(suspenseful dramatic music)
(lightning crashing)
(rain pattering)
(suspenseful dramatic music continues)
(thunder rumbles)
(mouse squeaks)
- Welcome one and all
to another thrilling
episode of Mice & m*rder.
I'm your humble dungeon
master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me, as always,
are our Sylvan Sleuths.
Say hi, Sylvan Sleuths.
- [All] Hi, Sylvan Sleuths.
- Yeah!
(Raphael laughs)
Awesome!
Last we left off, our
animal investigators,
We were in a thrilling
fight for our very lives.
The top of the elevator, indeed.
The freight elevator in the
servant's entrance of Loam Hall
brought Buckster $ Boyd, Gangie Green,
and Sergeant Lars Vandenchomp
to the top of the hill under the storm,
where they met a masked figure,
who leapt forward,
and almost struck down
Sergeant Vandenchomp.
One, two, bam, bam!
Two punches across the face.
And as the gate was closed,
when Buckster hit the down button,
Gangie Green pushed out with his shovel,
(imitates shovel clomping)
hearing a crunch underneath
the coat of the masked figure.
The elevator went to the bottom.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the house,
Sylvester Cross, and Dr. Corbin Magpie
cracked the secret of Squire
Badger's self-inflicted wound.
Not a self-inflicted wound at all!
Not a possession by a malignant spirit.
Not an attempt at suicide.
But instead, an attempt at surgery.
Indeed, a piece of shrapnel
from the Schnauzer w*r in Bavaria
had lodged its way years earlier
into Squire Badger's chest
right outside of his heart,
and a burst electromagnetism,
which we had already seen affect
all the metal objects in the room,
must have pushed the shrapnel
deeper into his chest.
And in his attempt to get it out,
Mrs. Molesly perceived,
what she thought to be,
a horrifying act of the occult.
That mystery solved.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the room,
having witnessed a truly
stunning act of quick moving
personal divulgence with Rosalind Crumb,
one of the maid staff,
(laughing)
just showing her whole butt
to Daisy D'umpstaire.
- Yes.
- Daisy used that opportunity
to look up a list of names,
- Your butt.
- Yeah.
- but to look up
a list of names
in the "Chronicles of Barkus
Aurelius" on the desk,
on page 318, finding a list of names
of different Roman emperors,
and also discovering
why the desk had been bolted down.
Indeed, there was some complex wiring
that was creating an open
patch of electrical charge
that shocked her hand at the beginning,
and then by the end of her
investigation into the room,
was no longer running an active current.
Daisy absconded from
the room to go upstairs,
where Vicar Ian was trying
to solve the mystery
of the incorrect dates on
the bust of Barkus Aurelius,
having a confrontation
with Colonel James Hawkins
about his presence in the library.
Vicar Ian joined Daisy D'umpstaire,
who was able to shut the
door at a moment's notice
to perceive Colonel Hawkins
rummaging through Squire
Badger's secret study,
taking several documents,
and also leaving a medal from his coat
in the drawer of Squire Badger.
All of you looking into the study,
now know that the entrance to the study
must be somewhere in the library.
- I knew it!
- Oh (laughs).
We ended last week's episode
with Sergeant Vandenchomp, Mr. Green,
and Mr. Boyd exiting the elevator,
with a slash across Gangie's arm,
and a bad wound in Lars' abdomen,
to see Colonel Hawkins, Mr. Gilfoyle,
and a number of the house staff
in the hall outside the missing elevator.
You were pronounced under arrest,
and that's where we left off last week.
We are going to be getting
this week's episode
upstairs in the Seance Room.
(interposing voices)
(Brennan laughs)
Daisy D'umpstaire, you
are up on the step ladder
looking in through the eyes
of the portrait at the study,
which is now dark one again.
Behind you in the pitch black
Seance Room is Vicar Ian,
who's owlish eyes are wide
here in the darkness with you,
and you hear the footsteps
of Colonel Hawkins
going back down the staircase.
What do the two of you
do in pitch darkness
and total silence?
- I have a question.
- Go for it.
- Mm-hmm.
(electronic buzzing)
- We're in a seance room
full of a occultish objects
and things used to summon
magical spirits and the dead.
Sam, I have texted this idea
to you, and I know it's stupid.
If ghosts are real,
and these holes are tiny,
can I summon a ghost to
go through the hole for me
to find what I'm looking for?
- Yeah, can Rekha roll to
see if ghosts are real?
(all laughing)
- All right.
- Watch you nat 20 on this.
(Rekha laughs)
- Rekha,
- Okay.
- I would like you
to roll a religion check for me.
- Oh!
- Now, I'm rolling this?
Okay.
And Vicar, the religious man, is not?
Okay.
(Grant laughs)
- Hey, Vicar!
Do you wanna summon and
bind a ghost to your aid?
Is that the kind of sh*t
that priests get up to all the time?
(all laughing)
- Well, well, I mean, exorcisms,
but I guess that's kinda, that's related.
- I'll do a religion check.
Okay.
- All right.
- Ian?
Ian, if you could look
away from me for a second.
(Grant laughs)
- I'll just close my eyes.
- Great.
- Now, look...
Turn around too.
I can feel your...
Your eyes are very spooky.
- Yeah.
My head spins
right back around.
- And your body stays
exactly where it is.
(all laughing)
- Okay, Daisy, you're alone.
For all intents and
purposes, you're alone.
When you're alone, you shine, girl.
You shine.
You shine like a bright
diamond in daddy's eye.
(Rekha sighs loudly)
Nat 20!
(Grant laughs)
- Oh, yes!
So many!
- Show it, show it,
show it!
- Okay.
(Sam laughs)
- [Rekha] Can you see?
- Oh, no.
You're sh*t's gonna be
all f*cked up now.
- Wow, wow, wow,
wow, wow.
- It is.
- You can see
- It is.
- [Rekha] all my foil too.
Hold on.
It went away.
- Yes.
- Ghosts are real!
- You're all f*cked.
- [Sam] Worth it.
- It's gonna be-
- Totally worth it.
- [Rekha] Sorry, Schaubach.
(foil rattles)
- [Sam] You have a full 30
seconds before Brennan recovers
from his stunned silence.
(all laughing)
- We're gonna need another hour.
We'll be right back.
(all laughing)
- We broke Brennan.
♪ We broke Brennan. ♪
(both laughing)
- Hey, Brennan,
eat sh*t.
- Hey, Brennan,
ghosts are real.
- Hey.
- Take that.
(Sam laughs)
- Hey, b*tch.
Hey, b*tch, guess what?
- Sorry about it.
- 'Cause I thought it, it's real.
- Constance,
or what's her name?
- Lucretia?
- Lucretia was right
this whole time.
(interposing voices)
- She's gonna sh*t herself
when she comes back in here.
(Raph laughs)
- Everything is real!
The nat 20 proves it.
- Positively-
- I am positively
- Oh, man.
- sh1tting myself.
(all laughing)
- I am ruined.
I am ruined.
(Raphael laughs)
No nat 20
has ever been more untimely.
This is the end of my life.
- Yeah!
- I don't know-
(interposing voices)
Hemingway?
- Yeah.
- Let's hear a little...
click-clack on those keys
while you fix 'em today, huh?
(all laughing)
Let's go.
- Just to be clear, Rekha said,
"Can I have a ghost go through the eyehole
into this secret room,
and check sh*t out for me?",
and then she critted on it.
(Rekha laughs)
(interposing voices)
- I just wanna be clear,
like how much all of us appreciate
the world building you do, b*tch.
- Yeah.
- Like, it kinda means a lot.
(all laughing)
- Yeah.
- b*tch, b*tch,
we super, super appreciate you, b*tch.
We love you, b*tch.
We really do.
Something I did say off camera
that I do wanna just say again is,
I really appreciate, b*tch,
that like yesterday, we
diarrheaed all over the place,
and you had to spend a
whole hour this morning
cleaning it up.
- Yeah.
- And I did just plop
a big one right into your mouth.
(all laughing)
- You did.
- The whole thing of this genre is that
there are detectives who say,
the supernatural isn't real,
and I can
prove it with science.
- Yes, yes.
- So anyway, ghost?
- Listen, let me say,
to justify why Daisy has done this,
Daisy, in the beginning,
she talked to Lucretia, Lady Lucretia,
to kinda just butter her up.
She didn't believe sh*t she was saying.
But when Lady Lucretia read her
whatever f*ck' BO,
or whatever the f*ck she reads (laughs),
that stuck in Daisy's mind.
So she's merely recalling
something from earlier,
and trying to see if
like, okay, was that real?
Lady Lucretia sounds
absolutely out of her gourd,
but-
- I mean,
a nat 20 could just be like,
you realized it's fake (laughs).
- Yeah.
(interposing voices)
- You get clarity.
- It could be like,
you learned that ghosts
actually don't exist.
(Rekha laughs)
- Don't help him.
- Sure, and that's fair.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
I've never gotten rocked this hard.
This is the hardest I've
ever gotten rocked, I think.
(Raphael chuckles)
I am ready to honor
this nat 20 religion check.
- Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!
- Oh!
- So amusing.
- Yeah.
So Daisy-
- What-
- Yeah.
- Describe what Daisy
does for me
if you would be so kind?
- Okay, I will.
So Daisy kind of gently paws
some of the items on this altar.
She sees a book.
She opens it.
It looks like garbledy gook to her.
She lifts up a little
necklace amulet thing.
And then she goes over
to this crystal ball.
This crystal ball on the table,
decidedly looks different
than the Party City one.
She gazes into it,
and sees her own reflection
staring back at her.
She goes, "Please, if there
any spirits in this room,
I don't even know if I believe in you,
but please help me get
into those eyeball holes,
and retrieve these documents".
(imitates air whooshing)
- Things in the room begin to glow
with a strange and unnatural light
(whimsical tones)
as the center of the
crystal ball glows white.
(imitates air whooshing)
You look into the ball.
Vicar, you are seeing the same thing.
This is not a hallucination.
- I am seeing it.
Okay, can I open my eyes now?
(interposing voices)
Can I open my eyes now?
Can I look?
- You are-
(Rekha mumbles)
- Can I look, Daisy?
(Rekha speaks indistinctly)
Can I look?
- Vicar, I'm worried you'll f*ck this up.
Close 'em.
- I know it.
(both laughing)
- You look into the center
of the crystal ball, Daisy,
and you see a shape swimming
within the mist of the crystal ball.
This crystal ball is
not the Party City one.
This is an enormous...
It's so large that it like takes up
kinda a corner of the room.
It's almost like one of those globes
that would have like a table unto itself.
It's about that size.
And you see a shape.
You see sickly and curled up,
but now unfurling,
the pale, translucent shape
of a mouse wearing rags,
who looks up.
(both gasping)
Please, is there someone there?
(Brennan gasps)
- Yes.
- I'm trapped.
I'm trapped somewhere
dark, but I see a light.
Tell Catherine...
Tell Catherine, I'm here.
(both gasping)
- Oh my god!
Are you Connor McCabbage?
(Katie gasps)
- You have spoken my name.
(imitates air whooshing)
What does Daisy do in this moment?
(electronic buzzing)
- [Rekha] What do I do?
- You summoned him to go
look in a f*ck' office,
so-
(all laughing)
- Okay, Connor, Connor,
I super wanna hear about
what's going on with you,
and where you're trapped, and everything.
Do you mind just taking a
little peak in that office?
I'm looking for a contract.
(speaks indistinctly)
(all laughing)
And you are small, like a
mouse, and you are a ghost,
and I think that's doubly helpful to me.
- You see the ghost of Connor McCabbage
looks at you, and says,
(breathes shakily) I am
so sorry, I'm trapped.
I'm trapped.
- Okay.
- I can't move.
- It's okay.
- I can't.
You see, he looks at you and
says, "There's great danger".
- Okay.
- "There is great danger".
- Wait, but it sounds like
you're about to leave.
Please don't leave.
My second question is, were you m*rder*d?
Were you m*rder*d or was
it an industry accident?
- You must - Squire Badger!
There's someone behind-
- Wait, what?
- And he-
(laughs)
- No, no, no, no.
- No!
Oh, f*ck!
Was Squire Badger m*rder*d?
- Ian, did you open your eyes?
- Is he a ghost?
- You stupid b*tch!
Did you open your f*ck' eyes?
(Raphael laughs)
- No, but I can hear everything.
(all laughing)
I didn't cover my ears.
- Incredible.
- What in
- Jesus Christ.
- Oh my god.
- Wow.
- the-
- God is real?
- No, god is-
(Grant laughs)
- Ghosts are real, b*tch.
- Oh ghosts, but not god?
- Go Squire Badger.
Squire Badger, there is someone behind.
- Is it Squire Badger-
- You, right now?
- It it Squire Badger-
- Is there someone
in the room with you?
- I think there's someone
in the f*ck'-
- I was behind her.
I was behind her.
- I think, as he says,
"There's someone behind",
you both reflexively turn,
like whip around to look,
and by the time you look back,
the lights in the room,
the strange, unnatural lights have faded,
and the crystal ball is
once again just a frosted...
It's like one of those
large marbled-type-things,
where it's clear crystal,
but as it goes deeper in,
the microscopic fractures whiten
and eventually cloud the crystals
towards the center of it.
- So Daisy...
Daisy is-
- Can I get a-
- Yeah, go ahead.
- Can I get a quick
judgment call, Brennan?
We're not in the room, I know,
but should we be doing
like group theorizing,
problem solving, even so,
or should we hold off-
- I think-
I think that like,
unless you think it would be more fun
for your character to crack it later,
I think offering...
Because this is a weird game of D&D,
in that, I am leaving some of the puzzle
for you guys to solve.
There is more of an escape
room element to this
than there would normally be in D&D.
So feel free
to offer observations.
- Cool.
- So Squire Badger,
- Yes.
- "There's someone behind",
does that play into the whole
dual Squire Badger theory?
- Here's what I think.
To me, I didn't read that as
Squire Badger, there's somebody behind.
I read that as Squire Badger, ellipsis,
there's somebody behind...
Which I don't know if that changes things,
but like-
- Yeah.
- Wait, are you saying-
(interposing voices)
- 'Cause I heard, Squire Badger,
colon,
- Colon.
- Yeah.
- there's somebody behind.
- You're saying, he's
addressing Squire Badger,
telling him there's someone
behind Squire Badger?
- I think there's
two ways to interpret it.
There's one, telling
- Yes.
- Squire Badger, there's
someone behind you
that's about to whatever, do something,
or I think it's...
Listen, I don't know what I think anymore.
- Rekha, write it down.
- Or Squire Badger-
(interposing voices)
- I know!
(interposing voices continues)
- See, what I heard was, Squire
Badger, exclamation point,
there's someone, comma, behind,
dot dot.
- And let's keep in mind,
this is the same bullshit logic
I used on that note of,
"I'm afraid", or whatever.
