(upbeat rock music)
♪ I just wanna be rich and get money ♪
♪ And burn this town to the ground ♪
♪ So listen up 'cause I'm
gonna start a riot and I ♪
♪ Don't care if you see my underwear ♪
♪ Front kick to the face ♪
♪ Not a lady, no grace, and I ♪
♪ I like to think that
I am the f*cking best ♪
♪ So let's go and make a mess ♪
♪ Tear it up, tear it down ♪
♪ 'Cause I wanna see
fire rise to the sky ♪
♪ So pour the gasoline out ♪
♪ I wanna swim in gold
and rival the stars ♪
♪ So get a match and throw it out ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
♪ You don't have to be
rich to wreck shop ♪
♪ Just get a couple of friends ♪
♪ Who'll stay with you till the end ♪
♪ And head out to the ♪
♪ Wide world, just your
squad and your bass ♪
♪ Carve it onto its face ♪
♪ That the sig figs were here ♪
♪ You know you best ♪
♪ And you're better than the rest ♪
♪ f*ck what other people say ♪
♪ Tear it up, tear it down ♪
♪ 'Cause I wanna see
fire rise to the sky ♪
♪ So pour the gasoline out ♪
♪ I wanna swim in gold
and rival the stars ♪
♪ So get a match and throw it out ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
♪ Sometimes I miss the
safety that towns bring ♪
♪ But then I remember I'm f*cking rich ♪
♪ And I don't need to live in a town ♪
♪ Three, four ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
♪ Stand by me ♪
♪ Paint the town with me ♪
♪ Repeat after me ♪
♪ Burn towns, burn towns ♪
♪ Burn towns, get money ♪
(light guitar music)
♪ I'm feeling really bad
and my van is a boat ♪
♪ I'm feeling really sad
and my boat is a van ♪
♪ These feelings that I have
like a frog in my throat ♪
♪ So I take Boggy by the hand
and hey, are you my dad ♪
♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ Zelda's feeling bad
and my van is a boat ♪
♪ Zelda's feeling sad
and my boat is a van ♪
♪ My girlfriend's really
mad and she's also a goat ♪
♪ I'm fawning for a faun, I
don't know what's going on ♪
♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ Bad Kids, Bad Kids,
sometimes we're the Sad Kids ♪
♪ I'm mad kid, I'm bad kid,
I'm sorry for what I did ♪
♪ Bad Kids, Bad Kids,
sometimes we're the Sad Kids ♪
♪ I'm mad kid, I'm bad kid,
I'm sorry for what I did ♪
♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ The Night Yorb is coming for us ♪
♪ And my van is a boat ♪
♪ I've been so many people ♪
♪ More than you'll ever meet ♪
♪ I've worn so many faces around ♪
♪ They now all go skin deep ♪
♪ I've made myself an expert ♪
♪ At letting myself fade away ♪
♪ Sometimes I can't help but fear ♪
♪ That I got lost in the haze ♪
♪ Light the pyre, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm not slowing down ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ Spinning you around ♪
♪ I'm on fire, baby ♪
♪ Burning like a star ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ And I've made it this far ♪
♪ Keep myself together ♪
♪ Everything goes wrong ♪
♪ Changing who I think I am ♪
♪ With each new tragic song ♪
♪ It's happening again ♪
♪ I see I've been here before ♪
♪ I know you so well, but as for myself ♪
♪ These days I'm still unsure ♪
♪ Light the pyre, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm not slowing down ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ Spinning you around ♪
♪ I'm on fire, baby ♪
♪ Burning like a star ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ I've made it this far ♪
♪ Can't tell the truth,
can't let it slip ♪
♪ Here's what I want,
here's how I get it ♪
♪ Can't tell the truth,
can't stop the lies ♪
♪ It's fine, it's all
part of my disguise ♪
♪ Can't feel a thing, can't be myself ♪
♪ I'm numb if I'm not someone else ♪
♪ Can't feel a thing, can't let it hurt ♪
♪ Those pretend feelings
and empty flirts ♪
♪ So ♪
♪ Light the pyre, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm not slowing down ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ Spinning you around ♪
♪ I'm on fire, baby ♪
♪ Burning like a star ♪
♪ I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ I've made it this far ♪
♪ Yeah I'm an actor, a liar ♪
♪ I don't go too far ♪
(light guitar music)
♪ The darkness closes in ♪
♪ And I am not myself tonight ♪
♪ Surrounded, I'm caged in ♪
♪ But I can't help but feel delight ♪
♪ Under night sky ♪
♪ In the moonlight ♪
♪ I'm seeing clearly ♪
♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪
♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪
♪ But not to our hearts ♪
♪ Can you hear their song ♪
♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪
♪ Until your eyes burn bright ♪
♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪
♪ I'm invisible, but you see me ♪
♪ And for the first
time I'm not thinking ♪
♪ 'Bout where else I'd rather be ♪
♪ And though you scare me ♪
♪ Like I scare you ♪
♪ I've got a feeling it'd
be scarier to run away ♪
♪ And truth ♪
♪ Was never my strong suit ♪
♪ But I want you to know me ♪
♪ And I wanna know me too ♪
♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪
♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪
♪ But not to our hearts ♪
♪ Can you hear their song ♪
♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪
♪ Until your eyes burn bright ♪
♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪
♪ I'll go dancing in the flames ♪
♪ If it means I dance with you ♪
♪ And I'll leave early from the party ♪
♪ If it means I leave with you ♪
♪ And I will sign my pride away ♪
♪ If that's what you want me to do ♪
♪ And I can't promise I won't change ♪
♪ But I wanna change with you ♪
♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪
♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪
♪ But not to our hearts ♪
♪ Can you hear their song ♪
♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪
♪ Until your eyes burn bright ♪
♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪
♪ What's a telescope but a
spyglass pointed at the stars ♪
♪ It may bring them closer to our vision ♪
♪ But not to our hearts ♪
♪ Can you hear their song ♪
♪ Will you let its fire
live inside of you ♪
♪ Until your eyes burn bright ♪
♪ The phoenix comes alive tonight ♪
(gentle music)
♪ I thought it would be all right ♪
♪ Two weeks not that long a time ♪
♪ But I miss you every day ♪
♪ It hurts to be so far away ♪
♪ From you ♪
♪ From you ♪
♪ I f*cked up a couple times ♪
♪ Broke my promise, lost my mind ♪
♪ A cell tower's hard to find ♪
♪ But I got a satellite ♪
♪ For you ♪
♪ To talk to you ♪
♪ My satellite ♪
♪ I'll get to you ♪
♪ My satellite ♪
♪ I wish you knew ♪
♪ Saving the world's pretty cool ♪
♪ But it'd be better with you ♪
♪ I just want to see you smile ♪
♪ And talk to you for a while ♪
♪ You know I'd do everything ♪
♪ Slay a dragon, k*ll a king ♪
♪ For you ♪
♪ For you ♪
♪ And I'll be back soon enough ♪
♪ Be it easy, be it tough ♪
♪ I promise it'll be okay ♪
♪ Here's the first thing I will say ♪
♪ To you ♪
♪ I love you ♪
♪ My satellite ♪
♪ I'll get to you ♪
♪ My satellite ♪
♪ I wish you knew ♪
♪ Saving the world's pretty cool ♪
♪ But it'd be better with you ♪
♪ My satellite ♪
♪ Ooh, satellite ♪
♪ Ooh, satellite ♪
♪ Satellite ♪
♪ Satellite ♪
♪ Satellite ♪
♪ I'll get to you ♪
♪ Satellite ♪
♪ I wish you knew ♪
♪ Saving the world's pretty cool ♪
♪ But it'd be better with you ♪
♪ Yeah, saving the world's pretty cool ♪
♪ But it'd be better with you ♪
(gentle music)
♪ The path ahead forsaken ♪
♪ There's no way to turn back ♪
♪ There's nothing left to follow ♪
♪ As I stumble through pitch black ♪
♪ I once had my life laid out for me ♪
♪ A simple step-by-step ♪
♪ But that was rudimentary ♪
♪ I'm no longer like that ♪
♪ I'll learn to be auspicious ♪
♪ Despite my family tree ♪
♪ I've dabbled in capricious ♪
♪ And found that its for me ♪
♪ I know that I have powers far
beyond what they could dream ♪
♪ I've died and gone to heaven ♪
♪ But it's really not my scene ♪
♪ And something deep inside of
me keeps telling me I'm wrong ♪
♪ And I'm letting it guide me
to the beat of my own song ♪
♪ And I'll pray, pray
to those who'd listen ♪
♪ And I'll pray to everyone still left ♪
♪ And I'll pray till I
don't need your permission ♪
♪ And I'll pray ♪
♪ And I'll learn your name ♪
♪ A forest full of secrets ♪
♪ Nightmares unforeseen ♪
♪ Exposing all our weakness ♪
♪ And pulling down the screen ♪
♪ I'm standing here before you ♪
♪ Laying out my all ♪
♪ I pray to you please unnamed Goddess ♪
♪ Don't let me fall ♪
♪ And there's no use in pretending ♪
♪ I'm helpless and lost ♪
♪ I'll follow you through darkness ♪
♪ Whatever the cost ♪
♪ And I'll pray, pray
to those who'd listen ♪
♪ And I'll pray to everyone still left ♪
♪ And I'll pray till I
don't need your permission ♪
♪ And I'll pray ♪
♪ And I'll learn your name ♪
♪ This emptiness inside
has led me this far ♪
♪ My friends are by my side
whenever it gets dark ♪
♪ It's time to vanquish doubt ♪
♪ And this is where I'll start ♪
♪ I know you'll hear my call ♪
♪ I feel it in my ♪
♪ I don't think I've ever felt loved ♪
♪ I don't think I've ever belonged ♪
♪ I don't think I've ever felt loved ♪
♪ I think that I always felt wrong ♪
♪ But would you love me for me ♪
♪ That's all that I ask ♪
♪ Would you love me for me ♪
♪ Despite my rocky past ♪
♪ I know that we're all hurting ♪
♪ But friends don't be blue ♪
♪ At least I know I'm hurting with you ♪
♪ I think that with you I feel loved ♪
♪ I think that with you I belong ♪
♪ I think that with you I feel loved ♪
♪ That's why I am singing this song ♪
♪ You all love me for me ♪
♪ It's more than I can ask ♪
♪ You all love me for me ♪
♪ Despite my rocky past ♪
♪ I know that we're all scared ♪
♪ But friends don't be blue ♪
♪ At least I know I'm
scared here with you ♪
♪ Of all the hardships
that I have been through ♪
♪ I've never been more frightened ♪
♪ Than in this forest with no clue ♪
♪ But I have a secret no king can behold ♪
♪ My friends are around
me, fear loses control ♪
♪ And I love me for me ♪
♪ It was hard at first pass ♪
♪ But I love me for me ♪
♪ My friends they have my back ♪
♪ I know that we're still hurting ♪
♪ But friends don't be blue ♪
♪ At least I know I'm safe here with you ♪
(upbeat music)
♪ Arthur Aguefort's Academy ♪
♪ Bad kids first day tragedy ♪
♪ In its a*s, Tasha's laughter ♪
♪ Zayn, corn cutie lunch disaster ♪
♪ Kristen Gorgug back to life ♪
♪ Gibbons has to pay the price ♪
♪ Penny Crystal Palimpsest ♪
♪ Identify, "ah, yes" ♪
♪ Owlbears, backpack kid ♪
♪ Hoot growl, black pit ♪
♪ Cubby's, bad luck ♪
♪ Ice cream, Johnny doesn't f*ck ♪
♪ They meet Tracker and Jawbone ♪
♪ Spirit Guardians healing zone ♪
♪ Panic attack, lycanthropy ♪
♪ Sick bass drops, and sea shanties ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
♪ We can start a prayer chain ♪
♪ Sexy rat, please explain ♪
♪ Gorthalax, papa vulture ♪
♪ Fig's suggestion, Jace & Porter ♪
♪ Daddy's little demon ♪
♪ Kristen's family harvestmen ♪
♪ Adaine has a web to spin ♪
♪ And Fig gets her kisses in ♪
♪ KVX no lollipops ♪
♪ Trust in teachers fully stops ♪
♪ Hellmouth, clues search ♪
♪ Someone breaks into the church ♪
♪ Bloodrush field, Gorgug flew ♪
♪ What would Ricky Martin do ♪
♪ Ragh is dead and then alive ♪
♪ Daybreak should just f*cking die ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
♪ The ball kills with no dismay ♪
♪ And we think that Ragh is g*y ♪
♪ Aelwyn is here to f*ck ♪
♪ Fabian is awestruck ♪
♪ Cheerleaders, time stop ♪
♪ Am I my dad, probably not ♪
♪ Kippers from a halfling maid ♪
♪ And Agueforts' spicy escapades ♪
♪ Gorgug has a freaking crush ♪
♪ She likes screamo very much ♪
♪ Also punk, metal ♪
♪ Rage metal, and death metal ♪
♪ Scream metal, mad metal ♪
♪ Hate metal, crazy metal ♪
♪ Smash metal, slice metal ♪
♪ m*therf*cking chop metal ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
♪ Maidens' spell in sister's room ♪
♪ Incel Biz, box of doom ♪
♪ Seven maidens arcade game ♪
♪ To save them we have to play ♪
♪ Prizes case, Riz gets stuck ♪
♪ Gorgug really ages up ♪
♪ Blackmail, kids in jail ♪
♪ Lit molotov c*ck ♪
♪ Goldenrod's kalvaxus ♪
♪ Things descend to madness ♪
♪ Long rest, god switch ♪
♪ You ate my dad, I'll eat you b*tch ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
♪ Fig and Gorgug start a band ♪
♪ Siobhan's sugar dice revenge ♪
♪ Friendship section library ♪
♪ Dragon madness, imp baby ♪
♪ I disguise myself as him ♪
♪ Skype call, chungle-down bim ♪
♪ Lou Wilson, bless this union ♪
♪ Magic STI confusion ♪
♪ Nat 20, very nice ♪
♪ Brennan has to eat his dice ♪
♪ Zac Oyama, quesadilla ♪
♪ Emily with Hilda Hilda ♪
♪ Brian Murphy, little beans ♪
♪ Shrimp party livestream ♪
♪ Ally Beardsley, being g*y ♪
♪ When you are here you're familay ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ But we're going strong
and we'll adventure on ♪
♪ And on, and on, and on, and on ♪
♪ And on, and on, and on, and on ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ There was no prevention ♪
♪ 20th dimension ♪
♪ We didn't start the bad kids ♪
♪ Didn't want to fight it ♪
♪ But we stand united ♪
- Welcome, one and all,
to a very exciting episode
of Dimension 20 Live!
