- Hello and welcome back
to Dimension 20 Live
presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year!
I'm your humble dungeon
master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me, as always, are
our intrepid heroes.
Say hi, intrepid heroes!
- Hi, intrepid heroes!
- Aw shucks. Last we left off,
our brave Bad Kids were in
the pirate city of Leviathan
on their quest to retrieve the
Crown of the Nightmare King.
Their journey had brought them,
along with three of Fig's parents,
a griffon,
two magical vehicles,
a frog made of vapor,
Fabian's maid Cathilda,
and Kristen's girlfriend
Tracker O'Shaughnessey and
their classmate Ragh Barkrock
here to Leviathan.
A city surging out of the
waves, made of a monolith,
a behemoth of shipwrecks
tied and lashed together
with a big wooden pirate
city built on top.
The city of Leviathan was
home to many adventures.
They managed to get their
van out of impound right away
from the warforged bosun
of Leviathan, Jamina Joy.
They met Alistair Ash, the
tiefling former street urchin
and current warlock of Fabian's
father, Bill Seacaster.
They arrived at the Gold Gardens,
where they ran afoul of
Captain James Whitclaw,
the illithid captain of the Crimson Claw,
and met Garthy O'Brien, who's the
proprietor of the Gold
Gardens, a half-orc aasimar
who gave them a lot of information
about the crown passing
through Leviathan previously,
about their relationship
with Bill Seacaster
as a palimpsest supplier,
about their bag of gems
that had gone missing.
And we ended last session
with Fabian going up to
the Crow's Keep to look
at his father's old stomping
grounds through the night,
as well as seeing our friends
get totally blasted, high as hell,
gettin' a bunch of tattoos,
and ending on a very harrowing
bit of mother-daughter complication
as Fig watched her mom
go into the bedchambers
of Garthy O'Brien, the proprietor.
- Ha cha cha.
- A harrowing bit
of mother-daughter complication.
- Yeah, I don't write these ahead of time.
It is a full Scrabble.
It's just tiles hitting the board
every time I open my mouth.
- I loved it.
- So, with that all being
said, we are gonna return now-
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My man's on top? Yeah!
That's for you, Billy! He's watching.
- Billy G.
- This is a little bit of-
- Is that Riz Gukgak's music?
- That's Riz Gukgak's music.
We are actually going to return to a scene
that we left off last time,
which was Kristen and Riz
doing a little bit of investigating
outside of Garthy O'Brien's quarters.
As you guys appear
at this giant set of ornate,
gilded doors, you see
these two half orc pirate guards outside,
large sort of chambers
here. You had perceived
that little bit of a Clairvoyance
sensor that is now gone.
You cast, Kristen, Detect Evil and Good.
As you cast the spell, you perceive
a faint celestial aura
not only from this building,
but from around the Gold Gardens entirely.
Go ahead and give me a Religion check,
which you do roll with advantage.
- 21.
- Lovely.
What you see here, effectively, is that
amongst the buildings of the Gold Gardens,
there is this powerful aura of-
Yes.
Powerful aura of wholeness,
wellness, celestial healing.
When Garthy said that they were able
to break curses and heal people-
You see that the place that is
the most out of the ordinary
here at the Gold Gardens in
terms of what you would expect
at a pirate casino and brothel
is also how many places here
are massage parlors, places of baths,
which is not what you would
associate with pirates.
It appears that a lot
of this place is also
associated with healing.
As you look at the layout of
buildings in the Gold Gardens,
you see that the entire complex is built
as part of a complex celestial rune,
and that all of this is connected,
with Garthy's quarters in the
center, that appear to create
what, for a sorcerer, would
be called a sanctum sanctorum,
what you might call a holy place.
This place has been hallowed, effectively,
and what you suspect is
that because it's centered
on Garthy's sleeping quarters,
Garthy is probably
a powerful human
or powerful half-orc
aasimar just in general.
Their power is amplified tremendously
by being here in this
place. Kind of like a caster
that has devoted a lot of their effort
to keeping one haven safe
as opposed to being able
to do a lot of stuff in the outside world.
And that's what you observe there.
Riz and Kristen, what do you guys do,
standing outside the door?
You've caught the attention
of the two guards there,
but I assume you haven't approached yet.
- No. Did we- We saw we were
being watched or something, right?
- The Clairvoyance blip.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- So my Detect Good and
Evil didn't really tell me
if it was necessarily evil, or-
- Technically, Detect Evil
and Good in 5th Edition
doesn't give you alignment information.
It gives you information
with planar and magical
associations, right?
So you are able to see whether
a given source of magic
or there's a given aura of undead, fiend,
celestial, fey, right?
- Cool.
- You detect powerful
celestial presence here.
You do not detect anything
fiendish or undead.
- Okay. I pat Riz on the back
and I cast Protection from Evil and Good.
- Okay.
- Huh. Yeah, I think Riz
is starting to sober up a little bit.
- Yeah, I'm worried about you.
You're covered in bleeding
tattoos and saran wrap.
- Did someone draw on me?
- You did it. It's okay.
- I try to get it off. What is this?
- Oh, there's more,
if you're worried about
the forearm tattoo.
- Are we concerned about Sandra Lynn?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Let's do a kid thing.
- Do a ding dong ditch?
- No, like a, we're scared!
Or, I had a bad dream!
Some sort of, so we can talk to her.
- Yeah. I guess I'll...
I think maybe we don't want them to know
that we wanna talk to Sandra Lynn.
I think we should sneak up, maybe,
and try to bang on the door.
- With the two guards there?
- I'll sneak past them. I'm
pretty good at sneaking.
- Great.
- Do you think you can distract them?
- Yeah, I can definitely distract them.
I take a little ribbon out of my bag.
- Oh no!
- And I tie it to a stick,
and I make it a ribbon dancer.
- Can I hide?
- I'm gonna need a Performance check from-
- Don't you
have a -3 to Dexterity?
- Charisma's okay.
- No, I have a three.
- Proficient in Performance.
- Okay!
- Hey, 19!
- Okay.
Okay.
- I almost threw
up. Just a very quick laugh.
- Oh, it's like a snake, ah!
- And then I would like to hide.
- Go ahead and give me a Stealth check.
I'm gonna say you do this flat.
- Okay, cool.
That is 23.
- Okay, so you watch these two guards,
who kind of clocked you before.
You sort of disappear into the shadows.
Kristen begins ribbon dancing.
You watch these two guards
that are leaning fully
against the door, kind of
just chatting with each other.
Both turn over.
You've never seen people broadcast less
through their body language
or facial expressions.
They stay leaning, but are
completely still as they watch.
- Can I do a Perception check?
- Yeah, go for it.
- That's c*ck.
- Oh my god!
- Interesting. Okay, yeah. It's a 10.
- A 10. You are so deep
in this ribbon dance
that I don't think
you can get what's happening.
- Oh, Kristen Applebees,
I'm taking you on tour!
- Riz, as you begin to sneak,
what do you attempt to do?
- I guess I want to...
I guess if I make too much of a thing,
it's gonna put Kristen in danger.
This is an ill-thought
out plan. I am going to-
- I thought you were gonna
bang so that they run away.
- I was gonna, yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna go and- yeah.
I'm gonna sneak around the
side to a different area.
- Raving ribbon dancer.
- And I'm just gonna-
I don't want them to
k*ll me if they find me,
so I don't wanna break sh*t or anything.
I just wanna make a loud noise.
Is there anything I
can just kick or punch?
- Make an Investigation check.
- I feel stupid. What am I doing?
Such a good Investigation check. 26.
- Yeah, you find a barrel on top
of a little stack of
barrels you could kick over.
- I knock over some barrels.
- Barrels on barrels, dude.
- What are we even trying?
- I don't know.
- I'm into this.
- I'm asleep.
- I'm truly all the way
into whatever is happening.
- I love it.
- I think trying to make sure...
I think we're just
concerned about Sandra Lynn.
- I can't stop watching Kristen.
- I just don't understand
what's gonna happen
if it goes well.
- I'm hoping they run out.
- That's the best part!
- Oh, okay.
- I don't know.
- Okay, so you-
- I'm into this.
I'm very into this.
- I knock over some barrels.
- They think they're gonna stop f*cking
and run out to where they have two guards?
- Their guards
might get concerned.
- I think this is good. Keep going.
- This is a real Axford move.
- You find some barrels.
You kick them over.
A 26 is very good.
Go ahead and roll
Deception with advantage.
You found a very good barrel to kick over.
- Okay. Deception.
My Deception's not very good. 12.
- Okay. You see that both
the guards turn over,
hear the barrels.
You see a barrel crashes open.
You see a bunch of fine ale
washes over the deck.
You see they sort of see the
barrel punt off and crash,
and you see one of them goes, "Oi, Martin!
Looks like one of the
barrels fell off the top!"
You see that a very old,
scruffy pirate janitor
begins to- he's got
two peg legs and a mop,
and begins to sort of waddle
over and begin to mop up
the ale that you can see
down from your perch.
- f*ck, we just made a mess
for a person who's trying
to get through work.
- I just walk up to the door.
Can I talk to Sandra Lynn, please?
- You see that one of the
guards looks and says,
"Well, you're not allowed in,
but we're more than happy
to go get Ms. Faeth for you.
Just so you know, her daughter...
I'm so sorry, I just wanna
wait for this to wrap up.
- This is gonna go on for a while.
- What's that?
Oh right, sorry.
I wrap it up and I put it in my pocket.
- Ms. Faeth's daughter had
already come over here and
interrupted the goings-on inside.
So if you would like to
do that for the second time-
- We understand but-
And this is kind of embarrassing,
but I'm afraid of the dark
and Sandra Lynn always tells me-
She just kind of helps
talk me down a little bit.
You know, anxiety, sometimes
you're able to talk it through
and have it dissipate a little bit.
But you know what, there's one more thing
that we could try before
we have to interrupt her.
Remember that blanket trick?
We're gonna go try the blanket trick.
- What's the blanket trick?
- We might be back.
It's really nice, he wraps
me up like an egg roll,
and then he says, "Egg roll to go!"
And he puts me on a
different surface
- But if you're afraid of the dark,
wouldn't a blanket over your-
- It's a loving wrap.
- It's like a baby thing.
- Okay, so I'm trying
to cast Zone of Truth
right here while we're talking.
- Sure, okay. First of all,
give me a Deception check.
- Oh god.
- This is the new dream team right here.
The Ball and Fabian are done.
This is it. This is the future.
- 17.
- 17. Okay, cool.
You disguise yourself.
- Okay, so I'm casting Zone of Truth,
but we need 10 minutes.
- Wait, it takes 10 minutes?
No, it lasts 10 minutes.
- It lasts 10 minutes.
- Oh sorry, okay, got it.
All right, good.
- Thank god.
- Okay, good. I cast
Zone of Truth and I say,
can we talk to Sandra Lynn?
Because now that I know it
doesn't take 10 minutes,
we don't have to try the egg roll trick.
We need to see her right now.
- Okay, you need to see...
All right, we're happy to go in.
So you see one of them goes in.
About a minute later,
Sandra Lynn comes out,
even more disheveled, shirt backwards,
shorts backwards.
- Shorts?
- Her Crocodile Hunter ranger
shorts are on backwards.
- On backwards?
- On backwards.
She comes out and goes, "Uh, hi."
- Hey!
- What's going on, Kristen?
- Great, okay, so what do we see?
Until the spell ends,
they have to make a Charisma saving throw
or else they can't say a deliberate lie.
- It's a Charisma saving throw?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
- I think she wouldn't-
- Yeah, so then we need
Garthy to come out here.
You have to figure that
out. Hey, Sandra Lynn!
- Where's Garthy at?
- Okay.
- Oh, wild.
- So Sandra Lynn comes out and says,
"Hey, what's happening?"
- Hey, how are you?
- Kristen, what the f*ck is going on?
- What? Okay, so-
- I think we should go.
- We need to talk to Garthy.
- I think all of us should go.
- Are you feeling okay?
- Guys?
- Uh-huh.
- Go back to your room.
- But we need you back there, too.
- Hey, Kristen?
- Yeah?
- You're not hearing me.
- No, but egg roll time.
Do you not wanna come back with us?
- I'm gonna go back inside.
If there's an emergency, come get me.
If there's not an emergency and
you try to come get me again
we're gonna have a very long conversation.
- What's your middle name?
- My middle name?
- Mm-hm.
- Lynn.
- Right.
- Is Garthy clothed right now?
- I push past her.
- You push past her?
- I specifically
didn't sneak in there
'cause I was like-
- Okay, so you say, "Is Garthy clothed?"
- I don't sneak
because, yeah.
- You push past her.
Go ahead and give me an
opposed Athletics check.
- Oh my god!
Kristen!
- That's an 11.
- What's your Athletics?
- You get rocked in the dome hard.
- Great.
- As you attempt to push in,
and Sandra Lynn reflexively
puts the butt of her hand
into your forehead and
knocks you on your a*s.
- Okay!
- Okay, we're gonna go.
- What? You traitor!
- I'm not a traitor.
I don't know what to do.
What if I sneak in and-
- We're worried about you,
because you're not poly,
but you're acting poly!
- You see, go ahead and give me
a Persuasion roll, if
you would be so kind.
- Great.
- What's happening?
- Hey b*tch, that's 25.
- Good lord.
- You actually saying the thing,
and also being on your a*s,
you see Sandra Lynn
looks out for a second,
puts a hand down, immediately
casts Cure Wounds on you.
Says, "Are you okay?"
- I'm fine.
- I'm sorry, I didn't know.
You just rushed me and I-
- I was trying to be bold.
