- Hello and welcome to
"Dimension 20 Live".
My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan.
I'm your humble dungeon master.
The question is are Riz and Fig missing,
do we have all of our
intrepid heroes here?
Say hi, intrepid heroes!
- Hi, intrepid heroes!
- Oh my goodness, back from Europe.
Oh, it's delightful.
Guys, this is "Dimension 20 Live" presents
Fantasy High Sophomore Year.
This is a weekly, actual play D&D show
where we go into the recurring
adventures of the Bad Kids
and the heroes of the
Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
Some business to clear
up real quick up top.
Number one, we just finished
another season of our show
in magical New York City.
"The Unsleeping City"
had it's final finale
this last Tuesday so if you wanna watch us
in a different world with
different adventures,
Another thing we wanna
talk about is to clear up
how the heck are you
guys supposed to watch
"Dimension 20 Live", the
continuing adventures of
the Bad Kids, of our heroes
from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy?
It's real simple.
Every Wednesday night at
seven p.m. Pacific Time,
we're live on Twitch.
Then, what we do is we
take that live stream,
we polish it up real good.
We make the sound real nice.
We put captions and
stuff on it for our deaf
and hard of hearing friends,
and then, about six days later,
we put it up on Dropout.
So, for those six days, you'll
be able to catch the stream
if you missed it live 'cause it'll be free
and available on Twitch
while we're fixing it up.
Once it's fixed up, it'll be on Dropout
for you Dropout subscribers
or it'll be on Twitch
for our Twitch subscribers.
So, the moral of the story is
if you're a Dropout
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you always get the highest,
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with the captions added, and
if it's not available yet,
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It'll just be free there for
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If you're a Twitch subscriber,
you can watch the back log
of stuff but only the
back log of Twitch stuff.
So, you don't get all the
extra cool content on Dropout,
and if you're a free watcher, hello,
and you can just watch it for free live
or for a couple days afterwards.
So, just letting you guys
know how you're supposed
to watch this stuff.
Hopefully this is fair for everybody
so you always get that good good stuff
that you wanna watch, and
nobody can watch stuff
that other people can't watch,
and you don't have to pay
for more than one thing.
Cool, if any of that's
confusing, feel free—
- Brennan.
- I'm hearing that the
sound didn't work on that.
Can you say all that again?
- All of that one more time?
Last week, on "Dimension 20 Live",
our heroes discovered that their friends,
Fiz and Rig were missing!
- No, Rig!
- Fig and Riz were missing!
- I'm changing my name
to Fiz, Fizeroth Faeth.
- Honestly, what we actually meant Rig,
which was evil Riz.
- Oh, that's true.
- Rig.
- That was Rig, baby.
- Yes, we had some stuff in the morning,
and it ended up being
that Trackers coming along
on our quest.
It ended up being that we
sort of, Gilear went and got
coffee for people, we
met Boggy the froggy!
- Did he or was he completely abused?
- Completely abused.
- I did try, I really tried.
- We also met wonderful Boggy the froggy.
Magic is real and so is my frog.
That wonderful shirt
with that adorable frog
is available right now.
Dropout merch, I think
there's some kind of promotion
happening right now while
the livestream's happening.
Rep Boggy!
- Go to school, show your friends!
- Brennan, can you explain a
few more house keeping things?
- A few more house keeping things?
Anyone else wanna do it?
Or yeah, more stuff
about how I'm doing it.
So, make sure to go check that out.
But discovering that Fig
and Riz were missing.
They fought an evil
nightmare Riz in his office
from a dispeled magical mirror.
Found out that Fig had
apparently shattered magically
an entire jewel store at the mall—
- That was me!
- And taken a giant ruby,
and we also discovered
that in the photograph
of Riz's dad from his office,
Sandra Lynn and Sklonda
could both see a tabaxi woman
in an evening gown.
You guys headed to Bastian City,
and we ended on the same
day, the first Saturday
of your spring break,
going into spring break.
We ended in Bastian City,
outside of the Hotel Cavalier.
But that's not where our
first scene takes place.
- What?
- No no no no no.
- Why wouldn't it?
- Why wouldn't it?
So, naturally, you would assume
it would take place there.
Instead, it takes place in Riz's office
the night before.
- No!
- This will end well.
- Yeah.
- Riz, you are in your
office, you are getting ready
for the adventure that awaits you.
We've done, you know,
you've just had your day
talking about the new funds
that you have access to,
and Aguefort was telling you your grade.
You had the huge info
share with Fig and Adaine
where Fig talked about the
gossip of different people
that live near the forest
of the Nightmare King
'cause there's some people
trying to resettle their
like lost ancient lands there,
and also, you talked about
rumors of something called
the shadow cat.
Adaine had talked all about Rí Aisling Olc
and all the various legends
of the Nightmare King
and that nobody seemed
to want to take ownership
of this being.
The undead believed that he was fae.
The fae believed he was undead,
and the devils had
referred to him as fighting
on the side of demons.
You have been pursuing the actual absence
of the crown and the fact
that you had narrowed down
the window of where and
how it had disappeared.
What do you think Riz is
looking into back in his office?
It's late at night.
You're not getting any sleep.
- I think trying to, I
know I knew something about
shadow cat, but I didn't know who that was
or what it was so I think
probably trying to find out
the identity of shadow cat.
- You start to try to
find out the identity
of the shadow cat, an
obvious alias, you know,
some sort of like, it almost
sounds like mythological
or folklorey to you.
Go ahead and give me
an investigation check.
- 'Kay, man.
Okay, 20, not nat.
- 20 not nat.
- No one get excited.
- You look through all the stuff you have.
This feels weirdly more
like something in Fig
or Adaine's wheelhouse.
You're like looking for
like aliases or A.K.A.s
of like modern living criminals
called the shadow cat,
and you're not finding anything really.
And you're sort of
leaning back in your desk,
started having a little cup of coffee,
and you look over at the sword of shadows,
which is sort of next to you.
Obviously, your main weapon is your dad's
old magical arquebus, but
you do have that sword
you got from the arcade
back in freshman year,
and you remember a little bit of lore
around the sword of shadows,
which is that it was actually
fashioned by tabaxi ninja
in sort of an ancient past,
and you start thinking
about sort of tabaxi ninja,
and you suddenly have a
weird tug to that earlier
sort of like hunch that
had sort of appeared
and flitted away in your mind of
a photograph of your dad,
which is not anywhere
in your case files, it's
in your personal affects.
But you do have some of those here still
mixed in with your old KBX stuff.
- Great, yeah, go through 'em?
- You go through it, and
you find a photograph
of your father at like a
c*ck party with his arm,
he's like making sort of a funny face,
and next to him is a tabaxi
woman with black fur.
She's wearing an evening gown,
and you see that she's
raising an empty paw
with a wry kind of like
I don't have a drink
in my hand expression.
- Sure.
- Go ahead and make like a
raw intelligence check for me.
- 13.
- Your dad didn't have an official partner
working for the foreign service,
but you know that he's, often
when he worked in tandem
with other people, would
work with partners,
and you seem to recall, you
remember seeing this woman
in like very early memories once or twice,
but it's hard.
Like you're trying to recall
memories when you were like
three or four years old.
But she's a tabaxi woman.
A lot of tabaxi in the world
will look sometimes like
big cats or larger cats.
There will be some like
tiger folk or jaguar
or something like that.
She's one that she really
does have the facial structure
of like a domestic house cat.
Like very fine, angular features,
and you see that she's, you
know, it's worth mentioning
that she's a little bit taller than Pok,
which will put her probably at
like four or four and a half
feet tall, right?
- Okay.
- So, you look at all that.
Give me an investigation
check with advantage
if you'd be so kind.
- Oo yeah, that's a 25.
- You're looking at the photograph.
The box that this was
in was not filed away
because it was personal affects.
It wasn't work related basically.
And this photo is old,
like this actually predates
your birth, this was when
your dad was sort of like
first starting out at the foreign service,
but prior to you being born.
So, there's some significant sun damage
or just like sort of old
photo damage on this,
and as you're looking at it, none
of his partner's image
is damaged or blurred in the
same way that the rest is.
It's very subtle and hard to tell
because there is dust collected
on the physical outside
of the photo, but you're
looking it like the chemical
development of the actual
image, and it's not developed
appropriately, like
there has been no erosion
or fading away at the quality of the image
on the individual tabaxi.
- So, it looks like she's been
like magically superimposed
on the picture almost?
- Yeah, you've had this photo forever.
When you were a kid, it didn't look weird.
I mean, maybe you missed it
because you were a child,
but you're looking at it, and
you're like specifically like
you have not like necessarily
kept this as mint as possible.
And just looking at the
photograph, it's like,
looks perfectly, it would be
almost like if a photograph
had a person in it that wasn't
very much in the photograph,
but just the person,
the image of the person
had been like kept in like a
temperature controlled climate
under a frame, well kept, and
the rest of the photo had been
left like open on a window
sill that sometimes is like
cracked open to let a
breeze in for like 15 years.
- Well, I'm not much good
at investing magical things
so I think I tuck it away to
show Adaine in the morning.
- Cool, actually do
give me an arcana check
if you would be so kind.
You can make this with advantage as well.
- Oh sweet.
I'll take the first one, 20 not nat.
- Dirty 20, you go and,
it could be magical.
You do have a little
like chemistry kit here
with your new fancy digs.
You could give a shot to.
- Yeah.
- As you go to do that, you
start to kind of just loosely
circle around in this
sort of like little red
chemical marker to like put
a highlight on this image.
As you do so, you hear a creak
of a door closing behind you.
- Mom?
- You...
- Mom, I'll be home in a little bit, okay?
- The sound is not coming
from the front door,
which is locked, you're
up late in your office.
It's coming from one of the side doors.
Out in the main room 'cause
you're in your back office.
There's like a little central room.
You hear a little
- Pull out my g*n.
I creep towards a corner I guess.
- Cool, give me a stealth check.
- 27.
- 27?
You are deep in the shadows.
You walk in, now give
me a perception check.
- Nat 20.
- A standing mirror from
your file cabinet room
is out in a corner of your
room where you didn't put it.
- I slowly approach the mirror.
- Are you approaching it in such a way
that you're reflection is visible or no?
You rolled a nat 20 on your stealth.
- I think I'd kind of
like to walk to the side
to see if I can see anyone
else in the reflection.
Although I guess if I could
see it, it would reflect.
Yeah, I honestly, I would
probably look at it.
- So, you walk out into
the room to be able to look
at the mirror.
- I wanna be able to like see
if there's somebody else there.
- Oh, so you're—
- Yeah, I'm going by the side.
- You're going by the side.
So, you're trying to like use the mirror
to catch other people.
You get closer, closer, closer.
You don't see anyone hiding.
You are now right up to
the side of the mirror,
not in front of it still, but
you're up to the side of it.
- Is there anything behind it?
- You pass your hand behind it,
and you don't, yeah,
it just feels like wall
and behind the mirror.
You could go investigate the other room
that you still haven't investigated,
but you have to take a step forward.
- Okay.
I think I'm going to...
- Jump in the mirror.
- I'm gonna try to
I guess kind of crawl behind,
is it like propped up?
Can I like crawl behind it
in my little goblin body?
- It's actually, there's
not enough between the wall
and the standing mirror
for you to creep behind it
without moving it.
- Okay.
I think Riz doesn't know
things that I know in real life
so I think Riz is going to slowly start
creeping towards the other room.
- You creep, as you creep,
you immediately know
that your reflection is wrong.
You, well,
like the first thing
you can react to is that
something's wrong with your reflection.
What does Riz do?
It's only in your peripheral
'cause you're sneaking
towards the other room.
- I think I still have my g*n out,
but I'm not gonna make
any sudden movements.
What do you want?
- A voice, colder than the grave echoes
from behind the mirror where
you know there is nothing.
Riz Gukgak,
what do I want?
All I want is for you to look at me.
Don't you want to see me?
- Who are you?
- You see the reflection moves even though
you are not moving and
gets up against the glass
on the other side of the mirror
like it is looking through
a pane of glass at an
aquarium, and you can see
it puts its hands up on the mirror,
and you see the glass move
as though there is pressure
from the other side.
What you are looking at is a bone white
goblin mannequin.
Its joints articulated
into blackness underneath
whatever skeletal structure
the mannequin rests on
has black joints.
It is capable of movement,
but it looks like it is made
either of bone or ivory,
except that it wears
a white shirt, a little vest,
and sort of gray pantaloons.
It has a pure white wig in a
kind of Lord Fauntleroy style,
like a little princeling.
You see that this thing, the face
the face has two nostril slits, two eyes
that are matte black in the
white ivory of its face.
Instead of a mouth, it is
just a carved, dark line,
and as it speaks, the lips don't move.
But it has a little hair,
and it takes out like
a long white wand, and you see it says
Riz Gukgak,
you don't recognize me?
I am your romance partner Baron.
- I have a confession to make.
Baron's not real.
- You should be very careful about saying
such hurtful things, Riz Gukgak.
I am your romance
partner, and if you demand
that I am not real, I
will have to drag you
to the Baronies to see my Stark father.
- Did I summon you by pretending to have?
What are you doing, you
weird little skeleton boy?
- That is the second
hurtful thing you have said
to your romance partner.
Should you say a third, there
will be grave consequences.
I cannot control it.
The things that are true
about me are as follows.
I am your romance partner,
and I am from the Baronies.
The third is that my name is Baron.
- What did we do on our first date?
- Riz Gukgak, you have
not been kind enough
to give me that yet,
but if you invent it, I
promise I can make it true.
- You're born of lies?
- It is not my fault I am born of lies.
It is the fault of the
deceiver, Riz Gukgak.
Now, why don't you do what it
is that you most want to do?
- I really quick try to sh**t the mirror.
- The mirror shatters, and you
immediately open the gateway
for this creature to lunge,
grab you by the throat, and...
Go ahead and give me an athletics roll.
- It's not good for me, g*ng.
That's a nine.
- This creature throttles
you by the throat
and begins to twist your head so far
that you can feel your
vertebrae about to snap.
- I tap.
I tap out.
I give up.
- It starts to drag you
towards the open mirror,
and it says you have been
naughty thrice, Riz Gukgak.
Your romance partner
deserves better treatment!
Your claws—
- I'm just clawing
at the floor?
- Yeah, you're just clawing at the floor.
You suddenly realize
that in your front pocket
the photo, the important
piece of evidence.
- Throw it out.
- It slides into a slit
in the floorboards.
You are dragged into the
mirror, and you vanish
from the world as we know it.
You are turned around to
gaze into the vacant eyes
of your romance partner,
Baron, and they look at you
and say now it's time for
you to make up more things,
Riz Gukgak, and you go
unconscious.
- Can we be done?
- Thank you so much, goodbye, everybody.
- Baron broke my neck.
- We need to talk through all of that.
- You guys don't like that?
You guys don't like?
- That was actually scary.
- We used to fight like
big rocks or something.
- I would love a big rock to fight.
- Yeah, and vegetables.
- I'm so glad you guys
think I'm really scary.
- People went to hell,
and it wasn't that bad.
- I'm a camp counselor so if
I can't tell scary stories,
what good am I?
- Oh my god!
Oh god!
- Fig.
- Oh, what, bad vibe.
- You're fine.
- Thank you though.
- Hard pass.
Make this as a nice
day for the rest of us.
- Fig, you are in the
deepest sleep of your life
having the most intense dreams of like—
No, well, it's like having a nightmare
that you're enjoying if that makes sense.
