(Aldous Young's "New York
2006" plays. It's entrancing.)
- Hello, one and all!
Welcome to another thrilling episode
of "The Unsleeping City."
I'm your humble Dungeon
Master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me as always are our intrepid heroes.
Say hi, intrepid heroes!
- Hi, intrepid heroes!
- Last we left off,
our champions had just returned
from the Monastery of the Sacred Rat.
They met with the spirit Kugrash
who told them all about
different ways
to bring back the Dragon
of Bleecker Street
to defeat Null.
We had a meeting with Pete's
new friend, Maddie Park,
a hacker who was able to show them a bunch
of crazy stuff that Gladiator
was doing buying Ellis Island.
JJ invented the Gotham
Timepiece that allows you
to time travel through objects
that have a strong, magical,
emotional connection to the past.
Our friends wound up on Ellis Island,
which was the location of
the missing seven artifacts
of the dragon's hoard,
the last thing they needed
to bring the dragon back
as long as they can
reunite these artifacts
with the dragon's long lost horde.
All seven objects were collected.
However, Null has pushed
through into the waking world.
This property has been bought
by Gladiator Industries.
In a surge of raw umbra,
Null has pushed through and is
now here in the waking world.
We left off mid combat.
It is about to be Iga Lisowski's turn.
How many hit points does
Iga have left, Siobhan?
- Nine.
- Nine hit points left.
There is a warding bond.
We return to combat,
Cody has jumped into these lithograph,
the sort of old daguerreotype photo.
Cody has leapt in there with you.
Cast warding bond.
At the beginning of your turn, Iga,
I am going to need a wisdom saving throw.
The DC is 21.
You have bless.
- I have bless.
I have a plus two to wisdom.
- And you have a plus four from me.
- And I have a plus four.
- Ooh!
- Let's go ahead and roll
this in front of the board.
Let's go ahead and roll it
in front of the board, Iga.
- Great.
- This also, I will say,
it's annihilating aura
because you're starting
your turn in its presence.
You get a plus six to this roll.
Let's roll the D four of bless first,
so we know what you
have to hit on the D 20.
- Okay.
- Four, okay.
- Oh.
- You have plus 10 to this roll.
You need an 11 or higher on the D 20.
Go ahead and roll.
- Can I ask what happens?
I don't know what annihilating aura is.
What happens if this doesn't go well?
- A lot of damage
and a potential for it
to lower Iga's HP max.
- From 19?
- Whoo!
- 16!
- Yeah!
- All right, okay.
- You succeed on that.
You do not take any of that damage.
Iga, it is your turn.
(Ally chuckles)
- A crowded a*s picture.
- I would like to...
The candle has already been taken?
- Yes, that's correct.
- But do I get the impression
that if Null destroys this picture
everybody in the picture
will be destroyed?
- Null will likely erase every
one of these photographs.
If it is allowed to remain here,
it will do what it did to Willy.
It will do what it has been
doing all over the city
and consume this place.
- Okay.
I will cast,
I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna start off by doing...
(Siobhan sighs)
I'm gonna start off by doing
an Eldritch blast to it.
- Okay.
- Do I have bless to attack rolls?
- Yes, you do add bless to attack rolls.
- Okay.
So plus nine, that's a...
15.
A 28.
And a 26.
- You hit three times.
- Great.
So that's, I'll roll in front of the board
'cause I can't do math right now.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah.
- So that's 37 damage to it.
- Iga, you stand up and,
(Brennan mimics explosions)
Null is shredded with the force
of this ancient dragon magic.
Is not gone.
Remember you're fighting,
like, a tentacle of a kraken
that is still out in the ocean.
But this hurt.
- So I'm gonna use my
metamagic adept sorcery points
to do quicken spell.
- Hell yeah.
- And I'm gonna blast it again.
- Go for it.
- That's three more hits.
- Ooh, Doctor!
Let's go!
- It'll just be plus 15
'cause I already used
my bludgeoning damage.
That's 37 damage.
- Whoa.
- 28?
- Damn.
- I'm gonna use the watch.
- Yeah!
- And I'm gonna go again.
How f*cked up is it looking?
- Not that f*cked up, but
these are powerful hits.
It can't take an infinite amount of these.
- Okay.
Ooh!
Okay, I crit.
And I also rolled a nat one,
but the other one also hit.
So I hit, I crit,
wait, does bless,
if you add bless to a 19,
it doesn't make it a crit.
Okay.
So it's still three D 10 plus 10, okay.
Math.
- Math.
- [Siobhan] That's 28 damage to it.
- Iga has done a phenomenal
amount of damage to this being.
- Can you get out there?
- It's gonna wipe this photograph.
It's gonna wipe Willy, right?
- I think it's gonna wipe
these photographs anyway.
- Yeah, I think we need to get,
I think we do need to get him gone.
- We need to get him gone.
- We can k*ll him, but
you should also back up
'cause you dying doesn't help.
- Yeah.
- Your hit points are so low.
We don't want you to get full dead.
- You could jump out of the picture.
- I'll jump out of the picture then.
Yeah, I guess I'll also...
Since I have it, I'll
activate my elemental gift,
so I can fly.
- Hell yeah.
- And I'll get out of the picture.
(magical whirring sound)
- Iga jumps out of the picture.
You've moved a full 30 feet.
Null goes next in the initiative.
(Lou groans)
Seeing the candle taken
out of the picture,
Null ceases it's attack
and moves back into the room,
walking slowly behind Iga.
(Lou laughs)
- f*ck.
- Making some sort of
horrible clicking noise
or something like out of a horror movie.
- No!
Stop using your ruler.
Stop.
We're gonna roll a recharge.
Five or six, Null
recharges it's mind blast.
- [Lou] f*ck this dude.
(Lou yells)
Oh.
There we go, kids.
There we go.
- It is now going to use,
it's going to make two
enervating strikes against Iga
who is in range.
Again, these hit on threes or higher.
Rolling in front of the board.
That's a nat 20.
- Oh f*ck.
- Okay.
We'll roll the non nat 20 first.
That is going to be...
- 19 is my max, so if it does
30 damage, I'm dead dead.
- Okay, actually no.
I'll be fairer and I'll
roll the crit first.
That is going to be 10 D eight plus six.
- What?
- That's double damage.
10 D eight plus six.
Rolling in front of the board.
- Wait!
Wait, what did you hit with?
Is there a way for me to bend
luck on those attack rolls?
- A nat 20 would be a nat 20.
This thing hits Iga on a three.
Like, you know, like even-
- Of course.
- And the nat 20 wouldn't cancel the crit.
It would just adjust the final total.
Iga, you take
42 points of damage.
- [Zac] Warding bond?
- Warding bond goes,
that just means she dies.
And also I get hurt.
(Brian sighs)
- Wait, warding bond
doesn't keep her from dying?
I thought it means you take all the damage
that she would be taking?
- She gets resistance.
This spell ward is willing-
- So I would take 21 damage.
So I'd be down but not dead.
- Because of, yes, great.
- You are down, but not dead.
- Great.
- It hits you again,
which I think is also had,
which is probably just going
to be two death savings
for a failures.
I'm gonna roll this.
If it deals your hit point max,
I think you're fully
dead, which is 19, right?
- Yes.
- 'Cause you're at zero.
35 divided in half-
- So it's 17.
- 17.
It doesn't hit your hit point max.
It's two death save failures.
- Oh my God.
- We're not out of the woods yet.
This is very bad.
Okay.
Iga is not fully dead,
but now you have to
make two saving throws.
Two DC 21 saving throws.
Because you're out of the photo,
you no longer get Cody's plus four bonus,
but you are proficient in
these charisma saving throws.
You have a plus nine.
Go ahead and roll that D four twice first.
- I have to roll for
concentration on bless
'cause I've taken a bunch of damage.
- Oh yes, yes, yes.
Go ahead and roll damage.
- Yeah, roll your concentration.
- What did I take each time?
- First time you took 21.
The next time you took 17.
- So 10 and 10?
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- Okay.
First one is a...
I pass, 13.
- Cool.
- Second one.
I pass, 14.
- Cool.
- Oh, I can't take this.
- So, three on the first one
and then a one on the
second one for your bless.
So, what you need to hit
right now is basically a DC 18
and then a DC 20.
You have-
- I have a plus nine.
- So you need a nine or higher
and then an 11 or higher.
Let's roll these.
First one is you get a nine or higher.
16.
- Yeah, baby!
- Roll again.
11 or higher on this one.
12.
- Yeah, baby!
- This is a nightmare.
- Oh my God.
- Iga still has two death saving throws
and this creature has legendary actions.
I know I keep saying it,
we are not out of the woods yet.
That is Null-
- I don't think anyone was acting
like we were out of the woods.
- Yeah, which one of
us is dancing, Brennan?
Which one of us is cheering?
- Yeah, which one of us-
- I mean, I was shouting
"we're out of the woods."
- "I can not believe we're
out of the woods," I said.
- "Oh my goodness.
"It's so nice here in the sunshine."
- "Thank goodness.
"Pack up the tent 'cause
we're not in the woods."
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
(Ally screams)
Sofia, that is your turn.
- No, it's Pete's turn.
- Oh, sorry.
Pete, that is your turn.
- Sofia, doesn't do anything.
(Emily laughs)
It's Pete's turn.
- I am going to,
I had a med bracelet
in the earlier season,
but I actually switched
to testosterone gel.
