The Forest of the Nightmare King | Fantasy High: Sophomore Year | Ep. 17

- Hello, one and all! Welcome to another exciting episode of Dimension 20 Live presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year. They're doing their spells! - [Ally] Yes! Everyone gave me such shit about my spells being wrong, I'm looking them all up. - Looking up all their spells. - Turns out I don't have Ice Feast or whatever I thought I had. - Hey, nobody has Ice Feast. - [Siobhan] What the fuck is Ice Feast? - [Lou] It's a feast of ice. Ugh! - Thank you! - Come on, dude! - [Siobhan] (indistinct) bag ful

l of ice cubes- - If you guys want to homebrew Ice Feast, you can. Guys, welcome back to another exciting episode of Dimension 20 presents Fantasy High Sophomore Year, the continuing adventure of the Bad Kids, the world of Spyre's premiere teen adventurers at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy, a high school for heroes. Couple notes for tonight. Number one, if you guys are interested in Dropout and seeing Dimension 20, but you're having a hard time affording it, good news! We're gonna release the

entirety of our first side quest "Escape from the Bloodkeep" to our YouTube channel with new episodes dropping every Saturday. So we're gonna release all of it. "Escape from the Bloodkeep" is jumping out from behind the paywall in the run up to "A Crown of Candy." (players cheering) So this Saturday, before "A Crown of Candy" comes out, the finale of "Escape from the Bloodkeep" will go up on our YouTube channel. Make sure to check out Dimension 20 Show on YouTube and ring that bell. Also, if you

have some friends and family in your life that are like, "I want to watch Dropout, but I can't afford it," good news! You guys can now give subscriptions from 1 to 12 months if you want to get Dropout for somebody as a present, birthday, anniversary. - [Lou] Easter's coming up. - Easter's coming up! Classic. - [Emily] What better to find inside an egg? - Classic, classic Easter present. Also in our store now you can buy Pok Gugak's coffee mug, Don't talk to me till my death's avenged! Use the c

ode MYSONRIZ and you can add a Riz sticker for free. - Speaking of coffee. - My beautiful son. - Beautiful, beautiful son. - [Zac] Beautiful baby angel. - Before we move on, actually, you know what, it's a little toasty in here, so I'm just gonna- - [Lou] You hot, dude? You hot? - I'm a little hot so I'm just gonna - The shirt is back! - I like the shirt. - What do you mean? - [Siobhan] The shirt is good. - [Ally] The famous shirt that you wear every day. - A shirt so good you can't stop wearing

it. - [Siobhan] Brennan's only shirt, TM. - Okay, I didn't know that there was such a kerfuffle over my shirt, so I'm gonna go ahead and change shirts if there's such a big to-do about it. - [Lou] Wow! What's it say? - What's it say? - What? - What's up? - [Siobhan] Bethany won shirtgate? - Wow. - [Ally] Bethany won shirtgate. - [Siobhan] Congratulations, Bethany. - [Lou] Hey, Bethany. - What? - Congratulations. - What? - You won shirtgate. - All right, look. - So many changes. - Brennan's seco

nd shirt! - [Ally] Oh, she just posted today that you wear that shirt all the time. - I own lots of shirts! - Oh, do you? - I got plenty of shirts. - [Emily] That does look like a new one. - Honestly, I wear the same amount of shirts and do not get roasted for it, so I'll own that. - [Murph] You don't have a clear favorite, though. - [Emily] I've never worn the same shirt twice. - I also have- - In my life. - That is remarkably wasteful! - I throw them out. - [Lou] I burn them. I burn them. And

they keep my children warm, so is that wasteful? - [Siobhan] While making full eye contact with a seal! - [Lou] You gonna tell me that keeping my children warm is wasteful? - This bit took so long that we moved to the Gorgug music. - [Lou] Oh, love it. - Okay, enough fun for everybody. Gang, this is Dimension 20 Live. Last we left off- - [Lou] Ooh, it's serious! - we had a bit of a wild time. - Interesting. (soft string instrumental) - I think you guys will find that last time we were here, we h

ad some really incredible stuff happen. All of our friends started in the Nine Hells and Riz Gukgak met his dad's spirit, (music stops) Pok Gukgak, a saint, a celestial soul working for the Lower Planar Reconnaissance Task Force. He helped his dad and got some information, crossed back and forth about the nature of Kalina and the Shadow Cat, (soft music resumes) and got decked out with a bunch of rad spy gear, which is extremely, extremely cool. We also had a bunch of fun with our guys coming ba

ck and getting to Arborly. We had a viral shrimp party, which has never happened in a game of D&D before. - Wow. That party was coronavirus. - [Lou] We were patient zero in corona. - We were patient zero in a big shrimp disease. - [Emily] I forgot that we gave away all of our stuff, right? - All the shrimp's gone. - [Lou] Yeah, y'all poor now. - Shrimp flu. - Well yeah, that's right. - [Emily] It's fine. Once I get residuals, I'll be back. - Fig, Riz, and Gorgug gave away all of their wealth, al

l of their currency. - [Emily] Not anything that... I was rich before. New money, of course. - [Lou] All the new money- - Sorry, you did not give away your- - My touring money. - Your touring money. - [Ally] But that would have touched in the bank. - No, that money would be in her S-Corp. - No, you truly do have to give everything away, I think, to be free of that, right? - Yeah, I think so. - Is this true? - You're poor, dude. - Brennan, it this true? - I've never confirmed any of this stuff. T

his has all been a leap of faith on your guys' part. (Emily laughing) So you tell me. I'm going to assume that you didn't give away your rockstar money until told otherwise. So then our beloved heroes gave away- in this case, only Riz and Gorgug gave away all of their currency. - I called my bank and everything. - You called your bank and everything. - So grown up. - And then they headed into the Forest of the Nightmare King. (soft music ends) - [Lou] So prepared. We were so fucking prepared. -

[Emily] If I roll a luck point, can I undo what happened at the end of the episode? - No, you may not. - Okay. - [Siobhan] What about two luck points? - [Zac] What if we all roll a nat 20? Can we redo last episode? - Honestly, if all of you roll a nat 20 right now... It already hasn't happened. It already hasn't happened. - 18, 19, 19. - 19! - Nat one! - Nat one. - Pretty good. Collectively that's like three 20s. - Gang, we are rowdy tonight, and the reason being, that as our intrepid heroes...

Wait, did we do that this time? Say hi, intrepid heroes. - Hi, intrepid heroes! - [Siobhan] We're gonna die. - As our intrepid heroes (quiet spooky music plays) enter the Forest of the Nightmare King, they split up to search for the ingredients that Kristen would need to make a tincture to cure the Shadow Cat plague. Having collected two of the three ingredients, it seems that Sandra Lynn, Baxter, her griffin mount, Ragh, vanished into the forest. Some horrifying magical fate befell Zaphriel in

the Hangvan gem and Ayda Aguefort, and Tracker witnessed an illusory full moon. Which would normally not do anything to a werewolf, but here in the Forest of Nightmare King where illusions are partially real, it was enough for her to transform. Kristen heroically cast Greater Restoration to remove the disease from Riz, and herself is suffering the horrifying attacks of Kalina, the Shadow Cat, who is partially real and therefore able to hurt Kristen. You guys are a quarter of a mile into the fore

st. You're not that far. You're a quarter mile into the forest. It is all difficult terrain here. (spooky instrumental continues) So the briar wall is not far away from you. Arborly is not far away from you. You are each about 300 feet away from each other through thicket and trees and brambles, but you roughly know the direction that everybody is in. As Kristen is sustaining these attacks, I'm going to need all of us to roll Initiative. - Oh no. - Oh crap. - What? - [Lou] This excites me. I'm e

xcited. - Sick puppy. You sick puppy. - I'm excited, I'm a sick puppy. - You're sick. - I'm a sick puppy and this excites me. Bow wow, bow wow. Bow wow, bow wow. - Let's go around. - [Emily] Get this puppy neutered. - I always think maybe it's a seven. - Go ahead and try. - Who here got above a 20? - No one. - Nobody got above a 20. - Anybody got above a 15? What did Gorgug get? - 16. - What did Fabian get? - 17, bow wow. - [Murph] 16. - Damn dude, this puppy. - Get out of here. - Go ahead and t

ry to neuter this puppy. I'm excited. - [Ally] Try to neuter this puppy? - [Lou] Try to neuter this puppy. - [Emily] (indistinct) trap and release - - Who got between a 10 and a 15? - [Siobhan] Oh, no. - [Siobhan] Slow bros. - Okay, what did Fig get? - Nine. - I also got nine. - Negative two. - What? - They simply must get new dice. - Kristen! - If you roll high, you also gotta roll low sometimes, right? - Amen, amen. - I mean, your dice tell a beautiful story. - [Murph] The only rules are that

the dice are spicy. - So Ragh, nowhere to be seen. Gorgug, Fabian, you are up in the trees, sort of at the point of a triangle 300 feet from either of your other Bad Kid allies. You can sense something is going wrong. You can probably hear muffled shouts. You hear, "Find Tracker!" off in the woods. Fabian, you are first to act. What do you do? - Can I make a Perception check? - Yes, please do. (dice rolling) - 10. - Okay. You see forest, mist; no sign of Ragh. - I look up to Gorgug. I feel like

we should find The Ball, or anyone. - [Zac] Yeah. - Okay, great. - [Zac] This sucks. - This sucks! Ragh! And I'll slide down the tree and move in the general direction of where I think The Ball and Kristen are. - Okay, you're gonna take a full move action. - Full dash action, and then... fuck it, I'll Action Surge and dash again. - Okay, hell yeah. You rush in the direction of your friends. - Can I communicate with the Hangman? - Yes, you can. - Hangman, things are going very poorly. Do not ente

r the forest, but please bring Gilear and anyone else to the entrance. - Sire, I come now to the briar wall with the wretch known as Gilear. - Great, we'll see you soon. Be ready. Things really aren't going well! - Sire, I'm sorry too. I should have come with you. - No, no. you probably would have disappeared into the forest as well. - Why? - What? - Why? - Like, why would you have disappeared? This is not the time! - Riz, you are there. Kristen has just shouted at you, "Find Tracker!" Tracker i

s... Go ahead, actually, and make a Perception check for me. - [Murph] (whispering) Please. (dice rolling) Okay. 15. - As the disease is cured from your body by Kristen's magic, what you were unable to hear a moment ago, you now hear. It is fading extremely quickly, which is Tracker, at this point already probably three or four rounds away, but you hear the crashing of a giant wolf through the underbrush running deeper into the Forest of the Nightmare King. - I don't think we're finding Tracker

right now. I'm gonna try to find this tincture thing real quick. - Okay. - I guess I will... Actually, okay, so Kristen right now has this thing that is hurting them. I want to... Okay, why don't you run? Try to find our friends or try to get out. - Okay. - I want to hand Kristen my gun that has the signal flare. - Okay. - Okay. - So that if you're running and you're about to go down, you can shoot it up. - Okay. - And then I'm just gonna scramble around and try to find the last thing. - Give me

a Survival, DC 15. - [Ally] What do you have to Survival? - Plus one. (dice rolling) - Yeah, 15! - Ooh, baby. You go, you find lungreed pollen. You scrape it into a little detective baggy. You have everything you need to make the tinctures. - Run. - All right. - Okay. That is your turn. - [Emily] You're running after Tracker? - Gorgug, that's you, I assume you're doing- - [Murph] No, not after Tracker. - I cast Jump on myself to avoid the terrain as well as I can. - Cool, you'll take... Yeah, a

ctually, that completely works. You leap to the bottom of the tree. - Okay, so I'm on the same track as Fabian. Well, I wanna make a Perception check to see if I can tell where to go. I'm just following Fabian, I guess. - [Lou] You might be able to move faster than me, Gorgug. - I'm gonna just go the same direction as Fabian. - Cool, I'm going to need a Survival from you. It's a DC 10 Survival not to get lost in the forest. - Okay, all right. (dice rolling) 18. - Okay, cool. - I have Survival, f

or some reason. - [Murph] It's barbarian stuff. - Today! - That is barbarian stuff. That's true. - Truly never come into play in this campaign. - Sometimes we forget what classes we are. - Right. - Incredible. That is going to go and be... Kalina looks at you. - [Ally] She's still there? - She's killing you. - Oh! - Riz doesn't see her doing this, but she lashes- When these things erupt in bursting boils on your face, it's her claws in your vision scratching across you. She looks at you. Her eye

s go wide with fear as you cure Riz of this illness. She vanishes, and as she does so, you guys see a horribly wounded Sandra Lynn on Baxter fly into the clearing, looking completely manic. She's holding this wrestling, it looks like a horrifying little gremlin made of roots and plant matter. She lands right in between you two guys, leaps off and says, "Kristen, bite this!" - Perception check? - Go ahead and make a Perception check. - Jesus Christ. (dice rolling) Nat 20. Nat fucking 20! - [Emily

] Yeah! (laughing) - [Lou] ♪ This is too much for me ♪ - Yes! Oh, I love your checks! - You hate to see it. - We have here a flight of dice. This is a d20, starting down with our- - I don't know if you've been here before. - We have the kiwi strawberry. - It's like a small plate situation. - Enjoy, enjoy. - Like a tapas of dice. - Do you have a coffee? - We're 15 minutes in. Oh my god. - Oh, it's the gift that keeps on giving. - Anyways, it is Sandra Lynn. - It is, yeah. Your Perception check te

lls you it is Sandra Lynn. - D12's too big. - [Ally] Did you put it in the coffee? - Put in the coffee? - I'm looking forward to that. - Don't make me ruin the coffee. - [Lou] Ruin the coffee. Ruin your fucking coffee. - [Murph] Ruin your coffee, dude. - [Siobhan] Ruin your freaking coffee, dude. - [Emily & Murph] Ruin your coffee. - Now, because you asked, and because you rolled a nat 20... This is a forest of lies. Kalina vanished because she needed to use her focus and attention to create an

illusion, and Riz, you didn't see any of that. I was lying to you, Murph the player, when I said you did. Riz doesn't see anything, because what happened is, that little squirming baby is right where Riz is. - Sick. I don't know if I should bite it! - Bite what? - I don't know if I should bite it! - Are you gonna bite me? You're, like, baring your teeth at me. What are you doing? - We need to get the fuck out of here. - The illusion fades. Kalina (snarls) reappears, and that illusion vanishes. S

he was attempting to get you to bite Riz. - Fuck yeah. - To infect him again. - [Lou] Kinky! - To infect you again! Yes, you're right! - Dang. - Ooh, bow wow. - [Emily] Oh, the 20s bless us. - No matter what I do, don't take my blood. No matter what I do, don't take my blood! - Just don't bite me, just don't bite me. - Okay. That is going to be Fig's turn. - [Lou] That's a solid play, Kalina. - Fig, you are standing in the woods. You are still holding the feather. You hear a voice next to you go

