My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan,
I'm your humble Dungeon Master.
With me, as always, are
our intrepid heroes.
Say hi, intrepid heroes!
- Hi, intrepid heroes!
- Except for one
of our intrepid heroes,
who's on the 101 right now!
- Roast him!
- He said he forgot about tonight.
- Yeah, he was
like, "Oh, is it Wednesday?"
- He said he was microwaving a quesadilla
and then was like, "Oh,
I gotta get there."
- "Oh, the traffic in L.A.!"
- I guess for some people, you know,
adventure's less
important than, you know—
- Wow, wow.
- Yeah, exactly.
Guys, this is Dimension 20 Live.
Zac Oyama's gonna be here any minute now.
But, the show most go on!
And so, here we are, back
in the world of Spire,
following the Bad Kids,
a group of teen adventurers
from the Aguefort Adventuring Academy,
the world's premier
high school for heroes.
We find ourselves midway through
their spring break project
to retrieve the lost crown
of the Nightmare King
that has brought them to the
elven nation of Fallinel,
after rescuing their party
member, Adaine Abernant,
and her former villain
in season one, sister,
Aelwyn Abernant from Calethriel Tower,
our heroes have found themselves
back in Kei Lumennura,
the ancestral lands of Fabian Seacaster's
mother's side of the family,
a place where the rowdy teens
of Fallinel are banished
until they get sad and wistful,
as all elves should be.
We awaken the following morning
with our various heroes.
We've had Fig Faeth had a slumber party
with party ally, Ayda Aguefort.
- Aw.
- Cute.
- Kristen Applebees's
still in the doghouse.
- Absolutely.
- Riz Gukgak and Gorgug Thistlespring
kept a watchful eye over Fabian Seacaster
who danced all night long.
- Danced the night away.
- After a powerful discovery
in his relationship
to the elven magic of dance,
and a kiss with a fire elemental.
- You are so loose.
- Oh, wow!
- This is the dance, right?
It's just loose.
- You really are
one of those—
- Lou just drinks Mai Tais
before the camera rolls.
- Yeah, what's up, guys?
This cup ain't full of water.
- And of course,
Adaine and Aelwyn slept arm in arm.
The last we truly left off
was a heartbreaking moment
where our dear Adaine
Abernant went into the mind
of her sister
to find a charm,
an enchantment locked away,
bound in Aelwyn's natural Abjurative magic
saying, "Despite all the
torment and tribulation,
"let this be proof I always knew
"there was just one person
clever enough to find this,"
and having dispelled it,
Adaine reset Aelwyn's memory
to a version Aelwyn had created.
Basically, at some
point during her capture
or after you guys had defeated her
in your freshman year,
she created a backup version of her mind
far from where anyone
but Adaine could find it,
and after all of the heartbreak
that Adaine had found
in her sister's mind,
Aelwyn, as you remember
her from freshman year
has had that version of her mind restored.
- I couldn't have one
nice day with my sister?
- No.
No, you couldn't.
- He's all the bad guys.
- I am all the bad guys.
We return now,
and I wanna ask for the rest of you
who are waking up that morning,
I guess we'll start
with Kristen and Fig.
Fig, you awaken
next to Ayda,
who has naturally curled
her bird-like legs
up against her chest
and she gets extremely hot
while she sleeps,
just kinda like an ember
burning kind of sensation,
little trails of smoke
come out of her nostrils.
Ah, I was unconscious.
- No, I think you were asleep.
- Right, right.
That's what I mean.
- Right, same difference.
Good caw.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Now that we're awake,
is the sleepover still happening
or is that considered concluded now?
- You know what?
I'm glad you asked.
Let's keep the sleepover
going throughout the day.
- Okay, I don't fully understand,
but I'm going to basically take your lead
and follow along.
- Cool.
- Does this mean I have to remain
in my night garb,
or can I put on my normal daytime clothes?
- You know, the thing is,
at a sleepover you could
sleep in your daytime clothes.
So, sleepover, the wardrobe is kinda
do as whatever feels right to you.
- Okay, things rarely feel
100% right to me.
- You don't have any outfit
that feels good to you?
- I have outfits that feel good to me,
but I worry
about whether other people will like that.
Does that make sense?
- Okay, well first off,
everything you're wearing
everyone's been liking.
- Fantastic.
- Yeah.
- God, what a huge success.
- Yeah.
- Good.
- It's definitely been a success.
So, you know what?
I think you should go out on a limb
and put on something
that you like
that you think other people won't like.
- You see, she just fully starts sweating
and goes, "and you would like that?"
- Okay.
I mean, yes, I would like that,
but don't do it 'cause of that.
- Okay, you've constructed
a hellish riddle.
Okay, I'm going to attempt
to solve the dilemma
you've put in front of me,
and I am going to go eat.
I am hungry, so I am going to go get food.
- Yeah.
- And, I'm not doing that
'cause I think you'll like that.
I just need to eat.
Is that a success?
- Do you think it's a success?
- Okay, this is hell.
She walks out of the room.
Kristen, you awaken
in another section
of the hang van,
waking back by yourself once again.
- Yeah, I think—
You know, I've been in the doghouse
for a long time,
and I would like to start
taking steps to get out.
So, I think I'm just gonna kinda—
are the books that we got out of the vault
in the van with us?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- I'm just gonna kinda start reading those
and seeing if I can find anything
helpful or interesting.
I would like to maybe investigate those.
- Give me a religion check.
- Oh!
That's advantage, baby.
- We're gonna be a religion check.
- Mmm!
Mmm!
You love to see it.
That is a 22.
- 22.
- Shoo shoo.
- Okay.
So, your proactivity in
the Compass Points Library,
having grabbed that
pirate-esque Tomb Raider's Guide
to a lot of stuff.
The book you took from
Arianwen's research,
so the book you grabbed when the tower
was about to collapse,
which was the big religious text
has a lot of seemingly
contradictory stuff,
and the text you have now
is a lot older.
So, what you find in this text
cross-referenced to what you
got from the Compass Points
is pretty damn intense.
You find a religious text
manufactured by high
elven clerics of Galakaia,
who is the Goddess of the Moon,
the same goddess the
tracker worships, right?
Obviously, Track—
Oh!
- Oh, look who it is!
- Oh!
- Hey.
- You were saying it was that quesadilla.
- Late to class!
- Ooh, it was so melty.
I know.
I had my alarm set,
but the quesadilla shorted out the—
- Have you been listening live?
- No.
- Incredible.
Hey, it's live, baby.
We live streamin'.
- As you were saying, Tracker was—
- Tracker is a cleric
of Galakaia, as well,
the Goddess of the Moon.
What you observe,
or I guess what you glean from this book,
is these are an assembled number
of texts and epistles
from high elven clerics of
the Goddess of the Moon.
As they were basically keeping
- Are you being Skyped right now?
- I am being Skyped at
this present moment.
- This is live, baby!
- That's right, baby.
- Brennan!
Everything's unprofessional today.
- This is the thing now, right?
- So sorry.
Just going to—
- Did you schedule an
interview for this time?
- I'm so sorry.
- Wow.
- I'm getting Skyped.
Please, nobody Skype me.
- Everybody who has Brennan's Skype,
please Skype him right now.
- I get phone calls—
whatever way I get contacted,
my computer makes a
million noises about it,
and I can't make it stop.
- Ta ta ta!
- So, what you find
is that these high elven clerics
have recorded a number
of texts and epistles
from nearly a millennia ago,
like roughly 850 years ago.
- Whoa.
- Or, between 850 and 900 years ago,
immediately following, during,
and around the time period
of the last great Sylvan w*r,
the time where all of the tribes
of Sylvaire, centaurs, Trian sprites,
and wood elves were in combat.
The different similar references
to gods of the tribes you find
in these more ancient texts
appear to refer
to a united goddess of Sylvaire
that in these texts
are referred to
almost as a younger sister
of the Goddess of the Moon, of Galakaia.
You find no reference
to the name
of this goddess
anywhere in the text,
but from what you can see,
the unifying principles of this one soul
goddess of Sylvaire
was that she was primarily
a Goddess of Mystery,
and as you start to read about this
there are literal
references in these books
to what these high elven clerics
call the Sylvairian Heresy,
which is that a lot of the gospel
of this goddess,
because she was a Goddess of Mystery,
and sort of mystery
and also night and magic,
sort of like the mysteries of nighttime
an the mysteries of the unknown
and the mysteries of magic itself,
but a lot of her gospel and doctrine
was about the idea
of mystery and being praised
or worshiped through doubt,
through a love of the unknown;
and obviously the moment
that Kristen reads that,
it's kind of an intense moment here.
- That's me.
Praise through doubt.
I can do that.
- There are texts within here
that are epistles from
these high elven hierarchs
that basically a lot of the motivation
of the last Sylvan w*r
was religious differences
between the tribes
about what the correct way to worship
their shared Goddess of Mystery
and the night was,
and these high elven clerics
came in to broker a truce,
and basically said,
"You are committing a heresy
"because your goddess
"has definitive facts
"about which there can be disagreement,"
and it looks like these high elves,
as a part of their clergy,
advised the tribes they were counseling
through being a third
party mediating this truce,
advised them to,
through official doctrine
and through basically a combination
of a council and a ritual
act of divine magic,
were basically advising
the tribes of Sylvaire
to destroy their goddess's name,
destroy your goddess's name
because the fact that she has a name
is somehow a heresy
because she's a Goddess of Mystery
and she shouldn't therefore have a name.
There shouldn't be things
that are understood about her
because any hard and
concrete facts about her
would of course be a heresy.
So, this sort of weird,
theological position,
and you see that there are texts
bound into the tome that
Arianwen had collected,
which were not included in these original
tomes or doctrines
that are ancient scrolls and messages
from the clergy of Fallinel at the time
that seem to suggest
that their advisement
that the tribes band together
perform this ceremony
and destroy or unmake—
they never use the word destroy.
They always are very careful
to use kinder terms than that.
Unmake, right?
Release or free or liberate the name
of this goddess
in the correspondence between
the clergy themselves and time.
There is some indication
that this advice may not have been
in good faith on the part
of the high elven clergy,
that there way have been and agreement
between the high elven clerics of Galakaia
that this could be something they could do
to weaken the position
of that other goddess
and create a possibility for their church
to expand into Sylvaire.
- Whoa.
- And, that is with a 22 religion check.
- Wow.
Damn.
- Some really intense stuff.
Riz and Gorgug,
you guys have dew on your body,
the sun has come up
and you've kind of awakened
and see Fabian
in the morning light
just dance, dance, dancing away.
- Right where we left him.
- I wake up doing that
nodding bearded dude meme,
just looking at Fabian.
- Just like—
The Robert Redford.
- Yeah.
- The one where he gave the quick nod.
Yeah.
- He's really doing it.
I don't know what, but it.
- Whatever he's doing, he believes in it.
- Good morning!
- He's back, baby.
- Good morning.
Beautiful.
Fabian, as you get your body
experiencing a full-state
exhaustion euphoria from—
You just feel so connected to your body,
so like warm and alive and passionate,
and as you look up at the dawn light
and the dew aligns across the grass,
walking across the grass,
the leaves, the grass
not even bending in
approach of her footsteps.
In her black on black kimono
with some chunky travel sunglasses
and a huge purse
is your mother.
- What?
- Hallariel Seacaster.
- I stop dancing.
- As you begin to stop,
she drops her purse,
removes her chunky sunglasses,
blearily at the sun, folds them,
and goes, "never on my account,"
and begins to
takes a huge sheet
out of her purse,
begins to dance.
- Are the sheets necessary?
- I guess she brought them.
- Okay.
- You always had a sheet.
- I always did, and never knew.
- Okay.
- I can't explain through words.
I can only explain through dance.
You see that Cathilda,
who has gotten back into her trainers
and gray sweats,
comes out full weeping,
and she can't dance
like you two can dance,
but she just does full sprints
and then leaps
around the edge of the meadow
as you guys continue to dance,
just full weeping.
- I gotta play music along with it.
- We're having a party here.
- Fig comes out and—
- Like some Explosions in the Sky,
Friday Night Lights music.
Really ambient.
This is more ambient than I usually do,
just so everyone knows.
- I didn't feel super comfortable
with dancing like and elf,
'cause I don't think I could pull it off,
but I can do this.
I follow Cathilda
and I freak out.
- Start freaking out along with your—
- Real nerd kid,
like really aggressive.
- Like you're running to lunch.
- Yeah, just like the ska—
Just like a ska kid freaking out.
- Yes, The Ball.
Feel it.
- I feel it.
I'm skanking.
I'm skanking.
- Get in there, Ryan.
Get in there.
- Skank The Ball.
Skank.
- Ayda goes in
and just looks immediately, just, "Dance?
"You want me to dance?"
- Yeah, get into it.
- She just starts rhythmically
stamping her talons
back and forth
- Hell, yeah.
- And bobbing.
- Gorgug picks up Riz and starts—
- Yes!
Yes!
The dance is freeing us all.
- Telemaine comes out
and has completely disrobed,
except for a huge ritual silk diaper.
- What have I done?
- Silk diaper?
- You know kinda like sumo
where it's like made—
It's not really a—
- You know.
- It's like silk ropes and bound
and there's some spikes of
fabric coming off of it.
He comes out and you see
he has this huge moss-covered,
perfectly spherical stone
and he's just doing
contact juggling with it
on his naked body.
- We're at Burning Man.
- Full Burning Man.
- Ooh, I got my wa-wa
pedal going on my bass.
- He contact juggles it over to Hallariel.
