- You think you would need to drop her

to be able to do that.

In the same way you
needed to have the coin

and needed to produce the cottage

and you will probably
need to chop down the tree

to get the broom, you will
need to probably defeat Kalina

to put the final blow on her.

- Okay, then I'm just going to hit,

am I closer to Sandra Lynn or Ragh?

- They're both way up the steps from you,

but you could fly and probably
get within spell range

of some of them.
- Okay, I'll do that.

And I'll get it-
- Yeah, what spell

are you thinking?
- Remove Curse.

- What's the range on that?

- Remove Curse has, oh it's touch.

- So you have to spend
your turn getting up there.

- Interesting, interesting,
interesting, okay.

Yeah, I guess I'll do that,
I'll fly up and who needs heals?

Anyone I can do another bonus action or?

- I mean, I'm at 48, I would take a heal

if you're giving them out.

- You're pretty far away, right?

- But you're...

- You could probably hit
Gorgug or Fabian where you are,

but I think they're both pretty up there.

- They're both fine,
okay, then I'll just use

my bonus action to do
another step of the brave

so I can keep flying.
- Cool.

- And I'll just use my whole
action to get in the mix.

- Yeah, you're getting up in the mix.

You are way closer to the
top of the staircase now.

- Great.

- After Kristen's turn, the
sprite is destroyed, Ayda, Ayda.

Mr. The Insatiable, please consider this

a kind offering to your family,

and I hope, I hate to be a traditionalist,

and Fig, I know you love rebellion

so even if he says no
I would still aid you.

- If anything maybe he
should say no, right?

So that I can rebel against it.

- Oh, that's very fun.
- Yeah.

- Mr. The Insatiable, I don't
care whether you want me

to date your daughter or
not, but I hope you like me.

(Brennan mimics energy reverberating)

(group laughing)

And you see that she
breaks the contingency.

Gorthalax's chains come off, baby.

- Yeah!
- Boom, he hits the deck.

You see he has been
tortured for weeks as well

so he's got the same
exhaustion everyone else does,

but he's a full-a*s pit fiend

so even four levels of exhaustion

leaves a pretty f*cking terrifying being.

Fig, your readied action, baby.

- I shatter the rubies so
that we all get spit out.

- I love this song!

- I'm gonna say it is a
DC 20 performance check.

- Okay.

- To preserve enough ruby fragments

to have the equivalent
needed for Revivify.

- Okay.
(thrilling instrumental music)

(die tapping table)

First is a fail, however
I'm gonna use a luck point.

(Brennan cheers)
- Nice.

(die tapping table)

- Yeah, baby!

Okay, that's gonna be a,
let me just add this up

so that you can all just cream your jeans.

- I'm trying to cream my
jeans, dude, let's do this.

- I'm looking to cream.
- Let's cream our jeans.

- 31!
(group cheering)

- Oh, my Jeans!

- Cream!
- No, no, no, no, no, no.

- Jeans are ruined.
- Mean as hell.

- Fill 'em with cream!
- I'ma need new jeans!

(group laughing)
- You see Gorthalax, boom,

hits the deck inside of the gem.

As he does so he looks up at Ayda, smiles,

looks at you and goes,
"Oh, why don't you go ahead

"and shred, baby girl."
(Emily laughing)

And you hit that f*cking bass.

(energetic rock music)
The gem explodes.

Fig, as a bonus action performance
you shred which not only

deposits an exhausted
Gorthalax onto the b*ttlefield,

it blows up Killian's entire body, boom!

(Emily laughs triumphantly)
- Jesus!

- Fig, this was a TPK in waiting,

and in an instant it has shifted back.

(Emily cheers)

You have your action left.
- You love to see it.

- I have my action left?

I scoop up that ruby and
I revive f*cking Riz!

(players cheer)

- Um, hell yes.
- You look so dead.

- Hey Ayda, check out what I just learned!

I do my deep bass note that
gets your heart thumping again.

- Ooh, yeah.

- You see Ayda looks up and you and goes,

"You have mastered life and death?"

- Yes, yeah.
- "Incredible.

Incredible incredible, wow."

- I don't think I coulda done it

if you didn't make me
feel like I was worth it.

- "Oh, my skin is so hot,
and normally it's hot,

but it's hotter than normal."
- I know, me too.

- Riz, the first thing you
see as you come back to life

is Ayda and Fig hard flirting
right over top of you.

- I have like one hand reviving Riz,

but then the other hand is kind of like,

playing at almost touching her arm,

but I'm like being shy about it.

- I wake up just, (gasps)
am I interrupting something?

(group laughing)
(Emily shushes)

- Riz, you gotta give 'em space.

- It's whatever, it's whatever.

- Riz, give 'em space.
- I go back to, I just pretend

that I'm still dead.
- Space!

- Riz, give them space!
(Emily laughing)

- Riz is covered in Killian's guts.

- Yeah.
(group laughing)

- Incredible.

So, Gorthalax has f*cking
entered the b*ttlefield.

That is now gonna be Gorgug, that's you.

- Yes, I'm just gonna
keep attacking this treant

because let's get this guy outta here.

Let's get up there.
- Let's do it my guy.

- Hell yes.
- All right,

three reckless attacks.
- Dope.

(energetic rock music)

- Does a 20 hit?
- Hell yes.

- Hey.

- 21.
- Hey.

- Three hits, no crits.
- Oof.

- Three hits, no crits.

- You're saving 'em for
when it counts, baby.

- Yeah.
- 11, so 19 plus 27.

46 damage.

- Jesus.
(Zac grunting)

- This treant is almost gone.

He is just like, he's
like a f*cking Jenga tower

there's so many things cleaved out of him.

- Fabian, let me handle
this, you get outta here.

- Well, I spent a lot of time

working on this as well, all right?

I'd like to think it's
like a group project.

- If you want it, I will get outta here.

(Emily laughing)
- Yes, I'll get out of here.

- (laughs) Gorgug, you're just wailing

on this f*cking thing.

Were those all reckless by the way?

- Yes, every attack I've done
is reckless, I have not crit.

- Gotcha, gotcha, incredible.

(energetic rock music)

You see, hold on one second.
- Also, nevermind.

- Okay.

You guys now see the centaur

continues charging up the steps after you.

10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

And closes with Gorgug but
does not have an attack.

It has used its whole action to get there.

Killian is dead, Adaine, that's you.

- I guess I will keep hitting the tree.

- Hell yeah.

- So I'm just gonna fire bolt it.

- Dope, go for it.
- Which is yeah...

Yeah, I hit, I got a 23.

- 23, cool.

- So that's eight damage on the tree.

- Which becomes 16.
- I am rolling so poorly.

- (mimics fire roaring)
Still slinging fire at it,

Ragh right in front of you.

That is Adaine's turn.

- Can I move far away
enough away from Ragh

that I'm further than
70 feet away from him?

- Does someone have a
Dispel Magic or something?

Do you or no?
- No, I have almost-

- I just used my last third-level spell.

- I only have first-level spells left.

- Yeah, I'm down to
one second-level spell.

- That is going to be, Ragh
would get a swing on you

if you move away from him.

- Oh, he's within five feet of me?

- Within five feet of you, yes.

- Okay, then I guess
I'll f*cking stay still.

- I am going to need

a constitution saving throw from Adaine.

(Siobhan groans)

It's a five.

- You see...

(booming instrumental music)

Your mother floating in
the sky turns to you,

beholds you standing there

and casts Power Word Pain.

- Jesus.

- While the target is
affected by crippling pain

your speed cannot be higher than 10.

You have disadvantage on attack rolls,

ability checks, saving throws.

If the target tries to cast a spell

it must first succeed on a
constitution saving throw

or the casting fails
and the spell is wasted.

You can make a constitution saving throw

at the end of each of your turns.

On a successful save the pain ends.

- Can I not, can I cast shield?

- It's not an attack roll.
- It's not an attack roll.

Okay great, my mother is
hurting me again, what's new?

- She turns to you flying
overhead and says, looks at you.

She has completed the ritual now.

You see she says, "Insolent wretch."

Looks at Aelwyn and says,
"Where is your father?"

Aelwyn looks up and says,
"Um, well the last I saw,

"Adaine k*lled him, so."

And Arianwen looks at
you, her lips disappear

as her mouth sets in a stern
countenance and she says,

"All of this can yet be made right.

"You will pay, you will
both pay, children."

And that is Arianwen's turn.

That's Gorthalax, baby.

Gorthalax looks around, he's
got four levels of exhaustion

like everyone who's been
captured for a long time has

so his speed is halved,
disadvantage on everything,

but he's still tough as hell.

He looks at this roiling cloud shape

and he looks back at all of
you guys and you see he says,

"Kiddo, I love you.

I'm gonna try to buy you some time, okay?"

- I love you, Pops, buy us some time!

- (growls) And he flies
straight at this storm shape.

- Oh my God.

- And takes out a
flaming whip and a sword.

- Okay.

- You guys hear the voice.

The clouds part and you see
glimpses of a crowned skull.

The Nightmare King, taller
than mountains, stands.

Gorthalax flies straight for the king.

You hear colder than death.

(inhales raspily) "Do you dare?"

And Gorthalax goes,
"Behold Gorthalax fallen.

I listen to neither
angel nor god." (growls)

And you see he kind of looks
over his shoulder at Fig

and is like, "Pretty cool
for your old dad, huh?"

- (laughs) You rule, Pops!

- And he flies straight
for the Nightmare King

and is gonna take some attacks.

And now here's where sh*t starts

to get really f*cking crazy.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- [Players] Okay.
- We're here now?

- It seemed crazy to me at that point.

- It's pretty crazy.
- Exactly.

- I'm feeling pretty crazy already

but I guess let's get crazier.
- You described a crazy thing.

- So his fly speed is 30.

- Whose?

- Oh, Gorthalax because he's exhausted

so he's gonna go five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

And he flies out over the sea of mist

as the clouds begin to part

around the 800-foot tall Nightmare King

and (growls) just starts
cracking this flaming whip

and swinging with his sword.

That is now going to be the treant

who is gonna continue to
take swings at Gorgug.

- I impose disadvantage on one of them.

- Nat one on the disadvantage roll.

- I'm sorry, my friend is helping me.

(group laughing)

- Spring break, I believe in you.

- Spring break, I believe in you.

- Spring break, I believe in you.

- Hits on a second one.

- Spring break, I believe in you.

- Okay.
- And deals Gorgug

17 halved to eight damage.

That's the treant.

That is now going to be... (humming)

That's gonna be Kalina.

You guys have not seen
Kalina in action yet.

- No, we haven't, Brennan.
- Oh, you have

'cause I've been Kalina this whole time.

- Oh yeah, so pretty badass.

- Oh, she's always making
out with her girlfriend.

- Good call, I make out
with Ayda right now.

- Riding a skateboard on grass.

(Ally laughing)
- And up stairs.

- Yeah, she's pretty lame at times.

- Riz, you're back up with one hit point.

- f*ck.
(Zac groans softly)

- Standing next to Ayda and Fig.

Kalina, (mimics fast actions pounding air)

Displacement, mirror images everywhere

(mimics wind howling)
appears in front of you.

Oh sh*t, your tie!

Okay.
- Yeah.

- She stands in front of you.

As she's approaching you,
Fig, you see she goes,

oh sh*t, I look good and-

- You're okay, I've seen better.

I wear you well, you know?

I'm like a really flattering mirror.

Like an H&M mirror.
(Ally laughing)

- You see that Ayda puts-
- Kristen gets my reference.

- Ayda puts a hand on her hip and says,

"Yes, Fig is more attractive than you!"

- Yeah!
- Damn.

- What up?
- You see Ayda, way too loud

goes, "Got 'em!"
- (laughs) Yeah you did.

- She looks at you and says,
"I've heard that before.

That's something you say
after you've burnt someone."

- Well, you did burn,
I'm rubbing off on you.

Actually, we're both pretty fiery.

Yeah, we're both living up to our names.

- You see Kalina, Riz, you
stand up with one hit point.

Kalina looks immediately nauseous

as she and Fig are both in
the line of your tie camera.

- Oh, your tie.
- Yeah, and you see

that the displacement effect on her ends.

A lot of her magic just straight
up stops as you do that.

However, she is down but not out.

Kalina is going to make six attacks.

Kalina is no f*cking joke.

You guys are here in the heart

of the Nightmare King's Forest.

It's time to f*cking go.

You see, hold on one second here.

(soul-stirring instrumental music)

A lot of her cool sh*t is gone now.

- Six attacks is not cool sh*t.

- Six attacks is not as cool as sh*t,

but you do see that you're hearing pings

on Gorgug's phone like people,

I mean, you're live
streaming a battle against,

like, a resurrected nightmare deity.

- Yeah.
- People are gonna log on.

People are into it.
- I'd click that.

- I'd click that.

You see, she's gonna take her attacks now.

She's going to attack you.

First attack, and it's
gonna happen in order

'cause of different sh*t she can do.

(booming instrumental music)

On a 19 she connects with
Riz, you've only got one-

- Cutting Words.

- Go ahead and roll your Cutting Words.

- Come on!

- Minus four.
- She still connects.

She connects with Riz.

Riz, I'm gonna need you

to make a DC 15 strength saving throw.

- Four!

- You do have a Bardic
Inspiration that you never used.

I know it won't do anything, but...

- I got a four, yeah.

- Kalina-
- And I'm down.

- Kalina kicks Riz off of the stairs.

Riz goes 15 feet out over
the side of the staircase.

On the beginning of his turn he will fall.

Kalina kicks, she's gonna
turn the rest of her attacks

to Fig and Ayda.
(Emily sighs)

As she does so...

(dramatic instrumental music)

(Brennan hums)

Ayda's gonna use her
reaction to cast shield

which means that that attack misses.

Three of six hits.