So, I just take out a little
packet of testosterone.
I take out the gel.
I rub it on the back of my neck.
"Ooh, baby.
"I forgot that this morning."
And I cast a six level
dispel magic on Iga.
- On Iga?
- What is the effect
you're trying to dispel?
- Can I like have her get her
hit points and stuff back?
Would that like, is she under a spell
that's like f*cking with her right now?
- It'd probably be a
greater restoration, right?
- You would need a greater
restoration on her to-
- If you can do a medicine check,
I don't know what you
have to buff yourself,
but you have a D four.
You'd have to hit a medicine check
that would get her to zero and stable
and no more death save fails.
- That's sick.
Okay, I will definitely...
Oh boy.
- You'd have to get to me first though.
Like, you're so far away.
- Or yeah, if you have
thunder step or anything that-
- Misty step.
- I mean...
I don't have any of those.
I'm also rolling with
disadvantage on all my checks.
- Oh, everybody has a level of exhaustion.
- Yeah, I'm just gonna do a,
I'm just gonna do an attack, I guess.
- Wait, should I have been rolling with,
oh it's at the end of my
next turn that I'm exhausted.
- Sorry, I don't mean to suggest that
if you have other options, it's just like-
- No, that's kind of all that I can do.
- Kingston does have revivify
so there's hope in that.
- Can you just attack-
- Hey, cuties.
- Null?
- Yeah, that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna step up to right there,
and then I am going to
cast disintegrate on Null.
- Hell yeah.
- That's a dex saving throw.
- Yeah.
- Hell yeah.
Let's see here.
Disintegrate.
First off,
Null is gonna use its reaction
to counter spell that disintegrate.
- I counter spell it!
Don't I have a counter spell
in my leopard print shirt?
- I believe you do.
I believe you do.
- I counter spell his counter spell!
- You gotta be 60 feet.
It's gotta be 60 feet.
- [Emily] Oh sh*t.
- [Siobhan] God, you're like 75.
- Oops.
- It's gotta roll.
It's bonus to this is, hold on.
- Does Sofia...
Did that detergent do anything to you?
- Yeah, Sofia is unstunned.
- It did, it unstunned me.
But I haven't had a turn
since it unstunned me to move.
- Okay, so what's gonna happen-
- But that was last round?
Okay.
- Pete's casting a six level spell.
Null's gotta roll an 11 or
higher to counter spell this.
I'm gonna roll in front of the board.
That's a nat one, baby.
- Yeah!
- That's disintegrate.
- Why couldn't that have been dex save?
- Disintegrating nothing.
- Counter spell does not work.
Now it's gonna roll its saving throw.
Does have magic resistance,
so it's gonna roll this with advantage.
Plus four both times.
It just needs one of
these to be a 13 or higher
on its saving throw.
One of these D 20-
- I'm ready with a bend luck.
- Cool.
- 17.
Oh, it's 13 or higher?
- So it got a 21.
- What's up?
- But you said 13, right?
- Yeah, 21.
- So bend luck wouldn't work?
- Bend luck would not work.
It gets blasted with disintegrate,
survives the as*ault,
but wastes the counter
spell and is blasted back.
That is going to be...
- Not gonna take reactions.
- Well, Null has legendary actions.
- It has legendary actions.
- But.
- I'm going to actually,
I'm gonna do...
I'm going to quicken spell to
have made that a bonus action
and then use my full...
Let's see.
Let's see, oh man, you're so far.
m*therf*cker.
I'm just gonna run up and
just f*ck' lay over Iga.
- [Brennan] Cool.
You lay over Iga.
As a legendary action.
- Oh!
I didn't wild magic surge.
- Oh sh*t!
Pete, give me a wild magic
surge for your last two turns.
This one's one through eight.
- Come on something
- 11.
- One through nine.
Give me another roll.
- 16.
- One through 10!
- I feel like wild magic surges are good.
I like wanted-
- Same, that's what I was thinking.
- It is going to cast a spell.
I'm going to need a,
yeah, I'm gonna need a
charisma saving throw from you.
- But I'm on top of Iga.
Can she be targeted?
- Yeah, absolutely.
100%.
- I'm pretty buff.
I've actually been making some gains.
- Yeah, all that popcorn with olive oil.
- DC 21.
Iga, let me know what you get.
Gonna need a 12 or higher on this roll.
- Fatty popcorn makes you buff, dude.
- [Ally] Yeah.
- You all watch Null change tactics.
Iga's incredible luck,
and Null's sense that the tide is turning.
You see Null cast banishment.
Using all three of its legendary actions
casts banishment on Iga.
You would know, Pete.
It consumes Iga into a
place of timelessness,
which means that Iga is not,
it's not gonna ever get to her turn
because she is sucked into
another realm and Null vanishes.
- f*ck you, no.
- Banishment puts her in
a harmless demi-plane?
- Yep.
Pete, give me an arcana check.
- I know, I know.
I can banish someone
and have them join her.
- Ooh!
That's so cool, Pete!
- Pete, if you want to try to hit Null
with a banishment.
- Kingston with a,
oh, Null with a banishment.
- If you want to hit Null with
a banishment on its way out
as like a parting shot,
I would let you roll some
dope f*ck' arcana sh*t
if you want to see what it's done to Iga.
- Yes.
Yes.
I can roll an arcana check right now.
- Hell yeah.
It's gonna try to make it
save against your banishment.
Hold on, this is pretty dope.
We're making a bunch of sh*t up right now.
Hold on.
- Yeah.
- Null's only got a plus five.
Null needs a 12 or higher here.
That's an 11.
Pete, you cover Iga with your body.
Null is trying to unmake Iga.
k*ll her,
have her magic go away.
Instead you see that Null erases Iga.
You hit Null with the banishment
and put a tag on Null or on Iga
as she is consumed by Null.
Iga goes to a place of timelessness.
Null despises time,
wishes for nothing more
than the end of time,
the end of space, right?
Iga is in a place where she can't be hurt.
She is in the nothingness.
Iga is in a place with Josefina Gatsby,
with Hans Fischer, and
Heather Simos beyond time.
And Pete sees it.
The things that Null has consumed.
Death is a part of the
natural cycle of life.
What Null is doing is not nature,
and the things it has
consumed are in it somewhere.
And as it retreats from the waking world,
you guys see steam arising
from all the walls.
All the photos are still here.
Null has used up all of the
raw umbra in this place.
There was not enough raw umbra here
to even sustain its presence anymore.
Pete, you know that Iga
is gone somewhere, but...
Either all of the universe will join Iga
where she is in dissolution and void,
or you will get her back.
We exit initiative.
Iga is gone.
I think everyone else here
sees Iga be vanished by Null
as it vanishes and disappears.
- Did her box go with her?
- Box is still there on the ground.
- Okay, I grab the box.
- All of you look at each
other in the hollow silence
of both Null's absence from
this space and Iga's as well.
- Okay.
- Are we still f*cked up in the same way?
Like, is our wisdom still gone?
- Yeah, Cody and Ricky are f*cked up.
You guys are not looking good.
- Will dispel magic work on
getting them their, like,
charisma and stuff back?
- Greater restoration will.
- I go around with the detergent
and I give a Cody a splash
and I give Ricky splash.
- [Brian] Appreciate it, appreciate it.
- As we kind of all deal with-
- Do you give yourself a splash?
"You gotta put your own oxygen
mask on first, Kingston."
- "If you can believe it,
Pete, my grandfather who,
"yeah, my grandfather touched me
"and I don't know, magic
happened, per usual."
- Oh yeah, I forgot.
- So, I'm all good.
- Oh, I met Alejandro, young
sexy Alejandro (laughs)
before all the smoking.
He's a vet.
- Incredible.
So about Iga.
- "So, Iga's in the same
place as the other-"
- "Yeah, yeah.
"Yeah, Iga is in, it's
a harmless demi-plane,
"but it is Null's, like, space.
"It's timeless and not in the cool, like,
"a trench coat is timeless way."
- Right.
- "This isn't a time to laugh, you guys."
- "Well, Kingston, if you
saw Misty in the painting,
"maybe she could come
out of the painting?"
- "Oh, that's not a bad idea.
"I guess, should I,
"y'all want me to go grab Misty?"
- Seems like it, right?
- Yeah!
Or Rowan, but no, it's cool.
- "Well, it didn't seem like,
"I mean, I was completely
disassociated from her
"when I met her.
"'Cause, you know, Null.
"but it did seem like she
didn't wholly remember me."
- Oh.
- [Zac] "Kingston?"
- "Yeah?"
- "I want you to tell your
family that I'm sorry."
- "Why would I need to
tell my family that you're,
"why would you need to
apologize to my family?
"I'm assuming you went in there
"and explained that you needed the bouquet
"and you hopped right out."
- "Well, I, you know.
"Sometimes things don't go
down like you want them to
"and I guess your grandmother
"or great-grandmother
slapped me in the face
"when I ripped the bouquet
from her hands and I ran away.
"I'm a leprechaun and-"
- "What?"
- "But I mean, your family seems
like it's done well, so..."
- "Thank you.
"Well, I guess I'll go talk to my,
"I guess I'll go apologize to the people
"who are still alive later
once we figure this out.
"So am I gonna go grab
Misty, is that the plan?"
- Well, yeah.
- "I'd love to have Misty here
"but are there other more
pressing (laughs) things?"
- Well, my question is, can
we perform the ritual now?