It becomes immediately clear
the way they're weeping
in deep eye contact
that they haven't spoken
and she hasn't returned
in a long, long time.
It's just a beautiful continuing dance,
and finally, as the sun rises,
naturally it just fades into—
the dance quiets
and Hallariel and Telemaine
end up on the ground
and you see that Hallariel
invites you in the dance to come
until the three of you,
the three generations of this family,
your heads are all right
next to each other,
staring up into the sky together
as the clouds move.
And, you see
that Telemaine looks up and goes,
"That cloud looks like a song,"
and you see Hallariel in elvish goes—
You gotta be kidding me.
- Woah!
- Aquarius season.
- Wow.
- Did she get a call?
- If there was a cell tower.
- Is the song played on the marimba
and just very—
- Marimba.
She looks up and begins
to describe, as well,
what different clouds look like
with no formal greeting
between her and her father,
and after a certain amount of time passes,
Telemaine stands and says,
"My daughter has returned.
"The feast shall be laid out in her honor.
"That you have come here
"is the greatest honor
"in the past hundred hundred years,"
and you see Hallariel looks over
and goes, "I was here
"18 years ago.
"It's not been that long."
- Because he has a weird thing about time.
He'll say things are gonna
get done, like, tomorrow,
but tomorrow is like 60 years.
- I'm glad you've gotten
to spend some time
with your grandfather.
- He's fun.
- You see that Cathilda walks up
and you see
that Hallariel looks at Cathilda,
gives her a kiss on both cheeks,
and looks at you, Fabian,
and says, "I think I'm going to go
"on a walk with Cathilda
"and have a little talk.
"You're welcome to come
if you'd like, Fabian"
- I would like to.
- And, you guys go to walk
throughout the grottoes
and gardens together
and Hallariel just goes into detail,
talking about different
memories of growing up here
and just doing the things
that a mom would do
if she had taken her son
to where she grew up.
- Did you eat the grapes, mother?
- So many grapes.
- Really?
- Yes.
- I've never ate one.
Do they just suppress
how horny you are?
Is that really it?
It it just, it brings—
- Darling, Fabian.
The grapes don't work.
- What?
- They don't.
They are supposed to suppress
the innate horniness
of the youths here,
and boy, let me tell you,
it does not work.
- Oh.
- I grew up here
and basically, the adults
were like, "The grapes
are definitely working."
And, I can just promise you
I, again, grew up here.
I wasn't sent here.
I grew up here,
and when I was 16, 17
here on the grounds of the grotto,
let me tell ya,
a wild time.
She touches your cheek.
A wild time.
- I can imagine.
- Yes.
- People seem very rowdy.
- Yes, of course.
It's a bad plan
to take all the teens
and put them in a place
with extremely few adults around.
Telemaine, he's not—
My dad's not checking up on these kids.
He's wandering around,
grabbing flowers, and turning into sand.
He's not—
It's a bad plan.
It's a bad plan for sure.
Teens should, in an ideal world,
if you wanted to stop the nonsense,
you would keep teens away from each other.
Kinda crazy to get all those hormones
in the same spot,
all cooped up like that.
- Yeah, sure.
I don't think it's a bad thing
that all the teens are together.
- No.
- Doing stuff.
- No.
- It's kinda like our school, but—
- It's kind of like Aguefort.
Exactly, darling.
Yes.
She continues to walk with you
and we are going
to cut over to the hot springs right now
where Adaine, you are gazing right now
at your sister, Aelwyn,
who is still in her body,
but is otherwise
very possessed again
of her demeanor that you recognize.
Oh, my.
Well, we're in Fallinel.
That much is obvious.
- Do you know
- I'm afraid I remember
everything up until I stashed
my mind away
where those elves couldn't find it.
But, I'm afraid the recent events,
although I'm not sure how
recent the events are, is gone.
I can assume because I
am in this nice hot tub
and you just found what you found
that I am not in immediate danger
of being k*lled by you.
Is that a fair assessment?
- Depends on whether
I'm about to be k*lled by you.
- You see that she sorta looks around
and says, "It doesn't seem
"like anyone's casting any spells.
"So, that's an exciting development.
"Feel free to catch me up
to speed, if you'd like."
- I need you to look.
I need you to see.
I need you to look in my mind
and see what happened to you.
- Ah.
You wish for me to see a degree—
and she looks at her hands,
looks at her reflection in the water
and goes, "Ah.
"I've been very badly tortured.
"Is that correct?"
- I need you to know what they did to you
so you don't go back to them.
- Back to who?
- To them, to our parents!
- Ah.
- What do you mean, "ah?"
- You should understand,
Adaine, that our—
All right.
I am obviously at a disadvantage
in this conversation
because there is a great
deal of information
you have that I don't.
So, before I look
into your mind,
why don't you just briefly explain
what the most urgent
pieces of information are?
I assume you retrieved me
from some sort of elven custody.
Last thing I remember was
I was being broken out
of prison in Elmville
by elven agents.
- That was nine months ago.
You've been kept awake and aware
and unable to do magic
for that whole time.
- And—
- Our father was going to k*ll me,
k*ll us, I don't know.
- Give me an insight check.
- 10.
- Gotcha.
Aelwyn—
- Do you have the Bardic Inspiration?
Didn't I give you a Bardic Inspiration
you didn't use.
- I used it.
- Oh.
- Aelwyn looks at you,
and as you begin saying that,
her gaze kinda wanders over.
She says, "Hmm.
"Adaine, our parents
"are not on the same
side the both of them"
- What?
- There is a great deal going on
that I cannot explain right now.
- No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
No.
- Point well made.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Your eloquence, as ever, is legendary.
- Excuse me for not being
the most eloquent person
in the world when—
- Well, I've apparently been
tortured for nine months
and I'm managing quite well.
- Oh, please.
I cast Ray of Sickness.
Make her throw up in the hot tub.
- You cast Ray of Sickness on her?
- I don't.
I don't have it.
- Gotcha.
You see she looks at you
and says, "All right.
"Anything that I can explain,
"I will try to.
"I'm still very feeble
"and I want to understand the situation
"to the best of my ability.
"What is most urgent
"for us to understand right now?
"Are we in danger of being found
"by the elves that took me hostage?
"Are we—"
- I think it's possible.
I think that we should leave
as soon as we can.
We're still in Fallinel,
which means that we're under Fallinel law.
It's possible that our father is dead.
I don't know.
I wasn't really caring that much.
Rocks were falling.
We needed to leave.
He tried to k*ll me.
- Yes.
- What side is everybody on?
Why am I always that last person
to find anything out in our family?
- It's rather funny given
that you are a diviner.
You'd think you'd know things.
- Oh, yes.
All of the jokes about me
being a diviner are very funny.
- You see that she says,
"Adaine, I can't explain why
"you're the last to find everything out,
"but I think perhaps
"our parents wanted you
to prove something to them
"before they entrusted you
with certain information,
"but that's neither here nor there
"and a great deal has changed.
"You are—
"I'm trying to think how to phrase this.
"If nine months have passed,
"I'm sure that much has changed,
"and while I'm very glad that I was able
"to protect my mind
"from the base crude degradations
"of the Court of Stars
"and the elven government,
"I am a little bit rattled
and at a disadvantage.
"You helped me.
"We are not currently
"in the same violent throes
that we found ourselves
"at Ostentatia's little shindig.
"You have saved me
"and I owe you
"at least a repayment for that
favor that you have done me."
- Well, yes.
And also, the many times
that you tried to k*ll me.
If you don't remember being tortured,
I don't know—
I—
You're—
- I tried to k*ll you one time.
Let's not expand it to dozens of times.
Let's not rewrite history.
- Well, and you kidnapped
a bunch of girls.
- Were those girls you?
That was you?
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Does it make it less
bad that it was not me?
- Oh, my goodness.
Are the girls dead or are they all fine?
- Because we saved them.
- Yeah, I thought you were
probably gonna do that.
- Oh, you thought we were
probably going to do that?
- I thought you were probably—
- Yes, of course.
- Listen, you've met—
- You don't think I can do anything.
- Oh, pish posh.
Okay.
Clearly, I thought you
could find the thing—
Look, I'm not gonna sit here
and fall into your traps
to give you more compliments
than I've already given you.
- I'm the one setting traps.
- You've met Goldenhoard, right?
Did you really think that I thought
that that guy was, what, going to win?
- He was a dragon.
- Oh, no.
A dragon.
- He's a full dragon.
- They're so, what, big?
Oh, my god.
- Yes, they're really big!
- He's so big.
He might—
He's gonna burn things one at a time
as he, what, flies around?
- Oh, so you teamed up with him for what?
For why?
- Something of a lark.
It's fun.
- I cast Tasha's Hideous
Laughter on her
- She laughs a little bit too hard
and fully passes out.
- Great.
- Sinks into the hot tub a little bit.
You see that some of the elven staff
come over and pluck her,
unconscious, out of the water
and go, "Miss Abernant, elven oracle,
"oracle of people.
"Where should we deposit
your unconscious sister?"
- Put her in the van.
- All right.
- Into the van.
- So, the rest of you guys
are sort of going about your business.
I assume you guys meet back up.
You've read this crazy stuff here,
Fabian, up to you if you wanna stay
on the walk with your mom,
and people, you wanna
group back up with people.
- Can I just privately
ask Telemaine a question?
- Sure.
He's still in his ceremonial,
sort of undercarriage cloth.
- Okay.
So, I keep my eye level up here.
- He has that, again,
extremely fit, old man body.
So, the skin is a little bit looser,
but there's a lot of his old muscles
very, just like—
- I take out the gem
that Gorthalax is in
and I just wanna kinda
secretly show it to him
and say, "I was wondering if you know
"a spell called Plane Shift?"
- He extends his hand to the ruby,
takes it, looks at it.
You're asking me if I know the secrets
of walking between the worlds.
- Yes.
- To tread the path beyond as lightly
as the mighty deer treads
the path of the forest.
- Stealing the words from my lips.
- No.
- Oh, f*ck.
Are you f*cking kidding me?
I snatch it back.
- He looks and says,
"However, I am the lord of Kei Lumennura.
"If you were
"to allow me time
"to study the gem,
"I could perhaps find
"a way to, while it was in my sanctum,
"open a door
"from here to the space within the gem."
- You are a super nice man
who takes a really long time doing stuff.
I think I'm gonna hope I run into someone
who knows Plane Shift along my way.
Thank you for the offer though.
- Okay.
I could just give it a once over
for, you know,
a few days or years.
What's shorter?
- Okay.
I kinda live in the minute,
but I'd settle for a day.
- Okay.
Well, I can take a whack at it,
and if you want to come get it,
then I'll just give it to you,
and if I'm taking too long,
I'll just stop (speech
muffled by clearing throat)
But, it's up to you.
- Okay.
Give me a second to think about it,
and before we leave
I'll follow up.
- I will be out in the
yard, juggling the stone.
- You know how to do that,
but you can't walk between worlds.
- If the worlds were a stone ball
and the paths were my arms,
and my feet could be up on my arms
instead of my hands,
then, you know,
then that would be something.
- That would be something.
- Juggle, juggle, roll,
off into the woods.
- I pocket my dad.
- Could I go find Aelwyn
in the van really quick?
- Yeah, you find her in the van.
She's unconscious.
- Yeah, can I do a cure wounds on her
and try to bring her
back to consciousness?
- Yeah.
You can go for it.
You cast Cure Wounds.
It does appear to help
her injury somewhat,
but she's probably just
going through another trance,
another long rest
to get another level of exhaustion off.
- Okay, cool.
It can wait.
Yeah, that's fine.
We can give her some
- Here's what I would
like to do to Aelwyn.
- Sure.
- Talk about this for freaking divination.
All right, first of all,
I would like to cast
detect thoughts on her.
She's asleep, so I wanna see
what I can find
about our parents
that she's maybe hiding from me.
- Cool, cool.
She—
- My spell save is 16.
- She saves against the spell
as you attempt to cast it.
- Okay.
Then, I try again.
- Okay, on the second one, she fails.
- Great.
- She is unconscious, in trance,
so her surface thoughts
are not super helpful.
What do you begin to push through to?
- I would like to find out
about our mother.
- Hell, yes.
- Because I have
a pretty clear idea
of what our dad was doing,
or I feel like I do.
- Yeah.
- I imagine I'm standing
there, too, right?
Can I—
- Yeah.
- I tell you
what I found in this book
that your mom was writing.
- Oh, wow.
- And about this potential younger sister
of the Moon Goddess.
- And, I also have
research from her.
I'll look into that afterwards.
- Cool, yeah.
Great.
- Oh, I have a shard of the gem
that brought the tower down.
- That's nice.
- Oh.
- That's pretty.
- It's pretty.
It could be a necklace,
it could be a broach.
- I think I'll use it as a pick.
- Yeah, no, cool, yeah.
- That's very cool
That's very cool.
- Yeah.
- All right, anyway.
What were we doing?
I'm so sorry.
- What?
- Did I interrupt you?
- I'm really trying—
This is a concentration spell.
- Oh, we can't say the goddess's name.
- I say to Gorgug isn't it
so great that Adaine and
- Aelwyn evidently patched thing up.
Water under the bridge.
It makes me think why did I k*ll Daybreak?
Could've turned the corner maybe.
Something to think about.
- Oh!
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- What do you think Daybreak
would be doing right now?
- Are you kidding me?
- Good question.
Trying to k*ll us.
- Yeah, true.
- Yeah.
What were you saying?
- As you probe deeper into her thoughts,
so the thing that is looming
largest in her mind right now,
and the thing that your insight check
failed to see,
when she was looking away from you,
over your shoulder
Kalina was talking to her.
