MATT: Hello everyone,
and welcome to tonight's
episode of Critical Role,
where a bunch of us
nerdy-a*s voice actors
sit around and play
Dungeons & Dragons.
ALL: (hollering)
We play Dungeons & Dragons!
MATT: All of that.
Before we get started
in our episode tonight,
we do have some announcements
to get through,
beginning with our first
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MATT: I do not
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LAURA: (laughs)
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LIAM: Oh god.
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Thank you, Sam, for my
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Next up, Liam, we have some
announcements, I believe.
LIAM: I haven't recovered.
That is the
Leisure Suit Larry reboot
I didn't know
I did not want.
After a delay,
Vox Machina: Origins
Series III, Issue 6
will be released this month.
Be on the lookout.
LAURA: So aggressive.
LIAM: I am. It's really good,
and you should check out
at your local comic shops.
For the latest updates on
your comics, graphic novels,
and other creations
with Dark Horse,
TRAVIS: You better
check it out!
MATT: Got it. (laughs)
LIAM: Get over here!
(laughter)
MATT: All right, brother! No.
Laura, we have merch,
I believe.
LAURA: Okay.
We got some cool merch!
(imitates fanfare)
This is a Sprinkle
hanger plush.
TALIESIN: Oh.
MATT: Oh, that's...
LAURA: Get ready!
(awwing)
TRAVIS: (as Sprinkle)
Put me back in the box!
LAURA: He's got
a little cupcake charm!
MATT: Is there little
paws on the bottom?
LAURA: He's got little paws--
MATT: Oh my god.
LAURA: -- on his bottom.
He's so cute!
ASHLEY: Aw!
LAURA: You could clip
him onto your bag.
Take him with you.
MATT: He's just sleeping.
He's just sleeping.
(laughter)
LAURA: He's just sleeping.
(laughter)
LIAM: He's resting his soul.
TRAVIS: (as Sprinkle) I can't open my eyes!
MARISHA: He's resting
his soul.
LAURA: Check him out.
Go get him.
He's in the store.
Next up.
Oh god! Oh god!
Okay, wait! No, here we go!
I'm sitting on it.
TALIESIN: Are we doing it?
LAURA: Yeah, we're doing it.
TALIESIN: All right, we're doing it.
LAURA: You guys. Finally.
MARISHA: Finally!
LAURA: Yeah, he's
going to put it on.
This is our--
Look at this.
So we're doing this thing.
We're doing collections.
MARISHA: Woo!
LAURA: This is the
first of a collection,
The Beauty of Exandria:
The Wildes.
This is the first one.
I can't tell you
what any of the
other ones are,
but look out in
the next coming weeks
because they will be coming.
This one is our Caduceus
cardigan sweater.
TRAVIS: Get one now.
MARISHA: It's so cool.
LAURA: It's got beetles.
It's got tea.
TRAVIS: It's got a teapot
underneath the beetle!
LAURA: You guys, it's so
comfy, and it's wonderful.
Do you love it, Taliesin?
TALIESIN: I've been living
in this for months now,
and anytime I run into somebody
out in the real world,
because of you, I have
to take off my jacket
and then wave
and do a picture
and then put it back on.
LAURA: It's so, so wonderful.
I'm so excited about this.
TALIESIN: I love it.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: I've been living in it.
LAURA: It was designed
by Adriann Helton.
Just fabulous.
LIAM: What are you going
to do with that one?
LAURA: Well--
TRAVIS: Not give it to you, punk!
LAURA: I already have one at home.
LIAM: Oh yeah?
MARISHA: I have one
at home, too.
LAURA: Okay, so if you
want to keep this,
it's a medium.
TRAVIS: Wow!
What about your
husband over here?
LIAM: Oh, are you a medium?
TRAVIS: I could make it work.
ASHLEY: What about me?
TALIESIN: Right?
LAURA: Next up.
In addition to,
it's a cardigan.
ASHLEY: I have COVID,
give it to me.
MATT: That's true,
that's true.
TALIESIN: It's the
COVID sweater.
LAURA: We have a Mighty Vibes
Series Caduceus puzzle.
MATT: That's awesome.
TALIESIN: Oh yeah.
LAURA: Isn't it beautiful?
MARISHA and ASHLEY: Yes!
LAURA: It's made by our
friends at the O-P, The Op.
I always say it wrong.
TRAVIS: The O-P.
LAURA: The art is by Kami
Areopagita and Kevin Areopagita.
LAURA: The art is by Kami
Areopagita and Kevin Areopagita.
They are the ones that
did our animated series
for Mighty Nein,
and they're amazing.
MATT: They are fantastic.
LAURA: This is amazing.
That's what I said.
What did I say that?
TRAVIS: You said series.
LAURA: God, I can't.
TRAVIS: You're doing so good, and--
LAURA: I don't know
what I'm saying.
TRAVIS: -- your pigtails are working.
LAURA: Thanks.
ASHLEY: So cute.
LAURA: Thanks, Ashley.
ASHLEY: It's the best.
LAURA: This is available in
the Critical Role store,
and it's also available anywhere
The Op puzzles are sold.
TRAVIS: She's the
picture of composure.
LAURA: Look at how
beautiful this puzzle is.
I can't wait
to put it together.
TALIESIN: I'm very excited.
(laughter)
MARISHA: Also, go
watch Mighty Vibes.
LAURA: Also,
watch Mighty Vibes.
They're really great.
Check out Mighty Vibes.
MATT: Awesome.
Yeah, yeah.
My dad and my brother did
music on that one, too.
TALIESIN: I know.
I'm really excited.
MATT: Thank you, Laura.
LAURA: Oh, you're welcome.
MATT: (laughs)
By the ever-sealed lids
of a tiny Sprinkle toy,
I think it is time
for us to go ahead and jump
into tonight's episode of
Critical Role.
♪ Critical (It's Thursday) ♪
♪ It's Thursday night! ♪
ASHLEY: ♪ One-by-one, we climb
until we reach the top ♪
♪ Two-by-two, we fall ♪
LAURA: ♪ Will we meet our
end or meet our destiny ♪
♪ Hold your breath and roll ♪
MATT: How do you
want to do this?
ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪
♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪
♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪
♪ There is ♪
magic and mystery ♪
♪ Who knows what ♪
will happen? ♪
♪ He might ♪
♪ But one thing's for sure ♪
♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪
TRAVIS: ♪ From the healer ♪
LIAM: ♪ To the renegade ♪
MATT: ♪ We all share
the same goal ♪
MATT and TALIESIN:
♪ Adding more allies ♪
♪ Taking more chances ♪
SAM: ♪ Hold your
breath and roll ♪
MARISHA: You can
certainly try.
ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪
♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪
♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪
♪ It's Thursday night ♪
♪ There is ♪
magic and mystery ♪
♪ From darkness, ♪
our friendship will rise ♪
♪ But one thing's for sure ♪
♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪
♪ Oh, get ready (get ready) ♪
♪ It's Thursday night ♪
(flames whooshing)
MATT: Last we left off,
Bells Hells had
made their journey--
LAURA: That's us!
SAM: ♪ Made their journey ♪
MATT: -- northward here in the
Oderan Wilds to Heartmoor Hamlet
in search of answers about
the m*rder of the Lumas twins
and the thread
of the assassins
that you, Orym,
have been following,
as well as it seems
discovering some connections
with the nightmare that's
been haunting Imogen
for a good portion of her
young-to-current adult life.
You were also here to
break into the
Twilight Mirror Museum
at the behest of
Ms. Jiana Hexum
to both embarrass,
if possible,
the proprietor of it,
as well as win a wager
that she had made
with Evon Hytroga.
You managed to break in
against a competitive burglary
team known as The Verdict.
You got caught in
a lot of traps,
and they got caught
in some traps, too,
and you gave traps
to each other,
and then you fought some
weird clay golem things.
Then you repeatedly
hit a button
and burned the f*ck
out of the other team.
TRAVIS: Sure did.
♪ They had it comin' ♪
ASHLEY: ♪ They
had it comin' ♪
MATT: It's perfect.
And you won the wager.
You retrieved
the specific object
that was notified
to be waiting for you
at the end of the museum.
Safely, (chuckles)
more or less.
In doing so, won the
arrangement for Hexum.
On your way out,
you delved into seemingly
some sort of a shared
or uniquely parallel history
with one of the local
carvers in the space.
Other crafters of fine
wooden and other materials.
LIAM: That was intense.
MATT: That was intense.
ASHLEY: Very intense.
TRAVIS: Totally the way
I thought that was going to go.
MATT: (laughs)
TRAVIS: I love this cape.
MATT: It's so ridiculous.
As well as
running into Estani
on the way out,
who had been contemplating
the conversations you had had
and trusted you with a
little more information
about some sort of
a troop, or a group, that
referred to themselves
as the Grim Verity
that seem to be heading up
some of the similar research
into these strange
astral oddities
that the Lumas twins
had been looking into,
themselves seemingly,
possibly, members.
Upon leaving, you
mounted your horses
and headed southward on a
relatively safe journey back.
Having knowing the
roads a little better,
managed to avoid any
serious conflict or issues.
We finished the last session
with you stepping towards
the base of the city
just as the sun
had begun to set
and the flame of the
Prakash Pyre guided you
to Jrusar.
So, Bells Hells,
what would you like to do?
ASHLEY: Boy, that last end
of the trip was just wild.
ASHLEY: Boy, that last end
of the trip was just wild.
(laughter)
MARISHA: Yeah,
honestly, you felt
a little out of it, Fearne.
ASHLEY: I did. I was
just a little out of it.
I'm not really sure why.
TRAVIS: That physical
magnetism, though.
We didn't skip a beat, baby.
ASHLEY: Never, never.
Right on rhythm.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: What time?
LAURA: We've already returned
the horses.
TALIESIN: Evening.
TRAVIS: Evening.
MARISHA: That's right.
We returned the horses.
SAM: Nothing new, but,
during the journey, if I may
go back in time for a second.
MATT: Yes.
TRAVIS: (rewinding noises)
SAM: Not in a creepy way--
MATT: Uh-oh.
(laughter)
SAM: -- but when
I was on watch
a night or two,
MATT: Yeah?
SAM: I've paid careful
attention to Imogen's...
her behavior at sleep.
Like what time she seemed
to be in REM sleep.
TRAVIS: (deeply) "I watch
her when she sleeps."
SAM: Yeah, exactly.
(laughter)
LAURA: In a creepy way.
SAM: Not in a creepy way.
Just trying to figure out
if she dreams every night
or if she just
dreams some nights,
just trying to figure out
a pattern or something.
That's it.
MATT: Roll an insight
check for me.
TALIESIN: Somewhere between
stalker on iPhone, I suppose.
SAM: Natural 20.
(oohing)
MATT: For a total of?
MARISHA: Happy Thursday.
SAM: Insight, I'm
pretty good on, 26.
LAURA: Wow.
MATT: Well, first off,
Imogen, is there anything
that you think would
have been noticeable
during these nights' sleep?
SAM: Not in a creepy way.
(chuckling)
SAM: So don't even go there.
TRAVIS: She farts a lot.
LAURA: Just a lot of tootin'.
TRAVIS: (as Laura) "I
just got them toots."
LAURA: This sounds
weird, but,
you notice I've been sleeping
with my hand in my--
TRAVIS: Your pants?
LAURA: -- in my pants
(laughs). No,
in my side pouch.
(laughter)
LAURA: It's not in my pocket,
but it's a side pouch
that's on my clothes.
SAM: Like, in it?
On it? Around it?
LAURA: My hand is in--
LIAM: It's a false pocket.
SAM: That area.
LAURA: Yeah.
SAM: Okay.
Interesting.
LIAM: Hole's cut out.
LAURA: Yeah, that's probably--
SAM: I mean, that's plenty.
That's a lot.
LAURA: That would be the most...
SAM: Okay.
MATT: Okay.
LAURA: You would
probably notice
I feel very uncomfortable
going to sleep,
but you might have
noticed that one already.
SAM: I did, yes.
MATT: I would say
on top of that, too,
at certain moments
of restlessness
in which you can see--
You rolled really high.
You can see when
the face tenses,
when the body seems to be
challenged in finding comfort.
The hand then
finds the pouch,
and then comfort seems to
come quickly thereafter.
SAM: Oh.
Okay.
MATT: All right.
SAM: To Jrusar! (laughs)
MATT: You're there!
(laughter)
LIAM: I don't need to
go through anything,
but I would say on the ride,
Orym would've explained the
Grim Verity, Ebenold Kai,
and not Spy Shine,
Spireling Shenn.
SAM: Eyeshine.
LIAM: Shout out to Eyeshine.
MATT: (laughs)
TRAVIS: That's right,
Spireling Shenn.
Right, right, right,
right, right.
SAM: Cool.
LIAM: Cool. That's it.
SAM: Now that we're
in town again,
some things on our
to-do list include--
LIAM: Well, Hexum.
TRAVIS: Ajit Dayal.
SAM: That's for you.
TRAVIS: That's for me.
LAURA: Oh yeah.
SAM: Hexum for--
LAURA: Ashton.
SAM: Just Ashton?
TALIESIN: I mean, I can
go solo, if necessary.
SAM: No, no, no. No, no.
LAURA: We're checking in.
Fearne also wanted
that statue of...
SAM: Where was that?
LAURA: Well, one of
her statues, Hexum.
Fearne asked for a
payment if we succeeded.
ASHLEY: Oh, yes, that's right.
LAURA: Yeah.
ASHLEY: If we succeeded,
she was definitely going
to give me that statue.
LAURA: That changes the
shape of the face.
SAM: Oh yeah, that's right,
that's right.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: It was definitely
formally agreed upon.
LAURA: Yeah, yeah,
definitely.
MATT: Written in the contract.
ASHLEY: Yes, we made a contract.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: A verbal one.
MATT: (laughs)
SAM: We got to check in
with Lord Eshteross
at some point.
LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Okay, yeah.
LAURA: Lord Worcestershire?
(laughter)
SAM: Any other
pressing matters?
Marwa's shop?
Just because it's fun.
LAURA: Just because.
LIAM: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Especially once we have
a little change
in our pocket,
that could be f*cking great.
SAM: Okay.
Well, what's up first?
MARISHA: It's sunset, right?
MATT: Upon arriving,
upon stepping into
the Lantern Spire
and getting into
the city itself proper,
I would say by now, the
early night has kicked in,
the oranges and
reds and purples
of the sunset have
just begun to fade
into the dark blue
and eventually heading
towards twilight
into the dark night itself.
So, the city is yours.
You can see the various
torches and lanterns
now ablaze down the ray of the
roads to the Fatewalk
across to the Core Spire.
The city is yours.
LIAM: I don't know.
It's kind of late.
Maybe we want to just hole up
and relax for a bit
and then start fresh
in the morning.
SAM: Sure.
TALIESIN: I'm all right for that.
LIAM: Where do you
want to stay?
Who's liked what here?
SAM: Well, where do
we normally stay?
LAURA: How have
we forgotten this?
TRAVIS: Sit and Spin.
ASHLEY: Sit and Spin.
MATT: You've stayed
at the Spire by Fire.
LAURA: Yeah, Spire by Fire.
MATT: You've stayed at the
Soot and Swill.
MARISHA: I think that
one's my favorite.
LAURA: Yeah, the
Spire by Fire.
Let's go there.
MATT: Okay. All right.
Stepping through the
bustling early evening,
you can see that
the normal hour
in which those who are
finishing their shifts
of work have set out
into the night
to find some sort of
adventure or fun,
whether it be drinks,
and socialization is there.
Some individuals that work
into the nights are preparing
for whatever shifts they
take through the wee hours,
but the long bridge that
is the Fatewalk guides you
towards the Core Spire until
eventually the familiar sight,
the impressive inn exterior
of the Spire by Fire.
The bright torch light
on the very front
and the now bustling interior
of the front tavern space
is presented before you.
You're looking to get
rooms for the evening?
LIAM: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Ishir's in, yeah.
MATT: Okay.
The typical crowd is within,
as well as the proprietor.
The rooms, are you just
getting one night?
LAURA: Yeah, probably.
LIAM: Well, what do you--
LAURA: Two nights?
Maybe two nights.
LIAM: Let's do two.
We can always leave.
TALIESIN: Let's call it two,
and we can always
book if we have to.
LIAM: Yeah.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: Okay. Two nights.
For two rooms? Three rooms?
LAURA: What do
you think, Chet?
Do you want to
sleep alone again
and hope Fearne joins you,
or would you rather--
TRAVIS: What?
LAURA: -- sleep in a room
with the rest of us?
TRAVIS: I mean,
I'm down for a little,
you know, a little co-op.
A little team building.
LAURA: So maybe two rooms?
MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: Which room
is Fearne in?
ASHLEY: Well, I'll just go
into any room, I mean--
TRAVIS: I mean, it
doesn't matter to me,
I just want everyone
else to be aware.
MARISHA: Aware.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
TALIESIN: I think she's
crashing with us, then.
I think that's fair.
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TALIESIN: Yeah, that makes sense.
SAM: Totally, makes sense to me.
TALIESIN: Thank you, FCG.
MATT: Ishir, the male katari
that normally takes care
of the front of the tavern
in this part of the night,
leans forward with
his orange brown fur
and he goes, "Okay, yeah.
"Two rooms, two nights,
that'll put you back
"say, two gold pieces
and here's your keys."
TALIESIN: Oh, I'm taking
this one, I'm so excited.
LAURA: Well,
thank you, Ashton.
MATT: "Would you like drinks
brought to your room at all?"
TALIESIN: Oh, yes, please.
ASHLEY: Oh wow.
LAURA: Yeah, that'd
be wonderful.
ASHLEY: I didn't even know
that was an option.
MARISHA: Can we get
food as well?
MATT: "No, just drinks."
MARISHA: Oh.
MATT: "No, you can get
food, if you want.
"It is an extra charge."
MARISHA: That's fair.
ASHLEY: Yeah, okay.
MATT: "All right, we'll say
for a round of meals
"brought to the rooms for
the night here, including,
"what do you want,
liquor, ale,
"beer, wine, what're
you feeling?"
TALIESIN: Whatever an
extra gold will buy.
I'm going three.
MATT: "Very well."
TALIESIN: It's been
a good week!
MATT: "Big spenders! (laughs)
"All right, get to your room,
"we'll get you situated
here shortly."
With that, you guys are able
to go to your two chambers.
They are modest enough,
but comfortable
with a divided troop.
There is at least
enough bed space.
Though there are
two beds per room,
enough bed space
with some coupling,
or the floor, if you prefer.
TRAVIS: Coupling, you say?
We got to couple up.
What?
FCG, you want to?
SAM: Yeah, we all heard it.
TRAVIS: Did you want
to bunk up?
SAM: Yeah, me and
Ashton and Fearne,
I think we were going to--
TALIESIN: Yeah, we're
going to bump up.
Yeah, bunk up, that's
going to be great, yeah.
ASHLEY: Where are
you going, Orym?
LIAM: I'm easy.
I fit anywhere.
LAURA: There's four beds,
but if y'all just want to
leave a couple beds empty
and sleep three to
a couple of them,
then you know,
you do your thing.
TRAVIS: I jump up,
one of these is open
if anybody wants to share.
If you want to
join Chetney Island.
TALIESIN: I'm coming
right in.
TALIESIN: Wham! Ashton impacts
the side of the bed.
TALIESIN: Pure stone!
TRAVIS: (muffled yelling)
TALIESIN: I warn you, I toss
and turn and I'm a snorer.
TRAVIS: (muffled speech)
Your body is hard!
TALIESIN: I also sleep
anywhere, this is just--
MATT: As a trained carpenter,
your heart drops into
your stomach at the sound,
a very familiar sound
of load-bearing wood
cracking ever so slightly.
TRAVIS: Don't do it.
Don't do it!
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Please!
I'll sleep on the floor,
all right.
MATT: A short time later,
there's knock at the door
and you see a young,
can't be older than 19 or 20,
boy who is currently carrying
multiple trays with food
that looks like
it's fairly fresh,
if not standard fare here
in the Spire by Fire and--
LAURA: I help him out and I
don't take it from his hands.
MATT: "It's hot, be careful."
LAURA: Food just
starts levitating,
the plates start levitating
across the room to the--
MATT: "Okay, you're good."
Closes the door.
ASHLEY: Wait, wait, who
cooked these? This food.
MATT: "Our cook, Janey, why?"
ASHLEY: Oh, never mind.
I think that might
be somewhere else.
SAM: I think it is,
Pretty works somewhere else.
ASHLEY: Pretty works somewhere
else, that's right.
Okay, never mind.
TRAVIS: What's your name?
MATT: "Good night.
"Good night."
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Damn it, we almost had him!
LIAM: What's your
name, fresh meat?
TRAVIS: Skimmed off the event
horizon of the black hole.
MATT: Yep, it was too much.
As soon as he saw the
eyes, he's like, nope!
(laughter)
TALIESIN: "My name
is Waiter! Ah!"
(laughter)
LIAM: There's a vibe
in the room.
TALIESIN: Tell me about
your parents.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: (deeply)
What's your name?
LIAM: Want some candy?
Want-Want-Want some candy?
MATT: Oh my god.
Food and drinks are yours,
the night is yours.
You can discuss
what you wish to discuss
or move on to the
next morning, up to you.
SAM: We can just
move on, right?
LAURA: Yeah, what are we
going to do in the morning?
TRAVIS: Was he part
of a Mahaan House?
I have Mahaan House next to--
MATT: Correct, yes.
TRAVIS: Mahaan House Dayal?
MATT: Yes.
TRAVIS: Oh, all right.
TALIESIN: I say we
get Hexum out--
MATT: Specifically, a location
referred to as the Dayal Hall
is where his
place of business is.
TRAVIS: Got it.
TALIESIN: I say we get
Hexum out of the way.
LAURA: Mm-hmm.
TALIESIN: I would like
to go in there.
I would like to put forward
because I don't think
I was quite clear enough.
The less personal information
she gets the better.
She's fine, she's just--
She can get single-minded,
and you just
don't want to draw
too much attention to
yourself, especially--
LIAM: Do you want
to do the talking?
TALIESIN: I'd prefer to.
If she wants to hear
from anybody, feel free,
but I don't want to
put it in her head
that anybody is for,
you know--
TRAVIS: Sale?
TALIESIN: Available for
sale, rental, or display.
LAURA: Oh.
TRAVIS: Ugh.
TALIESIN: So conversations
about your
possible worth and value are,
I'm not going
to say dangerous,
but I just don't like
putting ideas in her head.
SAM: I think I understand.
We'll act accordingly.
TALIESIN: God, it
makes me so nervous
every time you say that.
SAM: Maybe I should wear
the pants and shoes.
TALIESIN: No.
LAURA: You should definitely
not ever do that again, ever.
SAM: (laughs) Okay.
TALIESIN: I mean, that way, I
suppose if she asks, you can--
(laughter)
TRAVIS: It can only
drive the value down,
it's really not bad.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Just take it
before you go in.
TALIESIN: I'd also say--
well, try not to steal.
I mean, I'm not going to be
mad if you get away with it.
I'll be very angry if you
don't. That's what I'll say.
ASHLEY: To steal
from her or not to?
MARISHA: It was very complicated, Ashton.
LIAM: That's the question.
TALIESIN: That is the question.
ASHLEY: That is definitely
always the question.
TRAVIS: To steal or not to steal.
TALIESIN: I would say
don't steal from her,
but if you do steal from
her, don't get caught.
Succeed.
ASHLEY: Okay,
I mean, I don't really--
I just borrow for
a long time.
LIAM: How many things
have you brought back?
ASHLEY: Oh, well--
I haven't brought anything
back just yet, but I will.
TALIESIN: You have been busy.
ASHLEY: We've had so much
going on, so I just--
You know, things happen in
time, but we'll get there.
LAURA: Think about
all the adventures
you're giving these items.
ASHLEY: Yes, I know.
TALIESIN: Yeah, "don't steal"
is usually a suggestion;
"don't get caught" is a
rule, that's my philosophy.
TRAVIS: ♪ Don't steal,
you know just what I-- ♪
MARISHA: I remember
someone once said,
only steal
from grumpy people,
I heard that once.
LAURA: Who said that?
TALIESIN: Anybody
can be grumpy
if you work hard enough.
MARISHA: I agree.
LAURA: That's true.
TRAVIS: That was deep.
MARISHA: I have a question.
When talking to Hexum,
should we maybe, I don't know,
get a gift card or something
to send to Sabanis,
since we almost k*lled
the other competitors?
Like a bouquet of
flowers, nice sirloin?
TALIESIN: I feel
bad for them,
I don't know if
I feel bad for--
MARISHA: Well, I mean,
just because she's
the middle man, if you will.
So she can
deliver the message.
TRAVIS: I mean, I'd
never gotten a gift
for sucking
at something before.
MARISHA: Oh, sure.
SAM: They survived, right?
And we healed them.
TRAVIS: Yeah, when do you
get a gift for losing?
MARISHA: That's fair.
TALIESIN: Anything you
survive is kind of a win.
SAM: But it might put us
in their good graces?
So it's a wonderful,
kind gesture.
MARISHA: I like them,
The Verdict.
LIAM: Got to word it
carefully though,
because it could read
like passive aggression.
MARISHA: Ooh, right.
SAM: What would you say?
TRAVIS: How would
you phrase it?
Roleplay, go for it.
MARISHA: "Dear
Mistress Shibana."
TRAVIS: Okay, it's
a good start.
MARISHA: "So sorry for...
"um
"winning (laughs)
"and torching
your teammates."
LIAM: This is what
I'm talking about.
SAM: That's sincere.
MARISHA: "I hope you have--"
TALIESIN: It is
sincere. (laughs)
MARISHA: "-- a lovely rest
of your life."
Does that sound good?
SAM: That sounds good to me,
the way that you say it.
TALIESIN: That to me,
personally, sounds--
TRAVIS: Like an insult.
TALIESIN: Like you just
broke up with someone
and stole all their stuff
while they were out at work.
I'm not against it,
I'm just saying,
if that's what you
want to put forward,
that's what I'm getting.
LAURA: "So sorry for,
um, winning,
"ha-ha, and torching
your teammates."
(laughter)
"Hope you have a good
rest of your life."
(laughter)
TRAVIS: "Ha-ha."
SAM: When you read it like that.
ASHLEY: Yeah, that does
sound a little--
LIAM: You shouldn't
text that, though,
you should say
that directly to--
MARISHA: Sure, that's fair.
ASHLEY: The tone gets lost.
LAURA: Maybe I could
send a message.
SAM: About the tone, yeah.
LAURA: Yeah.
MARISHA: If we run into her.
SAM and MARISHA: We'll do
it in-person.
MARISHA: You know, if the
universe wills it.
TALIESIN: You buy somebody
a bottle of something
and you're like,
"No hard feelings,
"hope to work
together next time."
LAURA: Oh yeah,
that's a good one,
just say, "No hard feelings."
TALIESIN: No hard feelings.
LAURA: That's a good message.
ASHLEY: Like an edible fruit
bouquet or something.
TALIESIN: Oh man, yeah.
I've seen those before,
they look great.
LAURA: (laughs)
MARISHA: All right.
I don't know.
SAM: No, it's good.
To Hexum's, then?
TALIESIN: Let's get
this out of the way.
SAM: Is it the next day?
MATT: Well, it's still night,
you're in your room.
If you want to sleep,
you can do that
and then the next day--
TRAVIS: But do we need
to take a watch?
SAM: No, we're in a hotel.
LAURA: No, we're fine now.
ASHLEY: Are you sure?
TRAVIS: Man, you guys
have lived a privileged life.
TALIESIN: No, but you know.
TRAVIS: We're
hot targets now.
MARISHA: He's got a point.
SAM: Are we?
TRAVIS: Yeah, we could have
bounties on our heads.
We were around a guy that
was worth 20 gold! 20k gold!
MARISHA: A lot of people
get m*rder*d in hotels.
LAURA: That's true,
we've seen it.
ASHLEY: Very true.
LAURA: Yeah.
SAM: Should we ask
the barkeep if
there are any bounties on us?
LAURA: How would he know?
SAM: Well, I assume that the
people who run establishments
would know the
scuttlebutt around town.
LAURA: I think we're
all right.
SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: Should I keep
first watch, just in case?
SAM: Sure.
If you want to stay up,
go for it.
MATT: Okay.
SAM: We're all going to
go to sleep except for--
MARISHA: Chetney. (laughs)
SAM: We're going to have one watch.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: I could go
downstairs and just ask.
SAM: Sure.
LIAM: I'll go after you,
Chet, but I don't know
if we have a third volunteer.
ASHLEY: I'll volunteer.
TALIESIN: There we are.
MATT: All right, so we have
the trio of watch
and you're going to the--
TALIESIN: I was going to
run downstairs really quick
and see if, was it Kalliyan?
MATT: Kalliyan's the name,
yeah. Kalliyan's the bouncer.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I was going
to find Kalliyan.
Just run downstairs.
MATT: Okay.
So as you head back down, you
can see, sitting to the right
in a heavily reinforced
bench/stool,
Kalliyan, lumbering forward
and one hand settled
on the left knee
while her right large,
elephantine hand
looks like it's clutching
a series of metallic ba*ls
that she's swirling
in the fingers.
Fumbling one, (groans)
picks it up, puts it back
and continues to concentrate.
As you approach, they stop
and you hear
the clacking freeze.
"Hi."
TALIESIN: Hi.
MATT: "Been a bit."
TALIESIN: Yeah.
I was just curious,
does anybody
put out some money for me,
dead or alive, that
you've heard about?
MATT: "I mean, that
sort of thing
"does happen on occasion."
TALIESIN: I mean,
in the last week?
MATT: "In small
spaces, maybe.
"Nothing that's--
"What are you getting at?"
TALIESIN: Insight check.
MATT: Make an insight check.
TALIESIN: Oh wow.
16.
MATT: 16.
Don't worry about a whisper
since you're the only person
present in this sequence.
Genuinely seems
a little confused
as to what you're trying
to glean or pull from her
but doesn't seem to be
hiding anything, necessarily.
TALIESIN: Okay, cool,
I just pissed some
people off last week,
I was just testing.
Not that you need to
know, it's all good.
You want a beer?
MATT: "I'm on the job,
I can't drink."
TALIESIN: Oh, well, I'll
have a beer for you, thanks!
I run back up stairs.
MATT: "What a strange one,"
as you step away
and head back
to the chamber.
All right, who's
taking first watch?