11 damage to Ayda.

That's a critical hit.
- Oh, God.

- On me?
- No, Ayda.

- No!
- Oh.

- What happens though?

I would think that, okay,
so wouldn't a pit fiend

and their succubus be connected

so I can hellish rebuke when
someone attacks my succubus?

- Kalina uses six of
her attacks, Ayda drops.

You see that Kalina goes,
"Night, girlfriend."

Crack, and moves across Ayda's jaw.

She collapses to the ground, you see-

- She didn't use six of her attacks.

she used five 'cause she used one on Riz.

- Yeah, she used five
on Ayda and one on Riz.

You see immediately following that.

- Save one, oh, God damn it, yeah.

(tense instrumental music)

- And she is going to make

one final attack against you, Fig

that is actually a spell attack.

- A spell attack?

I can't Counterspell,
I'm out of third level.

- And she misses, she goes-

- (groans) I want her to hit me.

- She goes to claw through your neck

and The Infaethable Bass
comes up in front of her hand.

That is-
- Can I throw my body

on top of Ayda?
- Yes, you can.

- No one else, everyone stay away.

- You throw your body on top of Ayda.

Sandra Lynn walks up and draws
her bow fully back and goes,

"Fig, stand up," and hits
you for 13 points of damage.

- I'm still standing.
- Whew!

- I'm doing fine down here, Mom.

- That is gonna be Fabian's turn.

- I look to Gorgug and
say, "You've got this!"

- Sure!
- And I would like to, can I

if I ride Hangman catch Riz?

- If you ride The Hangman
can you catch Riz?

The Hangman can get
you part of the way up.

It's going to be, how do you
intend to try and get him?

- I mean, he's falling
out of the air, right?

- Yes, absolutely.

- Can I ride The Hangman
as far as I can up

and then I'll action
surge the rest of the way

to catch him and prevent him
from taking falling damage.

- If you don't wanna do that
I can maybe do something.

- Okay.
- If it feels

like you're gonna fall off or something.

- Well, he's-

- Yeah, I also have fly right now.

- Okay, can other people get him?

- Possibly.

- Arrows are piercing damage, right?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- Okay, the...

- I don't know if I can get him this turn.

- Well see, it's like, when
you take falling damage

he'll automatically fail
at least once, right?

- You're down, down, right, Riz?

- I'm at zero, I'm not dead, but I'm...

- Yeah, but he will have
to do saving throws.

- I have a flying thing so
I think if I'm conscious

if somebody can heal me,

even if I'm falling off a cliff I'm fine.

- It would be nice for you
to be in the fight, though.

- Yeah, well I have a grappling thing.

I can get myself back if
somebody can heal me from afar.

- Cool.
- I can, but I don't go

till after your turn.
- I can, yeah, I can.

I can, yeah.
- If somebody can grab me

that's great 'cause
then I don't have to use

a non-damage healing thing to get back,

but if that's the option
that's the option.

- Fabian, The Hangman runs,
the Treant gets a reaction,

clobbers The Hangman
for 15 points of damage.

Hangman is barely hanging
on anymore, no pun intended,

but you are within, Riz
is 40 feet away from you.

Up the steps, but 40 feet away.

- (exhales deeply) Yeah, I'm gonna,

and that's with my taking a dash action?

- No, The Hangman gets
you to within 40 feet

and then you have all of
your movement and stuff left.

- Sweet.

- Okay, yeah, I'll take
a dash action to be under

and ready to catch Riz should he need it.

- So he's falling, he's
almost at the upper ledge.

He's got like a 100-foot fall.

Are you gonna be underneath
him and also falling?

- Whoa, he's-
- Or can you like grab me

before I fall?
- Yes.

- Kalina kicked you, you're
like hanging in midair

over the bottomless drop.
- Can you use your sheet?

- Oh, so he's like, so he's fallen, oh.

Can I cast Feather Fall on The Ball?

- Can you cast Feather Fall on him?

- I have Feather Fall essentially.

- Okay.

Oh, so he's been kicked
off of a ledge not above me

but even further away from me, got it.

- You're on this long staircase going up.

He was up at the top of the
steps and got kicked off

so for you to be under him,

you'd have to be off the staircase.

- Jump off, okay.

Well then I had pictured something

slightly different in my head.

So unless I can literally throw my sheet

to try and grab him in some way,

I may not be the guy for the job.

- If you, your sheet, uh...

If you did a crazy acrobatics check,

I would let you try to
grab him with the sheet.

- I have advantage and +13.

I'll do whatever crazy acrobatics sh*t

you would ask of me.
(Emily chuckles)

- This is gonna be a DC 25 acrobatics.

First of all five, 10, 15,

so you're 15 movement.

Are you gonna use a bonus?

So your speed only gets
you 15 feet up the steps.

So you're 25 feet away from
Riz having used your movement.

How much more movement
are you using to get up?

- I'll use an action
surge to get within range.

- Hell yeah, you action surge.

You have one action left,
you are within range.

This is a DC 25 acrobatics check.

- Great, here we go now.
- Oh no...

- All right, first one, 25?
(Emily groans uncomfortably)

- DC 25.
(dice tap table)

- My guy, first roll is a 29!

(players cheering)
(Brennan laughing)

- Roll to see if you crit.
- Yes, yes!

- I'll roll to see if I crit, why not?

That's not a crit,
that's not a crit at all.

- It worked the first time.
- Fabian,

you leap from The Hangman.

You see he says, "Sire,
go and save your Ball!

I don't know why you like him,

but he matters to you, it seems!"

- Me neither, there's just
something endearing about him.

- You rush up, you slide up the
banister, lean off the side.

Literally just the tips of your fingers,

you whip the elven battle
sheet and you can tell

it's not gonna be enough to get Riz.

You concentrate, fire
roils through the sheet

and the flaming elemental
that disappeared in the sheet

reaches the last bit
of distance, grabs Riz,

plants a kiss on his cheek,
folks him in the blanket

and you pull with all your
might and snap him back

to the stairs in front of you.

- And he flies off the other side.

(group laughing)

- Yo-yo, full yo-yo.

- Incredible.
- Full yo-yo?

- Fabian, that's your action,
movement, and action surge

unless you have a bonus action.

- I don't have a bonus action.

I think that's true, I don't, yes.

- Do you have spells
as a bard, do you have?

- I have spells-

- You can give Bardic Inspiration.

I think Riz already has
some Bardic Inspiration.

- Do you have Healing Word?
- I do not have Healing Word.

Yeah, I do not, I apologize, I'm sorry.

- Could you swaddle me really quick?

- Can I swaddle The Ball?

Fully wrapped in like, fully in like a,

like entirely in sheet in my arms?

- Little furry baby.
(group laughing)

- Incredible, you guys see

at the end of Fabian's turn

as Gorthalax closes
with the Nightmare King.

The Nightmare King (inhales
raspily) (mimics expl*si*n)

just shudders the very
air and earth around it.

And you see Gorthalax

takes a tremendous amount
of necrotic damage.

- Necrotic.

- Is he still standing?
- He's still standing.

He took 42 points of damage.

- Okay, then that's a beautiful thing.

(Ally laughing)
That's resilience.

- Adaine.
- Yes.

- The unicorn lowers its
head and charges at you.

I am going to need...

First of all, it's
going to make an attack.

(dramatic instrumental music)

That is a hit.
- Shield.

I have to roll a constitution
roll to do a spell, right?

- Yes, roll a constitution save, DC is 17.

- I don't make it.
- The spell falters.

You do not have disadvantage
on this next save,

but I'm going to need another
constitution save from you.

- 10.

- The unicorn lowers its head,

charges, and Adaine, you look up and see,

(mimics blow landing) you feel
its horn puncture the wall

of the cottage behind you, you are dead.

Straight through your chest,

the unicorn has fully k*lled you.

- Jesus.
(dramatic instrumental music)

- Riz Gukgak, I'm gonna need
a death saving throw from you.

- That's a 12.
- That's a success.

Figueroth Faeth, you are up.
- Okay.

- Sandra Lynn and Kalina
are both over you.

- Okay, I don't care about them.

Kristen, do you have any Revivify?

- Yeah, I have the spot
for it, I just need the..

- The component, okay.
- Yeah.

- So I am gonna bonus action
second level Healing Word Ayda.

- Okay.

- So she gets, oops.

She gets 13 hit points,

and then I'm going to
cantrip Prestidigitation,

try to make another diamond.

- Give me that same performance check.

What did we say the DC
was last time, was it 25?

- I think it was 25.
- 25, yeah, go for it.

(dice tapping table)

- Wait, let me do the math.
- Don't you have advantage

on performance when you're somebody else?

- I have an advantage on deception.

- Deception not performance.
- And performance!

Yeah, advantage on
deception and performance.

- Nice.

- I think that's gonna make it.

That's gonna be a 25 exactly.

- Yay!

- Ooh, baby, you, (mimics
impact pounding) Ayda comes to.

You, (mimics wind whipping)
create this gem, bam, gem is-

- Can I put it on the skateboard

and send it down to Kristen?
(Ally laughing)

- Kristen, you grab it.
- Whoa!

(Emily laughing)
- Straight in the ankles.

- You see-
- 'Cause I wanna stay here

over Ayda and get in the way
of other people attacking.

- Aelwyn looks horrified
as Adaine is gone.

You see she...

Aelwyn reaches out a hand to the unicorn

as it lowers its head and you
see this scintillating fractal

of images surrounds her,
pure abjurative magic.

(mimics small explosions resounding)

She says, "Get out of this
world!" (mimics expl*si*n)

And the unicorn is gone,
(snaps fingers) banished.

(mimics wind howling) The unicorn
is fully f*cking banished.

She is full weeping and
collapses to the ground

next to Adaine holding her in her arms

as Ragh raises his glaive over his head

to try and k*ll Aelwyn.

That is going to be, and
Ragh's turn is next, f*ck.

Ragh is gonna go now.

(stirring instrumental music)

Ragh rolled a two and a seven.

- [Emily] (laughs) Nice.
- Aelwyn casts shield.

He does not hit either time.

And that's gonna be Tracker.

- Oh yeah, Tracker, oh God.

- Tracker grabs Ragh in a headlock.

Goes, "Ragh, Ragh, this
is not you, it's not you!"

And Ragh collapses to his
knees weeping (gasping)

as the possession fades from Ragh.

Ragh is back in the game.
- Yes!

- She can do a spell?

Oh, cool
- Yes!

- Tracker dispels on Ragh.
- Yeah.

- Hell yeah.
- Kristen, that is your turn.

- Okay, I am not quite
sure where I am in relation

to everyone so feel free to
edit this as you need to,

but I'm gonna run and I am
going to Mass Healing Word

to Riz, Ayda, Adaine, who else needs it?

- I'm dead so...

- I think Adaine is fully dead.

- Somebody else, I'm not
knocked down, I'm dead.

- Fig is close to dead too, right?

- Yeah, I am close to dead.

You do have though, I
sent you that diamond

to Revivify Adaine as well.
- Oh, yeah.

- But you know, who knows what the right-

- How many spell slots do
you have of that level?

- I still have spell slots, yeah.

- Okay.
- I still totally do.

- So looking at, sorry,
looking at Steps of the Brave.

Cool, so you're gonna try
to get as far up the steps

as you can basically, right?

Or yeah, so you're taking off.

As you do so...

(dramatic instrumental music)

15, with just the bonus action to fly

and your full movement,
bonus action to fly,

full movement, ribbon dancing
up the steps, beautiful.

What's the range on Mass Healing Word?

- Oh.
- What are you casting?

- 60 feet probably.

- Yeah, that's what I'm trying
to, it is 60 feet, yeah.

- 60 feet?

- Yeah.
- You can hit,

Adaine is just out of your
reach but she's fully dead.

Everyone else is within your reach.

- Awesome.
- Riz, Fabian, Aelwyn, Tracker

all of them, everybody.
- Okay, great.

And then I'm going to
cast Spirit Guardians.

- Can't cast two spells so
you do Mass Healing Word.

The other one's gotta be a cantrip.

But...
- Okay, then I'll cast,

I've been wanting to cast
this, Toll of the Dead on...

- Okay.
- Who's left? Kalina

- Are you not gonna heal us?

- Kristen's doing Mass Healing
Word as a bonus action spell

and then as a cantrip.
- Cool.

- I will say, you also, how many uses

of Channel Divinity do you have, I forget.

- You probably have two.

- It says it on your D&D Beyond.

- You have two, you also have that thing,

Twilight Sanctuary.
- Yeah, I have two.

- Which is also very good.
- Oh, great, yeah, yeah.

I also would love to use that, okay, cool.

Let's do, I'm not close enough

to really cast Twilight
Sanctuary on Adaine.

- But you have a movement.
- Oh, it moves with me.

- It moves with you and
it's not concentration

so it just stays there.

- Done baby, Twilight Sanctuary
and Mass Healing Word,

can I do that?
- You can do them both

'cause one's not a spell, absolutely.

- Wow.
- Done, all right.

- Wow, cool.
- Everybody who got that

gets 13 hit points from Mass Healing.

- Ooh, thank you!
- Who gets it?

- I'm generally okay

if you want to give it to everyone else.

- Okay, cool.
- But if you have it,

I would take it.

- I think Kristen can hit everyone.

Oh wait, oh, it's only six people.

- Six people, so who's-
- Or NPCs I think.

- Fig is getting it.

- Yeah, I think me and Ayda could use it.

- And then how much is
that, Kristen, sorry again.

- 13.
- 13, what are you at Fig?

- Now I'm at 23 and Ayda should
be at least more than that.

- She's at 26.
- Yeah.

- And Riz is now back up at 13.

Fabian's pretty close to good.

So that's one, two, three.

Between Aelwyn, Tracker,
The Hangman, or Gorgug

who are the other three you're gonna pick?