The Shadow Cat was directly
over your shoulder,
speaking to Aelwyn.
- That's what I was gonna try to do!
I was gonna try to have
her look at the photo
and see if she saw the cat.
- And, Kalina was saying
effectively, it is a very
recent short-term memory.
Aelwyn's mind is—
sleeping is good
because she doesn't know
you're casting a spell on her,
but her thoughts are not as clear
as they would be if she was awake,
listening to you.
She's also in a weird—
She's unconscious, but doesn't sleep.
She trances, so it's like a weird,
hazy, liminal space,
but you see Kalina basically saying,
"Don't keep looking at me.
"Look back to your sister.
"Your sister's talking.
"Here's what you need to know.
"You've reset your mind
"and missed a great deal of information.
"Your mother is working for me.
"She has the crown,
"she's brought it to Sylvaire."
She's like, "Get away
"from your sister.
"We need to talk about what's happening."
Give me an insight check.
- Can I give you the help action?
- Yeah, if you want.
- Great.
- 17.
Oh, no.
18.
- Kalina is speaking to Aelwyn
with an incredible amount of familiarity,
as though they have
spoken before many times.
- I can see Kalina in this memory?
- You can see Kalina in this memory.
- Great.
That's all the information I'm gonna get
from this memory?
- Yep.
- Great.
I cast Scrying
and she gets a one
because I rolled a one
for my divination roll.
Kalina rolled a nat one
on my Scrying and leveled up.
I have Scrying now.
I'm using my divination
magic for good.
I get one of those twos back.
Ooh, baby.
Magic!
- Everyone's ninth level now.
Incredible.
So, you peer into Aelwyn's mind,
see that she can see Kalina,
see that Kalina's familiar with her.
Kalina tells her,
"Your mother has the crown
"and is working for me."
You see that—
- So, tell me what Kalina
is right now, please.
- Here's been described on that one.
- Great.
- So, you see Aelwyn doing—
Sorry, you see that basically
Aelwyn is stretched out on
the ground, unconscious,
or in the van, unconscious.
You see Adaine—
You're in Fallinel,
this elven oracle thing.
Adaine's hair Miyazaki wind,
eyes go brilliant white,
and you just do this double dip
into a Detect Thoughts,
straight into a powerful Scrying.
I'm gonna describe
what you see—
- Sick!
- With Scrying now.
You are so deeply confused
by the Scrying you get back.
You had heard that Kalina
was difficult to scry on,
but you are literally using
your elven oracular ability
to reach out and say,
"This time, it works."
Fate itself is in your hands.
You are in a small
village in the red waste.
There is an orcish man
with a long scimitar walking along
with a dark cloak.
A second later,
you are looking
at a light blue robed elven individual
in a council meeting
with a picture of Arthur Aguefort.
A moment later,
there is a wood elf ranger
walking with a wolf animal companion
next to the border of Sylvaire.
Less than a fraction of a second later,
you see that there
is another high elf
who is just in a tavern,
enjoying a breakfast
in a port city on the edge of Fallinel.
A moment later,
you see that there
is a enormous beast
that has the claw marks and wounds on it,
walking through some weird, nasty,
dark, tangled, evil-looking forest.
Bam, flash, flash, flash,
flash, flash, flash.
You see images
of all these people
who are not Kalina
over and over and over and over,
and after a moment,
you see it goes
Riz, Tracker, Sandra
Lynn, Kristen looking,
and you see you're Scrying on Kristen
and when it gets to Kristen, it stops.
Kristen, where are you looking right now?
- At Adaine.
- You see—
- f*ck.
- You flash to a horrifying,
dark, tangled forest.
You see that there is a wood elf
covered in open claw wounds
that look like they've been festering
for 100 years.
Their eyes are covered
in puss and gore.
They look not zombified
in that romantic way.
It's almost like a biological—
They look like alive,
but covered in open sores
and festering things.
They are covered partially in vines,
like they've been sitting,
resting against a tree
for like 100 years,
and you see there is a vine
in their mouth
that is dripping blood, like sap,
from the vine, into their mouth.
The vines retract from your Scrying.
You see that this elf stands up,
grabs a old, ancient, knotted spear
and begins to scratch
something into the ground
from your Scrying sensor,
is obscured by their old, tattered cloak.
They turn to look
and look directly into your sensor,
and what they have scratched
into the ground, in elvish,
says, "Hello, Adaine.
"Glad you could join me."
- Who are you?
Thank—
Can they hear—
They can't—
Can you see me?
Who are you?
- The moment after you see that,
your Scrying moves back to Kristen.
- And so, you see yourself?
- So, you're Scrying on Kalina
and you're seeing Kristen,
and you're seeing
yourself say those things.
- What?
- What are you talking about?
- But, I'm still Scrying
and I see Kristen.
- Yeah.
- So, she's here.
- Gorgug starts punching around his head.
- I'm gonna say that the
Scrying spell comes to an end—
- Can I see the picture?
- Can we see
the picture now?
- Yeah.
- You look at the picture
and cannot see Kalina.
- No, I can't see it,
but I know what she looks like.
- Say—
Do you really—
Say, "Kalina."
- Kalina.
- Can she see the picture now?
- No.
The only time you've seen Kalina
was in Aelwyn's memory of Kalina.
- So, does that mean
that I have seen Kalina?
- Can I do Detect Magic on Kristen?
- You cast Detect Magic.
Give me an arcana check.
- Can I give the help
on checking me out?
- Oh, thank goodness you did,
'cause the other one was a two.
That's a 27.
- Okay.
You're casting arcana on Kristen.
There are no active spells on Kristen.
There are no enchantments,
there are no—
- Is there—
Am I caught up to speed?
- I'm gonna ask that you guys
come back together.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Are you sharing this?
- Yeah, I scried for Kalina
and I saw all of these different people,
and I saw—
- Can we message this?
- You saw me?
- We're just in the same spot.
- And Kristen?
- I saw you, and I saw Sandra Lynn,
and I saw your mom,
and I saw Kristen, and Tracker,
all the people that can see Kalina.
- Did you see me?
- And, Sandra Lynn.
- Sandra Lynn.
- And you saw a wood elf?
- And a wood elf.
- In the forest.
- Who said, "Hello, Adaine.
"Thank you for joining me, or something."
- Do I know where the elf is
that Ragh hooked up with?
- You can go find Fathethriel.
- I go look for—
I'll see if we can get Fathethriel—
- You go over to a little orchard,
you see that Ragh is sitting there
just very stoically
and you see that Fathethriel
is lounging next to Ragh
and slowly feeding him
one grape at a time.
Ragh's like, "Good.
"These grapes are good.
"Gorgug, what's up, dude?
"Do you need me?"
- Yeah, but also—
- I gotta go, dude.
And he, just within his—
- If I could've taken the picture with me,
can that elf see?
- You see Fathethriel looks
and goes, "Ah.
"It is a very small painting
"of a goblin and a Tabaxi woman."
- I think it's passed
by touch or something.
It's like a disease.
- Kristen touch me.
- What?
- It's like Tracker gave it to you.
- How?
- Tracker looks at you and goes—
- Yeah, but how did Sandra
Lynn give it to you?
- She maybe didn't, or did she?
- It could be a love thing or something
because it could be like betrayal.
- Well, there's been a
lot of fighting going on.
Is it through disagreement or something?
We got in a fight.
- Couldn't Garthy see
it after Sandra Lynn?
- So, Garthy was involved
in the affair.
That involves you,
that involves Tracker.
- But, Sandra Lynn could
already see it, too.
- So, Sandra Lynn was a carrier
into this whole group?
- I can see it, too.
- Oh, yeah.
- You can see it.
Fig, you can't see it?
- Spit in this cup.
- It probably
shouldn't be love
because I hope my mom loves me.
- No, I think it's betrayal.
- Sandra Lynn goes, "I love you, sweetie."
Sandra Lynn goes, "Look,"
and you see, she's like,
"I guess everyone knows
"that I slept with Garthy."
Gilear goes, "Well, well, well.
"Looks like—"
- Can you see it now?
Can you see it?
- Gilear looks at it and says,
"I think we all know
I can't see anything."
- Come on, Gilear.
- I'm with you, Gilear.
I guess I got your—
- So, it's perhaps
a sexual thing?
Perhaps a betrayal thing?
- Tracker looks and said,
"I did not sleep with—"
And, you see that Tracker
looks over at Sandra Lynn
and says, "I didn't
sleep with Sandra Lynn."
Sandra Lynn looks over and says,
"Is there any other time
"that we could've exchanged—"
- Yeah, didn't you do
that weird heal on her?
- You see Tracker looks over and goes—
- Oh, blood.
- "I did."
Sandra Lynn nods and says,
"Yeah, you did the life
transference stuff."
And, you see that Tracker holds her head
and goes, "Oh, my god.
"I got you sick with an STD?"
- It's okay.
I put my hand on her shoulder.
It's fine.
- I see—
for those of us who can't see it—
- Sandra Lynn says, "It's not an STD.
"It's communicated through blood, as well.
"I didn't—"
- Also,
those of us who can't see it
wish we could see it,
so it's kind of a cool thing.
- So, if I drink somebody's blood,
I can see it?
- I'll drink blood.
- I'm down, as well.
- I think that might mean
Kalina can see through us.
- Yes.
- That's what I think.
- Yeah.
- So, we've been working
under the assumption
that maybe the Nightmare King
and this god with no
name are the same person.
I think it's possible that
you saw the Nightmare King
in the forest
and Kalina is the god with no name
and is trying to get the crown,
and the Nightmare King and Kalina
are actually against each other.
- Yes!
- Are you saying the Goddess of Mystery
is the Nightmare King?
- Is Kalina.
- Kalina's the Goddess of Mystery.
- But, that would make a lot of sense
because she's so f*cking secretive.
- Because she doesn't have a name,
she doesn't apply by the rules.
So, she doesn't have—
- Wait, hang on a second.
- Not having a name is a power.
- I think there's research here
from my mom,
but if she's working with Kalina,
she would already know it.
So, why don't we do—
- But, she might be—
I thought your sister said she was working
with the Nightmare King.
Or, is she working with Kalina.
- No, she has the—
We just know she has the crown.
- She has the crown.
- We don't know who she's bringing it to.
- Okay.
- You see that Cathilda speaks up
and says, "You were saying something
"about the research you
got from your mom's place.
"It seems like there's
a trove of information
"from Calethriel Tower.
"If just from the book that Kristen read,
"we find as much as we did."
you see that Telemaine
somersaults up with the stone
and goes—
"There are many rooms
"within Kei Lumennura
"Where some might—"
Sorry, yeah?
- We went offline real quick.
- Okay.
No worries.
- sh*t.
- Ask chat, if you can,
where we left off.
- It felt like that was the path it took,
the blood
- Yeah.
- To go who saw it last.
- What do you mean?
- In the Scrying.
- It did seem like that, yeah.
It was Riz first, right?
- Yeah.
- Then, Kalina.
I mean, I'm sorry, Riz first,
then Sandra Lynn.
- Sandra Lynn
and Riz's mom—
- Sandra Lynn
could always see it though, right?
- Riz's mom could always see it.
- Okay.
- We're good.
In the chat,
please tell me the last
thing that happened
before we went out.
I don't want you guys to miss anything.
We solved—
Hold on.
- We figured it out.
- We figured it out in the inbetween.
- Yeah, hold on.
- I'm the Nightmare King.
- What?
- It says something Adaine was saying.
Riz made the connection.
I got this research from—
Okay.
My mother's research was the last thing.
- Yes, I got my mother's research.
We should look into that.
Can I—
I wanna message Fig.
Hey, there are some things
I feel like we should not say
in front of the people who are infected.
- Okay.
- So, just some of these
plans around Kalina,
I think that should just be the four of us
that can't see it.
- You're messaging her.
- Yes.
We're gonna do some
investigation ourselves.
- No, you don't have to tell me.
So, should those of us who are infected
just blindfold ourselves
if she's looking through our eyes?
- It's up to you guys.
If we think she's the nameless god,
then she is a god.
I don't know how sneaky we can be.
She has some weakness,
or else she'd just come
and k*ll us right now.
- Well, she has a name,
it's just been destroyed.
We just have to find the name.
- Can I look through all of this
bulk research and writings
and stuff that we got
and look for Kalina or Shadow Cat
or any of these names?
- Yeah.
Can I go through the stuff that I had
and use Boggy to cover us?
- You guys have a
tremendous amount of stuff,
especially what you've gleaned here.
If you guys wanna go
comb through your stuff,
cross-reference and get all this new data,
Telemaine says there's
research and study halls
in Kei Lumennura.
You guys are welcome to go
and take whatever books he has there.
- I'm worried that the elves
are gonna come after us,
since we're still in Fallinel.
- Ayda speaks up and says,
"If need be, I can bring us
back to the Compass Points."
- I would love that.
- I would prefer that.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Oh!
Sorry.
- Oh, sorry.
We could also teleport away
if things go bad, right?
- Well, Ayda's the one with teleport.
- Right.
- So, yes.
If we are with Ayda, yes.
- I'd love to talk to
Tracker really quick.
- Cool.
Tracker looks up and goes, "Hey."
- Whoa.
Scary, right?
- Yeah, very scary.
- So, I actually learned a spell
so that you don't have to keep doing
your moon haven.
I learned this spell called Hallow
and I can cast it on the van,
and it's permanent.
It's like a permanent moon haven.
- Awesome.