Like, do we have everything we need?
- Kingston, so you guys
are sitting here and again,
I think that there is,
you guys are stunned by
Iga's sudden departure
from this place.
Pete has that revelation about the nature
of how Null consumes these things.
But Iga is very much suddenly gone.
As it always has,
the stakes surrounding this of like,
not only do you need to
defeat Null to save New York,
if you can not defeat Null
in a meaningful enough way,
Iga will be gone forever,
even if she never makes that
third death saving throw.
- We should've put her in that box, man.
- I know.
- But you look up at these photos.
You have all the others.
Kingston, this is everything you need.
Ricky can summon those
totems whenever you want,
you just have to return these totems
to the horde of the
Dragon of Bleecker Street,
and you can do this.
- Well, I mean-
- Let's do it.
- "Yeah, we do have everything
we need to pop this off
"and really take it to Null."
- All right.
- But yeah, can I bring
people out of the paintings?
I didn't know if that was a thing.
But, well I took the leg so who knows.
- Kingston, you go over
and approach that drawing
and the person in it by the
way, was not Misty Moore.
That was actually Holly Branch
who was an earlier
incarnation of the being
that has been Misty Moore and Rowan Berry.
You approach it.
Cody, you begin to see sparks
coming out of your pocket.
- Oh.
I pull out,
is it the Fairyland thing?
- It's the chunk of the Fairyland sign.
- "This thing is freaking out.
"Kingston, help.
"What is this?"
- "I don't, I'm not sure."
I guess, I hold it maybe closer to the...
(Brennan mimics spark sounds)
- All of you are surrounded
in a swirl of sparks
from the Fairyland sign.
Holly Branch from that drawing
turns out to look at you.
And having driven Null
away from this place.
All of those photos
momentarily come to life
in a swirl of sparkles around you.
Pete, you see those Irish
immigrants wave to you
with the coin in your hand.
You see little Jackson
waves at Kingston and Sofia
as you guys move away.
Sofia, you see that
dad has his little girl
on the handlebars of his bicycle
and waves to you and says,
"Sofia!
"Goodbye, farewell.
"It is so good to see you!"
- "Bye, sorry, I didn't get to meet you!"
- "It's okay!
"It happens!
"You know, sometimes the saving
throws they don't work out!"
- "Sometimes you roll
nothin' but sixes, you know?
"Metaphorically."
- "Metaphorically speaking, I get it!"
And he scoots away on his bicycle.
Siobhan, you okay if I
throw a curve ball your way?
- Yeah.
- You guys appear in a
scintillating amusement park.
Roller coasters, ferris
wheels, all around.
Fairies flying everywhere.
And as you do so,
you see getting funnel
cake and some cotton candy
are Stephen Sondheim and one Rowan Berry
who turns around to face you.
Siobhan, what does Rowan say
as her friends appear here
in Fairyland next to her?
- I say, "Oh, it's you!"
And then I look at Pete, "Oh, it's you?"
And then I notice Cody.
And I'm like,
"And this, what's the
situation right here?
"What's going on here?"
- "I'm actually...
"This is kind of the mall that I work at.
"I know it's not a mall now,
but this is kind of the mall.
"If that makes sense."
(Siobhan hums)
"f*ck."
(Brennan laughs)
- "I'm Rowan.
"Hi."
(Brian laughs)
- "We should let them have
a couple minutes, right?"
- Yeah, I walk away.
- What space and time are we in?
Are we in the past or
are we in the present
in like the fairy realm?
- It looks like you are fully
in the present in Fairyland.
It looks like after Null left,
Cody's little chunk of the
Fairyland sign activated,
and as you went to reach out
to Holly Branch in that photo
it alerted Rowan Berry.
Siobhan, Rowan has been
very busy running Fairyland
these last couple years.
Stephen Sondheim turns to you and goes,
"Rowan, darling.
"These were the heroes
I was telling you about.
"When I met Cody here,
"he was a nude man with a triple sword.
- "Nightmare."
- "One man's nightmare is
another man's bad idea."
- Sofia quietly remembers Iga pulling,
the three of wands in the very
beginning and looks at Cody.
(everyone laughs)
- "In any case, these were the individuals
"I was mentioning that,
"if you notice how
outside of Faerie and Nod
"everything is crumbling and falling apart
"and turning into-"
- "Right, yes.
"No, I do know most of them."
- "Yeah, we go way back."
- "I remember."
- "So, why is the world crumbling?
"Why haven't you called me?
"What's going on?
"I'm very busy.
"I'm wearing a pantsuit.
"I wear pantsuits now."
- Yeah, Rowan is in a
beautiful yellow pantsuit
with a little silver flag pin
and a short hair, like, pixie haircut.
- I'm gonna put my arm around Pete
just for, like, some moral support.
- Thanks.
- But I do it in a way
like I need his support.
(Emily laughs)
- "I got you.
"This is probably pretty awkward for you."
- "Thank you so much, Pete.
"Thank you so much.
"I'm going through so much."
- "Are you okay?
"You all look like somebody died."
- "Well, they're not dead."
- "Somebody got kind of erased.
"But they're okay maybe."
- "Okay."
- "Are we in the past?"
- "No."
"No, this is now."
- "Cody, this is another part of Nod."
- "Don't eat anything here.
"You'll have to stay though."
- "Okay."
- Just knocking all the
food out of Cody's hands.
- Cotton candy, funnel
cake, deep fried Oreos.
It's amazing.
- "What?"
(Brian laughs)
(Emily laughs)
- "It's really unhealthy."
- "We are kind of up
against a this kind of
"monarch of dreams.
"And it's kind of wrecked the
sixth borough pretty hard.
"And it's making a solid push on New York
"and just kind of took one of our friends
"into a timeless demi-plane
"where they will be trapped
for the rest of time
"because there is no time there
"and New York will join them
unless we can do something.
"So, we've been busy.
"So I'm sorry we haven't,
"we just haven't had a chance to catch up
"but it's so good to see you.
"And you look well,
and this is fantastic."
- "Thank you.
"It's so good to see you too.
"I'm so sorry.
"I feel like I...
"I've been just so busy for three years.
"It's so boring."
- "You run a land.
"I mean, I can only imagine."
- "Just so many meetings.
"You wouldn't imagine.
"Fairies you'd think all fun and games.
"No.
"Lots of legislation apparently."
- "When I was First Fist
it was a lot of paperwork."
- "Right!"
- "I'm not anymore though."
- "That also happened."
- "Is that a good-"
- "It doesn't feel good."
- Rowan, go ahead and make
an insight check for me
if you'd be so kind.
- Oh, I'm not blessed as Rowan.
Dirty 20.
- You watch your bedraggled human friends
that have just been through
a whole hell of a lot
looking up at you, and
have one of those moments
where you remember how tender
and sentimental human beings are.
Your friend Sofia apparently is no longer
First Fist of the Monastery.
Three years does not seem
like a long time to Rowan.
You feel a heaviness here.
Things have gotten very bad
outside, and you have been busy,
but you're looking at some people
that are in dire need of like,
that have sacrificed a lot to
get these resources together
and are fighting something
very vast and powerful.
- "Let's go sit down somewhere.
"Let's go sit down.
"It's very loud here."
- "That'd be nice."
- In a beautifully appointed
room with moss, like,
sort of moss around and cushions,
you guys enter a part of, like,
almost like Central Park-esque ramble.
Rowan, you are given some food and drink.
Your guests are not
because they don't want to
be trapped here forever.
And for the rest of you,
all of you are looking
at these seven objects
that you have collected and saved here.
Victorious in having gone and
gotten everything Kugrash said
about these objects were
destroyed but not fully destroyed.
And realizing that it meant the memory
of them was not destroyed and
you have saved those memories.
You sit down with the leader
of the Fairy court of New York City.
And Rowan, I think you also
see that Fairyland sign.
Either make a perception check
or an arcana check for me.
- I will do perception.
Still not great.
That's an 11.
You can't crack the riddle on an 11,
but you know that you have
been struggling for years
because Fairy has been having
a hard time rooting itself
in the mortal world.
And you look at that sign Cody is holding
and see potential in that sign.
The rest of you look and
see Rowan regarding you
with a sort of look of paying attention.
Like, you guys arrived in a blast of magic
and now looking at how truly
dire things have become.
- "Rowan, I feel like we, you know,
"I don't know if you're mad at me,
"or, you know, the rest of us."
- "Not a person on this world
has ever been mad at you.
"Sweet soft child."
- "I don't know about that.
"I'm not sure,
"but it does feel like we
need some help right now.
"I mean, we have a bunch of,
"I know that like I have
this very specific task to do
"to, like, help bring about
this dragon of New York.
"But I don't know if
you know any more about
"that kind of thing."
- "Did you know the
Bleecker Street Dragon?"
- Did I?
I mean, I must've done, right?
- Yeah, you knew the Bleecker
Street Dragon, absolutely.
- "Yes, no, he was...
"Delightful.
"Loved pie!"
- "Yeah, he loved pie
"Dutch pie specifically."
- "Big pie fan,
"and who can blame him?"
- "Yeah."
- "It's the little things.
"When you have that much
power it's the little things."
- "That's what's doing
New York in right now,
"it's those same little things."
- "Oh, no."
- "But we got them.
"That's what,
"I ran into your, I guess a reincarnate,
"a previous version of, you know?"
- "That was you?"
- "Yeah.