"Sylvester Cross, I'm afraid."
"Sylvester Cross, I'm afraid."
- Yes.
- So-
- Yeah, that note.
(interposing voices)
- Do you guys think that
the place that he's trapped,
is he alive in a grave?
Like did Gangie bury this,
like, half alive mouse?
- I think he's in hell.
I think he did something bad in his life,
and then he died, and he went to hell,
'cause-
- This little, sweet mouse?
- No.
- Yeah, you know?
Well, his name is Connor,
and you know the Irish.
(laughs)
Wait, Rekha,
I can't see.
- Put-
- Hmm, well that didn't
help at all.
- Wait, what does that say?
(interposing voices)
- We can't really see it.
(Katie laughs)
(interposing voices)
- [Both] Okay.
- So-
- Hey, he also said,
"Tell Catherine", by the way.
- He did?
- But that was
his first thing...
Did he say, "Tell Catherine"
or "Get Catherine"?
He said, (mumbles)
"Tell Catherine",
- Yes.
- blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
"Squire Badger, there's someone behind."
- Is there any way we could have him
repeat what he said slower?
(Grant laughs)
- And here's what I'll say,
that f*ck didn't do
either thing I asked.
(interposing voices)
- He doesn't listen.
- Well-
- Yeah, he doesn't listen.
- Well that's the thing.
I will say, you got a
nat 20 religion check.
You didn't get a nat 20 persuasion check.
So he-
(Grant moans)
(Brennan laughs)
(interposing voices)
- Enough to see a ghost,
- Yeah.
- not to direct said ghost.
- Damn.
- Hmm.
Should have shown him my butt.
(all laughing)
- Incredible.
- You're in a room
with a priest showing your
a*s to a crystal ball.
(all laughing)
- Okay, Ian, you better not look!
(Grant and Rekha laughing)
- There's someone behind,
maybe he's talking about
Squire Badger is behind,
Looking through again at you two.
- Exactly, right?
- I think he's-
- Yeah, I think it's-
- He's reliving a memory
- Yes.
- from when he got pushed
at the mill,
because I still think he was m*rder*d,
and I believe, sometime this evening,
Great Detective
- Oh!
- Sylvester Cross will
have the opportunity
to solve two crimes.
- As in there's someone behind me?
- Yes.
- [Both] Pushing me.
- Pushing me.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- I don't think he gives a sh*t
about whatever your whole deal is.
I think he's-
(interposing voices)
- I know, he didn't go
- So he's in ghost form?
- to get my contract.
(Grant laughs)
- So he says-
- Somehow, the whole
real estate scam seems
somehow insignificant.
- Well, I'll say this.
(Rekha claps)
As the light...
So Ian and Daisy, you...
I don't know what mental or
emotional state you're just in.
Daisy, I'm sure your conviction
in the existence of ghosts
has never been stronger.
You did this, like, leap of faith,
and fully summoned a ghost.
Vicar Prescott, what the f*ck
is going on with you right now?
- God is real.
He's just been ignoring
me this whole time.
(all laughing)
He's gonna send me off
to f*ck' Siberia.
(all continues laughing)
What the hell, man?
You revealed yourself to Daisy?
(Grant laughs)
Daisy Dumpster?
(all laughing)
- D'umpstaire, you little b*tch!
- I know where you come from.
(all laughing)
You can clean it up all you want to,
but it's still there, D'umpstaire.
- Wow, a man of God, nice.
(Raphael laughs)
- Incredible.
Okay.
So you two are in the room.
What else, if anything, do you do?
I mean, like, I assume
that there is a long pause,
where you process what just happened.
But is there anything else
that you guys are doing?
I think, bizarrely, Daisy,
for being the pragmatist that she is,
give me an investigation check.
- Okay.
16.
- I think that...
So that's like bronze medal information.
I think 16, you would know,
okay, well, I wasn't able to light...
The spirits did not reveal
anything to me here.
But as those strange lights come on,
you did see through the
illumination into the study
the other side of the door.
You know exactly where
the door is in the library
that goes into the secret study.
Like, you see, like,
okay, that's where Colonel
Hawkins walked in from.
So, like, it's a question of like,
you know exactly where this
f*ck' secret place is.
There may be some trick to opening it.
But other than that,
like, you do think you, like, know
where the entrance is at least.
- Okay.
- And the library
is next door to where you guys,
to where you and the Vicar
are right now.
- Yes.
I think...
(mysterious quirky music)
I gotta try to go to that library.
- Yeah.
- Hell yeah.
- I think so.
- Let's head over to Roll20.
(mysterious quirky music continues)
So y'all are-
- Ian, are you comin' with?
I know you were just there
probably
- Yeah, I'm comin' with.
- stinkin' up a storm.
- I came in-
I came in to talk to you
about the Barkus Aurelius,
to make that...
But yeah, I'm comin' with
you back to the library,
- Okay.
- if you can get in there.
(Rekha scoffs)
(Grant and Rekha laughs)
- Hell yes!
Great, great, great.
- High with confidence now.
(Rekha laughs)
- Yeah.
- I would do anything
just to have it be Daisy
and Ian for a lot longer.
(all laughing)
- Incredible.
- Yeah, two people
who have nothing to say to each other.
(all laughing)
- I truly-
- Except the Aurelius thing.
That's the whole point.
That was the whole point
of me walkin' in there.
- Yeah, okay, what do
you have to say, Vicar?
- Well, you need...
Well...
So you have information
that I don't have, right?
- I have five names of Roman emperors.
- And I wonder if those are the same?
'Cause they're like...
They're out of...
Not out of order,
- Busts.
- but the dates...
Yeah, yeah, they have the-
- If we line up the things
in the correct order,
we open a thingy?
- Yes.
- Yeah, we just
gotta invent...
Like, I just know
- Some legends at
- I need to be with
- at the hidden temple sh*t?
- Yeah, I just know I need to
be with you,
- For sure.
- and we both need to
be in there to-
- I need to be with you.
- You think-
- No.
Oh my god.
- Okay.
(Grant laughs)
Vicar, I'm not really
interested in-
- Well, I don't know
if you understand how this works,
but I can't be.
Even if I am interested,
- I'm flattered.
- I'm not allowed
- Hey, Vicar?
- to pursue anything.
- Honey, I'm flattered.
(Raphael laughs)
Honey, I'm flattered.
(all laughing)
Really, I am,
(Raphael laughs)
but no thanks.
(all laughing)
- Incredible.
- Just show your a*s to him.
(all laughing)
- So both of you guys...
Both of you guys can exit the Seance Room,
and head next door into the library.
- Awesome.
- What is an owl's
a*s look like?
- Yeah, what do they-
- Oh, you gonna find out.
- Let me tell you.
(all laughing)
No thank you.
Vicar, no thanks.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I don't wanna see your a*s.
- Anyone who wants
to find out can.
- I would like to find out.
- Okay.
(all laughing)
So you are all in the library.
You look around and see the various busts,
and other things of that nature,
that are gathered around here.
Go ahead.
I would say, first off,
give me a perception check,
and then give me any other skill checks
that you want to make.
- Okay, so first, perception.
- Perception, 16.
- 13.
- So I think, Daisy, you're the quick,
you're the ones that quickly clocks
all of the busts in the room.
Ian you don't notice anything.
The busts are actually all in order.
- Right.
It's just that-
- They're all-
Yeah, they're all in
order chronologically.
They're all on the same
shelf height going around.
They're a lovely decoration to the room.
Daisy, you remember a
little thumping noise
that you heard in here from the library
when Colonel Hawkins
was alone and by himself
(Rekha mumbles indistinctly)
that sounded like small, heavy objects
being moved around the room.
- Mm-hmm, so there's some-
- Busts.
- There's some sequence of
busts, yeah, that you move
to open the door.
- Can I offer a suggestion?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Should you see if there's
a ghost that can help you?
(all laughing)
- Oh my god!
I try to summon a ghost to help me,
because I don't wanna
break my fingernails.
(all laughing)
- Daisy doesn't wanna
- Rekha?
- break her fingernails.
(Rekha and Katie laughs)
- Okay, can I ask where the busts,
or like, yeah, like where-
- Yes.
There are five busts.
Barkus Aurelius is upper left,
and then there are three
along the right wall,
and then the fifth is on the left side
in that other little
section by that table.
- Great.
I'm like, please, God, send me a text.
- I know, I wanna text too.
- It's like waiting for
a guy to text you back,
like would you just text me,
text me some mystery?
- Please.
(Brennan laughs)
(Rekha mumbles)
(Brennan and Rekha laughs)
- I thought Brennan
would have texted by now.
- Yeah, I thought maybe-
- I don't understand,
we played Dungeon and
Dragons all day yesterday.
- We played for 20 hours.
(Brennan laughs)
- Incredible.
(Rekha laughs)
Okay.
So what I will ask now,
'cause look, you look at the statues.
You have the list from
page 318 downstairs.
But what I would like,
is for you guys to make some checks here.
Make whatever you want.
I think probably the ones
that make the most sense are
history or investigation.
- Right.
- Vicar, what is your history?
Mine's plus five.
- So my history is plus eight.
- Okay, I'm gonna do an investigation,
'cause I'm plus nine.
- All right, cool.
(dice rattles)
- Okay, can you not look at me?
(Rekha speaks indistinctly)
- Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I close my...
I rolled a 18 for history,
and then I closed my eyes.
(laughs)
- Okay, Vicar.
And Vicar, van you turn around?
I just feel that you got
some weird energy.
- I'll just turn my head.
I'm too tired to turn my whole body.
- Okay.
Daisy.
Hello.
Checkin' back in with you, just you.
You see what you can do alone.
Just channel that in your investigation
of this here library.
(gentle instrumental music)
Wow.
I think you turned around, Ian.
I got an 11.
- Ah.
- Okay.
(Raphael laughs)
- That's okay.
You did a good history.
- Yes.
♪ Buh-Ba-Ba-bum ♪
- Awesome.
Oh, so you got an 11?
So Raph, I've just texted you.
- Oh.
(Katie gasps)
- Okay.
(Grant laughs)
- I didn't get it yet.
- I didn't...
- Can I get a text?
- See anything.
(Brennan laughs)
- Hold on one second.
So Raph, I just texted you,
(message chimes)
and I think on an 18.
But I will say...
Yes, I will say this.
You see the busts going around the room.
So I think, Daisy, on
that 11, you realize,
they're already in the
correct chronological order
that they were in.
- But are they in favorite order?
- No, probably.
(Brennan laughs)
No, probably not, I realized.
Not in favorite order.
So they're in order chronologically.
They are not in the correct order.
In terms of favorites,
would suggest how great
they were as emperors.
And in that case, they're out of order,
but you can put them in their
correct order of greatness
if you start with Barkus Aurelius.
- And I think, yeah, here, Ian,
you walk over and see Barkus over,
which appears to be in position,
in this fixed position,
on the shelf that you know, Daisy,
is the secret door shelf.
So Barkus is there in that position.
- Okay.
- And you look over.
These busts all have dates on them,
but the names are written very small.
But I think, Ian, you'd be able to name
the emperors in the room
just by looking at them,
if you wanna go ahead
and name them in the
sort of the right order?
- Okay, so the right order, in terms of...
The right order,
in terms of the favorites
or the greats, would be...
Checks notes.
(players laughing)
- Wow, he just pulled
that out of his feathers.
(all laughing)
- Pawdius The Peaceful.
Growlius.
I mean, well, starting
from Barkus Aurelius,
just, okay.
- Yes.
- The order would go-
- So-
- Brennan's like, yeah, I know.
- The order would go Pawdius The Peaceful,
Growlius Caesar The Great.
Should I wait for you to write this down?
- No, I'm doin' it.
- Okay.
- Yeah, you see that
Daisy just starts moving
the busts around the room.
- Yes.
- Fantastic.
Pawgustis The Wise.
- Ah.
- Oh, man.
- Ah!
- And-
- Oh, he's cute.
- And Rompie The Brave.
- [Katie] Rompie.
(intense dramatic tones)
- Okay.
But then I have...
Okay, cool, yeah, great.
I move 'em around in that order.
- So you move them around in that order.
- So you put those last busts in place.
Each of you guys give me a
perception check real quick.
- 13.
- f*ck' nat f*ck' one.
- Oh no!
- Plus four is five.
- Ouch.
- So all that you hear is a,
as you put that last
bust of Rompie in place,
moving these various
sort of like dog emperors
around the room.
- Do you wanna help, Vicar,
or am I just doing it?
(Raphael laughs)
- No, I'm okay, actually, all right?
- I'm okay.
(both laughing)
- I think I'm-
- Oh, I'm okay,
as if you were offering
- No, I'm strong.
- him something nice.
- I'm actually strong.
I'm actually very strong.
- You seem weak.
(Raphael laughs)
- You hear a click in the bookcase
behind the statue of Barkus Aurelius.
- To open that door.
- Open it!
(Raphael laughs)
- But wait!
- You-
- I want-
Can Vicar like bless me or some sh*t?
- Oh, yeah, can I do that?
- Also, remember, Vicar, that
you can, as a bonus action,
give people that die
of bardic inspiration,
which they can add to a roll as well.
So you can be throwing
that out willy-nilly also.
- Oh, dope.
- Ew.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, let's do both.
(players laughing)
- Vicar, your voice.
(Rekha laughs)
- Wait a minute.
- Don't.
- Wait a minute.
Okay, I just...
You know, with the discovery
that God is actually real,
I am feeling...
(Grant laughs)
(Raphael laughs)
I'm feeling super confident right now
in my spiritual endowment,
and I would like, before
you go on this quest,
before we enter into this
very dangerous, very-
- And to be clear,
you're not coming with me, right?
You're gonna hang back?
- I'll be right behind you.
I'll be...
- Coward.
- You know, I'm gonna...
I know that you don't always like me
to be there when you roll,
and you're probably
gonna be rolling a lot.
- Oh, now we're talkin' about
what I want.
- Roll a whole lot.
And I don't wanna make you too nervous.
I'll be with you at a safe distance.
But I will bless you as you go forward,
definitely, in front of me,
and provide you with inspiration.
- Cool.
(bell dings)
So you have a D6
of bardic inspiration,
Daisy.
- Okay.
- And as you move into the space,
you can turn the lights on in here.
- Oh.
- And go ahead,
go ahead and roll an
investigation check for me.
- Ian, you know the deal.
Close your eyes, turn
your whole head around.
- Oh, you got it.
(all laughing)
- Oh, you got it.
- Okay.
Daisy, hey, what's up?
How are you?
We're about to go into this library.
You are scared.
We're about to go in this secret study.
You are scared,
but you have this.
You may come from trash,
but you are not trash.
Okay.
(Rekha gasps)
Ian, did you peek?
(players laughing)
- Oh, no!
- I got a 14.
- Now, remember,
- Oh, that's not bad.