, "Oh, it's so bad! Don't worry, all your other friends are gone, but Baby is here now!" - [Emily] How comforting. - [Brennan] Whatever they were doing for you, Baby can do just as well! - [Emily] Yes, yes, thank you so much. - [Siobhan] Because I'm directly after you, if you wait, I can cast Fly on us both. - Why yes, I would like to fly. I'll hold my action. - You hold your action. - [Emily] Can I do a Perception check? - Give me a Perception check. - To try and find out where the rest of our

friends are. 16. - 16. Your mom took off. You can hear shouting and you hear a blast of rocket boots and Fabian sliding down the side of a tree not too far away from you. - Ragh! - [Emily] That direction! - Okay, you cast Fly. - I cast Fly as a 4th level spell so both of us are flying, which gives us a flying speed of 60 feet. - Okay, that means that Adaine, you can move 60, and Fig, if you want to, you can actually just move 120. - Yeah, but I do it just to come back around in a circle to be ne

xt to Adaine again. - [Lou] Damn, that's cute as hell. - Very cool. - Yo, we need to get out of the forest, everybody. - If I go further than 60 feet, am I gonna see my friends? - If we all meet up- - You will meet Fabian and Gorgug at the bottom of the tree if you do a full 120. - Okay, Adaine- - I have 60 feet of darkvision so I will still be able to see you at that distance. - Are you cool if I go ahead? - Yeah, that's fine. - You won't feel unsafe or anything? - I feel unsafe with you there

and without you there. It's not about you. The forest is bad. - Oh, okay, cool. Okay. - Wow, those are some really good boundaries. That's crazy. - Thank you. - Okay, then I fly down and I find them. - Cool, you guys see Fig flying through. - [Lou] You can fly? - [Zac] I thought I was flying. - You are, though. - Kristen, it is your turn. What do you do? - Okay, we got everything we need. I take off running for the exit. - Cool, getting out out of the forest. - And then I, can I cast a spell and

run? Yeah, yeah, okay. I cast... da da da da da... - [Murph] Should we just shoot the flare up? - Yes. - Why don't we do that? - Yeah, I shoot the flare up in the air and I cast a Lesser Restoration on myself. - Okay, dope. Riz, you can probably... Yeah, I'll let you do the signal as just an object interaction, and you cast Lesser Restoration? - Oh wait, sorry, no. I'll do Cure Wounds. - Okay, cool. - A level three Cure Wounds, and then I get some auto heals. - Sorry, since I held my turn, can

I do an action and do Countercharm to give everyone advantage on saves against being frightened or charmed? - Absolutely. You can do Counter- Because you're moving twice as fast as anybody else, you can take an action to do Countercharm every round and still be moving as fast as everybody. - Cool. - Awesome. So, because you are all now committed to finding each other, I'm just gonna say we'll move through the next round of Initiative, that happens. Kristen, the next round, you are dealt 11 point

s of damage. - Do you need a heal? I have Healing Word. - I mean, right now I'm only missing a few. - Okay. - It's not dire, but I will at some point, and I'm just gonna be healing myself as we try to get out. - Okay, cool. - Okay. - Oh, I healed Riz, by the way. Riz isn't infected anymore, but Kalina's really tricky, and I almost just reinfected him, so everyone watch out. - Okay. - Okay. - Don't bite the baby that your mom gives you. - Are we all together? - I don't think we're all together. -

You guys are now- I'm gonna say you take that damage, on the next round all of you guys come together. You have the pollen, you've taken a round to cast Cure Wounds. You guys, in other words, come together. As you do so, Kalina appears and says, "Wait. Wait. I'll kill you before you make it back to Arborly, but all your friends will escape even if I kill you, so let's make a deal." - [Ally] Okay. - You see she says, (tense instrumental music) "Your crystals? On the ground, smashed. The kid's ph

oto, ripped in half, left on the floor of the forest. You guys walk out of here with you alive. That's the deal." - Run! Everybody, run! - Let's go, dude! Come on! - Run fast as you can, and keep your crystals! Get all of the photos of her out of this forest! - Can I go to iCloud and start uploading? - Can I call to the Hangman? Hangman, can you drive into the forest? - You see the Hangman says, "Sire, the briar wall is not granting me entry." - All right, great. Well, still be there and ready.

- Fig, do something! - Can I put Kristen on my back and start running? Or if someone wants to use a spell or something, they can do that, but that's what my plan is unless- - Cool, I'll let you guys, Gorgug, if you want to put Kristen on your back, that is totally- - I still have Jump on. - Still have Jump. Jump's not going to affect your speed, but it's gonna help you with that difficult terrain. - Yes. - I mean, can I grab Kristen and Dimension Door to the mouth of it, or will that just mess y

ou guys up? - Dimension Door will get you some 600 feet- - Do it. - [Siobhan] Halfway there, right? - [Ally] I also... No, I don't. Look, okay, there was a little kerfuffle before we started filming today. I did pick a lot of spells that were not mine. They did say cleric on them. - Shield. - Do you guys feel safe with that? - Let's just run. - Let's go. - Do you want me to Dimension Door Kristen? - Yes. - And Riz. - You can only do two people. - Don't we have two people Do you have something? -

I don't have Dimension Door. - We're fine. Let's keep running. - Okay, so- - [Siobhan] I can pick Riz up. You're less than 90 pounds, right? - Okay, so Fig grabs Kristen. - And I'll fly, and I can fly really far. I can also Dimension Door. I can cover some miles. - Shit! Okay, Fig! - Awesome. I'm gonna say here... (dice rattling) okay, in the round that you're figuring that, you take another three points of damage. - Okay. - Can I touch Kristen and say, spring break, I believe in you! And cast

Heroism on her? - Yes, you can. - So at the beginning of each of your turns, you will gain temporary hit points equal to my spellcasting modifier, which is plus three. - Oh, cool. - Yeah! - So every turn you get three hit points, and you're also immune to being frightened. - Oh great, oh great. - I believe in you! - Thank you! Spring break! - Spring break! - I miss Tracker! (sobbing) - I'm gonna actually see something real quick. - I guess also if I'm gonna be peace-ing, I'm gonna leave some Bar

dic Inspiration for you guys. - Appreciate it. - You already have some. - I can give it away. - I wink at you, I wink at you, I wink at you. - So this is very tense right now, but I just wanna see something. - [Lou] I'm so scared. (whimpers) - Okay. So, normally... I'm going to ask for... I don't know- if Fig wants to attempt to carry Kristen, I'm gonna ask for an Athletics check to be able to do that. - Okay. - [Lou] Can I wink at Fig? - Yes, this is taking another round, which is another six,

but only three damage to you. - Can I have Baby give me the Help? - Baby can give you the Help action. (Emily cackling) (dice rolling) - Come on. - Yeah. - I don't even know if I'm gonna use the Bardic Inspiration. That's a 21. (Brennan laughs) - That's right. Come here! (grunts) - Can I ride like a piggyback ride, but on the front? - You just have no idea what's happening. - I'm flying and skateboarding at the same time. - So you guys see, in this incredible act of magic, Fabian, you pass out t

hese Bardic Inspirations. As you guys move... hold on one second. You see underneath Fig, (imitates explosion) this huge, fiery pentagram just appears. Fig picks up the party's cleric and appears almost halfway. - Hell yeah. - Almost certainly saving Kristen's life. - Yeah! - We're still gonna run it out, we're still gonna see how that works, but the way we're gonna do it is this. So you just- oh. You can use somebody else's Survival check for this if you want, but I'm gonna ask for another DC 1

5 Survival check to know the right direction. - Okay. - [Ally] You have good Survival. - [Zac] I have plus five. - Better than the rest of us. - Yeah. - 22. - [Murph] Hell yeah. - Okay, great. So as you're picking Kristen up, Gorgug, you know exactly the way back to the wall. - I guess I get this stuff, I don't know. - [Murph] Who are you? - You are of the land. - You appear 600 feet closer. We're gonna resolve Fig and Kristen, and then we're gonna resolve everybody left deep in the forest. - [L

ou] Great. So, here's how this is going to work. (tense music continues) Oh man, that Heroism is so clutch. And you're flying. - I'm flying. - Taking double move actions, which is 120. - [Lou] You've been there for us. - Hey. - It's the least we can do to be there for you. - I'll be there for you till the end of time. - I may use an action to do another Dimension Door if it gets dicey. - Hell yeah. - Okay, even without that, this was gonna be 44 rounds for you to get to the wall. It is now, beca

use of flying, Dimension Dooring, gonna take 12 rounds. - Cool. - Cool? - Okay. - So I'm gonna roll a ton of damage right now. We're just gonna do this. - [Siobhan] So many dice. - 12 times three. - Oh, but I do have bonus action heals. - [Ally] 36, so you subtract 36 from this no matter what. - Subtract 36 in this no matter what, you got it. Hold on one second. - I have bonus action heal, so I can also be Healing Word her. - Oh yeah? - And you could be healing yourself. - Yeah. - Okay, here's h

ow this is gonna be. - [Lou] Heals on heals. - While this is happening, what are the four of you back in the woods planning on doing? - I'm gonna pick up Riz. - Okay. - [Ally] Just to hold. - Yeah. - Fabian, how far can you move around? - I can move 30 feet. - Do you wanna hop on my back? - Not really. - You're gonna have to. - This isn't the time, Fabian. - This isn't the time! (music ends) - The Ball, you're comfortable on people, all right? I remember the backpack and such and such. - This is

24d6 damage coming Kristen's way. (several dice rolling) Okay. 11, 14, 20, 24, 34, 38, 40, 51, 55, 65, 77, 85. 85 minus- - [Zac] 36? - [Siobhan] So 49. - Yeah, plus another... Oh no, 49, yeah. - That's great, 'cause I would have been down. - But you would be healing yourself as you go, right? - You could be, yes. You take 49 points of damage. Fig, you see a badly injured Kristen. You're just watching wounds open up. Kalina keeps sort of appearing to you. It's truly insane, because you're lookin

g at Fig's back while she is just like, I'm gonna say a trail of fire is coming out from behind Fig as she's flying, holding you. - I didn't do that, that's just happening. - Cool flavor. - It's very cool. - You see, crouched on Fig's back, Fig, obviously you can't see or experience this, Kalina is just raking her claws across you, saying, "Listen to reason, kid! Come on!" - I kind of nuzzle my face into your neck. Ah, this is so scary! - I got you, Kristen, I got you! Stay strong! Stay strong -

No, she's here! She's a freaking big cat! - That sounds really cute! - You start to feel something also on your cheek, which are little wet kisses and you hear Baby go, "Don't worry!" - Okay, okay! - "It's okay!" - These kisses are wet! - I'm made of blood. - What? No! Okay, I'll take what I can get. - Baby's a really good dancer. Baby, show 'em. - What? - [Lou] Not the time, not the time. - He holds himself in space, keeping- where his hands and feet are in space is completely static and his p

erfectly round body just... (mimics blood burbling) - [Ally] Oh my god! - Bounces around in between where his hands and feet are. - Oh wow, it's so good. I guess you should stop and save it. - [Zac] The nightmares are real! - [Ally] We've got to wait for the rest of the group, right? - Okay, incredible. You get to the briar wall. At your approach, Fig, you see the portal opens back up, the Hangman screams in. - Okay. I put Kristen there. Kristen, I'm gonna seal this back up and go make sure- to

help shuttle everyone, 'cause I still have another Dimension Door. Are you safe on this other side? - Yeah. - Who's here? It's just Gilear? - You see it's just Gilear and the Hangman who's come in. Gilear has not entered the forest. Daughter, is everything- - Stay! Don't come in. - All right. - Can I give... I don't know if I should leave you. - With Gilear? - Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna leave, cool. - No, you but you have Dimension Door! No, go help everyone. Definitely get- - Are you going back

through the door, or are you staying on the other side in the Nightmare Forest? - I'm going back through the door. - Go through the door. - You go through the door. The second you go back through the door, you see Kalina walks through the door with you and says, "Catch you next time." And vanishes. - Okay. Yeah, hurry. Maybe just bring back whoever you can, but focus on Riz. - Okay, that happens, but it still took you 12 rounds to do that. - Yeah, I know. - So we're gonna have to resolve 12 roun

ds of these guys before we get to that. - I get on Gorgug's back and I ask everyone, I swear everyone to silence. - I immediately take pictures. - Stop-uh! Stop! No! - Look at those little feet! - [Lou] It's scary right now! - Look at those dangling little feet. I have normal sized feet, and The Ball- - It's normal to get carried around. - Yes, when you're The Ball, all right? - What is that supposed to mean? - Balls get carried, all right? - I've been carried a lot. I don't feel undignified. -