I'm your humble dungeon
master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me as always, in spirit
and teleconferencingly,
are our intrepid heroes,
say hi, intrepid heroes.
- [Cast] Hi, intrepid heroes!
- Oh, beautiful.
Well, one and all, welcome
back to this incredible finale
for Fantasy High Sophomore Year,
the continuing adventure of the bad kids,
teen heroes from the
Aguefort Adventuring Academy,
on their spring break
mission to retrieve the crown
of the Nightmare King.
If you're wondering why we are now
a series of heads in boxes rather than
people sitting around a table,
you're probably watching
this way after the fact,
and thankfully have survived the global
coronavirus pandemic,
because we are recording this
due to maintaining social
distancing in quarantine.
Everyone, please do as much as you can,
wash your hands to prevent
the spreading of this virus,
and help take care of
your fellow human beings.
We all got it, we're all working together.
For all of you at home,
if you're watching this,
again, months or years after the fact,
that's what's going on right now.
- If you found this VHS
tape in a heap of rubble.
- As you uncover the Statue of Liberty.
(cast laughing)
- Please piece together the mystery
of why this webcast was
downloaded onto a VHS tape.
(cast laughing)
- Me, it was me.
I'll admit it now.
- Emily did it.
Incredible.
A little recap.
Spring break started with our
teen heroes, the bad kids,
who successfully defeated
their vice principal
at the end of prom at
the end of freshman year.
We're now on their spring
break sophomore year
to retrieve the crown
of the Nightmare King.
They've gone to the
pirate city of Leviathan,
they've gone to the elven
homeland of Fallinel,
to the gnomish and wood
elf conclave of Arborly
and deep into the heart
of the Nightmare Forest
to retrieve the crown
of the Nightmare King.
They've discovered the
four transubstantiations,
they have followed the Abernant
family, Adaine's family,
deep into the forest, they
have saved each other,
made new friends and allies, and now
they have faced their greatest fears.
Five of our intrepid
heroes made it all the way
to the heart of the
Nightmare King's forest,
facing the unknown, all of the dread
that these dark woods could put upon them.
However, one we still presume to be dead.
How dead remains to be seen
as we conclude the story
of Fantasy High Sophomore Year!
(cast cheering)
- Made us sound real cool, dude.
We sounded cool as hell
in that description.
- So cool, so freaking cool.
- So freaking cool.
(cast laughing)
- This is the most work I've
done in months, it feels like.
- They called me separately and asked
that I just play dead for five hours.
(cast laughing)
- Last we left Kristen, you were in
the Chapel of the Unnamed Goddess.
After having rolled a
nat 20 Religion check,
you communed with a voice from beyond.
The voice was filled with
cold, icy bitterness and rage.
And as you spoke, saying "I
have praise to offer you,"
the voice responded, "what
praise will you have in death?"
You watched as the horn
of a skeletal unicorn
burst through your rib
cage, covered in blood,
and you collapsed to the ground.
Dead.
- Mm-hmm.
(Lou and Ally chuckling)
- What is going through
Kristen Applebees's mind
in her final moments?
- Okay.
So I'm definitely thinking that felt,
I don't know what was
giving me this impression,
but I do feel like that was a success,
or you know, maybe even a
critical roll, you know.
I don't know where these
words are coming from,
but it does seem like maybe
what was supposed to happen
was good, but instead I have been stabbed
by an old, dead horse.
So. (laughs)
Pain, betrayal, anger.
- In your moment of feeling
pain, anger, and betrayal,
you have a vision of a
woman taller than a mountain
standing in the midst of a forest,
the trees only reach her ankles
as she stands astride the world,
surrounded by a thunderstorm like none
you have ever seen in your mortal life.
Lightning strikes her over and over again
as she screams and rends her
face with her fingernails.
Each time the lightning strikes,
her flesh vanishes and you
see a tormented skeleton
within her as she is being k*lled
by the lightning storm around her.
You feel pain, anger, and betrayal.
You have been destroyed, and you feel
that you are communing directly
with a moment of pain, anger,
and betrayal 850 years prior.
You don't think you failed.
The feeling you're feeling
completely attaches you
and gives you profound insight.
The vision of this
screaming giantess deity
flickers in front of your mind,
and you feel the betrayal and pain
of someone or something that
was trying to warn people
that this is what would
happen and they didn't listen.
You have your vision.
You're waiting for death to come,
you're not losing consciousness.
You're lying on the floor of the chapel,
but you're not sure.
You feel blood soaking all
through your shirt, your shorts,
pooling around you on the ground.
What does Kristen do?
- Can I make a Perception
check to see if I died, or--
- Yeah, make a Perception check.
- [Ally] Okay, let's see.
19.
You don't feel dead.
- Who's around me?
Is everyone still there?
- Having come back from the vision,
the room is filled with dust.
You don't feel pain in your chest anymore.
As you move a finger to like, investigate,
the tips of your fingers touch
a wet, bloody hole in your chest.
Do you go deeper to try
to feel into the wound?
- Can I cast Light on one hand
and then like investigate myself?
- Yeah, absolutely.
You cast Light, and like, use
the screen of your crystal
to kind of look in.
You see a huge hole.
You can't really see
through to the other side,
'cause your organs and musculature
have closed up on the hole,
but you can like push through
and your heart is destroyed.
It is torn up.
And as you are there,
you realize you haven't,
I think you probably gasp a
little bit or take a breath,
and you realize that you had not
up until that point been breathing.
- I'm dead.
I'm dead.
Can I cast Detect Good and Evil on myself?
- You detect nothing.
You don't detect any
good or evil anywhere.
As you cast a spell, by the way,
the pinky finger of your right hand,
something has like bitten
the end of your finger off.
Your finger is like injured,
it's just like, it's bleeding.
You also see that like, the blood is not
pumping out of you
anymore, 'cause your heart
is no longer beating, but
you are like dripping,
you're kind of warm still,
you don't feel undead.
There's no like, I can
no longer taste the air,
you just are neither living nor dead.
- Okay.
My Catholic dad was right about purgatory.
(cast laughing)
I'm just kind of chillin'.
I guess I try to get up and see
if I can walk with no blood.
- You get up, it knocks
some more blood loose
out of your body, but you
don't seem to need it,
you can still move.
You, yeah.
- Can I look out the window and see
what it looks like outside?
- No window in the chapel, and in fact,
the door is sealed up, but
you see that there is a huge
like cleaved hole in the wall,
like some huge object
smashed a hole in the wall
near part of the chapel.
- Can I check my crystal
and see what date it is?
- Oh, it's been probably like,
an hour or 90 minutes since you
and the rest of the bad
kids walked into the temple.
- Okay, I cast a Cure Wounds on myself.
- Awesome.
You cast Cure Wounds on yourself.
You knit your body back together
so at least your blood stops falling out
in a really uncomfortable,
disquieting way,
so now you have these like two pale scars,
one on your chest and
another one on your back.
- Oh, whoa.
- Yeah, you feel like knit over.
But it's like translucent pale,
because the blood isn't flowing to it,
so it's like kind of room
temperature dead skin,
but it's keeping the
holes, and you heal over,
but it looks like you had an amputation
on like the last knuckle
of your pinky finger,
like that just heals
over, but you don't have
the bone for it.
(Lou chuckles)
- Are you like Wolverine now?
- No, I took one of your finger bones
just so we could reincarnate.
- Okay, I guess I try to
see if I can get outta here.
- Awesome.
Do you walk back the way you
guys came in, or further in?
- Further in.
I still have a glowing
hand and I'm doing this.
Light moves forward.
You walk through the rest of the temple,
you see some signs of
like a dusk moss ritual.
How is Kristen feeling about her friends
that have like, left her here?
- Have they left?
I can't really tell.
Like it just seems like,
are there any footprints
I can look for to see where they went?
- Make a Survival check.
- Yeah, definitely, okay.
Oh yeah, baby, that's a 23.
- Your friends' tracks lead out of here.
- The way they came in?
- No, deeper into the forest.
First Riz, Adaine's do not lead out,
Gorgug's do, Fig's also lead out.
You, at this moment,
cannot remember Fabian.
He is like washed from
your mind at this point.
- Who?
- Fabian is gone, like you
cannot literally recall.
- Who's Fabian?
(cast laughing)
Okay.
Okay.
f*ck, can I do something to try to like
commune with Tracker?
Is there any way of like--
- Hell yeah.
Go ahead, with that high Survival,
you find a weird,
dark-looking oracular pool
right before the end of the temple.
Go ahead and make a Religion check here.
- Since Kristen did
look for our footprints,
might she noticed Fig's boots going to it?
- Yes, you would notice Fig's
boots going to this pool.
- Cool, I got a 24 on that Religion.
- Your hand glows, and another
source of light comes out.
The thin layer of skin over your heart
is shedding a little bit of golden light,
as though something radiant
were buried inside your chest,
and you see the pool shimmer, ripple,
and then go completely still.
You see the sun reflected in this pool,
deep within the bowels of the temple.
- Is this a Helioic temple?
- Not at all, this was a temple
from the tribes of Sylvaire
to the Unnamed Goddess.
But you see the sun reflected in it now.
- Okay.
So, okay.
- And as you dwell on Tracker,
a crescent moon sails across
the reflection of the water,
as though this were reflecting a sky,
even though it is deep within the temple.
- Okay.
Cool.
- You feel the light extend
from your hand towards the pool,
and feel a beckoning from the pool,
and this is a strange forest.
You don't know that the beckoning is safe,
but you have some inclination
that if there is not safety
in this pool, there are at
least answers in this pool.
- Okay, I go into the pool.
(mysterious music)
- You go into the pool.
What is Kristen thinking and feeling
as she goes into the pool.
- I'm seeing this moon, so I'm wondering
if maybe it will connect
me somehow with Tracker,
or I know I saw Fig's footprints,
so I'm wondering if she's around.
Can I feel in the pool to
see if Fig is, you know,
at the bottom or something like that, or?
- Yeah, you can absolutely do that.
- I drag the pool.
- You begin to drag the
pool, as you go deeper,
you begin to...
You move deeper in, and
suddenly the sun glows bright.
The moon glows bright.
You get to the bottom of the pool,
and as you're digging
around and dredging up
to try to find Fig
somewhere, you pull through
and come up for air,
(gasps) and you are in
this lake in the middle of
like, a misty pine forest.
You see that there is
a field with some like
horses running through it.
Give me another Religion check.
- 17?
- You are in the outer planes.
You are not in the
Nightmare Forest anymore.
The pool, you have communed,
also you have moved
through life and death, the
outer planes are afterlives,
they are where souls go after they die.
- (sighs) Okay.
- You have literally died before.
But you feel very vulnerable right now.
What you are in this state is almost
something neither alive nor dead.
It's almost as if your soul,
which is supposed to be
this eternal thing, has been given
a physical, tangible body.
So something that is supposed
to be invincible and immortal
is now clothed in flesh, like you yourself
are transubstantiated,
you are not any longer
a being made of matter and spirit,
you are one and the same,
they are knitted together.
As you are in the lake, you see,
from a high clearing
up through the forest,
and there's mist all around,
you hear like sweet birdsong
and a rustling of pine needles
and leaves on the wind,
and you see a meadow as the
quality of light in the sky
dims to dust, as a meadow fills
with radiant gold and silver light,
and you hear a voice speak, resonating
from the center of your chest, going,
"Kristen, it's okay.
"You can come home."
- Is that my, wait.
Who's that?
- It's not your dad, but man did you feel
like it was your dad for a second.
Didn't sound like your
dad, but when he spoke,
it felt like Dad.
- Was it Jawbone?
- Only one way to find out.
You have to go to the clearing.
- Okay, I run to the clearing.
- You run through.
In the clearing are two thrones.
There is a golden throne,
with geometric patterns
and lines and rays moving out from it,
and you see a long white-haired,
bearded, robed old man
whose eyes radiate the warmth
and ferocity of the sun.
He is powerful and ancient and wise,
and there is a sternness to
him and a comfort to him,
as though he will provide for you
if you leave his authority
unquestioned forever.
