- 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.
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- Hi, intrepid heroes.
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"Check it out, I'm g*y."
- Hey.
- Hey.
- I'm walking here. I'm g*y.
- Hey, I'm g*y here.
And then, we also have this map.
- What?
- Isn't that fun?
A map of the city of
Leviathan. Isn't that fun?
- Ooh la la.
- Get your own map
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- That's beautiful.
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- What kind of hide is that on?
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- Last we left off, our intrepid heroes,
they had teleported from
the pirate city of Leviathan
to the Elven lands of Fallinel.
You see, our intrepid heroes are
on their spring break mission
to retrieve the crown
of the Nightmare King.
Their adventure brought
them to Bastion City
and the Hotel Cavalier, to
the pirate city of Leviathan,
and has now brought them to
the Elven land of Fallinel
where their companion and
friend Adaine Abernant
has been seized by Elven
authorities as the Elven Oracle
and is being kept along with
her sister Aelwyn Abernant
in Calethriel Tower.
We have not gone over to Calethriel Tower.
We have instead gone to
the lands of the Lomenelda,
which is Fabian's mom's
family here in Fallinel.
The quest continues for the
crown of the Nightmare King,
and we venture back
into the world of Spyre.
Ayda Aguefort (imitates magic
whirring) raises her hands,
runes of fire sweep around
you and the Hangvan,
with the, you know, disanimated body
of the Hangman still atop it.
Ragh Barkrock, Gilear
Faeth, Sandra Lynn Faeth,
Tracker O'Shaughnessey,
and Cathilda the Black,
along with five of our intrepid heroes,
oh and Boggy and Baxter as...
Oh, no, Boggy's with you.
- Boggy's with me. How dare you.
- Baxter the griffin, appear
in deep and ancient forests.
Tall trees of twilight bark
glow deeply in the presence
of the setting sun.
The forest floor is soft with green grass,
and you see blossoms descend
from the heights of branches
far above. The blossoms
float gently on the wind
and are kissed by the feet
of butterflies that alight
and disappear in motes of magic.
Somber and solemn reflection on the beauty
of the natural world fills this place.
You notice there are no mud
puddles or piles of leaves
or twigs or brambles anywhere.
The forest floor is kept
stately and pristine with grass,
and there are no low branches
of any of these trees.
The trunks of the trees
grow straight and tall
for a hundred or more feet up, which means
that the visibility of
the forest extends wide
in all directions. You
can see as it slopes,
you hear the babbling of clear brooks.
A single deer, eight-pointed
antlers above its head,
walks stately through the forest.
- Okay, this is Aguefort's
creature that he made me.
Hi.
- A single tear from the cheek of the deer
turns into a mote of stardust.
The deer gazes and reflects upon it,
and the deer prances away into the forest.
- Oh, sorry.
- It's like that deer had a moment.
- I don't know. I guess maybe I have to
build up trust with it?
Who was I coming at a
feral animal like that?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- You should get it a gift.
- Okay.
- This place is-
- Our friend
has been kidnapped.
- Right.
- Ayda looks at all of you and says,
"This place is extremely
beautiful. It is unsettling."
- Agreed.
- Yeah.
- You hear far off a few
plaintive notes of a melody
so deep and rich and sorrowful
that it can only serve
to stir your heart and almost
freeze you where you stand
with its unearthly beauty.
Set to a minor chord with
butterfly notes sort of
sad, trailing, whisper song.
- Gorgug takes out his
crystal and starts Shazaming.
- With no cell tower
here, you have no data.
- That's the worst thing that's happened
'cause he didn't have any cell service.
- Hey, I think it's Sufjan Stevens.
- Yeah, it is. Do you hear that?
"Michigan," it's "Michigan."
- Deep guy.
- What do you guys do here in the woods?
- Should we try to make a puddle?
- Should we sneak up on
whoever's playing that music?
- I mean-
- Yeah.
Actually, I don't know how...
Just, I'm gonna be
doing this all the time.
I've got Message and I can
just point my finger towards...
I just wanna point in every direction
and try to Message Adaine.
Adaine? Adaine? Adaine?
Adaine? Adaine? Adaine? Adaine?
- So this Message cantrip
radar starts pinging off of-
- Like a sprinkler.
- Adaine? Adaine? Adaine? Adaine? Adaine?
- So, as you hear that
plaintive singing off
in the distance, and you move your way
through the woodlands towards that place.
- Are we in the van? We're in the van.
- Oh, if you want, you just teleported.
So if you want to all get in
the van, you can all get in.
- I'm gonna walk. I'm gonna
walk alongside the van.
- I'm gonna take some...
I'm gonna look for a couple of
big leaves and cover the van.
- A couple big leaves to cover the van?
- Where's Sandra Lynn? Does
she have any survival skills
that we could maybe hide
the van a little bit with?
- Yeah. Well, you see that
Sandra Lynn can cast...
Oh, she doesn't have
it prepared right now.
She says, "I don't know
if we should be worried
about stealth right at this moment."
- Okay. Sure.
- A deer was crying stardust.
- I know.
I'm gonna make a little
mound as if in offering
and place a clove cigarette
and write in a circle around it
"To the many-antlered deer
who cried stars. Love, Fig."
- As you place that clove on the ground,
and there's a sort of crushed
little cigarette butt,
you suddenly hear-
- It's not used. It's fresh.
- It's a fresh cigarette?
- Wow.
- You feel the wind kick up.
- You were right, Kristen.
- A tall elf with
regal green robes and a silver circlet,
he has sort of a receding hairline,
like a widow's peak but there's
a little jut in the front.
This long platinum white-blonde hair,
and he has the eternal youth of an elf,
but you can see from
the crinkle of his eyes,
there are few signs of aging
in that kind of Elrond way
where it's like he has the
look of a dude in his late 40s,
early 50s who's kept it
really tight. You know?
And really taken care of his body.
But you see he looks off
with shimmering blue eyes,
and he appears as if by magic.
"Ah. I see you deposit your cigarette here
on the pristine floor of the forest."
- Oh, it's not trash. It's an offering.
I met my future beast.
- "Hmm.
I don't know what that's about,
but I'm pretty sure it's still trash.
Please don't put
cigarettes on the ground."
- It's not a cigarette.
It's a clove. All natural.
- "I see you have come here just in time.
I am Telemaine Lomenelda."
- Grandpapa?
- He looks at you and says, "Fabbiaan."
- I mean, we... I mean...
- That's catchy. Fabbiaan it is.
- Fabbiaan.
- Fabbiaan.
- Saycastair.
- We say Fabian.
- You see,
he approaches you, and as he moves,
you see that the hem of his
robe as it moves perfectly
only touches the very tips of the grass,
and his movements are so
supernaturally graceful.
He comes close to you and goes...
- Ew. No. ill*gal.
- Touches your cheek.
- ill*gal.
- You see, he says,
"Can it be my grandson?"
- I've heard story of you.
You're my mother Hallariel's father, yes?
- "My daughter, Hallariel
Lomenelda of Kei Lumennura."
Chanting Elven voices emerge
from the air around him.
- Riz just has his hand on his g*n.
- Can you believe I'm half this?
- You see your mom goes,
"You are not half this.
These are high elves."
- Okay.
- "These are not wood elves."
- Okay. Okay.
- You see Gilear says, "The
beauty of the Elven homeland.
I think I can be of some aid here.
Honored elder, I am Gilear Faeth,
a diplomat and courtier of the Elven folk.
Well have you kept these woods.
They are despoiled not by trash
or stains or refuse of any kind."
- I don't know why he
would have to mention that.
- I give him Bardic Inspiration
and I also do Prestidigitation
to make his cheeks
look just rosier and more-
- Less sallow?
He hasn't shaved in a few days
because you've been on this adventure.
So he is scruffy and dirty.
He has big pit stains.
So that's a one D8 from your...
- My Bardic Inspiration.
- Okay.
- What are all those dice?
- I'm gonna roll in the
Box of Doom real quick.
- What?
- What?
- Why?
- I'm gonna roll
in the Box of Doom.
- Nobody asked Gilear to talk.
- In the Box
of Doom super quick.
- Nat 20, Nat 20, Nat 20.
- Nat 20.
- That's a natural 18.
- Oh, okay.
- Plus five.
- Hey.
- There you go, minus two
from his natural Charisma,
but that's above 20.
You see that Telemaine
looks at you and says,
"You are escorted to the land of the elves
by members of the Elven people,
and you have brought my grandson.
Tell me, Fabbiaan Arayamice Saycastair,
what has brought you
here to Kei Lumennura?"
- Well, so we're... I am in high school,
and we're doing our school project
for our final grade
for sophomore year and-
- He's tracking. He's tracking.
- And we, our friend
has been captured because
they're important.
And so, we're doing
reconnaissance to get them back.
- He reaches out without looking
and a single blossom alights on his hand,
and he is weeping without moving his face.
- I'm so sorry.
- He brings the blossom up and says,
"You, my beautiful
grandson, like this blossom,
your human blood has brought
mortality to our family.
You will one day die."
- Oh, get that out of me.
- Blossom kinda goes
into your mouth.
- Oh.
Okay.
I mean, I was just telling
you what we were doing here,
and your response was that I'm gonna die?
- Again, it's-
- He's doing okay.
It's okay. You can move
your face when you do that.
You can just move it a little bit.
- Those tears are thousands of years old.
- Grandpapa, are you okay?
- This is such a weird cry.
- Can I roll an Insight check?
- Yeah, roll an Insight check.
- Insight, I should
know this by now, a 14.
- What are you looking for here?
- What is this?
- This is bad, but you think
that you are in good...
Clearly he is like...
Gilear said the right stuff
and Fabian is much beloved
by this old man who he has never met.
You see as you look at him,
you see he smiles and says,
"What do you see when
you gaze upon my face."
- Well, my first thought
is just the idea of time,
and then sort of just the
idea of going real slow.
- "Hmm."
- And then,
kind of the idea of just
sort of taking a nap?
- You see, he looks and says, "A nap.
I don't suppose people
of your kind can nap.
Your time is so short."
- We can nap.
Anyone can nap.
- We nap a lot. We nap a lot.
- "To think, you will
live for only 20 years
and yet you still-"
- No, no.
- Okay, but you can live forever
and you don't eat fast food.
- "What?"
- You can live forever and
you don't eat junk food.
- "What is fast food?"
- Like a hamburger.
- Like a cheeseburger combo.
- Or a french fry.
- Do you know of elves who are
keepers of the Elven Oracle?
- Yes. My best friend was taken.
- "Ah."
- Our best friend.
We're all good friends.
- Yeah.
- "She is mortal and has died
and has been taken across-"
- No. She's also a high elf.
- No, I guess she's immortal.
What do you call yourself,
kinda close to immortal?
- "Walk with me through the forest."
- I live longer than 20
years, I have to say.
- You see he opens his arms wide and says,
"Welcome for what joy it may
bring you to Kei Lumennura."
And you see that blossoms
explode and an illusion parts,
and you see a vast grotto.
There is a crystal clear lake of rocks
and this beautiful peach
alabaster ivory Elven villa
of warm-looking stone covered
in trellises and ancient trees
overlooking streams that
come to this grotto.
And you see dozens or even
hundreds of Elven youths
that are laughing and jumping
into the stream and playing,
on blankets eating fruit, and
just generally this sweet,
summer palace.
- Where are the teenagers?
Where are the grumpy, grouchy teenagers?
- "Tenaiijeres?"
- Hm?
- "Tennejaris."
- Oh, he's saying-
- The Elven tongue.
- You're not even reading it.
- "What?"
- Teenagers.
- "Tanjaaris."
- Teenagers.
- Tee.
- "I know not of this word you have-"
- Teen.
- "Taine."
- Agers.
- "Gaiger."
- You added a G. He said ager.
- "I'm saying what you're all saying."
- No, you're not.
- "The important thing is this.
A Lomenelda-"
- Okay, sir.
- I feel like we could say anything
and we'd just keep going on whatever-
- Yeah, a recording.
- My name's Fig.
- "Figueroth."
- Yeah, yeah. That's pretty good.
- My name's Gorgug.
- "Jorjuj."
- Jorjuj?
- Honestly, I might
start calling him Jorjuj.
Jorjuj.
- Jorjuj.
- Jorjuj is kinda cool.
- You see, he says,"You have
come from strange lands beyond.
You have come with your friends.
To think, my grandson has
brought orc and goblin and human
to this realm. And I see you
have brought this iron...
I don't-"
- It's a van.
- That's my van.
- It's his van.
By the way, do you have
a gas station here?
- We don't need gas. We have
a crystal in it that does-
- 'Cause we don't need
one, if you have it.
- We won't need a gas station.
- Pop quiz.
- You guys simply must
stop talking to him.
- I like the way he says things.
- I want him to say van.
- Yeah, I just keep hoping
he says words back to us.
- "This iron fortress,
this fortress wagon."
- It's a van.