Go ahead, and if you'd be so kind,
give me a persuasion roll with advantage.
- Can I, as I see Kristen
going to talk to Tracker?
- Tracker.
- I'm gonna wink at her.
- Give a little wink
for Bardic Inspiration.
You've got it.
- You've got this, Kristen.
You've got this.
- I'm gonna need that Bardic.
What's that a D8?
- D8.
- Persuasion.
Oh, no.
We're okay.
Everyone, calm down.
It's a 15.
- Cool.
- Oh, hey.
Okay.
- Oh.
Oh, yeah,
- You see that she looks over to you
and says, "Awesome.
"Yeah.
"If you wanna collab on—"
- Yeah, that'd be great.
It takes 24 hours to cast.
So, I just need to stay up for that long,
but it should be—
- Do we wanna head back
to Leviathan, and then—
- Yeah, what do you think?
That sounds like a good plan.
- It seemed like people
kinda wanna jet out of here.
- Totally.
- So, maybe we—
- Yeah.
- Dude, this place—
I look at Telemaine if he's nearby.
It's great here.
- Are you guys gonna
use the research halls?
We put out
some sort of very cool citrus water.
There's a fruit that grows here
that tastes almost like nothing.
- Oh.
Do you have any books
that we could borrow?
It would be for a very short
amount of time, relatively,
but a second, really.
- If it's only for a second,
you may have every single book
I know about.
- Just start packing them up.
- I go
and I just put as many as I can
into the briefcase of holding.
- Also, I wanna specifically search
for if there's any books
about the rock and roll concert
where everyone got pregnant.
- Cool.
You guys immediately go
to this dude's library
and what you see is
hundreds of elven scrolls
about centering yourself,
finding healing calm,
and just general oneness.
- Nothing about immaculate conception
via rock music?
- There is not a goddam useful book
in this guy's whole library.
- I'll take some
of these meditation things.
Those sound useful to me.
- Maybe can Tracker help me track down
these herbs and incense
and oils and stuff
that I have to like—
- Yes.
Believe me, they got plenty of oils,
aromatic oils at Kei Lumennura.
You better believe they got those.
- And, I feel like I'm talking to her
about her god, Gali—
- Galakaia, yeah.
- Yeah.
About how this might be her sister
and just trying to hear more
about her god.
- Do you mention the parts to Tracker
about the—
- I mention
everything to Tracker
from now on immediately.
I message Tracker the
minute I take a sh*t.
- She's gotta know.
- She's gotta know, okay?
I'm not gonna do that again.
- Well, behave.
- I'll tell her the sister thing.
- Cool.
You fully divulge everything.
Tracker kinda nods,
and I'm gonna run a little
insight check for Tracker.
You see Tracker recognize
how forward you're being, and nod.
She is obviously very off put
by the seemingly messed up things
that the church of Galakaia did.
Obviously, she's like a human werewolf
that doesn't feel necessarily
responsible for the things
the elven church did,
but it's the same goddess,
even if it's a different denomination.
So, she's in a kinda
trippy place about it.
- I hear ya.
- She's like, "Yeah.
"I don't know.
"It's f*cked up when
the servants of your god
"have misappropriated the teachings
"of your deity."
- Yeah, totally.
- This is maybe messed up to say,
but I never really got—
You've been through a lot of sh*t.
- Yep.
- It doesn't feel good.
Yeah.
- Yeah, there's a lot
of horrifying things I needed
to confront about Heliotic traditions,
and just things my
parents said day to day.
Yeah.
I had to shed a lot of that.
- Tracker looks over to you and says,
"Thank you for telling me all this,
"and I'm gonna help
research as much as I can,
"and I'm really sorry I got you sick."
- I enjoyed it.
- You see she smiles.
She smiles, leans over,
and just lightly touches her head
to your head,
and looks up and says,
"I know we're about to leave.
"I'm gonna go talk to Sandra Lynn.
"I get mad,
"and part of that is my lycanthropy
"and part of it is just who I am.
"My faith puts me in
touch with my emotions.
"Me being upset with you
"is never ever about me
"not loving you with my whole heart,
"'cause I do."
- I love you, too.
Do you—
- Yeah.
- Sorry.
- No, no.
I'm gonna go talk to Sandra Lynn.
- Okay, cool.
Is there any way for you
to find out if your god has a sister?
I'm not super versed
in your religion, but—
- Yeah.
I will—
- Does she have a sister?
I'm just kidding.
- Easy.
Come on.
We just got back on the—
- Kristen, you're the best.
- God, you're hot.
- Back atcha.
- We gotta still—
Okay, I'm gonna go.
She looks and says,
"We'll figure it out
"and we'll figure it out together."
- Yeah.
- She walks off.
Cool.
For the rest of you,
what is the conversation we were having
about potentially getting out of here
and going back to the Compass Points?
- I guess I wanna talk
about whether or not you guys
want us to know everything.
I will say
point for us.
- I'm gonna say, yeah,
we want you to know everything.
I message Fig,
"we definitely don't want
them to know anything."
- They're gonna know—
- Of course we wanna know.
- She's gonna know.
Just tell us to leave, I guess,
because she's gonna
know where we're coming.
She'll know where we are.
If you wanna k*ll her
and you think that we jeopardize it,
then we should leave.
- Truthfully, and I'm saying this
right to you,
'cause I know she's watching,
I don't know enough about you
to know if I even wanna k*ll you.
- Me?
- I'm talking to her.
- Okay, well that feels weird.
- That's scary, hey man?
I'm sorry.
I was right there with you, actually.
I was like,
maybe she's gonna k*ll you.
- I mean, The Ball and Kristen,
we're like, you know,
it's not like they've gotten
some big up on us before.
I don't know.
It feels like what are we gonna do?
Just the four of us are gonna handle it
and they're gonna show up?
- We're not gonna do that.
We're not gonna do that.
- We're not gonna know
that is she looking through your eyes
at all times?
Or can she just dip in
when she feels like it?
- And also, there's a reason
she wants to be a secret,
and by talking about it
and by—
- I kinda wanna be able
to see her.
- Finding out the truth.
- I know.
Me, too!
- Let's all drink the blood.
- I wanna drink the blood.
I feel deeply left out.
- There was a real—
There was a real moment
where I shoulda cut Riz and—
- I feel deeply left out.
You guys are all special
and I'm nothing.
I drink blood.
- Whoa, whoa.
- There's a happy middle.
There's a happy middle.
A Gatorade of blood.
- What's the happy middle?
- That we all just stick together
and try to figure out
who Kalina is.
- Yeah,
I definitely wanna stick together.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I also wanna say
I think that we need to
keep a guard on Aelwyn
because I think that she's
gonna try and escape us.
- Oh, sh*t.
- Yeah.
How do we do that?
What do we—
- I don't know.
- Do we have a whole person?
- I'm a German Shepherd.
I can just keep watch.
I'll be her bouncer,
or reverse bouncer.
She can't get out.
- Should I—
Do you think this Hallow spell,
casting it on the van
will protect us
from this god
who can see through us?
I feel like no.
- Maybe.
- All right.
- I mean, the moon haven
seemed to do something.
- That's not a bad idea.
- Yeah, I'll cast Hallow—
- Sandra Lynn points to Fabian and says,
"It clearly worked enough
"that she had to press Riz for information
"back at the Gold Gardens."
- Right.
- Okay.
Yeah, then I can cast a Hallow
within a day,
and I can give us all courage
so we can't be frightened
while in the van.
- Great.
- Cool.
- If I take a long rest,
I can get
different spells that can—
I have Web
and I have Snare,
so I can—
- Hold Aelwyn.
- Yeah.
It's not perfect,
but I can't do it yet though
'cause I don't have them stocked.
- Why don't we hang onto her spell book.
- Yeah, we should do that.
- Great.
- Well, who's spell book?
Sorry.
- Aelwyn.
- Aelwyn's spell book.
- Aelwyn's spell book.
Gotcha.
Yes, yes, yes.
- Yeah.
Maybe I'll give it to Gorgug
because I feel like—
- Finally.
- Read up.
- Ayda looks at you and says,
"I was pretty clear
about you not doing that,
"but also I'm not the boss of you."
- Oh, right.
- Okay.
- Ayda,
why don't you want him to look at it?
- His mind is a perfectly clear pool,
undisturbed by ripple.
I fear that the
introduction of information
into his mind would corrupt it.
- You guys remember how
I thought of the time
that Ragh and that other guy f*cked?
I'm pretty smart.
- Ragh shrugs, as well.
- Yeah, I don't think—
I don't wanna get him corrupted.
- So, Sandra Lynn goes,
"All right, so the plan is
to get back to Leviathan?
- Yeah.
- If we're gonna do that,
let's do that right now
so Kristen can get—
Her spell takes 24 hours to do,
so we should get on it.
- I have another idea too, though.
We can start working on—
I can make a glyph of warding
with the spell stocked in it.
So, if we wanna make a decoy
spell book of Aelwyn's,
put this glyph on the front
so that when she runs to grab it,
a web can come out and—
just have some booby traps.
- I don't know
if I can make a fake—
I don't think I have anything
that can make a fake-looking book.
I don't have—
- We have 24 hours.
If you guys just wanna—
- Why don't we just do one.
- Cut and paste.
- Hey, everyone.
My mom showed up here today.
- Do you want a minute?
- Yeah, can I get
just like a cool 15?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Okay, cool.
- Bring her with us
to the Compass Points.
- She just got here
and I feel like there's
gonna be a dad thing.
- That's fair.
- I'm just gonna go upstairs
and try to start work
on the Hangvan. Hangman.
- On the Hangman?
- Yes.
- Cool.
- I also have Mending.
I can come and help you.
- Got it.
- Awesome.
So, putting all this together,
'cause people are going in a lot
of different directions right now,
you guys go up and start
working on the Hangman.
What is—
Ayda says, "Should we
teleport back to Leviathan?"
No, you need a minute,
so you're gonna go do that.
- I need a cool 15.
- Fabian's gonna go.
What is Riz doing?
- I guess I'd like to
read up and find out—
- Cool.
You grab some stuff and
start this new investigation.
Kristen, you're not
gonna cast anything yet.
You're gonna go to—
- We're just collecting—
- Oh, you're getting incenses.
- It needs kind of a lot
of stuff.
- Incenses, oils,
stuff like that.
What is Fig up to?
- I guess I'm just noodling on my guitar.
- Cool.
- Can you guard Aelwyn?
- Oh, wait.
Oh that's what I'm doing!
I am fully—
- Making a quesadilla.
- I'm making a quesadilla.
I'll be late.
I'm guarding over Aelwyn.
- It's canon.
I'm sorry.
- I'm guarding over Aelwyn,
just ready to tackle her,
do some spells,
disguise myself as her,
pretend to be a mirror.
Who knows?
- Cool.
You are there.
- Very excited for this
buddy comedy to come out.
- Fabian, you are walking
off with your mom and Cathilda,
and Telemaine is with you, as well.
So, you see Hallariel says,
"Darling word reached me
"that you were here
"in your ancestral homeland,
"and I thought that it'd
been quite some time,
"and I should come
"and see my dear father
"and see you, as well.
"How's the adventure going, my darling?"
- It's good.
We're having a good time.
Everyone's really doing good work.
I mean, we, as a collective.
Me, personally, I'm doing rough.
Really rough.
There was a whole thing.
We went to Leviathan,
and I was all excited
to be my father's son
and do it right,
and then I got a bunch of people k*lled.
Over 20.
it was wild.
I mean, I still—
There's one of them,
it's burned in my brain forever.
This is the moment which I turned my back
and ran away from him
as he cried out for help,
but it's been good to come here
and feel, I don't know.
I never really got in touch
with this side of me.
Yeah.
I'm as much your son
as I was dad's.
- She smiles and kisses you on the cheek
and says,
"Fabian, as much as you are my son,
"and your father's son,
"you are also, darling,
"you're becoming your own man,
"and your father had
many scars from battle.
"He lost his eye,
"lost his leg,
"but he told me one time
"when he was observing ships
"that he never wanted to buy a ship
"or steal one
"that had no mark
"of repair on it,
"that had never seen combat,
"had never experienced the decay
"or the destruction.
"He said he only wanted a ship
"that had the soul of a survivor in it.
"There is so much relief
"in my heart
"to know that my son
"can sail through storms
"and come out the other side.
"It's a better skill to have
"than never sailing into a storm at all.
"I'm very proud of you."
- Thank you.
Yeah.
I'm doing my own thing now.
I dance.
I have a sheet.
I put out my friend's fire.
My friends were on fire,
I used a sheet to put them out,
then I also
I wrapped up a fire elemental with it
and inhaled it.
It was crazy.
It kissed me on the lips
and it went inside me.
- Fabian!
- What, mama?
Stop.
- Ribald details.
- No.
It wasn't romantic.
It was more like,
I don't know, spiritual.
I don't know.
- Telemaine goes, "Yes.
"Yes.
"I wasn't there,
"but I get it,
"and I like it for you."
- Oh.
Thank you, grandpa.
- You see that Hallariel looks at you
and says, "Darling,
"I've also come
"not only to see you,
"but to bring
"a little bit of news.
"Arthur Aguefort has deeply endangered
"all of the school's funding
"from he apparently turned 300
"or 400 feet tall and—"
- Yes, we watched that.
It was crazy.
I think he went to w*r with Fallinel.
- And also, it's coming up on the end
of your spring break.
I'm not sure how you're
doing on your timeline
for accomplishing this quest,
but also, I have—
I'm not proud of this.
I've eaten all of Gilear's yogurt
and I don't know how
to make any more food,
and I kind of am coming to see if Cathilda
would come back.