You're surprisingly light. - Shut up! Everybody, shut up! Everybody, shut up! - [Siobhan] He's dainty. He's a dainty lad. - Well, it's because I'm holding- - What's up, The Ball? - No. All right, fuck this. - Nice, nice! - Fuck this, I'll walk. - I put Fabian into a ball. - Don't! - So, Adaine is flying. Gorgug nailed the direction back to where you guys are going, so the slowest speed is gonna be Gorgug's speed on the ground, which is still 40. (tense bass instrumental) So we're gonna determine

it this way. If you're doing a move and a dash every round, that's gonna be 80 feet, but then halved again, so it's 40. So it's gonna take you this amount of rounds. - Is it halved with the Jump? - With Jump. - You only can do Jump once per round, so on the grand scale... Oh no, it's concentration, right? - Yes, it lasts for a minute. - Okay, I'll actually divide that in- - And I had two spell slots, so I can do it twice. - Okay, so I'm gonna say, I'll divide that in half again. Cool, it's gonn

a take you guys 16 rounds, so they're actually- - Just a little bit behind us. - Yeah, that Jump spell is really kind of helping. - Okay, cool. - Or actually no, because the Jump is preventing the difficult terrain. No, you would be going twice as fast without difficult terrain. So let me go ahead and see this real quick. - [Murph] Keep in mind, he's anime running. - Yeah, yeah. - So he's not using his arms. - Arms behind. - Like this. - And I'm fully letting the sheet unfurl behind me. - Like a

sail. - Exactly. - You're kind of slowing them down. - A lot of draft. If there's difficult terrain, it's mostly Fabian's sheet. - Okay. Awesome. I'm gonna go ahead and say that because you guys have handled this so expertly, you guys- 'cause your speed that you're going is fundamentally 80. I'm gonna say that you guys begin to hear the cawing of ravens out in the forest, but given how quickly you guys are moving and how many hit points you have, it would not be worthwhile to run this combat. B

ecause even if you guys did nothing but run, they still wouldn't able to bring you down in the amount of time you guys have. You guys hear ravens coming behind you, and because of your Jump spell, these rocket boots, you are actually able to mostly keep them at bay. I'll say that Gorgug bringing up the rear effectively takes a cosmetic- (dice rolling) you take like 15 points of damage (tense music fades) from these birds coming at the rear and pecking at you before you make it back to Fig, who's

waiting halfway between you guys in the forest. You guys sprint from there. The door opens once again for Fig as she approaches. (soft string instrumental) As you do so, you see that these ravens come, and as they do so, they hit the open doorway and burst into decrepit leaves with spider webs strung between them, and are gone. You guys pummel through the doorway. The door closes behind you. You are back in Arborly with the Hangman and Gilear. (music fades) - [Siobhan] So we have to go back in

there, right? - Yeah, we have to go back in there. - As soon as possible. - We've got to get Kristen- - We just need to get Kristen healed. - Let's get the tincture going. - Yeah, let's make this tincture. - We got all the stuff for the tincture, right? - How long does the tincture take to make? - [Ally] We got everything, yeah. I guess I have all the stuff for the tincture, right? - We're saying tincture a lot. - We're saying tincture. - [Siobhan] What's weird about that? - Like, do we have - e

nough of this tiny tincture? - Let's get back in the van. - You can absolutely make this here. Listen, you paid dearly for these ingredients. You got that, what, was it a nat 20 on that Medicine check? It was some incredible roll. Having the ingredients, you can absolutely make this tincture. It will take you less time than it would to long rest and do a Greater Restoration on yourself again. - [Ally] I still kind of wanna do that, though. - A long rest? - [Siobhan] Does Kristen have to be the p

erson that makes the tincture? Does it have to be a cleric? - We should make one anyway in case we get infected again. - Yeah, we should make as much tincture as we can, because also, the other guys. - Maybe there's some kind of alchemist or something at that tinker? - You know for sure there are chemists at the tinkerers'. - Kristen, what can I do to make it more comfortable for you to not take a long rest? - No, that's fine. - Can I heal you a bunch? - Just, if I could take a long rest, I coul

d... So what happened was, I cured Riz, and that made her so upset. She wanted me to reinfect him, so clearly the more of us that we can have the- - You're the only one who has it. - Yeah. - Really? - Yeah. - Everyone else who has it is still in the forest. - They're all missing. - Fuck. Okay, then. Yeah, let's make the tincture. - Let's go to the Tinkerer's Hall and see if we can use- - [Lou] Make a good old big pot of it. - Have the tinkerers make the tincture? - [Ally] Make the tincture in th

e Tinkerer's Hall? - Tincture in the Tinkerer's Hall? - [Zac] I'm messaging right now and I'm saying, let's make the tincture in the Tincture Hall. - What about making the tincture in the Tinkerer's Tent? - Okay, can I- - Tremendous. - Can someone Message me, because I don't have it, and maybe we should say this over Message. - Yeah. - Okay, I message everyone and I say, she also tried to make a deal with me. She said if we all put our crystals on the ground and ruined them, and Riz, she knew th

at you were taking video of her, and if you ruined that, she would let me live. - Sorry, one distinction. She didn't know about Riz's tie. - Yeah, she said the picture. - She said the picture, not the tie. - The picture, she talked about the original photo of Pok and Kalina. - Oh cool, very fucking cool. - I'm gonna say over Message, I got footage of her. We should watch it as soon as we get Kristen healed. - Yeah. I think also that I'm gonna make all of my social media public, and this will be

my first- My first post is gonna be a picture of her. - Oh my gosh. - It's gonna be one of those, if you see this person, they stole from... You know? Like they're a bad person. - But put her name, too. - Yeah, flame her. - I think it's people knowing who she is and what she looks like. - It's also better with video footage, right, because it's multiple pictures. - Yeah, let's see what we got. Shit, I wish we had a Moon Haven. I wish we had Tracker. - We still have the Moon Haven, the van is- -

Is the van still working? Can we go to the van and just- - Drive it? - Hallow is on the van as a location, not as Zaphriel the gem. So the Hallow is still very functional on the van. - Let's go. - You no longer have the extra dimensional part where you can all sleep here like a house. So it's just a van that you've cast Hallow on. - Okay. - Let's go. - [Lou] Let's drive it to the Tinkerer's Hall? - Yeah. - Great. - Cool. You guys head over to the Tinkerer's Hall. You arrive there. I'm not gonna

put on the happy tinkerer's music. - [Lou] Are you sure? - Are you sure? You guys arrive at the Tinkerer's Hall , driving the van kind of bumpily over the grass there. Gilear says, "What of everyone else? What of Sandra Lynn and-" - [Lou] Later Gilear. Later. - [Emily] I think we probably have time. I think that the Shadow Cat took them, in some capacity, charmed them. - Yeah. - And took them somewhere else. - Oh my. - [Ally] They all went to a house, I think. - [Siobhan] A cottage. - Yeah, Ayda

mentioned being in some kind of- - Wasn't the cottage turned into a curse? - Some kind of witch's hut. - The sanctum was turned into a curse? - [Lou] Gorgug didn't say anything about a cottage. He just seemed to- - You mean Ragh? - Ragh, excuse me. - He didn't say anything about a witch's hut or anything? - No, he just disappeared into the forest. - On the gem that Zaphriel was in, I saw a cottage, a spider webby cottage. - What did it look like? - Like a cottage with spider webs. - So maybe th

e people who didn't have Kalina inside of them went to a different place than the people who did? - Yeah, I was gonna say, I didn't remember Ayda being able to see the picture. - Ayda couldn't, I don't think. - Do we need me for any of what we're about to do? - Yeah, I think you're the only one who knows how to make the tincture. - Wait, but can I try? - Am I the only one, or do I have it written down somewhere? - I mean, you could show someone else how to make it, for sure. - I could make it. -

I'll tell you guys how to make it, and then I wanna cast Blindness and Deafness on myself. - Well, you can just be in the Hallow, right? - Okay, yeah. - Yeah, just be in the Hallow. - I don't know if I trust it. - But you could also take a short rest, if I could make the tincture, and you could get some health back that way. - Yeah, yeah, but just in case, just so she truly has no way of looking. - It's not a bad idea. - Through my eyes or whatever. - Yeah, we'll give you a couple, we'll do two

taps on your shoulder when- - When the tincture is ready. - Okay, should I be blind or deaf? I get to choose one. - [Lou] Blind, right? - It seems like- - Well, blind, you can just close your eyes. - I'm gonna put my headphones on you, and you cast Blind. - [Ally] Okay, great. I have to listen to your metal music? - Metal music and a fun little sleep mask. - I miss Tracker. - Snuggle down. - Metal music blaring. - It's a bunch of different types of rock. - What's that? - There's a bunch of diff

erent types of rock. - I cast Deafness on myself. But I'm still wearing your headphones, and I don't let you know that I did it. - So for everyone that goes into the Tinkerer's Hall, cool, you guys arrive there. Who all's going to Tinkerer's Hall? - I think I am. - [Lou] I'm gonna stand outside and keep watch. - Oh, that's true. - [Murph] I'll stay with Kristen. - [Emily] I usually am a German shepherd, but- - Let me, I can- - [Emily] You going German shepherd? - Woof, woof. - Why don't I stay w

ith- - You're a puppy. - Yes, and I'm a sick one. - Maybe I should stay with you just so that there's a spellcaster here. - Okay. - Cool. You guys go to the Tinkerer's Hall. You both walk in. The gnome looks up and you see, Crumpkin Springbill, goes, "Well, if it isn't Gorgug Thistlespring!" - Hello, Mr. Crumpkin. - Oh, hello. - Hi, I'm Figueroth Faeth. - [Ally] So polite. - Hello, Miss Faeth. It's a pleasure to meet you. - Nice to meet you. - Look, we're in a bit of a pickle, and we need to...

We need these tinkerers to make some tinctures. - Some tinkerers to make some tinctures? - Yes. Without saying exactly what's going on, I tell them what we're trying to make, or the ingredients in there. - You see that they come over. The tinkerers all have different specialties. There are definitely some that are chemists and stuff like that. They're not necessarily healers, but as just a pure act of chemistry, they'd probably be able to make this. - Okay, cool, and I can help, if that helps in

any way. - You see they look at it and say, "Well, you've gotten a bunch of hard to get ingredients. This actually won't be that hard. If there's anyone in your group that knows Medicine, we could use their help." It sounds like they're politely kind of saying, the only people that would be able to give them a Help action here are people that have proficiency in Medicine. - [Zac] Gotcha. - [Emily] I don't. - [Zac] I don't. - [Ally] I do. - [Siobhan] Riz does. - I don't. - Oh, you don't have- -

I just rolled really well that one time. - Can you give him Bardic Inspiration? - No, you took the Healer feat, didn't you? - I do have a Healer feat. - [Emily] I only have one left. - Yeah, I have a Healer feat. Does that give me proficiency in Medicine? - I'm not certain, but for the sake of this, I would let Riz- - Oh great, cool. Yeah, I have a healer's kit. - You know enough about forensic toxicology, what this kind of thing is like. - Riz? - Hey, Riz! - Yeah? - I Dimension Door him back. U

se a 4th level spell slot. - I throw up. - You see that as you're doing this, some of the gnomes look over, and you see that they're looking over at you and talking. And you see that- - [Emily] Where's Baby? - You see Baby says, "I'm roughly the same size as these people!" - I think you might be making them... I think they might... Maybe you should go over and say something sweet to them. - Oh no. - Okay! - What? - Should I whisper it or scream it? - (laughing) Whisper. - So softly. - [Zac] Is t

here any way Baby could go away? I'm not trying to be rude, but- - [Lou] Is there any chance? - [Zac] Is there any way Baby can go away entirely? - [Ally] Can Baby go back in his pokeball? - Yeah, Baby go bye bye now. - I mean, maybe. We'll talk about it later. - You see he says, "Okay. Time to make friends!" - Shh. Whisper, so soft. - He goes up behind- there's a gnome who's fixing a gear on something. Baby flaps up behind it and puts two- he puts one hand on a shoulder and the other on love ha

ndle, small of back, and whispers something. - [Emily] Bad area, bad area! - You see that he just goes, "You know what I always thought?" (whispering creepily) And you see the gnome just full vomits. Baby says, "It didn't work!" And then he flies away. - What was he trying to do for it to not work? - Yeah, what did you whisper? - Something very specific happened! - I wanted to make a friend! - Oh no. Why do I collect so many tragic characters? Come here. Come here, Baby. - The gnomes keep talkin

g. You see a couple of them come over, and you see that the one that comes over is the woman that has the sort of ornithopter backpack. She says, "Oh, sorry to interrupt. That's a remarkable instrument on your back there." - Oh yeah, is that what you were looking at? I thought you were looking at my imp. - Oh, I've been trying to avoid doing that since he came in! - Okay, I'm sorry, I sent him over there to, you know, sort of broker peace, but no, you can have a spin. - Wow! - Do you play? - Mys

elf? - Yeah. - Yes, I have a flying contraption on my back, but this looks like a real piece of magical technology. - Yeah. - You see that they start pouring over it, and looks like the gnomes are actually identifying this guitar for you. - Ooh! - You see they say, do you know all the properties that this has? The ruby is pretty easy. There's a label. - Yeah, yeah, I know that it can destroy a ruby. I know that it doesn't prevent you from losing all your friends in the forest. - As you as you sa

y that, Fig, give me a Wisdom saving throw. - [Lou] Ooh. - [Emily] (squeaking) What? - Gimme a Wisdom saving throw. - No! - No? - You have to. I asked. - [Ally] No way. - [Lou] No, I refuse. - [Emily] Nine. - You begin to hear whispers in your ear. That's how you lost them, lost them all. Lost each and every one of them. (Brennan whispering creepily) (sad instrumental music) And you begin to hear a chorus of voices in your ear blaming you for the loss of Sandra Lynn, for the loss of Ayda, for th

e loss of Ragh and Tracker. (sad instrumental continues) - (clears throat) So, you wanna tell me about my guitar? - You see they say, "Oh, we would be happy to! Let's give it a thorough once over, maybe a twice over, or a thrice over." - Yeah, as many times as you need. - While that's happening, Gorgug, you see that Riz gets to work on the tincture. Go ahead and you can either give them the Help action or they can give you the Help action. - I will give you the Help action, maybe. - Them, I thin

k. - Them. - Them, them, got it. Okay, I will give them the Help action. - Okie-dokie. We'll do this Box of Doom, just because it's a significant roll. - [Siobhan] How big of a roll does it need to be? - Well- - How significant is this roll? Just for academic- - These guys get a plus six to this check. - Great. - They're gonna be rolling with advantage. - I'll give them my last Bardic Inspiration. - Okay, great, so we'll throw a d8 in there. And I'm gonna say that the DC is 15. For every two poi

nts over 15, they can make an additional dose of the tincture. - Oh, great. - Cool. Very cool. - Cool, because then if we find Tracker and Sandra Lynn- - Tracker, I think, is gonna be a problem, what with the biting. - Yes. Wait, so hang on. So it's 15 plus- - Every two above that. - Is another dose. - Is another dose. - So ideally we want 19. - In which case... Oh no, I'm not even fucking there, never mind. - Okay, cool. - Goddammit. - So we're gonna roll we're gonna add a d8, rolling with adva

ntage in the Box of Doom. 2 and a 13. Plus 6 is 19 We're gonna roll a d8. - [Emily] We might as well get extra. - Plus 7 is 26. - Nice. - Oh, yes! - So you guys get- So 15 is one. 17, 19- - [Ally] Five extra. - You get five extra, great, cool. - [Lou] Oh, that feels good. - It's gonna take you a while, probably the whole night, to be able to make those tinctures, but you have five full doses of the tincture. You guys can spread that out amongst yourselves however you want. During that long night

, however, you're talking with them about your Identify. Gorgug, you see that Crumpkin comes over to you. You see he says- - Hi, Mr. Crumpkin. - "Mr. Thistlespring, your generosity (gentle piano music) really can't be overstated. Our town, there's so much work here about reclaiming more of the forest and what we're able to do, all that money's gonna make a real a lot of difference. - Okay, well, no worries. You know, I think for me, I thought money was... More money, more problems, as I've heard

someone say. (players laughing) - You see he looks at you. - [Ally] Someone? - [Lou] I heard someone say. - [Murph] I think Gilear says that. - Oh yeah, mo' money, mo' problems. - [Lou] Big Gilear saying. - Big Gilear energy. - Oh boy. - More yogurt, more problems. - Exactly. - Crumpkin says, "Well, listen. We have two artificers here that would love to help you. If you wanna work with one of them," He says, "We have some prototypes. We just wanted to make you something as a show of appreciatio

n." - What? - And you see that two smiling gnomes come up. They look very, very moved. You see that the first one that comes up, you see he's got a hat that's like a helmet with a big classic-looking magnet on it, and he has these weird little orbs of buzzing metal kind of floating around him. You see he says, "My name's Zoseph Bittybottle, and I just wanted to say that there's a lot of research here that would never been able to happen without your generous grant to the Tinkerer's Hall." - Aw.