"I was all crazy.
"Yeah, I'd been disassociated
"from my personality for a second.
"So I don't think there was any,
"it was a real, you met me
at a very strange time."
- "Honestly, pretty sure
that I had ergot poisoning
"at the time, everybody was going
- "Off the rails,"
- "What's an ergot?"
- "with weird hallucinogenic.
"It gets into the wheat
and then you see things."
- "Wow."
- "It was a big problem back then."
- "That's what all the witches had."
- "Oh."
(Brennan laughs)
- Rowan, you sense Pete being
quite strange around you.
- "Which is why they thought
that there were witches."
- "Totally, I've heard that too, Pete."
- "Yeah, that's like people thought
"that women were doing magic
"but they were just poisoned by the wheat
"and they were hallucinating."
- "So, you two are friends?
"You two are friends?"
- "Yeah, we're roommates!
"This is my really good friend."
- Why did they all three
have their arms around?
- Sofia's still in there.
(everyone laughs)
You know, honestly, I've
spent the night there.
- Sofie lives with us sometimes.
- When I don't want to
go home to my mother.
- Pretty much us three all the time.
(Emily laughs)
- I put my arm around Kingston.
- Honestly, it's just nice to be included.
- I want to get in on this.
This seems nice.
I definitely positioned myself as far away
from Cody as possible.
- I don't blame you.
"But yeah, Rowan we're in a bad spot.
"And I don't know.
"It's not often that, you know,
"the waking world is called on,
"you know, y'all for help.
"But if there's anything
you could do in this moment
"as the leader, New York
is in big, big trouble."
- "Well, honestly,
"I mean whatever affects New
York affects here as well.
"There was strange things
going on here as well.
"I just assumed that,
"frankly, that I wasn't
very good at my job,
"which to be fair I don't know
if I am very good at my job
"but it's sort of nice to know that maybe
"it's other things as well.
"Kingston, it's so boring."
- "Oh, come on, you
get to wear a pantsuit.
"What a dream!
"And you look fantastic!"
- "But everyday I have to wear a pantsuit.
"And then I have to get these
people to agree with me."
- "I mean, yeah, people.
"Hey, organizing is tough
"when you're trying to get a
bunch of people to see things
"and you have all these
different point of views.
"It's a lot of work."
- "I would say it's like corralling cats
"but honestly, corralling
cats, I've done it many times.
"Pretty easy in comparison."
- "Yeah, I used to watch Kug corral cats,
"and it was a snap of a finger for him."
- "Yeah, Kug ran a really
good trap, neuter, release."
(everyone laughs)
- "It was fantastic.
"He could corral cats-"
- "You should see the way
these cats react to him.
"Giant rat man, bunch of cats.
"You'd think there'd be more conflict."
- "Herds of cats he would
lead through the streets
"like a shepherd."
- "He played a little flute."
- "Honestly, he was so charming,
"he didn't even have
to trap them sometimes.
"It was just neuter, release."
(everyone laughs)
- "Stab them in the
ba*ls and let them go."
- "He would play a little flute."
- "Play a little flute.
"Flute, neuter, release."
- "Flute, neuter, release."
- "I have a question.
"Do we have a feeling like
maybe bringing Fairyland back
"to the waking world would
be some sort of restoration
"of, like, tradition and fun and memory?"
- "Oh, playfulness."
- "Just, like, Cody and I
watched like Astroworld,
"the, like, Travis Scott documentary.
"And like, it was pretty sick.
"Like, you know, they
closed down Astroworld,
"and he was like, the kids
need a cool fun place to like,
"go hang out with and make memories.
"Like, maybe this is like
Queens' Astroworld is Fairyworld.
"And we can make sure it's gonna
have a big music festival."
(everyone laughs)
- Cody, as Pete's
talking about Astroworld.
You remember studying about
that place called Fairyland in Queens.
- Fairyland, got it.
- Yeah.
Make a f*ck' history check.
- Make a f*ck' history check.
- 17.
- I think you might feel like
knowing the Unsleeping City,
Fairyland may have been some actual, like,
gate to Faerie in the past.
Might've been some connection to, like,
actual fairies moving
throughout New York in the past.
- Okay.
"I know I was super confused
when I first showed up
"and I thought we were in the past, but-"
(Emily laughs)
"There is some stuff going on.
"I do think that the old Fairyland
"which was an amusement
park with the same name,
"maybe it had some kind of
connection between Faerie,
"maybe it was like a gate
between Faerie & the waking world
"and it got closed.
"And maybe this could be that again."
- "Yes, and then they built
a terribly depressing mall
"on top of it, just full of chain stores."
- "Actually it was pretty cool!"
- "It's complicated.
"It's actually super complicated."
- "Really hard to negotiate.
"Kind of fizzing
fluorescents the whole time."
- "Have you ever had a cinnamon pretzel
"while you're spending
like $29.99 on a shirt?"
(Brennan laughs)
- "Not to mention there was
a good Super Cuts there."
- "There was a solid Super Cuts."
- "Lemonade with a cinnamon pretzel.
"Delicious combo."
- "I haven't got a haircut
since Super Cuts closed."
(Emily laughs)
- "A lot of really good
hairdressers worked
"at that Super Cuts, I'm telling you."
- "I could talk about Super Cuts forever."
(everyone laughs)
Ricky loves Super Cuts.
- "You guys wanna go to Super Cuts?"
- "Yeah, maybe I'll go apply
to work at Super Cuts."
- 90% of Ricky's haircuts
are from Super Cuts.
"Well, I mean, if it was
a real gateway to Faerie,
"and it really existed in
the waking world in the past,
"then it is a part of New York's past."
- "Yes."
- "That feels like something,
"that feels important in some way, right?"
- Rowan, yeah, you look at that
piece of the Fairyland sign
and feel power spreading out around you.
I think Rowan probably feels
like you maybe have some
work to do here in Faerie.
You've been trudging through bureaucracy
and Fae nonsense for a long time.
This may be a missing link of
what you've been working on.
that's been keeping you
from your friends for years.
I think Rowan probably
feels like there's work
to be done here.
I know that the mortal human
beings of the champions
of New York definitely have sh*t to do
back in the waking world.
- "Do you have a library here, Rowan?"
- Is there?
- Hell yeah!
I mean, Siobhan, you're in
charge of Fairyland in New York.
You do it, whatever you think.
There's a library there,
there's a f*ck' library there.
Hell yeah.
- "Yes, but it's mostly theater history."
(Brennan laughs)
"It's like VCRs of every Broadway show
"and lots of-"
- "Illegally taped footage?"
- "Illegally taped footage."
- "I'd love to take out a
bootleg of Kinky Boots."
(everyone laughs)
- "Does that mean you would have
to watch Kinky Boots forever?"
- "Moms love Kinky Boots."
(everyone laughs)
- "Okay, well then I won't try to use,
"I won't stick around and try
and study in your library."
- Awesome.
You guys part ways.
It's not gonna be as a sweat
for you guys to get back
to the waking world from here.
You have Pete with you.
You guys are mortal beings
that will have an ease
on getting back.
You'll probably show
up back around Broadway
or the theater district.
- "Steve darling, you're in charge.
"Sorry, I'll be back soon."
- And Rowan's going to go back out
with them to the waking world?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Hell yes.
You guys go back to the waking world.
- I mean, as we're walking,
I feel like maybe I kind of
like walk slower next to Rowan,
and I'm like, "Hey, so-"
- "Hi.
"You disappeared."
- "Apologizing always feels,
Hm?
- "You disappeared off
the face of the planet.
"Where did you go?"
- "Me?"
- "Yeah!"
(Zac laughs)
- "Well, see,
"so the thing is I...
"So as you know (laughs) I was just very,
"I was on a lot of drugs
the last time we hung out,
"and I actually don't do drugs anymore."
- "Where's your hat?"
- "What's up?
"I'm different now.
"You know, I work at a bookstore.
"I don't throw up and cry.
"I don't embarrass people in
front of like all their friends
"in their cool apartment
because I'm nervous.
"Just, you know-"
- "Have you been avoiding
me for three years
"because you threw up in front of me?"
- "Yeah, but then I cried."
- "Pete, I've been alive
for hundreds of years."
- "For sure.
"Of course, you've probably
seen, you've seen dysentery.
"That's probably not dissimilar."
- "I mean, it was a lot of vomit
"and you did cry very snottily."
- "You know when someone's
like too f*cked up
"and they're like, I'm
too f*cked up (groans)
"and like they go through a lot of labor."
- "I do remember."
- "Yeah, that's...
"That's what I remember.
"So anyway, I found vomit
on my belt two weeks later
"which kind of memories
started coming back,
"and I was just more and more
embarrassed of what happened.
"And also what I didn't
remember had happened.
"And I'm still pretty chaotic,
"but I'm working on not relying on that
"as a personality trait.
"And anyway, it's good to see you."
- "Yeah, good to see."
I ruffle Pete's hair a little bit.
(Ally laughs)
- That's funny though.
- "Wait, let me see this chip."
I pull the chip out of Pete's hand.
- "Been going to some meetings.
"It's an anonymous program,
"so you really aren't just
supposed to show your chip around
"but to you, I needed you to know."
- "Good job."
- "Thanks."
- "Yeah.
"You seem well, you seem really well.
"You don't seem like skeletal."
- "What's up?"
- "You don't seem skeletal."
- "Hey guys?