And seated next to him,
in a chair of silver birch
with interlocking vines
and leaves and twigs
of like wicker and plant
life, all silvery white,
is a beautiful elven woman
in a gown of deep blue
flecked with silver, a
huge medallion of the moon
around her neck.
You see that you are
beholding Sol, god of the sun,
and Galicaea, goddess of the moon,
standing off to Sol's side, kind of like
dejected and looking down.
- Yeah, that's right.
- With a corn husk sheath around his belt,
a Harvest Camp T-shirt and a
backwards upside-down visor,
is Helio, who--
- What's up, man?
- Helio looks up at you and says,
Kristen, I'm so glad to see you again.
My dad wanted to hollar at you real quick,
and so did Galicaea.
You realize, by the way, that you are in
the plane of Elysium right now.
You're in like the neutral good plane.
Sol is lawful good and
Galicaea is like chaotic good,
so they're clearly in this
like neutral meeting space
to speak with you.
- Cool.
- You see Sol the sun
god looks right at you
and goes, well there, Kristen.
It's good to see you again.
One of my own son's chosen.
Last time you saw me, I
was a bit pre-disposed.
I was unconscious on
the floor of my office
'cause your principal
knocked me unconscious.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Yeah, not a huge fan
of that, I have to say.
- Yeah, that sounds like
God can create someone
so strong they can knock God out. (laughs)
- Sol does not laugh at all.
Galicaea looks at you and says,
daughter of Helio, it is
a pleasure and an honor
to make your acquaintance.
- It's great to meet you too.
- I am Galicaea, goddess of the moon.
You have journeyed long, and
you have finally arrived here,
in the lands beyond.
I have spoken to my brother,
Sol, god of the sun.
You, at the moment of your
birth, were chosen by Helio.
Divined from the beginning to be
a prophet of his astride the world.
- I mean, isn't that kinda geographic,
like didn't Helio just say like, hey,
everyone here, you're Helio now?
- You see that Galicaea--
- It kinda feels like nations and religion
just kind of all become
one, it's not really
like I was hand-picked, it was probably
just like hey, Solace, Helio.
- You look and see, Galicaea and Sol
exchange a kind of look.
You see Sol says, Helio, why don't you
take young Kristen for a
walk and explain everything?
- Oh, can anybody else do it?
(cast laughing)
Can Galicaea do it, please?
I'd love to hear from you.
- Galicaea nods and stands and
says, I shall walk with you.
- I appreciate it so much.
I'm sorry I'm acting like a total f*ck.
(Emily laughing)
- Things you say when you meet God.
(cast laughing)
- You see Galicaea walks with you, and she
reaches out a hand to take your hand.
She's about like nine feet
tall in her present form,
so she's sort of like towering over you.
- Cool.
She walks with you and
says, Kristen Applebees,
how has fared your journey to this realm?
- I am a little bit scared.
I think I probably died.
And I'm also wondering
if, is there any way
that you can talk to Tracker?
She worships you, she's a
werewolf, she looks like this.
I pull up a kind of
not-okay photo of Tracker
like kinda naked, but it's just
the most recent one I have.
- You see, give me an Insight check.
- A 21.
- You say the word werewolf
and you see a little flash
of yellow go across Galicaea's eyes,
and you see that she
swallows for a moment,
as though mentioning Tracker
and that she was a werewolf...
You see something, she is a goddess,
but there is a moment of
like, conflict within her.
She gulps, returns to this
like serene elven state,
and says, yes, Tracker.
One of my few remaining wolf children.
She...
Yes, she has been one of my
devoted servants. (sighs)
Well, Tracker is why we are
here to speak with you, Kristen.
- Is Tracker dead?
- No, but she is in grave peril.
- Okay, yeah.
- She looks at you and says,
have you ever questioned
where your spells came from in the time
that you have questioned your faith?
- I was kind of starting to think
that maybe they were coming
from the power of doubt.
- Doubt is nothing.
- Yeah, doubt k*lled me I
think, or some sort of unicorn,
I don't know if this is just like a,
I don't know what k*lled me,
but yeah, doubt is nothing.
Doubt is the lack of
some, I don't know, yeah,
I'm honestly just so confused,
I'm not asking the right
questions and I'm aware of that.
- Looks at you and smiles
and says, Kristen Applebees,
there is nothing to be
gained from asking questions.
The strength of a priestess
flows from her conviction
in the great divinity of the moon,
ever changing, yet eternal.
When one surrenders
doubt and all questions,
and accepts the presence
of the great divine,
one's conviction is as
resolute and eternal
as the moon itself.
- The moon goes away
for like half the day.
Right?
- The moon--
- Am I right?
- You see she says--
- Sorry, not to poke holes in you,
but I'm kind of like on a roll
with this question asking.
It kinda sounds like you're offering me
another version of what I'm
coming from, you know, no doubt.
- You see, for just a
moment on that 21 Insight,
her lip curls into a little sneer,
and you could swear for a moment
there was like a fang in her mouth.
She goes, I understand, my child.
All habits die hard.
What I wish to raise to
you is a simple point.
Your ability to heal, your
devotion to the power of life
and its presence in the
world, never wavered.
I want to show you what
has been transpiring
in all this time.
She has walked in a circle
back to the clearing,
you see all of your philosophers
and the philosophy
students and grad students,
all kind of waiting beyond
the edge of the clearing.
You see Helio talking to them.
She puts a big, powerful hand,
kind of grips your shoulder tightly,
and she says, you were chosen by Helio,
and Helio was loathe to let go of you.
All young clerics go through phases,
and that's what this was.
Sol advised his son to allow these spirits
to advise you for a time,
but for a time only.
Your spells, your healing
magic, your devotion to life,
has been coming from the
same place it always was.
From poor, gentle Helio.
She points, and you feel the resonance
of the fact that like,
even as you abandoned Helio
and changed your faith
and your conviction,
you still like, had the
blessed healer ability,
you still had all of these attachments
to who and what you were, and
she looks at you and says,
Kristen, no one blames you
for stepping out of your home
and going out into the
front yard to run away,
because you never truly
closed the door behind you.
You can always come home.
And what Sol and I have discussed is,
if you will not return
to Sol or his son Helio,
then you could be mine,
and you would still
have all your spells, and
you would never have to go
even a single moment without being chosen
by a power greater than yourself.
Doesn't that sound preferable?
- I mean, honestly, it
kind of just sounds like,
in the mall sometimes, the Hot Topic
would be next to the Not of This World,
and they're kind of the same store.
(cast laughing)
So it kind of feels like
you're just giving me
like some more T-shirts, lady.
- Talking to God.
Talking to God right now.
- You're just giving
me more T-shirts, lady!
- And then Spencer's
Gifts around the corner.
- Never heard a more powerful
metaphor in all my life.
(cast laughing)
- I just, I think it's very kind,
and I would like to be more,
like what are you like,
what would following you look like for me?
What would change, or, not
that it's all about me,
I'm just, I am looking
for a more ultimate truth
and not a stay safe, stay at
home, don't ever question.
- You see, she looks and says,
my path is a path of both
serenity and passion,
of the embrace of the natural world,
the changing, the phases of the moon,
the changing of the tides.
It is a faith rooted in the
divine of the natural world,
of the feminine, of your sisters
throughout the priestesshood.
It is a faith shaped and
molded by understanding
that you will ever be
clutched to my heart.
And you recall conversations
you had with Tracker
about having this primal faith
and her conviction in that.
Make a Religion check for
me, if you'd be so kind.
- 16.
- Something's going on with Galicaea.
This isn't Tracker's goddess,
you know what I mean?
It's like there's something that's not,
Tracker wouldn't worship this person.
- Yeah.
- She looks at you and says, what...
There are churches and cathedrals
all across the lands of Fallinel and beyond
devoted to my worship.
Surely Tracker has explained some
of my divine potency to you.
- Yeah, definitely.
I've heard a lot from her.
You know, speaking of Tracker, as her god,
can you show me where she is right now?
Is there a way for us to
scry on her together and?
- She is within the
Nightmare King's forest.
- Mm-hmm.
- I cannot see there myself.
But if I had a champion to send there,
I would gladly do so, Kristen Applebees.
She says, you see, my dear, sweet,
at times confused and a little
befuddled darling baby sister
was once the Queen of Sylvaire.
The Nightmare King k*lled my sister,
and I would see him destroyed
for daring to touch my family.
- Whoa.
Yeah.
So, is your sister, who
is she, what's her name?
- Sadly her name was destroyed.
She was a goddess of mystery,
and she believed ultimately
that destroying her name
would make her more mysterious
and make her more suited
to her own portfolio,
her divine domain.
But the Nightmare King k*lled her
before she could complete this task.
Give me another Insight check.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Insight.
Oh, that's a 15.
- That's not the story you heard.
The story you read, all those documents
of the church of Galicaea
convincing the tribes
of the forest about the Sylvairian heresy
and convincing the worshipers
of the Unnamed Goddess
to destroy their goddess's name.
- Yeah, okay, yes.
You know what, Galicaea, I
would love to work for you.
What would you like me to do?
Go back in there, and would you give me
like powers or something?
(cast laughing)
- I would love to buy one of your shirts.
(cast laughing)
- King Kong is now my grandpa.
- You see that she
says, all you have to do
is swear yourself to me, from
the foundations of your soul.
Become one of my chosen,
and you will be able
to wield my power.
- Can I do something crazy?
- Yes, please do.
Please do.
- So we're in this kind of neutral place.
- Yeah.
- Can I turn away a little bit
and maybe like offer a prayer
to this questioning, this
other option potentially,
if it exists still, if it's still alive?
- Yeah, go ahead.
Give me another Religion check.
Okay, that's a 19.
- You turn, you reach
out, you see that woman
that was dying and rending her face.
You reach out to her with your heart.
The golden light
disappears from your chest
and is replaced with a
cool and reassuring shadow.
And you see in this
vision, she turns to you.
She was k*lled in an act of betrayal.
She k*lled you in an act of betrayal.
And as you reach out to
understand her again,
you see a look of shock on her face
that you are still
attempting to understand her,
and you see that she weeps,
and even in the midst
of being destroyed, softly
raises a hand towards you
and just mouths amidst
the thunder and lightning,
I'm sorry, I'm just so scare,
and before she can finish saying "scared,"
you feel a vice-like
grip on your shoulder,
Galicaea whips you around and
has like pierced your shoulder
with her hand, and she says,
there is nothing there to see!
(Brennan growls)
And this wolf's, and she...
I'm so sorry.
What an ugly thing for you to see.
And you see she composes herself.
You see a self-loathing in
this goddess of the moon.
The wolf part of her, the
part that Tracker loves,
this goddess hates, the moon
goddess hates it about herself.
And you realize why.
In this moment, Kristen Applebees,
beyond the pale of death,
once again having performed
this shamanic task
to go to realms beyond, to understand
the fundamental truth of the world.
Gods are not eternal.
They are shaped by their followers.
Galicaea is this way because
the elves of Fallinel
made her this way, and who she once was
when she was a goddess with primal cairns
and moss-covered stones,
the version of her
that Tracker worships is in there,
but in the mortal world, she is spoken for
first and foremost by the
high elves of Fallinel,
and their interpretation
of her has become her,
because as the void said to
you the end of freshman year,
as above, so below, and if
this is the version of Galicaea
that is most worshiped,
it is the version of her
that will be real.
She has lied to you.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I...
I would like to...
f*ck, I mean, can I do
like a Perception check
to see like what I could possibly do?
Can I just say I reject
your offer to everybody?
I wholeheartedly reject all
offers that you've given me,
and then I run up to Helio and I punch him
in the f*cking face.
(cast laughing)
- Yes.
- Damn, dude.
Decking gods right now.
- I'm decking a god's son.
- Fair, fair.
- You say "I reject your offer" to both,
Galicaea and Sol look on,
and you see that like,
for all of their like, branding
that they are the opposites of each other,
they are so fundamentally the same.
- Yeah.
- It's an aesthetic,
it's a mood, it's a vibe.
- It's like Dove soap and Axe body spray
are owned by the same core company.
(Brennan laughing)
Called Unilever, and it's all
just advertising, and yeah.
- Damn.
- Does Kristen work in a mall?
- Another amazing analogy.
(cast laughing)
- Hey, D20 Stats, when
you're watching this,
I need brand references on
stream by Ally Beardsley,
that's all I need.
- Anachronistic facts by Ally.
(cast laughing)
- You sock Helio in the
jaw, and you turn to run.
As you turn to run, you see Sol goes
and he bellows out and becomes enormous,
the sun's own fire, and says,
I told you that kid was trash!
Now get her!
And you see all of the
philosophers, all of the students,
look up from their kind of sadness.
This fact that they
were kind of just like,
almost like paid friends,
they were just here,
even though you were
still getting your spells
from this divinity, that
Sol and Helio just let them,
and you see that they
all look at each other
and mob Helio and Sol,
and a couple of them run,
you see two of the philosophers
whisk you in this toga,
with a little thing of like
olive leaves around you,
and go, quickly, through the forest!
And these old sandaled
Grecian philosophers
just start running through
the woods as fast as they can.
You see the gods completely
like destroying these spirits.
Sol bellows out after you
and says, you are done!
You are cut off!
No more magic, no more
spells, see how you like
working zero miracles from now on!
You're just regular!
And--
- You're one of many gods!
(Emily laughing)
- You rush away.
You see Helio just getting
owned by these grad students,
and that's a statement.
(Ally laughing)
You see that he goes, Kristen!