- Probably The Hangman.
- Cool, yeah, he's hurting.

- Bring him back up, yeah.
- So he's at 20 now.

Tracker's at full and Ragh is at full.

Aelwyn is not at full.

- Okay, well let's hit Gorgug and Aelwyn.

- Cool, and Gorgug, you
get another 13, baby.

- Great.

- God, Mass Healing Word is very good.

- Really good.
- Very good.

- Okay, different rounds have made big,

big f*cking differences
in terms of the swings

between you guys being on death's door

and you guys coming back up.

This Healing Word brings everybody back up

in one fell swoop.

Kristen continues to fly up.

And the aura of the
twilight sanctuary is so big

that actually already Riz and
Fabian are within the aura-

- What does that do?
- What does it do?

- When you end your turn
there you either take a d8

of temporary hit points

or you can lose a charmed
or frightened condition.

- Oh, sick.
- Great.

- Great.
- Incredible.

That is now going to
be, that's Ayda, baby.

Ayda looks straight at Sandra Lynn.

And on a natural 17 blasts
the curse right off of her.

- Ooh!
- Oh, yes.

- Thanks.
- Sandra Lynn weeping,

collapses, horrified and looks at her-

- Hey, we'll cool Mom, we're cool.

There was banter but we're cool.

- That is now going to
be, that's Ayda's turn.

(stirring instrumental music)

After Ayda that is
Gorgug, that's you, baby.

You're still down there with
the centaur and the treant.

- Ugh, it sucks down here.
(Brennan laughing)

- Were you near Kristen
'cause you could maybe try

and take my skateboard back up.

- Can I get the skateboard?

Has the skateboard rolled down past?

- Yeah, I sent the skateboard
down with the diamond.

- I'll let Gorgug grab the
skateboard on the way down.

- Yeah!
- Look, should I just

leave these guys, I feel like
it's just almost a waste of-

- I think you're fine to do that.

- I feel like we need to start getting rid

of these big things
like the tree and stuff

to hurt the Nightmare King.
- Yeah.

- 'Cause we're just
getting absolutely owned.

- Okay, I'm gonna take bonus action dash

with that skateboard, right.
- Okay.

- Bring it back to momma.
- My movement's 40

so bonus action-
- Are you...

- I'm taking an opportunity attack.

- Cool, yep, yep, yep.
- Wouldn't dash mean

that they don't get an opportunity attack?

- That's disengage.
- Disengage.

- Sorry, I think you can.

I think the skateboard,
oh, nevermind, ignore me.

- The centaur leaves you
with 12 halved to six.

The treant is gonna give you.

(dice tapping table)
- You rolled a lot.

- 11 plus six, 17 halved to eight,

so six and then eight damage to Gorgug.

- Okay.

- And so you can move, dash,
and bonus dash with 40.

- Can I get to Kalina
and attack in one turn?

- No, you're way down here.

So your speed is 40 so that's
movement, five, 10, 15, 20,

and then five, 10, 15, 20.

With a dash and with a
movement and bonus dash

you're still a little ways away.

You could cast Jump to
remove difficult terrain.

- Yeah, I think I'm gonna jump.

- Nice.
- Cool, so you-

- And that's my last spell shot, guys.

- You removed difficult terrain

which means that you can move 100,

and so with movement and
bonus action dash that is 80.

- On a skateboard?
- Yes.

- Balancing up on a skateboard.

- Sick ollies dude, incredible ollies.

- Yeah, I mean, can I
get past Kalina then?

- No, you are way the f*ck down,

but you are 20 feet up so
you have an action left.

You are right now about 20 feet away

so you could keep going
up under this Jump spell

if you wanted to, but in other words

80 feet did not get you
all the way to Kalina.

You'll have to use your action to dash

if you want to get up in the mix.

- I'm 20 feet away from her, right?

- Yes, you are.
- And I have an action left

on top of Jump?
- On top of Jump, yes.

- Okay.
- Oh no, Jump is your action.

Sorry, yeah, you're done.
- I think so, yeah, yeah.

- And at the end of your turn go ahead

and give yourself 1d8 temp HP, go for it.

- Great.

Where's a d8?

Oh, eight.

- Woo, baby.
- Hey.

- Nice.
- Hell yeah, got that temp HP.

Okay, that is Gorgug's turn.

That is gonna be the Nightmare King.

- [Emily] Mm.
- [Zac] Hmm.

- Okay.

(intense instrumental music)

- The Nightmare King casts
Finger of Death on Gorthalax.

60 plus 15 is...

Gorthalax is still standing.
- (sighs in relief) Oh.

- Just takin' the damn hits.

- Yes!
- Wow.

(Brennan mimics blow landing)
- He rules

- Gorthalax, yeah, boom,
just takes this huge wallop

from the Nightmare King.

You see he coughs up a
bunch of fiery blood.

He says, "Don't worry about me, kiddo.

Worry about the curses, I got this!"

- Pops, I'm worried about how to live up

to what you're doing,

that's the only thing I'm worrying about.

- Hell yeah. (hums)

This thing is gonna...

(tense instrumental music)

- Adaine's still dead, right?
- I'm super dead.

- Oh, dead.
- I don't have any Revivify,

but there is a diamond in the mix.

- I got it.
- We got a diamond in mix.

- I can also make another
diamond on my turn,

but I feel like maybe I'll try

and do some damage to the tree.

- Great.

- Yeah, it's so
susceptible to fire damage.

- We gotta get Gorgug to that tree, too.

- Yeah, I'm going straight to the tree.

- Yeah.

- We need to get Sandra Lynn
and Ragh tinctured as well.

- Sandra Lynn's good now and Ragh is good.

- No, she's, no, no,
they still see Kalina.

- They're unpossessed.
- They're unpossessed,

but they still see Kalina.
- So they'll stop attacking us

for now.
- What if we just k*ll Kalina?

- Yeah.
- Or we just k*ll Kalina.

But she might be less powerful

if fewer people can see her, I'm dead.

- You guys Arianwen throws a-
- Jesus.

- Fog of poisonous
smoke on top of Tracker,

Aelwyn, and Ragh, and Adaine's dead body.

- Jesus.
- Jesus.

- Oh, sorry, scratch that,
nix, sorry, cancel that.

She's not gonna cancel her flying spell

which is concentration
so she's gotta figure out

something else, baby.

Ooh, Arianwen, you took too
many concentration spells.

You gotta plan better.

- Does she wanna borrow my teddy bear?

- There you go.
- Yeah, give the bad guy

our teddy. (laughs)
- Yeah.

She can have my skateboard,
too while we're at it.

- Yeah, just take that
slap bracelet off my wrist.

- Would she like a pair
of sneakers of dunking

'cause I think they'd look great on her.

- We just gear her out. (laughs)

- Take these headphones.

- Hey, what's up, Arianwen?
- Headphones of Solitude?

- We feel like you're kinda lacking.

- Makeover.
- Makeover.

- Hey.

- You see that Arianwen casts Ice Storm

on her living daughter and
the people close to her.

- Oh. (laughs)
- Christ.

- None of them go down,
they all rolled very high

on their saves but they are each hurting.

(dramatic instrumental music)

And that is going to be,

that's Arianwen.

That's Gorthalax, baby.
- My man taking the hits.

- f*ck him up, dude, f*ck him up, dude.

- Taking the hits.
- f*ck 'em up.

- f*ck 'em up.
- Ooh, baby.

- f*ck 'em up.

- No kings, no masters.

- He lays in to the Nightmare King.

Whoosh, whip on the arm,
slashes across the chest.

The Nightmare King screams out in pain.

And you see this dumbass
treant starts to waddle

up the steps slow as hell.
- f*cking idiot, you idiot.

(group laughing)
- This tree dude sucks.

- f*cking.
- f*ck the tree.

- Tree, meet some stairs.
(group laughing)

- That is going to be,
that's back at Kalina now.

But Riz is back with the tie still going.

She is looking hurt right now.

She's gonna make some attacks.

She's gonna go for Riz.
- f*ck.

- Isn't Riz like down?

Wouldn't she have to move pretty far?

- Doesn't she have to move past,

she would take opportunity
attacks from Ayda.

- Yeah.

- Oh, you're right, she would-

- Yeah, and also potentially my mom.

- Yeah, 'cause I got thrown
like 20 feet or something.

- Yeah.
- 10...

- If she does make it to
Riz, I'll impose disadvantage

on one of X many attacks.

(stirring instrumental music)

- Battle Master is very cool.
- Yeah.

- What's up guys, this is the new me.

I take care of my friends.

- Kalina drops Sandra Lynn.
- f*ck.

(Emily groans)

- And then you see being
f*cked up by the camera

she casts invisibility
on herself and vanishes.

Fig and Ayda may both take melee attacks

with disadvantage as
she moves away from you.

- Okay.
- Hey.

- Huh.
- Did you say something?

- Oh sorry, Fig, you can
take an opportunity attack

with disadvantage, Kalina went invisible

and ran away from you.
- Okay, yeah, okay.

There's nothing I can add to it.

I just have to do a straight up.

(dice tapping table)

Does a 15 hit?
- It does not.

- Okay, then I miss.

- Sandra Lynn is at zero
dying, Fabian, that's you.

- Okay, can I make a perception check

for any sort, like if I
wanted to cast Faerie Fire

on where I think Kalina might be-

- You have a 20-foot cube.
- Yeah, can I throw a 20 foot,

like can I make a perception
check to narrow the range

of where I think-
- Give me a perception check.

- That's gonna be a 24.

- Yes!

- You see Arianwen
looking towards the tree.

- The tree?
- Yeah, the tree

up on the ledge which could
be where Kalina ran to.

- Great, I'll hop on... (snaps fingers)

- The Hangman's still, hold on.

Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.

Okay, yeah, the Hangman can get you

to like the edge of the ledge and now

you have your full movement
left, you're past the stairs.

- Do you mind bringing me 'cause I'm slow.

- Of course, I take my
swaddled Riz, unwrap him

(Brian laughing)
and we charge off, yeah.

Can I cast, I will cast Faerie Fire

to try and light her up.
- Motes of sparks

radiate out from your battle sheet.

They land, covering Kalina's
true form and outlining it.

Her invisibility vanishes because Riz

points in the direction
of your Faerie Fire

and you once again watch
as all these mirror images

begin to get sucked into her

as you hear the notifications
coming in on Gorgug's phone.

Fabian, that is your action.

You have movement and bonus action left.

- I think, can I, did the Hangman

need to dash to get us there?

- Did Hangman need to dash?

Yes, Hangman needed to
dash to get you there.

- Okay, I can't attack

so I think I'll just hop off The Hangman

and just move, like,
create space between Riz,

Hangman, and myself.
- Okay.

Do you wanna move towards
the gaggle of people

near the cottage, do
you want to move closer

to the edge where Kalina and Arianwen are?

Where do you want to move to?
- Yeah, I'll move closer

to the edge.
- Cool.

- It's dangerous, but why not?

- Cool.

(dramatic instrumental music)

The Nightmare King one
again summons a burst

of necrotic energy, Gorthalax
is starting to look hurt.

Fabian, do you step forward

to be within five feet of Kalina or no?

- Oh no, she can come to me.
- Okay, gotcha.

But you step forward,
that's Fabian's turn.

Oh, I have to roll
concentration for Aelwyn

or the unicorn comes back.

Aelwyn succeeds on her
concentration check.

Riz, that's you, baby.

Kalina is standing right in front of you.

- Sweet, do I get the sense
that she would, in addition to,

I think I have a way to hurt her

and possibly display
her image in other ways.

Do I think that would hurt her more?

- Yes, you do.
- Sweet.

I don't know if that piece of
mirror that I had before broke

or not but I assume I have
some kind of spy kit mirror.

I know at one point I used
it to look around a corner.

- Yes, you do.
- Dope, so I would like

to be streaming the fight.

I would like to object
interaction, take the mirror,

take like a little hand
mirror and toss it at her

and go to sh**t through
it at her to hit her

and create a shatter of
reflections of her refracting.

- Oh my f*cking God.

- Hell yeah.
- Yeah!

- Incredible.
- So cool.

- Yeah!
- Take a free sleight of hand.

No action required, if you beat 20

I'll give you advantage
on the attack roll.

- If someone dies do they still keep

their Bardic Inspiration,
'cause I gave Riz

Bardic Inspiration that he's never used.

- You still have Bardic Inspiration, yes.

- That is a 21.

- Yeah, baby.
- Yes!

- You toss the mirror, take
your dad's g*n out, go for it.

Roll with advantage, baby.
- Oh, yes.

- Roll with advantage, baby.

- That is a 29.
(players cheering)

- Oh my f*cking God.

- On the mirror?

- Like through the mirror to hit her.

- Yeah, yeah.

- But also to break the mirror.

- Sick.
- So there's many of her.

- It's like sh**ting somebody

through glass or something.
- This is beautiful stuff!

- This is the coolest
thing I've ever heard.

- I know!
- Honestly this is a new Ball.

Fabian has not seen this
grappling hook Ball.

- This is a new Ball.
- Cap is gone.

We never wanna see that cap again.

- Has anyone seen my hat?
- Reborn.

- It fell off.
(group laughing)

- So Murph, just to let you know.

- Hot Riz was born.
- Kalina is under the effects

of a mirror image spell.

I am gonna let you fully bypass that

because of how f*cking
dope this mirror sh*t is.

Go ahead and roll damage, baby.

- Mirrors negate mirrors.
- They always say that.

- They always say that.
- They do, classic.

- Literature.
- Yeah.

I think Oscar Wilde said that.

It was Oscar Wilde's quote.
- Yeah, yeah, uh-huh.

- 21 damage.
- 21 damage, you see that

that hurts Kalina,

she is, hold on one
second, you said 21 damage?

- Yes.