TRAVIS: I am!
MATT: All right, Chetney,
make a perception check
for me, please,
while the rest of you rest.
TRAVIS: 14, uh, 14, no, 18!
(laughter)
LAURA: 14-ah!
MATT: Too deep in
the roleplay there.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: I'm well rested.
MATT: All right, uneventful.
You hear the occasional rowdy
outburst throughout the night.
The early parts
of the evening.
The energy of
the tavern downstairs
tends to wind down.
You keep an ear out.
TRAVIS: Because my notes look
like a fourth grader's,
was the Prism Emporium
run by Tua Tutwani?
was the Prism Emporium
run by Tua Tutwani?
Is that right?
MATT: Okay, hold on.
TRAVIS: I'm trying
to remember when
I went and bought that chisel
and I was overcharged
for the set.
MATT: Correct, yeah, that
was the Prism Emporium.
Yeah, and that
was Tuyen Otwana.
TRAVIS: Tua Tutana, okay.
Going to k*ll them,
all right.
(laughter)
MATT: Ha, boy.
Okay, a few hours go by,
no major issue,
you watch comes to an
end. Who do you wake up?
TRAVIS: Orym! Orym.
Sorry, pal, it's you.
LIAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: Coast is clear.
LIAM: Nothing?
TRAVIS: Nothing.
LIAM: Yeah.
TRAVIS: That's exactly what
they want us to think.
Be vigilant! (snores)
(laughter)
MATT: All right, roll a
perception check for me, Orym.
LIAM: Ooh, there's a natural
one, I get to reroll.
And that jumped up on top,
but that's not as good
as the other one,
that is a 23 total.
MATT: 23.
LIAM: 20, no, no, 26 total.
No, 24 total.
24 total.
Give or take, let's say
23 and a half.
MATT: All right, all right,
got to average it out.
Quiet, at one point,
you do hear some heavy
(thudding)
out in the hall and
you get a bit tense,
but you listen and you
hear some slurred grumbling
and somebody continues
lumbering down the hall,
a bit trashed, to their room,
before the door
slams down the way.
Beyond that, no major issue.
Then your watch
comes to a conclusion.
LIAM: All right, well I
walk over to the witch pile
and I shake awake
the furry one.
Hey!
ASHLEY: Yes, hello.
LIAM: You're up.
ASHLEY: Okay, okay.
I'll take your spot.
I roll into the
corner of the bed.
MATT: Okay.
Fearne, roll a perception
check for me, please.
ASHLEY: Okay.
Ooh, natural 19 plus--
MATT: Okay, an uneventful
passage, thankfully,
this early in the morning.
Aside from the loud snoring
of Chetney across the room.
(laughs)
ASHLEY: Oh, oh, I want
to do something.
MATT: Sure, yeah, what
do you want to do?
ASHLEY: I would like
to walk over to the
side of Ashton
while he's sleeping.
MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: And I want to--
I want to watch his head
and try to see if
anything's happening.
SAM: Inside his brain?
MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: Yeah.
LIAM: Want to see the brain.
MATT: So, in the
low light here,
you take quite a bit of time.
From a third
person perspective,
this is really creepy.
You're just inches from the
crystal-like exposed portion
of the their dome.
ASHLEY: Mouth breathing.
MATT: Yeah, you see the
fog going in and out.
LIAM: The goat eyes.
(laughter)
MATT: You don't see a brain,
it isn't like a glass dome
with fleshy organ visible.
But at close look,
you can see the inside
looks like clouded
cracked crystal.
You see what looks
like a storm of quartz
frozen in place,
like an odd natural ice
frozen in place,
like an odd natural ice
that is just locked in time.
As you focus on it,
occasionally you see
a bit of red spark,
and a bit of purple
just glow and shift.
There's like a very,
very subtle microcosm
of chaos and energy
just sparking around
beyond the opaque portion
of this exposed
crystalline wound.
It's beautiful.
ASHLEY: So beautiful
and calm in there.
TRAVIS: Do it.
ASHLEY: I'm just going
to put my finger on it
and see what happens.
(laughter)
MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: Oh yeah.
TALIESIN: Sorry,
f*cked up that.
TRAVIS: (gags)
MATT: It is a smooth--
SAM: Criminal.
MATT: Yes.
♪ ("Smooth Criminal") ♪
Ba da da da. Ba da da da. ♪
ASHLEY: ♪ ("Smooth Criminal")
Doo doo doot ♪
MARISHA: ♪ ("Smooth Criminal")
Cha cha ♪
MATT: It is a smooth
glass-like surface there.
As you run your
finger along it,
there's warmth to it. It
has the warmth of skin,
but it is a hard surface.
As you move
your finger along,
you almost see a trail of that
very faint energy across it,
like those energy
spheres you'd see
in Sharper Image
when those existed.
TRAVIS: Oh yeah.
Magazine still does.
MATT: Yeah, there you go.
But it just follows the
pressure you place along it.
It's cool and you
can't stop yourself
from doing it a bit.
Go ahead and roll
a perception check
with disadvantage.
TALIESIN: I was just going to say
because there no
feeling on the glass,
but that would definitely
like, it might--
MATT: But the proximity
and the movement of
her finger on it.
TALIESIN: -- might
actually be enough to--
MATT: With disadvantage,
because you are asleep.
TALIESIN: Oh, that's fair.
MATT: (chuckles)
TALIESIN: Perception
check, right?
MATT: Yes.
TALIESIN: No, I am out.
Nothing above a three.
MATT: You were shifting
their head an inch
one way or the other
with no reaction.
They are down for the
count and you are just--
They're a toy
for the moment.
ASHLEY: Okay.
I am going to get--
TALIESIN: This is so high school.
ASHLEY: -- really close.
I am going to, up
against the glass part--
I'm just going
to go (exhales).
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Then...
(laughter)
ASHLEY: I'm going to make two
dots and then a smiley face.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: (claps)
MATT: You've got it.
Easily enough done,
unnoticed, unbothered.
As the moisture from your
breath beings to fade,
you can just faintly
still make out
the ever so slight image of a
smiley face upon the exterior.
(chuckles)
TALIESIN: Touché, touché.
ASHLEY: I'm going to
go back to the bed
and move Orym a little
and just keep
circling like a dog
until I find
a comfortable spot.
(laughter)
MATT: Okay, you
eventually find it
and push in, curl against
your familiar friends
and go to sleep for the
last part of your watch.
LIAM: Yeah, that's the
best part: She didn't watch.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Night, night.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: (as Fearne)
Everything's good.
LIAM: (as Fearne) All clear.
(laughter)
LAURA: Oh my gosh.
(laughter)
MATT: A good hour and a
half, two hours or so
without watch progress for
the rest of you sleeping.
The sun slowly
begins to rise.
The temperature of
the room begins
to grow warmer and warmer.
I will say, Ashton.
TRAVIS: Oh.
MATT: In your night's rest,
whether it be brought on by
exterior physical handling
whether it be brought on by
exterior physical handling
of yourself that you're
unaware of or not,
you sleep soundly, not
out of a calm rest,
but out of just
a physical exhaustion.
Still recuperating from
the previous journey,
but you keep having these
flashes, these moments.
Memories of holding an
adult's hand above you.
Flashes of
the ground itself tearing
and breaking against other
shelves of jagged rock.
and breaking against other
shelves of jagged rock.
You have images of wandering
through the long path
from the Hellcatch Valley
northward
and being mindful
of the Crawlers
and other wandering brigands.
Just moments scattered of your
life like a broken puzzle,
fractured but put back
together, like you.
To that point too, flashes
of the climatic break-in
that set this strange path.
The dark lit interior
of Hexum's manor,
the whispered rushing
of the Nobodies around,
Milo trying to get
you to join,
but your confidence and
intent to unseat some mystery
is keeping you a bit
too long behind.
Flashing to that crate again,
the last thing you remember
from that failed burglary,
reaching into it and then a
striking white coloration.
reaching into it and then a
striking white coloration.
The sound, like a thunder
crack, but echoing
into 1000 echoes from all
different directions.
In one moment, you are 1000
pieces and then back to one.
Waking up in the Krook House,
Milo standing over you,
their thick glasses
upon lenses upon lenses
looking down at you
with a lantern light,
sweat dripping off their face,
dirt and grease
smeared on their brow.
Their knitted cap
pulled tightly over
as their massive eyes
magnified blinking.
"You okay?
"You okay-kay-kay-kay?"
The echoes progress even
further, hundreds of echoes,
"kay-kay-kay, kay-kay-kay,
kay-kay-kay."
Reversing and then
colliding again.
Then just dark,
restful sleep.
You all wake up,
comfortable night's rest
to get your long rest,
if you need it.
SAM: Yay.
MATT: Breakfast was not ordered
to be delivered either,
so you have to retrieve
your meal for the moment.
TRAVIS: Got to leave that
sh*t on the doorknob
before you go to bed.
(laughter)
MATT: But the day is yours.
MARISHA: (sighs)
LAURA: Food on the go
as we head over?
TALIESIN: Sure,
I'm fine with that.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Let's just
get this done.
MATT: Okay, you
grab yourself a meal.
We'll say for the troop
here, a quick grab and go
sort of breakfast dish,
run you about,
we'll say,
six silver.
TALIESIN: That one, too.
ASHLEY: I'll take care of it.
TALIESIN: Really?
ASHLEY: Oh, yes, it's
really not a problem.
TALIESIN: All right.
MATT: (laughs)
As she unseats a few--
TRAVIS: Guilt.
MATT: -- sticky coins
from the inside of her fur.
(laughter)
LAURA: Sticky coins, gross.
LIAM: (as Fearne)
They're yours, anyway.
ASHLEY: Very sticky. I keep
getting stuck to my finger.
(laughter)
MATT: Where would
you like to go?
LIAM: I think we should get
the biggest out of the way,
clear through the decks,
go see Hexum.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Let's get some cash.
LAURA: Oh god, that's right.
We get money for this.
TALIESIN: We get
money for this.
That's hopefully what they do
when you do something you
weren't going to do otherwise.
TRAVIS: This is
very exciting.
TALIESIN: Yeah, yeah.
LAURA: Well,
you have lots of money, Chet.
TRAVIS: Look, I'm frugal!
I wasn't born rich.
I've earned this!
LAURA: Right.
SAM: Selling toys?
LIAM: All from wood?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Do you know a lot of people
that make wooden toys
of an expert nature?
I don't think so!
SAM: We've met several just
in the last week and a half.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: f*ck, FCG.
SAM: Well, I mean--
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Eh, you're
my favorite.
TRAVIS: I thought you were
a healer. You cut me deep.
SAM: I'm sorry.
TALIESIN: I feel better.
SAM: I take it back.
TRAVIS: I need a moment.
All right, it's passed.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: No, I mean,
you do well.
You get paid well
for what you do.
TRAVIS: Well, yeah.
TALIESIN: I've looked in his
wallet. It's very well-stocked.
LAURA: No, I know--
TALIESIN: Or was.
LAURA: It's become far
more well-stocked
since he started traveling
with us. That's all.
TRAVIS: I'm a team player!
TALIESIN: That's why I keep--
TRAVIS: I share!
TALIESIN: -- taking a little off the top.
TRAVIS: I've picked up the tab
for things! Orym knows.
SAM: He has been
very generous.
TALIESIN: Respect.
SAM: It's true.
TRAVIS: You don't see me
spending on, you know,
extra hotel rooms,
just to satisfy
my carnal desires.
(laughter)
LAURA: All right?
LIAM: That was a lot
out here in front
of the hotel.
(laughter)
MATT: The 11-year-old
that's now standing
to your left
who's licking
a piece of rock candy
and has been staring at you.
He goes, "What's carnal mean?"
TRAVIS: It's a dessert.
Ask your parents.
MATT: "Okay."
TALIESIN: You have it for sex.
(laughter)
LAURA: I love it.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Kids are cute.
LAURA: He's 11.
It's fine.
(laughter)
MATT: All right, are you
heading to
Jiana Hexum's then?
SAM: Hexum's.
LIAM: Yeah, yeah.
MATT: All right.
Heading over towards
the Lucent Spire
where the elite live
amongst their well-to-do
and expensive estates.
You pay each one silver
for the path to
via the gondola.
As you all step--
TRAVIS: I'll get it! It's on me.
(laughter)
LAURA: Thanks.
SAM: There's that generosity.
LAURA: Thanks, Chet.
TALIESIN: Carnal
generosity, practically.
LAURA: He's so kind.
SAM: He's very generous.
TALIESIN: Am I using that right?
TRAVIS: Shut up, Ashton.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: And one point.
MATT: As the doors close,
you all rest inside,
it rocks gently
before. (rumbles)
ASHLEY: Oh no...
SAM: Oh no.
(laughter)
LAURA: She's got blurry.
She got blurry.
ASHLEY: Oh no.
MATT: Okay.
SAM: Oh, I like
blurry Fearne.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: I know, I know.
MARISHA: Her vision...
LIAM: Blurring.
MARISHA: Blurring.
ASHLEY: It'll come back.
MATT: It'll find its way.
SAM: Maybe.
MATT: Much like the gondola,
as it rocks in
an uncomfortable fashion for
a bit at Fearne's pushing,
but it does come
to rest eventually.
Looking down behind you,
having returned to the city,
you get, once more,
that beautiful view.
Especially from the height
of the Lucent Spire,
this path that
you have taken.
In the late morning,
you can see the sun
has crashed through
and pushed back
the majority of the
night fog that seemed
to have choked the lower
jungle bed beneath the city.
Glancing upward, you
can see the familiar
beautiful
cobblestone streets,
and rising spires of
the various homes
and abodes and courtyards
that surround magnificent
Mahaan households
and possible members
of the Quorum.
Eventually stepping off, you
return to these neighborhoods
and follow the familiar
path to Jiana Hexum's
somewhat intense-looking,
darkly colored estate.
Within a moment of knocking,
the door opens.
The dimly lit interior with
nary a window to be seen
beyond to the back
of the staircase
that turns off to the left
and up the secondary floor,
leaves most of the
room in fair shadow.
But what you do hear immediately
suffusing the chamber
is a beautiful solo
violin playing.
Just, ♪ (humming) ♪
Just gently filling
the atmosphere within.
MARISHA: It's more sentient
inanimate objects.
Stay away from it!
SAM: Well, maybe it's
someone practicing.
LAURA: Yeah, does Jiana
play an instrument?
TALIESIN: Does Jiana
play an instrument?
MATT: You've never seen
her play an instrument.
TALIESIN: I've never seen
her play an instrument.
Doesn't mean she can't.
Just I've never seen it.
We don't have that
kind of relationship.
Actually, I take that
back. We do,
but it would be under very
strange circumstances.
MARISHA: I don't trust it.
LIAM: Think we
assume for now--
TALIESIN: Yeah.
LIAM: -- that it's an instrument.
TALIESIN: Playing itself.
LIAM: Attack with the facts.
MARISHA: Of course.
TALIESIN: I mean--
LAURA: It could also be like the--
TALIESIN: That sounds expensive.
LAURA: -- Starpoint
Conservatory.
They have music playing in,
that who knows
where it comes from.
SAM: Should we follow
the sound?
LAURA: Or do you know
where we're going, Ashton?
TALIESIN: Hello!
SAM: That works, too.
MATT: Violin just
keeps playing.
TALIESIN: I brought
stuff and things.
MATT: The door closes
behind you.
TALIESIN: We follow it.
LAURA: All right.
SAM: Yeah, wow,
this is weird.
Are we safe?
TALIESIN: Eh.
SAM: (chuckles)
MATT: Leading the
path forward
towards the
base of the stairs,
the sound of the violin
seems to grow louder
as you approach the stairs
leading to the second floor.
You pass by the familiar
busts and statues,
including the ones that look
fairly blank in detail,
but as you walk near,
you can see them,
the enchantment, trying
to grasp your shape.
Kind of failing
at this distance,
but it's just
enough of a transition,
like it's trying to grasp
something to hold onto
before you pass beyond it
and it reverts back to just
a blank humanoid bust.
Continuing up the stairs,
the sound of the
violin gets louder.
As you head to a secondary
landing that is open
and overlooks the
top of this foyer,
you can see open,
there is a double door
to a study chamber where
you've been before.
This is, you know to be, one
of her personal sitting rooms.
Looking just past the door,
you can see there
are two figures.
You can see, one,
an older human woman
with a pair of spectacles
at the end of her nose,
wearing a very nice dress,
high neck, folded up top.
wearing a very nice dress,
high neck, folded up top.
Her hair is put
into a high bun with
a singular braid that emerges
from the center of it
and dangles towards the
back of her shoulders.
LAURA: Do we recognize her?
MATT: No, this is--
LAURA: Oh, okay.
MATT: You're not familiar
with this figure.
She is just intently, hands
clasped, looking forward.
About five feet from her,
by the mantle of
an unlit fireplace,
is Jiana Hexum,
violin in hand,
and is just playing, playing.
Not even acknowledging
your presence yet.
The older woman glances over
and notes all of you
and then goes back
to listening to the music.
About a minute of
music continues.
You listen to it. It is this
haunting beautiful melody
that you can't
help but wonder,
based on the atmosphere here,
if it is beautiful
in its own right,
if this is some sort of
magically enhanced skill
that she is practicing.
Is there enchantment
involved here?
Are you being enchanted being
in the proximity of this?
Is this dangerous?
It's hard to tell in
the presence of someone
that you've been told
and sensed to not trust.
But she completes the song
and sets the bow to the side.
Gives a nod and the
older woman stands up.
"Well done, you've
drastically improved."
(clapping)
MATT: "Here."
She reaches into a
small bundle on the side
and pulls out a few sheets.
"Practice these
before our next lesson."
LAURA: Oh.
MATT: "It appears
you have company."
Jiana, "Yes,
apparently it does.
"Thank you so much.
"Yes, Ashton, step inside.
"Bring your...
Hells with you, please."
The older woman
grabs her little
leather briefcase looking
side satchel and stands up,
gives you all
a curtsy and a smile
and then exits out
from where you came.
You hear her footsteps--
ASHLEY: Do you have
a business card?
(laughter)
MATT: "I do not have a
business card, but--"
ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: "Why, are you
looking for--"
ASHLEY: We know how
to get a hold of you,
just in case any of us
feel like taking lessons.
MATT: "Of course,
I'm sure Ms. Hexum
"could pass on
my information.
"(chuckles)"
ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: What was your name?
Name?
MATT: "Dinah."
SAM: Dinah?
LAURA: Dinah.
MATT: "Dinah Veshur."
LAURA: Dinah Veshur.
TRAVIS: She's the k*ller.
(laughter)
MATT: Jiana goes, "She was a
long-celebrated violinist
"here in the city and
she's been kind enough
"to give me lessons
in her retirement.
"So, thank you."
She nods and exits.
You hear the (clicking)
of her hardened shoes
clattering on the stairway
down to the empty
and now still,
silent household.
TRAVIS: As she leaving,
can I take a close look at
her hands, as she's leaving?
Does she have the
calloused fingers of someone
that's worked a violin and--?
MATT: Make a
perception check.
LAURA: That's
an observe thing.
TALIESIN: Fancy.
TRAVIS: You've seen
these hands?
They're like ballet feet.
They're terrible.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Ballet feet.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Ballet feet.
TRAVIS: Eight.
MATT: Eight.
No, not at all, way too dark.
The little bit of light that
comes through
from that window,
as she passes by, it
catches mostly her shoulders
and the back of her head.
It's like a
very strong rim light,
so you can't make
out much detail.
TRAVIS: Ah!
LAURA: Does she
look like anyone
we saw posters of
at the theater?
MATT: No, actually.
Well, roll an
intelligence check for me,
if you don't mind.
LAURA: (hums)
TRAVIS: We're doing background
checks on these music tutors.
MATT: I know.
TRAVIS: Nobody gets
away free.
MATT: I'm not going to let you
unveil my big bad this early.
LAURA: 14.
MATT: What was it?
LAURA: 14.
MATT: 14.
Now that you,
it's more the hairstyle,
if anything,
it seems familiar.
You can't
pinpoint specifically,
but you get
the sense of like,
I mean, if she seems
to be that important,
you might've passed
by a poster or so
while you were
in the theater.
But Jiana says,
"Well, friends,
"I've been notified
that you've
"come to me with good news."
LAURA: Oh, yeah, that was me.
MATT: "Yes. "Please--"
She goes ahead
and reaches over
and sits into a large,
high-backed leather chair
and scoots it over
to face you.
Crosses her legs
and places her hands
on the edge of her knee.
"Tell me, tell me
all about it."
SAM: How long have you
been taking lessons?
MATT: "Oh, just
this past year,
"wanted to pass the time."
ASHLEY: And you're
already that good?
MATT: "I'm studious
when I wish to be."
SAM: Do you play
anything else,
or is this your
first instrument?
It just seems so ambitious
to learn something
later in life.
LAURA: (gasps) Oh, FCG.
MATT: "One does have
to find ways of
"filling the time
between endeavors.
"I've always wanted
to see if I could.
"And, well, it seems
that I have the aptitude."
SAM: That is admirable.
That's great,
congratulations.
MATT: "Thank you, kindly.
"So, please,
"I would wish to know
"that this arrangement
has been left in my favor."
TALIESIN: Quite a bit.
We met with more resistance
than we were expecting.
I think your friend
was hoping
to have everybody k*lled
off in his little museum.
MATT: "Hmm."
TALIESIN: Certainly
made a go for it.
MATT: "Evon is not known
for his delicate touch,
"or ingenuity, really."
TALIESIN: Well, I didn't hit
him, although I wanted to.
MATT: "That is a very normal
reaction to its presence."
TALIESIN: Instead
we did this.
And I pull out the papers.
LAURA: Minus the--
TALIESIN: The papers
we brought.
Yeah, the papers
that are on hand.
MATT: "And these are?"
LAURA: Oh, right. Laudna?
MARISHA: Oh, right!
Do the little frosty-frost.
MATT: "Oh, quaint.
"What a dullard to think
that would be enough
"to keep these hidden.
"Give me a moment," and
she begins to read through
and thumb through.
TALIESIN: Didn't really
give them a full look,
but the couple I really took
a look at were pretty funny.
MATT: "Indeed.
"Oh, this is delicious."
TALIESIN: I knew you would.
MATT: "This will send ripples
"through our
circles, yes, yes."
LAURA: How long have
you known him?
MATT: "The better part
of a decade or so.
"He's a bit of a putz."
SAM: (laughs)
MATT: "But we've thoroughly
"embarrassed him
based on our wager,
"I've made quite a bit of
coin at your success,
"and as such, I do owe you
a bit of coin, if I recall."
She stands up and walks over.
There's a small chest that's
been placed deliberately
in this room
in an expectant way and
as she lifts the edge
and reaches within
and pulls a
a hefty velvet pouch
out that you can see
has quite a bit
of weight to it.
She lifts it into her arms
and hands it over to you.
"That is the 3,500 gold
pieces we agreed upon,
"mostly collected
in platinum.
"That is 500 apiece, based
on which we had discussed.
"As to this additional
information, well--"
You see her thumb through,
and she pulls out a
very, very
small leather pouch
and shakes out, you
can see a cluster of gems
and picks a few out.
Hands over a beautifully
cut ruby and
a bunch of diamonds set
into a gold bracelet.
"These should easily fetch
you well in the neighborhood
"of 1000 gold as a bonus."
Hands it over.
LAURA: Just a bonus?
That's very kind.
MATT: "Well, you've
provided me enough
"to keep him thoroughly
embarrassed for the next year
"or more with these papers,
so I'm very thankful
"and I want to ensure that
those who work for me
"and do an exemplary job
"know that there are
exemplary rewards.
"To that point, I-- and I do
not mean this the wrong way--
"You are a very surprisingly
effective troop,
"given how you initially
presented yourselves.
"What is it you're up
to in the near future?
"I'm always looking
for diligent talent."
TALIESIN: Oh, we're a little
booked at the moment.
We're heading out of town
for a little while, but--
MATT: "Oh, shame."
TALIESIN: I will say
that the group
that we did compete
against, despite the fact
that they lost to us, were
impressive and talented,
but as that we are friends,
as soon as I'm back in town,
I will be happy
to let you know.
MATT: "I appreciate that."
SAM: What kind of work
did you have for someone?
TRAVIS: Yeah, just in case
there's a cancellation.
SAM: Sure, sure.
MARISHA: Sure.
MATT: "At the very moment,
nothing in particular,
"but I'm always keeping
my eyes down the road.
"There's always some
events, opportunities."
MARISHA: We're great
ball guests!
MATT: "So I've heard."
TALIESIN: So you saw.
LAURA: You've heard?
MATT: "Mm-hmm."
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: So, just to
be clear, we're square.
MATT: "We are square,
Ashton."
TALIESIN: I look forward
to working under slightly
less duress in the future.
MATT: "Fair enough.
"Well, anything else
I can do for you,
"or shall I set
you on your way?"
MARISHA: I was--
LIAM: What about that head?
LAURA: Oh, right.
SAM: Head?
LIAM: Fearne--
ASHLEY: Yes, I actually--
TALIESIN: You did, actually.
ASHLEY: I feel like
we talked about maybe
you were going to give me
the statue that
was downstairs?
Didn't we talk about that?
I feel like we did.
MATT: "Oh, you, you were
serious about that?"
ASHLEY: Oh, very much so.
I think it's beautiful.
Obviously, I can't carry
it with me now, but
I would gladly take it off
of your hands any time.
MATT: Make a
persuasion check.
TRAVIS: Accept deliveries?
ASHLEY: Okay!
MATT: (laughs)
(dice clunks)
LAURA: Oh, jeez,
what is she rolling?
TRAVIS: Iron dice.
LIAM: She's cutting onions.
ASHLEY: 18.
MATT: 18.
"I'll tell you what.
"If you take it out with you
right now, you can have it."
SAM: (gasps)
ASHLEY: Okay.
Just lift it up
and take it out?
MATT: "Indeed."
ASHLEY: Okay.
LAURA: It's downstairs,
or it's--?
MATT: "On the way out.
"There's two to choose from
"right at the base
of the stairs."
ASHLEY: Do you
have a preference?
MATT: "Not particularly,
"the enchantment
is identical."
LAURA: Are they
going to attack
or is something going to
trigger--
TRAVIS: Don't spoil the surprise!
TALIESIN: I hope so.
MATT: "Guess you'll
have to find out."
TALIESIN and TRAVIS: (laugh)
ASHLEY: Oh, this'll
be fun, okay.
MATT: "If I might
make a small request.
"Might I have
a few moments alone
"with your automaton
friend here?"
LAURA: You hear in your head:
I don't think you should,
I think she's dangerous.
SAM: You hear back: Ashton
gave me some good advice
and I'm going to take it.
LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: Would
you be comfortable
with me staying in the room
since you know that
I do not talk?
MATT: "If you like."
TALIESIN: It won't
leave the room.
MATT: "Very well.
"The rest of you, just
for the purpose of privacy
"and current curiosities,
just give us a few moments,
"if you don't mind."
TRAVIS: No problem!
Let's f*cking go, Fearne!
ASHLEY: Yeah, let's go!
LAURA: You hear: If you
need anything, just holler
and I'll come right back in.
All of us will.
SAM: Will you be able
to hear my thoughts or no?
LAURA: Only if
you want me to.
SAM: I think I'll
be okay; Ashton's here.
LAURA: All right.
MATT: As the rest of you step
outside the study chamber
the doors close
and you hear (click)
a lock on them.
Jiana's attention drifts from
you and goes directly to you.
"Please, approach me."
SAM: Approach you, okay,
sure. I'll roll over.
MATT: She adjusts to
the edge of her seat,
in a first chair musician
position, chest out,
knees to the front,
leans forward and
looks out and begins to
inspect you directly.
This close up, you can see
the tense lines in her brow.
You can see the piercing
intelligence in her eyes
and the subtle, cold
confidence that comes
with a person that is used
to getting what they want.
But she is not at
the moment encroaching
in a disrespectful way, if
a bit forward and probing.
"Where were you constructed?
"Who was your constructor?"
SAM: Oh, boy, I-I-I've been--
(stammering)
D-D-Dancer,
d-d-do you know her?
She's a--
She was a great gal.
Sh-sh-she was my creator.
MATT: "I cannot say I've
worked or heard of a Dancer."
SAM: She was part of a group.
We used to go, you know,
on jobs, and she
had a few like me,
mechanical-based
automatons with her,
and she ma--
she made them and
refurbished them
and, you know--
MATT: "She was very talented.
Your craftsmanship,
"a bit rough at first,
immediate glance, but--"
and now her hands
come forward.
She cups the side of
your head on each side
and pulls you forward
and is now--
She went from connecting
with you as another person
and is now
inspecting a device,
and is talking out loud.
"The seams, at points,
"the metal minerals
appear to be
"almost flexible.
"This is beyond just
a simple enchantment.
"This is beyond just
a simple enchantment.
"There is fine craft here,
"which I've only
seen in a few places,
"by some extremely talented--"
SAM: If I may, ma'am.
MATT: "Yes, I'm sorry."
SAM: The way that you're
sort of pawing me,
it's not quite the way
that I care to be touched.
MATT: "My apologies, I am--
"I'm a studier of the unique,
so I get a bit carried away."
SAM: Well, that's
understandable, but
you know, the more and more
folks like me I encounter
in our travels,
I don't think-- I don't think
they're treated very well.
You know, t-there's some that
move trolleys from
one place to another,
and we've met some that
have very menial tasks and--
MATT: "Well, this is why
I find you so fascinating.
"The standard automaton
is but a tool.
"It lacks sentience, it
moves through enchantment,
"like a flying weapon
or a magically
"opening and closing
door would."
As she moves her hand you can
hear the lock (click-click)
on the door to the chamber.
SAM: Is that a
mechanical thing
that you've got
over there?
MATT: "These are all very
simple enchantments."
SAM: Enchantments, yeah.
MATT: She rubs her hand
and there are all number of
rings and bracelets upon her.
She is very well
decked out in jewelry
and all of it looks
very well-made. Says,
"I prefer to ease
my tasks day to day
"with the powers
at our disposal.
"So I've dealt with
many other automatons
"and I find that your...
"awareness is truly unique."
SAM: It's nice to be called
unique, but I don't know,
have you ever talked to
any of the other automatons?
MATT: "None of them have
talked to me before."
SAM: Well, maybe
there's your problem.
Maybe you should go up
and say hi sometimes.
MATT: "(laughs)
"You may be right.