- And you see that this woman comes over. Her hair is a full- the mass of her hair compromises two thirds of her whole mass. It is a lightning-streaked sphere of hair around her, and you see that there clear little alchemical stone batteries in a bandolier around her. So you see that Crumpkin says, "Zoseph is our lead metallurgist who studies rare and exotic unique metals, and Marta is our electrician expert. Both of them have prototypes, if you'd like to take a look at them. If you're intereste

d in in one or the other, we'd love to make you an ax, if we could." - What? - You see that- you look at- basically the two of them go over- It doesn't look like there's any sense of competition here, they basically pitch you on two different ideas of what they'd be able to do quickly. Basically, they have some stockpiled, incredibly rare resources here that they've just been sitting on and loath to use because they're so expensive, and that's not an issue anymore. So it looks like Zoseph's prot

otype has to do with making something that would be adamantine, and would literally be an ax that wielded a magic of metallurgy, and would almost be a gravity ax. It would manipulate the raw force of gravity itself, and it's much more of a combat-focused one. And then Marta's is one that would be a little bit more- have some spellcasting stuff thrown into it. She's like, "We'd probably able to do either of these in the time you need." - Spellcasting in what way, I'm curious about. - Hers looks l

ike a very lightning shooty kind of thing. - Okay. - Lighting shooty. - That sounds pretty rad. - They both sound rad. - They do sound really rad. - Get both! - Gravity sounds dope. - Okay, I'm gonna flip a coin. - Yeah! - I've got a little two-sided thing. All right one for- - Also, Gorgug can think about it. We can come back to you. - Okay, let's think about it. - [Lou] Aw, boo! - But we could flip for it too. - Take away a flip! - Cool, just to do this, because in the world of the Bad Kids ri

ght now, things are so bad, we'll have a little respite of fun stuff. Emily, I'm going to give you your magic item card for the guitar your dad gave you. - Oh my god, that's so long. - You can go ahead and read that out on camera, if you would like. - Okay. You have plus one bonus to attack. - The name of the instrument, first of all. - The Infaethable Bass. - Sick. - Yeah! You have plus one bonus to attack and damage. You also gain plus five bonus to Performance checks while wielding this instr

ument. You're gonna regret that. Countershred, when you roll a nat 20 on a saving throw against a spell targeting you, you may, as a reaction, redirect the effect of the spell back on its caster! - Whoa! - What? That's so sick. - Hellish Shred, anytime you are dealt 10 or more points of acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, blah blah blah, you may add 1d6 damage of the same type of energy to attacks made with your instrument. The damage increases by one d6 for every 10 r

ounds, basically like Absorb Elements. - Yeah, TLDR, when you get smacked by magic energy damage, you can add a portion of it back to your weapon attacks on the next turn. - It's like Black Panther's suit. - Yes, and it's added- - You stole that from Black Panther, dude. - [Siobhan] Hey man, you fucking hack. - It's a great movie. (players laughing) But also important is, that's calculated before resistance and immunity, so in other words, if you take fire damage, which you don't actually take,

that gets added to your smacks. - Amazing. - Whoa. - Reckless Shred, when targeted by a spell that prompts a saving throw, you can choose to roll the saving throw with disadvantage. I used to have Reckless Shred. I gave it up when I took the level of warlock. It's back, baby! Woo! - Yes! - And then, Shatter Rubies. So, they go through- - [Ally] So sick. - Thank you, Brennan. - Hey, I've had so much fun making up magic items for you guys. So yeah, it's basically, all the powers of the bass have t

o do with you being like extremely effective in hellish combat, when lightning and fire and cold are all swinging around and people are casting spells at you it becomes very dangerous for other people. - For a second I forget that my head whispered and told me it was all my fault. - Incredible. Zac. - Okay. - Yeah. - We're gonna flip a coin. - Yeah. - [Lou] Flip, flip, flip. - One is one is the first ax, two is the thunder ax. One. - Oh, you sounded kind of disappointed. - I think it's the gravi

ty one. - The gravity one. You look at it. - I think it's cool. - Here's the thing. I'm gonna say that Gorgug looks at it, and I will tell you as Brennan the dungeon master, the lightning ax is extremely cool. It is slightly less effective. It would be very cool and cinematic, but you start looking at the schematics of, you see that Zoseph starts calling it, he talks about it as a gravity ax, but it's also, he calls it the heavy metal ax. - Nice. - So when the ax is finished, this ax weighs 120

pounds. It requires 17 Strength to even lift it. - [Zac] I got 20. - As you pick it up, I'll describe the ax to you. It's, first of all, made of adamantine, which is incredibly heavy. The pommel of it is an incredible counterweight. This is like a Soul Calibur weapon. It's truly enormous. It's a single-bladed ax, so it's not double-bladed, and part of that is, because it has a slight... Fuller is not the right word. Part of lessening the tremendous weight of this weapon, there is a perfect circl

e carved out of the flat blade of the ax. It's about medium size, it's not a tiny little hole, nor does it take up the whole blade, but a medium-sized hole in the flat blade of the ax, which is the most shimmering dark, dark metallic steel gray ax. It's very dark gray, extremely reflective, and at the very end, you see that Zoseph takes huge tongs and takes what looks like a kind of liquid metal, this almost- it's so dark red that it could be black almost, tongs it out of a holder and drops it i

nto the hole in middle of the ax. It lands in the middle and (imitates magic surge) hovers in the center of the hole. And as it does so, you can heft the ax up more easily. You see that Zoseph explains, "The way the ax works, basically, is the faster it's moving, the more mass it gains. It becomes heavier as you swing it, but as it slows on the upswing, it will decrease in weight again." So you have this crazy physics ax. Go ahead and take this, if you'd be so kind. - Wow. - Heavy Metal Ax. You

want me to read it? - Read it, baby. - The heavy metal ax is made of adamantine. You have a plus one bonus to attack on weapon rolls with this magic ax. Additionally, the heavy metal ax has the following properties. Anytime you attack with advantage. this weapon scores a critical on 19 and 20. Ignores damage thresholds, hardness, and damage reduction. Any hit against an object is considered a critical hit. Wait, any hit against an object, object, is considered a critical hit and does maximum dam

age. - Oh, sick. - Nice. - If you miss an opponent with two or more attacks in the same round, any additional attacks made against them that round are made with advantage, and on a hit, automatically deal the attack's damage to an object of your choice the opponent is holding, wearing or carrying. - Cool. So you crit more easily. Objects, you could chop trees down, cut through walls and shit like that, and anytime, if you miss someone twice in the same round, all the rest of your attacks, includ

ing opportunity attacks, have advantage, and you can effectively just absolutely destroy shields, swords, anything they're carrying. - Cool. - Hell yeah. - This'll do. - [Lou] This'll do. - Dope as hell. Incredible. I guess, actually, it's probably late. Because you guys headed out to the forest- what time of day did you guys head out to the Nightmare Forest? - Early. - Early. - [Emily] I think it was first thing in the morning. - [Lou] We woke up after the shrimp party. - [Murph] We do have the

video of Kalina. - Yeah, we should watch that. - I guess we wanna get Kristen better first. So why don't we- I guess, until we have the- - Tincture! - Cool, so I think you take a long rest that full day as you're helping to build your ax; you have your bass. - [Ally] Nice one, that Heroism, man. - Yeah, huge. - Hey, dude, always. - Can I take the time while I'm making sure Kristen's okay to work on a spell for Ayda? - Yeah, absolutely! You can go ahead, give me an Arcana check. - Great. Can I h

ave Boggy Help me? - Yes, you can. (dice rolling) - [Siobhan] Dirty 20. - Dirty 20. - Yeah. - I will say you make two days' progress in a single day. - Great. - And you should spend some amount of gold on material components for that, but we can cover that later. - We can figure that out. - So, you rest in the van the whole day, Kristen. (soft piano instrumental) At the end of it, you get your spell slots back, so it's evening by the time you finish this long rest. What's going on in Kristen's m

ind while this is all happening? - I think I'm definitely crying a lot, 'cause Tracker's in the forest, but I'm listening, or I'm not listening, to this blasting music, because I'm deaf, by my own hands. Yeah, I'm just kind of in the back seat of a non-magical van and I can't hear anything, and I'm wearing a mask, so I can't see anything. So just in that silence, I'm just kind of thinking, that is the love of my life. Okay, interesting. - You reach out for your spells. Where do you feel... Your

Spirit Guardians have left you. Tracker is in the woods. You reach out to get your spells back. Give me a Religion check with disadvantage, which just means it's gonna be a flat roll. - Okay. That's a 10. - 10, okay. Kristen reaches out for her cleric spells. Who are you praying to? What are you praying to right now? - That's a great question. I think I'm praying to the - to not knowing, but not in the pretentious way? - Yeah. - Not in a, "there are no questions, shut up-" "There are no answers-

" - Shut up about it. - Shut up about it, but in a, "there are no answers, and that's great." Abundance in there being no answers. - Hell yeah. You reach out for your spells. You regain your spell slots at the end of the long rest. As you do, make a Perception check for me. (dice rolling) - It's a nat one. - Nat one? Cool. Your spells come back to you. (gentle piano instrumental continues) Cool. It is late. - Shit. - It is late evening. As you guys come out of the Tinkerer's Hall, you guys see t

his new, insane... The ax, as you hold it, has- it's not this loud, it's very soft, but does have a (humming) buzz to it. - Oh, can I try it? Can I hold it? (grunts) - Kind of heavy, I guess. - So you guys all come together. What do you guys do as you come together again? - Do we have the potion? - You have the tinctures. You have everything you need. - [Zac] Can I try the tincture to make sure- - Yeah, I guess. - We have so many. - [Ally] I take a tincture. - Okay. You take one of the tinctures

. You're not seeing any illusions right now, so nothing sort of fades- - Do we have that photo? - [Murph] I hold up the picture. - You cannot see Kalina in the picture. - Just to double check, nobody got reinfected, show everybody the picture. Can I see it? - I'm onto you, bud. - You cannot see it. - None of us can see it? - [Emily] Can Gilear see it? - Gilear cannot see it. - Can Baby see it? Baby. - [Ally] You have something where you can see through illusions, right? - Ooh, I can't see it! So

me sort of glasses or something? - [Siobhan] Oh, you're thinking of the mirror from Hell. - Oh yeah. - Oh, I do. The truth seeing thing. Yeah, I have a little shard of mirror. - You pull that mirror out. As you do so, you see that there is a cracked, fractured thing to it. And you're looking around and seeing white fog and stuff, and you realize you're seeing the Ethereal Plane. This stuff is made of some kind of outerplanar material. It appears that it does not work on the Prime Material Plane.

- Got it. - I just thought of something. Remember that mean ranger? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Do you wanna ask them if they can Detect Disease on us? - Oh, yeah. - [Emily] We could do that. Is anyone else kind of itching to get back in, though? - [Ally] I mean, yeah, of course. All of our girlfriends are in there. - Do we wanna see the footage of Kalina? - Sure. - Yeah, we might not be able to see her though, because none of us can see her now. - Let's give it a spin. - Let's give it a shot. - I guess

we can post it anyway. - On our way to the forest. - Can we plug into the crystal while she can't see us? - She was pretty real in there though, right? - That's true. - Like, you could see her. - Yeah, I also have, so the the way my thing works is, I can do either Detect Magic or Detect Evil and Good while watching it. Should I do Detect Magic or should I do Detect Evil and Good? - [Siobhan] I think Detect Evil and... Ooh, but Detect Evil and Good is against celestial and fae and stuff. - Magic

might be good, because then, maybe we can find out what she's doing exactly. - Right. - wanna do that? - But it's so weird, because she's not really either. - We found out she's a disease, right? - Yeah. - She's evil, right? She's like a demon. - So maybe Detect Evil? - Detect Magic actually didn't work on her before. - Okay, let's try Detect Evil and Good. I wanna watch the footage and do Detect Evil and Good. - Okay, one note about the the necktie is that you have to have the effect running as

you are recording, not as you're processing it. - Got it. - If that makes sense. But I will allow you to say that you did it with Detect Evil and Good. - Got it, great. - As you look at Detect Evil and Good, presences that are coming up on the footage- Kalina is nowhere in the footage. But you do detect celestial on Tracker, you do detect celestial on Kristen. - Hmm. Okay. How often can I use it? - Well, why don't we upload the video and see what people's reactions are to it? - We've gotta do t

hat. - There are people who are infected in the world. - Yes, I think that we should do that. - Let's upload the video and see what people say to it. - So two videos on our thing is a viral shrimp party and then just the forest. - Just the forest. - [Zac] Should we make a website? - Kristen, do you and Tracker- - For sure. - Do you and Tracker consent to your likeness being used in this video? - We do. - [Emily] I think we should upload it, see what people say. - Okay. - Okay, are you taking the

full- because the footage is extremely gruesome. It's Kristen being attacked and other stuff. Are you gonna take a smaller clip of- - [Emily I wasn't there during this moment, so what is the moment? - [Murph] I saw her specifically. I was looking in the water. - -Emily] So what is the moment that you wanna- Is there a moment that you would condense it down to? - There's a moment before Tracker started turning that it's just Kalina talking to you. - Yeah. - Okay. - Maybe keep Tracker turning in

it, just one little more piece of info- Oh, maybe she would be embarrassed by that. - That's what I'm saying, is Tracker, yeah. - Yeah, never mind, she's not here to speak for herself, so yeah, cut it off right before Tracker. - Why don't we make it, yeah, ASMR puddle. - [Emily] Okay, we upload it as ASMR. - Incredible. - [Ally] That's really funny. - I'm going to need a social media check from Fig. - Would that be Performance or Persuasion? - I'm gonna say that that is- - Or Survival. - Or Dece

ption. - [Ally] Right to camera. - Don't you have plus five to Performance with your ax, your guitar? - I'm gonna say that this is actually... Is social media Performance or Persuasion? I'm gonna say it's Performance. - Okay. - [Lou] Hey, and just in case, spring break, I believe in you. - Thank you! And then I since I'm carrying my ax, do I get a plus five? - Yes, you do get a plus five. - So I have a plus 14 to this. (dice rolling) That's gonna be an 18, (dice rolling) and then a 22. - 22, inc

redible. - Thank you for that. - By the way, is anyone gonna give the Help action? - Oh yeah. - Sure. - Okay. That's way better, okay. So it's gonna be a 25 plus 4, 29. - A 29. - Our social media presence is incredible. - So you're on Gorgug's- - [Emily] Following up shrimp party with ASMR, baby. - [Ally] ASMR shrimp party! - So you're logged in. What social media profile, are you using Fig and the Cig Figs? - Yeah, I'm fully destroying the brand in the name of this. - So many angry emails from

Lola Embers, but you upload it, and fully, not even 20 minutes later... What do you say in it? What do you say in the text of the thing? - [Ally] Ooh, ooh, write something like, wait for it. - Oh yeah, make it a puzzle or something. - So that they'll have to watch the whole thing. - [Murph] Can you find Kalina? - Oh yeah. - I think I'm gonna say, "Can you find Kalina?" - Yeah! - [Murph] Can you see Kalina? - Let's do this. Everyone will think that we're teasing- - It's like a Laurel/Yanny kind o

f thing. #CanYouSeeKalina? - I don't get it, she's right there! What is everybody talking about? - Comment if you can see. - It's just a puzzle! - Yes, yes. - Like if you can see Kalina. - Comment Kalina if you can see Kalina! - Guys, literally 10 minutes later on fantasy BuzzFeed, there is an article saying, "You won't believe this crazy video from..." - Wow! - Wow! It goes super viral. Yeah, you see people start seeing it, and you see the vast majority of people are like, "LOL, what is this?"