I was trying to be a hero.
- We don't know what we're doing.
- I'm gonna come back
to the room right now.
I have my things still
inside, I'm gonna get them
and I'm gonna come right back, okay?
- Okay.
- I will be right back.
- Okay.
- Yeah, that's good.
- Okay, yeah, definitely.
- Sandra Lynn goes in.
The door closes.
Guards both look at you.
One of the half-orcs...
Give me an Insight check, both of you.
- I got a one. We're so stupid.
- I got a three.
- I think our characters are five
- The first one was a 19,
- years old right now.
- and then I tried to be honest and reroll
- I think our characters are
actual children right now.
- You see that the two
half-orcs give each other a look
that you guys can't begin to decipher.
- We're first-time drunk high schoolers.
- A minute later, Sandra Lynn comes out.
She's got her bow, she's
got a quiver of arrows.
She comes out.
You see that she's still
a little bit tipsy,
but it's worn off somewhat.
She looks and says,
"Did...
What did Fig say when she got back?
Did she talk to you guys?"
- What did Fig say?
- I think she
doesn't quite know how to feel.
- Yeah, I think she was embarrassed
for interrupting you at one point.
- Okay, I don't wanna have
a whole conversation about this.
I'm still honestly a little bit
f*cked up right now.
What I need from you guys is this.
I just need you guys to head back.
I'm gonna walk to the room with you,
and I would appreciate just, like-
We're adventuring together.
I would appreciate a little
bit of privacy, okay?
- Like, right now or
- I would love to never
- in the future?
- speak of this again.
- Sandra Lynn looks at Riz and
doesn't echo that sentiment,
but certainly feels it.
- Cool.
- That's cool with me.
- That's cool with me
too, because I respect
any sexual choices that you wanna make.
- Kristen, you have to stop.
- You can have as much sex
with as many people back
to back as you want.
- Kristen, I'm gonna reorient
how you think about this interaction.
I work for you.
- Right.
- At this point in
time. Do you understand?
And I'm your friend's mother.
- Mm-hm.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
- Kristen, we should go!
- I'm just saying-
- We should go.
- Sandra Lynn walks off towards-
- Kinkshamed me a lot, so we're gonna-
- I did what?
- You kinkshamed me quite a lot.
- We're going!
- Let's get you back to the room.
- We're still in the Zone of
Truth, I can't help it, okay?
I ask one of the guards
if they believe in god.
- I drag Kristen back.
- One of these celestial guards.
- With all of my minus two
Strength, I carry Kristen back.
- Do you guys, does
anyone else do anything
in the little Moon Haven room,
prior to going to bed that night?
- No, I'm sleeping flat on my face.
- Gorgug is gonna go look for Sandra Lynn.
I'm joking. Gorgug is fully asleep,
maybe under a bed or something.
- I think I am gonna set
some snares by the window.
- Cool.
- And then once these guys
come back, by the door.
- Anything else? No?
You guys go to sleep.
We're gonna cut over now to-
- Wildest thing I've ever seen.
- We're gonna cut back to our good friend
Fabian Aramaris Seacaster.
Fabian, you are being lifted aloft
by a group of about 20 robed warlocks.
You see that the dark robes cover
a series of striped pirate
pants and sailor shirts
and bandanas and various
hooks and flintlock pistols
and things of that nature,
as these pirate warlocks
sort of throw you up into
the air on their hands.
You're crowd surfing down this-
- Whoa, okay!
- Put me down.
- And you see that they arrive
in a sort of abandoned ruin
at the edge of Crow's Keep.
Obviously, Leviathan is
not built up to code.
- Yeah.
- There is no code. So there's
kind of a ruined building
where half of it just fell away,
and the other half of the house
has an exquisite dining room.
So picture a beautiful wooden manor house
that just half of it fell off
and crashed into the city below.
So there's a dining room
that is very well appointed,
except for where it shatters
and splinters into open air
with hundreds of feet
dropping down below it.
And there's a smaller table
pushed way up against the wall
to get a little bit farther away,
and a impromptu banquet
has been set up here.
- I love- I'm all about this, everyone.
Is this for us? Are we celebrating?
- Alistair looks and says, "We
thought we would celebrate.
Master Seacaster, this is incredible.
I'd like to do the pleasure and the honor.
Everyone, as I have said,
the good captain below,
Captain Seacaster, has
seen fit to send his envoy,
his son, Fabian Aramaris Seacaster,
to deliver us in our moment of doubt! So-"
- Oh, wait.
I'm an envoy?
There was just a lot more
going on in that than I...
What do you all think I...
- Right, yes!
- I'd like to introduce
you to some of the lot.
- Okay, yeah.
- He starts glad-handing.
People are getting food and eating.
You see that all of these warlocks
seem extremely excited to
eat, and are eating very fast,
as though coming by food is a big deal
for a lot of these warlocks.
You see Alistair says,
"This is Creaky McBarrel."
You see that a parrot aarakocra goes,
pieces of eight, pleasure!
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- This is my best friend,
Old Young Benjamin.
- Oh!
- You see that there is what
you recognize as a banderlog,
which are a sort of unusual humanoid.
He's like a monkey person.
There's a lot of them that live
up in the rigging of the ship.
But he reaches out a hand.
He's like 61/2 feet tall,
but probably weighs like 90 pounds.
He's very long-limbed, gawky.
He's like, charmed to meet
you. I'm Old Young Benjamin.
- Nice to meet you. Are you old or young?
- Well, my father, Old Benjamin, died.
- Okay, so you're the young Old Benjamin.
- Yes, but there's a newer Young Benjamin.
- Delightful.
- You see that there's
another person there
who truly is this gnomish pirate
with a crazy,
his beard has been shaped
into six distinct mustaches,
so he has a multi-level huge mustache.
He has a bunch of snaggle teeth
all of different materials,
wood, silver, gold.
He looks up and goes...
Chungle-Down Bim.
- I'm sorry, Chungle-Down?
- Chungle-Down Bim.
- Pleasure to meet you.
Fabian Seacaster, son of Bill Seacaster.
- I pay your father for spells.
- Oh, you pay him. Yes, it
seems that many people here do.
How very exciting.
- Arr, me gut's in a fire.
- Alistair, can we move on?
- Alistair says, "Sorry! Right!
- No, it's fine.
- It's just that people are very excited.
We're not a very old cult,
and there's not a lot of people, so.
- Can I climb on top of the table?
- Yes, you can.
- Hello, everyone!
- Enough, enough.
Anyway, rather than, you
know, glad-handing everyone,
that seems like it'd take a lot of time,
I just wanna say hello.
I am Fabian Seacaster,
son of Bill Seacaster.
- Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!
- Yes, yes, yes. My father is fantastic.
It is a pleasure to meet all of you,
and I'm not sure what I can do for you.
I mean, Alistair suggested
that you might all follow me,
that I might be able to
make use of your services.
- You see Chungle-Down says,
"Wheresoever he goes, I go."
- Wherever I go?
Bill or me?
- Aye.
- Chungle-Down, Chungle-Down,
you've got to meet me in
the middle, all right?
- Meet in the middle
of Leviathan.
You see he scoops a bunch
of pasta into his coat.
- Into his coat?
- Into his coat.
- Pasta into coat?
- Yeah, there's a big bowl of
pasta as part of the feast,
and he just scoops some into
his coat underneath his robe.
You see that Old Young
Benjamin says, "Right,
well, we're very excited
because, you know,
you've been sent here by
your father to deliver us!"
- Well no, not 100 percent-
that's not 100 percent true.
I came here of my own free will.
I'm, you see, on a quest
with a crew of my own
to write my name upon the world,
much as my father did before me.
- Your father? Tell
us, how did you k*ll him?
You see all of them go, "Yes!
Tell us the story of how
you k*lled your father!"
And you see they all
criss-cross applesauce
and sit on the ground, looking up at you.
- Well, so there was this
dragon. His name was Kalvaxus,
and he was trying to take over Elmville
where me and my papa lived.
And then all this crazy stuff happened
and Kalvaxus unleased
his armies on Elmville,
and they were attacking everybody.
And I hopped on my motorcycle.
I was vroom, vroom!
I was rushing home. I have a motorcycle.
A motorcycle is like a ship on the land
with a rudder and a sail,
but they're circles
and they're underneath.
Anyway-
- In unison, they all go, "Got it!"
- We rushed home and I
k*lled a bunch of people,
and then I saved my mother and I told her
to get her life together, and she did.
And then I ran upstairs
and a beam fell on me.
I fought a man, he cut my eye out,
and then a beam fell on me.
- You hear about half the people
with eyepatches go, "I've been there."
- It's- I mean, I like it now,
but in that moment, it's not...
I'd prefer to have my
eye, if I'm being honest.
I just liked my face better
then. I feel like my face-
Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm just nervous.
I've never had this many people-
- Can you believe it?
The son of Bill Seacaster,
pretending to be nervous!
- Right, I'm not nervous.
I'm Bill Seacaster's son.
But then yeah, I ran into the
room and my dad was there,
and he was all manacled, and
we talked about how he stabbed
a bunch of people in the
a*s, and it was great,
and then he was gonna die and I was like,
well instead of just
dying, I'm gonna k*ll you.
He was manacled, and I stabbed him,
and then his coat exploded
and I jumped off the railing
and then I Teen Wolfed...
Teen Wolf is a reference
probably none of you will understand,
but I Teen Wolfed and I
landed on the motorcycle.
It was like surfing on a surfboard,
which is probably a reference
you won't understand,
but that's about it.
And then I rode off, and I
k*lled a dragon with my friends.
I mean, I didn't k*ll it. Riz k*lled it.
But I helped k*ll it. I did a cool...
Anyway, how-
- Wait! But wait, wait, wait!
You can see some heads
turning around to be like,
"But you did defeat your
father in combat, right?"
- Well, he was actually
handcuffed to a bedpost
when I found him, and
so I just uncuffed him,
and then I carried his
body out to the balcony.
Well, not his body. He was alive.
But he couldn't walk
because he was so injured.
And then in a moment, kind of,
of calm between the two of us,
I drove my dagger into his heart.
But we weren't actually engaged in combat.
I mean, he's my papa!
I love him.
It was more like a thematic choice,
you know, just of like,
he k*lled his father,
so it felt right for me to k*ll him.
- Oh, we're all doomed.
- I'm sorry?
We're all doomed.
- What? What?
- Oh no!
We thought that you were a swordsman
capable of defeating Bill Seacaster.
- I mean, I probably am.
I mean, I'm as good...
- We told Captain James Whitclaw
that you would kick his a*s!
- I mean, I'm gonna!
My father always made him
sound like a real loser,
so I assume it wouldn't be...
I tried to kick him in
the bar the other day,
and thank god Gorgug was there,
or else I probably would
have pooped myself!
- You see that one of the warlocks says,
"We're all gonna die!"
And flings himself-
- Stop, stop, stop!
Stop, stop! Nobody else
jump, nobody else jump!
- You see that that guy casts Feather Fall
on himself on the way down.
- Oh thank god.
- And as he does, he gets out
some gold and starts to put it
on his little parchment, and
the gold starts flying around.
- I am perfectly capable of
leading an army, all right?
I'm my father's son through and through,
and I am as good as he is.
- Make a Perception
check for me right now,
if you would be so kind.
- Six. Excuse me, four.
- Four, cool.
- I thought it was plus
one. I am minus one.
- Just a bunch of idiots.
- Incredible. So you see that the warlocks
do start to look around at each other,
and you can tell that they feel
a very real sense of panic.
- Why is everyone...
I k*lled a dragon with
my friends, a big dragon.
- You see that they look around.
Alistair says, "Really? Well, all right.
But mostly it was you, right?
I mean, how impressive are your friends?"
- My friends are
incredible. They can do...
Well, I think Riz actually k*lled it.
He disappeared up and
dropped in, and then Gorgug
was at his feet, just chopping.
And there was a werewolf-
- Old Young Benjamin goes,
"We're dead! We're all dead!
We're all dead! We're all dead!"
- Nobody's gonna die!
I'll fight one of you.
I'll fight one of you right now,
and I'll show you how incredible I am.
- You see that Chungle-Down
stands up and says-
- Oh no! Save Chungle-Down.
- Maybe not Chungle-Down.
I'm scared of Chungle-Down.
I'm not gonna lie, of all of you here,
Chungle-Down is terrifying.
- You see that Creaky peeks
his ear up and turns around,
his little bird head, and goes,
"Looks like we've got company coming."
And you see, indeed, that the
warlocks go to the windows
facing the interior
neighborhood of Crow's Keep.
As they do, you see a crew
of about 30 pirates,
and at the head of them,
Captain James Whitclaw.
- And they're headed towards where we are?
- Give me an Insight check.
- Insight?
- Yeah, Insight.
- 14.
- They don't look like they have eyes
on this house at the moment.
- Mm-hmm.
They are advancing.
With a 14,
they're either coming here
in a very relaxed way,
or they're heading deeper into
the interior of Crow's Keep.
- All right, everyone gather around.
I believe that Captain
James Whitclaw is on his way
to where he thinks I am,
which is the Gold Gardens.
We are going to get the drop on him.
We're going to sneak up and
jump on him and his crew
and m*rder all of them.
- You see they look around
at each other, and you see-
- This is worse
than the ribbon dancing.
- I'm gonna need a Persuasion
check from you right now.
- 24.
- You see they look around,
and you see Alistair
says, "All right, look,
Captain James Whitclaw has
sworn that he will k*ll
every last follower of
Old Bill in Leviathan.
He said the streets would
run red with our blood,
and that it would be an end to all of us.
Now is the story somewhat
different than we had anticipated?