- now-
- But-
- but you add that D6.
- Okay.
- So remember,
remember, that you're guaranteed
to at least get something
on a DC15,
- Okay.
Okay.
- but if you roll a six,
you'll actually get quite a bit.
So go ahead and roll that D6.
- Okay.
- Okay.
And sorry, that's just the little thing
on the bottom left?
- On the lower left.
- Okay.
- You can scroll up.
- Cool.
- You'll just see that-
- I rolled a two.
- Cool.
So that's a 16.
You rush in here.
This place is dry as a f*ck' bone.
You've broken into lots of studies before.
Really, the thing that explains this roll
more than anything,
is that that f*ck' Hawk got in here.
You watched the juicy sh*t
walk out of the room with Colonel Hawkins.
However, you do have access to the drawer
that he threw something in,
and I think you could probably
tell what he threw in here.
You look in there,
and see the thing he removed from his coat
and tossed into the desk,
only because it doesn't have
that same level of dust on it.
It's been actively worn and moved.
- Yes.
- You see there's a ton of
like metals, and regalia,
knickknacks, and things in here,
just like private stuff.
There's also a lot of art
objects in here, weirdly.
- My god, Fletcher.
- Fletcher!
- You look around...
You look in here,
and see that the medal,
the medal that Colonel
Hawkins threw into the drawer
is a Medal of Valor,
and specifically, the
Medal of Valor awarded
to soldiers wounded in the line of duty.
- Oh!
(players gasping)
- sh*t!
(Raphael laughs)
- So-
- Vicar!
- Excuse me, excuse me.
- You guys think-
- Really thrown.
(Raphael laughs)
- So wait, let's piece that together.
- So-
- Him having that
Medal of Honor for a wounded soldier
- Yes, yes.
- indicates,
and then the shrapnel being
- On that body.
- in Squire Badger
in Squire-
- Which Squire Badger's
own son did not remember him
having ever been wounded in battle
means that-
- That b*tch
ain't Squire Badger.
- Nope.
I think we gotta
figure out-
- They dug up a soldier.
They dug up...
- Exactly.
- Gangie dug up a soldier.
- We gotta go to Gangie.
Who has Gangie been digging up?
Like, they're
obviously badgers, but-
- How about all soldiers?
- Soldier, yeah.
- You could-
You could run this medal by
Gangie next time you see him,
- Yes.
- and he would know
whether or not-
(interposing voices)
- Can I swipe the medal,
and put it betwixt my bosoms?
- Yes, you absolutely can.
(Rekha laughs)
- Bosoms of valor.
- You swipe the medal.
I will also do this.
On a 16, I think you spot
a lot of stuff in here
that is not of interest to you,
but this is like all the juicy, salacious.
Corporate espionage scandal stuff
probably walked outta here.
However,
- Yeah.
you know that your partner, Mr. Boyd,
would make a field day
with a bunch of the boring sh*t in here.
You could grab some of
the ledger books in here,
and absolutely know
that Buckster would
probably be able to have
a field day with them,
'cause Buckster has that
mastermind rogue ability
to be able to make
- Yeah.
- insight checks through writing.
(gasps)
- Yeah, I'm gonna take-
- Great.
- I'm gonna...
So I've got a lot of
folds to hide stuff in.
(Brennan laughs and claps)
So-
- You've got a lot of bosoms.
- I've got a lot of bosoms.
I got a lot of butts.
(all laughing)
I'm gonna take those ledgers.
I put one ledger betwixt my a*s cheeks.
- Nice.
(Rekha laughs)
- I put two tiny ledgers
- Armpit.
- underneath my bosoms.
I put another ledger under like
my little roll of my tummy.
- Great.
- Maybe your hair
or your hat?
- Yeah.
I put like a shitty looking one
underneath the banana peels in my hat.
- Please give me a sleight of hand check.
- Ian, you're lookin' away?
- Of course.
(Katie laughs)
- Do me a favor.
Can you just put your cloak
over your whole head?
- Already done.
Already done.
(all laughing)
- And bend down, bend over?
(laughing continues)
- Okay,
you're gonna see my as*h*le.
I know you didn't
want to see.
- Ew!
(Raphael laughs)
- Oh my god.
Uh-oh, you're gonna see my as*h*le.
(all laughing)
- I've heard this game before.
(all continue laughing)
- Raphael is showin' the hole.
- Okay.
(Raphael laughs)
Daisy, looks straight
into the Vicar's as*h*le,
(all laughing)
concentrates.
- A ghost comes out!
- Great-
(all laughing)
- And a ghost comes out.
Sleight of hand.
- Oh, that ain't a ghost.
(all laughing)
- Ian, your as*h*le peeked, I rolled a 13.
(Grant laughs)
- Cool.
You got a 13 on your
sleight of hand check?
Cool, cool, cool.
- Yeah.
- Amazing.
So you guys leave here.
I think even for Daisy, you would be aware
that you have a lot of books on your body.
- Yeah.
- So under close...
If you get any kinda pat down,
people are gonna be like,
hey, this lady is covered in books.
(Rekha laughs)
Incredible.
We are going to leave here,
leave the study.
Oh, and what are you guys...
Sorry.
As you leave Squire
Badger's private study,
is there anything else
that you do as you leave?
- sh*t.
(Rekha sighs)
- And where are you
headed to in the house as you leave?
- Where is Constance?
And where is Gangie?
- Constance-
You don't know-
(interposing voices)
- These are things I don't know.
Okay.
- These are things
you don't know.
- All right.
- But you do hear shouting
coming from downstairs.
- Okay.
- Does anyone...
Yeah, if anyone has pitches?
I kind of...
I mean, after the ghost thing,
that was my big to do for today.
- I feel like you would
probably all go to like
find the group, and say like,
- Yeah.
- okay, okay, deed done.
- I agree.
- Now, let's go see
- Yeah.
- what the story is.
- Yeah, that makes sense.
- We might need your help.
(interposing voices)
- You guys are now...
Do you do anything before
heading downstairs?
- Yeah.
I think I spit in the room.
I just spit.
(player blows raspberry)
- Hell yeah.
And Vicar, anything else
before you guys head back downstairs?
- Can I put the stuff back together again?
- Goddammit!
I was so close to almost getting you guys
forgetting to do that.
(Sam laughs)
- That's true.
That's a great call, Vic.
Vicar, honestly, I was beginning to doubt
if you were useful.
Thank you.
(Raphael laughs)
- I showed you my as*h*le.
What do you-
(interposing voices)
How rude!
(players laughing)
How rude!
- That doesn't mean you're useful.
- Just a trail of bodies this one leaves.
- Oh my goodness.
- And you will know me
by my trail of dead.
(Raphael laughs)
- Vicar, as you're
putting the statues back,
and you're going to go-
- Can I turn off the light
in that other secret
room too before I leave?
- Very, very good, Rekha.
Yes, you turn the light off.
- Smart.
- Light goes off.
I know, stressful, right?
- Then I close the drawers,
then I f*ck' put dust
back on sh*t and whatever.
(all laughing)
- Yeah, the Vicar's dusting everything
with his feathered wings.
- Yeah,
the Vicar's covered with dust and blood.
- Yeah.
(Raphael laughs)
- I'm gonna ask for one...
You guys can either give
me one last perception
or investigation on your
way out of the room.
- Oh.
- I'll give an investigation.
- I see.
- Cool.
- I think I wanna go with-
- 22.
- I will also go with investigation.
Oh.
- Yeah, go for it.
- Oh.
- Ian, what'd you get?
(dice clanks)
- 15.
- Ian, on a 15, you grab
that bust of Barkus Aurelius.
There's a part of the mystery
that you're still unsure about.
- Uh-huh.
- This wrong date on the
bust of Barkus Aurelius.
Why the f*ck is the date wrong?
And Daisy, as you look
at the thing in Vicar's hands,
and you're turning it over,
like, why is the date wrong here?
The base of the bust,
the stone bust is stone.
The base of the bust is plaster.
You recognize it
immediately, it's disguised.
And as you are holding it,
I think you realize,
this bust is slightly heavier
than the other busts of comparable size
in the room.
- Hey, Vicar,
there's somethin' in this bust.
- You don't say?
- Mm-hmm.
- Should we just break it?
- I have thieves tools apparently.
- Hell yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that something I can use?
- Yeah, go ahead and roll
your thieves tools check.
Let me see if that's,
it's available for you to do.
That's actually gonna be
the same proficiency as
just stealth for you.
- Okay, great.
So I'll do...
How do I roll?
Do I just roll the stealth check then?
- I would say, just roll
the stealth check here.
- Okay.
- Actually, you know what?
This is gonna be...
We're gonna close your sleight of hand.
This is actually...
Roll your sleight of hand.
And because the Vicar is
with you holding as well,
I think, Vicar, you could
give a help action here too.
- Okay.
- No.
- Cool.
So that just means that Rekha's
gonna roll with advantage.
- Okay.
- So go ahead and roll.
- 22 on my first one.
- Okay.
Incredible.
- And 19 on my second.
- Okay.
- Great.
- 22.
You take out your thieves
tools, and you see,
again, this like high society woman
whips a pair of like
extremely slim, small files,
and carves a quick perfect circle
in the plaster at the base of this bust.
As you twist it, and move the circle out,
something comes out with it,
and you pull a strange
mechanical contraption
out of the center of the bust,
a powerful, heavy, metallic
gyroscope with gears,
a piece of glass in the center,
a powerful, powerful electromagnet.
And as you do so, Daisy,
- Of course.
- you remember where this bust was
when all of you flooded into the room.
- f*ck' right.
- It wasn't-
It wasn't just on the desk, Daisy.
It was on the specific part of
the desk that you discovered
not 15 minutes before.
- On top of the thing
that has the big current?
Yep, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- As you look at that, you look at it...
Vicar, you look at it and realize,
that this, these busts,
like have sort of like metal
plates in them or whatever,
because you realize that like,
the thing that clicked,
there is a small metal thing in the shelf.
Like, the reason that these things
have to go in a certain order in the room,
is that all of them
are partially magnetic.
Like, clearly, there's gotta be...
Like, it's not f*ck' magic.
There's gotta be like something in them,
that they go in a certain
order to complete a circuit
that unlocks something
in the wall for the door.
But I'll ask Ian and Daisy now
to make an insight check,
if you would be so kind?
- Okay.
- Nine.
- Copy.
- 22.
- Oh, baby!
So Daisy, I think that
you're looking like...
I think that you are looking
at this as being like,
okay, there's already a
magnetic circuit in the room,
so why put this super
powerful magnet in this place?
Raph, I'm gonna send
you a text real quick.
- Okay.
- Yeah, I'm getting a ton of texts too,
so I just have to-
(Raphael laughs)
(Rekha mumbles)
- Where-
- Oh, yeah.
Who's texting you?
- Where is Sylvester now?
Do you remember?
- Sylvester,
when last we left him,
- Yeah.
- is in the ballroom
giving a speech on the fact,
as he was wanting to do,
giving a speech on the fact
- Yeah.
- that it was shrapnel that k*lled him,
that k*lled Squire Badger,
and he was trying to save his own life.
And Jeremy was saying,
I don't remember anything
about a w*r wound.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Incredible.
Raph, I've just sent you the text.
So Daisy, you incredibly...
You're like dexterous raccoon paws
pull this contraption out.
I think this level of
scientific advancement
in this powerful little object,
I think you know.
- Yeah.
- You've only seen this type of work
in a couple other places,
and I think that you
feel that sense of fear
knowing what this implies.
But there is that question
that you have of like,
okay, all of the busts in here
were already partially magnetic.
Why was this one?
Like, all this would need to be
was like slightly charged
to be able to put it on the
shelf to unlock the door.
And so now, you move from
the investigation part
into the insight of like,
why would someone do this?
And Vicar Ian, on that
22, you have a realization
that explains not only this
mystery of this contraption,
but the mystery of the date
on the bust to begin with.
- Yes.
So these criminals, who could be anyone,
they needed this magnetic
contraption powerful enough
to do this horribly wicked deed,
and they needed it to be in that room.
Looking around for a hiding place for it,
they couldn't have it in the open.
It would be too conspicuous.
So where's the most inconspicuous place
that you would think of to
find a magnet this powerful?
Perhaps, inside of a contraption
that was already known to be magnetic,
say, this gyroscope that already had,
so that not to raise
the Squire's suspicions.
But these criminals had the wisdom to know
where to hide this deadly contraption,
but they did not have the knowledge
to get the historical dates correct.
- And you look at the plaster
bottom that you've uncovered,
and realize, that the bottom of the base
where the date is written
is the part the criminal had
to fake to insert the device.
- Is the Hawk even really a vet?
- You both...
Daisy and Ian have been dunking
for a while in the library.
I think you all head downstairs.
We cut to the kitchen hallway,
where Colonel Hawkins looks
at Buckster, Gangie, and Lars.
Gangie, you are injured.
Lars, you are like
- Yes.
- critically injured.
He says, very well, you
are all under arrest.
- Do we see Ambrose there?
- Mr. Harding is here as well.
Mr. Harding, Mr. Gilfoyle,
and Colonel Hawkins
are all here.
- Ah!
- Wait, the turtle?
- The turtle, yeah.
- A turtle.
- Mm-hmm.
- What about the armadillo?
- You don't see Armond Armadillo.
- It's him!
(interposing voices)
- There's no way.
(laughs)
Who the f*ck is crunching?
- Whatever we saw upstairs
was something else entirely.
- You don't think it was the armadillo?
- Oh, f*ck.
- I don't think
my little pipsqueak of an accountant
would be capable of
something like that, no.
- Yes.
- Hey-
- But it could be
the perfect story.
- Do you wanna try to talk us outta this,
or...
(Rekha laughs)
- So it depends.
If we're in a jail,
I have like thieves tools
and a lot of stealth,
So maybe we can get out.
- Now now,
this is a confrontation.
Let me see if I can
talk our way out of it.
And if I can't talk our way out of it,
we'll resume-
- I have a backup plan.
- Yeah.
- Perfect.
(Sam clears throat)
- Hell yeah.
- Yes, so you see Mr. Gilfoyle looks,
sees the key that,
or doesn't see the key,
but definitely sees, as
the elevator arrives,
the key is like in that
position, Buckster,
and looks at you and says,
I would imagine the return
of Squire Brockhollow's key
would be an excellent first impression
in this deeply incriminating interaction.
(electronic buzzing)
- Incriminating, gentlemen.
All we intended to do was
to get a dose of fresh air.
All the conspiracy and all the mystery
has done nothing but
give us three the sweats.
Up we went with-
- I needed to smoke-
- As you say, "the sweats",
you see Colonel Hawkins says,
Dear, I wasn't aware
that Germans sweat red.
This hun over here appears to be
bleeding from the abdomen pretty fiercely.
- Gentlemen, that was merely
- It's his berries.
