- Hello one and all!
Welcome to another exciting
episode of Dimension 20 Live
presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year.
They're doing their spells.
- Yes, everyone gave me
such sh*t about my spells
being wrong, I'm looking them all up.
- Looking up all their spells.
- Turns out I don't have ice feast
or whatever I thought I had.
- Hey, nobody has ice feast.
- What the f*ck is ice feast?
- It's a feast of ice.
- Thank you!
- Oh, come on dude.
- If you guys want an ice feast, you can.
You guys, welcome back to
another exciting episode
of Dimension 20 presents
Fantasy High Sophomore Year.
The continuing adventure of the bad kids!
The world of Spyres
premiere teen adventures
at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy,
a high school for heroes.
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- Easter's coming up.
- Easter's coming up!
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- Classic on cue!
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- Speaking of coffee.
- Our beautiful son.
- Beautiful, beautiful son.
- Beautiful baby angel.
- Before we move on,
actually you know what,
it's a little toasty in here
so I'm just gonna.
- You hot dude, you hot?
- I'm a little hot so.
- The shirt is back!
- I like the shirt.
- What do you mean?
- The shirt is good—
- The famous shirt
that you wear every day.
- A shirt so good
you can't stop wearing it.
- Brandon's only shirt TM.
- Okay, I didn't know that
there was such a kerfuffle
over my shirt so I'm gonna go ahead
and change shirts if there's
such a big to do about it.
- Wow!
What's it say?
- What's it say?
- What?
- What's up?
- Bethany won shirtgate.
- Wow.
- Bethany won shirtgate.
- Congratulations Bethany.
- What?
- Hey Bethany,
congratulations.
- What?
- You won shirtgate.
- All right, look.
- Oh she just posted today
that you wear that shirt all the time.
- I own lots of shirts!
- Oh, do you?
- I got plenty of shirts.
- That does look like a new one.
- Honestly I wear the
same amount of shirts
and do not get roasted for it.
So I'll own that.
- You don't have like a
clear favorite though.
- I've never worn
the same shirt twice.
- In my life.
- That is remarkably wasteful!
- I burn them, I burn them.
- I burn 'em.
- And they keep my children
warm so is that wasteful?
You gonna tell me that
keeping my children warm
is wasteful?
- This bit took so long that
we moved to the Gorgug music.
- Oh, love it.
- Okay, enough fun for everybody.
g*ng, this is Dimension 20 Live.
Last we left off
we had a bit of a wild time.
I think you guys will find
that last time we were here,
we had some really
incredible stuff happen.
All of our friends
started in the Nine Hells
and Riz Gukgak met his dad's spirit,
Pok Gukgak, a saint,
a celestial soul working
for the lower planar
reconnaissance task force.
He helped his dad and got some information
crossed back and forth
about the nature of Kalina
and the Shadowcat.
And got decked out with
a bunch of rad spy gear,
which is extremely, extremely cool.
We also had a bunch of fun
with our guys coming back
and getting to Arborly.
We had a viral shrimp party,
which has never happened
in a game of D&D before.
- That party was coronavirus.
- We were patient zero in corona.
- We were patient zero
in a big shrimp disease.
- I forgot that we gave away
all of our stuff, right?
- All the shrimp's gone.
- Yeah, y'all poor now.
- Shrimp flu.
- Well, yeah that's right.
- It's fine, once I get
residuals I'll be back.
- Fig, Riz, and Gorgug gave
away all of their wealth,
all of their currency.
- Not anything that I was rich
before, new money of course.
- All the new money—
- Sorry you did not give away your—
- My like tour money.
- Your touring money.
- I think it would have
touched in the bank.
- Well no, that money
would be in her S-Corp.
- No, you truly have do
have to give everything away
I think to be free of that, right?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Is this true?
- You're poor dude.
- I've never confirmed any of this stuff.
This has all been a leap of
faith on your guys' part.
So you tell me.
I'm gonna assume that you didn't give away
your rockstar money until told otherwise.
So then our beloved heroes gave away,
in this case only Riz and Gorgug
gave away all of their currency.
- I called my bank and everything.
- You called your bank and everything.
And then they headed,
into the Forest of the Nightmare King.
- So prepared.
We were so f*cking prepared.
- If I roll a luck point
can I undo what happened
at the end of the episode?
- No, you may not.
- What about two luck points?
- What if we all roll a nat
20, can we redo last episode?
- Honestly, if all of you
roll a nat 20 right now,
it already hasn't happened.
- 18, 19, 19, nat one.
- Pretty good.
Collectively that's like three 20s.
- g*ng, we are rowdy tonight.
And the reason being that
as our intrepid heroes,
wait, did we do that this time?
Say hi intrepid heroes.
- Hi intrepid heroes!
- We're gonna die.
- As our intrepid heroes
enter the Forest of the Nightmare King,
they split up to search
for the ingredients
that Kristen would need to make a tincture
to cure the Shadow Cat plague.
Having collected two of
the three ingredients,
it seems that Sandra Lynn,
Baxter, her griffin now,
Ragh, vanished into the forest.
Some horrifying magical
fate befell Zaphriel
in the hang van gem
and Ayda Aguefort and Tracker
witnessed an illusory full moon,
which would normally not
do anything to a werewolf,
but here in the Forest of Nightmare King
where illusions are partially real,
it was enough for her to transform.
Kristen heroically,
cast greater restoration
to remove the disease
from Riz
and herself is suffering
the horrifying attacks
of Kalina, the Shadow Cat
who is partially real and
therefore able to hurt Kristen.
You guys are a quarter of
a mile into the forest.
You're not that far.
You're a quarter mile into the forest.
It is all difficult terrain here.
So the Briar wall is
not far away from you,
Arborly is not far away from you.
You are each about 300
feet away from each other
through thicket and trees and brambles,
but you roughly know the
direction that everybody is in.
As Kristen is sustaining these attacks
I'm going to need all of
us to roll initiative.
- Oh no.
- Oh crap.
- This excites me.
I'm excited.
- Sick puppy.
- I'm excited, I'm a sick puppy.
- You're sick.
- I'm a sick puppy and this excites me.
Bow wow, bow wow.
Bow wow, bow wow.
- Let's go around—
- Get this puppy neutered.
- Go ahead and try.
- Who here got above a 20?
- No one.
- Nobody got above a 20.
- Anybody got above a 15?
What did Gorgug get?
- 16.
- What did Fabian get?
- 17, bow wow.
- Damn dude, this puppy.
- Get out of here.
- Go ahead and try to neuter this puppy.
I'm excited.
- Try to neuter this puppy?
- Try to neuter this puppy.
- All right, who got
between a 10 and a 15?
- Oh no.
- Okay, what did Fig get?
- Nine.
- I also got nine.
- Negative two.
- What!
- They simply must get a new dice.
- If you roll high you also
gotta roll low sometimes, right?
- Amen, amen.
- I mean your dice tell a beautiful story.
- They only roll so
that the dice are spicy.
- So Ragh, no where to be seen.
Gorgug, Fabian you are up in the trees,
in the sort of at the point of a triangle
300 feet from either of
your other bad kid allies.
You can sense something is going wrong.
You can probably hear muffled shouting.
You hear "Find Tracker" off in the woods.
Fabian, you are first
to act, what do you do?
- Can I make a perception check?
- Yes, please do.
- 10.
- Okay.
You see forest, mist, no sign of Ragh.
- I look up to Gorgug, I feel
like we should find The Ball
or anyone, okay great.
- This sucks.
- This sucks!
Ragh!
And I slide down the tree
and move in the general direction of where
I think The Ball and Kristen are.
- Okay, you're gonna
take a full move action.
- Full dash action and then
f*ck it, I'll action surge and dash again.
- Okay, hell yeah.
You rush in the direction of your friends.
- Can I communicate with The Hangman?
- Yes, you can.
- Hangman, things are going very poorly.
Do not enter the forest
but please bring Gilear
and anyone else to the entrance.
- "Sire, I come now to the Briar wall
"with the wretch known as Gilear."
- Great, we'll see you soon.
Yeah, be ready, things
really aren't going well.
- "Oh sire, I'm sorry too, I
should have come with you."
- No, no you probably
would have disappeared
into the forest as well.
- "Why?"
- What?
- "Why?"
- Like why would you have disappeared,
this is not the time.
- Riz, you were there, Kristen
has just shouted at you,
"Find Tracker!"
Tracker is, go ahead actually
and make a perception check for me.
- Please.
Okay,
15.
- As the disease is cured from
your body by Kristen's magic,
what you were unable to hear a moment ago
you now hear.
It is fading extremely quickly,
which is Tracker at this point
already probably three or four rounds away
but you hear the crashing of a giant wolf
through the underbrush running deeper
into the Forest of the Nightmare King.
- I don't think we're
finding Tracker right now.
I'm gonna try to find this
tincture thing real quick.
- Okay.
- I guess I will actually, okay.
So Kristen right now has this
thing that is hurting them.
I want to,
okay.
Why don't you run, try to find our friends
or try to get out.
- Okay.
- I want to hand Kristen
my g*n that has the signal flare.
So that if you're running
and you're about to go down,
you can sh**t it up
and then I'm just gonna scramble around
and try to find the last thing.
- Give me a survival check DC15.
- What do you have for survival?
- Plus one.
- Yeah, 15!
- Ooh, baby.
You go, you find lungreen pollen,
you scrape it into a
little detective baggy,
you have everything you need
to make the tinctures.
- Run.
- All right.
- Okay.
That is your turn.
- You're running after Tracker?
- Gorgug, that's you,
I assume you're doing?
- Cast jump on myself to avoid
the terrain as well as I can.
- Cool, yeah that
actually completely works.
You leap to the bottom of the tree.
- Okay so I'm on the same track as Fabian,
well I wanna make a perception check
to see if I can tell where to go
or I'm just following Fabian I guess.
- Cool.
- You might be able to
move faster than me Gorgug.
- Okay, I'm gonna just go
the same direction as Fabian.
- Cool, I'm going to need
a survival check from you.
It's a DC10 survival check
not to get lost in the forest.
- Okay, all right.
18.
- Okay.
- Nice!
- Cool.
- I have survival for some reason.
- It's barbarian stuff.
- That is barbarian stuff, that's true.
- Truly never come into play in this game.
- Sometimes we forget what classes we are.
- Right.
- Incredible.
That is going to go and be,
Kalina looks at you.
- She's still there?
- She's k*lling you.
- Oh!
- Riz doesn't see her doing this,
but she like lashes,
when these things erupt in
bursting boils on your face,
it's her claws in your
vision scratching across you.
She looks at you,
her eyes go wide with fear
as you cure Riz of this illness.
She vanishes
and as she does so you guys see
a horribly wounded Sandra Lynn
on Baxter fly into the clearing
looking completely manic.
She's holding this wrestling,
it looks like a horrifying little gremlin
made of roots and plant matter.
She lands right in between you two guys,
leaps off and says, "Kristen, bite this!"
- Perception check?
- Go ahead and make a perception check.
- Oh, Jesus Christ.
Nat 20.
Nat f*cking 20!
- This is too much!
For me!
- Oh, I love your dice!
- We have here a flight of dice.
- If you've never been here before it's
like a small plate situation
- Enjoy, enjoy.
- We're 15 minutes in.
- It's the gift that keeps on giving.
- Anyways, it is Sandra Lynn.
- Your perception check
tells you it is Sandra Lynn.
- D12's too big.
- Did you put it in the coffee?
- Put in coffee?
- I'm looking forward to that.
- Ruin the coffee.
- Ruin your f*cking coffee.
- Ruin your coffee dude.
- Ruin your freaking coffee dude.
- Now.
Because you asked and
because you rolled a nat 20,
this is a forest of lies.
Kalina vanished because
she needed to use her focus
and attention to create an illusion
and Riz, you didn't see any of that.
I was lying to you, Murph the player,
when I said you did.
- Okay.
- Riz doesn't see anything
because what happened is
that little squirming baby
is right where Riz is.
- Sick.
I don't know if I should bite it!
- Bite what?
- I don't know if I should bite it!
- Are you gonna bite me,
you're like bearing your teeth at me.
What are you doing?
- We need to get the f*ck out of here.
- The illusion fades.
Kalina, "Ah!", reappears
and that illusion vanishes.
She was attempting to get you to bite Riz.
- Okay.
- To infect him again.
- Kinky.
- To infect you again.
Yes, you're right!
- Dang.
- Ooh, bow wow.
- Oh, the 20s bless us.
- No matter what I do don't take my blood.
No matter what I do don't take my blood.
- Just don't bite me, just don't bite me.
- Okay.
That is going to be Fig's turn.
- That's a solid play Kalina.
- You are standing in the woods,
you're still holding the feather.
You hear a voice next to
you go, "Oh, it's so bad!
"Don't worry all your
other friends are gone,
"but Baby is here now!"
- How comforting.
- "What ever they were doing for you,
"Baby can do just as well."
- Yes, thank you so much.
- 'Cause I'm directly after you,
if you wait I can cast fly on us both.
- Why yes, I would like to fly.
I'll hold my action.
- You hold your action.
- Can I do like a perception check?
- Give me a perception check.
- Or like to try and find out
where the rest of our friends are.
16.
- 16,
your mom took off.
You can hear shouting
and you hear a blast of like rocket boots
and Fabian like sliding
down the side of a tree
not too far away from you.
- Ragh!
- That direction!
- Great.
- Okay, you cast fly.
- I cast fly as a fourth level spell
so both of us are flying,
which gives us a flying speed of 60 feet.
- Okay, that means that Adaine,
you can move 60 and Fig if you want to
you can actually just move 120.
- Yeah, but I do it
just to come in a circle
to be next to Adaine again.
- Damn, that's cute as hell.
- Very cool.
- Yo, we need to get out
of the forest everybody.
- If I go further than 60 feet
and then I see my friends—
- You will meet Fabian and Gorgug
at the bottom of the tree
if you do a full 120.
- I have 60 feet of dark vision,
so I will still be able to
see you at that distance.
- Are you cool if I go ahead?
- Yeah, that's fine.
- You won't feel unsafe or anything?
- I feel unsafe with you
there and without you there,
it's not about you, the forest is bad.