And then you see people start responding over and over. You know, one out of every couple hundred, there are people that are like, "Oh my god, I see the whatever." And- - Oh! - Do you feel this, Kalina? Do you feel this? - Take a picture of that picture and then also type in, "Those who know, know." - Yes, do it! Do it! post the photo, too. - Somebody post it. I'm very unpopular online. Somebody else take the picture. - [Emily] Okay, I'll continue. - Your 43 followers. - [Ally] You post the phot

o of Riz's dad, right? - Incredible. So you guys get this thing to go super viral, and it's such a weird, crazy thing that it just blows up. Cool. That is an incredible success. (gentle piano music) What do you guys do now? It's getting late into the evening. - I feel like I should scry on them, but I only have one Scry. So like I feel like I can either scry on Tracker or on all of the others. - Do we know- - I have Ayda's feather, so you can be able to scry on her better if she's being held aga

inst her will. - Right. - [Ally] Do it, yeah. - Would Scry tell me the location, or would I have to deduce from what I saw- - You would have to deduce from what you saw. - Unfortunately, if you're gonna scry on her feather, it doesn't leave my hand, though. - I understand. - Is that okay? - [Ally] I fully understand. - Is that okay? - I don't understand at all, but- - I have a little tuft of Tracker's hair. (Ally and Emily sobbing) - Is this what it's like it when you fall in love? - Yes! - Okay

. - This is exactly what's it like. - As Fig and Kristen weep, I'm gonna go ahead and- So Adaine, if you wanna cast Scrying on someone, go for it. As you guys weep for a second, though, Kristen, you get another... So you already cast that Greater... Oh no, you used one of the tinctures on yourself, cool. So you have four tinctures left. You, as you're crying over Tracker, and seeing how horrifying it was as she left, just feel this emptiness of longing, powerlessness. And you have this memory of

being at church for Helio when you were a little kid, and being wrapped up in a blanket by your mom, being wrapped in a shawl of hers, and knowing for a certainty that nothing bad was ever gonna happen to you because Helio had chosen you. And there is a deep emptiness in how wrong that was. - Oh god. - And Fig, you, as you're weeping and holding the feather, you hear the whispers come back again. (piano instrumental continues) They are biting and critical and omnipresent. Make an Insight check,

if you'd be so kind. (dice rolling) - 13. - You have been a College of Whispers bard for a long time. The main ability of that subclass is the ability to take on the visage of another person. That is an ability that plays into some of your deepest insecurities and oldest fears. You, on a 13 Insight, realize that these magical whispers you're hearing that allow you to capture someone's face and do all this stuff and be somebody else, the whispers are you. The voice you're hearing over and over a

gain is your voice. (soft piano instrumental) - Well, then maybe I should just stop talking to myself. - You try, and the whispers come back, redoubled, almost. They go like, "You could try to quiet us? Try to quiet yourself?" - Okay, well, if I can't quiet you, then I'll just talk louder than you, because I'm better at being loud than I am quiet. - I think- so the tears are streaming down your face, you feel your skin getting kind of hot for a second, and you feel this glyph on your head, you c

an feel just little traces around here. Maybe your friends didn't notice, but you feel a little bit of trace as you're like, maybe I should get loud. And for a second you find a place of- anger's not the right word. You find a place of rebellion, and for a second, the voices are pushed back, And your skin gets hot in a way that's a little bit scary, but maybe not terrible. And I think, Fig, you're feeling, probably, a little bit- there's something deeper within yourself to discover here, but you

're also standing in a circle of all your friends with a lot of stuff going on. - Yeah, I don't usually explore myself in front of my friends. I'm very private. - [Ally] I'm a very private person. - But there's something unexplored here that is lingering. Adaine. - Yes? - What are you going to do? - Here's what I'm worried about. When you looked for Ayda with the feather, you couldn't feel her. So I'm worried that Ayda is in a place that is blocked off from divination spells. - Yeah, okay. - [Al

ly] Just alive, in a different place. - Yeah, I like that take. - I think that maybe she's in a different plane or in some sort of bubble of protection that maybe divination can't get through. - Did you notice anything different about it, by the way? Is it changed magically? - Can I cast Identify on the feather? - I am so sorry about this. You took out the feather a minute or two ago. - Yes. - So as you take it out now, you see it is glowing orange and bright in your hand outside of the briar wa

ll. - Oh. - Oh, it works again. - Okay. Wait, so can you- - I'm gonna try to- - Yeah. - Can I just get a minute? Can everyone just look away? - What is Tracker's hair doing in my hand? - It smells really good. - [Ally] Yeah, it's like lavender shampoo. That's all? - Absolutely, yeah. - [Siobhan] Glossy, it's really glossy. - The way this works, Kristen, is that I'm gonna say her name. so you can try say Tracker's name. - [Ally] Over you? - With the clump of hair. - Okay, great. Ready? - Okay, bu

t actually, can everyone just look away? I'm just private. - I'm gonna look straight at it. - Okay. - Gorgug's facing the van wall. - Okay, fine. - [Murph] I just look at Tracker's hair. Come on, Tracker. Come on, Tracker. - Ayda Aguefort! - Tracker, Tracker! - Tracker doesn't have a last name? - Sure she does. O'Shaughnessey. - No, I know, but I thought you were saying her name three times. - No, Ayda just said, say my name once. - [Ally] Hilda Hilda. Hilda Hilda! - Ayda Aguefort! - You say Ayd

a Aguefort. Does Adaine cast Scrying? - [Siobhan] Well, doesn't the feather contact Ayda? - The feather does contact Ayda. You sense a link between the feather and Ayda that would makes scrying even easier. - I thought it was gonna summon her. - It did, she said it would. - I'm so sorry, but there's four of them with Ayda. - [Ally] No, of course. Yeah, I understand. - And Tracker, I trust- - It really sucks, but yeah. - I know. I'm so sorry. - Yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah, no worries. - Okay, I'll

cast Scrying on the feather. - Adaine extends her orb out in front of you, and you're holding the feather, and you see a reflection of yourself in Adaine's orb. Adaine's eyes go white, her hair lifts up. You're holding the feather in front of you. It is glowing so brightly. (gentle romantic music) That is not the right music. - [Emily] I was gonna say, I think she's doing okay! - I was so happy! - She's on vacation! - [Siobhan] This beautiful, romantic moment. - Just on a beach. - Oh wow. - Wai

t, is she hooking up with my mom? - Strumming a guitar. (music ends) - Wow, your mum really gets around. - She's at a Sandals Resort with Sandra Lynn? - Sandra Lynn, come on, leave one person for me. - In the orb, (faint, tense string instrumental) you see a part of the forest, in pitch darkness. If a human were looking into this, they would see nothing. You guys are peering with your darkvision into the orb. You see webs of vines and this maze of trees. You see, off in the distance, a blue-skin

ned, 8 1/2 foot tall angel that has a puka shell necklace, huge wings spread out behind him, being strangled by vines spread up like in a spider's web. You see that the vines have gone into his eyes, into his mouth, into his nose, are pulling it open, and he is suspended there. That is in the background. In the foreground- - [Ally] No! - Ayda's celestial heritage puts her in this horrifying gallery of captured angels. You see her with vines all around her. You see the vines have not gone into he

r eyes because they would burn upon contact with them, but you see that her hands are bound, and her mouth, they haven't gone into her mouth, but it's wrapped around the lower half of her mouth. So, you know, no verbal, somatic components, no spellcasting. You see that she is furiously weeping. And as you hold the thing and say Ayda Aguefort, you see that little empty spot in her wing glows and you see that as it does, she (strained grunting) and you see some of the vines snap and then wrap arou

nd and push her wrist back down. She's holding something in her hand, and you see she's trying, just so defeated, but not giving up, moving something back to her mouth so that she can speak into it. There's a very small little earring in her hand. - [Emily] Is there a little bit of blood on it? Does it look like it was ripped out in a really painful way? - It looks like it was ripped out in a really hasty, painful way. - Cool, I open up the... We're going back in, guys! We're going back in right

now! - Why do you look so happy? It's very manic. - What? Because I just saw... Look, first off, you don't wanna scry on Tracker. Don't do it. Second off, does everyone have everything? Because we're going back in, right now! - Yeah, I think we should go back in. - Okay, let's do it. I just remembered that... Look, I go to the Tinkerer's Hall and I'm like, you guys can have the keys to the van. I think the van... Maybe I'll come back and buy it one day. - We have a van, too? - Yeah. - What? - I

just feel like, I think I told you guys- - Happy Tinkermas! - I bought it with the money, so it's probably bad. I don't know, I think I'm good. All right, let's go. - If that's the case, I guess take my bank account with my touring money and give it to them as well. - They don't have a way of- - Here's the information. I need to go, okay? I don't really have time! Just sign the papers, here! - Laptops for seniors, that's what I gave my money to. - Can I ask the tinkerers if they have a film cam

era? - They don't. They're way behind Solace technology here. - As an artificer, I can make something record a six second message. - Yeah, absolutely. - Magically, so I'm just gonna pick up a rock and put that on there just in case. - Cool, awesome. You give the van away. You get on your thing and give away... So Fig, who is a famous rock star, is zeroed out. Other than your personal effects, you are broke. - Cool, is everyone all tied up? Can we go back into the forest? - Let's do it. - Let's g

o into the forest. - Let's do it. - Okay. Where are you going into the forest? - Was there any sort of, can I do a Perception check to see if there's- - Can I use the feather like a metal detector? - Yeah, is there anything from that (music fades) that I could maybe use to triangulate their position a little bit within, like the sun's position or the way that the moss is growing on the trees or something like that. - There's nothing from the outside that's gonna let you peer inside the forest. T

he only lead you have is that temple, that there is a temple, and that's the only place that you know goes further in that would help you. - Okay. - [Lou] To the temple? - Temple it is. - Let's do it. - [Siobhan] Temple it up. (tense, spooky music) - The Hangman takes you to the edge of the forest. Master, Bad Kids, fare thee well in the forest of the Nightmare King. You walk through the open portal. As you enter, you see that a flight of ravens in the trees, as you guys walk through, takes wing

and flies off deeper into the forest. - [Siobhan] Damn. - Can we- - As we're walking along, I'm just gonna keep playing my Countercharm. - Cool. - [Ally] How many ravens were there? Can we try to shoot them? - You can get one or two, but the flock flies off. - [Emily] They might just turn into spider webs. - [Murph] Let's just keep moving. - [Ally] What about that bird, though? - [Lou] You mean the vulture? - Are there any vultures? - There's something up with that- - Never trust a bird. - How

big is the forest? If I cast Locate Creature, its duration is an hour, and it senses creatures within 1,000 feet of me. - That's running out from where we were. - This forest is- - [Siobhan] It's huge, right? - Larger than the nation of Solace. - Okay, so, like, pretty big. - Pretty big. - All right. I won't cast it yet. - You guys venture into the forest. I'm gonna need a group Survival. - Oh no. - Okay. - [Siobhan] Can Boggy give me the Help action, please? - Yes, he can. Baby can also grant t

he Help action. (several dice rolling) - Hey! - Nat 20! - 19. - [Siobhan] Dirty 20. - Dirty 20. - 12. - [Ally] 13. - Awesome. You guys know your correct direction, so you will travel one of the two days it takes to get to the temple. You travel there. The first night, I'm gonna need- are you guys- what do you do? Are you making shelter? - [Lou] Oh yes, we don't have any sort of protection from our nightmares. - Can we cast- - [Emily] I have to be honest, you guys should just tie me here. I'm app

arently a really easy mark for Kalina. - And I also jumped into the waters outside of Leviathan. - Yeah. - So it just feels like maybe- - It's kind of bad for all of us. - Yeah. - Okay. - [Ally] I don't have anything. - Maybe we sleep in halves? - [Emily] Yeah, let's do that, and then we can tackle each other's bodies. - Exactly. - Cool. - Can I- - Gorgug and I should sleep separate. - Before we go to bed, cast Greater Restoration on Adaine? - Sure, what for? - I'm gonna get it again, but I just

don't fully trust that we're actually healed. - Oh, gotcha. Cool, cool, cool. So before you go to bed, to regain the spell slot. - Yeah, I'm about to regain that spell slot anyway, so I might as well just keep Greater Restoring us. - We don't know if we're gonna have an actual full night's rest. - Oh yeah, that's true. - [Murph] Do we wanna figure out how we wanna split up this potion, this tincture? - You're right. - 'Cause we have four of them. - [Emily] We have four. - Oh, yeah. - I'm good a

t hiding, so I feel like I should have at least one, because I could probably avoid a lot of stuff. - We've got Ragh, Sandra Lynn, - You should have two. - and Tracker. Is there anyone else who needs one? - I mean, between us- - I'll definitely take one, because I would like to find Tracker and just feed it to her. - I could take one, just because my jacket, I feel like that it's harder for them to- - Get stolen. - Right. - [Ally] How much you think a dart gun would be? Would I be able to get th

at out of your jacket? - [Emily] Ooh, so you can dart it? - I have a tranquilizer dart. - Because she's, you know. - Riz, you could absolutely swap out the poison dose in one of your tranq darts. - Yes, that's what we do for her. - That's cool! - Maybe if we see her running- - Should we do it all four of them? - We could make a bunch of darts with one of them maybe. - That's a good idea. - Actually Riz, you and Gorgug, if you have the tinctures here, if you wanna use your Tinker Tools check, I w

ill let you attempt to, as part of a short rest, as you're bedding down for the night, attempt to make some tranq darts out of these tinctures. - I'll give you the Help action. - [Murph] Do you wanna do three? We'll leave one, just in case. - [Ally] Yes, yeah, as a backup. - Can someone help me? - I can help you. - Yeah, I'll help. Bardic Inspiration! - Obviously there's a tremendous advantage to having tinctures in a dart, but also the risk is, if you miss, you shatter a tincture against a tree

somewhere. - Right. - [Murph] Oh, that's true. - Very useful- - Maybe we just want two. - Two, yeah, let's do it. - [Lou] We could always use it- - Honestly, we only need one, right? - Plus Bardic Inspiration? - Yeah. It's a d8. - A d8. - DC is 15. - Oh, we're about to rest? - That's good. - Oh, you got it? - Okay, so I got 18. - So that first night, you're able to make one- - Okay, let's just do one for now. - Let's just do one. - Cool, so you have one tincture bullet. - Three doses and one bu

llet. - And I'll keep my Greater Restoration. I won't do it. Just in case we don't sleep all the way. - So you guys get- - [Emily] Are there any rubies around? - Not that you can see. - [Ally] Hey, do it anyway. - I'm gonna do it anyways. - [Siobhan] An earthquake happens, we all die. - You guys bed down for the night. You guys have bed rolls and stuff, but you don't have your ranger with you, you don't have Tracker to make a Moon Haven, so I'm gonna need a group Survival check to make a shelter