- Jesus, Kalina counts on not getting hit.

You can see she can't take
hits that many times like that.

She (screeches) hisses and you
watch (mimics wind howling)

more images come back to her as again,

you can tell the strain of all the magic

she's trying to do, she has
a ton of passive abilities

that are not happening right now

because you're streaming her.
- Sweet.

- That is Riz's turn,
baby, any bonus actions?

- Yes, I'm gonna hide. (laughs)

- Hell yeah, go ahead, go for it.

- Can you hide with your
tie still on her, though?

- Can I, Brennan?
- Yes you can, absolutely.

- Sweet.
- Cool.

- He's like a paparazzi.
- That's only 19.

- Paparizzi.
- Okay.

- Paparizzi.
(Emily laughing)

- Paparizzi.

- That's what it's called
when you throw a mirror

at someone and sh**t
them, you pop a Rizzi.

- Fig, that is gonna be you.

- Okay, so I wanna step into the video

so that there's yet
another Kalina in there,

and I'm wondering if I
can angle Burning Hands

so I hit the tree at,
what's your mom's name?

- Arianwen.
- Arianwen.

- Arianwen and Kalina.

It's a 15-foot cone.

- You literally can
just make it there, yes.

(Emily laughs)
- Yay!

- Okay, so I am gonna do that.

It's not that much damage, but...

But I rolled really f*cking well.

(Ally cheers)

So everyone takes 17 fire damage

which means for the tree it's 34.

- Oh, yes.
- Are you f*cking serious?

- And there is yet another
Kalina in the frame.

- Oh my God, the tree is
starting to look hurt.

You see it's catching fire right now.

- Oh, they can do a dexterity save

but I'm guessing they can't.
- Normally, normally-

- How'd that tree do on
that dexterity saving throw?

Please tell me.
- Yeah.

- Oh my God, Kalina rolls a natural two.

Normally she would have full evasion,

but under the light of that camera, baby,

she is f*cked up, she takes
the full, what is that,

34 points of damage?
- Oh sorry, 34 for the tree.

It's only a first-level
Burning Hand so it's-

- Gotcha.
- But I rolled six, six,

and a five so it's 17 damage

for Arianwen and Kalina.
- Copy that.

- Hell yeah.

- Oh sorry, Arianwen's out of there.

She's many feet up in
the air, she's flying.

- Okay, that's fine, Kalina
and the tree, I'll do that.

Kalina and the tree.
- Hold on one second.

- Our nemeses.
- A wholesome book. (laughs)

- Eight, it was that
minus, and then you did 17

you said or how much?
- I did 17.

So then I just doubled
it to 34 for the tree.

- Gotcha, perfect.

Kalina looks hurt by that.

Incredible, guys.

That is Fig's turn.

Aelwyn.

(Brennan hums)

(dramatic instrumental music)

Sorry, hold on one second.

- I just gotta get to that tree.

- Gotta get to that tree.
- Yeah.

(Emily laughing)

Aelwyn's gonna straight up just f*cking

toss another Cone of
Cold at her f*cking mom.

- [Group Members] Yeah.

- Sometimes you just gotta.
- Can't complain about that.

You just-
- And we're not going to.

- And her mom's gonna roll
to try and Counterspell it.

And does, sadly. (mimics
magical reverberations)

Blasts the spell out as Aelwyn hits her.

Aelwyn shouts out to Tracker like,

"My sister, please do something!"

Ragh turns around f*cking exhausted,

but he goes, (pants) "Okay,
hoot, growl, hoot, growl."

And starts to sprint at where Kalina is.

He closes distance but
is not able to attack.

Next after him is Tracker.

Tracker,

(humming) is going to...

(dramatic instrumental music)

She is going to actually
cast Beacon of Hope.

Everyone has advantage
on wisdom saving throws

and death saving throws.

You regain max hit points from healing.

- Whoa!
- Within 30 feet of Tracker.

- Oh, great.

- So that's Aura of Hope.

And she is going to move across the ledge

to spread out across more people.

That is now gonna go, that's
Kristen Applebees, baby!

- Great, how can I close the distance

between me and Kalina and be
like 60 feet away from her?

- Oh my God, please bring me back to life.

- And Arianwen.
- Yeah.

- Oh,

Adaine is far away from
where Kalina is right now

so you can either close with
Adaine or close with Kalina.

- Okay, I'm gonna close with Kalina,

but I will go back for Adaine

'cause also Tracker could help her.

- Tracker does not have Revivify.

- Oh, okay, then yeah,
nevermind, I'll go to Adaine

and cast Revivify.
- Thank you.

- Cool, you have that
gem that Fig created.

(mimics cracking) It crushes.
- Cool.

- You're once again out of gems.

- Can I do perception
and see if banishment

would work on Kalina?

- Potentially, yes.
- Okay.

- I think we have to destroy
her though to break the curse.

- She's pretty hurt right now, I think.

- Brennan, is Power Word Pain
now gone from me since I died?

- Is Power Word Pain,
yeah, I will say you died.

Power World Pain is over.
- Great.

- How about, it was like a short rest.

(group laughing)

Like I took a nice little nap in Heaven.

- Six, nine...
- Ayda-

- I do a bonus Mass Healing Word.

People get 15 points.
- Can't do two spells

in a round, can't do
Healing Word and Revivify.

- Oh, right, right, right, okay, cool.

Then I do bonus action Step of the Brave.

- Cool, hell yeah.

Ayda flies up behind Fig,

and she's gonna full fireball the tree.

- Yeah!
- Oh!

- Actually you know what?

Gorgug, you've left already.

Ayda's gonna hurl a fireball
back down the staircase

behind you.
- Okay.

- To just blow this f*cking treant up.

- Can she hit both of 'em?

The other guy's made of wood, too, right?

- Oh yeah, f*ck yeah, good point.

- Everybody made of wood.
(group laughing)

- One's like old-a*s wood.

- Just dry, it's real dry.

- Damn, all those old wood m*therf*ckers.

- Yeah.
- Three times.

- Dusty.
- Oh, my bangs.

- Okay, that treant is on
death's f*cking door and...

Cool, that is Ayda's turn.

Gorgug, that's you baby.

- You mind if I keep
using this skateboard?

- Yeah.

- How far away am I from the tree?

- You're a little bit
far from the tree still,

but the skateboard would let you get there

with your action left.

- Hell yeah, getting there
with the action left.

Okay, listen to this shenanigan.

What is the visual picture?

The tree is here, the
Nightmare King is here,

everyone else is over
here, does that make sense?

- Yeah, as you're at
the top of the stairs,

the cottage to your left,
trees to your right,

and straight ahead is the end of the cliff

and the ocean of mist
which the Nightmare King

is standing up in.
- How big is this tree?

- This tree is about like, I don't know,

about like 80 feet tall.

- I don't know if this is tall enough,

but I wanted to cut the tree down

so it fell on the Nightmare King.

(Emily and Ally laughing)
- It would definitely

'cause the Nightmare King's
only about 15 feet away

from the edge towering over you

so the tree could collapse
touching the Nightmare King.

- Sure, let's do that.

I'm gonna take my two attacks that I can

which are max damage
'cause it's an object.

So they're 45 damage each

so that's 90 damage.
- Jesus!

Oh my God.
- Yeah!

- Cool, this thing only has an AC of 12

so just roll above a
12 on your two attacks

so just don't roll a nat one.
- Reckless.

- Cool.
- Yeah, yeah.

- Gorgug, you rush up.

This thing isn't going anywhere.

(roars) Boom, you sever into the base.

As you do you look in
the shower of gnarled,

blood-soaked wood, the tree collapses.

Are you aiming it towards
the Nightmare King or no?

- I do wanna aim, it, well, yeah, yeah.

- It collapses, you see the branches

collapse into the chest.

- And it lands on him?
- Yeah, it's like,

the Nightmare King is fighting Gorthalax.

- We got a bridge, baby.
- You've built a bridge,

basically, in the shower of woods

a sudden barbarian instinct
tells you to reach out.

You snap your hand out and
grab an ancient broomstick

buried in the heart of the
tree, you are holding the broom.

- Can I just, wait, I'll break it.

- Awesome.
- The curse.

- You fly. (laughs)
- That is Gorgug's turn.

That is the Nightmare King.

- Did you have time in your
turn to break the broomstick?

- Uh, I don't, Brennan-

- Oh wait, the curse is broken,
right, that's what it means.

- No, yeah, breaking the broomstick

will not necessarily break the curse.

You gotta hit it with a
Dispel Magic to do that.

- I see.
- But you have Tracker

and Ayda and other people
do have slots left.

(dramatic instrumental music)

Three times four is 12 so 32.

- What are you doing, Brennan?

What's all this math you're doing?

- The Nightmare King points
a finger at Gorthalax

and extinguishes the fire within him.

He begins to fall into the mist.

(Emily groans sadly)

He is fully gone.

That is going to be, that's
the Nightmare King's turn.

That is now going to be Adaine's turn.

- Okay, this is a crazy thing to do

in the middle of a battle.
- Love it.

Love where we're at already.

- The final trans-substantiation
is the name.

Fabian has the spell book, right?

- You've already
disenchanted the spell book.

You've already disenchanted the cottage.

- But we have the spell
book, it's just disenchanted.

- That's correct, yes.

- Can I Mage Hand the book from Fabian?

- Yeah, absolutely.
- And look in the book

and see this final spell
that the Unnamed Goddess did

to rename herself?
- Yes, absolutely you can.

You Mage Hand the book, go
ahead and give me arcana.

- Great.
(dramatic instrumental music)

That is a 26.
- You Mage Hand the book.

(exhales sharply) Go through it.

You are looking through
this goddess's spell book.

It is impossible divine magic.

You see on a page a young woman
with her hair in a ponytail

holding a curved shepherd's staff

in the shape of a question mark.

And you see that behind her is a face

that half of it is a
skull and the other half

is the face of a long-haired
witch-looking woman.

That's Adaine's-
- Kristen, I think

that you can do it, you
need to look at this book.

- Incredible, you mage hand,
you've gotten the book.

You do your arcana check
you boom, find this thing

and hold it up, Kristen's
right next to you.

Kristen you look at this, and
we'll get to it on your turn.

- Okay.

- Arianwen is going to go.

She is going to cast another ice storm.

This time I'm gonna need
dexterity saving throws

from Fig, Fabian, Gorgug, and Riz.

Dex saving throws?

- I'm gonna need dex
saving throws from Fig,

Fabian, Gorgug, and Riz.

- Even though I'm hidden?
- Even though you're hidden.

She doesn't know she's hitting
you, but she's hitting you.

- I got a nine.

- 16.

- 23.

- 18.
- You know what?

I'm gonna maybe go ahead
and give myself disadvantage

so that Arianwen would have disadvantage

on something I did against her.

- Go for it.
(dice tapping table)

- Luck point.
(dice tapping table)

Okay.
- This is Aelwyn, right?

- No, this is Arianwen.
- Arianwen.

- Oh, okay.
- Okay, I got 16.

- The DC was 15.

If you succeeded, so 15 was the save.

If you got seven, so you
either take 14 cold damage

or seven cold damage depending

on if you succeeded or failed,

and you take nine or four piercing damage

if you succeed or fail.

- I would take four.

- And that's halved for Gorgug, yes.

- And I take none because
I'm a rogue, evasion, right?

- Yes, yes, yes, yes, absolutely.

- Sweet.

- What was the DC on the check?

I got an 18.

- Made it.

- Okay, cool.
- 15.

- Yes, you made it.

You see, badda boom.

That's gonna be Kalina, baby.

(foreboding instrumental music)

Kalina is going to make her attacks.

She steps forward.

- (sighs) Man oh man.

- Ragh goes down, bam.
- No!

- And Fig, how much are
you at right now, Fig?

- I'm at 12.

- You take eight points of damage.

- Okay, I think I'm going
to then Hellish Rebuke.

- Oh hell yeah, awesome.

- So Kalina takes eight fire damage.

- Woo, baby.
- Hell yes.

- You hurt me, I hurt you.
(Ally laughs)

(dark instrumental music)

- Okay.

That's gonna be Fabian's turn.

- Oh, okay.

I guess I'll attack Kalina.

- Hell yeah.

Go for it, roll your attacks.

- First, go ahead.
- By the way,

Sandra Lynn ices the centaur,
(claps hands) destroyed.

- Great.
- Nice.

- f*ck yeah.
- Welcome to the club, Mom.

- First one is a...

A 28.

- 28, definitely hits, she doesn't have

any of her cool sh*t that
she can do right now.

- Great.
- But you do have to get past

the mirror images so-
- If I wanna do like bardic

and like Battle Master stuff

do I have to make those
decisions before I know

if I'm actually hitting her or after?

- No, that's on a hit.
- Okay.

- So I'm gonna need you to roll,

(energetic instrumental music)

go ahead, you must, okay,
so she's gotta roll.

- Okay.

- She fails, you hit the real Kalina

even with all of her mirror
images, do it up, baby.

- Great, so I'll burn a
second-level spell slot,

my last spell slot for 2d6 for Fandrangor.

I'll make it another d6
for Defensive Flourish,

and then a d8 for a Goading Attack.

She needs to make wisdom
saving throw DC 17.

- She fails that saving throw.

- Great, if she attacks anyone
but me she has disadvantage.

- Oh my God.

- Ooh, that's good.
- It's so good.

- And then we'll do,
oh, but an awful roll.

One, two, nine, 11.

11 plus 15 plus nine.

15 plus nine, 24 for the first attack.

- Incredible.

- And then I'll roll to hit a second time.

- Cool.

- That's gonna be a 23 to hit.

- You destroy one of her duplicate images.

(Brennan mimics expl*si*n resounding)

- Great.

- Incredible.

- Oh, and my AC from that
first time, my AC is now 23.

- Awesome, it's also The Hangman's turn.