- Oh okay, cool.
- Wow, those are some
really good boundaries.
- Then I fly down and I find them.
- Cool, you guys see Fig (imitates
blasting) flying through.
- You can fly?
- I thought I was flying.
- You are though.
- Kristen, it is your
turn, what do you do?
- Okay, we got everything we need.
I take off running for the exit.
- Cool, getting out out of the forest.
- And then I, can I cast a spell in,
yeah, yeah, okay.
I cast
da, da, da.
- Should you just
sh**t the flare up?
- Yes.
- Why don't we do that?
- Yeah, I sh**t the flare up in the air
and I cast like a lesser
restoration on myself.
- Okay, dope.
Riz, yeah I'll let you do the signal
as just an object interaction
and you cast lesser restoration?
- Oh wait, sorry, no I'll do cure wounds.
- Okay, cool.
- A level three cure wounds
and then I get some auto heals.
- Sorry, since I held my turn
can I do an action and do counter charm
to give everyone advantage on saves
against being frightened or charmed?
- Absolutely.
Because you're moving twice
as fast as anybody else,
you can take an action to
do counter charm every round
and still be moving as fast as everybody.
- Cool.
- Awesome.
So because you are all now
committed to finding each other,
I'm just gonna say we'll move
to the next round of
initiative that happens.
Kristen, the next round you
are dealt 11 points of damage.
- Do you need to heal?
I have healing word.
- I mean, right now
I'm only missing a few.
It's not dire but I will at some point
and I'm just gonna be healing
myself as we try to get out.
- Okay, cool.
- Oh, I healed Riz by the way.
Riz isn't infected anymore,
but Kalina's really tricky
and I almost just reinfected
him so everyone watch out.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Don't bite the baby
that your mom gives you.
- I don't think we're all together here.
- You guys are now,
I'm gonna say you take that damage,
on the next round all of
you guys come together.
You have the pollen,
you've taken a round to cast cure wounds.
You guys, in other words, come together.
As you do so,
Kalina appears and says, "Wait, wait.
"I'll k*ll you before you
make it back to Arborly,
"but all your friends will
escape even if I k*ll you,
"so let's make a deal."
- Okay?
- You see she says,
"Your crystal's on the ground smashed.
"The kids photo, ripped in half,
"left on the floor of the forest.
"You guys walk out of here with
you alive, that's the deal."
- Run, everybody run!
Run fast as you can
and keep your crystals,
get all of the photos of
her out of this forest!
- Can I go to iCloud and start uploading?
- Can I call to The Hangman?
Hangman, can you drive into the forest?
- You see The Hangman says, "Sire,
"The Briar wall is not granting me entry."
- All right, great.
Well still be there and ready.
- Fig, do something!
- Can I put Kristen on
my back and start running
or if someone wants to
use a spell or something
they can do that, but that's
what my plan is unless—
- Cool.
I'll let you guys,
Gorgug if you want to
put Kristen on your back
that is totally—
- I still have jump on.
- Still have jump, jump's not
going to affect your speed
but it's gonna help you
with that difficult terrain.
- Yeah.
- I mean, can I grab
Kristen and dimension door
to the mouth of it or will
that just mess you guys up?
- Dimension door will
get you some 600 feet—
- I also, no I don't.
Look, okay there's a little kerfuffle
before we started filming today,
I did make a lot of
spells that were not mine.
They did say cleric on them—
- Do you guys feel safe with that?
- Yeah, let's just run.
- Let's go.
- Yeah.
- Do you want me to
dimension door Kristen?
- Yes.
- And Riz, do we have two people,
but do you have something?
- I don't have dimension door.
- We're fine, let's keep running.
- Okay.
- I can pick Riz up, you're
less than 90 pounds, right?
- So Fig grabs Kristen—
- And I'll fly and I can fly really far,
I can also dimension door,
I can cover some miles.
- sh*t!
Okay Fig.
- Awesome.
I'm gonna say here.
In the round that your figuring that
you take another three points of damage.
- Can I touch Kristen and say,
"Spring break, I believe in
you" and cast heroism on her?
- Yes, you can.
- So at the beginning
of each of your turns
you will gain temporary hit points
equal to my spell casting modifier,
which is plus three.
So every turn you get three hit points
and you're also immune
to being frightened.
- Oh great, oh great.
- I believe in you.
- Thank you spring break!
- Spring break!
- I miss Tracker.
- So I'm gonna actually
see something real quick.
- I guess also if I'm gonna be peacing,
I'm gonna leave some bardic
inspiration for you guys.
You already have some.
- Appreciate it.
- I can give it away.
- I wink you, I wink you, I wink you.
- So this is very tense right now
but I just want to see something.
- I'm so scared.
Oh!
- So normally,
I'm going to ask for an,
I don't know if Fig wants
to attempt to carry Kristen.
I'm gonna ask for an athletics
check to be able to do that.
- Okay.
- Can I wink at Fig?
- Yes, this is taking another round,
which is another six but
only three damage to you.
- Can I have Baby give me the help?
- Baby can give you the help action.
- Come on.
- Yeah.
- I don't even know if I'm gonna
use the bardic inspiration.
That's a 21.
- Ooh-hoo-hoo!
- That's right.
Come here, hoo!
- Can I ride like a piggyback
ride but on the front?
- You just have no idea what's happening.
- I'm flying and skateboarding
at the same time.
- So you guys see in this
incredible act of magic,
Fabian you pass out these
bardic inspirations.
As you guys move, hold on one second,
you see underneath Fig,
this like huge fiery
pentagram just woo, appears.
Fig picks up the party's cleric
and appears almost halfway,
almost certainly saving Kristen's life.
- Yeah!
- We're still gonna run it out,
we're still gonna see how that works,
but the way we're gonna do it is this.
So you just oh,
you can use somebody else's survival check
for this if you want
but I'm gonna ask for
another DC15 survival check
to know the right direction.
- Okay.
- You have good survival, yeah?
- I have five plus five.
- It's better than the rest of us.
- Yeah.
- 22.
- Hell yeah.
- Okay, great.
So as you're picking Kristen up,
Gorgug you know exactly
the way back to the wall.
- I guess I get this stuff, I don't know.
- Who are you?
- You are of the land.
- You appear 600 feet closer.
We're gonna resolve Fig and Kristen
and then we're going to resolve everybody
left deep in the forest.
So here's how this is going to work.
Oh man, that heroism is so clutch
and you're flying taking
double move actually,
which is 120.
- You've been there for us,
it's the least we can
do to be there for you.
- Hey, I'll be there for
you till the end of time.
- Hell yeah.
- Okay, even without that
this was gonna be 44 rounds
for you to get to the wall.
It is now because of because
of flying, dimension dooring,
gonna take 12 rounds.
- Cool.
- Cool?
- Okay.
- So I'm gonna roll a
ton of damage right now.
We're just going to do this.
- It's so many dice.
- 12 times three.
- I do have bonus action heals.
- 36, so you subtract 36
from this no matter what.
- Subtract 36 from this no
matter what, you got it.
Hold on one second.
- I have bonus action heal
so I can also be healing word her.
- Oh yeah.
- And you could be healing yourself.
- Yeah.
- Okay, here's how this is gonna be.
- Heals on heals.
- While this is happening
what are the four of you
back in the woods planning on doing?
- I'm gonna pick up Riz.
- Okay.
- Just to hold.
- Just to, yeah.
- Fabian, how far can you move around?
- I can move 30 feet.
- Do you want to hop on my back?
- Not really.
- You don't have to.
- This isn't the time Fabian.
- This isn't the time!
- The Ball, you're comfortable
on people all right.
I remember the backpack and such and such.
- This is 24D6 damage
coming Kristen's way.
Okay, 11.
14,
20,
24,
34,
38.
40,
51,
55.
65,
77,
85.
85 minus.
- 36?
- So 49.
- Yeah, plus another, oh no.
49, yeah.
- That's great, because
I would have been down.
- But you would be healing
yourself as you go, right?
- You could be, yes.
You take 49 points of damage.
Fig, you see a badly injured Kristen.
You're just watching wounds open up.
Kalina keeps sort of appearing to you.
It's truly insane because
you're looking at Fig's back
while she is just like I'm
gonna say a trail of fire
is coming up from behind Fig
as she's flying holding you.
- I didn't do that, that's just happening.
- Cool flavor.
- It's very cool.
- You see crouched on Fig's back,
Fig obviously you can't
see or experience this.
Kalina is just raking her
claws across you saying,
"Listen to reason kid, come on!"
- I kind of nuzzle my face in your neck,
like ah, this is so scary!
- I got you Kristen, I got you!
Stay strong!
- No, she's here, she's
a freaking big cat!
- That sounds really cute.
- You start to feel
something also on your cheek,
which are little wet kisses
and you hear Baby go, "Don't worry!"
- Okay, okay!
These kisses are wet!
- "I'm made of blood."
- Okay, I'll take what I can get.
- Baby's a really good
dancer, Baby show 'em.
- What!
- You see—
- Not the time, not the time.
- He holds himself in space,
where his hands and feet are in space
he's completely static and
his perfectly round body
just
like bounces around
in between where his hands and feet are.
- Oh wow, it's so good.
I guess you should stop and—
- The nightmares are real.
- We gotta wait for the
rest of the group, right?
- Okay, incredible.
You get to the Briar wall.
At your approach Fig, you
see the portal opens back up,
The Hangman screams in.
- Okay.
I put Kristen there.
Kristen, I'm gonna seal this back up
and go make sure to help shuttle everyone
'cause I still have
another dimension door.
Are you safe on this other side?
- Yeah.
- Who's here?
It's just Gilear?
- You see it Gilear and
The Hangman who's come in.
Gilear has not entered the forest.
"Daughter, is everything—"
- Stay!
Don't come in.
- "All right."
- I don't know if I should leave you.
- With Gilear?
- Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna leave, cool.
- No, you but you have to mention,
no, like go help everyone.
Definitely get.
- Are you are you going
back through the door
or are you staying on the other side of
the Nightmare Forest?
- I'm going back through the door.
- Go through the door.
- You go through the door,
the second you go back through the door
you see Kalina walks
through the door with you
and says, "Catch you next time."
And vanishes.
- Okay.
Yeah hurry and maybe just
bring back whoever you can,
but focus on Riz.
- Okay that happens but it still
it took you 12 rounds to do this.
We're gonna have to resolve
12 rounds of these guys
before we get to that.
- I get on Gorgug's
back and I ask everyone,
I swear everyone to silence.
- I immediately take pictures.
- Stop!
Stop!
No!
- Look at those little feet!
- It's scary right now!
I have normal sized feet and The Ball—
- It's normal to get carried around.
- Yes, when you're The Ball.
ba*ls get carried, all right.
- I've been carried a lot,
I don't feel undignified.
- You're surprisingly light.
- Shut up!
Everybody shut up!
Everybody shut up!
- He's dainty, a dainty lad.
- You're not supposed to weigh a lot.
- Well it's because I'm holding—
- What's up, The Ball?
- All right, f*ck this.
f*ck this.
I'll walk.
- So Adaine is flying,
Gorgug nailed the direction
back to where you guys are going
so the slowest speed is
gonna be Gorgug's speed
on the ground, which is still 40.
So we're gonna determine it this way.
If you're doing a move
and a dash every round
that's gonna be 80 feet but
then halved again so it's 40.
So it could take you
this amount of rounds.
- Is it halved with the jump?
Or does that effect it—
- You only can do jump at once per round
so it's the grand skip, oh no,
it's concentration, right?
- Yes, it lasts for a minute.
- Okay I actually divide that in—
- And I had two spell slots.
- Okay so I'm gonna say,
I'll divide that in half again.
Cool, it's gonna take you guys 16 rounds,
so they're actually—
- Just a little bit behind us.
- Yeah that jump spell is
really kind of helping.
- Okay, cool.
- Or actually no,
because the jump is preventing
the difficult terrain,
no you would be going twice as fast
without difficult terrain.
So let me go ahead and
see this real quick.
- Keep in mind he's anime running.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Arms behind.
- Like this.
- An I'm fully letting the
sheet unfurl behind me.
- Like a sail.
- You're kind of slowing them down.
- A lot of draft.
If there's difficult terrain,
it's mostly Fabian's sheet.
- Okay.
Awesome.
I'm gonna go ahead and
say that because you guys
have handled this so expertly,
because you're speed that you're
going is fundamentally 80.
I'm gonna say that you guys begin to hear
the calling of ravens out in the forest
but given how quickly you guys are moving
and how many hit points you have,
it would not be worthwhile
to run this combat
because even if you guys
did nothing but run,
they still wouldn't able to bring you down
in the amount of time you guys have.
You guys hear ravens coming behind you
and because of your jump spell,
these like rocket boots,
you were actually able to
mostly keep them at bay.
I'll say that like Gorgug
bringing up the rear effectively
takes like a cosmetic, you
take like 15 points of damage
from these like birds coming
at the rear and pecking at you
before you make it back to Fig
who's like waiting halfway
between you guys in the forest.
You guys sprint from there.
The door opens once again
for Fig as she approaches.
As you do so you see
that these ravens come
and as they do so they
hit the open doorway
and burst into decrepit leaves
with spider webs strung
between them and are gone.
You guys pummel through the doorway,
the door closes behind you,
you are back in Arborly
with The Hangman and Gilear.
- So we have to go back in there, right?
- Yeah, we have to go back in there.
- Like as soon as possible.
- We gotta get Kristen.
- We just need to get Kristen—
- Let's get the tincture going.
- Yeah, let's make this tincture.
- We got all the stuff
for the tincture, right?
- How long does the tincture take to make?
- We got everything, yeah.
I guess I have all the stuff
for the tincture, right?
- We're saying tincture a lot.
- We're saying tincture.
- What's weird about that?
- Do we have enough of
this tiny tincture?
- Let's get back in the van.
- You can absolutely make this here.
Listen, you paid dearly
for these ingredients,
you got that like, what?
Was it a nat 20 on that medicine check,
it was some incredible roll.
Having the ingredients,
you can absolutely make this tincture.
It will take you
less time than it would to like long rest
and do a greater restoration
on yourself again.