- What?
Oh.
- She puts her head down and says,
"I am having a very hard
time in the kitchen."
- Oh, okay.
- Cathilda looks up,
shakes her head ruefully,
and says, "Madame Seacaster,
"why don't I talk to Fabian
"for a moment?
"And, you can say hello to your father
"and catch up with him."
Cathilda takes your hand and walks
through the garden with you
and looks up and says, "Master Fabian."
- Are you really going to go, Cathilda?
I do worry about my mom,
so if feels right,
but I don't want you to go.
- Cathilda looks at you and says,
"Master Fabian, watching you dance
"was an honor and a pleasure,
"and there is something
"I have been waiting to
see who you would become
"for a long time,
"and watching you become the man
"that you were always meant to be
"is something that I'm
honored to have seen
"just the very beginning of.
"It is true
"that I will no longer receive
"my hireling stipend,
"but I'm a member of your crew.
"If you wish me to continue on
"to this last leg of the journey, I will.
"If you wish me to go back
and take care of your mother,
"I will do that.
"I'm happy to take my call from you,
"young master Fabian."
- Cathilda, you've really lifted me up,
especially through some
pretty rough times,
but I feel like I'm back on my feet.
So, you go home,
you take care of mama.
I think I
will be fine.
- Big tears stream down her face.
She takes your hand and says,
"I always knew you would be.
"Oh, there's only one Seacaster left
"to take care of,
"and she's back there in a kimono."
- She is.
I'm excited to come home and tell you
about all the crazy things
I'm gonna do.
Wild stuff.
Real wild stuff.
- She smiles and says,
"I can't wait to hear it.
"A brand new legend,
"one of your own writing,
"you and your friends."
She smiles and says,
takes her little dancing blades,
walks a little bit away
and says, "what sword do
you think you'll fight with?
"That fancy elven sword or your fathers?"
- The elven one.
Dad's sword's just gonna
chill for a second.
- She nods, smiles, and says,
"it's the warrior, not
the blade, anyway, my boy.
"You'll do well."
She walks off with your mom.
So, you see that she walks over,
back to Telemaine and Hallariel.
Kristen, you're—
Sorry, you again are off—
- Just got a bunch of materials.
- Yeah, you're getting
a bunch of materials.
- Getting oils.
- Getting various oils.
- You guys
are working on the Hangman.
- I'm trying to read up on—
- Cool.
Go ahead and give me an
investigation check real quick.
- Sweet.
I roll those with advantage now.
- Woo!
- Steady Eye.
- Ooh, you love to see it.
You simply love to see it.
28.
- 28!
- Good.
- Great.
- And, I also just realize,
Ragh, right, when Ragh
was afraid of the Shadow Cat,
she threatened him
because he saw her, right?
Or, did she ask him,
"Did you tell anyone?"
or something like that?
I thought she said something like that.
- That was my mother.
- That was your mother.
So, knowledge.
- Knowledge is power, people.
- I say that, quietly say that—
- If you actually look
for help with that,
Ragh goes back to explain to you
and as you're researching,
he's like, "What did you wanna know?
"What exactly happened?
"What's the timeline
you're interested in?"
- When you saw the Shadow Cat.
- Yeah.
- She threatened you, right?
- Yeah, she said if I told
anyone anything I'd seen,
'cause the first people I saw
were Arianwen talking to Jayce at Aguefort
the night of prom.
- Okay.
- And then, later on my way home
after the whole fight and everything,
that's when I saw—
Or, it all happened after the fight,
but that's when Kalina came up
and hassled me, basically.
- Got it.
- But Ragh's helping to the
best of his ability investigate
He's not the most investigating person.
Tell me what is your looking for.
28 is an incredible roll.
Is there a specific thing you're
looking for in particular?
- I guess I'm trying
to find out
how to pin down Kalina.
I'm trying to find out, basically—
I have a suspicion
that the reason she's
moving around so much
is because she's this god with no name,
and I'm trying to see
if there's a way to undo it,
to make her as she has been unmade.
- Cool.
So, you avoid some of
the thicker arcana stuff,
'cause that's not your bag, really.
What you do find
in a lot of Arianwen's hand
is her researching abyssal demonic texts.
You are looking for—
and this is specifically stuff
that Arianwen was writing
that you begin to piece together.
She's careful not to ever write,
'cause this was research she was doing
while in Fallinel
with elven governmental stuff.
The earliest thing you find
is a parcel of her notes, right.
So, rather than big, meaty—
You're like, religious tomes, Kristen,
big meaty arcana tomes, that's Adaine.
You're like, "let me get in that weird bag
"of old receipts."
Wanna get in that thing of detective work,
and the first thing you
find is a lot of notes
that Arianwen requisitioned
that has to do
with a couple,
basically like two or 300 years ago,
the execution of a wood elf
in basically the elven Secret Service,
this thing called the Third Court,
that is a wood elf woman
named Landrin Lier
who came from a family
of wood elf refugees
from Sylvaire after the
Nightmare King came into power,
who came on
and was one of the first wood elves
to get accepted
into the Secret Service of the elves
as a healer,
'cause she was
a cleric of Galakaia,
of the Moon Goddess.
She was eventually k*lled for espionage,
and basically the notes
are a little bit unclear,
but what they end up finding
is this stuff that has to do with—
Once second.
What they end up finding
is notes having to do
with her trial,
notes of heresy,
and also notes
of her being basically false,
like not a true servant of Galakaia.
There are notes in the trial—
obviously, it's a secret trial.
She wasn't tried in the public court
'cause it was all espionage
and hidden elements of the elven courts.
It seems like Landrin Lier
was secretly a cleric
not of Galakaia, but of something else,
and what she is accused of having done
is it's basically
that she used her role as a healer
to do something,
to put some kind of curse or effect
or do something
when she was healing
members of the elven courts
that she introduced
something into Fallinel.
- She created the virus
or whatever, as it were, it seems.
- Yeah, putting that together,
you're like, she's the recording
of something got brought into Fallinel
by this woman
who was basically k*lled as a zealot.
She was like, "I'm part
of the church of Galakaia.
"I will join your Secret Service,"
and then later, it's like,
"No, you're a zealot
"for something dark and hidden,
"and you've come to try and sabotage
"Fallinel from within."
- Right.
- So, that's one of the big
first things that you find.
With a 28, as well,
you're looking for Kalina stuff.
- Yeah, Kalina stuff,
and then I guess
I'm also, like I said before,
I was kinda working under the assumption
that the Nightmare King
and the nameless person were the same.
I'm kinda curious if
they're opposing forces.
- If the Nightmare King
and this nameless goddess
are the same, right?
- Yeah,
if maybe the crown of the Nightmare King
is not being fetched
for the Nightmare King.
It's being—
- Well, the crown is—
This is stuff from earlier.
The crown is a talisman that anchors
an extra planar creature on our plane.
So, if the goddess was unmade,
then perhaps the crown
of the Nightmare King
could ground her back
in this plane.
- Oh!
- So, Kalina could be this zealot
who is trying to bring—
- Yes, or she could be the goddess.
Either way.
- The goddess herself.
- If this unmade goddess
gets this crown—
- Then, she could be made.
- Then perhaps, she could be made.
- Okay.
You see this is a big
element here, as well.
Arianwen's research, it's
got Landrin Lier in there.
There's also stuff about Arianwen
researching demonic texts,
and she finds this thing
from more recent history
having to do with the
original fall of Kalvaxis.
When the Nightmare King was defeated,
like after the fall of Kalavaxis
and sort of alliance
of the big baddies of the world,
you see that
a group of infernal warlocks came
to help the good guys
by creating a boundary
around the forest of the Nightmare King
'cause it was cursed,
this curse was spreading
even after the Nightmare
King was defeated.
So, these devils
that basically the Nightmare
King worked with demons,
those are our enemies,
we're gonna come help out
and place this boundary
around the forest of the Nightmare King
that appeared to both
simultaneously keep
things in the forest in
and keep things outside the forest out.
So, it was a weird moment
where these infernal powers
were like, "Hey, this is
enough in our interest
"that we're gonna come help you guys
"seal this place off."
This is also stuff that you find
that this thing
was requisitioned using names
on these requisition forms
that this information was checked out of
in your father's handwriting.
Pok Gukgak checked this out,
and also in his handwriting
picked it up for him and Kalina
while they were partners together.
You see Arianwen's notes
on this information
that had been partially checked out
by Pok and Kalina
when Pok was working in collaboration
with the elven government.
You see that
in the text
the boundaries placed around the forest
of the Nightmare King
to prevent the return
of the Nightmare King
and to prevent the return of
the Nightmare King's crown
had to do
with only a high-ranking devil
could allowed passage
through that boundary
into the forest of Sylvaire,
and you see
Arianwen got her hands
on a demonic ritual that involved—
And, you see there are
notes in the margin,
Arianwen was like,
they basically say logistics,
how to get—
They basically say,
the ritual starts to go,
the demons are like,
"A high-ranking devil's never
gonna do this willingly."
If a devil were bound into something,
and you see that Ragh, over your shoulder,
goes, "I know that term.
"I know that word.
"That's a medical word.
"I've seen it in my mom's stuff before.
"It's about a body fusing with a gem.
"This is about gem magic.
"This is about putting a
gem inside somebody's body."
Reading further into it,
you see that the ritual requires
a specific kind of body
to have been dead
for 24 hours,
and then a gem
containing a high-ranking devil
being placed into the body,
and you see next to
the thing with the body
there's notes from Arianwen
basically being like,
question mark, question
mark, question mark,
logistics, how to get
a devil into Kalina's hands.
Possible, question mark.
- Is Gorthalax a devil or a demon?
- Devil.
- Devil.
So, I was the dead one they
were trying to sacrifice
and Gorthalax is a part of it.
- So, why would the boundary—
That's not at the boundary
of the Nightmare forest.
- Is that boundary still up?
- I do think that perhaps
we should leave Gorthalax
in the gem now.
- Yeah, I think I call
Fig in because of the gemstone.
- Cool.
- I can't.
I'm watching Aelwyn.
- Okay, got it.
- You can tell me later though.
- Cool.
- Awesome.
You're looking at that,
and basically what you see,
it's literally this weird thing
where it basically seems
like the devil
has to be held
by the Shadow Cat,
by the servant of the Nightmare King,
that these texts make direct reference to,
and a lot of it
is that Arianwen's notes are like,
"How do I get something
into the possession
"of the Shadow Cat?"
and the answer appears to be this thing
where it's like a
certain type of dead body
can put this gem into the
hands of the Shadow Cat.
Now, back in—
- Does that mean
that she's not in contact
with the Shadow Cat?
Because that's what the
Shadow Cat implied to Aelwyn
is that they're working together.
- So, I just wanna
pull up a stool by the door.
I wanna light a clove cigarette.
I wanna disguise myself as
Aelwyn and Adaine's mom.
- Cool.
- And then, I'm also gonna hex her,
which lasts for an hour,
and the ability that she's gonna have
disadvantage traits on is strength,
in case I need to grapple her.
- Cool.
Awesome.
So, you are—
- You want a cortado?
I can make one really quick.
- Cool.
- I love that you only
know how to make cortados.
- So, you're sitting there,
- And also, incorrect.
- Very cool.
As you're doing that,
you hexed her,
she's lying there,
you're smoking, you look like her mom.
- You're an actual nightmare.
- Yeah.
- Sadistic.
- If she wakes up, I'll
put out the cigarette,
pretend to be her mom.
- As you're sitting there—
- Although, does your mom smoke cloves?
- I'm gonna let you answer that question.
- I message you.
No?
I hear nothing back.
Huh, my message must be off.
- I don't even begin—
I can't even begin to think
to answer that question.
It's just so baffling to me
that you would even—
- You hear a knock on the
outside of the van door.
- I kick it open.
- You see—
Blam!
The van door kicks open.
You see Fathethriel out there.
You see Fathethriel looks at you and says,
"Hello, have you seen Ragh?"
- Man.
- This is really sad.
I think it's not gonna happen.
- It already has a couple of times.
- Yeah, but the continuation,
I don't know if he's feeling you that way.
- Okay.
- Yeah, but I haven't seen him.
No, maybe he went for a swim.
- Okay.
A little swim or something?
- Yeah.
I think I wanna shield
so he can't really see in the room.
- Cool.
- You see he looks over at you and says,
"By the way, just
because there's some sort
"of a rumor going around,
"what's going on with you and Ayda?"
- What sort of
saucy little elf are you?
You think I come into your town
so that you can whisper words about me.
- Do you still look like—
- Yeah, I was gonna say,
doesn't she look like a random woman?
- I think you got a
bass guitar on your back
and you're smoking a clove cigarette,
and he's put it together.
Then, he looks and just goes,
"I'm sorry.
"Me and some of my friends
talked to her about it,
"and it just seemed like
something was going on."
- What did she say?
- Well, you know,
we just talked about how
you're a rockstar
and probably get around,
and she got really upset
and teleported away.
- She said I'm a rockstar?
- No, we said that.
- Oh.
Oh.
Well, I guess that's the
end of our conversation.
You wanna know anything else?
You wanna know if I'm a
rockstar and I get around?
- You see that he says—
- Here.
Here's a little f*cking gossip for you.
I'm a f*cking virgin who's never
had a healthy relationship.
- Wow!
This is the best day of my life.
- Spread that around, 'cause guess what.
I don't care what you say here
'cause I'm never coming back.
Choke on grapes, b*tch!
- Oh, my god.
- Did Ayda teleport away?