- "Baan."
- It belongs to him. This guy.
- It's mine.
- "You have tamed
this iron beast." You see he
approaches the van and says,
"You may pass in these lands,
for Jorjuj has brought you here."
- Jorjuj.
- You see he looks at you and says,
"How much longer do you have yet to live?"
- I think a pretty long
time. I'm not close to dying.
I mean, we're all young.
- He already died once.
- Have you been to the doctor recently?
- Yeah, true, and so have I.
I've died once and then came back to life.
- Do you know something?
I have died before.
- Jesus, Helio,
and everyone involved are all bros.
- "Bross?"
- Yeah. They're all bros.
- There's gotta be some crossover
in the words that we say.
- "What is bross?"
- Brother.
Do you know brother?
- "Brother, yes."
- Our friend is the Elven
Oracle, and she got taken away
by a bunch of sleek, sexy elves.
- "Ah, the Elven people
are all sleek and sexy,
I am afraid."
- No, but baddies.
- "What's that?"
- What does the Elven Oracle usually mean
to the Elvish people,
and how might the Elven
Oracle be used in a bad way?
- "Without the Elven Oracle, we are lost."
- Do you know where the
Abernant family lives here?
- "The Abernant family has
had all of their estate
and wealth reclaimed by the Court of Stars
for their treachery and failure
to prevent a w*r with Solace.
The betrayal and treason
of Arianwen has not gone without notice.
However, the Lomenelda
have long remained removed
from the political strife
of the Court of Stars.
In the opinion of myself,
the Abernants were callous
and cruel, power-hungry.
To think that they would
have left the immortal shores
of Fallinel... Where else could
you see this, for example?"
And you see that there
is a woman who's standing
in a vined archway and the wind blows
a diaphanous white gown, and
she just dances in the archway.
You see he says, "She's been
doing that for 300 years."
- Is that her career?
- "Caraar?"
- Is that her job?
- "Jobe?"
- Is that what she does for-
- So where would we find Aelwyn?
- You see he says, "Aelwyn
Abernant, the sister of Adaine."
- Yes.
- "I know not.
Has your quest brought
you here to the lands
of the Lomenelda seeking without answer?"
- No. We know where she is.
She's in a nearby some
sort of prison or fortress.
I can check. I have the
dossier that has information
about the location itself.
- "Ah."
- What do you know about
the Abernant mother?
- "Arianwen?"
- She's the one that you
said committed the great-
- "I know not what her crimes were,
but I know that she fled these
shores some minutes ago?"
- Minutes?
- Probably longer.
Probably longer.
- Oh, he doesn't know time.
- He's doing some elf stuff.
- How long have we been here?
- "You just got here this very moment."
- That's kinda true.
We really have not been
here for that long.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Been a solid 10 minutes or so.
- Have you ever seen each
other? Have you ever met?
- No.
- "My darling grandson..."
He's just leading you through the grotto.
Anyone here that wants to make
Insight or Perception checks
about this space that you're
in, feel absolutely free to.
- I just want to look for my stag again.
- Cool.
- That's a Nat one.
- That's a 19.
- 17.
- 17.
- Six.
- Six, cool.
- I got a nine to find my stag.
- Cool. What do you guys who rolled
above a 15 looking for in particular?
- I guess I'm trying to
make sure that these people
aren't all under a spell or something.
I think Riz is a pretty paranoid guy.
- Rude, Riz.
- You look around. You see
that there are some elves...
You see that there are two Elven youths
that are just clad in
sort of white linen shorts
that otherwise are unclothed
and are near this pool.
And you see, one of them
looks at another and says,
"Haldorin, have you seen my lute?"
And another one says, "I don't know, man.
Where did you leave it?"
And he says, "I heard from
Thrathrine that you maybe took
it, and that's a d*ck move."
And you see that he shoves the kid,
and the other kid shoves him back.
And you hear a bit of that
siren song you heard before,
and the two of these young,
kind of teen-looking elves
that were shoving each other both relax,
and you see that one of them
says, "Conflict is pointless.
New lutes are easy to make.
I forgive thee, Haldorin," and walks away.
- Okay.
- Then I'm looking,
I was looking to see if,
yeah, if this was a spell
that we were seeing, if this
isn't really where we are,
our perception of it.
- Do you use any spells
to confirm that?
- I just got a 19 on Perception.
- Cool. I mean, there's a lot
of magical sh*t going on here.
Telemaine actually looks
and notices though.
You see he says, "Are you
gazing at the Elven youths
that abound here in Kei Lumennura?"
- I was more wondering where
that music's coming from.
- "Ah."
- Ooh, yeah. It's so great.
Where exactly is it?
- "The muse of sorrow.
She sings her song.
I am Telemaine Lomenelda. I
was gifted with this place
after crafting a sword for
the ancient king of Fallinel.
I am the smith of Fandrangor,
Sword of the North Star,
blade of King Thristwin Eversong.
3,000 years ago did I craft this blade,
and I was gifted with
stewardship of these lands.
Throughout Fallinel,
before elves come to an age
of full maturity but
after the sweet spring
of their infancy, there is a brief moment
where they are gripped by a madness
where they become angry
and horny and stupid
and they are banished
by their families here
to Kei Lumennura where
we kind of just sit tight
on them for the briefest of moments."
- Wait, so this is all horny teens,
and you're just here
playing lute music at them
so that they won't do anything bad?
- "Long ago in the lore of Fallinel,
we found that there was truly
just the briefest window
of time where elves were
not good to be around
and we banished them
here to Kei Lumennura."
- So this is like a different school?
This is like a high school?
- "Haichul?"
- Come on.
You know the word high, right?
- Tell him, Jorjuj.
- "It's two words?"
- Yes, but-
- "The high chole."
- Sure, yeah.
- Yeah, the high chole.
You nailed it.
- I think I gotta walk.
I'm gonna take a walk.
- We hang out
with an elf all the
time who's in that age,
and she's lovely.
- Yeah.
- She did kinda brain someone with a-
- Ladle.
- Ladle.
- Yeah, she broke a woman's skull.
- But who of us hasn't k*lled somebody?
- Sure, yeah.
- Okay.
- "What?"
- We're rather rambunctious.
I'm a rambunctious young man.
- "Then, eat of the grapes.
Any grape you find is good to eat."
- No one eat anything.
- No one eat a single grape.
- "Even if you find them on
the ground, they're good."
- No one eat anything off the ground.
- You're telling me I could
eat a grape off the ground?
- Jorjuj, do not.
- I'm just trying to-
- Jorjuj.
- I'm just saying, eating a grape
off the ground, always gonna-
- Okay.
I'll eat a grape, and we can all-
- Do not eat a grape.
- It's my grandfather's legacy.
- We're not hungry.
- Don't eat
your grandfather's grapes.
- I will whack the grape out.
- Jorjuj starts stomping grapes.
- You see that this ancient elf
turns to you and says,
"So you believe that your
friend, Adaine Abernant,
and her sister, Aelwyn,
were both taken by members
of the Court of Stars."
- Yes.
- Would we recognize
Adaine's father from the previous battle?
- Yeah, definitely.
- Yes. Well, we believe that
I think the Court of Stars
as well as her own father
captured her, teleported away.
- He looks at you
and says, "May I speak
freely amongst your company?"
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Totally.
- Okay.
- "Angwyn Abernant is
a crass and small man.
There is no nobility within his frame.
His soul wants for only power.
I believe there is no part
of him that could behold
the beauty of a single drop of water."
- You've been carrying that drop of water?
- "This whole time."
- Do you want a tissue or something?
Oh, actually I was talking
about for the drop of water,
but yeah, there's a lot
more water being made.
- "How does it just do that?"
- Grandpapa.
- Are you on mushrooms?
- "Hmm?"
- Are you on some sort of psychedelic?
- "Would you like to be on mushrooms?"
- I would.
- Yeah.
- "There are lounging
mushrooms in the grotto."
- Oh.
- And you see huge,
puffy mushrooms to sit on.
- Oh, to sit on.
- It's for the best.
I've never done them, so.
- Grandpapa.
- I do do them.
- We're worried about Adaine.
- Yeah.
- "Yes."
- And we'd very much like
to, as incredible as this place is-
- This grape place.
- "I'd like everyone
to try and behold a drop of water
just so you get what I'm talking about."
- Okay.
- I thought we did. Okay.
- I guess, okay, I'll try,
but then you gotta point me
in the direction of the prison.
- "What prison do you speak of?"
- Tower?
- Well, it's a tower.
- Calethriel Tower.
- Calethriel Tower.
- The wind blows, and his
long blonde tresses sway
in the wind. "Calethriel Tower
lies immediately to the north
of these lands.
I didn't know that there was
stuff going on with that."
- I mean, I'm not sure...
I don't know if there's a
bunch of stuff going on,
but there's stuff that's
particular to us going on there.
- Was it previously abandoned?
- "Calethriel Tower is a place of mourning
for the ancient widow Calethriel.
Her husband sailed in great w*r
against the humans of Highcourt, and he
died.
He died."
- How long ago did that happen?
- "500 years past."
- I'm so sorry. I try
to comfort this old elf.
- Gorgug goes and lays down in the van.
Keeps a window cracked.
- Hey, we know it's north.
Let's just go.
- Yeah.
- We should get some-
- Yeah, we need to rest.
- We should get some grapes.
- We should get some rest.
We should not get any grapes.
- I'm fine to not rest.
Just putting it out there,
I'm fine to just, let's go get our girl.
- I'm beat up, but I can take
a short rest and be okay.
How is everybody health-
- I'm out of most things.
- I didn't really do
anything last time, so.
- I have a level of
exhaustion from Frenzy.
- I'm out of most things.
- Yeah.
- My hit points are pretty bad.
I think I've got about one spell left.
- They need Adaine.
They're not going to do anything
to her right off the bat.
- I hope.
- Could we just maybe
rest for the night and
then or, if some people-
- "Come. You shall be
fed and brought to beds
where Elven sheets crafted
by Elven sheetsmiths
in ages long past."
- Sheetsmiths?
- "Would you believe 80,000 thread count?"
- Whoa.
- No.
- That sounds like sleeping on cream.
- Yeah.
- "Would you like to sleep on cream?"
- Yeah. Totally.
- I feel like we should...
Our friend is kidnapped. We
shouldn't have too much fun.
Do you have anything just a
hundred thread count just-
- Whoa. All right.
- We're not in mourning.
- I'm going to sleep
in an 80,000 thread count-
- "To think you feel
you cannot even spend one
night in sleep for your deaths
so fast approach."
- See, you're the one
who just made us feel bad about napping.
- "What?"
- I just, I don't know, I'm
gonna sleep on a mushroom.
- Can't win with this guy.
Should we sleep in the van?
Should we have Tracker do
some sort of room situation?
- We still have our
sleeping bag situation.
- Yeah, I'm gonna sleep in the van.
- I wanna sleep in the van.
- Is there any...
I'm just gonna take the
sheets off of one of the beds
and bring them back to the van.
I'm not skipping out on this.
- Our friend is kidnapped.
Everyone, bring your bedrolls.
- Yeah, Tracker is like,
you can bring as many of those sheets,
and I'll use them to make the Moon Haven.
- Regular bedrolls.
- No.
- Awesome.
- The Ball, no.
- You guys have a boyfriend
pillow or anything like that?
A body pillow.
It's called a body pillow
or a boyfriend pillow.
- "Joyjarant.
Groyfriend."
- Which word are you trying to say?
- "It's two words?"
- Jorjuj.
- It's three pillows.
- "Boy and friend."
- Boyfriend pillow, back pillow.
- Jorjug.
- Jorjug.
- I'm getting pissed. I'm getting pissed.
- This is my grandfather.
- Oh, grandfather. Hey,
can I tell something?
- Yeah, what's up?
- Your grandfather is pissing me off.
- Jorjug, you're being rude. All right?
- All right. All right.
- And just because my grandfather
says words differently-
- I'm stressed out. I'm
sorry. I'm stressed out.
- I know. There's a lot going on.
- He's a lot. He's really a lot.
- He's going real slow and
we feel like we go fast.
- Everyone's so excited to
do my dad's snuff. All right?
But then my grandpapa says
a couple of weird words,
and we're all like, "f*ck this guy."
- Hey.
- Okay.
- I wasn't missing when we
did your grandfather's snuff?
Whose snuff?
- No, my papa's snuff.
- Your papa's snuff.
- Can I cast Detect Evil and
Good and start casting that?
- Sure.
You cast Detect Evil and Good.
You detect a lot of ambient
fey slash celestial energy.
There's not too many
active faeries in Fallinel.
The elves would find faeries
a little bit too chaotic.
Faeries are usually not
mournful enough for these elves.
There's sort of a loose
fey slash celestial energy
in the place, not any actual
otherworldly beings, though.
- Cool.
- Gorgug is gonna put
his headphones on.
- Cool.