- I still kind of want to do that though.
- Does Kristen have to be the person
that makes the tincture?
- We should make one anyway
in case we infected again.
- Yeah we should make as
much tincture as we can
'cause also the other guys.
- There's some kind of
alchemist or something
at the tinkerer?
- You know for sure there
are chemists at the tinkerer.
- Kristen, what can I do
to make it more comfortable
for you to not take a long rest?
- No, that's fine.
Just if I could take a long rest,
I could, so what happened was I cured Riz
and that made her so upset,
like she wanted me to reinfect him
so clearly the more of
us that we can have the—
- You're the only one who has it.
- You're the only one who has it.
- Yeah.
Really?
- Yeah.
- Well everyone else who has
it is still in the forest.
- They're all missing.
- Okay, then,
yeah, let's make the tincture.
- Let's go to the Tinkerer's Hall
and see if we can use.
- Make a good old big pot of it.
- We can make the tincture
in the Tinkerer's Hall?
- Yeah.
- Tincture in the Tinkerer's Hall.
- Yeah.
- I'm messaging right now and I'm saying,
let's make the tincture
in the Tinkerer's Hall.
- What about making the
tincture in the Tinkerer's Tent?
- Okay, can I—
- Tremendous.
- Can someone message me
because I don't have it
and maybe we should say this over message.
- Yeah.
- Okay I message everyone and I say,
she also tried to make a deal with me.
She said, if we all put
our crystals on the ground
and ruined them and Riz, she knew that
you were taking video of her
and if you ruined that
she would let me live.
- Sorry, one distinction.
She didn't know about Riz's tie.
- Yeah, she had the picture.
- Yeah, she said the picture.
- The picture, she talked
about the original photo
of Pok and Kalina.
- Oh cool, very f*cking cool.
- And I'm gonna say over message,
I got footage of her.
We should watch it as soon
as we get Kristen healed.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I think also that I'm gonna
make all of my social media
public and this will be my first post
is gonna be a picture of her
and it's gonna be one of those like
if you see this person,
they like stole from,
you know like?
Like they're a bad person.
- But put her name too.
Like I think it's like people knowing
who she is and what she looks like.
- It's also better with
video footage right
because it's multiple pictures.
- Yeah, let's see what we got.
sh*t, I wish we had like a moon haven
or I wish we had—
- Is the van still working?
- We still have the
moon haven, the van is—
- Can we go to the van and just and—
- Drive it?
- Hallow is on the van as a location,
not as Zaphriel the gem.
So the hallow is still
very functional on the van.
- Let's go.
- But you no longer have
the extra dimensional part
where like you can all
sleep here like a house.
So it's just a van that
you've cast hallow on.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Let's drive it to the Tinkerer's Hall.
- Yeah.
- Great.
- Cool.
You guys head over to the Tinkerer's Hall.
You arrive there I'm not gonna put on
the happy Tinkerer's music.
- Are you sure?
- Are you sure?
You guys arrive at the Tinkerer's Hall
driving the van kind of
bumpily over the grass there.
Gilear says, "What of everyone else?
"What of Sandra Lynn and—"
- Later Gilear, later.
- I think we probably have time.
I think that the Shadow Cat took them,
in some capacity charmed them.
- Yeah.
- And took them somewhere else.
- They all went to a house I think.
- A cottage.
- Yeah, Ayda mentioned
being in some kind of—
- Wasn't the cottage turned into a curse?
- Some kind of witches hut.
- The sanctum was turned into a curse?
- Gorgug didn't say
anything about a cottage.
He just seemed to—
- You mean Ragh?
- Ragh, excuse me.
- He didn't say anything
about a witches hut.
- No, he just disappeared into the forest.
- On the gem that Zaphriel was in,
I saw a cottage like a
spider webby cottage.
- What did it look like?
- Like a cottage with spider webs.
- So maybe the people who didn't
have Kalina inside of them
went to a different place
than the people who did?
- Yeah, I was gonna say
I didn't remember Ayda
being able to see the picture.
- Ayda couldn't I don't think.
- Do we need me for any
of what we're about to do?
- Yeah, I think you're the only one
who knows how to make the tincture.
- Am I the only one or do I
have it written down somewhere?
- I mean you could show someone else
how to make it for sure.
- I could make it.
- I'll tell you guys how to make it
and then I want to cast
blindness and deafness on myself.
- Well you can just be
in the hallow, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, just be in the hallow.
- I don't know if I trust it.
- But you could also take a short rest
if I could make the tincture
and you could get some
health back that way.
- Yeah, yeah, but just in case
like just so she truly
has no way of looking.
- It's not a bad idea.
- Through my eyes or whatever.
- Okay.
Yeah, we'll give you a couple,
we'll do two taps on
your shoulder when the—
- When the tincture is ready.
- Okay should I be blind or
deaf, I get to choose one.
- Blind, right?
- It seems like—
- Well blind, you can
just close your eyes.
- I'm gonna put my headphones
on you and you cast blind.
- I have to listen to your metal music?
- Metal music and like
a fun little sleep mask.
- I miss Tracker.
- Snuggle down.
- It's just metal music blaring.
- It's a bunch of different types of rock.
- What's that?
- There's a bunch of
different types of rock.
- I cast deafness on myself.
But I'm still wearing your headphones
and I don't let you know that I did it.
- So for everyone that goes
into the Tinkerer's Hall,
cool, you guys arrive there.
Who all's going to Tinkerer's Hall?
- I think I am.
- I'm gonna stand outside and keep watch.
- Oh, that's true.
- I'll stay with Kristen.
- I usually german shepard but—
- Let me, I can—
- You can german shepard?
- Roof, roof.
- Right that's true you're a puppy.
- Yeah, I'm a sick one.
- Maybe I should stay with you
just so that there's a spell caster here.
- Okay.
- Cool, you guys go to
the Tinkerer's Hall,
you both walk in.
The gnomes look over, you
see Crumpkin Springbill goes,
"Well if it isn't Gorgug Thistlespring."
- Hello Mr Crumpkin.
- "Oh, hello."
- Hi, I'm Figueroth Faeth.
- "Hello, miss Faeth.
"It's a pleasure to meet you."
- Nice to meet you.
- Look, we're in a bit of a pickle
and we need to we need these tinkerers
to make some tinctures.
- "Some tinkerers to make some tinctures?"
- Yes.
Without saying exactly what's going on,
like I tell them what we're trying to make
or like the ingredients in there.
- You see that they come over,
some of the tinkerers all
have different specialties.
There are definitely
some that are chemists
and stuff like that.
They're not necessarily like healers
but as just a pure act of chemistry
they'd probably be able to make this.
- Okay cool and I can help
if that helps in any way.
- You see they say,
they look at it and say,
"Well you've gotten a bunch
of hard to get ingredients,
"this actually won't be that hard.
"If there's anyone in your
group that knows medicine
"we could use their help."
It sounds like they're
politely kind of saying like
the only people that
would be able to give them
a help action here, people
that proficiency in medicine.
- I don't.
- I don't.
- I do.
- Riz does.
- I don't, I just rolled
really well that one time.
- Oh.
- No, you took the
healer feat, didn't you?
- I do have a healer feat.
Yeah, I have a healer feat.
Does that give me proficiency in medicine?
- I'm not certain but
for the sake of this,
I would let Riz.
- Cool, yeah I have a healers kit.
- You know enough about
like forensic toxicology.
- Great.
- What this kind of thing is like.
- Riz.
- Hey Riz.
- Yeah?
- I dimension door him back.
- I throw up.
- As you're doing this over
some of the gnomes look over
and you see that they're like
looking off at you and talking.
And you see that—
- Where's Baby?
- You see Baby says,
"I'm roughly the same
size as these people."
- I think you might be making them,
maybe you should go over and
say something sweet to them.
- Oh, no.
- "Okay."
- What!
- "Should I whisper it or scream it?"
- Whisper.
- "So softly."
- Is there any way Baby could go away?
I'm not trying to be rude but.
- Is there any chance?
- Is there any way Baby
can go away entirely?
- Go Baby go back in his pokeball?
- Yeah, Baby go bye-bye now.
- I mean, maybe, we'll
talk about it later.
- You see he says, "Okay,
time to make friends!"
- Whispers, so soft.
- He goes up behind,
there's a gnome who's like
fixing a gear on something.
Baby like flaps up behind it
and he puts like one hand on a shoulder
and the other on love handle small of back
and like whispers something.
You see that he just goes like,
"You know what I always thought."
And you see the gnome just full vomits.
And Baby says, "It didn't work!"
And then he flies away.
- What was he trying to
do for it to not work?
- Yeah, what did you whisper?
- "I wanted to make a friend!"
- Oh no.
Why do I collect so
many tragic characters?
- You see the gnomes keep talking.
You see a couple of them come over
and you see that the one that comes over
is the woman that has like the
sort of ornithopter backpack.
She says, "Oh sorry to interrupt,
"that's a remarkable
instrument on your back there."
- Oh yeah, is that what
you were looking at?
I thought you were looking at my imp.
- "Oh, I've been trying
to avoid doing that
"since he came in."
- Okay I'm sorry, I sent him over there
to sort of broker peace,
but no you can have a spin.
- "Wow!"
- Do you play?
- "Oh, myself?"
- Yeah.
- "Oh yes, I have a flying
contraption on my back
"but this looks like a real
piece of magical technology."
- Yeah.
- You see that they start pouring over it
and looks like the gnomes
are actually like identifying
this guitar for you.
You see they say,
"Do you know all the
properties that this has?
"The ruby is pretty
easy, there's a label."
- Yeah, yeah, I know that
it can destroy a ruby.
I know that it doesn't prevent you
from losing all your
friends in the forest.
- As you as you say that,
Fig give me a wisdom saving throw.
- Ooh.
- What!
- A wisdom saving throw.
- Oh no.
- You have to, I asked.
- No way.
- No, I refuse.
- Nine.
- You begin to hear whispers in your ear.
"That's how you lost them, lost them all.
"Lost each and every one of them."
And you begin to hear a
chorus of voices in your ear
blaming you for the loss of Sandra Lynn,
for the loss of Ayda, for
the loss of Ragh and Tracker.
- So you wanna tell me about my guitar?
- You see them say, "Oh,
we would be happy to!
"But let's give it a thorough once-over,
"maybe twice over, or a thrice over."
- Yeah, as many times as you need.
- While that's happening Gorgug,
you see that Riz gets
to work on the tincture,
go ahead and you can
give them the help action
or they can give you the help action.
- Ooh.
- I will give you the help action maybe.
Or I guess it's them I think.
- Is it them.
- Them, them, got it.
Okay I will give them the help action.
- Okie-dokie.
We'll do this box of doom
just 'cause it's a significant roll.
- How big of a roll does it need to be?
- Well.
- How significant is this roll?
Just for academic.
- These guys get a plus six to this check.
- Great.
- They're going to be
rolling with advantage.
- I'll give 'em my last
bardic inspiration.
- Okay great, so we'll throw a D8 in there
and I'm gonna say that the DC is 15
for every two points over 15
they can make an additional
dose of the tincture.
- Oh great.
- Cool.
- Cool 'cause then if we
find Tracker and Sandra Lynn.
- Tracker, I think is gonna be a problem
with the biting.
- Wait, so hang on.
So it's 15 plus—
- Every two above that.
- Is another dose.
- So ideally we want 19.
- In which case, oh no,
I'm not even f*cking there, nevermind.
- Okay cool.
- God damn it.
- So we're gonna roll
we're gonna add a D8,
rolling with advantage in the box of doom.
Two and a 13
plus six is 19,
we're gonna roll a D8.
- 'Cause we might as well get extra.
- Plus seven is 26.
So you guys get,
so 15 is one.
17, 19—
- Five extra.
- You get five extra, great, cool.
- Oh, that feels good.
- It's gonna take you
probably like the whole night
to be to make those tinctures
but you have five full
doses of the tincture.
You guys can spread
that amongst yourselves
however you want.
During that long night however,
you're talking with them
about your identify.
Gorgug you see that
Crumpkin comes over to you.
You see he says—
- Hi, Mr Crumpkin.
- "Mr Thistlespring,
"your generosity really
can't be overstated.
"There's so much work
here about reclaiming
"more of the forest and
what we're able to do
"that all that money's gonna make
"a real a lot of difference."
- Okay well, no worries.
I think for me I thought money was,
more money, more problems
as I've heard someone say.
- You see he looks at you.
- Someone?
- I heard someone say.
- I think Gilear says that.
- Yeah, more money, more problems.
- Big Gilear.
- Big Gilear energy.
- Oh boy.
- More yogurt, more problems.
- Exactly.
- Crumpkin says, "Well listen.
"We have two artificers here
"that would love to help you.
"If you want to work with
one of them", he says,
"we have some prototypes.
"We just wanted to make you something
"as a show of appreciation."
- What?
- And you see that two smiling gnomes,
they look very, very moved.
You see that
the first one that comes up you see is,
he's got a hat that's like a helmet
with a big classic-looking magnet on it
and he has these weird
little orbs of buzzing metal
kind of floating around him.
You see he says, "My
name's Zosfus Bittybottle
"and I just wanted to say that
"there's a lot of research here
"that would never been able to happen
"without your generous grant
to the Tinkerer's Hall."
And you see that this woman comes over,
her hair is a full,
the mass of her hair compromises
two-thirds of her whole mass.
It is a lightning streak,
just like sphere of hair around her.
And you see that there are clear little
like alchemical stone batteries
and a bandolier around her.
So you see that Crumpkin says,
"Zosfus is our lead metallurgist
"who studies rare and exotic unique metals
"and Marta is our electrician expert.
"Both of them have prototypes
"if you'd like to take a look at them.
"If you're interested
in in one or the other,
"we'd love to make you an ax if we could."
- What?
- You see that,
you look at basically
the two of them go over.
It doesn't look like there's
any sense of competition here,
they basically like pitch
you on two different ideas
of what they'd be able to do quickly.
Basically they have some stock piled
incredibly rare resources here
that they've just been sitting on
and like loath to use
because they're so expensive
and now that's not an issue anymore.