- I'm hearing all of
this in my mother' voice.
- Did Ayda teleport away?
- That line, honestly.
- Yeah, 'cause it hurts to Fig
that Ayda teleported away.
- Oh, she teleported away?
Wait, come back!
- You see Fathethriel
turn around and says,
"I don't know.
"You kinda had a big moment there.
"Do you wanna restart
this up or let that sit?"
- Where did she teleport to?
Are you talking about she teleported
like all the way back,
or did she teleport behind a tree?
- You see he's like,
"She opened the door to
some kind of fiery place
"and there's like a big fire door,
"and you see, it's by the grotto,
"literally just whatever.
"It's still there.
"I think some of my friends
are gonna go through it later,
"but we're gonna, you know?"
- Okay.
- This guy sucks.
- Gorgug!
Gorgug!
- This part's broken.
- Gorgug!
- Yeah?
- Can you take over for a minute?
- It's still broken.
- Can you take over for a minute?
- Mending takes one minute.
Just hold still for—
- Take over watching her?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Okay.
All right, well.
- We can just do this later.
- Also, Adaine I'm gonna
come out of the van,
but don't get too freaked out.
- Why would you—
Why are you—
It's very triggering for me.
- I know.
I'm sorry.
Again, I'm always offering
if you wanna do some sort
of therapy back to back,
I can be like, "I love you."
- Are you a trained therapist?
- I walk away.
- Cool.
- I guess I'm gonna go
to this fiery portal.
- You got to this fiery portal.
Gorgug, you hop down into the van.
- What's going on in here?
- Cool.
Awesome.
So, as you go into the
van and close the door,
you see that Aelwyn
kinda wakes up
a little bit.
Goes
- She is still hexed.
I think that it will still
have full disadvantage
on strength checks.
- Goes like, "Ugh, I
don't feel good at all."
- Yeah.
- Come on, man.
You can do it.
- So, what's—
Maybe you should go back to sleep?
I don't know.
- What?
- I don't know.
This got sprung on me.
I didn't really—
This is not the zone for me.
- I don't feel good at all.
- I could—
Maybe there's some water or something?
- What?
- What?
- What?
- What?
- What?
- I was asking if you want some water?
- I don't feel good at all.
- Gorgug puts his hand through
and just sees if he can touch her.
- Oh, no!
- You touch her head
and your hand comes back wet,
like she's made of water
and she goes, "You're cute."
- God.
- Uh oh.
I open the door.
Anybody?
Hello?
- Yeah, I'm up here.
- Yeah, am I on my way back?
- Your sister's made of water
and I didn't—
- Dammit.
- You're kidding me.
- I'm not sure
when it happened,
but she's made of water.
- Fig, you walk down towards the grotto
where you see the grotto's supposed to be.
You don't see any f*cking
fiery portal at all.
- No!
- Oh, my god.
I was completely f*cking used!
All y'all need to choke on grapes!
All you all!
- What?
What is happening?
- Why are we choking on grapes?
- You said don't eat the grapes.
- You guys are excluded from
the choking of the grapes.
- So, you're in a different part.
You're near the grotto right now.
- Oh, boy.
- I'm gonna need you
to make a wisdom-saving throw,
if you'd be so kind.
- Okay.
- Come on, nat 20.
This is it.
- Nat 20, baby.
Nat 20, nat 20.
Oh, all right.
Okay.
- That is going to be
a dirty 20.
- A dirty 20.
Cool.
- Hell, yes.
- You feel a spell try to happen on you.
Now, I'm gonna need
you to roll initiative.
- What?
- Come on, god.
- You still look like Arian, right?
- Yeah, I do still look like Adaine's mom.
I got a five,
but I'm gonna use a luck point
to try to get better initiative.
- Yeah.
- Ooh.
- Okay, that's gonna be a 17.
- 17?
Okay, it does not beat a 19,
so I'm gonna need another
wisdom-saving throw,
if you'd be so kind.
15.
- Luck point?
- You can use another luck
point here if you want to.
- I will.
- Okay.
- 10.
- Fig.
Your body freezes.
It's just for a moment.
You know it's hold person.
It's not gonna k*ll you
and it's something you can
keep making saves against.
Go ahead.
So, we're in initiative order.
At the end of your turn now,
go ahead and make another saving throw.
- Okay.
12 isn't gonna do it.
- Okay.
- I guess I gotta try—
I don't wanna freaking
use my third luck point.
What a waste of these new luck points.
18?
- 18 does it.
- Okay.
- So, at the end of your turn
you come out
just in time
on a natural 19,
you watch Gorthalax's gem
come out of your coat.
- By what?
By someone invisible?
- An invisible something.
- Okay.
Bestow Curse.
I wanna make that person have terrible gas
so I can follow them.
- You cast Bestow Curse.
I'm gonna roll a saving throw.
That is a—
What's your DC?
- 17.
- So, I'm gonna narrate what happens now.
You watch the invisibility fade
as a shivering, shaking Aelwyn Abernant
holding Gorthalax's gem
and holding her spell book
appear before you.
- How did this happen?
- Appear before you.
She was invisible in the van with you.
Appear before you
and go, "I'm so sorry,
"but goodbye for now.
"What?"
And, teleports very confused
by just blasting a*s against her will.
- I have a question.
- As she teleports out of here.
- You m*therf*cker!
- When?
I have a question though.
- How did she know it was me though?
I look like her mom?
- She was casting Detect Thoughts.
- I made a fake thing
that was loaded with Glyph of Warding
with an expl*si*n
that looked like that crystal.
I don't remember when you
took your specific dad one
out of the bag,
but we had a decoy one.
- It was like that.
- Yeah.
- Oh, just the bag.
You're right.
You just had the loose—
Yeah.
- I tried to give you.
- Yeah, I got you.
Don't worry about it.
- So, Aelwyn vanishes.
The concentration—
You see that the spell fades on you
and you are no longer paralyzed.
- I run back up.
Hey, guys.
Aelwyn just f*cking got away.
- Yeah, she was all water.
- Yeah, well—
- I should've been watching her myself.
This is my fault.
- We had her c*ptive
for like nine minutes.
- Yes.
I don't even know when it happened.
- Honestly, that's longer than anybody
has ever been able to
hold her c*ptive before.
- She has Gorthalax in the f*cking gem
and I don't know where she teleported.
I tried to give her gas
so that I could follow her
when she was invisible,
but I can't—
- I was just reading
and they need a devil
to get into the forest
of the Nightmare King.
So, they're definitely
taking Gorthalax there
at some point.
- We need to get there.
- They have to k*ll someone,
and within 24 hours.
- Where's Ayda?
- Ayda comes in.
She's got a little bowl of grapes.
- Hey, baby.
So, I have a question.
- I'm not a baby.
- I know.
I have a question.
- I'm not a baby.
I'm an adult.
- No one thinks you're a baby.
- Yeah, totally, baby.
- It's a turn of phrase.
- Okay, so there was this
weird, oozing puss man, right,
in what you saw?
Is that the person that they need to cram
this devil into?
- The devil into.
- That sounds like a dead wood elf.
- He's in the forest.
- He's in the forest.
- Okay, yeah.
I guess, but it sounds
like they were trying
to keep someone freshly dead
and that kinda sounds
like what they need,
- I think 24 hours just means
that, yeah, they need some—
although, they could cast
Gentle Repose on them.
- Yeah.
Hey, do you think that your mom—
- Where's Fathethriel?
- Do you think your mom fell in love
with the idea of this nameless lady?
- You wanna go find Fathethriel?
- Yeah, I wanna go find
f*cking Fathethriel.
- Cool.
Fathethriel's hanging out,
dipping his feet into a little pool.
- Hey, Feth.
What's up?
- Hey.
- So, I need you to tell
me that what you just did,
someone cast a spell on you
and you did against your own will.
- No.
Um.
A Tabaxi woman showed up
and told me she'd give me 10 gold pieces
if I went and messed with you.
- That's so little money.
- For 10 gold pieces?
For 10 gold pieces
you literally just gave
away my f*cking father
who I don't even f*cking know!
- What?
I don't know anything about this.
- Give us your lunch money!
I try to take the gold back.
- He says—
- Yes!
Backhand.
- He says, "Everyone's being weird!
"What's going on?
"I don't get it.
"A lady said to go mess with you
"and say some stuff
about Ayda or whatever."
- That's Fig's 10 gold.
- I'm waiting.
She didn't give me the gold yet.
- You didn't get it up front?
- Okay, she didn't give you the gold yet?
Cool.
We'll wait until she gives you—
You didn't even get anything up front.
You just did this on a f*cking lark?
- No.
I don't know.
I didn't do it for—
- You're mean.
- What?
- You're very, very mean.
- You're mean.
- Ragh, I think this guy
is bad for you
and I think we should leave.
- Ragh, I think you should
beat the sh*t out of this guy.
- Everyone but Ragh should.
Everyone but Ragh should.
- Fathethriel is really mean.
Fathethriel, you should go around
and tell everyone about this cat
that just told you about this thing,
and if you do that,
I will give you 100 gold.
I give him 100 gold.
- Don't give my f*cking greatest enemy
in my life 100 gold.
- Wait.
I'm confused.
How am I now the greatest
enemy of your life?
- You know why.
- I super don't.
- You know.
- That's a 23 hit.
- Yeah, you sock him for—
- I'm gonna do booming blade—
- Don't k*ll him!
- Do not k*ll Fathethriel.
- He just humiliated me
in every f*cking way possible.
- Hold her back, hold her back.
- Yes, can I grab Fig with my sheet?
- You know what,
if you guys want to leap on Fig, okay.
- I hit him for 19.
I hit him for 19,
and if he walks,
then he takes another two D8 damage.
- You hit this kid for 19 damage,
he's fully dead.
- Just knock him unconscious.
- You do non-lethal.
Bong!
Hit him on the ground.
- That was really big of you, Fig.
- Yeah, you see Ragh goes, "Holy sh*t!
"What did he do?
"What did he do?"
- He helped Aelwyn escape.
- Yeah, that.
- Oh.
Well, that sucks.
- And, Aelwyn got her spell book
and Fig's dad.
- Also, he tricked Fig,
which I feel like
is Fig's whole thing,
and so maybe it's more
painful because of that.
- Oh, you're seeing your vices
when someone else is engaging with them.
- Yeah.
- No.
I don't feel bad about my vice.
My vices rule.
- I have a question about
Arian's motive here.
- Arianwen's or Aelwyn's?
- Arianwen's.
- My mom.
- Yes, your mom's,
because it sounds like
the high elves did this
whole misinformation campaign
in bad faith.
Does it sound like your mom
is trying to bring it back
and make right,
maybe against the high elves?
- Maybe,
but it seems like the high elves—
My mom is the highest of the high elves.
- But, it sounds like she broke back
'cause her and your dad
aren't working together.
- I think they're both just bad.
They're both just different kinds of bad.
- But, they're on different sides,
is what it sounds like.
- It sounds like
she's on this mystery side
because she did so much research.
This is like the research of someone
who's fallen in love
with a new—
I do not know
my mother at all.
- Can you talk to her in any way?
- If I take a long rest.
I guess I could sending her,
I could send her a message using sending.
- Sandra Lynn says, "Okay.
"We've knocked one of the
youths here unconscious.
"I think it's time for us to go.
"We're gonna head back
to Leviathan right now."
You see Sandra Lynn says,
"Also, we need to have a discussion
"because Cathilda is gonna be departing.
"Currently, Ragh is still
on the adventure with you
"as a full party member,
"myself, and Tracker
"are no longer officially
receiving a stipend
"from the school.
"I can't speak on Tracker's behalf."
- Why is that?
Just 'cause of funding—
- Aguefort's out of money.
- Yes, he's in trouble.
So, you guys are heading
into what looks like the last leg
of your journey.
You have a lot of
information from Fathethriel,
information you need
about what Arianwen was up to.
She looks around and you
see that she and Tracker
are standing together.
They've just had a conversation.
She says, "I feel
"obligated to continue
"if you guys want me.
"You're heading to the forest of Sylvaire.
"That's kind of why you
guys brought me anyway,
"so I will continue on with you."
Tracker looks at you guys and says,
"I will, as well.
"You guys don't have to pay me.
"I'll keep going, too."
- We'll pay both of you.
We have—
- yeah, we have money.
I do have a question though
because there is kind of
part of me that wonders
if there's something those
of us who are infected
can do separate to help.
- I don't wanna separate.
- I don't want to either,
but I am thinking if
she's hearing every plan,
if she knows exactly where we are,
all of our research,
she knows what we know.
Is that bad?
- Well, we knows what
she needs to use, too.
We know where they're going.
- Yeah, true.
- Let's get out of here
and have this conversation
in Leviathan.
- Yeah, 'cause we know
where the temple is.
- Cool.
- You and me found that
stuff at Compass Points.
We know exactly where the temple
that she's heading towards is.
- And, considering how
your father used you guys,
it's possible your sister
is being set up as the
person being sacrificed now.
- Cool!
- I think both of your parents
are bad in different ways,
but they might be doing the same thing.
- Great, wonderful.
- You guys—
Ayda prepares to teleport.
Telemaine comes up and says,
"It has been an honor."
- Get out—
Oh, sorry.
I thought you were—
I thought you were the guy.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry I yelled at your dad.
- It's my granddad.
- Okay.
- That guy
doesn't get to come to until I'm gone.
- You see that Telemaine comes up and says
to all of you,
"Take as many grapes as you'd like."
- What an opportunity.
- Thank you, Telemaine.
- Thank you, sir.