- 'Cause he sees all these people reacting
to this music in such a way and
wants to just, I don't know.
- Get himself out.
Ragh sits next to you in
the van as you do that
and is basically like
"This place is a trip, dude.
This is wild."
- Yeah, yeah.
- "Yeah. It's crazy.
All these dudes just running
around eating grapes.
This is so stupid."
- Oh, you love everyone here.
- Ragh, do you love this place?
- "No, I'm...
Shut the f*ck up. I don't
f*cking love this place."
- Go talk to someone.
- "Okay! Thank you!"
And he walks off.
- Don't eat any grapes.
- Sorry, sorry. I'm so sorry.
- Don't eat anything.
- He's gonna eat grapes.
He's gonna come back and he's
not gonna be horny anymore.
- Can I talk to the crystal in the van?
Can I talk to the Hangvan?
- Sure.
You see the Hangvan is
like, "Kristen Applebees."
- Hey, hey.
- "A little one on one? Okay."
- Yeah.
- "What's up, homie?"
- Did you know, we're
in Fallinel right now.
- "I heard of it. About it."
- Yeah.
Similar vibe. Is this
kinda your people or?
- "You know, I feel like
everyone's kind of partying
but they feel sort of sad about it.
For me, I'm less like
blossoms on the wind,
diaphanous white gowns, and I'm
more like how about a couple
of glass bottles of soda on the beach,
our favorite tunes, and,
you know, some kind of chill
letter board game, you know?"
- Oh, cool. Okay, gotcha.
Yeah, I actually know exactly who you are.
- Tracker looks over at you and says,
"Hey, right when we were teleporting,
you mentioned something
about Sandra Lynn and Garthy.
What's up?"
- Yeah.
Well, are you done with the Moon Haven?
- "Well, I should wait to
cast it until we're all ready
to go to sleep, but yeah."
- Yeah. Yeah, we should talk.
Can we just go talk?
- Yeah, you can go talk one on one. Yeah.
- Cool. Okay.
Yeah, Sandra Lynn, I
think, slept with Garthy.
I think they were into them.
- "What?"
- Yeah.
- "Wait. When did this happen?"
- When we were there the first night,
when I took the octopus's
beer and I had no idea,
and I was trying to be cool,
and I was leaning a lot.
- "Oh my god.
Oh my god."
- Yeah.
- "When did you find out?"
- That night. That night I went over there
with Riz and we were...
At first, we weren't sure
if she was under a spell
or something like that because
it seemed so unlike her.
Isn't she the one with your dad
that's like we have to be closed?
- "My Uncle Jawbone, yeah."
- Oh yeah. Your uncle.
- "Why didn't... You knew
about this last night?"
- Yeah. Honestly, I don't know,
'cause I'm a little bit torn.
She's a woman trying to figure it out,
and I think that there's
a lot going on there.
So, I didn't feel like I wanted to tell
a whole bunch of people even though
I know it's really gonna affect you,
but we didn't really have
a good one on one time.
- "You didn't want to tell
a whole bunch of people?"
- Yeah, yeah. No, but I
just didn't wanna tell you
until I had even talked to her.
And then, when I tried to talk to her,
she totally was like, "We're
not talking about this."
I feel like she should tell you.
- Go ahead and make a Charisma
check with disadvantage.
- Oh, great. My Charisma's not good.
- Did Ayda come with us?
- Ayda is with you. Yeah.
- Okay.
- No way.
- You can guess what that was.
- Two Nat ones.
- You can guess what that was doubled.
- Oh.
- That was two Nat ones.
- Two Nat ones.
- Wow.
- I was supporting a
woman's right to choose
and trying to let her choose
to tell you herself, babe.
Was that a mistake?
- "Here's your shot."
- Uh-huh.
- "Tell me the real reason
why you didn't tell me.
You're Ms. Introspection
And Self-Awareness, right?
I'm not a lot of people."
- Yeah.
- "I'm your girlfriend."
- Right.
- "So why didn't you
mention something to me?
And give me the real answer."
- I really think just
so much was happening.
I wasn't thinking to let you know.
- She turns and walks
off into the darkness.
- Wait. Was there another reason?
- Kristen, what just happened?
- I don't know, but I told
Tracker about your mom,
and she was really upset that
I didn't tell her earlier.
- Why? That's my mom's business.
- Kinda that's what I was thinking too.
But I do get that maybe...
Yeah, Tracker might be really
protective over Jawbone,
which I would understand.
- Yeah.
- I just felt kinda like
not my family, and I
don't need to poke my head
into the family and mix
things up, but I don't know.
- I guess that's fair.
- I could understand being
really upset about this.
- Hey, I think that... I honestly assumed
that you told Tracker because
she's your girlfriend.
- Yeah.
- But I think it's kinda cool
that you protected my mom's,
you know, whatever was going on with her.
- Yeah.
- Or is going on.
- There's kinda no right answer to that,
but I do feel like if I had
to write a list of people
that are important to me,
Tracker would be ahead
of your mom on it.
- But that doesn't mean
that's who you tell things to.
- Yeah, true, true. Wait.
Can I go try to talk to Sandra Lynn?
- Sure. Absolutely. You
go find Sandra Lynn.
You see that Sandra Lynn
is landed with Baxter.
As you approach, she looks
over and says, "Hey, Kristen.
I just did a little loop up
there. Calethriel's very close.
It's probably only, walking
distance, probably a four
or five-hour hike north of here, so."
- Cool. So I wanted to
let you know something,
and I wanted to be really straightforward.
I'm not being very good with words today,
but Tracker asked what happened
between you and Garthy.
I told them that you
and Garthy had a night.
Tracker was very upset
that I didn't share that
with her before, and now
I feel like I f*cked up.
But just so you know, it's out there,
and maybe you should talk to her.
Honestly, maybe you should talk to me,
'cause I don't totally
know what happened either.
Do you still have whiskey on you?
Thank you.
Oh, hell yeah. It's back.
It's back.
I'm back.
- She snatches it back out of your hand.
- Come on.
- Dancing.
- "I got..." She says, "I got drunk
and made some stupid decisions."
- You're speaking my language.
- "You pour beer out of beer cans
and drink seltzer out of 'em."
- Yeah.
That was the old me. The
new me gets drunk real fast
'cause I'm not used to alcohol in my body.
- "Okay.
You have to go to the van."
- What?
- You see, she takes you over.
Gilear is near-
- Actually, I have a question.
So talking to Kristen
about this, I remember...
I have this memory that when
I was watching the situation,
obviously when I was watching
it, I was mostly just like
"Holy sh*t, my mom is
flirting. That's crazy."
But I have this memory that,
at one point, she said something
and it looked like it changed the mood,
but then the mood went back to normal
or something like that.
Am I misremembering that?
- Can you be a little more clear
about what you're trying to remember?
- I feel like there was
a moment where it's like
it was Sandra Lynn said something
and it made the mood
shift in a bad direction,
like a hostile direction, and then someone
touched someone's elbow and it was-
- I thought she just flirted
with him and came on-
- Oh, so she was just
really good flirting.
Okay, okay. Then I don't.
- Yeah.
So you see Gilear is near you
and looks off at Sandra Lynn
and looks over at you and says,
"Figueroth, my daughter,
pretty cool digs. Right?
This is the way to live.
High elves, they're so high,
and they really do it right."
- Do you wanna live in a place like this?
- "No, I would ruin it. I
know that about myself."
- That is such a deeply
sad thing to say, Gilear.
You wouldn't ruin it.
Honestly, you're thriving here.
- He unbuttons the top button
of his short-sleeve button-up.
"Time to let loose."
- Yes, Gilear.
- "Alright.
I might go get a grape."
- Yes, Gilear.
Pop them grapes.
- Don't!
- Pop a grape, Gilear.
- It's probably fine
if Gilear has a grape.
- Fine.
I mean, how much, yeah.
- Yeah.
- You see Gilear says, "What was the...
I wanted to ask you, daughter, is there...
I observed a strange interaction.
My insight into the workings
of the heart alerted me
to a strange presence between your mother,
Sandra Lynn, and our
benefactor, Garthy O'Brien."
- Yeah.
- "Are you aware of any such...
hanky-panky?"
- All I'm gonna say, Gilear, is that,
if anything, what may or
may not have happened there
is a testament that what she did to you,
you know, was maybe a pattern in her
and had nothing to do with
a failing on your part.
- Gilear nods.
"Your mother... I don't need
to make excuses on her behalf.
Or, you know, defend what she did.
She's been very hurtful
to me through her actions.
Do you ever wonder...
You know your mother
graduated Aguefort, right?
When she was a younger woman."
- Yeah.
- "Do you ever wonder what happened to her
adventuring party?"
- No, actually. I hadn't really...
- "The reason she took
her job as just a member
of the sort of Solisian Rangers,
she was promising for
much more beyond that
for quite some time.
She was taken as a replacement member
for an adventuring party that
was actually already active
in the world. Her senior
year, she actually dropped out
and got her diploma after the fact
to join an adventuring party.
I don't know everything.
Your mother's been very private about it,
but there was a married couple
within that adventuring party,
and they were older and
more powerful adventurers,
and my understanding is that,
as a very young woman fresh
out of adventuring school,
she fell in love with a member
of that wedded union who did
not treat her very kindly.
And when everything came out,
she was ejected from
that adventuring party,
and her future as an
adventurer was dimmed.
I don't know that that-"
- Her name got smeared
because of what happened?
- "Smeared enough.
Adventuring parties were
formed often at Aguefort
and no one wanted her as a replacement,
and the person that had
been her romantic partner
that had been unfaithful in that group
took great pains to smear her name
so that no one else would accept her."
- Do you know who it was?
- "I do."
- Who was it?
- He nods and says, "Another time."
- No.
- He says,
"It's your mother's
information, not mine."
- Alright.
- "I wanted to tell you
what I knew not to forgive
but only to say that
Sandra Lynn has always been impulsive
and guided by her heart, but...
maybe they're unrelated.
Maybe she has done wrong by people
and has also been wronged, and
one doesn't excuse the other.
But there is a fuller picture
to understanding your mother, I think."
- I absolutely agree.
I was mostly trying to
protect your feelings.
I don't know how it feels for you
to see her do what she did
to you to someone else.
- "Honestly, perhaps this is f*cked up..."
- Well, get a little
f*cked up. Come on, Pops.
- "It makes me feel
like it wasn't something
uniquely wrong with me."
- That's exactly what I was saying.
- "Maybe a tiny little W
for Gilear. Not a big one."
- No, no. Caps lock.
- "No.
That's a lowercase W for Gilear."
- Caps lock on that W. Get
a couple grapes in you.
- Can I try to pick a bunch of flowers
but then hide them in
a pocket or something
and find Tracker?
- Go ahead and make a
Survival check for me.
- Interesting. Oh, that's okay. Yeah, 17.
- You follow her out into the woods.
You see, resting on the grass
in wolf form, is Tracker,
who's just, and has got
her paws over her nose.
And she does that thing that
dogs do when they're sulking,
where she just glares at you
and doesn't move as you approach.
- Hi. I wanted to come say I'm sorry.
Yeah, you're so important to me,
and this had to do with your family.
I'm really sorry. I should've
told you immediately.
I should've told you that night.
- Go ahead and make
another Persuasion check,
if you'd be so kind.
- Just normal?
- Just normal, no disadvantage.
- Nat one.
- Throw it away.
- No way.
It's not just me.
- Ally is the coolest roller
I've ever played with.
- Jesus f*cking Christ.
- You see-
Tracker transforms into her humanoid self.
She walks up to you, and you
can see that her eyes tear up
as she looks at you.
"I think you didn't tell me
because you didn't know
the right way to do it,
and it would be a hard conversation."
- Totally right.
Totally right. Yeah.
- "That sucks."
- I know. I am so sorry.
It's just so many moving
parts in your family,
part of me kind of
psychotically thought that
since Jawbone is very open
that maybe he wouldn't care
about this, but of course he would,
because she is so closed about this.
It's so hypocritical. Yeah.
- "I...
Jawbone's a whole other...
Look, Jawbone's gonna be fine.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I have to talk to him or
Sandra Lynn or somebody.
That's a whole other...
Look, grownups and their
relationships aren't our business.
And I do understand that
it sucks. It's weird.
I don't want to have that
conversation with Jawbone.
I don't feel comfortable
going to Sandra Lynn
and talking about it.
But, Kristen, it just really
sucks. It really hurts."
- Yeah, totally.
- "I feel like you obsess
over what the right thing is,
and you kind of, in this...
Obsessing over the right
thing all the time,
if it leads you to
inaction where you're like
'I don't have a good
option,' so you just stall
or delay or don't do something,
that's also a wrong choice."
- Yeah. I think you're right.
- "I love you."
- Yeah. I love you too. I
brought you these flowers.
I was gonna give them to you
when we were fully made up,
but that's probably not gonna happen,
so here's this while
we're still in a fight.
- "While we're still in a fight."