- The Hangman, can I roll to see

if he gets his breath weapon back?

- Yeah, go ahead and roll for it, baby.

- What do I need to roll, five or six?

That's a five, yeah,
let's let this Hangman,

let this Hangman breathe on this cat.

(group laughing)
Let this Hangman,

let this dog breathe on this cat.

- Dogs beat cats, dogs beat cats.

- Dog beat cat.
- Hangmans are a thing.

Cats are a thing.
- Cold.

- The Hangman can get the
tree in there too as well.

- Is the tree down?

- Oh, no, sorry, the
tree's down, I'm wrong.

- Can it go like, angle up to Arianwen?

- Unfortunately not.

Cool, Hangman comes and can roast-

- I think I got a plan
for your mom, Adaine.

- Go ahead and roll attack, sorry.

- What's the breath weapon?

- For The Hangman it's just 6d6.

- Hell yes.

- Just 6d6.

- Just nothing but 6d6.

Oh, just even more trash.

Eight, nine, 13, 17 points of damage.

I'm assuming fire.
- Yes.

Kalina is still up, but she
is now looking panicked.

Riz, that's you, baby.
- Sweet, I'm going to,

I was hidden, I'm going to
attack from hiding with my g*n.

(dice tap on table)

That is a 22 to hit Kalina.

- We're gonna roll for mirror image.

- Did the fire hit mirror image?

- The fire did not, but she
just rolled a natural one.

You hit the real Kalina.
- Yeah.

(Emily cheers)
Okay, one, two, three, four.

- Yes, sneak attack.
- Come on.

- Yeah, so crunchy, so many dice, jeez.

- Okay, okay, this is
better than last time.

- Ooh, yes it is.
(Siobhan giggles)

- 31.
- Oh, daddy.

- Yeah.
- Riz, you take your g*n.

Fig, Fabian, you are standing
on either side of Kalina.

Ragh has just dropped, Fig, you kneecap

with the sharp part of
The Infaethable Bass.

Fabian, you parry her chin up
with the point of your blade

exposing her whole chest.

The images flicker, Riz, Kalina

who has been with you your
entire life makes eye contact.

"Kid, it doesn't have to be this way..."

Riz.

- Mission accomplished, Dad.
(group laughing)

- Oh baby, boom!
- Yes, yes!

- Kalina flickers and is f*cking gone.

(Ally cheers)
You defeated Kalina, Jesus.

- Is the spell gone, is the curse gone?

- We have to dispel.
- It doesn't look

like the curse is gone,
but Fig, that's your turn.

- Okay, Adaine, how would you feel

if I potentially k*lled your mom?

- I would be honored.
- Okay.

I would like to use my final
spell, Phantasmal Force,

and since it crafts an
illusion in her mind,

but since illusions are real, I would like

to make her think her
heart has stopped beating.

And because I took disadvantage

she has disadvantage on the roll

and I have one last Bardic Inspiration

so I will use Cutting Words if I need to.

- (laughs) Okay.

- Would this, 'cause I have
other things I could do

if like the idea, if the illusion

that her heart has
stopped beating and that-

- No, no, I f*cking love this, okay.

- Is that real here?
- Just in the interest

of fairness she is an elf
and so has advantage on charm

so she'd just be rolling flat.

- Yes, so she's rolling flat.

- It's not even a charisma save though.

- I just don't want people
to get in the comments.

- It's an intelligence save, I
don't think this is charming.

- It's an enchantment spell.

Isn't it an enchantment spell?
- Is that the same as charm?

- No, wait, unless it applies
the charmed condition.

- Yeah, it doesn't say charmed.

- Oh, then.
- Bingo bango.

- Wow.
- Bingo bango.

- It just crafts an illusion.
- Bingo bango, baby.

- So that's disadvantage.
- Bingo bango.

- She's gonna roll.

Real quick though...

She is, okay, so what level spell is this?

- This is just a second-level spell.

- Well hell yeah, but guess
what, Ayda's up here now.

So when Arianwen Counterspells it

Ayda Counterspells that Counterspell.

(players cheering)

She's gonna roll right now.

She rolled a natural
18 and a natural four.

- Okay, then I think we're
gonna have to go with the four.

- So Phantasmal Force
of her heart stopping.

I'm going to roll a flat
constitution saving throw for her.

- Okay.

- Because you are using a spell

to be basically like an
instant k*ll effect here.

How much damage does
Phantasmal Force normally do?

- How much damage would
be each round on your turn

it can deal 1d6 psychic damage.

- Gotcha, okay.
- I mean, if this

isn't gonna k*ll her I can also

just make her think she
has no magic anymore

and that would also be tragic.

- Oh sh*t, yeah, I don't
think it can k*ll her.

- That would make her stop flying.

- Okay, in that case I'm
just gonna make her think

that her magic is done and
then she can just plummet

and think she has no magic.

- Arianwen collapses to
the ground, takes 12 points

of falling damage and
begins to weep hysterically.

She turns and raises her
hands to the Nightmare King

and says, "Monarch of
nightmares, I have restored you.

Please, answer my call, heed my request.

Lay low these who would
attempt to stop you!"

And so that was Fig's turn.

You cast that spell, any
bonus actions from Fig?

- No, I don't have my skateboard.

Yeah, I think that's all I can do.

I'm saving my one last bardic
since I didn't use it there.

- Aelwyn, you see that Aelwyn
looks at the Kalina mist,

hits it with a dispel
magic, breaks the third

and immediately after Ragh
makes a death saving throw.

And immediately after him Tracker goes.

Tracker yells out to
you, Gorgug, and says,

"Gorgug, hold the broom up!"

(mimics expl*si*n) The broom breaks.

All four lesser
trans-substantiations are gone.

In the book, Kristen, it is
your turn, you see the image.

The last trans-substantiation

changed the goddess's name into a crown.

The last thing you need
is currently up above you

in the sky atop this giant.

(Emily gasps)
Make a religion check for me.

Are you kidding, are you kidding me?

(players laughing)
What the f*ck?

Every season!
- Nat 20!

- So spicy!
- How does this?

- How, how?

- Magic!
- So spicy.

- Oh, wow.
- Magic is real.

- Just magic.
- Magic is real, period.

- How does this keep happening?

- Ally is magic, magic is real.

- Ally is magic.
- Extra spicy.

- Ally's magic.

- Magic is real and so is my Ally.

- Saint Kristen Applebees.

- Saint Kristen Applebees.
- Saint Kristen Applebees.

You look around at your friends.

You, I, hold on, this is so wild.

- I think you should just
start planning for this.

- Yeah, maybe you should just cry now.

Just cry now, Brennan.

- 'Cause we won.
- Brennan, don't cry.

That's too easy, I want it worse.

I don't want you to sleep
tonight, that's what I want.

- You...

You look out, I actually
don't, I don't know what to do.

(players laughing)

- I wish we were all in the same room

so we could run around and film you.

- I would be doing laps.

I'd be doing laps around
the dome right now.

(players cheering)

(epic instrumental music)

- You look and see this image.

Kristen, it's never made sense.

What is the Nightmare King?

Everything you've studied about Sylvaire

has always been about The Unnamed Goddess.

It's always been The Unnamed Goddess,

her trans-substantiations.

She turned her name into a crown.

Who is this Nightmare King?

Galicaea told you that the Nightmare King

k*lled her sister, but Galicaea lied

about a bunch of stuff to you.

Where did the Nightmare King come from?

What is all of this?

You recall being on the
prow of The Goldenrod

and Kalvaxus saying he never
heard the Nightmare King talk,

and nobody ever heard
the Nightmare King speak.

And no one ever really
knew anything about him.

You're looking at this image
of the woman whose face

is half skull and half this and a picture

of what is clearly you standing in front.

What is going through
Kristen's mind right now?

- Wait, what?

- What is going through
Kristen's mind right now?

What are you thinking?

You're like, where did the
Nightmare King come into this?

All we've been hearing about
is this Unnamed Goddess,

Unnamed Goddess, all these
tricks, all these things,

all this stuff, we know that
they destroyed the goddess

and then the Nightmare
King rose up, where is it?

Like, where-
- Did you say Kristen

was in the book?
- Yeah, that's my question,

am I in the photo?

- The young woman that is the saint,

so the image is a girl-
- It's me holding my staff?

- It's you holding your staff

in front of a giant crowned
face that is half dead skull

half a long-haired witch-like woman.

- Are my bones 600 years old for real?

(Brennan laughs)

I mean, I don't know.

- Who do you think that,
Kristen reckons like,

who could the Nightmare King be?

Why would there be no story about him?

Why would he just have
come out of thin air?

And Kristen has to ask herself,

if the Nightmare King didn't
just come out of thin air

what could the Nightmare
King's origin have been

based on the story you
already know thus far?

Is there something that the
Nightmare King could have been

before he was the Nightmare King?

(epic instrumental music)

You see the Nightmare King
as tall as a mountain,

the lightning of the
storm flashes around you.

It strikes the Nightmare King's body.

And this is not the first time

you have seen a skeleton
taller than mountains made-

- It's the woman?

It's the God?
- Kristen,

you begin to float through the air.

You move in the direction

of the Nightmare King

as the Nightmare King
raises their hand aloft

to answer Arianwen's call.

What I need to know from you now is this.

You have never seen anything in your life

more terrifying than the
monster you now behold.

There is an inkling in your mind

that what you have just said is true.

I am going to write something
down on a piece of paper.

- You want us all to close our screens?

- No.
- So that we can't see it?

- I don't want you to-
- In the meantime

I'm just gonna guess names so John.

- Brian.
- Kevin, Lucy.

- Martin.
- Ricardo.

- Oh.
- Rebecca.

- Pauline.
- Daiya.

- Dancy
- Ooh, Dancy.

I also think Dancy.
- Michael Trapp.

- He's gonna write down Dancy.

- Gotta be Dancy.
- Emily Axford I think.

My guess is Emily Axford.
- Oh my goodness.

Betrayer in the party this whole time.

(players laughing)

- I like that on Emily's banner
we can just see the snarl.

- Yes.
- I know.

I tried to get it in, but...

- We have opposite parts of our...

- Kristen-

- Yeah, you're in the front of her mouth.

- You have a choice right now.

Roll me an insight check.

- Okay, that's pretty good.

Hey, that is a 28.

- If you are wrong and you move to embrace

the Nightmare King, Kristen
Applebees will face oblivion.

Not death, no chance
of resurrection, gone.

If your guess is right
something else will happen.

The realness of fear, fear that
you are wrong in this guess

is front and center in your mind,

but there is a possibility
that you are right.

I have written down what
will happen if you attempt

to move in the direction of this divinity

based on what you have
gleaned from the book.

Does Kristen choose to
stay and remain safe

here on the ledge or do
you move in the direction

of the Nightmare King?

- I think I...

I'm still able to fly, right?

- Absolutely.
- Okay, I say,

"What's your name you who I praise?"

And I fly out full hands out

just holding my staff going like this.

♪ Hallelujah ♪

- You guys watch Kristen just
straight up start praying

to the Nightmare King.

Hold on one second.
- She's under his spell!

(Ally laughs)

- Then Gorgug starts running at the tree.

- Kalina got to her!
- Yeah.

- Hold on one second everybody, sorry.

(soft instrumental music)

Kristen, you fly towards
the Nightmare King.

Let's see if you chose right.

Fear is not real.

You move and fly.

Tracker cries out, time seems to stop.

The Nightmare King is about
to cast Circle of Death

which would hit everybody on the ledge

and do enough damage to drop
almost everyone in the party.

(soft music)

Kristen, you move towards
the Nightmare King.

All of you watch Kristen
vanish into the chest

of the Nightmare King and
disappear in fluttering robes.

Kristen, you are gone from this fight.

And all of you

up on the ledge, the fight
is all but a foregone,

you guys were so close
to dying so many times.

You look, all that's left is Arianwen.

I believe everybody is up.

Sandra Lynn puts the last
arrows into the treant.

Ragh is making death saves
and is able to be healed.

The only person now who is
still in danger, incredibly,

this fight was impossible and
you have emerged victorious.

The only person who is left is Gorthalax,

falling through air and
he's already so far away

and he's headed towards the mist.

Kristen moves as all of
you surround Arianwen

and face the Nightmare
King who is raising up

to completely destroy you all.

And Kristen, you are in inky darkness.

(tender instrumental music)

You sense around you and you
say, "What is your name?"

Something small and scared is in here.

And you

reach out and there is a humanoid figure

that looks like it is made of,

it looks like if you had sculpted
someone from living glass,

but reflected in that
glass was a starry sky.

And not full of stars, just a few.

Just a few points of light
in all of the darkness.

And you see that it is crouched,

hugging its knees to its chin,

looking weak and sad and alone.

(warm instrumental music)

What does Kristen do?

- I think I walk up and I say,

"Hi, are you okay?"

- The being looks up and you see

that they look up at you and say,

"Am I really here?

I've, I'm...

I'm still out there, I think,

but I'm in here, too.

What do you know about me?"

- I don't know a lot.

I know that you were getting hit

with some lightning and I know
that you represent something

that a lot of people are afraid of

and so they've tried to destroy you

or destroy the memory of you,

but I know that I,

that I would follow you.

Is it too early for that?

This feels like a weird
first date. (laughs)

But I would follow you.

- As you say that you
see this being stands up

and is just about your height.

- 5'9''?
- Yeah, about 5'9''.

- Cool.
- You see that they look

and say, "What is it?

I, well if you want to follow me,

then I wanna take care of you.

(soft instrumental music)

Everyone who followed
me before, they hurt me.

And I hurt you too, I
think, and I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, you reached out
with praise for me and I,

I couldn't believe it,

and I thought you were just
trying to hurt me, too."

- Well, I'm not.