So it looks like Zosfus' prototype,
it has to do with like making something
that would be like adamantine
and would literally be like an ax
that wielded a magic of like metallurgy
and would almost be like a gravity ax.
It would like manipulate the
raw force of gravity itself
and it's much more like
a combat focused one
and then Marta's is like one that would be
a little bit more like have some
spell casting stuff thrown into it.
She's like, "We probably
able to do either of these
"in the time you need."
- Spell casting in what
way, I'm curious about.
- Hers looks like a very like lightning
shooty kind of thing.
- Okay.
- Lighting sh**ting.
- That sounds pretty rad.
- They both sound rad.
- They do sound really rad.
- Get both!
- Gravity sounds dope.
- Okay, I'm gonna flip a coin.
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
- I got a little two sided thing.
All right one for—
- We can also, Gorgug can think about it,
we can come back to you.
- Okay, let's think about it.
- But we could flip for it too.
- Take away a flip.
- Just to do this
because we're all having,
because you're in in the world
of the bad kids right now,
things are so bad,
we'll have a little respite of fun stuff.
Emily, I'm going to give
you your magic item card
for the guitar your dad gave you.
- Aw!
- It's so long.
- You can go ahead and
read that out on camera
if you would like.
- Okay, you have plus one bonus to attack.
- Tell us the name of the
instrument first of all.
- The Infaithable Bass.
- Sick.
- Yeah.
You have plus one bonus
to attack and damage,
you also gain plus five
bonus to performance checks
while wielding this instrument,
you're gonna regret that.
Counter strike when you roll
a nat 20 on a saving throw
against a spell targeting
you may as a reaction redirect
the effect of the spell
back on it's caster!
- Whoa!
- That's so sick.
- Hella shred anytime you are dealt 10
or more points of acid,
cold, fire, force,
lightning, necrotic, poison,
psychic, blah, blah, blah,
you may add one D6 damage
of the same type of energy
to attacks made with your instrument,
the damage increases by
one D6 for every 10 rounds,
basically like absorb elements.
- Yeah, TLDR when you get
smacked by magic energy damage
you can add a portion of it back
to your weapon attacks on the next turn.
- It's like Black Panther's suit.
- Yes and it's added—
- You stole that from
"Black Panther" dude.
- Hey man, you f*cking hack.
- It's a great movie.
But also important is that's calculated
before resistance and
immunity so in other words,
if you take fire damage
which you don't actually take
that gets added to your smacks per piece.
- Whoa.
- Reckless shred when targeted by a spell
that prompts a saving throw
you can choose to roll the
saving throw with disadvantage,
which is I use that and reckless shred,
I gave it up when I take
the level of warlock.
It's back baby!
- Yes!
- Woo!
- And then shadow rubies.
So they go through—
- This is sick.
- Hey, I've had so much fun
making up magic items for you guys.
So yeah it's basically the
all the powers of the bass
have to do with you being
like extremely effective
in like hellish combat,
when like lightning and fire and cold
are all swinging around and
people are casting spells at you
it becomes very dangerous
for other people.
- For a second I forget
that my head whispered
and told me it was all my fault.
- Incredible.
Zac.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna flip a coin.
- Yeah.
- Flip, flip, flip.
- One is one is the first
ax, two is the thunder ax.
One.
- Oh you sounded kind of disappointed.
- I think it's the gravity one.
- The gravity one oh you
go with, you look at it—
- I think it's cool.
- Here's the thing, I'm gonna
say that Gorgug looks at it
and I will tell you as as
Brennan the dungeon master,
the lightning ax is extremely cool.
It is slightly less effective.
It would be very cool and cinematic
but you start looking
at the schematics of,
you see that Zosfus starts calling it,
he talks about it as a gravity ax
but you it's also, he calls
it the heavy metal ax.
So when the ax is finished,
this ax weighs 120 pounds.
It requires 17 strength to even lift it.
- I got 20.
- As you pick it up,
it's first of all made of adamantium,
which is incredibly heavy.
The pommel of it is an
incredible like counterweight.
This is like a a Soul Calibur weapon.
It's truly enormous.
It's a single bladed ax,
so it's not double bladed
and part of that is
because it has a slight like,
fuller is not the right word.
Part of lessening the tremendous
weight of this weapon,
there is a perfect circle carved out
of the flat blade of the ax.
It's about medium size,
it's not like a tiny little hole
nor does it take up the whole blade
but a medium-sized hole in
the flat blade of the ax,
which is the most shimmering
dark, dark metallic steel gray ax.
It's a very dark gray,
extremely reflective
and at the very end you see that Zosfus
takes like huge tongs
and takes what looks like
a kind of liquid metal, this like almost,
it's so dark red that it
could be black almost,
tongs out of a holder and
drops it into the hole
in middle of the ax.
It lands in the middle and
hovers in the center of the hole
and as it does so you can like
heft the ax up more easily.
You see, that Zosfus explains,
"The way the ax works basically
is the faster it's moving
"the more mass it gains,
"it becomes heavier as you swing it
"but as it slows on the upswing
"it will decrease in weight again."
So you're have this crazy physics ax.
Go ahead and take this
if you'd be so kind.
- Wow.
- Heavy metal ax, you
want me to read it or?
- Read it baby.
- The heavy metal ax
is made of adamantinum.
You have a plus one bonus
to attack on weapon rolls
with this magic ax.
Additionally the heavy metal ax
has the following properties:
anytime you attack with advantage
this weapon scores a
critical on 19 and 20.
Ignores damage thresholds, hardness,
and damage reduction.
Any hit against an object is
considered a critical hit,
wait, any hit against an object, object,
considered a critical hit
and does maximum damage.
- Oh.
- Nice.
- Sick.
- If you miss an opponent
with two or more attacks
in the same round any additional
attacks made against them
that round are made with advantage
and on a hit automatically
deal the attacks damage
to an object of your choice
the opponent is holding,
wearing or carrying.
- Cool so you crit more easily objects.
You could chop trees down,
cut through walls and sh*t like that,
and anytime you like if
you miss someone twice
in the same round all
the rest of your attacks
including opportunity
attacks have advantage
and you can effectively
just absolutely destroy
shields, swords, anything
they're carrying.
- h*-h*-h*.
- Sick.
- Cool.
- Hell yeah.
- This'll do.
- This'll do.
- Dope as hell.
Incredible.
Or I guess actually
it's probably like late
because you guys headed out to the forest,
what time of day did you guys head out to
the Nightmare Forest?
- Early.
- Early?
- First thing in the morning.
- We do have the video of Kalina.
- Yeah, we should watch that.
- I guess we want to get
Kristen better first.
- Yeah.
- So why don't we, I guess
until we have the tincture.
- Cool so I think you take
a long rest that full day
as you're like helping to build your ax,
you have your bass.
- Nice one, that heroism man.
- Yeah.
- Huge.
- Can I take the time while
I'm making sure Kristen's okay
to work on a spell for Ayda.
- Yeah, absolutely.
You can go ahead, give me an Arcana check.
- Great.
- I can have Boggy help me?
- Yes you can.
- Dirty 20.
- Dirty 20.
- Yeah.
- I will say you make two
days progress in a single day.
- Great.
And you should spend some amount of gold
on material components for that
but we can cover that later.
- We can figure that out.
- So you rest in the van
the whole day Kristen.
At the end of it
you get your spell slots back,
so it's like evening by the
time you finish this long rest.
What's going on in Kristen's mind
while this is all happening?
- I think I'm definitely crying a lot
because Tracker's in the forest
but I'm listening
or I'm not listening
to this blasting music
'cause I'm deaf by my own hands.
Yeah, I'm just kind of in the back seat
of a non-magical van
and I can't hear anything
and I'm wearing a mask
so I can't see anything.
So just in that silence I'm
just kind of thinking like
that is the love of my life,
okay interesting.
- You
reach out for your spells.
Where do you feel,
your spirit Guardians have left you.
Tracker is in the woods.
You reach out to get your spells back,
give me a religion
check with disadvantage,
which just means it's
going to be a flat roll.
- Okay.
- That's a 10.
- 10, okay.
Kristen reaches out for her cleric spells.
Who are you praying to?
What are you praying to right now?
- That's a great question.
I am,
I think I'm praying to
not knowing but not in
the like pretentious way.
- Yeah.
- Not in a there are no questions shut up,
or like there are no answers—
- Shut up about it.
- Shut up about it but in
a like there are no answers
and that's great.
Abundance in there being no answers.
- Hell yeah.
You reach out for your spells.
You regain your spell slots
at the end of the long rest
as you do,
make a perception check for me.
- It's a nat one.
- Nat one, cool.
Your spell's come back to you.
Cool.
- sh*t.
- It is late, it is late evening
what are you guys,
as you guys come out
of the Tinkerer's Hall
you guys see this new insane.
The ax as you hold it has,
it's not this light, it's very soft
but does have a like buzz to it.
- Oh can I try it, can I hold it?
Agh!
- Kind of heavy I guess.
- So you guys all come together.
What do you guys do as you
as you come together again?
- Do we have the—
- You have the tinctures.
- Can I try the tincture to make sure—
- Yeah, I guess.
- We have so many.
- I take a tincture.
- Okay.
You take one of the tinctures.
You're not seeing any illusions right now
so nothing sort of fades—
- Do we have that photo?
- I hold up the picture.
- You cannot see Kalina in the picture.
- Just to double check,
nobody got reinfected,
show everybody the picture.
Can I see it?
- I'm on to you bud.
- You cannot see it.
- None of us can see it.
- Can Gilear see it?
- Gilear cannot see it.
- Can Baby see it?
- You have something where you can—
- "Ooh, I can't see it."
- Some sort of glasses or something?
- Oh, you're thinking
of the mirror from Hell.
- Oh yeah.
- Oh, I do.
The truth seeing thing.
Yeah, I have a little shard of mirror.
- You pull that mirror out
as you do so you see that
there is like a cracked
fractured thing to it
and you're looking around
and seeing like white fog and stuff
and you realize you're
seeing the ethereal plane.
This stuff is made of some
kind of outer planar material.
It appears that it does not work
on the prime material plane.
- Got it.
- I just thought of something.
Remember that mean ranger?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Do you wanna ask them if
they can detect disease on us?
- Oh.
- We could do that.
Is anyone kind of itching
to get back in though?
- I mean, yeah of course.
All of our girlfriends are in there.
- Do we want to see the footage of Kalina?
- Sure.
- Yeah we might not be
able to see her though
'cause none of us can see her now.
- Let's give it a spin.
- Well let's give it a shot.
- I guess post it anyway.
- On our way to the forest.
- Can we plug into the crystal
while she can't see us?
- She was pretty real
in there though, right?
- That's true.
- Like you could see her?
- Yeah, I also have,
so the the way my thing works is
I can do either detect magic
or detect evil and good
while watching it.
Should I do detect magic
or should I do detect evil and good?
- I think detect evil and whew,
but detect evil and good is
like against celestial and fae—
- Magic might be good because
then maybe we can find out
what she's doing exactly.
- Right.
- Wanna do that?
- But it's so weird because
like she's not really either.
- We found out she's a disease, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- She's evil, right?
She's like a demon.
- So maybe detect evil?
- Detect magic actually
didn't work on her before.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Let's try detect evil and good,
I wanna watch the footage
and do detect evil and good.
- Okay, one note about the the necktie
is that you have to
have the effect running
as you are recording, not
as you're processing it.
- Got it.
- If that makes sense.
- But I will allow you
to say that you did it
with detect evil and good.
As you look at detect evil and good
the the only presences that
are coming up on the footage,
Kalina is nowhere in the footage.
But you do detect celestial on Tracker,
you do detect celestial on Kristen.
- Hmm.
Okay.
How often can I use it?
- Well why don't we upload the video
and see what people's reactions are to it?
- We gotta do that.
- 'Cause there are people who
are infected in the world.
- Yes.
I think that we should do that.
- Let's upload the video and
see what people say to it.
- So two videos on our thing
is a viral shrimp party
and then just the forest.
- Yeah.
- Just the forest.
- Should we make a website?
- Kristen, do you and Tracker—
- For sure.
- Do you Tracker consent to your likeness
being used in this video?
- We do.
- I think we should upload
it, see what people say.
- Okay.
- Okay, are you taking the full
because the footage is extremely gruesome.
It's like Kristen being
attacked and other stuff.
Are you gonna take like
a smaller clip of—
- I wasn't there during this
moment so what is the moment?
- I was, I saw her specifically.
I was like looking in the water.
- So what is the moment
that you wanna use,
is there a moment that you
would condense it down to?
- There's a moment like
before Tracker started turning
that it's just Kalina talking to you.
- Yeah.
- Well maybe keep Tracker turning in it,
just one more piece of info
or maybe she would be embarrassed by that.
- That's what I'm
saying, is Tracker, yeah.
- Yeah, nevermind, she's not
here to speak for herself
so yeah cut it off right before Tracker.
- Why don't we make it like yeah,
ASMR puddle.
- Okay.
We upload it as ASMR.
- That's really funny.
- I'm going to need a
social media check from Fig.
- Would that be performance or persuasion?
- I'm gonna say that that is—
- Or survival?
- Or deception.
- Right to camera.
- Don't you have plus five
to performance with your ax?
- I'm gonna say that this is actually
social media performance persuasion.
I'm gonna say it's performance.
- Okay.
- Hey and just in case, Spring
Break, I believe in you.
- Thank you!
And then I since I'm carrying my ax,
do I get a plus five?
- Yes, you do get a plus five.
- So I have a plus 14 to this.
That's gonna be an 18
and then a 22.
- 22,
incredible.
By the way is anyone gonna
give the help action?
- Oh yeah.
- Sure.
- Okay.
That's way better.
Okay so it's gonna be a 25
plus four, 29.
- A 29.
- Our social media presence is incredible.
- So you're on Gorgug's—
- Following a shrimp party with ASMR baby.
- ASMR shrimp party.
- What social media profile,
are using Fig in the Cig Figs?
- Yeah, I'm filly destroying
the brand in the name of this.
- So many angry emails from Lola Embers
but you upload it and fully
like not even 20 minutes later
you and what do you say in it?
What do you say in the text of the thing?