. - [Lou] Okay, making a shelter. Hey, Gorgug? - Yes? - Spring break, I believe in you. - Hey, thank you. - Dirty 20 again. - I have a dirty 20 as well. - Cool. - I'll also give out some Bardic Inspiration. - Ooh, nat 20. - [Ally] What is this? - Nat 20? - Bardic Inspiration for both of you. - I really wanted to give you guys some levels of exhaustion, and I can't do that. You guys remember a bunch of classes in the earlier part of sophomore year from the ranger teacher giving an assembly like,

"Now, you won't always have a ranger with you, so it's important to know, you gotta get your body warm." And you're like, okay. - [Ally] She was so hot. I remember everything she said. - I don't think I went, I think I skipped it. - [Emily] I don't think I went. - No levels of exhaustion. However, I do need to know how you guys are sleeping. - [Lou] Shifts of three? - Okay, shifts of three. - Me and you shouldn't sleep at the same time. - Because we might- okay. - Just because I could probably d

o the best of holding you down. - I'll stay up first, because maybe I'll record you guys with my necktie while you guys are- - What, man? - [Emily] Okay, creep. - Not like that. - [Ally] You're gonna stay up and record us while we sleep, with your necktie. - I'm gonna go on the first shift. Just know, I fail these a lot. - Can I give you a Bardic before I go to bed? - Will that work? - Yeah, you can do your Bardic. - [Emily] Okay, I'll give you Bardic too. - Oh, look at that, I guess we're excha

nging Bardics. - What's up? - Then I'll sleep in the first shift. - Okay, great. - So you'll stay up? - Spring break, I believe in you. - You already gave me one. - I already gave you one? - I already have one. - Hey, spring break. I believe in you. - I have one, thank you. - So we're the three staying up. - Great. - Okay. - So for everyone to get a full eight hours of rest... Okay, cool. Who are the first four to go to sleep? Raise your hand. - First three. - First three to go to sleep. One, tw

o, three? - I thought I was going. - You go. One other person. - You. Oh no, wait, sorry, me. You can record? - Okay, Kristen, Fabian, and Fig. I'm gonna need all of you guys to give me a Wisdom saving throw. - I have written down that I have advantage on that. Is that from something before? Maybe someone gave me that. - Did Baby help you? - I don't think you have an ability to give advantage on Wisdom saves. - I gave it to you, so you- - Yeah, I did, and I got a 6. - As they fall asleep, I'm go

nna do Detect Evil and Good on them. - [Emily] I got a 10. - I also got a 10. - You got a 10, you got a 10. - [Lou] Fuck me. - I'm gonna give Fig a 16 Divination roll, 'cause I'm about to fall asleep. - Then it turns into a 17. - 17. - [Lou] 10. - 10. - [Ally] 19. - 19, cool. - [Emily] Did you add my Bardic? - [Lou] I did. - Okay. - Hey, at least it's just me. - Fig. You're sleeping and you're having dreams. (tense instrumental music) You are looking ahead. You're in a hot, red cave, like a drag

on's lair or some pit of Hell. You hear voices all around you, your voices again. Wow, looks like Ayda's not having a very good time. Wonder if your mom would be sad that you didn't Scry on her. Probably. Hmm, maybe Gilear's fine back in Arborly. Probably not, though. - [Emily] Okay, and what would you have done differently? - A 13-year-old Fig Faeth walks out from behind the corner, pink cardigan, a sunflower patterned skirt, no horns on her head, just a happy young wood elf walks out and says,

"I wouldn't been in the situation in the first place." - [Emily] Yeah, you would have, because your forehead's about to burst. - Wow, oh, my forehead's about to burst. Listen, maybe you should consider the fact that there are, like, variables and constants. Everyone in your life has bad shit happen to them. What's the thing they all have in common? - Aguefort Adventuring Academy. (players laughing) - Go ahead and, I'm gonna say, give me a Wisdom saving throw. (dice rolling) - 19! - This is bull

shit. This is you as little kid. You can feel that there are... You feel the glyph glow again on your forehead. You can get out of here if you want. You don't have to take this shit. - The thing is that I am happier than you are. You may talk like you think you know what's up, but you are so much more confused than I am. I am the truthful version of me. You are just, honestly, a poor idea of someone else. - She bursts into flame. Fig, you gain the Cutting Words ability, and your previous class f

eature vanishes. The rocks crumble, and you are standing on a blasted plain under a sky of fire. You feel a deeper understanding start to come to you, and you hear a voice you haven't heard in a long time. Hey there, kiddo. - Are you okay? - I'm far away. My power is being used by other people. - I know. I'm really sorry, I'm the one who did it to you. - No. No, sweetheart, you didn't. I love you so much. I'm so proud of you. - I got the bass that you got me for Christmas. - It's for your birthd

ay! - My birthday is on Christmas, remember? - It's not your birthday or Christmas! - Oh yeah! - It's spring break! He says, "Your birthday's so... You opened it? Well, I guess it's better for that... Oh, don't shatter the ruby that I'm in." - Why? - Well, 'cause there's a contingency effect in here. If you shatter the ruby- someone's got to come into the gem with me and break this curse, and then shatter away. - Okay. I have just the person who can help make that happen. - You see he says, "Rea

lly? Who's the person?" - Cool. Someone that I met. - Cool? - A cool someone that you met. Hey, hey, sweetheart? Say no more. He looks at you, and you see he says, "So much of my feelings of guilt are about how much the course of your life was impacted by just me being your father. Your horns, being a tiefling." - Gorthalax, I've got to tell you, I'm really starting to dig the horns. - He looks at you and says, "Have you ever questioned where your power really comes from?" - Like, you mean, Hell

? - Hell. - And being a devil. Yeah, I mean, it's crossed my mind. But it's kind of one of those things that I don't wanna dig too deeply, because- - As you say, don't wanna dig too deeply, you begin to hear (creepy whispering) those whispers come back. (Emily groaning) - Okay, just tell me. Where does my power come from? Tell me so I can own it and embrace it and love it. (tense music) - Gorthalax speaks and says, "Tyranny, domination, conquest. All the virtues of hell. These don't have to be y

ours." - Oh, god. Thank god. - You see he says, "There is something earlier than this that all the devils of Hell have forgotten. I was a fallen angel. The devils of Hell forgot what started their desire for power, what started their desire for domination." You see that he looks back and says, "Fig, you don't need my permission to define what Hell means. You're an archdevil. (cheerful rock music) You get to decide." And what you see in the distant past at the birth of the Great Wheel is the very

first angel that fell from grace as the gods of light cast them down, flew back and went, "Fuck you!" He says, "Being a devil, before all this bullshit, meant rebellion, and it hasn't meant that in a long time, and it can still mean that." - There's a lot of rebellion in this one, so I think I can help redefine that. - You see ancient histories that the current government of archdevils has done its best to erase, which was, before even the existence of the Prime Material or at the dawn of the P

rime Material, it was perdition, it was angels that wanted to rebel against the light that were cast into fire and then developed evil as a response to that. And you see that all of this hellish knowledge comes. I think that Fig has never really questioned where her powers come from. Obviously Kristen uses Wisdom, and that's all about a fucked-in-the-head quest for religious meaning. Adaine literally gets it from books, and you do this deep thing of innate magic. And you realize that your power

has never come from your bloodline, (rock music ends) from your dad. That's a cool part of your history. It's something you can embrace. It comes from rebellion. (cheerful rock music resumes) Your power comes from your ability to literally, magically flip the cosmos off. - You know, people say rebellion's a phase, but it's a lifestyle for me. - You transmogrify your subclass to College of Lore. - [Emily] Counterspell, counterspell, counterspell! Ha! - As you guys sort of shift and awaken- - [Emi

ly] Oh no. - Cool, we come back to Sylvaire. (rock music ends) As we do, Kristen, Fig, Fabian, you guys wake up. What do you guys do? - Okay, tag, you guys are it. - Yeah, go to bed. - Okay. - Good luck in there. - I'm gonna take a nice video of you. - I just had a freaking great time. - Really? - Yeah. - Honestly yeah, nothing super bad happened. - The tie looks really good over the tie dye shirt. - Thank you so much. I'm just wearing Riz's tie over my tie dye shirt. - Fabian, go ahead give me

a Perception check with advantage. - Okay, that's normal. - Kristen doesn't look good in the tie. (dice rolling) - Perception? - Yeah. - 15. - Cool. As you guys are- as the other ones are sort of bedding out a little bit, you can see, (tense instrumental) it looks like Boggy the owl has sort of noticed something off in the forest. And you see a tricorn pirate hat there. - [Siobhan] Oh dear. - How far off is it? - It's literally, anyone could see, you could walk 10 feet and pick it up. - Adaine,

do you see that- - Sorry, that doesn't, Fabian doesn't say Adaine. That was all a ruse to get you to walk away from everybody. Fabian is fully possessed and walks- begins to walk through the forest. - Are we asleep? - Are we asleep? - [Murph] Who's awake right now? - Well, everyone's awake, 'cause this is happening as the guard is shifting. - Okay, can you jump him? - [Emily] Hey Fabian, what's up? What's going on? - There's a hat. There's a hat. - Someone just needs to grab him. - I'm just gonn

a grab him. - Hey, let go. - I grab too. - I wanna get the hat. Hey, I want the hat! - Fabian, go ahead and attack Gorgug for me. - Oh! - I'm gonna shoot him with the net bullet. - That's only a 14. - I'm gonna need you to take both attacks on him. - Great, that's a 14. - That's my armor class. - Which dice are rolling the worst? And then that is a 23. - [Emily] Cutting Words! Right? Can't I do that on the attack? - On the 43, it would work. Sorry, on the 14 attack. - My armor class is 14. - Yea

h, he hits Gorgug on both attacks. But if you do Cutting Words, you automatically cancel the first attack. - Yeah. - You cancel that one. The next one's 23. That hits. And I'm gonna need you to load this up. - How hard? - As hard as you can. - Okay. - [Zac] Can I go into a rage? - On your, turn you can. - Do you want me to use maneuvers and such? - Use maneuvers and such. - Great. - Wait, he got a two on that second roll. - Oh, so Fabian attacks twice, nothing happens. - Woo! - Oh, nice. Gorgug,

go ahead and give me, you can go into a rage now, and give me an opposed Athletics to grapple Fabian. - I want the hat! I want the hat! - Do we have a tranquilizer? - That's Jorjudge! That's Jorjudge! - It's just a hat! - It's just a hat, man! - That's a 26. - 26, cool. Gimme an Athletics check opposed. - Come on. I don't wanna do well, but I don't wanna look lame, that's all. That's a 17. - Cool. - Gorgug, you kicked his ass. - Whoa! - Thank god you're stronger than him. - Spellcasters and oth

er people, what are we doing? - I want the hat! - I wanna shoot him with the net. - Shoot him with the net. I think in the grapple, you would hit Gorgug. Go for it, roll an attack roll. - Actually, I think, creature... Oh, so I need to hit first, got it. - Oh, I'm just gonna lay the ax down on top of him. - [Siobhan] What's your Strength? - My Strength is 14. - You lay the ax on top of him. Fabian, you are restrained under the ax. - Do I get advantage? - You do get advantage, yeah. - Sweet. 22.