Yes.
Has this been very sad
for all of us to hear?
Absolutely, it has.
But I do not believe that Old
Bill would have deserted us
after all that we have given to him,
nearly 350,000 gold pieces
across the cult."
- 300 and what?
- Yes, 350,000 across the cult.
- Oh, Papa!
- Now, I say if we have his back,
then Old Bill will have our back!
You see all the warlocks
cheer and are ready
to rush out into the street with you.
- Great, all right. Everyone follow me!
We're gonna jump on him,
and then we're gonna m*rder him!
- RIP, Fabian.
- Yeah, wait, what are we doing?
- We don't know.
- Everyone else is asleep!
- Gorgug is fully asleep.
- We just slept through this whole thing.
- Also, my Persuasion check
was for Creaky to give a
better speech than I could?
That's what I rolled for?
- That's what you rolled for.
You were convincing Alistair
to give that speech.
Incredible.
- Jesus.
- All these warlocks- right
before you get to the door,
you see that Chungle-Down goes,
"What are we wearing, robes or no robes?
Which do you prefer, robes or none?"
- No robes!
- The robes all come off.
It's just a bunch of pirates.
- Are they naked? What do you mean?
- No, they just have robes
over their pirate clothes.
- Naked with pasta on his body.
- That's right, a proper crew.
- How far away do you want
James and his crew to be
before you charge out into the street?
- Are you laughing about
you're about to die?
- Yeah!
- His laughter is beautiful.
- Lou has fully f*cking lost it.
- You did this as a bit
and now you're stuck.
- No, this is not a bit.
I'm fully in character.
This is what I believe Fabian would do.
- Don't these warlocks suck?
- Fabian does think that he rules, though.
- This is all deeply in character.
- Oh man, all right. So you're asking me-
they are heading deeper into the city.
I mean, I do think I want...
I think that they are
headed to Golden Gardens,
so I think I'd like to get the drop on-
- I will say this.
Crow's Keep is raised high above the city,
so if you're in Crow's Keep,
you're pretty much only going
to somewhere in Crow's Keep.
It's a neighborhood raised
a skyscraper's distance up into the sky.
- Got it.
- He doesn't seem that he's on-
On that 14 Insight,
you don't think he's on his
way to the Gold Gardens.
- Great.
I mean, let's get him in Gibbety Square.
- Okay, so you wanna get
him in Gibbety Square.
- Sorry, what is the question
you're actually asking me?
I started laughing too hard
and forgot what you actually want to know.
- Okay. On that 14 Insight,
you think that Captain James
is going to somewhere, either
this house you're hiding in,
or going somewhere in Crow's Keep.
- Okay.
- Because he's coming
from one of the staircases
or pulley decks that gets
you up into the Crow's Keep.
- Okay, so I think we're gonna-
I'd like to wait for him to be-
I'd like to jump on top of him.
- Cool, awesome. So you're
gonna charge out the door.
Are you gonna lead the
charge as you rush out?
- Of course.
- Incredible, okay.
- It's been really
nice knowing you, man.
- Incredible.
- I believe in you, Fabian.
- I've got this.
- You've got this.
- Okay, I'm gonna need just Lou
to roll Initiative, if
you would be so kind.
- That's a 19.
- Okay.
Hold on.
- Okay, now I'm really scared.
- Yeah.
- I do believe in you.
I do believe in you.
- How many men do I have?
- About 20.
- How many men does he have?
- He's got about 30.
- Where is the Hangman?
- Back at the stables.
- Can I communicate with the Hangman?
- Yes, you can.
- Hangman, you can't join
me because I don't think
you could climb all
the way to Crow's Keep,
but I'd like you to know I'm
about to engage in a combat
that you would absolutely admire.
- Incredible. You see
the Hangman says, "Sire!
Why have you done this?
Where are you? What battle?"
- Well, it's Crow's Keep.
Captain James showed up here.
Everyone was making me feel bad
that I didn't k*ll my dad properly,
and so I was like, I
gotta really k*ll him!
So I said we're gonna jump
on him and m*rder him,
so we're gonna sneak
up on him and get him.
- You see that...
Okay, you see the Hangman says,
"Sire! Please wait for me!
Wait for me to arrive to be your steed!"
- I mean, if you can get here, please try.
- You hear, through your mind's ear,
the breaking of chains and
smashing down of the door.
James is right outside
the door. What do you do?
- He's right outside the door?
- Well, he's like 20
feet out into the road
from the front door of this
manor house that you're in.
- I open the door and walk out.
Captain James.
- Okay, so you're not
rushing and just unloading.
You walk out and say, "Captain James."
- All right, yeah, I kick the door down.
I say, Captain James! And I stab him.
- Oh no!
- Go ahead-
- You better stab and run.
- That is so f*cking good.
- Go ahead and take your attacks, please.
- Is the Hangman with the Hangvan?
- The Hangman is with the Hangvan.
- Would the Hangvan have noticed
the Hangman running away?
- Gorgug, in your sleep,
you get a, "Hey, broski.
Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey."
- Is it morning already?
- No, it's the dead of night.
- Oh.
- Looks like old Skull and Bones
just scootalooed on out
of here pretty toasty.
- What's that mean? What's all that mean?
- The Hangman just popped a wheelie
and smashed the door down.
Just wanted to give
you kind of a heads up.
- Okay. I think Gorgug
wakes up and realizes,
probably still a little drunk-
- Yes, for sure.
- Who's here?
- I think we're all there.
- I think we're all here.
- I am. Unless my mom is
- We're all here except
- asking, in which case, I'm not here.
- for Fabian, right?
- Okay, old Skull and Bones
got a little upset and skedaddled.
- What?
- Skedaddled?
- I think the Hangman is running to help-
- Hey, go back to bed, Gorgug.
- No, no, no, no, no!
- Go back to bed.
- Hangman is going to
help Fabian do something!
Where's Fabian?
- You see that Sandra Lynn
looks around and says, "Where is Fabian?
- Oh, hey Mom.
- Hey, sweetie.
And cool. You guys just start to run?
- Yeah, I guess we'll just run.
- Have we had four hours?
Have I tranced for four hours?
- No, you have not had four hours.
- Dang, okay.
- Okay, who wants to go
on a ride with me? Gorgug?
I grab Gorgug's arm and
Dimension Door to the Hangman.
- Whoa.
- I've got heals, though.
- Cool, you Dimension
Door as far as you can.
That gets you a lot of the
way out of the Gold Gard-
outside of the building,
into the Gold Gardens campus.
Leviathan is the size
of a city, so right now,
Fabian is about three quarters
of a mile horizontally away
and then about a quarter
of a mile up into the air.
- Do we know where he is,
or do we have to find
the Hangman to find him?
- You have to find the
Hangman to find him.
- Okay, can I cast Fly on...
You're fairly strong, right?
- Yeah.
- I can investigate.
- Great, so can I cast Fly on Kristen,
and then can Kristen carry me and Riz?
- So just for the record, Dimension Door,
it can be a place that you can visualize.
- Sure.
- What's your Strength?
- So I am gonna visualize the Hangman
when I Dimension Door.
- Minus two.
- Okay, so actually, as
you visualize the Hangman,
Fig doesn't close the distance,
but does give you an
exact compass direction
towards where the Hangman is headed.
- Awesome, and I just grab
Gorgug and I say, follow us!
And then we disappear.
- What? Jesus.
- Not how this works!
- Somebody-
- I've thrown this room into chaos!
- I just run to the van, I guess?
- Yeah, go to the van!
- Come on, let's go!
- Yeah, we're flying.
- We're flying.
- Okay, cool.
- Hop on. I grab both of you.
- I'm gonna resolve at
least the first round
of this combat, because it will be-
Even for those of you flying,
it will be multiple rounds
to get to where you're trying to get to.
- Cool.
- I don't remember
what my spell slots were, I already...
- So, Fabian, let's hear it.
- 26.
- 26 hits.
- Great.
That's gonna be nine.
- Great, you do nine points of damage.
You lash out with the
Sword of the Seacasters.
Go ahead and take your second attack.
- 27.
- 27 also hits.
- Action Surge?
- I think that is the plan.
That'll be 10.
- Woo!
You slash at him again.
- I'm gonna Action Surge.
- Okay.
- That'll be 20.
- 20. 20 hits, yes.
- That'll be 12 damage.
- Okay.
- And then last one's only gonna be 14.
- Last one's only 14. 14 misses.
You kick the door down, yell
Captain James, rush out,
and slash three times
into a completely startled
and surprised Captain James Whitclaw.
It is now Captain James' turn.
Okay.
You see Captain James springs back,
goes, "Hey there, boy-o!"
And leaps forward as
this crystalline cutlass
comes out from his belt.
He's gonna make two attacks right now.
That's two misses.
- h*!
- Oh, nice!
- Okay. This next one, he's
gonna make another attack.
That one's a hit.
You take immediately-
- This was
balanced for 1v1, right?
This should be fine. This'll
be a normal amount of damage.
- You take 19 points of psychic damage
and are grappled.
I need an Intelligence
saving throw from you.
- Can I use my
Divination rolls if I'm not there?
- You cannot.
- Dang.
- So first off-
- Did you even get them?
- Oh, I don't even have them,
because we didn't get a full night's rest.
- That sucks.
- Ugh!
- Tomorrow will be great, though.
- Tomorrow will be really good.
- You needed Intelligence?
- Mm-hm.
- That's a nat one.
- Good lord.
You deserve this.
- Okay, hold on one second.
I'm gonna narrate what happens next.
- Oh no. Narrate?
Why would we need to go into narration?
You don't need to!
- He probably got confused for a second.
- Okay. You are stunned,
which means that you are incapacitated,
cannot take actions or reactions,
can't move, and can
speak only falteringly.
Captain James swings at
you twice with his sword
and then leaps forward, grabs your arm,
and his tentacles wrap over
your face and you can feel
his beak begin to slide
along the top of your skull.
- Oh, he's gonna eat your brain.
- As he attempts to eat your brain.
You are stunned.
Okay.
- And we're three rounds
away, if we get there fast?
- What I'm gonna do right now is this.
So, the fastest way to get
there would be to fly, okay?
- We also have Baxter, right?
- But Baxter's in the-
- So...
Sorry. You have Baxter with you.
I'm gonna look at Baxter's
speed very briefly.
This is completely wild.
Baxter's fly speed is 80.
Does your spell go faster than that?
- No.
- Okay.
- But if I cast fly on Riz,
Riz as a rogue has Dash as a bonus action.
- That's correct.
- So I should do that, right?
- That'd be good.
- And then you can get-
it's 60 feet of Fly, and then
you have three movements.
- You'd be able to do 180 a round.
- Yeah.
- Which means that Riz
would actually be able
to get there the fastest,
so what we are gonna look at right now
is you go 180 feet a round.
I'm going to say that just
because moving diagonally in 5e
doesn't cost more than
moving horizontally,
we're just gonna do 3/4 of a mile
moving 180 feet per turn.
This is fun math. Five thousand-
- If we did this in metric,
it would be much easier.
- It's just not the time,
it's just not the time.
- It's just fully not the time, yeah.
- So 3/4 of a mile is 3,960 feet
divided by 180 feet per turn.
Riz, you'll get there in 22 rounds.
- No! What?
- With flying?
- So the Hangvan isn't even
gonna make it there anytime soon.
- Nothing's gonna make it there.
We're just running, or flying.
Try to get there as
fast as I can, I guess.
- Does Garthy
have teleportation?
- Does someone wanna wake
Garthy up?
- They're a cleric, right?
- No!
- I mean, yeah.
- Would Sandra Lynn do that, maybe?
- No, I'll go wake up Garthy.
- If I can go fast,
- I'll go wake up Garthy
- I'll wake up-
I'll go grab Garthy.
- Okay.
- Yeah, fly and wake up Garthy.
- Okay.
- Okay. So you're gonna go wake up Garthy.
- 22 rounds?
- And we're like,
Fabian is missing, that's
all the info that we have?
- We know that the Hangman left in a-
- If it was 3/4 of a
kilometer, it'd be so much
closer.
- Gilear!
Do you have teleportation?
- I cannot be held responsible!
- Can I slap him
to see if anything magical
jostles inside him?
- The moment you slap Gilear-
- He dies.
- Gilear, you are the Chosen One!
- Yeah, Gilear collapses to the ground.
Immediately begins weeping.
So now what's gonna happen is this. Okay.
- This is a nightmare.
- I have a pretty good question.
- Cool. Gimme the question.
- So this is like a big ship, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- And on a pirate ship,
regular sized pirate ship,
admittedly, when you grab a
rope and you go like this,
you fly to where you wanna
go almost immediately.
- That's a great question.
- Is there a big-a*s rope-
- That's a really good question.
- ... that I could cut?
- Go ahead and roll an Investigation check
to find a rope that you could cut.
- I'm with Gorgug, so can I also
do that? - Cool. Yeah, give
me an Investigation check.
- Okay, come on.
- Got a 17.
- Okay.
- Six.
- You guys find a rope
that appears to go up
from the Gold Gardens up
towards the crow's nest,
and it seems to be attached
to some kind of weight.
- Fabian!
- I jump onto it.
- Awesome, this rope
has a move speed of 90,
so you're gonna fly through the air at 90.
You can take two move actions
a turn, which is about 180,
so you guys should be
there in about 20 rounds.
You begin to- but you're holding on,
and literally just streaking.
You can feel your- I'm actually
gonna need Constitution
saving throws from both of you.
- Maximum velocity
through a city.
- Your mouths
just flapping in the wind.
- You're dead. You're both dead.