- Ooh, ooh, write
something like wait for it.
- Oh yeah, make it like
a puzzle or something.
- So that they'll have
to watch the whole thing.
- Can you find Kalina?
- Yeah!
- I think I'm gonna say
can you find Kalina.
- Can you see Kalina?
- Let's do this, everyone
will think that were teasing—
- It's like a Laurel Yanny kind of thing.
- I don't get it, she's right there!
What is everybody talking about?
- Comment if you can see.
- It's just a puzzle!
- Yes, yes.
- Like if you can see Kalina.
- Comment Kalina if you can see Kalina!
- Guys, it literally 10 minutes
later on fantasy BuzzFeed
there is an article saying,
"You won't believe this crazy video from."
- Wow!
- Wow!
It goes super viral.
Yeah, you see people start seeing it like
and you see the vast
majority of people are like,
"lol, what is this?"
And then you see people start
responding over and over,
there's like you know one
out of every couple hundred,
it's like they're are people like,
"Oh, my god I see the whatever" and—
- Oh!
- Do you feel this Kalina?
Do you feel this?
- Take a picture of that picture
and then also type in
those who know, know.
- Do it, do it, post the photo too.
- Somebody post, I'm
very unpopular online.
Somebody else take the picture.
- Here, I'll continue.
- You post the photo of Riz's dad, right?
- Incredible, so you guys
it goes super viral and it's
such a weird crazy thing
that it just blows up.
Cool.
That is a incredible success.
What do you guys do now?
It's late into the evening.
- I feel like I should scry on them
but I only have one scry,
so like I feel like I can
either scry on Tracker
or on all of the others.
- Do we know—
- I have Ayda's feather
so you can be able to scry
on her better if she's
being held against her will.
- Right.
- Do it.
Yeah.
- Would scry tell me the location
or would I have to deduce from what I saw?
- You would have to
deduce from what you saw.
- Unfortunately if you're
gonna scry on her feather
it doesn't leave my hand though.
- I understand.
- Is that okay?
- I fully understand.
- Is that okay?
I just can't.
- I have like little
tuft of Tracker's hair.
- Is this what it's like
it when you fall in love?
- Yes!
- Okay.
- This is exactly what's it like.
- As Fig and Kristen weep,
I'm gonna go ahead, so Adaine
if you wanna cast scrying
on someone, go for it.
As you guys weep for a second though
Kristen you get a,
so you already cast that greater,
oh no, you used one of the
tinctures on yourself, cool.
So you have four tinctures left.
As you're crying over Tracker,
and see how horrifying it was as she left,
just feel this
emptiness of
longing powerlessness
and you have this memory of being
at church for Helio when
you were a little kid
and being wrapped up in
a blanket by your mom,
being wrapped in like a shawl of hers
and knowing for a certainty
that nothing bad was
ever gonna happen to you
because Helio had chosen you.
And there is a deep emptiness
in how wrong that was.
And Fig you
as you're weeping and holding the feather
you hear the whispers come back again.
They are biting and critical
and omnipresent.
Make an insight check if you'd be so kind.
- 13.
- You have been a college of
whispers bard for a long time,
the main ability of that
subclass is the ability
to take on the visage of another person.
That is an ability that plays into some of
your deepest insecurities
and oldest fears.
You on a 13 insight
realize that these magical
whispers you're hearing
that allow you to capture someone's face
and do all this stuff
and be somebody else,
the whispers are you.
The voice you're hearing over
and over again is your voice.
- Well then maybe I should
just stop talking to myself.
- You try
and the whispers come back
like redoubled almost.
They go like, "You could try,
"try to quiet us, try to quiet yourself."
- Okay, well if I can't quiet you
then I'll just talk louder than you
because I'm better at
being loud than I am quiet.
- I think as, so like the tears
are streaming down your face
you feel your skin getting
kind of like hot for a second
and you feel like this glyph on your head,
you can feel it's like just
a little traces around here.
Maybe your friends didn't notice
but feel a little bit of trace
as you're like maybe I should get loud
and for a second you find a place of,
it's not, anger's not the right word.
You find a place of rebellion
and for a second the
voices are pushed back
and your skin gets hot in a
way that's a little bit scary
but maybe not terrible.
And I think Fig,
it's like you're feeling
probably a little bit,
there's something deeper within
yourself to discover here
but you're also standing in
a circle of all your friends
with a lot of stuff going on.
- Yeah, I don't usually explore myself
in front of my friends.
I'm very private.
- I'm a very private person.
- But there's something
unexplored here that is lingering.
Adaine.
- Yes?
- What are you going to do?
- Here's what I'm worried about.
When you looked for Ayda with the feather,
you couldn't feel her.
So I'm worried that Ayda is in a place
that is blocked off
from divination spells.
- Yeah, okay.
- Just like alive in a different place.
- Yeah, I like that take.
- I think that maybe
she's in a different plane
or in some sort of bubble protection
that maybe divination can't get—
- Did you notice anything
different about it by the way?
Is it changed magically?
- Can I cast identify on the feather?
- I am so sorry about this.
You took out the feather
a minute or two ago.
- Yes.
- So as you take it out now
you see it is glowing orange
and bright in your hand
outside of the Briar wall.
- Oh.
- Oh, it works again.
- Okay.
Wait, so can you—
- I'm gonna try to—
- Yeah.
- Can I just get a minute,
can everyone just go away?
- What is Tracker's hair doing in my hand?
- It's like it smells really good.
- Yeah it's like lavender
shampoo, that's all?
- Absolutely, yeah.
- Glossy, it's really glossy.
- Well the way this works Kristen
is that I'm gonna say her name
so you can try say Tracker's name—
- Over you?
- With the clump of hair.
- Okay great, ready?
- Okay, but actually can
everyone just look away?
I'm just private.
- I'm gonna look straight at it.
- Gorgug's facing the van wall.
- I just look at Tracker's hair.
Come on Tracker.
Come on Tracker.
- Ayda.
- Tracker.
- Aguefort.
- Tracker.
- Tracker doesn't have a last name!
- Sure she does, O'Shaughnessey
- No, I know,
but I thought you were
saying her name three times.
- No, Ayda just said say my name once.
- Hilda Hilda.
Hilda.
- Ayda Aguefort!
- You say Ayda Aguefort.
Does Adaine cast scrying?
- Well doesn't the feather contact Ayda?
- The feather does contact Ayda.
You sense a link between
the feather and Ayda
that would makes scrying even easier.
- Oh, so it didn't, I thought
it was gonna summon her.
- It did, she said it would.
- Ayda.
- I'm so sorry but there's
four of them with Ayda.
- No of course, yeah I understand.
- And Tracker I trust—
- Yeah, it really sucks but yeah I get it.
- I know, I know I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, yeah, no worries.
- Okay I'll cast scrying on the feather.
- Adaine extends her
orb out in front of you
and you're holding the feather
and you see a reflection of
yourself in Adaine's orb.
Adaine's eyes go white, her hair lifts up,
you're holding the
feather in front of you,
it is glowing so brightly.
That is not the right music.
- I was gonna say I
think she's doing okay!
- This beautiful romantic moment.
- Just on a beach.
- Wait, is she hooking up with my mom?
- The guitar.
- Mom!
- Your mom really gets around.
- She's at a Sandals
Resort with Sandra Lynn?
- Sandra Lynn come on,
leave one person for me.
- In the orb
you see a part of the forest,
in pitch darkness.
If a human were looking into this
they would see nothing.
You guys are seeing are
peering with your dark vision
into the orb.
You see
webs of vines
and this
maze of trees.
You see off in the distance
a blue-skinned eight and
a half foot tall angel
that has a puka shell necklace,
huge wings spread out behind him,
being strangled by vines
spread up like in a spider's web.
You see that the vines
have gone into his eyes,
into his mouth, into his nose,
are pulling it open and
he is suspended there.
That is in the background.
In the foreground,
Ayda's celestial heritage
puts her in this
horrifying gallery of captured angels.
You see her with vines
all around her.
You see the vines have
not gone into her eyes
because they would burn
upon contact with them
but you see that her hands
are bound and her mouth is,
they haven't gone into her mouth
but it's wrapped around the
lower half of her mouth.
So you know, no verbal somatic components,
no spell casting.
You see that she is furiously weeping
and as you hold the thing
and say Ayda Aguefort,
you see that little empty
spot in her wing glows
and you see that as it does she
and you see some of the vines snap
and then wrap around and
push her wrist back down.
She's holding something in her hand
and you see she's trying
just like so defeated
but not giving up moving
something back to her mouth
so that she can speak into it.
There's a very small
little earring in her hand.
- Is there blood on it,
does it look like it was ripped
out in a really painful way?
- It looks like it was ripped out
in a really hasty painful way.
- Cool, I open up the,
we're going back in guys!
We're going back in right now!
- Why do you look so happy,
it's like very manic.
- What, because I just saw,
look first off you don't
want to scry on Tracker,
don't do it.
Second off, does everyone have everything
because we're going back in.
- Yeah, I think we should go back in.
- Right now.
- Yep, ready to go back in.
- Okay, let's do it.
- Let's do it.
- I just remembered that look,
I go to the Tinkerer's Hall and I'm like,
"You guys can have the keys to the van,
"I think the van,
"maybe I'll come back and buy it one day."
- "We have a van too!"
- Yeah.
- What?
- I just feel like I
think I told you guys.
- Happy tinkermas!
- I bought it with the money,
so it's probably bad.
I don't know.
- Oh!
- I think I'm good.
All right, let's go.
- If that's the case I
guess take my bank account
with my touring money and
give it to them as well.
- They don't have a way of—
- Here's the information.
I need to go, okay?
- Let's go, let's go.
- I don't have time to find papers.
Here!
- Laptops for seniors!
Laptops for seniors!
That's what I give my money to.
- Ask the tinkerers if
they have a film camera.
- They don't they're way
behind Solace technology here.
- As an artificer I can
make something record
a six-second message.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- That's like magically, so
I'm just gonna pick up a rock
and put that on there just in case.
- Cool, awesome.
You give the van away,
you get on your thing and give away
so Fig who is a famous rock star
is zeroed out,
other than your personal
effects you are broke.
- Cool is everyone all tied up,
could we go back into the forest?
- Let's do it.
- Yeah, let's go into the forest.
- Let's do it.
- Okay, where are you
going into the forest?
- Was there any sort of,
can I do a perception check
to see if there's—
- Can I use the feather
like a metal detector?
- Yeah, is there anything from that
that I could maybe use to
triangulate their position
a little bit within,
like the sun's position
or the way that the moss
is growing on the trees
or something like that.
- There's nothing from the outside
that's gonna let you
peer inside the forest.
The only lead you have is that temple,
that there is a temple
and that's the only place
that you know goes further
in that would help you.
- To the temple?
- Temple it is.
- Temple.
- Let's do it.
- Temple it up.
- The Hangman takes you to
the edge of the forest.
And, "Master
"bad kids,
"fare thee well in the forest
of the Nightmare King."
You walk through the open portal.
As you enter you see that a
flight of Ravens in the trees
as you guys walk through takes wing
and flies off deeper into the forest.
- Damn.
- Can we—
- As we're walking along
I'm just gonna keep
playing my counter charm.
- Cool.
- How many Ravens were there?
Can we try to sh**t them?
- You can get one or two
but the flock flies off.
- They might just turn into spider webs.
- Yeah.
- Let's just keep moving.
- Yeah.
- What about that bird though?
- You mean the vulture?
- Or there any vultures?
- There's something up,
something up with those.
- Never trust a bird.
- How big is the forest?
Like if I cast locate creature,
it's duration is an hour
and it senses creatures
within a thousand feet of me.
- That's running out from where we were.
- This forest is—
- It's huge, right?
- Larger than in the nation of Solace.
- Okay, so like pretty big.
- Pretty big.
- All right I won't cast it yet.
- You guys venture into the forest.
I'm gonna need a group survival check.
- Okay.
- Can Boggy give me
the help action please?
- Yes he can, Baby can
also grant the help action.
- Ay!
- Nat 20!
- 19.
- Dirty 20.
- Dirty 20
- 12.
- 13.
- Awesome.
You guys know your correct direction
so you will travel one of the two days
it takes to get to the temple.
You travel there.
The first night,
I'm gonna need, are you
guys like what do you do?
Are you making shelter?
- Oh yes, we don't have
any sort of protection
from our nightmares.
- I have to be honest you
guys should just tie me here.
I am apparently a really
easy mark for Kalina.
- Well then I also jumped into the waters
outside of Leviathan.
- Yeah.
- So it just feels like maybe—
- It's kind of bad for all us.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- I don't have anything.
- Maybe we sleep in halves?
- Yeah, let's do that
and then we can tackle
each other's bodies.
- Exactly.
- Cool.
- Gorgug and I should sleep separate.
- Can I before we go to bed
cast greater restoration
on Adaine?
- Sure, what for?
- I'm gonna get it again
but I just don't fully trust
that we're actually healed.
- Oh, got you, cool, cool, cool.
So like before you go to bed
to regain the spell slot.
- Yeah, I'm about to regain
that spell slot anyway
so might as well just keep—
- We don't know if we're gonna have
an actual full night's rest.
- Oh yeah, that's true.
- Do we wanna figure out
how we wanna split up
this potion, this tincture?
Because we have four of them.
- We have four.
- Oh yeah.
- So I'm good at hiding so if I feel like
I should have at least one
'cause I could yeah probably
avoid a lot of stuff.
- We've got Ragh, Sandra
Lynn, and Tracker.
Is there anyone else who needs one?
- I mean between us—
- I'll definitely take one
because I would like to
find Tracker and just.
- I could take one just because my jacket,
I feel like that it's
harder for them to like—
- Get stolen.
- Right.
- How much you think a dart g*n would be?
Would I be able to get
that out of your jacket?
- Ooh, so you can dart it?
- I have a tranquilizer dart.
- Because she's you know?
- Riz you could absolutely
swap out the poison dose
in one of your your tranq darts.
- Yes, that's what we do for her.
- That's cool!
- 'Cause maybe if we see her running.
- Should we do it all four of 'em?
- I mean we could make a bunch
of darts with one of them.
- That's a good idea.