It's like a messed up dream
that you're like into.
It's a dream about you being so famous
and successful as a rockstar
that you never need to
talk to anyone ever again,
and you are completely isolated
because you need nobody.
It is—
- So much power.
- So much power.
You begin to have kind of like a dream
underneath this dream.
You know when you're driving
and you are like thinking deep
on a subject.
You're like oh, I'm really
thinking hard about this thing
or whatever, and then, you look up,
and you're like I've driven 50 miles.
Like I truly have come
to and was on auto pilot
for the last like 45 minutes
of a long-distance road trip, right?
But you can remember kind of doing stuff
even though you weren't
physically present for them
in your conscious mind.
Your conscious mind is
devoted to this dream
of wealth, power, and fame.
Your mind like isn't paying
attention is kind of having
a different dream, like a dream
you're not paying attention to,
and in this sort of unimportant dream,
you're like waking up, packing your bags.
You're sending an email to
Lola abut getting a hotel room
for the night.
You're like getting your driver
to like take the tour bus.
You make a stop by the Elm Valley Mall.
You, it's like sort of
before working hours.
You shred on your sick bass and blow up
an entire store front.
You like grab a ruby, and this
is all just kind of the rote,
stuff, again like driving
when you're thinking about
something more important.
It's just like a rote thing.
You get back in your tour
bus, and you head down
to Bastian City with this sick diamond.
Oh, right before you get on your tour bus,
you do summon your dad because you do have
that warlock connection with him now,
and you do play this
sick riff on the guitar
that you don't know if
you've ever played before,
but it does bind him into the
ruby and you carry it with you
to Bastian City.
- Again though, I'm like elsewhere.
- The thing that's important
is this dream you're having.
- Okay.
- That's what's super important.
As you are traveling you eventually arrive
at this place called the Hotel Cavalier,
and as you walk in,
you see the lobby lined
with beautiful,
full-length gilded mirrors.
That's where we're gonna cut
back to much later that day.
This is Bastian City, spiring,
tall buildings all around you.
As you see the buildings around you,
hold on one second.
It is night time.
You see like people moving
through the streets,
bright lights, sky scrapers,
all these sort of fantastical
inhabitants of Bastian City,
and you go to the downtown harbor area.
As you're down there, you
see there are like some
seedy types around here.
It's the harbor.
It's Solace, but it's also
where Solace interacts
with the rest of the world.
Lots of magic stuff here.
You arrive as the final bit of light
in the Western part has faded,
and it is fully night time.
The griffon Baxter lands with Sandra Lynn
just as the Hangman pulls
up, and Gorgug, you pull up
in the van.
- Oh, where am I gonna park?
- As we're parking, can I
cast comprehend languages
as a ritual spell so that I
can understand what everybody
is saying around me?
- Absolutely you can.
You cast it as a ritual.
Look around, the Hotel Cavalier is like
an old stonework place.
It has this weird kind
of theme around it of
a mounted knight appearing
in little like frescos
and like sort of like
reliefs and cameos on things,
but it's all these weird
vines and floral patterns.
It's almost like a knight going on a quest
through like a deep jungle.
So, there's like this weird
jungle theme to everything.
The rug's like a deep red
with like golden spiraling
like flowers and vines on 'em again.
So, it feels very like old
kind of art deco in a way,
but with a lot of stone and
metal work in these plant like
kind of patterns everywhere.
As you guys kind of get out
of the van, stretch your legs,
look around, you finish
casting comprehend languages.
Sandra Lynn's got the
bow over her shoulder,
she looks at all of you and
says, okay, here's the deal.
You have some adults here
that have some adventuring experience.
Right, there's three grown-ups
kind of with you guys
on this trip.
You've got me, Cathilda, and Gilear.
See, Gilear says I am
not an authority figure
to the degree that Fig's mother.
Cathilda, you should really
refer to them and not I.
- Actually, I could really
use a coffee right now.
- That would be preferable for me.
I should go do that.
You see Sandra Lynn says we're here
at your discretion.
We're here to give you advice.
However, we can't take point
or it affects your guys' grade.
Right, so, we're here to support you,
and you wanna ask us for our
take on something, we can.
We are hirelings.
We're not full adventurers so
we gotta take our march orders
from you guys, okay?
- Mm-hmm.
- Cool.
- Great.
- So, should we check out the hotel first?
And try to find Fig?
- Sure.
- Let's do that.
- Should we find the tour bus?
- While I was driving,
I kinda zoned out and
and had some thoughts.
I was just remembering that picture.
In fact, the arm was going around someone
that we couldn't see.
- Yeah.
- But then there's also
no pressure of something
touching the arm, correct?
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- I take out the photo.
- And there's no spells on the,
we found, we,
you tried to put, detect magic on the—
- I tried to spell, it
detect and Dispel magic.
I guess I could cast the
identify spell on it?
- Well, my question is what
if there's no spell on that,
there's a spell on the people who see it?
So, since we don't see it,
maybe there's a spell on us
or since Sandra Lynn sees it,
maybe there's a spell on her.
- Okay.
- I don't know.
- Yeah, who else could see it again?
Riz's mom?
- Yeah.
- Riz's mom and Sandra Lynn.
- I guess not to tangent, but Sandra Lynn,
did you have any bad dreams last night?
- Like did you have a
nightmare or anything?
- No, not really.
- Would you mind if we
cast detect magic on you?
- Yeah, by all means, go for it.
- Detect magic I also would
have to do as a ritual
because I don't have it stocked
so it's gonna be 10 minutes.
- Sure, maybe we take that time—
- And it would also would mean,
it's a concentration spell
so I'd have to drop Comprehend
Languages but that's fine.
We'll stay put.
- Sandra Lynn says sure, that makes sense.
- I can cast it as we walk.
- So, should we walk around
and look for the tour bus?
- Yeah, you wanna start
walking to the hotel?
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- Cool, you park yourself,
the Hangman's there.
You see the Hangman says
master, do you wish me
to accompany you into the hotel?
- Bike, that wouldn't be very,
that's not how things go down here.
I don't think you know, back in Elmville
you have free reign, but
here in Bastian City,
we kind of play it cool.
- All right, I will
stay with the bird lion,
and I will accompany
the I guess van as well.
- Well, I mean, hey if
you get bored, just chat
chattin on minds, like just hit me up.
- You see, Sandra Lynn
looks at you and says
also, is this priority
right now in this moment
because Fig is missing as is Riz
and time is of the essence.
- Right, I guess—
- I think it's a good
lead because right now,
all we have is this photo.
I mean, we can be looking for Fig.
- I mean, it takes 10 minutes.
We can walk towards the hotel.
- Let's go to the hotel.
- And then, once we get
there, it'll be done.
- Let's do it.
- Cool, so—
- Is Gilear with us?
- Yes, Gilear's with you.
- Cool.
- Is he gettin' that coffee?
Is that what you're?
- I was gonna check up on the coffee,
and then, I decided ah,
let's keep 'em here.
- Gilear nods.
You see Ragh, he's got this big glade.
He's now fighting with a pole arm.
- Sweet glade, dude.
- Honestly, thank you.
I think it's sick as hell.
Let's just see what's up.
So, we're gonna go in
there and just open up,
just like hack slash—
- No!
- No no no.
- This is like gonna be
a conversation-based—
- We might try to get a hotel.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Tight tight tight tight
tight, cool cool cool.
Great, so that's—
- Oh, sorry.
- So, you see that you walk
into the Hotel Cavalier.
You open the doors.
Very beautiful, luxurious inside.
You see that there's a concierge.
Just has a small lobby.
Very lightly populated at the moment.
You see that the concierge
desk has this beautiful
sort of powder blue air
genasi working at it.
You see that her hair is
kind of like flowing up
around her as though in
sort of a wind at all times,
and you see over by the
elevators there is a bell hop
that is like a vulture aarakocra.
So, it's sort of vulture bird person,
and you see that there are
some porters also over by
like the baggage area that are
just, look like two enormous
gorillas in like bell hop uniforms.
- Okay, Gorgug, do you
think you can contact
the manager and get her to
tell you which room Fig is in?
- I can try.
- Once I go through this
spell, I can also cast
locate person if that doesn't work.
- The concierge comes over
to you 'cause the lobby's
a little sparse for now and
goes ah, sorry for recognizing,
sir, but it's Sir Thistlespring,
pleasure to have you.
We spoke on the phone earlier?
- Oh, yes, we did.
- And me too, Teddy.
- This is Teddy Geiger.
- It's me, Teddy Geiger.
- I hung up.
- Rude, okay, yeah, absolutely.
- Well, we're here, and
you know what we want.
- We're just, we're looking for—
- You.
No, I'm just kidding.
I do have a girlfriend though.
- Tracker looks and goes babe.
- Babe.
- What's up?
- I was trying to get an in, you know?
- I guess.
- Teddy, cool it.
- I'm so sorry.
- So, we're just looking
for, you know, we got a show
later so I'm looking for Fig
'cause I think we, you know,
we have to do our show and
so I am here doing that.
I'm looking for Fig.
- Well, excellent, so I guess
you know, text your band mate.
- Awesome.
Well, my question is I know
that Fig has this thing
where like she rocks out
so hard that she breaks
her crystal a lot, and so, I
think she broke her crystal.
- Oh no!
- So, if you could just,
you know, come on, belly,
that'd be so nice.
I mean, and if you wanna go to the show,
we can probably swing something.
- Wow, thank you.
Sure, we'd be happy to call up.
What room do you want us to call up to?
- The room that she's in.
Whichever one she's in.
- Great, well, we can't
give out guest information
so if you can give me a room number,
I would be so happy.
- Let's try 101.
Let's go for 101.
- One second.
Hi, hello, is Fig Faeth there?
No, that's not who you are.
Okay, great, thank you so much.
- Oh duh! She was 102!
- 102.
- You were one off.
- Teddy, thank you, Teddy.
- I'm so sorry, I have
the itinerary right here.
- Okay, so, Fig Faeth
is in room 102, great.
- Teddy's our...
- Is my Detect Magic spell ritual?
- You see that it goes
Hello, okay, hi, is Fig Faeth there?
You're not that person?
Okay, great.
So, looks like you have bad information.
- That's so crazy.
- She definitely said 103,
and that's what I just said.
- No, you said 102.
- No, I didn't.
- Oh, so...
- No, I didn't!
- You see what happened here.
How many rooms are in this hotel?
- You see that
- I call down to order room service.
- Incredible, you cast
detect magic, right?
- I did.
And it's a 30-foot radius.
Thats 30 feet in front of you
if you sense magic in this way
you can use your action to
see a faint aura around any
visible creature or object
in the area that bears magic,
and you learn its school of magic, if any.
- The concierge has a
transmutation effect on them.
- Are they doing magical
plastic surgery on themselves?
- What do you mean?
- Can I cast Dispel
magic on the concierge?
- You absolutely can,
and I believe dispel works
on anything third level
or lower, right?
- Yes.
- Cool.
- Yeah, that's correct.
- Cool, so
You cast Dispel magic, and
the concierge transforms
into what looks like an extremely
intense looking tiefling,
but with full scaley red
wings and a long wicked
barbed tail wearing insane
looking like abyssal armor,
and you see that the
concierge goes oop, k*ll them!
k*ll them!
Everyone roll initiative!
- What?
- Sick.
- 104, room 104!
- Now I
- Cool, great.
Everyone go ahead—
- But I didn't say any auras around us
or around Sandra Lynn?
- When you cast detect magic?
- Yes.
- Sandra Lynn didn't have any aura.
- And we didn't either?
- Other than the magic
you guys are all aware of
and accustomed to.
That one, you would definitely have.
Rad as hell.
Let's go around the table
and tell me what you got.
- Do I get to roll?
- I would actually like
Emily and Murph to both roll
as well if you'd be so kind?
- 24.
- Wow.
- 13!
- Riz, 24, oh, what did Fig get?
- 13.
- Fig got 13
- Nat one so I got a two.
- You got a nat one-
- For initiative roll, plus—
- Do you roll advantage on
initiative as a barbarian?
- As a barbarian?
- Maybe not, I mean, that's
a ninth level ability.
Two, Adaine.
- I got a 20 not nat.
- Adaine gets a dirty 20.
- 14.
- Fabian gets a 14.
- 10.
- And Kristen with a 10.
Awesome, you guys have a moment as Adaine
is casting the spell
and while I finish doing
all of your hireling's
initiatives right now.
Go ahead and what do you
guys sort of start doing
or right before that moment
that Adaine does that?
Has anyone else been like
doing any investigation
or anything else like that?
- Yeah, I would like to investigate.
- Is there like a book in front of her
that has room numbers in?
- Do you have an advantage on your—
- Oh yeah, you do because of Tracker.
- Yes, you have advantage
on your initiative.
- 19, but then, that makes it a...
16.
- So bad.
- Incredible.
- Horrifying dex, yeah.
A negative three to dex,
it's crazy that I'm alive.
- Adorably clumsy.
I'm just drop into
- Oh no.
- I've got eyes on those
gorillas and that vulture.
- Yeah.
- Oh yeah, good call.
- Incredible.
I want everyone here to
know that Gilear Faeth,
on his first initiative
rolL on Fantasy High,
rolled a nat 20.
- It's gonna be a good year.
- I can't wait to see his first move.
- Gilear, can people know
what Gilear's health is?
- Well, he may go first so
we'll wait for his first turn,
and then, we'll show what his stats are.
Truly insane.
Hold on one second.
Yeah, go ahead you guys
describe what you're trying
to investigate in the room.
- Yeah, I wanna see if
there's a reservation book
on this counter that, the
tiefling that we're talking to.
- Right before you get split?
Yeah, gimme an investigation check.
- Great.
- With a four investigation,
I would love to know
if the gorilla and the
vulture seem to be moving
with this thing or tiefling.
- Seem to be moving, you see that the,
yes, the other bell hops
and porters of the hotel
immediately leap into action.
- I got an 18 investigation.
- You look at the guest book.
You see the guest book does
have Fig's signature in it.
- Does it say what room number?
- It looks uncertain, right?
Like it's like not really Fig.
- Not really quite Fig, exactly.
- Can I look over Adaine's
shoulder to look and see
if Fig's room number is
next to her signature?
- What are you trying to see?
- Fig's room number next to her
signature in the guest book.
- Fig's signature next to her room number.
Oh, you see that the
room number next to it
is a, it says LPH
for lower penthouse.
- Yeah, that's so obvious.
- Oh my god
- I shout that to, wait.
Can I mind link?
I forget what I even have.
- No, that's...
- That's—
- A different season.
- Different season.
Different season different powers.
- I miss Pete.
- I don't think, I'm
trying to think if Gorgug
had anything he would've done,
but I don't think he would.
- Probably sweating, telling so many lies.
- We both lean over and
look at this guest book.
I turn to you, and I'm like
it says lower penthouse.
- Is it underground?
Or just the penthouse
under the top penthouse.
- Adaine, you are first to
act in the initiative board.
Hold on one second.
As combat begins, you
see that the concierge,
this like demonic thing goes
k*ll 'em k*ll 'em k*ll 'em!
You see that the two gorillas
come rushing at you.
You see that the vulture
aarakocra over by the elevator
swings the elevator in,
jumps in, and begins to like
motion it to go down.
- k*ll them?
You actually now don't know
what k*ll them refers to.
Adaine, you are first to act.
- Can I, this aarakocra that's
pulling on the lever to?