- the first part of my story.
No sooner did we inhale the
fresh scent of the outside,
then some villain,
one can only assume the one responsible
for the death of Squire Brockhollow,
took it upon himself, herself,
themself, to attack us.
Now, we're wastin' time here, all of us.
Recountin' this incident,
all of us should go back up there at once,
and arrest this thing.
- I am going to need a persuasion
check with disadvantage.
- Why?
- No, man.
- You have a stolen key.
You're covered in blood.
The one thing was, nobody
was supposed to leave,
and you didn't tell anybody in the staff
where you were going.
Baby, that's disadvantage.
Oh, oh, that's perfectly fair.
(all laughing)
Okay, first roll is gonna be
a natural one.
- Come on.
- Okay.
- It's gonna be hard
to do worse than that,
- Sure.
- so I can roll again,
and see if I-
- God.
(interposing voices)
- I step in.
We are going into Plan B.
Okay, I am
with my brawny feet,
I'm large, right?
- Yeah, uh-huh.
- Can I pick both of them up,
and use evasive foot work to up my AC,
and just sprint, yelling, Sylvester,
and run through them?
- Copy that.
Give me-
- Yes!
- Lars, give me an insight check.
- Okay.
- What's gonna happen
if we do that, though?
(Grant laughs)
Where are we gonna go?
- 15.
- Sylvester
will save us.
- We can get to the doctor,
and Sylvester, and all the
people who aren't in on this,
like bad-
- Conspiracy.
- Yeah.
- So Lars, on a 15 insight,
I'm gonna tell you right now,
you physically picking up
two of the people in the room
and running down the hall with them,
a 15 insight is high
enough for you to know
that the social ramifications of that,
should Sylvester not roll spectacularly
on whatever it is you want him to do
to get you out of this mess,
will very likely confirm
every worst suspicion
people have about you.
You will be physically engaging
the people in this room,
and it could very well...
Imagine the stakes in real life
in a social interaction of
putting your hands on someone,
and why you don't, like, grab
people at a dinner party.
Unlike normal D&D,
where we're just loppin'
heads off left and right,
if Lars puts hands on the Colonel,
or on Mr. Gilfoyle and Mr. Harding,
it's very likely that he
will not only be arrested,
but, like, imprisoned.
- Not touching them, though.
I'm using evasive footwork
to get us through them.
- Oh, you wanna pick up-
- And my AC would be so-
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(interposing voices)
- And I'm just tryin' to
get us through,
- Okay.
- because we know they're-
- That's not as-
That's not as bad.
It's gonna be not great socially.
- Still socially weird.
(Sam laughs)
- It really feels like we're
to the point of like not...
We're on their turf.
Like we really have to,
- Sure.
- I feel like,
- For sure.
- make a move.
- Okay.
- I don't know.
- Yeah.
- What do you guys wanna do?
- Absolutely, absolutely.
On a 15, that's what you have gleaned
with your insight check.
But Lars, it is your action.
- I mean, I'll check in with you guys.
My AC is 17,
and then I get to roll
a D8 and add that to it.
So I could potentially,
even if one of them tried
to like hit us, not hit me.
Or we can go to jail,
and have the Hawk put us in jail.
We can have the crooked Hawk
- What about if we-
- put us in some sort of jail.
- What about-
I mean, I rolled a nat one.
What if we see what happens next?
And then decide whether-
- Yeah, 'cause if we-
If we go to jail, also,
- To make a run for it.
- I can probably get us out.
- It's true.
Gangie has like sleight of hand,
and stuff that my-
- True.
- Thieves tools.
- I leave it up to your discretion.
- I mean, I would love for
all of us to reconvene,
and be able to share info with each other,
which we might be able to pull off
if we just run and meet up with our party.
- All right, let's do it.
- Let's do that.
(Grant laughs)
- Okay.
- Let's do it.
- Lars-
- You're the more
experienced player.
- Lars-
Lars hoists the two of you up into the air
on their brawny shoulders.
They sprint down the hallway.
Go ahead and roll that D8, and add it to
your armor class.
- Oh, god.
Oh, god.
- That's so hot.
- It is kind of hot.
It is pretty hot.
(Grant moans)
Damn.
- All right, that's a one.
(dramatic tones)
- No!
(Grant whines)
- Cool.
So your armor's 18.
You are rushing past Mr.
Gilfoyle, Mr. Harding,
Colonel Hawkins, Milo
Snout, and Basil Baskins.
- Okay.
- I am going to roll at this point
three attacks of opportunity on Lars,
as you cry, Sylvester, and
lift the two people up.
- Okay.
- We're gonna do this
in the Box of Doom, okay?
- No.
- Lars, you don't have
much left, do you?
- I know.
- You have three?
- Yeah, if I get hit,
you guys just run.
- Oh, man.
- Ah!
- We're going to lose Lars.
- Oh my god.
- No way.
- This is terrible.
- 18 is pretty f*ck' high.
I don't know how hard
these animals are hitting.
- Oh god.
- So anything more than
21 and you're dead.
- What?
- 'Cause didn't you lose
37 hit points yesterday
out of your 40?
- No, no, I'm up to 13
in my points now.
- Oh, got it.
- Okay.
- But I mean,
that's still not a lot.
- Oh.
Nevermind.
- Okay.
So first is going to be Basil Baskins.
Basil Baskins-
- Wait!
- Mm-hmm.
- I have...
Okay, I can use...
I can action surge.
Can I use that while running
to do some sort of a dodge action,
and add to give them all disadvantage?
- You could do disengage, absolutely.
And that would mean
- I do that.
- no attacks of opportunity.
- I do that.
- So okay, what I will say then is this.
We're just gonna resolve
one athletics check
between you and Colonel Hawkins.
Because they're gumming up the hallway,
you've gotta pick somebody
to like bust through,
if we're doing
- Okay.
- like tactical movement, basically.
- Yeah.
- Pick Milo Snout.
(all laughing)
- Yes.
(Katie speaks indistinctly)
- Yeah, he looks high as f*ck.
- Little tongue is hangin' out.
- So, I'm gonna let you know
what you have to beat.
Colonel Hawkins has a
plus five to athletics.
Let's see what he rolls.
(dice clatters)
(intense dramatic music)
There's a six.
You have to beat an 11.
- Okay.
Can I help?
- I have-
- He has you.
- I have plus nine
to athletics,
- Would help-
- so I just have to
roll a two or higher.
- Yeah.
The only way you can fail
is if you roll two nat ones in a row.
- Okay, maybe-
- Great.
- Okay, yeah, yeah,
take the help.
(All laughs)
- So athletics, first roll,
oh, that's a 16.
Second roll-
- Don't roll a nat 20.
- 13, okay.
- Okay.
(Grant laughs)
(Brennan speaks indistinctly)
(all laughing)
- I'll lose my sh*t.
I will lose my sh*t
if you roll a nat 20.
- I will lose my sh*t.
- Cool.
You lift up your two allies,
and say, "Sylvester!",
and everyone sees Sergeant Vandenchomp,
blast past Colonel Hawkins,
who just is (smacks hands) assed out
on the f*ck' ground,
- Yeah.
- and goes,
"What the devil?"
"Someone get her!"
"The Kaiser's men, they're at us again!"
(players laughing)
And takes off down the hall.
You arrive in the ballroom,
just as Daisy and Vicar
Ian arrive there as well.
You see a number-
- Yay!
- A number of the maid staff
have like ushered everyone in.
Every f*ck' person in the house is here.
Every single f*ck' person,
and you can see like
all the maid staff ever,
everybody, everybody, everybody,
everybody is here, right?
You rush in.
Behind you are Gilfoyle, Harding,
Basil Baskins, Milo Snout,
and Colonel Hawkins.
But Lars, you rush in,
and take the stage with your
friends alongside Sylvester.
- [Ally] Sylvester, they got me!
He got me outside!
And I show Sylvester the huge gash.
I need a doctor!
I need a doctor!
- My god, man, look at yourself.
Why, you're close to death.
A doctor, please!
The two of us together,
we will attend to my friend.
And then, friends,
I assure you,
- I got hurt too.
- I'll get back to teaching everyone
how to make a Pimm's Cup in a moment.
But we're still-
(all laughing)
- I got a little hurt too.
I got a little hurt.
- Let us attend to my friend.
- You see Ollie Banks, the
otter bartender, is there
like writing down,
like right, Pimm's Cup.
But Colonel Hawkins and the rest rush in.
Colonel Hawkins says,
I say, those three are
under arrest this instant!
True facts, would y'all
have grabbed the key
on your way out of the elevator,
or would you have left it?
- True facts are that
I would have left it.
Those are true facts.
- Yeah.
I think so too.
- I was not thinkin' about.
- Cool.
So that's makes perfect sense.
So in that case, Mr. Gilfoyle is holding
the key in his hand.
- Well, damn.
Damn!
- Colonel Hawkin's says,
these three took the servant's elevator
up to the top of Loam Hall,
against the explicit orders
of Mr. Cross himself,
and all of us engaged in
finding the people responsible
for the death of Squire Badger.
You see that Mr. Gilfoyle says,
indeed, speaking of Squire Brockhollow,
this key with the red silk tag
was amongst Squire
Brockhollow's personal effects
lifted from his very corpse,
and you see everyone (gasps) gasps.
(players gasping)
Mr. Harding says...
Mr. Harding says, or
perhaps, lifted from him
in the moments of his death.
And you see that the three
of you get eyes on you.
You see that-
- Perhaps.
(Sam laughs)
- Very careful, Detective.
- It's not helpful.
Not helpful.
- Jeremy, Jeremy Brockhollow
looks at all of you.
I think, Gangie, Buckster, and Lars,
I think you have way too much heat on you
to do anything right now.
Sam, you rolled a nat one
on that check earlier.
- True.
- Sylvester, you see Jeremy
and Constance looking,
seeing someone they just
discovered was a career criminal,
who's been working for their father
for the past couple months,
one of the newest employees here,
a foreign national
military person you know,
and they just found out
that their father apparently
had a w*r wound of some kind,
and they're looking at someone
that was a German soldier
during the Schnauzer w*r,
and looking at this person
who had a big blowout with
their dad earlier today,
who's like this corrupt
American businessman.
Daisy, Ian, and Sylvester,
you have a shot to do something here,
and I'm going to go ahead, and tell you,
without even needing to
make an insight check,
that any attempts to
ameliorate the situation
are not going to have a
middle ground of failure.
You will either succeed
in making this better,
or you will tie your
ship to this shipwreck.
- And do not feel obligated, guys.
We can accept our fate, you know,
and like see what happens to us,
and then you'll continue to
be free to roam the house.
Maybe that's for the best?
- You think that
- Yeah, we'll whisper-
I'm going to just
- Yeah.
- let Lars swing?
- Yeah.
- How little do you think of me, sir?
(Brennan laughs)
- Buckster,
I might let you swing.
- Yeah, yes,
yes.
- I got your back.
I've got your back-
(interposing voices)
- Your character, Ms. D'umpstaire.
- And unto you as well, sir.
(all laughing)
- You can't respect her.
(Rekha laughs)
- All right.
Well, this is going to
take all of my abilities.
(electronic buzzing)
Let me have
a quick look at my character sheet
to see if I have any good ideas.
Let's see now.
- Vicar and Daisy,
you are all here as well.
As I've said, the stakes
in this moment, socially,
are incredibly high.
There will be no middle ground.
It will either be a
success of some degree,
probably marginal or partial,
or it will be a failure.
And if it is a failure,
you will be heaped on to
the pile with the three
who have been discovered.
Sylvester-
- I mean, is there
any kind of point that they
can bring up beforehand
to kinda get the audience on their side,
and get advantage for these rolls?
We've got a lot of tidbits to share.
- We have three characters
here who can do various things.
If you don't feel like taking the risk
of making the roll yourself,
you can certainly use
features, use abilities,
or give the help action,
whatever you wanna do.
- Having already used
my help action on Lars
to get us out of there,
am I spent, or can I
help Sylvester as well?
- I'm gonna say, you have
to hit a DC20 persuasion
to be able to help,
because you are the focus
- Cool.
- of so much ire right now.
- Persuasion?
- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
(Sam sighs)
What'd you get?
- 19.
- 19!
- Oh!
- Brutal.
- Okay.
- Okay.
So Sylvester wants to make
a persuasion roll here.
- Yes.
- Can I bless them again?
- You can cast bless, absolutely.
Is Daisy doing anything or no?
- Daisy?
(Rekha sighs)
- Oh.
- There's no time to-
(Sam speaks indistinctly)
Your characters don't have time to confer,
so it's an
individual decision.
- Right.
- Yeah, I-
- I'm speakin' to your
character, but this is Sam.
You look after yourself.
(Grant laughs)
- Oh, I know.
(Grant and Rekha laughs)
You are the farthest thing
from my mind, Buckster.
(Sam laughs)
- [Brennan] Incredible.
- I would like to like...
I would like to upstage
whatever Sylvester does.
So like I'll let Sylvester talk,
and then I wanna see if
I can upstage it after.
- How very dare you.
- Upstage in such a way as to,
is this impacting Sylvester's
attempt positively,
negatively, or in a neutral manner?
- I think neutral.
Like, I'm more wanna just be like,
he doesn't have the whole story.
He wasn't even there.
He wasn't lookin'
at the right sh*t.
- Okay.
So Daisy is waiting with a backup plan
in case Sylvester's
persuasion doesn't work.
- Yes.
- And that backup plan
is TBD for the moment.
- Yes.
- However,
Vicar, you see Sylvester,
like, surveying the three people here.
What does the Vicar say
in order to sort of cast
his blessed spell here?
- Sylvester, I now know that God is real.
- You see the whole
crowd goes, you now know?
(all laughing)
- I'm sorry,
you really think God-
- You were up in
the air on that?
- You baptized my children.
- I had-
(players laughing)
But (laughs)-
I have empirical evidence.
Well, evidence, I didn't see the ghost.
Daisy saw the ghost.
- Ghost?
- She made me turn around.
Oh, oh, oh, wait (laughs).
- You see that Lady Winnifred says,
Vicar, wait, are are you suggesting
that the prerequisite for
faith is empirical evidence?
(Raphael laughs)
- That's the opposite of faith, sir!
- That is correct.
That is correct.
And now, I don't need faith,
because I have some sort of...
Well, I have evidence
that there is an afterlife, technically,
but I'm just,
that's good enough for
me to make the jump to
that there is also
- Colonel Hawkins says-
- an intelligent creator.
- I don't know what this
befuddled owl is blathering about,
but I'll tell you this right now,
we have reached-
(players laughing)
Sylvester, you have the blessed.
Just (mumbles) add a D4 to
whatever you're gonna roll.
The Vicar has set you up by, I think,
really, just swerving on the whole room,
and getting everybody distracted.
(players laughing)
So you may add that D4.
- Am I godless now, mommy?
(Raphael laughs)
- I lean over to the Vicar, and I say,
"I appreciate the blessing,
but I can say with absolute certainty
that there's no such thing as ghosts".
Now, everyone!
(Raphael laughs)
- And now, Grant, what I
would like you to do is,
I would like you to
first roll a D4 for us.
We're gonna figure out you're bless first.
- Yes, it is a four.
(Sam gasps)
- Incredible.
So that means that,
with your plus two to persuasion,
you will hit the lowest DC on a nine.
If you roll an eight or
lower on this D20 right now,
it is bad f*ck' news.
The DC currently is 11 at the lowest,
but you really want a 16 or higher.
- Should I make my
persuasive argument first,
and then roll to see how it goes over,
or should I roll and let that determine
what kind of argument I make?
- You might wanna roll and see,
let that determine what kinda argument
you wanna make.
- All right, reasonable.
That's reasonable.
All right, this is for all the marbles.
Dirty 21.
(Brennan cheers)
Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, that was a perception.
Okay, a persuasion check,
a persuasion roll.
- Persuasion.
- Well, just take it and adjust it.
- Oh, yeah,
- Just take it-
- that's a great point.
That's a great point.
- Ah, sure!
- Oh, yeah.
- What's the difference-
- So I got-
So I rolled a 13, plus
my persuasion of two,
plus my blessing of four is, of course?
- 19.
- 19.
- Brennan?
(interposing voices)
- College degree
- 19.
- holding idiot.
- Yeah.
- 13.
13 plus two for persuasion
is 15, plus four is 19.
- Yeah, yeah!
(Brennan speaks indistinctly)
- Hell yes!
- Plus-
- Not-
- At least $70.000
in student loans.
- Yeah, exactly,
on student loans.
(interposing voices)
- I should really be able to add
70.000 to everything I roll.
- Tisch, Tisch, Tisch!
- Tisch.
- Sylvester,
go ahead and make your argument.
- My goodness, that is quite predicament
that you found them in,
and I absolutely agree with you.
That's quite suspicious.
There's an argument
for these three to be placed under arrest.
Colonel, remind me, are you a constable?
(Katie gasps)
- Oh, no, but the constables-
- No, interesting.
Yes.
Gosh, is anyone here a constable?
No?
- You see that one-
You see that one of the mouse maids says,
I might be.
(all laughing)
- Ah!
- That's adorable.
- And then you see someone
whispers in her ear,
and tells her what a constable
is, and she says, I'm not.
(all laughing)
- That's cute.
- Mr. Gilfoyle, I can't help but notice,
the constabulary has yet to arrive.
Pray, when did you call them?
(Katie gasps)
- I called them immediately
after we discovered,
immediately once you
told me that I should,
Mr. Cross.
- My word.
God, I'm a bit of a creature of the night.
I don't ever carry a watch.
Would anyone tell me,
how long has it been since old Gilfoyle
gave the constabulary a ring?
- Go ahead and give me
an insight check, Grant.
- I also wanna say,
Daisy gasps to herself,
'cause I think she's the one
that originally pointed out
that the police had not come yet,
and so I think she's
- Yeah.
uber pissed at Sylvester.
(Brennan laughs)
- I believe I'll take the
credit for the work of a woman.
I rolled a 16.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- You see a look...
Hold on one second.
- And I wanna point out,
that Buckster's the one that told me
that the police didn't come.
So I'm taking credit for a man,
but you don't deserve
to take credit from me
for doing-
- I should-
(Katie laughs)
- I have to be honest.
(Katie laughs)
- I wanna point out,
that Buckster doesn't
care who brings this up,
'cause it's hide on the line.
- You see-
- Oh, no one's
thinking of you (laughs).
- You see that on Gilfoyle's face
is a look of concern.
See the look of concern on his face,
and him looking like the fact,
like he hasn't really considered the fact
that the constables are not here yet.
You see Jeremy speaks up, and says,
Mr. Cross, I understand that no one here
has the authority to place
these individuals under arrest,
and I will admit, I am perhaps confused.
Dr. Magpie says, look, I'll be honest,
I've had quite enough!
This fine friend, Sergeant Vandenchomp,
this person who is a
companion of Sylvester Cross,
is in dire medical need of attention.
If we're going to place
anyone under arrest,
let's place them under arrest,
but let's place them under arrest quickly,
so that we can attend
to their medical needs.
And you see Jeremy looks, and says,
no one in this house has the authority
to place anyone under arrest,
but it goes without saying,
that a key was stolen from my father,
either from his body, which is bad enough,
or from his living person,
which is almost as bad.
I would say that,
whatever their relationship
to the passing of my father,
the late Squire Brockhollow,
this behavior is extremely suspect,
and I don't feel comfortable with them
wandering freely around the home.
You see he looks to you, Sylvester,
and looks to the rest, and says,
the three of you understand the severity
of what you have done.
Will you consent to remaining
within one of the bedrooms
of the residential wing of the manor,
until such time, as we can clear up
what exactly it is that is going on here?
- I maintain that this is all
a terrible misunderstanding,
and as such, I will not put up a fight.
And if my restricted movement
comes with any comfort from the committee,
and so it shall be.
- Go ahead and make a persuasion check
with advantage here, Buckster.
- Cool.
So that first roll was a natural 20.
I can roll again
to see if I can do better.
(players laughing)
- Gangie and Lars. you both see Buckster
defer and acquiesce to all
these high society snobs,
and it's like you can visually watch
the heat melt off of him.
Like him being like,
I'm gonna do what
everyone's asking me to do,
- Yeah.
- I want
what makes makes everybody comfortable.
You see that everyone
kind of nods and smiles.
And Jeremy says-
- I whisper
to Gangie and Lars at my side,
you gotta know when to hold 'em,
and you gotta know when to fold 'em.
(all laughing)
- You see-
- Kenny Rogers.
- Jeremy (laughs and claps).
Jeremy puts a hand on your
shoulder, Buckster, and says,
Mr. Boyd, thank you
for your understanding.
And looks at you here, and does say,
where the devil did you
come across that key?
- Oh, the key was left
on the ground, my friend.
All we was doing, having spotted it,
was taking it back to
the servant's quarters
where it belonged.
- Cool, that-
- We didn't find any servant.
Yep.
- That nat 20 persuasion, (mumbles).
Go ahead before you finish,
and give me a deception,
and with that nat 20, roll with advantage.
- First one's a six, so a 14.
Second one's a 15, so 23.
(Rekha gasps)
- Cool.
Jeremy's insight is not great,
(Rekha laughs)
so he's gotta roll.
- He's dumb.
(Katie speaks indistinctly)
- He's gotta roll a...
He has to actually roll a nat 20
in order to beat this lie.
(dice clatter)
- That's a five, baby.
- Oh.
- Jeremy drools,
and his eyes cross.
(players laughing)
♪ Been spoken ♪
- You see-
You see that...
So sorry, Sam, please continue
with what Buckster says about the key.
- Oh, we didn't find anyone
in the servants' quarters.
We assumed they had gone upstairs.
We used the service elevator
to go and find the key's rightful owner.
What we did,
- Is-
- there was some other business outside
that's a greater concern
than our-
- Yeah, you-
You see that
Colonel Hawkins froze his brow,
and you see that here,
Mr. Gilfoyle is actually
interesting, says,
whereby did your injuries come about?
Extremely foolish and suspicious of you
to take the elevator
without telling anybody.
But what the devil did you
encounter out in the rain?
- I think I looked
at Sylvester.
(Sam speaks indistinctly)
- My dear, Jeremy.
- And give him a knowing look.
- Some sort of creature.
- And Lars, sorry, Lars gives a look to-
- Sylvester, that lets him know like,
you know who attacked me outside,
or like at least fear
that something is going on
that's really scary outside.
- Buckster, as you say,
"A creature, my dear boy",
you see with that nat 20 persuasion,
this is Buckster's first
time speaking to the crowd,
unless I'm much mistaken.
And without Squire Badger's
looming presence anymore,
you see Buckster's humility,
his acquiescence to the
normal passing of laws,
his respect for young Jeremy.
You feel yourself cast
a little bit of a spell
over the crowd here as
you mentioned a creature.
People look around,
and you can feel yourself
coasting on that nat 20,
as a little bit of suspicion
is removed from you.
As suspicion, like, goes,
two people being covered in wounds,
and going outside when they're
not supposed to is very bad,
but it certainly doesn't
play into the narrative
of all three of you being the m*rder*r.
It's confusing and frightening,
but it doesn't...
It's not being caught red handed.
The three of you are escorted upstairs.
Anyone who wishes to follow can.
With Sylvester's sort
of coming to the rescue
for our suspected trio,
and Sam's incredible nat,
and Buckster's (mumbles)
nat 20 persuasion,
they're being led upstairs
by Basil and Milo,
and some of the Brockhollows,
'cause they're being taken to
kind of the private
bedroom wing of the house.
- Now, I don't think I'd let Lars go
without knowing that their
wounds are being attended to.
- Ah!
(interposing voices)
- If no one with medicine is not going,
I may go with them to do some medicine.
- Dr. Magpie is not gonna stop you
from going to attend to your friend.
You see Dr. Magpie looks at you,
and begins to pass out some
gauze and things to you
from his doctor's bag
as you head up the staircase together.
- Can I-
- Yeah, Katie.
- Cocaine and opium?
May I have some of your cocaine and opium?
- Oh, Mr. Cross,
I've been doing cocaine
all night, absolutely.
- Thank you very much.
Good, good.
(Raphael laughs)
- Can someone fix...
I also have been injured, just a reminder.
- Yes. Dr. Magpie is specifically going to
attend to you again.
- And can I
interject as Sylvester's on his way out,
and while I have the crowd's attention?
- Yes, absolutely.
- Okay.
- Yeah, Daisy?
- Oh!
Yeah.
Sylvester, before you go,
you know, I've always thought
that the simplest solution
could be the right solution.
And I'm wondering,
you're talking about
maybe a creature attacked
your guard person and Gangie,
why have none of us brought up
Fletcher Cottonbottom,
who is very much alive?
(imitates air whooshing)
- Thunder rolls.
All eyes turn to Daisy.
- Yeah, oh,
was this something you
didn't know, Sylvester?
Fletcher Cottonbottom has
been alive this entire time.
And while you thought you
were goin' mad seein' ghosts,
I believe he's been runnin'
amuck here at the manor.
And Daisy's sittin' her f*ck' a*s
on top of the table eatin'
cherries and grapes.
(players laughing)
- You see...
Yeah, f*ck' all eyes turn to you.
As you say that, Daisy,
you see Constance Brockhollow, says,
Fletcher Cottonbottom, alive?
He's been dead for years.
How and why on earth would
he be here at Loam Hall?
What business would he have here with us,
at my father's 60th birthday?
- You know, my father never said
to try to understand the mind of a bunny.
Nobody knows what they think.
But I do-
- They do say that.
They do say that.
- Yeah, you know,
we've all heard it.
We all know a stereotype
comes from somewhere, right?
Now, (laughs)...
And now, it's common conception
that Fletcher fell to his
death at Reichenbunny Falls.
Oh, what a misconception that was,
because I've seen him quite a
few many times on my exploits
in Istanbul and Vienna.
Now, I don't come into contact with him.
I have no business with this man.
I deal in jewels.
He deals in art.
We have an intersection of sorts.
And the man is very much alive.
- Everyone here make an insight check,
and tell me who in the room you look at
to see how they're reacting
as Daisy drops this b*mb.
- I look directly into Sylvester's soul
(Brennan laughs)
to watch his soul sh*t itself.
(Rekha laughs)
- I, with a 16,
I want to look at Hawkins.
(dramatic instrumental music)
- I, with a 21,
want to look at
- I have a 20.
- Ambrose Harding.
- [Brennan] You got a 20, Gangie.
Who are you lookin' at?
- I would like to look also at Hawkins.
- Hawkins, great.
(hums upbeat tune)
Okay, 16 for Hawkins from Buckster.
20 for Hawkins from Gangie.
Sylvester, Ian, Lars,
let me know what you rolled,
and who you're lookin' at.
- 21, looking at Ambrose Harding.
- Mr. Harding.
- The valet.
- Someone's gotta
look at the family.
- Okay, yeah, yeah, that's what I was...
21 looking at Constance.
- 19, I don't think I can
stop looking at Daisy.
(Rekha laughs)
- Hell yeah.
(players laughing)
Okay.
So what did Daisy and Sylvester get?
You got a 19, looking at Daisy.
Daisy, what did you get
- Oh, I didn't even roll.
- for your insight?
- This is perception?
- Go ahead and roll.
Insight.
- Insight, sorry.
I bet I'll roll stupidly.
Oh, okay, 16.
- 16, hell yeah.
- And I smoke my first cigarette
(striking and sizzling) ever.
- Ever.
(all laughing)
Ever?
- I don't even know
which way to hold it.
(Grant laughs)
- Sweet.
Yeah, you got-
- You light the filter.
- Yeah, you got...
So wait, so 16 and 19
for Daisy and Sylvester.
Each of you now roll a deception
trying to beat the other's number.
Daisy, you're trying to beat a 19.
Sylvester, you're trying
to beat a 16 on an insight.
- 22.
- 24.
- Oh!
- Oh!
(Brennan claps)
(Sam groans)
- Cool.
You're cool.
- What has that cigarette
done to you?
- Spy vs spy.
(Rekha laughs)
- Spy vs spy.
Mr. And Mrs. Smith, incredible.
You both look right
into each other's souls.
We'll come back to you.
(Rekha laughs)
after all of this shady
businesses is dealt with.
Okay.
- I blow a ring right into his nose.
(players laughing)
(Brennan gasps)
- We are going to roll a couple
Box of Doom rolls right now.
- Oh, god.
- Okay.
So let me do this.
- God goes, what?
I'm real.
(players laughing)
- We're gonna do-
- I've been here
the whole time.
(Rekha laughs)
- Okay, so the first thing we do,
is we have one person
looking at Constance,
we have another person looking at Harding,
and then we have two
people looking at Hawkins.
I am going to,
in the Box of Doom, where
no one else can see,
I'm gonna hold up an amount of fingers
to let the audience know
how much Colonel Hawkins
is adding to his roll.
- This is so f*cked.
You know, I don't-
- You have a special-
You have a special camera over there?
(Grant scoffs)
- I have a special camera
in the Box of Doom.
- And the Box of Doom has a...
- So we're gonna roll now,
and we're gonna see how
what Colonel Hawkins does
with these two incoming
insight checks.
- It's gotta be
between one and 10.
(Rekha laughs)
- Whoa.
(dice clatters)
(intense dramatic music)
(Grant laughs)
- I'm gonna have to, in a minute,
send some texts to Gangie.
- Awesome.
- and Buckster.
Now, the same number
is going to be applied
to Harding's roll versus Lars.
Lars, what was your insight check?
- 21.
(intense dramatic music continues)
(dice clatters)
(intense dramatic music continues)
- I'm gonna owe a text
message to Lars Vandenchomp.
- Yes!
- Yes.
- And this number is what Constance
is going to be adding to her roll.
- You're just showin' a
f*ck' middle finger.
(Rekha and Ally laughs)
- A one.
- Can't believe this.
- Okay.
What was the insight from the Vicar?
- 21.
- 21.
(dice clatters)
(intense dramatic music)
- Oh.
- I need to write four
different sets of text messages.
- Yay!
(Sam laughs)
- Hold on.
- Good job, g*ng.
- Okay, guys, when are we going to
info dump to each other, though?
We're also in passing,
- That's true.
- and like-
- That's true.
- Well, now I don't know who to trust.
(Raphael laughs)
- Why?
- How the tables have
turned on Sylvester.
- Freakin', freakin'
you know, left me at the alter,
and then you went to work
with my arch nemesis.
This is unbelievable.
- [Rekha] Work next to?
(players laughing)
- [Grant] What?
- [Rekha] Next to, not with.
- [Grant] Unbelievable.
This is unbelievable.
(laughs)
- [Rekha] You know-
- [Grant] All of you
are in on it, I know it.
I hate this.
- [Ally] Not me.
- But do we think that the
Squire faked his own death,
or that he was m*rder*d,
and this is a coverup for his m*rder,
and that he's been
dead like this-
- So-
Here's what I've gleaned
just from like the last hour,
is it seems like
whoever wanted him dead
really wanted him dead.
- Yeah.
They wanted no, in no uncertain terms.
They didn't want like, you
know, like the shrapnel,
the magnet forcing it further
- Like-
- into his body.
- Was the doctor-
- Whoever altered
the statue did so specifically
not to be found out.
- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
- Alter the statue?
- So-
- Was that the-
(interposing voices)
- But if that's not-
- No, but the medal,
the medal.
- It's not his body.
I don't think that's his-
- Exactly.
Yeah.
- That's not his body.
- So it's almost as if
someone was going after him,
and then he maybe faked his death
as not to be
- That's true.
- actually m*rder*d.
- Oh, okay.
- Okay, can-
I think what we're seeing
is not just like one side of a m*rder,
it's like an attempted m*rder,
- But-
- and an attempted covering,
- And switcher.
- like an attempted hiding.
- If that's the case,
then Harding and Hawkins are
in on it, because they're...
Harding is the one that asks
for badger bodies and other bodies,
soldier bodies, from Gangie.
- The question is, are Harding...
Are they on the side
that's trying to like
protect Squire Badger,
or are they on the side
that's trying to k*ll him?
- That's a great question.
- They are on
the side of Fletcher Cottonbottom.
I know it!
(Rekha laughs)
- I Know it!
(Rekha laughs)
- So Sam,
you're thinking that the Squire
became wise to the plan to k*ll him?
- Exactly.
- Okay.
- I could be totally wrong,
but if feels to me
- No, this is-
- like something was going
very wrong for the Squire.
He felt...
He felt something, you know?
- Do you think
there were more-
- On the way to k*ll him,
and he-
- I'm gonna say too,
Buckster, as you're
doing this inside check,
you're looking at Hawkins right now.
And I've just sent Katie and
Sam the stuff about Hawkins.
But I will also say,
you're looking around, Sam,
and I think that Buckster's
been going around
doin' this, like, sleuthing sh*t.
But I think there's a
moment where Buster's like,
oh, you're a much better
sleuth with a spreadsheet
or a human being than you are
with anything else.
- Yes.
- And you remember hearing
a couple different shouts.
You remember your interaction with Badger,
and you remember the
things Badger said to you
when he pushed you to the ground.
He said, "I'm tired of
being pushed around".
And I think that additionally to that,
you-
(Ally speaks indistinctly)
You also remember a conversation,
something right after dinner,
that was mere minutes
before Squire Badger was discovered dead.
I think a couple of you,
if you remember who, heard,
and you would all know,
because you all put
your cards on the table
during the Seance Room,
and no one hid this fact,
the shouting match between
Constance and her father,
where she called-
(Sam speaks indistinctly)
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Speaking of which, Raph.
(message chimes)
- Here we go.
- And then Grant and I
- Here we go
text each other
(players laughing)
foul mouthed texts.
- Just nasty.
(Raphael mumbles)
- f*cking hate you.
- Hawkins.
- The whole time?
The whole time?
- Whole time?
- The whole time.
(interposing voices)
- The whole time.
- Okay.
- Hello.
(players laughing)
- Ally?
(Ally gasps)
So...
(Brennan laughs and claps)
(player screams)
So-
- God dang it!
(Brennan laughs)
Dang it!
Darn it!
- You shouldn't have looked at me,
but you can't keep your eyes away,
can you?
- God dang it.
(Brennan laughs)
- Incredible.
What we're gonna go ahead
and do now, though, is this.
Daisy and Sylvester look
into each other's eyes.
Neither of you can deceive the other.
What do you both see in this moment
where you make eye contact,
after Daisy has informed the room
that Fletcher Cottonbottom yet lives?
- I see I have, for what feels
like the first time to me,
one-upped the greatest
detective in the world.
- And I see the exact same thing.
(gentle instrumental music)
- This moment where Daisy...
Everything about your relationship, Daisy,
threw your life off track
and not Sylvester's.
Sylvester was always living a
life of adventure and heroism,
and him meeting, you know,
the great love of his life
didn't spoil any of his plans,
but you were never
supposed to get tied down.
- Yes.
- The people that you work with
use people like partners
and lovers to hurt people,
- Yes.
- and you were never
supposed to get close.
And these bad rolls,
even though Daisy doesn't
know what they are,
have been haunting her the entire time,
because I think that there has always been
a conflict within Daisy of,
as you said, how can I be myself?
Which of myselves am I supposed to be?
- Yes.
- You one-up the greatest
detective in the world
with a piece of knowledge.
The gasp that goes up from the crowd here
is now the loudest gasp
that you've heard in
the room this evening,
and you-
- Which deeply pleases me.
(all laughing)
- And what does...
I now ask you this.
Having seen that in each other,
do you break off your eye contact there,
or knowing that you each
know that this has happened,
do you continue to look to see
what the others' reaction is?
- Hmm.
- I think I know.
I think everything
you've said about Daisy,
I think Sylvester probably
knew that whole time.
I think, you know, he's a smart guy.
I think he knew that Daisy was
sacrificing more than he was.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't think he knew the
nature of the sacrifice,
but I think he knew that
more was being given up by Daisy.
So I don't know that Sylvester
needs to see more reaction.
I think he knows it.
I think he knows the knife has gone in,
and just lives with that for a minute.
- Then, I think, Sylvester,
as you break away,
knowing that that
unfairness was always there-
- I imagine the next
thing Sylvester would do,
would be to take it,
and then say,
"Come along, Lars, let's
get you patched up".
- Wow.
- Sylvester, you turn to patch Lars up.
You walk away with that unfairness,
and I think 'cause you...
You got, what,
a 24 on your-
- I got a 24,
and he got-
- Well, no,
you got a 22.
- 22.
- Yeah.
- 22.
So I think as you're walking away,
the last bit of insight
I'll offer you to dwell on,
as you say, like, "Yeah,
like, she got me".
"This hurts."
"And our relationship, it was never fair."
I think at the time,
you were a younger man,
and there was always this idea of like,
that unfairness, you could feel it,
but because you didn't have proof,
there was always plausible deniability.
And I think an older Sylvester
that knows vulnerability,
as you go with your walking
cane up up the stairs
and you know pain in a way you didn't
back when you were with Daisy.
I think you hear maybe a
version of your own voice,
to whatever degree we can say,
that our consciences are
different voices in ourselves.
Say to you in the back of your mind,
"Well, old boy, if you knew it was unfair,
why didn't you ever reach
out to level the field?"
And you walk up the steps with Lars.
- And I think, as he leaves,
Daisy has a moment where she's like,
did I do the right thing?
She's still puffin' her cigarette out,
and dumpin' grapes into her mouth,
but she's like,
she didn't wanna have to do that.
Part of the reason why she
didn't tell him for so long,
at first, was protective
of like, he can't know.
He didn't end this rivalry, you know?
That his rival one-upped him by living.
But that it became malicious.
It became like,
- Yeah.
- this f*ck thinks
he got away with something,
and he didn't.
- Yeah.
- He didn't win.
And so she really wanted
to dig that knife in,
and she feels a little bad,
but she also feels sweet victory.
She feels, this is how I'm me.
I can't keep anyone close to me,
because then there's no room for me.
And she also recognizes,
she never spoke up during
their relationship,
and she's like, nah, but-
(players laughing)
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not going...
I don't think this moment is...
Like, I don't...
Yeah.
The wondering of like,
if you did the right thing or not,
the victor, yeah, it's a sweet victory.
You got that moment.
And Sylvester turns to walk away.
And I love for Daisy
that there is not this immediate
reproachful thing of like,
oh, go to him.
You hurt him.
But it's hard.
That year was not easy for you.
- Mm-hmm.
- But you do know that...
You had a 24 insight, right?
- Yeah.
(somber instrumental music)
- Yeah, Grant, last thing I'll ask.
Was Sylvester hurt because his like,
of his pride of Daisy like
getting the move on him,
or was he more hurt by this
powerful secret that like...
In other words,
is he hurt more by the ego
or by the altruistic reason?
- It's not...
In this moment, it's not ego.
He's good enough at healing his own ego.
That if it was an ego blow,
he'd figure out something in five minutes
to puff himself back up.
It's the deeper wound of,
the people I thought I knew, I don't know.
- [Raphael] Yeah.
- Yeah.
Daisy, the last thing
I'll say to you is this.
You have your moment of victory.
It's sweet.
There is conflict, but you
are not self-loathing in it.
It's just, did I do
the right thing or not?
And as Sylvester goes up the stairs,
there's one last corner
of his face you see.
You realize, (mumbles)
you're not wrong to dunk on Sylvester.
Sylvester can be a pompous windbag.
You didn't get
one thing wrong.
- Take one of those
Pimm Cups for the road.
(players laughing)
- You did get one thing wrong.
You have always been obsessed
with this concept of like,
how do I preserve the real me?
Can I be myself if I'm being
vulnerable to anyone else?
I don't think I can.
And you sort of say that thing,
that version of like,
I can only be myself if I'm alone.
And you once again, you feel it.
You win, Daisy.
You win this moment.
You're alone.
You got your wish.
You're truly alone.
And you see something else as
well as Sylvester walks away.
For the first time,
you see that Sylvester is alone as well,
and he always has been,
and always will be without you.
(Rekha inhales sharply and groans)
(Brennan and Rekha laughs)
- Oh my god!
- So we have a lot of friends
who made a lot of great insight checks,
but you see that the crowd
is beginning to hubbub
around the Fletcher Cottonbottom news,
And people are sort of
moseying the trio of
semi-criminals up the
stairs to the bedroom wing.
Are there any actions taken on behalf
of the Vicar, Buckster,
Gangie, or Lars at this moment?
- What was the question?
- Buckster has got you
guys a hard one reprieve
from being like under formal arrest.
You are going to be asked to, basically,
just be kept under watch
in the bedroom wing.
Which, honestly, Gangie
and Lars, you're injured.
- Yeah.
- Like lying down
for a second, and getting bandaged,
even if you-
(Katie speaks indistinctly)
It's not a bad move.
- Yeah.
I'm not worried about it.
- But your-
Cool.
- Yeah, I think knowing
that we're being watched,
there's probably not a lot that we can do.
- But you and Sylvester can
kind of talk, I think, right?
With your crazy
- Oh, yeah.
- schmoozy language.
- With your criminal,
- Yeah.
- or whatever, yeah.
The Thieves' cant-
- Yeah, you guys do have...
Buckster and Gangie have Thieves' cant,
as does Sylvester, yes.
- Oh, so do I.
- Who here has thieves-
- Oi, no.
Maybe I don't.
Let me see.
- Sylvester, yeah.
- Where's that listed?
- Cool, cool, cool.
I think then I just use,
before I go upstairs,
I use this as a moment to communicate
what I learned about Hawkins
to everyone who can speak Thieves' cant.
Is that cool, Brennan?
- Yes.
As you are going up the...
Do you wanna do it as
you're going up the steps?
Go ahead and make an insight
check for me real quick,
I'll just say.
- Yeah.
- Because there are...
Going up the steps,
there's a lot of people,
but you know the crowd will fan out
- Oh.
- once you get to
like the bedroom,
- Oh, sure, sure, sure.
- the bedroom area.
- Right.
I wouldn't want anyone else
who can speak Thieve's cant
to intercept it.
- I mean, if there are things in the room
that resemble who we're
talking about, we could,
you know, if there are
little statues or whatever,
we can do a little search
to be like-
(Sam speaks indistinctly)
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's a dirty 20.
- Okay, a dirty 20.
(Ally whistles)
I think you can also tell
that they're bringing you all
to the same room it looks like.
- Cool.
(message chimes)
♪ Bah-Bah-Bah ♪
♪ Ra-Ba-Ba-boo ♪
- Awesome, awesome.
(Rekha laughs)
So you guys are in-
(Sam speaks indistinctly)
You guys-
- By the way,
is Armi anywhere around?
- Yeah.
- Like I haven't
talked to my accountant
- Oh, he-
- in so long.
- Yes, Armond is in the room.
See, Armond looks up at all
this, and he goes, (mumbles)
"Ill tell you, boss, (mumbles),
lookin' pretty bleak".
- Oh yeah,
he's at a dinner table.
I see him.
Right near Lars.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yes, indeed,
Yes and thee's Armi, your neuroses
were well justified this evening for once.
Alls I can say is,
if there are any
important business matters
that I should attend to,
that our communication
should not be dwarfed
by present circumstances.
In other words, if there is
business we should discuss,
I trust you will let me know.
- (mumbles) Mr. Boyd, I'm
so glad that you asked,
because I've been lookin'
at our P and L for the year,
and I'm lookin' and seein'
there's a tremendous amount of
sort of waste of our truckin',
the vehicles comin' and goin'
that are kind of-
- Sure.
- Oh, shut this guy up.
- Armi-
(all laughing)
I'm not-
(Raphael laughs)
I'm not so much concerned about
the P and L at the moment.
- Okay.
- That's not...
I'm more concerned about, you know,
profits and losses, as they apply to
these present circumstances
we find ourselves in.
Urgent matters, Armi, urgent matters,
that's what I wanna hear about.
If there's anything
urgent we should discuss,
I trust you'll let me know.
- Well, some of the
currency conversion rates
for the per diem that I was givin' us
while we're here in England
(Sam sighs)
are pretty steep, so.
(Raphael laughs)
- I can't believe you're talking about
the conversion of currency.
Wouldn't even give me any
pounds when we arrived
at this motherfuckin'
(laughing drowns out speaker).
- Well, that's what I was sayin'.
I went up to that dang
convergence window, and they said,
they were gonna charge a 3.2% fee.
I said, "3.2?"
"I know that you passed a law about here,
that you can't go an excess of 2.8,
unless there's a special
event, or a holiday,
or something like that."
I can go down the street to a bank,
and get a conversion
of a 1.5% fee on that.
And why wouldn't I just (mumbles)?
- Is that why I have...
Is that why I have a
(speaks indistinctly) here?
- And why are all these-
- Because the conversation fee
was less , Armi?
- Why are all these German-
(interposing voices)
German folks floating around.
- Mr. Boyd, I-
(Raphael laughs)
Mr. Boyd, I found a loophole.
They actually pay you to take Lira.
It's true.
(all laughing)
We can make...
I mean, if we could get the
volume and the scale right,
the only problem I can see,
is that the cost of fuel
of shipping the cash dollars
over here to convert into Lira
slightly brings us under from
the black back into the red,
but I'm gonna work on it.
If we had some other kinda tanker,
maybe a supertanker or some kind,
just filled with dollars,
we could make easily 30, $40.
(Raphael laughs)
- Cheers to you, Armi.
Cheers to you.
Thanks to you I'll know
that I'll go to my grave
exactly .8% richer than I would otherwise.
- Thanks.
We aim for marginal and
incremental advancements.
Anyway, one of the mice
maids was telling me,
that a millstone down at the mill broke,
and they need me to hold onto the pole
to help grind up the wheat.
So-
(all laughing)
Hell, I'm gonna head off-
- Can't believe
there's a knew the ball.
(all laughing)
- Hell yeah.
Incredible.
You guys head up the stairs,
and move into this first bedroom.
- [Raphael] So I can't
talk to Constance, right?
- Oh, you don't have to go
upstairs if you don't want to.
You can stay downstairs, Ian.
- I wanna talk to Constance,
but I want it to be a
private conversation.
Maybe if I can use the excuse of like,
this is her time to give
confession or something?
Like can we make up a
- Hell yes.
- makeshift confession thing?
- So-
- By the way,
your father just died.
It's time for a confession.
(players laughing)
- Well, I also have to
apologize for earlier.
- For splattering
his blood everywhere?
- Yes.
(Raphael laughs)
- Incredible.
So Ian, you go over to talk
to Constance real quick.
Daisy, you're down in the dining hall.
Sylvester, Lars, Gangie, and
Buckster, you move upstairs.
And you are actually in the room
with Dr. Magpie, Jeremy, and Mrs. Molesly
come into the room with
you, and then Sylvester.
Yes, and Milo Snout and Basil Baskins
are kind of waiting outside
the door as guards, as it were.
You see they also...
They bring a little sofa in here as well.
And Mrs. Molesly asks you, Gangie,
to lie down on the sofa,
because Dr. Magpie is just gonna wrap,
is just cleaning your arm, basically.
Lars, they lay you out.
You see Mrs. Molesly says, it's all right.
Please, don't worry about
getting the sheets dirty.
Detective Cross, you will let me know
if there's anything at
all I can do to help.
I wouldn't trust myself
with a scalpel, mind you,
and she taps her glasses just,
But I can absolutely fetch
some hot water and clean linens.
- Yes, and if you have any ice chips?
- Ice chips?
Yes, very well.
We had ice delivered not too long ago.
I shall rush down to the kitchens.
And she actually calls out
to one of the mouse maids,
and you see she says,
Millie, kindly fetch
a bucket of ice chips.
There should be some ready-made
for the champagne, dearie.
And the mouse runs off to go get it.
- And a bit of the champagne as well.
(all laughing)
- Sylvester, you're over
by the bed with Lars.
Dr. Magpie's on this little sofa.
Buckster, Jeremy is sort of in here,
just making sure that you're all settled,
looking at Milo, and
Basil, and everybody else.
And as of right now, the doctor's here,
Sylvester, Gangie, Lars, Mrs. Molesly.
Mrs. Molesly pulls a little
stool next to the sofa,
and as Dr. Magpie is on his knees
wrapping your wound, Gangie,
you see Mrs. Molesly leaves
a hand on your shoulder,
and just sits beside you
as you are being tended to.
She says-
- Ah.
- She says, you all right, dearie?
Mr. Boyd mentioned there was
a fearsome creature outside.
Strange things afoot.
Some sort of nickys or bogger.
There are old souls around here.
When I was a girl,
I used to talk about
goblins and the fair folk
running higgledy piggledy
in the countryside,
and been all a matter of the occult.
Downstairs, you hear Lucretia scream,
real, whatever she's saying!
(all laughing)
100% real, I can attest!
- Wow, she's gotta...
She's got a real sense for
everything that's happening.
And Mrs. Molesly says,
"What the devil did you face out there"?
(electronic buzzing)
- Don't know.
Couldn't see it.
It was...
What was it?
It was hard?
(Katie laughs)
- Or it was-
- Yeah, tell Mrs. Molesly it was hard.
- It was hard (laughs).
- Yeah, it was...
(players laughing)
Yeah, I mean, like when you hit it,
you heard a crunch.
- Crunchy.
It was crunchy.
- She says, crunch?
- I did not see it, though.
- Crunchy?
I says, the figure?
And you remembered it was
wearing a coat and a hat,
and had a scarf wrapped around its face.
She says, oh, dear, I'm so sorry.
Very brave of you
to jump in there with
your shovel, Mr. Green.
I don't mean to generalize,
but I know you London
lads are used to a scrap.
When it comes to it,
I shouldn't imagine that
I would like to face down
Mr. Gangie Green with his
trusty shovel in hand.
- And Gangie blushes.
(Brennan laughs)
- You see she says,
Mr. Green, is there
anyone that I can alert
or give word to that
that you've been injured?
I know that you live on the grounds,
but is there any family
nearby that I could alert
so that they might come and tend to you,
or make sure that you're all right?
- I ain't got no family.
You're my family.
(players laughing)
(Brennan mumbles)
- Big, big, old tears.
- Ah.
Big, old tears bubble
at the edges of her eyes,
and she pats you on the shoulder,
and she says, quite right, Mr. Green.
Quite right.
You're going to be right
as rain, my good friend.
Ooh, I made myself cry a little bit.
(all laughing)
- Ah!
Oh my god.
- Katie, that is so unbelievably sweet.
Dr. Magpie looks up at this and smiles.
You see, Dr. Magpie is like,
in his head, arrives at
the irrevocable confusion
that Gangie did not do it.
It is just like, he's like,
no f*ck' way.
(Sam laughs)
You see-
- Can I roll now medicine
to get Lars patched up?
Is that something that needs to happen?
- Yes, I'm gonna roll a medicine check
for Dr. Magpie real quick.
Oh, a natural 18
- Yes.
- on the die.
That's a 24 for Gangie.
So here's what we're gonna do.
These medicine checks,
I'm actually going to allow you to DC20.
You want a DC20.
You can succeed on a DC15.
Go ahead and give me a medicine check.
Give me a medicine check, Sylvester.
- 17 plus 6, 23.
- Hell yes.
(Ally whistles)
Your old doctor training comes back.
This is the exact type of injury
that you took care of in
the Navy all the time.
It's literally a combat injury.
So here's the deal.
This is gonna be a short rest,
and in D&D, characters taking a short rest
can spend hit dice to heal themselves.
Because both of your doctors
hit DC20 medicine checks,
both of you will get max dice back.
You don't even have to roll.
You're getting the maximum
result for the dice back.
So Gangie...
And you're adding your constitution,
so that's plus 11.
So Gangie, you can spend
one of your three hit dice,
and be back to full
health, if you would like.
- So do I just put it back to 25
- Yep.
- out of 25?
- Yeah, put it back to 25 out of 25,
- Okay.
- and mark down
just like on a piece of paper,
or in your notes somewhere,
that you only have two of
three healing hit dice left,
in case you get wounded
and have to rest again.
- Okay.
- Lars for you,
you're also gonna get max dice every time,
which are actually D10s.
So every dice you spend
is gonna get you 14 hit points back.
- Cool.
So spend two.
What's that?
I'll spend two and come back to full.
- Cool.
Hell yeah.
Dope.
You're patched up.
Lars is such a beef cake that they like...
You patch the wound up,
and you can immediately
tell Lars is young.
They're healing very quickly.
And these has so much muscle mass on them
that like the wound can't get deep enough
through all that muscle to hit anything.
(Ally laughs)
You know,
like Lars is basically gonna be cramped,
like cramped up the rest of the night,
but other than that,
is like gonna be fine.
(speaks indistinctly)
- Hell yeah.
(speaks indistinctly)
- It's like a paper cut
- He's thick.
- for Lars.
- Yeah (laughs).
So you're both being patched up.
Jeremy's with you.
Buckster says, Mr. Boyd, you
saw a creature outside of...
There was something ferocious
waiting for you outside of the elevator.
First of all, help me understand,
you found the key on the ground,
and assumed that someone had gone up
to the top of Loam Hall,
and you went to follow them yourselves?
Why did you go to follow it yourself,
instead of alerting someone in the staff?
- Forgive me, Squire Brockhollow,
I assume that is the correct decorum now.
Forgive me, my American ways,
I sometimes subject myself to faux pause.
You are Squire Brockhollow,
so that's what we would say.
- Badger Brockhollow,
I don't rest on those
same traditions, Mr. Boyd.
Jeremy will be fine.
You can even shorten
it to Jez, if you like.
- The shorter the better.
Jeze I-
(Brennan laughs)
We found the key on the
ground in the study.
It must've not been apparent
when everyone was milling about the body,
as the detective did a huge schtick.
And we thought, well,
the number one best way
for us to avoid suspicion
would be to turn this
over as soon as possible.
Assuming it was a staff key,
down to the servant's quarters we went.
And findin' no servants to speak of,
we assumed they were
guarding the exterior,
up we went, inadvisable in retrospect.
Hindsight is 20/20, after all.
Made our way to the top of the elevator.
A gate did open,
and what should lunge
forward from the rain
was something out of no
Prescott Bible I've ever seen.
(chuckles)
- A figure?
I don't understand.
You were attacked with a weapon,
so the m*rder*r is still somewhere here,
but they managed to harness
some sort of electromagnetism?
You know, my aunt-
- This figure was
well disguised, Jeze boy.
Well disguised.
Wrapped in a scarf.
We were unable to deduce its face.
And yet, when...
Yet, when the weasel yonder
poked it with its shovel,
it did make a sound akin to a crunch.
(Rekha laughs)
- A crunch?
See, he-
- A crunch.
- He narrows his eyes and says,
the crunch of a shell, perhaps?
- Perhaps.
- I can think of three guests
that would fit that description.
(Rekha gasps)
- The snail.
- Well, now...
Now, forgive me,
because I've met a lot of folks tonight,
and good as I am at
remembering names and faces,
we thought ourselves of
the turtle, Mr. Harding.
We thought ourselves of my
right hand, the armadillo.
And I'm telling you right now,
that man is capable of exactly nothing.
(all laughing)
Who's number three?
- Snail.
- Professor Simon Shellcrest,
one of my father's old
associates from Eaton.
They are a professor at Oxford College.
I know them only somewhat.
They're old, old friends.
They go way back to the Eaton
days with James and my father.
It's possible there
could be something there.
Didn't think of Professor
Shellcrest as much of a combatant,
but then again, it's
been a day for surprises.
See-
- Oh, it might surprise you.
- See, he looks and says-
- Before this
conversation is over,
I wanna try one thing.
- Go for it, yeah.
- I wanna tell them,
Jeze, busy as it's been,
I haven't had the opportunity to
pay my respects.
And so from the bottom of my heart,
amidst all this chaos, and this clutter,
this ever evolving mystery,
I just wanna say, from the
bottom of this pig's heart,
I am sorry for your loss.
And I wanna see if he thinks
his father is, in fact, dead.
- Give me an insight check.
- 23.
(Sam groans)
- I am going to roll from the Box of Doom.
- Mm-hmm.
(intense dramatic music)
(dice clatters)
(intense dramatic music continues)
23.
You look into Jeremy's eyes.
He's projecting strength.
He's projecting confidence.
He's confused, and he's frightened.
And Buckster,
you were ready for two possibilities,
the look of a liar,
certain that his father,
and some clever ruse had pulled off,
the smooth, lacquered surface
of a huckster and con artist,
much like yourself,
something you're well
acquainted with recognizing,
or the naive, pure, tremulous eyes
of a gentle soul.
Jeremy's neither of those.
Jeremy's scared, because
Jeremy, deep down, Buckster,
with that incredible poker read of yours,
isn't sure if his father is dead or not.
(Rekha screeches)
- f*ck.
Yes.
- Whoa.
(Sam scratches hands)
- He looks at you, and says, (sighs)
well, one way or another, Mr. Boyd,
I'm glad for your condolences.
It is kind for you to offer that up.
- "One way or another", exactly my point.
"One way or another."
- See, he says, and I
suppose that we shall
have many more chances for a conversation.
After all, I'm going to be
receiving checks from you
from here on out.
I just became a 50%
owner of BB Industries.
(Sam scoffs)
And welcome to the team,
the current and proceeding, Squire Badger.
(Brennan laughs)
- He smiles and walks out of the room.
Oh, Buckster!
What the f*ck?
(all laughing)
Incredible!
- Mm-hmm.
(Brennan laughs and claps)
Yo, this...
You guys, this episode!
Cool.
- My palm are sweating.
(players laughing)
- My knees are weak.
- I forgot.
Buckster, I forgot.
Buckster is f*cking deadly
in a private conversation.
That insight check,
(Sam laughs)
I just like...
So using the room,
Sylvester and Lars you have
some privacy over on the bed,
because Magpie and Molesly are
over with Gangie on the sofa.
I know that 'cause a lot of people
made those insight checks a while ago now,
go ahead and do what you wanna do,
and then after we're done up here...
And Buckster, you now know that
Basil and Milo are outside,
but you're just sitting at a desk here
able to like kinda hang out.
Do any of you guys have
stuff that you want to
put your heads together
about as you're talking?
Katie, yes?
- I would like to talk
about the mushroom smell
that we experienced in the
elevator on the way up.
- Yes!
Who do you want to talk to about that?
- I would like to talk to Sylvester.
- Very cool.
Yes, yes, yes.
Sylvester, so you're doing stuff.
And Gangie, you can talk in Thieves' cant
in a way that Dr. Magpie
and Mrs. Molesly just won't understand.
So in like a thick c*ck slang,
- Right.
- Gangie just starts
talking to you, Sylvester.
Gangie, what do you say to Sylvester?
- I have it pulled up.
I prepared it.
- Oh, Gangie has a written
statement about mushrooms?
(players laughing)
- No, Katie!