- Actually Riz, you and Gorgug,
if you have the tinctures here
if you want to use your
tinker tools check,
I will let you attempt to like
as part of like a short rest
as you're like bedding down for the night
attempt to make some tranq
darts out of these tinctures.
- Do you wanna do three,
we'll leave one just in case.
- Yes, yeah, yeah as a backup.
- Can someone help me or?
- I can help you.
- Yeah, I'll help.
Bardic inspiration!
- Obviously there's a tremendous advantage
to having tincture in a dart
but also the risk is if you miss
you shatter a tincture
against a tree somewhere.
- Right.
- So very very useful—
- Maybe we just want two.
- Two, yeah let's do it.
- But we could always use it—
- Honestly we only need one, right?
- Plus bardic inspiration.
- Yeah.
It's a D8.
- A D8.
- DC is 15.
- We're about to rest.
Oh, you got it.
- So I got 18.
- So that first night
you're able to make one—
- Okay, let's just do one for now.
- Let's just do one.
- Cool so you have one tincture b*llet.
- Three doses and one b*llet.
- And I'll keep my greater
restoration, I won't do it.
Just in case we don't sleep all the way.
- So you guys get—
- Are there any rubies around?
- Not that you can see.
- Hey, do it anyway.
- I'm gonna do it anyways.
- So you guys bed down for the night.
You guys have bed rolls and stuff
but you you don't have
your Ranger with you,
you don't have Tracker
to make a moon haven,
so I'm gonna need a group survival check
to make a shelter.
- Okay, making a shelter.
Hey Gorgug, spring
break, I believe in you.
- Hey, thank you.
- Dirty 20 again.
- I have a dirty 20 as well.
- Cool.
- I'll also give out
some bardic inspiration.
- Ooh, nat 20.
- What is this?
- Nat 20?
- Bardic inspiration for both of you.
- I really wanted to give you
guys some levels of exhaustion
and I can't do that.
You guys remember a bunch of classes
in like the earlier part of sophomore year
from like the Ranger
teacher giving an assembly
like, "Now you won't always
have a Ranger with you,
"so it's important to know
"you gotta get your body warm."
You're like, okay.
- She was so hot.
I remember everything she said.
- I don't think I went,
I think I skipped it.
- I don't think I went.
- No levels of exhaustion,
however I do need to know
how you guys are sleeping.
- Shifts of three?
- Shifts of three.
- Yeah.
- Me and you shouldn't
sleep at the same time.
- 'Cause we may, okay.
- Just 'cause I could probably
do the best of holy union.
- I'll stay up first
because maybe I'll record
you guys with my necktie
while you guys are—
- What man?
- Okay, creep.
- Not like that.
- You're gonna stay up and
record us while we sleep.
- I'm gonna go on the first shift,
just know I fail these a lot.
- Can I give you a bardic
before I go to bed?
- Will that work?
- Yeah, you can do your bardic.
- Okay, I'll give you bardic too.
- Oh, look at that, I guess
we're exchanging waters
- What's up.
- Then I'll sleep in the first shift.
- Okay good, yeah.
- And so you'll stay up?
- So spring break, I believe in you.
- You already gave me one.
- Hey, spring break, I believe in you.
- I have one, thank you.
- So were the three staying up.
- Great.
- Okay.
- So for everyone to get a
full eight hours of rest,
okay cool.
Who are the first four to go to sleep,
raise your hand.
- First three.
- First three to go to sleep.
- Oh wait, I thought I was going.
- Okay, you go, one other person.
- You, oh no wait, sorry me.
You can record.
- Okay Kristen, Fabian, and Fig.
I'm gonna need all of you guys to give me
a wisdom saving throw.
- I've written down that
I have advantage on that,
is that from something before,
maybe someone gave me that.
- Did Baby help you or?
- I don't think you have an ability
to give advantage on this.
- I gave you so—
- Yeah, I did and I got all six.
- As they fall asleep I'm gonna do
detect evil and good on them.
- I got a 10.
- I also got a 10.
- You got a 10, you got a 10.
- f*ck me.
- I'm gonna give Fig a 16 divination roll
because I'm about to fall asleep.
- And it turns into a 17.
- 17.
- 10.
- 10.
- 19.
- 19, cool.
- Did you add my bardic?
- I did.
- Okay.
- Hey and this is just me.
- Fig,
you're sleeping and you're having dreams.
You are looking ahead,
you're in
like a hot red cave
like a dragon's lair or some pit of hell.
You hear voices all around
you, your voices again.
"Wow, looks like Ayda's not
having a very good time.
"Wonder if your mom would be sad
"that you didn't scry on her.
"Probably.
"Hmm, maybe Gilear's fine back in Arborly.
"Probably not though."
- Okay and what would you
have done differently?
- A 13 year old Fig Faeth
walks out from behind the corner,
pink cardigan, a like
sunflower patterned skirt,
no horns on her head,
just a happy young wood elf
walks out and says,
"I wouldn't been in the
situation in the first place."
- Yeah you would have because
your foreheads about to burst.
- "Wow, oh my forehead's about to burst.
"Listen, maybe you should
consider the fact that
"there are like variables and constants.
"Everyone in your life has
bad sh*t happen to them.
"What's the thing they
all have in common?"
- Aguefort Adventure Academy.
- Go ahead and I'm gonna say
give me like a wisdom saving throw.
- Ugh.
19!
- This is bullshit, this
is you as little kid.
You can feel that there are,
you feel the glyph clawing
in on your forehead.
You can get out of here if you want,
you don't have to take this sh*t.
- The thing is that I
am happier than you are.
You may talk like you
think you know what's up
but you are so much
more confused than I am.
I am the truthful version of me,
you are just honestly a
poor idea of someone else.
- She bursts into flame.
Fig, you gain the cutting words ability.
And your previous class feature vanishes.
The rocks crumble and you are standing on
a blasted plane under a sky of fire.
You feel a deeper understanding
start to come to you
and you hear a voice you
haven't heard in a long time.
"Hey there kiddo."
- Are you okay?
- "I'm far away.
"My power is being used by other people."
- I know I'm really sorry I'm
the one who did it to you.
- "No, no sweetheart you didn't.
"I love you so much, I'm so proud of you.
- I got the bass that
you got me for Christmas.
- "It's for your birthday!"
- My birthday is on Christmas, remember?
- "It's not your birthday or
Christmas, it's spring break!"
He says, "Your birthday so, you opened it,
"well I guess it's better for that.
"Don't shatter the ruby that I'm in."
- Why?
- "Well 'cause there's a
contingency effect in here
"if you shatter the ruby,
"someone's got to come
into the gem with me
"and break this curse
and then shatter away."
- Okay.
I have just a person to
help make that happen.
- You see he says,
"Really, who's the person?"
- Cool- someone that I met.
- Cool?
- "Cool someone that you met?
"Hey sweetheart, say no more."
He looks at you
and you see he says,
"So much
"of my feelings of guilt
"are about how much the course
of your life was impacted
"by just me being your father.
"Your horns, being a Tiefling."
- Gorthalax, I gotta tell you
I'm really starting to dig the horns.
- He looks at you and says,
"Have you ever questioned
"where your power really comes from?"
- Like you mean Hell?
- "Hell."
- And being a devil.
Yeah, I mean it's crossed my mind
but it's kind of one of those things
that I don't want to
dig too deeply because—
- As you say don't want to dig too deeply
you begin to hear, those
whispers come back.
- Okay, just tell me where
does my power come from?
Tell me so I can own it
and embrace it and love it.
- Gorthalax speaks and says,
"Tyranny, domination,
"conquest, all the virtues of Hell.
"These don't have to be yours."
- Oh god, thank god.
- You see he says, "There is
"something earlier than this
"that all the devil's
of Hell have forgotten.
"I was a fallen angel.
"The devil's of Hell forgot what started
"their desire for power.
"What started their
desire for domination."
You see that he looks back and says,
"Fig, you don't need my permission
"to define what Hell means,
you're an arch devil.
"You get to decide."
And what you see in the distant past
at the birth of the Great
Wheel is the very first angel
that fell from grace as the
gods of light cast them down,
flew back and went, "f*ck you!"
He says, "Being a devil
before all this bullshit
"meant rebellion and it hasn't
meant that in a long time
"and it can still mean that."
- There's a lot of rebellion in this one,
so I think I can help redefine that.
- You see ancient histories that like
the current government of arch devils
has done it's best to erase,
which was before even the
existence of the prime material
or at the dawn of the prime material.
It was perdition, it was
angels that wanted to rebel
against the light that were cast into fire
and then developed evil as
like a response to that.
And you see that all of this
hellish knowledge comes.
I think that Fig has
never really questioned
where her powers come from.
Obviously like Kristen uses wisdom
and that's all about a
f*cked in the head quest
for like religious meaning.
Adaine like literally gets it from books
and you do this deep
thing of like innate magic
and you realize that like
your power has never come from
your bloodline from your dad.
That's like a cool part of your history,
it's something you can embrace,
comes from rebellion.
Your power comes from your ability to
literally magically flip the cosmos off.
- You know, people say
rebellion's a phase,
but it's a lifestyle for me.
- You transmogrify your
subclass to college of lore.
- Counter spell, counter
spell, counter spell.
- As you guys sort of
like shift and awaken,
cool.
We come back to Sylvaire,
as we do
Kristen, Fig, Fabian you guys wake up.
What do you guys do?
- Okay, tag you guys are it.
- Yeah, go to bed.
- Okay.
- Good luck in there, I just
had a freaking great time.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Honestly yeah, nothing
super bad happened.
- The tie looks really good
over the tie dyed shirt.
- Thank you so much.
I'm just wearing Riz's
tie over my tie dye shirt.
- Fabian, go ahead give
me a perception check
with advantage.
- Oh, okay, that's normal.
- Kristen doesn't look good in the tie.
- Perception?
- Yeah.
- 15.
- Cool.
As other ones are sort of
like bedding out a little bit
you can see like,
it looks like Boggy the owl
has sort of noticed
something off in the forest
and you see a tricorn pirate hat there.
- How far off is it?
- It's like literally,
like anyone could see,
you could like walk 10
feet and pick it up.
- Adaine, do you see that—
- Sorry that doesn't,
Fabian doesn't say Adaine.
That was all a ruse to get you
to walk away from everybody.
Fabian is fully possessed and walks,
begins to walk into the forest.
- Are we asleep?
- Are we asleep?
- Who's awake right now?
- Well everyone's awake
'cause this is happening
as the guard is shifting.
- Can you jump him?
- Hey Fabian, what's up?
What's going on?
- There's a hat, there's a hat.
- Someone just needs to grab him.
- I'm just gonna grab him.
- Hey, let go.
- I grab too.
- I wanna get the hat.
Hey, I want the hat!
- Fabian go ahead and
attack Gorgug for me.
- Oh!
- I'm gonna sh**t him with the net b*llet.
- That's only a 14.
- I'm gonna need you
take both attacks on him.
- Great, that's a 14.
Which dice are rolling the worst?
And then that is a 23.
- Cutting words!
Right, can I do that on the attack?
- On the 43 it would work.
Sorry, on the 14 attack.
- My armor class is 14.
- Yeah, he hits Gorgug on both attacks.
But if you do cutting
words you automatically
cancel the first attack.
- Yeah.
- So you cancel that one,
the next one's 23, that hits.
And I'm gonna need you to load this up.
- How hard?
- As hard as you can.
- Okay.
- Can I go into a rage?
- On your turn you can.
- Do you want me to use,
do you want me to use maneuvers and such?
- Use maneuvers and such.
- Great.
- Wait, he got a two on that second roll.
- Oh so Fabian attacks
twice, nothing happens.
Gorgug go ahead and give me,
you can go into a rage now
and give me an opposed
athletics to grapple Fabian.
- I want the hat!
I want the hat!
- Do we have a tranquilizer?
- It's just a hat!
- It's just a hat man!
- That's a 26.
- 26 cool, give me an
athletics check opposed.
- Come on man.
I don't want to do well
but I don't want to look lame that's all.
Oh, that's a 17.
- Cool.
- Gorgug, you kicked his a*s.
- Thank god.
- Spell casters and other people
what are we doing?
- I want the hat!
- I want to sh**t him with the net.
- sh**t him with the net,
I think in the grapple
you would hit Gorgug,
go for it, roll an attack roll.
- Actually I think creature,
oh so I need to hit first, got it.
- Oh, I'm just gonna lay
the ax down on top of him.
- Tell us your strength.
- Oh!
- My strength is 14.
- You lay the ax on top of him,
Fabian you are restrained under the ax.
- Do I get advantage?
- You do get advantage, yeah.
- Sweet, 22.
- Definitely hits.
Oh you guys see a f*cking net
explodes out of Riz's g*n,
wraps around Fabian and
tangles him under the ax.
You are full done.
- I want the hat.
- Can I do a Arcana check?
- There's no hat!
- Is this a magical effect on Fabian?
- Yes, it is.
- Oh okay, can I cast dispel magic on him?
- Yes, you can but you're
gonna have to give me
a raw intelligence check to do so.
- I'm raging so much, stop
it, stop it you dumb as*h*le!
- I want the hat!
- You're an idiot, there's no hat.
- Let me out!
- You're trying to k*ll Gorgug for a hat!
- Can I bardic inspiration
this intelligence check?
- Yes, you can.
- Bardic inspiration, add a D8.
- Great.
18.
- 18, 18 successfully does it.
- Ow!
What, take this ax off of me.
- Fabian why are you looking
for a hat in the forest?
- What are you talking about?
- You tried to k*ll Gorgug.
- For a hat.
- No I didn't, what, no.
- You were possessed.
- What?
- You kept talking about a hat.
- Yeah, it's not even like you
saw him as some evil person,
it's just you thought you saw a hat
and then try to k*ll one of our friends.
- You, Fabian you didn't have
any control over your actions.
The spell was making you act like you,
all of the like find the hats stuff,
that was the spell.
You don't have an experience of willingly
doing any of that.
- Can I do an Arcana check
to see if this is an effect
of the forest or if somebody
cast the spell on him?
- Oh give me a Arcana check.
- Great, can I use Boggy to help?