- It's an old timey art
deco elevator with like
the sliding ching of
like interlocking metal.
It looks like the aarakocra's
going in to pull it down.
As you look, you see with that
dispel that there is some,
you can see with your Dispel
magic very minor illusion
disguising these gorillas
and this vulture aarakocra.
- Okay, can I...
Okay.
- What does he look like?
- How far away is the elevator?
- From you?
It's about 30 feet.
- Great, I would like to
cast greater invisibility
on myself, and I would like to run
into this elevator, please.
- Oo, awesome.
Bam, that's no sweat.
You rush right into the
elevator alongside this creature
that is now going to be Gilear Faeth.
You see Gilear Faeth look
around at everything happening.
He takes 15 feet of
movement back to the door.
10 feet of movement back to the desk.
Five back, and then, five
over laterally to the side.
Hunkers down and covers
his head with his hands,
taking the dodge action.
- That's my guy.
- That is Gilear Faeth's turn.
- Does he have like a minus three to dex?
- 'Cause if he rolled an 20.
- I got a 20.
- Gilear Faeth has, I'm gonna
go through his modifiers
real quick, strength zero.
dex, zero.
Constitution, minus one.
Intelligence, plus one.
Wisdom, plus one.
Charisma, minus two.
Gilear Faeth has an armor class
of 10 and five hit points.
- Let's go.
- Again, we
don't have to bring him.
- Why did you create
such a cursed creature?
- He's not cursed!
He's just a guy!
He's, some people have to be normal.
- So, if someone does 10 hit points,
his damage to him, he's permanently dead.
- He's fully dead.
- Full dead at 10 points of damage.
- Okay, great.
- Do you know that most
people, if you stab them
with a sword, will die right away?
- I guess.
- I mean, if you pull
the sword out of them,
technically, if you just put it in there,
maybe they'll stay alive, so?
If anybody stabs him, make
sure the sword stays in there.
- Leave it in there.
He's gonna be like one of those
people who goes on a Vespa
and gets impaled by a pole.
- Oh no, that's so embarrassing.
- Oh my god, you guys see
Cathilda Ceili leaps into action,
reaches into like a sort of athletic band
underneath her sweatshirt
and takes out two daggers.
As she does so, she is going to rush up,
and take a bunch of swings at our friend,
and you see she viciously
slashes with one of her daggers
across the demon's chest
behind the counter.
- I elbow, Kris, pretty
good for a maid, right?
- Yeah.
I thought you said mage.
No, pretty good for a person!
- Well, it would also be good for a maid.
- But also, incredible for a maid.
Pretty good for a maid.
- Thank god.
- As you do this, Kristen,
that is going to be your turn.
- Okay, great.
I am going to, I think I look at...
I think I cast sanctuary
on Gilear.
- You cast sanctuary on Gilear?
Okay, incredible.
- We're all gonna die.
- You ward a creature
within range against attack.
until the spell ends.
The creature targets, Gilear
will have to make a wisdom
saving throw
on a failed save they
have to pick a new target.
And then, I think I run,
I think I...
I feel like I
know where Adaine was going
'cause we had just
figured out where she was.
So, I think I do try to
run towards the elevator,
but not where that person could see me.
So, maybe some sort of
like duck and cover?
- Okay, you won't be able to
be hidden from the vulture
aarakocra inside of the elevator.
- Totally, yeah yeah.
- But you could like—
- I wanna wait, and maybe
take the next one down.
- Oh, gotcha, cool cool cool.
Well, these are old timey
elevators so you could like wait
to jump on top of the
elevator as it goes down.
- That's what I do.
- Cool.
Kristen, that's your turn.
So, you're like holding your
movement until such a time.
You use sanctuary on Gilear.
That is your turn, and
that is going to be...
Ba ba bum.
- Yeah, the sanctuary's a bonus guy.
- Awesome, hold on one second.
You see,
cool.
- Good on you for taking care of Gilear.
He needs it, he needs.
- I know.
- I like that now we're
just gonna be giving a turn
to Gilear protection,
and then, we'll engage.
- I know there's no saving him.
He just needs to not fight.
He just needs to hide.
- I know, I'm starting to
think we need to renegotiate
this situation.
- He stays and watches the car.
- Yeah.
- You guys—
- Put him in a metal chest
in the car.
- You guys see that these sort of like,
and I'll just go ahead and
take the tarp off this bad boy.
The cambion, which is
the type of demon you see
behind the concierge desk,
these are, by the way,
not devils, these are demons.
These are chaotic evil entities,
not from the nine hells
but from the abyss.
Points two fingers,
erupt in jets of flame.
Cathilda streaks underneath them.
When she fights, by the
way, it just sounds like
a racquet ball court.
It's like squeaks of her,
her sneakers are so squeaky.
And she like ducks under the fire,
and you see this cambion looks
at the two gorillas and says
hold 'em!
And vanishes in a thing of flame.
Anyone here can make a
arcana check that wants to.
- Can I, or am I still hidden away?
- You're hidden under.
You don't have a-
- Great.
- Cool.
- 10.
- A hot 10.
- A hot 10, cool.
Cambion vanishes.
- Yeah, I was really dreaming
of a nat 20 in that moment.
I was like maybe this is Fabian's moment
where he's like I understand magic.
- You're just watching your
maid move around in a way
that
- Damn, maid!
- Fabian, that's gonna be you.
- All right, so, the
fiend, or the cambions—
- The two gorillas are still charging.
- Great.
Let's do it!
I'm gonna, can I use
Gilear as, can I just?
Gilear, launch me!
Can I use him as some kind of trampoline?
- You're gonna k*ll him!
- Great, go ahead and make an athletics
because you are jumping,
you get advantage,
but because you're using Gilear,
that advantage cancels out.
So, this is going to be a flat roll.
- Nat 20!
- Woo!
- Let's go Gilear!
Let's go Gilear!
- You see that at the perfect moment,
Gilear goes from here, and goes huh?
Presents his face for
your foot to land on,
you spring off in this
perfect perfect like
pirouetting shape towards
the two charging gorillas.
As they charge, the
illusion totally fades,
and then, you see these
are barlgura, these insane
tusked, bright red
purple-skinned like ape demons
from the deep depths of
the abyss charging at you.
Massive fists and forearms.
You have advantage on as many attacks
as you make this round.
- Great, fantastic.
We'll start with a normal two.
Great, that's above 20.
Specifically 22.
- That's a hit!
- And then, that's 26.
- Hell yeah.
- And I'll, no, we'll cut it there.
Great, and then, that's
14 for the first hit
and 12 for the second one.
- Oo, 26.
You leap at this thing,
and two huge
stabs, getting the sort of
the Seacasters, pretty much
to the hilt both times.
This towering, like 10-foot
tall monstrosity
roars out and looks hurt,
but not down for the count
by a long shot.
- Great.
- That is Fabian's turn,
ba ba bum.
We move along from there.
Next one is Sandra Lynn.
- Aw, hell yes!
- Oo, is there an action?
- Hell yeah.
- Sandra Lynn is going to take some shots
right away at the one
that you just injured,
and that's going to be,
that is one definite hit.
Cool, you see
arrow thuds into its neck
for another eight points of damage.
And you see that Sandra Lynn
also rushes over at Kristen
with you to use her movement
to jump on the thing
as it goes down.
- Cool.
- That is going to move
from Sandra Lynn to the
these massive barlgura.
You see the first one,
actually sorry, they're gonna make
some wisdom saving throws first.
- Oh no.
- No!
- You see both of these
barlgura race past,
even the one you injured go ahead,
you get an attack of
opportunity on one if you want.
- Great, and I have the
sentinel feat so if I hit,
they stop moving.
Does a 15 hit?
- 15 hits.
- One of them is has their
speed reduced to zero.
And that is going to
be a la la la la la 15.
- 15 damage.
This guy's now looking hurt.
This is the injured one.
- You'd really go for him over me?
- The other one barrels
past you to Gilear.
- What?
- And he hits—
- Fabian is hurt.
- What about, what does sanctuary do?
- They both bypassed the
wisdom check for sanctuary.
So you see Gilear goes
get them, Fabian!
And you see both of them
go right for Gilear.
One of them just rants boom boom boom!
Gilear, immediately dead.
Full dead.
- What?
- What?
- Full dead.
- What?
- Gilear is—
- Why?
- Wait, he's dead?
- But he even took the
dodge action, didn't he?
- You're right, hold on one second.
He did take the dodge action.
- Everyone at home, please pray right now.
We need all the energy
in the world right now.
- By full dead, you mean just he's—
- Hold on, I will—
- And also, will you tell
everybody to send him home
after this bad fate.
- Call your family.
Ask them—
- Call your representatives.
- We need congress
behind Gilear right now.
- Here's the thing, even
with this advantage,
these two hit him on a
roll of three or higher
so we need a one or a two.
I'm gonna roll it in front of the board.
- Guaranteed two.
Guaranteed two.
- Guaranteed two.
- Guaranteed.
- Oh, it doesn't count, come on, man.
- It's kind of like,
I'll roll again
- Yeah, damn right it is.
- It doesn't count.
- One or two.
That's a 19.
So, you see that Gilear
immediately
he just sprawls back on the floor, blood.
- No death saves, full dead.
- No, we can bypass that.
The minimum damage from
this thing is enough
to put him way way under.
- f*ck.
- Okay.
- Gilear's immediately dead.
I will remind you that Kristen
does have the Revivify spell.
- We have to get to you in a minute.
- That's 10 rounds of combat.
- Yeah, but I need a really
expensive diamond to do it.
- I will assume that
because you're going on
a very dangerous adventure,
you've stocked up
on those diamonds.
It is 300 gold pieces a
pop for those diamonds.
- We're all splitting it, okay?
- We can have this conversation after.
- Gilear is going home.
- Gilear is going...
- No.
- Gilear is going home.
- I think we just have to be—
- He's just gonna be an intern.
Like a straight up like—
- We'll just keep him in the car.
- Yes.
- Yeah, unless somebody
kidnaps him from the car.
- Does my face completely turn around?
- A like 10 and half foot
tall gorilla socked him
as hard as he could in
the back of the head.
- After he ran around and
just sat on the ground
- Keep one of them alive.
I need to know why he wouldn't
attack me who was halfway
through k*lling his friend.
- Give me an insight,
give me an insight check.
- Truly, truly.
- Give me an insight check.
- Yet another person risking your life
choosing Gilear's needs over yours.
- Oh my god, I mean, this is insane.
Well, I'm offended.
Minus one, 13.
- You sense that there
is something in them
that felt ev, you don't think
that they registered Gilear
as a threat, and you know that they knew,
they would be risking
bodily harm from your attack
of opportunity by moving
past you, but there was some
internal calculus where
they felt it was worth it
to k*ll this person even if it
meant endangering themselves.
- Wait, maybe—
- That means Gilear—
- Gilear is like the chosen one.
- Yes, exactly!
He must be very important.
I mean, they didn't attack me.
- Or they're just evil and
just wanna k*ll people.
- I don't know, y'all.
- No, Gilear must be the chosen one.
That's the only...
- We can't send Gilear home.
- I'm so shocked.
- Brennan is teaching
you a lesson right now.
- No, I'm honestly—
- I'm shook.
- The lesson it taught me is
Gilear has a part to play yet.
- Yes.
Me and Fig are 100%, me
and Fig, who's not there,
are 100% on the same page.
Gilear is the chosen one
and must be kept safe.
- I'm gonna strap Gilear to my back.
- Because of Fabian's ego,
he probably does actually
think that Gilear
is the chosen one.
- Oh, he must be at this point.
- Yeah, you must be Aragorn
and he must be Frodo.
- After this, I'm going to
have a long talk about it
with everyone about the
importance of Gilear.
- Gilear is Frodo.
- Wait, do they get life,
do they get points back
for k*lling someone?
Do they just see an easy k*ll?
- I think—
- It might just be chaotic evil demons.
- They've seen the future.
They've seen the future,
and they're going after
the greatest threat in the room.
- I don't think so.
- Inside of Gilear is a golden light.
There's some kind of org or treasure.
- Inside of Gilear is yogurt.
- Well, then, the yogurt—
- Old yogurt.
- Inside of Gilear is nothing
because you made him sh*t himself.
- Okay,
hold on a second.
- Jesus.
I knew there was something
precious about that boy.
- You see Tracker full transforms
into her werewolf form.
Leaps at the most injured demon.
Ragh comes swings, injures
that demon as well.
It is looking extremely
hurt as Tracker and Ragh
go through it.
- Hell yes!
- Ba ba bum, that is
now that is going to be
the vulture aarakocra slams the elevator.
Starts to go down.
You and Sandra Lynn are going
to make a group stealth check
so you give me stealth as
long as it's not a nat one,
it should be okay.
- 16.
- Cool.
- That was the hardest miss.
- Oh, sorry 13.
- 13.
- Yeah.
- Cool, Sandra Lynn grabs you.
You both jump boom on top of the elevator
as it goes down.
Adaine, you see this sort
of thing go
Its illusion fades, this
nasty vulture like skeksis
kind of looking thing, and
you see that these weird
skeletal arms kind of
This is a vrock.
It's another type of abyssal demon.
Comes down, tattered, mangy
bell hop uniform on it.
The elevator goes down.
As the door slides open,
and this thing pushes out,
you see in a wreath of flame,
the cambion appearing down here.
There are six more barlgura down here
and another vrock as well in
a massive satanic penthouse.
You see an altar with Riz
spread out on it chained up.
- Hot.
- Fig standing over him
with a curvy dagger.
Her eyes swollen in her head,
literally with goofy spirals
on them, like pew wew!
- Maybe this is like one of
those massages that hurts?
- I'm trying to will myself
to know magic, Dispel magic,
I dispel you, Fig!
I dispel you!
I dispel you!
- The vrock says
boss says we gotta come.
That is the vrock's turn.
That is going to be Gorgug.
- Gorgug is still trying to
figure out what room
No.
Gorgug probably just screams no!
For Gilear
But then, also, there's so much going on.
I think he's gonna go
for the injured dude.
Go into a rage,
and then, I think I'm going
to reckless attack this guy.
So, that's...
- Awesome.
- One attack with
advantage, and that would be
nat 20.
- Oh baby!
Nice add a critical
because you're half orc.
So, that's gonna be 3-D-12
plus whatever you add.
- 3-D-12, eh?
- Yes.
- Plus
six.
- Oh god.
- I have a question.
- For Gilear.
- Okay, nine, 10.
- That's for Gilear for sure.
- Sorry.
- Oh, it's okay.
I have 15 plus six on
the first attack so 21.
- First attack does 21.
The extremely injured barlgura,
are you going for that
or the uninjured one?
- The injured one.
- You decapitate that one, woo!
Ax goes through.
That demon hits the floor dead.
- And then, I guess I'll
take the rest of my movement
towards the other one just to.
- Ah yeah, it's right
adjacent so it's no sweat.
You're like the lobby smells
with the stench of abyssal blood.
You can feel the heat of
this dead demon's body.
The decapitated, the neck
thing, just eels start to
wriggle out of his neck stump.
Horrifying abyssal magic.
The next one at you roaring.
Go ahead and take your next attack.
- That's a 23.
- 23 hits.
- Okay,
and that's...
That's only eight damage,
and then, since I raged,
I can't do
- Eight damage, cool, no worries.
That's now going to move
back on top of the order.
Riz, that is you.
You see the elevator come down.
You can hold you action if
you want 'cause Adaine goes
right after you, or you can
attempt to do something.