- Just here. I picked these flowers.
They're gonna wilt in my pocket.
- "And when we made up?"
- I was thinking I would come
over and just really woo you
with my heartfelt apology,
but it didn't go that way,
and I understand. It's not that easy.
- "Well, if it's so inevitable
that we're gonna make up,
why don't you just hang tight,
and I'll let you know when it happens."
- Yeah.
- And she throws the
flowers on the ground.
- No.
- And walks towards the van.
- I pick up the flowers.
They're really good.
I picked the best of each bush.
I picked the best of each bush!
- "Well, that's as good
as mind control, Kristen.
I'm so over it." And she
walks off towards the van.
- Obviously follow her, but at a distance.
You can have your storming
away. You can have it.
- Awesome.
Who all is in the van getting
ready for bed right now?
- Riz.
- I'd probably be in there.
- I'm on my way.
- I have two levels
of exhaustion and pneumonia.
I get the sheets, and I head back.
- Give me-
- You're gonna sweat out-
- Wrapped in milk.
- Cream, basically-
- Go ahead and give me a
Constitution saving throw,
if you'd be so kind.
- Great.
Eight.
- Cool.
- That's with your...
They bought me a new dice,
and I rolled with it,
and I'm still doing okay.
- Eight is better.
- Eight is better.
- No, he rolled a three.
He has a high Con modifier.
- Those dice are bad.
- You see that-
- It's these hands, baby.
These hands. I'm cursed.
- We're gonna get you
new hands for Christmas.
- So your grandfather,
Telemaine, approaches and says,
"My sweet grandson."
- Oh, Grandpapa.
- "Do you wish for me to seek
healing for your illness?
There should be no disease
within Kei Lumennura."
- Yeah. I'd appreciate being healed.
It would be lovely.
- You see he beckons to one
of your aunts, who approaches.
This is your aunt Vanleliel.
She approaches and says,
"My nephew, Fabbiaan."
- Hello, Aunt. I'm sorry, what is your-
- "Vanleliel."
- Vanleriel. Nice to meet you.
- "The illness grips your body."
- Yes.
- "Disease should not
come to these shores.
I shall banish it henceforth."
"How is that? How do you feel about that?"
- I think I'm still pretty sick.
- "Weird. Okay. Let me..."
- I roll up a van window angrily. Sh.
- "Now? Did it?"
- Not really.
Is it just the song? Is it just the song,
or is there going to be a-
- "Just the song..."
- Is there going to be a-
- She speaks in Elven
very fast to Telemaine. "We
have never seen an illness
of this strength before in Kei Lumennura."
- I've gotten this sick...
I've never gotten this sick before,
but I've seen people get this sick before.
- You see your aunt says,
"I must use my greatest song of all."
- You know, you don't have to.
- Get in the van!
- Hold on. They're doing Elven healing.
- How's it working?
- "I have failed, and I shall fade."
Your aunt looks up into the
sky, turns into starlight-
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- And vanishes.
- Come back.
- Telemaine looks and says,
"I think I've seen her do
that before. So we should be-"
- She'll come back?
- "Sure."
- Alright.
I'm sorry that we're not
meeting under circumstances
where I can spend time
with you. You seem great
and like an interesting person.
- "In another life, I
would have kept you here
until the icy fangs of death came
and wrested you from my arms.
What horror that would
have been to witness.
Perhaps it is best that your human father
took my daughter away, and
that you should grow up
in those wild lands beyond these shores.
My darling grandson."
- Can I get those sheets?
- "Yeah. Yeah, for sure."
You see he comes back with the sheets.
You see he says, "Is it normal
that you're missing an
eye out of your head?"
- Oh, no. It got cut out in a fight.
- "I could speak and send word-"
- No.
- "On the wings of the white dove.
There is an elf that lives
in the high mountains
at the heart of Fallinel
who crafts eyes from songs
and whispers and beams of moonlight,
jeweled edges of the blue of the sea,
shimmering poems pulled
from the ether itself.
If you like."
- Like an eye?
- "As real as song and whispers."
- Sure. I'll take an eye.
You promise me you won't turn
into stardust and disappear.
- "As you wish."
You see he turns into silver sand
and floats away on the wind.
- No.
- Wait, before he goes,
I just put it together.
This is Gilear's future father-in-law.
- You see the sand comes
back and goes, "What?"
- I just realized. Hello.
Hi, I'm Fig. We met earlier.
I put cigarettes on your ground.
My dad is dating your daughter.
- "You are also the child
of William Seacaster?"
- No, no. Gilear, who is the man who's-
- You see Gilear comes back in.
He has one more button
done, and he comes over,
and he's got a huge silver tureen of cream
with floating berries in
it, and you see he's like,
"This is the most similar
thing I could find to yogurt.
It's like a clotted cream.
It's like a sweet, clotted...
It's like a butter, a
kind of a sweet butter."
- Gilear, this is your girlfriend's dad.
- You see he looks over and goes, "Right.
Daughter, did you bring that up?
I was kind of gonna slow-roll that."
- Oh, he doesn't know
yet. He's none the wiser.
- He puts down the tureen
and a big gob splashes
onto his shirt and a little on his face,
and he walks over and
says, "Telemaine Lomenelda
of Kei Lumennura, I, Gilear Faeth,
am involved romantically with
your daughter, Hallariel.
We are not... It's unclear to...
She is definitely my partner,
and I sleep in her garage."
You see Telemaine squints his
eyes and goes, "Gargahjay."
And you see he says, "Garage."
- This is going really well.
- You can pronounce the G sounds,
so I don't understand what's going on.
- Jorjuj.
- You see he says,
"If you, a wood elf, are
to marry my daughter,
let us walk in the midnight orchards
and recite our favorite
poems to one another."
- Oh my god.
- And you see Gilear goes
and goes, "sh*t, sh*t."
And walks off with Telemaine,
and you see Telemaine says,
"Where lands the evening swan of dusk,
the mid light blossoms bloom and grow,
and peaks of mountains far away
descend on crystal glint of snow,
and wheresoever songs are sung,
and Elven magic fills the air,
a prayer
I whisper now, a prayer."
And you see that Gilear goes, "Um.
How much wood-
Could a woodchuck
chuck..." and he walks off
into the orchard with Telemaine.
- Can I-
- Can I talk to-
- I do have one 2nd-level spell left.
Can I use Phantasmal
Force just to make Gilear
look a little more,
just make him look hot?
- Cool. You make him look hot.
- Or even if I have to use
the entire 2nd-level spell
to just hide the yogurt stain
on his shirt.
- It will take
the whole spell to hide the yogurt stain.
So he is stainless as he
walks off into the night.
Yes?
- Can I talk to Ayda
real fast?
- Yeah.
Ayda has been in the van the whole time.
She looks over at you
and says, "What is it?"
- Hey.
I feel like I've overheard
30 sad conversations already,
but do you have the Sending spell as well?
- Hold on one second. You know...
I actually think
there's a chance she
would have prepared it.
I'm gonna roll an open Luck
check in front of the board.
We're gonna call it even odds.
11 or higher, she's got it prepared.
10 or lower, she does not.
- Okay.
- 12.
- Hey.
- That's all it takes.
- Awesome.
You see she looks and says, "I do. Why?"
- So I just kinda have to
send my girlfriend a message.
There's been a lot of
crazy stuff happening,
and I feel like I've done a bad job
of communicating with her,
and I just wanted to let
her know where we are
and that we're safe and that
I'm trying to figure that out.
- You see that she looks and
says, "You've done a bad job?"
- Yeah, I was trying to, well, I told her
that I would get this cell tower
figured out before we left,
and then, I just let
it fall to the wayside
when a bunch of other stuff happened.
- "Why?"
- Well, there was a
mo... I just feel like...
Why? I guess I just didn't prioritize it,
and I didn't think about
it as well as I could have.
- "Hm."
- My friends were kind of in danger,
and I'm not exactly an organized guy,
and I kind of forgot
until it was too late.
- "Wizards of the ancient past
committed many such errors,
oversights, moments of hubris.
They paid for it dearly,
trapped in crystal caves,
sent amongst the stars,
destroyed or unmade.
How have you paid for this crime?"
- How have I... Well, she
seems kind of mad at me.
The last time we talked, she
was cutting out on the crystal,
and she said, she was like,
"You said you're gonna put
the tower," so that was pretty bad.
I've been feeling pretty-
- "That's terrifying."
- I've been feeling pretty bad since then.
- "If people are mad at me
about something that I've done,
that's terrifying."
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
I don't like it either.
- "I can't be in there,
in the room when that happens."
- When people are mad at you?
- "No."
- Okay. Yeah, I don't like it either.
- "Are you mad at me right now?"
- I'm not mad at you.
- "Okay."
- I think you're doing a good job.
- "Thank you."
- And I appreciate you.
- "I think you're doing
a good job as well,
though you've just admitted
a great failing to me."
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- "What I've seen you do
has been good."
- Oh, good.
- "Obviously, the failures have
been kept from me, hidden."
- Well, I don't know if I was hiding them
from you specifically.
- "I didn't see them,
and I see a lot."
- Sure. Okay.
Well, can I use that spell or?
- "Can you?"
- Well, I know I'm gonna be the
greatest wizard of all time,
but for now, I don't know how to do it.
- "You're asking me to do it for you?"
- Yeah. Could I pay you?
- She leaps forward
and pins you to the ground with her talon
and puts a finger in your face and says,
"Do you remain now in my debt,
Gorgug Thistlespring, wizard of Solace?"
- Could I just pay you some gold?
- "150 gold."
- Yeah, sure.
- "Great."
- I give her 150 gold.
- She casts a Sending
spell. What does Gorgug say?
You got 25 words, curses not included.
- Oh yeah. Definitely cuss her out.
- Call her the B word.
- Yeah.
- Just end with some
real raunchy promises.
- C word.
- Yeah.
- I think Gorgug just
says, "sh*t. I'm sorry.
I fully should have set up..." Hold on.
- You take a second to think of that.
As you do, Tracker makes
the Moon Haven and,
Kristen, she looks over at you and says,
"Maybe we crash in
separate places tonight."
- I understand. I'll get some cream.
I get some cream from Fabian.
- You get some creamy sheets.
Whose other room do you kinda go into?
- f*cking Gilear.
- Gilear is like, "Um, maybe not mine."
Oh, no, Gilear... Yeah,
or Gilear is actually out
with Telemaine right now.
- I take Gilear's bed.
- You take Gilear's bed.
- I write a quick note so when
he comes in late at night,
it says, "Oops, sorry."
- Sorry, actually,
as you go to Gilear's room,
you see there's already
two people in here.
You walk in and Ragh is in there,
and there is this young, lithe, Elven lad
who looks about 17, 18,
who looks up to you.
Ragh goes, "Oh. This is my buddy."
Hold on a second. He looks and says,
"This is my pal Fathethriel."
- Fathethriel.
- Can I do a quick Perception
check on Fathethriel?
- Sure.
- Hey. There we go. That's a 12.
- Blonde mop of hair
kind of covering one eye.
- Is he trying to k*ll Ragh?
- What did you roll for your Insight?
- 14.
- You don't think
he's trying to... He
looks at you and says,
"I am Fathethriel." You
see Ragh says, "Yeah.
Fathethriel's... Actually it's cool,
because I was talking to him
about bloodrush and sports,
and Fathethriel bakes Elven waybread.
So that's sorta like
something we have in common."
- Yeah, you have so much in
common. Okay, I close the door.
Okay. I'll leave you to it.
- Fathethriel calls out and says,
"Do you want some Elven waybread?"
- No, thank you. Is Ragh eating it?
- You see he looks up
and says, "I don't know.
He's a hungry boy."
And you see Ragh goes
"This f*cking guy.
I'll see you later."
- I'll see you. Absolutely.
- And they see you walk
away. As you head off-
- Oh, I guess I take Adaine's bed.
- Adaine, oh, you take
Adaine's bed. That makes sense.
You go crash in Adaine's bed.
- It's so neat.
- So neat in here.
Speaking of Adaine,
while Zac is still putting
his Sending together,
we are actually going
to cut over not too far,
just a few leagues away
over to Calethriel Tower.
- Brennan, I got you a
little Christmas present.
- You did?
- I did.
- Oh wow.
- Oh my god.
- What is it?
- I didn't know anything
about this. For real.
Oh my god. It's wrapped.
- It's weighted die
for Nat ones.
- There you go.
- Sugar and dice. Edible dice.
- Yeah, so you can eat
your f*cking dice, dude!
I'm gonna make you eat your g*dd*mn dice.
- Truly incredible and-
- So cool.
- If I get whomped, I will.
- Great.
- Incredible. My god, that is amazing.
- That's so cool.
- Wow.
- Sugar and dice. Oh, that's amazing.
Thank you, Siobhan.
- You're welcome.
- I appreciate it.
- Merry Christmas.
- I will always win.
- You can win at D&D.