"It feels like we got
a bunch of sh*t to do.
- "For sure, for sure, for sure."
- "Yes, I haven't been here in ages,
"and I do need to have,
like, anything from a bodega.
"Just anything."
- "Let's get that on the way."
I think Ricky is looking at his new watch,
and is like, we gotta f*ck' move, right?
(everyone laughs)
I start slapping everyone in the face.
- You guys, cool.
You guys dip the f*ck outta here.
You guys tell me, what do you guys do?
- Can I use word of recall to get back
to the dragon's hoard?
- Hold on one second.
- Oh right.
It's time to hatch the dragon.
- Or can I just go there?
I don't know how to get there,
but word of recall allows
me to return to sanctuaries
that I've been to.
- Whoa.
- You did not have the ability
to prepare the dragon's hoard
to the sanctuary.
- Wait, it was magically hidden
in the subway though, right?
- Yeah, I know where it is.
- "Maybe some of Kug's friends
"that we just met on that
little hot dog stand."
- "I can talk to Marty
and he'll probably know."
- "Oh no, not the stinky c*ck."
- "He's a juicy c*ck."
- "Juicy, yeah."
- "He maybe used to be stinky,
"but he's at least also juicy now."
- He's wearing little sweat pants
that say juicy on the butt.
(everyone laughs)
- But like the rat
himself smells like sh*t,
but the juicy c*ck
actually smelled fine.
(Emily laughs)
- Hell yeah.
You reach out to old friends of Kugrash.
Rats, c*ck, everything like that.
And you hear back from Marty.
"Hey, buddy, you got it.
"We're gonna get all
the bugs and everything.
"We're gonna find this
f*ck' dragon's hoard.
"You better believe it, bud!
"We're on it, we're on it now!"
- "Thank you.
"And I love the sweat pants.
"I feel like that's a great addition."
- "Yeah, I just like to
lounge around the house.
"You know, that's what
I'm interested in doing."
- It actually makes sense
that they would have a pair
of juicy sweatpants considering
like that style is so old
you could only find it at a thrift store.
- It got so old that it
became a doll's toy clothing.
- Shrunken down.
- Sometimes you say things
just for the fan art.
(everyone laughs)
- Cool.
You guys get bugs on finding these.
So word of recall will not
get you there, Kingston.
'Cause you were not able
to set that place up
as a sanctuary.
- I feel like we have
to talk to Iga's family.
- Probably.
- That feels good.
- And Pete you have the chest, right?
Yeah, who wants to bring
the chest to Iga's family?
- Definitely, I'll go and do that.
Yeah, I have the chest.
- Should we all go?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Cool.
All of you head out.
Oskar's there.
Nick and Jess are there.
They take the chest from you.
Nick is very protective over it.
(Brennan sighs)
As much as Pete tries to explain the fact
that Iga is in this place
where it is eminently possible
that she can be retrieved,
it is hard for this family to hear,
and you feel the mounting of the pressure
on you to get this right.
So much has already
gone right for you guys.
You have collected so
many of the resources
that you need to make this work.
You have been so triumphant
over and over again,
but you've also realized that
if you can't stick the landing,
no pun intended, all will be lost.
- Wait, I don't want to say
this in front of the family
but can I ask everyone else, like,
"Do you think it's worth talking to Nick."
- "Dragon?"
- "And seeing if you
can get us in the chest
"to talk to the dragon?"
- "Definitely."
- "Sure."
- Nick shares with you that
he is not powerful enough
to get all of you into the chest.
- Oh, right, that was a
special warlock ability.
- But he can try to
communicate something for you.
He looks up,
Jess looks very shaken.
She's like, "I got to
talk to Ana and Amelia
"at the society about this."
And Nick looks up and says, "What is it?
"What is it you want me to ask the dragon?
"I can try to ask something."
- "What do you think, Kingston?
"Is there anything that
feels right to you?"
- "I mean, the things in my head are like,
"can you ask,
"oh, I've never truly had to say her name
"and I know I'm gonna say it wrong.
"So please correct me as
soon as I say it, Nick.
"Smoczmatka?"
- "Smoczmatka."
- "Smoczmatka, there you go.
"Will never say it wrong again.
"Is there a chance, like I think,
"like we're asking Smoczmatka, like,
"where a hoard would be or, yeah.
"How does a hoard move?
"Yeah.
"Or does a hoard move?
"I guess the nature of hoards."
- "Does it get buried with
when the dragon dies?"
- You see later after you guys depart
from the Lisowski family,
Nick and Jessica vowing to, you know,
make this right and help any way they can.
Nick sends a message to all of you
basically saying dragon
hoards should be easy to find.
And that if you're not able to find it,
especially if you've been there
before, something's wrong.
- "The memory of it was erased."
- Is it still in my head?
- Yes, still in your head.
You got it.
- "Do we have a piece of it at all?
"Because maybe we could
use the time piece to go
"into the piece of it."
- I hold up the eternal token.
- You hold up the eternal token.
It feels, you can definitely,
it feels worth trying.
You can experiment with that
with the Gotham Timepiece
and are busy putting this,
sort of, putting this together.
Nick says he's gonna
keep trying to look into
what Smoczmatka knows as you guys are all
on top of this together.
I'm going to move us forward in time now.
The bugs begin to look for it.
Days pass as the bugs are
looking for the dragon's hoard.
We are going to enter another
period of downtime now.
And it is a period of downtime marked
by a growing sense of dread
as Marty and the others prove unable
to find the original hoard of
the Dragon of Bleecker Street.
What I'd like from all of you now is
what your characters are doing
in the interim while this
place is being searched for
and Christmas draws ever closer.
- Kingston's at that phone every day.
- Kingston, we're gonna
do straight up two weeks
of downtime right now.
Go ahead and roll that
percentile dice 14 times for me
if you would be so kind.
- Yeah, I'd love to.
God, this is not fun
if they don't come up
the way I want them to.
Okay, so I didn't like you last time.
I didn't like you last time.
Here we go.
Okay.
- Hell yeah.
- 14 times?
- 14 times.
Here we go.
- First one.
It's gotta be 11 or
less right on two D 10?
- 11 or less on a two D 10.
- First one is 16.
(everyone winces)
Second one is 32.
Third one's 30.
Fourth one, 25.
Fifth one, 72.
Sixth one, 51.
Okay, swapping out dice.
Let's get a new team in there.
See if they-
- How do you roll an 11 or lower?
- It'd be 10 and one or
then zero, zero in anything.
This is seven.
16 again.
- Oh my God.
- 99.
- Oh my God.
- How many more do I have?
- You have five more.
- That's 40.
- Okay, this is the one.
This is the one.
It's happening.
Guaranteed!
- 76.
- f*ck!
- Three more.
- Three more.
- Three more?
- Three more.
- This is insane.
- God dammit.
40.
- Two more.
- Two more?
- Two more.
- It's c*ck.
26.
- Last one.
- Please.
Kingston is like, doin' that thing
where you like, press your
head, like, against the like,
just pressing just like
before he puts the coin in,
just like head against
the metal, just praying.
56.
- Brutal.
Kingston goes looking
for that divine intervention every day.
Do not find it.
But you guys do have non
miraculous things at your disposal.
What is everybody else doing
during that two week period
as the bugs, again, that
mounting feeling of dread,
the bugs are not finding it.
What is everyone doing during this, like,
tense mounting period of downtime?
- Do we think someone should
talk to the Shen family maybe?
Maybe they have any guidance for this?
I don't know.
- Yeah, that's a good idea.
I feel like Misty would
probably know them.
I think Misty could maybe do that.
I mean Rowan.
Rowan would probably know them.
- Yeah, what do you
want to go talk to them?
Oh, you wanted to talk to
them about the dragon's hoard?
- Yes.
- Cool.
Go ahead and give me a DC 20,
DC 20, we'll call it a perception check.
- Okay.
I have a plus seven to perception.
- [Brennan] Cool.
- No, I don't make it.
I get a 14.
- The Shen family is as confused as you.
They explained to you that the
hoard should be easy to find.
It should be on Bleecker Street.
I think they do also explain
that the hoard was on Bleecker Street
because that's where the dragon wanted it.
But that the hoard could
actually be anywhere.
Like, that hoard can appear
at that secret subway stop
wherever someone wants,
wherever the dragon
wants it to in the city.
- Why don't we ask the egg?
- Not a terrible idea.
Rowan, that is your downtime activity.
Towards the end,
you're, like, out of answers.
You're thinking about,
like, it has to be the egg.
Pete, or sorry, anyone else?
What are you doing during that two weeks?
As you can feel you're so close,
and yet this last piece of
the puzzle is eluding you.
- I guess...
Maybe I'll text Ricky
because I think we both
have locate object.
I wonder if we can like
investigate areas that we, like,
essentially ask Kingston,
like what do you remember?
Is there something you
remember seeing there?
- Yeah.
- And then being like, okay,
we'll check out Bleecker Street.
We'll go to, if we know it
was originally brought to,
if we know the dragon was
originally brought to Chinatown,
we'll go to Chinatown,
and I'll just ride around on my moped
with, like, a homing beacon
casting locate object every day,
I guess.
- Hell yeah.
Well, go ahead and give me
like, as a downtime activity,
give me an investigation check.
- 18.
- Should I get one too?
- Yeah, Ricky, you should
give me one as well.
- Pretty good.
Investigation, that would be a 19.