- I'm also invisible so
you don't know I'm there.
- Oh yeah, that's true.
Riz, it is your turn.
- I think right now, oh you know what?
Do I see my sword anywhere in this room?
- It's up against a far
wall away from here, yes.
- Oh god, okay.
I definitely can't, I'm assuming
I'm not going to be able
to wiggle out.
I think I'm gonna wait
and hold my initiative
thinking that I'll like
move to out of the way
when Fig stabs down with the knife.
- Okay, gotcha.
So, Adaine, that is your turn.
- Yes, can I see Riz's sword?
- You can see Riz's sword,
and you can see a clearly dominated Fig.
- Great.
Is the sword within 30 feet of me?
- Yeah, it is within 30 feet of you.
- Great, I would like to grab the sword?
And then, I would like to
cast Dispel magic on Fig.
- Hell yeah, so this is
over a third level spell.
- I don't have any fourth
level spells to cast it as
so, and this is my last
third level spell, so.
- Gotcha.
- Fingers crossed, everybody!
- Boggy can give you the help action here.
- Yes, oh, do I have to roll?
Is it my roll?
- I believe it's a raw intelligence check.
- Oh yes, DC10 plus the spell's level.
- Correct.
- Oh, 2 nat 20s.
- Are you kidding me?
What, we, I promise the
dice aren't weighted, guys.
I—
- That's insane.
- I fully promise.
- That is so sick.
- We're scary now.
- Did that work?
Did that work?
- I'm so excited, but
does that f*cking do it?
- Brennan, I'm sorry,
does that work?
- I'm gonna go ahead and say with
- Just wondering.
- Everybody dies, we win!
- Cool, so, and you're still under
your invisibility, right?
- Yes.
- So, you hear Boggy just goes,
you also, you can see through
your own invisibility.
Boggy, I should say does
have one second mood.
He does have another mood
beside happy to be here, g*ng
because sometimes that mood
would actually make you feel
more anxious if your surroundings
were too hellish and bad.
So, right when the door opens,
he does his second mood,
which is he sort of narrows
his eyes a little bit,
and just gives a general
like I don't know about this,
which is his second mood.
- One of two moods.
- One of two moods.
The second mood is a kind of
like a confused light disapproval.
And but, then he has that ability,
you see, he goes back to
being happy to be here.
I'm gonna say with two nat 20s, you
Riz's little bundle of
stuff is mage handed
across to Riz, and Fig, you
move up in initiative order
with the power of a one in
400 chance Dispel magic, so—
- That's insane.
- You boom come out of the spell!
Suddenly remember all the stuff you did,
but you remember it
through that haze of like
automatically driving and see
yourself holding this dagger
in the middle of this place with Riz here.
Both of you, it is your turn.
- Okay, what were we just,
what was I just saying?
Like so I remember everything, right?
- Through the haze of
it all, you got here,
gave them the devil's heart, the ruby,
with your dad trapped in it.
They have done some kind of spell to it.
It is up in the like coat
check room upstairs right now.
So, the ruby's in the
coat check room upstairs,
and they told you to come down here
because the final thing
they needed to do in order
for all this to happen was
to have a human sacrifice,
and Riz was the person they had.
Riz, you remember something
that I need to say now,
which is this.
You see a person that Fig doesn't see.
As the cambion appears and says k*ll them,
dressed all in black,
but like face concealed,
just two slitted yellow
eyes, you see a figure
look across the room, roll
their eyes, walk into shadow
and disappear.
- I grab Riz, dimension
door to the coat room.
- Oh, and you're out of
your box, incredible!
Awesome.
- I mean, I don't know what your plan is,
but I'm just like this is bad.
- This is good,
this is good, yeah.
- So, you have your stuff,
you hit him, teleport
You see a room full of demons
all go man, what?
And most of them are downstairs.
You guys appear in the coat room.
So, that's your action, any bonus action
or anything else there?
- I'll wink at you and give
you bardic inspiration,
and be like are we even now?
- We'll talk about it later.
We'll talk about it later,
you're acting really weird.
- Just so you know, that
was not my choice to do.
- Yes, I know that, yes, of course.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
We're cool.
- I'm really sorry.
- It's okay.
- I didn't even wanna say
sorry while I was doing it.
It seemed really normal, but right now,
it feels so not normal and
I feel super messed up.
- You totally don't need
to apologize right now.
- I need a cigarette.
- Are we in the main room?
- No, you guys are off in the coat check.
Everyone fighting upstairs,
give me a perception check.
- 19.
- Anyone that beat a 15, here's
Fig and Riz talking in the,
like where the coats are.
- Gilear's dead!
- What?
- What?
- I guess I'll rush in—
- Did I do that?
I didn't do that, right?
- No, one of these guys did.
- I still have a turn, right?
- Yes, you still have a turn.
- I guess I'll rush
out into the main area.
- The BalL!
Hey, what's up, guys?
We have a lot to catch up on.
Oh my Gilear!
Hold my hand out,
and is there anybody
who's injured or anything?
- Gilear is dead.
Other than that, I literally
don't think they've done damage
to you guys.
- I actually do have a
reaction if someone's died
within 30 feet of me, I
can capture their soul,
and I think right now, I'm
just doing it emotionally.
I'm just like in a way that I'm like,
I wanna keep everything
of you that existed.
So, I just capture a soul.
- A wispy image of Gilear
appears in your hands,
and he goes how did I do?
How was I in the fight?
- You k*lled everyone.
- I don't know my own strength.
I'm so sorry.
- No, I'm sorry—
- I can't feel anything.
- That's good.
- Riz, what do you do?
- I guess, there's just this
one big monster in here?
- One big monster in here, yeah.
- Okay, I guess I'll take a shot at him.
Yeah, but I guess I yell once
we've got everyone rounded up
I think we need to leave.
There's a lot of people downstairs.
Oh, geez.
That's only a 13 hit.
- 13 does not hit.
- Great, sorry, guys!
- Okay—
- And then, I guess I'll
hide as a bonus action.
- Cool, give me a stealth check.
- 20.
- 20, cool.
Cathilda is going to
rush the last one there.
That's going to be two hits.
- I want you to use the nat
20 on that guy.
- Six, 10, 14, 21, 28.
- So many numbers.
- So many—
- Cathilda runs up and slits
the throat of the barlgura.
Blood starts oozing, it's still up,
but she dos a tremendous amount of damage.
- Yes, Cathilda, yes!
- Really?
- Well, I did learn to
clean up a mess, sir.
You know that.
- Maid humor.
- I'm not there for this, okay?
I'm not there for this.
- Kristen, you and Sandra Lynn are down.
Sandra Lynn, both of you
guys make a perception check.
- Sure.
Yeah, hi, yeah, 25.
- You both know that Fig and Riz are gone
so you don't have to jump
down into the elevator
if you don't want to.
- Right, yeah, okay, I
have a question for you.
- Yes.
- So, these are like satanist devils.
- Yes.
- And the only people I think
more obsessed with the satanic
than satanists are Christians
so can I role like a
religion check on this
and try to figure out
everything that's going on?
Like what they were trying to do,
maybe where that devil's
heart gem is that got stolen.
- It's in the coat check.
- Yeah.
- Oh, cool.
- Give me a religion check.
- Okay, I get advantage on
this because of my book.
Oh, a 20 rolled away.
Okay, this is a 16.
- These are a group of demons.
They seem to be the staff of this hotel.
You're not sure if that
is a permanent thing
or if that's a thing
that happened recently.
The leader is a cambion,
the winged kind of more
classically devil looking
one that was the concierge,
seems to be in charge.
There's two of these
vulture ones that appear
more capable of speech, and
then, there is the barlgura,
which are the huge sort of gorilla demons.
All of them are wearing like
tattered nasty hotel garb
for the most part, except of
the cambion that's wearing
like nice armor.
You know that demons are
different than devils
in a really important way which is that
devils administer the nine hells.
It is a place of lawful evil things.
What that ends up meaning
a lot is they are there
to like punish the soul of the wicked,
and they are about like contracts
where you sell your soul,
tyranny, subjugation,
lording over and conquering.
Demons from the abyss are
not about punishing the souls
of the wicked, they're about being pure
forces of destruction.
They are chaotic evil.
They're, the abyss is not
like a part of the bureaucracy
of how souls get punished or whatever.
Like people do end up there,
but the demons don't like
tend to the running of the abyss.
That is like the inmates
running a prison metaphor
kind of place.
Demons don't tend to
have one modus operandi.
What you do remember is
Adaine's lore about devils
saying that demons, that
the Nightmare King fought
on behalf of demons before in the past.
- Got it.
- What do you do?
- Try to get back up, maybe climb back up?
- Cool, give me an athletics check.
- Cool.
- Sandra Lynn is going to
use her turn to give you
the help action.
- Great, that's good.
That's really good.
- Thank god.
- Let's see, that's a 14?
- Yeah, Sandra Lynn boosts
you up and like gets you
to pry open the doors and
you and you can move out back
into the lobby where
this fight is going on.
- Cool, hey, guys!
- Gilear is dead!
- What?
- And he's special.
- Okay, I sprint to Gilear
with whatever remaining.
- Mm-hmm.
- I have, can I do spare the dying
or is he just too far gone?
- He's full dead.
- All right.
- So, it's gonna be
a Revivify or nothing.
- Okay.
Let's see, I guess,
let me just find it.
- I casted something on him
to try to save him.
Okay, I cast Revivify, and I
spend a diamond, and I burn it.
- Cool, so that's 300 gold
pieces if you guys wanna like
trade off who does it, or.
- I'll pay it off.
- Yeah?
- Maybe we just put him
in debt a little bit.
- Oh, yeah, let's keep a—
- We'll take it from his pay.
- Yes, we're doing a
layaway thing with Gilear.
- You reach down—
- Can I reach down into his
pocket, take out his wallet,
and try to take 300 gold pieces?
- That's the first thing.
You're not even trying to Revivifying.
- I'm checking the pockets of a dead man,
but it's Gilear, it's okay.
- Dragon madness.
Nothing, you reach down.
As you cast Revivify, in
this new place of like
absurdist, nihilistic doubt,
instead of like wielding
the holy light of Helio
to perform a miraculous resurrection,
instead you just feel a
powerful feeling of like
sure, why not this?
Why not come back from the dead?
Why would that not be a
thing that could happen?
And you hear
and Gilear comes back
with one hit point.
- Gilear!
- Can you tell me what's
in Gilear's wallet?
- I have never felt something
as powerful as that demon
hitting me in the back of the head.
- What did you see on the other side?
- You!
You grabbed my soul and talked to me.
I was there for the whole thing.
- Sorry if that was invasive.
I was just trying to remember you.
- No, I get it, it hurt.
- I could sort of do like, you know
when someone does a speech
at someone's funeral,
but I could do it as you.
- Kristen, that's your turn.
In a blast of fire, the
cambion opens a gate,
and all of the demons
from downstairs appear up
in the lobby with you guys.
- We have to run, right?
- At least Gilear gets to escape.
- That is going to be Fabian.
- First off, Hangman, I need you now!
- Sire, I am on my way!
- Great, Gilear, my motorcycle
will be here in a second.
I know you're going to sh*t yourself,
but just get on it, all right?
- Okay, I'll do that right now.
- Great, and then, can I
run, use him as a springboard
a second time?
- Cool, give me an athletic.
- He has one health point left.
- It takes away your advantage
to use him as a springboard.
- You deserve it!
You deserve this!
- Is that a nat one?
- Yeah.
- Gilear is unconscious and
making death saving throws.
- No!
- You deserve it.
- You leap up, you think he's
gonna give you his face again,
but he remembers last
time and turns it away.
You fully crush his windpipe, leap off.
- That made me so mad,
it burst my stitches.
- Oh no, are you?
- I'll be fine!
I'm fine, they're mostly healed,
but the ones that aren't are in trouble.
- That's on me, yes.
- Cool, Gilear's—
- We had a good thing going!
And then, can I—
- You, after I f*cking
cast the Revivify.
- Okay, so Fabian, you can't, so you—
- How many third level spells left?
- On that nat one, you do
not get any jump advantage
or anything like that.
- Great.
- What are you gonna do?
There's six barlgura,
two vrocks, and a cambion
facing you, and then,
you've got the injured one
right next to you.
- I'll go for the cambion.
- Hell yeah, you rush
forward, go for the cambion.
Go ahead and—
- I got a nat 20 the first time.
I thought we had a thing going.
- Go ahead and make your attacks, my man.
- That's 23.
- Hit.
- And 20.
- Both hit.
- Sick!
11 and 11, 22 damage on the cambion.
- Oo, this thing goes from
being pretty uninjured
to messed up.
The sword of the Seacasters rattles out.
This thing goes
why must you meddle?
We were so close!
- Well, it's what we do.
We're the Bad Kids!
- What?
- We're the Bad Kids!
- I have no frame of reference for that!
- Well, we have a whole past, you see.
It all started one day in Elm—
- You will pay for your branding!
- You just k*lled your mom's boyfriend.
- I didn't k*ll him, all right?
He's unconscious.
Also, he's not dead, all right?
Everyone needs to stop, he's chosen.
- Okay.
- Dammit.
- You guys see the next
thing that happens is this.
You see three of the barlgura
rush for the coat room.
And another two of them
rush in to fight Fabian,
and then, another two including
the very badly injured one
grab Gilear's body and rush out
the front door of the hotel.
- Can they take an attack
of opportunity on them?
- Yes, you can.
- Can I,
oh, can I also take attack
of opportunity on anybody?
- What about me?
Am I there to take an
attack of opportunity?
- I think you are still in
the coat check room, right?
- Damn.
- I think I'm there
because I just touched him.
- Yes, you're right there.
- Okay.
- So, anyone that wants to take
an attack of opportunity can.
- Does a 13 hit?
- 13 does not hit.
- Can I take one as well?
But am I too far away from Gilear's body?
- You are at this point too
far away from Gilear's body,
but you can go for the
one that's going for him.
It'll just be
- Great.
That's,
25.
- 25 hits.
- That's 14.
- 14 damage.
You slash out as it runs past you.
- Doesn't that one stop it?
- It stops him, right?
- And it stops him so only the injured one
runs out with Gilear.
Only the badly injured
one runs out with Gilear.
Kristen, you can take a swing at that one.
- Okay, wait, I did, I already rolled.
- Oh, you already did, cool.
And Ragh and Tracker are
gonna take swings as well.
Ragh misses, Tracker hits.
Oo, Tracker gets a good hit on that one.
Claw goes out.
That one's looking badly injured
but does grab Gilear's body
and make it out the door.
That is going to be the two
that are going for Fabian.
- Cool cool.
- Oh my god.
- Got some attacks coming Fabian's way.
That's a hit.
- It's fine.
- That's a miss.
- Oh man.
Is Gilear really special?
- Can I say—
- I think that maybe just—
- I think they might just
need anyone to die, so—
- The Hangman has attacks.
- I feel like—
- Although I don't know, yeah.
I don't know.
- I think he special.
- I think he's special.
- I feel it has to do...
I'll just wait.
- What?
- Is it because he's a wood elf?
- Ah, that's interesting.
- But they wanted, you were chosen first.
I mean, if you were chosen,
they went after you.
- Well, you're also...
- It could be also that he's a liar.
- I thought it was, my guess was—
- Well, you guys lie as much as me.
- Shut up, no I don't.
- I never lie.
- Fabian takes 35 points of damage.
- Geez!