- I lose my voice halfway through.
- Give me Con saves, both of you.
- Good lord.
- Oh, Con?
- Con.
- I got a 14.
- 12.
- 14, 12? Okay.
11, 12...
You guys each take 18 points of damage.
- Jesus.
- From what?
- As your arms dislocate
from the force of the rope.
You've never felt...
Things are changing so fast.
You can't see through the tears
streaming out of your eyes.
You are rocketing through the air-
- Can I go into a rage?
- You go into a rage in reaction to that.
- Oh my god.
- Oh man.
- As you both hold on for dear life.
- This is so bad.
- This is the worst.
- The moment you guys
go from on the ground
to a lethal distance in the air
if you let go is less than
a fraction of a second.
This is how fast you are
moving throughout the city.
- Can we just start this session over?
- Honestly! Honestly!
- Please. Yeah,
I feel like we should all
get one mulligan, Brennan!
- This is why we do this live.
- I did not know what I was getting into.
This all happened so fast.
- Does Revivify bring a brain back?
- Actually, Revivify does not work
if the person has lost an organ.
- Also, it only works within a minute,
and we're so far from him.
Garthy!
- So you guys are
- Dude!
rocketing through the sky.
You're flying to go get Garthy.
The Hangman is rocketing away.
Sandra Lynn is flying
to Crow's Keep as well.
Sandra Lynn can have taken
probably Kristen with her.
Adaine, you're maintaining concentration.
Are you doing anything else or no?
- I'm gonna go with Baxter, if I can.
- Cool, yeah.
- You're gonna jump on
with Baxter as well.
Tracker is flying in wolf
form next to you guys.
Gilear is crying on the ground. Ragh-
- Can I do Blade Ward so I took
only half damage from that arm pain?
- Sure, you can do that, yes.
- Yes!
- You see that Ragh just starts running
through the city after the van.
Hoot, growl, hoot, growl, hoot, growl!
- Good hustle, Ragh!
- Thank you! Now-
- Sandra Lynn, I know you
don't wanna talk about it-
- We cannot have
this conversation right now.
- We can't, we can't.
- Absolutely not.
- You have the
most sh*t-eating grin.
Oh my goodness.
I'm gonna save a piece
of this rope for you.
- We have no idea
what's really happening. -
I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter
on Kristen.
- I pull out my ribbon.
- Now,
now what we're gonna do is this.
- Plan the funeral?
- How many hit points
is Fabian at right now?
- How long do the hit points
from Inspiring Speech last?
- We will assume that these have lasted.
- Then I am at 78.
- Okay.
Cool.
Fabian goes.
James went.
The warlocks go next.
So the followers of Old Bill
are going to rush out onto the deck.
There are four warlocks in this number
that have taken Repelling Blast
as an invocation.
There are four of them, okay?
The four that have taken Repelling Blast,
when a creature is moved against its...
So, Repelling Blast
moves a creature 10 feet
when it gets hit with an Eldritch Blast.
When a creature is moved
with that, its grapple automatically ends.
Because your stunned condition cannot end
unless the grapple is ended.
- So one of these four dudes needs to hit.
- One of these four dudes needs to hit.
We're gonna roll them in front right now.
- What do they need to hit?
- Captain James' AC.
I will let you know right now
that this is very hard to do.
- Oh man.
- Nat 20.
- One in four?
- Nat 20, come on.
- Nat 20, nat 20!
- Right now-
Right now, they are gonna
hit on a 14 or above, okay?
- Nat 20, crit. Nat nat 20, crit.
- That's an eight.
That's a 12.
- What?
- 19!
- 19, okay.
- Okay!
- One more, one more!
- 18, cool.
- Hey!
- 20 feet!
- Two hits!
- You're still stunned.
- Oh, god. Just standing-
- Does the stun not end if he gets-
- If you're grappled.
- I think the only way it can
end is if he's un-grappled-
- You see that as your
warlocks rush out onto the deck
and see you, goggle-eyed,
as Captain James' jaw
begins to distend and he slips a hand
into your letter jacket and says, "Oh,
I have so many of your siblings' brains
in me stomach already.
Say hi when you...
And you see that
Chungle-Down Jim-
Sorry, Chungle-Down Bim comes rushing out
and goes, "Bit your bob, you squid!"
Shoots out his hand
as this Eldritch Blast comes out.
You have not seen, really- all
you've seen is illusion magic
so far, which of course
looks like whatever it does.
You see that this magic is
a pure stream of gold coins
that vanish in flame
as they hit the target,
and it sounds like a
slot machine at Vegas.
And Captain James is
repelled 10 feet back.
- I'm still stunned?
- You are no longer stunned, immediately.
- Can I speak?
- You can speak.
- Spells are on me! Go, go!
I'll pay for anything! Go, go!
Unlimited money, I will pay
for all your spells! Go!
- Incredible! Now...
- Any celestial
warlocks among them?
- Well, see
you in 19 rounds, dude.
- I got a plan. I got a plan.
- Hold on one second.
- I got a plan.
- You have one working arm.
- We'll be there in 19 rounds?
- I've got a plan.
- You've got a dislocated arm!
- We're all so f*cked
and we're not getting any rest.
- I got a plan.
- Oh man!
- I have so few spell slots.
- Even when you get there,
you're just gonna hit a wall
- I have a plan.
- at maximum velocity?
- Oh my god! You-
- You just wrap around the post
like a f*cking cartoon character.
- Oh my goodness gracious.
- What have I done to my friends?
- This is f*cking chaos.
- This is wild.
- I've taken my glasses off
in just pure disgust with us
probably 14 times.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I can't look at what's happening.
- I've done nothing, okay? This is not
my fault this time.
- This is entirely me.
I made all of these choices.
- Me and Ally set the mood.
- I, by the way, had a
session prepped for tonight,
but this is what the game is.
The game is not about what you prepare,
it's about what happens.
- Here we go!
- So now, you see that your warlocks
all unload on Captain James. And you hear-
So they all shout-
You hear Alistair say,
"Save the son of Bill!"
And all of Captain James' pirates turn,
open up with flintlock
muskets as they start
to Cunning Action dive behind
barrels and take cover.
Six of your warlocks are dead
immediately in their first round.
- Cool, and that's out of 20?
- Out of 20.
- So that's the end of the first round.
- That's the end of the
first round of combat.
- 19 more?
- Only 19 more.
- Until we get there to help.
- Cool, Fabian, that's gonna be you.
- We're back to me?
- Back to you.
- Okay, so how many...
Can I make an Insight check as
to how Captain James is doing
after taking some hits?
- Yeah, give me an Insight check.
- That's gonna be a six.
- Okay. You got a six?
- Yeah.
- He looks fine.
- Truly fine?
- He looks fine.
- With a six.
- With a six.
In terms of space, how much space-
With where we've decided
to have this combat,
is the b*ttlefield large? What is-
How much room do I have
to maneuver around?
- The street is about 30 feet wide across,
between the manor house
that's partially destroyed
right behind you. So you guys are fighting
in the middle of the street.
You've got about 10 feet of distance
between you and the wall behind you.
- Mm-hmm.
And then another few
feet on the other side
of this horde of Captain James' pirates.
- How much space is there
between me and Captain James?
- Only about 10 feet.
- 10 feet?
Okay.
Oh man.
Wow, wow, wow.
Okay. I'm going to run and
attack Captain James again.
- Great. Make your two attacks.
- I loved it when you said run.
- That was 12.
- 12 misses.
- Great, I'm gonna dart back 20 feet.
- Okay, you take one of your two attacks.
- Yes.
- You dart back.
He's gonna get a attack
of opportunity on you.
Hold on one second.
- This is like "Gangs of New York,"
- He hits.
but stupid.
I am going to need
a Intelligence saving throw from you.
- Oh my god. Oh my god.
- Nat 20.
- Nat 20, nat 20, nat 20, nat 20.
- That's a four.
- What's that? Natural four, okay.
- It's a natural three.
It was a modified four.
- That's a dirty four.
- Dirty four.
- I feel drunk from anxiety.
- I know!
- The anxiety has reached-
it's pickling my brain.
- My dice are covered in sweat.
- Is Fabian just dead?
Is that what's going on?
- Do we get a guest star
for the rest of these streams?
What the f*ck?
- Oh, yeah.
Lou, you're fired.
- Is this the end of me, I guess?
- Just run!
- Run!
- Literally you said the word
run, and then you said at!
- Fabian takes 39 points
of damage as Captain James
slices across you with
one stroke of his cutlass.
- And then?
- One stroke.
- Nothing else happens.
His attack of opportunity
happens with his sword,
not his tentacles.
- Great, I take that much damage?
- Yes.
- Great, I scream-
- You feel a psychic
resonance off the blade.
You are making Intelligence
saves because his sword,
when it touches you, floods
with a more powerful hatred
than you have ever felt.
You think his mind is
capable of feeling hatred
so powerfully that it can
disrupt the tissues of your body.
- Cool. With that information,
I say, forward, men! Forward!
And I would like to run and hide
behind as many of them as I possibly can.
- Incredible.
- Good!
- Okay, so go ahead, run.
- Sacrificing all those warlocks!
- You've taken one attack.
Now you double back another 20 feet,
which can get you kind of to the doorway.
- Yes.
- Do you have a crossbow?
- I do. Can I sh**t him
one time and then hide?
- You don't have Cunning Action.
- Great, and then just be
as far away as possible.
- Sure, you can get into the doorway.
- Great. I'm going to attack him again,
and then I will Second Wind.
- Cool.
- That's gonna be 20 to hit.
- He casts Shield.
Great.
- And I heal for seven plus eight,
15.
- Okay, I am going to...
You see Captain Whitclaw
holding his saber here.
He says, "Running so soon, boy-o?
That's no captain that abandons his crew!
I'm so sorry, crew."
And he- I'm gonna roll some saves
in front of the board right now
for the other 14 of your men.
We'll do the 10 unnamed ones first.
- I need CBD.
- Can I have nice hot bath-
- Can we have turns during this?
- after this?
- during this?
- Yes, absolutely.
- I'm really into bath salts.
- Hold on one second, I'm
just gonna resolve this-
This is only the second round, really.
- I see.
- Hold on one second.
- Woo!
- Okay. All of these guys need
a 15 or higher
to survive.
- Survive?
- Survive.
These are the unnamed
warlocks that are still alive.
- 15.
- Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
- All but one is dead?
- One lived.
- Dead, dead, dead. One
unnamed warlock is still alive.
We're gonna roll for the other four.
- You should run.
- Hold on.
- Chungle-Down Bim? Now, that
is definitely an anagram.
Fellas in the chat, figure it out.
- And fellettes.
- Okay.
- I'm using the genderless fellas.
- So Captain James Whitclaw raises a-
raises up to his head.
Pure malevolence made of
psionic force flows from him
and rends the bodies as though
an invisible spectral force
was gripping them and shaking them
so fast that they simply came apart.
You see through a haze of
heat coming off of a grill
on the hottest day of
summer, they just shake
and come apart, all of
them except one warlock
that you did not get a chance to meet.
Chungle-Down Bim is alive,
Alistair Ash is alive,
and Old Young Benjamin is alive.
Creaky McBarrel is dead.
- Creaky McBarrel!
- Your father's cult has gone
from 20 to 4 warlocks in 12 seconds.
- What happened to the guy
who Feather Falled off?
- Oh, sorry, there is a
fifth warlock of Old Bill
that yet draws breath, I'll make a note.
- And they all watched you run.
- I didn't run away. I just
hid and then I shot him.
- Okay, and then Captain Jim
is going to take his movement
to get next to you, but he's
already taken his action.
He's just setting himself up
for another attack of opportunity.
How many hit points are you at right now?
- I'm not telling you.
- Okay.
- That is now-
- I'm at 63.
- That's now going to be the warlocks.
I'm gonna roll...
Go ahead and give me-
- Did he-
Never mind.
- Can you go ahead and give
me three Charisma checks
with disadvantage, if you'd be so kind?
Actually no, give me four
Charisma checks with disadvantage.
You have to roll them all one at a...
No, because you can't roll them
all, because you won't know
which ones are low and
which ones are high,
so you've got to roll them one at a time.
- I'm gonna roll these three dice.
Give me a fourth dice. I just need one.
I'll roll these four twice,
and the lower of the
two on each of the dice.
- But you've got to pair them so you know
- Yeah.
- which is which.
- Got it.
- I think it's gonna
be them abandoning you.
- Three.
- Okay.
- 13.
Seven.
- Okay.
- Three.
- You see Old Young Benjamin leaps
as high as he can,
leaps up into the rigging, disappears.
The unnamed warlock simply
vanishes into the night.
Chungle-Down Bim turns to you and goes,
"Ye ain't no pirate, and
Bill would spit in your eye!"
And he's going to cast
Eldritch Blast on you.
- Oh no!
- And he misses.
Gold just fires off. I'm
gonna sh*t in your mouth!
I'm gonna make a toilet
of your mouth, boy!
- Fabian, honestly, is
fighting back tears.
- Alistair Ash rushes up
and says, "Don't worry, Master Fabian!
I'm still loyal to the end!"
And is going to rush up
and attempt to grapple Captain James.
- Alistair!
- Don't. Don't die, Alistair.
- That's a natural one on
Alistair's Grapple check.
- Yikes.
- Alistair collapses in a heap.
- Instantly judo thrown.
- Instantly is thrown
off of Captain James'
shoulder, effortlessly.
- One of his tentacles-
- I'm gonna actually, yeah-
- So everyone- it's just me and Alistair?
- No, that's the warlocks.
I'm gonna say you are partially
obscured in the doorway
and Captain James, so you have cover
from the pirates on the street.