- You can win at D&D.
High atop Calethriel Tower,
spinning in a giant floating orb,
it is extremely soft.
It does not hurt you to
be moved around this,
and in fact, there are places
where you can kind of slide
with the orb for a moment as it's moving.
So you're never injured. You
just cannot be still in here.
- Mm-hmm.
- As it slowly rotates, you see
that Boggy is there with you
who has his
not-so-sure-about-this face on.
But you see that he ribbits
softly under your arm
as you kind of move around the space.
- Can I cast spells in here? What's...
- You can. You absolutely can cast spells.
- Will they get out of the orb?
- You believe that there
might be a magic circle
that's preventing you
from doing stuff in here,
but, basically, the elves
believe that you've run
out of spell slots, and
you're not gonna be able
to trance in here.
- Uh-huh.
- So, at the moment, you are unguarded.
But give me an Arcana
check to see if there's
any kind of spell stuff happening here.
- Great.
A 10.
- There might be some shenanigans
in here. It's hard to say.
- Mm-hmm.
- What you notice that bums
you out is there are a lot
of artifacts in here.
The walls are kind of glowing with runes.
- Mm-hmm.
- There is something
pumping through this place
that looks like raw elemental power.
One of the things that you
know about is that permanent...
One of the hardest things to do
with magic is have a permanent effect.
- Right.
- It's really hard
to make something last forever.
But there do seem to be a lot
of permanent magical effects here.
And as you're looking at it,
it's very clear that whatever wizards
or artificers crafted this stuff
didn't wanna burn their
own internal resources.
The equivalent, you know,
in-world you guys wouldn't know
what experience points are,
but life energy or whatever,
these wizards didn't wanna expend that.
So there appears to be something
pumping through this place.
And so you're like, oh, they might be able
to do some real wacky shenanigans
with prepared directional
counterspells or whatever.
- Mm-hmm.
- And have it be powered by some force
that you can't glean on a 10.
You're not really sure what it is.
- Mm-hmm.
- But you think,
obviously, you don't think
that they would have
prepared to counter cantrips,
which they know you'd be able to cast
'cause you would never
run out of cantrips.
- Right.
- They're not based
on spell slots.
- Well.
Hmm.
God, there's so little I can do.
Can I cast Detect Magic?
It's a ritual spell.
- Yeah.
- And Identify?
- Unfortunately, your jacket
and spellbook and stuff
has not been left in here with you.
- Oh.
- So it's like you
and Boggy, basically, are in here,
and, you know, other than that,
there is not that much else.
So you can't ritual cast any
of your higher level spells.
- Okay.
Well, I had a short rest, so
I have one 3rd-level spell.
- Okay.
- Can I cast Counterspell
towards something?
- Sure.
- Or I guess Dispel...
I have Dispel Magic. Can I cast Dispel...
Oh, I don't have my... I
have it as a prepared spell.
Is that?
- Yeah, absolutely.
You have Dispel Magic.
If you want to attempt
to nix this orb out,
you would at least have
a little bit of time
to be able to do that.
Dispel Magic, the DC equals
10 plus the spell's level
for each...
Okay, so you're gonna roll
a D20 plus your Intelligence modifier.
The DC you're trying to hit is a 15.
- Okay.
I got a 19.
- Yeah.
- Hell yeah.
So, you manage to get back one spell slot
they didn't know was there.
The orb (imitates magic
whirring) vanishes.
As it vanishes, a few
Counterspells kind of
ring off for a second, and an
alarm immediately goes off.
So you know that they know you're here.
- Okay. Great. I am...
There's a window?
- There is a window. Yes.
- How high up am I?
- You're probably about 160 feet up.
- Okay.
And do I have any idea where it was
that my spellbook was left?
- It was taken away to
another place in the tower.
- Dang. Okay.
Can I then just look for a place to hide?
- Yeah, absolutely.
You see also Boggy looks at
you and looks out the window,
and you see that Boggy can turn into mist
and might be able to make a run for it
to have your friends be
able to know where you are.
- I think that there's
actually rules against that.
- Oh, there are?
- Do you have Message or something?
- I hate to k*ll myself.
Or maybe I'm wrong?
But I think that Find Familiar only,
they have to be within a
certain distance from you.
I don't have the full spell
on this spell card. I'm sorry.
- No, it can go farther away,
but you lose the ability
to communicate telepathically
when it's beyond a hundred feet.
- Oh, okay. That's what it was. Okay.
But I have no idea where my people are.
- You don't, so Boggy would just be
heading off into the wild.
- Right. Exactly.
And the chances of him finding them...
I'm assuming that they're still in Solace.
- Or still in Leviathan, yeah.
- Or still in Leviathan. Sorry.
- Yeah.
- So I think I'm gonna
keep him with me for now just
because I think that that
makes the most sense.
I think that he can help me most here.
- Cool. Cool.
- Can I... Here is where I
would like to hide, if possible.
Let me know if you think it's possible,
'cause I would like to
go and see if I can hide
in Aelwyn's room.
I feel like it's just
the least likely place
for them to look for me.
- Sure. Absolutely.
Go ahead and give me a Stealth check.
Boggy can give you advantage on this.
- Great.
I rolled a two and a four. So I got a six.
- You run in there to hide.
- Mm-hmm.
- You rush in. Boggy's with you.
You hear people coming through the towers.
Give me a Perception
check as you're running.
- 15.
- As you run by these towers,
you see down in the courtyard...
Remember in the courtyard when
you tried to make your escape
and mages kind of appeared out of nowhere?
- Yeah.
- You see them step out of
doorways that don't have doors
in them and are built into
the stone of the wall.
And as they trigger, you see the runes
in these Elven archways
are the same that you saw
in the protections
around your orb upstairs.
As they appear,
you see it's the same
thing where it's like,
oh, this place doesn't have dozens
of Elven mages guarding you,
but the second anything happens,
a bunch of Elven mages appear
through these doorways.
You see that (imitates magic
whirring) they come through.
You go into Aelwyn's room.
I'm gonna make a little
Search check. Cool.
You go in there, hide behind the corner.
Aelwyn's long blonde hair is matted.
Her face looks dry and desiccated.
Her lips are completely
colorless and chapped.
- Mm-hmm.
- She is crawling on hands and knees.
You can see that clearly she
is at five points of exhaustion
and only magic is keeping her
from going to the sixth and dying.
- Mm-hmm.
- She moves through to you.
And your roll is low enough
that she sees you come in
and sees you hide. She moves through.
You see that there's a rush
of people to your room.
You see these tall... they
almost look like green men,
where they have leaves
coming from their faces.
They're about eight feet
tall, and you immediately see
that these are clearly
spellcrafted, magecraft automata,
not mechanical or made of pure magic,
but almost like elemental,
plant-based things.
Soldiers rush in towards your chambers.
You see the young maiden Kir looks up
and communicates something sort
of telepathically to Aelwyn.
And you can almost hear
the Message cantrip
going back and forth between them.
- Mm-hmm.
- You see Kir basically
says, "Where did she go?"
And you see that Aelwyn responds and says,
she doesn't look at you
to make that motion.
She looks, and her response
to the Message cantrip is,
"However should I know. I see nothing."
And Kir moves to
investigate your quarters.
Aelwyn makes eye contact with you
and casts a Message cantrip.
She looks at you and says,
"Do you have any spell slots left.
Anything to get out?"
- I have four 1st-level
spell slots. No spellbook.
And a frog.
- "It's an alright frog."
- I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on her.
I don't. I don't really do that.
I don't want to waste one
of my four spell slots.
- Can you Message us?
- It's only 120 feet, and you
have to see the person to...
- She looks at you and says,
"Anything dangerous like a
spellbook or something like that
would've been left in the
vault on the first floor.
It'll be locked down by now.
The alarm will have triggered it.
The vault will be one of the
first things that has to go.
Does anyone know you're here?"
- They know that I was taken.
I don't know if they know that I'm here.
I only had one spell, and I
used it to get rid of my orb.
Maybe I should've told
my friends. I don't know.
- "Did Mother find you?"
- Briefly.
- She looks at you for a long time,
shaking under the effort
of continual movement.
"It's rather hard to gather
one's thoughts in here."
- Mm-hmm.
Aelwyn, nobody deserves
this. This is wrong.
What you did is wrong,
but what they've done to you is barbaric.
- What limited moisture is left
in her body forms tears in her eyes.
She looks at you and says,
"Adaine, I'm very sorry.
I hardly remember anything anymore.
I know that I behaved dreadfully.
I know I behaved dreadfully to the world,
and I know I behaved dreadfully to you,
and that was barbaric and undeserved.
I am very sorry that our...
I feel a very broken person
that it took months of t*rture
to make me exposed enough
to say what I always should have said
and didn't have the strength to.
There's no apology that
makes any of it alright,
and the truth is that I
feel so strange and addled
that I can't even give
you a better apology
'cause I don't remember
at this point what's real
and what's imagined."
- I think our parents...
I used to think that them treating you
as an untouchable favorite and me,
who could never do anything right,
I thought that I was the only
one that they were damaging.
But I think that they damaged you too.
I think that that's as damaging.
They're bad people, both of them.
- You see that she shivers
a little bit and says,
"Well, I think in certain ways,
they tried the best they
could. Didn't they?"
- No, I don't think they did.
- "I don't really remember.
They expected quite a lot
of us, but isn't that...
Didn't that make us great?"
- Expectation without love. What's that?
- "You..."
You watch her kind of go, "Right...
Sorry, how did this conversation begin?
Are you here to get me out or no?"
- Yes, I'm here to get you out.
- "Oh."
- But I can't get you out yet
because I'm out of spells.
- "Alright.
Well, how many spell slots do you have?"
- I have four 1st-level spell slots.
- "Alright. Where is your spellbook?"
- I think it's in the
vault on the first floor.
- "The vault is on the
first floor. That's right."
And you see she starts
to go over the first part
of the conversation again.
- Mm-hmm.
Can I hide in this room?
Is there a closet or something
that I can crawl into?
- You see a couple moments
later that these guards come in.
There's about, you know, four of them,
and Kir is here as well.
She waggles her finger at you.
- Oh god.
- And she takes you into the room again.
What you see as you
walk back to your room,
however, is that your room is not
outside of the range
of the Message cantrip
from Aelwyn's quarters.
- Great.
- You are placed back in the orb.
And, a few moments after
the guards leave again,
you hear a voice in
your mind say, "Hello?"
- Aelwyn?
- "Who's this?"
- It's me, Adaine.
- "Adaine, are you here in the tower?"
- Yes. I'm here to rescue you.
- "Adaine, you deserve an apology."
- Thank you, but we
don't have time for that.
Can you tell me everything
that you know about the tower?
The tower that we're in.
- "There's a vault on the first floor.
That's where everything
special is being kept.
Adaine, I'm scared."
- I am too.
- Your sister does her best to help you
without being able to remember
really what you've said
or talked about to each other.
And we are going to move
back from Calethriel Tower
to Kei Lumennura in the south.
You guys awake the-
- Doesn't he have a message to send?
- Oh, that's right. You have a message.
- I've been watching him
write it and rewrite it.
- We're gonna scratch.
- Hold on. Let's see here.
- 25 words.
That's not very many words.
- Did you use your curses?
- I gotta say, you had some bad
drafts, and they got better.
- You gotta just get the bad draft out.
- Okay. Let's hear it.
Let's hear it, Jorjuj.
- Jorjuj.
- "Zelda.
Safe in Fallinel. Gonna
finish cell tower soon.
Sorry about everything, but
hope your break is going well
in spite of this. Miss you." 25 words.
- See, you didn't have miss
you in the early drafts.
- Yes.
- Ah.
- That was a good one.
- Essential.
- That's a beautiful message,
but it is also a message
of a handful of words, and
you're limited by the text there,
so I'm gonna ask for a Persuasion
check with disadvantage.
- Okay.
This g*dd*mn game.
To the sheet.
Persuasion?
- Uh-huh.
- Okay, but that's still-
- 12.
- Cool.
- It's not less.
Sad music's still playing.
- Yeah.
We just see red.
- Seems like you should change the music.
- Yeah, why aren't we playing
with a fun rock-and-roll guitar?
Where's the metal, my guy?
- Some sexy Marvin Gaye.
- Play sexy Marvin Gaye.
- Cool. You wait for a while.
I'm gonna say that, in
the van, both... probably
at different points 'cause
you have to get out of the van
to use the bathroom in
the night and stuff,
but at different points
in the night... Actually,
Fig, Fabian, Kristen, and Riz
give me Perception checks.
- 17.
- Ooh, 25.
- 25.
- Four.
- Four. Cool.
- Thrice.
- Kristen, in the middle of the night,
you notice that a light is
still on in Gorgug's room.
- Hey, what's going on,
man? You should sleep.
We gotta get our strength back.
- Yeah, I was trying to sleep.
Yeah, I'm going to bed soon.
- Everything okay?