- As these barlgura reign
blows out on top of you.
How many hit points is Fabian at?
- You said 35?
- 35.
- Then, I have 51, and can I
command the Hangman to chase
the barlgura, Hangman, there's
a demon coming out the door
with a very important person.
I need you to attack him
with your slam attack.
- Sire, it would be my honor.
I wish to slam the demons.
- Slam away!
- Long have the devils of
the nine hells and the demons
of the abyss warred.
Let the w*r continue here in
front of the Hotel Cavalier.
- Yes yes!
- Incredible, so the Hangman's
gonna act on your initiative.
We now see that is
going to be Sandra Lynn.
Sandra Lynn sees her,
she's like my ex-husband!
And runs out the door.
Incredible.
- I knew you still loved him!
- She runs out, and she's
gonna go twice here.
That is a critical hit from Sandra Lynn.
- Yeah!
- Rock it.
- You guys see
11 plus eight, 19 damage.
- Oh yeah, it hurt, but it's nothing—
- Sandra Lynn puts two arrows
into the back of the barlgura
running down the street.
It's about 20 feet away from her,
and that is going to be Ragh.
Sorry, no the barlgura that
rushed to you in the coat check
all rush in, only one—
- Ah, come to take more orders from me?
- Go ahead and make a deception
check with disadvantage.
- Disadvantage, okay.
But I do have advantage
because of my being an actor.
- Only when you're
impersonating other people.
- Ah, damn, okay.
- Fig a different person.
- Double 20s!
- Double 17s.
- Double 17s.
- Hey!
- So, that's gonna be a 28.
Yeah!
- We're back.
- You see the other two barlgura
kind of try to muscle in
behind us, and it looks at you for—
- Retrieve the yogurt man!
- Yogurt man.
- For your queen!
- Oh man.
- The shadow cat.
- You see, Ragh is gonna
rush up to join Fabian.
That's a hit, and that's a hit for...
13 plus 14, he does 27 points
of damage to one of the ones.
He's like hootgrowl baby, hurrah!
- Just full fist bump.
Just hell yeah, man.
- Tracker has a heightened
speed and is going to run out
and make two grapple checks.
- Get those in quick, dude, get those in.
- Cretin.
- And you see that Tracker
leaps on the back of the demon,
tries to slow it down, and
it's just she's a barnacle
on the back of this demon as
it careens down the street.
- The demon with Gilear, right?
- The demon with Gilear, yes,
but Tracker has lodged
successfully onto its back.
Cool.
I'm gonna need everybody
still in the lobby,
which is going to be Ragh,
Cathilda, and I believe Fabian,
Kristen, Riz, and Gorgug.
- Does coat check count?
- Coat check does not count.
- Coat check doesn't count?
- I'm hiding.
- You're good in that case
'cause you're a little bit farther away.
I'm gonna need all of you guys,
give me a constitution saving throw.
- Oh man, so this isn't a
charisma based check against us?
- This is constitution saving.
- I think you'll have a chance
to use that some other time.
- 16.
- Nat 20!
- Let's keep it rolling,
dude, keep it rolling.
- Oo, 24.
- And these are with Brennan's dice.
- 24, cool.
You see, and I need two so
that's one constitution roll.
I'm going to need another
constitution from everybody.
- Does that nat 20 count for two?
- Roll this next to stay with advantage.
- 21.
- 21.
- 23.
- 23.
- Another nat 20!
These are with Brennan's dice
'cause I forgot mine at home today.
- I will say the yellow
one does roll well for me.
- Really?
This guy?
- Yes yes yes yes.
- It's 'cause it's soft, got soft edges.
- I love it.
It looks like cheese.
- You see that both of those
vrocks, the vulture guys
go
reverberating sound things come.
Ragh and Cathilda are both stunned.
They're like out.
The rest of you guys successfully resist
the stunning effect.
That is going to be—
- How many people are
surrounding us right now?
- You have about two of
these vrocks, the cambion,
and three of the, and
the two of the barlgura
that are scrapping you in the lobby.
Three barlgura are dealing with Fig,
and then, the other one is
running down the street.
That's gonna be Gorgug's turn.
- Chaos.
- Pure chaos, just demons
in the lobby
You see the chandeliers
rocking, fire everywhere.
- I think we can't leave, yeah.
- You can't run if you're stunned.
- And those ape dudes.
- Yeah.
- There's still ape dudes?
- I guess Gorgug's gonna
run at the cambion,
and just yell liar!
And just yeah, I just,
I'm trying to decide
if I wanna reckless attack.
Maybe I won't reckless attack
just 'cause I don't wanna get
owned by everyone so
yeah, just regular attack.
Does a 14 hit?
- Sure does, oh no, 14 does
not hit, not a cambion.
- Does a 21 hit?
- Yes, it does.
- And then, I'm gonna frenzy.
So, that gives me just
one more attack, right?
- Yeah.
- And that's a 20.
- 20 hits.
- So, two hits.
All right
So, 22 points of damage to that person.
- Oo, damn!
22 points of damage is
the damage of the knight.
I'll tell you that.
- Especially on nat.
- So, all three members of
the Aguefort Owl bearers
rush forward to this cambion
and you thud in.
You've pushed all the way
back so that there's like a
small group of like hotel baggage.
You send this cambion
careening into the baggage.
Little blast of brimstone and flame,
and that is going to be Adaine's turn.
- All right, I'm down in this place.
Can I do a quick little investigate check?
- Give me a quick little investigate.
- Nobody else is down
here, and it seems bad.
- Yeah.
- Oo, I got a 26.
- The cambion made eye
contact with something
that was not here a moment
before you freed Fig.
Looked in a corner, nodded to somebody.
- Can I stab it with Riz's sword?
- Well, Riz has Riz's sword.
- No, I have Riz's sword.
- Oh, I thought you sent your stuff—
- I picked up, no, I picked up the sword.
- I think the double nat 20s, I thought.
- Yeah, I thought, I think it was the—
- I narrated that the
double nat 20s gave him
his stuff back.
- Oh.
- If you want that to happen.
- I did sort of want to
keep the sword for now.
- Well, then, you're doomed, Riz.
Adaine has your sword.
- No, Riz has a g*n.
- Cool, yeah, if you
wanna take your action,
then do it, you can stab.
- Yeah, I think I wanna.
- Cool.
You reach to your waist,
pull the sword of shadows.
Shadows come alive along the blade.
The last time you saw this
used, it was when it was plunged
into the head of Kalvaxis
during prom last year.
You reach back, stab
forward, make an attack roll.
- I don't have the
stats, do you have them?
- Plus one.
- Oh, it's plus one plus my dex, or?
- Yes, it's
you can use your dex,
but you're, I don't, yeah.
- So, plus one plus my dex, I got a 20.
- 20, you stab forward, and
it goes forward, flickers,
comes back to you.
- Nothing.
Well, okay, then, and there's
nothing else interesting
in this room?
- You watched all the demons
teleport up to the lobby.
- Great, then, I guess I
misty step up to the lobby.
- Invisibly.
You see absolute chaos here.
Adaine is back in the
lobby with everyone else.
Riz, that's gonna be—
Wait, can I take my movement?
- Yeah!
- I'm gonna go outside.
- Cool, you hop outside.
- Great.
- Yeah, you see the escaping
barlgura with Gilear.
That is Adaine.
Riz, that's you.
- Sweet, I guess I'm gonna run
outside and try to sh**t the
guy that's running away with—
- Tracker gives you sneak attack.
- Yes, yes yes yes.
- Cool.
- Can I hide first to try
to give myself advantage?
- Sure, go for it.
- Great.
That's a 18.
- 18 succeeds.
- Okay, great.
Come on now.
Nat 20!
- Hey!
- 20 and a 19.
- You guys help me.
You watching at home, please help.
- Does the nat 20 hit?
- Yes, it hits.
It's full double, all
that sneak attack damage.
- Oh, that sneak attack, yes!
Wow, I went to England,
and he came back a good roller.
- This is my husband, y'all.
Yeah, count out that
sneak attack, baby, mm.
- Oh my god.
- Count it slow.
- Wow.
- Count it slow.
- 34 damage.
- Yeah,
- You, Adaine,
you appear right next to it
as you like get your bearings,
you see Riz just walks out
of the hotel full extension,
raises and explodes
the head of this demon,
and it just skids along,
Tracker and you see—
- Tell Daybreak I say hi.
- You see that Gilear's
body just tumbles and rolls
and plants against a fire hydrant.
And the demon is dead, no more.
That is going to now be—
- Do you get multiple attacks?
- No.
- Okay.
- That's Riz, Fig, that's you.
- Okay, so Gilear is safe.
Is there anyone outside that's
within 60 feet of Gilear?
- You have to get past all these barlgura.
- That's cool, I got a skateboard.
- Oo, yes!
- Skateboard that lets me dash as a bonus.
So, I wanna use an object
interaction to grab the ruby
from the coat check.
- Yep.
- Slip it in my pocket,
put in my headphones,
get on my skateboard
and dash out to an enemy
that's within 60 feet of Gilear.
- Excellent, you use the
bonus action to dash.
You grab the ruby.
As you go to where the ruby is,
where you remember putting
the ruby in coat check.
The ruby is clouded black.
It is jet.
It is the exact same
cut, and as you grab it,
where your fingers touch it,
little tendrils of ruby light
come out of the dark
black storm of the gem.
Almost like those Tesla globes
where you put your fingers
on and the lightning touches them.
But what is in here has been
clouded by some dark storm
and is trapped deep within this.
But you grab the ruby,
and you can if you want,
bonus action dash and get out of here.
- Bonus action dash, and
I wanna attack someone
that's within 60 feet of Gilear.
- Right now, there's no one
within 60 feet of Gilear.
- Gilear's just outside.
- He's outside, there's—
- The lobby's where there's chaos.
These guys are fighting.
- I just wanted to attack someone
and then healing word Gilear.
Ah, I still have actions!
So, I'll dash, attack someone,
then, run out to within 60—
- That you can do, absolutely.
- Okay, so I'm gonna do that, so—
- But remember, you have to
use a bonus action to dash,
but you can just use your movement.
- Oh, you're right!
No, I need to healing word Gilear.
- You can jus dash and
throw me towards Gilear.
- You could just use your action to move,
and then, bonus, and then—
- All right, okay, new plan.
Sorry to do this.
When I was in my world,
what are these people,
what are these people, what
were they trying to do?
Do I have any memory of
like if they were like
oh, I hope this doesn't happen?
- It's a haze to remember.
They seemed to be taking orders
from someone you couldn't see.
- All right, f*ck, no no no.
Heck to it, I don't know what
the PG version of that is.
I cast fear on the three
guys in front of me.
- None of that heck to it.
- Awesome.
- Heck to it, I cast fear.
- Okay.
- So, they gotta do a wisdom save
or drop whatever they're
holding and be frightened.
- I, where's my phone?
- Did you roll two nat 20s?
- I rolled a six, a three, and a two.
- Woo!
- All these barlgura, so
what do Fig do to create
this fear effect?
- I think she just like, I
think that I hold up the ruby,
and I'm like if you don't do what I say,
you're going in this thing.
- And all of
them spring to one of the
lobby chandeliers and begin
to like Tarzan just off
into the depths of the hotel.
Incredible.
That is Fig, that's Fig's turn.
Gilear is going to make his
first death saving throw.
Two, failure.
- Pretty Gilear though.
- Tracker is a cleric, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
- Kristen, that's you.
- Okay, great.
I'm sorry, where am I, am I?
- You're in the lobby.
- I'm in the lobby, and
all these people are like
in front of the door to get out?
- You're scrapping at the concierge desk.
You could run out of the lobby.
It's only like 15 feet to get
to the doors of the lobby.
- I do that.
- Cool.
You rush outside.
You see Tracker's out here.
Sandra Lynn's out here.
You don't see Adaine.
Riz is out here.
- Great, and Gilear's like
in the bushes or something?
- He rolled out of the demon's
hands and hit a fire hydrant
and is sort of slumped.
- I saved Gilear!
- Thank you.
- I run to Gilear,
and I cast spirit of the dying I guess.
Just bring him up to zero.
- Bring him to zero, great.
- And then, I kiss Tracker hi!
- She's in full wolf.
- It hurts.
- Yeah, she has to like,
licks your full mouth
kinda dog style.
- Does she have dog breath?
- What?
- Does she have dog breath?
- Yeah.
- Whoa.
- It's sweet!
- Aw.
- Oh!
- Awesome, cool.
The cambion's gonna take
some swings at Fabian.
- He's not dead?
- No, cambion's not dead.
- Cambion's the mega daddy.
- I thought Gorgug like
slammed him into some coats,
and he turned into, I guess it...
- Nope.
Cool.
- D-12s are rolling bad.
- You take eight, 14,
15, 23 points of damage
as this cambion manifests a fiery spear
and slashes you across
the stomach with it.
What's Fabian at now?
- 28.
- You're at 28?
- I'm at 28,
and I'm chillin'.
- Cool.
Sandra Lynn looks at you
and says you got this?
Walks back and is gonna take
some shots at this cambion.
Misses, that's going to be the barlgura.
Cool.
These things are going,
there's still a bunch of them.
There's the one you stopped is gonna
take some swings at you.
Hit, hit, hit.
Another one's going for Gorgug.
- Three of them are just climbing
the chandelier though, right?
- Yes.
- How many others are there?
Cambion and how many?
- There's two bird people.
- Two of the birds.
- Cambion and then two of
these gorillas fighting us?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
You see, they hit with
all of their attacks.
- Can we dimension door
with our like people
who are passed out?
- You can only do it with one person.
We can get, and we're outside.
We can...
- We got two stunned people with us too.
- Yeah, we gotta go in and
get the big stunned people.
- 39 points of damage to Fabian.
- No!
- Down.
- Fabian goes down.
The next one deals 11.
13,
21, 22,
36 points of damage to
Gorgug, halved to 18.
- Okay.
- And what is Gorgug at?
- Gorgug is at 94.
- Gotcha.
- That's reassuring.
- So, you need to be healed?
- Cool.
- Help!
- The other ones are dead or fleeing.
Tracker leaps and in mid-air
goes back into humanoid form.
Rushes in the door, and
it's gonna hit Fabian
with a healing word.
- Sick.
- Aw, sweet.
- Thank god.
- You see that you are
healed for five hit points.
- So, I need, thank you!
- You got it!
The vrocks..
Cool.
I'm gonna need constitution
saves again from everybody.
Two.
- Even if we're outside?
- Oh sorry, just the people
that are near the demons.
- 20 for the first one.
- Cool.
- 21 for the first one.
- 23 for the second one.
- Cool.
- 24 and then a 12.
- And then, a 12, cool.
- 19 for the second one.
- Cool cool cool.
- 21 and 19.
Oh, thank you.
- Cool.
- Does mine with rage help at all?
- No, you, okay, so only
Gorgug, you are poisoned.
So, you are full poisoned.
You can feel that it's
starting to damage you as well.
- What is the affect of that?
- You see that both of them
go and shake their nasty
carrying feathers in a
miasma of just like spores
and nasty like disease
mist oozes off them.
As you, Gorgug, that is your turn.
- So, there's the two gorilla dudes.
There's the two birds.
There's the—
- You got three gorillas,
two birds, and the cambion
who's looking real messed up.
You're also poisoned.
- Okay and I've, what do I do
in response to being poisoned?
I mean, like how does that
affect my rolls or anything?
- You get disadvantage.