"I appreciate that."
SAM: You're welcome?
You know, I don't
know you very well,
but a bit of advice:
Maybe don't touch people's
faces and probe around them
when you first meet them.
I mean, I forgive you, you
know, I know you're curious
about me and, to
be honest with you,
I'm sort of curious, too.
I haven't met
many other folks
just like me and I'd like to
and I'd like to find out why,
but it's just not a good
way to get to know someone.
I've learned from my
friends, the Hells, that
you're supposed to
take someone out
and get a meal with them and
go to the theater with them
to really get to know them
and at the end of the day
if they don't
like each other,
then they just sort of say,
like, "I'm not into you"
and then you
go your separate way.
But at least that's the sort
of ritual, the social ritual
that you're supposed to do,
not this poking and
prodding thing.
MATT: "Are you asking
me on a date?"
SAM: Oh, boy, I didn't
intend to, but
sure, if you'd like to.
I mean, I think that
would be real neat.
I know a restaurant with
a really good meal.
(laughter)
MATT: "I am continuously
amused at this conversation.
"I do not think
I'm your type."
SAM: That's exactly what
the other fella said
about my friends!
I guess that's, we just
skipped to the end!
(laughter)
MATT: "Well,
"should you encounter
any others of your kind
"with a similar awareness,
sentience, personality,
"sense of humor, perhaps
send them my way."
SAM: What will you
do with them?
MATT: "Well, I wouldn't
be grabbing their face
"and peering any further,
knowing that is a faux pas.
"But call it
professional curiosity.
"I can make it
worth your while."
SAM: Oh, how so?
By giving something to
Ashton and my friends?
MATT: "You'll be paid
well, of course."
SAM: All right, well,
I'll keep that in mind
and hey, if you
have experience
with other automatons
or mechanical creatures,
do you happen to know
anyone who's an expert
in building or crafting
or has a history with
the folks like me?
Or maybe a place,
a place out in,
because we're going to do
some traveling, so if we ever
come across a city
that's maybe known for
that sort of stuff?
MATT: "I do have a few
contacts, but I believe
"out of professional respect,
"I will keep them
between us, me and them.
"As far as locations,
well, really,
"if you look hard enough,
many of the various
"metropolis would probably
be able to provide.
"There are scavengers
and crafters
"all across the
Hellcatch Valley,
"Aeshanadoor in Yios has
quite a diverse study
"of arcana and enchantments
"and I would not be surprised
if there are specialists
"in automaton creation
and enchantment.
"In fact, I'm pretty
sure a number of those
"that were created for the
"gondolas for the city
were crafted there and sent.
"There is also Ank'Harel
in the Rumedam Desert,
"though I have not visited
there in quite some time.
"I hope that's helpful."
SAM: It is.
I'll be honest, I can't
figure you out too much.
MATT: "Feeling is mutual."
SAM: I guess I'm
starting to learn that
just because you have
a soul doesn't mean
you know how to
use it too good.
LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: She blinks slowly.
TRAVIS: (hums)
LAURA: Oh my god.
SAM: Anyway, have
a smiley day.
MATT: "You as well,
Fresh Cut Grass."
SAM: That's me!
MATT: In the interim, is
anybody else doing anything
or we cut to--
TALIESIN: I was waiting
for that to end and I'm going
to leave last, but go ahead,
if anybody else
wants to do stuff.
LAURA: Well, we want to
try to get this statue?
LIAM: Yep.
MARISHA: Oh, yeah.
ASHLEY:
(groaning and straining)
MATT: Make a strength check!
TRAVIS: Is it a bust
or is it a full--
LAURA: Yeah, how big is it?
MATT: It is a-- maybe a--
nearly a foot-wide pillar
that rises from the ground.
It has a spiral shape to it
and then on top
there is a bust.
It looks humanoid, the
shoulders and the upper part
of a shoulder, and--
LAURA: I'm just picturing
that Fjord bust
we had on the--
(laughter)
MATT: It is plain, it
is featureless beyond just
the shape of a head
and shoulders and chest.
TRAVIS: Disney projection magic.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I was just thinking
about that.
LAURA: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ASHLEY: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
TALIESIN: Grim grinning ghost.
MATT: As you're all watching
Fearne grab and pull at it--
LAURA: Can we try to help?
MATT: If someone wants
to try and roll as well.
LAURA: I'm going to
try to use my
telekinesis to help her out.
MATT: The spell
Telekinesis, or the--
LAURA: My mage hand, I'm
going to telekinese it.
MATT: Okay, all right.
SAM: Five pounds of weight.
MATT: Yep, yep. So
what'd you roll--
ASHLEY: Come on,
we can do it!
LAURA: It's an extra
help of 10 pounds.
MATT: All right.
ASHLEY: It'll help.
MATT: That'll slightly
lower the DC, all right.
Fearne, what'd you roll?
ASHLEY: Eight.
LAURA: Oh, great.
MATT: (grunting)
SAM: Guidance.
ASHLEY: (grunting) Come on!
LAURA: Did you guide
yourself, Fearne?
ASHLEY: I forgot.
TRAVIS: A little goat
pellet falls out.
ASHLEY: It's just so heavy!
LIAM: Every time
she strains,
I create a little
opening bloom
on her furry butt.
(laughter)
LIAM: And after 30 seconds,
there's about eight
or nine of them.
MATT: While the conversation
is happening,
you keep having moments
of that dream coming back.
Looking around the room,
you remember being
in this room long ago.
You remember it
darker and shaded
and seeing your
compatriots rushing around
and rummaging through things
and you're back and you watch
as Fresh Cut Grass and her are
having this conversation.
The bust is not
moving. (laughs)
ASHLEY: Oh, not today.
Maybe we'll come
back, it's fine.
MARISHA: What the f*ck
is up with that?
TRAVIS: Are you sure?
MARISHA: What the f*ck
is up with that?
SAM: What, what the--
TRAVIS: What if we just
take the bust part
off of the top
of the column?
LAURA: Yeah, can
we do that?
MATT: That's what she's
trying to do.
LAURA: Oh, she's not trying
to take the whole column.
MATT: It's just a little too
heavy. It's barely moving.
You hear the
occasional (creaking)
as it's shifting
ever so faintly.
ASHLEY: Almost got it!
TRAVIS: It's got a steel base.
ASHLEY: I'm going to put
my face in front of it.
MATT: Okay, as you glance
down towards it and make
pseudo-eye contact with the
formless face before you,
you watch as it shifts and
little faun ears and horns
begin to emerge from
the front of it
and you see your face
peering back at you
with just solid eyes,
no pupils or irises.
LAURA: Cool.
ASHLEY: Hello?
MATT: It just looks
back at you.
It doesn't speak.
But it follows your
movement, almost like
it's intently mirroring
your head's position.
ASHLEY: Do you want
to come with me?
MATT: Kind of does
the nod and head turn
in the same way you did.
ASHLEY: Can you make
yourself lighter?
(laughter)
MATT: Make a
persuasion check.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: These are
the real questions.
This is the real stuff.
ASHLEY: There it is, okay.
TRAVIS: Clack.
ASHLEY: 18.
MATT: 18?
No, it's a bust.
(laughter)
MATT: Nothing changes.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: It's not
going to work.
It's not going to work.
MATT: All right.
MARISHA: Would any
of us notice
Ashton feeling a little--
TALIESIN: I'm not there yet.
MARISHA: -- funny.
MATT: Ashton's been up in
the room the whole time.
MARISHA: Oh.
MATT: The rest of you are
downstairs while
they're closed off
in the--
SAM: Simulslice.
TRAVIS: 500 gold.
We are loaded now.
I don't want to hear--
LAURA: So we each--
TRAVIS: -- sh*t from any of you.
LAURA: -- personally
add 500 gold to our--
TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: Is it 500 or it's,
well, we got the gems.
MATT: 500 a piece.
LAURA: 500 a piece.
LIAM: Pawned.
MATT: Then 1000 gold worth
of gems and jewelry.
SAM: Ashton,
you know--
LIAM: Which can't be.
SAM: Taliesin, as always, take
my 500 in your own stocks.
TALIESIN: Already there.
SAM: Okay.
MATT: (laughs)
MARISHA: That's was very--
MATT: Pray to god.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm
going to take a second
to just try and run
through the night again,
as much as I can.
SAM: ♪ We were running
through the night ♪
TALIESIN: Try and track
what happened where.
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Since this was
the room.
TRAVIS: The first or the last?
TALIESIN: I just want to--
while this conversation
has been happening.
MATT: Well, this was
not the room--
TALIESIN: This wasn't the room.
MATT: -- where it happened.
TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: It was--
TRAVIS: ♪ The room
where it happened ♪
MARISHA: (laughs) I know.
SAM: ♪ Run ♪
MATT: What you recall occurred
in the floor upstairs,
where you found that crate
in the final moments.
But you can make a perception
check, if you want to.
TALIESIN: I'll take it.
19.
MATT: 19?
TALIESIN: For me, that's
really impressive.
MATT: A roll or a total?
TALIESIN: Total
MATT: Total 19. That's--
Okay, that's really good.
As you blink as
they're finishing
their conversation, you
look around the room
and you remember distinctly
seeing your friends
pushing through
the back bookcase
and pulling back books
and finding nothing,
and just throwing things
in the sacks and satchels
like it was worth anything.
You remember being upstairs
when everything got weird.
You remember that crate.
You glance over to the
far side of the room,
underneath a table, where
the candelabras is
placed on, to the
left of the door.
There is a dark blue carpet
There is a dark blue carpet
or a decorative tapestry
that's half folded,
that is draped over
a wooden container
approximately the same
size of the one
that you had gotten
into that night.
Different room,
different place.
It's hard to tell
at this distance,
but it has a similar shape.
With a 19 perception, it
catches your attention.
TALIESIN: I look away,
and I wait for this
conversation to be over.
MATT: Okay.
Conversation comes to
a close and she goes,
"I thank you for your
time, both of you.
"And for your diligence.
"Not everyone can keep
a promise these days.
"I appreciate that."
TALIESIN: As do I.
I'll meet you outside,
just one second.
SAM: Oh, okay.
Bye.
(whizzing)
TALIESIN: I apologize. I
was trying to warn you.
MATT: "It's all right."
TALIESIN: Thank you.
It's been an
interesting arrangement,
and I look forward to seeing
you when I'm back in town.
Thank you for the violin.
That was--
Beautifully unsettling.
MATT: "Good.
"I'm hoping to achieve
such an effect, hopefully.
"So that is high marks
in my mind."
TALIESIN: Everyone
loves to be seen.
And I head my way out,
shut the door.
And head downstairs.
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Having a
mild heart attack.
MATT: All right.
You guys watch as Ashton
returns to the troop,
looking a bit
wide-eyed and...
TALIESIN: Are we still
having trouble with the...
SAM: Was I okay in there?
Was that all right?
TALIESIN: That went well.
We'll go over notes,
but well done.
SAM: Okay, thank you.
TALIESIN: Well done.
SAM: Okay.
How's it going down here?
LAURA: We can't get the bust.
LIAM: I think we're
about done.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: I'm going to
make a quick try
to just grab it
and sling it.
SAM: Is it being magically
held down?
MATT: Make a strength check.
MARISHA: Come on.
TALIESIN: Strength check?
MATT: Yes.
TALIESIN: Uh.
23.
MATT: (as Taliesin)
Uh, 23. (laughs)
TALIESIN: Uh.
(laughter)
MATT: With just one arm,
pretty much.
You just (grunts)
fireman's carry the--
ASHLEY: (gasps)
MATT: -- the bust
onto your shoulder.
TALIESIN: We're out.
SAM: Snap.
TALIESIN: I start heading
towards the door.
SAM: Oh wow!
That worked?
ASHLEY: Oh, wait, is
it-- do you need help?
TALIESIN: Mine now.
I'm going.
ASHLEY: Okay. Where are
you going to put it?
MATT: The door is
open as you exit.
(laughter)
MATT: As you all one by
one leave the estate,
the door closes (creaks)
closes behind.
MARISHA: What was that
all about, FCG?
LAURA: I don't like
that woman.
I just don't like her.
SAM: I don't think
I do, either.
TALIESIN: Let's get to the
gondola before we talk.
SAM: Okay.
MARISHA: All right.
TALIESIN: Also, do you
mind doing me a favor?
SAM: What's up?
TALIESIN: Once we're on the gondola?
SAM: What's up?
TALIESIN: Let's get
to the gondola.
SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: We don't like--
SAM: I will say yes to the favor,
regardless of what it is.
TALIESIN: Sorry, having
a bit of a time.
MARISHA: I know. You look a
little pale, flushed, both.
I don't know.
It doesn't work
on me anymore.
TALIESIN: I was curious
because this is very--
I'm aware something
happens, but every time
someone's tried
to describe it,
it just gets very muddled.
LAURA: Like there's
more, something--
More light comes from
your head a little bit.
TALIESIN: Well, that's normal.
Yeah, it's just this that
doesn't make any sense.
I don't know.
MARISHA: You do
tense your jaw.
Maybe that's what it is.
TALIESIN: Well, there's
reasons for that.
SAM: Yeah, Botox.
MARISHA: It's very like the button.
ASHLEY: TMJ situation.
TRAVIS: You grind your
teeth when you sleep?
TALIESIN: Yes.
TRAVIS: I can make you
a wooden mouthpiece.
It'll be easier on your--
(laughter)
SAM: That's a great idea.
ASHLEY: Yeah, that's supposed to help.
LIAM: Like a mouth guard?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Try it, because I
just want to show you
what happens when
someone made of rock
puts a wooden mouth guard
in their mouth.
TRAVIS: Well, now it
has to happen.
SAM: Uh-huh, uh-huh.
TALIESIN: No, I'm serious.
MARISHA: Can you
unhinge your jaw?
LAURA: You're going to make
that before you finish
making the rest of our toys?
TRAVIS: Listen, I can
multitask. All right?
Also, it's on a sliding
scale of who's being nice.
Okay?
Yeah, that's right.
ASHLEY: Oh.
LAURA: Gee, Chet.
You're so talented.
I can't.
TRAVIS: I can't believe it.
TALIESIN: Just get a little
farther from that house.
TRAVIS: Start whittling on the gondola.
LAURA: In your head,
Should we be worried?
Do we need to...
MATT: You all return
back to the gondola.
TALIESIN: I do not
respond to the thought.
MARISHA: Wait.
What did you say?
SAM: Should we be worried?
MATT: A small crowd
steps off the gondola.
Well dressed.
Kind of a perfumed
smell emerges,
and it is just your troop
stepping into the gondola.
That is one silver
apiece, as well.
To traverse it.
TALIESIN: Two things.
MARISHA: That's a lot of perfumes.
TALIESIN: Identify Object
and Detect Magic, please.
SAM: On what?
TALIESIN: The statue
and all of us.
SAM: Oh! Okay.
ASHLEY: What are we doing?
MARISHA: What's wrong?
LAURA: What are we doing?
SAM: They want me
to Detect Magic
to see if we have any
magical enchantments
been placed on us by maybe the
violin music or something.
LAURA: Oh.
TALIESIN: Then also just
to see what this
thing here is.
SAM: I don't know that
I can necessarily
detect charms or something,
but let's give it a shot.
TALIESIN: No, it'll just be--
SAM: I cast Detect Magic.
I look around the room.
MATT: Okay.
Beyond all the various enchanted
items you are all carrying,
you can see all the different
weak or strong auras
they give off in the
space, and of course,
the bust that you're
carrying over your shoulder
gives off a very
faint magical aura.
Of the illusionary school,
specifically.
SAM: Okay.
MATT: But nothing catches
your eye in the realm
of any wayward enchantments,
marks, or sigils.
SAM: Okay.
TALIESIN: Okay, I'm good.
SAM: All right.
You want me to
identify the bust?
TALIESIN: If you said it's
just a gentle illusionary.
SAM: Like it has a little
gentle magic on it.
TALIESIN: Then that's fine.
SAM: Okay.
TALIESIN: Should we
be worried?
LAURA: Should we be worried?
TALIESIN: How to put this?
You know how some
people are nice?
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Well,
and there's also
some people who are nice
because they choose
to be nice.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: She chooses
to be nice.
So--
SAM: But it's not--
TALIESIN: Just best to help
her keep choosing that.
SAM: Okay.
MARISHA: Is everything
all right, Ashton?
I don't normally see
you this flustered.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I don't know.
I'm just thinking
a lot about the--
It's interesting to be out
of this contract, and I...
LAURA: Congratulations,
by the way.
MARISHA: Yes.
TALIESIN: Thank you.
It genuinely
doesn't feel real.
ASHLEY: Do you think it is?
TALIESIN: N-- Ah...
I don't know, there's been...
There's been some things
that are bothering me.
I don't know. I'm having...
LIAM: What are you
worried about?
TALIESIN: I'm having trouble
remembering some things.
I don't know, it's--
LAURA: Like what?
Like?
TALIESIN: What was I even
going to grab?
I haven't thought about
it in so long. I don't--
LAURA: What are you
talking about, Ashton?
TALIESIN: I'm going to
need a drink.
LAURA: (gasps)
SAM: Hmm?
LAURA: I have an idea.
SAM: What's up?
LAURA: What if--
I mean, I know that
it's deeply personal,
and if it's uncomfortable for
you in any way, just say so.
But, yeah, FCG and I,
we did a thing
where it's like we can
dive deeper into thoughts
and memories and maybe
recover something.
We could try it with you.
SAM: You'd have
to be willing.
LAURA: Yeah, and maybe
if both of us
are helping you
at the same time,
we might actually be able to
help you piece
things together.
MARISHA: Do you think
you forgot on purpose?
Or I guess not on
purpose, but you know.
TALIESIN: I mean, it was
a very complicated day.
TRAVIS: Some Weapon X
sh*t right there.
TALIESIN: Are you sure
you would-- Hmm.
Are you sure this isn't
dangerous in here?
There is a lot
happening in here.
TRAVIS: It's true.
ASHLEY: What if you guys
go in there
and you get lost
or something?
SAM: I don't know.
LAURA: I've never been
lost in anyone's head.
TALIESIN: We have someone
literally standing here
who got lost in
a water fountain.
LAURA: Well, that's true.
MARISHA: That was different.
Water fountains can
be very complicated.
SAM: Brains are even better.
TALIESIN: I feel like this is much
more complicated!
ASHLEY: A lot going on there.
MARISHA: What were you going to say, Chet?
LIAM: There's a lot more
piping in there.
LAURA: There's a lot
going on in your brain,
but trust me when I say that
some other people have a
lot going on, too, you know?
TALIESIN: Well, I'll do what I
normally do when I'm unsure.
I pull out a coin
and flip it.
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Yeah, f*ck it.
LAURA: All right.
SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: I have a question that--
LAURA: We don't have to do it now.
TALIESIN: Oh, thank god.
I didn't want to do it now.
These things make me a little sick.
LAURA: Yeah, not here.
I would definitely not want
to dive that deep in it.
TALIESIN: Although,
I've always wanted to be
in a fight on a gondola.
We can do that
sometime, right?
I want to knock someone
off one of these things.
LAURA: I bet Chet
would be down.
SAM: It's just us on here.
Please don't get in
a fight right now.
TALIESIN: I think that
the conversation that
you two had went well.
SAM: Okay.
LIAM: What was the
conversation you two had?
SAM: Get to that in a second.
Chetney had a question.
TRAVIS: Could you open your
mouth for just a second?
MARISHA and LAURA: (laughs)
TRAVIS: Just ahh.
Ahh.
TALIESIN: Eh.
TRAVIS: Just for a second.
I just need to
see your molars.
TALIESIN: Ahh.
TRAVIS: Ah, just
for real quick.
Can you say, "f*ck you?"
There we go.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Got it.
SAM: You have an overbite.
TALIESIN: You noticed.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: That was very--
LIAM: God, it feels like
this gondola ride's
been going on forever.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Normally we take--
LAURA: ♪ Don't remind me ♪
TALIESIN: -- the
carpool gondola.
MATT: Yeah, the
wind's picking
up a lot.
ASHLEY: I lift up Orym
so he can see out the window.
LAURA: Thank you, thank you.
Thanks for letting us know.
MARISHA: Where are we heading, though?
LIAM: We're almost there.
MARISHA: Eshteross?
TALIESIN: Eshteross, oh god.
MARISHA: Next?
LAURA: Uh-huh.
TRAVIS: We're going to carry
the bust around all the way?
LAURA: I think we can
leave it at Eshteross'.
I think that's a good
place to leave it.
ASHLEY: Oh, that's a great idea.
LIAM: Actually, that a great idea.
ASHLEY: That's a
really good idea.
LIAM: We got another
night here,
so let's get
our errands done,
and then maybe when we
park our butts tonight,
you guys can try that trick.
SAM: Sure.
LIAM: What was the
conversation about?
SAM: Conversation was about--
She seemed really
interested in me.
LAURA: Like?
(laughter)
LAURA: Sexually, or--?
SAM: I thought so at first,
but it was not true.
She seems to have
some sort of a--
Not a kink, just-- she's
really into automatons.
She said for convenience.
But she seemed
just extra fascinated
by the way I was
constructed and created.
And she...
TALIESIN: Their uniqueness.
SAM: Yeah, she said "unique."
She wanted to know
where and why and how.
I know, a lot of people
have said that about me--
LAURA: You are quite unique.
SAM: -- at this point, and
I'm wondering if maybe
Dancer didn't
tell me everything.
You know, maybe the parts that
she used to put me together
were-- you know,
from something else.
I don't know.
LIAM: I mean, FCG,
amongst the lot of us,
we've done
a lot of traveling.
I've never met
anyone like you.
LAURA: Ever.
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
MARISHA: Built you from
other-- how do you mean?
SAM: Well, she would salvage
parts from all over the place
to help construct the others.
MARISHA: What if you
were a dead person?
Now their soul has been
transferred inside of you,
but you can't remember.
SAM: Like you?
MARISHA: Well, I remember.
SAM: Oh, okay.
TALIESIN: I think you
have a kink now.
Jesus.
MARISHA: I'm a dead girl.
People definitely have kinks.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: How well
do you know her?
Has she ever been married?
She have a partner?
She have any children?
TALIESIN: I don't know. I
don't know, and I don't--
LIAM: You have 200
equal parts--
TALIESIN: I'll say
probably not.
Probably not.
Very probably not.
It's not the sort of
relationship we have.
TRAVIS: I mean, was
she admiring you
when she looked to you
at you, or was it like--
SAM: Yeah, but it
wasn't in a...
I don't know. It didn't
make me feel good.
It was more like a butcher
inspecting a piece of meat.
TRAVIS: Oh, she was
all up on you.
Like you could
smell her lunch?
SAM: I can't smell.
TRAVIS: Damn it.
TALIESIN: They would've been
able to, yes.
MATT: Gondola comes to rest
at the bottom of the--
to the Core Spire, and
as the doors open,
you can see, waiting
behind, a few individuals
that are looking
for you to exit
so they can make their
way further up into--
LAURA: That smell's
not from us.
That's from the
people before us.
MATT: (laughs)
As you step in,
you hear (sneezes).
TALIESIN: Well, that
smell's from us.
(chuckling)
MATT: You can continue your
conversation, if you'd like.
SAM: Oh, sure.
I mean, yeah,
she seemed real into me,
and I don't know why
and didn't love it,
but, you know,
I understand. I guess.
I don't know.
TALIESIN: How'd you--
SAM: What do y'all think?
LIAM: How did you
leave it with her?
SAM: Well, she wanted me
to go find others like me,
or other peculiar automatons
and report back to her,
and if I shared
that information,
she would reward you
with, I don't know, gold?
LAURA: Well, that feels
like if you can find
other people like you,
why would you want
to sell them out to her,
if she seems so--
LIAM: Grabby.
SAM: I think you
might be right.
Maybe.
Yeah.
The way that you all
treat me is wonderful.
Maybe other folks should
treat other automatons
with more respect.
LAURA: If we ever meet one.
I mean, one like you.
We've tried talking
to other automatons.
They're not like you, FCG.
SAM: Well, maybe we're just
not speaking their language.
Maybe we're not
trying hard enough.
LAURA: Maybe.
SAM: Or maybe
there's something
missing in them.
A switch that needs
to be flipped, or
a light that needs to be
added, that will turn them on.
LAURA: All I know is
that if I reach out,
and you can feel it, too,
I don't get the same
thoughts from them
that I get from you,
you know?
I can feel you there.
I can't feel them.
LIAM: Maybe we have to
understand more about you
before we can do
anything about them.
SAM: That's a good idea.
It makes me also feel
a little bit guilty
for being mean about that
horse the other day.
LAURA: I appreciate that.
I appreciate that. (laughs)
TRAVIS: Which one?
SAM: Heart.
LAURA: And all of them,
all of them.
SAM: Sure, but that's the
one you care about most.
LAURA: I cared about
all of them.
SAM: Okay.
LAURA: But yeah,
Heart most of all.
TALIESIN: What are
the statistics on
gondola deaths every year?
(laughter)
MARISHA: We can probably
look that up.
TALIESIN: I blanked out
of this conversation
like five minutes ago--
TRAVIS: We're going to
Eshteross' place, right?
MARISHA: Correct.
TRAVIS: Yeah, okay.
MATT: (laughs)
TRAVIS: I don't know, maybe
she wants to become you.
SAM: Whoa, what?
LAURA: What?
TRAVIS: I don't know, right?
She picked up the
violin later in life,
which was a f*cking thing
to say, let me tell you.
LAURA: Oh my gosh, FCG,
don't ever--
SAM: What, is that bad?
LAURA: Don't ever say
something like that.
SAM: She's later in her life!
TALIESIN: You don't
actually know that.
SAM: She's closer to death
than being born.
TRAVIS: It was the
most subtle "f*ck you"
right on the way in.
You set the tone.
TALIESIN: There are
people out here
who live for 300, 400 years.
LAURA: Most people
do not like hearing
that they're close to death.
TRAVIS: Maybe she wants to
transfer her consciousness
into something
that'll never fade.
SAM: You could do that?
TRAVIS: I don't know.
How do you exist?
TALIESIN: Doesn't really
strike me as--
SAM: You think I'm
the consciousness of
a dead person in--
MARISHA: I just said that
20 seconds ago.
TRAVIS: Respect, I took her
idea, and I made it my own.
I stole your sh*t.
You took it because
I can't even do it-- Woo!
SAM: You're a genius,
Chetney!
(laughter)
LAURA: I heard you say it,
I heard you say it.
LIAM: I totally did.
SAM: You know what?
It was such a wild concept,
it didn't set in.
TRAVIS: Next time you have
an idea, just tell me,
and I'll make sure
to filter it through.
MARISHA: Okay, you're
middle management.
TALIESIN: I still think
it's a bad idea.
I haven't changed my opinion.
SAM: He uses simple language.
(laughter)
LIAM: I thought it
was pretty simple.
(laughter)
MATT: Approaching the exterior
of the Eshteross estate.
TRAVIS: Hope you're
not adventurous!
MATT: In the Core Spire.
ASHLEY: Wait, wait, FCG!
SAM: Yeah?
ASHLEY: Do you know--
I don't know how to
ask this question, but--
Well, do you know how
long you've existed?
Like how old you are?
SAM: Dancer built me
a couple years ago.
I don't know the exact date.
TALIESIN: Would you say
a couple or a few?
How have we not had
this conversation before?
ASHLEY: Maybe we have.
How do you measure that?
SAM: The number of days that
the sun rises and sets?
ASHLEY: You remember, okay.
SAM: Yeah.
Do I remember how
long ago I started
sort of experiencing
her and the world?
MATT: Yeah, I'd say
it was probably
maybe about four years ago?
SAM: Four years ago, okay.
MATT: Three to four years.
That goes from your
beginning consciousness to
learning things about
the world around you.
There was a subtle period
of finishing repairs.
You came to consciousness
before Dancer was finished.
SAM: Mm.
MATT: Kind of
a small project.
Then with each completion
of construction
and repair,
you eventually
became more useful.
Then eventually, proved
that you would be able
to come out on various jobs
with the rest
of Dancer's troop.
So yeah, I'd say
three to four years.
SAM: There you go.
LAURA: And Dancer--
Dancer was not
one of the people
that you were with
when you were attacked?
SAM: Yes.
LAURA: Dancer and
all of the rest of--
SAM: Yeah, they're all gone.
LAURA: I don't know
why I thought
it was a different group,
and Dancer was still
somewhere to be found.
I'm sorry.
ASHLEY: You know that
for sure?
SAM: I mean, yeah.
Ashton came upon us and
saw the bodies as well.
TALIESIN: It was a lot.
MARISHA: I'm glad you
found a new group.
SAM: I am, too!
LIAM: This is a
sensitive question,
but do you know, do you know
how she was k*lled?
Could you tell?
TALIESIN: You were on a job.
SAM: Yeah, we were on a job.
I mean, they all
seemed to be...
Eviscerated.
LAURA: A very large,
one-eyed creature.
SAM: That's right.
MARISHA: Beast.
LIAM: So including
Dancer was--
SAM: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: Eviscerated.
ASHLEY: When you say you were
on a job, what does that mean?
SAM: We had been hired to go
into a mine, I believe.
TALIESIN: That's correct.
SAM: I can look it up.
TALIESIN: No, you're on.
MATT: It was a silver mine
to the east of Evishi.
SAM: Thank you, silver mine
to the east of Evishi.
LAURA: ♪ Hey ♪
TRAVIS: Avicii.
LAURA: Brother.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: About a week later--
TRAVIS: Good rendition.
TALIESIN: I was paid
to go find out
what the f*ck happened, and--
SAM: Came upon me and
a bunch of blood.
TALIESIN: Yes.
ASHLEY: Who were you
paid by, Ashton?
SAM: Oh, that's right.
Ashton, who paid you?
TALIESIN: Oh god, I
don't have that on me.
SAM: It's in your file somewhere.
TALIESIN: It's not in my file.
TRAVIS: We're getting
the bottom of it now.
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we are.
TALIESIN: Nobody
particularly interesting.
I'm trying to find, remember.
LAURA: That you know of.
TALIESIN: That I know of.
LAURA: That you know of.
Matt might know.
It's really just--
TALIESIN: That's in my--
SAM: My group, The Division,
was hired by the Rayia family.
TALIESIN: Thank you.
SAM: The Rayia family?
TRAVIS: The Rayia?
MATT: Mm-hmm.
TALIESIN: That's right.
SAM: Yep.
But I don't know who--
Did they hire you, too?