- Definitely hits. You guys see a fucking net explodes out of Riz's gun, wraps around Fabian, and entangles him under the ax. You are full done. - I want the hat. - [Siobhan] Can I do an Arcana check? - There's no hat, Fabian! - Is this a magical effect on Fabian? - Yes, it is. - Oh, okay. Can I cast Dispel Magic on him? - Yes, you can, but you're gonna have to give me a raw Intelligence check to do so. - I'm raging so much. - Can I Bardic Inspiration? - [Ally] I give you the Help action. - Stop

it! Stop it, you dumb asshole! - I want the hat! - You're an idiot! There's no hat! - Let me have it! Let me have it! - You're trying to kill Gorgug for a hat! - Can I Bardic Inspiration this Intelligence check? - Yes, you can. - Bardic inspiration, add a d8. - Great. (dice rolling) 18. - 18? 18 successfully does it. - Okay, great. - Ow! Take this ax off of me! - Fabian, what's with the hat? - Fabian, why are you looking for a hat in the forest? - Talk to us about the hat. - What are you talkin

g about? - You tried to kill Gorgug. - [Siobhan] For a hat. - No, what? No! - [Siobhan] You were possessed. - What? - You kept talking about a hat. - It's not even like you saw him as some evil person, it's just, you thought you saw a hat, and then tried to kill one of our friends. - You didn't even describe what kind of hat. - Fabian, you didn't have any control over your actions. The spell was making you act like you. All of the find the hat stuff, that was the spell. You don't have an experie

nce of willingly doing any of that. - Can I do an Arcana check to see if this is an effect of the forest, or if somebody cast this spell on him? - Give me a Arcana check. - Great, can I use Boggy to help? - Yes, you can. - Thank you. Oh, that's cocked. (dice rolling) 24. - [Brennan] 24. The spell was cast on Fabian. It was not an ambient effect of whatever. Look, you know what this is. This is what was happening to you guys in Solace. The only reason, the only thing that's changed, you don't thi

nk this one is the forest. You think it's stronger in the forest. - Okay. - But this was what made Fig capture... - [Siobhan] You have Faerie Fire, right? - [Lou] I do. - Can you cast Faerie Fire and see if there's anybody invisible? - I mean, if you'll untie me from this net and take this big ax off me, yes, I will. - [Emily] I'll get the ax. - I'll get the ax. - I'll get it. (grunts) - How strong do you have to be to hold the ax? - 17. - Is there a general direction you'd like me to cast it in

? - Is there a general direction that I would like him to cast it in? - [Lou] 20 foot cube. - Oh, it's only a 20 foot cube. Boy. - That's not gonna do much. - [Zac] The direction the hat was in? - Yeah. - Yes, can I use the sheet and cast Faerie Fire in the direction of the hat? - You cast a bunch of sparks out from your elven battle sheet. - Well, we can't all have a big ax, all right? Some of us have a battle sheet. - [Emily] Oh wow, your battle sheet's really heavy. - I guess I don't understa

nd what a battle sheet is. - Well, why don't you- - A million elves, thousands of miles away, are so offended right now. - I like the sheet. - [Lou] This has a proud history. - You cast Faerie Fire. Nothing... You don't see any creatures in it. - [Siobhan] Worth a try. - Again, with that 24 Arcana check, this is what worked on Fig. And your mind goes back to the fact that Riz, on that first night, before you guys started being careful, before you started doing Moon Haven stuff, before you starte

d taking care of that kind of thing, Riz didn't get possessed. But Riz also didn't go to sleep that night, and instead got attacked by something physical. - Right. - You're not sure what that means here, but in any case, you guys have used some of your resources. Now obviously, a couple of you guys are waiting to take a long rest, but the three of you that woke up that used anything like Bardic Inspiration or other stuff, that was used. - Only a short rest. - But I think your stuff mostly comes

back on a short rest, right? - Yeah, short rest. - So you'll be okay. Cool, next three go to sleep. Give me some Wisdom rolls. - Do we still have those Bardics? - You have one. - I had three left. - I have one. - And I'm gonna get a short rest, so I give each of you one. - Yeah, okay, well, yours are better than mine. - Cool. - Can I just be underneath Gorgug's ax as I sleep, as I trance? - That will be very painful and uncomfortable and not allow you to trance. - Okay, well. - All right, Wisdom

? - Can Boggy help me? - Boggy can help you, yes. - d8? - d8, yeah. - Good lord. - I got- - Add the Bardic. - Do you have a d8? - d8. - I don't think it's gonna help. - [Zac] I got a 24. - Good lord. - [Siobhan] Well! - [Murph] That's a seven. - [Siobhan] I got a 15. - You got a 15? Cool. - Yeah. - [Emily] Something tells me there's gonna be a couple more hats. - [Siobhan] So tempting, they're so cool! - You guys wake up. (tense instrumental music) Through the night in the Nightmare Forest, noth

ing happens. As you guys move through- And again, I think you guys are taking a lot of care. You had a bunch of nat 20s on that thing, so you're heavily disguised, you're like up in the canopy somewhere. You've made sure, because you know this forest is dangerous, but I will say, even as bad as it is here, you know from what your visions have been that you're still in the entry level, easy mode version of the Nightmare Forest. You guys all wake up. You're all fine. - [Emily] So you guys slept we

ll? Feel good? - [Zac] I actually slept pretty well. - [Ally] You especially, Riz. You slept well? - Everything's feeling good. - I walk up and slap Gorgug really hard. - Wait, are you possessed again? - No, I just wanted to make sure you weren't. You good? - Why did you do that? - I don't know. I don't know. I just wanna make sure you're okay. You all right? - Wow, Fabian, you're so strong. - We could have had a conversation. - Okay, I'm sorry. I woke up underneath an ax in a net. - Wait, are t

here spells I should stock? Oh god. - Cool. Adaine got a full trance in. For everybody else, unless you're taking many multiple hours to sleep in shifts, you're not really getting a full night's sleep. Just give me literally a DC 5 Constitution check. - Me included? - Fabian included, yeah. - All right, little beans. - Ooh! - Ugh. - [Emily] I got it. - Hey, that's a 17. - [Emily] I got 18. - [Lou] Nine. - Cool. Great, great, great. So... Yeah, so you guys avoid exhaustion. These rolls will becom

e harder as you don't get full nights of sleep. You guys continue. Go ahead and give me a Survival check for the next day as you venture deeper. - [Murph] Little beans. (dice rolling) - [Lou] How'd the beans do? - [Murph] Bad. - [Emily] Dirty 20 again. - [Zac] Nat one. - Okay, wait, I can't reroll your thing. - I got a nat one. - Is it too late to give them Bardic Inspiration after they roll? - We did a bad job over here too. - [Siobhan] Yeah, I got a nine. - I would allow you to give- - Okay. -

Well, it's a nat one. I don't know if that matters. - [Murph] I got a five. - Five. You got a nat one as well? - No, I have a seven. - Seven. - Bardic could save you. - Yep. - Take a Bardic. - I got an 11. - d8. - [Siobhan] I got a nine. - Geez Louise. - I know. - [Ally] Wink, wink. - Hey, there we go! Oh no, that's not- - [Siobhan] 14. - [Ally] 13. - 14, 13. - [Lou] 18. Excuse me, 19. - 19. What did Riz get? - [Murph] Five. - Oof. - [Ally] 13. - 13. - 19. - 19. What did Adaine get? - 14. - One

. - Dirty 20. - Dirty 20. Okay. - I have plus five, but it's a nat one. - Did you roll that with advantage? - I did, yeah, because of- - Because of Baby, gotcha. You guys are not going the wrong way, but you don't make the smartest decisions about how to get through the forest. It really slows you down. The sun rises and falls. If you want, you can either allow more time to get away from you and just make shelter and try again the next day, or you can push through the night. - I think let's pres

s on. - Let's just keep going. - [Lou] Agreed. - Yeah. - Okay. - Hey Riz, do you think that maybe I could carry the gun with the antidote in it? Just, I'm really looking for Tracker as we walk around. Maybe she'll run past us at some point, and I can try to nail her. - Do you think you would be able to hit her? - Riz might be better with a gun. - Maybe we can just make a code, and I'll say the code word. - Yeah. - How about the code word is Tracker? - Tracker, shoot her! - Can't you just use you

r spell? - Huh? - Can't you just use your spell? - No, I mean, she might be running full werewolf speed, so a dart gun would definitely hit her before... - Cool. You guys press through the night. Give me another group Survival check. (dice rolling) - Ooh! - Okay. - [Murph] 13. - 22. - [Siobhan] 16. - [Zac] 16 as well. - 16. - Nat one, 16. Okay, group check makes it. Now the last thing I'm gonna need from you guys as you push through the night is another Constitution check. This time, it's a DC 1

0. - Is this something I can use Baby for? - Is it a saving throw or just a check? - This is a saving throw, a Constitution saving throw. - [Lou] 12. - [Murph] 17. - [Emily] Can I use Baby for this? - [Zac] 18. - Yeah, can I use Boggy? - You can use Boggy for this, yeah. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah! - [Ally] 21. - [Siobhan] 18. - [Emily] 16. - Everyone beats 10? - Yeah. - Cool, great. You guys push through. You're pushing yourselves, it's good. You didn't get a lot of sleep last night. This forest is r

eally hard. You've been marching through the woods all day. You push through the vines (spooky piano music) and see a large temple in front of you. It is made of not hewn stone, it's not mortared together. It is literally domes of boulders and smooth, flat rocks bound by roots and trees. This was shaped by druids. It is a sprawling hive of rocks and natural wood. You see the large, rooted archway, and you see that over the archway is a shattered plinth, as though something that stood above the d

oorway here was taken down long ago. You see bones litter the forest floor around here. And as you look at them, you see they are centuries old, the earth having mostly swallowed them up, just hints of white coming up from the earth. As you walk, you see that all of the bones are arranged ceremonially. If you had to guess whether these bodies were brought here or whether these people simply laid down here and died, you would guess the latter. (creepy piano music) - Can I do some sort of check to

see if, once we get closer, if they're gonna come to life? - Go ahead and you can make an Arcana or Religion check. - Can I also make a Religion check to see if the thing that was broken down from the archway, if it was the moon goddess's sister, this unnamed- - Give me an Religion check, yeah. - I did get a nat one. - These things are not going to pop up. They already popped up. They're in hiding right now. - Everyone, shh! Be quiet, but there are skeletons everywhere. - [Lou] What? - Can I do

an Investigate check to try to see if there's any signs of Tracker around, any signs of a werewolf? - Yeah, give me an Investigation check. - Can I look at where the plinth, the plinth is not the statue itself that was broken off. - You don't even see a statue. The plinth is just the base of it. - Gotcha. - 12. - 12. Because you just said it to me, yes. The church of Helio is all about taking down false idols, but you think this one was taken down by its own followers in whatever cataclysm happ

ened after they destroyed their goddess and during the aftermath of the last Sylvan war and then the rise of the Nightmare King. - Are these, can I tell from the skeletons if these are high elf or wood elf? - You'd have to start excavating some of them. - Oh, they're underground? I can't just- - They're centuries old, so the ground, foliage has created soil around them. - Oh, okay, great. - But you can look more. Actually, anyone who wants to- - Can I cast the Identify spell on one of these skel

etons? It's an object. - It is an object, yeah, but Identify will only work if it's a magical object, so if it's just normal remains, it won't work. - [Emily] That'll tell us if it's a skeleton, maybe. - [Murph] I got 19 on an Investigate. - You see, from the exact direction you guys just walked in, three sets of footprints walking in here, a couple days old. - Oh. - Oh, okay. - You see they are- halfway to the door, are joined by a fourth set of footprints. - Are they cat prints? - [Murph] Or a

re they your dad? - [Siobhan] They could be my dad, they could be the Nightmare King. - [Ally] But we lost three friends, right? - True. - That is true, too. - We lost three- - That is also true. - No, we lost- - Three friends who would maybe be walking. - Are they bird prints? What are these prints? - They are boot prints. They are not paws or talons or anything. - [Emily] But we don't see footprints coming out? - On a 19 Investigation, you do not. - Did the fourth set of prints come from the c

ircle of skeletons? - The fourth set of prints simply appears, which is a clue in and of itself. - Okay, so that would be a wizard or- - [Emily] Teleportation, flying. - Well, but you can't teleport in unless you have the permission of a devil. - They have that gem. - They have Gorthalax in a gem. - And they have the gem in that person's- - Don't you need to use the gem to get through the wall? So I don't think that they would be able to get somebody in using the gem. - I think they are controll

ing a devil's will. - Yeah, because your- - Oh. - We don't know that, but- - You guys can make an Arcana check about it, if you'd like to. - Yeah. - [Emily] I'll do one, in case I crit. - That's a 24 again. - I don't. - Teleportation doesn't work like direct travel. It interacts with dimensions in an interesting way. So you think that because a teleport doesn't move from one space to another in a line that- in other words, opening a barrier would- if Killian was able to open the briar wall, he w

ould have been able to open an allowance for a teleportation, a Dimension Door, a Plane Shift, something like that. - [Murph] Didn't your mom say in that letter- - [Siobhan] Yeah, come and join me. Yeah. - Okay. - Yeah, which I'm assuming is my dad, but there was no clear- - [Murph] That's true, that's true. - We don't even, I mean, I don't know if my dad is dead. Could be some other random person. - Can I howl just as loud as I can? - No. - No? - Absolutely not. - [Emily] I give Kristen a Help

action to howl less loud. - You can howl if you'd like. You guys see the tracks going into the temple. - Let's just go into the temple. - [Siobhan] Let's follow the prints. - [Ally] You don't want me to howl really loud? Because what if Tracker hears me? - I will give you a Help action. - Then the werewolf will come. - I could cast Locate Creature on Tracker to see if Tracker isn't within 1,000 feet of here. - Yeah, please. - And then we can walk into the temple. - Okay, yeah, yeah. - Because it

'll last for a while. - Because if we rendezvous with Tracker and heal her- - It's concentration, but it lasts for up to one hour. - Let's do it. - You can do it on your family, too. - Yes, but it's only one person. - You could do it on your- that makes more sense. - Do it on your mom? - Who are you casting it on? - Your mom. - Yeah, I'll do it on my mum. - Cool, you cast Locate Creature for your mom. Wherever she is, she's beyond 1,000 feet. These tracks are a couple days old. - [Murph] Okay, s

hall we head in? - Are we stealthing in? - Yeah, let's stealth in a little. - Or are we just walking in? - Do you guys want me go ahead and then I can give you guys a signal? - Yes. I have disadvantage. - Okay. - [Zac] I have advantage on Dex saves, just in case that matters. - Cool - [Zac] But I only have plus one. - I mean, I have really good Stealth. - Yeah, yeah. - I don't have good Stealth. - Cool. - [Lou] We'll be right behind you. - Can you hand me the antidote darts? - Just a potion? - J

ust one potion. - I think you should just let him keep it. - You have Greater Restoration. - He's gonna be a way better shot. - I'm just thinking, what if he disappears, and then I see Tracker? - You have potions, though. - You have Greater Restoration. - Who has them? Who has them? - I give out the potions. All I have is the one dart. - Great. - If I see Tracker, I will shoot her. I promise. - Okay, and I'm not gonna howl. - No, and Boggy can help you with a Stealth check. - Riz is gonna Stealt

h in? - Yeah. - Go ahead and give me Stealth, my dude. - Should be good at Stealth. - You gonna use the beans? - Give me Stealth. - [Ally] With the beans? - Give me the beans! - Give me the beans, boys. - You're a madman. - Yeah! - That is a 28. - Ooh, yeah. - Riz is a shadow. Go ahead and give me an Investigation check. - Ooh! - Okay, not gonna push my luck with the beans on this one. That's a nat 20! - You guys are... On a nat 20 Investigation, you case this place in, I don't know, eight minut

es. You guys are outside for about eight minutes, just tense, looking around. Riz, on a 28 Stealth and a nat 20, which, how high is nat 20 Investigation for you? - That is a 30. - Which is the DC for what they say are nearly impossible tasks. So, you go in. This temple is completely ruined. The book you found in the Compass Points Library indicated this place used to be a temple that all the tribes of Sylvaire could come to, centaur, treant, sprite, and wood elf. Outside, you guys now see that t

he bones, some of them are tiny, birdlike. These are the bones of fairies. Others are large and worn, these centaur skeletons. You look around and you see, by the way, none of the trees around here have leaves on them. They're all just empty. And then you realize, these are not trees. These are the dead bodies of treants. These are living trees that came here and died. - Wow. - You find a room in the center that has a burnt brick of ash that you recognize as dusk moss. A ritual took place here.