He goes, you're a soul in a
body, you're one and the same!
All that's waiting for
you without any help
from a god is just oblivion!
And you know he is right,
if you die in this form,
there is no going to an afterlife.
It's just you're gone.
You arrive back at the
lake, you hear the noise
of these gods rage off in the distance.
A couple of the students have run up.
They get to the lake, they look at you,
partially like injured and wounded
and sort of like ghostly
philosophy people.
They get you to the lake, put you down.
You see that one of the philosophers,
there's this bespectacled,
kind of like Enlightenment-era
looking woman with like
a little pillbox hat.
You see she looks up at you
very academically, professorial.
She says, Kristen, we're very
sorry we didn't tell you,
but we were on your side all along,
even though we couldn't tell you the truth
of where your spells were coming from.
You see this old, bearded philosopher
steps forward and says...
Before, you said very wise words,
which were that doubt cannot be a belief,
but it should be a practice.
The philosophy spirits put
their hands on your staff,
hold it, and your shepherd's crook staff
goes from being this like
old, Helioic, wooden,
like shepherd's staff, and it
changes shape just slightly
as it turns silvery and cool
and pleasing to the touch,
with a shimmer of starlight within it.
And that shepherd's
crook so easily becomes
an elongated, elegant question mark.
And you see that they hand
you the Staff of Doubt.
You see the philosophers
all put their hands
on your shoulders and back,
the woman in spectacles
gives you a kiss on the
side of the head and says,
if doubt is a practice and not a belief,
then it should live your
hands, if not your heart.
And you hold the Staff of Doubt.
Taking it with you as a tool
and no longer as something
that you have to feel in every
moment of your waking life.
- Cool.
- They say their goodbyes to you.
You hear the shouts of the
gods off in the distance.
What does Kristen do at this moment?
- I'm back at the pool?
- Yes, you are.
- I guess I keep going forward
so that I can get out of this room.
- Cool, yeah, you dive
back through the pool
and you come back.
I am going to go ahead,
actually, and if you look
on your character sheet online,
I am gonna give you the
Staff of Doubt right now
and tell you what it does.
- Ooh!
- Ooh!
- Magic items, magic items!
- Magic items!
- We love it.
(cast laughing)
- Everybody's getting magic items.
(Lou babbling)
- Okay, hold on one second.
Cool.
It is now in your character sheet online,
and I'll tell you what it does.
Kristen, you feel yourself
lose all of your spells.
You don't have any innate spells,
you are not a cleric of a deity anymore.
(Lou and Ally laughing)
- But you have a really cool stick, so.
- Ooh, yeah, cool.
- For the first time, you're on your own.
You got nobody in your corner.
And you feel the metaphor,
what they were talking about.
The door is closed behind you.
There is no going back.
The Staff of Doubt has 10 charges.
While holding it, you can use an action
to expend one or more charges to cast
some of the following spells from it,
they have different costs associated.
Detect Magic is one
charge, Lesser Restoration
is two charges, Dispel
Magic is three charges,
Banishment is four charges,
Greater Restoration's
five charges.
- Cool.
- While you are wielding
it, you have advantage
on saving throws against
being charmed or frightened.
- Cool.
- So the whole point of it is about like
clearing away like blindness,
possession, dispelling spells.
It can't do those things
of, it does exactly
what doubt is supposed to do.
It's not in your heart anymore.
It can't heal your
friends, but it can get rid
of some bullshit, and that's
what doubt is supposed to do.
- Okay.
- So you can't Revivify anymore?
- Cannot Revivify anymore.
- You can do Greater Restoration.
- You can do Greater Restoration.
- Chill, chill.
- Very chill.
- Cool.
- Awesome.
Kristen, you're back in the temple.
Where do you go from here?
- Okay, so, I...
I don't have any spells at all?
It's not like I'm in my new--
- No.
No, right now you got nothing.
Because you reached out
to that Unnamed Goddess
and felt her be moved by the fact
that you were reaching out to her again,
but your like life cleric
stuff has been revoked.
- She just had too much on her plate
to kinda give me some
spells, or like, what was up?
It was bad lightning?
She was in the middle
of some bad lightning.
- Listen, I dare you to go
back and beg for spells.
- Helio, please.
- Helio, you can punch me.
- I'll never leave you again.
- Wait, so okay, hmm, interesting.
This is very shocking,
this is very shocking.
Okay.
So I have a staff.
Okay, I walk out of the chapel.
f*ck.
- Hell yeah.
You are in the forest
of the Nightmare King.
Kristen knows that she has to move
in the direction of her fears,
but what does that mean in this moment
for what Kristen is literally doing?
- Okay, I guess whatever direction,
I'm gonna go in the
direction I don't think
I'll find Tracker in.
- Awesome.
You go in the direction you do not think
you will find Tracker in, cool.
You begin to head off into the forest.
We're going to cut back to a
cliff side over a sea of mist.
A big hunk of rubble and
boulders has been pushed off,
sailing into the endless expanse
of the cliff side into mist.
Gorgug and Fabian are
at the edge of this cave
and they come through these tunnels
looking out over expanses
of again, these like,
coastal, you know like Monument Valley,
just those like towers of striated stone?
These are not like red and
orange, they're all like
lichen-covered grays and
deep, darker blues of stone,
and covered with pine forests on top,
stretching out as far as the eye can see.
You've got about 200 feet
of cliff up above you.
You have both just come through hell.
You've seen each other,
shared that big hug,
and are now looking at this massive cliff
scaling out overhead.
You feel the dusk moss begin
to like leave your bloodstream.
- Ooh.
Never doing drugs again, never.
It's off, done, done.
- Can we reach the closest
cliff, or are we like,
how far are we from it?
- You're standing, you realize that
as you're looking around,
you don't see like endless,
weirdly you don't see like
endless cliff going either side,
you think you're in one of these spires.
So your tunnel either was like
magic, you know what I mean?
Like it just somehow--
- We're like in the middle of it somehow?
- Right, like you've appeared halfway up
one of these colossal
towering spires of stone.
And are now like, you know,
if someone were flying by,
they would look and see a little cave,
you know, like halfway in between the top
and the mist ocean below, and see you two
peering out of this cave,
kind of in the middle
of the column.
- Okay, well, what do we know?
- We're here, our friends are not here?
- Yes, okay, that's a solid start.
- Okay.
- And we should find them?
- I agree with that,
that's a great first step.
Maybe we should get to higher ground?
- I mean, do you wanna climb?
I mean, if you want to
climb, I'm down to climb.
Yeah.
- I'd give a climb a shot.
- I've done way crazier stuff today,
so climbing, that honestly
feels way more in my wheelhouse.
- Climbing is not quite
a nightmare for me,
but at the same time, this
doesn't seem like an easy climb.
- No, not at all.
- Can I do a Perception check for like
how difficult it feels like to scale?
Or like I don't know, is this like,
could we like boulder this,
or is this straight up like,
I don't know, free solo levels of like,
we mess up and it's like done?
- Give me a Perception check.
- Can I do that too?
- Yeah.
- That'll be a 17.
- Dirty 20.
- Okay.
- This looks very scary, but doable.
And doable doesn't mean, in other words,
there is tremendous risk
if you f*ck up badly,
however, it doesn't look
impossible to get to the top.
It's very naturally formed rock.
There are not many places
it looks like to...
Directly up from you,
there's not too many ledges
where you could like, get to
be safe, rest for a moment.
However, if you look diagonally across,
you can see there are some other places
that might be cave-like, like
the one you're in right now.
So if you go slower and
try to like edge sideways,
you could get to some other places,
and maybe sacrifice time to
be a little bit less risky.
- Okay.
Well, do we, hmm.
I wonder if there's any caves
that go to different islands.
- Well, that's what, I'm
wondering if there's a way,
how would we find, like if
our friends aren't coming here
to this cave, would they be coming
through one of those caves?
Or like, I don't know, I'm nervous about--
- Can I tell you something?
I got smarter, but I
still feel pretty dumb
in this scenario.
(cast laughing)
- Hey, fair, all right?
I mean, my levels of intelligence
didn't change at all,
but I still feel just as unsure.
- Hey, why don't we tie
a rope to each other
and then climb for one
of the closest caves?
- Great start.
It's a solid start, let's do it.
- I believe in you, spring break.
- I believe in you, spring break.
I use my sheet.
I like cinch it around Gorgug's waist.
- Oh, thank you.
(Emily laughs)
- Incredible.
You use the sheet, and you guys are able,
in this moment, to give
each other the help action,
even while climbing.
So each of you guys give
me an Athletics check
with advantage.
- On belay!
- Belay on!
(Siobhan chuckling)
Wow, thank goodness.
I rolled a one and an 18, so a 23 for me.
Or Athletics?
Oh.
- Athletics.
- 27.
- 27, okay, cool.
- Oh, I'm a 15.
- 15, okay, cool.
You guys begin to scale to sort of
get around as fast as you can.
You make partial progress.
As you do so, you guys begin to,
I'm gonna say that you
guys like, begin to feel,
like your hearts swell a little bit.
And in fact, I'm actually
going to say, one second.
- Okay.
- I'm having a heart attack.
- It's a heart attack.
- No, it's all right.
I think it's just strong
emotional feelings.
- Into the mist.
- Just dragging me with you.
- You guys begin to like, get
over across the rock face.
You're making partial
progress, and you feel
on an intuitive level
that you have changed.
You watch Gorgug point out the cave,
start figuring out the best path there.
Gorgug, you feel Fabian calling out
when your grip is getting
unsteady on something,
moving along, you see
that you have both grown
as you're moving through here.
You also like, feel that
pulse of hope connect you,
and there's this moment of like,
reflecting on Gorgug holding a tin flower
out to Fabian on the first day of school,
getting socked in the stomach,
and then weeks and months of
like owlbears and hoot growl,
and that hug you guys
shared in the cavern,
and I think that like,
especially for teenage dudes
that are growing up,
there's this weird thing
about showing affection with your friends
and being physical, and you
guys spend a grueling two hours
just like being on top, like
arm under, a shoulder up,
grabbing someone's arm, pulling them up,
to the point where you're
just like one working unit
moving each other across the rock,
and you finally arrive at this cavern,
and you feel this like,
friendship pulse between you
as you like, you know,
all of the weirdness
of insecurity of friendship melts away
with this like pure teamwork.
(Lou and Brennan grunting)
And you finally both vault
yourself into this cave.
As you vault yourself into the cave,
you see riddled with
arrows is massive griffin,
and you see--
- no!
(Emily gasps)
- sh*t.
- You see Baxter the
griffin is in this cave.
I'll ask both of you to
make a Medicine check,
if you would be so kind.
- I got a nine.
- 17.
- Baxter is dying, but not dead.
- I'm gonna cast Cure Wounds on Baxter.
- Gorgug, you rush up,
take out a first aid kit,
begin to go to work.
You cast Cure Wounds.
Tell me how many hit
points Baxter regains.
- Okay, so, I don't actually
have the card in front of me.
You have it?
- It's 1d8 plus your modifier,
your spellcasting modifier.
- I don't have any spells anymore,
so you can have all my cards.
(Lou laughs)
- Three hit points.
- Okay.
Okay.
- All right, all right.
- So I rolled a one plus the
two that my new bonus is, so.
- You see Gorgug go to work,
still almost on death's door,
you both look up and see Baxter,
eyes flutter, covered in blood,
just (breathing heavily),
like breathing heavily, Baxter looks up
and just has enough
strength to kind of like,
nuzzle Gorgug with his beak.
Fabian, you look and see these arrows are,
you recognize these arrows.
- Where are these arrows from?
- Do I recognize them?
- Sandra Lynn.
- Oh.
- Oh no.
- Sandra Lynn's been
taken over in some way.
Oh, this is really bad.
- Can we, hmm.
I only have one other spell slot left.
I shoulda cast Spare the
Dying on him, I feel like.
- I mean, is Baxter still dying?
- No.
- Or is their wounds stabilizing?
- The Cure Wounds has worked fully.
And Baxter gets up, shakes his wings.
You see the reason Baxter
looks so unwell is heartbreak.
It's just like, he doesn't
understand what's going on,
he doesn't understand
why he's been attacked.
He clearly was hit with like
a last arrow in his throat
that meant he had to rapidly descend,
and thankfully made it to this cave.
But you see he stands up, he's
capable of movement again.
And Gorgug, part of your
first aid I think is like
you two pulling the arrows, you know.
- Okay.
- I think we need to be careful.
I feel like if Sandra Lynn
would turn against Baxter,
there's a chance that
she may not be in a state
to recognize us as allies, even.
- Yeah.
I wonder if we should
just leave Baxter here
to rest for a little
bit, 'cause I feel like
if anything blew on him, he'd
fall out of the sky again.
- But yeah, in case Sandra Lynn is above.
I mean, we did a pretty good
job of climbing up this far.
- How many arrows are in here?
Like does she have more arrows?
- He took about nine arrows.
- Jeez.
- Hey, well Baxter, we're
gonna fix Sandra Lynn.
- Yeah.
- There's a lot going on
here, I don't know how much
you're getting of my explanation, but--
- Give me an Animal Handling check.
- Okay.
Pretty solid one to this.
Plus a nat one, so.
- Baxter demands to follow you.
As you guys like, move
to the mouth of the cave.
- Okay.
Well.
Baxter.
Well.
- It's Baxter's choice.
- We're kinda, this is
sorta the end of the line,
so we might as well just, f*ck
it, let's ride this buddy.