- I talked to Ayda, and I
was able to send a message
to Zelda, and I think
probably there's some
kind of time difference situation.
- Between us and the Red Waste?
- Yeah, I don't know what
the conversion is on that.
- I think it's the same time zone.
Not to mess with your theory, but...
- Gotcha.
- Damn, Kristen.
Kristen eating it today.
- Gorgug,
give me a Perception check
with advantage real quick.
- Eating it.
- 15.
- Kristen came out of Adaine's room.
- How are you doing?
- Not good.
I'm kinda in the doghouse
'cause I didn't tell Tracker
about her dad getting cheated on.
I just kinda sat on that like a old egg.
- What?
- Specifically.
- Sometimes, don't you feel like it's...
I feel like a lot of times I am not good
at saying the right thing,
and I feel like that makes me
a slow and bad communicator.
And then, I'm also just
a little bit of a mess
on top of that, and I think
it was unfair to Zelda
that I didn't do a good
job of talking to her
before this trip and during the trip.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Forgot to make a cell tower,
but-
- That sucks. Yeah.
Making a cell tower-
- I got some sticks together.
- You're almost to the
structure of it. Yeah.
- Do you know how to make a cell tower?
- I don't think I do. Do I?
- You're asking me if Kristen Applebees
knows how to make a cell tower?
- Kristen, you don't happen to know
how to make an entire cell tower, do you?
- I think I do.
Let me take a crack at it.
- Cool.
Go ahead and give me a Wisdom
proficiency check with...
Sorry, this is gonna be an
Intelligence proficiency check...
Or not proficiency, so just
raw Intelligence, disadvantage.
Go ahead and give me a roll.
- Hey, two 14s.
- Cool.
- 15.
- You don't know how
to build a cell tower.
- So maybe, actually, you
know how you have the base?
Maybe we need to flip that up on top.
- So the base goes on top?
So the big pile of sticks at
the bottom goes to the top?
Oh.
- I've been getting
in a lot of trouble for
saying the wrong things.
So maybe I shouldn't help
you with this. You know?
Crazy. But yeah, I'm just
sleeping in Adaine's room.
So, yeah.
- Well, I'm sorry.
- We should probably both
get some sleep though, man.
- Okay. I don't know anything
about how this spell works,
but will it wake me up?
- I don't know either, actually.
- You don't know- wow. Okay.
Well.
- With Message?
- Sending. It's a Sending spell.
- Well, you didn't Send it, right?
- It's Ayda. Maybe it goes back to Ayda?
- I think it would go back to Ayda,
and then Ayda would let you know.
- Alright. I'll go to sleep in a sec.
- But I think you're really great.
You're a really great friend.
You've never let me down.
- Thank you.
- So that's good.
- You've never let me down.
- Hey, thanks.
If someone is cheating on your mom or dad,
I would tell you immediately to your face.
- Same. And if you asked me,
or if you forgot, wait no.
If you asked me to build a cell tower,
I would do it immediately,
and I would know how.
- I love you, man.
- I love you too.
- I give you a hug.
- You give each other a big hug.
- And then I go back to
Adaine's room in my milk sheet.
- Cool, in your milk sheet.
- Yeah. How good are these sheets?
- You go on these sheets.
These sheets give all
of you guys the benefit
of a full long rest. Even though
you failed your Constitution
saves, these are gonna give you
an additional Constitution
save with advantage.
- Elven sheets
made of cream silk.
- That'll be mod 20.
- Your exhaustion is removed.
- Yeah!
- Nice.
- Woo!
These sheets were forged
in the silk forge of Elven times.
- Sheetsmiths and silk forges.
- Gorgeous.
- That's an 80,000 thread count.
- Great.
With this rest, and I'm gonna
say Adaine gets this as well
even though you are
not taking a long rest,
all of you guys from the
previous battle in Leviathan,
and I'm going to pump this up
with some role-playing awards as well,
get 3,500 experience points each.
- Yay.
- So we're level nine?
- I don't-
- We're at 44,100. Right?
- Let me go ahead and check that.
- I truly don't know at all.
- We went from 40,600 plus 3,500? Right?
- You guys... How much XP
do you guys have right now?
- 44,100.
- So it's 45,100.
- 44,000?
- 44,100.
- No, nine is 48,000.
- Hey, we're almost there.
- Could we get about 5,000 more?
- I asked this before
we started recording,
but can we just beat each
other up back and forth?
- Yeah, can we farm?
- We're gonna move right along.
- I take a big swing at Fig.
- I have four 1st-level spells
and I am willing to use all of them.
- I say heal me and
I'll do the same to you.
- The following morning,
you guys awaken to a choir
of all of the youths here in Kei Lumennura
singing and dancing
under the morning light
and doing kind of a strange dance yoga.
- Can I join them?
- Yes, go ahead and give
me an Acrobatics check.
- Where is Ragh?
- Adaine is in prison.
- Well, everyone's waking up.
- I go and look for my stag.
I'm just kidding.
- 20, mod 20.
- You do this beautiful Elven-
- Whoa.
- Dance yoga. It makes you feel like...
It's good.
- Maybe I'm not supposed to be a fighter.
Maybe I'm supposed to be a yoga dancer.
- Oh no.
- You see someone comes
up to you and says,
"Fabbiaan, I am Chethrenren.
Take this. It's a grape."
- I take it and pocket it.
- You see he says, "Take this
and let me put it in your mouth."
- No, no.
- "With my hand."
- No, stop it.
- "Fabbiaan."
- Give it to me. I'll eat it later.
I'm going to go eat it. I have
to go. My friend's in prison.
Alright?
- You see that a number
of young Elven youths come
over, lithe and dancing
and they're sort of
reveling in their bodies,
and have long diaphanous silk scarves,
40, 50-foot scarves.
- Oh, I take one of those.
- They see, Kristen, you run up.
They start to dance
around you and wrap you,
and the wind blows, you're
sort of buffeted by scarves.
"You dance so beautifully."
- Oh, thank you.
- "You dance fearlessly and bravely,
unafraid of the death that awaits you."
- Alright. Everyone needs
to stop talking about-
- You see this deep brown
hair, bright blue eyes,
young Elven woman touches
your cheek and says,
"Would you dance with me
on this beautiful morning?"
- For a quick moment, then I really
have to go save my friend from prison.
- "For a quick moment. For a
quick moment is all you have."
- I'm getting my coffee to go being like-
- Fabian, what are you doing?
- Just one more dance.
- You see that Telemaine comes back.
He's been walking all night with Gilear.
You see they round the
corner in the midnight garden
and you see that Gilear looks and says,
"There once was a man from Bastion City.
And you see that Telemaine looks and says,
"What's your deal?"
- My friend is kidnapped.
- "Ah."
- And my other friends are
just dancing and eating grapes.
- "Have you had a grape?"
- No.
- "You have a harsh energy."
- I'm a harsh guy.
- "What's that metal tube on your hip
with a little handle on it?"
- It's just a metal tube.
I think it's beautiful.
Then I do a dance.
I think it's beautiful and
everything's fine here.
Everything's fine and good, isn't it?
Then I look at everyone.
- "Fabbiaan."
- Yes?
- "Your friend's a little d*ck."
- He's just very, very-
- Wait, no, so you know that word.
- "Hmm? He's reminiscent of a little d*ck.
You know?"
- Yes. I'm a little d*ck.
- Honestly, I like my grandpapa.
- Bringing back with Jorjug.
- Yeah.
- You got the end part of it right,
which is the same as the
middle and the front part.
- "Bordad."
- Sure.
- "Brorjej."
- Brodic.
- Brodicas.
- Gorgug just starts running away.
- You guys just take off after the rest.
You're heading north.
You see that Ragh... As you guys head off,
you see that Ragh is over...
I don't know if any of you guys...
The van has Gilear,
Sandra Lynn is in there.
Tracker goes into wolf
form to move to the forest.
Cathilda is geared up for battle.
You see, sort of at the caboose,
at the edge of Kei Lumennura
before you guys leave,
Ragh is talking to Fathethriel,
and you see that he's
going like, "Oh, man.
I had such an incredible time."
And you see that Fathethriel
has one of the ribbon scarves
kind of around him and
is playfully moving it
and stroking his arms,
and Ragh is kind of trying
to disentangle himself and
looking around panicked.
"Can someone..."
- Ragh, come over here.
I have something to say
to everyone, actually.
- You see he says,
"Fathethriel, I have to save
one of my friends, but
I will for sure be back,
and it was awesome."
"Green skin like the boughs of
a tree, leafy, my leafy man."
And you see that Ragh goes,
"Okay, don't talk about my skin."
And he runs off and gets
away and says, "Hoo.
What's up? We gotta go."
- Alright, everyone.
Yeah.
- "We gotta go. We gotta go."
- I just have a little thing
to say just to kinda gear us up, you know?
We've been through a lot, you know?
We were on Leviathan,
you know, we got through everything there.
There was a lot of crazy
stuff that happened, you know?
And we met, you know, Garthy and-
- It's gonna get inspiring pretty soon.
- Yeah.
- And then it,
yeah, it got kinda weird.
I guess we don't wanna get into that,
but yeah, some of us made some mistakes.
- Feels more personal than inspiring.
- I guess, you know,
this isn't some sort of-
- Cathartic, maybe?
- Yeah.
- You know, public apology, but, you know.
Tracker, I am really sorry
for things that I won't get into here.
- No, this is brave. This is inspiring me.
I'm feeling inspired.
- And you know, yeah, sure.
You know, Fabian got his a*s handed to him
by a lot of people, but he was alone,
so it's like, that's fine.
That would've happened to me.
We're all kind of weak, you know?
- Can you be so uncomfortable
that you get more hit points?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I just, you know,
I messed up once.
- It feels like that's
about to happen.
- Your body protects itself
and secretes hit points.
- I had a little whiskey
earlier 'cause I was, you know,
just chatting about something
hard with Sandra Lynn.
- It was like eight and a half hours ago.
- Sandra Lynn, you know
what I'm talking about.
We might-
- "What's your point, Kristen?"
- How did Kristen get a
microphone from a wedding?
- Yeah, we went to college together and-
- Just with a paper, shaking.
- Anyway, what I'm trying
to say is friendship
is thicker than water and
we need water to live.
- Let's go out on that. Yeah.
- Alright.
- Yes.
- We need water to live!
- We need water to live!
- Now let's get outta here!
- Wonderful.
- So we all just got some temp hit points
for that inspiring speech.
- Truly insane.
- How many did we get?
- How many is it, 11?
- Let's find out.
- It's not a spell. It's an ability.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good call.
- Level plus Charisma.
- Hey, there we go. That's 11.
- Sweet.
- Ooh.
- Cool.
- Thank you, Kristen.
- Hey, no problem.
I can recite that anytime.
- You see,
you arrive at the edge of
the lands where the illusion
begins to fade. You see that
Telemaine appears here at the
edge of the land and goes,
"You have taken your leave so soon.
I am sorry for how horny
and stupid the youths of this place are."
- You'd be stupid not to be horny.
- Actually, I kind of agree with you.
Your whole idea here... My
friends are way too horny.
- Do you want a grape? I stole one.
- I don't want a grape.
- Okay.
- You see he says, "Careful.
Some of the grapes, when they are removed
from Kei Lumennura, turn into song."
- Turn into song?
- Can you reach into your
pocket and see what happens?
- Okay, those are gonna
be bad for stealthing.
I throw the grapes.
- Yeah.
If anyone has a grape that they stole,
put it out of your pocket now.
- So everyone just starts
throwing just tons of grapes.
- I let out a choir.
- Sorry, guys.
- Unbelievable. Ragh,
do you have any grapes?
I feel like that guy was
giving you grapes all night.
- He goes, "Yeah. Yeah,
I ate a lot of grapes."
- What did it do?
- So are you just gonna start
singing when we leave?
- He burps
and a musical note comes out.
- Do you guys remember Goldenhoard?
People poison us sometimes.
There's bad people.
- I wasn't gonna eat this.
- This is my family, Riz.
- You see Telemaine looks
and says, "My grandson.
I have sent word to the fabled eyesmiths
of the far mountains.
They now craft an eye
for you, if you wish."
- How long will that take?
- "The briefest moment."
- Like it'll be here now?
- Now does that mean a couple days or-
- "No."
- Oh, for you.
- Oh, he doesn't know time.
- Yes, that's right.
- "I don't know, a couple
years, a hundred years."
- A hundred years?
- The briefest moment is a hundred years.
- "For my immortal Elven life."
- Alright.
Thank you, Grandpapa.
- Let's go.
- You see he says, "You go now
to make w*r on Calethriel Tower."
- I think hopefully not w*r.
I mean, violence will
be avoided if possible.
- You see he says,
"Violence is what awaits you
if you descend on Calethriel.
The moon doors of the
Elven folk will bring mages
of the Third Ring, the Court
of Stars upon that place,
should you attack it.