I'm here wholehearted and I'm,

I'm just ready to say I
don't know and that's okay.

IDK and that's okay.

- You see that the being
stands up and laughs.

And you see they say, "It's
okay not to know, IDK.

- [Ally] Mm-hmm.

- What were the things that I provided

that you were interested in?

You liked doubt and not knowing

and the nighttime and magic
and mystery and dreams.

Is that something the world still needs?

I don't," you see that
they make themselves

kind of smaller again and go like,

"I don't, I don't wanna bother anyone

if I'm offering something
that nobody wants.

But if someone wanted that, I
would be happy to give that."

- Definitely, definitely people want that.

There are too many people
with all the answers.

You're extremely important.
(bright instrumental music)

- You see they look and say,
"Then if people want to believe

in the nighttime and that
you can stand in the woods

alone in the dark and
not have to be afraid

because you're united
there with everything else

that's in the night there with you

and that the world is a
mystery, and that's beautiful,

I would be happy to do that.

What's your name?"

- My name is Kristen Applebees and...

I don't like this shirt anymore. (laughs)

- "Oh, oh, well I think I'm some kind of,

I think I'm some kind of god again.

I'm not a very good god,
I only have one follower,

but she's a really great follower."

- Thanks, yeah.
- "I think I can change that."

And you see, (mimics energy reverberating)

a star-blasted, black, indigo, purple

and white tie-dye shirt
that just has the letters

IDK on it.
(players laughing)

In like a very swirly script
appears on Kristen Applebees.

You see-
- Sick.

- You see that the deity says, "Um, okay.

Well, that's not a bad
miracle to get started.

What else do people need, what
else does the world want?"

- All my friends are about to die.

- "Oh."
- So that would be

a cool miracle is to...

Wait, are we inside of you,
like an evil you or what's-

- "Oh, uh, no, so I,

I'm a third thing

because for a very long
time I remember being

who my big sister told me I had to be.

And I don't really feel like that person.

That person was destroyed,
her name was destroyed.

And I'm not really the
Nightmare King either.

That's just something people called me

because I was frightening and scary.

And also because I think
people just default skeletons

to male, you know, like
you see a skeleton,

and it's actually a huge
problem in archeology.

There's a bias to just look
at a skeleton and be like,

that's clearly a king, and I'm like,

I'm wearing my old robe and a
crown, I'm just a skeleton."

- Whoa.
- "But I don't...

(tender instrumental music)

I don't feel like either of
those people really anymore,

and neither of those, I didn't really feel

like a Nightmare King when
I was a Nightmare King

and even when I was...

Even before, things
never felt quite right.

Uh, I can save your friends.

I can save your friends.

Um...

What should I be now?"

- We have so much in common. (laughs)

- "Oh good, okay good."

You see that the new deity,

they create a shirt on themselves

that's sort of like a
tie-dyed shirt as well.

They create some shorts on themselves

but are still like this glass person.

It's hard to see their facial
expressions and everything.

- Wow, me and my God figuring
it out together, that's great.

- "Yeah.

What would you...

What should I be and what should,

what do you wanna call me?"

- Whoa.

I mean, personally I've
just been referring to you

in my mind as the great mystery,

but that does sound a little bit

like a traveling sleight of hand magic act

so it could be something else if you want.

- "Sure, um, my old name was destroyed.

Do you have a new, is there,

what sort of names do people
want their gods to have now?"

- Oh, whoa.

(laughs) I don't know.

You mean, just like a normal
person's name? (laughs)

(warm instrumental music)

I mean obviously Cassandra.

(players laughing)

- Oh my God.

Um, obviously.
- So obvious.

- You see that Cassandra
looks at you and they say-

- We've done it again.
(players laughing)

- You see they say,

"I like the name
Cassandra if you like it."

- Yeah.

(players laughing)

- You see that the deity

says, "Okay, okay, it's time
to help your friends, I think.

I'm gonna bring you back
out to the world now."

Everybody out on the ledge, all of you

look and see the Nightmare
King shudder, stop,

and buckle down and the
massive crown tumbles,

shrinks in size, and
clatters onto the ledge

in front of you all.

Arianwen's eyes go wide.

As Arianwen's eyes go wide,
you see that Kristen appears

at the edge of the ledge
out of one of the curled,

bony hands that starts to change

and become this glass
nighttime star-filled thing.

The robes fade off of this giant shape.

You see that the being
reaches down to the mist,

stands up, and you are now
seeing as tall as a mountain

this new deity made of pure, glassy night

wearing this giant new tie-dyed T-shirt.

And you see in its massive
hand they lay Gorthalax

down on the ledge, reach out a finger,

and looks over at Kristen and they say,

"I am Cassandra.

I am the Divinity of Mystery,

and life and death

are all beyond our understanding.

All rules may in their time be broken,

and I say, let this be reversed."

They touch their finger
to Gorthalax's chest

and Gorthalax. (gasps and roars)

- Oh!
- Comes back.

(Emily sighs in relief)

And Cassandra looks out at all of you.

How is Kristen feeling about
their new deity at this point?

- Absolutely insane, I love this so much.

Cassandra, we gotta get back

'cause we're long overdue on spring break,

but you're coming with us.

You're gonna come see Solace
and you're gonna love it.

Oh, I want to introduce
Tracker, obviously.

- Tracker stares up like unbelieving.

You see that Aelwyn's banishment finishes.

The great unicorn has
been cast into oblivion.

Arianwen is bound and gagged here.

She is fully defeated here.

You see the Nightmare Tree tumbles away.

Against all of the odds
you are all still here.

What do all of you do as you
look up at this towering deity

where the Nightmare
King was just standing?

- I kneel.

- Um, (chuckles) are we cool?

- You okay, Kristen?

- Yeah Kristen, did you do
the thing you did before

where there's just like a new?

- The tie-dye makes it seem

like you had something to do with this.

- Yeah, the T-shirt is very cool.

- I'm totally, yeah, I
got a lot of my answers

which turned out to be
zero answers in a good way.

- So is this the Nightmare King?

- (laughs) This isn't the
Nightmare King, this is Cassandra.

- Oh.
- Cassandra.

- My new God, Cassandra.
- My apologies.

- Cassandra.

- You watch Cassandra smile.

They look at all of you and say,

"You've all been very hurt in my forest.

I wanna make that better."

All of you are immediately healed to full.

All levels of exhaustion are gone.

All spell slots returned, made whole.

And you see in a blast of magic
The Hangman as a motorcycle

(mimics motor revving) appears
again and The Hangman goes,

"Yes, yes, once again I am a motorcycle!"

- Both forms very cool,
but of course, I mean,

it'll be good to hit the road again.

- Is Gilear restored to his pride armor?

- Gilear is not restored
to his pride armor,

but you see that Baxter and Gilear land.

And Cassandra beholds all of you.

They put their face down
near the ledge and smile

and they say, "Are all of you, um,

the beloved of the blessed saint

who has brought me here into
this new age and new life?"

- I'm not sure that I can say

that I am beloved by someone else.

- Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna call her

a blessed saint to her face.

- I also don't, I don't know
if I have the confidence

to just claim I'm beloved

by someone I haven't talked about it with.

- Kristen is my bud.
- I love them all.

- And Kristen is a saint.

- I love them all, Riz the
most, we all already knew this.

Adaine has my finger in her pocket.

- I did, I did have your
finger in my pocket.

- But these are all my best friends.

- Cassandra smiles and says,

"Well, I think it's high time

that all of you were on your way."

You see they look down at the crown

at the final trans-substantiation,
point their finger at it.

(mimics expl*si*n) Break it and you guys

are looking at a disenchanted
crown of The Nightmare King.

- Wait, we still need
the crown for our grade,

so please don't like fully.
- It's still there.

- It's only disenchanted.
- It's still there.

It's disenchanted.
- It's still there?

- Almighty Cassandra, almighty Cassandra.

- Prestidigitation, somebody clean it up.

- Yeah, I'm gonna clean it up.
- Cassandra, may we have this?

- Cassandra looks and
smiles and looks at Kristen.

- We've got one strong enough to bear it,

and I push Gilear forward.

- Gilear says, "Um, hello
divinity, I am Gilear Faeth,

a counselor to, former, I'm an assistant.

I would be happy to escort your crown.

Also, I was in some armor earlier

and badly chapped
certain parts of my body.

The healing has not seemed

to get the job all the way done, but."

- Gilear, that's such a
bad way to describe it.

Just take the win, man.
- I cast Spare the Dying.

- "Oh, very well, yes, yes, very well."

Cassandra picks up the crown
and puts it in Gilear's hands.

He bows and you see Cassandra

looks at Arianwen and says,

"This woman is not of your number.

(peaceful instrumental music)

She was here to attempt to control me

in my hurt and shattered
state, is that correct?"

- That's her MO, yes,
that's what she tries to do

to people, control them in
their hurt and battered states.

- Pretty sure she lost her magic, though.

- That's true.

- (laughs) That's what I heard.

- Yeah.

- You see that Cassandra
smiles at you, Fig, and says,

"Here in my forest, dreams are very real

and you were very clever
in learning that."

They look at Arianwen and say,

"Let's make that permanent, shall we?"

Blasts Arianwen and
removes her magic forever.

- Oh, a fate worse than death.
- May I, I mean, instead of,

you know, things can neither
be created nor destroyed,

what if that magic lept to
the one who wears their crown?

- Fig is just level 45.

- Oh no, I was talking
about Gilear. (laughs)

- You see that Cassandra looks
and they smile and they say-

- It's fine, I'm asking too much.

- You see they smile and you see they say,

"Come into my hands."

and they put their hands
at the edge of the ledge

and they're like, "I
shall take you back home."

- Oh.
- All of us?

- I had the thought-
- You're gonna throw us?

- "No, I'm gonna carry you."
- That's awesome.

That's a great god.
- Oh, amazing, I step in.

- Can I whisper to Cassandra?
- Yes, you can.

- I just run up to their ear.

"Hey, long story, but on our way here,

I just remembered this
and you seem like a person

who could possibly handle this.

- [Brennan] Mm-hmm.

- One of our friends asked for a big bus

that has, I think, hands or something.

It's like a live bus."
- Oh, it's a unicorn, right?

- A uni, um,
- Like a horse?

- "Oh, are you speaking of a pentacorn,

a unicorn with five horns and 20 legs?"

- No, I think we're talking

about a bus with hands for wheels.

Is that what you're talking about, Gorgug?

- I don't fully remember.

- Yes, it was a bus with hands for wheels.

- No, wasn't it the animal

that Fig wanted from Aguefort?
- Yeah.

- The pentacorn?
- Oh, okay, I see.

- That is the pentacorn.

- If I dream it, would it be real?

- "Yes, in your heart.

All right, let's move on."
(group laughing)

You see-
- That was so sweet, Gorgug.

- I just kinda wanted to
see if it would be real.

- You see that Cassandra looks.

You see The Vands, the van with hands

scramble out of the woods.
- Ew!

- You see that Cassandra
picks all of you up

in their hands and they look
at Arianwen and they say,

"Arianwen, you came
here of your own accord

and you will leave as such.

Perhaps you can get
The Vands to take you."

And you see that Arianwen screams

as the van starts crawling after her.

- Jesus Christ!
(group laughing)

- Seems very character-building to me.

Character-building exercise for you

to get out of this forest.

- No more magic.

- You see Arianwen's
running down the steps

as The Vands goes after and she goes,

"Goddess, you would not abandon me!

There is love between us still!"

And you see that Aelwyn looks
over at you and just goes,

"Love without expectation, what's that?"

- I have no idea.

- You see, you are
carried as Cassandra moves

taking like mile-long steps
moving through the sea of mist.

And suddenly as if by magic,
flying over the forest

of the Nightmare King
with you, your hirelings

are all weeping, like Ragh
is holding Gorgug and Fabian

being like, "I kept having
nightmares about my mom.

It was so f*cked up,
like, I couldn't save her.

I'm so sorry I attacked you guys."

- Hey, hey, it's all right.
- It was crazy, man.

I mean, people tried to
sh*t in my mouth, yeah, so-

- I drowned.

- A big bug gave me a riddle.

(group laughing)

- I met Hilda Hilda.

- Oh, that's definitely the worst one.

- I saw Baron, I saw
Baron again, it was awful.

- Oh, you're right.

Also none of us know about Hilda Hilda

from the first time around
because you didn't tell us.

- Hm, interesting.
- Yeah, who's Hilda Hilda?

- Uh, no one.
- Okay.

- You see, Fig, Sandra
Lynn is clutching you

weeping hysterically.

She is just going like, "I
was just there, I was seeing."

- Mom, absolutely water under the bridge.

- She looks up, she just collapses

and puts head in your lap.

And Kristen, you see Tracker

just collapses against your side.

You can tell that she
is like, hurt, but like

in this moment is just taking comfort

in your presence there next to her.

And you guys are deposited

at the edge of the forest back at Arborly.

Cassandra waves their hand.

The briar wall vanishes, (snaps fingers)

sinks back into the earth and you watch

all the wood elves and
Nuathera and the gnomes

see the forest open up to them again.

You guys have restored an
entire section of the map

and changed the world for the better.

You are victorious in your fight.

You defeated an amount
of challenge ratings

that truly staggers the imagination.

- If we don't get an A
grade for this project,

I'm calling the cops.
(group laughing)

- All of you arrive back in Arborly.

People are like, ecstatic
and so, so happy.

You see that Cassandra before they leave

looks down and sees The Hangvan

and reaches into the
pocket of their shorts

and pulls out a small mountain of silver,

just dumps a bunch of silver
on the ground in front of you

Enough, Gorgug, for you
to buy The Hangvan back.

- Thank you, I'm broke.

- (laughs) You see-

- It's fine, we might be making
ad revenue at this point.

- Oh, that's true.
- Mm, partnership.