- We should use bless maybe.
That would make things easier.
- I think over the span of time-
- Over the span it's not gonna work?
- Yeah.
You guys are looking
and looking and looking.
You guys look hard,
just like trying to sort of investigate,
cast locate object yourself.
Something is you guys get
just like a sinking feeling.
Something is weird.
What is Pete getting
up to during downtime?
- I'm going to meetings with Lugash.
- Cool.
- And then it may be, like,
Maddie's birthday or something.
Like, I might just be, like,
"Do you wanna like get a coffee?
"Or like, what do you
usually do on your birthday?
"LOL."
- Maddie hits you back up and is like,
is like, "I don't have a lot
of close friends in the city.
"A lot of my friends are online,
"but it would be awesome
to do something in person
"for my birthday."
- "Cool."
- Pete, your sobriety die
moves up to a D 12, which is-
- No, it's a D 10.
- Oh, it's a D 10.
Copy that.
- I shot down when Danny
wanted to buy drugs from me.
(Brennan laughs)
But we're back at a D 10, baby!
We're back at a D 10!
- Back at a D 10.
- This is where I'm comfortable.
It's the most beautiful shape.
- You and Maddie have a lovely
birthday celebration together
for her birthday.
- Cute.
- Truly lovely.
- I get her that book "Kitchen."
That's like a really old like book.
It just has like a really
interesting trans character in it.
And it's just, like, fun to read.
Like, "Hey, it's by this
writer Banana Yoshimoto.
"It's like pretty cool.
"It's like early magical realism
from like the 80s or 90s.
"And I don't know.
"I just thought it was pretty cool."
- She smiles and says, "Well, thanks.
"I always love a gift that
like, you know, keeps on giving.
"It's like, oh, I'll be able
to enjoy this for a while.
"That's awesome, Pete.
"Thank you.
"And you said you're Aquarius, right?"
- "Yeah."
- "So I got time to
think of a gift for you.
"Good, good, good."
- "Yeah, totally."
- The only two people I need answers
from are Sofia and Kingston.
Kingston, I know you've been doing your
divine intervention rolls, but
you still have your downtime.
What is Sofia doing during this time?
I think Sofia has been feeling
like she's carrying
this life in her, right?
But she can't really celebrate
it until she tells Dale,
but she can't tell Dale
until she figures out
the best way to do it
or a way to do it that's not just painful.
But I think she's been
feeling really, like, isolated
and selfish because of this.
So, I think she is gonna, like,
she's just gonna use
her time to try to help.
So, I think two things she'd like to do,
one, she'd like to, like, contact Nadia
and see if she could get into the library
to look for if they might have
any information about a hoard
and how to find it.
And then she also kind
of wants to contact Tony
and ask him if he wanted to get coffee.
- Go ahead.
I'm gonna let Sofia do
both of these things.
And I believe that's gonna
move you down to a D8
if I'm not mistaken.
- That's fine.
I feel like I have been
nothing for a while.
(Emily laughs)
- Oh no!
- She wants to contribute.
- I think you reach out.
Go ahead and give me an
arcana check for Nadia
and go ahead and give me a,
I guess it can be perception,
it can be insight for Tony.
- Okay.
My arcana was a six,
and my perception is 18.
- 18.
You reached out to Nadia.
Nadia gets back to you
and is basically like,
"So sorry.
"So sorry, Sofia.
"Nothing about specific
locations of the dragon hoard."
- "Okay.
"Thank you so much for looking.
"How is everyone doing by the way?"
- She's like, "It's great.
"We just went on this retreat
with the occult society.
"Went super well.
"We're gearing up for the
expedition around New Year's."
- "Amazing."
- "Really, really good."
You get a ping on your phone
from Tony texting you back
saying, "Coffee sounds great."
- Great.
I think I'm gonna swing by
and talk to my dad really quickly.
'Cause I want to get some information
from him above the board.
- Hell yeah.
You swing by your old family home
and find your dad watching
the game, drinking a cold one.
- Sweet.
"Hey, Dad.
"What's up?
"Long time no see."
- "Sofia, what the f*ck
are you doing here?
"It's cold as hell."
- "Yeah, it's just the
holiday, so, you know,
"just figured I'd stop by.
"Anyways I ran into a
friend of yours, Tony Simos.
"You remember him?"
- "Yeah, Tony.
"Yeah, I remember Tony.
"He's a f*ck' hothead.
"He's a lunatic."
- "Yeah, lunatic, right?
"'Cause that he had some,
"some wife or something like that?"
- "Yeah, she left him though.
"She f*ck' bailed middle of the night.
"f*ck' left his a*s."
- "Yeah, yeah, cool, cool.
"Thanks so much.
"That's just the information I need."
- "This is unreal.
"What the f*ck?"
(Emily laughs)
"What the f*ck?
"You come here to talk to me
"about some f*ck' guy
from the neighborhood?"
- I send my unseen
servant to go grab, like,
a present from like a
liquor store and I'm like,
"Yeah, actually I was
here to drop off this.
"It's a can opener."
(everyone laughs)
"You like Beck's, right?
"The beer?"
- "Yeah, yeah, I like Beck's.
"sh*t, okay.
"Thank you.
"Yeah, thank you.
"sh*t, okay."
- A Beck's bottle opener?!
(everyone laughs)
- "Merry Christmas, Dad."
- That is the funniest specific (laughs)
Oh my God.
(everyone laughs)
- And with that, I want
to go meet up with Tony.
I basically needed to get
the information about him
so that I could tell him
that I heard from my dad without lying.
- Copy that.
You go and meet Tony for coffee.
He's waiting for you
when you get to the cafe,
looks up and says,
"Sofia, good to see you.
"How ya doin'?"
- "I'm good.
"I just wanted to talk to you
because I learned something
"about you that I think we have in common,
"and I don't meet a lot of
other people who experience it.
"And I guess I just wanted to reach out.
"I don't know if I'm looking
for advice or consolation
"or maybe to say like, I see
you in a different light now."
- "What's the different
light you see me in?"
- "I'm gonna bring up
something that's personal,
"but I want you to know that it's coming
"from someone who also experienced it.
"I heard around the
block about what happened
"with your wife."
(Brennan exhales)
"I just wanted to reach out
"because I obviously lost my husband.
"And it's something that
I still don't f*ck' know
"how to deal with.
"And when I learned that, it just,
"I felt for you and I
wish I had known that.
"And if I offended you
by bringing this up,
"I'm super sorry."
- "Nah, it's all right.
"You lost Dale.
"And I know how much that hurt you.
"I know there's bad blood
here, but Dale was a good guy.
"And...
"Hurts, yeah, you know.
"Wife just up and left."
You see him like giving you the, like,
waking world version of events.
Like, not sharing the
other stuff with you.
"Yeah, I don't know where she is.
"I hope wherever she is she's happy."
- f*ck, can I do,
I'm like, I want to do some kind of check.
I almost want to, like,
I kind of want to tell
him then he'll know.
f*ck, I really want to tell him.
I guess maybe I'm just gonna say,
I just think I'm just gonna
try to be human and say like,
"I don't know.
"I guess just, like, maybe
just tell me how you moved on
"or tell me how you
found a life after that.
"Maybe that'll help me.
"And I don't know.
"Maybe it's just nice to
talk about with someone
"who's gone through the same thing."
- He nods.
"I don't know.
"I don't know if you ever do move on.
"You know, if you got
a big heart, you can...
"The stronger you are,
"the more muscle you got inside
"to carry those hurts for a long time.
"I've been carrying mine for awhile
"but no use in letting them
make you weak, you know.
"It's hard.
"I tell you, Sofia, I
give you credit, you know.
"I'm a be honest.
"I feel like a f*ck' loser."
- "Why?"
- "Coming back here,
old dog f*ck' trying
"to be First Fist again,
"make up for something that
happened so many years ago.
"Why would I even...
"Why would I do this to myself,
"put myself through all this hurt?
"Sitting here at this f*ck'
retreat with the society,
"giving us the run around.
"f*ck', you know,
"there's no f*ck',
"we're not going on an expedition.
"It's obvious that it's
all a f*ck' hoax."
- "What?"
- "You know, the expedition
it's fugazi, it's not real.
"Like, you know, we're
getting jerked around."
- "Why, how?
"I mean, I'm friends with Esther.
"I can talk to her."
- I'm gonna need Sofia to
give me a deception roll.
(Emily sighs)
- Okay, wait, all of these
dice have rolled poorly
for me today.
Six.
- God, these sixes.
- Tony looks over at you and says,
"Well, maybe I'm wrong.
"I don't know.
"Maybe it's all real.
"Maybe I'm just paranoid.
"Hey, this was real nice of you, Sof.
"I appreciate it."
- "Yeah."
- "I'm gonna head back to the monastery.
"Thank you for your time, Sof.
"Appreciate it."
- I mean, I guess I'm gonna
text the group and be like,
"I was trying to get some context for him,
"suss him out.
"Obviously I f*ck'
made things worse again.
"Should I just f*ck' tell him
"that we have a way to
get Heather Simos back
"and maybe he'll just
f*ck' get on board?"
- "Yeah."
- All right, I chase him
out of the coffee shop.
"Tony!"
- Cool.
He turns around.
- "Tony.
"Look, yeah, okay.
"The meeting, look, I met
with you under a pretense
"that wasn't true, but the
core of why I wanted to meet
"with you was true.
"I know what happened with Heather.