Now, for everyone else, what
are the turns you guys are...
We return to you guys
throttling through the air.
You've got about another nine rounds.
- Okay, but I would like to-
I'm gonna Disguise Self
and become Jamina Joy.
- Okay.
- And then I would like to
look- as we're soaring through,
I need to look for-
- This was your plan?
- What else do I have to do here?
- Amen. I believe in you.
- And then I wanna look for a wizard.
- Okay.
- So do I find a wizard?
I look like Jamina Joy.
Tell me whether or not I find a wizard.
- This isn't the
worst plan. We have no plans.
- This is not "him",
this is not Hilda Hilda.
This is good, this good. I love this.
- Hilda Hilda on Hilda Street.
- Hilda Hilda on Hilda Street
and Hilda Boulevard.
- Can I give you a help action?
- Here's the important thing.
You disguise yourself as Jamina Joy.
You are Jamina Joy,
throttling through the air
faster than you can intuit
on an emotional level, right?
You are looking for a wizard.
I am gonna say please take
a Perception check with disadvantage.
- Can I help?
- No, you may not.
- Okay.
- Sorry.
- I got a four.
- Okay.
You are miraculously,
with a dislocated shoulder,
able to disguise yourself
as the bosun of Leviathan.
- You begin to look for a wizard.
- Wait!
You see a shape that
looks a lot like a wizard,
until you realize it is a screaming nebula
of lights and fog as you
sh**t through the sky.
- I don't need to find a wizard,
I just shout, people of Leviathan,
teleport me to Crow's Keep
for the sake of Leviathan!
- Okay, I'm gonna need,
I'm gonna home rule something right now.
I'm gonna need you to
give a Persuasion check
with quadruple disadvantage.
That's where you're gonna roll 4d20
and take the worst of the four.
- Can I help?
- No, you absolutely may not,
and in fact, five damage.
- Halved, or?
- Okay, Persuasion.
- So 4d20, the lowest.
- 15!
- 4d20.
- I did, 4d20.
- The lowest you got was a 15?
- I get plus 11 to
Persuasion! This is my sh*t!
- Incredible.
- This is what I do!
- So you scream down, people...
You see that to your
credit, a bunch of people
come out looking helpful
to their balconies.
Your cry fills the city of Leviathan,
and there are several people
here that would teleport you.
However, the issue is that what
they effectively hear is...
And you are gone.
- Homer Simpson style.
- Truly, what else? This was
my best plan!
- No, there's nothing-
- It's a solid plan.
- It was a good plan.
- It was perfect, it was perfect.
- All right.
- There's nothing we can... Yeah.
We keep flying in the
direction that we can.
I'm still trying to get to Garthy.
- Okay.
- Do I see him? Captain-
- Captain James? No,
under no circumstances.
- Wanted to throw a hand ax at him.
- Do I see him?
- We started at 3,406,
but then we got 90 for the-
we've probably gone two rounds
with this rope, so minus 180.
- Yep, uh-huh, for sure, absolutely.
- Can I throw a hand ax?
- Yeah, go ahead.
You wannna throw a quadruple
disadvantage hand ax there?
You could roll four nat 20s.
- Why not? What do you have to lose?
- I have put us in this position.
- It's just gonna like
I have made these things happen.
- Yes, correct. For sure.
Sometimes we forget what we do.
- We're coming, Fabian!
Nat one.
- Statistically high probability,
yeah, of rolling a nat one there.
Cool, you hurl an ax up ahead.
I'm gonna roll a saving throw
for the rope directly ahead of you
that is sustaining you
in the air real quick.
- People of Leviathan!
- What if we get a
total party k*ll from this?
- People of
Leviathan, I will now fall
with an orc.
- If you two die-
- Catch me!
I don't remember what Jamina sounds like.
- Okay, that's a natural 16.
You do not sever the rope
that you are flying through the city on.
Congratulations, great, cool.
- So stressful.
- Would anyone else like to take actions?
- Just flying.
- You fly to Garthy O'Brien.
- Fly.
- Cool.
So you can fly into one of the upper-
if you're flying, you can fly
into one of the upper levels
to try to find Garthy.
- Sweet, yeah, yeah.
- Give me an Investigation
check, see if you find him.
Find them, excuse me.
- Good lord.
Dirty 20.
- Dirty 20. You find them right away.
You smash through a window.
You see that Garthy is
literally playing a harpsichord.
They look kind of relaxed,
like they've just had a bunch of sex.
- Garthy, I'm really sorry!
I know we've done this a
lot, but this time it's real!
Fabian's in trouble, he never came home,
and then his motorcycle just
flew off and went somewhere!
I think he's in trouble!
We can't get there fast!
Do you know how to get there fast?
Do you know how to get places fast?
- One second, go ahead and
give me a Persuasion roll,
if you'd be so kind.
- Oh!
- That is a 26.
- Oh my god.
- Was it a nat 20?
- 19.
- No, I got 19.
- I really love these big
dice. I can see them from here.
- A 19.
- Okay.
You see...
Garthy looks over at you and says,
"Lovey, calm down. It's
all gonna be all right.
Come with me."
Grabs you, and walks down the hall,
walks like 30 feet down the hall.
- Walks?
- Yeah.
- Can we run?
- You see he says, "Lovey,
running is not gonna make a
difference now. Understand?"
- Okay.
- Cool, we-
- Can I-
- Adaine, yes.
- All right, I also have nothing
that I feel like I can do,
but I would like to-
- You've got to try.
Maybe the rolls.
- Pray to the gods of the jacket.
- Okay.
- And reach into my Jacket of Usefulness
and see if there's something in there.
I just ask for something that
will get me there faster.
- Okay, something that
will get you there faster.
Go ahead and roll an Arcana check for me.
- Okay.
22.
- A Razor scooter comes out of your-
- But I'm-
- You're on a griffon.
- on the back of a griffon!
- Although this is pretty rad.
- Hey, it's not bad.
It's not bad to have that.
- Maybe it's for the griffon.
- Is it a Razor Scooter of Teleportation?
- Again, the jacket cannot produce items
in excess of a certain gold piece value.
- Hey man, I don't know the value
of teleportation Razor scooters.
- Just keep it. Just keep it.
- I'm gonna keep it.
- It might be fun to have.
- It's cool.
- Absolutely, you should
- It's cool.
- keep that scooter.
- I got a skateboard.
- Great, so-
- I'd like to cast Bless,
just on us on the griffon.
- Cool, you cast Bless.
That's wonderful. Fabian,
that returns to your turn.
- Okay. So it's Aster laying
on the ground next to me.
- Alistair is laying on the
ground next to you. - Alistair.
- James is...?
- Standing in the doorway,
within five foot reach of you.
- So if I move, he will
get an opportunity attack?
- He'll get an opportunity
attack with his sword.
- Unless you Disengage.
- Unless I Disengage.
So I'm in the house.
- Mm-hmm.
- Half of the house is gone.
- Gone.
- What is the quality of that-
Is there- what would I be...
What's on the other side, just a pit?
- It's the edge of the Crow's Keep,
so it is a quarter of a mile drop
to the neighborhood below,
which is Mast Hearth.
- Are there ropes?
- Are there ropes?
- There are so many ropes.
There is so much rigging on the way down.
- Be careful. Be careful of those ropes.
- Thank god that you
have such a good history of-
- Jumping.
- athletically jumping.
- If I were to run and jump-
- Mm-hmm.
- for rope...
- You really did choose the wrong
time to do this.
- What would...
- Ally.
- Ally!
- Honestly, this is a great time to do it.
- Yeah, for sure.
- It honestly brings the intensity down.
I am breathing better because
this banana is being eaten.
- Just a banana with peanut butter!
- It split in my crotch.
- Can I do an Insight check?
Do I see ropes that I think
I could reach on a jump?
- Give me a Perception check.
- Bad idea.
- There's a lot more oil in
that pack than I thought.
- Yeah, it's made with palm
oil, and I wasn't about that.
- Good lord.
- What's the Perception check?
- It's a nat one.
- There is a rope directly in front of you
that you are certain you could grab onto
and it would sustain
you down to the ground.
- Don't look at me.
- Don't look at me!
- You have never in your
life been more certain
that a rope would completely
bamboozle your foes
and get you safely to the ground.
- Fabian runs and jumps for the rope.
- Okay. Does Fabian do
anything else before running?
- I guess I'll Disengage,
if it's within 30 feet.
- Cool. And, again, pirates
out there, Chungle-Down Jim,
you've got Captain James there.
Alistair crumped at Captain James' feet.
You're standing there.
It's literally 20 feet
through the house to the
edge where you can jump.
Cool, so you are going
to Disengage, run, jump?
- For the rope.
- Great.
You Disengage,
run.
As you do so, give me one more
Charisma check with disadvantage.
- That is a nine.
- Alistair looks up at
you completely heartbroken
and says, "Captain, why?"
And you run, grab the rope.
The rope is attached to
a laundry line above you
that completely cannot
support your weight.
You yank down a bunch
of giant silk bloomers,
cover your body, one goes over your head,
and you begin to plummet
towards the ground,
a quarter of a mile drop
to the city floor below.
What's going to happen now is this.
- We all wake up,
because this was a crazy dream.
- We've had the craziest
- We take a pill that
- Nightmare King-induced dream.
- transports us back in time
to before my mom did what she did
to her partner.
- See, the Nightmare King made all of this
feel so real for everyone watching, also.
- 192...
- Seems like we're
gonna to figure it out
in the next 10 minutes or so.
- Yeah, you
have a few rounds to fall.
- Yeah.
- Maybe you can grab
- For the record,
- another rope on the way.
- I am gonna be
Jamina Joy for an hour.
- I'm hoping for more ropes
- There's a lotta ropes
- on the way down.
- on the way down, right?
- I mean, this man won't stop talking
about how much rigging
there is in this city.
- He is counting
a lot over there, just
quietly counting.
- Can you parachute with your bloomers?
- Yeah, can I use the laundry?
- Okay.
- Make some kind of parachute.
- So, it takes a second to
get up to terminal velocity.
I've done the math, a quarter
of a mile is 1,320 feet.
A body falling reaches terminal velocity
at 32 feet per second,
which is 192 feet a round.
It will take Fabian seven
rounds to reach the bottom,
which means that no one
else will be within range
to help Fabian, but you will
have seven rounds of chances
to attempt to slow your fall, okay?
So we're gonna start with
a little counter of rounds.
We're gonna roll Luck checks
to see if there's rigging, okay?
I'm gonna say that you
need an 11 or higher
to have available rigging.
And we're gonna need a
DC...
a DC 20
Dexterity saving throw.
Okay? Cool.
- This is just so not how I saw
tonight going.
- Eight, so there's none on that round.
Two, none on that round.
17. Go ahead and give me
a Dexterity saving throw to attempt-
- You have good Dex.
- You've gotta get a DC 20.
- Nat one?
- Another nat one?
- You pass through some rope,
and now you are partially tied,
your legs are tied up as you
pass through some more ropes.
- Your legs are tied up?
- Yeah, you go through ropes
that you don't manage to catch,
so you get wrapped up in some more ropes.
You're covered in underwear.
10 is on the lower half.
Four.
Nine.
Six.
Some bad rolls.
10, lower half.
- Oh no!
- Last one. - Last chance to
attempt to slow your fall.
15.
This is your last chance to
not take full falling damage.
- What do you need to get?
- DC 20.
- I need to beat a 20. I need-
- A 13?
- I get plus 7. I need a 13.
- Let's see if you roll this 13.
- You got it.
- You got it.
- You got it, you got it.
You absolutely got it.
- Everyone
think positive thoughts!
- Yes!
16.
- This f*cking game.
- That is a 25.
- Okay, we exit from combat.
Because a lot of people were
not present in that combat,
I'm going to just
narrate how we all arrive
at the following scene, okay?
So we have Baxter with Sandra Lynn,
Tracker nearby, Kristen, and Adaine.
You guys arrive after...
You guys arrive.
Garthy takes you into a
room in the Gold Gardens.
They kneel down,
touch a silvery pentagram in silver chalk
in the center of a shrine room filled
with red and pink and orange candles.
Touch it.
A pair of neon red- and when I say neon,
I mean it literally is just the outline,
as in like a neon sign,
so these neon wings
just made of outlines of
light erupt from Garthy's back
and they touch a warm
hand to your shoulder
and you begin to see buildings
and streets move past you
as though you were stationary
and the city were rushing
past your vision as you begin
to move through the city.
Ragh and the Hangvan are the slowest
and having the hardest time getting here.
Oh wait, Ragh's clearly
driving the Hangvan,
because the Hangvan can't drive.
So, you guys all-
- What happened to us?
- Oh yes, sorry.
- I'm still Jamina Joy for an hour.
- I am so sorry, I forgot.
- We.
Incredible.
- We're all just gonna arrive
and you guys are gonna crumple down.
Fabian's alive and you guys are dead.
- This is the dumbest session.
- This is the dumbest, yeah.
- Okay. And you guys see
that indeed, Fig and Gorgug,
you guys fly up
eventually come to rest.
As you approach the Crow's
Keep, you see another rope
that can get you down to
the bottom, and the Hangvan
is already telling you in
your head, come down here.
You guys see Gorgug and Fig,
who truly look as though they've been
in a cold temperature
dryer for 45 minutes,
arrive.
Fabian is hanging about-
his head is probably about
seven feet up in the air,
dangling from his feet,
partially cocooned in underwear and ropes,
badly injured with blood
running up his face
and dripping through his silvery hair
onto a puddle on the
ground underneath him.
And that is where you guys find Fabian.