TALIESIN: I believe they did.
SAM: Okay.
TALIESIN: Yes.
SAM: Get our story
straight here.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: It's been a while.
ALL: ♪ It's been a while ♪
SAM: What?
TALIESIN: Okay.
LAURA: The Rayia Family,
were they here in town?
TALIESIN: Yes.
SAM: No.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: No?
SAM: Well, I don't know,
wait, no.
MATT: No, the Rayia family
was in Evishi.
They were the ones that--
SAM: In Evishi, okay.
MATT: They ran the mine
that was being overrun.
So they hired your troop
to clear out the mine
from the indigenous creatures
that holed up in there.
SAM: It was infested with all
sorts of giant creatures.
LAURA: And were the
creatures cleared out?
SAM: No, we didn't.
It was harder than we expected
when we got into the mines.
LAURA: Uh-huh.
SAM: We retreated back to
rest, recuperate, heal.
I did a lot of
healing that day.
Everyone was
busted up real bad.
And that was it.
In the night when
we were resting,
I don't know who was on
watch, but I was shut down,
and that's when
they were taken out.
TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
ASHLEY: Why were
you shut down?
SAM: Just resting.
LAURA: Sleeping?
ASHLEY: Did someone
shut you down,
or did you do it yourself?
SAM: No, no, I mean,
I was asleep.
I was in stasis mode.
TRAVIS: He always does it.
ASHLEY: Oh, okay.
LIAM: Well, that statue's
got to be heavy.
(laughter)
SAM: Jesus.
TALIESIN: I literally
can barely feel it.
It's as if it isn't there.
LAURA: You're so
strong, Ashton.
MARISHA: I should have you
carry me around all the time.
TRAVIS: Eshteross,
oh my god, open up.
(laughter)
SAM: Thank you.
TALIESIN: I would literally
not feel it.
LIAM: I could
carry you around.
MATT: The door opens ever so slightly.
LAURA: I could carry you around.
MATT: And Evelyn
stands there.
"Hello?
"Are you here to
see the master?"
TRAVIS: Yeah, we
brought a statue.
MATT: "Very well, he is--
"Well, perhaps he'll
speak with you.
"Come with me."
She opens the door
and looks past you,
carefully.
MARISHA: Are you all right?
LAURA: What's going on?
MARISHA: You seem on edge.
LAURA: It's just us.
MATT: "Just looking out for--
"Make sure you're
not being followed.
"General protocol
for the lord."
(clicks) Closes the door.
(laughter)
MARISHA: For the lord?
MATT: Not the Lord.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Oh wow.
TRAVIS: Speak through me!
MATT: Evelyn,
extremely religious.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Stormlord.
SAM: (deeply) Hello, Evelyn.
(laughter)
SAM: (deeply)
It's me, the Lord.
LIAM: (Irish accent) If you
didn't do it for the Lord,
who would you do it for?
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Yes.
MATT: Rocks fall.
Everyone dies.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Jrusar
random rock fall?
MATT: No.
You move past the study
where you first encountered
and fought Lord Eshteross.
Further down
the hall past it,
you can see there's a
partially opened door.
You can hear a
sound. (thump) (grunts)
LAURA: Training?
Or having sex?
MARISHA: Or both?
MATT: Within the next
room, there is a small,
somewhat
circular-shaped chamber.
You can see there
are weapon racks
on different walls situated
with spears and halberds
and all that stuff.
You can see in
the middle of it,
there is a small,
circular sand pit.
There are two wooden
combat dummies,
essentially, in the center,
these long, wooden pillars
that have all these
off-shoots to them.
They have all these dings
and gashes in them.
Some of them have been
wrapped in hard leather
that are themselves wrecked
with all sort of
manner of blows
and wounds that have
carved across them.
You see off to the
side and behind it,
just the low lantern
light of an oil lantern
that's hung on the
wall to the left,
you see Lord Ariks Eshteross
wearing just
a sleeveless vest
and his dress pants.
It feels almost incongruent.
With no shoes and
his arms wrapped,
just beads of sweat all
across the forehead
and dripping off the side
as he's just
punching the sides
of this wooden test
dummy repeatedly,
over and over again for about
the next 20 or so seconds
before he (coughs)
Stops for a second
and (heavy breathing)
and notices you all
to the side.
LAURA: (claps)
MATT: "Oh, oh."
TRAVIS: Are you applauding?
LAURA: Yeah, it
looked good. (laughs)
MATT: "That's extremely
awkward, don't."
TRAVIS: (laughs) Jesus.
MATT: "I admire--"
ASHLEY: Impressive.
MATT: "I apologize. I was
not expecting you here."
Goes and grabs a towel
off a small rack
to the other side
of the chamber,
and begins wiping
his face down,
and gets his robe
and puts it on.
"It is good to see that
you have all stayed alive.
"That is a positive
thing, I think.
"(coughs)"
LAURA: You all right?
MATT: "Just catching
my breath.
"What can I do for you?"
LIAM: Well, we brought
you something.
TALIESIN: To start
with, yeah.
Do you have a pedestal
or something?
LAURA: Yeah, we have a present.
SAM: A spare pedestal.
LAURA: I mean, technically
it belongs to Fearne.
ASHLEY: Preference is
storage, if you don't mind.
But you can use it.
MATT: "You brought this?"
LAURA: Maybe on your
mantle in the other room.
That would be a really nice--
TALIESIN: Somewhere
more private if you--
ASHLEY: Here, look,
look, look.
Look into the statue.
TALIESIN: Oh, I'm going
to have to roll it.
Oh, that's not okay.
Okay.
MATT: You pull it down.
He goes over
and helps hold
the bottom of it
and glances at it,
and you watch
as the plain visage
of the bust
begins to shift
into the intense
and strong-tusked
jaw of Eshteross.
Withdraws a bit.
"That is extremely creepy.
"We will place it in my
study facing the wall."
MARISHA: Maybe he could put it--
TALIESIN: Good call.
MARISHA: -- on top of
your training dummy
so it's like you're fighting--
LAURA: It's staring at you.
MARISHA: -- yourself
and your inner demons
as you train for sex.
ASHLEY: It's, oh--
(laughter)
LAURA: It's like therapy in a way.
MARISHA: Yes.
LIAM: Is that what you think
this room is?
TALIESIN: Who's rubbing off on
who here?
MATT: "It has been--"
MARISHA: Look at it.
There are weapons on the wall.
MATT: "-- nearly two weeks,
"and I had forgotten how
extremely strange you are."
(laughter)
MATT: "But indeed,
there is much to
"get you up to speed on.
"Set that there."
He walks over to it
and turns it
to make sure it's
facing the wall.
Takes his towel and
throws it over it.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: You might want
to have it looked at.
MATT: "Anyway.
"Come into my--
"Into my study, please."
SAM: Before we leave the room--
LAURA: You saw those pecs
before he put his robe on.
SAM: Before we leave the
room, I'm just going to go up
to the training wooden
dummy and just say, hello?
Are you a--
Are you a person?
Are you a thing?
Hello, can you hear me?
MATT: No response.
SAM: Okay.
I'll keep trying.
TALIESIN: Roll a
persuasion check.
(laughter)
MARISHA: He just glanced
to the side.
MATT: Eshteross walks past
you to the front door,
reaches over to one of
the racks on the side,
and you can see there's these
raggedy-looking spears.
There's some staves.
You can see an
awesome quarterstaff.
There is some beautiful,
curved, silver scythe,
There is some beautiful,
curved, silver scythe,
with this thin,
long, curved blade.
He reaches up and grabs it
and says, "We're done."
You watch as it
(swooshes) shifts
and transforms into the
silver ball-topped cane--
LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: -- that he carries with him.
MATT: What!
MARISHA: A scythe?
LIAM: That's cool.
TRAVIS: Hot.
LAURA: Do you train with all
of the weapons in here, or?
MATT: "Depends on
the day of the week."
TALIESIN: Holy sh*t.
MATT: "It is important to
be ready for anything."
ASHLEY: Sir.
(laughter)
LAURA: How old are you?
MATT: "Come. Walk with me."
LAURA: Just trying to share
just for reference.
LIAM: We just scolded
FCG for doing that.
LAURA: I know, I know,
you're right. I'm sorry.
TRAVIS: You f*cking
son of a b*tch.
(laughter)
MATT: "I'm old enough to be
accomplished in these weapons,
"and not quite old enough
to be retiring them."
TALIESIN: Accomplished,
yet not retired.
LAURA: Yes.
MATT: "Thank you."
He keeps walking
with the heavy--
LAURA: It wasn't an insult.
MATT: Sound of the cane
leading forward--
SAM: Seems very similar.
MATT: -- into the study.
(laughter)
MATT: As you follow
in after him,
he goes and walks
towards his chair
that was facing
the fireplace.
Scoots it a bit to the side
and (groans) sits down.
Sets the cane across his lap,
and looks back
at the rest of you.
"Some interesting movement has
transpired in your absence.
"Some interesting movement has
transpired in your absence.
"Some of it, you may be keenly
interested to hear about.
"Evelyn, if you could
close the door."
(clicks)
As he leans forward--
We're going to take a break.
(groaning)
TRAVIS: You son of a b*tch!
MATT: Partially because we're
over an hour and a half,
and we have to change these--
These batteries
to hear Ashley
for the second
half of the game.
LAURA: We love you, Ashley!
ASHLEY: Thanks, friends.
MATT: Of course.
So yeah, we'll pick up
at the start
of this next conversation
with Eshteross
in just a few minutes.
Hang tight, and we'll see you
guys here in a little bit.
(cheering)
Hey Critters, Laura Bailey
here to guide you
through what's new in
the "Critical Role" shop.
(animal growling)
(upbeat old-fashioned music)
Style should never be
a dump stat, darling.
You need this?
You probably need this.
The cuteness, it's overpowering.
It's so cute, I can't handle it.
Glorious!
I mean, the Traveler always says
impulse purchases
are a good decision.
(mouse clicks)
And hey, if you want,
you could head
over to the "Critical Role"
shop right now.
(solemn music)
'Cause my n*pples are
not gonna come out.
Okay, so aim for this.
Yes, this is the-
That's the bad side.
Tonight on "Four Sided Dive".
The other right.
(group laughing)
Did you get it?
You got it!
Ow!
(Taliesin laughing maniacally)
Get off me!
Oh my god, they're so sticky.
Because pie means
vag*na too, guys.
(Laura laughing)
Taliesin, you have
a question for me?
No, other than why.
SAM: ♪ One by one
we roll the dice ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ Let's go
Critical Role ♪
♪ Pour another round ♪
♪ Your friends are here
to cheer you on ♪
♪ Throw it back ♪
♪ It's good times
all night long ♪
♪ Let's roll
Critical Role ♪
♪ No way to lose when
you're having this much fun ♪
♪ No way to lose ♪
♪ No way to lose when
you're having this much fun ♪
STEPHEN: So I find a pebble
or something like that,
or a small stone, and I
(whistles)
Can I whip it at
the back of--
Who's farthest away?
MATT: Furthest away would be
a small muscular female figure
with short dark hair,
wraps on her hands,
who's in the process of
warming her hands in the fire.
STEPHEN: Whip it at
her and see,
just whip it. I'm not
looking to do damage,
I'm looking just to
get her attention.
STEPHEN: 21.
MATT: 21.
Bing, a pebble hits you
right between the eyes.
MARISHA: Ow!
ASHLEY: What happened?
MARISHA: Ow!
SAM: Are you okay,
what happened?
MARISHA: You messing with me?
That was you, wasn't it?
SAM: That wasn't me
this time, I swear.
ASHLEY: What are you throwing
things at her for?
I didn't do anything.
SAM: If I wanted
to play a prank, you would
know I would play a prank.
(playful music)
(typewriter clicking)
(dreamy music)
Oh, hey everyone.
It's me, Jester.
So the Traveler and I were
going to tell you guys
all about subscribing to Twitch,
but it sort of seems
like he's not really here right
now, which is so stupid.
Traveler!
Traveler!
(mysterious music)
Arty!
(Jester groans)
You know what, it's fine.
I can do it by myself.
With myself. (snickers)
I invoke Duplicity.
Oh, hello Jester.
Hi Jester.
Okay, so what we're
going to do today
is tell the people at home
all about the good stuff
they get when
subscribing to Twitch.
Oh, I dunno what Twitch is,
but that sounds good, let's go.
No, that's perfect.
'Cause this works
for you too then.
Okay, so there's a
professionally-moderated live chat.
And if you subscribe, you
can post links in the chat.
(gasps) Like a link to a
cool hamster video?
Exactly like that.
So what we do here is tell
really cool stories, right?
And sometimes
crazy sh*t happens
when we're telling
those stories
and people that subscribe
get special emotes
so you can express
how you feel.
What if you live on
the side of Exandria
where it's really late
and you're like,
I'm just gonna close my
eyes for a few seconds.
And then it's two hours
and the music is playing
and you're like, oh no,
I missed the whole show.
Oh no, that's a great question.
Well, if you subscribe to Twitch,
then you can just
watch all of our VODs
as soon as the
live broadcast ends.
So cool, right?
So cool.
I know.
Another really cool thing is
you can gift subscriptions
to people, like I could
buy a subscription
for you duplicate
Jester, and for other-
What are you doing?
Look what I found.
Oh my gosh, my brushes.
I could draw a d*ck.
Oh, well, technically
that might break
Twitch's terms of service.
Oh.
But there's no rule against
drawing chubby little snakes.
Yeah, or a really
long balloon sword.
Yeah, or like a really thick rope
with two hunky knots
at the end of it.
A cucumber with two tomatoes.
A banana sitting next to an
onion and another mushroom.
With a little cat on it.
A long dog with just two feet.
Artie, where are you?
Should we go look for him?
Yeah, sure, why not?
Oh, don't forget to
subscribe to "Critical Role."
Okay, let's go.
Okay.
MATT: And welcome back.
So, as you all
have gathered here
in the familiar
study of Eshteross,
he has finished his
afternoon exercise routine.
he has finished his
afternoon exercise routine.
Sits down,
in his room uponce,
turning towards you all
in his high-back chair,
leans forward.
"Interesting times
since you left.
"It seems
Lady Emoth's capture
"and subsequent interrogation
"has pinpointed our friend,
Armand Treshi,
"as a conspirator.
"The other three masters
of the Mahaan House Treshi
"pulled back their
support from Armand.
"Orlana Seshadri has
personally taken charge
"of this investigation,
"and his push for
Paragon's Call's instatement
"within the city has
been put on hold--"
SAM: Ooh!
MATT: "-- during the inquiry
"into his business practices.
"However, Armand's home
has been cleaned out
"and Armand has since gone
missing these past four days."
MARISHA: Oh sh*t!
MATT: "But thanks to your
successful mission at the ball,
"I was able to track his
movements through the city."
He reaches down the
side of the chair
and pulls up this small,
somewhat cloudy crystal
with a base on it and
holds it in his hand.
"It seems we've
found his movements
"watching him smuggled
out of Jrusar,
"heading southeast,
"likely out of the Wilds."
MARISHA: Southeast.
MATT: "In pooling some of my
contacts at the Elder's Post,
"it seems he's off
to Bassuras in a hurry."
SAM: Bassuras.
MATT: "Which is also the
home of Paragon's Call."
SAM: I don't see it on here!
MARISHA: Oh.
Where? Yeah, it's not on here.
TRAVIS: It's hard, isn't it?
That job's sucks.
MARISHA: Does Bassuras
has two S's?
MATT: "It does."
MARISHA: But okay--
well, whatever.
TRAVIS: Only you read your notes.
MARISHA: Bassuras-- that's true.
MATT: "Now time is
of the essence
"if we are to try
and find him
"before he vanishes
entirely off-continent.
"Unfortunately,
this device has
"a limitation to
the proximity.
"Once he left the city,
"I lost my tracking.
"But if this were brought
to Bassuras while
he's still there,
"it should lead it to you.
"So I ask you,
"as our business had
previously concluded,
"are you interested
in pursuing this
"and to continue this thread,
"or should I look
for other employment?"
TRAVIS: Yeah!
MARISHA: Yeah, let's get him.
f*ck this guy!
TRAVIS: Sorry, let us confer--
MARISHA: Oh, right.
TRAVIS: -- amongst ourselves
but for a moment.
MARISHA: f*ck this guy!
ASHLEY: Yeah, we got
to finish this.
SAM: I mean, that's
in the area
where all my sh*t
happened, too.
LAURA: Oh wow.
SAM: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Bassuras?
SAM: Yeah. Yeah,
we were hired out
of Bassuras,
or out of--
LAURA: Evishi.
SAM: No, out of Bassuras.
LAURA: Evishi.
SAM: To go to Evishi,
which is nearby.
I think.
TRAVIS: Orym, you look
apprehensive.
LIAM: How far from here?
MATT: "On main roads,
Bassuras is about
"nearly 900 miles to
the southeast of here."
SAM: Good god!
MATT: "It is a lengthy journey
through the Hellcatch Valley.
"The broken ravines
to the badlands there.
"But if you indeed wish
to take this endeavor,
"I can offer a better
means of travel,
"as it seems my skyship
has returned
"from its journey
to Whitestone."
SAM: A skyship.
MARISHA: Oh, oh.
TRAVIS: We can steal it.
SAM: That's very sad.
MARISHA: What--
SAM: But in the sky!
MARISHA: Wow, that's great!
Was Bertrand's delivered
successfully?
MATT: "Actually,
"there was a letter that
was given to me."
TRAVIS: Oh, sh*t!
MATT: "To bring over to you."
MARISHA: Whoa!
MATT: "Somebody take it."
SAM: Which one of
us can read?
MARISHA: (laughs)
TRAVIS: What do you mean?
I can read,
but obviously I'll
give it one of you.
Fine materials.
MARISHA: Who is this from?
What is this?
What is happening?
ASHLEY: Keep it, keep it.
I'm going to keep the ribbon.
TRAVIS: You're going
to keep it?
ASHLEY: Yes, I'm going to
tie it around my wrist.
Thank you.
MATT: Okay.
You can add a ribbon
to your inventory.
ASHLEY: Okay.
MARISHA: You know,
I just feel like.
SAM: You can't read it?
MARISHA: Imogen-- no.
She's just such
a better dictator.
Or a--
TRAVIS: Dictator?
LAURA: Dictator?
MATT: (laughs)
LAURA: Orator?
(laughter)
LIAM: Your Freudian slip--
TRAVIS: Such a good
authoritarian--
LIAM: Your Freudian slip
is showing.
TALIESIN: I was going to say,
can we say Freudian in Exandria?
LIAM: Your Freudian slip
is showing.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: It's not really--
you know what I mean.
MARISHA: Yes.
TRAVIS: What does it
say, Imogen?
LAURA: It says--
TRAVIS: You're keeping us in suspense!
LAURA: (clears throat)
TALIESIN: Wow, really?
LAURA: I don't know how
I should read this.
TRAVIS: Well, in your
natural voice
and not another one.
That's for sure.
LAURA: Right?
I shouldn't read it
in a voice that's
taken over my body.
MARISHA: Just, um--
SAM: What is up with this letter?
MARISHA: Just do some sort of
interpretive--
How do you think this?
LAURA: How I would imagine
she would sound.
MARISHA: Sure!
Just for, you know--
SAM: Oh! She? Who's she?
LAURA: That's really
amazing right there.
Okay.
I'm just imaging this is
what she would sound like.
TALIESIN: I'm going to die!
LIAM: How are you
with voices?
LAURA: I don't know.
We'll find out.
LIAM: Okay.
SAM: I'll cast Guidance.
LAURA: Thank you.
(as Vex'ahlia)
I'm ever appreciative
for delivering our friend
across the sea to us
for proper remembrance
and burial.
We are deeply saddened
at Bertrand's passing,
and thank you for being
compatriots of his
until his honored end.
He was a man of
deep integrity,
courageous heart,
and boundless generosity.
You have my gratitude
and the gratitude
of the entire chamber
of Whitestone, darling.
Vex'ahlia de Rolo,
Lady Vex'ahlia de Rolo,
Baroness of the
First House of Whitestone,
Grand Mistress of
the Grey Hunt,
Coinmistress of the
Council of Tal'Dorei.
(Imogen) You know, that sounds
pretty impressive, actually,
that entire thing.
TRAVIS: She sounds loaded.
TALIESIN: She sounds
kind of pricky, to be frank.
LAURA: Wow.
TRAVIS: She sounds like
kind of a snob.
LAURA: She seems
really important.
SAM: She seems cool.
LIAM: That's actually
not that far from
how she sounds.
TRAVIS: You know her?!
LAURA: (gasps)
TALIESIN: Bullshit.
SAM: You've met her?
LIAM: I've seen her.
I've heard her.
LAURA: Wow!
MARISHA: You used to run with
some pretty established,
high-powered people.
TALIESIN: Do we have a
new Dorian? This is--
LIAM: I stood in the corner.
SAM: Wow, with
Lady Vax'ahlia?
TALIESIN: Say the
whole thing.
The whole thing.
SAM: Lady Vax'ahlia,
Mistress of the Grey Hunt,
and the Second House
of Whitestone's--
TRAVIS: First House!
SAM: -- Corn Master?
TALIESIN: My god!
MARISHA: Corn Master?
TALIESIN: Corn Master.
LIAM: There's something
like 17 more names, too.
TRAVIS: Coppertop
Corn Master.
Corn Masher.
SAM: Okay, wait, refresh me.
She's in Whitestone?
I thought, wait,
where did we send his?
LAURA: We sent Bertrand
to Whitestone.
SAM: To Whitestone
on the same airship
that took Dorian, too?
LAURA: No, no, no,
a different airship.
SAM: Two airships?
Left the train station
at the same time.
LAURA: Different times.
Dorian left long after
Bertrand did.
SAM: Oh, that's right.
They were different episodes.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: That's okay, I was
a little confused, too.
SAM: Okay.
TALIESIN: Very good
handwriting.
LAURA: How much does
an airship
normally cost to travel with?
To hire one, or?
MATT: "I'm actually uncertain.
"This was part of
the Prudaj's estate
"when I acquired it.
"So this was previously owned
by the mistress before."
"So this was previously owned
by the mistress before."
SAM: But you pay
to maintain it,
or the estate pays
to maintain it?
MATT: "Indeed, to keep it up.
"To pay the crew atop it."
LAURA: Wow.
SAM: What is it used
for normally
when you're not using it
for personal business?
TRAVIS: Black Ops.
MATT: "No, it is primarily
used for personal business.
"For the various textiles
that are delivered.
"We also rent space out
to other businesses.
"Pardon me.
"That require the very
limited skyship space
"and traversing
different continents
"and with rapid turn around."
SAM: And you're saying
we could use this
to travel to Bassuras?
MATT: "I don't..."
He pulls out a small booklet
and looks it over
and fits his glasses.
"I'm about a month before
our next shipment
"is to be put out,
"so there is about four weeks
"in which it
would be remaining
"in the sky port unused."
SAM: We get our own skyship.
LAURA: Have you ever sent
your skyship to Yios?
MATT: "It has gone
there before, yes."
LAURA: Is it a long journey?
MATT: "It's a bit further
than Bassuras.
"Straight shot without
using the roads.
"It's about 700 miles to
Bassuras from here,
"and you'll take no more
than maybe four or five days.
"To Yios, maybe,
"three-- maybe three days
"beyond that even further."
LAURA: Wow.
SAM: Whoa.
LIAM: Roughly the
same direction, or--?
MATT: "Roughly.
"A bit more south,
"southeastern, I'd guess."
LAURA: Maybe after,
if we do this for him,
he'd allow us access?
LIAM: And a crew would pilot?
MATT: "A bare-bones crew,
"as this is not
a paid endeavor."
TRAVIS: It'd be much safer.
I mean, nothing can
attack you in the sky.
(laughter)
SAM: That's true.
TRAVIS: You have allergies?
MATT: He sits up
for a second.
Grabs his cane,
walks across the room,
bit of that hunch
to his lower back,
looks at one of
the upper shelves
across a bunch of books,
and pushes past
and takes a couple of things
down and sets them aside,
then (grunts) reaches up
and pulls back
a bunch of these
large rolls of paper,
and pushes them
a bit in his arm,
pulls on out,
and just (grunts).
Here we go.
LAURA: (gasps)
TRAVIS: Oh!
Yes!
SAM: Is this an upgraded map?
LAURA: Upgrade,
upgrade, upgrade!
MARISHA: Zoomed out map?
(mic thumps)
LAURA: Oops, I'm sorry.
Oops.
Little--
TRAVIS: Ah, it's gorgeous!
LAURA: Oh my gosh!
TRAVIS: Bassuras!
Look at the zoom in!
LAURA: Okay, so--
MARISHA: Bassuras.
SAM: But wait a second.
LAURA: The Rift.
SAM: How's this sync up to this?
LAURA: Right away, I want to go to there.
LIAM: The Oderan Wilds are
all the way up there.
TRAVIS: Guys, there's notes on it.
SAM: How does this sync up to this?
LAURA: Is this your own personal map?
LIAM: This is where
we are now.
Look at this little
Oderan Wilds.
SAM: Hold on.
MARISHA: Help, Fresh Cut Grass.
ASHLEY: Send me a picture.
LAURA: Yeah, oh, yeah!
I'll do it.
ASHLEY: No rush, no rush.
Just look at it
and figure it out.
MARISHA: What--
LAURA: I'm going to send
it to you, Ashley.
SAM: How does this work?
ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: How does this link?
This looks like water.
That's a mountain.
That doesn't link up.
How does this--?
MATT: "This corner
goes there."
SAM: Ah!
TALIESIN: Oh, well.
TRAVIS: You've never
linked up maps?
LIAM: The same scale?
LAURA: Okay.
MATT: "These are different
cartographers.
"The scale is not--"
LAURA: I sent it to freaking
live photo again.
MATT: "My apologies."
SAM: Okay, we're up there.
All the way to Bassuras.
MARISHA: Look at this thing
called the Dead Man's Crater.
LAURA: I know!
MARISHA: That looks fun.
LAURA: The Drowned Sea?
ASHLEY: Whoa!
SAM: Rejarma?
LAURA: Hey, oh,
Taloned Highlands, that's
where I'm from!
TRAVIS: Oh, look! A red X!
MARISHA: (gasps)
SAM: Wait, what do those--
MARISHA: -- red marks mean?
SAM: And there's triangles!
TRAVIS: I know what that means.
LAURA: What does this mean?
TRAVIS: You left
a body there.
LAURA: Oh lord,
please tell us!
SAM: I always wear my
Rejarmas to bed.
MATT: "The Hellcatch Valley is
one of the various lands
"that was heavily scarred
in the Calamity.
"Much of its broken,
dust-filled badlands
"are prone to sinkholes
"outside the various ravines
"that you see often."
LIAM: That's it, known sinkholes!
LAURA: Nope, nope.
Oh no, sinkholes.
LIAM: That's not heavy enough.
Try combing these
know sinkholes.
LAURA: You almost
cracked them, bro!
LIAM: No, don't do
that with those.
MARISHA: They have to be.
SAM: Just use all of Ashley's sh*t.
LAURA: We did have weights.
LAURA: We've lost them.
TALIESIN: Here, let me
give you a hand.
LAURA: Yeah, hey!
(laughter)
MATT: as*h*le.
TRAVIS: Where's the thumb,
you d*ck?
LAURA: Yeah, you
broke it, Ashton.
SAM: Is it even showing
up on camera?
TALIESIN: There we are.
Ah!
TRAVIS: At least it was
getting put to good use.
TALIESIN: Yeah, no.
Keeping me comfy.
LIAM: And Yios is
in which direction?
MATT: Yios is in Aeshanadoor,
which is further southeast.
SAM and MARISHA:
♪ Aeshanadoor ♪
LAURA: Look.
TALIESIN: This is so silly.
LAURA: So we're heading here.
TALIESIN: We're the thumb.
ASHLEY: Ferry?
SAM: Wait, did we ask what
the triangles are?
LAURA: Yeah,
they're sinkholes.
They're known sinkholes.
SAM: Sinkholes?
What does that mean?
MARISHA: What is the X?
SAM: Is that a thing
that people worry about?
LAURA: Maybe this is a
scary sinkhole.
MATT: "There are some
"regions there that just
"fall into the
subterranean tunnels
"that go deep, deep
beneath the lands."
SAM: Subterranean tunnels that
run across this whole land?
MATT: "That's why regions here
are called the Hungry Valley.
"It sometimes opens up."
SAM: Do you know
what's down below?
MATT: "I'm not a person well-
traveled in that vicinity,
"but as far as I know
"there are various
individuals
"that are studying
such a thing."
SAM: Wow.
Okay, so Treshi
fled to Bassuras.
If we go there and
arrest him, k*ll him,
what's the ask?
MATT: "I would recommend
arresting him.
"Bring him back to
"deal with the justice that
awaits him in Jrusar."
MARISHA: What if he
accidentally dies?
MATT: "Then bring
his body back."
SAM: Is there something that--
The Greesnsleeves,
were they called?
LAURA: Seekers,
the Green Seekers.
SAM: Green Seekers
would be interested in?
TRAVIS: Green Sack.
SAM: Is this part
of their deal?
I forget what
their mission was.
LAURA: I know, they were hired.
LIAM: They were hired.
LAURA: They probably
know about all this.
I mean, they've been
in town, you know?
MATT: "I'm certain Seshadri has
put them on this same trail,
"but I have no idea what
their business and/or travel
"has placed them on. If
they're still within the city,
"or if they have the
same information that I do."
LAURA: All right.
TRAVIS: They probably
need to be rescued.
LAURA: This is so exciting.
MARISHA: We are
technically deputies.
TRAVIS: We're in, by the way.
We're not hiding
it very well,
but this is definitely
something we're interested in.
MATT: "Very well."
LAURA: Yes, but--
MATT: "I would not want
to assume, but--"
LIAM: No, I don't like
leaving loose ends.
We have some pretty
concrete details for Treshi,
so let's wrap it up
and then we go on from there.
MATT: "If indeed, if you can
conclude this with enough time
"that it's not an issue with
our coming shipping schedule,
"that the next month the
ship could take you to Yios
"if that is where you
are seeking as well."
LAURA: That would
be wonderful.
MATT: "So will you be trying
to ford the valley on foot?
"It's a long way and
quite treacherous."
LAURA: Looks like it.
TRAVIS: Sounds awesome.
MARISHA: I agree.
LAURA: But I do want to--
What is The Rift?