- Come on, Baxter.
- Yeah, I hop on.
Let's do it.
- All right, Baxter.
- We're gonna get your person back.
- You both hop up on Baxter,
Baxter kind of shakes
the blood from loose
feathers off his wings,
and you guys vault out.
You see trails of mist
coming off of the tips
of Baxter's wings as he goes
through the deeply humid skies
of this forest of moist,
almost like trails
coming off his wings as he
takes off, and you guys fly off.
We are gonna cut from there to, ba ba ba.
- Can Baxter have a short rest?
- Please.
- Baxter cannot have a short
rest, unless you guys take one.
- Can Baxter have a second wind?
- No he may not.
Incredible.
You guys begin flying.
We're going to move over
to a clearing with Adaine.
Adaine, you are suspended in this orb,
prevented from spellcasting.
You can speak, but are
unable to cast spells
within this orb.
- Okay.
But I cast Message, right?
- You can cast--
- I've been able to cast Message.
- You've been able to cast
Message, that's correct.
You see Angwyn standing staring at you,
Killian and Arianwen
have both walked away.
You see Angwyn sort of st*lks off
into the clearing a little bit,
and Aelwyn is left standing
nearby, keeping an eye on you.
What is Adaine doing in this moment?
- Can I message Aelwyn?
- Yes, you can.
- So I'd like to message Aelwyn
and say, what are you doing?
You don't like these
people any more than I do.
- She messages you back.
Adaine.
I don't like our parents, but
I do love them, don't you?
- They don't love me.
- Adaine.
You have always been, above all else,
steadfast in your ways.
Some might even go so
far as to say stubborn.
Love is something that has to be earned.
It's not something--
- No it's not.
- What value does a thing have
if it can be freely given?
- The greatest value of all.
A gift given without ask or want?
- I don't understand.
- I think you do.
I think you do understand.
Because you're the most
defensive person I have ever met.
Your defenses are so high.
You chose, of all of the schools of magic,
to be an abjurative wizard.
You won't let people in,
because you're scared
that if you let people
in and they reject you,
then you're not worth it in some way.
- I'm not scared.
Taking cautions...
I have tried to make the right
choice as often as I could,
and you can't make it in this world alone.
You need to have--
- Aelwyn.
I don't love our parents.
But despite the fact that
you have not earned it,
I do love you.
Do you hear that?
I hope you hear that.
- There is no response from Aelwyn, she...
Give me an Insight check.
- 15.
- If you had to guess, the
power of that statement
and how much Aelwyn needs to hear it
is something that she saw coming
like a magic m*ssile
headed straight for her.
And you watch her eyes go glassy,
and you watch her fully dissociate.
Just to not process that.
She like is too scared in this moment.
You see Angwyn looks around and says,
great deal of silence over here
in this corner of the clearing.
He walks over, and you
see that he approaches,
and you kind of observe him getting
some kind of like Sending spell,
or like a Whispering Wind spell,
probably from your mom, and
you see he looks over at,
oh, also give me a Perception
check, if you'd be so kind.
- 11.
- You see, with an 11 Perception check,
you just see that your father
has a sword on his belt
that he almost never
carries or would wear.
But you see he walks over
to you, and as he does so,
you see that he's got
like a look in his eye.
He glances at Aelwyn and says,
daughter, the time has come.
I need a moment to prepare the punishment
that awaits your sister.
I would like for you,
if you would be so kind,
seeing that she has been
as recalcitrant as ever
to assist her family,
kindly scour the information
as to what her accomplices
are doing from her mind.
I'll be waiting for you
to complete this task.
And you see his hand
crackles with light again,
and he says, Adaine,
after your sister wrests
what you are holding away from
you, I'm going to fix you.
I hope that you will be grateful,
although if I am successful,
I won't have to hope
for you to be any way that I wish.
You see Aelwyn looks
over at Angwyn and goes,
Father, as much as I would
love to see Adaine suffer,
once we have the information from her,
let's leave her in the
orb, that's what she's
most scared of.
You see her father says, Aelwyn,
you've been given an order.
Carry it out.
Aelwyn says, right, but, you
see Angwyn frows his brow
and says, Aelwyn, now is not
the time to lose your nerve.
Do it.
Aelwyn stands there for a second.
You can see that her hands
are shaking at her side.
- I message her, I'm here with you.
I'm with you.
Whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.
- She snaps her eyes over
to you and says, Father.
Adaine's just, she's a baby.
She's a, and you see Angwyn goes, a baby?
And you see she says,
no, I mean, she's young.
There's no...
You see your dad just raises
a hand and Aelwyn flinches.
She turns, looks at you,
and says, I'm so sorry.
And she casts Detect Thoughts on you.
What does Adaine do as
Aelwyn begins to cast
Detect Thoughts?
- I would like to think
about all of the times
that Aelwyn was almost nice to me,
and then at the prompting of our parents,
did something cruel instead.
Like I want those to
be my surface thoughts.
I close my eyes and that
is what I'm thinking about.
- You think of all the times that Aelwyn
chose to be cruel to save herself.
The last time you cast
Detect Thoughts on Aelwyn,
you walked through a bombed out city.
What is Aelwyn walking through right now,
as she sees a vision of your mind?
- I think it's our
childhood house in Solace,
which is most of my childhood memories.
I feel like we moved there
when I was very small.
And it's just a series
of interconnected rooms
that's like my room and her room
and my room and her room
and my room and her room,
with each of these memories inside it.
- She begins to walk through with you.
I'm gonna make my first roll.
She walks through, and
doesn't push deeper,
even though that's what
she's supposed to do.
She walks in, looks at all these moments,
looks up at you and says,
well if you're trying
to humiliate me, I suppose it's working.
- I'm not.
We can make new memories.
But these are all the
memories that I have of you.
These are the best memories
that I have of you.
We will live immortal lives.
Do we want to keep playing
these patterns out?
I don't want to.
Aelwyn looks out of
the window of her room,
and she wants to go
deep, she sees something
and wants to go deeper in your mind.
Does Adaine allow her to do this?
- Yes.
- She moves through the window,
and is at your memory
of her in the hot tub
after you had rescued her
from Calethriel Tower.
She looks and looks up at you, confused,
because she doesn't remember this.
- They broke you, Aelwyn.
They broke you.
For what?
For why?
They're cruel people.
And I'm sorry, but I don't think
that they will ever love you.
And they'll never even let
you make your own decisions,
you're just a tool to them.
And they'll only keep you
around as long as you're useful.
You see now it's becoming
even more painful,
because in your memory,
you cast Detect Thoughts,
and there is a memory of
you and a memory of Aelwyn
going into Detect Thoughts,
and there's the two of you
that are here in the present moment
that can follow your old selves
into that casting of Detect Thoughts.
- Look at these ruins.
Look.
There was no rebuilding this.
- Aelwyn, healed at least mentally
from her protective magic,
watches you observe,
in the destroyed version of her mind,
all the things that were buried,
and is forced to confront
not only her inner self,
but forced to confront the fact
that she has always lied to herself
about who she is and how she felt,
has to confront the
fact that you know that,
and has to now confront that it's all been
mistakes, needless
cruelty, and wasted time.
She digests all of this,
sees all of the things,
her in the bed with you,
making the ward around you,
all the things she said to
you when you were in the orb,
and has to ingest all of that as someone
who brought her old mind back.
She looks up.
- Will you be my big sister?
I would really, really love
to have you as a big sister.
- She looks, and loses
concentration on Detect,
tears stream down her face,
she loses it, steps back.
As she does so, you are back in the forest
of the Nightmare King, you see... (sighs)
You see that Aelwyn is just
weeping, standing there,
looking like, having to
reshuffle her entire mind
to accommodate all this.
You see Angwyn turns to her and says,
well then daughter, were you successful?
What are her friends planning?
Aelwyn just looks up, and can only think
to just say the truth, which
is, I didn't find it...
(Brennan muttering)
Angwyn kind of like
rolls his eyes. (sighs)
He looks up, and as he does so, you see...
As he does this, he looks
up and, very well, Adaine.
The time has come for a
new and better daughter.
His hand crackles with light,
he reaches out and says,
prepare to be better,
dear, sweet daughter.
Light races towards your mind.
As it is an inch away from the orb,
the orb covers with an abjurative rune.
Aelwyn stands with her hand extended,
her face completely blank and emotionless,
as the spell is counter-spelled.
Angwyn looks over at Aelwyn, looks back--
- I cast Dispel Magic on the orb.
- You cast Dispel Magic on the orb.
The orb dispels.
It is Angwyn's turn again.
Hold on one second.
Angwyn reaches out his
hand, extends it to Aelwyn.
- Counterspell.
Counterspell.
Counterspell.
- He Counterspells your Counterspell.
- f*ck.
- You hate to see it.
- You hate to see it.
- No, I love to see this!
- No, I mean--
- Oh, I know, I know.
- Wait, you love to see what?
- No, I love to see what
just happened before this.
- Yes, yes, agreed, agreed.
- Adaine.
- Yes.
- You shatter the orb, you counter,
your dad throws up a
counter to your Counterspell
with a bolt of lightning
that races across the field.
In Aelwyn's last moment, she
makes eye contact with you,
just says, I'm sorry,
and is hit in the chest
and blasted back across the field.
Adaine, it is your turn.
- f*ck.
Gosh.
- You have any cures?
- Wizards don't have g*dd*mn cures.
We don't care about other people.
(cast laughing)
I would like to cast
Adaine's Furious Fist.
- Yeah!
- At a fifth level.
(Brennan laughs)
And I would like to charge my father.
- Yes.
- Jesus.
- Your father, with zero
remorse on his face,
raises up his spellcasting hand
and whips around to face
you as mist and smoke
rises from Aelwyn's
exhausted, crumpled body.
You are standing in the
shadow of where your orb was.
You cast a spell at the highest spell slot
you have available.
Your fist crackles with white arcane fire.
Your father turns around, seeing a spell
he does not recognize.
He is 20 feet away from you.
You sprint across the
grass of the clearing.
Go ahead and make your attack roll.
- Yeah!
- Oh no, it's so many
d10s that I don't have.
- So you're making your attack roll first.
- It's a spell attack?
- Oh, sorry, yeah, sorry.
- No worries.
- Oh baby.
That's a 24.
- Wow.
- Holy sh*t. (laughs)
Okay.
- How many d10s is it?
- And he rolls a four on his save.
(Brennan laughing)
So it's 10d10.
So I look him in the face,
hold my fist up to him
and say guess what, b*tch, I'm strong now.
And I punch him for, oh.
- k*ll your dad, k*ll your dad.
- [All] k*ll your dad, k*ll your dad.
- 43.
- Oh baby.
- 51, 59.
- I like that.
69, nice, 77 points of damage.
(Emily laughing)
- Solid.
- 77 points of damage?
- Yes.
(Ally whistles)
- As you say "I'm strong now,"
Adaine, you have walked for unending days
in the forest of the Nightmare King.
You have fought the tides
of the wide misty ocean.
Your Strength becomes 14,
which is an eight point
Strength increase, your fist crackles,
you rolled a 24 on your attack roll.
On a saving throw, your
father, Angwyn Abernant,
automatically fails.
He turns, an arcane fist raises.
77 points of damage is more
than double his max hit points.
- What?!
- Whoa.
- Your father, as your
mother said in season one,
was never much of a practical caster.
Your father is dead as
he leaves the ground,
and his body sails 25 feet through the air
and skids across the clearing.
Your father is no more.
You stand, you feel,
through weeks of hardship
in the time that elapsed and
your vision in the forest.
You never have to be
afraid of being weak again.
Your father hurt you
and he hurt your sister,
and no matter what anyone
f*ck' thinks about it,
guess what?
He never gets to hurt anybody ever again.
You stand in the clearing
as light crackles around you
and leaves your fist.
Adaine--
- Amazing.
Can I run to Aelwyn
and do a Medicine check
to try and stabilize her?
- Yes you can.
She is going to roll a death
saving throw before that.
- All right.
- The damage was not enough
to fully put her under.
Or fully k*ll her.
So.
- Loot your dad, loot--
- Oh baby, you know I'm gonna loot my dad.
- Gotta loot your dad, dude.
- I'm strong, I'm gonna
take that g*dd*mn sword.
- Seems like you should just
stay with this spell, huh?
- I mean, I can double two-handed weapon.
- Put the sword in the fist's hand.
- Yes.
(Emily laughing)
- I'm gonna go ahead and
roll Aelwyn's death saves.
- You actually don't have
to roll the first one,
because the first one she gets an 11.
- Incredible, okay.
- So those are my portent rolls gone.
- One second.
- So her first one she rolls an 11.
You rush over to her side.
- Yeah.
- As you do so, you can
make your first check
before she makes her second death save.
So you're making a medicine check.
- Mm-hmm.
An 18.
- You rush over to Aelwyn's side.
You use your last portent,
on a 18, you stabilize her.
Aelwyn is not going to die in this moment.
She looks up at you as she
begins to enter unconsciousness,
and she says...
I don't...
I don't deserve you, and
I don't deserve this.
- It's not about deserving me,
and you definitely don't deserve this.
But we could rebuild
something better together.
I think there's enough room in my room
for a bunkbed, if you wanted.
- She weeps.
She says, Adaine?
I k*lled all those people on the ship.
I k*lled the oracle.
Kalina told me that I
would be dead if I didn't.