"And I think we can get her back."
- "You know what happened with Heather?"
- "I know what happened with Heather.
"And I think we can get her back."
- "How?"
- "We just lost,
"do you remember the
woman with the chest?"
- "Yeah, Lisowski."
- "We just lost her to a
timeless pocket dimension
"that Heather is in."
- "Wait a minute, wait a minute.
"She's somewhere out there?"
- "Yes, she was,
"you know her magical purpose, right?"
- "Yeah, she was the Vox Phantasma."
- "Yes."
- "Nod made her the Vox Phantasma."
- "Yeah because Nod believed in her.
"And she brought so much enthusiasm
"that Nod couldn't totally
work with just yet.
"And she went too deep into dreaming,
"and she got sucked up by something.
"And I think we can get her back."
- "Holy sh*t.
"Oh my God.
"How do we get her back?"
- "I don't know.
"What we need to do is, well,
"we're trying to get a dragon.
"I know you don't believe in dreams,
"but this dragon could
bring a lot of people back."
- Give me an insight
check if you'd be so kind.
- Oh no.
It's gonna be another six.
- Jesus Christ.
- Are you kidding me?
- Well it's plus three, so it's a nine.
Yeah.
- Tony says, "Look if this is true,
"that's f*ck' incredible.
"That's f*ck' incredible.
"Listen, we got to talk.
"You and me let's talk tomorrow.
"Come by the monastery, you know,
"like four o'clock in the
afternoon and we'll get it going.
"Absolutely."
- "Tony, don't f*ck me for
letting you in on this, okay?"
- "I'm not gonna f*ck you, okay?"
- "Okay.
"Well that could be not
a lie, but also (laughs)
"You're gonna f*ck me aren't you?"
- You see, he looks at you and says,
"You bringing this up means a lot."
And Tony heads off into the night.
- "Okay, well, I did it, everyone.
"And I think it was probably a mistake."
(everyone laughs)
- "I doubt it."
- "No trust your intuition.
"Trust your insight."
- "Who is this guy?
"Do you want me to beat him up?
"He sounds bad."
- "I feel as though pregnancy
has been terrible for me
"and I haven't had a good day since-"
- "You're pregnant?"
(everyone laughs)
"Well, let me throw you a shower."
- "I can't have a f*ck' shower
"until I tell my dead husband.
"And I can't tell my dead husband
"'til I can figure out if I
can f*ck' bring him back!"
- "Understandable."
- "Thank you."
"Okay, I'm not crazy."
- "Actually I've had a not
dissimilar situation before so-"
- "Tell me more."
- "Many lifetimes!"
- I'm gonna say,
Sofia, give me one last,
I'm gonna ask for a either arcana
or religion check with advantage.
(Emily laughs)
- Cool.
Why not?
- Two sixes.
- Ooh!
Okay.
19.
- You are talking and
you remember years ago
at the Clinton Hill Chantry
there was a book of some kind
specifically about, like,
the dead and necromancy
and stuff like that.
And as you say this
thing to Rowan of, like,
"I can't do any of this
until I can figure out
"if there's a way to bring
my dead husband back,"
your mind just goes to this thing
at the Clinton Hill Chantry
and you know that there's something
that you should check out there.
The last person I want to talk to-
- I also do one last thing.
I just want to sh**t a text
to Esther that I f*cked up.
So that she's on her game.
- She says, "Okay, I'm on it."
She says, she's like,
"Don't worry about it.
"I'm on it."
Cool.
Kingston, what are you
doing during those two weeks
of downtime while the dragon's
hoard is being searched for?
- I think, Kingston is,
like, talking to the egg.
And if anything, I think
I like take the egg
with me out into the streets, like,
in and around the areas that
I used to, like, you know-
- Is it in a stroller?
- Yeah, I have a little stroller out.
And me and the egg are
just like walking around,
and I'm just like, "How do
you feel about this place?
"Is this anything?"
(Emily laughs)
"Let's keep, let's keep moving.
"All right, here we go.
"Here we go."
Yeah.
Kingston, I would like
even like burn my, like,
Gotham timepiece, like, you know,
level of exhaustion after downtime.
Like, Kingston is upset and
really wants to figure this out.
- I think you might not
want to do that though
because you'll get
disadvantage on ability checks
that's what exhaustion is.
- Is that after the downtime?
- That's after the downtime.
Yes, yes, yes.
- I'll take it.
If it's after, I'll take it.
- Cool.
Kingston is going with the egg.
Go ahead and give me a,
you can give me an insight check
and then that extra action lets you do
an extra downtime activity.
So if there's something you want to do
other than the dragon.
- I guess I'll use it
if this doesn't work.
- Cool.
Go for it.
Yeah, yeah.
- That will be a 28.
- Kingston, it is the morning.
It's been two weeks.
The egg keeps stopping at this one area
on Central Park North,
the North side of Central Park.
But it keeps stopping in a place
where there is no, like, subway entrance.
It's near 110th Street,
but you keep stopping in this area.
With that 28 perception, Kingston,
you're holding the egg,
and you haven't used your extra actions.
You don't have exhaustion.
- I haven't used it yet.
- At the end of that downtime, Kingston,
you're walking with the egg.
You keep stopping at a place
with no subway entrance.
You look at yourself in a mirror.
Umbra is pouring out of your eyes.
This dragon's hoard is find-able,
but not if it's being hidden from you.
And there's only one thing powerful enough
in this city to hide the unseen
from those who see the unseen every day.
Something is wrong with Gramercy.
- Oh sh*t.
- [Ally] Holy sh*t!
- God damn.
- This is the next day.
Sofia, Esther texted you
this morning being like,
"Hell yeah, come by the
Clinton Hill Chantry
"to look for whatever you need.
"I'll be up,
"like, I should be
upstairs in the apartment
"if you want to come say hi.
"Don't worry about Tony.
"I'm gonna handle him.
"Ricky will be out at
Helping Hands tomorrow."
- Okay.
- And Sofia, you are riding,
or I guess you're taking your
car up through Clinton Hill.
- Take the Verazano Bridge.
- Take the Verazano Bridge.
As you have said, Sofia is
in not a great way right now.
- I think I know what she needs to do.
- As you are driving,
you look over and see a flickering image
just in the mirror of a
passenger in your back seat
that is a colorless silhouette.
- Can I pull over and punch it?
- Yeah, you turn around, punch it.
It's not even really in your back seat.
It's just in the reflection,
and Sofia, you are a woman pulled over
on the side of the road,
punching the back seat of your own car.
- This is not my low
if you can believe it.
(everyone laughs)
- You hear a voice in
your own mind ask you,
"It only hurts because you keep fighting.
"If you stopped fighting
it wouldn't hurt anymore."
- Can I roll an intuition luck check?
To maybe just sh**t Sofia,
like, a friendly text,
like, "Hey, just happened
to be thinking about you."
- Yeah, I'm gonna let Sofia respond first.
If she's going to respond
and then I'll let Pete roll.
- I think that Sofia knows
not to fully buy this.
I think that part of her realized, like,
you know, having a dream
in your heart is amazing.
But I think that in her
very literal situation
she needs to make peace with the fact
that she can't necessarily
fix this situation
so that she can...
I think she hasn't known what to do
whether or not to tell Dale or not
'cause she keeps thinking
I'm going to fix it.
But the longer it goes on
the more guilty she feels
about not telling him.
And it's just like, it
just has to come to,
it just has to stop.
So, I think she's maybe just, like,
does she know how to contact Dale?
- She could try to go to JFK.
- That sounds like a big endeavor.
(Brennan laughs)
Okay, I think that she,
I don't want to take up that much time.
(Ally laughs)
- No, I think that's beautiful.
I think you should.
I think you,
and Ally go ahead and roll
that luck check for...
- Hey!
17.
- Yeah, Sofia, you're
thinking of not going to JFK.
You get a text from Pete.
What does the text from Pete say?
- "Hey, was just doing my morning pages
"and you came up as always.
"I'm just so appreciative of you
"and hope you're doing great.
"I went on a date this week,
which felt kind of selfish.
"So just wondering if you
need help with anything.
"I would love to help."
It's a lot.
It's a wall of text.
- Sofia writes back and she
says, "I do need one thing.
"I need you to tell me
all about your date."
(Brennan laughs)
- "Great!
"So I got her a freakin' book.
"I hope she likes it.
"I felt kinda stupid.
"What are you up to?"
- "Pete, I think I'm gonna tell Dale.
"Do you think that's the right thing?
"I've been so f*cked in my head about
"whether or not I should,
"whether or not I should
tell him or not tell him.
"And I've just, I think
it's felt so inhibiting."
- "That's a really big
decision and I'm here with you
"if you need help.
"I can even take you to Nod,
"and we can go to the magical
JFK and try to see him."
- "Okay, yeah."
- "It's better than the
real JFK, I promise.
"We can just fly there.
"There's no Uber or Lyft."
- "Yeah, okay."
- [Brennan] Pete and Sofia, you're at JFK,
and you look up and see the pearly gates.
You see the light up there.
You know that what you
say here will be heard
by anybody waiting for you at the gates.
You don't even have to
go into the airport.
- I just have to shout it?
(Emily laughs)
Oh, f*ck me.
"Pete, hold my f*ck' hand."
- Yeah, I'm holding your hand,
and I'm just kind of squeezing it
at, like, soothing intervals.
Just like thinking about ya.