MARISHA: What is the
Dead Man's Crater?
MATT: "I know not what
the Crater is."
TRAVIS: Whose map was this?
MATT: "This was a map
that I acquired from
"a traveling merchant.
"I have, you know,
"spent some time passing
through the valley before,
"but I like to make sure
that I'm up to date with,
"well, sinkholes as
best that I can be,
"but mostly just to
know where things are."
ASHLEY: What is
the Troll Ferry?
Is that a ferry that's
moved by a bunch of trolls?
SAM: Where's that?
LAURA: The Troll Ferry?
MATT: "It was a--
"It's in the upper
left part."
LAURA: Oh.
SAM: Oh.
ASHLEY: Very hidden and I got
excited when I saw it.
MATT: "If you'd like to make
a stop on the way out,
"you could probably
convince Captain Xandis
"to take you there."
SAM: Captain Xandis.
TRAVIS: Xandis.
MARISHA: Captain Xandis.
ASHLEY: Xandis.
MATT: "She's the captain
of the Silver Sun.
"My skyship."
LAURA: The Silver Sun,
that's a beautiful-- wait.
Secondsun.
That was what Dorian's name--
Silver Sun.
LIAM: Mm-hmm.
LAURA: Captain, what? Xandis?
TRAVIS: Xandis.
LIAM: Gosh, but I do
love a good map.
TALIESIN: Huh.
SAM: Okay.
MATT: "Look, success or
failure of this endeavor,
"the ship will take you
where you need to go
"in Marquet for the
time that's required
"for us to see through
our business together.
"I'm not using it
in the interim,
"and you've done
enough for me.
"I think it's the
least I could do."
LIAM: It's an extremely
generous gift.
LAURA: Yeah, thank you.
TRAVIS: These are--
Oh, sorry--
MARISHA: No, you go ahead.
TRAVIS: No, no, it's you.
MARISHA: I was just going
to see if we could take
your little crystal ball?
MATT: "Yes, yes,
my apologies."
MARISHA: When we get--
Oh really, oh!
MATT: "If indeed he is
still within Bassuras
"when you get there--"
LAURA: Witchy, very witchy.
MATT: " -- that should at least--"
LAURA: Maybe you could read our fortunes.
MATT: "-- give you an inkling
of his proximity,
"the direction of
where he would be.
"You'll know if you
look at the sphere
"and you follow a bright
white glow within it.
"Wherever you hold
the sphere,
"the glow will be in
the direction of Armand.
"But you have to be within
a couple of miles."
LAURA: Ah, all right.
MARISHA: Okay.
TRAVIS: That's pretty good.
LIAM: So we have to
get to Bassúras--
Am I saying that right?
MATT: "Yes."
LIAM: As fast as we can
in hopes that
we pick up a ping.
Get his trail once we arrive.
MATT: "If that
does not happen,
"either he has not
made it there yet,
"or he's already moved on.
"Ask around. See if anybody
has seen an individual
"like Armand, or if anybody
has had business with him.
"Either he's expected--"
TRAVIS: We've got to look at the
crystal while we're flying.
LAURA: I mean, yeah.
TRAVIS: Just like buzz over
him and it's like (whoop).
MATT: "Indeed."
TRAVIS: Then you'd
have to jump out.
MATT: "I would not
recommend that."
TRAVIS: They don't--
these don't land.
LAURA: I think they
have to land.
SAM: They said in four days.
MARISHA: Oh, since he fled?
SAM: Oh, since he fled?
No, no, that's how long
it would take to get there.
How long ago did
he leave town?
MATT: "We're uncertain where
he left in particular.
"I lost direction
or sight on him
"about a week ago."
LAURA: Oh jeez louise.
So he could've gone on foot,
or do you think he's
been on an airship?
You don't know.
MATT: "I do not know
"the means in which he was
smuggled out of the city.
"I do not know with him losing
access to his family's estate
"I do not know with him losing
access to his family's estate
"if he would be able to...
"Well.
"I don't know if
the skyship has left
"in the recent days towards
the direction of Bassuras.
"Not many skyships
stop there.
"Most of the trade is
through caravan surries
"and others of travel."
LAURA: How do you know
that's where he's heading?
MATT: "My contacts in
the Elder's Post
"said that was where
he was looking to go."
LAURA: Got it.
MATT: "When he
"acquired passage
out of the city."
TRAVIS: Do we all know what
the Elder's Post is,
except for me?
LAURA: Uh-huh.
MARISHA: It sounds like
it is a post...
TRAVIS: What is the
Elder's Post, Lord Eshteross?
ASHLEY: -- learned
about this before?
MATT: "The Elder's Post is
an underground market
"in the Lantern Spire."
LAURA: Yes.
That's where it is.
ASHLEY: Sounds so familiar.
TRAVIS: Thank you.
LAURA: I imagine, Laudna--
I mean, out of character,
we've traveled through this
because this is
the direction we came.
MATT: Yeah, you've been--
LAURA: We had to come
from Taloned Highlands up
through to get to Jrusar.
MATT: You'd have some
familiarity with the valley,
thought you didn't
probably travel
just the two of you,
points of it, probably
for safety reasons and for
not having a lot of experience
in this space,
traveled with caravans
that were already
passing through and
for a little bit of money,
allowed you to come along
and sit in there a bit.
MARISHA: Exciting, though.
TRAVIS: In the last, since
all this shakeup has happened,
I do want to try
and find Ajit Dayal
at the Dayal Hall.
MATT: "I am familiar with
the Dayal Hall, yes."
TRAVIS: Has he been
involved in any way
or anything, any rumors
about the Dayal Hall?
Mahaan House?
MATT: "Not that I'm aware of.
"They're primarily a
"family house
focused in education."
TRAVIS: Mm.
Oh yes, he was at the ball
with Professor Greers.
MARISHA: Oh yes.
TRAVIS: They were searching--
The shade creepers,
they were in his room.
MARISHA: That's right.
I liked him.
MARISHA: Which one, Ajit
or Professor Greers?
MARISHA: Professor Gryz.
TRAVIS: Did we meet him?
SAM: He was a goblin.
TRAVIS: I remember.
MATT: "Indeed, it seems
like a number of rooms
"were impacted
during the ball."
MARISHA: A number? Oh, oh!
TRAVIS: Do you happen to know
which rooms in particular?
There could be a connection!
MATT: "I do not."
TRAVIS: Oh, shame.
MATT: "From what I've heard,
"the investigation has been,
as I mentioned before,
"taken over by Seshadri."
TRAVIS: The Dayal Hall is
located on which spire?
MATT: "That would be here
on the Core Spire."
TRAVIS: Okay.
MATT: "You may have
noticed there is a
"series of tall, sandstone
arches that sits,
"and looks like an
arrangement of three large,
"stout towers, open air,
coliseum-like."
You've past by it
without paying much mind.
It's just one
the various structures
that you had no
personal point of interest
necessarily to inspect,
but as soon as
he starts mentioning it,
you're like, I feel
like we've walked
past that a number of times.
TRAVIS: Oh sure, sandstone,
it all just blends together.
Now, if you make that
sh*t out of wood,
people stop and stare.
Go ahead.
MATT: "That would be
the Dayal Hall."
TRAVIS: Excellent!
SAM: How soon can the skyship
be prepared to leave?
MATT: "I would say at least
give me until tomorrow
"to let them know of
your interest,
"and they can get their
materials to shove out,
"and make sure they have
"food and tools and everything
they need on the journey
"and give you time
to prepare as well."
LIAM: Is there anything
that you recommend,
any way we prepare,
anything we should bring
for Bassuras and beyond?
MATT: "I would say maybe...
"grab a ragged cloak.
"Try not to
stand out too much."
LAURA: (chuckles)
We're not very good at that.
TALIESIN: I think
I've got plenty.
LIAM: Okay.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Is Bassuras
like a rougher place,
or is there some
wealth in the town?
MATT: "(chuckles)"
TALIESIN: It's...
It's kind of a sh*thole.
TRAVIS: Oh.
MARISHA: Have you been?
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MARISHA: Oh, that's right!
We keep going back and forth
with this sh*t.
TRAVIS: It's okay. You were
dead once. It's all right.
LAURA: Is that where
you're from?
TALIESIN: Kind of.
I haven't been
there in decades.
SAM: I don't think I've--
It doesn't say
that I was there.
It just says that we worked
in Evishi near Bassuras.
So I don't know that
we were ever in Bassuras.
TALIESIN: I haven't been
there in a very long time.
MATT: You have been.
TALIESIN: It was a sh*thole then.
It's probably a sh*thole now.
SAM: I have been, okay.
Okay.
I've been there;
I remember it well!
MATT: I'll send you all
the stuff again,
no worries.
SAM: Thank you!
TRAVIS: Oh, you have been.
SAM: I have been.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: "There are a number of
various smaller governments
"that rule over different--
look over different portions
"of the valley.
Bassuras is one of the
"largest trade centers,
"as it does tend to be a
"pass-through for
many of the various
"other regions of Marquet.
"It is also a...
"'Lawless' isn't
the right term.
"The local military likes
to keep things fluid
"when it comes to law.
"There are many factions
that like to think
"that they're in charge."
MARISHA: Would that be
the Paragon's Call?
MATT: "They're one of them."
MARISHA: They're just one of them.
MATT: "They have grown their
influence in other regions
"of Marquet and as such,
have lost favor
"with some of the other
factions in Bassuras.
"Just watch your coin purse,
"and if someone looks shifty,
it's because they are.
"It's a dangerous place."
SAM: I have been there.
I just remembered.
That's where I first
sort of woke up.
TRAVIS: You had a spinning
beach ball on your face
for a little bit,
and then it cleared up.
(laughter)
SAM: Yeah, that's where
I was born, yeah!
LAURA: Wow!
SAM: Yeah.
LAURA: Maybe something was
blocking your memory again.
SAM: It could be--
it's definitely that--
it's definitely
because of a reason--
TRAVIS: There's probably
a software update.
TALIESIN: You used to know
that. I definitely know.
We've had this conversation.
SAM: For sure.
TALIESIN: It's been a while, but yeah,
we had this conversation.
LIAM: ♪ Been a while ♪
On this map,
are these like
ravines, roads, valleys?
MATT: "Those are ravines."
LIAM: Ravines.
MATT: "Many portions of this
valley have fallen deeper
"into the ground beneath."
TRAVIS: That's awesome.
LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Come on, we got
to walk there.
SAM: Just in general,
I've seen them
sort of float away.
How high do skyships
go? Like is it...
Is it higher than
a bird can fly?
MATT: "They can fly about
as high as a bird can."
SAM: Oh.
Okay.
MATT: "Maybe a bit
higher at times.
"The winds get stronger
at higher altitudes.
"They can be challenged
to maintain course."
SAM: Oh, okay, well then,
we should keep it safe.
MATT: "The sails are important
and they do require
"gentler weather
to stay on course.
"Many skyships do not
ride in storms.
"There have been skyships
that have fallen or vanished
"in testier weather."
LIAM: Come on.
TRAVIS: Also, it gets really
cold higher up and also
some of us have to breathe.
SAM: Oh. Okay.
TRAVIS: It gets a little
thinner up there.
I crossed a couple of
mountains on my way over
and you get out of breath.
LIAM: Also, the gondolas are
a little dicey for you.
How are you going to be?
LAURA: Airships,
I imagine are fine.
LIAM: They're awesome.
LAURA: Gondolas are shaky
and held aloft by a
single little cable.
I have more faith in the
brumestone than I do
in those shaky little cables.
LIAM: I bet Fearne could
shake the ship somehow.
TALIESIN: I'll also say--
ASHLEY: You bet.
TALIESIN: The brume--
isn't the brumestone
held on by shaky little cables?
ASHLEY: I'll find a way.
LAURA: Don't! Don't!
Why would you-- why?
LIAM: But there's so many
of them, so if one fails,
it's probably fine.
LAURA: I imagine the
airship is like the mother
that we saw and you know
how we took out a couple
of those little things and
she was still floating.
TRAVIS: Actually, I heard if
you take out one of them,
it just spins on its way
down to a fiery death.
(oohing)
TRAVIS: Yeah, like a leaf
falling from a tree.
MARISHA: It sounds like we
could survive an airship crash.
SAM: (laughs)
MARISHA: We should test it.
SAM: It's the safest way
to travel, statistically.
MARISHA: Statistically.
ASHLEY: Do we need
to get food,
or is food provided
on the ship?
MATT: "There is a..."
TRAVIS: Horses?
MATT: "There is a
"ship chef, but
I would recommend
"bringing rations as
they are primarily there
"to feed the rest of the crew."
MARISHA: Would you be willing
to maybe also send us along
MARISHA: Would you be willing
to maybe also send us along
with some of those delightful
little gInger sn*p cookies?
I've thought about those
every damn day of my life.
I've thought about those
every damn day of my life.
LAURA: It's true. I can
feel and hear her thoughts
and a lot of it is dominated
by the thought of cookies.
MARISHA: They were like
little citrusy.
It was just superb.
MATT: "Are you blowing
smoke up my tusks?"
SAM: (laughs)
MARISHA: Of course not!
LAURA: Is that possible?
TALIESIN: No, this is a thing
that has happened, apparently.
MATT: "Evelyn."
The door opens.
(Evelyn) "Yes?"
(Eshteross)
"Go to the market."
(laughter)
MATT: "Get me my supplies.
"Tonight, I bake."
(laughter)
MARISHA: Oh, you're
so generous.
TRAVIS: He's probably not going
to put any sleeves on, either.
He's just going to be in
there, g*ns out, baking.
Fearne, stay away!
Cover your eyes!
LAURA: Do you bake without a
shirt on, in just like an apron?
Just for visual reference,
I'm just trying to--
MARISHA: Do you have
a little hat?
MATT: "Do not crash
my skyship, please."
LIAM: Sorry, the last week
and a half was kind of hard.
We're a little punchy still.
MATT: "That is all right.
I understand.
"Nevertheless,
"I appreciate you putting
"yourselves on
this path with me,
"continuing... If at any
point you wish to diverge,
"I respect and
understand that.
"I do not wish to
consume your time
"I do not wish to
consume your time
"or direction.
"I suppose I'm just excited
to have individuals
"who are capable,
"and of like heart."
TRAVIS: Is that us?
SAM: Yeah, that's us.
TRAVIS: Oh.
TALIESIN: Probably.
LIAM: Most of us.
TRAVIS: One more question
about Armand Treshi.
MATT: "Yes?"
TRAVIS: Was anyone injured
in their escape?
What did their
injuries look like?
MATT: "I do not recall
there being any injuries,
"just that he was
found having fled
"with most of his
important things."
TRAVIS: Curious.
I shall ponder this.
LAURA: You're such a
good detective, Chetney.
TRAVIS: That's what
I was going for.
LIAM: Deputy Green Seeker.
SAM: Was there anything
else unrelated to this
that we needed to
check with, Ariks?
Something about-- I
know that at some point
that there was secret
invisible papers that we left
with you, but I feel-- did
we tick that box off already?
MATT: "Those were passed
along to Seshadri
"as part of
the investigation."
SAM: Okay, I can
cross that off.
LAURA: I have a question.
MATT: "Yes?"
LAURA: Have you
heard anything about
the Grim Verity?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
MARISHA: Good idea.
MATT: "I feel like I've
heard the name before,
"but it is not
ringing a bell."
LAURA: All right.
LIAM: Didn't roll
high enough.
ASHLEY: (whispers) What
about-- Have him check those--
the signature thing. You
know the S and the P.
I don't know why
I'm whispering.
(laughter)
SAM: We already solved that.
LIAM: Oh yeah, I
recognized that, Fearne.
ASHLEY: Oh yeah,
you recognized it.
Sorry, I just
was so out of it.
I didn't--
MARISHA: Yes, it is.
SAM: Yeah, you were out
of it a little bit.
ASHLEY: Yeah.
MARISHA: All right, so we'll
check back in tomorrow.
Do we meet here? Do
we meet at the docks?
MATT: "I can have the
skyship ready to go
"and they will be
expecting you,
"unless you have any other
business to stop by."
SAM: We need to stop
by to get the cookies.
MATT: "You do need to stop
by to get the cookies."
(laughter)
MATT: "So yes."
MARISHA: Come get the cookies--
MATT: "Come get the cookies
"before you leave."
MARISHA: All right.
MATT: "Do not forget."
MARISHA: Oh, pssh. What?
Forget!
MATT: "I mean, if you do,
it's just more for me, so..."
LAURA: She won't forget.
ASHLEY: We won't forget.
MATT: "Very well."
LIAM: Laudna will
remember this.
MARISHA: Get...
cookies.
MATT: "I thought my training
"was over for the day."
SAM: Thank you so much.
MATT: "Thank you.
"Thank you for your
diligence and good luck."
SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: I wouldn't mind
going to the Dayal Hall.
SAM: Yeah, Dayal Hall.
TRAVIS: Yeah, here on the
Core Spire. We're here.
LIAM: To the hall...
Marwa's?
LAURA: Yeah, we should
get some supplies.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
SAM: Marwa's... supplies.
LAURA: We should bring
her a croissant.
Not that I--
Would I know that?
MARISHA: To Mar... Oh!
LAURA: You said you'd
bring her a croissant.
I remember you saying
you brought her a croissant.
TRAVIS: Wow, that's the
first thing you thought of.
You love croissants.
MARISHA: Croissants.
LAURA: Something
new about me.
(laughs)
SAM: Okay, so Marwa's,
Aerie Spire. Oh, no.
LAURA: First,
we're going to...
TRAVIS and SAM:
To Dayal Hall.
MATT: Okay, got you.
All right.
So following the
direction of your memory
into this space, you step
beyond the neighborhood
where the estate of
Ariks Eshteross is--
the Prudaj estate.
You head further
down the spire spiral
around the Core,
and come upon the exterior
where you can see this
massive open home constructed
of these squat tower arches.
massive open home constructed
of these squat tower arches.
They are these...
Teacher's watching.
You can see these
20-foot tall pinnacled
archways, where these
intricate carvings
match this beautiful
hand-sculpted lattice work
that comes to the
gradual point around it
and these pillar
striations that rise up
before it meets an outcropping
of spire rock above,
almost like it was carved
from the rock itself,
but the texture of
it leads to believe
that this was either
different material
that was brought here or
they found unique materials
in the rock and carved
the space from it.
So where you see
this almost alcove,
this slight alcove of
the spire rock itself,
it was built into
the side of it.
But it is open windows,
open halls and even just
glancing beyond
the archways within,
you can see there are all
manner of tables and cushions
on the floor for sitting
and there are pits,
like step pits in
various areas where
there are groups of a
dozen or more children
of different ages that
are sitting in groups
with books in front
of them and various
tutors and teachers that
are holding either books
or notes in their hands
in the process of engaging
these children
and young adults
in some sort of a lecture.
You can see four
distinct groups already
that are currently focused
at different areas of here,
and there's just
like a-- I don't know,
a gentler air here than
other areas of the city.
Usually the bustle and the
push of people just surviving
Usually the bustle and the
push of people just surviving
or following that goal-driven
existence that draws them
day-to-day. In here there's
an exhale that is welcome
day-to-day. In here there's
an exhale that is welcome.
As you step through
the initial archway
into the space,
you can smell a fine,
almost lavender
incense in the air,
that immediately
strikes your noses.
There are a number of torches
embedded in the nearby walls,
that have a very faint
glimmer but no smoke.
Where the alcove itself
creates a continuous
shade at this time of day,
as the sun itself is past
over another direction and
cast it all into its shadow.
The torches give just
enough light to give
a warm, studious
interior feel.
What would you like to do?
TRAVIS: Is there a
front desk or a clerk,
some sort of
an information center
that looks like anyone
is attending?
MATT: At the moment, there
doesn't appear to be a desk
from where you're entering.
There are two wardens.
There are two of the
guards of the city
that are just sitting
and keeping watch.
They have simple chairs,
their back having the cloaks
and the shoulder pauldrons and
holding spears at their side.
They're both watching and
eyeing you as you enter,
as you obviously do
not look like you are
of the current student body.
LIAM: Did you say all those
groupings of young people
listening to little
TED Talks and whatnot,
is that beyond us inside or is
that surrounding the place?
MATT: That is beyond
you inside.
Though, on the outside, you
do see some kids walking by
and you see some
groups of friends.
Some of them eye
you suspiciously.
Some of them eye
you curiously.
It definitely has
an open forum
schooling sense within.
TRAVIS: Is there like...
(laughter)
LIAM: Rollies.
TRAVIS: Is there an academic
uniform that's shared?
Or we just stand out
because the thing?
LIAM: Because we have
a dead person
and a robot and a gem guy?
MATT: You stand out.
TRAVIS: Got it.
MATT: You don't sense
that there is a uniform.
You can see that the
ones that are teaching
have a beautiful,
soft lavender shawl
have a beautiful,
soft lavender shawl
that wraps around
their shoulders
and then drops
long in the front
to past their knees.
That is the most
uniform you see.
Beyond that, the rest
of their clothing
is all different styles
of casual wear
or even slightly formal wear.
You see one of them wearing
this beautiful sherwani coat.
It's dark black
with gold bits
along where the breast
comes together in the front
and they themselves then
have the lavender shawl
over that drops in the front.
LIAM: Oh, I want it.
TRAVIS: It's like
Starfleet Academy.
Oh, excuse me, warden!
MATT: The guard glances
over to you, stands up.
"Yes?"
TRAVIS: Nice to see you
this fine day.
f*ck, I suck at this.
I am looking for Ajit Dayal.
Day-ul.
MATT: "And the reasoning is?"
TRAVIS: We met at the ball--
SAM: Uh-huh.
TRAVIS: -- previously.
We engaged in
intellectual dialogue
and I wish to
further our discussion.
He said to meet him here
upon my convenience
and convenienced I am.
MARISHA: That's fantastic.
TRAVIS: I'm sweating so much.
MARISHA: You're okay.
TRAVIS: Thank you.
MATT: Make a persuasion check.
TRAVIS: Oh no,
I have to roll.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: I was told there
would be no rolling.
(laughter)
LIAM: Come on.
TRAVIS: Natural one!
(exclaiming)
(laughter)
(clapping)
(oohing)
ASHLEY: Oh no.
MATT: The guard definitively
stands by the chair
and says, "Are you
supposed to be here?
"Are you enrolled
with the hall?"
TRAVIS: No, no, I, no.
I figured my credentials
from across the sea
would allow me entry into such
a place of higher learning.
MATT: "I'm afraid you'll
have to wait outside."
TRAVIS: Oh, that's fair.
MATT: "Come this way."
The guard begins to
usher your group--
LAURA: Are you--
MATT: -- back towards the--
LAURA: Going to let Mister--
I wish I could remember
what his name was.
TRAVIS: Pock O'Pea.
MATT: "What is your name?"
SAM: Oh, Dayal?
TRAVIS: Chetney, but
I'm known as C-Pock.
LAURA: Are you going to let
C-Pock speak to Mr. Dayal?
MATT: "I'm going to
speak with Mr. Dayal
"and see if he's
expecting anyone.
"If not, good day."
LAURA: We--
MATT: He continues to
push you out towards
the entrance.
LAURA: Will you please
let him know
it's from a a group he
met at the, oh f*ck,
it's from a a group he
met at the, oh f*ck,
the Quorum ball?
TRAVIS: Chandei Quorum.
LAURA: The Chandei
Quorum ball.
MATT: "I will relay
this information.
"I make no promises."
LIAM: So, look, I--
I think we should probably--
TRAVIS: I sh*t the bed.
LIAM: -- Imogen do the
talking to get in there.
TRAVIS: You're right.
I'm sorry.
I just got carried away.
LAURA: No.
SAM: No, no.
LAURA: I thought you were great.
ASHLEY: You did a great job.
LAURA: I don't know
why he didn't--
SAM: I think it was the
sweat more than anything
that made him a little
bit freaked out.
TRAVIS: It's usually
absorbed by the beanie,
but man, I was feeling it.
LIAM: It was really
just the like--
Normally, you carry
yourself with confidence,
but maybe this isn't
your forum, but just--
TRAVIS: It's not my arena.
LIAM: The same, but
just transfer over
the way you feel about wood,
just bring it with you.
TRAVIS: Treat him like wood?
SAM: Yeah, imagine that
he's a block of wood
and you're just
sort of chipping away.
TRAVIS: Going to go to town.
LIAM: Or we just let Imogen
do the talking, just here.
TRAVIS: I'll carve
him up real good.
TALIESIN: You just whittle
him down, whittle him down.
MATT: You can see the
guard has been not,
just eyeing you
as he walks away
and then goes and then sits
back down in his chair.
TRAVIS: And that's how
I arrived at my thesis.
SAM: But he didn't go ask?
TRAVIS: Oh, he didn't
go f*cking do anything.
MATT: Not on a one.
SAM: He didn't even try?
LAURA: That's so sad.
TRAVIS: ♪ I might have to go ♪
♪ invisible ♪
♪ and slit his throat ♪
LAURA: You know what, no,
I'm going to--
(laughter)
LAURA: I'm going to--
MATT: You can keep pushing,
if you want.
LAURA: No,
I'm going to send a message.
TRAVIS: That's a one.
LAURA: I'm going to
cast Sending.
SAM: To who?
MARISHA: Oh.
LAURA: To Mr. Dayal.
SAM: Did you meet him?
(laughter)
LAURA: I think I did.
Hmm.
SAM: He was standing over with
Eshteross when we met him.
I feel like you,
as the servant girl,
were across the room.
LAURA: Oh really?
TALIESIN: (laughs)
LAURA: You want to bring
that back up?
MATT: You largely spoke with
his compatriot who was the--
SAM: Headmaster Gryz.
MATT: Yes, Gryz.
TALIESIN: Wow.
SAM: I was over there with
you because I was making
the rounds at the party.
LAURA: Oh, that's right.
We didn't actually
speak to Mr. Dayal.
SAM: No, you were a
table by yourself that time.
MARISHA: Yes, I was.
LAURA: Headmaster Gryz
is the name
of the man that
sent you to him?
TRAVIS: Well, no, I was
talking with-- no, wait.
I was talking with
Professor Gryz
and I was trying to
meet Ajit Dayal, right.
LAURA: All right.
I'm going to head in
and go talk to the guard.
MATT: Okay.
The guard--
SAM: Need some help?
Magical help?
MATT: -- watches you
as you approach and
stands up again.
SAM: Guidance.
MATT: "I told you to wait."
LAURA: I understand
that, sir.
Unfortunately, we're
in a bit of a rush.
We were sent here
by Professor Gryz.
We're working for some
very important people.
MATT: Make
a persuasion check.
SAM: I Guided her.
LIAM: Come on, come on,
come on, face.
LAURA: 16.
MATT: 16.
SAM: Oh, that's better
than one.
LAURA: (laughs) Than one.
MATT: "Professor Gryz was here
not but a couple weeks ago.
"I will take this up
with Mr. Dayal."
"I will take this up
with Mr. Dayal."
LAURA: Thank you.
MATT: "Please wait at the
front with your friends."
LAURA: Of course.
MATT: He seems to
have resonated
with the name and walks away.
You see as he approaches
the figure
you saw earlier with
the dark sherwani coat
who is off currently
having a conversation
with one of the
other teachers here.
The guard approaches and
you see them talking a bit.
The figure turns and
looks over your way.
Smiles, nods,
and starts walking
towards the archway
where you guys have
been waiting beyond.
TRAVIS: Do we recognize
the figure
that was walking towards us?
MATT: This figure is
Ajit Dayal.
TRAVIS: Oh.
MATT: You did see this
figure at the ball,
though you saw them
at a distance.
At least you saw
this figure before,
without being able to really
put a name to the face.
But based on the fact that
the guard went to them
and as they approached,
they put their hands out.
"Come, come.
"You say you are
friends of Gryz, yes?"
LAURA: Not me, personally,
but this gentleman here.
MATT: "Indeed, I apologize
for the gruff nature
"of our protectors here.
"They want to make sure this
"is a safe environment
for the children."
LAURA: As it should be.
MATT: "My apologies.
"I am Ajit Dayal and I am
one of the House Dayal
"and one of the overseers
"of this fantastic
place of learning.
"(chuckles)"
LAURA: I'm not from here.
What do you teach?
MATT: "You see, many of
the children of the city
"cannot afford
proper tutelage
"and schooling tends
to be geared
"towards those who have either
the means or the influence.
"Many parents teach at
home for this reason.
"We, of House Dayal,
for quite some time,
"have felt that
that is not enough.
"Especially for the children
"who may not have a home
or family to go to,
"or wish to push
past the limitations
"of their social status
to achieve higher learning.
"So we've--
Well, it was before me,
"established the Dayal Hall
"and I have taken
it upon myself
"to continue that
particular inspiration.
"Anyway."
SAM: That's so noble.
MATT: "It's just what
needs to be done.
"You are, if I might ask?
"I have not made
your acquaintance,
"but you seem to
have mutual friends.
"So I would to know,
who are you?"
LAURA: We're Bells Hells.
We are a group
associated with--
Are we allowed to say now?
SAM: I don't know.
LAURA: I say in my head to--
SAM: Oh, no, he knows
Lord Eshteross.
They were talking.
LAURA: He does?
SAM: Oh, well,
Gryz was talking
to Eshteross.
So they're probably pals.
LAURA: We work alongside--
TRAVIS: Yeah.
LAURA: -- Mister Eshteross.
MATT: "Huh.
"Hmm."
TRAVIS: I know he--
LAURA: Oh, can I-- oh god.
TRAVIS: Yeah, do it.
LIAM: I'll insight check him.
SAM: How was that reaction?
LAURA: I want to
Detect Thoughts on that.
MATT: Detect Thoughts on it?
LIAM: I wanted to roll--
LAURA: Yeah, that surface thought.
I want to feel what that was.
MATT: Okay, the immediate
surface thought you get.
You're doing insight
check, you said?
LIAM: Yeah.
MATT: What'd you get?
LIAM: 17.
MATT: 17, okay.
We'll share this
information a little bit,
because the surface thought
you glean that this isn't--
He's not offput,
is more unexpected.
The first thought you
read off this is like,
"Huh, didn't realize
"he had individuals
he worked with."
LAURA: sh*t.
MATT: Do you want
to keep pushing?
LAURA: No, I'll
just keep it up.
MATT: Okay.
He goes,
"Eshteross is an
upstanding individual,
"a bit of a recluse.
"I'm glad to see
that he's branching out.
"So how do you know the
professor, the headmaster?"