Enchanted men, oak warriors of the forest,
will be summoned to their aid.
It is a fool's errand for you to attack.
What are you smiling about?"
- I'm not smiling about anything.
I think this is all normal.
- "Right. It's a fool's errand."
- Do you have any tips or tricks?
- Do you have any way to disenchant-
- We don't want to attack it.
- We just wanna get our friend out.
- We just wanna get our friend back.
- Should we tell these horrible teens
that there's a party at the tower?
- Party at the moon tower.
- "The teens have been banished.
No teenjaijern may exit from-"
- What'd you say?
- "What's that?"
- Teendaijer. He said teendaijer.
He's trying to say teenager.
- Can I ask you a question, sir?
- "Yes."
- Do you have the photo?
- Oh, yes.
- Do you see someone in this
photo besides a smiling elf?
- A smiling elf?
- Goblin.
- A goblin.
- Look, I'm a human, guys. I'm sorry.
- Look, you don't know about goblins?
- No, I know that you're a goblin.
- You thought Riz was an elf?
- Give me a Perception check.
- Hey, 21.
- He hands it to you and says, "I see only
a strange painting
of a goblin in odd costume."
You see the cat.
- Me?
- You.
- What?
- Can I make a Perception
check and look at it?
- Can I look at it?
- Yeah.
You guys look at it.
Oh, you guys don't need to make rolls.
If you're just trying
to look at the picture-
- Yeah, I'm looking at the
picture. What do I see?
- I wasn't sure if-
- Um. Um.
- You don't see it.
- It's when you lie about something.
Sandra Lynn lied, and the next day
she could see the shadow cat, right?
Didn't see Sandra Lynn see-
- I'm looking at it
and I don't see it, right?
- Correct.
- I never lied about anything, though.
- Okay.
- Well, you got in a fight
with-
- Yeah.
- Hey, I think you're the
tallest person I've ever seen.
- You do not see-
- You guys, I see the cat.
I see the f*cking cat.
Does that mean the cat touched
me and now I can see her?
Was she in Adaine's bed?
Was I spooning the cat
all night in the milk?
- Were you spooning anyone?
- You weren't spooning the cat
all night in the milk.
- The cream comforter
was so soft, it felt like
someone was spooning me.
- But it must be something
that we do in our life,
'cause remember Tracker
started to be able to see-
- f*ck.
- Shadow cat.
- Tracker, I know we're in a fight,
but can you please hug me?
- Tracker looks at you
and gives you a hug,
pats you on the back.
- I can see the cat.
- "Okay."
- We can both see the cat now.
- "We can both see the cat."
- Did you sleep it off?
Are you still mad at me?
- "Did I sleep? f*ck
you." And she removes you.
- This is crazy!
- Kristen, I know nothing
about relationships,
but I also know that was the worst thing
you could've ever said.
- What the f*ck?
- In my opinion, that was
actually your first real misstep.
- That's crazy.
- Did you sleep it off was not good.
- You see-
- Tick-tock.
- Ayda looks at you and
says, "This is a bad time
to bring this up,
but I don't know when times
are good to bring things up."
- Ayda, be you. We'll love it.
However you wanna be, we love you.
- "Thank you."
- What do you have to say?
- "I love you too. Is that normal?"
- Sure.
- "Okay."
- Should be.
- "Good."
- If it isn't, it should be.
- What's going on?
- "Your message has been returned."
- Oh.
- You see that she relays Zelda's message.
Says, "Sorry. Was at a party..."
You see she says-
- That's manipulative.
Use those 25 words to say that? Come on.
- You see she says, "You don't
have to build a cell tower.
That's crazy. It's all whatever,
Gorgug. I don't blame you."
- At least she said your name right.
- Yeah, yeah. At least
she said my name right.
- It sounds like you're off the hook.
- You see Ayda looks at you and says,
"Why do you react to that
first statement that way?"
- Oh, because when people
are in a relationship
and they're not in the same place,
sometimes they can make them feel insecure
to find out that the other
person was out socializing
a bunch and being around a lot of people
who could be potentially alluring to them.
And so, when you're limited
to only 25 words and you use-
- To use a bunch of them.
- Yeah.
To use a bunch of them to say I was
with a lot of other people
who potentially could've-
- "She should have said that
she was completely isolated."
- She should've just not mentioned it.
I'm saying it was a choice to mention it.
- "Of course. Yes, much
information has been left out.
So social information is
intentionally hurtful."
- I put my arm around Gorgug kinda.
- Ayda looks and says,
"This Zelda woman has hurt you, Gorgug.
If you want, I can exact
terrible vengeance."
- It's okay. It's not like
that. I think it's fine.
- "Okay, I don't know what it's like.
So thank you for putting bumpers up
and letting me figure out."
- Sure, thank you.
- Ayda, do you know Plane Shift?
- "I'm afraid I don't know
the Plane Shift spell.
But I am powerful enough to research it."
- Will you?
- Oh yeah, right.
- Will you?
- "I would have to return
to the Compass Points in Leviathan,
perhaps after we rescue my
friend Adaine, my best friend.
Is that strange?"
- No.
- "Have I made myself vulnerable?"
- That's awesome, but she's
also kind of my best friend.
- It's good to be vulnerable.
- Yeah.
- "Per the transitive
property, are we best friends?"
- Yeah. Yeah, you know what,
that's a nice way to take it.
- "Fantastic. I grow richer
by the day. I am emotional."
She starts crying.
"I am emotional."
Fire growing on her face.
"I'm gonna fly away."
And you see she flies off.
- Oh no.
- Wait, what?
- What do we need to do
to get into this tower?
- Wait a second.
- What?
- The elf that was with Ragh last night.
- Uh-huh?
- That's someone
that you interacted that the rest
of us didn't interact with.
- Mm-hmm.
- Fathethriel?
- Ragh's always been able to see her.
- "I don't know if we should go back
and talk to Fathethriel."
- No, no, no. I don't want...
I'm not talking about going-
- Are you okay?
What happened?
- Yeah, what happened?
Was it good or was it weird?
- Oh, can I do an Insight check on Ragh?
- Me too.
- It was probably good,
but he just doesn't want the-
- 17.
- Drama.
- 12.
- Was it like your personalities
didn't really jive?
- "No, I'm not the type of
dude who would bang somebody
that I had f*cking nothing in common with.
When we were talking, he was like...
I don't know. It's just
there's some stuff he said.
He kind of made a lot of
comments about me being big
and beefy, which was hot in the moment.
And then, it sort of kept happening.
I was sort of like, 'What
do you do, and he was like,
'Your legs are like the
mighty trunks of trees,'
and I was like, 'We've already-'"
- Okay.
- "'You know, we banged.
We can just truly chat.'"
- Sort of like once you're finished,
it's kinda like don't
touch me for a little bit.
- "Yeah, exactly. Right?
I actually punched one of the
seats in the van pretty hard.
It's wild, 'cause I didn't really know
that if you do finish, it's
like 'Get off of me!' You know?"
- Was that that? Yeah, okay.
- "I was that."
- Get away from me!
- "Yeah. I kind of raged.
I raged right at the end there.
I punched one of the van
seats, and he got into it
in a way that made me feel self-conscious,
and I was like, 'Get off of me!'"
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- So no shadow magic
or anything, just talking
about your tree trunk legs.
- "The only shadow magic here
is your boy lost his V card."
- Oh.
- Wow.
- I didn't know that you were
a virgin. That's great, man.
- "Yeah, not anymore. Sayonara, so.
Yeah, he was a super nice, chill dude
who has maybe led a sheltered life
and has not met half-orcs before."
- Mm-hmm.
- "And also, just afterwards,
when we were lying in bed,
he sang a lot."
- I could see that happening.
- "You know what I mean?
I feel like an as*h*le.
I'm an as*h*le. I'm judging someone
that I was intimate with."
- No, yeah.
- "It's just like don't sing. You know?
I'm sorry, I'm an as*h*le. I'm an as*h*le.
Don't sing in bed."
- Yeah.
- There's a lot of singing going on.
- You're allowed to not
get along with someone.
- Everyone's a lot.
- Yeah, this place is
like what if every...
Eh, it's no good.
- We gotta rescue Adaine.
- We need to go rescue Adaine.
- Why do I see the cat all of a sudden?
- I don't know.
- I don't know that we're
gonna figure it out.
- We'll figure it out
another time.
- It's on my mind as well.
- Splendid.
You see that Telemaine
looks at you as you guys
are preparing to leave. Ayda
calms down and flies back.
You see that Telemaine says,
"Calethriel is defended
magically from all forms
of arcane spellcraft.
Any wizard or sorcerer
would be hard pressed
to find their way through its defenses.
They are prepared for
every magical eventuality."
- What if I just hit everything
pretty hard with my axe,
and I got so mad about
it that I was hitting it
harder than normal?
- "Well, I'm sure the elves
would not have stooped so low
to defend their fortress from an axe."
- I've infiltrated a lot of places.
- Gorgug just starts running.
- You see that he looks
and says, "But it will have
the moon doors and everything
else will be powered
by elemental pylons. So those will be-"
- Is that something we can destroy?
- "They will be protected
from any magical attempt to-"
- What if I sh**t it with
a g*n? I pull out the g*n.
- You see he says, "So there
is a name for the tube."
- Yes, it's a g*n.
- "There is a tube name.
You're a little d*ck."
- I like this side of you.
- "Oh. You are a strange,
green, mouse thing."
- He really grows on you,
Grandpapa. He really...
At the beginning, you're like, it's a lot.
- You see he says, "Well, I don't know...
If it's a spell, the pylons
will have been protected.
If it's not a spell, the
arcanosmiths who crafted
the pylons will not have
stooped or sullied themselves
to defend the pylons from... What is that?
Does a little axe come out of that?"
- No, it's... I sh**t the g*n.
- He looks at it and says,
"What just happened?"
- There's a little expl*si*n inside there
and it rocketed this
little ball. It's a g*n.
- Grandpapa, are you okay?
- "That's gross.
Oh, that's gross. That's
like some Dwarven...
Mm, no. No, no, no."
- To the concept of a g*n?
- He throws up.
"I have soiled myself for the first time
since the second age of the moon."
- Gilear, this is your chance.
He's low stat staying there.
- Gilear says, "I would like
to marry your daughter!"
- What?
What?
- "Fabian, this is my only shot."
- What?
- "Fabian, you've gotta relax.
It's my only shot."
- Wait, not right now.
- "When am I gonna have another shot?"
- I am so low, I am so
in the pits right now.
- He grabs you and says, "You're low?"
He goes, "You're low and he's low.
It's Gilear's day, baby.
It's Gilear's day."
- Literally do not.
- Yes!
- Gilear walks in and says-
- Bardic Inspiration.
- Alright, Box of Doom.
- I wanna give Gilear the Help action.
By climbing up on Fabian
and holding his mouth.
- Holding his mouth,
you jump up on Fabian.
Let's roll here, rolling with advantage.
Okay, that's a 12.
I'm gonna say he needs to beat a 20.
No. Yeah. He needs to beat a 20.
He's got a proficiency,
but minus two as well.
So he's gotta roll an eight.
- My heart is racing
right now.
- He's gotta roll an eight.
- In order to... Oh.
- He's gotta roll an eight
in order to make it.
- I mean,
he's also gotta roll a high with her.
- What's that?
- Never mind. Never mind.
- Okay.
- That's a one.
- No.
- He goes up. You see he goes up and says,
"Lord Telemaine of Kei Lumennura, I,
like you, am..."
he makes himself throw up.
"We get it. We both get it.
We're the throw-up boys."
And he passes out and-
- What?
- Did Gilear just call
himself a throw-up boy?
- He tried to bond with
someone by making himself-
- Get off me.
- I try to run
after Gorgug. I got your back, man.
- I drag Gilear into the woods.
- Cool. You see that Sandra
Lynn shakes her head,
picks up Gilear with
Riz, puts him in the van.
You guys all head north. Telemaine-
- Bye, Grandpapa.
- You see that Telemaine turns his vomit
into a flock of white crows that fly away.
- No one interact with those crows.
- You see he says, "Fabbiaan.
May the wind ever carry
your away from."
- What?
- Sand.
- Alright.
Wow. My mom's side of the
family is weird as hell.
- I never thought we
would take a full episode
of this show to just dunk on elves.
A full episode. You guys head north.
Go ahead and make Perception checks.
- Oh yeah.
- Hell yeah. 27.
- Word to-
- Oh, I am rolling terrible today.
- Dammit. Oh, I'm sorry.
- That's a big four.
- 11.
- Dude, mod one.
- Four, mod one.
- 27.
- 12.
- 27?
- 11.
- 11.
- Sick.
- Cool.
You arrive at the lip of this valley.
What you see as you approach is that
Ayda looks out for a second.
Sandra Lynn says, "Okay,
so what's our strategy
for the approach here?"
- Are we just going after
the literal mechanic
that will summon the guards?