I did it, I worked for Kalvaxis,
I've worked for Kalina,
I've worked for our parents.
- You're a child.
They made you do it.
They were bad people and
they were manipulating you.
They trained you from birth
to be obedient to them
without question, and you were,
and they rewarded you for it.
- She begins to fade,
and she quickly says,
if I can make up for any
of the mistakes I've made,
I don't know that I ever will,
but the mistake that they've always made,
the heroes have always
made, when they defeated
the Nightmare King.
The curses have to be undone, all of them,
including the fifth.
All five must be undone.
And there's a, you see she
starts to fade a little bit.
- As she's fading, can
I give her the tincture?
- Yes, you can give her
one of the tinctures,
that is a very wise move.
- Right.
- You give her the tincture.
She looks at you and says...
She's gone.
She looks up and says, there's a sword.
There's a sword on Father's side.
He stole it from Lomenelda's.
It's supposed to be yours.
Not yours yours, but it's
yours, it's the oracle's.
You see she says, I see
you don't have your orb,
but the sword, it's an arcane focus.
- Oh.
I'll take it you, you rest
here, I'll find Mother.
- Do you want to know something, Adaine?
- Yes.
- Do you know, in your freshman year,
how Kalvaxis knew that
you were going to be able
to take the book, that you
were going to be the oracle?
- No.
- I've always been rather
a terrible b*tch to you.
But I did know, having got into
the advanced classes at Hudol,
(Lou laughing)
that they believe that the oracle,
because it's not passed through
genealogy or anything else,
they've always thought that it goes
to the most prodigious diviner
amongst the elven people.
Kalvaxis asked me if I could be sure,
and I said "beyond a shadow of a doubt,
"I know who the next oracle will be."
- I love you too.
- She weeps, clutches
your hand, and slips away.
Your sister is stable and
unconscious here in the clearing,
and you see your father's body
across the clearing from you.
What does Adaine do?
- I'd like to cast Greater
Invisibility on myself
and take the sword, and just do a sort of
Investigation check on my father
to see if there's
anything else that I need
for all of these rituals
and stuff on his body.
- Sorry, give me that one more time?
- So I'm casting Greater
Invisibility on myself.
- Cool.
- And then I'd like to take
the sword from my father
and then see if there's anything else,
do an Investigation
check to see if there's
anything else on him that's obviously
for this Nightmare King situation.
- Go ahead and give me
the Investigation check.
- You find a note that
says he always loved you
and he just wanted to make you stronger.
He knew he had to push you to the edge
to become the ultimate elven oracle.
- Yeah baby, full anime, let's do it.
- Full anime.
- I hope I don't get punched.
- Well, I got a 25, do I
find the note, Brennan?
(Brian laughing)
- Oh, do you find the note?
You see, hold on one sec.
Ba ba ba, hold on.
What did you get on your
Investigation, sorry?
- 25.
- 25.
On a 25, you find no note
on your father's body.
All the important magical
sh*t went with your mom.
He's got nothing to recuse him
from being the absolute
b*stard that he was.
- Any cash?
- Yeah, any cold hard cash?
- Yeah, you get 30 gold
pieces, how's that?
- Sick!
- A crisp $20 bill.
- Oh yeah.
- I was saving this for your
birthday card, but here it is.
- Wow, he just went to
the bank, this is crazy.
- Incredible.
So, bum bum bum bum.
You pull the sword off.
Do you do anything, so
you look at the sword.
You see that it has an elven eye glyph
set into a two-sided pommel on each side.
Like a sort of geometric, cool eye glyph.
If you wanna cast Identify on it, you can.
- Identify I only have
stocked as a ritual,
so it'll take me 10 minutes.
I'll do it as soon as I have figured out
what's happening with my mum
and found her hiding place.
- Cool, copy that.
Awesome.
You take off.
We are going to cut over,
just the hits keep comin'!
- The hits keep comin'.
- Incredible.
We are in the celestial
gallery with Riz and Fig.
You guys are bound, so
your hands are bound,
so there's no like,
somatic components really
that you can't do your spells.
The vines also have grown around
and bound your mouths at this point.
You see the unicorn, skeletally
tromps through the glade,
and you see it speaks in your minds.
You see it goes...
You have been captured here, and soon
shall your friends be as well.
The time of the king's return is upon us.
You see fake Fig walks
out of the forest smiling
with Baby behind her, and you
see that she snaps her fingers
an the vines all wrap around Baby.
Baby goes, (squeals), it's
gonna k*ll me, please!
And you see that he gets
wrapped up in vines.
You see that the unicorn
looks at fake Fig.
Fig goes, hi, so, I'll
be happy to continue
this little deal we've got going.
Should I keep the disguise on for now?
And you see that the unicorn says,
the time for trickery is over.
Bring forth your brethren.
Coming out of the jungle, you
guys see dozens to hundreds
of barlgura, of rocs, a legion of demons
starts to stalk the
gallery, and specifically
just like a dozen each just
watching your every move.
Fake Fig sheds this illusion, and you see
a full-blown marilith,
which is a towering,
multi-armed snake woman with like,
torso and head of a woman, many arms
holding different weapons,
and this giant snake's body.
These are like the captains of the Abyss.
She says, yes.
The loyalty of the demon
folk to the Nightmare King
stands for now, unicorn.
You see the unicorn responds
to the marilith and says,
keep them here, soon
their friends will join,
and when the king returns,
they shall walk in the world,
hidden as his servants.
The unicorn leaves the glade
and you guys are left with
truly an army of demons
here in front of you.
What is going on in
each of you guys' minds?
- Okay.
So, right now, I can't use
verbal or somatic components,
so I think I'm hoping to try to wiggle
in a way that my lighter in my pocket
will light everything on fire to free me.
- I think, yeah, and as
I see Fig doing that,
I think Riz knows she's
gonna be the only one
to be able to get us out of
this, away from all these dudes.
I'm going to pull a real secret agent move
and use my watch and try to
sh**t the laser at Fig's mouth.
- Oh, man.
(Brennan laughing)
- Actually, I'd prefer
if you did my hands,
'cause I want somatic more.
- You want me to do hands?
Okay, as you do like a nod thing,
I sh**t at the wrists.
- Cool.
- Go off, The Ball.
- In order to move your wrist,
you would need to move your hand,
and in order to move your hand,
you're gonna have to spring
out of some of these bonds.
Make a Perception check for me real quick.
- Okay.
Does my inquisitive, my
steady eye doesn't give me--
- Actually, let's do Investigation,
give me Investigation.
- You love to see that.
That's a 17.
- Okay.
You're still holding your
briefcase in your hand.
You're gonna have to probably
drop that to be able to move
and get your watch hand
free, and that might--
- What about, oh, sorry.
- As long as you're not too
worried about raising suspicion.
Like I don't know, the
demons are watching.
So it's a calculated risk,
whatever Riz would do.
- Okay.
- Before you said, okay, go on.
- No, go ahead.
- I was gonna say, before you said that,
would something that
originates from my pick
require verbal and somatic?
- It would, it's still casting a spell.
- Okay, go on then.
- Yeah.
I think despite what the unicorn said,
it is the time for tricks,
so Riz is going to,
ooh, you know, at some
point you have to grow up
and drop the briefcase.
I drop the briefcase,
and I'll use my wrist
to sh**t at Fig's binds.
- Hell yes, awesome.
You drop the briefcase.
I'm gonna say that this is
an attack with disadvantage,
'cause you're still restrained.
- I wink at him, bardic inspiration.
- Hell yeah, you don't need--
- You love to see it.
- Cool.
- You love to see it.
Please.
Okay, okay.
So--
- I'm a d8, babe.
- Okay, a d8, so right now I have a 13,
and then I need a d8.
- So that's gonna be a seven
or an eight on that d8,
am I correct?
Yes.
To hit the--
- I have to get a 20?
- Gotta get a 20, so it's
gotta be a seven or an eight.
You can do it.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- We believe in you, The Ball.
- It's a four.
- Dang.
- All right.
I'm gonna narrate what happens next.
You fire your watch, the demons begin
to hoot and holler with laughter.
You can tell, they kind
of want you to escape,
'cause they wanna be able
to like, k*ll you guys.
You fire it, give me
another Perception check
with advantage.
- Perception or Investigate?
- Investigate.
- 29.
- 29?
No one is moving to stop
you from sh**ting again.
With 29 Investigation, the briefcase,
The Ball's briefcase, is
jiggling a little bit.
Fig.
(Lou laughing)
You are the recipient of a
Sending spell in your mind.
You receive a Sending spell,
and you hear a voice say,
me darling lass, wanted to tell you,
we sold all six suits of armor
and I have your cut
waiting, Bill Seacaster.
- Am I allowed to respond?
- You are allowed to respond.
- Can I sort of send him, drop a pin
and send it back to him?
- Yeah, you can do that.
- And just say like, how
about you pay me in a favor?
And then I drop a pin, and I'll also say,
currently bound, trying to get
some sh*t off me so I can cast spells.
- Hell yeah.
Give me an Insight check as
well, if you'd be so kind.
- That's a nat one.
- Bill is trying to f*ck you over.
There are seven deadly
sins, and he's telling you
that he sold all six suits of armor.
- Oh, so he saved one.
I just, I can't deal with this right now.
I really can't deal with this right now.
Enough is going on, I
don't need someone else
in my life trying to f*ck me over.
- You see that, so.
You're like, yeah, he's f*cking you over.
Riz, you see The Ball's briefcase
is like hopping a little bit,
but the clasp on it is locked.
- Try again.
I'll take a shot at the latch.
- Cool.
This is just a latch on a briefcase,
it's only an AC of 12.
- Okay, disadvantage?
- Still disadvantage, yes.
- Do I get to roll anything to try to have
my lighter light me on fire?
- Yeah, give me a flat luck check.
- Come on.
- 16.
- 16's not bad.
What's that Murph?
- I got a 15 on my attack.
- Murph.
As the demons laugh at you,
the marilith starts to slither
and says, oh, he's found a
little way to fight, has he?
- Come on.
- You hit the latch.
As you hit the latch, you
see the briefcase pops open
and a golden suit of infernal armor
stumbles out, collapses to the ground,
with a huge glowing golden halberd.
As it does so, you see it stands wobbling.
The marilith looks.
The visor is up and you
can't see who it is yet.
The marilith stands up and
says, the armor of sin?
It will latch on to whatever
pride you have and destroy you.
Gilear stands up.
- Oh!
(cast laughing)
Yes!
- What?!
- You see Galier stands up and says,
in my haste to put the armor on,
I buckled the leg plate
and I think I've clipped
the tip of my p*nis against
one of the leg plates,
and every time I move, it
feels like it might come off,
the tip of, so let me assure
you, demon, I have no pride!
(cast laughing)
Roiling with golden red light,
Gilear surges forward, beheads
the marilith in one shot.
- Yes sir!
- Looking up to see which, I was like
I know Gilear has that seventh one.
Yes!
- Gilear moves through these demons
like a force of hell
itself, beheading, goring.
Every time he moves, you
hear, oh, god, my p*nis!
I can't take large steps!
- Can I put my tie to record it?
(cast laughing)
I just want everyone to be
able to see Gilear's big day.
- You pull on your tie.
No demons are watching you.
(Emily murmuring)
- Yeah, I'll try to break loose.
- Go ahead.
The bonds are DC 20, you have
advantage on these checks,
which cancels out the
disadvantage, so it's just,
you have plus 14 to this roll,
you gotta beat a DC of 20.
- What are we rolling for this?
- He's using his Arcadian watch.
- Oh.
Can I just try to break
through with like Strength?
- Give me a Strength check.
- Okay.
- 33.
- Jesus Christ.
Riz, your spy watch goes into action,
a saw of radiant light
cuts you loose from this,
and you are out of your
bonds and have fully
like James Bonded yourself
out of these bindings.
Fig is right across from you.
Gilear is moving through these demons,
just roaring with flame. (roaring)
What does Riz do in this moment?
- I'll help Fig get out.
- Cool.
Give me one more check.
You're not bound anymore, so go ahead
and give me one with advantage.
- That's a flat 20.
- Hell yeah.
Fig, you are loosed from your bindings
as something has changed
in the way Gilear's moving,
like the armor has fully taken over.
He's a f*cking storm.
The demons all begin to flee
and vanish and disappear.
- Oh my god.
- You see standing there
in this golden armor,
the visor down, this last like
rock demon is impaled, split,
and you see Gilear spins the
halberd behind his back--
- Whoa!
- Goes into a three point crouch.
The armor opens up, and
Gilear's fully dead body
is vomited out onto the
ground in front of you.
- What?!
Fully dead?!
- Full stop dead.
Fully dead.
- What?
- Riz, do you have any diamonds on you?
- I'm gonna need Gorgug and Fabian
to give me some Perception checks.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
Are we flying, do we get advantage?
- Yes you are.
- I don't have any diamonds.
- 17, 17.
- 26.
- 26.
- Okay, wait.
- You guys spot infernal fire coming up
from one of the islands and
can fly there with Baxter.
- Okay, Brennan.
I'm going to use Prestidigitation,
because illusion is real here.
I'm gonna use Prestidigitation,
you create a non-magical
trinket or illusory image
that you can fit in your hand.
I'm gonna create a diamond in my hand
and then Revivify Gilear.
- Yes!
- Okay, I'm gonna need, to make it,
I'm gonna need a DC 25 Performance check,
because you are trying to like,
make a diamond beautiful enough
that it would be worth that.