- All of you, you see
that Cassandra in parting

looks at you and says,

"You faced many nightmares
in this forest."

Points to Riz and says, "Baron
and the world of mirrors,

Kristen's resurrection
journey in lands beyond,

Gorgug and the Sphinx,
Adaine and the cliff,

the carnival, Fig yourself,
the end of the sleeping village

and Fabian."
- Let's skip over it.

Let's skip over it, we
don't need to dwell.

- What happened with you, Fabian?

- What was your fear?

- Yeah, what's the scariest thing for you?

- You see Cassandra looks and says,

"The only thing you faced,
I thought, was that rat."

- No, there wasn't, I didn't, nothing-

- Just a single rat?

- A single rat?
- Oh, great Cassandra!

- It was one rat?
- One rat?

- No, it was the sexy rat.

Do you remember the sexy-
- Oh, this one?

- You remember that disgusting sexy rat?

- I conjure the sexy rat,
I conjure the sexy rat.

- Oh!

- This one?

- You see Cassandra looks and says,

"Well, the sexy rat was the
only thing that I conjured

so anything else was not me."

- Stop, stop.
- Oh no.

- Can I make a perception check

to see if Chungledown Bim is chasing us?

- Can I do an insight check to see

if this god is lying to me.
- Yeah, do an insight check.

- Does this god got jokes?

It's like a 12.

- A 12, you're not sure.

Cassandra looks at you and says,

"The only part of your journey

that was created by me was the rat

so if you encountered anything else

that must have also been a
fellow traveler in the forest."

- No because they were working together.

At one point the sexy rat
called for Chungledown Bim

and told him that I was
hiding in a cave, you know?

- "Chungledown Bim, I don't
know what that is at all."

- Stop, Kristen, your new
deity's got jokes, all right,

and I like that, I like that
a lot but also stop, stop.

- The sexy rat is on your shoulders.

- I stab, I just full on try and stab it.

- You all, you try to stab the sexy rat.

The ribbing continues,
you get the van back.

Adaine, near here you find
your jacket and your orb.

- Oh, I throw the orb into the sea.

(group laughing)

- Whoosh, the orb is f*cking gone.

You bring Boggy back.

As you guys leave Arborly
on your journey back home,

feel free to stop me at any point,

but as we transition into
the epilogue of this story

(triumphant instrumental music)

Ayda asks if you all can stop
at Leviathan on your way back.

- Sure.

- You stop at Leviathan on your way back

and you see that Ayda is going there

to shrink down the Compass Points.

Waiting for you all in Leviathan, however,

you all find at the door
of the Compass Points,

you see Garthy O'Brien
and Arthur Aguefort.

- Huh.

- As you guys arrive back you see

that Ayda looks at Arthur,
Arthur looks at Ayda

and Arthur steps up to her and says,

"Oh, my daughter, Ayda.

many hundreds of years ago you told me

never to speak to you
again and I did my best

to honor that request.

I have heard that you
have changed your mind

and I thought in the manner of parents

I would present to you a gift."

And he reaches in and pulls a key out

and gives it to Ayda and
she looks up and says,

"Um, hello father.

Oh, this is my paramour, Figueroth Faeth."

And you see Arthur looks
over at you Fig and says,

"A paramour!" (laughs)
- 'Sup.

- "Oh, snogging the
headmaster's daughter are we?

(Emily laughing)
(laughs) Ah, ribald!"

You see that-
- Yeah, I'm gonna say,

I don't need, remember I tried to order

the most magnificent
thing you could ever make?

Turns out you already made it

so I'm gonna take that order back.

- [Players] Aww.

- So smooth.

- I pretend that I'm not
really proud of that.

I look out of the corner of my eye

to see if Ayda liked that.
- Ayda bursts into tears.

And you see that Arthur
says, "Yes, yes, sentiment!

That's what's needed!"

And you see he closes the
key in Ayda's hand and says,

"Ayda, I won't lie, I'm not altogether

a very present man, but I do love you

after my own fashion, and
this key here is a key

that should open the door to your quarters

here in the Compass Points, accessible

from the third floor landing closet door

in Mordred Manor so there will be no need

to move the Compass Points.

They are in fact joined.

I hope you enjoy."
- Aw.

- And by the way, that landing, Fig,

is like right across from your room.

- I whisper to Ayda, "Um,
I'm actually under the piano.

My room is under the
piano, if that makes sense.

It will once you go there."

- You should just move rooms, Fig,

as someone dating someone.

You're gonna want more
room than that. (laughs)

Let's get you a proper room.

- Just play the F sharp and
then it sort of flips under.

- Just sort of a bowl?
(Emily laughs)

- Arthur looks at the rest of you.

Garthy comes over as
Ayda takes Arthur over

and Arthur starts having a
little heart-to-heart with her.

Garthy comes over and goes, "Well loveys,

"it looks like you've done
it again, haven't you?

"World savers, cheeky."

He says, "We're gonna
throw little party for you

"down at the Gold Gardens."

You see that they look over and Fig,

you see they make eye contact with you

and then pointedly look at all
the rest of you and they say,

"I know that my darling girl

is gonna be spending a lot
more time in Solace now, yeah.

So please take care of her.

I'll miss her something terrible."

- I actually think she's
gonna keep being here, but...

- Yeah, back and forth.
- Yeah.

- You see he says,
"That's real good, but."

You see Garthy smiles and they
look at you Fig and they say,

"It's just that I took care of Ayda

the best that I could, yeah,
but it was very hard for me

and I'm very happy to
know that she has someone

that really makes her happy."

- Well, I'm happy to have
you say that, honestly.

- You see they smile and they just say-

- Whatever you did, you did great.

I wouldn't have a single
regret if I were you.

- "I tried to take care of
her the best that I could,

but it was challenging because, um."

And you see tears stream
gold down Garthy's face

and they look up and they say,

"My mom's name was Ayda Aguefort, too."

- Aw.
- Oh.

- Oh.

- Whoa.

- You look out and all of you,

you see that Arthur comes over.

The last thing Arthur says is,

(soft instrumental music)

says, "Oh, and the matter of the crown.

Well, you have successfully
returned the crown

of the Nightmare King.

However, you are one week overdue."

- Oh, okay.

- "However, you know, a week overdue

is simply a matter of time,
and time, as we all know,

can be rearranged."
(Emily laughs)

You see that Arthur Aguefort
looks at you all and says,

"I will be taking the
crown from you all now

and I'm going to go back
in time and stop myself

from doing all that
stuff I did in Fallinel.

But I'm going to replace
it with illusions of myself

doing all of that, return the crown

in time for your spring break conclusion

and that way the school's
not broke, the crown is back,

and you all get an A,
how does that sound?"

- Sounds good to us.
- Yeah, definitely.

- Professor, principal,
headmaster Aguefort,

my sister is sort of wanted
for quite a lot of crimes

in Solace, but I was
wondering if she came to study

at Aguefort Academy if she could maybe

just go to therapy and
do some community service

and that would be okay?

- Arthur looks over at Aelwyn and says,

"Well, very recently,
as recently as last year

I was helpful in helping
one William Seacaster

secure a general amnesty
and I see no reason

why this citizen of Fallinel

could not be able to swear
under that same amnesty, too,

Miss Abernant."
- Hey,

maybe she'll be a Seacaster soon, too.

(Siobhan clears throat)

And then I look at
Fabian way too obviously.

- Oh!

- I mean, that was like a-

- Do you think Fabian's
mom's gonna get with?

- Yeah!

- Yeah, that's what's gonna happen.

- What, no, no, that's not,
I mean maybe, who knows?

- Maybe it's mom and my sister.

- Gilear is gonna take
Fabian's mom's last name.

- No, actually it could happen,

so let's not even think about it.

- Gilear is gonna date her.
- It's too much,

my brain cannot take this.

- Arthur smiles, takes the crown,

does some crazy time
shenanigans to go back in time

and turn his entire Fallinel
excursion into a series of,

basically you actually
see him use his watch,

open a time portal, jump
outside of Calethriel Tower

and club himself in the back of the head

to knock himself unconscious
and quickly spring up

a bunch of illusions and he
says, "Haha, chronomancy!"

(mimics magic reverberations)
The portal closes

and all of y'all return back to Elmville.

For all of you, what do you all do

as sort of our epilogue to Sophomore Year?

What do you all do as
you return to Elmville?

- Me and Tracker go straight
up to the roof of the Manor.

We set up the most
comfortable-looking hammock

and we just hang out
there only the two of us,

nobody else allowed for a
very long time, my sweet baby.

- She is so warm in your arms.

You guys get back to Mordred Manor.

The first thing that happens
when you get back to Mordred

is you see a tearful reunion.

Jawbone and Sandra Lynn embrace.

- Aw.

- Sandra Lynn smiles.

Jawbone very openly to anyone who asks

explains what happened
which was that the breakup

they had mid-quest was not Jawbone's idea.

It was basically Sandra Lynn

feeling self-conscious and insecure.

And you see that Jawbone
welcomes you all back home.

And Sandra Lynn and
he, basically you know,

the first time he knocks a
beer or two back and is like,

"I mean, we're gonna have
to talk about boundaries.

We're gonna have to
talk about expectations.

You know, I didn't want
it closed to begin with.

And I mean, those horses are
out of the barn at this point,

but you know, we're gonna figure it out

and you kids never have to worry

'cause Mordred Manor's a home
for y'all no matter what."

- Our parents are great.
- Yeah.

- You see

(soft instrumental music)

that as you guys go up.

Hold on one second.

Adaine, as you are going up to your room

you see that you get up there.

(cheerful piano music)

There are gifts strewn
all over your oracle room.

Some of them are like baby gifts

like little stuffed animals and stuff.

You see that there's 16 of them.

And therefore all of the
birthdays that you would have had

if you had grown up here.

Jawbone in his cardigan
kind of sheepishly walks up.

You see he says, "Uh, hey there Adaine.

"I, I um, I got us, hey it's a
manila envelope here and um."

He puts it down on the corner
of your desk and just says,

"Oh, I see you saw those.

Those are for you, kind of a housewarming

or late, late, late, late birthday gifts.

I got these papers, they're, um...

You know, you're finishing
up your sophomore year

so this might be crazy and you know,

it's a lot of paperwork and I understand,

but if you wanted to be."

- I give him a big hug.
- He gives you a big hug

and just starts crying
and he looks up and says,

"Sandra Lynn told me how
hard everything was and."

- I k*lled my dad.

At the time it felt good, but
maybe we can talk about it.

I should probably also
have a therapist that-

- "Yes."
- Separate from you.

- "Yes, you should have a
separate therapist, absolutely."

- But also let's please talk.

- "Let's talk about it
and we're gonna and I."

- Thank you.

(tender piano music)

- "My whole life turned
around 'cause of you kids,

and you took a chance on me.

And you're living under this
roof, you have a family,

and you have a dad even if
he's a mangy, dusty old one.

And if you wanna sign some
papers about it you can.

And you don't have to if you don't.

And kid, I don't know how
else to say this other than,

you're easy to love,

and anyone who couldn't figure
it out was a real bozo."

And he tussles your hair and
he takes a step and says,

"Oh, and I'm gonna get some
lumber from the hardware store

and we're gonna get you
some bunk beds in here!"

Aelwyn is like, so clearly uncomfortable

with how moved she is and
happy in this new home.

Mordred Manor is now Jawbone,
Sandra Lynn, Fig, Adaine,

Kristen, Tracker, Ragh
moves in with his mom Lydia

who you all meet who's a badass.

- Oh my God, thank God
there's so many secret doors

in this manor house.
- Incredible.

- Mordred Manor is packed.

Lydia is awesome, she's a wheelchair user

and she comes in and you see that she has

the gem stuck in her chest and she's like,

"Lydia Barkrock, great to meet everyone.

Solid g*ng, good crew.

What are we doing for dinner?

Anyone feel like some chili?

How do we feel about chili?"

And Ragh's like, "My mom rules!"

And you see that
(peaceful instrumental music)

yeah, Zayn, Aelwyn is there now.

- My gosh.

- Fig, Lola Embers is
on you immediately like,

"We need to be planning
the Archdevil Tour.

We need to be printing posters."

- I've actually got a new concept album.

- She says, "Oh my God,
I'm listening, what is it?

Hello, I'm here."
- It's all about a phoenix

who everyone she touches is reborn better.

- You see that Ayda-

- It's just something I've
been trying to say for a while

and there just hasn't been a right moment

so I just wrote a bunch of songs about it.

- You see that Ayda across
the room looks up at you

and you see that she prestidigitations

a bunch of little flaming hearts
that float away in the room

and blushes and touches her cheek.

And you see Lola says, "Okay.

There's some context I'm
missing, but that's okay.

We're gonna talk about it, I love it."

You see that you have never
written more songs in your life.

Like, the songs are just
flooding out of you.

(peaceful instrumental music)

For everyone else,

are there any other
conversions people wanna have?

Are there things they do
when they get back to town

or questions that are left unaddressed?

- I think Gorgug probably
lets his parents know

that he's coming by
later and picks Zelda up

and they go to Basrar's.
(group laughing)

- You are Zelda are at Basrar's.

Zelda is so happy to she
you, gives you a big kiss

as soon as she sees you.

You see that she smiles and says,

"Um, it's really cute
that you brought me here

'cause um, this is where
we went on our first date,

and I love you."
- Oh, well, you know.

I love you, too. (chuckles)

I just thought it would be kinda fun

'cause we haven't been here in a while.

And you know, I love ice cream.

- "I do, too."
- It's so good.

- "I super do, too."

You guys talk the night away.

It comes up organically on its own

without you having to pry or push at all,

but Zelda finds out about that
text from Skrank that you got

which was actually real and she is like,

"Oh, Skrank is such a weird, creep."

- Wait, what, wait, I
forget, that was real?