TRAVIS: We had a moment
to speak with him
at the Chandei Quorum
event, ball.
It was wonderful being able
to chat for a little bit.
Might there be a place
that we could speak
a little bit more in private?
MATT: "Certainly," and
he smiles back at you
and you see that he
has this very warm smile.
You know, short dark hair,
dark brown skin.
These very, very kind eyes,
but definitely holds himself
with a posture of...
not import, but wanting to
engage and with
a good impression.
"If you feel this
is of particular
"challenged information,
"we can speak in
a more private space.
"Come with me. Come with me."
TRAVIS: I like him.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: He puts his hand
up to the wardens
as they lean forward to check
and make sure
everything's fine.
He leads you past two of the
lecturing pits to the sides.
Some of these go down
a good 10 or so feet
about 30 feet across,
these continuous
gradual steps in slopes.
You can see to
the right of you,
this group of about
22 or so children
between the ages of five
and probably 10 or so.
They're all enraptured
with this older woman
of white hair,
reddish brown,
sun-baked skin,
deep-seated wrinkles in
the corner of her eyes
and a bright white smile
who is in the process
of loudly talking about
the philosophies of
how to contribute
to a culture
and the people around you,
versus the important--
You're like, okay, those are
some good speaking points.
Versus the challenges
of those
that wish to abuse
society around you.
At first, you're like,
that seems
like an advanced
conversation for children
of the age of five or
over, but they all,
she's not using extensive
detailed words,
but just trying to impart
some of these concepts.
They seem to be
engaged and listening.
LIAM: Laying the groundwork.
MATT: Traveling beyond this,
you round the corner
to one of three doors
that head further
into the actual
bedrock of the Spire.
You can see around here,
it looks a large part
of the hall itself
is within the Spire rock.
The exterior has been carved
to match the aesthetics
of the perimeter archways
but continue into
a darker cooler interior.
You follow Ajit within
the first chamber
and this is
a very simple office,
if not a waiting space.
There's a silver platter
set out with a tea set.
He goes and
sits over and checks
the temperature
on the outside
of a small cauldron
that's sitting
over a magical fire set
that's licking
the bottom of it
and he touches it,
and goes and runs
his hand over it
in a circular motion. You
watch the flames get brighter.
TRAVIS: Cool.
MATT: As it does,
it crests the bottom of it
and you can get
a little bit of steam
beginning to quickly
rise off of it.
He turns.
"Would any of you
care for some tea?"
LIAM: I won't say no.
ASHLEY: Yes.
MATT: "Very well. Give it
just a few moments to steep."
He goes and takes
one of these
these four different
small satchels.
He goes into two
of them and--
MARISHA: (sneezes)
TRAVIS: Gesundheit.
MATT: Bless you.
Grabs a few handfuls
of loose leaves
and almost making
an improvised mixture
on the moment.
Feeling them out,
tosses them into the cauldron,
leaves them there.
Turns around and
finds a simple stool,
sits on it and leans in.
TRAVIS: Is that silver?
MATT: "Yes."
TRAVIS: Lovely.
I'm sorry. I came to
Jrusar to meet with a man
named Gurge Kisgregg.
MATT: "Huh.
"How have you come
to know Gurge?"
TRAVIS: (slowly) We share
a condition.
MATT: "Ah, I understand
of what you speak."
TRAVIS: I hope we can
trust on your confidence?
MATT: "Of course."
TRAVIS: He mentioned
your name.
MATT: "I met Gurge when
he first trekked here,
"when he and his--"
He looks past the door.
"Gorgynei compatriots--"
TRAVIS: Oh, he said it.
MATT: "-- saved me
and my wife's lives.
"We were attacked by a
monstrous jungle vine creature
"while we were
returning from Evishi.
"Me and Gurge became friends,
"and I began to
help provide him and his
"equally-afflicted
compatriots
"with equipment and supplies
"that they couldn't find
for themselves in the Wilds
"when they worked
within this space.
"For a good number of years,
"we were just happy to help
them where they needed it.
"If we need to travel beyond,
"they would likely keep an
eye out for us on our journey
"to help keep things safe.
"Eventually, Gurge split
from the troop and stayed here
"while the rest
of them roamed
"further south, southeast.
"So yeah, Gurge is a
good man, if a bit brusque,
"bit short of word
and unrefined,
"but not in a way
that is bothersome.
"Just takes some folks
a bit getting used to."
TRAVIS: He's told us to
stay away going forward.
MATT: "That sounds
about right."
TRAVIS: Yeah.
We've encountered some
strange things in this city.
He was involved with--
It's not important.
This group of Gorgynei,
I would be very interested
in an introduction,
if you might be
able to arrange one.
I am new to this affliction,
and would be very
interested to hear
about the experiences
anyone else could share.
MATT: "Understood.
"You're certain you
would wish to...
"There are ways to be
rid of this affliction,
"if you so wish."
TRAVIS: Oh, uh--
No, no, well,
one step at a time.
I feel it's best to
understand one's existence
before you try and alter it.
MATT: "Very well.
"I do not judge.
"The Gorgynei, as eccentric
as some may think
"for their means of thinking
"about such an existence,
"they have made it work
and have done
"many misunderstood,
but good things
"for the people and
societies around them
"that shun them.
"So I see the worth
in what you speak of."
TRAVIS: It's also sort of
part of an arrangement.
I have to find a way
to really harness it.
There are those that
would follow that--
MATT: "Understood,
and I hope you do.
"If it all becomes too much,
"don't be afraid to let me
"or any of my
compatriots here know.
"We do have contacts
with individuals
"that could alleviate
you of this curse."
TRAVIS: Oh, yes? Yes.
It's good to know.
MATT: "But given this is the
path you've chosen to walk
"and in hopes of
wrangling the beast
"as Gurge has.
"The Gorgynei exists within
the Gloomed Jungles
"of Aeshanadoor.
"They left the Wilds
"and last I heard,
"didn't fare as well in
the wide open landscapes
"of the Hellcatch.
"The Gloomed Jungle definitely
befits their skill set
"and gives them enough space
"and shaded nature
"to avoid hunters
"and those who would wish
to make coin off the
"hides of such afflicted."
TRAVIS: Whoa, the hides?
That's horrible.
MATT: "Yes, there are many
horrible people in this world
"and individuals that
do not look far enough
"to understand
that behind every
"beast, there may be a story,
"behind every
poor lot in life,
"there's a chance
for redemption."
TRAVIS: Behind every
wolf, a prince?
I know, I was
thinking it, too.
These Gorgynei,
what are their number?
Are there dozens of them?
Hundreds?
MATT: "When we had
encountered in the Wilds,
"there were about two dozen.
"Their numbers may
have grown or shrunk.
"It has not since me and Gurge
went our separate ways
"a couple of years back
"that I have not heard
much about them
"beyond just that was where
they went to settle."
SAM: How often does
your kind reproduce?
TRAVIS: I don't know.
Do you know much about--
(whispered)
Do you know much about
the reproductive
capabilities of?
MATT: You see his
complexion blush slightly
as he sits back in
his stool and goes,
"I mean, it's the
same as whoever else.
"The curse itself is hosted
through a bite and spread."
SAM: So they don't
have litters?
LIAM: Is it passed
through birth?
MATT: "That is beyond my
purview of understanding.
"I could be wrong."
LAURA: Are there people
that just live exclusively
in their wolf form?
MATT: "From as
I understand it,
"and this comes from
"many conversations
with the Gorgynei,
"to wrestle the beast within
"is a very difficult road.
"It is fraught with danger.
"It is fraught with regret.
"It is fraught with
"mistakes you must live with,
"for the beast cannot
always be controlled.
"It is through the
Gorgynei that they have,
"somehow utilizing
some techniques,
"some arcana
I don't understand,
"have managed to use it.
"To come to an arrangement
with the beast
"than letting it overtake.
"I can say that
they are the exception.
"For many that acquire
this affliction cannot.
"They give in.
"They hunt and they k*ll
"and they eat
indiscriminately."
TRAVIS: That's terrible.
MARISHA: That's
not you, though.
That's not Chetney.
SAM: Have you ever
felt that way before?
TRAVIS: No, no.
I don't want to say
it's beginner's luck,
but I've always found
the beast rides
second pozish to old Chet.
I'm calling the shots.
Now, I don't know if it'll
always be that way,
because I figure with each
passing moon,
I'll get stronger.
But for now, it's all gravy.
MARISHA: All right.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
LAURA: You've never
had a moment
where the beast
was in control?
TRAVIS: You know.
SAM: Maybe you
wouldn't remember?
TRAVIS: I know-- I've
slipped up a couple times.
It's happened.
SAM: Did you do anything
that you regret?
TRAVIS: Sure, I mean, who
doesn't live without regret?
TALIESIN: Me, you.
SAM: Me.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
TRAVIS: That's exceptional.
LAURA: I have some,
I have some.
TRAVIS: I do want to meet
these people because I...
enjoy the rush.
Sorry, I'm just
going to say it.
It's f*cking exciting,
but I know it comes
with responsibility.
MATT: "Yes, it does."
TRAVIS: This kind of raw
magnetism has consequences.
So I have to make sure
I don't attract asteroids
that would then k*ll
the planet of me.
MARISHA: Well, the thing
about asteroids, too,
is that they have
an area of effect.
They hit other things
around them as well.
So I just think that that
might be like, what.
LIAM: (lisping)
Damage a whole area?
TRAVIS: Yeah, you don't want
to attract a global k*ller.
That would be
game over, right?
MARISHA: Right, yes.
TRAVIS: Armageddon.
MARISHA: I mean,
Chetney is like--
You're so powerful, you know,
he's-- yeah, yeah.
You have such control.
MATT: "I trust and
I hope you're right,
"and I genuinely
hope that you
"find them and
they can help you.
"Because if you don't
and they can't,
"there are many out there
that won't give the time
"to know that
you have control.
"And in time you may not."
TRAVIS: Ugh.
MATT: "There are many who
make a good amount of coin
"hunting those like you.
"So just be careful."
TRAVIS: Wise words.
SAM: Definitely. So we know
sort of where they are.
Do you need to know any of
the members of the group
in case we do encounter them?
TRAVIS: Oh, right, the Gloomed
Jungles of Aeshanadoor.
Do you know of a contact?
MATT: "I didn't get to
know many of them well.
"Gurge was my primary contact
"when I went and
spoke with them.
"They tend to keep
to themselves
"and they're a bit skittish
when it comes to city folk."
TRAVIS: Sure.
MATT: "But beyond Gurge,
there was Divaas."
MARISHA: Wait, we've heard
that before, right?
LIAM: No.
LAURA: We have!
MATT: There are similar
names you're thinking of,
but this is not
quite like before.
LAURA: Not it? Okay.
TRAVIS: Not it.
TRAVIS: Divaas?
MATT: "Divaasheela
is the entire name."
TRAVIS: Divaashéela?
MATT: Divaásheela.
LAURA: Divaasheela.
MATT: "She seemed to be
"holding a more
leadership position
"within the Gorgynei
at the time.
"If she still travels
with them,
"you can likely speak on
mine and Gurge's name.
"Though, I know not how
they parted ways."
TRAVIS: Mm.
MATT: "Regardless,
I do not know specifically
"where in the Jungle
they would reside,
"but I do know as how
Gurge would find them
"whenever he came into the
city to get supplies for them
"and meet with me.
"He would wait until dusk,
"get far away from the city,
"and howl as loud as he could
"once the sun
touched the mountains.
"They would come find him.
"Now, mind you, they
have good hearing.
"So do many other creatures
in the Gloomed Jungle."
TRAVIS: Like a raging jungle
vine creature?
MATT: "They may be indigenous
to that Jungle as well.
"My encounter-- I mean,
my wife's encounter with that
"was here in the Oderan Wilds."
LAURA: I believe we ran into
a raging vine creature.
TALIESIN: Is that why
you bring it up?
LAURA: As well.
TRAVIS: It has
a stinger, right?
LAURA: It swallows people.
TRAVIS: Yep.
MATT: "Strange little
glowing appendage."
LAURA: Fairy on
the end, yeah.
TALIESIN: Strange little
glowing thing.
MATT: "Indeed, so I do owe
them that thanks, to this day.
"So just be aware the dangers
of drawing out the Gorgynei
"in such a space.
"Hopefully they get to you
before anything else does."
TRAVIS: Ooh.
MATT: "But that's as far
as my knowledge goes."
TRAVIS: You've
been very kind.
This is very helpful.
I had run into a bit of
a dead end until this.
So thank you so much.
If we can be of any
assistance, by the way,
we're going to be traveling
southeast out of Jrusar,
if you need anything
looked after
or checked up on,
or brought back,
we'd be happy to
accommodate as an exchange.
MATT: "I suppose if you're
going so far
"as the Gloomed Jungles
to meet these individuals,
"if you come back, just let
me know how they're doing."
TRAVIS: Oh no, I love him.
MARISHA: He's pretty great.
TRAVIS: It would
be a pleasure.
MATT: "And extend my
offer that if any of them
"are still struggling
with their curse,
"then we can help them."
TRAVIS: Curse.
Their condition.
MARISHA: Sure.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
MATT: "My apologies,
I do not mean to offend."
TRAVIS: No, no.
MARISHA: There's nothing
wrong with you.
TRAVIS: Yeah, it's all about
education as well,
just awareness.
MARISHA: Yeah.
Honestly, you're so kind
and accepting of misfits.
MATT: "Good is in all of us.
"Not everyone's given the
chance to let it shine."
SAM: That is true.
LAURA: Insight check.
ASHLEY: I love him!
LAURA: I do love him.
I just want to
insight check, just in case.
MATT: Make an insight check.
TRAVIS: Do you think
he's a mass m*rder*r?
LAURA: I don't know!
TRAVIS: He wears people's faces, for sure.
MARISHA: It's always the nice ones.
LAURA: He's so nice, and I'm
used seeing like, you know,
people that seem ni-- 20.
MARISHA: We're very jaded.
MATT: 20? Okay.
SAM: Oh my gosh,
we're doing a whisper?
TRAVIS: We were
doing so great.
SAM: We're doing a whisper?
TRAVIS: He's like,
"The purple one's skin--"
SAM: This whisper is brought
to you by our tool set
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TALIESIN: D&D Beyond.
TRAVIS: ♪ D&D Beyond ♪
SAM: D&D Beyond.
It's on our generic tablet.
LAURA: I love you.
MATT: (laughs)
TRAVIS: Non-identifiable.
Shut up!
Thank you so much.
Does anybody else have
any questions for?
SAM: Nope.
TALIESIN: Well.
I mean, just in case we
have to go undercover,
how much would would
a pelt like that go for?
TRAVIS: What the f*ck, man?
TALIESIN: It's good to know,
so if we get--
TRAVIS: What are you talking about?
TALIESIN: I mean,
just in case.
TRAVIS: You're talking
about currency?
ASHLEY: No, just in casies.
TRAVIS: Just knowledge?
TALIESIN: This is good
knowledge to have
if we have to go underground.
LIAM: Or if we need to outbid
somebody to let somebody go.
TALIESIN: It's really
not to draw attention.
TRAVIS: That's fair.
MATT: "In all due respect,
I have no idea."
LAURA: That's good that
you don't.
TALIESIN: Yeah, okay,
he's all right.
Just double checking.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: "Anyway,
I do have to get
"back to my--"
LAURA: Of course, yeah.
MATT: "-- things, good luck."
MARISHA: Are you teaching right now?
Do you have a class?
MATT: "Not today, but
I am training a new--"
TALIESIN: Oh yeah,
do you teach violin?
Apparently that was a thing?
MATT: "I do not, but we
do have some musicians
"that occasionally come
and volunteer?"
TALIESIN: You're welcome.
TRAVIS: You know, I'm a big fan of the--
ASHLEY: Do you ever watch--
TRAVIS: What?
ASHLEY: Go ahead, Chet.
TRAVIS: No, no, please.
ASHLEY: I was just
going to see
if we could ever watch
one of your teachings?
SAM: Like audit a class?
ASHLEY: Yes.
Are we too old?
MATT: "No, no, never too old.
"I
"would perhaps need to ensure
that the students present
"would be comfortable
with your presence.
"As I say, once again,
with all due respect,
"you're a bit frightening.
"I say this just
unknowing how the students
"can take a moment
to warm up."
MARISHA: I'm fun scary.
MATT: "I'm sure you are,
I'm sure you are."
LIAM: Funsky.
MATT: "I need to make sure
that such students
"would be prepared for
somebody who is fun scary."
MARISHA: Kids love
scary sh*t.
TRAVIS: I was going to say,
I'm a big fan of the moon.
Obviously, it's of interest.
Imogen happens to
have a particular interest
in the lunar stuff as well.
Ruidus, right?
LAURA: Yeah.
Yes, quite an
interest, actually.
MATT: "You are not
an astrologer?"
LAURA: I am not.
We are--
MATT: "Astronomer."
TALIESIN: Neither that, too.
LAURA and ASHLEY: (laughs)
LAURA: We've just been looking
into different effects
that Ruidus has on people
and whatnot.
I don't know if
that's anything
y'all teach here, though.
MATT: "Not so much
teaching, but I mean,
"many are familiar
with the superstitions,
"the flares, those
born beneath them.
"Historically, and this
is just my opinion,
"I think it's an excuse to
"find a way
"or a place to put your
frustrations on others
"who don't deserve it.
"Culturally through history,
"when people feel
like they lack control,
"they try and find somebody
"they can exert
that control upon.
"I've taught, and met,
many wonderful people
"who were born under
the flare over Ruidus."
LIAM: So you believe the
faults are not in our moons,
but in ourselves.
MATT: "I believe a lot of
faults are in ourselves
"and not the superstitions
we push and teach.
"So yes."
LIAM: Well, then you're
free and clear.
LAURA: Do you know
any professors
at the university in Yios?
MATT: "I do. I do.
"Professor Tairan
"actually started
here at the Hall
"before moving over to
Yios about 15 years ago
"and themselves became
a professor there,
"so they're an ex-student."
LAURA: Oh wow.
Hold on. I'm just
going to check.
TRAVIS: Professor Tairos,
you said?
SAM: Tairan?
TALIESIN: You going to your journal?
MATT: "Tairan."
LAURA: Yeah, I'm just trying
to find my notes on--
I'm so sorry.
LIAM: Take your time.
SAM: The only other
one we know is
Professor Kadija Sumal.
LAURA: You already
have that pulled up?
How do you pull
that up so fast?
SAM: In my Yios section.
TRAVIS: He writes in
like four font. It's crazy.
TALIESIN: Wow.
MARISHA: He does.
LAURA: Ah, I can't find it.
TALIESIN: When Marisha's
looking enviously
at someone's notes, you know
they've got to be good.
LAURA: f*cking hell ba*ls!
MARISHA: He's got
a very good system,
different than mine.
LAURA: Yeah, Kadija Sumal
wrote an essay about
dreams affecting powers.
MATT: "Hmm."
LAURA: Are you--?
MATT: "I'm not familiar
with her, no.
"But if you're in
the area and you want
"to meet Tairan,
you're welcome to
"say you are
acquaintances of mine
"and perhaps he
can be of help."
LAURA: Wonderful.
I really appreciate that.
MATT: "Of course, of course.
"I really do have
to get back to my--"
LAURA: Yes, go, please, I'm sorry.
MATT: "-- studies, unfortunately."
ASHLEY: You said you
were married, correct?
LIAM: We will never
let him go.
MATT: "I am married.
"I do not have children
as of yet, but--"
TALIESIN: If you did, what
would their names be?
(laughter)
TALIESIN: I'm sorry.
(laughter)
MATT: "Anyway."
TALIESIN: Sorry. Carry on.
LAURA: We will leave.
SAM: Thank you.
LAURA: We will leave.
Thank you
for all of your help.
ASHLEY: Go do your things.
MATT: "It was a pleasure.
Good luck."
MARISHA: We can find our way out.
TRAVIS: Thank you.
MATT: "Good luck."
LAURA: We're leaving.
We are going.
MATT: "Well."
SAM: Bye.
MATT: "Tea, at least?"
LAURA: Oh. Sure.
MATT: He goes and
pours you all--
SAM: We just sit
here and drink.
MATT: Yeah, he pours you all
tea and puts it back, says,
"Take your time."
LAURA: Thank you.
MATT: He nods and exits
off into the open air
of the Hall.
LAURA: Chet, the reason I
didn't want to talk about it
is because after what we
learned about the Grim Verity,
I feel like those people
are coming after anybody
that's looking into
Ruidus too much,
so I'm starting to
get a little worried
about digging deeper.
LIAM: If we poke our heads
up too high, asking
questions about it.
TRAVIS: Sorry, I just figured
he's such a sweetheart.
LAURA: Yeah, he
seemed wonderful.
LIAM: Right, but he could
very sweetly mention it
to someone, the wrong person.
TRAVIS: That's true. It's
your thing. I shouldn't have
tossed it out there.
LAURA: Not at all,
it's just a thought
that came up in my head
and I didn't know
if it was something to
be aware of, is all.
TRAVIS: We got a name out
of it, Professor Tairan.
LAURA: Yeah, that's wonderful!
TRAVIS: f*ck yeah!
SAM: And a name of
your Gorgynei,
a person in the Gorgynei.
TRAVIS: That was a score.
SAM: But he seemed very
concerned about your stability
and your emotional health.
TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
SAM: Should we be concerned?
Are you bottling up
rage and fury of the wolf?
TRAVIS: Not of the wolf.
I mean, I had plenty
of that before, but...
There was a moment
in the heist
where Orym came down
to help me.
I got stuck in the room
with the big jelly
monster, and--
LAURA: We haven't even talked
about-- a jelly monster?
TRAVIS: It was real
shitty down there.
It was almost curtains.
TALIESIN: Oh, that thing!
With the pit.
MARISHA: With the chain?
TRAVIS: Into the floor?
MARISHA: We were at the end
of the chain. We didn't see.
SAM: I was in the middle.
I saw a little peek.
TRAVIS: There was a big
thing. The floor was jelly
and these arms came up and
grabbed me and it burned
and yeah, it was no good.
But Orym came to the rescue.
But I was a little punchy,
and I was in my better form
and unfortunately,
there was an instinct
to just let the wolf
do his thing
and I, regrettably,
slashed at Orym.
SAM: Did you apologize?!
TRAVIS: I did. I did.
SAM: Did you accept?
LIAM: I did.
TRAVIS: But he thought it
was important to raise it
in front of the group, which
I appreciate, you know?
LAURA: Is this something that
could happen again, Chet?
TRAVIS: I don't know, I've
never done that before,
but I usually don't
travel with friends.
LIAM: Insight check.
TALIESIN: Thank you.
(laughter)
LIAM: Not bad. 17.
TRAVIS: I've never
slashed a friend before.
LAURA: Uh-huh, okay.
SAM: That you remember.
ASHLEY: You don't really
have control over it, then?
TRAVIS: I mean, I do a large
percentage of the time.
That was the first time
that it peeked through
and it didn't really matter
who was in front of me.
It was game time.
LAURA: All right.
LIAM: But you...
LAURA: Something
to be aware of.
SAM: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Yeah!
SAM: We'll just keep
an eye on it.
TRAVIS: That's the thing
to climb up on
and you put your
foot on its throat
and then you hold onto them
shits for eight seconds
and then it's--
LAURA: Hold onto them shits?
Now, what do you think it was--
SAM: Got to let them shits go.
LAURA: -- that triggered
the outburst?
TRAVIS: I can't talk too much
because my voice will start
changing, so go ahead.
(laughter)
SAM: Just talk to me, then.
(laughter)
LAURA: Do you think it was
the danger you were in,
the mental state you were in,
the damage you were taking?
TRAVIS: Yeah,
I was real hurt.
It wasn't going good for me.
I think the beast
has a feral reaction
when it gets cornered,
you know?
They say a cornered animal
is a dangerous one.
SAM: Fight or flight
sort of a thing?
TRAVIS: Yeah!
LIAM: But Chet.
We're traveling
together. Be honest.
Do you think that'll
happen again?
TRAVIS: No?
Maybe. It's just--
SAM: That's good enough for me.
TRAVIS: Yeah, maybe it's just
important to keep me healthy.
TALIESIN: That no had a
question mark at the end of it.
That no definitely had--
TRAVIS: I don't think so.
But I think until
we meet with the Gorgynei,
there's a chance when
sh*t gets a little hairy,
I get a little, you know.
LIAM: Mortals plan and gods laugh.
LAURA: So stay clear of Chet
when he's taking some damage.
TRAVIS: Yeah, maybe
give me some space.
SAM: Or give him
some healing.
TRAVIS: Yeah, or that.
MARISHA: But perhaps
this is something
you can work towards,
you know?
You have a goal.
TRAVIS: For sure,
I mean, I would love
to just walk around wolfed
out all the f*cking time.
LAURA: So you would
exist as a wolf 24/7?
TRAVIS: You've seen it, wouldn't you?
LAURA: I mean, 28/9,
I'm not sure.
TRAVIS: I'm pretty attractive
the way I am now,
but if I was just
walking around like that
all the time, I think I
could just get anybody
to do what I wanted to.
LIAM: How are your
woodworking skills
when you're in
that condition?
TRAVIS: I don't need instruments.
I just use my nails.
LIAM: Do you have toys
you've made like that?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
They're a little rough.
ASHLEY: You've made toys
in your wolf form?
LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was trying to remember.
TRAVIS: Yeah, I tried.
It's like doing it
when you've had nine drinks
because there's just a little
bit of focus that's needed
and that's a little
wishy-washy, but
for the detailed work, I
would just shift back.
TALIESIN: I can't wait
to see a toy you make
in your wolf form. I'm
very excited about this.
TRAVIS: It's kind of
abstract.
TALIESIN: Yeah,
I had that vibe.
LIAM: Well,
I'm glad you told us.
I'm glad you told the group
because we want
to trust each other
and as long
as you're upfront,
we can accommodate. I think.
TRAVIS: Yeah, I mean,
in all honesty,
I haven't traveled
with friends
since I've been like this.
It's just been myself, even
after I met up with Gurge,
so if we are in
the thick of it
and it's going south,
you know?
I'm like a
heat-seeking m*ssile
so maybe just
give me a little room.
SAM: Okay.
MARISHA: An asteroid.
TRAVIS: If it's dire,
but otherwise,
I'm in control.
I can talk.
SAM: It sounds like
from what you were describing
TRAVIS: I can do other things.
SAM: With the Gorgynei.
LAURA: (laughs)
SAM: It sounds like they
have mastered their bodies
and the Gorgynei have
controlled their wolf forms,
so maybe that's something
that you could work on
with meditation or maybe
some self-actualizing?
with meditation or maybe
some self-actualizing?
MARISHA: Yes!
TRAVIS: Like tantric exercises?
SAM: Tantric, yeah,
prolonging that sort of--
TRAVIS: Yeah, just holding it.
SAM: Climactic.
TRAVIS: Holding it! Holding!
LIAM: Prolong the wolf.
SAM: For hours or days, even.
TRAVIS: Yeah, it's all
about mind over--
SAM: You know what?
You need to put yourself
in a situation
where there needs
to be a release
and you have to delay that
release as long--
ASHLEY: Right at the edge.
SAM: -- as possible. Yeah.
SAM: You have to edge it!
LIAM: So the next time
you want to
slice my forearm to ribbons,
just creep along
the edge of that desire
for as long as possible,
but don't actually do it.
TRAVIS: Toy with it,
but don't get too close
because then
the party's over.
MARISHA: Hold on loosely.
TRAVIS: Once you go over the edge--
MARISHA: But don't let go.
TRAVIS: -- you got to wait a while
before it's party time again.
TALIESIN: Feel like I'm watching
a bad advice contest here.
It's really amazing.
LIAM: You've got to ride
that wave, Chetney.
TALIESIN: Can't tell
who's winning.
TRAVIS: Right. Maybe I
should build a board.
SAM: Next time you get
in trouble, just think.
Try to do some exercises.
Try to keep that edge.
LIAM: Think about baseball.
SAM: Think about baseball.
TRAVIS: Just look at my eyes, right?
SAM: Sometimes you count
the days of the week.
(laughter)
(laughter)
TRAVIS: If you look at me
and I'm not quite there,
you know, just. (laughs)
SAM: Should we just
say something?
TRAVIS: Yeah, we've got
to have a word, you know?
Babe Ruth!
SAM: Babe Ruth, all right.
LAURA: Got it.
MARISHA: Babe Ruth.
TALIESIN: Carrying me.
LIAM: The laughter is k*lling me.
(laughter)
SAM: All right.
Well, I'm glad we
had this conversation
at this school for children.
MARISHA: School, yeah.
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Oh, that's right.
MATT: Yep.
SAM: Let's go!
TALIESIN: You've said a lot
of inappropriate things
in front of kids this
last couple of hours.
LIAM: No, we're in a private office.
ASHLEY: We're in a
private room with tea.
MATT: The door is open and
there's a small child.
ALL: No!
MATT: No, no, no.
TRAVIS: We've got to go.
LIAM: That is a dwarf
who's 400 years old.
TRAVIS: Is the tea
that he brought in
on a silver platter
and that's it,
or are the cups also silver?
MATT: The cups
are not silver.
TRAVIS: Okay.
Just the platter?
MATT: Just the platter.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: I have a thing
with silver.
LAURA: Oh, for real?
TRAVIS: Yeah, but that's
what friends
disclose to each
other, right?
I'm a little sensitive
to silver.
LIAM: Oh, you super like it?
TRAVIS: No, it's
a little itchy.
TALIESIN: Now we know
what we're getting you
for Winter's Crest.
That's cool.
LIAM: Oh, allergies.
MARISHA: Sometimes-- yeah,
I-- you know.
TRAVIS: Which is cool
because I keep paying
for the f*cking gondola rides
and every time I'm like, argh!
On the inside.
LAURA: If you want
someone else to hold
all the silver coins
for you or--
TALIESIN: Or wear
a glove or something.
TRAVIS: You just want
to hold the silver?
I can give you
the copper, too.
LAURA: No, that's all right.
TRAVIS: I have no reaction
to gold or platinum.
LAURA: Oh.
TRAVIS: Maybe we just switch
and I'll hold yours.
LAURA: That's so sweet.
TALIESIN: Let's see what happens
with copper.
TRAVIS: Okay, I'll
give you silver.
SAM: Speaking of silver,
I need some silver
for some spell
components and stuff.
Do we need to prep
for this trip?
LAURA: I feel like we should.