- Okay.
- Can we fly down?
- You guys can fly down, yes.
- Is there anything I can
do to help Fig with this?
- You can give her the help action, yeah.
- Okay.
Can we get there before this happens, or?
- Yeah, do we get to see any
of Gilear's most beautiful day?
- As you guys are descending,
you see the fullness.
But you can just see a
golden suit of armor,
so you don't know what's happening
until you guys land and
Gilear gets vomited out.
- We're cheering and letting out
choking sobs with advantage?
- I don't get it, yeah.
- Can he get a bardic from Fabian?
- Oh, from Fabian.
- Zac, you want a bardic from Fabian--
- Yes, of course.
Spring break, I believe in you.
- [Emily] Oh, okay.
- Also, what's happening?
- Gilear rules and he's dead!
- I got 27, does that count?
- A perfect diamond appears in your hand.
(Emily laughing)
Fig, you rush forward
to Gilear's dead body
prostrate on the ground.
What do you do as you rush up?
- I take him in my arms and I say,
I've always been afraid
that I'm more like you
than I am like Mom, but now
I know that I'm actually
proud that I'm more like
you than I am like Mom.
And I keep him in my arms and
then I bring him back to life.
- You see that flaming anarchy symbol
appears over his heart,
and a portal appears
into his chest of flame.
You reach your hand in, hold his heart,
and with the warmth and heat
of the fire from your hand,
squeeze his heart and (gasps) your father
comes back to life.
- Ooh, can I also say
that I used my bass guitar
to almost like restart his heart?
- Hell yeah, I love that.
Boom, hit that power chord.
He snaps back to it, and as he does so,
you see Gilear (gasps), comes to,
all these wounds over his body.
- You say he's naked?
- Don't look.
- Yeah.
- Let a man have his privacy.
- Okay, all right.
(Emily laughing)
- Actually, you know what?
Gilear is naked.
Everyone make a Dexterity saving throw
to not look at Gilear's
junk while he's naked.
(Siobhan laughing)
- I have danger sense, so
I can do this with two.
- With advantage.
I'm gonna say Fabian,
you roll disadvantage.
- Ah, dammit.
- I have 13.
- Dirty 20.
- 16, I gotta think I don't see it.
- I get a flat 10.
- Fabian and Riz, Gilear is
hung like a g*dd*mn horse.
- f*ck off!
No he's not!
- I just share a look with Fabian.
- I fully look The Ball in the eye.
- Anyone who got a 14 or lower,
you know for a fact that
Gilear is packing like nobody,
you've been in locker
rooms, it doesn't matter,
nobody you've ever seen.
- It doesn't matter.
- 16, blissful ignorance, thanks.
- He truly is the chosen one, The Ball.
I knew it all along, and
now I know it for sure.
- Gilear (gasps) comes back to life,
quickly protects his
modesty, looks at you, Fig,
puts a hand on your head and says, (sobs)
daughter, are you all right, are you safe?
- Yes, yes, I am, I am
specifically because of you,
you just saved me and you saved Riz,
and you saved Baby, as soon as I free him.
- You see Baby screams.
Don't free me, I like this!
(cast laughing)
- Okay, we'll build one
of those for you at home.
- I don't deserve to go
around and do things!
(cast laughing)
You see Gilear look,
and just full weeping,
he goes, my darling daughter,
I am so glad you're safe.
I am sorry I stole the armor
from the bottomless pit.
I just didn't know any other
way that if it came down to it,
I would be able to protect you.
Oh.
- You have nothing to apologize for.
This means everything to me.
(Brennan moans)
- I died, I died really quick.
Really quick in there.
It's hard, because as soon
as I started to kick a*s,
I started to feel like I was cool,
and then the armor just
really k*lled me right away.
- Gilear, that was the coolest
g*dd*mn thing I've ever seen.
You're the coolest guy.
- You see full tears, he
looks around and says,
well, I am very glad that you...
I'm glad it was worth doing.
And if it was cool, then that's fine,
and if I clipped my p*nis
into the armor by accident
and then started to feel
like I was doing a good job,
and then the armor, and then that's pride,
and then the armor found, you
know, you see what I mean?
It's very hard to be
kicking a lot of a*s--
- Gilear, Gilear, don't you realize though
that this opens a well in you.
You've been missing out, I think
you could use a little pride,
so maybe putting on this armor
sort of opened an untapped reservoir
that's maybe been neglected.
And maybe you should dip into
that and try a little pride.
- Drink deeply, Gilear.
- Drink deeply of the well of pride.
- Feel free to go a little too far,
you're so far in the other direction.
- His p*nis is fine, Gorgug,
I'll tell you that right now.
His p*nis is perfectly okay.
- I'm not sure why, I'm
feeling some animosity here,
I'm not sure why.
- I feel like, I didn't
see the whole thing,
but from what I saw, it looked fine.
- I didn't see it all, but
something tells me it's fine.
- It was like over a leg and a little bit
into like some bushes nearby.
- No no, that's all right.
- Oh my god.
- Look, everyone.
That was wild, and I suppose
if I have enough pride
that I can be k*lled by devil armor,
then I should have enough pride
to know that when push came to shove,
I did what was necessary to protect
my daughter and her friends.
So, I feel that I've
done what I needed to do,
and if this was my contribution,
and I had to die and again
hurt my p*nis very badly,
then that is all to the good.
- Dad, oh, go on.
- Sorry, yes.
- No, you go, Dad.
- I was gonna say, some
clothes would be wonderful.
- Well, I can make things
that are the size of my hand,
so I make some small clothing for him.
Just Prestidigitation some clothing.
- I for some reason have
been holding on my inventory
a leather jacket from
the Johnny Spells fight
in the first season.
Can I just give him a leather jacket?
- Perfect.
So Fig creates a crumpled
up pair of briefs,
which is like what you can create,
and so Gilear is wearing
no shirt, leather jacket,
pair of tighty whities,
that's all he's got.
- Oh my god.
- Now this dude f*ck.
(cast laughing)
- Yes he does.
We're here with, we found Baxter,
but we didn't find your mom, by the way.
And I think she might
be under a spell still?
- Under a spell, what do you mean?
- She attacked Baxter.
- So I think she, I don't
know what's going on,
but Baxter is pretty hurt, and he had
a bunch of arrows in him.
- Well, I'm sure--
- Gorgug healed him.
- It's just some kind of spell, right?
- Yeah, I mean, I guess so, I just think
we should be ready for that.
Also, yeah, I only have
one spell slot left,
so I can only heal one more person ever.
- I've got Healing Word,
if anyone needs it.
- Okay.
- I cast Spare the
Dying on Gilear's p*nis.
(cast laughing)
- You guys turn around as
you hear someone approaching.
Adaine rushes into the
clearing, holding a sword.
- Oh!
Hi!
- Hey!
- Hey.
- You cool?
- I'm cool.
- Wait a second, don't use that on us.
- I have a sword now.
I'm not gonna use it on you.
- Okay.
- Wait, is everybody, everybody's here.
- Except for Kristen.
- Everybody except for Kristen.
- Yes, Kristen.
- And also Sandra Lynn, we
think she attacked Baxter.
- And Ragh's still missing, and Tracker.
- And Ragh is still missing, and Tracker.
- The van.
Wait, is the van here?
- And Ayda.
- And Ayda.
- But we know where Ayda
is, we know that Ayda's
at the sanctum at the cottage.
- Wait, which place are we at right now?
Is that not the celestial place?
- You guys are in the celestial gallery.
You can sense other
celestials off in the woods.
You're near where Ayda would be.
- Oh my god, let's go to Ayda.
I have Locate Creature, we can
cast Locate Creature on Ayda.
- Yeah.
- Can we make Gilear get back
in the suitcase real quick?
- How did he get in the suitcase?
- Wait, I can't cast Locate Creature,
I'm out of spell slots, I'm sorry.
- Oh, you see that...
What is it, oh, Gilear looked--
- We had just walked by it.
- Gilear says, after Figueroth told me
I was not allowed to come,
I knew you wouldn't let me,
so I took the armor
while you were sleeping
and I hid in Riz's briefcase.
- Okay. (laughs)
Wow, incredible.
- What's it like in there?
- I was extremely
oxygen-deprived for a long time.
So what I tried to do was
every time I felt like
there was a rest or some stop of movement,
I would pop out and try to open it,
but the last time I did
it, the latch came down
and also there's a lot of stuff in here
and I fell down and
knocked some things over,
so it's been eventful.
- Yeah.
Well, it was all worth it.
And I guess, I don't even know
that we need Locate Creature
to find Ayda, because I
literally got marched by her
and I have her feather,
maybe her feather will--
- Do you wanna hop on Baxter and,
he's only got three HP, but--
- Yeah, I can hop on Baxter
and I can just kind of
fly around to try and find
where I was when I felt her.
- Great.
- Incredible.
So you guys are gonna go run and find,
you're gonna go on Baxter and find Ayda.
What are the rest of you doing
who are staying in the
clearing for right now?
- I would like to cast
Identify on my sword.
- Hell yes, cool.
So you go ahead and to
cast Identify on the sword.
As you do so, you see that...
Ah yes, this is another
use of the Identify spell.
The object that you now hold in your hand
is known as the Sword of Sight,
the ancestral sword of
the oracle of the elves,
constructed in ages long
past by Telemaine Lomenelda.
While wielding this weapon,
that has a plus one bonus
to attack and damage rolls, you
gain the following benefits.
Your base armor class while
wearing no armor is 12,
which would bump your AC up to 15.
You may cast divination
cantrips as a bonus action.
Any time you cast a divination spell,
you gain the benefit of the Dodge action.
You do not have disadvantage
on melee attacks
made with this weapon against
creatures you cannot see.
- Your grandfather made
this sword, Fabian.
- Very cool.
That's my grandpapa.
- He's really good, slow, but good.
- Slow, but good, very good.
- I'd like to really quick,
because I'll probably
have to tape over this with
something more important,
but I'd like to play Gilear
kicking demons' asses
and take a video of it with my crystal.
- Ooh, upload it to our cool account.
- I'll upload it to the cool account.
- It looks like a found footage
viral marketing campaign.
- Yeah.
- Hell yes.
- It's called "Gilear Absolutely
Going Mad on These Lads."
(cast laughing)
- Incredible.
So.
We're going to cut back to...
We are going to cut now
back to Kristen Applebees.
Kristen, what's going through your mind
as you walk through the terror
of the Nightmare King's forest?
- All right, I have something to say.
(cast laughing)
Okay, so I have no spells.
- Correct.
- I've been, I wouldn't say forsaken
since it was more my actions,
but I don't have Sol, I
don't have the moon goddess.
- Mm-mm.
- Okay.
f*ck.
I would like to use my
blood to start drawing,
as fast as I can, what I
saw of this towering goddess
being hit with lightning.
I wanna try to recreate that visual.
- Give me a Religion check.
- Okay, that is a...
That is a 25.
I'm sorry, 24.
- The bark of the trees
hungrily drinks in the blood.
As your dirty fingers smear
the shape of this face,
the blood moves across
the surface of the tree,
sap begins to bleed out
from the rivets of the bark,
and you see the sap is
a deep, viscous red.
(Brennan snarls)
Beware of what you give a face
and what you give a name.
Power there is in these things.
But perhaps more power there yet remains
in the nameless and the unseen.
You know what is unseen, even now.
She is behind you and
not far on your trail.
She is hungry, Kristen,
and when she finds you,
the kiss she gives you will be your last.
- I don't care.
I paint this picture of this
face of the unknown goddess,
and I get down completely, like flat,
like not even bowing, just full body down
face on the ground to worship it,
making myself maybe now the representative
of like 100% of her followers,
if as so above, so below,
I am now representative
100% of her followers,
and I believe she's real
and I believe she's good and
that she can come back again.
It seems like the Nightmare
King wanted to get rid of her,
and the twilight, you know, all the elves
got rid of her as well,
everyone's against her,
but I'm her number one follower.
- You get down underneath this tree,
your hands covered in blood, the image
of the unnamed goddess in front of you.
You begin to pray.
You stop running, and you can
feel something in the forest,
hungry, drawing closer to you.
- Mm-hmm.
That's okay.
I mean, I feel like people need to know
what they're worshiping,
they have this kind of like,
knowledge is power is control,
but I think that that's all an illusion,
none of us really know why we're here,
and this god is perfect for me,
and I'm still just, yeah, whole-heartedly
a follower of this mystery.
- You reach out.
Give me a Religion check.
You roll that with advantage anyway,
but go ahead and give me a Religion check.
- 18.
- You begin to pray.
As you do, you see the
blood on the tree changes.
A beautiful face looks
out at you and says...
You.
All I ever wanted was to be
there for people in the darkness
and tell them that the
night can't hurt you.
That the things that
you're afraid of in shadow
are still dangerous in the light of day,
and that there is nothing in the darkness
other than mystery.
I just wanted to hold their
hand when they couldn't see.
You feel this idea of like,
this being reaching out to you
and saying, everyone
abandoned and destroyed me.
And you see a flash of images.
You see this weird undead
like pixie or sprite
that looks like it's like a cicada husk,
like layers of its skin are paper dry
and like flaking off as
it like chitters around.
You see what looks like a
sculpture made of rotting wood
and old moss-covered stone
in the shape of a centaur,
but like a rotting,
its like jaw is missing
and like hanging loose,
made of like old rotted wood
but with real bone
teeth set into the wood,
and no eyes, just smooth wood
over the top of its face.
You see this like, insane
treant, like living tree,
that is bound by iron bands all over it
that are clearly cutting into its wood,
and it looks like huge and enraged,
and you see the elf that Adaine saw
in her scrying on Kalina,
the one that was in the tree
with the vines going into his mouth,
that was all diseased
and covered in pustules.
You see these flickers
when she talks about
people betraying her, and realize
that these are the court of elders.
These people and the
unicorn are the people
that you know, like
you've read a lot of sh*t
about the high elves tricking people,
but by the same token, these
people worshiped this goddess
and allowed themselves to be tricked.
They did not listen to the visions
that the goddess sent them.
They betrayed their, you know,
it's not just the high elves
that committed this betrayal,
it was the followers
of the goddess as well.
You have an image of the Nightmare King
that you still can't think
of how to piece into this.
You're not sure how the Nightmare King
figures into all this.
And as you had that thing of like,
the Nightmare King k*lled the goddess,
there is a little moment of residual fear,
and you feel that residual fear
sever this vision and this connection.
Not fully, but you feel
yourself like, gain intimacy,
and then as you become
afraid of the Nightmare King,
lose a little bit of intimacy,
and you are back in the
clearing on your knees praying.
A sphere of twilight surrounds you.
Your embrace of doubt surrounds you.
And licking her chops in full wolf form,
her mouth covered in blood, is Tracker,
staring at you hungrily.
- Is the twilight from Tracker?
- Nah baby, that's from you.
- That's from me.
- That's from you.
- Do I feel like spells come
to me, or is this like a...
- I'm going to say, does Kristen have fear
of following the Unnamed Goddess
in her heart still or not?
What is her conviction in
her following that path?
- Zero fear, all conviction.
- Your spells return, Kristen
is a twilight domain cleric.
(Ally laughs)
- Yeah!
- Yeah, b*tch.
Okay, Tracker is in front of me, right?
- Tracker is there.
She is being abjured.
You realize that your twilight
domain is not like Tracker's.
She is a moon priestess.
She follows that like primal path
of the goddess whose followers
k*lled the Unnamed Goddess.
Your sh*t is like pure nighttime.
It is like, the goddess,
you've realized that like,
doubt is impossible to hold
as a conviction in your heart,
but a love and embrace of mystery
is a belief you can hold in your heart.
And that feeling of standing
in the middle of the nighttime
in the deep forest and not being afraid,
that's the power that
now rests in your heart.
Tracker looks at you.
Yeah, what does Kristen do in this moment?
- I cast Greater Invisibility on myself.
- You cast Greater Invisibility.
Tracker (snorts) snarls, and you hear
a voice ring out from her.
Tracker does a good job of
keeping her lycanthropy in check,
this is a curse.
You see this has taken her fully.
You see she says, (snorts),
where are you running?
Why don't you want to be close to me?
Why don't you accept me like I am?
You're so f*cking selfish.
It's always about your
quest, your journey,
your doubt, your mission.
What do I do, just support you?
I'm so tired, I could rip you apart!
(Brennan growling)
- I walk around behind her,
and I slam my staff down
and cast Greater Restoration on her.
- You slam the staff down,
cast Greater Restoration.
Now this is something
that I have to look up
to see if you can cast this
on an unwilling creature.
Hold on one second.
- I have a backup plan if not.
- Do you have a dart?
- No, you just have a potion.
- I just have a potion.
No one would trust me, all right?
- We shoulda given Kristen a dart g*n.
- No, absolutely not.
(all talking at once)
- If you could physically
use the dart, yeah.
Now, yeah.
- I'm gonna home rule this as a like,
it is a like melee attack,
melee spell attack.
So go ahead, you have a plus nine to this.
Tracker's...
Tracker's, ba ba ba.
Where is Tracker, hold on.
Tracker's armor class is
13, so you just have to roll
a four or higher.
What'd you get?
Three.
- A three.
f*ck!
- Your hand moves through Tracker.
You see you are incorporeal.
You're still dead, or undead,
or whatever thing you are.
And you see that you are sucked away
as Tracker screams out in
pain, just howling, and says,
why are you leaving me!
I always knew you were
gonna leave me! (shouts)
And you are gone.
- As I'm being taken away, can I...
f*ck, nevermind, I don't wanna do that.
(Ally groans)
f*ck, okay, yeah, nevermind, sorry.
- You zoom off.
As you do so, as you zoom away from there,
you see the forest
filling you with visions.
You see the face of the Nightmare King
as the forest races past you,
you're zooming through it.
The Nightmare King says...
Why?
You worship something
that is dead and gone,
the goddess is no more.
You have chosen a path of pain.
And fear rushes into you.
- Can I roll to get to fight that?
'Cause I think death is
the ultimate mystery.
I think it's fine that she's dead.
- f*ck yeah.
And in fact, you said you're doing
your twilight domain thing, right?
So like--
- Yeah. (laughs)
- You can just end the
fear effect on yourself.
This Nightmare King just starts throwing
vision after vision of you.
It throws you visions of the fact
that you abandoned your
following of Helio,
you know, people, all
of those second guesses
of the fact that you chose a harder life
for yourself, hands down.
Your brothers are left behind,
your parents are confused,
and everything you've ever been afraid of,
every weird, irrational story
you've ever told yourself
about why you're bad, and that final fear
comes in front of you.
What do you think Kristen's
final fear she faces is?
What's the last thing she sees
that the Nightmare King
does to try to break her?
- I mean, I just saw Tracker so messed up,
maybe it's like Helio or
someone coming and saving
like all of my friends,
and I was just so wrong,
like couldn't have been more wrong,
and I just die totally
alone, without taking
the easy answers that were offered.
- You look back, and the fear
that the Nightmare King uses
that you feel about to snap
to snap your soul in half
is that exact fear.
You got told your entire childhood
that the world would tempt you,
that the devil always sounds convincing,
and that if you strayed from
the path, you would be lost.
And what did you do when
you went to Aguefort?
Exactly what your parents said,
you strayed from the path.
And you left because you
were so sure you were right,
and you still haven't found the answers
that you thought you could find,
and would it have been so bad to be wrong
if you were just gonna
be wrong anyway this way
and be miserable?
And you feel that.
You feel that that's the
best card the Nightmare King
can play as you are whisking
through space and time.
What does Kristen do as you
break that fear off of you?
- I think I think about how the...
Who was the god that I just talked to
that's like Tracker's god?
- Galicaea.
- Galicaea, I think about how
she just straight-up lied.
Like she's clearly grasping
at straws for power,
she said that the Nightmare
King k*lled her sister
when in reality, she convinced
all of her sister's
followers to forget her.
Like it just seems like
everybody is after,
it's a power grab, and
everybody's basic and wrong.
(Brennan and Ally laughing)
- As you say, "everybody
is basic and wrong,"
(cast laughing)
you leave the realm of fear.
- Cool.
- You're drawing spells from
a divinity that is gone,
and the spells are working,
and you got k*lled,
but you didn't die, and anyone
who can look at those facts
and think they know how
the cosmos works is crazy.
And the only sane thing to do is to accept
that all of this and the
way it all fits together
is more complex than any being,
even a god, could understand.
And the honesty of the
divinity you've chosen
that says "mortals, I also don't know,"
fills you with more hope and
peace than you can imagine.
You are floating above all of
your friends in a clearing.
You can see them all.
It doesn't really make sense,
but you feel something,
in one of your friends'
pockets, I believe it's Adaine,
it's either Adaine or Fig.
Who took Kristen's finger bone?
Adaine.
- I did.
- You feel drawn to
something in Adaine's pocket.
- Okay, I go reach into Adaine's pocket.
- Do you feel something?
- You guys watch as a finger bone,
Kristen's finger bone,
floats up into the air.
- What the hell?
(Brian shouts)
I hate this place.
- As you guys do that...
- I'm gonna attack it.
I get crit automatically on objects, so.
(Siobhan laughing)
- I pull out my g*n.
- Max damage on this finger bone.
- I think I'm on Baxter, I
think I might not be there.
- Kristen.
You're holding your own finger bone.
- I've always wanted to do that.
(Brennan laughing)
- Maybe you died, maybe
this is some new thing.
You think it might be impossible
for you to come back to life.
But...
You feel these like
new spells and miracles
filling your body, coming
from this unknown source.
The fact that something is impossible
maybe doesn't mean anything.
You feel a potential that you could maybe,
if you wanted to, cast
Raise Dead on yourself.
- Whoa.
- I cast Raise Dead on myself.
- You guys look, see the finger bone,
it turns into a single point
of light, like a distant star.
- Of course.
- And the night sky appears
behind it and opens.
With a halo of softly scintillating shadow
depicting a starry nighttime sky,
Saint Kristen Applebees walks out of void,
having raised herself from the dead,
as your finger reattaches,
and forever after glows
with a little bit of starlight.
- [Ally] Oh, that's hot for being g*y.
(cast laughing)
- Incredible.
Awesome.
Kristen has returned, you guys
see Kristen back with you.
- It's Kristen!
- Hey!
- Am I there?
Am I there?
- Yes, you are still there,
you had not left on Baxter yet.
- Kristen, I'm sorry, I
tried to Revivify you,
and then I went into this
tunnel, and it was scary,
and then we found you and it was bones.
- Your bones were really old.
- It's like you died 600
years ago or something.
- I chased that unicorn, I thought that
the unicorn took you, but
then it didn't, 'cause--
- Are you okay?
- No, the unicorn is bad,
the unicorn is part of like
a council of elders and all of
them f*cked over my new god,
and it's the only one alive, it seems like
- New god?
- Wait, Gorgug, I died again.
- Aww, yeah, I know.
I'm so sorry I wasn't there.
- No, it's okay, it's just
it's different the second time.
- Was the second time different?
Okay, interesting.
- It's like meeting the boss.
It's like the boss level.
I got to see a bunch of different
gods, they all were bad.
Yeah, no, but anyway, yeah, now
I'm, oh wait, I saw Tracker.
Tracker is really f*cked up.
Are you guys good, did you find everybody?
- We can't find--
- Ayda and Sandra Lynn?
- We know where Ayda is.
- I k*lled my dad.
(Ally gasps)
- You k*lled your dad?
(all talking at once)
- Damn.
- Congrats!
- That's good, I'm happy for you.
- Man.
- I had to leave Aelwyn, but
we weren't very far away,
I feel like, can we go back
to where I left Aelwyn?
- Yes, so there is Ayda to
get, there is Aelwyn to get,
Gilear is here with you guys as well.
- The chosen one.
I believe it now.
- Tracker.
- Tracker, Ragh.
- Ragh, and you know that your mom
is somewhere off doing the ritual.
So--
- And then yeah, what about Sandra Lynn?
- Sandra Lynn, you haven't
seen Sandra Lynn yet,
nor have you guys seen Ragh.
- Okay.
- Okay, so they're somewhere together.
- Can we try to, how much time do we have?
- I think you guys probably don't think
you have too much time.
Who's going to go get Ayda,
who's gonna go get Aelwyn,
and is there anything
else people are doing?
- While we're doing, oh, sorry.
- Can I take either Kristen or Gorgug?
Either Kristen or Gorgug.
- One slot total.
- She just needs to be brought back up.
- I can do it now.
- I could also use someone with heals,
I don't know how hurt Ayda is.
- I think that's just--
- Oh, you're right.
Who has antidotes, who do we need to heal?
- I do not.
- I tried to heal
Tracker, but I f*cked up.
- I can go, if Kristen
wanted to come with me,
I could try to get tracker with a dart.
- Yes, yeah, I think that will work,
she's really rabid.
- Kristen, you're the only one
that can really heal anyone, also.
- Is there a way to get
everybody in one spot?
'Cause I have some new
kind of like aura abilities
that I can heal and protect
people if we get us stacked.
- Okay.
I can go just grab Ayda on Baxter
and bring her back to be healed by you.
- That's a good idea.
Fig, do you have any--
- Yeah, Fabian, do you wanna come
on a Aelwyn rescue mission with me?
- I would love to.
- Fig, do you have any heals?
- I have bonus action Healing Words.
- Okay.
- I have some heals that I
could try to heal Baxter with.
I have a Cure Wounds.
- Cool.
So it sounds like you
guys are gonna split up.
Adaine and Fabian are
gonna go to get Aelwyn.
Fig and Gorgug, Fig and who
else is gonna go get Ayda?
- I can go wherever.
What makes sense for, I
think I could go with Fig.
- Yeah, why don't you come with me?
- That makes the most sense.
- And then Riz and Kris- Gilear's
gonna go with Fig as well.
Riz and Kristen are going off
to go try to find Tracker?
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- I just healed Baxter for 20, by the way.
- Yeah!
- Whoa.
- Look at that.
- Also, our final bad kid to do this,
Kristen's Intelligence
bumps up two points to 14.
- Hey!
- The smart kids.
- It's not the Dex, though?
- Not Dex, though?
- Yeah, not that Dex, though?
- I don't know what you
guys are talking about,
I'm very dextrous.
When have I ever like fallen down?
- [Zac] You fell down right
now, you're on the ground.
- You don't bend your knees when you walk.
- Incredible.
You guys split up, we're
gonna take a short break here.
Maybe we actually should
take our full break here,
we've been playing for
about two and a half hours.
And we will come back and jump
right in, hell yeah, g*ng.
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07x19 - Spring Break! I Believe In You! (Part 1)
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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.