- You can't
sneak off on your own!
- Did you kick his a*s?
- What are you doing?
He's wrapped in underwear and rope,
I don't think he kicked his a*s.
- I run over and try to use
a Healer Kit to
kinda wake him up.
- No, I'm doing Healing Word.
- Are we there? I start
casting Prayer of Healing.
It takes 10 minutes, but I
can get us all a lot of heals.
- I'll just use some Healing Words on you.
Tell me when you don't need them.
- How much damage
do you want me to take?
- No, you successfully
saved. You slowed your fall.
You grabbed some rope,
wrapped yourself up in it
like an aerialist, so you did it.
- I have 63.
I'm fine.
- Do you wanna take some damage?
- I feel like I'm
cheating this if I don't.
- 13 more.
- 10, 13...
13, 20, 30. You take 32 points of damage.
- Great. 63 minus 32...
- But add the 13 that I gave you.
- Plus 13.
- And another 14.
- I guess, yeah, I'll cut him down.
- Tracker begins to do kind
of a soothing ritual healing
as well, so all the party's
healers are, you know.
- Fabian, who
did this? What happened?
- Were you ambushed?
- No.
- You were in a situation
where you just couldn't get out, huh?
- Something like that.
- Yeah, they bust down the door
and they found you where you were,
and they said, "Fabian!"
and attacked you right away?
- I can't believe they attacked you
- Incriminating personal information
- all on your own.
- they threatened you with?
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Sandra Lynn
looks at you and says,
"We're just gonna put Fabian in the van,
and we're gonna head
back to the Gold Gardens
and we're gonna sleep. Okay?"
- Yeah.
- Yeah, good idea.
- That's all I wanna do.
- You see Tracker comes over
and heals your dislocated arm.
- Oh, I wouldn't mind.
- Don't cut the ropes, just FYI.
Don't cut the ropes. You go too fast.
- You guys return to-
- It was kind of fun, though.
- It was awesome.
- the Gold Gardens.
As you guys return to the Gold Gardens,
Tracker looks up and says,
"So because we kind of didn't bed down
sort of right away,
there's gonna be a little period of time
where this magic is not
gonna be fully protecting us.
I don't know necessarily
what to do with that,
but I just thought I'd
let everybody know."
- Should we take
a day and sleep in shifts?
- Well maybe. But also, I
mean, even if you're sleeping
in shifts, as you're sleeping
outside of the protection
of the Moon Haven, I just don't...
I just don't know.
- I mean, we need to sleep.
- Yeah, we gotta.
We just take the risk, I guess.
- Can you give
people Bardic Inspiration?
Can we have some Bless?
- I only have a couple left,
but I will give it out.
I think I have two left.
So who's feeling weak and vulnerable?
Fabian, I'm gonna give you one.
- It's a Wisdom saving throw normally,
with the Nightmare King?
- Yes.
- I have pretty high Wisdom.
- I have high Wisdom as well.
- Yeah, I have six Wisdom.
- Okay, Gorgug, take a
little Bardic Inspiration.
- Thank you.
- A little milk and cookies before bed.
- My Wisdom is only plus one.
- Oh, I already gave it out, I'm sorry.
- It's okay. It's fine.
- I have bad Wisdom too.
- It's okay. We all
have things we're bad at.
- A lot of unwise
decisions that have been made.
- As you get put in the van, Fabian,
you see that the Hangman (engine
revving) comes up and says,
"Sire, are you all right?"
- No, Hangman. It's all bad.
- You see that the Hangman,
the light in it dims a little bit.
You hear a...
It backs up and drives into the van,
and to the closest of your ability,
goes into the little aisle
of van seats next to you
and tips itself over onto your side.
- That's very sweet of you.
- You see that Tracker looks
over at you, Kristen, and says,
"All right, well, let's try to
get back as soon as we can."
Garthy looks over at Sandra Lynn.
Sandra Lynn looks at Garthy.
- I don't look at
- There's a look shared with
- either of them.
- the rest of you.
You guys all get back.
You see, by the way,
that when you get back,
Cathilda comes and tucks you in,
gives you a little piece of kippers,
and kisses you on the head.
- I don't deserve kippers, Cathilda.
- Can I talk to everyone
other than Fabian?
- Yes, absolutely.
Cathilda kisses you on the head and says,
"My sweet boy. Master Fabian,
it's not about deserving kippers.
It's not a test or a trial.
I made them for you 'cause I love you."
- You should give your
kippers to everyone else.
They're just so delicious,
I'd hate for them to be wasted on me.
- She sighs,
pats your shoulder, and
leaves you there to sleep.
And the Hangman has come into your corner
of the Gold Gardens suite, as well.
- White noise from the muffler.
- Just getting
so high on the fumes.
- I think I'm gonna
go into Fabian's room.
- Cool, you go over to Fabian's room.
Tracker seems super hungover
and f*cked up from all the revelry still.
Give me an Insight check, Kristen.
- Sure.
10.
- Cool.
Obviously, you know Tracker well enough.
You know that she probably can't remember
anything from last night,
that's she's hungover.
She was f*cked up, basically.
What did you wanna say to
everybody when you got back?
- Oh yeah, you guys, do
you think that we should
hide Fabian, if this
person is really after him?
- Yeah, maybe.
- He knew where he was
earlier. Is Garthy here?
- Garthy is here standing with you
to make sure that everything's okay.
- Gorgug, is there an invisibility shield
or anything for this van?
- Well, I was thinking
I could Banish Fabian,
'cause then it puts you unconscious.
If you're native to the plane
that I'm banishing you from,
you go to a harmless demiplane
where you're incapacitated, so he could...
- I think it only lasts
like a minute, though.
- Oh, okay, yeah.
- Garthy, I'll ask the van in a second,
but considering what's going on,
do you think the Captain
would try to come here?
'Cause it seemed like he was hesitant
to fight here earlier.
- Lovey, I don't think
Captain James is liable
to start anything here
in the Gold Gardens.
- All right.
- I've taken great pains to
ensure that at least here,
amongst this home I've
made for me and mine,
that no one's gonna try anything.
- Can I do an
Insight check on them?
- Sure, go for it.
- So close to a 20.
Yeah, that's pretty high. I got a 22.
- They seem sad. They
seem a little bit sad.
- Can I tell why or...?
Which thing that they were
saying seemed to make them sad,
or was it something else?
- On a 22... Let me roll a
little Deception check here.
They seem sad in relation to
both Tracker and Fig.
- Okay.
- Tracker goes to just
collapse into sleep.
Gilear, Sandra Lynn, the rest do as well.
Do any of you immediately go to sleep,
or are some of you shaking things off?
- Adaine, I have a private favor I need.
- I'll see what I can do.
- I need you to tie me up.
- You want me to tie you up?
The person with minus two Strength?
- I was gonna ask Riz, but Riz left.
- I mean, I'll do it.
- I think the Nightmare King-
- Why don't I-
- found a capable pawn in me,
and I just feel like they're
gonna come after me again.
- Why don't I set a snare
around you, and if you move,
then you have to do a
- Also tie me up.
Successful Dexterity saving throw.
- That sounds good.
- Or you'll be hoisted in the air.
- In addition to tying me up.
- That basically is tying
you up. I wrap you in a rope.
- Yeah, okay.
- It's just a magical trap.
- Okay.
- So if you get up to leave-
- Okay, yeah. That's what I do.
- Great.
- And I also avoid eye
contact with my mom.
- As you are about to get tied
up- Tracker's already out,
but before you get tied up
Garthy O'Brien comes over to you.
And they look at you and say,
"I'm so sorry to bother you, lovey.
Would you mind if I spoke
with you for a moment?"
- Absolutely. I don't know anything
about my mom's personal life
and I actually can't really be
sort of a messenger for her,
so I don't know what the situation is.
I don't know what she told you,
but I also don't know either, so.
- Darling-
- If you wanna sh**t your
shot, though, sh**t your shot.
- No. Lovey, I doubt you're
a worse messenger for your mother's
personal life than your mother,
if you catch my meaning.
Listen, I just wanted to do this privately
'cause I did not want to make
you and your young friends uncomfortable.
But my deepest desire,
as always, is to make sure
that everybody that
comes to the Gold Gardens
has the best possible
time that they can, yeah?
And I'm not one to apologize
for enjoying myself
or helping others enjoy themselves,
but if I've done anything
to make you uncomfortable-
- No, not at all. It has
nothing to do with you.
It just has to do with-
I just think my mom
might've hurt someone's feelings,
and I'm feeling conflicted
about knowing that and
what to do about that.
Nothing to do with you, though.
You, your hospitality was great.
I'm gonna leave a five-star Yelp.
- I don't know what that
is, but I do appreciate it.
I also wanted to say that...
Look, I'm a pirate, yeah?
So I try not to be too
preachy or moralistic.
But also, I'm descended from angels, yeah?
So this kind of comes with the territory.
So I wanted to say that
there's a plethora of ways
in which I enjoy getting down.
I don't enjoy getting down
when it involves someone
breaking a promise, and
I hope you understand
that anything I did, I
did in the confidence
of a good faith that may
not have been present.
Do you understand what I mean?
- Yeah, I do. I do.
I'm sorry if you also got hurt by
Sandra Lynn's fun.
Sorry, I'm really awkward
in this kind of situation.
I've just been having a night.
- These are the types
of events that force us
to grow up, yeah? And it's painful.
- Yeah.
- I'm not hurt, lovey.
- Okay.
- I have been through
much worse, many times,
and the only thing that
would've been a risk to me
would have been to have such
young, enterprising adventurers
as yourself leave this
place with a lower opinion
of its humble host, so.
- No, right now, it's kind
of just my opinion of my mom
is oscillating between,
that's not my business,
and how could you do that to Jawbone?
Sorry to put a name to-
- Jawbone O'Shaughnessy?
- Yeah.
- Life is complicated, I'll
tell you that right now.
All right.
- They know Jawbone?
- Of course they know Jawbone.
- Jawbone's been to
Leviathan many times, lovey.
This is wild. I need to go sit down.
- Yeah, no, see?
This, though, it could've
just been a good situation,
you know, if she'd just
shot a text-
- Can I roll Insight to see if
they've slept with Jawbone?
- Yeah, go for it.
- They definitely have.
- Let me see.
That's a 17.
- 100%.
- Yeah, okay, great.
- You see they go,
that werewolf has some of
the most insane stories
I've ever heard, and
I run a pirate brothel
in a moving city.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right. Well, that
makes me feel even worse.
- Sorry, I shouldn't have given a name.
- Not at all. Listen,
listen, I'll be honest.
I think that monogamy is a prison, yeah?
And that there is no version
of that type of fidelity
that is not somehow based
in ownership over bodies.
But that being said, a
promise is a promise, so.
- I know.
- And Jawbone is someone very
near and dear to my heart,
so that makes me feel even worse.
Lovey, I know it's painful
and awkward right now.
- Yeah, skin is crawling.
- I'll stop making you
uncomfortable, lovey.
Have a good night's rest.
- Yeah. No, no, it's not you. It's my mom.
Anyways, I'm gonna go get tied up.
- What?
- I leave.
- You leave. Cool.
I am going to need Wisdom saving throws
from everybody.
- You have-
- Can I have Boggy give me help?
- I don't know if
it's still there, but-
- Yes, you can.
- Protection from-
- Oh, you gave me
Protection from Good and Evil?
How long does that last?
- 10 minutes, dang.
- A d8 is added to this, with-
- With Bardic?
- With Bardic, right?
- Yeah, a d8.
- I got a 10.
- I got a 24.
- I got an eight.
- We'll go around.
- What is this, Wisdom?
- Rough.
- I got a six.
- Nat 20!
- Kristen and I-
- Congrats, Kristen.
had a beautiful night of sleep.
- Plus eight Wisdom.
- Plus eight Wisdom. 28.
- I knew it, I knew this was gonna happen!
- Hold on one second.
- Can I- because I only need four hours,
can I go to sleep an hour
after everybody else?
- You actually can survive-
because the Moon Haven lasts
for eight hours, so you can
fully trance in that time.
- Right, but everybody's going to sleep-
- Yes.
- now.
- He's saying that
there's still four hours left.
- Oh, it's after.
- After, yeah.
- Oh yeah, okay, so great, great.
So I will trance and then I will be awake
for the time when people are-
- Yes, exactly. Cool.
What are the rolls we got again? We got-
- Six.
- Six.
- With Bardic Inspiration, four.
- Truly incredible.
- And you're good.
- I got a 24 so, you know.
- You're fully, fully good.
- Also, I didn't need to roll.
- I guess with my modifier, five.
- Oh wait, they're rolling
this after I wake up?
- Correct, yes.
- Hm, interesting. What does everybody...
Okay, I'll hear what everybody gets.
- You wake up. What
did we roll on the die?
- 10.
- 10.
- 20.
- 20.
- Six plus bardic, minus one, eight.
- On the actual dice, two.
- Two.
- Four.
- Four.
- Plus two, which makes it a six.
- Okay.
- Okay, I'm gonna give
Gorgug a nat 20,
and I am gonna give Fig a nat 20,
because I rolled two nat
20s on my Divination rolls.
- Isn't that insane?
- Holy sh*t.
- Before the show started,
she rolled two nat 20s for Portent.
- Insane.
- It was insane.
- Double nat 20s. So Fabian rolls low.
- Yeah.
- I rolled- I mean, 10 is...
- And 10 is the full score you got.
- Yes.
- And I'm awake watching,
also, what's happening,
so I can-
- You're awake, watching-
- If anything happens, I can-
- fully watching what's happening.