- Yes, you can.
- 24.
- 24.
The spell was cast on Fabian,
it was not an ambient effect of whatever.
Look you know what this is,
this is what was happening
to you guys in Solace.
The only thing that's changed,
you don't think this one is the forest.
You think it's stronger in the forest,
but this was what made Fig capture that.
- You have fairy fire, right?
- I do.
- Can you cast fairy fire
and see if there's anybody invisible?
- I mean if you'll untie me from this net
and take this big ax off me, yes I will.
- I'll get the ax.
- I'll get the ax.
- Okay, I'll get it.
- How strong do you have
to be to hold the ax?
- 17.
- Is there a general direction
you'd like me to cast it in?
- Is there a general direction
that I would like him to cast it in?
- 20 foot cube.
- Oh, it's only a 20 foot cube.
Boy.
- That's not gonna do much.
- The direction the hat was in?
- Yeah.
- Yes, can I use this
sheet and cast fairy fire
in the direction of the hat?
- You cast a bunch of sparks out
from your elven battle sheet and...
- Well we can't all
have a big ax all right.
Some of us have a battle sheet.
- Oh wow, your battle
sheet's really heavy.
- Yes.
- I guess I don't understand
what a battle sheet is but—
- Well—
- A million elves, thousands by the way
are so offended right now.
- I like the sheet.
- This has a proud history.
- You cast fairy fire, nothing,
you don't see any creatures in it.
- Worth a try.
- Again with that 24 Arcana check,
This is what worked on Fig.
And your mind goes back
to the fact that Riz
on that first night before you
guys started being careful,
before you started doing moon haven stuff,
before you started taking
care of that kind of thing,
Riz didn't get possessed
but Riz also didn't go to sleep that night
and instead got attacked
by something physical.
- Right.
- You're not sure what that means here but
in any case
you guys have used some of your resources.
Now obviously a couple
you guys are waiting
to take a long rest
but the three of you that woke up
that used anything like bardic
inspiration or other stuff
that was used.
But your stuff mostly comes
back on a short rest, right.
So you'll be okay.
Cool, next three go to sleep.
Give me some wisdom rolls.
- Do we still have those bardics?
- You have one.
- I had three left and I'm
gonna get a short rest,
so I give each of you one.
- Yeah okay, well yours
are better than mine.
- Cool.
- Can I just be underneath Gorgug's ax
as I sleep, as I trance.
- That will be very
painful and uncomfortable
and not allow you to trance.
- Okay.
- Can Boggy help me?
- Boggy can help you yes.
- D8?
- D8, yeah.
- Good lord.
- I got—
- Do you have a D8?
- Yeah, I don't think
it's gonna help though.
- I got a 24.
- Good lord.
- Well.
- It's a seven.
- I got a 15.
- You got a 15, cool.
- Something tells me there's
gonna be a couple more hats.
- So tempting, they're so cool!
- You guys wake up.
Through the night in the
Nightmare Forest nothing happens.
As you guys move through
and again, I think you guys are taking
a lot of care on that,
you had a bunch of nat 20s on that thing
so you're like heavily disguised,
you're like up in the canopy somewhere.
You've like made sure
because you know this forest is dangerous
but I will say even as bad as it is here
you know from what your visions have been
that you're still in the entry level
easy mode version of the Nightmare Forest.
You guys all wake up.
You're all fine.
- So you guys slept well?
Feels good?
- I actually slept pretty well.
- You especially Riz, you slept well?
- Feeling good.
- I walk up and just
slap Gorgug really hard.
- Wait, are you possessed again?
- No, I just wanted to
make sure you weren't.
You good?
- Why did you do that?
- I don't know, I don't know,
I just want to make sure you're okay.
You all right?
- Wow Fabian, you're so strong
- We could have had a conversation.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
I woke up underneath an ax in a net.
- Wait are there spells
I should stock, oh.
- Cool.
Adaine got a full trance in.
For everybody else unless you're taking
like many multiple hours
to sleep in shifts,
you're not really getting
a full night's sleep.
Just give me literally a
DC5 constitution check.
- Me included?
- Fabian, included, yeah.
- All right little beans.
- Ooh.
- Ugh.
- I got it.
- Hey, that's a 17.
- I got 18.
- Nine.
- Cool.
- Great, great, great.
So.
Yeah.
So you guys avoid exhaustion.
These rolls will become harder
as you don't get full nights of sleep.
You guys continue, go ahead
and give me survival check
for the next day as you venture deeper.
- How'd the beans do?
- Bad.
- Dirty 20 again.
Nat- wait, I can't reroll your thing.
- I got a nat one.
- Is it too late to give
them bardic inspiration
before they roll?
- We did a bad job
over here too.
- I would allow you to give—
- Okay.
- Well it's a nat one, I
don't know if that matters.
- I got a five.
- You got a nat one as well?
- No, I have a seven.
- Seven.
- Bardic could save you.
- Yep.
- Take a bardic.
- I got an 11.
- D8.
- I got a nine.
- Geeze Louise.
Wink, wink.
- Aye, there we go.
Oh no, that's not.
- 14.
- It's a 13.
- 14, 13.
- 18.
Excuse me 19.
- 19, what did Riz get?
- Five.
- 13.
- 19.
- What did Adaine get?
- 14.
- One.
- Dirty 20.
- Okay.
- I have plus five but it's no.
- Did you roll that with advantage?
- I did yeah because of—
- Because of Baby, gotcha.
You guys are not going the wrong way
but you don't make the smartest decisions
about how to get through the forest.
It really slows you down,
like the sun rises and falls.
If you want you can either
allow more time to get away from you
and just make shelter and
try again the next day
or you can push through the night.
- I think let's press on.
- Let's just keep going.
- Agreed.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Hey Riz, do you think that
maybe I could carry the g*n
with the antidote in it?
Just I'm really looking for
Tracker as we walk around
like maybe she'll run
past us at some point
and I can try to nail her.
- Sure, do you think you
would be able to hit her?
- Or maybe we can just make a code
and I'll say like the code word.
- Yeah.
- How about the code word is Tracker.
- Okay.
Tracker, sh**t her!
- Can't you just use your spell?
- Huh?
- Can't you just use your spell?
- No, I mean she might be like
running full werewolf speed
so like a dart g*n would
definitely hit her before—
- Cool, you guys press through the night.
Give me another group survival check.
- Ooh.
- 13.
- 22.
- 16.
- 16 as well.
- 16.
- 16 okay, group check makes it.
Now the last thing I'm
going to need from you guys
as you push through the night
is another constitution check.
This time it's a DC10.
- Is this something I can use Baby for?
- Is it a saving throw or just a check?
- This is a saving throw,
constitution saving throw.
- 12.
- 17.
- Yeah, I can use Boggy or?
- You can use Boggy for this, yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- Oh yeah.
- 21.
- 18.
- 16.
- Everyone beats 10?
- Yes.
- Cool, great.
You guys push through.
You're pushing yourselves, it's good.
You didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
This forest is really hard.
You've been like marching
through the woods all day.
You push through the vines
and see a large temple in front of you.
It is made of not hewn stone,
it's not mortared together.
It is literally domes of like boulders
and smooth flat rocks
bound by roots and trees.
This was shaped by druids.
It is a sprawling hive
of rocks and natural wood.
You see the large rooted archway
and you see that over the archway
is a shattered plinth
as though something that
stood above the doorway here
was taken down long ago.
You see
bones litter the forest floor around here
and as you look at them you
see they are centuries old.
The earth having mostly swallowed them up,
just hints of white
coming up from the earth.
As you walk you see that all of the bones
are arranged ceremonially.
If you had to guess whether
these bodies were brought here
or whether these people
simply laid down here and died
you would guess the latter.
- Can I do some sort of check to see if
once we get closer if
they're gonna come to life?
- Go ahead and make a
you can make an Arcana
or a religion check.
- Can I also make a religion check
to see if the thing that was
broken down from the archway,
if it was the moon goddesses sister
that's like unnamed.
- Give me a religion check, yeah.
- I did get a nat one.
- These things are not going to pop up.
They already popped up.
They're in hiding right now.
- Everyone, shh, be quiet
but there are skeletons everywhere.
- What?
- Can I do an investigate
check to try to see if
there's any signs of Tracker around,
like any signs of werewolf.
- Yeah, give me an investigation check.
- Can I look at where the plinth,
the plinth is not the statue
itself that was broken off?
- You don't even see a statue.
The plinth is just the base of it.
- Gotcha.
- 12.
- 12, because you just said it to me, yes.
The church of Helio is all
about taking down false idols
but you think this one was
taken down by it's own followers
in whatever cataclysm happened
during after they destroyed their goddess
and during the aftermath
of the last Sylvan w*r
and then the rise of the Nightmare King.
- Are these, can I tell from the skeletons
if these are high elf or wood elf?
- You'd have to start
excavating some of them.
- Oh, they're like in,
here like underground?
- They're centuries old
so the ground like just like foliage
has created soil around them.
- Okay, great.
- But you can look more.
Actually any—
- Oh, can I cast the identify spell
on one of these skeletons
is that, it's an object.
- It is an object, yeah.
But identify will only work
if it's a magical object
so if it's just normal
remains, it won't work.
- That'll tell us if
it's a skeleton maybe.
- I got 19 on investigate.
- You see
from the exact direction
you guys just walked in,
three sets of footprints walking in here.
A couple days old.
- Oh.
- Oh.
- Okay.
- You see they are halfway to the door,
are joined by a fourth set of footprints.
- Are they cat prints?
- Or are they your dad?
- They could be my dad, they
could be the Nightmare King.
- But we lost three friends, right?
- True.
- That is true too.
- Three friends who
would maybe be walking.
- Are they bird prints, what?
- They are boot prints.
They are not paws or talons or anything.
- But we don't see footprints coming out?
- On a 19 investigation you do not.
- Did that the fourth set of prints
come from the circle of skeletons?
- The fourth set of prints simply appears,
which is a clue in it of itself.
- Okay, that would be a wizard or—
- Teleportation.
- Well, but you can't teleport in
unless you have the permission of a devil.
- But they have Gorthalax in a gem.
- But don't you need to use
the gem to get through the wall
so I don't think that
they would be able to
get somebody in using the gem.
- I think they're
controlling a devil's will.
- Yeah because you're, we don't know but.
- I mean you guys make
Arcana check about it
if you'd like to.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- There's a 24 again.
- Teleportation doesn't
work like direct travel.
It interacts with dimensions
in an interesting way.
So you think that because
a teleport doesn't move
from one space to another in a line
that in other words,
opening a barrier would,
if Killian was able to open the Briar wall
he would have been able
to open an allowance
for a teleportation, a dimension door,
a plane shift, something like that.
- Didn't your mom saying
that letter like—
- Yeah come and join me.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- Yeah, which I'm assuming is my dad
but there was no clear—
- That's true, that's true.
- I mean I don't know if my dad is dead.
- Can I howl just as loud as I can?
- No.
- No.
- Absolutely not.
- I give Kristen a help
action to howl less loud.
- You can howl if you'd like.
You guys see the tracks
going into the temple.
- Let's just go in the temple.
- Let's follow the prints.
- You don't want me to howl really loud,
because what if Tracker hears me?
- I will give you a help action.
- Then the werewolf will come.
- Please don't.
- I could cast locate creature on Tracker
to see if Tracker isn't within
a thousand feet of here.
- Yeah, please.
- And then we can walk into the temple.
- Okay, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, because rendezvous Tracker—
- Yeah, it's concentration but
it lasts for up to one hour.
- Let's do it.
- You can do it on your family too.
- Yes, but it's only one person.
- You could do it on your
fam, that makes more sense.
- Do it on your mom?
- Who are you casting it on?
- Your mom.
- Yeah, I'll do it on my mom.
- Cool, you cast locate
creature for your mom.
Wherever she is she's
beyond a thousand feet.
These tracks are a couple days old.
- Okay shall we head in?
- Are we stealthing in?
- Yeah, let's stealth in a little.
- Do you guys want me go ahead
and then I can give you guys a signal?
- Yes I have disadvantage.
- Okay.
- I have advantage on dex saves
just in case that matters.
- Cool.
- But I only have plus one.
- I mean I have really good stealth.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I don't have good stealth.
- Cool.
- We'll be right back.
- Can you hand me the antidote darts?
- Just a potion?
- Just one potion.
- I think you should just let him keep it.
- You have greater restoration.
- He's gonna be a way better shot.
- I'm just thinking what if he disappears
and then I see Tracker.
- How about we—
- Who has them, who has them?
- I give out the potions.
All I have is the one dart.
If I see Tracker, I will
sh**t her I promise.
- And I'm not gonna howl.
- Okay.
- Don't howl.
- And Boggy can help you
with a stealth check.
- Riz is gonna stealth in?
- Yeah.
- Go ahead and give me stealth my dude.
- Should be good at stealth.
- With the beans?
- I can't believe you.
- Give me the beans!
Give me the beans boys.
- You're a mad man.
- Yeah!
- That is a 28.
- Ooh yeah.
- Riz is a shadow.
Go ahead and give me
an investigation check.
- Ooh.
- Okay, not gonna push my luck
with the beans on this one.
That's a nat 20!
- You guys are
on a nat 20 investigation
you case this place in like
well I don't know, like eight minutes.
You guys are outside
for about eight minutes,
just like tense looking around.
Riz on a 28 stealth and a nat 20,
which how high is nat 20
investigation for you?
- That is a 30.
- Which is the DC for what they say
are nearly impossible tasks,
so you go in, this temple
is completely ruined,
like the book you found in
the Compass Points library
indicated this place
used to be a temple of
all the tribes of Sylvaire could come to,
centaurs, treant, sprites, and wood elf.
Outside you guys now see that
the bones, some of them
are tiny like bird like.
These are the bones of fairies.
Others are large and worn,
these centaur skeletons.
And you look around you see by the way
none of the trees around
here have leaves on them.
They're all just like empty
and then realize these are not trees,
these are the dead bodies of treants.
These are living trees
that came here and died.
You find
a room in the center that
has a burnt brick of ash
that you recognize as dusk moss.
A ritual took place here.