- Okay, gotcha.
I'm just gonna try to k*ll this cambion.
- Go for it.
- All right.
- So, you're rolling with disadvantage.
- Does 12 hit?
- 12 does not hit.
- All right, I'm just
gonna take all my dex.
Does a 12 hit?
- No, it does not.
- Frenzy.
Nat 20, but it does a 17 hit.
- 17 does not.
The poison courses through you.
- 17 doesn't hit?
- Yeah, the cambion's
got high high high AC.
You take your swings but is
coughing in a fit of this
choking stuff, also, this
round, at the beginning,
you take eight points
of damage, not halved.
The next person to go
is going to be Adaine.
- Okay.
I guess I'll step back,
I'm gonna hand Riz's sword
over to him.
- Whoa, hey!
You're still invisible, right?
- Yeah, I'm super invisible.
- Thanks.
- Oo, magic!
I'm gonna step inside, and
do I, can I do an insight check
to see what kind of damage
that I feel like this demon
would be susceptible to?
Like if it would be susceptible
to like cold?
- Give me an arcana check.
- 17?
- 17, the cambion?
- Yeah.
Acid, cold, fire, lightning,
poison, or thunder?
- You feel like, you're certain,
you don't think it's immune
to anything, but you would
bet it's immune probably to,
or it's resistant to like fire
and cold, you would assume.
- Resistant to fire and cold.
- It might be resistant to other stuff,
but on a 17, you're pretty sure
you remember it's resistant
to fire and cold.
- Okay, I am gonna hit it with a chromatic
or a lightning attack,
so, well, I'll do a range,
I do a range spell attack.
And that's a 25.
- Hell yeah, and what kind
of damage are you doing?
- A lightning, so it's 3-D-8 damage.
- Cool.
- D-8, D-8, D-8.
11, 19 damage.
- 19 damage.
- f*ck yeah.
- Holy moly, okay.
This thing is, you hit it,
and it is on its last legs.
You see that it is fried to
within an inch of its life.
- Great, and then, Cathilda is stunned?
- Stunned.
- Can I pick her up?
- Yes, you—
- She's a little halfling, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- And, how do you get rid of stun?
Is there a magical way
to get rid of stunned,
or a cleric way to get rid of stunned?
- If she's paralyzed, I think
I can lesser her restoration.
- Not, most stunned effects
don't last that long.
- Oh, okay, can I just
give her a little shake?
- Yeah, you can give her a little shake.
It might not help that
much, but you can do that.
You can shake her a little bit.
- Sure.
- You are more than welcome to shake her.
- Cool.
- Oh no
- So, that's is Adaine's
turn, Riz, that's you.
- Sweet.
Is the Hangman out here?
- Yeah, Hangman has rolled right out.
- Sweet, I would like to
Hangman, we need to save
our best friend!
- Fabian?
- Yeah.
- Oh, right, you have a
thing with Fabian, right?
- Huzzah!
- Cool, you—
- Even a motorcycle cold shoulders you?
- You stride the Hangman
and zoom into the lobby.
- The Hangman is the most
judgemental character
in this game.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Yeah.
- What does Riz do as
he arrives in the lobby?
- I guess I'll sh**t at
the, or you know what?
Maybe I'll hop off the
Hangman and try to hide
and then sh**t the cambion?
- Okay, yes, absolutely.
Go ahead, give me stealth check first.
- 15?
- Cool, you're not gonna
get advantage on that.
- f*ck, all right, I'll just
take a regular shot then.
I like really sloppily
do a back flip off—
Okay, wait, 15 you said?
- Yeah.
- You do get advantage.
- Oh great, all right, so not so sloppy.
Looks fine.
God dammit, 17?
- 17 doesn't do it.
- f*ck.
- Sorry, take your wild shot.
Fig, that's you.
- Okay, I think I'm
just gonna straight up,
who, actually, I don't
know if this is right, but,
who looks like the
strongest demon in here?
- The cambion, although
it's badly injured.
Actually, the vrocks maybe look stronger,
but the cambion looks like
it might be in charge.
- Okay, then, I'm gonna
just go for the cambion.
- Cool, go for it.
- And I'm just going to attack.
I'm gonna hex blade
curse him and attack him.
- Cool, go for it.
- Does a 18 hit?
- The cambion?
- Yeah.
- No, it does not.
- Wow.
- Hot dog!
- Sorry, g*ng.
- Got that armor on.
- Yeah.
That is Riz and Fig.
Cathilda comes out of being stunned.
- Okay!
- It was the shaking, right?
- It was definitely the shaking.
- Definitely the jiggle
from an invisible girl.
- I definitely selected the right spells
and used my important
rolls at the correct time.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
You totally did though or else
Gorgug would've gone insane
and k*lled us, but yeah.
- Very useful, yes.
Having said that, it was not planned.
- That's right, that almost happened.
- On having two fights.
- Yeah, that was today.
- Yeah, that was today.
It's been a long day.
- A great day.
- I just wanna apologize
to everyone 'cause like
I kinda did all of this stuff.
- Hey, now's not the time though, sorry.
- Really 'cause my dad's in
a cursed gem, I did that.
- Cathilda messes up one
of the vulture things,
just slashes at it.
Kristen, that's your turn.
- Okay, I am going to
walk towards the doorway
'cause I'm outside, right?
I'm gonna cast spirit guardians
at a fourth level spell.
- Cool.
- And then, I can pick
who's like exempt from it,
and I pick our whole party,
and I say everyone, run
out 'cause if anyone passes
through spirit guardians,
their movement is halved,
and then, they take all this damage.
So, I say like everyone,
run out these doors.
- Cool, awesome.
You hit the spirit guardians.
Kristen has sounded the retreat.
Get the hell out of here.
You see, as you begin
to summon your thing,
the cambion goes, hello little cleric.
Leaps—
- Can we attack it?
- It misty steps, it like bonus action.
- I take out a coffee really quick.
- Get casual, quick!
- It has to make a wisdom
saving throw, I believe, right?
- It certainly does or
else it takes 4-D-8.
- This thing does not have proficiency
in wisdom saving throws.
It fails.
- Hell yeah, can I use?
- Yah!
There you go.
- Thank you.
f*ck yeah, aw, that is such a great roll.
Okay, that is...
23, oh, I'm sure that peaked the mic.
23 points of damage, which
is a lot for little old me.
- You see as this thing flashes
leaps through, it runs,
you cast spirit guardians
with this new energy from before.
Before it was philosophy
students with yes question mark.
- That was hard for all of us, I think.
- Hard for everybody.
You see this is post-graduate
philosophy majors.
- Oh no!
- Yes, bring it on!
- And you see that they appear and are—
- They get a little chiller?
- They appear, and
they're not even standing.
They also appear with
spectral like swoop-back
like coffee shop chairs
and like small chalk
like slate tables and spectral
like little espressos,
and you see they have like
sort of waxed mustaches.
- No, don't do this to me!
- Beanies, sort of like
you can tell that their
jackets smell like cigarettes,
and you see that the thing leaps,
and the entire coffee shop
that appears around you
as you pull your little
coffee shop thing out,
which is your new holy symbol
- This is my new religion
I praise the bean.
- I praise the bean.
You see that they come
out, and one of the sort of
philosophy post-grads
looks and goes
and it reverberates through
the air, the little just snort
and the cambion freezes
in mid-air and rotates
so its belly is up.
And you see another one,
there's this young woman
with like thick, clear glasses frames,
like big Coke bottle glasses goes right,
you're evil so you have
wings and a tail, right?
Like your wings are scaley
because that's what bad is.
Does that make sense to you?
Because a bird wing would be good.
A feathery wing that was
like white would be like
a good thing.
Now, does that make sense?
Trevor, you get that, right?
And you see Trevor says
no, exactly, like fire,
and you spit fire because you're bad,
but your fire smells bad.
Help me understand what your deal is.
And you see the cambion
goes and unravels
and f*cking disappears.
- I mean, they're right
though, right, I mean, come on.
- Yeah.
- I find myself talking to them now.
- The spiritual guardians look over—
- "Paradise Lost" was written,
and you can see the whole
New Testament shaped by it.
Incredible.
Sandra Lynn fires some more
shots and beats retreat
past Kristen, saying we gotta go, g*ng!
Fires two more shots.
- Is Ragh here?
- And hits
one of the badly injured
barlgura, two arrows in the neck
on the way out.
Sandra Lynn leaps out the
door, goes for Gilear.
These barlgura are going to attack.
Actually, they just saw their
cambion go up in flame, right?
I'm gonna make a roll here.
I'm gonna say that these
guys need a 16 or higher
to keep their resolve.
That's a three, baby.
- Yeah!
- You see the barlgura see the
cambion go up in the spell,
and all stumble back, see
their brethren swinging off
into the thing.
They fully abandon.
They head off.
Ragh comes out, takes
some swings at the vrock.
You see Tracker, but they,
Ragh also comes out through
the spirit guardians.
The vrocks beat a retreat as well.
Gorgug, sorry, Fabian,
that's gonna be your action.
- Great, I get up shakily
and just mount the Hangman
and hop, encourage anyone
nearby to hop on board.
- Gorgug, you're there as well.
- Nice.
- Ragh goes nice, and all three jocks on.
- Nice nice!
- Nice nice!
- Nice?
- Nice.
- Wait, where is Riz in all this?
- Riz is still in the lobby.
The demons beat a hasty retreat.
- It's like a jock
version of those seagulls.
- Can I do a bunch of like weird
of those like donut things?
Where I'm just like spinning around.
- Yeah, that's just like taking up space?
- Exactly, just ruining this lobby carpet.
- One star for this hotel.
- You guys leave the Hotel
Cavalier as the demons retreat.
- Wait, I'm still there?
- Yes, you're still there.
- I would like to grab the
book with all of the sign-ins
as we leave.
- Please put it in your inventory.
- Great.
- Can I talk to one to the
spirit guardians and be like
can you see who this
man is in a photo with?
- One of the spirit guardians?
See, they look at it, and they say I mean,
are any of us really with
anyone including ourselves?
- No no, see, it's really important.
We're trying to see, do
you see like a woman,
or is he just holding
his hand up in the air?
- I mean, in a weird
way, it's both, right?
- No, no, not right.
- My invisible hand
grabs Kristen
- But here's my question to you.
- I—
- Here's my question to you.
- Cancel it
- Cancel it.
- Does it really matter?
- Cancel, X out, X out!
- Turn it off, turn it off.
- Exit out.
- What does it even mean to matter?
- Oh, I hate that I like this though.
- Just answer the question, if it matters,
you should be able to
articulate it, right?
- I just, I don't know.
That's the issue at hand, right?
It's like does it really matter?
- And we come out of combat
as Kristen goes deep into
whatever this is.
You guys are out on the street.
Tracker walks over, casts a cure wounds.
Gilear is back a full health
with one cast of cure wounds.
- Can I cast lesser restoration
and cure your poison?
- Yes, lesser restoration,
cures your poison.
The Hangman is out there.
You guys see this sort of
sinister looking hotel.
You know the demons have beat
a retreat somewhere deeper
into the hotel, but you
guys have Fig and Riz back.
- I hug both of you really tight.
- Sandra Lynn—
Stay away from me, I'm dangerous.
- No, you're not!
- Dangerously cool.
- Don't you see what I did?
I got Gilear k*lled.
I tried to k*ll Riz.
Look at what I did to my other dad.
- Whoa.
- It could've happened
to any of us.
Did you have a nightmare?
- Can I do an insight check on that?
Or religion check on this crazy ruby?
- Yeah, I hold it out.
- Cool, by the way, I meant to ask.
Give me a slight of hand
check with advantage.
- Okay.
14!
- So, when you were going,
the ruby was in a small
little velvet pouch that
had some other gemstones
and stuff with it.
Would you have just grabbed
the ruby or would you have
taken the pouch as well?
- I would've just taken the pouch, yeah.
- Cool.
- I was just being sloppy.
- Cool cool cool.
You grab the thing and ran out there.
Go ahead and give me a religion
check if you'd like to.
- 15.
- Cool.
- Can I do an arcana check?
- Tim Allen?
- Tim Allen?
- 15 religion.
The ruby has, this thing is cursed.
In addition to, when you found
Gorthalax's ruby originally,
Gorthalax was trapped by
Arthur Aguefort in a ruby.
No way for him to get out.
He was just trapped.
This appears to be something
that is a curse placed on this.
With a 15 religion, you think
it is an insurance policy
against anyone ever being
able to break this open.
- Do you, I remember the
chords that I played?
'Cause I played like a weird
melody I never played before.
- This didn't happen when
you put your dad in the ruby.
This happened some time in
between when you handed it
to the demons and when you
got it back from coat check.
- Can I,
I mean, I feel like we
should get in the van
and get out of here?
- Okay, yeah, let's go.
- We also, yeah.
- When we're in the van, can
I cast identify on the ruby
to see if we can get a little
bit more information on it?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Do we have a bag of
rubies that might be all
cursed trapped people?
Or demons?
- You look at them,
there are a lot of other things in there.
You see that one or two of
the smaller gems are smoky,
but you notice that these are like
topazes, emeralds, sapphires.
There is only one gem the
size and like perfectness
of the ruby.
It is not, it does not
have the smoke curse on it,
this sort of weird shadow thing.
It is a bright blue glowing sapphire.
- Can I investigate to see
if any of the shadow stuff
has anything to do with the shadow cat?
- Yeah, give me investigation,
and you're casting it out.
- Yeah, so I'm gonna cast identify on it.
- I don't have one.
- Have I ever been to Bastian City?
- Can I give you help?
- Probably only with your
dad when you were younger.
- Do I know a nicer or
more pleasant part of town
to be in?
- You absolutely do.
- Are you gonna take us to a—
- Hey, everyone!
- Five star.
- I feel like this part of
town is not ideal for chit chat
and hanging out.
Might we adjourn to?
- Go ahead and give me a charisma check,
just a flat charisma check.
- Oh, dirty 20.
- Why do you say it like that?
- There is a lovely
dining establishment
with a lively common room
that plays all various
sorts of enchanting music,
and there's rooms available as well.
It's called the Swan's Little Parade.
- Oh, everyone, I have—
an incredible place
for us to go and adjourn to.
It's called the Swan's Little Parade.
Oh, they make the most delicious
little finger sandwiches.
- I'm in Bad Kids, right?
- Oh my god.
- The Swan's Little Parade?
- As soon as we get there,
I want a slight of hand
to try and put my speaking
stone and change the music.
- Sounds like there's gonna be tapas.
- I'm typing on the stone, the crystal,
S-W-A-N-S space
L-I-T-T-L-E
- Is anything coming up?
You'd think it'd auto fill at this point.
- Maybe there's a bunch of Swan's Littles.
- It's bringing up one in
Missouri, is that the right one?
- You see Gilear is like
swaddled in a blanket in the van
just kind of staring blankly.
- We need to send him home, right?
- I know, I know.
- We need to take him.
- What are you talking about?
- This is my fault.
This is my fault.
I got Gilear into this,
I'll take him home.
- No no no.
- They wanted him though.
- He needs a chaperone.
- Everyone needs to
understand something about
the nature of Gilear.
- What?
- Right, those two ape demons,
I was, I stabbed one of 'em.
I stabbed him good, right,
and then, both of them
ran past me,
Fabian Aramaris Seacaster—
- And they went...
- And they went for Gilear.
There is something.
- Gilear, do you know anything
about the Nightmare King?
- The Nightmare King?