- I'm grumpily asleep
in a chair in Fabian's room.
- With a mug of coffee.
- Just standing guard,
but just instantly falls asleep.
- You're also tatted up.
- Yeah, and I'm super tatted up.
Just a tiny bouncer falling asleep.
- I bet it looks cool.
- Yeah, it probably looks cool.
- A tiny bouncer.
- A little bartender.
- Cool. So there's a separate room
with just Fabian, Riz,
and the Hangman in it.
- Oh no. Sorry.
- After all this-
- That's a tough room.
- After all this, Fabian just kills me.
- A lot of tough energy in there.
- Man, a lot of teen boy smells.
- I'm gonna ask for you two
to actually roll Initiative
for me, if you'd be so kind.
We're not gonna go to a battle,
but we're just gonna roll
Initiative just to see
which of these things we do first.
- Oh no.
- 21.
- 11.
- Cool, okay.
- Fabian, throw out
your dice. Throw them out.
- Adaine, as you're
awake, you see Ragh get up
earlier than other people
and go, "Hey, Adaine.
I'm just gonna go get some food.
I'm kinda hungry and having
a hard time sleeping."
- Okay, are you good?
- Yeah, I'm good.
I kind of feel stupid 'cause
I ran through a lot of
the city and didn't get
there and caught you guys...
- Yeah, no, no, no. We
didn't get there either.
Hey, you're awake right now, right?
- Yeah.
- Who was your first kiss?
- Who was my first kiss?
- Yeah.
- Hold on one second.
I'm going to need Adaine
to roll Initiative.
- Dammit.
Nine.
- Okay.
- This day sucks,
man. This day sucks.
- What is your Dexterity modifier?
- Oh my god. It's three.
Modifier? Plus two.
- Plus two. Okay, cool.
We are gonna go to combat.
- Rad.
- This is crazy. Crazy day.
- Adaine versus Ragh.
- What have I done?
- The Bad Kids' no good, very bad day.
- Incredible.
- Would this wake us up, though?
- Yes, for sure.
- Okay.
- Well, did we get a-
- I don't think so.
- All right, whatever.
- Right?
- Hold on one...
- Sleep when you're dead,
which might be this episode!
- 13 plus 14.
Adaine, you take 27 points of
damage as Ragh looks at you
and goes and
rushes and gores you.
- Shield?
- That's gonna make your armor class 18?
- Yes.
- Bypasses.
Ragh muscles through the
shield and deals that damage.
- And we're all awake now.
- How much damage was that?
11?
- What's that?
- How much damage was that?
- 27 points of damage.
- Woof, okay.
- That is- everyone's gonna wake up.
I'm gonna say that everyone wakes up.
Everyone go ahead and roll Initiative.
Not you two, just Kristen and the rest.
- With Feral Instinct,
would I have woken up
when he started attacking or...?
- Potentially.
- I got a five.
- Five?
- 12.
- 12.
- Zero.
- Zero, okay.
I'm gonna have-
Adaine, you're going to go.
The rest of the house wakes up.
Ragh is gonna get one last set of attacks,
and then it's not necessary
to run the rest of the combat
because once you're all awake,
you will easily be able to
overpower Ragh as a group.
But Adaine's gonna take an action,
then Ragh is gonna get
one more round of attacks.
- You got all your stuff back.
- Yeah, I got all my stuff back.
He's not very
wise, is he?
I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on Ragh.
It's a Wisdom saving throw.
- You see Ragh goes
and starts keeling over to the side.
- I yell, Ragh is possessed!
He got Nightmare Kinged!
- Everyone rushes out.
- Wait a second, I'm tied up.
- You have to pass an
Intelligence saving throw-
a Dexterity saving throw, sorry.
- Okay.
18?
- My spell save is 15, so that passes.
- Yes!
- You escape the bonds. Not
very good bonds, I guess.
- Okay, next time, Adaine, I'm gonna
ask someone else.
- Yeah, ask Gorgug. Yeah.
- You see that a bunch of people-
Gorgug, you've already tackled Ragh.
Everyone starts tackling Ragh.
Tracker has gone full werewolf.
You once again are underneath
Ragh in the same position.
- Chill, chill.
- We are gonna go- we
immediately leave combat
as soon as we got into
it, and we're gonna go
into the dreams of, actually,
Fabian Aramais Seacaster.
- Just miserable. Look at him.
- What do you think Fabian's
dreaming about right now?
- I mean, I'm probably just- I don't know.
I feel like it's just
me, the feeling of a beak
crawling over my head, probably Aster's...
What's his name?
- Alistair Ash.
- Alistair's face before I jumped over,
and the man I liked the
most, whose name I can't...
Gumbert? Gump?
- Chungle-Down Bim.
- There it is. Sorry,
I was too sad to remember
any of their names.
- Chungle-Down Bim is spelled
C-H-U-N-G-L-E dash D-O-W-N,
the word down, and then Bim,
which is short for Bimothy.
- And just the feeling of- yeah,
Chungle-Down Bim saying I'm not a pirate
and spitting on my face,
just over and over again.
- Fabian,
you have a dream
throughout all of this.
You see fire surrounding you.
It's your burning home from
the day that your father died.
But you also see that this home is on a
blasted hellscape of Avernus,
the first pit of hell.
And you see dead, burning warlocks,
these pirates gazing at you as they walk
out of your house, into the plane,
look at you, shake their heads and say,
"What will we tell the Captain
when we see him on his ship?"
And they march off into the fire.
And you can feel the weight
of your father's head
resting on his hand in the
captain's quarters of his ship.
You hear a voice
behind you say,
"It's all going to be all right."
And a soft, sort of papery,
but a little bit wet hand
touches the back of
your shoulder and says,
"I know it seems so very far off,
but there is a way for you to be happy."
- Really?
- Yes.
Yes, absolutely.
You experience the exact same feeling
that Adaine experienced, which is,
you know if you look at this thing's face,
something horrible is
going to happen to you.
You see it says, "Come.
I want to show you what
I've been working on.
Would you like some yogurt?"
- No, no, I wouldn't.
- No, trust me.
You'll like it if you try it.
- I will?
- Yes. Yes, try some.
You see a delicious little
cup of banana yogurt
is handed over to you.
- Don't eat things in hell.
- Can I take the yogurt
without looking at him?
- Yes, you can.
- I take the yogurt.
- You take it, eat a little spoonful.
It's delicious. It's nice to
not have to use your teeth.
You can just kind of suck it down.
- It's pleasant.
- Yes, it is pleasant, isn't it?
I want to show you what
I've been working on.
And the form leads you-
You can see out of the corner of your eye
that there's a wisp of a comb-over
and a button-up shirt, some slacks.
You go through the burning
building and a door opens.
And as you move through
the door, all of a sudden,
you are in a beautiful place.
There's sunny fields everywhere,
and you see that there
are a beautiful estate-
There's a giant marble
statue of Bill Seacaster
who's being revered.
People are taking pictures.
There's tourists with
their Solesian cameras.
And you hear the voice
say, "I built this place.
It's a memorial to Captain Bill Seacaster.
It's a beautiful memory.
It's my greatest achievement,
the best thing I could have ever done.
This is how I find my self-worth,
is curating this place.
This is my life's work,
to build this memorial
to the greatest pirate that ever lived."
- A job well done. The statue is gorgeous.
Really shows off all his finest features.
- Have some more yogurt. It is good.
- It is good. I'll have some more yogurt.
- It actually does make
you feel really good
to have this yogurt.
It goes down smooth. It's great.
You walk through wing after wing
of all of your father's accomplishments.
Give me a Perception check
and an Insight check.
- Perception check, nat one.
- What?
- Insight check, nine.
- Cool. You walk through.
So it takes a long time.
- Use my dice.
- And eventually you realize
that you start seeing
a lot of pictures of Hallariel.
- Mm-hmm.
You see Bill's house.
You see Seacaster Manor.
You see all this stuff.
You don't see any pictures
of you anywhere in here.
- Is there a reason you
chose not to include
any more family-oriented photos or
those sorts of things?
- Look at me.
- I can't.
- You can.
- I shouldn't.
- Look at me.
I need you to look at me.
You feel a slightly wet, papery
hand underneath your chin.
I need you to look at me now.
- I feel as if it wouldn't be-
- The yogurt curdles in your stomach,
and you feel yourself convulse,
and you are spasming and
losing control of your body.
This kind of sad,
doughy, middle-aged,
yogurt-eating man
pulls your chin until your face
is an inch or two away from his face.
You look at a middle-aged
Fabian, who says,
"Why would I put pictures of myself here?
I don't deserve them. Very c*ck.
Papa wouldn't like it at all.
And you wake up.
I'm gonna need you to give me
a Stealth check real quick.
- Don't use my dice.
- Don't use, yeah, exactly.
Get a nat one.
- No! Oh, that's c*ck.
- That's c*ck.
- Great.
Stealth check?
- Mm-hmm.
12.
- Okay.
So you...
Actually, roll that with advantage for me,
if you'd be so kind, 'cause
you're in a separate room.
- That is 15.
- 15, okay.
Bum bum bum.
You awaken in the middle
of the ocean, swimming,
as waves billow up around
you in the darkness.
We are gonna cut from Fabian.
- We are failing. We're gonna fail.
We're gonna fail school.
- We're gonna die!
- Yeah, and more importantly,
- Adaine, I forgot-
we're gonna fail school.
- I healed you for 13 for Cure Wounds.
- Riz.
- Mm-hmm?
- You awaken in your room in
a state of night paralysis.
Your body can't move.
You look and see that the
window has been slid open
in your room. Fabian is gone.
The Sword of the Seacasters
has been plunged through
the engine of the Hangman,
and it is on its side,
leaking oil onto the floor.
You not only can't move,
but you feel a tremendous
weight on your chest.
Materializing there, coiled up,
sitting on her haunches,
is a black tabaxi woman.
She looks at you and says,
"Hi, Riz. How you doin'?"
- Can I speak?
- Mm-hm.
- What did you do to Fabian?
- Your voice comes out in
a croak, a whisper, and you
realize you couldn't shout
in the state that you're in.
She looks at you and says,
"Oh, I can't take any credit
for that, I didn't do anything to Fabian.
That was the boss."
- You work for the Night King?
- Yeah, kiddo. I work for the
Nightmare King, that's right.
You have grown.
You're, I mean, the spitting image
of your mother and your father,
a perfect combo of the two.
- Why- you-
- My parents trusted you. Why would you...
What are you doing?
- What am I doing? You said it, Riz.
Come on. I work for the Nightmare King.
- But why?
- Is that an honest question? Why?
He grants me unlimited power.
All that I am and all
that I'm capable of doing,
he gave to me.
Do you really not understand why a person
might do things that benefited them?
I know that you only do things
to kind of distract yourself
from how deeply sad you are
that your dad is gone. I get that.
The maidens, and then
you find the maidens.
And then it's on to the next
thing, and the conspiracy board
and you don't sleep and you're
digging, digging, digging.
It's like when you were
in that palimpsest.
You will dig until your
own hands are bleeding
because the second you slow down,
you will have to deal with the fact
that he's not comin' home.
Sorry, bud.
So we gotta talk about
you and your friends
coming for this crown,
because that's gonna be a no-go from us.
- What do you-
- What do I want?
- Yes.
- I just said it.
Pack it in and go home.
This one's not you, chief.
Now, I know that I'm talking
to the most obstinate one
in the group. I do get that, for sure.
And I'll admit, I've
been having a hard time
breaking through whatever
these little runes are,
but you guys seem to have
f*cked up badly enough,
it seems that whatever spell
was keeping me out wore off,
and now we're back here.
- So it's not the Nightmare
King. It's you that's-
You can come into our dreams?
- Are you dreaming right now?
You wanna pinch yourself?
Oh, you can't, you're
paralyzed. I'm sorry.
Well, I just wanna see
if we can talk reason.
You guys wanna get this crown
back. That can't happen.
Where do we find
compromise here? 'Cause...
They're restraining your
buddy Ragh out there,
and while they're doing that,
Fabian slipped out the window.
So I would say cut your
losses at one dead friend.
That would be me, but we
can go for more if you want.
- All right, so I'm paralyzed, right?
- Mm-hmm.
Is my Sword of Shadows near me?
- Let's roll a Luck check, okay?
You're very paranoid,
so I'm gonna say that on an 11 or higher,
it is literally in the bed
with you while you sleep.
- Okay.
- We'll say that on a 6 through 10,
it is two or three feet away,
resting on the side of the bed.
If it's a one through five, it's gonna be
farther away than that,
elsewhere in the room.
Go ahead and give me a d20 roll.
15, cool. It's in the bed with you.
- I think I just try to crane my head
to look intimidating or confident,
and I say,
how about no dead friends?
And then I want to use my Sword of Shadows
to Misty Step out the window
to try to find Fabian.
- Cool.
- You're gonna Misty Step
into the water, paralyzed!
- You step out.
You take 10
points of falling damage.
- Okay.
- You clatter to the ground.
Your arms are paralyzed
in place, so when you hit,
something breaks as you
hit at an odd angle.
Without seeing her move,
Kalina walks out of a little alleyway.
You're in the campus of
the Gold Gardens right now.
She looks out and says,
"Aw, bud. Yeah, he's been gone, I'm sorry.
I should've given you a timeline
on that. That's my mistake.
So we definitely clocked
some kind of eye contact
when you were about to
get sacrificed, right?
- Yeah.
- You seem like a guy
that likes information.
Is there any kind of
information I can offer you?
- What do you want in return?
- Buddy, we're just talking right now.
I'm trying to help you see reason.
- I wanna know where the crown is.