- I'll take a grape, right.
- I give a formal, high elvish,
departation ritual saying
of may your grapes be juicy and bright.
- You see that he returns
the formal response.
He says, "In your time here,
"you have rescued your friend,
"you found what you needed
"in your great quest.
"Though it pains me to see
you go, my sweet grandson,
"you have also knocked on
of our youths unconscious."
- I need you to trust me on this one.
He deserved it.
- Oh, he's a sh*t starter.
- It was completely
manipulative, what he did.
- He's a sh*t starter, for sure.
- Yeah.
- No, no, no.
It's okay.
And, he's weird.
The way he talks about half orcs is weird.
We all think it.
This is messed up for
me to say about a kid,
but I don't like him.
- Okay.
- Just a rotten kid we don't think about.
- You see, he goes—
- I think he might have like the—
He's so weak.
- Hallariel says, "I shall see you
"when you're all back in Elmville again.
"Best of luck saving the world, darlings.
"I love you so much.
"I love you, sweetheart."
- I love you, grandfather.
- Cathilda comes up with
her little bag packed.
She gives you a kiss and says,
"You're your own hero, master Fabian."
She goes around.
She gives you a little kiss, Riz
and goes over to Kristen.
She goes over to you Adaine,
and as she gives you a little kiss,
she puts a little thing
of cookies in your hand.
- I give her a big hug.
- Gives you a big hug in return.
She smiles at you, Gorgug,
gives you a kiss on the cheek,
and she comes over to you
and she looks and says—
- I believe you.
You're on our side.
- She smiles, nods, and says,
"You're a good egg."
- This guy though,
probably the Nightmare King.
- Who are you pointing to?
- The small elf underneath my boot.
- No.
He's an as*h*le.
He's nothing like me.
- Yeah.
Right now I just need to
believe he's the Nightmare King.
- As Cathilda walks away,
can I take out my father's eye patch
and put it back on,
and then say,
"You're the best maid—
"No, the best surrogate mother
"a boy could ask for."
- She bursts into tears.
You see, your mom looks, hears—
- You know.
You know it's true.
- She looks and says,
"It hurts because it's true,"
and you see she says,
"My hope is that I start
doing better, darling."
And, she looks at Cathilda and says,
"Maybe Cathilda, we should have a talk
"about what it means
"to do right by people."
Cathilda says, "Oh."
She looks over at you and says,
"Two down, one more to go."
And, she takes Fathethriel's hand
and says—
- What?
- Bill, Fabian, and now her.
You see she looks at you and says,
"My heart beams with
light for you, Fabian,"
and she says,
"The eye patch looks good on you."
- Stop it.
- And, they walk away.
Ayda, the runes of fire spread.
And, you all reappear, voom!
And can small the salt sea air
and can once again feel
the ebbing the call of gulls.
You are back, midday,
under a deep fog
at the Compass Points Library.
Leviathan spreads around you,
no longer under the
threat of Captain James.
For those of you who are here,
Ayda looks and says,
"Very well, we have some research
"we have left to do.
"Let us dive into it
"and see what we can glean."
- I start casting Hallow on the van.
- You see that Tracker and Sandra Lynn
look at you both.
Sandra Lynn sort of coughs and says,
"So, you would prefer for Tracker and I
"to continue the last leg
of the journey with you?"
- Yes.
- Sandra Lynn looks at you,
looks out at Leviathan,
looks at Tracker,
puts a hand on Tracker's back
and sort of squeezes her shoulder
and looks out and says,
"We're headed into the sh*t.
"Your sister's taken back her book,
"She's captured your father
"and one of my partners,
"and I wanna say
"that I haven't been good,
"and I'm sorry.
"I haven't been a good role model.
"I'm an adult.
"You're all learning how to be heroes.
"I've given you reason to doubt me.
"I've introduced strife into
- This is about
to get inspiring.
- "Tracker."
You see, she bursts into laughter,
you saying that,
and just goes, "Look,
"we're going into the sh*t.
"We all have stuff to work out.
"I'm not perfect and
you guys are teenagers
"and you've known that for a minute.
"If I give you reason to doubt
"in the middle of
something that's dangerous,
"that's on me.
"I'm sorry.
"If anything ever happened,
"and I made things hard,
"Mordrid Manor is a home
waiting for all of you,
"and if anything ever happened
"and I ever made a mistake
"that put anything in jeopardy,
"I would get on Baxter and go
"before I put your home and
your family in jeopardy.
"I want you to know that.
"We f*ck up and we try
to make the decisions
"to be better where and when we can,
"and we're going presumably to Sylvaire
"to stop what's going on,
"here's to getting it
right on the next try."
You see that Tracker nods
and you see that Sandra
Lynn looks over at Ayda,
hangs her head and says,
"Ayda, can I get a use of
that sending spell from you?
"I need to talk to somebody,"
and you see that Ayda says, "Sure.
"Someone specific or just
any person in the world?"
And, Sandra Lynn goes,
"a specific person,"
and walks off with Ayda.
- Can I do an insight
to see if that was maybe to Jawbone?
- No insight needed.
You said the name.
It's to Jawbone.
Tracker comes over,
smiles at you,
and goes, "All right.
"Let's get to work."
- All right, I'm gonna do this.
Can you go find Chungle Down Bim?
- What?
- Do not—
No!
Absolutely not!
- I wanna know!
- We don't need him back.
- We need to make contact
with somebody from here.
- He's going to sh*t
in my mouth, all right.
- Go find him, honey.
- I have come a long way.
- What if he saw—
What if he saw Arian?
- Kristen, Fabian's
really delicate right now.
- I just got back.
I just got back.
- We don't have
to bring him here.
I'll go to him once I finish this.
- Tracker looks at you and says,
"Kristen, if what we need is
information about Arianwen,
"we could go hit up Garthy again
"if you wanna go back
to the Gold Gardens."
- Oh, that's a way better idea.
- Have you met Chungle Down Bim?
- I just looked—
- Who's Chungle Down Bim?
- I've heard this name
and I have dreams about it.
- I'm just in the corner going,
"I believe in you.
"Spring break.
"I believe in you.
"Spring break."
- Great call.
- I believe in you.
- Spring break.
- Let's talk to him.
If it doesn't work out with Garthy,
then Chungle Down Bim is a close second.
- We'll talk to him and
we'll figure out something.
Cool.
For those of you
who are in—
For those of you who are doing research
at the Compass Points,
go ahead and give me
whatever rolls you're doing.
For anyone who's gonna go talk to Garthy,
let me know who's going to do that.
- I want to do two things
at the library.
I want to look at this research,
but I also want to see
if there's records
of any books that my mother
took out of the library,
if she went to the library
and I don't know sh*t.
- Cool.
Give me an arcana check for the first
and an investigation for the second.
- Great.
So, I'm gonna use Boggy
with the help action
for both of them.
- Yep.
- Oy.
That's a 15 on the first one.
- We'll call that the investigation.
- Oh, okay.
Oh, and a nat 20,
and the other one was a one.
- Whoa!
- Thank you.
- So, a nat 20.
- And then, a nat 20 on the other.
- Okay.
Investigation 15.
You don't find any books that
Arianwen took out of here.
- Okay.
- Cool.
So, what you find is this.
With a nat 20 arcana
you dive into the hefty tomes
taken from your mother's research.
These are written
by mystics, shamans
of the wood elves, centaurs,
triants, and sprites
immediately during the run up
to this council
where the worshipers and clerics
of the Goddess of Mystery,
the unnamed Goddess of Mystery,
were building up to destroy her name.
There were certain heretics
that were driven out
that were having prophetic dreams,
and your oracle sh*t
is extremely relevant here
because the dreams that
these shamans started having
were basically ignored
by the power structures
of these influential, high elven clerics
working in Sylvaire.
The Goddess of Mystery sent visions,
and from the four different tribes
they saw what are called
the Four Trans-Substantiations,
and you see four powerful effects.
This Goddess of Mystery, Magic, and Night,
the word they use sometimes
is they call her a Witch Goddess,
and she apparently was not
just a goddess of magic,
but was almost a goddess of spell casters
and a spell caster herself
because basically the warning she gave
is, "what you are doing
"is going to destroy me.
"Unmaking my name
"is going to hurt me or destroy me."
She performed four trans-substantiations
and a great substantiation
in anticipation before
this ritual happened
to try to protect herself.
- So, four regular trans-substantiations
and one great—
- And one great.
- Great.
- She turned her spell book into a coin,
she turned her familiar into a plague,
she turned her sanctum into a curse,
and she turned her
arcane focus into a tree.
On a nat 20,
you can find something
about what her arcane focus was.
Her arcane focus was a broomstick,
and the final trans-substantiation
was she turned her name into something,
but you don't know what
she turned her name into.
- Great.
- Now, with this other investigation—
- So, she actually wasn't unnamed
because her name was changed
before the un-naming?
- It still exists.
- It's hidden.
- It exists as something.
- It looks like
before the mortals could do the ritual,
she trans-substantiated her own name
to survive preempt whatever, right?
- What if we're looking
for a Nightmare Queen?
- Well, I do have
a memory of—
I didn't write it down,
so maybe I'm misremembering this,
but didn't you say that
the Sylvairian language
doesn't have gender?
Is that something that you said,
or is something that I'm fully making up
in my brain?
- You might be fully
making it up in your brain.
- Great, sometimes I do that.
- Cool.
But, you might be making
that up in your brain.
- Great.
Sick.
So, just to reiterate,
the spell book became a coin,
the familiar became a plague,
the sanctum became a curse,
and the arcane focus,
which was a broomstick,
became a tree.
- Correct.
- Great.
- Riz, what did you get
on your investigation?
- 23.
- 23.
- You find within the stuff
you're looking at as
you're going through it,
one of the pieces where Arianwen's writing
also mentions something
that in the original alliance
between Kalvaxus and the Nightmare King,
one of the gifts that
the Nightmare King gave
to Kalvaxus as a vassal,
being like, "I bow to you.
"I'm one of your vassal servants,"
gave the gift of a single coin
to add to Kalvaxus' hoard.
- Ah, that's gonna be the spell book.
Wait, we have his hoard.
- We have his hoard.
- Unless we gave away that.
- But, when that hoard,
his specific hoard,
that bank got blown open,
maybe that was to get the coin?
- Do we know that we
directly received his coins
or were they laundered in some way?
- Yeah.
- Is that a question for
someone in particular?
- I feel like Arthur Aguefort is the one
that gave us the money.
- Yeah, we could ask Arthur.
- Do we find anything else?
- I'm looking at it right now.
Did anyone else make any other rolls?
- No, I'm gonna go to Garthy.
- You're gonna go to Garthy.
Cool.
- Just working on the Hangman.
- I'll roll.
- Do I know that Gorgug
is working on the Hangman?
- I'm trying to hide.
- Well then, I don't go looking for him.
I'll roll with them to Garthy.
- Cool.
You roll with them to Garthy's.
You're doing Hallow
and Tracker's actually
gonna help you with Hallow.
- Okay.
- Yeah, okay.
We can go.
I gotta get away from here.
- So Fabian and Fig,
you go to talk to Garthy.
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- We haven't hung out in a minute.
- I know.
You look great.
Dance looks great on you.
- Hey, honestly it was really cool
to watch you kick the
sh*t out of Fathethriel.
- Yeah.
You know, he was f*cked up.
I hate him.
- Solid.
I'm about it.
- Yeah, let's go.
Wait, what are we talking to Garthy about?
- Not sure.
Let's hand.
- Sorry.
I've been in kinda my own head.
I got kinda f*cked up.
- Ragh's gonna go
with you guys
- Cool.
- To Garthy's
You see that Ragh looks
over and he's like,
"Hey, I know it was about your own
"sh*t going on,
"but when we got back
"after the tower,
"Fathethriel said some
really messed up stuff.
"So, good looking out."
- Oh.
- He was weird.
He was mean.
- Good.
- He was mean to me.
- I wish I could say I was doing it
as an act of justice,
but it was a personal vendetta.
He just really embarrassed me.
- Yeah, I hear that.
- You know?
I hope he has a really painful cramp sh*t.
- Did you say you did a curse
to make Aelwyn fart?
- Okay, follow me.
This was my game plan.
- Okay.
- If she's invisible—
I didn't know it was Aelwyn at the time.
If she's invisible,
then I could track her via scent,
but then she teleported,
- That's an amazing plan
and if it'd worked out
I think you'd be on my shoulders for sure.
- Thank you so much.
- If that had worked out
that would've been awesome.
- Thank you so much.
- That would've be awesome!
- I love your support.
Thank you.
I need this right now.
- Oh, spring break!
- Spring break.
- I believe in you.
- Thank you.
Also, whatever Fathethriel
said that I said to him
is a total lie.
- What?
- What did you say to him?
- Nothing.
I just made—
- Wow.
Wow.
- I'm just saying I think
this guy spreads lies
and I bet I will be the subject of one.
- The last stuff that Riz finds with a 23
on that investigation
has to do
with notes left on Arianwen's research
by the elven government.
They have to do with them finding out
that Arianwen was planning
on betraying them.
Basically, what you're
able to piece together
is that Arianwen had worked out a deal
that if she could bring
the crown of the Nightmare King
back to Fallinel,
the government would release Aelwyn
and return the Abernant family
to some position of whatever
and the government just didn't honor that,
and they found research Arianwen was doing
on people outside of Fallinel
that understood curse breaking,
and you see information
about Garthy O'Brien
and finding them
as an external curse breaker.
People that go to Garthy,
you guys are back in the Gold Gardens.