- Gilear, are you the Nightmare King?
- No.
- Can I do a perception check?
- Yeah, gimme a perception check.
- Are you my dad of another season?
- Got a, I got an 18.
Is Gilear the Nightmare King?
Did I just absolutely
mess up the entire season?
- What if we just wrap the
whole season right now?
- He turns into a big puppet man, and.
- Are you the Nightmare King?
And you have to answer honestly.
I'm your daughter.
- Gilear.
- Gilear,
what are you eating?
Gilear!
- Gilear, come on.
- Gilear, did you find
food underneath the couch?
- He always keeps a Gogurt in his pocket.
- I think when the demon let
go of me and I skidded across
the sidewalk, someone might've
left, I don't know, like a,
what are those, like a Brazil nut?
- No, that's the worst nut!
- Maybe, it's taking
you that long to eat one
admittedly large nut?
- He is the Nightmare King!
- Gilear, really?
- Don't you all see,
there's something about—
- I invested so much in you!
- I'm gonna be really
honest with you guys.
I've had a bad day.
- You can't say that everyday, Gilear.
- Guys, we could,
if we wanna, I know we all
like talking to Gilear,
we can call Gilear, you know what I mean?
- Yeah, we can take
Gilear home and call him.
- There's something special about Gilear!
- Thank you, Gorgug!
- I agree, I agree.
There's a reason!
- I was conscious during
the stuff of them like
capturing me and stuff, did I, did it,
does it, it would occur to me—
- We need to resolve our perception check.
- It would occur to me, Brian
Murphy that these demons
just wanted to k*ll random people.
Can I do any kind of
insight check to see if—
- Gimme an insight check.
- Okay, as Riz.
- Hey, man, I think you're right.
- That's a 21.
- It has to be true.
- 21?
You think that probably
it's Gilear's fault,
and what I mean by that is,
his panic and what he did
was so strange by like not
knowing where and how to run,
and then, just ending up
crouching, not even behind
like a sofa, but just kind of
out in the middle of the rug.
You believe the barlgura may
have believed he was casting
a complex spell, and so,
they attempted to k*ll him
as a result of misreading
his physical body language.
- I convey that.
- I kneel, I kneel to Gilear.
- If we could put Gilear
into one of these gems, and—
- And my sword.
- And my bass guitar.
- Here's what's up, and I'm going to,
I'm actually gonna, I'm gonna speak up.
I'm gonna say some stuff, all right?
I am gonna say some stuff.
- What?
- Prophecy.
- I am not the Nightmare King, all right?
I'm not the Nightmare King.
- I had to ask, you
understand I had to ask.
- You didn't,
and I,
I need to, I'm sorry.
- Is it the nut, is it the nut you ate?
Is it coming back up?
- There's the other half of
it on the other side of you?
- This is bullying.
- It's large for a nut, okay?
- I believe in him.
- Nearly 100% of people
that are punched in the back
of the head by a demon would die.
Nearly 100%.
Your view of the world and how it works is
not your own fault so wildly warped
by your adventuring school,
by what you've learned,
by what you've experienced
with Goldenhoard, Kalvaxis
- Or by the fact that you're my dad.
- I love you so much.
- Aw.
- I died today.
I died.
- I held your soul.
- A gorilla monster
punched the back of my head
so hard that my brain broke,
and then, I was dead.
- And you don't know anything
about the Nightmare King?
- Maybe I did before that
gorilla monster punched me.
- Gilear, you died, but I
see you standing right now.
- Yes.
- Well, you're sitting
in the back of the van.
- I'm sitting in the van,
swaddled in a blanket,
shaking so hard.
- But you're standing in your way.
- I'm physically shaken so hard.
- Can I give him Boggy?
- He takes Boggy and starts crying.
This frog is very good.
- Those are heroes tears.
- Those are heroes tears.
- No, okay!
- I always knew, my mother
saw something in him,
and it's whatever's special about you.
- Gilear, you have a part you
have to play in this, I know,
but right now, you need some R&R,
and I give him 10.000 gold.
- No, come on!
- And say—
- What are you doing?
- Please, go on the vacation
that you never thought
you'd ever get a chance to go on.
- That's like three houses worth of gold.
- Yeah, I want him to go big.
- Can we just put him
in a ruby and tell him
that's the vacation?
- Stay in a hotel—
- Put him in that sapphire!
- That you would never
ever stay otherwise.
- What happened to you?
- I'm listening to reason.
- Thank you.
- Go ahead and give me a persuasion check.
- Okay.
- And I'm gonna say the
DC is actually gonna be,
the DC for this is actually gonna be 25.
- I do not get it.
- What did you get?
- I got 21.
- 21.
- Damn.
- He looks at you, and he says
I have lived a life
that when I think about it,
it bums me out.
- Oh god.
- You all are on an adventure.
You know magic.
You know sword play.
You have all the tools you need.
What you need is somebody
who's gonna get you your coffee
when you need it or perhaps
somehow some hours afterwards
if bus stuff comes up.
You need someone to get you food.
- So, you wanna be here?
- We need someone to handle
our Instagram account.
- Yeah.
- We're the Bad Kids.
We're branded now.
- But you know what?
In the bio, guess whose
name comes up last?
- An incredible dunk on
me by my own daughter
at my lowest moment, I—
- That was to say that
you're part of the Bad Kids.
- Right, I appreciate it, look.
- You have to click read
more, and then it says Gilear.
- What I'm saying is this.
I don't think I'm gonna
be the guy, the guy,
ever in my life, in my own
life, but I can help all of you
be that in your own.
- Maybe we can get you some
kind of amulet of invisibility
or some kind of—
- Can I shove the sapphire at him
and see if it makes him stronger?
- As you shove the sapphire into the van,
Gorgug, you see something
light up on the panel
a little bit, like some of
your parents' gears and stuff
kind of light up a little bit.
- Hang on, can I see that?
- What's mine is yours.
I'm the idiot who got us into this.
- No no.
- Actually, yeah, a lot
of us got us into it.
- Oh, I thought you were agreeing with me.
- You see that—
- Yeah, why don't, let's do this,
but there's some other
things that happened.
- Gilear looks and say I'm
going to figure some stuff out.
I think maybe the goal
here is I don't go on
the dangerous parts.
- Gilear, what if we got a big metal box
that you could lay down in, and—
- He looks around at van
and is like, great, great.
- I also have this briefcase
that is, it's really big.
- What if we got you, you have a—
- Like a little straw.
- I could see myself living
in a briefcase very easily.
Yes.
I have never felt, I
had my head hit so hard
that I felt all the bones
in my ribcage come apart,
just full disjoint.
It was the, it didn't even
hurt, it was just a feeling of
oh, I've never experienced
anything until this moment
because I'm being hit so hard.
- I'm sorry.
- Wild.
- Okay, I know we have
a lot of things to do,
but do you think, Riz, you can
try to see if a lot of like
gem stores have been broken into?
Is that like a sleuth
thing that we can see like?
- I mean, if we wanna—
- I'm gonna jam this
crystal into this.
- If you wanna, fine, yeah, let's do that.
- Let's see what's up with the gem.
- Cool, your casting identify on it.
Do you wanna do, try to do
that before this happens, or?
- Sure, it's a ritual spell
so it'll take 10 minutes.
- Okay.
- But we're on the way
to the Dancing Little—
- The Little Swan's Parade.
- Beautiful Little—
- No, the Swan's Little Parade.
The parade is little, not the swan.
The swan is huge.
- Big swan, tiny parade!
- Look at our little parade, you swans!
- It's gonna be a big
parade once we get there.
- You guys head out.
Sandra Lynn—
- The Ball.
- You see that Sandra Lynn
has just sort of been looking at Gilear.
She sort of nods and smiles.
She looks over at Cathilda.
You see that Sandra Lynn's
on her crystal calling in,
and you guys see a bunch
of Bastian City squad cars
pull up in front of the hotel
and just come in with like
wands and magical sh*t and start to stream
into the hotel basically.
- They're like police force?
- Yeah, it's like Bastian City's people.
- I'll disguise self and try
and find out if there's been
a rash of robberies
- I think they're just
clearing out the demons, right?
- Maybe, we don't know whose
side they're working on.
The police aren't necessarily good.
- I'll just disguise self and go in
and see what they're
saying as they clean up.
- Cool, you guys disguise self.
You head on in.
- I just, I take some yellow
tape, and I pretend like
I'm doing that.
- As the—
- Is the couch fully
wrapped in yellow tape?
- You cast identify.
Ah, yes, this is another
use of the identify spell.
- Don't talk to me.
- The object held in front of
you is a celestial sapphire,
a non-magical gem infused
with magical significance
by a ritual act, binding the
creature in question inside.
This is rather than a
magical item or artifact,
better understood as a material component
of the magic jar spell.
- Magic jar?
So, is there a celestial
trapped inside this gem?
- A powerful celestial
trapped inside this gem.
- Is there a way to talk to
it without letting it out?
- Certain machinery or arcane
devices would enable one
to be able to speak the being inside.
- Should I put in the—
- Yes, put it in the radio.
- The tape player?
- You've put it in the tape player.
Your gnomish, your clunker,
rusty, gnomish parents van
swallows the gem and kind of puts the gem.
You see that your gas tank,
which was like a little bit
almost like a little bit lower.
The gas tank reader flips
to just a glowing blue
kind of like soft pulsing light.
Almost like the power source
of the van has changed,
and the radio comes on
and this sort of soft,
angelic music begins to play.
You see that as it sort of starts playing,
soft music comes over the radio,
and you hear a voice go wow, wow.
Hello, knock knock knock, anybody there?
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Hey.
- Who's this?
- Well, gosh, I've been in
this gem for such a long time.
I got captured by demons
I think a long time ago.
- That's rough.
- I was a spirit of the endless sky
towards the late afternoon
on a day at the beach
with your feet in the warm
sand, just being chill as hell.
You guys can call me whatever you want,
but you know, I'm sorry.
I'm rambling on.
Where am I?
Who are you guys?
- My name's Teddy Geigar.
- Everyone go easy on the
lies because the thing
that attacked me out of the
mirror was like a manifestation
of lies so everyone,
just relax on the lies.
Baron's not real!
- What?
- What?
- Yeah.
- Believe it or not.
- Baron from the Baronese?
- Yeah.
- Was a lie?
- Was a lie.
- What are you talking about?
- I'm sorry, Gorgug.
- So who, what, who have you been seeing?
- No one.
- I think I need to tell
you all that I'm g*y.
- Yeah, we know.
- Oh, okay.
- Tracker goes what?
- I, just you know, I'm
not sure, I'm pretty sure
most of you figured it out, but I just—
- I literally knock on
every door in the house
'cause I'm scared you and
Tracker are gonna be 69-ing
on the other side of it.
- And healing each other's wounds.
- Tracker healed me perfectly fine,
and there was no sexual activity.
- You just didn't see me.
- It just feels like it feels
like y'all can tell me things.
I want you to know that
you can tell me things.
- Hey, car, so we're having
a kind of moment right now,
but we're a collection
of adventurers from the—
I don't know how much we should tell—
- Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
- Awesome.
- Why are you calling the angel car?
- It's what's talking to me is the car.
- You see that the—
- It said you could call
it whatever you want.
- The car, yeah.
- I mean, it's a van.
- You can name it.
- He kind of feels like
a Van to me honestly.
- You see he says am I in a van right now?
- Yeah.
- That's right, Van.
- Van.
- That's, whose van is this?
- It's you, but it's mine.
- See, you hear the van speak
from the radio again and go
dude, I would love to be your van.
- I mean, you are.
- Outside you hear the Hangman
go what the f*ck is going on?
- Hangman chill we're having like a weird
I guess that we're, there's
gonna be another possessed
vehicle that we have interactions with,
but you'll always be my possessed vehicle.
- I knew you guys kiss.
- I hate this van.
- We don't kiss!
- You guys kiss!
- Absolutely.
- We don't kiss!
- No lies now, you can't—
- Hangman, I feel like once upon a time,
we talked in my head—
- You put the kickstand down,
- And now, we're out,
and everyone can hear it.
- And you get off,
and you walk to the
front, you crouch down,
and you kiss the Hangman.
- That's, I've never done that once.
- Yeah, you do.
- But you've thought about it.
- Be careful, that lie's
gonna show up in the mirror
and kiss you.
- Yes, everyone, relax on the lies.
If you've kissed the
Hangman, even once, just even
exploratory kiss.
- Raise your hand.
What?
Gorgug!
- Gorgug, what were you
doing kissing my motorcycle?
Not cool!
That's like if I kissed your like tree.
- Yeah, I'd be fine with that.
- All right.
- I just,
it's such a cool
motorcycle, I just
- I'm flipping through
your parents' sex binder
to look for like people
loving motorcycles.
- It was a non-sexual, like,
you ever kissed a puppy?
- Sure.
- Yeah.
- Van, you're learning a lot
about us right off the top.
- I hear that, you guys
seem like honestly a riot.
I'm so psyched.
Are you guys hungry?
'Cause I felt someone punch in a GPS
for the Swan's Little Parade.
I'd be happy to head
there if you guys want.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Let's do it!
- Let's pick up Fig.
- Oh yeah, right.
Right, I wasn't here the whole time.
- Cool.
You guys, so Fig, you
walk over to the police.
Go ahead and just give me
an investigation check.
- Okay.
11.
- You hear the police talking,
you don't hear anything
about a rash of gem robberies,
but you do hear about
a lot of unsolved cases
at the Hotel Cavalier,
and this is like a long time coming.
So, it seems like you guys
have done a good thing by
like springing the cork
on this hotel basically.
- Oh, and we have the book.
- I see them starting to, yeah,
actually, that's good call.
Is there anything else that like looks,
is there anything else
in like the coat room?
Like maybe the coat that the gem was in?
- You guys grabbed the good stuff here.
I mean, you got that bag of gems,
and you got the guest book.
So, you guys kind of
have the big score items.
- I'll just, I'll see my friends leaving.
I'll just announce to the room.
Fellas, I might clock out early.
- I feel like actually
cops are so close knit,
like they know everyone
in all the other cities.
- Give me a deception
check if you'd be so kind.
- But since I'm pretending to
be someone else, I
- Clocking out early?
- You're gonna be exposed a demon!
- Nat 20.
- What?
- So 31.
- Sorry sorry.
- You see one of the cops,
the chief comes over to you
looking extremely stern and goes
Decker, I'm glad you're taking some time.
After what you've been through
and everything's that's happened.
- Yeah, I gotta be honest.
- Is this the new hospital?
- Are they gonna kiss?
- Temptation to you know
work myself to the bone
is always there.
- God dammit, Decker, look,
you're the best detective we've got.
- Yeah.
- Your clearance rate,
it's out of this world,
but solving a case doesn't solve
what's happening in here.
- I'm the best detective you've ever had,
but what about the best girlfriend?
- He leans in for a kiss.
- I get my kisses in.
- He's like a 45-year old man.
- I run away.
- She gets her kisses in.
- I get my kisses in.
- Game respect game.
- God dammit, Decker.
- And use my skateboard to dash away.
- When did you start skateboarding?
You guys see a full middle-aged
detective skateboard down—
- Makes out with the chief
of police after saying
they're gonna clock out early.
And then rides off on a skateboard.
- Yellow tape just waving behind you.
- Yeah, I think I have
some stuck to my foot
like it's toilet paper.
- Oh my god.
- Everyone piles into the van.
- I ride—
- You ride the Hangman.