I wanna know where Fabian is.
I wanna know why people are
coming for us in our sleep.
- Why do you assume I
know where the crown is?
- You don't know where the crown is.
Oh boy.
- That's not what I said.
I asked, why do you think
I know where the crown is?
I would correct you,
but I don't think you're gonna believe me.
- I think I know where the crown is, and
you have handily defeated me
even after I said my cool one-liner,
so I assume you also figured it out.
- Mm-hmm.
- You see she looks at you and says,
"What do you
see happening from here?
Because I do wanna get this sorted out,
but I am tr-
Look, I think you can see I have no tricks
up my sleeve, right?
I'm not doing anything. I'm
not casting any spells on you.
I'm not murdering you right
here on the ground, right?
I want this to be resolved amicably.
The issue
that I'm feeling right now is,
I wanna know what needs
to happen for you guys
to give this up. And if
you don't give it up,
then I just guess, I wanna say,
this is gonna get so much worse.
- We can't give it up.
- What, you can't take an F?
You can't repeat the year?
Buddy, what are you talking about?
- We can't give it up
because it would be wrong.
- It would be wrong? Wow, okay.
Well, what's right about you
and all your friends dying?
Seems like Arthur Aguefort's
got everything figured out.
He's got a bunch of kids going out there
and putting themselves in harm's way,
getting their lives taken, and for what?
What do you care what happens in Sylvaire,
the Forest of the Nightmare King?
- It's not gonna end there.
If we don't stop this, then you'll do this
to the next adventuring
party that comes after you.
- Well, you seem pretty set in your ways.
Do you know who I am?
- I know that you worked with my father.
- Pok Gukgak. A good man.
- What went wrong between you two?
- Nothing went wrong between us.
How about this? Let's do
a little information swap.
You ask me a question about your dad,
you answer a question of mine.
- I don't think now is the time
to get nostalgic.
I wanna know that my friends are okay.
My father's already gone.
If you want information, you have to...
I would need to know that they were safe.
- Know that who was safe?
You want me to help
your friend Fabian out?
I could make sure he doesn't
die. It's not too late.
But I'm gonna need everything.
I'm gonna need everything you know.
- All right.
- What do you know?
- How do I know that, if
I tell you what I know,
that you can help me?
- You don't.
- I'll tell you where I
think the crown is going.
You bring Fabian here.
Once Fabian's here, I'll
tell you who I think has it.
- Kid, I don't need to know
where the crown is going.
I wanna know what you know about me.
And you see that her eyes narrow
into these two twin slits
as she looks at you.
- I know that you're
working with demons.
I know that you worked
with my father at one time.
- Mm-hmm.
I know that you're trying
to sacrifice people
to make something come about.
- All right. That everything?
- Out of character, do
I know anything else?
- She doesn't drink.
- You know about the glass in the hand.
You know about the photograph.
You know that she was seen the night
that the crown was taken,
that Ragh saw her. - Mm-hmm.
You know the...
Yeah, you know that Ragh saw her.
You know about Adaine's
mom talking with Porter
and all that stuff, as well.
- I guess I share... Yeah,
I guess I share everything.
I guess I share everything I know.
I think I'm in a pretty bad position here.
- Cool.
You see- Fabian, out in the waves,
go ahead and give me
three Constitution
saving throws real quick.
- Nat 20.
- Hey!
- Nat 20.
- Whoa!
- What?
- And a 10.
- Cool.
You manage to swim and swim
and swim for your life.
And you see that as you begin to go under
for the first round,
you feel that you are lifted up
and feel the flapping
of horrible, dark wings.
It's too dark for you to see right now.
Do you have Darkvision or no?
- I do.
- These horrible imp-like things
are bearing you aloft towards Leviathan
and just drop you in a slum
of the city at the edge.
What do you say, specifically,
about the night that...
About the stuff on the night
that the crown was taken from the school?
What information do you give?
- I think I don't mention
Adaine's mom.
I just say that it was the night of prom.
I give all the information
except Adaine's mom.
- All the information.
- That we were there.
That we knew the crown was there,
did the fight during prom
night, it disappeared.
- Do you say the part about, Ragh saw Jace
talking with Adaine's
mom, that you leave out.
Do you do the part later
where Ragh was talking
with Porter and Jace and then saw Kalina?
- I think I try to not
bring other people into it.
- I'm going to ask right now-
I'm gonna roll this and tell you a number
that you have to beat.
- Okay.
- You have to beat a
on a Deception check.
Kalina rolled very low.
- I don't have very good Deception.
- What do you have to roll?
- I have to roll a 12.
- 12 or higher. Let's see it.
- You got it.
- That's a two.
- That's a two.
- I need a break.
- I do too!
- You try not to bring
other people into it.
You have one momentary slip-up.
You don't f*ck up so badly
that you say Ragh's name
or anything, but you just mention
something along the lines
of, a student saw you. Right?
Her eyes narrow, flicker again,
those little side eyelids.
She goes, a student saw me?
Wow, okay.
Well.
Fabian's alive.
He's at the edge of the city.
If you wanna run, little
goblin-scurry around
and find him, you can do that.
I appreciate this.
Don't keep looking for the crown,
or we are going to k*ll
every last one of you.
But you do have some time to talk it over,
because I'm gonna head out
and k*ll Lydia Barkrock.
So, take care.
She vanishes.
- I run back into the
room to tell you guys what just happened.
- Is Garthy here?
- You can go find Garthy,
but Fabian's also missing.
- Is Ragh in the
room when you tell us?
- Yeah, I think I wanna tell-
- You see Ragh just...
So, Tracker has dispelled
the Dominate Person on Ragh.
Ragh is fine again.
You see that...
Ragh runs out of the room,
just kind of shout- he
looks totally distraught.
Runs out of the room, and you see that...
You guys go try to find Garthy?
- We need to
call people back at home.
- I'm gonna call my-
- We don't have any way to do that.
- I'm gonna call my mom and tell her-
- You can't. There's
no way to call anybody.
- Let's just try to figure it out.
- Oh, we can't call anybody.
- Let's try.
- Is Garthy here? Garthy,
can you send a spell?
- Hold on a second.
You see that...
Garthy looks and says,
"Darlings, I'm so sorry, I
don't have any sort of Sending
or anything like that. But, you know,
it's possible if you're a
proficient wizard, Adaine,
there are Sending spells and the like.
I mean, Leviathan is on
the move all the time.
If you don't have one, there might be one
in the library up in Crow's Keep."
- Yeah, I'll go- yeah.
- You see that a moment later,
Ragh comes back and is just weeping.
And you see Ragh looks
at all of you and says,
"She's dead.
I just got a call on
my crystal. She's dead.
- You got a call on your crystal?
- Wait, you got a call?
- Yeah.
- Our crystals aren't working here.
- No, I have bars...
No, I can make a call.
You see that he holds up, calls someone,
rears back and says,
"Someone's just laughing
at me on the other line."
You guys look at his-
- Yeah, can I do an Insight check?
- You look at it, Riz,
and you see that...
Garthy comes out, by the
way. They're also here.
So all of you are just out.
You've had a rough night.
You, for a second, see a
flickering of five bars
on Ragh's crystal and a
call from what looks like
a family caretaker number,
some sort of hospice service,
and it flickers for a second and is gone.
Sandra Lynn also looks at you
and says, "I saw it, too."
You see Tracker looks up and says,
"I saw a flicker of something on it, too."
- Wait, so only the people who can see
the Shadow Cat can see-
- Have seen the Shadow Cat.
- Tracker just saw it too.
- Tracker, can you- does
anyone have the picture?
- Do you have the picture?
- I'll hold up the picture.
- I can see her now.
- What happened? What changed?
- Did you see her tonight?
- Did you see her tonight?
- No, I've never seen
her. That's so creepy.
- Earlier today,
didn't Garthy regard
Fig and Tracker
with some kind of sadness?
- They did.
Garthy looks at it and says,
I don't care for that one bit, darling.
- Oh, now Garthy sees it?
- That bloody cat is in that photograph.
- What cat? Do you know who that cat is?
- I've never seen that
woman before in me life.
- But didn't we show Garthy
the photograph before?
- You did, and it wasn't there.
- Have you had any strange dreams?
- No, not as I can remember.
- Can I do an Insight
check on Sandra Lynn?
- Yeah, go for it.
- Hey. Yeah, that's like 26.
- Sandra Lynn looks
confused and looking around
just like, what the f*ck is going on?
Two people that didn't
used to be able to see
the Shadow Cat in the
photograph can now see Kalina.
- Can I talk to you really quick?
- Yeah.
- Can you cast
Dispel Magic on Sandra Lynn?
- Yeah.
- Didn't we try that before?
- Not on Sandra Lynn.
- Oh, okay.
- Something's up with her.
Something's different and weird.
Now everyone she's been in contact with-
- Yeah, okay. If you...
- She's very
suggestible right now.
- We're gonna cut over.
Fabian, what do you do
when you get back to land?
- So I just get dropped off
by a couple of imps on the...?
- Blam.
- Am I wearing my Owlbears jersey?
- Yeah.
- I rip it off.
And I take off the eyepatch and pocket it.
- Okay.
- And I just slowly start to walk.
- With a messed up scar,
just walking without a coat, freezing.
Go ahead and give me one
last Constitution check.
- Fabian's
no good, very bad day.
- Nat one.
- Oh no!
- Good lord.
- What? What?
- You contract pneumonia and
can feel yourself shivering
as you just stumble through
the streets of Leviathan.
The sun-
- I have pneumonia? Just pneumonia?
I have the Pneumonia condition? Cool.
- I'm gonna say that you
are just shaking with fever,
sick. You vomit a couple
times. You walk through-
- Is there any
banana yogurt in his vomit?
- There's no banana yogurt.
- Yeah, I check my-
- No banana yogurt.
- Check your vomit?
- I just get in there, hands and all.
- But you see- Yeah.
Garthy looks at the photograph,
is very troubled. Tracker's
very troubled as well.
You see that Tracker is like,
"Okay. Riz, wait, where's Fabian?"
You see Ragh just going like,
"Is my mom dead or not?"
- I think your mom's in trouble,
but I think we were just tricked.
I think that was the Shadow Cat calling.
- If you get bars
on your cell phone, though,
try to call home.
- You see Garthy looks and says,
"Lovey, listen, I'm going
to write a note for you.
You're gonna go to the
woman who is in charge
of the Compass Points Library
in Crow's Keep, okay?"
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna give you a note.
She's gonna get you a spell, all right?
- Yep.
- Okay, lovey.
- I go there now. Can I take
Gorgug with me?
- I can go.
- Cool. - Yeah, and
you guys can also call my mom.
She could have the police there
or something to make sure-
- Let's call Aguefort.
- Yeah, whatever-
I don't know how this spell works.
I don't know how this spell
works, I just need to go.
- Have we had a night's sleep?
- It takes two hours
per level to learn it.
- Have I had a night's sleep?
- Hm?
- Have I had a night's sleep?
Do I have my Bardic Inspiration back?
- Yes, you do.
- Bardic Inspiration.
- Thank you.
- You guys- the time it takes
you to get your gear together,
do all your sh*t-
- I guess we'll try to find-
- Cathilda, by the way, is
gone. And a moment later,
you see that as you're stumbling through,
Cathilda appears at your side,
throws a blanket over you,
and begins to walk with you back through.
As you guys are heading on your way,
Fabian, you come with
Cathilda and see the Hangman
strapped to the top of the van
with the Sword of the Seacasters in it.
And Cathilda just takes you,
shoves you bodily in the van,
puts a hot water bottle, opens the hood,
takes out a hot water bottle
from the engine block,
puts it on your head.
- I think I have
my arm around Ragh.
- Just shaking. Thanks.
Riz, Garthy cures your
paralysis, by the way,
the second they find you.
- Okay.
And you guys all,
in the early dawn light, begin to head
towards Crow's Keep and this library.
You have a small note that
you haven't looked at yet,
but Garthy waves goodbye to you
at the edge of the Gold
Gardens, and you have
this little note that you
haven't looked at yet.
- Can I look at this note?
- You see it says,
"Please bring this
individual, with safe passage
and a favor owed to Garthy O'Brien,
to the librarian of the Compass Points,
one Ayda Aguefort.
- Ayda Aguefort?
- You begin to head off
to the Crow's Keep again,
in the early dawn light.
- Are they with us?
- Garthy? No, Garthy
stays at the Gold Gardens.
They're not gonna go with you.
Garthy does not like to
leave the Gold Gardens.
You begin to head off. You've
got an arm around Ragh.
Sandra Lynn looks at you
and puts a hand around you.
- Mom, are you okay?
- Bursts into tears,
starts walking next to you
and is like, "I don't know, kiddo."
- Is this...
Are you under a spell, or is this
maybe just a mistake on your part?
- When you see that you
pivot to talking about that,
you see that she steels
up her back and goes,
"I'm a f*ck-up.
Let's worry about Ragh and
Fabian right now, okay?"
- I absolutely understand,
I only had to ask
because I didn't know if you
were under some sort of spell.
And if you were, then we would
need to get that sorted out.
- I wish I had that excuse.
You guys head off.
- I somberly Razor scoot.
- Somberly Razor scoot through the...
It's hard.
- I'm ribbon dancing.
- This bedraggled,
- Kristen!
w*r-torn group of adventurers.
- Read the room, Kristen!
- And Adaine in the lead
on wooden planks, going...
That's all for this week
on Dimension 20!
- Oh my god!
- What did I do?
- What a twist.
- We'll see you guys next
time! Tune in next week, woo!
- Don't divide the party!
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07x06 - Pirate Brawl
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
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