- I mean, he suggested
that none of the things
are defended against physical attack.
It seemed that due to the elves' thoughts
on physical violence, so.
- So no spells
from here on out, 'cause
that might trigger
them knowing that we're here?
- What if I...
I guess if they're completely
protected against spells,
I shouldn't even try anything.
'Cause I could disguise myself
to look like Adaine's mom,
and then maybe they
would all come after her,
and then you guys could run in.
- I mean, if they k*ll you,
that doesn't help us very much.
- They wouldn't k*ll her, though.
- They would maybe capture her.
- With that high Perception check,
you see what you think
are the elemental pylons
around Calethriel Tower.
- Ooh.
- Here's the issue, though.
They're probably multiple
miles away from each other.
You see a tall tower on
the corner of a ridge,
and off in the corner,
you see a little bit
of smoke as if coming from a smithy
or a forge or something like that.
And with that 27, you can just sense
magical energy moving through this.
You guys are not privy
to Adaine's Arcana check,
but these are the things
that are allowing
permanent magical effects
to stay standing almost as
power stations or sources.
So, looking at it with
that high Perception check,
it's basically like there's
a couple of almost like
our equivalent of electrical
power transformers.
- Yeah.
- That if you were able
to knock them out, you would be able to-
- Basically shut down the magic.
- Yeah, basically only the
people that were already
physically at Calethriel would be there.
You think that, probably, looking at it,
you wouldn't have enough
time to hit those pylons
and then go the miles it
takes to get to Calethriel
and win before somebody
knew some sh*t was going on.
- Okay.
- 'Cause, you know,
just like an electrical grid,
if you knock something out,
someone's looking at that
grid somewhere and goes,
'Uh, we just lost power in
one of our prison centers.'
Right?
- So we need three teams.
One team to go to one,
is it called a pylon,
those electrical things?
- Yes, they're called elemental pylons.
- So there's two pylons?
- There's two, right?
We need one team to go to one,
one team to go to the other,
and then we need an Adaine retrieval team.
- I like that a lot.
- Yeah. We also have-
- The goal is not to fight.
The goal is to-
- Could you teleport?
- Ayda looks and says,
"I have one remaining
Teleportation spell."
- But would we need the pylons to be out
in order for us to use our magic?
- You see Ayda shrugs and says,
"I don't personally know
the defenses of this place,
but if it is as Lord Telemaine has said,
then it's reasonable that
there will be arcane runic
magical defenses at this tower.
However, they require
some form of power source,
and it seems that these pylons are that."
- Yeah, so we could do two teams
but the third team is waiting
until we knock them out
to teleport in.
- Yes.
- The third team basically gets a message-
- We need to teleport off of Fallinel.
- We also only need-
- Gets a message
that the pylons are down, then
we can cast whatever spells
we want without triggering-
- You're right.
We can't teleport into
there, 'cause we have to use
that Teleportation to get out of Fallinel.
- Yeah, we need the teleport
to get out of Fallinel.
- And you see that Ayda
also, well Sandra Lynn
actually speaks up and says,
"Also, if we're all separated,
I don't feel great leaving the two of you
at an attacked Elven
facility without an ability
to teleport off of somewhere,
because the Court of Stars is
going to be coming after you.
So we need to somehow...
I don't want to teleport away with Adaine
and leave whoever hit those pylons."
- What if one group
went in to save Adaine,
another group went to one pylon with Ayda,
destroyed it, immediately
teleported to the other one,
destroyed that, and then
heads off to the woods
to meet Adaine's team?
- But then how do we get off of Fallinel?
- Do we need to teleport
to get out of Fallinel?
- We would all need to meet up anyway.
- But if they're teleporting already-
- I think we need to hit the pylons
at the same time, if we can.
- Okay.
- My understanding was that the teleport
was how we all get off of Fallinel.
- Right.
- Because if one pylon
goes down, then the other
pylon that still has the energy
to detect that something's going on.
- Right.
- I feel like we wanna
synchronize it.
- I'm just casting
Ray of Frost inside my orb
to make it a fun little slip-and-slide
because I refuse to be
broken by these people.
- You have Dimension Door, right?
- I do have Dimension Door.
- Adaine,
go ahead and give me a
Constitution saving throw.
- Oh no.
12.
- You do not
have a point of exhaustion.
Your willpower funnels through you
even though you have not been
able to trance this night
as you make a slippery
little thing for yourself
to slide around on.
- So I have Dimension Door,
but that only allows me
to bring one other person.
So I could be a one-woman
Adaine retrieval team
considering I can disguise myself.
- I'm good at stealthing too. Why don't-
- But that couldn't get you out.
- You see Sandra Lynn sort
of thinks for a second.
She says, "Baxter can
clear a lot of ground.
So if we're trying to
meet at a middle point,
we do have a griffin.
The woods are not gonna
be great for the Hangvan.
Maybe the Hangvan is our meeting point."
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
- "Right?"
She taps and is like,
"And you have Dimension
Door, right, sweetie?"
- Mm-hmm.
- "Okay.
So that could be a jump some
significant distance, right?
We might have enough time to
make it through the woods.
We just don't have enough time to,
I think, leave people
on Fallinel, I think."
- Do you still wanna rescue
Aelwyn if she's in there?
- Oh, yeah. That was... Yeah.
- That is what we
originally came here to do.
- That was a big thing, and
then a bunch of stuff happened.
Yeah, that would be cool
if we could do that.
- Yeah. Let's do it.
- But if it didn't happen,
that also would be fine.
- Okay.
- No, we gotta save her.
- Fabian, no.
- She's so hot.
- Fabian.
- Yeah.
I mean, I'd love to get some smooches in.
I mean, everyone's getting
their V card taken.
So that'd be... I'd love
to have mine removed.
- Fabian, lose yourself
in the dance again.
- Surgically removed.
- I saw that was the
only way you were free.
You're the only one I wanna
see dancing right now.
- Who would be able to
destroy these pylons?
How much force does that take?
- Whoever does the damage.
- I think anyone with physical.
- I can do a lot of damage.
- Okay.
- I still have-
- Ragh is gonna be able
to go to town on one.
- Mm-hmm.
- Grogug would be able to go on one.
- Cathilda could do.
- Cathilda.
Anyone who's doing brute
force and not spells.
- So should we send hirelings
to do one of the pylons?
- I can be on the retrieval
team just in case Adaine is hurt
and I can heal her.
- I don't think I should
be on the retrieval team.
- I don't know. You're gonna be
really bad at stealth, though.
- Oh, I'm horrible at stealth.
But if we're ruining the
pylons, isn't that fine?
- I do have Healing
Word, so I can heal her,
but I mean, I think Ayda will probably-
- Ayda, do you have
the Invisibility spell?
- "Yes."
- But casting a spell...
- I wonder if that would-
- Well, once the pylons
go down.
- Once the pylons go down-
- Ayda casts Invisibility.
- And then we bring Kristen with us.
- Let's do it.
- So you are
going to the-
- Ayda says, "Once the pylons go down,
the magical defenses of the
tower will be diminished."
- Great. We have a plan.
- Alright.
- We have a plan,
and we have a dance.
- Cool.
- I feel much better.
- I think I'm actually getting
my temporary hit points from this.
- Really?
- Who's going to which?
- So I say hirelings to one pylon.
- Okay.
- Just to keep it
not complicated, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- And then the three of you.
- Are we a pylon squad?
- Are you going to the pylon
or are you going to the-
- Oh, no. You're stealthing. Yeah.
- I feel like, myself, maybe Cathilda-
- I feel like if... Why don't we do this?
Why don't I go with you two...
Hirelings go to one pylon,
I go with you two to the other pylon,
that way I can scout ahead
with my good stealth.
- Great.
- 'Cause we don't
have any magic, and I can
maybe give you guys help
by getting ahead, and
then these guys can go in
with Ayda invisible.
- Great.
- And then we can all
meet back at the van.
- As you guys are sitting
here discussing this very fun
covert op hitting multiple power stations
and doing this like a
big coordinated attack,
we're gonna move to Calethriel Tower.
Adaine, you look up and see Kir
and your father both enter the room.
Kir approaches you and she smiles
and sort of boom, boom, hits
her staff into the ground.
And as she does so, she comes
right up to the orb and says,
"We have discovered, I believe,
as much useful information
as we can from gleaning your thoughts.
And I wanted to come in one last time
before we make a final
assessment of what is to be done.
Your father wished to have a
word with you, if he could."
She smiles, leaves.
Angwyn is standing there.
"Adaine.
You can't honestly believe
that there is anything
to be gained from your
stubbornness. I don't...
You have made it crystal clear
that you do not think very highly of me.
I can assure you that
though I have made decisions
you disagree with, I do
not wish to see my daughter
ex*cuted for treason."
- Is he speaking to me in Elvish?
- Yes.
- I'm gonna respond to him in Common.
And I'm gonna say, you
don't wanna see me ex*cuted
for treason, but you're keeping
Aelwyn tortured and alive?
- "How is Aelwyn being tortured?
She's proven herself a threat.
She can't be allowed to
regain access to her spells.
She's not being harmed or injured."
- She...
- "Do you see, is she
bleeding out on the floor?
Is there a t*rture rack that
her bones are being broken on?"
- How am I being treasonous?
I didn't ask to be the Elven Oracle.
- "No, Adaine, you didn't
ask, but occasionally,
some people see fit to execute
to their responsibility."
- Show me in the law book where it says
that me staying in Solace is treason.
- "You know-"
- I demand a lawyer.
- "Well, I'll bring that
to the Court of Stars.
This is not some
higgledy-piggledy democracy
with an encoded constitution
of laws and rights.
This is a civilized nation, governed
by seven immortal dancers
who exist on a spindle
and sing to the various
faces of the moon, Adaine.
So if you want to ask one of them
to stop their immortal
singing to give you a lawyer,
they will conjure up some kind of,
I don't know, tree spirit. Okay?"
- I curse you in the
name of the Seven Seas
and of the face of the moon
and in the shining of the stars
and in the brightness
of the sun, I curse you.
You are not my father.
- You see he says, "Well,
those are very hurtful words,
and if you had a spell slot,
I'm sure that I would be very injured."
- I cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on him.
- He goes,
"Ow. My face. It doesn't do this."
"Sorry." And you see that
Kir comes back in and says,
"Ah, Mr. Abernant, you've
humiliated yourself."
You see Kir looks at you and says-
- I demand a lawyer.
- "Very well. I shall bring that to-"
- I'm a minor.
I am underage, in prison.
- Kir sort of squints
and looks up at Angwyn.
She dispels the Tasha's Laughter on him,
and you see he says, "So, a 'lawyer'
is basically somebody who is sort of a...
They use a hidden language
to prevent state actions
from happening to people-"
- I demand to see the
ambassador of Solace.
- You see Kir looks at that and says...
That affects her. You see she goes,
"You are not a Solisian
citizen, and so therefore-"
- I am an underage student
of the Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
- You see she says, "Oh, the Aguefort..."
And you hear
and a scarlet A appears in front of you.
And you see that a illusion hologram
of Arthur Aguefort appears.
You see as it does, Arthur first
says, "Hello and greetings.
I am Arthur Aguefort,
and if you are watching
this recorded message, one
of my students has claimed-"
- He's a very serious man.
- "Has claimed diplomatic need of my help
in foreign affairs."
You see that he repeats that
in a couple different
languages very quickly,
and then you see he
says, "In this instance,
you should know that this student
has been apprehended unlawfully
and is under the protection
of not only my academic independence
but also the laws of the nation of Solace.
If they are harmed or injured in any way,
ruin will be
brought down on your heads
ninefold!"
The screen zooms out and sees him
on a seaside cliff summoning
storms, and you see he says,
"I shall bind you to
the center of the earth.
I shall put you into
the center of the sun.
I shall summon 1,000 thousand
dragons to devour you
for endless days and send
your soul back to the dawning
of time to live as a mote
of worthless scum across vast eons.
The students of my school
shall not be f*cked with."
- Yeah.
- And you see he says, "Even
now, doom moves upon you.
If you wish to avert this doom, press Yes.
If you wish to welcome
your doom, press No."
These two things appear.
Kir looks at you, presses No,
and you see Arthur
Aguefort says, "Very well.
You have chosen the way of pain. Goodbye."
And
the thing disappears.
And at that moment, alarms sound,
and you see the sort of
movement of the runes react.
And what it reacts to is
something we will have to discover
on January 8th when we come back.
- Wow.
You're in for it now.
- Guys, that's all for this episode of
"Dimension 20 LIVE presents
Fantasy High: Sophomore Year."
We'll be back January 8th.
Have a very happy holidays
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Check out the Dropout store
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And that's all.
It's been so awesome doing
this live show with you guys
and continuing the
adventures of the Bad Kids.
We will see you guys next time. Bye-bye.
- Thanks, everybody.
- Happy holidays!
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07x09 - Fallinel
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.