As you arrive back at the Gold Gardens
you see life and music and fun,
people are having a great time,
people drinking and dancing,
you see Garthy over
in their normal spot.
They look up and go,
"Oh, my goodness gracious.
"Look, it's a couple of—
"My goodness.
"Lovely.
"You're standing so tall and straight.
"I love it."
- What can I say?
I'm back.
We're back.
And, we need you.
- Yeah.
- What can I do you for?
- Well, Fig.
- What are we supposed to ask him?
- What?
- Am I close enough to message Adaine?
Adaine, we're talking to Garthy
and we can't remember what
we're supposed to ask them.
- Anyway—
- My message is broken.
- We want you in the most awesome thing.
- Both of you guys just give me
a straight up persuasion check.
- Okay.
I got a
Oh, okay.
I got a 15.
- 18.
- 15, 18.
Cool.
You guys sit down with Garthy.
Garthy goes, "So, you're on a mission here
"and we're not exactly specific on what—"
- Yeah, I was sort of in a situation
that I needed to get out of somewhere,
and this was the other option.
So then, I tagged along.
- Understandable.
All right.
Well, I wanted to actually apologize,
if I could,
because I might've given you
some bad information earlier.
- Oh, really?
- "You see," he says,
"I told you
"that Adaine's mother,
"she came in with the crown and all."
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- She went to an elven ship
that was bound for Fallinel.
- You had mentioned that.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- Darlings, the ship was
not bound for Fallinel.
That was put on the log books.
The ship rerouted.
Somebody saw it take harbor
off the coast of the forest
of the Nightmare King.
- I knew you were gonna say that.
- It tracks.
- It tracks.
- It tracks.
- There's a little
village up the cliff side
from the coast.
It's called—
Oh, what is it?
It's called Arborly.
- Arborly.
Arborly, that sounds like somewhere
that would have a lot of trees.
- You see that—
You actually already rolled for this, Fig.
You rolled for this months ago
when you did your roll
in the very first session
of sophomore year.
There is a venue manager in Solace
who was at that party
where you heard people talk
about the Nightmare King,
who you played at a lot
of this person's venues.
They have a family home
called Holly Hill in Arborly,
and in a drunken night
of rockstar partying,
were basically like, "Anytime
you wanna stay at Holly Hill,
"you wanna come through
and do a show, you go.
"You go.
"Mi casa es su casa, okay?"
- Great, great.
I'll just tell them I'm
working on a new album
and I wanna do a little party.
- So, you know about—
What you would know about Arborly
that basically the person told you
is it's a wood elf,
forest gnome sanctuary
that has a lot of wood elves
that are part of this process
to slowly start to reclaim Sylvaire
as much as they can,
but you also know
that they are being—
There's some magical border
that's stopping them.
You immediately recognize
from what Riz found out
is this infernal warlock thing
that only devils
or the infernal can allow people passage
through this boundary.
So, Garthy says,
"So, apologies for the misinformation,
"but it was all done very hush-hush.
"There's some sort of secret
"where the ship put a different
thing in the log books
"than it did on what it
actually ended up doing."
- How long ago was that?
- That would be
probably a month or two ago.
- Okay.
How long does it take
to travel by ship there?
- By ship?
It's like five or six days.
- What if we could teleport.
- Yeah, I think we'll probably teleport.
I'm trying to figure out a timeline
when she's out there.
- It'll only be a month or 20.
- We're pretty used to teleporting now.
- Yeah, we do it all the time.
We're big time teleporters.
- If they got frequent teleport miles,
we got 'em.
- We would always be in the lounge.
- Garthy sort of wishes
you guys farewell.
- Oh, they don't wanna come?
- You see Garthy says,
"No, I think that I'll be remaining here
"in my place of business."
- Oh, come on.
- Oh, are you trying to get me
to toddle off on an adventure?
- I'm going through a
whole kind of rebirth thing
where I'm kinda doing me,
and I don't know.
You've been doing this for a long time.
- Ooh!
- What if you got out there?
- Ooh.
I'm gonna Bardic Inspiration him,
just in case he needs a little.
- You see that Garthy looks.
Well, you guys have your
15 and your 18 persuasion.
- Oh, right, right, right.
- So, you see that Garthy says, "Darling."
- Garthy.
- Here is the honest to goodness truth,
and I say this knowing
that you're walking around
with a dragon's hoard, yeah.
You simply can't afford me,
and I'm so sorry.
But, I would be delighted
to hold a revelry in your honor
upon your return to the Gold Gardens
and we'll hear all about
your fabulous exploits.
- One last quick question.
Do you have any experience
with identifying rare coins?
- Identifying rare coins?
I can identify here and there, lovey.
I'm happy to appraise
where and when I can.
- I show him all my money.
Anything look off?
- Just get in there.
Go ahead.
- Get in there.
Sniff it.
This one's chocolate.
Ignore that one.
- It looks like
gold coins to me.
- Okay,
what about this one?
I pull out my bag.
- He goes, "Oh, my goodness.
"That's all deeply cursed.
"I'm gonna take that off your hands.
"I'm gonna take it out of your hands.
"No, listen."
- Does this feel?
Does this feel like?
- Listen.
It's all right
because it's actually,
and you know what,
I am a touch with curse right now.
- Oh, it gets you off.
- But, the issue is
I have to break either on each one,
so why don't I hold onto it.
- All right.
- And, over the course of weeks—
- Oh, it's gonna take weeks?
Weeks?
- It's a price in time.
- Garthy.
Garthy.
- What?
- My father was a pirate.
I know a ruse when I see one.
- A ruse?
I've been accused of lying
in my place of business.
- You know what?
I'm glad you're not coming
because if this is what—
- Well, have it your way.
- Can't wait for the party.
- Yeah, start working on that party.
- You see—
- I am straight edge, except for drugs.
So, plan accordingly.
- What do you mean straight
edge except for drugs?
- It means I don't drink.
- And, I'm sober now.
- Oh.
- Full sober.
- Congratulations.
- I might do that.
Actually, I'm gonna go—
- I don't think
I ever really started to drink.
I was doing snuff for a minute.
I had a big snuff night,
but apart from that.
- You know what?
I think I could go straight edge,
except for hallucinogens.
- Ooh, that's it.
That counts.
- Yeah.
- You see—
You guys arrive back
at the Compass Points.
You guys are doing research.
You guys are still casting Hallow.
Gorgug, go ahead and give me—
You're doing mending.
Give me a tinker's tool check.
- Okay.
So, that's plus five?
- Plus five.
- Can I give him the help action,
since I was helping him
with the mend spell earlier?
- Yes, you can.
- 22.
- 22.
You are there,
working on the Hangman.
Adaine has to leave
partway through mending.
You see Fabian's old,
discarded Owlbears jacket
and there's some things
you're trying to buff out
that aren't coming out.
You see a little tin of wax
in Fabian's leather jacket pocket,
and it's just a little
thing of motorcycle polish.
- I open it.
- You open it.
As you open the thing,
you take it out and start
putting it on there,
start fixing it, ratcheting something.
You figure out how to put
things back together.
As you're putting it all back together,
you finally find this one last part.
You put that wax in that last seal
and suddenly you hear
Fire appears in the eyes of the Hangman.
Master, I'm sorry.
Stab me as much as you need to.
Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Hangman.
I'm not your master,
but I did fix you.
I fixed something.
- You see that Hangman rights itself,
looks at you and says,
"You have fixed me."
- Yes.
I've been trying to fix stuff for a while,
and it hasn't really worked out,
so it's really surprising
that this worked out.
- You see, as you are holding
these tools in your hand,
you feel this sense of
accomplishment and pride
come over you.
You were raised by two gnomes.
You know how to fix stuff.
You see Hangman looks at you and says,
"I do not know
"by what magic
"you have brought me back from the brink,
"but know this,
"I behold the greatest wizard
"of our age."
- You do.
- I have to find my master!
And, the hangman tears off.
Fabian, as you and Fig come back
in the late afternoon you hear
- Do you hear that?
Is that a boat?
- Is that Aelwyn.
Is it Aelwyn?
- It doesn't look like a storm.
- Is it Aelwyn.
- You wanna ride it?
Sure.
- I'm just like holding it.
It's skidding on the ground.
- It's going fast.
You guys see Gorgug riding the Hangman,
peel around the corner.
- What?
What, what, what?
- The Hangman—
- What?
- The wheel runs up you
and the Hangman leaps up on you.
It deals five points of damage.
- Ow, ow, ow!
Ow!
- Master!
Master, I am so sorry.
- Ow.
- I relent
- I'm so sorry.
Will you stab me?
- What?
You were broken.
Oh.
- Whoa.
- Everything is—
What happened?
How did you—
What happened?
Did you—
Who did this?
- Like I said.
- Master Thistlespring
summoned the hellish flame
from beyond the kin of mortal men.
He reached into the nine pits
and grasped my soul
with fire-y claws.
- Did you go to Hell again?
- I just put some pipes together mostly,
but I guess in a sense I went to Hell.
- For those at home,
Gorgug's ninth level
is one level of artificer.
- Yay!
- So, pretty smart now.
- Wow.
- Still very dumb, actually,
but I have a tinkerer's tool.
- Can you make me a chain wallet?
- I'll work on it right now.
I'm sorry that your dad's gone,
and we'll get him back.
- Oh, yeah.
Thanks.
- I should say that.
- Hey, Gorgug.
You're a true friend
and I'm gonna buy you an orange.
It's a thing.
It's a pirate thing.
- Yeah, I know.
I've heard.
I think I read a book.
- Ayda over in the corner,
crying tears of flame.
"A whole orange that's
extremely meaningful."
- Thank you.
- No, thank you.
I kneel down to pet my motorcycle
like a dog.
- Aw!
- I am so sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- I stabbed you.
- I let you stab me
and you didn't like that.
- I was too sad
and I thought you were just full dead
and I just kind of abandoned you.
- I abandoned you by being full dead.
- No, you can't abandon me.
You're a motorcycle.
- The Hangman is so delighted to be back,
the end of the following day,
the next day,
Kristen, you finish
and you see
a reverberating magic.
What do you think
Kristen's magic looks like
in this moment
as you complete the Hallow
on the van?
- I know this is kinda messed up,
but I think I'm really
liking everything I learned
about this God of Doubt.
So, it kinda looks Galena-esque.
- Yeah.
- Galena-esque.
- So, you see
that in this world
where this partially destroyed goddess
was Galakaia's sister,
the final test in the spell,
Tracker takes your hand in hers
and you see the power of
the moon flows from her
and in the farthest away from
Helio you've ever gotten,
pure energy of night
just surrounds the van.
- Cool.
- The darkness of the unknown.
Not a night of dread or menace,
but the true night
of who knows what's
waiting for us out there.
- Cool.
So, it's kinda like her god, the moon,
and my god, this unknown,
and we're doing this freaky sister magic?
- Yes.
Absolutely.
- Scissor sister magic—
- You complete the spell.
Ayda looks at all of you and says,
"I'm going to take you
"in this new hallowed place
"that Kristen has created to Arborly.
"After that, I will have
to return to Leviathan.
"A bunch of pirates
broke in while I was gone
"and stole a bunch of stuff."
- Oh, no.
- It's okay.
There's a reason that
I really can't leave,
so I'm going to find them, k*ll them,
take my books back,
and then I'm going to start
to shrink the Compass Points
sort of piece by piece
until it's very, very small
so that I can bring it
to be with you guys
as best friends.
- Great.
Sending us—
We'll sending each other post cards.
- Okay.
- Can you say hi to
Chungle Down Bim for me?
- I don't know who that is.
- I don't know who it is either.
I just love him.
- I am doing so well.
The only thing that could ruin this day
is if Chungle Down Bim
looked me dead in my eyes—
- I'm so sorry
- And told me
he's gonna sh*t in my mouth.
- The Hangman says, "Sire.
"By the nine hells and
all the malice of the pit,
"I will sh*t in Chungle Down Bim's mouth."
- Yes.
Yes, we'll figure,
Gorgug will help us
figure out how to make you sh*t
and then we'll find Chungle Down Bim
- Give me a—
Give me a mechanical stomach
and butt hole
that I might sh*t in his mouth.
- Nat one.
- Nat one.
You don't know how you
would begin to do this.
- You give yourself a mechanical stomach.
- Ayda says, "Best of luck
"in the next leg of your journey.
"I will join you after
you completed your quest."
She says, "And now,
"as my final favor to you,
"my best friends,
"my best friends.
"God, it means a lot.
"This is hard emotionally.
"To Arborly and your success
"in the re-taking of the
Nightmare King's crown."
Ayda brings you
through a flash of fire
into a dark, dim forest.
Around you, trees rise in all directions,
knotted and gnarled
in the shadow of the
Nightmare King's forest.
You look around you
and see structures hidden
in the darkness of the trees.
You perceive beyond this place
things hidden, thorns off in
the distance of the woods.
You see mist gathering,
and then you turn to look behind you
and you see a really nice,
well-appointed mansion,
like a very sick house
built partially into the trees,
doors carved into the
woods of the living trees
going up into platforms and
branches and tree houses,
and you see the gates of Holly Hill,
the manor you were told about.
- I think I know the key code here.
- Oh.
- Sick.
- Yeah.
- What is it?
- One, two, three, four?
- One, two, three, five.
- Oh!
- And, that's all for this week.
Fantasy High Sophomore Year.
Tune in next week.
For the continuing
Adventures of the Bad Kids,
and the Quest to Reclaim the Crown
of the Nightmare King.
Thanks for watching, guys.
Bye bye!
- Bye!
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
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