You see the Hangman says
sire, we must find a way
to destroy this van.
- Hangman, you're gonna
have to share the spotlight,
all right, you've had your
moment in the sun, all right?
You're still important to me.
- You see that he says
I hate the van.
You guys are going along.
The van is just playing some chill music,
and it goes awesome, totally totally cool.
So, you cast, the
identify spell continues.
Basically, again, these
gems, including this gem,
like the thing that they
said at the beginning
the devil heart was not
magical was accurate,
but they're just, like
in the same way you need
a 300 gold piece diamond,
like these are rare gems
to do very powerful spells with, right?
But the van sort of
trundles along and says
I feel awful like I should
apologize to that motorcycle.
I feel like he's super creased at me.
- No, he's just very judgemental.
He'll, you just, don't worry about it.
- He's got a lot of walls up.
- He's a lot of bark and no bite.
- Here's the thing, Van.
If you just hang around and say
that you're their best friend, eventually,
you become best friends.
- Here's the thing, hanging
around 'cause I know that
that guy's the Hangman, but
I'm all about the hang, man.
- Riz laughs way to hard.
- Can you teach me how to be this chill?
It seems really pleasant.
- Yeah, just think
about like I don't know,
think about like a leaf pile and it's like
oh man, this sweater fits great.
Or think about like I don't know.
There's like, it's like
a cool swimming pool,
and you're like tired, and
you've been hanging out,
and then, you're just, you're laying back
and like your bud's making a fire,
and it's like oh, we're gonna
do a bonfire tonight, yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- You know?
You guys wanna listen to some music.
- None of those things seem particularly—
- Sure.
- Kristen is fine, but—
- I think we should have a conversation.
- Yeah.
- Yeah yeah.
- Yeah.
- We should look,
let's ask to look at this book together.
So, we can like, can we do it together?
- Do I see the tabaxi in the picture?
- You do.
- Okay.
So, I think I go over 'cause I saw Kristen
showing the picture to the
ghost so I think I go over
to the picture, and I'm
like all right, we need to
I guess figure out if, I saw
some kind of shadow person
moving through the room when
I was about to be sacrificed
so maybe it's the same cat?
- Where?
Did I see them?
- As the person
in this picture.
- I didn't see them, right?
- You didn't see them, no.
- I didn't see them.
- Okay.
- Riz, don't start
with one of your lies.
- Did you have a nightmare?
- No.
- But you didn't go to sleep.
- I don't think you slept.
- I didn't go to sleep.
- We all had really crazy nightmares.
- Even me, and I don't sleep either.
- I mean, I didn't
really have a nightmare.
It was like kind of like a bad dream,
but like an alluring dream.
- But none of your could
see who's in the picture?
- Yeah, we don't see anyone.
- But we found out from
Sandra Lynn and your mom
that that was your dad's partner.
- Do I?
- Yeah.
- Oh, you're right.
- Is that the shadow cat?
- Can I do an investigate?
So, I saw—
- Is it something that if you've met them,
it casts an illusion on you?
- We were wondering that.
- Yeah, so this is a cat person.
We know that there's a shadow cat.
I saw a shadowy figure disappear.
Can I deduce that I perhaps
saw this person downstairs?
This is who I saw?
- Yes yes,
yes, absolutely.
- Oh, it was the same one from this photo
that none of us can see?
- Wasn't dressed the same,
and you can only see the eyes,
but the eyes look slitted
like a cat's eyes.
- This person was down there
when I was about to be sacrificed.
- Oh no.
- Where did they go?
- And disappeared
into the shadows.
- Can they be in any shadow?
Can we try to figure out how that works?
- I think I, I didn't see her,
but I saw one of the demons
looking where she was,
and I tried to stab her
with your sword, but she had
moved, which I don't know
maybe means that she'd
already moved or maybe I,
she's immune to something
or she's invisible
or can't be stabbed, or—
- So, she's still there?
- There's a lot of reasons
that it couldn't have happened,
but maybe I don't know?
- If she's still there,
we should go back.
- I didn't see her.
- I don't think we're
gonna be able to find her
until she comes looking for
us or to cause more trouble.
Also, more on lies mani—
- Is she the one who did this to me?
- I don't know.
When I was captured,
a little skeleton named Baron
formed of my lies who
could only refer to things
that I had lied about appeared
and came out of the mirror and
grabbed me and pulled me in.
Yeah, I shot the mirror, so.
That was a bad move so in the future,
let's not attack mirrors.
- Yeah, it's seven years bad luck.
- Yeah, but oh no.
But yeah, so maybe be careful with lying
'cause it seems like the
Nightmare King can like
make monsters based on lies.
- Van, I should tell you that
my name isn't Teddy Geiger.
- What?
- Yeah, sorry, I was lying.
- I forgive you.
- Thank you.
- You got it.
- You're cool.
- Hey.
- Okay, so we're going to
the Swan's Little Parade.
- You guys arrive at the
Swan's Little Parade.
- What do we do?
What's the plan?
Do we keep going?
We were gonna go try to find Aelwyn.
- I was gonna get some egg sandwiches
and maybe some tea.
- At the Swan's Little Parade?
- Yeah.
- I mean, big picture.
- I think we have to, we
have some clues to unpack
a little bit, we could sit
down and look at this book.
- Yeah, let's have a look
at this book and see.
- I don't feel safe to be around you guys.
Last night, I don't know what happened.
I don't know how it happened,
but I put my dad in a gem.
I put my, I lured Gilear—
- A cursed one.
- Into a trap that apparently
was designed to destroy him.
I mean, I am just a, I
don't know what to do.
- Tie ourselves down
whenever we go to sleep?
- Yeah, if we all stay together—
- We could take shifts, and.
- Yeah, we need to guard each other,
make sure this doesn't happen again.
- Tracker speaks up and
says there's stuff we can do
to ward against this.
- Okay.
- What do you mean?
- Tracker looks at you and
says I can ask the gods
of the moon, I think
there's stuff we can, look,
weird possessing spirits
and stuff like that,
I don't know, it depends on
how paranoid we wanna be.
But look, let's go into
the Swan's Little Parade
'cause I'm super hungry,
but we can talk about this.
- I want the smallest egg
salad sandwich, no crust.
- Oh, you're gonna get it.
- I saw the pictures.
They're all really small.
- Really?
- Teeny tiny!
- The Swan's Little
Parade is a sort of like
chamber filled, there's like tuxedos
and swallow-tailed
coats on the wait staff,
and you see—
- I'm home!
- The sign says the Swan's Little Parade,
and you see that there is a
swan with like a parade major's
tall hat that has a
little baton in its wing,
and it's marching,
throwing a little parade.
- I love it, I love that.
- You see the maitre d says oh, welcome to
the Swan's Little Parade.
I'd be happy to seat you.
Our menu is a secret, and
it costs 20 gold pieces.
- Fantastic, we'll have one,
two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 10.
- Can I look onto your menu?
- Yeah, do we have to buy
the menu to order off of it?
Or can we buy one menu?
- I'm sorry, we don't repeat menus for the
two different customers.
- Fantastic.
We'll have, everybody will get a menu.
- Okay.
- I don't care, take my money.
- Okay, very good, welcome
to the Swan's Little Parade.
You guys take a seat.
Sandra Lynn, Gilear, Ragh,
Cathilda, Tracker are all here.
Tracker looks sort of deep
in thought as she's thinking
about like what she could
possibly do to help.
Sandra Lynn says all
right, g*ng, well, we got,
you see she gives you a kiss,
and she tussles your hair.
She's like—
- Stay away
from me mom.
- You're, okay.
g*ng, as your hirelings, we're
happy that the first combat
went down unseemingly okay.
Seems like we're on the
right track somewhat.
What's the game from here on out?
Where do we go from here?
- I guess can I call my mom
and ask her about shadow cat?
- Sure, you can give your mom a call.
She answers right away.
Riz, Riz, I've been calling you.
- Hi, mom, I'm okay.
- Oh thank god.
- My friends found me
just a little, you know,
it actually went, I'm not lying anymore.
It was a huge mixup.
I got captured by a
monster that came for me
through a mirror.
- Tell 'em who really captured you.
You got captured—
- I got captured by a little monster.
- And then I tried to
k*ll him, hi, Sklonda.
- Hi, Fig, are you safe too?
Sandra Lynn says gimme the, yes.
She says hi, Sklonda,
yes, everyone's safe.
We went and found them.
Demons, sacrifice, yeah, exactly.
That's so funny, okay,
good, yeah yeah yeah.
Here's Riz.
- Mom, so this shadow cat
person that worked with dad.
Do you, does she?
- Oh shadow cat, well her name's Kalina.
- Kalina,
and do you, is there any
reason she would wanna
sacrifice me 'cause she was
there at when I was about to be
sacrificed to some demons.
- Sweetie, I had a very rare
occasion to talk to Kalina.
Wait, she was there?
- I saw her slipping through the shadows.
- Was she trying to help you?
- She certainly didn't seem like she was.
- She attacked you?
- No.
- Okay, well look, your,
I haven't seen Kalina,
sweetie, since your father passed.
I know she didn't attend his funeral.
She was only around you I
think a handful of times
when you were a baby.
You know, she didn't work
with Pok all the time.
She only worked with him on
missions where it had to do
with Fallinel and Solace
working in tandem.
- Did she have powers that
she could turn into shadow?
- Oh, she's one of the best.
I mean, she's completely, she
can be completely invisible.
She had ways of getting
around wards and abjurations.
She was almost impossible to scry on.
I mean, truly nearly
impossible to scry on.
- Right.
Okay, and you haven't
seen her in a long time?
- I mean, no not for 12
years almost, more maybe.
- Do you remember the last time?
Was it anything significant or just?
- Was she on the ship that your
dad and the oracle sank on?
- Oh, he was reaching out
to her about some stuff
related to that ship.
He reached out and made contact,
but I never saw her again.
- Okay.
Okay, thanks, mom.
- All right, I love you, sweetie.
Have fun on your adventure,
don't get captured again, okay?
- Okay, I'll try not to.
- She could just not, like she
could not be doing something,
she could not be an illusion.
She could just be so good at getting away,
like being undetected that literally—
- She also didn't, my mom's right.
She didn't attack me, but
she certainly wasn't being—
- But she was having some
kind of communication
it seemed like with the devil or demon.
- Yeah, so seems 90% chance bad.
- Can I roll just like a
paranoia check to see if she's
in this van with us?
- Yeah, go for it.
- Paranoia check.
- What do I add to that?
- I don't know, you made it up.
You tell me.
Why do I gotta make up what the roll is?
- I think, you're pretty—
- Add 20 to it.
- We'll call that just
a straight wisdom check.
- Cool, it was 13.
- 13, cool.
You don't see the shadow cat, Kalina
in the Swan's Little Parade.
- Can I look for the
name Kalina in this book?
- Yes, absolutely, thorough investigation,
you do not find it anywhere.
- Okay, is there anybody that
I do recognize in this book?
- Yes, but I will say that
probably you would need
the full night to like go
through it to that extent.
- Yeah, I'll help with that.
- Yeah, I'd also like to help.
- Can I make a perception check on Ragh?
- Yeah.
- Does he seem weird at all?
15.
- You see Ragh looking at the
photo that Riz is holding,
his dad's photo.
- Ragh, can you see the
person in that picture
that's not his dad?
- Everyone, give me an insight check.
- f*ck.
- 16.
- 15.
- 16 as well.
- 16 as well.
- Anyone that got, who got above a 15?
Cool.
Ragh looks up at you and looks terrified.
He's trying to hold it
in, but he's terrified.
- Buddy—
- I give him Boggy.
I take him from Gilear
and give it to Ragh.
- Thanks.
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
- You seem really scared.
- Hey, what did we just talk about last?
- Yeah, we're kinda
doing the no lie thing.
- Or else they appear in
the mirror and k*ll you
or try to.
- Ragh looks over at Tracker.
Tracker looks up and says
why don't I work on a way
to keep up magically safe,
and then, Ragh can tell us
how he's feeling after we do that?
- A great idea.
- Awesome.
- And until then, I will
give you a magical spoon!
And I take one of the teaspoons
and just wave my fist at it
to make it shiny and cute.
- Aw, that's just to make you feel better.
I'll prestidigitate a
little swan in a big parade.
- I prestidigitate straight
guy first time blow job porn.
- Sandra Lynn goes Kristen,
Kristen, we're in a restaurant.
- That's good, that's good.
- This is for Ragh.
Ragh's not doing well.
- Then you see, so Ragh
takes it very much to heart.
Sandra Lynn says well
Tracker can take care of Ragh
and get to the bottom of that.
We need to think about
what we're gonna do next.
Is the plan still to get to Fallinel?
That's our lead for the
Nightmare King, right?
- Yeah, I think that we
were going to get Aelwyn
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- But does the information
have now changed that?
- Maybe the shadow cat,
I would like for us to,
my instinct is that we find
a place to take a rest here,
and during that time, Riz
and I can look over this book
and see if there's any
more information there,
and then, if we don't—
- I also might know some people though.
There's gotta be, it's—
- Then we can head towards Fallinel
- Yeah, if these people
are demons, like...
- Yeah, maybe you would know some of 'em?
- Yeah.
- Does Tracker have an
idea of whether we should
stay here or move?
- Tracker looks around and
says the thing I'm thinking of
it might be better if
we all somehow all sleep
in like a pile.
- I mean—
- Babe!
- There are rooms here at the,
I believe there are rooms here at there—
- No no, let's pile, let's pile.
- No, we'll get one room, and we can,
we'll get a suite or something.
- She nods.
Ragh looks over and nods at her.
Sandra Lynn nods back at
you guys and says okay,
so we'll, I'll go see
about some rooms here,
and then, tomorrow we'll,
Gilear stands up and says
I will see about rooms here.
- Gilear, thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Gilear.
- You know what?
- We appreciate you.
- I rip the intern lanyard off his neck,
and then, I reach into the—
- His, as you pull, his
head slams into the table,
and he goes and falls
backwards out of his chair.
- Okay, wait wait wait,
just go and say we're good.
I reach into the coat of
many things and pull out a
tour manager lanyard.
- Oh my goodness.
- From the floor, he looks up and goes—
- And knight him.
- Beautiful.
- Just a quick heads up in the future,
when you take stuff around my
neck and just yank it hard.
- I'm so sorry.
Honestly, it was a really strong lanyard.
- Does the tour manager
position come with any
sort of salary?
- Sure.
- 10 gold pieces a day.
- That's a lot!
- Just take it out of
- And minus the 300 we
had to spend to you know.
- Yeah, to—
- I will begin to work
off my debt at once.
- I said I would pay for his resurrection.
- No he's gotta learn!
- Ragh, Tracker's rubbing
small circles on Ragh's back
as you look over at Sandra Lynn is just
holding her face.
Gorgug, your crystal.
As huge courses of stuff comes out,
and you see that all of the
servers do like a little
sort of dance as they
come out in like a line.
- Trying to get through the—
- Where is that cute swan?
- I love this place.
- I love it too.
- It's wonderful.
- You look at your crystal,
and there is a text from Zelda.
- Oh, I try to read it.
- The question is did you
leave without saying goodbye?
- Oh sh**t.
- That's all for this week
on "Dimension 20 Live"!
Tune in next week for the
next exciting chapter!
- You're single!
- Come into the dog house, dude.
- Uh-oh!
- Woof woof.
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07x03 - Havoc at the Hotel Cavalier
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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.