On a nat 20 Investigation, you know that dusk moss has hallucinogenic properties. Dreams and illusions are partially real here. There's a bunch of arcane writings here that you can't read, there's other like spell shit that happened here, but you know a ritual happened here, and the tracks lead through the maze of this temple towards what was a direction that was almost impossible for you guys to go in. You think that there's another level of defense into the forest moving past here that this ri

tual kind of allowed them to unlock. On an nat 20 Investigation, as well, you see that there is a chamber off to the side of this place that has what at first looks like a skeletal horse, but an extremely graceful, sort of slender horse. And then you see that there is a horn coming out of the front of its head. The skeleton of this unicorn is filled with webs, and you see egg sacs of spiders all throughout its body. This creature died looking at a portrait of a woman in a black gown with flowing

black hair. You look up and see that a blast of magic struck the stone where the face was, and there is just a white, chalky crater where the face of this being should be. - I guess I will- - Sorry, last thing. Stacks of tomes and books have been left in that chamber where the ritual was performed. - Oh. - Cool. I'm definitely gonna use the necktie. I get 20 minutes of audio and video. I definitely want to get the picture, and I guess I want to get the runes of the magic spell or whatever was d

one. - Cool. - And then I want to come back with a bunch of books. - [Emily] Wow. Go shopping? - Did you go shopping? - There was a dead unicorn with spiders in it pointing at a faceless woman. - [Siobhan] Are you okay? - And people were doing drugs in there Yeah, I'm fine. - Okay. - It was weird. - What are these books? - I don't know. - [Siobhan] Can I look at the books? - Yeah, can I look at the books too? - Before we open them, let's do an Arcana check on the books. - Oh yeah, let's do an In

sight to see if they're bad. - Yeah, give me, what's the Insight? - 10. - They are bad in that they are dusty, old, nasty books of what looks like kind of evil magic. - [Emily] If anyone has asthma... - 19 Arcana check. - 19 Arcana check. On a 19, you're gonna need more time to look at these and really unpack them. - Can I do a Religion? - Also, you would need to- a lot of this shit is research that was missing from your mom's research you got back from Calethriel tower. You would need to go to

the chamber to see which of these runes they actually used. Otherwise, these books are just so dense for you to look through. - This is a strange question. - I didn't see anyone alive in there. - But you said that there was a face that was destroyed? - Yeah. - Were there pieces of it on the ground? Could we mend it and put the face back together to see what looked like? - Should we go in there? - I didn't see anyone, but I was pretty sneaky. Nobody would have seen me. But we could try. I didn't

see anybody. - I mean, my mum isn't within 1,000 feet of here, so I don't think that they're still here. - How would they have gotten out, though? Is there a back door or something? Let's look for footprints leading in a different direction. - It looks like they hallucinated, and because dreams are real here, they were able to go somewhere else, so I think- - But we have the moss, right? - Yeah, we can do the same thing. - They lucid dreamed themselves somewhere else? - If we look through all th

ese books and see if maybe they tell us exactly what to do. - Yeah. - Okay. - [Lou] We're gonna do drugs? Doing drugs in a forest where dreams are real sounds really- - [Murph] I think we're maybe gonna do drugs. - I think that only I should look at the books. - Okay. - Because if the books are dangerous, I'm the best at reading magical books. Then it's just me who's done it. If I get messed up by them, then you can help me. If more than one person looks at them, then- - Okay. - I just want to k

eep us safe. - Cool. - That's cool. - So you guys go towards the chamber where the ritual took place. (haunting instrumental) Off of this is the chapel, is the place that had the image of the goddess. Adaine, you see that, go ahead and give me another Arcana check, if you'd be so kind. - When Adaine is going through the books, can I Countercharm just so she can't get charmed or anything like that? - I have advantage on charm, but fear is - Yeah, so I'll play just make you feel bold. - bad for me

. - [Emily] It's your favorite song. - You see your friend Adaine there reading these books, very selflessly being like, I want to do this scary thing alone so that none of you get hurt, and you look up and see your friend Fig, who has got your back as always, and is playing her bass. - And I have my net gun pointed at you. - Riz displaying friendship in Riz's own way. - [Siobhan] I see you and I appreciate you. - As they're doing that in the chamber, Kristen, go ahead and give me a Religion che

ck. - Cool. (dice rolling) Guess what? - What's that? - What do you think? - What do you think, dude? - What do you fucking think? - Just guess. - What do you fucking think! - Guess, dude! - On International DMs day? On International DMs day? - [Siobhan] Crunch it up, bro, crunch it up. - [Ally] I'm letting you tell your story. - Honestly, you still got that d12? Why don't you suck on it a little bit longer? - Suck on it a little! - [Murph] International DM day? Read out whatever you prepared, d

ude. Read out whatever you prepared, 'cause we figured it out! - I hope it's hairy. I hope it's got dust all over it. - Yeah. - I put it on a piece of paper and there's a little bit of paper on it. - [Ally] Aw, I'm sorry. (haunting instrumental continues) - So you get a nat 20 Religion check. You're in the chapel, you guys are in the... So one, two, three are in the chamber. Fabian and Gorgug, there's a lot of other places in this complex, there's a hallway, there's a place at the back of this c

hamber. Where are you guys positioned at? - I think I keep looking at Gorgug in all of this and I'm just like, what should we do? There's nothing to hit. - [Zac] Could lock down this hallway a little bit. - I mean, I can lock down that other hallway. I can go make sure- - [Siobhan] You two are both so unwise. - Cool, so one of one of you, pick which of you is posting up at the hallway leading out of the chamber, and which of you is posting up in the hallway kind of in between the chapel and the

other one. - I'll do leading out. - I honestly wanted to go catch a peek at that weird unicorn thing, so I'll go back to the chapel. - Cool. - [Zac] That thing creeped me out. - It is so scary. - What was that Arcana check, one more time? - [Siobhan] 21. - 21. You look through here. You discern the ritual, and in so doing, crack the secret of the four curses, the four transubstantiations. You know what they all are. You know. This ritual allows you to back engineer what every single one of them

is. - [Lou] Damn. - As you are sitting there studying- - I should read more. - Books are cool! - Yeah. - What your mother was able to do here, what you realize is- for any of you guys, illusion magic past this point- the two days of traveling have been at the border of the Nightmare King's Forest. As it goes in, the thing making it stronger is the tree, the broomstick. It is at the center of the forest, and it creates these concentric circles where the curses overlap and make each other stronger

. The two days of traveling through here have been a place where illusions become partially real. Past here, they become even realer. That's also true for you guys. In the way that made Kalina almost kill Kristen, if you were to cast Disguise Self here, it would actually be the effect of an Alter Self spell. It would be a full transmutation. - [Emily] So I'd be more powerful? - [Siobhan] Amazing. - In other words, if you transformed into a thing that- - [Siobhan] What Illusion magic do I have? -

If you used illusion to become something that had wings, like an aarakocra, you'd be able to actually fly, right? So illusion has some ability to actually make itself real here, but that makes the place extremely dangerous. That curse- - Does that mean if I cast Greater Invisibility, I just don't exist anymore? - No, because the purpose of invisibility is to literally not be seen. - Okay. - So you wouldn't be- - So nobody, but it would maybe mean that people who can see invisibility wouldn't be

able to see through it. - Yes, exactly. - Okay, great. - Illusions are just vastly more powerful here. The ritual that was done here with the dusk moss was to put your parents and stuff into a state of lucid dreaming. You don't think it was some kind of way for them to gain mastery over the dream realm or whatever. You think it was an Abjuration. You see your sister's magic helping here. It's literally like, we're gonna lucid dream so that if something that lives organically in this forest trie

s to rip our mind apart, we will be able to just say, this is not happening, and control the lucidity of our experience in the forest. It's literally like a survival, it's like, I need to be able to partially control the unreal things that are gonna be happening as we go deeper into the forest. - Is this something that I can do, or is this just an Aelwyn thing? - We have the stuff. - [Lou] We have the drugs. - We have the drugs. - You could it potentially do it. You would have to research and ha

ve the time to do it. - [Siobhan] Here is some fuckery. - Give me the fuckery. - Illusions here are real. - Yes. - I have Illusory Script. If I were to write a spell using Illusory Script in this forest, would that make the spell real? (haunting music continues) - What I need from you is a DC... I'm gonna say... this is an incredible piece of fuckery. I'm going to need a DC 30 Arcana check. - Okay, great. I literally can't get that, so I would have to- - Bardic. - Thank you. Can I have Boggy hel

p me? - Boggy can help you. - [Ally] Can you have two Bardics? Can you stack Bardics? - I don't think you can. - You can't stack Bardic. - [Zac] That would be broken. - A party of bards would be virtually unstoppable. - Bang, bang! - [Zac] I roll a 80. - [Murph] Guaranteed nat 20. You got it. - What? - Guaranteed nat 20. - A guaranteed nat 20? You're saying that I'm guaranteed a nat 20? - We guarantee it. - Uh-huh, uh-huh. - [Ally] Not too bad. - Bardic, add that d8. - [Lou] What is it at? - I c

an't get it. No, I can't get it. - [Zac] Don't sue us. - You see, you think this is a trick you can try again, not for this spell. - Okay. - Effectively what's going on here is, the premise of the idea is absolutely accurate. It literally comes down to, Illusory Script still requires you to write something down. - Right. - So if you were like, "Write down the ritual for the spell I would need," a scroll would appear saying, "The ritual for the spell I need." You still would need to know what to

put on it in order for it to exist. - Can I see that Adaine tried this, and it feels like she failed and maybe is feeling sad and then cast Phantasmal Force? You craft an illusion that takes root in the mind of you see within range, and I want to, I mean, I don't really have- - Make her think she did it. - I guess I just want to make her think she did it. - A momentary burst of triumph comes over you. - I did it! - And then immediately- - Oh. - Can I try it again and then just make a unicorn she

can have? - [Ally] What? - Moving on. A tiny unicorn prances around, is very real. But what I'm gonna do now is tell you the rest of these curses real quick. - Great. - Which are: the familiar that was turned into plague, you know. - Yes, Kalina. - That's Kalina. There are four schools of magic associated with them. Kalina's is Illusion. We know that, powerful illusion. She seems to be the thing controlling the illusions that live within the forest, right? - Okay. - The next one is the spellboo

k that was turned into a coin. That is Enchantment. You connect the Enchantment school with the possessions you've been seeing. The coin went to the hoard, and the hoard has something to do with the ability for people to receive, to be possessed, to be dominated. So all that enchantment stuff has to do with the coin. The coin is the thing that produces that enchantment effect that appears to happen when you go to sleep. You also think that it only works while you're asleep, which is why when Riz

didn't go to sleep, he didn't get potentially possessed, and also that if you guys had to, with no Moon Haven and no Hallow spell, you could potentially just never sleep while you're in here and it wouldn't be an issue. You're risking levels of exhaustion, but what you're not risking is getting possessed. - Yeah. - There is the cottage, the sanctum that was turned into the cottage. That has to do with Abjuration magic, right? By the way, all these are associated with the gifts that one of the t

ribes got from them. So the cat was of the wood elves, who are all about dexterity, agility, combat and war. The sprites were all dream magic and stuff like that. The cottage was something that was a holy place to the centaurs who lived here. That's Abjuration magic, and what you see is, as you go deeper into the forest, there is more control. You realize that the cottage appeared to the celestials you brought with you. It's like a giant magic circle. It's the thing that is abjuration magic, pro

tection against other forces trying to come into the forest. It's divine magic. So there are things that are gonna prevent certain levels of spellcasting as you go deeper and deeper. Then there is... the last one is the tree, the broomstick of the tree that was revered by the treants. That has to do with the scariest curse you've learned about thus far, and it's the one you haven't encountered yet. The forest beyond this point is alive, and it will change the paths of itself to lead you away fro

m the center based on the degree to which you feel or don't feel fear. Meaning, the more confident you are that you are going in the right direction and that you are safe in doing so, the more it will turn you around back the way you came. - So we have to be afraid as we go in. - You have to be more and- - We have to follow our fear. - more afraid. You have to literally follow your fear. Kristen, you get a nat 20 Religion check. What are you thinking as you look at the goddess? - I wanna know wh

o she is. I wanna know what the school of thought was, why she wants to be hidden. I guess, who's... I know who's hiding her, but... - What you see (haunting instrumental) as you move towards the goddess, destroyed face. You move closer. You hear a voice in your head. Why do you search for me? - Jesus. I heard that you're the god of praise through doubt, and that really resonates with me with where I'm at right now. I have a lot of praise for you. (Brennan hisses) - Fabian, you're at the doorway

. - Is Kristen in the room? - Kristen's in the room. I need you to make a Constitution saving throw with disadvantage. - Interesting. - Pretty creepy, huh, Kristen? It's very weird. - Eyes rolling back. (dice rolling) - [Emily] Pretty creepy, huh, Kristen? - Disadvantage. 13? - Pretty creepy! - A one roll to a nat 20. That's pretty crazy. - Kristen, you're looking up. I'm gonna describe what Kristen sees, and then I'm gonna describe what Fabian saw. - Okay. Saw? - Saw. You say, "I have a lot of

praise for you." You feel a hiss, like air escaping from ancient tombs. Bitterness, spite, betrayal, rage. You feel a lancing pain. There's something below you, there's something down. And as you turn to look down, a blood-covered horn is emerging from your chest. You sway on your feet and collapse, because what Fabian saw was that skeleton in the room stand up, leap forward, and gore Kristen through the heart. - The unicorn? - The unicorn. - Every...! (screams) I run at it. I run. I scream and

run. - Kristen, you feel the life completely drain from your body. What praise will you have in death? The light leaves your eyes, and you see Kristen collapse to the ground, dead, as the skeleton of this unicorn turns to face you. It looks into your eye, and only because Fabian is immune to fear does he keep his mind as the skeleton utters, "You should not have come here." And that's all for this week- - Okay! - ...on Fantasy High. - Okay!