Katie has a written statement.
(players laughing)
So I think there's a thing
called bionic mushrooms
that are capable of producing
their own electricity.
So using cyanobacteria that creates
their own energy through photosynthesis,
these properties within mushrooms
allow it to survive longer
while generating electricity.
So I'm very suspicious about the fact
that we smelled mushroom
when we were on the elevator,
because I do know that they
can create their own energy.
And the cyanobacteria is able to
make the energy by photosynthesis
while the mushroom provides it
with a suitable shelter to do so.
So this is just something
that I've put together.
I don't have any education.
- It's a PowerPoint.
- I don't have any
education, but this is...
I'm just kind of intuitive.
I've been on the streets a
lot, you know what I mean?
So...
(Sam laughs)
- Wow.
- Gangie?
- Wow.
- Gangie?
Duh!
(all laughing)
Oh, brother!
If we're gonna start laying out
the basics of cyanobacteria,
- Yeah?
- Well, I suppose I could
(Katie speaks indistinctly)
start back with cyano means blue.
If we're going all the way back to basics,
- Okay, 'cause I'm not-
- I know!
- I'm not educated,
(Raphael laughs)
but it's just something
that popped into my head.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to, you know, insult you.
- You know, you've been out here,
and don't think I don't think
that you've got something to do
with Fletcher running around here.
- No!
(Grant mumbles)
- Evidently, everyone's lying
all the time, so-
- No, I didn't know he was.
I swear, I didn't know
- You know, okay.
- he was still alive.
- Oh, look at Sylvester
pacing madly (laughs)
(players laughing)
- I didn't know
he was alive, okay?
I'd work for them.
I wasn't a part of the
inner-group, though, you know?
I didn't know stuff-
- Well, all right!
Then let's sit and think
about that for a minute.
So okay, so there's mushrooms that grow
that produce electricity,
which-
- And a pause-
And pause real quick.
I just wanna make sure,
Sylvester, are you having
this part of the conversation
in Thieves' cant as well?
- Yes.
- Cool, cool, cool.
So Lars, you actually-
- Right, so-
- Yeah (laughs).
So Lars, you actually can't understand
the conversation that is happening
between Sylvester and Gangie right now.
- I would imagine I'm
probably used to Sylvester
just popping into another language,
and figuring out a bunch of sh*t,
and I just kinda sit there like,
I'm sure he'll tell me afterwards.
(all laughing)
- I will.
I will.
- How is Sylvester
alone for forever?
- Yeah.
(Sam laughs)
- He's got this.
- Man's best friend.
(interposing voices)
- Right, so we've got these mushrooms,
and as many mushrooms do,
- we've got them
you know, lots of the
largest organisms on earth
are actually mushrooms.
They can create miles long webs
that's technically just
one sort of mushroom.
You say,
- Yes.
- you smell mushrooms
coming up in the elevator.
So Lars, please, I'll get you in a moment.
(players laughing)
And so-
We've got these mushrooms.
- Can I-
Can I ever hear this
if I'm in the room?
- Yeah, you speak
Thieves' cant.
Buckster, I think you
can walk over to the bed,
and be talking with everybody
now in Thieves' ant.
- Well, I couldn't help
but overhear (laughs),
from where I'm sittin',
Gangie, if this is true...
This is how we talk in
Thieves' cant, right?
- Yes, exactly.
- Yes.
(interposing voices)
- Wait, real quick.
I've got a question for you.
- Yeah.
- Where are you from?
(Sam laughs)
- Daisy from downstairs goes,
yeah, where are you from
and what's your movie theater?
- Is it Cambridge?
- I'm from Texas.
- Oh, all right, well, fine.
You sound like you're from Cambridge.
(players laughing)
- Gangie?
- Yeah?
- If what you're
saying is true,
you're as close to Ms. Molesly as you are,
maybe she'd have information,
- Oi!
- information about
those mushrooms?
- Oi!
- She hangs out
in the servant's quarters, after all.
- Well, and
- And-
- them mushrooms is
probably deep underground.
Wait a minute (gasps).
There's...
Those mushrooms extend real, real deep
down below the surface.
- Right.
- There is an elevator.
Oh, I wonder if it there is not
a level below the one that
we think is a basement?
Some place where all that
power is gettin' generated?
- Yeah.
- Sylvester?
- Right.
- Duh!
(all laughing)
No sh*t, Sylvester!
- Oh, I'm not sh*t.
You're not sh*t!
- You're not sh*t!
- You're not sh*t!
(Grant speaks indistinctly)
- f*ck off!
- f*ck' high already,
- Incredible.
- m*therf*cker over here.
- Ah!
(Grant speaks indistinctly)
- Is the IRA a thing?
(players laughing)
Not for a little while yet?
All right, well, it means-
- For a little while.
- You can all use your imaginations.
- Incredible.
So you just had this
conversation about the basement.
Gangie, you do remember
earlier Mrs. Molesly saying,
(speaks indistinctly)
that nobody has lived in Loam
Hall for longer than her.
The rest of you,
I wanna make sure that you guys also
have the ability to confer with each other
about those insight
checks you made earlier.
- If Gangie kind of occupies Mrs. Molesly,
and we're done with Magpie, Doctor,
maybe he can take off,
and it could be just us
in a corner or something?
- Incredible.
- Yeah, if we can
get him out of the room somehow.
- Before Lars says that, you guys see...
Yeah, they are on the bed.
Lars is on the bed.
They're being tended to by Sylvester.
Dr. Magpie gets up.
Gangie was very easy to patch up,
and Dr. Magpie says,
very well, tatty bye.
Please let me know if
there's anything else
I can do to be of service.
And Gangie, you can turn
to occupy Mrs. Molesly,
who is not the most
attentive to begin with,
but smiles as you start talking to her.
Buckster, Lars, Sylvester,
you're able to totally confer,
and dump everything you've
gleamed from the insight check.
And I think Buckster and Gangie know
that you got the same information.
You kind of like shared a look.
So Gangie, you know that
Buckster will be able to
share what you know as well.
Lars, Sylvester, and Buckster,
you guys dump your cards up on the,
up in that room.
- Cool.
- Can I start by saying,
that Daisy is a total poser.
Oh my god!
(all laughing)
Can you even believe that?
Lars, Lars, what did I say?
- We are...
We are surrounded by pure enemies, okay?
I'm gonna have to table that.
(Ally laughs)
(Grant sighs)
Oh, wait, I'm f*cking German.
Is this in...
Okay, this is the more important part.
Harding.
Harding is a criminal.
Not surprised that Cottonbottom was alive.
And I tell them,
that the intel that I got is
that he is a full criminal.
He's bad.
He knew that Cottonbottom was alive.
He's working with him.
- That is super interesting,
because the information I have,
is that Hawkins did not know.
- So Hawkins is innocent?
- I don't know if he's innocent.
So what we know about Hawkins is...
I'm out of character-
- He didn't know that-
- To try to do this in character,
it'd be too much work.
Is like the moment he heard that name,
he was terrified by it.
Like certainly, the house,
that he and the badger
would have had a relationship
with Cotton bottom
dating back to the w*r.
But that Hawkins truly
believed that he was dead.
And maybe even has this belief,
this deeply held belief,
that Fletcher can bring himself
back from the dead somehow.
- Interesting.
Bring himself back
from the dead.
- Mean while,
Harding knows that
- Prestige.
- Fletcher's alive.
- Interesting.
- No, Harding-
Yeah, Harding knows that,
yeah, Fletcher is alive.
- Okay.
- Wait, so Ambrose
- So-
- Harding is bad?
That's the information you got, Ally?
- Yeah, the valet is bad.
- Okay.
- Is bad-
(Brennan speaks indistinctly)
- We already knew that-
- And that's the turtle?
- We already knew that the
turtle was the one giving Gangie
his marching orders.
- Yes.
- And now we know that he,
- Yeah.
- that Lars clocked him,
and he has zero reaction
- Yeah.
- to Daisy giving the news
that Fletcher Cottonbottom
was still alive.
- Yes.
- Hawkins-
- So this-
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- No, go for it.
- No, no, no, please.
- Hawkins reacted with terror.
But yeah, what Buckster picked up from him
was a lot of guilt,
but it's two very
different kinds of guilt.
Harding gave you a stone cold,
like unsurprised looking around the room,
seeing what people are doing.
And Hawkins gave a guilt of,
oh my god, I had no idea he was alive.
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
Oh bad, oh bad, oh bad.
But it was not an innocent
look by any means.
A lot of guilt behind those Hawkish eyes.
- And we don't know about the extra room,
or the medal, or anything
about that yet, right?
'Cause we haven't met up
with Daisy or the Vicar.
- No, you haven't met with
the Daisy or the Vicar yet.
We're gonna do one thing with Gangie,
and then we're gonna, actually,
speaking of Daisy and
the Vicar, move to them.
Gangie, real quick,
you turn to Mrs. Molesly.
What do you say to Mrs. Molesly?
She sort of pats you.
- Hello, Mother.
- Oh!
- Can you talk to me a
little bit about the...
You know, you've lived
here for a long time.
- Oh, that's right.
- Maybe you could talk
to me a little bit about
just the grounds?
- The grounds?
- You know,
is there anything-
- Oh, yeah.
- Is there anything below the first level?
- Oh, oh, Mr. Green.
Well, you're being a little cheeky.
Is that why you were
snooping around the elevator,
my dear boy?
Well, it's very cheeky,
but it shows initiative,
which we need if we're going
to catch this m*rder*r,
who tried to frame me.
That's awfully rude thing to do.
- It's just so rude.
- Very, very rude.
Well, I should-
- It's so rude.
- I should like to
give this a m*rder*r,
who tried to frame me,
and destroy my life and reputation,
I should like to give them a
stern talking to should I ever
come across them.
- I'm gonna kick his a*s.
I'm going to k*ll him.
- You-
- We're gonna find him.
- Oh, Mr. Green, no.
Oh my sweet boy.
- Yeah.
- No, no, no, no,
you mustn't.
- I'm going to k*ll him,
stab him a lot,
and gonna bleed out.
- That's very kind,
but please don't
put yourself out-
- No, I've already decided,
I ain't gonna let this go.
I'm gonna, for sure, gonna k*ll him.
- Well, you are a peach, Mr. Green,
and I suppose, if you insist,
if you insist-
- I do, I do.
- Well, that's (mumbles)...
Oh, dear, what a darling boy.
And you see that she says,
well, yes, of course, there is the...
Loam Hall was built on a
ancient set of Roman ruins,
pre Hadrian, from the early
time that they were here
in this part of the English
countryside, Britannia.
The hall is old, old, old.
The Brockhollow family
took over from the Romans
after the Romans departed
from these lands,
and it's been around for centuries.
But yes, the lower levels
were part of the sellers,
and there is a secret door from
the wine cellar, I believe,
but I'm not sure if that's
still active or not,
but the elevator does go there,
or the elevator does
go down to the sellers,
but unfortunately, we had
some repairmen committee,
so now it only goes to the
sellers at three o'clock.
And you see that she says,
I thought I heard...
Were you talking about mushrooms before?
- Yeah.
- Yes, that's where we get
all our fresh mushrooms,
our fresh mushrooms from.
Absolutely.
- Interesting.
- And you see, she says,
but please don't tell anyone
that I told you the
elevator's secret, all right?
I better go and look in after the maids.
And you see that she gives you
a sweet little kiss on the head,
and walks out of here.
♪ Bah-Ba-Bum ♪
- Oh, you did the motion for the kiss-
(interposing voices)
- Only at three o'clock in the morning,
in the evening?
- Wow.
- She leaves.
We cut downstairs to
Constance walking away.
Sorry.
Vicar, what is it that you
do as you approach Constance?
- Oh, Constance,
I never did apologize for earlier
when I mistakenly thought
that you were married to your dead father,
and perceived-
- Yes, I remember
very well, Vicar.
Yes, absolutely.
- Do you remember that?
Remember when I did that?
- It's a date imprinted
on my mind, Vicar, yes.
How can I help you?
(Raphael laughs)
- Okay.
I wanted to, first of
all, apologize for that.
And I couldn't help but notice,
you had a look on your face earlier
like you wanted to get
something off of your chest.
In this moment,
I just want you to know that I can,
if anything, I can lend an ear.
- Go ahead and give me a persuasion roll.
- Oh, f*ck.
All right.
14.
Daisy, did you look away?
Did you look away?
(players laughing)
- Oh, honey,
if I was lookin' at you
you would have done better.
- 14.
(players laughing)
- Whoo!
Go ahead real quick,
and just give me an insight roll as well.
- Okay, insights.
21.
- Ooh!
She looks at you, and says,
if I need to get something off my chest,
I would get it off my chest to someone
that I trusted a little
bit more than a man,
who moments ago, announced
to the entire parish
that he just today started
believing in the lord.
(Raphael laughs)
(players laughing)
- Well, to clarify, now I know.
I believed, but I was shaky.
Now I have....
Whatever.
(Rekha laughs)
- She says, look, my father
has just died, all right?
And I have to sit here
and wonder why that is,
and if there's something
I could have done.
And you see her eyes go to this place,
and she's thinking of the conversation
she had with her father
minutes before his death.
As she looks back at you,
you see that the look
on her face is one of,
she was asked to give a yes or no answer.
She gave a no,
and she now thinks it
got her father k*lled.
You think that she is deep in this,
and that is when you hear a
loud knock at the front door.
- No.
(Grant gasps)
- Boom, boom, boom.
(knocking on object)
(Raphael gasps)
Daisy, you're leaving sort of
leisurely near the front door.
The footmen are now up watching the room.
Do you want to investigate the door?
- Is it possible, that
before I left for the door,
I had a quick sidebar with Armond, or no?
- I don't-
- Too-
- No, I don't think so.
Armond's gonna be off talking
with Buckster real quick.
- Copy.
- Mm-hmm.
But you see...
Yeah, there's a loud bang at the door.
- Okay.
Hey, I'm ridin' high on
confidence and c*ck,
so I'm headin' right to that door.
And you asked me if I wanted
to investigate anything?
- If you want, you can just
open the door, actually.
- Oh, great, I'll open it.
- You open the door.
Drenched in rain is the figure
all in black of a widow.
(gasps)
Catherine McCabbage looks up,
soaked with rain, shaking
against the cold, and says,
I've seen him!
I've seen my Connor!
And that's all for this
episode of Mice & m*rder.
Tune in next week for
another thrilling episode.
- Here's what I know.
I know that a gangly green has
been diggin' up dead bodies
and bringing them back to
this manor for some time.
And I know that there is
an electromagnetic force
at play in this manor.
And for a third thing,
that there have been the
spirits of ghosts about.
Now, I don't know about y'all,
but the legend of Frankenstein suggests,
that when there are dead bodies,
and where there's electromagnetism,
the dead come back to life.
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09x06 - Busted
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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.