- It was not illusion on your phone.

It was a real text from Skrank

where he was like, I hope
everything's okay between us.

- Wait, what happened? (laughs)

- You see that Zelda's
like, "We literally talked

at a party and he told people
that we went on a date.

We literally talked at
that party that night.

Skrank sucks."
- Damn.

- "Skrank is bad."

I'm gonna have to kick Skrank's a*s.

(group laughing)

Right, whatever, I don't care.

- (laughs) You see she's
like, "It could be kinda hot

if you kick his a*s, like
if you really freaked out."

- Yeah, like got like super mad

and threw that bird across the room.

(players laughing)

- "Yeah, that would be super hot.

That axe is pretty cool that you have."

- This one?

- "Wow, you coulda just
lifted that all the way up.

Um, let's go, could we,
um, my folks are at a,

like a battle ceremony and
my house is empty right now.

Do you want to come over to my house?"

- Sure.
- "Let's get outta here."

- Peel away in The Hangvan?

- (laughs) You peel away in The Hangvan.

Some great f*cking uke tunes come on.

Zaphriel's back in the gem.

Hey, it's a chill time in the van.

Your folks are also so happy and proud

that you're back in town.

And you head off with Zelda.

(soft instrumental music)
Riz,

you are back at Strongtower

and you see your mom, Sklonda is there.

- Yeah, I rush up to my mom
and I give her a big hug

and I say, "Mom, I have so
much cool stuff to show you."

And I'd like to think that I used the tie

to get kind of a shot of my dad

as we're leaving the heavenly thing,

and I wanna kinda give her like a tour,

like basically a slide show,
like a real dorky slide show

of all of the things we
did in the Nightmare Forest

and all the stuff with my dad.

- She is so happy, you see
tears welling in her eyes.

She says she can't believe it.

She looks and says, "He's
really out there somewhere."

- Yeah, he's still doing his job.

He's still a secret
agent, and I think someday

we're just gonna be super cool,

badass goblin crime solving angels.

- She smiles so wide, she
kisses you on the forehead

and she says, "Sweetie, I'm so proud.

You're so much like
your father." (smooches)

And you see that life is good in Elmville.

You see that back at Seacaster Manor,

Hallariel greets you, kisses
you on both cheeks, Fabian,

and Cathilda gives you a big hug.

And Hallariel looks over and says,

as Gilear heads to the garage

you see she calls after Gilear and says,

"Oh darling, why don't you,

I think it'd be a little more convenient

if you grabbed your things

and moved up to the master bedroom."

- Yeah, Gilear, it's about
time you lived in the house.

- Gilear looks up, (sniffles) sniffs,

tries to hold back the emotion and says,

"I feel confident in saying
that I am worthy enough

that it is okay for me to
live inside of a house."

(players laughing)

- Yeah, Gilear.
- "I deserve that.

I will get my panini press and
my miniature refrigerator."

And you see that he walks

into the garage and gets his stuff.

You see, wrapping up
the last couple things.

Ayda and Jawbone hit it off right away,

and you see there's one day that Ayda's

just like weeping tears of joy,

and she's got a whole stack of books

that Jawbone has given
for her about autism

and about the autism spectrum.

And you see that she goes like,

"This is normal, this is
normal, this is normal." (sighs)

And you see Jawbone shrugs and pats her,

rubs her head and goes,
"Yeah, yeah, you know,

"normal's good, and I
know that you ask a lot

"if a thing is normal or not
and I guess in that sense-

- Yeah, I can help with that!
- "Hey, there you go!"

You see Ayda looks over and says,

"Yes, that would be wonderful.

I would love some help with this."

- I wrote you a spell

and I want you to know that I wrote it.

I think that you're really
cool and it's not about you

being not good enough or not cool enough,

but in return for the spell
that I k*lled my father with

I wrote you Ayda's Comprehend Subtext.

(group members laughing)

- She takes this like it
is a priceless treasure

and she says, "This is an
exquisite work of spellcraft.

I will never find myself
befuddled again as long

as I have the spell slots.
- Ayda, sometimes

I like describing the
subtext to you, though.

- You see that Ayda nods and says,

"Well, I, this will of course
consume some spell slots

so it must be used judiciously

and under dire circumstances

so I will rely on you for
the day-to-day, my paramour,

but in moments of crises
where subtext must be gleaned

at any cost, thank you Oracle."

- You're welcome, and
obviously I didn't do it

to get in between you two
'cause I think you're great.

- Oh, that's fine, I
was actually just trying

to kinda flirt when I said that.

- Oh, I'm so bad at
reading that, I'm so sorry.

I just keep misreading it.
- It's fine.

Honestly, I'm really bad at doing it.

I'm kinda just following Kristen's lead.

- No, oh.

- Kristen's just really aggressive

so that's I'm trying to do, you know?

- Yeah, no, yeah.
- You see-

- Kristen's really good at flirting.

- You miss 100% of the shots

you don't take.
- Kristen's really good.

(group laughing)

Kristen's really good at
flirting so I'm like, cool.

That's how you do it successfully.

- For everything else,

Kristen, you have new,
(soft piano music)

you see as soon as you
start talking to people

about your new divinity, about Cassandra

people are intrigued right away.

Craig is there right away.

Craig is so down, Craig was there for Yes!

Craig is back for Cassandra.
- Oh yeah.

- At the end of sophomore year

you guys all get to watch
Ragh walk across the stage

and graduate thanks to getting
an A on your adventure.

- Yes!
- Hoot, growl, hoot, growl,

hoot, growl!
- Oh, you see Ragh is there.

He's got the Owlbear wrap-around

and the rainbow LGBT Union wrap-around

and he's just going,
"Hoot, growl, hoot, growl!

This one's for Aguefort, baby!

Bad Kids for life, m*therf*ckers!

You heard it here first!"

And he smashes the podium apart.

(group laughing)

- Dude rules!

- (cheers) "Yeah, getting feisty!"

You see that,
(soft piano music)

you know, Ragh runs across the stage.

Aelwyn is there in Mordred as well,

very happy to be in the room with Adaine,

but also feeling a little bit left out,

and she's also past the
age now of being a senior

and is trying to figure things out.

You know, she's 18.
- [Siobhan] Mm-hmm.

- She one night in Mordred Manor

just looks across the table
at you, Fabian, and goes,

"Did I, I'm so sorry,
(soft piano music)

did we make out at that party
at Ostentatia Wallace's?"

- Oh, (chuckles) yeah, yeah, we did.

And we were going to,

you said something about keelhauling me

but then we ended up fighting, yeah.

- I did some snuff powder off your chest

and there was the cantrip for some-

- Yes, yeah.
- I think I tried

to stab your friend The Ball.
- Yep, we were playing

stabby knife fingers or something.

It was great, it was
incredible, you were incredible.

It was incredible, all
things were great. (chuckles)

(group members laughing)

I had like a big crush on you like, sorry.

What did I say, did I, um...

(Ally chuckles)

- You see that she looks
and says, "I won't lie.

I'm very deeply traumatized
and I've learned

that deep down I'm a good person,

but I'm trying to work on a
lot of those walls and things

to kind of get rid of that,
and I feel like you're kind of,

and I don't mean this in an offensive way,

but you're kind of f*cked
up in a lot of ways, too

and keep a lot of walls up."

- I k*lled my dad.

Like I don't know, yeah, yeah, of course.

Yeah, of course, of course
I'm f*cked up. (laughs)

- So I feel like we could be really toxic

in each other's lives in
a very exciting sexual way

if that's something you're interested in.

(players chuckling)

- I mean-
- Not in our bedroom though!

- Oh, we'll, yes.
- Borrow the piano room!

- Yeah, no, no, I have my own beautiful,

expensive bedroom in my
mansion so I would love that.

- You see that she smiles
and says, "Interesting.

Well, be nice to me, you know."

- I immediately message
The Hangman and I'm like,

somebody's getting their
kisses tonight, Hangman.

- "Master, you've done it, ah yes!"

- I'm gonna get my kisses,
I'm going to get my kisses.

- Incredible.

You see that,

(soft piano music)

last one or two things.

Weeks pass, you guys have like weeks of,

life is back in Elmville
again, you're happy.

The first time you all go
to Basrar's as the Bad Kids

after getting back is
incredible and extraordinary.

Fig, Ayda is, you're so happy.

You've never been more
creative and she is-

- I really think I'm
too shy to say in person

'cause like all I really know how to do

is just aggressively flirt with her

because that feels so like performing

so I'm still getting used to being sincere

so I just put it all into song

so that's how I can tell her how I feel.

- Ayda loves nothing more
than for you to sing to her.

And she just one night at the
end of that year just goes,

(soft piano music)

"It's a wizard's role to fly
past the edges of reality

and yet the joy I feel when I'm with you

staggers even the imagination

of one who can call the
wind and seas to their aid."

- I would say that the
joy that you get from me

is a joy that you brought out in me

so you saw something in
me and you brought it out.

So whatever I'm doing for
you, you did for yourself.

Do you think I would write these songs

without having met you?

- You see she goes,

"An exquisite feedback loop
of positive reinforcement.

"What a powerful structure, I love you."

- I love you.

- Love blooms in Elmville.

And Kristen, Tracker loves you so much.

And there are weeks of...

(tender piano music)

There are weeks of trying to...

You can see that her relationship
with her God has changed.

What does Kristen do facing that?

- I think I ask her about
it, what's going on?

- She says,

"I think...

(Brennan inhales and exhales softly)

I love you so much, Kristen.

There's something wrong
with my God, my Goddess,

my church, the visions I saw there.

You said that you saw Galicaea.

What did you think when you saw her?"

- I mean, yeah, honestly,

I think she had some kind

of self-hating werewolf side of her.

The impression that I got
was maybe she's influenced

by her followers who are a little bit

more evil or, I don't know,
people like the Abernants,

like the bad Abernants.

- Give me an insight check one last time.

- 13.

- She has a mysterious
look on her face, she nods.

She knows your vision of the fact

that gods are shaped by their followers.

Your God, Cassandra, by the
way, every day it's like,

"Hi, um, I know, I have a new miracle

I thought we could try and."
- I love it.

- You've got all of their attention.

(Ally laughs)
(Brennan sneezes)

- Bless you.

- Thank you.
- Bless you.

- That summer Tracker
breaks the news to you

that she is gonna go and leave Elmville.

- Whoa, where are you going?

- "Fallinel."
- Oh, whoa.

- "I think I need to...

I think I need to figure out what happened

to this church, to my Goddess."

- [Ally] Hmm, hmm.

- "I think I need to fix this.

And you're so happy with
your new deity and I...

There's so much mess
that I have to clean up

I feel like that there
needs to be a revolution,

a rebellion, a reimagining.

I feel like there's something
there that I have to fix.

Does that make sense?"

- Yeah, so like a week or like, like,

like, are we talking like a month or?

- She smiles and says,
"Maybe like a month or two."

- Okay, whoa.

Yeah, that's a lot but
I think, yeah, I get it.

I get why you need to do that, yeah.

- She smiles, kisses you,

and you

see a look of resolve and
determination on her face

like there's something that she has to do.

She has to make this right.

And you see that summer she loads up a car

along with Ragh and they
head off on an adventure.

Ragh's gonna go as her bodyguard
to help her on this quest

and wish goodbye to everybody
and spread a lot of love.

And you see that she looks
and blows you a kiss, Kristen

and then she's off on her way.
- I think I...

I want to have made her
like a little something

like a little flag or
something for her religion.

- Perfect.
- And then, yeah.

- You make a little flag.

Is there like a symbol on it or something?

Like, what do you think
Kristen would put on it?

- Yeah, her Moon Haven flag
with a lot of stars on it.

- She smiles and says, "This is beautiful.

I'm gonna go shake some sh*t up."

- Cool.

- "I love you, Kristen Applebees."

- I love you, too.

If it takes longer than a couple months

like, obviously I get it.

I'll just miss you a lot.

- "I'll miss you too, sweetheart."

And they take off.

A lot of growth and challenge
and bittersweet feelings.

And yeah, I think if that's everything

I'll just do the last thing

unless anyone wants to interject
with something real quick,

but there's just one
last thing I have to do.

You guys are all off at...

You guys are all back at Strongtower

hanging out at Riz's place.

The whole g*ng's there and
there's actually a new pool

near there and it's summer, it's a hot day

so you're all there.
- Nice.

- Riz, your mom looks over

and sees your tattoos for the first time.

- (laughs) I'm wearing like
one of those surfer things

but it's still poking out a little bit.

- Oh, not this part.

- You see that your mom goes and says,

(sputters) "What is that?

Riz Gukgak, what is this?"

- They're clues, Mom, they're clues!

- "Oh my God, I am gonna
flip out, I am gonna flip.

What does that even say?

What the hell does that
say on your chest?"

- It says Nightmare King crown.

Then it says Garthy O'Brien, Night Yorb.

- As soon as you say Night Yorb.

- No, no.
(players laughing)

- You fly up into the air.

Your tattoos glow.
- What?

- And you see that a
massive column of darkness

shoots into the sky.

As it does so, you see
that a swirling vortex,

like a manta ray of shadow
that blots out the sun

comes back and you see it goes,

(growls) "You have spoken
the name of the Night Yorb!

An age of darkness forevermore!"

The lights fade from the sky.

It is nighttime all over, all everywhere,

and you see wearing little
scuba flippers and a snorkel

and a little wraparound floaty inner tube,

Arthur Aguefort looks over
at all of you and says,

"Um, very well, have you
Bad Kids put any thought

into what your junior
year project might be?"

(group laughing)

That's all for sophomore
year of "Fantasy High."

- Wow.
- Wow.

- Wow.

- Riz, no!

- No Riz.
(players laughing)

- Speak not of the Night Yorb, g*ng.

(group members laughing)
- Too late.