TALIESIN: We have a little shop--
LAURA: How much time
we got left?
SAM: A couple more stops,
where are we going?
LIAM: Marwa's.
TALIESIN: I feel like we've
been edging this one
for quite a while.
ASHLEY: Yeah,
let's go see Marwa.
LAURA: I would love
to go to Marwa's.
MATT: This is your
chance to finish up
anything you want to do
before you head out
for the next day, so.
LIAM: What a rabbit hole.
MATT: Yep.
TALIESIN: Couple quick things
and then we'll be good to go.
LIAM: Nothing quick about it.
TALIESIN: Nothing quick.
MATT: All right.
SAM: So we're going to go
to the Lantern Spire?
Is that where she is?
MATT: Correct, the Trove of
Marwa is in the Lantern Spire.
SAM: Lantern Spire. Are we
going to go straight to her?
LIAM: Yes.
SAM: She sells tools
and sh*t, right?
LIAM: And quirky items.
It's where we got the rope.
SAM: Okay, okay.
LIAM: That rope we got
so much use out of.
SAM: And-- okay, great.
TRAVIS: It's been a minute.
SAM: Let's go.
We're there. Boom.
LAURA: Don't tell her
that we lost the rope.
LIAM: No.
MATT: Okay.
You travel on
through the city,
away from the Dayal Hall,
across the Fatewalk,
back to the Lantern Spire
to the quirky exterior
of the Trove of Marwa.
Stepping into
the dark interior,
the familiar odd
mixture of scents,
the musty dust, oil, and
partially molded
carpet meets you
along with bits of
orange spice. It's--
LAURA: We got a croissant
on the way.
MARISHA: Yes.
MATT: All right, mark off a
couple copper and you're good.
MARISHA: I got this one.
(laughter)
MATT: As you enter, the
place is fairly empty
and you see Marwa's
back is to you.
She's hunched over
a back table
beyond the front
central bar clerk area.
There's just this tension,
this silent tension
before you hear, "Come on,
come on, come on, come on!"
Ting, and something
goes flying,
(smashing) breaks a pot that's
hanging from the ceiling.
LAURA: I catch it--
MATT: The plant inside just
shatters--
LAURA: -- before it falls
on the ground.
MATT: Stops in the air,
she goes, "Ah!
"Oh, oh, great,
thank you, awesome."
LAURA: I float it back over to her.
MATT: "So sorry, that was weird.
"That was embarrassing."
LAURA: It's fine.
MATT: "Meant to do it. It's great.
"Hate that plant.
Throw it away.
"What can I get for you?"
(laughter)
LAURA: It floats
out the door.
MATT: "Appreciate that,
all right."
TRAVIS: Dead to me.
LAURA: Hi again!
MATT: "Hi.
"Hi!
"Sorry, took me a second.
"See so many customers
here, day in, day out,
"just faces,
just become a blur."
LAURA: I'm sure.
MATT: "Whole blur."
TALIESIN: We specifically
get that a lot.
LIAM: I roll FCG forward.
MATT: She tips her foot back
and scoops everything
on the back table off
of it into a basket
and then pushes it
under the table.
"So."
LAURA: What were you making?
MATT: "Hmm? Stuff.
"What are you looking for?"
TALIESIN: Stuff, that's so weird.
MATT: "You're looking for stuff?
"That's crazy. That's wild!"
LIAM: We're also
looking for stuff.
MATT: "We've got plants.
Whole, broken.
"We have, uh...
"Curtains!
There are curtains.
"Three colors.
Three-- Three colors.
"There are..."
LAURA: Are you--
MATT: "I got a lot of things!
"Give me some guidance.
What are you looking for?"
LAURA: Do you have
any magical items
that you have
acquired as of recent?
MATT: "Ah. (buzzes lips) Um.
"There--
"I don't have that large
of a stock right now.
"Sold a number of things
I had last time we spoke.
"Did get a quick
grab bag offloaded
"by some wanderer yesterday,
"didn't finish pricing them,
or throw them away yet.
"They might have m*rder*d
someone for it. I don't know.
"I was going to turning
them in if they were--"
SAM: You m*rder*d someone?
MATT: "No, no!"
SAM: Oh.
MATT: "No. Did I m*rder someone?"
MARISHA: They m*rder*d something.
SAM: Oh.
MATT: "No. Pff.
"They might have. I don't
know whatever they did.
"They walked in, they gave
me stuff. I paid them for it.
"They pawned it.
They walked away."
LAURA: Do you want
to go through it while
we're standing here?
MATT: "You know what?
Sure, why not."
LIAM: Maybe we can
repurpose for good.
MATT: Goes and pulls out
this milk crate (thuds)
up onto the table.
Starts picking through it
and you can see,
there's bits of cotton
and you notice
there's a cushion that's
been partially eaten.
She goes, "What the--?"
Opens it and pulls
a rat out of it.
The rat's like. (squeaks)
She goes. (sighs)
(gasping)
MATT: "Stay. Well."
MARISHA: Do you
have a pet rat?!
MATT: "Yes."
LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: "This is Jay.
Say hi to Jay."
ALL: Hi, Jay.
MATT: "Jay ruined
this pillow.
"Can you throw this
away for me, too?"
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: "Thank you.
"We have--"
LAURA: Float it out the door.
MATT: "This," and pulls up.
It's this curved ivory horn,
or it looks like it's ivory,
but the way the design on it
appears too perfect
to have been carved.
It curves outward and
then widens on one end.
"This is a horn.
"This is a horn of--
Wait, I wrote this down."
Pulls out some notes
from underneath.
"Horn of Silent Alarm.
"This, if you blow it,
and think of somebody
"within a certain range,
"they'll hear it,
and only they will."
SAM: Oh.
MATT: "Really helpful for
pissing off your neighbors."
LAURA: (laughs)
MATT: "I have this one at
an estimated 30 gold."
Puts it on the front there.
"There is-- this one's
a little weird.
"I didn't get
around to this one."
Pulls up from the
bottom and slaps it,
you can see it is a large,
dark gray, almost black,
leather something.
As she pulls it out,
it unfolds
and there is
red on it.
Wet red.
As she flaps it outward,
it sprays a whole
stream and
it sprays a whole
stream and
spatters of crimson liquid
across the front of the table
and the ground
and catches you
a little bit on
the right, Imogen.
Goes, "It's like a--
You see why I think
"they might have
m*rder*d somebody, right?
"This is like an apron.
"It's a m*rder apron.
It's a m*rder apron."
ASHLEY: Wow.
MATT: "I do know--"
LAURA: Does it smell
like iron?
MATT: "Yeah."
(laughter)
LAURA: It's blood.
Is it blood?
MATT: "I've cleaned it twice!
"That's the weird thing."
TRAVIS: What?
SAM: Wait, what?
MATT: "Yeah, right!"
Again.
LAURA: Oh god.
ASHLEY: Oh god.
LAURA: Whose blood is it?
Where's the blood coming from?
MATT: "I don't know!
"He must've really
m*rder*d them."
SAM: May I take a look?
I can sometimes identify
things that others can't.
MATT: "Sure. Yeah, please."
SAM: If I identify it, will
you give my friends a discount
if we wanted to purchase it?
LAURA: If you want to
get a m*rder apron.
SAM: What if it's...
I don't know.
MATT: "Can you tell me if
they m*rder*d someone?"
SAM: Maybe.
MATT: "Then maybe."
SAM: Okay. I will--
LAURA: Prestidigitation.
Prestidigitation.
SAM: I will identify it with...
TALIESIN: Squeegee
that thing.
LIAM: Check the apron.
MATT: All right.
It is indeed magical.
In fact, glancing at the...
This is particularly
a magical item
that is utilized
for those who
like to hurt things a lot.
Warriors, hunters, K*llers.
It is referred to as
the Butcher's Bib.
SAM and TRAVIS:
The Butcher's Bib.
LAURA: Does it give
fresh blood or something
for spells or something?
MATT: It continuously bleeds.
SAM: That's the only
thing it does?
MATT: No, it has other benefits, too.
TALIESIN: That's still pretty cool.
MATT: It's not a whole lot,
but it is always
damp with blood.
LAURA: Ugh.
LIAM: (gags)
LAURA: That's really
f*cking gross.
ASHLEY: How much it is?
TALIESIN: I know.
I'm already curious.
MATT: You tell her what it does?
ASHLEY: Yeah, same.
SAM: Yeah, it says,
"Once per turn,
you roll damage for a--"
Yeah, I tell her.
"Once per turn,
you roll damage
"for a melee attack
with a weapon.
"You can reroll the
weapon's damage dice.
"If you do so, you must
use the second total.
"Your weapon attacks that
deal slashing damage
"score a crit on a 19."
LAURA: Oh, okay.
TRAVIS: Or 20.
SAM: Or 20.
TRAVIS: And you just drip
blood the whole time.
MATT: "So did somebody
m*rder with this?"
SAM: Do I know?
TRAVIS: Yes.
SAM: I assume that yes,
it has been used to k*ll.
Yes, it's a m*rder apron.
MATT: "Then I didn't see it.
"I didn't touch it.
"350 gold."
(laughter)
SAM: 300...
Wow.
MATT: "I paid for it!"
SAM: Oh, you did?
MATT: "He pawned it to me.
"I thought I'd just
clean it off,
"then it just kept bleeding."
TRAVIS: How much did you buy it for?
MATT: "That is
a business secret."
TRAVIS: Oh!
TALIESIN: That's fair.
TRAVIS: I thought we were
doing favors for each other.
MATT: "We are! I'm
still making a profit,
"but a far smaller profit than
I would've had otherwise."
TALIESIN: I could, although
I don't do the cutty-cutty.
MATT: She doesn't realize
that she's doing this.
SAM: It's slashing damage only?
MARISHA: It's best for Orym.
TRAVIS: She's just got
blood on hand.
MATT: Yeah, she doesn't realize
she has blood on her hand
and she's just doing this
while looking at you,
and it's smeared all
over her cheeks.
TRAVIS: She looks
like Hannibal Lector.
SAM: Maybe there's a way
to undo the blood part
but keep the bib part?
TRAVIS: I don't think so,
not without losing the--
ASHLEY: But I feel like
that's part of the appeal.
(laughter)
MARISHA: I agree with that.
TRAVIS: We would never
go into anywhere.
TALIESIN: It's
clearly bleeding
even when you don't wear it,
which actually is a problem.
TRAVIS: Are you just bleeding?
TALIESIN: If it
stopped bleeding
when you weren't wearing it--
MATT: "Just keep it
in a bag!"
TALIESIN: Out of curiosity,
I'm going to put it
on and feel like,
does it feel right?
Is this something that you
have to wear for a while
to actually...
SAM: Attune to it?
TALIESIN: Yeah, is there
an attunement to this
or is it just--
MATT: Look at the item.
MARISHA: Search Butcher's Bib.
TRAVIS: Requires attunement.
SAM: It's from "The Explorer's
Guild to Wildemount."
TALIESIN: Oh.
LAURA: Oh!
LIAM: I remember
that picture.
LAURA: Oh my goodness.
TRAVIS: Requires attunement,
it's always covered in blood.
TALIESIN:
Requires attunement?
MATT and TRAVIS: Yes.
TALIESIN: f*ck.
So you just have to be wet
with blood the entire time
that you're wearing it?
MATT and TRAVIS: Yeah.
TRAVIS: It'll never not look
like it's covered in blood.
Even if you wash it off.
MATT: You definitely
want to wear a coat.
(laughs)
TRAVIS: You'll have blood all
over the inside of that coat.
LAURA: I will continually
cast Prestidigitation on you.
TRAVIS: That's awesome.
TALIESIN: It won't help.
LAURA: It will help for a minute.
TALIESIN: Out of curiosity,
you just hit it with
Prestidigitation.
How bad is it again?
TRAVIS: It's actually
probably good for us
because we're going
to rough town.
MATT: It's like beginning
of Amityville walls.
There's just a few mild
streaks beginning.
It doesn't drip long trails,
but it's just always wet.
SAM: All right, forget it.
LAURA: What else
is in your crate?
TALIESIN: That might just be
too disgusting, even for me.
MATT: "Okay.
"Then I'm going to give
it to the wardens."
TRAVIS: For free?
MATT: "If it's
a m*rder thing,
"I don't want to
be dealing with it!
"Or I could sell it
to them. I can ask."
LAURA: Yeah, I mean if
you're going to sell it,
you should sell it
to them, at least.
ASHLEY: Well, if you're
going to get rid of it,
I mean, also we'll take it.
LAURA: We could just take it
and give it to the wardens.
MATT: "Could you do that?"
LAURA: We'll take it
to the wardens.
MATT: "For 350 gold?"
(laughter)
MATT: "Aah!"
(aahing)
MATT: "Nice try!
"No, but seriously--"
SAM: We could try to sell it
for you to somebody
who's like...
MATT: "You could try
and take it
"and sell it for
more than 350 gold
"and then make a profit."
SAM: All right, I see where
you're going with this.
MATT: "I have
a business to run.
"You understand that, right?"
SAM: Sure. Sure.
MATT: "Cool. Great.
"Do you want it or not?"
MARISHA: What else is in
the m*rder bag?
LAURA: Did you give her
the croissant already?
LIAM: What do you have that's blood-free?
MATT: She puts her hands up.
MARISHA: Oh yes, I gave it--
Oh, here.
MATT: Smears it on her face
again without noticing.
TALIESIN: Oh god.
MARISHA: Croissant.
MATT: "Oh my goodness,
thank you so much."
Grabs it and
starts eating it,
and you can see the
blood marks around it.
(groaning in disgust)
LIAM: Looks like jam.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
MATT: "Unique flavor."
SAM: Anything else in that box?
MATT: "Oh.
"Oh god.
"There is..."
She just reaches in.
This odd piece of
folded black silk.
It's about this big.
Almost like a pocket square,
and is like, "This is...
"Wait, I had
this written down.
"This is...
"Ha-ha, this one's weird.
"This is a hole."
SAM: Portable hole.
LAURA: Ah!
TRAVIS: What?
LAURA: What do you
mean it's a hole?
TALIESIN: A whole what?
MATT: "Watch this.
"Stand back, stand back,
stand back."
You all stand back,
and she goes,
"It's not enough room!"
She gets up and walks around
and starts pushing some things
out of the way to make space.
Unfolds it and lays it
out onto the ground.
You watch as it lays down,
and it just looks
like she laid it down.
She goes.
Puts her hand in, and
you just watch her hand
vanish into darkness.
TALIESIN: What the actual f*ck?
LAURA: Where does it go?
MATT: "I don't know,
but it's pretty cool."
LAURA: You don't know
where it goes?
MATT: "The person who handed
this to me had a m*rder--
"There might be
a body in there.
"I don't know."
ASHLEY: Can we look inside?
SAM: How wide is the hole?
MATT: The hole would be...
Let me look.
SAM: Just diameter.
MATT: Indeed.
It's about six feet
in diameter.
TRAVIS: This is amazing.
SAM: Wow.
Should we look?
LAURA: How deep
is the hole?
MARISHA: We have to go in
the hole.
SAM: ♪ How deep
is your hole? ♪
TRAVIS: I mean, it seems
a little strange.
How much do you want for it?
MATT: "I'd say put
it at 1,500."
TRAVIS: 1,500!
f*ck!
MARISHA: 1,500?
TRAVIS: I want it, though!
MATT: "Yeah, why?"
SAM: Does it go somewhere?
TRAVIS: Yes! Well, kind of.
LIAM: It's reusable, and you store
things in it?
MATT: "Sure."
LIAM: You don't go
through it, though?
You don't slap it on a wall
and go through that wall?
MATT: I don't think it
creates doorways or anything,
but you can put
something in it
and then pick it up
and take it with you.
ASHLEY: I'm going to jump in.
LAURA: Can you reach the bottom
of the hole?
MATT: Fearne jumps
into the hole
and vanishes into darkness.
LIAM: Fearne, what do you see?
MATT: Fearne, you fall
about 10 feet or so
before you land
onto what sounds
like a hard surface.
LIAM: That's promising.
LAURA: Are you okay, Fearne?
SAM: Can she hear us?
ASHLEY: Give me just a moment.
Okay.
Flame.
Caleb's Produce Flame so
that I have some lights.
MATT: Okay.
As you Produce Flame,
it lights up the
space around you
and it was in
darkness previously.
ASHLEY: That's not
really the right--
Whatever.
(laughter)
MATT: Produce Flame.
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MARISHA: It's Caleb's now.
LIAM: That was a
workaround cantrip.
TRAVIS: Caleb's Produce Flame.
ASHLEY: (laughs)
MATT: Yeah, so within the
space, you create the fire,
and looking around you,
it's like you're just sitting
in a large, 10-foot cylinder
about six feet wide.
On the ground around you,
you can see there's
a shirt thrown there.
There's a couple
of shortswords,
it looks like there is
a broken wooden chest
that the lid is off
and there's a couple
copper inside of it.
Looks like a bunch of stuff
was just thrown in here
or the important stuff
was emptied
before it was shucked
onto this shop.
TRAVIS: Fearne,
stay in there!
Now, what happens if
we fold it up again?
MATT: "Watch!" She pulls it
and drags it off the ground.
TRAVIS: Nice.
MATT: And it just becomes silk.
TRAVIS: Cool.
SAM: But Fearne's in there!
LAURA: Fearne!
LIAM: Can she breathe?
MATT: "I don't know."
LAURA: Put her back out!
Put her back out!
MATT: "You said to show!
"You said to show you!
I didn't know!
"Okay, fine, fine!
Put it in! Ah, ah!"
TRAVIS: Fearne?
SAM: Are you alive?
MATT: There is no answer.
ASHLEY: (fake screaming)
TRAVIS: There it is.
(laughter)
TRAVIS: What happened
when we folded it up?
Come out of there!
ASHLEY: I don't know.
I was just--
LAURA: Could you breathe?
ASHLEY: I think so.
I didn't even notice.
Did I notice?
MATT: I mean, everything
went quiet for a second
and then it came back,
you could breathe,
you were fine.
ASHLEY: Can you guys see me?
SAM: No.
LIAM: Nope.
TALIESIN: No.
SAM: Can you see us?
ASHLEY: No.
MATT: Actually, looking up,
you can see through the hole
and see above looking down.
LAURA: But we can't see her?
ASHLEY: Yes?
MATT: You can't see her.
ASHLEY: I can see you guys.
(laughter)
MARISHA: It's
a one-way mirror.
TRAVIS: 1,500.
TALIESIN: This seems both
intensely useful
and intensely dangerous
at the same time.
LAURA: I love this.
Think about if we're
ever in a bind
or one of us is in trouble.
SAM: Or we have a lot
of stuff to carry.
LAURA: Any of it.
TRAVIS: You can't stay
in there forever.
LAURA: No, but you'd be
able to be in there
for a couple minutes.
LIAM: Think how easy
it would've been
to carry that statue.
MARISHA: I was just
thinking that.
TALIESIN: All right,
let's get you out of there.
MATT: She just
jumped out, actually.
TALIESIN: Oh wow. Yeah, wow.
LIAM: Mirthfully.
LAURA: 1,500, huh?
TRAVIS: How much gold
does everybody have?
Shout it out.
You start, Ashton.
TALIESIN: Seven gold.
LAURA: You start, Chet.
TRAVIS: Me?
MARISHA: You have more
than seven gold.
We just got paid.
LIAM: You got 1,000 from the gig.
MARISHA: Exactly.
TALIESIN: I was just
curious if anyone
was paying attention.
TRAVIS: 800.
MARISHA: 500. A little over.
LIAM: 500!
TALIESIN: 1,000 something.
LAURA: 700.
TRAVIS: What about you?
MARISHA: He gives all of
his money to Ashton.
SAM: I have no money.
TRAVIS: Oh.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
LAURA: That's why
Ashton's got 1,000.
TRAVIS: We could get it.
Do we have a Bag of Holding?
SAM: We don't.
LAURA: No.
TALIESIN: We don't.
SAM: I wonder if
we could cut this
and make him put it into me.
Then we could put stuff
into me forever.
TRAVIS: I think you'd drop
it in there, fill it up,
and then you'd just hold it.
TALIESIN: If you swallow too hard,
you're just going
to end up in there.
It's going to get very weird.
LAURA: Yeah,
I don't want to...
What if it disintegrates?
TRAVIS: Just don't put it into
a Bag of Holding.
LAURA: What if we put
all of that stuff in there--
TALIESIN: 1,500, huh?
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: "Yeah."
TALIESIN: All right.
LAURA: I feel like we could
just fold it up and
put it in a pocket.
ASHLEY: I think we need it.
SAM: I love the idea of you
shoving stuff down my gullet.
TALIESIN: How much does
everybody want to put in?
LIAM: If everybody throws in
215, that'll get us there.
LAURA: All right, let's do it.
LIAM: So you double that.
TALIESIN: I'll double that.
MARISHA: Let's do it.
SAM: Will you throw in
that $30 horn?
30 gold horn.
MARISHA: Yeah, for freesies.
TRAVIS: Especially since
we identified
the bloody Butcher Bib.
MARISHA: And jumped
into the hole.
ASHLEY: Or, or.
TRAVIS: Plus croissant!
SAM: Or?
ASHLEY: You throw in
the Butcher Bib.
MATT: Make a persuasion
check, Fearne.
ASHLEY: Okay.
TRAVIS: Going big, going big.
This is it.
This is the one.
(dice hits the floor)
SAM: Jesus.
(imitating dice hitting floor)
ASHLEY: Oh, yes!
Okay, wait, hold up.
TALIESIN: That was a sound.
ASHLEY: 22.
SAM: Oh wow.
MATT: Okay!
Marwa goes,
"(sighs)
"Yeah, under the condition
"that you don't tell
anybody where you got it,
"because I don't want
it to be attached to
"anybody who got
m*rder*d, okay?"
ASHLEY: Of course.
MATT: "Deal. Here."
She takes the bib and
throws it into the hole
and then folds it up.
TRAVIS: That's a deal, y'all.
MARISHA: Awesome!
MATT: "All right."
TRAVIS: 215? Okay.
ASHLEY: It's a deal.
LAURA: Do we want the horn?
Did you also want the horn?
SAM: Did we also get the horn?
LAURA: Do we need the horn?
MATT: No. Horn's 30 gold.
SAM: Aw, okay.
What would we ever
need it for?
What's the range?
Do you know how
far you can blow?
MATT: "I mean..."
TALIESIN: 530 gold.
ASHLEY: 215 each you said?
TRAVIS: Yeah, 215.
TALIESIN: 530 for me,
which means--
MATT: Within 600 feet.
LAURA: Oh, 600 feet.
MARISHA: Oh, then no.
SAM: 600 feet's pretty good!
MATT: No other creatures hear
the sound of your horn.
LIAM: I'll get it myself.
TRAVIS: Okay.
LIAM: I'll get it myself.
TRAVIS: Smart.
MATT: "Okay. Great.
"Man, cleaned me out.
"Great."
SAM: Do you happen to have--
I'm just going to
run through it,
a gem worth 50 gold,
powdered silver
worth 100 gold,
a jeweled horn,
any of these things?
Ooh, how about a propeller?
MATT: "I'll tell--"
SAM: Like a fan
sort of a thing.
MATT: "I do not."
SAM: Or a telescope!
MATT: Telescope I can get you.
SAM: Like a looking glass.
MATT: You probably know somebody
who can get the propeller.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: "I can get you a
telescope. I can get you...
"I can glue gems to
that horn I just sold you."
SAM: Don't know if
that'll work.
MATT: "And silver powder
I can do."
SAM: You can
do silver powder?
TALIESIN: Oh,
and health potions.
I suppose if there's
any healing potions,
anything like that,
you got any?
MATT: "I got two regular
healing potions."
TALIESIN: How much?
MATT: "100 gold for the lot."
TALIESIN: I'll take it.
MATT: "All right.
"Here you go."
TALIESIN: Excellent.
TRAVIS: Marwa, we should get
a free Subway card
or something.
We shop here so often.
MATT: "You shopped
here twice."
(laughter)
LAURA: Yeah, but we bought
a whole lot each time.
MATT: "You have!
I'm very appreciative."
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: "I'll remember that."
TALIESIN: I'm good.
MATT: "So come back next week,
"come back the
week after that,
"maybe I'll have some
more things, maybe I won't.
"Maybe we'll break
some more plants
"and hide some more
m*rder stuff, who knows?"
LAURA: Exciting times.
TALIESIN: Love a m*rder.
SAM: Can someone buy me
100 gold worth
of powdered silver?
LIAM: Do you have that?
MARISHA: Look at Ashton.
MATT: "Yeah."
LIAM: You do?
MATT: "Yeah, got a big
ol' batch of it."
TRAVIS: What do you need
powdered silver for?
LIAM: Why don't you ask
Ashton to use your money
to buy you silver?
MARISHA: Exactly.
SAM: Ashton?
TALIESIN: Yes?
SAM: Do you mind?
TALIESIN: Do I mind what?
SAM: Buying me
some powdered silver?
I forget what spell it's for.
TALIESIN: Some
powdered silver?
SAM: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Please?
SAM: Of course, pretty please
with silver on top.
TALIESIN: I'm just trying
to be a d*ck. Yeah, of course
you can have 100 gold
worth of powdered silver.
It's your money. sh*t.
I just spend it.
100 gold worth
of powdered silver.
MATT: "All righty,
I'll be right back."
TALIESIN: Here's 10 platinum.
MATT: She goes into
a back side room
and you hear rummaging
and pushing past some things,
and hits her foot
and is like, "Ah!"
LAURA: While she's back there,
can I peek over the desk
and see what's in
that box that she shoved?
MATT: Make
a perception check.
TRAVIS: I'll assist.
TALIESIN: A human head.
LAURA: Who wants to guide me?
Anybody?
SAM: Oh, Guidance.
ASHLEY: Guidance!
SAM: I'm trying to figure out
what this powdered silver
I wanted was for.
LAURA: Wow.
Wow.
TALIESIN: Well, now you got it!
So hope you're happy.
LAURA: Wow.
LIAM: Tell us?
TALIESIN: Yeah, I want to
know. How bad is it?
LAURA: Nine.
SAM: Oh.
ASHLEY: With Guidance?
TRAVIS: Was that with advantage?
LAURA: With Guidance.
I rolled a one and a seven.
MATT: Yeah, so no clue.
Right as you're like,
"I think it's--"
She comes around the
corner and is like,
"Okay, here we go!
"Got you.
"There's 100 gold worth
of powdered silver
"right there for you."
SAM: Thank you.
MATT: "Little tin person."
TALIESIN: I think
we're pretty good.
Pretty good?
MARISHA: I think we're good.
SAM: Super good.
MATT: "Great.
"Orange slice?"
MARISHA: Ooh, yes!
LIAM: Ooh, citrus.
LAURA: Thank you.
MATT: "There was just one."
TRAVIS: (laughs)
MATT: "Thank you guys!"
TRAVIS: (laughs)
TALIESIN: Always a pleasure.
ASHLEY: Bye, Marwa!
MATT: "See you next week!"
TRAVIS: You jumped on
that sh*t.
LAURA: I can't spit it out.
MARISHA: I'll bring you
a croissant.
ASHLEY: Love Marwa.
LIAM: Look at me.
TRAVIS: She loved it.
It was worth it.
MARISHA: Did she love it?
TRAVIS: We got a good deal
because of the croissant.
MARISHA: All right.
TRAVIS: You did good.
MARISHA: I hope so,
I was trying to...
All right.
TALIESIN: What's left
other than
I'm going to want
to stop at home
to apparently pick up
a propeller?
LIAM: What?
SAM: Oh, yeah.
LAURA: Oh, we need
tattered cloaks.
We need to get
some tattered cloaks.
TALIESIN: Might have that
back at home, right?
MATT: Tattered cloaks can be
acquired relatively easily.
It's not a huge issue,
especially over in
your part of town.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: I'm ready to get
out of town at that point.
LAURA: Yeah, we'll get
that then head out.
TRAVIS: We're doing an airship?
LAURA: Mm-hmm.
SAM: Skyship.
MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: Oh.
LAURA: Skyship?
SAM: I think it's skyship.
LIAM: Ska.
MATT: It's skyship.
TALIESIN: Ska-ship.
MATT: There you go.
TRAVIS: Ska.
MATT and TALIESIN: (ska vocalizing)
LIAM: ♪ ("Spiderwebs") ♪
(chuckling)
TALIESIN: Ska-ship.
MATT: So what else?
Anyone doing anything?
MARISHA: No, I think we're
just getting cloaks.
LAURA: Oh, we do need
to get some food.
I mean, we don't have to...
MATT: We can deal with
that when we get there.
MARISHA: Rations, food.
If we walk by
Zhudanna's place.
LAURA: Yeah, we should just--
MARISHA: We drop off another
bag of 10 gold to Zhudanna.
MATT: Okay.
She's blown away at the
generosity, and she's like,
"I just don't know how to
express how thankful I am.
"Thank you all so much."
LAURA: I feel like she gets
older sounding every
time we stop by.
LIAM: She literally does.
MARISHA: She might die.
MATT: That is literally
how it works.
TALIESIN: That's
how it works.
MARISHA: How is Zhudanna doing?
LAURA: It's only been a week!
MATT: She's fine,
she looks the same.
MARISHA: She looks the same?
MATT: She looks the same.
It's fine.
MARISHA: I just look into
her eyes and I tell her:
Goodbye, Zhudanna.
MATT: "What's wrong?
Are you all--"
MARISHA: I just wanted
to have this moment
before we leave.
LAURA: Laudna.
MARISHA: What?
It's just you never know.
LAURA: Goodbye for a while.
We're heading out of town
for a little bit,
but I'm sure we'll be back.
MATT: "Both of you
travel safe.
"I look forward to us
crossing paths again."
TRAVIS: Tell your five-year-old
you're going to die.
MARISHA: I look forward to us
crossing paths again as well.
MATT: "Very well."
MARISHA: Somewhere, somehow,
someday, yes, you never know.
LIAM: Roll a percentile die.
(laughter)
MATT: You guys are so awful.
All right, you say your
goodbyes to Zhudanna.
MARISHA: Keep your
door locked.
MATT: Anything else?
TRAVIS, LIAM, and LAURA:
I'm good.
TALIESIN: Just my place,
and then I'm good.
MATT: Okay, so you heading
to the Krook House?