On a nat 20 investigation
you know that dusk moss has
hallucinogenic properties,
dreams and illusions
are partially real here.
There's a bunch of arcane
writings here that you can't read,
there's other like spell
sh*t that happened here
but you know a ritual happened here
and the tracks lead through
the maze of this temple
towards what was a direction
that was almost impossible
for you guys to go in.
You think that there's like
another level of defense
into the forest moving past here
that this ritual kind of
like allowed them to unlock.
On an nat 20 investigation as well,
you see that there is a chamber
off to the side of this place
that has a what at first
looks like a skeletal horse
but an extremely graceful
sort of like slender horse
and then you see that there is a horn
coming out of the front of its head.
The skeleton of this
unicorn is filled with webs
and you see eggs sacks of
spiders all throughout its body.
This creature died
looking at a portrait of a woman
in a black gown with flowing black hair.
You look up and see that a blast of magic
struck the stone where the face was
and there is just a white chalky crater
where the face of this being should be.
- I guess I will—
- Oh sorry, last thing.
Stacks of
tomes and books have been left
in that chamber where
the ritual was performed.
- Oh.
- Cool.
I'm definitely gonna use the necktie.
I get 20 minutes of audio and video
I definitely want to get the picture
and I guess I want to get
the runes of the magic spell
or whatever was done.
- Cool.
- And then I want to come
back with a bunch of books.
- Huh.
- Wow.
Go shopping.
- Did you go shopping?
- There was a dead
unicorn with spiders in it
pointing at a faceless woman.
- Were you okay?
- And people were
doing drugs in there.
Yeah, I'm fine.
- Okay.
- It was weird.
- What are these books?
- I don't know.
- Can I look at the books?
- Yeah, can I look at the books too?
- Before we open them let's do
an Arcana check on the books.
- Oh yeah, let's do like an insight
to see if they're bad.
- Give me yeah, give
me what's the insight?
- 10.
- They are bad in that they
are dusty old nasty books
of what looks like kind of evil magic.
- If anyone has asthma.
- 19 Arcana check.
- 19 Arcana check.
On a 19 you're gonna need like more time
to look at these and really unpack them.
- Can I do a religion?
- You would need to,
a lot of this sh*t is
research that was missing
from your mom's research you
got back from Calethriel Tower.
You would need to go to the chamber to see
which of these runes they actually used
otherwise these books are just so dense
for you to look through.
- This is a strange question.
- I didn't see anyone alive in there.
- You said that there was like
a face that was destroyed?
- Yeah.
- Were there pieces of it on the ground,
could we mend it and put
the face back together
to see what looked like?
- Should we go in there?
- I didn't see anyone
but I was pretty sneaky.
Nobody would have seen
me but we could try,
I didn't see anybody in there.
- I mean my mom isn't within
a thousand feet of here
so I don't think that they're still here.
- How would they have gotten out though?
Is there a back door or something?
Let's look for foot prints
leading in a different direction.
- It looks like they hallucinated
and because dreams are real here
they would able to go
somewhere else so I think—
- But we have the moss, right?
- Yeah, we can do the same thing.
- They lucid dreamed
themselves somewhere else?
- If look through all these books
and see if maybe they tell
us exactly what to do.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- We're gonna do drugs?
- Doing drugs in a forest
where dreams are real sounds—
- I think that
only I should look at the books
because if the books are dangerous
I'm the best at reading magical books
then it's just me who's done it.
If I get messed up by
them then you can help me,
if more than one person looks at them
then I just want to keep us safe.
- Cool.
- That's cool.
- So you guys go towards the chamber
where the ritual took place.
Off of this is the chapel,
is the place that had
the image of the goddess.
Adaine, go ahead and give
me another Arcana check
if you'd be so kind.
- When Adaine is going through the books,
can I counter charm just
she can't get charmed
or anything like that.
- I have advantage on
charm but my fear is—
- I'll play it just make you feel bold.
- You see your friend Adaine there
reading these books very
selflessly being like,
I want to do this scary thing alone
so that none of you get hurt
and you look up and see your friend Fig
who has got your back as always
and is playing her bass.
- And I have my net g*n pointed at you.
- Riz displaying friendship
in Riz's own way.
- I see you and I appreciate you.
- As they're doing that in the chamber,
Kristen go ahead and
give me a religion check.
- Cool.
Guess what?
- What's that?
- What do you think?
- What do you think dude?
- Just guess.
- What do you think this is?
- Guess dude!
- On international DMs day!
On international DMs day!
- Yeah, I'm letting you tell your story.
- Honestly you still got that D12.
Why don't you suck on
it a little bit longer.
- Read out whatever you prepared dude
'cause we figured it out!
- I hope it's got dust all over it.
- Yeah.
- I put it on a piece of paper
and there's a little bit of paper on it.
- Aw, I'm sorry.
- So you get a nat 20 religion check.
You're in the chapel, you guys are in the,
so one, two, three are in the chamber.
Fabian and Gorgug, there's
a lot of other places
in this complex, there's like hallway,
there's a place at the
back of this chamber,
where are you guys positioned at?
- I think I keep looking
at Gorgug in all of this
and I'm just like, what should we do?
I just think there's nothing to hit.
- I can lock down this
hallway a little bit.
- I mean I can lockdown
that other hallway.
I can make sure nobody come through.
- You two are both so unwise.
- Cool, so one of one of you pick
which of you is posting up at the hallway
leading out of the chamber
and which would use
posting up in the hallway
kind of like in between the chapel
and the other one.
- I'll do leading out.
- Okay.
I honestly wanted to go catch a peek
at that weird unicorn thing
so I'll go back to the chapel.
- That thing creeped me out.
- It is so scary.
- What was that Arcana
check, one more time?
- 21.
- 21.
You look through here,
you discern the ritual
and in so doing crack the
secret of the four curses,
the four transubstantiations.
You know what they all are, you know.
This ritual allows you to back engineer
what every single one of them is.
- Damn.
- As you are sitting there studying.
- I should read more.
- Books are cool.
- Yeah.
- What your mother was able to do here,
what you realize is for any of you guys
illusion magic past this point,
the two days of traveling have been
at the border the Nightmare King's Forest.
As it goes in the thing making
it stronger is the tree.
The broomstick, it is at
the center of the forest
and it creates these concentric circles
where the curses overlap and
make each other stronger.
The two days of traveling through here
have been a place where
illusions become partially real,
past here they become like even realer.
That's also true for you guys,
like in the way that made
Kalina almost k*ll Kristen.
If you were to cast disguise self here
it would actually be the
effect of an alter self spell.
It would be a full transmutation.
- So I'd be more powerful?
- Amazing.
- In other words if you
transformed into a thing,
if you use illusion to become something
that had like wings, like an Arakokura,
you'd be able to actually fly, right?
So illusion has some ability to actually
make itself real here
but that makes the place
extremely dangerous.
That curse—
- Does that mean if I
cast greater invisibility
I just don't exist anymore?
- No, because the purpose of invisibility
is to literally not be seen.
- Okay.
- So you wouldn't be like—
- So nobody but it would maybe mean
that people who can see invsibility,
would be able to see through it.
- Yes exactly, right.
- Okay, great.
- Illusions are just
vastly more powerful here.
The ritual that was done
here with the dusk moss
was to put your parents and stuff
into a state of lucid dreaming.
You don't think it was
some kind of way for them
to like gain mastery over
the dream realm or whatever.
You think it was an abjuration.
You see your sister's magic helping here.
It's literally like
we're gonna lucid dream
so that if something that lives
organically in this forest
tries to rip our mind apart,
we will be able to just
say this is not happening
and control the lucidity of
our experience in the forest.
It's literally a survival,
it's like I need to be
able to partially control
the unreal things that
are going to be happening
as we go deeper into the forest.
- Is this something that I can do
or is this just an Aelwyn thing?
Like is this if I—
- We have the stuff.
- We have the drugs.
- We have the drugs.
- You could potentially do it,
you would have to research
and have the time to do it.
- Here is some f*ck.
- Give me the f*ck.
- Illusions here are real.
- Yes.
- I have illusory script.
If I were to write a spell
using illusory script
in this forest, would
that make the spell real?
- What I need from you
is a DC, I'm gonna say
this is an incredible piece of f*ck.
I'm going to need a DC30 Arcana check.
- Great.
I literally can't get that
so I would have to—
- Bardic.
- Thank you.
- And can I can I have Boggy help me?
- Boggy can help you.
- Can you have two bardics?
- Yeah.
- No, no.
- Can you stack bardics?
- I don't think you can.
You can't stack bardic, yeah.
- That would be broken.
- A party of bards would
be virtually unstoppable.
- Bang, bang!
- Everyone at 80.
- Yeah.
- Guaranteed nat 20.
You got it.
- What?
- It's nat 20, you got it.
- Guaranteed nat 20.
- What?
- A guaranteed nat 20.
You're saying that I'm guaranteed nat 20?
- We're guaranteeing it.
- Not too bad.
- Bardic, add that D8.
- What is it at?
- I can't get it.
- No, I can't get it.
- Don't sue us.
- You see it is a,
you think this is a
trick you can try again,
not for this spell.
- Okay.
- Effectively what's going on here is
it is not, like the premise of the idea
is absolutely accurate.
It literally comes down
to like illusory script
still requires you to
write something down.
So if you were like write down
the ritual for the spell I would need,
a scroll would appear saying
the ritual for the spell I need
like you still would need
to know what to put on it
in order for it to exist.
- Can I see that Adaine tried this
and it feels like she failed
and maybe is feeling sad
and then cast phantasmal force.
You craft an illusion that takes root
in the mind of a creature
you see within range
and I want to,
I mean I don't really have.
- Make her think she did it.
- I guess I just want to
make her think she did it.
- A momentary burst of
triumph comes over you.
- I did it!
- And then immediately.
- Oh.
- Aw.
- Can I try it again
and then just make a unicorn she can have?
- What!
- Moving on.
A tiny unicorn prances around is very real
but what I'm gonna do now is tell you
the rest of these curses real quick,
which are
the familiar that was turned into plague,
you know, that's Kalina.
- Yes, Kalina.
- There are four schools of
magic associated with them.
Kalina's is illusion.
We know that.
Powerful illusion.
She seems to be the thing
controlling the illusions
that live within the forest.
- Okay.
- The next one is the spell book
that was turned into a coin,
that is enchantment.
You connect the enchantment school
with the possessions you've been seeing.
The coin went to the horde
and the horde has something
to do with the ability
for people to receive
to be possessed, to be dominated.
So all that enchantment stuff
has to do with the coin.
The coin is the thing that
produces that enchantment effect.
That appears to happen
when you go to sleep.
You also think that it only
works while you're asleep,
which is why when Riz didn't go to sleep
he didn't get potentially possessed
and also that if you guys had to
with no moon haven and no hallow spell
you could potentially just never sleep
while you're in here and
it wouldn't be an issue.
You're risking levels of exhaustion
but what you're not risking
is getting possessed.
- Yeah.
- There is the cottage,
the sanctum that was
turned to the cottage.
That has to do with
abjuration magic, right?
By the way, all these are
associated with the gifts
that one of the tribes got from them,
so like the cat was a hero,
like the wood elves who are
all about the dexterity,
agility of combat and w*r.
The sprites were all like dream
magic and stuff like that.
The cottage was something
that was a holy place to like
the centaurs who lived here,
that's abjuration magic
and what you see is
as you go deep into the
forest there is more control.
You realize that the cottage appeared
to the celestials you brought with you.
It's like a giant magic circle.
It's the thing that is abjuration magic
protection against other forces
trying to come into the forest.
It's divine magic.
So there are like things
that are gonna prevent
certain levels of spell casting
as you go deeper and deeper.
Then there is, the last one is the tree,
which the broomstick of the tree
that was revered by the treants,
that has to do with the scariest curse
you learned about thus far
and it's the one you
haven't encountered yet.
The forest beyond this point is alive
and it will change the paths of itself
to lead you away from the center
based on the degree to which
you feel or don't feel fear.
Meaning the more confident you are
that you are going in the right direction
and that you are safe in doing so,
the more it will turn you
around back the way you came.
- So we have to be afraid as we go in?
- You have to be more and more afraid.
You have to literally follow your fear.
Kristen, you get a nat 20 religion check.
What are you thinking as
you look at the goddess?
- I want to know who she is.
Like I want to know what
the school of thought was,
why she wants to be hidden.
Or I guess yeah like who's hiding,
I know who's hiding her but.
- What you see
as you move towards the goddess,
destroyed face, you move closer.
You hear a voice in your head,
"Why do you search for me?"
- Jesus.
- I heard that you're the
god of praise through doubt
and that really resonates with me
with where I'm at right now.
I have a lot of praise for you.
- Fabian, you're at the doorway.
- Is Kristen in the room?
- Kristen's in the room.
- I need you to make a
constitution saving throw
with disadvantage.
- Interesting.
- Pretty creepy, huh Kristen?
It's very weird.
- With his eyes rolling back.
- Pretty creepy, huh Kristen?
- Oh disadvantage.
13.
- One rolled to a nat 20.
That's pretty crazy.
- Kristen you're looking up.
I'm gonna describe what Kristen sees
and I'm gonna describe what Fabian saw.
- Okay, saw?
- Saw.
You say I have a lot of praise for you,
you feel a hiss
like air escaping from ancient tombs.
Bitterness, spite,
betrayal, rage.
You feel lancing pain.
There's something below you,
there's something like look down
and as you turn to look down
a blood-covered horn is
emerging from your chest.
You sway on your feet
and collapse because what Fabian saw
was that skeleton in the room stand up,
leap forward, and gore
Kristen through the heart.
- The unicorn?
- The unicorn.
- Every, ah!
I run at it, I run, I scream and run.
- Kristen, you feel
the life completely drain from your body.
"What praise will you have in death?"
The light leaves your eyes
and you see Kristen collapse to the ground
dead as the skeleton of this
unicorn turns to face you,
it looks into your eye
and only because Fabian is immune to fear
does he keep his mind
as the skeleton utters,
"You should not have come here."
And that's all for this week.
- Okay!
- On Fantasy High.
- Okay!
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07x17 - The Forest of the Nightmare King
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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.