(Emily laughs)
- Okay.
I guess I'll just say,
"Hey hun, I'm pregnant.
"It's obviously yours.
"I wanted to find a way to bring
you back before I told you,
"but I need to stop hanging on to that.
"So at least I need to
stop hanging on to that.
"I just had to f*ck' tell you.
"It felt so f*cked up to not tell you.
"So that's the situation.
"I've been writing every single memory
"I can remember of you.
"And I promise no matter
what you are gonna be
"in this child's life
"in every f*ck' way I
can make that happen."
- The light gleams,
and you are followed
back to the waking world
by a beam of sunlight that
even when you return to waking
keeps clipping out through
the clouds behind you.
As you arrive at the Clinton Hill Chantry,
did Sofia bring all the
letters she's been writing
about Dale with her or no?
- No, I mean, she's
definitely got that at home.
- Gotcha, so is it weird for Sofia
when she sees all of them
in a book on the table
in the Clinton Hill Chantry?
- Yeah.
- A spot of sunlight is shining on a book
in the Clinton Hill Chantry called
"The Axioms and Laws of Paradise."
- I pick it up and read it.
I'm a pretty active reader now.
- Pete, you're with Sofia in this moment.
- Yeah, I'm like doing
the friend thing of like
where I'm hugging you from behind.
So we're both just kind
of like walking as a unit.
(Emily laughs)
- Sofia, because you went to JFK
and this sunlight is on this book
in the Clinton Hill Chantry,
and it's the one you
remembered being here.
You read a law that has to do with,
paradise plays by the rules.
And they don't return souls lightly
because death is a part of life.
- I know.
- However, there have
been numerous instances
where a soul has been
returned to the waking world.
There had been resurrections.
There have been raisings of the dead.
Hell, Kingston's cast revivify
which is just a short term resurrection.
But one of the things they do here,
and where you find these Dale pages
that you have spent weeks lovingly writing
is in an area where basically they say
heaven isn't stingy with souls.
It's not like hell
where they want to
desperately cling on to souls.
And in a case where either poor accounting
on the part of angelic
clerks would have a soul be
in paradise when it shouldn't,
examples are given like when
a demon has stolen a soul
and that soul gets
liberated from the demon
and brought straight to heaven.
But the person that got their soul stolen
never actually died in the world.
Heaven of course returns those souls
to the waking world right away.
Obviously Dale actually was k*lled.
So they wouldn't return
a soul in that case.
But if Dale had had his
soul stolen by a demon
and then showed up in heaven,
but he had never actually
died in the real waking world,
of course Heaven would
return his soul immediately.
And as Sofia is processing
what heaven's diligence
about returning souls when
they've made a mistake
and someone actually isn't or wasn't dead,
you hear some noise coming from upstairs.
And Ricky, you walk in
right about now as well.
'Cause you live here at
the Clinton Hill Chantry.
You see Sofia and Pete are downstairs.
- "Hey, guys."
(everyone laughs)
- "Hey, Ricky.
"I just sorta shouted at
heaven about my pregnancy.
"So yeah."
- "Well, you know, let
me know if you want me
"to also yell at heaven.
"Happy to scream at heaven as well."
- So, I mean, is there
some hope in this closet?
Like, what would be the...
- Sofia's trying to figure it out
because you're basically like,
okay, so heaven gives souls back,
but, like, you're trying to
work around right now the fact
that like Isabella
Infierno did m*rder Dale,
but it doesn't seem like heaven is greedy
about the souls they had.
They would return Dale
if you could prove that-
- If someone filed the right paperwork?
- If you could prove that
Dale was never k*lled
by Isabella Infierno
or that it was a mistake
or a clerical error,
they would return his soul in a heartbeat.
You guys hear thunderous noise
from upstairs in the Clinton Hill Chantry.
- I run upstairs.
- Same.
- Okay, I run upstairs.
- You run upstairs.
Ricky, your apartment's in disarray.
There are lightning
bolt marks on the walls.
Everyone here, go ahead and
give me an investigation check.
- f*ck, I got a nat one.
- sh*t.
- 11.
- Five.
- You guys are looking around.
There literally was just a struggle here.
- "It's f*cking Tony.
"Did I f*ck up Esther?"
- Can I...
- Sofia, you get a text on
your phone from Tony saying,
"Thanks for the heads up, kid."
Says, "I appreciate all you've done.
"I've had some fun doing
some things of my own.
"I take it you guys have
had a hard time finding
"that dragon's hoard.
"Sucks to be a sucker, don't it?"
You see he says,
"But after today, nobody's
ever gonna have to worry
"about finding something
magical ever again."
- I cast locate object
on Esther, like Esther's,
like, whatever jewelry that
she might have or her staff.
- I cast haste on Ricky.
- Cool.
- Have I texted people about me knowing
something's going down at
the Gramercy Occult Society?
You guys get your texts
from Kingston right now.
- Okay.
- I'm headed there immediately.
- I will head there immediately.
- I send photos of the room and
what we've seen or whatever.
- Sofia, you look down 'cause
you're searching for clues.
You look in the wastepaper
basket of the bathroom.
There is a full unopened
box of Junior Mints
that has some pee on it.
- What?
- Can I sniff it
to see if it smells like
pregnant pheromones?
(everyone laughs)
- Sofie, you don't have to sniff it.
You look at a full box of Junior Mints
with a little bit of pee in-
- Esther's f*ck' pregnant?
- Am I still there?
- Ricky is still there.
- What?
(everyone laughs)
Hold on, what?
I'm just like, "I have to go."
- "I'm coming with you."
- You're coming with.
Tony sends one last text to you.
Ricky, you see this on Sofie's phone.
The last thing from Tony says,
"And a sweet hello from me
and your friend, Esther."
Ricky.
- "Why do I try?
"Why do I try to reach out to anyone?"
- You know, at best we were
non-entities to each other
and now I really want to,
I think Ricky is like
ready to f*ck this guy up
and is going full, like,
and like wants to just do something.
I need a f*ck' weapon, you know?
- As you feel, I need a weapon.
You guys hear,
(Brennan mimics rustling sounds)
A box in your attic shutters, raises,
explodes, and coursing with
lightning and radiance,
Esther's baseball bat
slams into your hand.
- I take it and I'm off.
I'm just sprinting out the door.
- Yeah, I want to try to follow him.
- Yeah, can we just ride on you?
Or like what's going on?
- Probably.
- Kingston, you take off.
Are you bringing, you're
bringing the egg with you,
I assume?
- Well, I mean, at this point,
I'm just like pushing the
stroller at full speed.
And then I'm also gonna summon Alejandro.
- Hell yes.
Incredible.
- Ask him to fly us there
with his angelic wings.
- Amazing.
- I'm casting jump on myself.
- Yeah, as you're going,
you're getting texts.
You're getting texts from
Nadia, Solomon, Cindy,
Sofie, all saying the
monastery's been attacked.
It looks like Tony pulled
some of Gramercy's wizards
into the fold with him.
He's like he stole-
- Like he flipped them?
- Yeah, like he flipped them.
Yes.
- Oh, so this was happening before.
So I didn't absolutely f*ck us.
- It was happening way before.
Tony's been a worm for a while.
He's flipped some Gramercy people.
You're sprinting.
Nadia says he stole some
things from the monastery.
- What did he steal?
Tell me what he stole.
That'll give me a clue of what he's after.
Obviously he's after Nod.
- A bunch of our scrolls.
He stole forms of the greater dreaming.
He stole a bunch of other stuff.
You see that...
- I smile when I know that he stole
a bunk form of the greater dreaming.
(Emily laughs)
- You guys arrive.
You guys all converge on
the Gramercy Occult Society.
You see Orlando and Rovias
are completely stationary
with banners wrapped around them saying
"New York Public Library brought to you
"by Cypher Energy Fluid."
- God damn.
- You guys rush down the steps.
Kingston, you summon Alejandro.
Alejandro looks at you and says,
"Thank goodness you summoned me.
"Kingston, I bring news from paradise.
"Dale heard what Sofia said."
And you guys rush into
the depths of the society.
You hear battle breaking out.
- I think Ricky is just
running through the front door
like the Kool-Aid man and shattering.
- Yeah, you're like boom through stone!
JJ is there.
JJ links up with you guys.
He says, he looks,
"The engine, Tony
tampered with the engine!"
You know that JJ has been holding it down
because if Tony grabbed
Esther, it's broad daylight,
Ana and Amelia aren't here.
JJ rushes down with you.
All of you begin to just descend,
and you feel the umbral engine,
not breaking, but being juiced.
It is getting more and more powerful.
Tony is getting more umbra into the city.
And you realize what will
happen if he does that.
The thing that this has been doing
to prevent regular
people from seeing magic.
Tony wants to jam this to 11,
and every single magical
thing in the city will forget
that magic ever existed at all.
(cat meows)
(Ally laughs)
Tiny little cat meow.
You guys rush the steps
and see Tony and a cadre
of Concrete Fist monks.
He looks up and smiles and says,
"Oh, I'm glad we get one last dance
"before we end this whole
sh*t show once and for all."
I'm gonna need everybody
here to roll initiative.
And that's it for this episode
of "The Unsleeping City!"
- I got a f*ck' nat one!
- Nat 20!
(Brennan laughs)
- Well, Tony, thank you for making it easy
to f*ck' k*ll you now.
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08x15 - For the Hoard!
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.