Okay, you all clambered back
down into the Fownsee Hollow,
traveling through the
continuously dark interior
of the Core Spire,
walking down somewhat
ramshackle rope ladders,
wood ladders,
the rickety structures
that twist and head further
and deeper until you come
to the the colorful exterior
of the patchwork Krook House.
You step inside and
you can see Anni Aughta
is currently half napping
on one of the
tattered side couches.
When you enter, you watch as
she sits up and says,
"What, what is it?
"Oh, hi."
TALIESIN: Hi.
MATT: "Where you been?"
TALIESIN: Out, you?
MATT: "In."
TALIESIN: Fair.
MATT: "Cool."
Falls back asleep
on the couch.
TALIESIN: Thank you for that.
MARISHA: The most punk
conversation I've ever heard.
ASHLEY: It was so good.
MATT: Milo comes
around the corner,
having a small mug
of hot water
and is currently
scratching their head.
"Oh, hi."
TALIESIN: Hi.
MATT: "Where--?
"What's going on?
"Didn't realize we
had a lot of company.
"Hi, everybody."
LAURA: Hey, Milo.
MATT: "Hi, good
to see you again."
TRAVIS: What's up?
MATT: "Hi."
TALIESIN: Couple things.
MATT: "That's hot,
that's hot."
TALIESIN: That's hot.
FCG is looking for
a propeller. You might--
you don't happen to know
if you have something
propeller-ish hanging around?
MATT: "I can fashion
something.
"Give me like 30 minutes?"
SAM: Sure, anyone else
need stuff before?
TALIESIN: Well, I figure
we're also going to do
a little rummaging
through the clothing box,
see if we can come up with some
cloaks and stuff like that.
We're going out of town
for a little while again.
MATT: "Wow, not used to
you wanting to travel
"this much in succession."
TALIESIN: Well, the--
MATT: "It's good for you,
you've gotten
"into things."
TALIESIN: Contract's up,
so I'm going to take
a little vacation.
MATT: "Contract's up?"
TALIESIN: Contract's up.
MATT: "Well, it's
about dang time."
TALIESIN: It is
about damn time.
Yeah, yeah, so.
MATT: "Look at this.
"You're making an
honest rock out of him."
(laughter)
MATT: "Yeah, go out and
gather what you need.
"Don't take any of my stuff."
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm going
to stay in my
little section of bullshit.
MATT: "If you need to take my
stuff, just let me know.
"About how big?
This big, this big?"
SAM: I was thinking
in some circumstances
I might be able to take
off the saw blade
and maybe have a gear
that changes the direction
and have it spin
this way instead.
So about the same size
as the saw blade,
but it's more of a propeller.
MATT: "For?"
LAURA: What are you going to do
with the propeller?
SAM: Well, in case I'm ever
floating or something,
and I need to go somewhere.
LIAM: A propeller's
like a windmill, right?
SAM: Yeah, it's like
a reverse windmill.
ASHLEY: Like a boat
propeller type of a thing?
SAM: Yeah.
MATT: "So this is for locomotion?"
SAM: Yes, it's for locomotion.
MATT: "I gotcha."
SAM: Or maybe if I'm in water,
I could use it to, because
otherwise I'm in water,
I'm a sinker.
I'm a sinker, yeah.
TALIESIN: Aren't we all?
SAM: This might help
me move around a bit.
MATT: Milo goes back
and grabs their
work goggles, sets them up,
gets the hooded lantern
up above,
gets the wick lit, lighting
down to their workspace,
and they start pulling out
all their tools and implements
and starting to
stretch, heat,
bend, twist, stretch, heat,
and is in the process now
of doing localized forging
with this small tool
that they have
that has a very,
very bright, very intense,
like a handheld forge
for small pieces
of metal to heat.
You gather the materials
you need.
TALIESIN: Some cloaks.
MATT: You'll work on it.
TALIESIN: Yeah, what
do you guys want?
LAURA: You got any fruit
around here?
We've been at this
a while, I'm hungry.
TALIESIN: We got food.
MARISHA: We should get dinner
after this, before
we hit the hay.
TALIESIN: I'm good with
dinner after this.
I could use a drink.
TRAVIS: So casual about it.
MATT: "How long are
you going to be gone?"
TALIESIN: I don't know,
a little while.
Bassuras.
MATT: "All right."
TALIESIN: Yeah.
Hey.
MATT: "What's up?"
TALIESIN: I've been thinking.
It's been a long time
and maybe I'm just
going a little soft,
who hired us for that job?
And what the f*ck were we
supposed to be stealing?
I don't know why
I've never even,
haven't really given it a
thought in a very long time,
and I don't know why.
MATT: "That one...
"I think that was just a
vengeful smash and grab.
"We weren't given
specific directions.
"We were just told
to go in there
"and make a mess,
grab things of worth.
"That's what I was told."
TALIESIN: Insight check.
SAM: On Milo?
LAURA: Milo?
LIAM: Not like this.
LAURA: Not like this.
TALIESIN: 20.
MATT: 20?
(gasps)
LAURA: Oh... Milo!
SAM: Oh my goodness, a D&D Beyond
presents whisper.
TRAVIS: That's an interesting
insight check.
MARISHA: What?
Right, but what?
SAM: Friends insighting each other.
LAURA: Oh, I think Milo knows something
Maybe they're
trying to protect?
TRAVIS: Whatever you do, don't
look at Taliesin's face right now.
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
LIAM: They seem pretty
forthright to you.
TALIESIN: Huh.
MATT: "I'm trying
to remember.
"I mean, whatever it
is, it didn't go well."
TALIESIN: Yeah.
How long was I under,
by the way?
I mean, I was very out of it.
I know, that
I remember, but...
how long did this take?
MATT: "That's a whole
'nother story."
TALIESIN: Or, I mean, you
know, roughly, I get it.
MATT: "Well, after you
fell out, we..." (sighs)
(laughter)
TALIESIN: You can't
show that, jesus!
Please put that away
before we're in trouble.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Please put that away!
TRAVIS: What's happening?
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Too good.
LIAM: Sorry.
MATT: "It went poorly.
"I think Jeto was the one who
was homing that particular job
"wherever the f*ck
they are now.
"But I think we were
after something.
"They knew what it was.
"I wasn't in the
know at the time.
"I was just there
playing support, really."
TALIESIN: Are you sure?
MATT: "It feels
weirdly fuzzy."
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: "What I do remember,
"I think we were all
partially into this
"and then something, I don't
know if we set off a trap
"or something just hit
us with a wave of...
"I felt like it became
a dream briefly.
"We all just ran,
"and we all didn't realize
until we got outside
"that you had fallen and you
were busted up pretty bad.
"So we grabbed you and
we ran back here,
"and we didn't know what
to do, and you know,
"at the time it was
hard to tell
"if you were better suited
"for flesh and blood
stitching and healing,
"or, you know, I'm a builder.
"I don't know. We weren't
going to let you die there.
"So I did what
I thought I could do
"with the meager understanding
of whatever the hell you are."
TALIESIN: And I'm
grateful for it.
MATT: "But you just, I
took some golds, some brass,
"whatever metals
I could find.
"I found some heavy
bit of of glass
"that I had been amassing
for a separate project
"and just heated and
melted it down,
"and you were clutching
something at the time,
"something that you were--
You wouldn't let go of,
"and I had to pry it
from your hands.
"It was a crystal vial
about that long."
TALIESIN: The f*ck?
MATT: "I couldn't
figure out what it was,
"but it looked magical.
"It was this
"weird, grayish liquid.
"It had an odd sheen to it.
"When nothing else
was working,
"I didn't know
what else to do.
"So I just threw it in
the gumbo, if you will,
"So I just threw it in
the gumbo, if you will,
"and poured the glass
and sealed it up."
LAURA: (whispers) Dunamancy.
LIAM: Yes.
MATT: "That's when you
started to spark again.
"That's when something
pulled you back.
"So it must have worked,
whatever it was.
"I just thank whatever
weird gods
"were looking down
on you that day."
TALIESIN: I'm going to be out
of town for a little bit.
Be extra careful
for a little while.
I've got a bad feeling.
MATT: "Okay."
TALIESIN: Just.
Yeah, just be careful.
MATT: "You too."
TALIESIN: Not that
you're going to,
but if you hear from
any of the old g*ng.
I know you won't, but I don't
know, something's weird.
MATT: "All right,
we'll lock it down.
"We'll play easy. We're used
to laying low when we need to,
"so we'll just lay low."
TALIESIN: Lay real low,
lay underground.
I'll see you soon.
MATT: "Yeah."
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: "Don't fly into
"any other windows.
"There aren't any more of those
whatever that was anymore."
TALIESIN: Get close
every now and then.
MATT: "Hey, Letters!"
SAM: Oh!
MATT: "Finished!" (whooshes)
SAM: Whoa!
MATT: Catch it
there in front.
Looks like a solid function.
You have no idea
if it'll work or not,
but you got a propeller.
SAM: Awesome!
Thank you, Milo.
Want anything in return?
MATT: "Keep this one alive."
SAM: So far so good.
MATT: "So far."
SAM: So good.
LAURA: (laughs)
MATT: "Yeah."
(laughter)
MATT: "All right."
LAURA: Weren't we supposed to pick up
some stuff for Milo before?
Like bits and pieces, they
had asked us to look for...
Didn't you ask us to
look for things for you?
MATT: "Just keep an eye
out for anything
"that seems interesting
and fun to tinker with."
LAURA: All right, all right.
SAM: You want a bib
full of blood?
MATT: "There's plenty of sh*t
there you can bring back,
"so just, yeah, you know what
I like, you know what I like."
TALIESIN: I do, I do.
MATT: "I'll pay you back.
"Ooh, ooh."
TRAVIS: What the f*ck.
TALIESIN: Let's get
our move on.
LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MATT: "All right."
SAM: Great.
MATT: "Bye everybody."
SAM: Thank you.
TRAVIS: See you, Milo!
MATT: You all leave.
Anni just goes, "Bye."
MARISHA: Dinner at
the Soot and Swill?
Sit and Spin?
LAURA: We're in the
Lantern Spire.
MARISHA: It's a bit
of a journey.
SAM: The Weary Way?
MARISHA: Go across town.
LAURA: The Weary Way is here.
SAM: That's where we are.
LAURA: Yeah, let's go
to The Weary Way.
MARISHA: All right.
TALIESIN: That'll do.
LAURA: Maybe we can get a table
upstairs or outside or something.
I just love being back in
the city, let me tell you.
MARISHA: Yeah, how are
you doing with that?
LAURA: I'm glad we'll
be on a skyship soon.
LIAM: You know what's
funny about that, though?
Is how good you
are with people.
Reading them and
talking to them,
and I understand the
problem that presents,
but it's a shame. I've spent
a decent amount of time
listening to
some pretty good,
so I'm not a speaker, but
I've heard one or three.
And you got it.
LAURA: Thanks, Orym.
MARISHA: She's very capable.
LIAM: Yeah.
LAURA: Yeah, thank you.
LIAM: So how about that
apron full of blood?
Who's wearing that?
LAURA: Maybe Chet.
MARISHA: (gasps)
LAURA: Ooh, maybe you!
MARISHA: Chet!
It's for a melee, and not--
SAM: Slicing weapons.
LAURA: It would be
pretty cool, though.
MARISHA: But Chet's
not a bad idea.
I know.
Maybe we could do
a little show?
SAM: You b*stard!
He peeked!
LAURA: (laughs)
He peeked at it.
SAM: He peeked!
MARISHA: Oh my god.
Oh my god, g*dd*mn it!
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Too crafty.
TALIESIN: Cheater.
MARISHA: Shadow box.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: So you gather up again
in a nearby tavern.
Get yourselves a
memorably mediocre dinner.
LAURA: We should do the--
If you want--
SAM: Yeah, we could do the
little mind search into you.
TALIESIN: f*ck it,
let's do it.
LAURA: I mean, I don't
know if, you know--
SAM: You want to take
some shots first?
TALIESIN: Yes.
LAURA: Yeah, you take some
shots, it'll weaken your mind.
TRAVIS: Is that how it works?
LIAM: Is this weird to do?
TALIESIN: I don't think that's
how it works for me.
LIAM: Do we want to take our
food to-go up to the rooms?
LAURA: Well, we're
not in the--
LIAM: We're just doing
it at the pub?
SAM: We could stay here.
LIAM: Okay.
LAURA: We got rooms at the Spire.
TALIESIN: Oh, okay.
LIAM: Whatevs.
SAM: Well then, we eat and
go back to the Spire.
LAURA: Okay, we're
back at the Spire.
MATT: Okay, you
finish your meal.
TRAVIS: Better than
at the pub.
MATT: A nice full belly,
back past the Fatewalk,
back to the Spire by Fire.
The hearth inside
is roaring and tall.
The music and rabble and
singing along to
bad bardic music
is comfortable
when you arrive.
You saddle up to your
two rooms that you rented,
and the rest of
the evening is yours.
TALIESIN: I'm going to put
my hammer in the other room.
LAURA: All right.
Maybe sit down between us.
SAM: Uh-huh.
I'm seeing if I have anything
that can boost this.
LAURA: Maybe one
of us can help
stabilize his thoughts
while the other one dives
deeper and deeper.
TALIESIN: Yeah, let's
figure this out
before I start to sober up.
TRAVIS: Wait, you're putting
your hammer in the other room?
We're not all in
the second room, right?
TALIESIN: I don't want it
anywhere near me for this.
TRAVIS: I'll wait out
in the hallway
and just keep an eye out
in case we're being followed.
TALIESIN: At least keep it in
the corner, at the very least.
LAURA: Okay.
ASHLEY: I'm going to stand
in front of the door, then.
TALIESIN: That'll do.
ASHLEY: Or if you're keeping
the hammer in here,
I'll stand in front
of the hammer.
TALIESIN: Perfect, just
keep a hand on it.
TRAVIS: Okay.
ASHLEY: Imogen, Guidance.
LAURA: Oh, thank you.
SAM: I will also
Bond with you.
I'll Bond with both of you.
LAURA: Oh, that's wise!
SAM: Just to sort of
connect and check in
and I will also grant you
an extra bit of
guidance that way.
LAURA: Whoa.
SAM: It's a d6, I believe.
MATT: It is a d6, yeah.
MARISHA: You're going to be great!
LAURA: Yeah, this is
great, this is great.
MARISHA: If it ever
gets uncomfortable,
all you have to do
is just say something.
TALIESIN: It's uncomfortable,
I'm saying it.
MARISHA: Okay, well, I mean
to an intolerable level.
LAURA: All right.
SAM: That's just
a bonus action--
MARISHA: Is there
anything that I can do?
SAM: -- to bolster her,
but then I can also guide
myself on the next turn.
MATT: Yeah.
SAM: Okay.
MARISHA: Do I need to
make an environment?
Do I need to like, just
think good thoughts?
Do I need to-- Ooh, I can
make a happy yarn circle
around you to symbolize?
TALIESIN: Maybe we
could just hold hands.
SAM: Yarn circle sounds--
TALIESIN: I was
literally kidding,
but now that
that's happening,
I f*cking--
MATT: Fair enough.
TALIESIN: I hate this.
SAM: All right, so
do you want me to stabilize
while you delve?
You're good at delving.
LAURA: Sure, and you're
really good at stabilizing.
SAM: Should I use Calm
Emotions, or should I--?
I'll still use
Detect Thoughts,
but I'll just be--
LAURA: I think so. Maybe--
Yeah, maybe you can,
I bet you can, hold on.
One is-- oh, they're
both concentration, ba*ls.
SAM: It's all right.
LAURA: Okay.
SAM: We're going to double
up our Detect Thoughts.
LAURA: If it goes south,
then you do Calm Emotions,
and I'll keep it detecting.
SAM: Sure, sure, okay.
MATT: Okay.
SAM: Should we all
hold hands?
LAURA: Yeah,
I'm holding his hands.
SAM: All right,
I'll hold your hands.
LAURA: I'm holding her hand,
I'm holding your hand.
TALIESIN: Okay.
SAM: We're all holding hands.
TALIESIN: We're
holding hands, fine.
ASHLEY: I'm going
to summon Mister.
SAM: Throw poop at them?
ASHLEY: Just to have him there.
SAM: Sure.
MATT: (hoots)
MARISHA: He really brings
a calm in here.
LAURA: Yes.
TALIESIN: This is good.
I was not feeling
uncomfortable enough.
Thank you, this is great.
All right.
Let's just do this sh*t.
ASHLEY: He can run the hammer
out of the room if he needs to.
TALIESIN: No, no.
LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: Let's just
get it over with.
MATT: All right, so
what are you doing?
LAURA: So we're casting
Detect Thoughts.
MATT: Okay.
SAM: At the same time.
MATT: Okay.
SAM: Pushing as deep as we can.
LAURA: And asking
him questions about
what happened that night,
tell us anything
you remember.
SAM: Well, yeah, we'll
see what we get,
and then we'll
follow the thread.
Yeah.
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: And you're
not resisting?
TALIESIN: No.
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: No.
SAM: Do we have to--?
MATT: Hmm? No.
LAURA: Because he's
not resisting.
MATT: He's not resisting.
SAM: Okay.
MATT: So you push beyond
a naturally strong barrier,
towards the complicated
personality that is Ashton.
This sense of rusted gates
opening before you,
shaking as they let you in.
That's the sort of emotional
ride that you feel
yourself being brought on
as you begin to
delve within Ashton.
What questions do you ask?
LAURA: What were you looking
for in her house?
TALIESIN: I don't know.
LAURA: What was the last
thing you remember?
TALIESIN: I don't know.
MATT: You don't know.
TALIESIN: No, yeah.
MATT: But you start to
get flashes of memory,
little (yelps)
"Coming at--"
"sh*t!"
TRAVIS: Yeah.
MATT: Just little flickers.
LAURA: Awesome.
MATT: You catch one image of
a dark corner of a tavern,
with a bunch of
figures around table.
You can just barely see
the glasses of Milo
glinting off some
nearby lantern light.
There's somebody else
there in the group
that you don't recognize,
being like,
"These shipments she's
getting are timed.
"There's something to it.
"I think tonight's
our chance." (whoosh)
(whoosh) More running
through the streets.
(panting) "Where'd it--?"
(whoosh)
Back to darkness.
(whoosh)
Quietly creeping.
The wood (creaks).
Footsteps in
the dark interior.
To the right,
you see this shape
of a familiar white bust.
(whoosh) Back to darkness.
LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: Do you push deeper?
SAM: Yeah.
MATT: You begin to sense,
empathically from Ashton,
a brewing anxiety.
As you see,
in a room that you
don't recognize,
what looks to be
runes on the ground beginning
to light up and glow.
There is an instinct to run.
Then it blinks
back before that.
You see a crate
hidden off to the side.
The
wooden structure
of it is pushed
into a small store corner.
And this is--
The anxiety is lessened;
it's more of a quickened
state of hurriedness.
You see Ashton
taking the hammer,
and using the edge
of it to crowbar
open the top of this crate.
As a voice behind's going,
"Quick, quick, go!
"We don't have time!"
(whoosh) Back to darkness.
You see Ashton's perspective
looking over his shoulder,
and you see a woman
with wild, tangled hair,
and really dark makeup
smeared across the
eyes and the cheeks,
wearing a ragged hide,
who's currently going,
"Quick, quick, quick, quick!
"Did you find it?"
Then looks down, and the
top of the crate is open,
and Ashton's hand reaches
in and rummages.
You hear the sound of many
glass things clinking.
Pulls free and there is a
singular glass vial
in his hand.
Not enough light to make
out more details of it.
This memory now
begins to feed
into the one you
saw previously,
as these dull red runes begin
to glow in the chamber.
Back to darkness.
The next flash is the sky--
LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: -- and the edge
of the balcony getting
further and further away.
LAURA: Calm him, calm him.
SAM: Okay, I'll zoom out, and
I'll cast Calm Emotions.
MATT: Okay.
LAURA: I don't want him
to experience this again.
MATT: Darkness.
And then flashes.
"Oh god!"
(whoosh)
"Go, go, go, go!"
(whoosh)
"sh*t, sh*t, g--!"
"You f*cked it up!"
"Stop, it, let him--!"
"He's dead, just leave him."
TRAVIS: (gasps)
MATT: (whoosh)
"Come on, come on, come
on, come on, come on!"
You're just seeing
shapes and movement,
and blurred states
shifting in and out.
And then a bright light.
Unfocused.
These large,
flickering shapes drifting
in the air from
the perspective.
Like dust particles
out of focus, just
lightly,
bleary eyed.
Then a dark shape steps
in front of it.
The glasses pull away.
(Milo) "You okay?"
(snapping fingers)
"No way."
And a smile.
And the spell ends.
LAURA: (gasps)
Are you all right?
TALIESIN: I mean,
hard to gauge?
I'm still under
Calm Emotions.
SAM: You are, for a minute.
TALIESIN: Okay.
SAM: But I can, if you're
feeling all right,
I can just get rid of it,
so you can be clearheaded.
TALIESIN: I mean,
I don't know.
I feel fine at the moment.
LAURA and SAM: Yeah?
SAM: I'll drop it?
TALIESIN: I immediately
run to the f*cking wall,
and start pounding it
and pounding right into it.
SAM: I can recast it,
I'll just recast it.
LAURA: Yeah.
ASHLEY: Let him do it,
let him do it.
SAM: Yeah, all right.
MATT: What'd you roll?
TALIESIN: I rolled a
that's a good 14.
MATT: What's your spell DC?
SAM: I used the single use
one, so it's a 13.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: So yeah, the--
TALIESIN: 20, yeah.
MATT: So the spell
takes no effect.
So you continue to do
what you want to do.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm just
going to give it a,
give the wall
a couple real good hits.
MATT: You watch as
the wood panel setup
on this side of the tavern,
which already is old,
begins to crack,
and splinter,
and splinter further in,
and you can see
the fist marks where
it's leaving behind
where the wood is
buckling inward,
and you begin to see
little smears of red
left behind with each hit.
LAURA: Ashton.
MATT: A dark red purple.
TALIESIN: And I sit down.
MARISHA: (whispering)
Is he raging?
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm fine.
MARISHA: (whispering)
The splinters.
TALIESIN: That's...
interesting.
LAURA: That's a lot
to take in.
SAM: Did you
recognize anything
that you hadn't
remembered before?
TALIESIN: Yeah.
She had one of those
crates in her office.
LAURA: When?
TALIESIN: Today.
LAURA: I pull out the papers.
TALIESIN: I mean, things have
been-- for the last week,
things just keep--
Mm, I don't know.
LAURA: Did these make
any more sense with the
details that we know?
The details about the
shipments she's been getting?
MATT: Specific about that?
I mean--
The most you can
make out with it.
Roll an investigation check.
LAURA: Oh god,
I'm not good at this.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
TRAVIS: I assist you!
No, I'm just kidding.
(laughter)
LAURA: (hums)
Oh, 19!
MATT: 19.
Very good.
What you can best ascertain
from this bit here,
and I'm pulling out my notes
here just to make sure
I don't miss anything.
There--
the crate that you saw,
and the crate that was
in there with
the previous encounter,
likely not the same crate.
TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: Separate shipments.
Because the paperwork
says that there are
three shipments months apart
that have been noticed
to go through Hexum's manor.
Crates are always
the same size,
and they stay with her
for a short while
before being picked up
by an unrecognized figure.
A courier,
someone else.
LAURA: Wasn't Lady Hexum also
shipping a giant automaton?
LAURA: Wasn't Lady Hexum also
shipping a giant automaton?
MATT: She had ordered one.
LAURA: That's what Sylas
got in trouble with.
MATT: Cyrus, yeah.
LAURA: Cyrus.
(laughs)
Different guy.
TALIESIN: Okay.
Okay. Okay.
SAM: The woman in those
visions you just had,
the wild haired woman.
Do you recognize her?
TALIESIN: Is that Sally?
MATT: Mm-hmm.
SAM: Sally?
TALIESIN: Yeah. I recognize--
I know-- I know
everybody, yeah.
LAURA: Milo brought you back.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
LAURA: I mean, fully.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
I mean, that's
not a surprise.
I had a quick talk with Milo
before we headed out, and they--
I mean, they weren't lying,
but they weren't right.
There is just-- there's
a hole, there's a hole.
LAURA: Somebody
did something.
TALIESIN: I don't know.
LAURA: What were those runes?
TALIESIN: I don't know.
f*ck, I'm going to have
to find everybody, aren't I?
SAM: Uh-huh.
TALIESIN: f*ck!
(sighs)
LAURA: Are you
all right leaving?
TALIESIN: Yeah, for now,
I'm going to--
I got to think
about what to do.
LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: I don't want to
do anything stupid.
LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: Yeah,
I'm going to get out of
town, and clear my head.
f*cking Bassuras bullshit.
Yeah, yeah, why not?
f*cking Bassuras.
LAURA: (laughs)
TALIESIN: (annoyed exhale)
SAM: Well, I mean,
whenever you need help,
we can do that again.
Or if you wanted to reach
out to any of your friends,
maybe that's something that
you could do at some point.
TALIESIN: They're
f*cking gone.
LAURA: I know what
Sally looks like now.
SAM and TALIESIN: Yeah.
LAURA: Potentially
try to contact her, yeah.
SAM: Send her a message.
TALIESIN: Well, the group
of us met in Bassuras,
maybe some of them are there.
LAURA: Oh, yeah.
SAM: Great!
TALIESIN: That was a long
time ago, but yeah, let's--
SAM: This is a good lead.
TALIESIN: Let's just get
the f*ck out of here.
LAURA: All right.
MARISHA: While--
LAURA: Are you--
MARISHA: All that has
been happening, I just
went over and started
mending the wall
that he punched in
a little bit.
MATT: Okay. Takes about
a minute each casting,
so you're focusing, and--
MARISHA: Just while
they're talking.
MATT: Putting it up.
ASHLEY: I bring
the hammer over.
You good?
TALIESIN: Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
LAURA: Did that help--
Are you-- ?
TALIESIN: Yeah.
LAURA: Was that
information you wanted?
TALIESIN: Yeah, I don't
like not knowing things.
LAURA: Right, me neither.
TALIESIN: Better to know things.
Let's-- yeah, got
to know some more.
LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: We'll
figure it out.
But yeah.
Yeah, I'm
pretty f*cking angry.
Let's figure out
what the f*ck happened.
I'm putting it on the list.
MARISHA: Good job.
Both of you.
TALIESIN: Thank you.
LAURA: Yeah.
SAM: If you want to learn
more about yourself,
just looking inward.
MARISHA: I'm kind of curious.
We've got several days on
an airship to and fro, so--
SAM: We can do all kinds
of stuff on there.
TALIESIN: Let me tell you, we
are going to a boring place.
MARISHA: I think it sounds
quite exciting, I don't know.
TALIESIN: Ooh.
LAURA: Well, I don't know about
y'all, but I am exhausted.
That was a long-a*s day.
SAM: Yep.
MARISHA: It was.
We got a lot accomplished.
LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: All right, you guys
can go ahead
for your long rest
for the night.
SAM and TALIESIN: Yes.
MATT: Okay, if you haven't
already marked it,
you can mark Ashton
as a trusted companion.
SAM: Oh h* h* h*!
LAURA: (gasps) Ooh, you've
got another one!
TRAVIS: Trusted companion.
MARISHA: ♪ Gotta
catch 'em all! ♪
LIAM: Quickity quick--
Go ahead.
TALIESIN: I was going to say,
you should take the apron,
if you haven't
thought about it.
I think it would really
suit you and look good.
TRAVIS: I mean--
LAURA: Oh my gosh,
little Chet with
a bleeding apron on
in addition to
his f*cking chisels.
He'd look like a nightmare.
LIAM: White werewolf,
stained red.
TRAVIS: With the speed
that I work, you know,
it would protect
from splinters.
(laughter)
LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Which
could be a b*tch.
LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: I mean,
I'll hold it for now,
in case anybody comes--
SAM: Well, it's in the bag thing.
It's in the hole.
TRAVIS: I'll go sleep
in the bag with it.
LAURA: No, don't sleep in there.
TALIESIN: Don't sleep in there.
You don't know
where it's been.
TRAVIS: You don't
know how to go.
You're not the boss of me.
TALIESIN: Well, then,
please sleep in there.
MATT: Do you sleep
in the portable hole?
TRAVIS: No!
(laughter)
LIAM: No, you die.
TRAVIS: No, you die.
You go home and you die.
LIAM: I was going to say,
quickity quick,
when everyone has passed out,
in the crook of Fearne's--
LAURA: vag*na.
LIAM: -- knee.
I will-- Yep, in the
folds of Fearne's... pouch.
(laughter)
MARISHA: Marsupial pouch.
LIAM: No, in the crook of
her knee, everyone's asleep.
I'll pull out
the Sending Stone.
MATT: Okay.
LIAM: And say:
We're leaving Jrusar.
Heading southeast.
Following the Treshi
thread further.
You've been missed.
Hope you're well.
MATT: There's a brief pause
before you get a little,
"Hey, sorry.
"Was sleeping.
"Thanks.
"Miss you guys, too.
"sh*t got kind of
crazy here, too.
"Floating bar.
I'll tell you later."
LIAM: Zzz.
MATT: (laughs)
As you all eventually
drift to sleep
with a lot to think about,
a lot to look forward to,
and a skyship journey
waiting for you in morrow,
and more importantly,
a batch of fresh--
LAURA: f*ck yes.
MATT: -- Eshteross cookies.
SAM: Yes.
LIAM: Bat sh*t fresh.
MATT: We're going to go ahead
and finish there tonight.
(cheering)
MATT: We'll pick up
there next week.
TRAVIS: New map,
baby, new map!
TALIESIN and MARISHA:
New map!
ASHLEY: Dude!
TALIESIN: New map.
TRAVIS: We going!
LIAM: We've got to start
uncovering this section.
This section, this section,
this section.
TALIESIN: Oh,
random encounter, no!
LAURA: This is
a big continent.
TALIESIN: Yeah.
SAM: Hopefully next time
we'll have Ashley back?
MARISHA: Yeah.
LAURA: Yeah!
ASHLEY: Who knows?
MATT: We should.
ASHLEY: Fingers crossed.
MATT: We should.
TRAVIS: Let's go, let's go.
LIAM: Come home, Fearne!
MATT: Well--
LAURA: Come home, Fearne!
MATT: Thank you all so much.
Thank you for joining us.
We love you very much,
and is it Thursday yet?
Good night.
(cheering)
ASHLEY: Not yet!
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03x22 - Promise and Potential
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American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons.
American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons.