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Guys, last we left off, oh boy,
did a bunch of fun stuff happen.
So, these are our intrepid
heroes, the bad kids,
teen adventurers from the
Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
The world of Spyre's
premiere high school heroes
who are on their spring break
trying to retrieve the crown
of the Nightmare King.
Their adventures have brought them all
the way to the second level of hell!
The Iron City of Dis,
where they have gone to
rescue Riz Gukgak's father,
Pok Gukgak as part of...
was there a joke I missed?
I gotta do this spiel,
I never catch the jokes.
- Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!
- They were pretending to play a violin.
- No, no, it was more specific than that.
- So, our intrepid heroes
flew on a pirate fleet
through the skies of hell
to rescue Pok Gukgak.
Riz discovered that maybe his father
was not a good father after all,
but at the last possible
moment, he discovered
his dad was actually not who he appeared
double again and was in
fact an undercover agent.
Who had a tractor beam
sh**t down from heaven,
grab his son and shot
out of the plane of hell,
leaving our rest of our intrepid
heroes now in a sky fight,
a dog fight, in the middle of the sky
on a pirate ship made of the slain carcass
of their former vice principal, guys.
You can't make this stuff up.
You can, we did.
And so we come back now
to our intrepid heroes
or at least five of the six of them
in the skies over the Iron City of Dis.
Guys, the Goldenrod, the
flagship of the rebel armada
under Captain Bill
Seacaster twists around,
fiery rockets sh**t up
from the Iron City of Dis.
We are in the skies of hell,
grey sickening rain
clouds thud down on you
with cold soul-despairing rain
as you see hoards of devils
fly in the iron city to
all of Bill's many ships.
You guys have just survived
a huge sort of layer action
where everyone was almost
flung off the ship.
Arriving back on the deck,
Fig and Bill Seacaster arrive.
You are holding a scroll
that you sleight of handed
from Vraz the Mean.
- Oo, I forgot!
- Oh yes!
- I got a scroll, and
baby stole something.
- And baby stole something!
- What did baby steal?
- Baby stole some scraps and things
that were not as good as what Fig stole,
but he did his absolute best.
He goes I found this is
some kind of to-do list
or a memo!
- Yeah yeah, it's a receipt. Baby,
we're gonna have to go to some
markets to practice stealing.
- Ah, she bought a side of fries!
You see—
- Just one side of fries.
- You see that Wretchrot
screams with glee.
Bill who is fighting looks up to the helm
where Fabian is steering the Goldenrod,
and you see he says aye there, my boy!
Steer us in the direction
of your friend, Riz!
- Aye aye, papa!
- Wait, Bill, I saved your
life so you owe me, right?
That would be the pirate's code.
- No.
- Okay, well—
- What do you want to happen?
- It should be, alright
what I want to happen
is that you don't k*ll Gilear again!
- Oh, listen, I had to k*ll
Gilear as a matter of course,
but I love Gilear!
- What?
- Well oh, listen, now
he's been k*lled once,
I've been k*lled once, We're even.
Gilear says I've been
k*lled multiple times.
I can't open the door of the sarcophagus.
- Also, he didn't k*ll
you, Fabian k*lled you.
- Well, Fabian k*lled me, I k*lled Gilear,
Gilear kills Fabian and then we're even.
- I'm sorry, what?
- Wait, what?
- What's going to happen?
- Under no circumstance
will I attempt to k*ll
young master Seacaster.
- Oh really, Gilear?
All right, okay.
You get named the chosen
one at the Hotel Cavalier
and now you have intentions.
- I appreciate that you don't debate
that he's the chosen one.
- I mean, of course, he's the chosen one.
- I was named the chosen
one as a cruel joke by you!
Please, I can feel myself
running out of air.
The ambient heat from hell is
heating up the sarcophagus,
and the oxygen is being quickly depleted.
- I use my—
- Can I make
a perception check to look
around before I open it,
just because I don't wanna open it
and him immediately die again.
- Okay, you hesitate
to look around and see
and then give me a perception check.
- Oh no, he passed out.
- And I'm turning the ship
around to headed back toward The Ball?
- Yes, you are.
- Perception, that'll only be an 11.
- He passed out didn't he?
- What's that, sorry?
- He passed out
- 11.
- Oh, you got an 11 perception?
You don't see anything coming.
You see two pirates grab the sarcophagus
and begin to load it onto
one of the police stations.
You see that, cool go ahead
and you have one round
to give me a strength check,
give me an acrobatics check.
- I'll help with my hands.
- I have advantage
on strength checks.
- Cool cool cool.
- Oh, he already has advantage.
- 14 plus athletics.
- Yes.
- 23.
- You lift the
A lid opens up, the
hand swoops Gilear out,
they fire the sarcophagus, it
blows up a pit fiend's chest
and you see that, you begin to fly off.
Ayda lands on the deck of
the ship, looks over at you,
Adaine, standing next to
you, Fig, and she says,
"Riz is gone."
- What?
Riz is gone from this plane.
- What?
- I can no longer scry on him.
- Where did he go?
- He's either dead or is no longer here.
- Dead?
Well, then, we should go and
look for his body or something.
- Cool, Fabian go ahead and give me
a dex plus proficiency
roll with advantage.
- Oh, you know I'd love to give you that.
We can—
- Ooh baby.
- Call that dex, 23 plus five equals 28.
- You steer the Goldenhoard, I'm sorry,
the Goldenrod through the skies of hell.
You hear from the front Kalvaxus yell out
"are any of my former
minions still on the deck?"
Hello!
- Yeah!
- Gorgug?
- Who is that?
- It's your minion.
I don't usually do this.
- No, this is good.
Actually, I'll disguise
myself and say yes,
I am your minion.
- Minion!
- Minion!
- Your minion!
- Which minion are you?
- I cast the friends cantrip
on him so he believes them.
- That's gonna give you
advantage on a deception check.
- I actually already have
advantage on deception.
- Oh, then, nevermind.
- Go ahead and give me a
deception check, good grief.
- We should tell 'em this is
all part of the plan, right?
- I got a one, but I also
got a 17, which means 30!
- Woo!
- You see he goes oh, Francois!
I can't believe you made it here!
Listen, listen to me
very carefully, listen.
We don't have much time.
Come to the front.
There's a battle going on.
This is your time.
I've been turned again
my will into a ship.
Please, find a way to
release me from this bondage,
and I will make you wealthy
beyond your wildest imagination.
- What is your weak spot?
- My what?
- Francois, I just, maybe we
could just see if he knows
anything about the Nightmare King.
- I know, I just wanna know
where it hurts the most on him.
- Oh yeah.
- What do you know about
the Nightmare King?
Is that who we are going to meet with?
- What, no, listen.
I am a boat.
The priority now is to un-boat me.
Please, find a way, there's
a, Captain Seacaster is doing
some kind of, and you see that
two of the zombie pirates go
throw a huge billowing thing of sail cloth
and gag Kalvaxus as you
guys continue to fly
through the sky.
You guys arrive at the building.
You see that Sandra Lynn
mounts up on Baxter and says
Captain Seacaster, are we
gonna, I don't think we can
dock the ship.
We need to have some kind
of away party, right?
- No, we can dock the ship.
Can I drive it straight into the building?
- Yes, you can.
You see, Bill who is now
on the like the prowl
looks at the approaching building and says
my god, you're absolutely
mad, boy!
- Yes!
- And Bill is
blasted away as you crush
into the side of the building.
Everyone here, give me a
dexterity saving throw.
- Oh my god!
- A dexterity?
- 15!
- Ohhhh, am I dead?
- You simply need new dice.
You need to re roll your numbers.
- Listen.
- They got above a one
and got below a zero.
- Yeah, I'm a negative one.
- Ayda is gonna instead give you a 16.
- Hey, thank you, Ayda!
- Cool, what did everyone roll?
- 15!
- Seven!
- 15.
- 12.
- 16!
- I'm not there.
- Seven.
- Cool.
Okay, you got a, with
advantage you got a seven?
- Yeah.
- Okay, hold on one second.
- We're coming to get you, The Ball!
Just straight in.
- This is definitely worth it.
- Everyone else finds a way to hold on,
while on top of the—
- If I had literally any
way of magically communing
with you guys, I would, but I don't.
I am but a rogue.
- It's been more than a minute, right?
My hand is gone.
- 35, yeah.
- I'm assuming that you're
dead inside this building.
- Makes sense.
- I'm gonna k*ll the people who
k*lled you with our boat.
- And If you die in hell,
do you not stay in hell?
Do you go somewhere else?
If you die in hell, do
you die in real life?
- I'm sorry, what did you get again?
- 15.
- 15.
- 15.
- 15.
You got?
- 16.
- 16.
- I'm not here, right?
- You're not here, that's right.
You guys got a below 15, right?
- I got below 15, yeah.
- Okay, everyone else is fine.
You managed to hold onto things.
Bill takes the full damage.
Gorgug and Fabian each immediately
take 52 points of damage.
- I'm down.
- I guess I'm, am I raging anymore?
- I don't think you are.
- 52?
- 52 points.
You, let me be clear.
You crashed the ship into a building.
Bill takes all the
damage and is fully fine.
Gilear also not just down but insta-dead.
So, Gilear—
- Gilear again?
- What again?
- You just crashed a ship at full speed!
- Don't point at me like this.
Don't point at me like this.
- Gilear!
- I know, because Gorgug
was making his save to also
hold on to Gilear, you
guys are partially sheathed
into this building.
- I'm up.
- What is Gorgug at?
- Gorgug is at 20 health.
- Okay.
- Okay, I can start
casting some cure?
- Yeah, you guys, the ship crashes.
A lot of the pirates die right away.
Bill is covered in rubble.
Fabian holding onto the wheel,
you go like over the handlebars on a bike,
but over the helm, smash into
the rubble of the building,
are incapacitated, zero hit points.
Everyone else managed
to hold on and not die.
Gilear is insta-dead.
How many points are you at?
- 20!
- 20, okay.
- 'Cause I took
the full damage.
- Took the full damage.
- I'm just fine.
- Riz, fully fine.
- I woke up and I say and I say
don't worry, it's worth is
because Riz is in there,
and he needs us!
- We've gotta save Riz!
- I have to save my friend.
- So, now, so, Kristen, you stand up.
You see Gilear is, you
can spot him immediately
fully dead, crushed under rubble.
- I'm sorry.
- Fabian is also unconscious
amidst the rubble..
- I can go ahead and use a
third-level healing ward on you,
but that'll only bring you back for 15.
- That's okay.
- Okay.
- I could use a little heal.
- Yeah, great
- But also, Gilear is fully dead.
- Okay.
- Do you, you don't have a spell
that maintains his corpse, right?
- Gentle repose?
- You don't have that.
- I don't have gentle repose.
- Are you out of revivifies?
- No no, I have revivify,
but I can also cure wounds
to like cure a few people.
- Maybe let's bring Gilear
back 'cause I think revivify
is within a minute.
- Oh, you can only do
it within one minute.
- Okay, yeah, cool.
So, I revivify...
- I'll pay for this one.
- Gilear that
building came out of nowhere!
- Dad?
- You see that these like
devil's zepplins begin
to come in.
You see Bill looks to you and says
I'll hold the Goldenrod.
You get your friend, boy.
We don't have much time.
Get in and get out, smash and grab!
- Right, let's find The Ball!
- Bill, does that count
as Fabian k*lling Gilear?
- We're all even!
Gilear says wasn't I supposed
to k*ll, nevermind nevermind.
- Everyone just kills Gilear.
- I k*lled Gilear, I k*lled Gilear!
- Who needs heals?
I could try to heal us as we run in?
We got Gorgug.
- I'm all f*cked up.
- I'm gonna help you.
- I'm okay, I mean
- There's a collapsed
rubble and buildings,
but you guys can rush into the building.
I think pretty much the
whole crew rushes in.
Go ahead whoever wants to and
make an investigation check.
- Can I roll for some
healing on Gorgug and?
- You know what, just go
ahead and start rolling
and tell people.
Feel free to spend spell slots.
- Nat 20!
- Nat 20, Adaine, you have
a pure oracular vision.
You know exactly where it is.
You guys see Adaine does a whole
- Adaine, not the time.
- You guys sprint into the
darkness of this dwelling place.
As you do, you guys arrive
at this exact chamber.
You see the chair, blood, all of this.
You also see on the
ground partially opened
having clattered there,
a leather black briefcase
with the initials T.B. on it.
- Can I...
- It's the briefcase of holding, right?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- I guess we pick it up.
Adaine or Ayda, can you
guys, oh wait, you can't scry
'cause he's on another planet.
- I also don't have—
- We don't find a body here.
- I put—
- I don't have another
fifth-level spell, and I don't have scry.
So, we have to take a rest.
- Can I make an insight check
on the briefcase?
- Make an insight check for me, yeah.
- Can I also make an insight check?
- Go for it.
- I got a four.
- Can I look for—
- He's in the briefcase,
isn't he?
- I could do locate
creature, but Ayda's saying
that he's not on this plane—
- I got a 17.
- You see—
- Oh, and you got a call.
- I got a call.
- Wow, Brennan is so popular.
- You see that,
what did you get on your roll?
- 17.
- 17.
You look down at the briefcase.
You know that there was a fight in here.
You don't see The Ball going down
without leaving some bodies.
- All right.
- There's no bodies?
- No bodies.
- No bodies.
- There's no bodies.
- Is the fight going on—
- You see, but you do see smears of blood
like things were dragged out of here.
- Can I investigate the blood
to see if it's goblin blood?
- Sure, go ahead and make a nature check.
- Can I taste it?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I'll taste it as well.
- I'll taste it too.
- Sulfur.
- Oh, sulfury?
- Yeah, sulfury.
- Oo, interesting.
- It tastes sulfury.
That's demon blood.
- That tells it,
that tells it.
- This is not The Ball, yeah let me...
- Are we sure?
- Oh yeah, that's demon blood for sure.
- I'm bleeding a lot I should say as well.
So hurt.
- I actually don't think The Ball is here.
- Okay, that's a good thing.
- Tracker casts detect evil and good,
and she looks up and says
It smells like celestial in here.
- Oh that's, what?
- It smells like an angel?
- Yeah, meadow grass, honey.
Like a bright day.
- He's a little angel.
- He is a little angel.
- He is a very sweet boy.
- Metaphorically
- I just thought it was
like a sweet little angel
like just not like he's
actually an angel, right?
- He's been hiding his angelic
form from us this whole time?
- I wish he knew he could
tell us that he's an angel.
- That sweet, good boy.
- If The Ball's an angel,
where do angels go?
- What's your question?
- Where do angels go?
- The upper planes.
- Can we go?
We have to find our little angel?
- Can you fly the ship
straight up?
- Do you have a plane shift?
- Also, is it okay for an arch-devil to go
where an angel treads?
- You see that Ayda looks up.
She is gonna cast a spell as well.
She looks and says I cannot
cast another plane shift today.
- Right.
- She says, but you see
that she casts detect magic
and looks around and goes conjuration.
You see she goes yes, this was a
something in the conjuration school.
Something was either summoned, banished,
or teleported here.
- They summoned his briefcase.
- Doubtful.
- Can I check to see
if there are like doors
leading around or like if the blood smear
like drags out of the room?
Is this investigate?
- Mm-hmm.
- 13!
- The blood smears do
indeed go out of the room.
You guys look around right now.
From the look of this,
there is virtually no,
sorry, yes?
- I'm sorry, I can wait.
- From the look of this,
you know that something
crazy happened here.
You guys know that Riz is not a celestial.
So, something wild happened.
- Can I take out my crystal?
- Yeah.
- And try to call Riz?
- You do not get service in hell,
which is what a fun thing.
- We're in a like interrogation room.
Can I run and see if
there's any camera footage?
If there are any like security cameras?
- Sure.
So, with your 13, actually,
go ahead and roll another
investigate with advantage.
- Nat 20!
You know it!
You know it!
Nat 20.
It was a nat 20 and a 17.
- Yes! Yes!
- You go next door, and
you see a little imp
looking at a bunch of
screens reviewing footage
and see literally—
- I ice him and
- You ice the imp?
With what?
- With The Ball's g*n that
was in the briefcase maybe?
- You can pull another g*n
out of the briefcase probably.
- Wonderful, that's what I do.
- You ice this imp, which
is, see, Tracker goes,
sweetie, my god!
All of you guys—
- Power of the 20.
- Are also, you guys can
hear the noise increasing out
in the city of Baator combat.
- Ah crap.
- We'll probably gotta
get the f*ck outta here-
- But you guys all watch
the scene of Riz, his dad,
and bam bam, putting the ear,
and a celestial beam of light
crashing through the roof and
both of them getting sucked up
into the light and the light disappearing.
- What happens after
that to like the bodies?
Who moved them?
- Yeah, why is the briefcase
still there but the bodies are gone?
- After, it looks like the people came in
and dragged the bodies of
the devils out of the room
to potentially like reanimate
them or bring them back
as new devils.
- Oh, the other devils did.
- Other devils, correct.
- Who came in who came in
to drag the bodies out?
- Two lemures that are
just, they're the like
globby, weird, very stupid devils
that would have not thought to
like investigate a briefcase
on the ground.
- Cool,
so let's take the
briefcase because that's—
- Let's get the briefcase.
We gotta get the hell out of here.
- We gotta go.
- What about the sword?
Let's make sure that we
don't lose his sword.
- No sign of the sword or the g*n in there
- Okay.
- Great.
- Cool, you guys rush
back out to the ship.
You get back to the ship.
Bill is starting to look injured.
He's having a great time,
but as you arrive back,
he's starting to look injured.
He looks at you and says right
then, you got your friend?
- No, but we know where he might be.
The upper plane, where angels are.
- Well, I can't go there.
- Can I?
- How do we get out of here?
- He looks at you and says
well, the best I can do you
is the astral plane.
That's the only other place
I can get to outside of
the nine hells.
Fig, go ahead and give me a
perception check with advantage.
- Okay.
Nat 20!
- Oh sh*t!
So, Bill says he can get
you to the astral plane.
You also feel that scroll in
your hand from Vraz glowing.
- Okay.
- One handed.
- You open it.
It is a waiver of release
that will recreate the doorway
back to the Shrine of Thorns in Arborly
- Whoa.
- Whoa!
- Oh, okay.
- Okay.
- Make that.
- I don't—
- Make that.
- I mean, we definitely could do that,
but does anyone else kinda
wanna go to the astral plane?
No, okay
- I just feel like—
- I don't know what's on the astral plane.
Is that any closer to the upper planes
than our regular plane?
- We're still gonna need to
plane shift anyway, right?
- We're all out of spells.
- And Gilear keeps dying.
- Yeah, if we go back,
we can at least rest.
- I mean, so yeah.
- Gilear's holding on by a thread,
and I've maybe dumped
like $40.000 into him.
- Also, maybe we can go
back and talk to the van
and even maybe take the van with us.
- He's a celestial, yeah.
- We can just pull that
jewel out of there.
- I rip the scroll or whatever I do to it.
- You rip it?
- You rip it, the magic all fully fades
from the destroyed scroll.
- No, what?
- You have a broken
scroll in front of you.
- I cast mending.
- You cast mending,
and the magic comes back!
- Okay.
- Sorry, guys.
I thought, I thought—
- That's the craziest thing.
- This is what happens when
you don't have to study magic.
You're just innately good at it.
- It just oozes from you.
- You invoke the seal.
A flaming door appears on the
Goldenhoard, the Goldenrod.
You see that Kalvaxus
is wrenched out of there
as Bill takes him back to the sky.
Bill looks back at you and says
back to the prime material then
in the world of Spyre is it?
- Aye aye, captain!
Then, I put my pirate hat back on.
- Oo, there's a good pirate lass!
- We should ask Goldenrod
a question or two
before we get out of here.
- I know, what do you want me to ask him
because I wasn't there when
you guys talked about this?
- I'll cast zone of truth.
- Oo, yes, good idea!
- I cast zone of truth over Kalvaxus.
- Oo, baby, hold on one second.
- Zone of truth on a boat!
- On a natural three, the
zone of truth takes place.
- Oh, good idea.
Oh, I don't have it.
I don't have it.
- Just give us everything
you know on Nightmare King.
- Hold on one second.
- Is there another
like name he might know he
might know the Nightmare King by
or something?
- Yeah, something to do
with his magic or the—
- Or anything about your mom?
- I have a question.
- Oh, 'cause she was at the school.
- So, you see that Bill
goes out and starts yelling
a warning to his other ships and says
alright, lads, we've taken the spoils!
Now, back to the astral!
And you see that Bill
begins to take his fleet
and begins to head towards
a part of the storm
over Dis that has actual lightning in it,
and you see that a whirl begins to appear
as Bill focuses on it, and
you see that he appears to be
opening some kind of astral
portal that he appears
to be able to open for his
fleet to like dip in and out
of hell to like get out
of here to safe waters.
- Oh, my papa!
- I have a thought,
and I don't, forgive me if
we've already answered this,
but Principal...
- You see that Kalvaxus
looks over and says who is,
oh no, not all of you.
- It's us again, sorry.
- Yeah yeah, you love to see it.
- Hey, all that stuff freshman year...
- What do I love to see.
- You know.
- You know.
- Oh, is this some new
sophomore year development.
- No, you have a crush on
her is what she's saying.
- Yeah, this is cannon.
- No, I don't have...
- You're in the zone of truth.
You have to say it.
- Oh, he is in the zone of truth, right?
You see he says I don't
have a crush on anything!
I just want to be rich!
- Okay, I don't think it's working.
- That's sad, that's really sad.
- It's not sad, it's great.
It's great, and I'm great.
- Did anyone put you up
to all that stuff you did
our freshman year?
- Hey, Mister Thistlespring,
why don't you go f*ck yourself?
No one put me up to, I
was the boss, alright?
- So, the Nightmare King wasn't the boss?
- No, I was the boss.
- So, Adaine's mom was working for you?
- What?
- Arianwen, was she working for you then?
When she was doing all that
work for the Shadow cat?
- Arianwen never worked for me.
Aelwyn worked for me.
- Okay, but then, what
about all that stuff with—
- So, all of the stuff that
was going on behind your back
you didn't have any idea because
you were being manipulated
and you didn't even know about it?
- Wait, what?
What do you mean I was being manipulated?
I was not manipulated...
Look, the Nightmare King, I
brought the Nightmare King back,
okay?
- What?
- When?
- When I went to go conquer
the whole everything!
- Oh, thousands of years ago.
- A couple centuries, not thousands, but
look, the important thing is this...
Why am I saying all this?
Look, the important thing is this.
I, the Nightmare King is
an older entity than I,
but he agreed to be my
lieutenant in exchange
for a couple of favors, alright?
- What were those favors?
- I accepted this gift of a single coin.
It was added to my hoard,
and then, he wanted me to
spread my wealth around,
which I was not a fan of,
but part of the curse
of his coin and my hoard
meant that my wealth would
always come back to me fivefold.
So, I started to invest,
and I learned about stocks,
and I learned about
bonds, and I learned about
collateralized debt obligations.
- Did you ever buy anything like for fun?
- Buy anything for fun?
No, I —
- Like a nice pair of shoes or
just like a jacket?
- I bought a lot of art objects
because those actually accrue in value,
and they're actually, no, they're good.
- Oh god you're such a boring bad guy.
- I am not boring bad guy!
- I like swing off and
just kick him in the head.
- Very easy to kick a boat in the head.
- Yeah, it's awesome.
- You see as you do that Bill goes woo!
That's right, me boy!
- Do some pull ups.
- Me too.
- You see that Goldenhoard
says besides, it was, the more
I spread my wealth around,
the more the Nightmare
King was able to cast
his terrible magics upon
wherever my wealth went.
- Why did you work with someone
who was gonna be so powerful
and would inevitably betray
you or become more powerful
than you?
- The Nightmare King never betrayed me.
- Yeah, he did.
- When?
- All the time!
You think some magical forest
guy is gonna give you a coin,
and that's gonna be good for you?
- Listen—
- You're dumb!
That's rule 101, dude, read a book!
- Oh, read a book?
You're supposed
to be a teacher!
- Read a book!
- I was not supposed to be a teacher!
I was supposed to be a dragon!
I was made a teacher against my will.
- Well, yeah We all know—
- And now, I'm a boat!
- Cause you bad at it.
You were bad at teaching.
- I was a pretty good vice principal.
- Do I have a picture of the picture?
Since The Ball is in here?
- Oo, yes!
- You have a picture of the picture?
- Can I show it to him?
Hey, what do you see in this photo?
- Huge dragon eye looking
up as you're like leaning
over him, rain coming down.
You're like, the astral portal
is coming up in front of you.
You see he says I don't
see anything in there.
Oh, is this about the,
what is it the Shadow cat?
Whatever that was?
- Yes, yeah, do you see her?
- No no no, I didn't mess
around with that thing at all.
Says look, the Nightmare
King was a total creep.
First of all, the guy never
talked ever, never spoke,
just you'd see him in visions,
just this weird skeleton
with a crown and dark
robes, and you would kind of
understand what he wanted
on an intuitive level.
- Did he like sit under a tree sometimes?
- Yeah, in a lot of the dreams he did,
but the important thing is this, the,
I know the shadow, the
shadow cat put me in touch
with Aelwyn, but Aelwyn wasn't
the Nightmare King's only
follower in Elmville.
There was—
- Who else was?
- I actually don't know.
It was kept secret because
the only condition I could
meet them on was if I allowed
myself to be able to see
the shadow cat, and I
was like that's fine.
I'm fine without meeting—
- Man, you are so easy
to trick into doing stuff
that you don't understand.
- I am not easy to trick!
- Aelwyn was right, you're
stupid and easy to beat!
- Aelwyn said that?
- Yes!
- She said I was very smart when we met.
- She's a liar.
She's a really big liar.
- Yeah, she's very very charismatic.
- So, they made you able
to see the shadow cat,
but you can't see it in this?
- No, I didn't take the deal.
I said stay secret, but
Aelwyn was another follower
of the Nightmare King, a
servant of the shadow cat.
I don't know how it all
works, but the point is this.
Aelwyn approached me
saying that the shadow cat
had sent her.
That's when I started to work on
the modify memory spell with her.
She joined with Penelope and
Biz in your freshman year.
The shadow cat made the
connection for her to join
my conspiracy and thus was it done.
- Wow, do we have any other questions?
- No.
- I think that
answers everything.
- Says but listen, I, the
Nightmare King didn't use me.
When, after that coin,
anyone who I was able to give
my wealth to, the
Nightmare King was able to
ensorcell them from league away
from halfway across the world.
It made me incredible potent and powerful.
- Whoa.
- Very cool.
So, us spending all of
your money that we got
just made us vulnerable
to the Nightmare King.
- Oh, you have all my money?
- Yeah.
- Well, most of it
'cause we spent some of it.
- Hey man, we're children.
- Yes, and I wish I had
k*lled and eaten all of you.
- Interesting.
- One day!
- What can you tell us about
the forest of Sylvaire?
- I don't know, it's a big forest.
I let the Nightmare King have that,
and I was conquering High Court and Solace
and everywhere else.
- Damn.
- You'll never be half the boat my van is.
- You guys surge through
the astral portal with that.
- Write that one down.
That's good for our next album.
- Bill's ships fly after
him into the astral realm,
and from there, we are going to leave,
and we are going to cut over
to a towering beam of light
in darkness.
Riz,
you feel completely weightless,
translucent pearly light
surrounds you, and you feel
wind in your hair like you are
sh**ting up, but you look
around, hell is gone.
You look out into endless
vastness and see in the distance
of the darkness other beams
of light and other things
being rescued from all over the multiverse
and sh**ting up.
You are wrapped in your dad's arms.
He is holding you so tight.
- My angel.
- He is holding you so tight,
and give me an insight check.
- It's a natural one.
He's mad at me.
- There is, no, if your
dad lets go of you,
you'll fly off here and die.
You see, he's like holding you so tight,
and you're like oh,
danger, there's danger.
You think that your dad is
maybe losing his grip on you.
- I hold him tighter.
- He holds you tighter as well,
and you see that he
begins to let go of you.
God dammit.
- Wow!
- This seems like a problem
we would've fixed by now.
- Its mom.
- It's an angel!
- You see that your dad
begins to, it feels like
he's beginning to let go of you.
- Oh easy easy!
- Kid.
- Yeah?
- It's okay.
Your nat one, your dad
was not holding you tight
because he was afraid of dropping you.
He was holding you tight
because he can't believe
he's with you again.
- Right, yeah.
- He holds you off.
You are arm-length's apart
as he holds your shoulder.
You see tears at the corner
of his eyes float off
and fly up into the beam
above him as he just smiles
with this look of disbelief,
studying every inch
of your face.
- I got a lot of tattoos.
- Mom's gonna be pissed.
- She's gonna be so mad at me.
- You see this incredible like mosaic halo
behind his head.
It's not like the little angel circle.
It's like those saints
things where it appears
like a circle sort of behind him.
You see a little mote of
light appears in his ear,
and you see that he puts
a thing up for a second.
As he does so, you see
that the little noise
coming in over it comes out and says
coming in Gukgak, we've
got you on the extraction.
Are we clocking another
body there with you?
You see he puts his finger up and says
yep, I have an inter planar
prime material, good aligned.
Winks at you, possible C.I.
You see the voice comes
over his thing saying
registering that, holy
moly, Gukgak, is that?
And you see he goes it's my son.
You see he brings you in close,
gives you a kiss on the head.
You see that he takes your
hat off just so that he can
muss your hair up.
You see he says how the
hell did you find me?
- It's compli...
Are you okay?
How long were you in hell for?
- I've been better.
- Yeah.
- I've been better.
- God.
- He says honestly though,
maybe I haven't been.
He looks at you and he
goes he sort of is like
crying disbelief, you
see he looks and says I,
what were you doing in hell?
- My friend was called to court
because her dad is a devil.
And he's, it's a spring break thing.
It's a spring break thing.
- You see he says spring
break, okay, I think I got it.
- Yeah, I kinda didn't wanna
bring down the mood right away,
but the reason I know
where you are is because
the Shadow cat, Kalina told me.
- He looks at you.
You appear in this blast of light,
and as you appear,
there's a flash of light,
and for a moment, you
can't see your father,
and as he begins to, he walks
out of the light with you.
You see he's wearing
a nice like dark suit.
A tie, he's like clean again.
He got sort of a little bit of scruff,
but he's got his thin mustache.
He walks out of the light with you,
and you know that way where
if like a flash goes off
like vision starts to return
at like the darkest colors
you can see and blurry shapes,
and it starts to sort of
come out of the light.
You are standing on a grassy hill
in a landscape dotted
with a babbling little stream.
There's a tree,
and you see that on top of the hill,
there is a gravestone,
and you see that the
little gravestone up there
is a little bit morbid
at first until you see
that there is a little
chair next to it, an old mug
of what looks like coffee, a
little rolled up newspaper,
and you see it's on the backside of it.
And on the other side, it
says Pok Gukgak next to it.
- Huh, you just like
hang out at your grave?
- Whenever you come to talk to me,
I can hear you from this side..
- Oh, shut up.
- Dammit.
- God dammit, Brennan.
- What the hell, dude?
- I missed you, dad!
- He gives you a huge hug.
My guy, my guy, I gotta
show you the place!
Look at my—
- Yeah, please, this is, we're in heaven.
I feel like this is what
not having anxiety is like.
This is crazy.
My heart is just beating
like what I would assume
a normal person's heart beats at.
- I know, kid, it's great here.
Look, let me introduce you to the g*ng.
- There's a g*ng!
- He takes you over the
hillside by a babbling brook,
there's a huge, big tree.
One of those trees that's
like that is very tall
but is almost like twice
as wide in its canopy
as it is tall.
There's like a lot of shade from it.
There is a tire swing
over a little cute river.
There's a dock with some
boats, and you see in this
beautiful meadow with
like kind of butterflies
going from like place to place.
You see that there is
a bunch of row boats,
and there's also a
collection of about 12 desks
and a copy machine over in a
corner and like a little coffee
break room kind of place.
You see that it looks
like someone just brought
the furniture of an office out
into like the most beautiful
stream side field in the world.
It's like a very bright day.
Just right the temperature.
It's like warm without being
too warm and a cool breeze
without being too cool.
You look out at this place
and see other little paths
leading off to other
hills and a little path
through a forest somewhere.
You see that at the various
desks, there is like a little
receptionist desk at the
front of this little just
patch in the middle of
this beautiful field.
And you see that there is a
knoll woman who is wearing
like a little blazer pantsuit
talking to this huge Minotaur
in like a button-up shirt
with like a pocket protector
and glasses speaking to her.
You see that a lot of
them have like some badges
hanging out of the front of their thing.
It's just like a little heavenly like...
- Secret agent's office?
- Secret agent's office.
- God squad.
- God squad.
You start to walk up, and
you see that people look up.
You see the Minotaur looks up at first.
Big shaggy, red Minotaur.
Sees Pa approaching with you, goes
Gukgak, who do we have here, man?
And you see he says this is my son, Riz.
You see that they go, the
knoll and the Minotaur both
cover their mouths for a second and go oh!
- No, I'm not dead, I don't,
I'm not dead, right, dad?
- You're not dead.
- Okay, good.
I'm not dead!
- They say ah!
You see he says oh man,
the kid went inter planar!
How about that!
In his sophomore year!
You see that your dad looks and says
I know everything about freshman year
and all the adventures.
I told the whole g*ng, I kind of.
You see there's an empty desk near here.
As people come over and start
clapping you on the back.
A lot of these people are
like Copals and Soquagan
and various like kind of
classically monstrous races.
You see that they start to come over.
Pat you on the back and say hello.
You see a little plaque up
on the reception desk here
that says the lower planar
reconnaissance task force.
And you see on your dad's
desk there is a photo of you
and your mom.
You see that he walks over
with you and you see also
a little like pen holder that
says number one dad on it.
There is a plaque and a mug here.
You see he points over
to you and says you know,
end of last year, they awarded me this,
and you see that there's
a little polished plaque
on the desk that says on
behalf of the association
for divine wrath, please
accept this memorial
that your death at the
hands of engraved specially
emperor of the red waste was avenged by
engraved your son Riz Gukgak.
- I started to eat 'em like a goblin,
but then, they turned him into a boat.
- I remember, you told me, I remember.
He also had a little mug on the thing.
He says they give you a
mug too when you win this,
and you see that the mug
says don't even talk to me
until my death's avenged.
So, you see he looks over,
and a bunch of the other
you know like detectives
here, special agents start
like clap you on the back.
You see he goes kid, I can't believe.
Wait, hold on.
Clues first, then friends.
What's going on?
How did you find me?
- So, Kalina, the shadow cat,
who said she was your partner
has been kind of stalking me
with a weird plague disease,
and she's gotten into a lot
of our friends' bodies too.
And she, I don't know why
she wanted you broken free,
but she seems to have been
tempting me by showing me
where you were.
- Okay.
Let's yeah let's go, let's
go to the interrogation room
and try to have a quick.
The interrogation room is just two chairs
in a part of the field,
and you see that he walks over
with you and sits down.
You see he goes okay,
we can figure this out.
So, here's
essentially what happened.
First of all, what did you
just say, did you say disease?
- It's something that's
getting passed along
through our friends.
- What's something that's
getting passed along
through your friends?
- The shadow cat being
able to see through us
and being able to talk to us
and us being able to see her.
- You see his eyes go wide.
- Was she not always like that?
- No no, kiddo, I think she was.
Kid, you gotta know the only
things I'm up to date on
from the prime material are,
I've been deep undercover
since last summer so I
only know what you told me,
and other than that, it's all been, okay.
A disease.
That's why detect magic would skip over
'cause you wouldn't need detect magic,
you would need detect poison and disease.
- Right.
- Oh.
- Okay, here's the issue.
I'll start to cover this with you here.
Timeline of this, I
started first seeing Kalina
about 22 years ago.
I was a young agent.
This was before I met your mom.
I, god a disease, so you
think I was infected?
- Yeah, I didn't, this is
a weird conversation, dad.
Is...
People have gotten it sexually.
- I start sweating so
much.
They get it sexually from having sex, dad.
- Okay.
Hey, listen listen, kiddo.
- I thought heaven fixed this stuff.
- It's okay, hey, you're sweating a lot.
- No, I'm cool, yeah, no, I'm good.
- Bud, it's okay, don't worry about it.
Listen, okay, yeah,
so if she was a plague or a disease,
it would make sense that contact
would allow that to happen.
- Right.
- I met your mom when I was 27 years old.
Do you get what I'm saying?
There was a lot of years
where I was a young spy
running around...
- Right, yeah.
- Before I knew your mom.
- I'm like 15, I don't
know how old you are.
I just know that you're old.
- You see he says
he says well, I was 38 when I died.
I would've been 44 if I was still alive.
- So, is Kalina some, was she,
always like incorporeal or was she a—
- She didn't, see, I
mean I shook her hand,
I could touch her, you know?
You remember though that
Kalina created the sensation
of weight on your chest.
You know, and then, in the
medical stuff that you studied,
she, one of the places that
they had that cat insignia
in the old hieroglyphs was in the spine,
which would be able to create the illusion
of tactile sensation.
- Right.
- You see he says but I knew,
she couldn't pick stuff up all the time.
She, he says okay, I'll
just tell you everything
that I know.
I worked with Kalina without
a problem for about 10 years.
I got introduced to her from
somebody that I already knew
and trusted from the third ring.
Do you know what the third ring is?
It's part of the court of stars.
It's part of Fallinel's government.
When Solace and Fallinel worked together,
we would often collaborate,
and we were good partners.
I knew that she couldn't get scried on.
I knew that she had ways
of finding things out
that seemed borderline impossible,
but for the most part, you
know, I chalked that up
to being a good spy.
She had elven magic,
something else like that.
- And other people
could see her and stuff?
- We were spies, kid.
We weren't talking to
big rooms full of people
most of the time.
I mean, I didn't know
that something was up
for a long time.
We would have drop-offs, meeting points.
We'd share information.
We'd do infiltrations together.
You know, that's about it.
For you know, and I didn't
work with her all the time.
My partner was, when I was
partnering with her specifically
on something that was of
national importance to Fallinel
and Solace, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that we spent
all the time in the world together.
- Why
She's, I don't know if she's like,
do you know what she's doing?
- You see he says
Well, you seem to have
found out more about her
than I knew.
We never knew that she was a disease.
What I knew, eventually what
blew her cover was this.
Whatever she is, she doesn't
have a god-like intelligence
or anything like that.
She slipped up.
We were on a mission
one time, and she said
that she remembered something
that she couldn't remember.
We were in an ancient ruin,
and just conversationally
she let sip something like
I remember when a river
went through here.
A river going through
a place that's an order
of geographical time.
You know what I'm saying?
It was an off-hand thing, I didn't react,
but I also knew that she
had ways of knowing things
she couldn't know so I
couldn't move against her,
not overtly, I would tip my hand.
So, I ended up going to a
group outside of the government
to try to find her.
This was around the time
that Kalina pulled strings
to get your mom the detective
promotion in Elmville.
She always had an interest
in Arthur Aguefort
and specifically Goldenhoard as well.
- So, when did she turn,
when did she turn evil?
- I don't know how she
knew, she I was so careful,
and I went to this outside of,
I went outside the foreign service.
I went outside the council of chosen.
I knew I couldn't go
through the government
to try to find out about her,
and somehow she found out,
and she burnt me.
Kalina was the one
when I died I was down in the harbors
in Bastian City, and
Goldenhoard showed up.
Now, part of Goldenhoard's
deal with Aguefort or whatever
was that thing you mentioned.
You know, he said to you
about he could k*ll people
if they weren't Solesian
citizens and foreign service
agents weren't Solesian citizens.
That's a load of bull.
I had citizenship when I
worked for the foreign service.
It was revoked.
Someone put me on a list
of enemies of the state
and got my citizenship taken away,
which is how Goldenhoard
was able to k*ll me.
I, look, Goldenhoard is
the one that k*lled me,
but I think Kalina somehow
found out that I was gunning
for her to tryna figure out what she was,
and I think that she pulled some strings
in the government of
Solace to get me burnt.
- Wow.
Why is she so interested in our family?
Why would she help mom?
- The only time she ever helped your mom,
give me an insight check.
- 15.
- Your dad says well, we
were living in an apartment
in Bastian City, and then,
we had to move to Elmville
'cause your mom got that
promotion, which is what put us
in the same town, and you
realize Sklonda having to move
to Elmville, getting a job at
the police department there
meant that Pok and Sklonda
were living in the same town
as Arthur Aguefort who had the
crown of the Nightmare King
in his office.
- So, what is, do you know
what she wants with the crown
of the Nightmare King?
- Wish I did, kid.
I...
He looks and says I don't
know that I or your mom
were special, I think we were a way in.
If you're saying that she
has to ride other people
to be able to get places,
you know, I stopped seeing
her as much up until we went
to Elmville, but she did have
a bad sense of humor around
there was, I remember one
time she said a weird thing
about a blood drive at
the foreign service.
There was another time
where she tried to...
I don't know she was
always careful about it.
She was good, but she
pushed her luck sometimes.
Joked about me being
unfaithful to your mom
or I don't know that we were special.
I think that we were,
maybe if she was a disease,
her closest shot at getting to the crown.
- Did she have any
connection to Sandra Lynn
or did you guys back in the day?
- Sandra Lynn?
I, this is Fig's mom, right?
- Yeah.
- I didn't know Sandra
Lynn when I was alive.
- Out of character, she was
one of the original people
who could see it right
before any of the, okay.
- But she's only been able to see it
in the last three years.
- Right right.
- Wait, how do we know that?
- He says I knew that she
was partially incorporeal
or I knew that she some
stuff she couldn't do
when I took that photo of her.
She was really careful
about not letting people
take pictures of her,
and there was a mixer, there
was a party at the service,
and she showed up, and I
asked someone to snap a shot.
The person was confused, I
didn't clock it at the moment
as being anything strange.
- Yeah, for whatever reason,
when we first started on
this quest to try to find
the Nightmare King's crown,
the only people that could see
Kalina in the picture were
me, mom, and Sandra Lynn.
- That's interesting, the photo.
You see, after I took that
photo of her, Kalina used to be
able to do some really
impressive illusion magic.
I remember her running around doing stuff.
I saw her do some impressive stuff.
She stopped being, after
that photo some of her
illusory capabilities were
lessened a little bit.
I don't know what that means, but.
- There's something—
- I remember he says I
started looking up some stuff
in the service though about her.
I looked up this thing
about this Landren leere,
and you remember, seeing
your dad, that's the stuff
that Arianwen's research was about.
- Yeah, I guess I fill my
dad in too about the stuff
we found about the god with
no name and things like that.
And I don't know if you're
able to take pictures of her
and it takes her power away or something.
Is she the god with no name?
If we make her real, then
she becomes less powerful
or something, I don't...
- You see he goes, I'm not sure.
Give me a medicine check.
- Nine!
- Cool.
You're not certain why the
photo would've weakened her,
but something- you're noodling on it.
You're trying to think of why maybe.
You see your dad says yeah,
the timeline for me is again
met her when I was 22, worked
with her for a long time,
but after working with
her for about 10 years—
- You guys had sex?
Did you guys have...
- A lot of my friends are
into having sex and stuff,
and if you did, that's
fine 'cause you guys,
people have sex, dad.
It's fine, dad.
People hook up, man!
- Your dad kind of steeples
his fingers and really looks
at you for a second and goes
Riz, are you, you're,
sophomore year, yeah, I hear that.
Do you, have you, you don't talk about it
when you come and talk
to me, but have you ever
hooked up yourself?
- Had sex?
- Had sex?
You can tell me.
- No no.
- It's okay.
You see he looks up and says
I was, if you're concerned
about this, I was always
faithful to your mother.
- Cool.
- Before I met Sklonda, I
was extremely not faithful
for many years, and then,
I met the person that
without grossing you out,
put all the rest in the past.
- Cool.
I guess just from so I can figure out
'cause this is a weird thing
because I'm a detective
but also I'm your son.
I just really need to know if
you had sex with this person.
- He's like you're trying to,
you think I was infected?
- Yes.
- And so you're trying to figure out
when that would've happened.
I mean, the answer is it could've happened
in a lot of different times
prior to, it was a
different era back then.
- Oh boy.
- Out, no no no.
- I wasn't, when I was very
young, I wasn't as careful
as I could've been.
I do regret that but.
- Pok!
- I went to the doctor you know.
We had all that taken care of.
- Right, cool, dad.
- You see he says but,
he goes
there could've been any
number of, he's like
is it, it sounds like she's a disease.
There's a million other ways—
- Blood transfusion, many other...
- He says you know, there
was this, he goes to,
he walks over to his desk
interrogation room
with you and begins to
look through some things.
Sort of his records.
He was like the first time
I encountered the third ring
I was 22, it was one of my first missions.
I was in this old fortress called Acarian,
which is in Fallinel somewhere,
and I was in a fire fight
in this old fortress
of the third ring, and I busted
in through this secret door,
and there was this old cobwebbed place.
I remember finding a shelf
full of potions there.
They had some old healing potions.
I don't know.
It was shortly after
that that I met Kalina
for the first time, and
I'm trying to remember
if there would've been any other thing
that would've happened.
I don't think so.
Do you know that,
is it possible to get
this illness, this plague
in other ways?
- I, if she was—
- You remember the life
transference that—
- Yeah, it was, yeah,
it was through a spell.
- He says I think there
might be more than one way
to get this, kiddo.
I think this is a general plague.
I don't think this is necessarily...
- A sex plague?
- I don't think it's, I think
sex is a scandalous subject
so that might draw your
attention, but I think it might be
a more general disease.
- Got it.
- We don't have to talk
about sex anymore, dad.
- If you have any questions—
- I actively don't wanna talk about it.
- Last time I was able to talk to you,
you were nine years old.
You've grown up a lot, kiddo.
I really miss you.
- I missed you too, dad.
And I'm ...
- You can, this is okay to
talk for a father and a son.
I missed all of puberty, maybe not all,
but I missed a lot of it.
- Yeah, I don't know, I just don't,
it just isn't happening yet
like not even just the
act is not happening yet.
Like me wanting to do it...
- It's not happening?
- It's not happening yet.
And my friends are all like super horny.
- Yeah, that checks out.
Well, kiddo, if it never happens,
that's also okay.
There's a lot to life to
enjoy, and I already know
that you matter a lot to
your friends and a lot
to your family so if you never
end up having those desires,
that's completely okay, bud.
- You're k*lling me in this episode.
- You see, he says but
if you, it's also okay
if it doesn't happen for years, you know?
That's also fine.
You're your own person.
It's gonna happen on your own time or not,
and either way is a-okay, bud.
I won't lie, you know, I
know that me and your mom
would love to see some grandkids,
but that has nothing to do
with procreation that can
happen a lot of other ways.
Selfish, I know, but would love
that Gukgak name to continue
Gotta have another little
young one scrambling around
looking for blocks under the sofa.
See he looks at you and says
I also wanna show you this.
He opens up his desk and says
this is my senior year yearbook photo,
and he pulls up a photo.
Your dad is in a like
short-sleeve like plaid shirt
with like wavy hair and a middle part.
Huge braces all over his
teeth making a face like
triple chin like snuggled back.
- Riz, with zero self-awareness,
dad, you were a dork!
- Snatches it back.
I know what I was, all right?
Look, the Gukgaks bloom
if and when they bloom,
and that's fine, and if
you're like your old man,
you will bloom in junior year of college,
but after that, if I haven't
already made it clear,
we were off to the races.
I don't mean to make you uncomfortable.
- This is, dad, this is amazing.
You're a
You're everything I could've
ever wanted you to be.
You're in heaven, and you choose to leave
to do your job.
It's beautiful.
- I love you so much, kid.
- I love you, dad.
- You know, there's something
I always think about
which is that
I didn't get all the years with you that
I wanted, and I didn't get
the years with you that
I would've wanted to give
you and your mom, and
my old man said something to
me when I was a youngster,
and I'll pass it on to you,
which is you know people show
love in different ways.
They hug, they kiss, they say
sweet things to each other,
and I didn't have a close
relationship with my dad.
He was a very distant guy.
You know, he was first
generation in Solace.
His parents were goblins out
in the mountains in Chaos, and
He ahh ...
I didn't get along with him.
He was always off working.
You know he was a beat
cop in Bastian City,
gone all the time, didn't
have many kind words to say,
and I remember when I was an adult,
I found this locket, he was an older guy,
and it had a picture of me
and your aunts and your uncle
in it, and he just,
when he was older and he was sick,
he told me that he loved me, and he said
it was hard for him to say it with words,
but he never had a hard
time saying it with actions,
and every time he walked to
that street to bring home
a little bit of cash for us, keep us fed,
keep a roof over our head, when
I went out on those missions
I thought about the same thing a lot.
Work is an act of love, and just because
you're a little anxious,
you get a little flop sweat,
I know and I think your mom knows
and I think your friends
know that you stand up
with your boards at night
trying to crack the case.
You don't do that because
you don't care about people.
That's you saying I love you to the people
that matter to you most.
- Thanks, dad.
- Gives you a kiss on the head.
You see he
looks and says so,
after I was dead,
I found out what heaven
already knew about Kalina,
which was everything to do
with her, we didn't know
she was a disease.
You cracked that open for
us literally right now.
We knew that she was a
servant of the Nightmare King.
So, we spent about two months
putting up a cover for me
and got my soul down to hell
because we basically went
most demons are able to see Kalina.
The abyss, just the disease is,
yeah, I guess spread through.
Devils have been able to
keep her at bay really well,
and we wanted to find out why.
And what their wards were so I
was gonna go deep undercover,
which is what I do here on the task force.
We go down into the lower planes.
We disguise ourselves as petitioners,
and we do work with the
celestial planes, you know.
As long as we can keep the
abyss and the nine hells
fighting each other, w*r doesn't
come to the upper planes,
and eventually, what ended
up happening was we got down,
but my entry point was this
place called the bottomless pit
in the nine hells, and I
got basically trapped there
for a long time.
It was like nobody knew that I was there.
They were like gummed up.
The work was gummed up.
Someone wasn't doing the
job they were supposed
to be doing, and—
- Gorthalax, Fig's dad, was captured.
- Oh, Fig's biological dad, gotcha.
And Gorthalax, would Riz
have mentioned to his dad
that Gorthalax and his mom
had been, when you like visit
your dad's grave, do you
think he would've mentioned
Gorthalax and your mom?
- I think I think maybe not.
I think this was Riz legitimately
just like slipping up
and then just thinking that
he's never brought it up.
- Cool, he says yeah, there
was this big pit fiend there.
He was wearing a whistle around his neck,
and it was like he going
through like a backlog
of all the souls he hadn't processed.
There was some other,
there was this devil woman
yelling at him.
But he—
- Is dating mom.
Gorthalax.
- Fig's dad is dating your mom?
- But he's trapped in a gem.
- He's in a gem right now,
but he's a really nice guy.
He's a really nice guy.
- Hey, you've described him before.
He sounds like a really nice guy.
Good for your mom.
Hey, kid, it's okay.
- Yeah, I know, I didn't
mean to bring it up.
I'm sorry, I didn't wanna lie
to you by omitting anything.
- Hey, I would rather—
- He's always getting trapped in gems,
it's kind of pathetic.
If I'm like devil who
always gets trapped in a gem
or undercover angel dad?
Undercover angel dad!
He has sex!
- Tell him how his daughter
trapped him in a gem.
- Fig trapped him in a gem!
- You see he says got it.
Look, he seems like, he says
he seems like a great guy, kid—
- We don't have to talk about
how great a guy, he's fine.
- Okay.
- I'm not one of those kids.
- Yeah, I gotcha.
- It was just a weird way to bring it up.
- He says in any case,
he says yeah, he pulled me
out and then, passed me up
the chain of command,
which is how I ended up
in that interrogation room.
How did you find me?
- Kalina showed me.
- How did Kalina know I was there?
- If she can tap into my system,
she can tap into yours
and maybe tap into heaven?
- You see he shakes his head
and says she might be able
to tap into yours right now,
but he looks at you and says
this is not my body, kid.
My body was eaten by
your old vice principal.
I got a new body when I showed up here.
- Oh, that's good.
- You see he looks at you and says
when did this, what do you know the extent
of Kalina's abilities are?
- I know that she can
if you have the disease, she
can see through your eyes.
She can affect your spine in some way.
She was able to paralyze me one time.
She can, it's, she cannot
get into your thoughts,
and she can only inhabit
one person at a time.
- She can get into your
eyes though, right?
- Yeah.
- I'm not asking this because I'm upset.
I'm asking this because
we gotta crack the case.
When did you mom and
Gorthalax start dating?
- Right after freshman year?
- So, end of summer last
year, Gorthalax pulls me
out of a chain of captured
souls in the bottomless pit,
and he's been dating your
mom for a couple months
at that point.
So, that's how Kalina saw me.
Did Kalina tell you to come rescue me?
- It was more just like dangling
a carrot in front of me.
She was trying to prove that
she was my friend essentially.
- Or she was trying to
get you to come rescue me
so that I would blow my cover.
- Yeah.
- She's good.
- Yeah, she is the worst, dad.
- I realized that after I died.
- Do you have any contact with your,
do you know where your body is?
- I would assume, well, you should know
that my body was incinerated.
- Right.
- So, anything that your
vice principal would've eaten
would've been ash.
You see he looks and says
okay, you have a lot to do.
Hopefully, some of this has
been helpful or informative
so you at least understand the timeline.
Kiddo, I gotta ask you something.
You were asking if I slept with Kalina.
Do you know that she has ever been real?
- I don't.
- That photo.
You see he looks at
you and says all right.
I think we've covered about
everything I know about Kalina.
Is there anything else,
any other questions I can answer for you?
- Yeah, after I go back,
is there any way for me
to see you again?
- Short of some pretty powerful
magic I don't think so, bud.
- Alright, well, I've got some
pretty powerful friends, so.
- You're damn right, kid.
- Aw!
- You see he looks at you and says
how do you feel
about, how old are you now,
you're 16 now?
- Yeah.
- That's old enough to
do part-time work, right?
- I do overtime work, dad.
I don't sleep.
- Okay, you see he looks over and he says
Mike, can we get some part-time
start form for the kid here?
We're gonna hire a consultant.
We are gonna cut back to the astral plane.
You guys are on the Goldenrod,
hovering in like empty
kind of astral space.
What do you guys do as you come through,
you finish talking to Kalvaxus.
You're back on the ship.
- I thought we were going
back to the Hangvan.
- Are we using the—
- You guys wanna go back to Arborly?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- I mean, unless there's
anything here that's obviously...
- I mean, of course, I
wanna give my papa a big hug
before we depart, but I
mean, that's last orders.
- Can I look through the like
piles of like holy relics
to see if I can get like some
holy oil or anything like that
like or any like
useful sh*t.
- Oh sure, if you guys
wanna just throw some holy
water on your stuff, go for it.
- Can I put holy water on
my stuff as an arch devil?
- As long as you don't touch it.
- Whoa, okay.
Gorgug, will you—
- Can I do an investigation check?
- Yeah, do an investigation check.
- 'Cause I love holy stuff.
- Okay, that's a 21.
- 21, pretty good.
You look over and see huge
crates of all the stuff
that the pirates stole
from Dis and also stuff
that the pirates stole
from the bottomless pit.
As you open on a 21, you
see even though it is months
ahead of time, a pre-wrapped
birthday gift for Fig
from Gorthalax.
- Sorry, not this, this.
- Oh.
- And it's a very conspicuous shape.
- My minus two to strength.
- I'll take it.
I feel like I should
wait for him to open it.
- I feel like he'd probably
want you to open it.
I just wanna see what it is.
- I can cast detect magic
on it if you'd like.
- I feel like I don't deserve this.
I've put him in a gem,
and now, I'm just gonna
get presents from him.
- What if it helps you
get him out of the gem?
- Yeah, dang, you're good at this.
- Open the present!
- Save the paper, save the paper!
- Oo, what is it?
- You unwrap it.
- Save the paper.
Classic Ad.
Oh, Adaine.
You can always get more paper.
- No, it's really nice.
- You unwrap this thing.
You see the sickest bass
guitar like devil horns
on the top.
Four bright ruby red strings.
The like, even though it's
electric, it has like where
the hole would be in an acoustic
a like fanged maw is there.
This just like devilish
scaled f*cking bass,
and you see that there is
like a little like place
for a like a wa wa or whatever—
- Wa wa pedal.
- A little wa wa pedal,
and you see next to that
there is a little, just
one of those little like
antennae switches, very short and stubby
that says automatically
shatter nearby rubies.
Don't automatically shatter nearby rubies.
- What?
- I switch it to automatically
shatter nearby rubies,
and I take it for its first spin!
- One of the nearby pirates
has a thing on its belt explode
and the shrapnel goes
into his leg.
Falls over.
- He's dead!
- You see Bill goes ooh,
that be a stately bass, lass!
- I agree.
My dad knows me well.
One of them.
Both of them do, I'm just saying
Gilear didn't hear that, right?
- Gilear what did you
get her for her birthday?
- It's not your birthday yet.
- I know.
- Right?
- Yeah.
- Gorthalax already got,
I already got you something as well.
- Really?
- What is it Gilear?
Do you have it on you?
- It would ruin the surprise.
Also, I'm still saving up for it.
- Okay, yeah.
- Okay.
- The kitchen of my
apartment got termites,
and also some nearby
buildings that my landlord
decided to charge me for as well.
So, we're sort of strapped at the moment.
- Wait, can I slide some
money into his pocket?
- Aren't you in Fabian's garage?
Aren't you living in Fabian's garage?
- I'm not allowed to break my lease.
My landlord's adult son
threatened to kick my a*s.
- Wait, why didn't you tell me, Gilear?
I'll go kick his a*s.
- I think its you.
- You would do that?
- I mean, now, I would, then,
I probably wouldn't have,
but when we get back, I'll
kick that adult son's a*s.
- I'm pulling lemon
yogurt out of my jacket
and then give it to him.
- You see that Bill walks, sort of strides
across the deck, claps a hand
on Gilear's back and says
Gilear, my boy, you're a fine
man, I can see by the eyes
of your daughter that you
are well and truly loved,
and I see that my boy will
take care of you as well,
but you know the tender touch of Hallariel
the most beautiful woman in the world
take good care of her, Gilear,
and if any man looks askance
at her, you slit his throat
or I'll slit yours!
- What about if any woman
looks askance at her?
- Dealer's choice.
You see,
you see that Gilear says I
already know what this dealer
shall choose.
You see Bill says we are alike
you and I in so many ways,
and Gilear goes what?
- I see it, I see it, I
do, I was thinking that.
Gilear really.
- You see he says I wish for
nothing more than for you
to make an honest woman of Hallariel.
Let us talk, I'll try to
tell you as much as I know
about how to make her happy.
And you see he says and
you see he says now,
what she absolutely loves is
chaos, chaos in the house!
And you see Gilear says
help, and he starts to march
across the deck of the ship.
For the rest of you so you see this insane
devilish bass there.
You see that the base looks
like reinforced on the back
with like cast iron, and you
see that there are some like
horns on the side that you
think might be ornamental,
and then, you realize
are partially serrated.
This is like for swinging
at people as much as it is
for playing music.
I try it out on Gorgug.
- He's not raging, and he's at 20 AC
- I die.
Gorgug just, clean cut my head off.
- We're out of revivify
- Okay, so you guys- you get that cool,
that's like the coolest thing you find.
The rest of you find
some vials of holy water
and stuff like that.
So, do you guys open
the door back to Arborly
and get out of there?
- Let's get the hell out of here.
- Yeah, I think so.
- I run and give my papa a big hug.
- You go give your papa a big hug.
- Can I look for some
like do a religion check
for some paintings of people?
I'm just collecting art now.
- Yeah, sure, give me a religion check.
- 'Cause Goldenrod told you to?
- That is a 24.
- You get a nice little
painting of a saint
that is smashed to bits
because it was about to be
fired out of a cannon at somebody.
- That's actually like found
art, which is like very rad
right now.
- Yeah, it's very cool.
Very cool, okay, yeah, I take it.
- It's like a statement.
- You see that Gilear comes
back looking truly rattled.
Sandra Lynn kind of furrows
her brow and steers him away
from Bill for a second as Bill
looks over at you, Fabian.
Looks at you.
I don't know if I've ever
seen the likes of it, my boy.
You're gonna put them all to shame.
- Who are all, all, who is all?
- Anyone that crosses your path.
- Oh yes, very much so.
- You see he says my
praise you don't need.
Your name is being written
boy, and I can't wait
to see it finished.
- I'm off to be a man boy all on my own.
- The ember, fiery, my
own is darling man boy.
- One more hug.
- He says there will
one for ye waiting here
any time you come to hell.
- Ow ow ow!
- That's my son!
- Ow, this hurts!
- And he sends you back
to Arborly, and he says
best of luck on your quest,
and if I ever see you again,
you're all dead!
- Hey, nice to see you
too, Mister Seacaster!
- Look over the bottomless pit for me!
- Look over it I will, lass.
- Oh, do you have any wizards with you?
- Wizards?
- Yes.
- None, wait, should I get some?
- Yes!
- I'll try.
Oh, and I'm gonna go to
the end of the infinite
in the astral plane and sell
off all of this treasure.
Most of it I stole from you
so I'll cut you in 50/50.
- Okay, I wasn't even gonna ask, but sure!
- To w*r or to
market, but then, to w*r.
- Okay, bye!
- Love you!
- Unfurl the scroll,
walk back into Arborly.
Well, you guys are back
in front of Holly Hill
with the Hangvan near you.
- Oh, wait, can I have wield
the bike back with us?
- Yes, this is not as
bad as it was before.
A quick mending from your wax.
- We'll get it back.
- This is
maybe it can wait for
later, but I'll say it now.
I try to get us away from Gilear.
So, like—
- He's the chosen one.
- He's the chosen one for sure.
He kinda keeps dying.
I wonder if there's, it's just
maybe better for him if we—
- Just leave him here?
- I don't think we can take him
to the Nightmare King forest, right?
- No, for sure not.
I mean, Sandra Lynn speaks Sylvan.
- He's wonderful.
- I mean, of course,
he doesn't want to go.
- Maybe the chosen one goes home.
- Yeah, maybe the choice
is to leave and not come,
just die every five minutes.
- I mean, everyone knows that
I'm pro-Gilear being there
'cause I feel like he's part of—
- Also, is this chosen one thing a bit
because I really don't understand.
- Oh no, I mean, there was a
moment at the hotel Cavalier
where a bunch of demons ran
past me to attack Gilear.
Me, a clear offensive
threat, attacking Gilear?
There's something special about him.
- Right, that's why you
think he's the chosen one.
- That's why I know he's the chosen one.
- That's why we all know
he's the chosen one.
- Think is a strong word.
- I'll tell him, I'll tell him.
- You see Sandra Lynn's over there.
You see that Sandra Lynn
and Gilear are both talking.
As you walk over to go talk to them,
you guys are over there
with Ragh, Tracker,
and you see that Ayda
looks over at you and goes
you were remarkable in that fight.
- I mean, not as good
as you, but you know,
try to put on a little bit of a show.
- You eviscerated with powerful rock magic
the evil coach of your high school.
- Yeah, but you kind of bent
the b*ttlefield to your will.
- That's extremely
evocative phrasing of that,
and it makes me sound very
cool when you say it that way.
- No, well, it was really cool.
- You're really cool.
- You're really cool.
- Wow.
I think I'm about to have a heart attack.
- That's fine, that's cool.
- You see she says I
complete a plane shift,
and though we did it
to come and rescue you,
again, can't believe those devils would
think to tangle with a wizard's paramour
that's foolishness, but.
- What's a paramour?
- A paramour?
- Mm-hmm.
- A paramour is a lover.
Is that, oh, I meant to ask—
- All of us are standing
in a group like this.
- Wait, but you guys are
oh my god, can I, I cast
greater invisibility.
- You see—
- Whoa!
- Times up!
I just start casting fairy fire.
I'm not gonna miss this.
- Also, we can still hear you!
- Maybe we should go somewhere private.
I have to talk to Gilear at some point
for a really uncomfortable
conversation, but.
- You see that actually
your parents both come over.
You see Sandra Lynn and Gilear
are actually both smiling.
You see Sandra Lynn looks over and says
so as an Elven ranger, I'm
pretty keen of hearing,
and Ayda, I heard something
you said on the deck of the ship.
- We don't know where Ayda
and Fig went actually.
- You see Ayda doesn't have greater
invisibility cast on her.
She says—
- I actually don't have
the spell slot so I didn't.
I just hid behind a bush.
- You see that your mom
looks and says, Ayda, I
know you live in Leviathan
but are planning on maybe
moving your library.
We would love to have you over for dinner
at Mordrid Manor sometime.
You see Gilear looks and says
I for one am very glad to
see that you have decided
to spend some time with
my daughter Figueroth.
It is a incredible improvement
over previous partners
if you were to chart it on a graph.
Its a pretty incredible—
- I grab Ayda and I say Ayda,
I made a promise to myself.
I wasn't gonna skateboard
away from you anymore.
So you have to come
with me and I grab her on my skateboard
and we both skateboard away—
- You see Ayda goes I'm
leaving now
- Is that on grass
- skateboard on grass
Gilear looks he says,
daughter do not feel shame.
And you see Sandra Lynn
goes sometimes the mood
just strikes sweetie. Bye bye.
- That's so gross.
You guys are so gross—
- I'm not gross, you are cute.
That's what happening.
- How does everyone know?
What precisely happened?
- You see, Ayda looks over and says,
I've committed an error.
I told everyone.
- No that - you didn't commit an error.
That's not an error.
I just am a private person.
- Do you wish me to
swear an oath of secrecy
to tell none of your name ever again.
- No I mean
- For a 1000 years of t*rture.
I will keep your name
hidden deep in the shadows.
- I think I can come
up with a better secret
for 1000 years of t*rture to
be hanging over your head.
No, no the cat is outta the bag
let's keep it out, lets bury the bag.
- Should we figure out
how to get Riz back?
- Yes—
- Absolutely.
Absolutely.
- You see that Ayda says
I will let you go speak
to your parents but
when you find your
biological father's gem,
I now know the plane shift spell and
I will help you free him.
Thank you.
I also think that maybe I might have
a real crude version of it,
which is just shattering a ruby.
- Fun
- So I mean, we could double team it.
- You've winked at me again, I didn't
catch the meaning but I'm very excited.
Could you explain what was
salacious in your previous state?
- How about later?
I would just be like
everyone's watching us
and I'm a very private person.
- Right, right.
something to look forward to—
- You see, she looks at you
and says, You have my feather,
you know to call me.
- Wait are you going somewhere now?
- I need to go finish
shrinking the Compass Points
so I can move to—
- What? You're going
back to Compass Points?
You just got here.
- Do you want me to?
I'll stay if you want me to stay.
Oh my god don't put that decision on me.
She looks at you and says
I would very much like it.
No one's ever asked me
to stay anywhere before
- Okay then let me be
the first please stay,
- I will stay.
- Okay, stay,
- I will stay.
- Cool.
- Extremely cool.
- I'm gonna go break Gilear's heart again.
- I'm going to go give a
piece of payment to Adaine.
You see as you go back to Gilear,
you see Ayda walks over to you and says
Oracle, seer.
- Librarian.
- You see that she looks and says
due to your exceptional talent
and skill at arcane research,
we were able to crack the
secret of the plane shift
spell together in record time.
I was working on something
a little bit hidden
just in moments of our downtime.
an older version of me once said
that it was extremely
gauche the habit of wizards
to name spells after themself.
And I tend to agree.
I think naming a spell out
to yourself is very gauche.
But the idea of having a
spell named after you is—
Really cool.
extremely cool.
So I thought, most
wizards have lived lives
of quiet isolation, in tuned
before death in their research,
but now that I have a
friend who's a wizard,
I thought maybe it would be
maybe as Fig would say cute if we
instead of making spells for ourselves
made spells for each other,
and I made you a spell.
She hands you a scroll.
It is a first level spell
called Adaine's furious fist
I can read it I'll read right now.
It's a first level spell.
Casting time is a bonus action
its duration is
concentration for one minute.
for the duration of the
spell your fist gleams
with silvery arcane light
and you may as an action
make a melee spell attack
against a creature within reach
of your unarmed attack the
first such successful attack
during the duration of the spell
deals 2 d10 force damage to the target
and the target must make
a strength saving throw
or be knocked prone and pushed up to
five feet away from you.
By using spells lots of higher
level the damage increases
by two d10 for each spell slot higher
2 d10 for each spell slot?
2 d10 for each spell slot
and the failed on and also the
spell it's a five more feet
for each spell level up.
Ah, you see that—
- I immediately cast it on myself.
- Hit me!
- You see that your right fist,
You see, glows with silvery arcane light.
You see she says one of my favorite things
that I've observed about you is that
while you are extremely
analytical and rational,
you also have a deep and
profound rage, rooted in justice,
and I sensed in you that from time to time
you really want to punch
something that offends you.
- I punch a wall.
- A wall, like section of
the fence just blasts off
with this incredible force damage spell.
- Whoa what's going on over there?
- I'm strong now.
- Wow.
- Okay.
- And I have a spell named after me.
- Cool.
- Wow.
- Cool.
Awesome.
So you now have this
new first level spell.
- Oh, what am I gonna make for you?
- No pressure.
- No pressure?
Exciting amounts of pressure.
I'm excited for this
pressure.
- Fig, you walk over to Gilear.
- Gilear, do you want to continue in this
because I feel like
you've died a lot.
lets talk about how you feel first.
- Several members of your
party have dead parents.
I am unique in the distinction
of having died the most times.
- Yeah, unique and special.
- It has occurred to me that
in the forest of Sylvaire,
according to the scrying done by Adaine,
vehicles will not be able
to travel into the forest.
There are no roads there are
no level ground of any kind.
So perhaps it would be best
if someone remained here
to look after the vehicles.
- Okay.
Do you think you'll be safe here?
- It's a town with people that
protect it and I'll be in a house.
So you know, as safe as I ever am.
- Yeah.
Cool.
- There's a hole in the wall
now, so you might wanna...
- Okay, so you're cool with this?
- Yes, Yes, I am.
- You're still doing an important job.
And there's a lot of good books in there.
Hot tubs.
Cool.
- I come up, oh, sorry I
hope this isn't too early.
But you have been a rock star intern
and we all got you this $10 gift card.
- He's not an intern!
We promoted him.
- I'm actually an assistant now—
- What's his title now?
- Oh, God, sorry rockstar assistant.
And we did all pool together.
We got you this 10 gold piece gift card.
It's for audio books.
It's an online audio book
thing that you can get on your crystal.
Because we really appreciate you
- That would be nice, because
you can listen to a book
while you're in the hot tub
instead of getting your Kindle wet.
- Yes, that's true.
I will have to get a new Kindle.
My old one got mistaken for a frisbee
when I was doing some
free yoga in the park.
You have a round Kindle?
- No, it's rectangular. Look,
- You brought your Kindle
to yoga in the park?
- I thought I would lay
down and read I was...
Make a day of it
- I get it, I get it.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry yeah.
Daughter I will remain here.
- Okay,
- If you need me, feel free to contact me.
I can't imagine that
anyone will ever need me.
But it would be—
- I always need you.
In fact, I'm really really sad about this.
I wish you could come.
- If I can take it a
little bit of your hair
then I can scry on you and we can...
He doesn't have that much hair.
- So can we do anything other than hair?
- Weird
Blood?
- I could take some of
your blood that seems
a strange thing to ask you though.
- Yeah, let's do some blood.
I actually you know what?
He takes a little flap of his torn shirt,
there's blood stains.
- Ooh my God.
- Okay, I take out a
little baggie from my...
- Puts it in a baggie.
I need you too.
- Yeah.
- And I wanted to be helpful
and I think I still might find a way to be
and maybe I'll find it here.
He gives you a kiss on the cheek
and walks back into Holly Hill.
- How'd he take it?
- I don't know. I mean, he
was very adult about it,
but he's also an adult.
- Yeah I'm sorry I came in way too hot
with the little gift card—
- Did he like it?
Did he cry?
I thought he would cry
- No I thought maybe
he would cry.
- I thought he was gonna
cry for sure.
- Kristen, everyone knows we're traveling
with Adaine who has 10 gold
piece jacket of usefulness—
- Yeah, we just kinda
grabbed it out of it.
- That's exactly where I got it from.
- What do you get the
guy who's got it all?
- But its not about the
amount of money getting spent
He's got a beret and a chambray shirt-
We could've picked anything
in the world and we picked
something that we thought
would be thoughtful for him.
- Yes I got him that card that said,
Gilear I need you and on
the inside to get me—
a cortado
- That was hilarious.
- That was so funny.
- That was so funny.
- I thought that was so funny.
- It was like a great reference—
- I can wait
for him to open it.
- Yes.
It was a callback.
- I'm just always tryn' to
help him find his calling
and I thought maybe this
would be his calling but...
- He's died maybe nine times.
- I know, I know,
I didn't wanna let go.
But once all every single one of you...
What do you think Riz would
have said if he was here?
Do you think he would have
argued to keep Gilear?
- Of course he would
of course The Ball would
have The Ball loved Gilear.
- All I know, the only truth
I know in this entire world is
that The Ball loved that Gilear was here.
- You guys remember all
the times he encouraged us
to bring Gilear along?
He would always put up a fight
but he'd always bend,
because he loved having Gilear there.
- Thou doth protest too much.
- I miss Riz, we have to get him back.
- Speaking of Riz, We cut
back to the plane of Bytopia,
your dad gets you to fill out
some consultant paperwork.
And you see that he brings
it over to this dude.
He comes over to a desk
where you see a hound arkon
angelic muscular dog headed angel
who looks over.
You see he smiles.
He see he says, Riz, this
is our commander Fitz.
Fitz this is Riz,
and Fitz goes, hey, there's the kid huh?
Got your dad in the
old avenged dad's club.
Way to go buster.
- Thanks.
I tried to eat'em he
got turned into a boat?
- Hey, you know what
happens to the best of us?
Listen, pal, we wanna get you
a part time working on the squad.
You know, we don't make
a lot of concessions
for prime materials, that's
living mortals like yourself,
but we'd be happy to get you on...
Your dad really vouched for you here
and way to go cracking that case, pal.
I mean, really.
- Yeah, I'd love to help
in any way that I can.
You see, says, well, he says, you know,
we sent your old man here,
down to the nine hells
trying to root around for Kalina.
But this thing about her being a disease
that really busted this thing wide open.
So we feel like our best shot is
probably getting you to do
the rest of the leg work
down there on the prime material.
Now, there are a lot of
multiversal laws about
when Celestials and Fiends start messing
with the mortal world and we
can get in a lot of hot water
by going down there ourselves.
But now that we've got a mortal here,
we feel like maybe you're
the guy for the job.
Does that sound alright?
- I'm definitely the guy for the job.
- You see your old man,
pats you on the back
and he says, that's right.
You see that he says, all right,
well, we're gonna start you out on.
We're gonna start out on a stipend.
We can either truck...
We can either give your paycheck
to charities of your choice, in Spyre,
or we can keep it here in a trust fund,
and turn it into pure
faith and good wishes.
So up to you.
- Lets do the faith and
good wishes, that seems fun.
- Perfect that's great.
So we'll put that into a reserve account.
So we'll get that set up.
He types something on his
little crystal screen.
He says and we're gonna...
because we can't send muscle with you.
We're gonna have to get you suited up.
Let's get the kid down to Isosceles.
You see that your dad opens
up a pure white doorway
of like gleaming crystalline light
walks you through it into
this gleaming white void.
See your dad looks up and says
you're gonna love Isosceles.
you see that this...
You see that a weird bizarre
you know like in the bible
when they describe angels
as being just like completely
inhuman like fractal images
that kind of can't
beheld by mortals this...
Little thing appears it's
like sort of spinning fractal
of energy and you see it says,
agent Gukgak my goodness I
thought you were deep under cover
and you see your dad says,
well you know what happens
to the best of them
looks like a back up top for a spell.
This is my son Riz Gukgak,
you see he says.
Oh, Mr. Gukgak, hello, I'm Isosceles.
Oh, what are we doing here?
He says Well, my son
is gonna be doing some
covert espionage work for
us in the prime material
and we're looking to get him decked out
make sure that he's not going
in less than fully loaded.
You see Isosceles goes.
And these just shelves
sort of like matrix style
sh**t out of infinity and become covered
with all these gleaming relics.
And you see that your dad
starts walking you through
and starts outfitting
you with a bunch of gear.
- Okay, okay Riz
- Yes, yes.
- You see says okay,
take this first of all
takes out a set of little like,
dull gold b*ll*ts in a black clip.
You see there are like net b*ll*ts.
There's like tranq darts.
There's a grappling g*n, a
fixture for your arquebus
you see that he takes you over.
He takes you over and says,
We're gonna give you the big three
that we start our agents off with here
this is an arcadian watch.
Its just like a completely
normal wristwatch,
but it allows you to
potentially lock pick.
Even magical locks.
It gives you advantage on tool
checks to escape being bound
it has like a little saw
that comes out of it.
And it also there's a button on the side
that allows you to sh**t out a laser
that does 1d4 radiant damage.
- My man's got a laser.
- I've never seen Murph happier.
Riz was welling up before now he's crying.
He says we're also gonna...
You see that Isosceles
moves over somewhere
and says let's get the kid decked out
with a seraphim vest and a gregori tie
You see that.
They give you a very, it's
like a charcoal black front.
You know how a lot of vests will have like
the silk gold back to them.
has a little gold back
on the inside of the gold back.
There's a faint outline of wings
and he see that this can
grant a temporary fly speed
of 40 but there's no ascending.
So it's like a wing suit, you
can like descend gradually,
so there's no risk of
falling damage ever again.
- He got a wingsuit.
It's like Batman cape,
like you can just glide
where you need to go to.
And he gives you a gregori necktie
the necktie has a small clip in it
with a little like celestial eye on it
that is hidden underneath
the knot of the tie
your dad says, all you got
to do is adjust the tie
pull twice on the back part.
And this can record up
to 20 minutes of footage.
It gets audio and video.
And depending on how you
activate it, you can activate it
with a detect evil and good
effect or a detect magic effect.
You won't be able to watch
until you can get back
to a viewing room and undo the tie.
So you have to go review that footage.
Can't do it in the moment.
- Cool?
- He gives you the arcadian
watch, the seraphim vest,
the gregorian necktie.
Says how you feeling Gukgak?
- Amazing.
- He looks over at you and he says,
alright, I think we better
get you back to your friends.
- Yeah, but I'll be back soon.
Not in a fully dead way
but in a fun—
- Exciting way.
- You see he looks at you and says...
Walks out the door with you,
once you get on the field.
you see
he looks and says,
looks over at Fitz and says Fitz,
can we get a door open now
so we get it to this exact
moment on the prime material
and you see that Fitz nodes.
Yeah, we can do that.
Opens up the door says we
got it in the moment there.
You want to go for a walk for a sec,
before we send you back?
- Yeah.
You and your dad go on a walk and he says
I want you to tell me everything.
I missed the last six years.
You tend to, you know when you come visit,
when come visit me at the cemetery.
It's the important stuff
but, can I ask a favor?
- Yeah.
The door's frozen in time now
we can get you back to your friends.
They're not waiting.
Can you just tell me all
the least important stuff?
- Yeah.
I just want to, if I'd have been there,
I would have seen all this
stuff that didn't matter.
And that's the stuff I miss.
- Yeah I would love to
tell you everything.
I got a really cool briefcase.
I was trying to stuff you in it.
- Love that.
- Yeah, it's a cool briefcase.
I got these business cards
that I give out to people
and everyone thought it was really weird.
And I thought—
- the calligraphy's beautiful
I know I thought that it would help me
make friends but it didn't.
But I made friends anyway.
- You sure did.
I like your friends, and
you can tell them I said so,
You and your dad walk.
He just wants to hear all the minutiae
and all the little stuff
of your life at the school.
You finally get back to the
door after a long time talking.
And he looks at you and says,
I'm so proud of you kid.
You know, there's only one thing
that could have made this better.
Please give your mom all my love.
- Of course.
I think about her all the time.
- She misses you too.
- There's a day
on the horizon
where we all get to crack
the same case together.
And I hope that day is
as far away as possible.
- I got to be honest,
this is the best version of the afterlife
I could have ever imagined.
- He openly cries he goes—
- We're just gonna be
badass Goblin detectives.
- That's the thing I know
your mom didn't tell you.
She didn't get it.
We're Goblin badasses.
- Right, yeah
- The whole family is badass.
- Yes.
She was sh**ting out a dragon
while I shot at the dragon
giving me cover and stuff.
And if you were there too,
we could have got it for both sides that
one of us could have been like...
- I know your mom didn't want
you to walk down this path
because she was afraid of losing you, but
you're walking down this path and I know
more than anything in the world
that it's everybody else who's
gonna watch out for my boy.
- Thanks dad.
- I love you son.
- Love you dad.
- Gives you a kiss, as
you walk through the door.
You see, the light fills your eyes
until it's just the dark of
his suit and his hand raised,
fades away.
And you guys see a mote of light
in Arborly that fills and
the light grows and grows and Riz
fully healed steps through.
- A little angel.
He's a watch guy now.
- I looked really cool for a split second.
- I met my dad.
- What?
- I met my freaking dad.
What?
I met my dad, he's super
cool, he's and underco—
ope
- What is he?
He's an undercover angel.
- That's so cool.
I'm message everybody else.
- How are you guys doing?
- Oh my gosh.
We're okay.
- I k*lled Gilear.
- Is he okay?
- We got him back, we got him back—
- Of course we got him back-
- You guys know how much I love Gilear.
- That all I know—
- We knew,
we talked about it.
- I've a lot to fill you guys in on.
- Just glad your okay, The
Ball. It was scary for a second.
- We tried to find you
we got your briefcase.
- Yeah we have your briefcase.
- That's awesome yeah thanks guys.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
If I could have, if I
had any way to reach out
I would let you guys know
that I was okay but..
- What was heaven like?
- It was awesome, there was
like outdoor working space.
- What?
- What?
- Yeah.
- It's like an office?
People have to have jobs in heaven?
- Isn't usually the point of outdoors that
you don't have to work anymore?
- Yeah that's when you
go to relax and leisure
and those sorts of things.
- No, no but you go and you work on
what you wanna work on.
- Which—
Oh I do get that. I do get that.
- Yeah, I did some part time work.
- Heaven sounds weird.
What would a park be?
- A park?
- In heaven?
- There's just desks and stuff.
There's outdoor working space.
- Maybe you just saw what
your heaven would be.
- I guess yeah, I hope
that's just one heaven
I hope that other heavens—
- Honestly that's the only one I saw.
- Seems fine.
Yeah, it seems fine.
Everyone's
so scared of dying now.
You're going to weird orc hell.
Riz I tried to improve
your briefcase, but I...
- We didn't have enough time.
So I just wrapped some
tin foil on the handle.
- You broke it a little bit.
Thanks Gorgug.
Thanks guys.
My dad.
My dad says he really likes you guys.
- What?
- Ooh wow
- I'm flattered.
- That's so nice.
- I really like you guys, too, so...
- We really like you too.
- We got to talk to Kalvaxus a little bit.
- Yeah.
- Er, Goldenrod and
learned a little bit too.
Yeah.
- Speaking of which, does anyone
else think it's weird that
Aguefort like, gave us the money?
- Well, we got it because we won right?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- But it's like—
- He did warn us about dragon madness.
- But Kalvaxus—
- And ten he spent 20 minutes
talking about rock angels
and that fully—
Right, what happened with that?
- Anyways, when we were
talking to Goldenrod
he was talking about the coin
being added to the horde.
Do you think this is just my guess?
That coin infected all the other coins?
- Yeah I think I said
that, I think by answering
the stock market, it affected
everything it touched.
- Should we just give away our money?
- I think we've already spent
it so it doesn't matter.
- There are a series of messages
I just wanna fill you guys in
on like the non personal stuff.
Specifically, I guess that
my dad might have found her
it's like some kind of
like potion or something.
And then she also said
- She's a familiar.
- Its not always a sex thing.
And then the other thing was that
she is the one who set him
up to get k*lled by Kalvaxus.
- Well that's not surprising.
- You fill us in on everything right?
- Yeah.
- So, your dad said something about,
like someone from the third
ring introduced him to her?
- Yeah.
- Who was that?
- Do we know who it was, yeah.
- Who introduced him to?
- Unless that maybe that's—
- Do I know anything about the third ring?
They're from Fallinel right?
- Yeah, your parents would
have interacted with them.
I mean, what it sounds like to you is that
Kalina was introduced into Elven society
couple hundred years ago by Landrin Lier.
And that...
Thar there's like, if they
didn't fully eradicate her,
she would've been able to
repopulate and re spread.
And that like, especially
if this lander joined,
the third ring was in the court of stars
that like high ranking elves
may have been the most likely
to have her like lurking
and she doesn't have to appear to people.
So people can—
- Just stay under cover.
- Stay under cover as long as she wants.
So in other words, your mom or Aelwyn
having come into contact
with her is not shocking.
You know, like, yeah, you
guys ran in all the circles
that specifically would have
been the most targeted by this.
It sounds like maybe Pok
coming into contact with her
would have been the anomaly
like the Abernant's having contact with
Kalina makes kind of the most sense.
- Its a secret society thing?
- Yeah, maybe.
- And then also another
important thing again
saying this through like
messages is that my dad
specifically mentioned
that after the picture
was taken of her, it seemed
like it took sapped some
of her power—
- Then let's make a bunch
of copies of the picture
- Or get a camera.
- Oh, yeah, we may all
have our crystals next time
either of you see her.
Oh can I go to the- oh go for it.
- I have that photo of the...
- Of the photo?
- The goddess?
- Of the goddess yeah.
Do I think that that is taking
any power away from her?
Can I do like a religion check?
- Do a religion check anyone that wants to
can make either like an arcana check.
I would also let Gorgug
make a tinkerers tool check.
- Okay.
- I got a 25
- I got a two.
- 12
- Seven.
- Seven.
You got a 25?
- Yeah
- I'm actually gonna say Gorgug
make that with advantage.
And then because there's enough people
who would like help you
guys that you should make—
- I'll make my roll.
Uh, 15.
- Ooh that's a nat one—
- So I got a 25
- 22
- Religion check.
So you're rolling arcana right?
- Yes.
- First thing you think of
with arcana is you realize
with the bypassing of detect
magic by being a disease,
what that means is that the disease
that is infecting someone has
to cast magic all the time
when Pok like she
couldn't do that anymore,
what you think is Kalina
is incredibly powerful
like a global illusion
that can spread to people
and do all this stuff is crazy.
You know that she's able to
create a illusory effects
because of what she did with Ragh
and the cell phone call
on the Leviathan right.
But making an effect that
anyone who ever looks
at a photo of her automatically sees her
is something she has to
do ambiently every sin-
to every single person
that has her in their body
whenever they do it, that
is a static global effect.
And just like the pylons in Fallinel,
doing an effect that
is permanent and static
takes a tremendous amount of power.
- So why is she choosing to do this?
Or is she not choosing to do it,
- It might just be that
it's a blowing cover thing
if someone takes a photo of
her and then can't see her
in the photo that raises alarms,
even though like there's no way
for her to cast the illusion
necessarily on someone that
she's not in their bloodstream.
So it's like, Okay, if someone
sees the photo that like,
you know, the thing that happens with Riz,
Riz eventually cracked it through a photo
that couldn't be seen...
through the sun damage,
so like, there was a hole in her plan,
but she just kind of had
to hope for the best.
- So maybe if Gorgug
takes a picture and then—
- That's what am saying.
- Texts it to everyone.
- Make a wanted photo.
- So here's here's what it is.
With the religion check.
You think the mural is not
a depiction of Kalina as is.
It's about her...
This is about her spell casting but what
you think that religion
check is, you know,
the four transubstantiations
that were done by the goddess.
You think that these curses
might be self reinforcing
because they were united by
this great transubstantiation
So the more that
Goldenhoard's wealth spreads,
and that dragon curse, it
also makes sense to you.
Kalvaxus said the gold
allowed people to cast spells,
the coin was the goddesses' spell book.
Right?
The familiar is the plague,
but they're all kind of curses.
The spell book turns into a
curse with the dragon madness.
Kalina turned into a
curse that was a plague.
You know that the cottage
or whatever it was
turned into like a static curse,
the sanctum turned into a static curse.
You think that all these
curses, these four curses
might overlap and take
the position of like,
big global curses, right
that they might be self
not self reinforcing, but
have synthesis between them.
Right?
- Like a mycelial web?
- Yes, they're reinforcing each other.
Your classic mycelial web.
Gorgug with that 15 when-
because Ayda posits that to you,
you realize technologically,
the way to take the
most pictures of Kalina
would be to take video of her
and that the way to and that like,
honestly like broadcasting video of her
to as many people as possible,
obviously people that don't have her
in their bloodstream wont able to see her.
But if there was a way
to broadcast video of her
it would weaken her the most
if it caught some people that
were capable of seeing her.
- I convey over message that
I have a way to record her.
- That's absolutely sick.
- What, okay.
- So—
- I don't want it to slip.
So maybe I got on my person,
- Okay, whatever I...
Do, we think that the money that we have
is actively endangering us?
- I think yes,
but I think it's the action
of spending the money
that gives us the curse,
which we've already done.
Maybe we shouldn't spend any more money,
but I don't—
- That sounds great.
- I feel like it's already spread.
- Yeah, I mean, I don't know
if the curse sort of peters out
if we stop spending the money
or like we just have it?
- As an experiment Gorgug is
gonna go to the tinkerer's hall
And
just whenever—
- Hello there!
Hi, just for no reason.
Here's 25.000 gold—
Wow!
- No but now they're going to spend it!
But they don't know what its for,
you have to know what,
that it's dragon hoard.
- That is correct Gorgug
has remembered this.
Dragon madness spreads
when people are aware
that the gold comes from a dragon's hoard.
So in other words, giving
a huge chunk of wealth
with no strings attached
and no mention of it won't spread it.
The money that Kristen
gave to her brothers
at the start of the campaign
would have just appeared
there'd be no knowledge of it.
But anyone that like knew where
the money was coming from,
that's how the curse would spread.
- Wow.
- Cool.
- Very cool.
So this is just I found this
and it seems like it's yours.
I think it's—
- Well this was gonna change
absolutely everything.
- Oh awesome—
- Absolutely everything!
- You don't have just like
a little camera anywhere?
- There's one in your crystal.
- Oh, great.
Okay, cool nevermind
- Uh incredible.
- I'm gonna jump and click my
heels and walk into the sunset
- Well Gorgug do you feel different
now that you have no money?
- I don't know, I feel pretty similar.
I don't have to carry
that much gold around.
- Great.
So everyone, we can keep our money
nobody's gonna ask us to
give our money away anymore?
- I mean most of my
money is still in Solace
so I can't give it away.
- You guys I have a crazy idea.
- Yeah?
- I think we should have
another seafood party.
- Okay
- And I think that we
should film all of it
and start gaining a following
online
and then eventually we start seeping in
videos that we try to take of Kalina
I see what you're saying.
- I certainly agree with
you that the seafood
is the best way to go viral.
I mean-
Of anything eye catching it's
me on a shrimp slip and slide
- Hashtag I'm a little shrimp will trend
- Yeah will trend—
- Hashtag who is
the crab king.
- Exactly, the crab king.
- The crab king.
- Crab king's back.
- I go and give all my money
to the tinkerer's also.
- What!
Who's going to, ooh am going
to buy all the diamonds?
- I still have bunch of diamonds.
- You guys have... I will
point something out by the
way you guys didn't convert
all your money to gold
so you're giving awway the gold
you have on you in other words.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Do we each get 25.000?
- You each get 20.000.
- Great.
- Yeah.
- So the amount of gold I
have is the amount of gold
I have.
- But Gorgug has been touring
so he has extra money.
- Oh of course.
- Yeah.
Kinda a couple of what?
Probably another 300 grand.
- 300 grand?
- Cool, that night.
By the way, I don't wanna
gloss over any of it
but do you guys have a shrimp party
that night another crustacean party?
- Can't gloss over the shrimp party.
- I think we should... I mean
our little angel returned to us
We're now hanging out with—
we have a lot to celebrate.
- And I found three
new jars of horseradish
so I think it's time.
I'll go get some shrimp!
- So where's the rest of my money?
Is it at a bank still?
- Yeah its in a bank account.
- Alright I'm gonna call the bank.
- Okay, you call the bank.
- Hello is this the bank?
- You also just have an app.
- Oh great.
- Are you still there on the phone?
- Where do you take,
where do you send it to?
- I gotta go.
- Are you calling the
bank at a shrimp party?
- I'm going to—
- This is the first online
banking session in a game of D&D
that there's ever been.
- You're going online at a shrimp party?
- I'm gonna liquidate.
- Okay cool.
- Just give it to... Is there
a gift to charity option?
- Yeah, you can literally
go and... yeah you can give—
- I do that.
- What kind of charity?
- I guess I'll go on
and do the same
- Probably—
- What, what is everyone doing?
Has everyone lost their minds?
- What kinda charity Gorgug?
- Computers for retired people.
- Retired people have
a 401k!
- Question, are you actually
giving all your money away?
- I am
- Cool.
- I think I'm doing the same.
- Fig does the same.
- People are wild.
- I'm gonna do the same.
- What the f*ck
is happening—
- Okay we do need enough
diamonds to revivify
- Exactly.
- Actually mine will be
Computers for Infants
- Great Computers for Infants.
- You keep the diamonds for revivify
- Of course I keep my money—
- I don't have parents.
- Retirement aged people
not people who have the accrued the amount
of wealth to retire.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
- Cool, great so you guys do that.
And then you do—
- Who's goin' to buy all
the shrimp?
- Do you have and then you have
your shrimp party later that night.
- I mean its a little bit less flashy
now that we don't have any money.
- Just a few shrimp around—
- I'm gonna go look for some shrimp.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
So I'm gonna point this out now.
I'm gonna need a... As
you guys are giving you're
giving your vast sums of wealth away.
Go ahead and make a... I'm gonna say
make a persua...
You guys doing this like
live streamed shrimp party?
- Oh, hell yes.
What's up, I'm Fabian Seacaster
and welcome to shrimp party.
- I'm gonna need a group persuasion check.
- Can I make an intimidation check?
- You mean while three
people are online banking?
- Yes.
- This is a persuasion to make—
- I could not have predicted
that the session would go here
I have no ability—
- Oh hell yeah.
- 14.
- That's 23 total for Riz.
- I got a 27.
- I got an 11.
- Okay27.
What did Gorgug get?
- Eight.
- What is this for?
can I do intimidation?
- To go viral.
- To go viral.
Would you let me intimidate?
- No
- Okay, great.
then that'll be 12.
- 11.
- Plus 11, what does Riz get?
- 23
- Oh,
- wow, The Ball is the
crab King off course.
Well Fig got, what 27?
- Okay so you guys
I'm actually gonna say
everyone roll one more time
to do this with advantage.
- All right.
- Okay.
I think we're boiling
shrimp in the hot tub and—
- I actually got a 31.
- 31.
- Back at eight.
- Six.
- 12 is what—
- 21
- 21 Let's stick with the 23 cool Um,
you guys start live
streaming your shrimp party.
- I'll film.
- Your getting panicked emails
from Lola Embers saying,
I just got a call from
the business manager,
that you've given away all your money.
What is the shrimp party?
You're using Fig and the Sig-
- Wait why did you
give all of your money away?
Why didn't you just give
your dragon hoard money away?
It affects your hoard.
It affects your hoard.
- So you're like retweeting all this
You see, there's like
you're doing fantasy,
Twitter and all this stuff.
Because and you see that
people are writing articles.
They're like, they're like
Figueroth Faeth and Gorgug
Thistlespring of Fig and the Sig Figs
give away all of their wealth.
In the midst of a shrimp party.
it goes super viral.
- Wow.
- Hey check in this time, every week
because we're gonna be
doing a shrimp party—
in all new terrain.
- I assume is there any
bad kid that doesn't
have a social media presence?
Adaine you have no social media presence?
- I have a really weird one
where I retweet news articles
And it says Riz Gukgak detective agent.
- So its like a business one?
- Yeah it has like two followers.
- You surge to 43 followers.
Wooo okay The Ball.
Even though I'm a public figure,
I actually am private.
- But you run the like Hangvan's Twitter?
- Yeah.
You ghost write the Hangvan's twitter.
- You guys I don't know say this
but the charity shrimp
party goes super viral.
- You don't know how to
say it you say perfectly
- Yeah you just said it
- It sounds exactly
what we just did.
- You said it
- You see after the party
dies down Sandra Lynn goes,
so guys we're gonna head to the
forest of the Nightmare king
to get this crown back.
Uuh.
What's your point?
- I, don't worry mom I'm private.
- Yeah.
- So.
- Who's that roll for?
- She says, are we gonna rest tonight
and head out in the morning?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- We had a big shrimp party—
- I'm all full of shrimp.
You guys long rest.
- If we going, we're going in tomorrow
to the Nightmare-
So I want to bring Boggy back.
But I feel like the forest
of the Nightmare king maybe a frog...
I just want to protect him
after him disappearing.
So I think I want to
bring him back as an owl.
Called Bogowlriel Frogowlriel
Bogowlriel Frogowlriel.
- So its kinda of a froggy owl.
- The roundest owl you've ever seen.
- A perfectly spherical owl with so much,
75% eyes It's just...
- I don't know if this is
I don't know if it's fake.
But I saw online that owls
have really long legs.
- Yes they do.
- I can't tell if this is real.
I actually retweeted
an article about that.
- Okay.
- I take Boggy and lift up
his feathers and you see
his extremely long legs.
- Oh my god. Creepy.
- You bring—
- Its just eyes and legs
and that's it
- You bring Boggy back.
The next morning you
guys go to the Briar wall
at the edge of Arborly.
As you do so,
- Gilear, sees you off at
the borders of the forest
the Hangvan is staying behind the hang...
Tracker looks at you and says I'll go back
to doing moon havens the
van won't be able to travel
through the forest.
- I forgot if we, do we want
to bring the gem with us?
- The gym?
- I mean, maybe.
- Hangvan.
- The gem.
- Ooh the gem.
- The celestial
- That could be cool.
- I could probably shatter
it out of whatever it's—
- Let's not shatter it.
- Its a sapphire not a ruby.
- I'm powerless to it.
- Well I'll defer I don't know I really—
- I think we should, yeah let's do it.
- Do you wanna bring it?
- Yeah.
- Alright cool.
- Yeah when we go back to the van maybe
I'll get my weird painting
that I stole from the-
from the ship and a few art supplies.
- Maybe we could put the gem into—
- All this happens and
then something else happens
which is this, you guys—
- Shall we try to put the gem into baby?
- No. I'm gonna say no.
- I don't want to.
- All of this just has
to stop
you guys go to Arborly and
move through.
You see that, you take
the gem out of the van
Wretchrot is still with you,
Baby is still here as well.
As you move through this place.
Fabian, you have to make a
decision which is the Hangman
which is the Hangman
depending on the terrain
the Hangman can maybe
come with you through
for a short portion but if
you get into that insane
like subterranean tree area,
the Hangman wont be able
to travel through there.
What is the call Fabian wants to make?
- Hangman.
- Sire.
- You're too important to me
to bring you into the forest
you belong, in long expanses of land
where you can run wild and do your thing
and it's just gonna be too tight in there.
- I shall remain and prevent
the one known as Gilear from dying
- Protect him.
He is the chosen one.
And he will chart the
destiny of the known world.
- I just wanna tell them that like
I guess we could just say
the tinkerers and watch them.
- Oh, yeah, well, you have—
- I'll go talk to the tinkerers.
- We gave them like a ton of gold
so they should be in our—
I'll take care of it
You know, yeah.
- I love you.
- I love you.
- Well, that felt wired.
- So the six of you.
The six of you.
Sandra Lynn, Baxter, Ragh,
Tracker, Ayda
and Wretchrot enter
along with the familiars
which are Bogowlriel, Gaff and Baby.
You guys enter—
- Ayda's coming with us?
- You see that Ayda gets to the—
- Is that a problem?
- No, its dope as hell.
- Ayda looks and says,
you asked us to stay I will stay.
- Yeah, I mean unless you don't wanna stay
in which case that's also totally fine.
- She looks and says—
- Ayda please come.
- Okay, I'll come, I'll do it.
You arrive at the briar wall
- Why did you jump in on that, huh?
- Because she's my friend.
- You know was like, I was
kinda having a thing you know?
You know just kinda like...
- You don't own her, I
can be friends with her.
- No, I'm just saying like
I was trying to freaking—
- This is upsetting me please stop.
Thank you.
You see that
you arrive at the Briar
wall as you approach
Fig, the emblem that is
normally not even present
burns into existence on your forehead
and you feel the ability
to open a passageway
for your friends into Sylvaire.
- Very cool.
- You guys move through the
burning doorway in the thorns.
As you move through, you
arrive on the other side
of the Briar wall.
Endless twisted, dark forest.
Barely any light appears from the canopy.
You walk through
as you do so.
You feel the malevolence of this forest
As you begin to walk
further into the forest
and you get about you know 40 or 50 feet
away from the Briar wall Fig
as you leave the sort
of nearness of the wall
you see that the burning
door closes back up.
And you guys are in the
forest the Nightmare King.
What do you guys do as you enter?
- Anybody have a compass or anything
- Oh our library cards are compasses.
- Great.
- Do we have some sort
of find locate person
or do we have an idea?
- I can scry.
- Also, you guys will recall
that you guys had the...
You can make the tincture
with the different things
that are here to—
- Oh, right.
- Remove Kalina.
- Cool, so can we start looking
for some of those?
- Uh, sure.
Here's the deal.
You see the three ingredients you need,
actually, anyone that can make
a nature check make a check.
- Can Sandra Lynn also
make a nature check?
- Yes.
- Can I make a survival check?
- Sandra Lynn just got a nat 20.
Sandra Lynn looks and says,
okay the three things that you need for...
Everything else that Adaine
can get out of her jacket,
We need star moth chrysalis
that's gonna be growing up in the canopy.
We need herro grey nectar
that will be a deep foliage
vines, ferns, things like that.
And then we also need lungreen pollen
that's gonna be near water
usually stagnant water.
You see that she puts up a finger says
stagnant waters that way.
We can also, there should be
some deep foliage over here
and the star moth chrysalis just someone
needs to go up and get that.
- I'll do it.
- I'll go with Fabian.
- Come on Gorgug.
- Or you're just climbing?
I can cast fly on you.
- Or you can climb!
- I just don't wanna
waste any spells yet—
- No you're right—
I can send Boggy up with you.
- Cool.
- Yes.
We'd love to have Bogowlriel.
- Cool.
So you two guys are going to canopy duty
who's going on stagnant water duty
who's going on deep foil—
- The stagnant water duty,
that sounds like a job for Riz Gukgak.
- I'll do deep foliage
because I have dark vision.
- Cool.
- Oh I have dark vision
as well I can do that
- Okay so then me and
Kristen will go—
- Will you guys take Ragh or Tracker?
- Yeah, we'll take both of them.
- We'll take, I guess
let's split up evenly
just in case anything bad happens.
- Um yeah, Sandra Lynn is going
to go with Fig and Adaine.
- Okay cool
- We have Ayda as well.
- Oh great.
- Ayda is actually gonna,
yeah I think will go
with Fig and Adaine as well
and then Ragh is gonna
go up into the canopy
canopy with the rest of the boys.
Hoot growl, hoot growl.
- My back is getting absolutely jacked.
- You're looking shredded.
- Oh, you're also looking shredded
- Cool.
We gonna start with the canopy squad.
Both of you guys give me survival checks.
- I've been rolling like trash.
Nine.
- Survival?
- Yeah.
- 13.
- 13.
- Nine.
- Nine.
You guys keep looking. Ragh's-
Can Bogowlriel give me advantage?
- Sure, sure, sure.
- Worse.
- You guys are having a
hard time finding any...
You see that Ragh goes...
Having a hard time finding
this stuff up here.
You guys continue to go search for it.
Both of you guys make perception checks
with disadvantage for me.
- Can I look to Gorgug and say,
I believe in you spring break.
- Oh, thank you
- I'll give you one D6 bardic inspiration.
Oh perception checks.
- Disadvantage.
- 15.
- 15.
I rolled a three and on
this D six a one, so four
wait oh perception.
So nine.
- That's a nine, cool.
- You see—
- Mmh, its bad music.
- You guys that are going off
into the deep foliage head off
into the deep foliage looking for it.
You see Sandra Lynn looks up
a tree a little bit and goes
that might be a little bit higher.
She's gonna make a survival check herself.
Oh you see she goes
haha! jumps up on Baxter.
You see she flies up over the tree
to where some,
she thinks some is going to be
and then Riz, Kristen and
Tracker are all traveling.
Who's got the the celestial in the gem?
- I would imagine Gorgug.
- I mean I took it out of
the van maybe I have it—
- Cool you and Fabian both
see that the gem goes...
You see an image of a cobweb
filled horrifying cottage,
old ancient witches hut in the gem,
you hear a voice go:
Ooh not chill, not chill, not chill!
and the gem loses all of its glow.
- Gorgug what's happening?
- I think it,
it feels like a witch.
Did something?
- I draw my blade.
- Let's get down.
- Neither of you guys can see Ragh.
- Ragh.
- Ragh.
- Ragh.
- Ragh.
- Crab King where's my crab King?
- You hear Baxter flap off into the forest
and quickly the noise fades
and you don't hear Sandra Lynn anymore.
You don't hear Baxter.
- I guess i'm gonna go,
my spells are not suited
to this kind of stuff.
You guys are—
- Ayda looks and says I
can fly after her, I...
- What's wrong?
What's going on?
Are you okay?
- Why are we in a house?
- What?
We are not in a house.
- Is this normal?
Vanishes
- What just happened?
Where did she go?
I have her feather.
- You and you are over
near some stagnant water.
You both look in, you and Tracker look in.
And in the reflection of the
water Kalina looks up at you.
- I take out my crystal, b*tch.
- Nice photographs.
- How does it feel to
be the Nightmare kings
little lieutenant?
- How does it feel to be in a
forest where dreams are real?
You see something you don't like Tracker?
You see Tracker looks up
and you realize all
three of you are seeing
Kalina at the same time.
You see Tracker looks up and goes, no
I can't even see the sky.
No, no!
And Tracker begins to change.
Kalina goes, full moon tough break,
you guys cannot see a
full moon but Tracker can
and the full moon is real enough
that she begins to change.
- I'm so sorry but I
grab Tracker and Riz I
dimensioned door out of the forest.
- You are too far into the forest
to get back outside the
wall.
- Dammit.
- Okay.
You can only do it with one person too.
- I guess I'll,
sorry, Tracker.
I wanna sh**t her with my grappling thing.
- You have a tranquilizer too, right?
- Yeah.
- Cool.
Both of you guys as you go for your weapon
and you go for that.
You see...
Go ahead and give me an attack roll first.
- Help action?
- Sure.
- I feel this is gonna be bad.
- 15
- Phew flies off.
Suddenly Tracker is just,
you see that Tracker's,
her body in your line of sight disappears
and it disappears as though
invisible moths were flying
in front of her and
where they crossed over
your ability to see her
when they left she was gone.
- I reach in the area
and see if I can feel her
if maybe she just turned invisible.
You- give me an attack
roll with disadvantage.
- Okay, a 10.
- Air. You see Kalina goes,
appears again to both of you she goes,
Tracker is chasing you down to k*ll you.
She says, I mean, what she thinks is you,
she's gone. Ragh's gone,
Sandra Lynn's gone.
I told you if you came to
the forest I'd k*ll you.
Dreams are real here.
So for example,
Riz you take four points of damage
and you know the damage is real.
- As I wince, I pull on my tie to record.
- You start recording her.
You see that she stops
for a moment and goes.
- Did that really just hurt you?
- She disappears from
sight and a moment later
Kristen, you take one point of damage.
You can feel claws against
you like a cat scratch.
And they're, you know they're coming
from inside your own body.
- Are you flirting with me?
- She's f*cking flirting with me.
- You see she goes.
No, Kristen, that's funny.
I'm gonna k*ll you here, now.
Cuz I'm gonna keep tearing
you apart from the inside.
And I don't think you can stop me.
I was very clear.
I've never double dealt
you. Told you on Leviathan.
You try to get the crown,
I'm gonna k*ll you.
Is that what your
superior told you to say?
Yeah, my superior Kristen.
I work for the Nightmare King.
- Yeah, yeah cool.
- So I guess a job is job.
- Hey, this is gonna take me a long time.
She hits you again for
four points of damage.
- I start furiously looking around
for what we need to find
in this water I guess.
- You guys both continue
to start taking damage.
You will not be able to
make tinctures in time
while you are here.
We're going...
Like this diseases is
like ripping you apart
- Each second, yeah, yeah.
- Each second.
You have a lot of hit points,
so it will take a while,
but you're being k*lled
by something that you
don't know how to hit.
I'm gonna need,
Gorgug and Fabian what do you guys do?
- We gotta find this stuff, right?
- Yes we just—
- While we're up here make
another perception check.
Well.
- Yeah.
- We can't make the...
We don't know that do we.
- Yeah I mean-
- Lets look for it and
then like try to get back
to everybody
- Great,
spring break I believe in you.
- Thank you.
- Oh, one last one last survival check
and then you guys are gonna
run down and find everybody.
- Yes.
- Cool.
- Okay, survival 23.
- You find a star moth chrysalis
- Did you find it?
- I think so.
- Okay, yes.
- Let's get the f*ck out of these trees.
- Fig and Adaine, what are you guys doing?
- What are we looking for in here?
I got really distracted
- Oh god I don't even remember.
- Pollen or the nectar?
- I don't know what to say here.
- Can you use your feather to find Ayda?
- I will take on my feather
and just say, and as
I speak her name Ayda Aguefort, I really
want you to come back, please come back.
- The feather has lost its shine.
- What
- Why?
Why did I freaking invite her?
Why did I even think that
this was a okay thing to do?
- No she's rad, she's much
more powerful than any of us.
- I know she's much more powerful.
- What are you guys doing in this moment?
you Sandra Lynn is gone Ayda is gone.
- Can I look through,
- Yes what are you—
Boggy's eyes and see
what the lads are doing.
- Freaking out because Ragh is gone
and they just found
the star moth chrysalis
- Ragh is also gone, but
they found the star chrysalis
Let's look for the moss
that we have to find.
- Give me one more thing for the nectar.
- Okay, bardic inspiration
- Oh thank you.
- Oh what are we looking for?
- You're looking for herro gray nectar.
- oh sorry what is this check?
- Survival.
- Oh I don't even need it cuz I got
I mean I got a 21.
- You find the nectar of
the flower pull it out,
Kristen and Riz you're both
being ripped apart by this thing.
- Yep, you know I start a...
f*ck I only have one of these per time.
I cast greater restoration on Riz.
- Choosing Riz over yourself,
you cure Riz of the
plague of the Shadowcat.
Riz you suddenly feel
the attack stop on you
and double on Kristen.
- f*ck you need to find Tracker.
I start the prayer of prayer of healing
it's gonna take 10 minutes.
I don't know if I'll last but—
- You'll be dead by then.
- Yeah, okay.
- We're going to
- Can I just cast, I mean can I play
I don't know if anyone can hear me
but I have like a counter charm
can I just play my counter charm thing
to give people an advantage on-
- You guys I assume your trying
to find all of each other.
- Yes I —
- Yes.
- Riz you watch the wounds begin to
appear on Kristen's face.
You guys find yours, you guys find yours,
you begin to run you hear from
every corner of the forest
and for the first time
you will see an image
of a crowned skull.
That's all for this
episode of Fantasy High
Tune in next week g*ng bye bye.
- You suck.
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07x16 - My Green Heaven
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.