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Thank you everybody. Welcome

1:19

to the campaign after the campaign.

1:22

This is not another D&D podcast.

1:28

Welcome back to Twilight

1:31

Sanktora. Why? Why?

1:33

Twilight Sanktora. That

1:36

was really

1:38

good actually, the bird call.

1:40

Okay. I thought so,

1:42

yeah. Ray Vence. Twank, twank. Okay,

1:44

it's too much now. Too much? You're too much.

1:47

I'm your dungeon docent Emily Oxford joined by

1:49

Brian Murphy. Yeah, it's too much,

1:51

Penn. If you're

1:53

nice to the birds and you give them shiny trinkets,

1:55

they'll give you stuff in return. I know that. You

1:57

don't have to mimic them though. If anything, you're insulting

1:59

them. with Frankie Fantasmo. You look

2:01

nice today! And of

2:04

course, Colwell Tanner. Oh,

2:06

from ugly doggling to Papa Swan,

2:08

and also all my blood is

2:10

gone. It's me, Penny Fantasmo. How's

2:12

it going? And

2:14

finally, Jake Hurwitz. Feeling

2:16

all alone in a dog cone.

2:18

Nathan, Fantasmo. We

2:21

shouldn't let him sleep in that cone. I think

2:23

he might suffocate. Come on! Tiffany, go up and

2:25

leave. It's too complicated. And with

2:28

that, we return one last

2:30

time to a liminal city

2:32

at the crossroads of life

2:34

and death, where private investigators

2:36

Frankie, Penny, and Mavid

2:38

Fantasmo are just trying

2:41

to collect the final spell

2:43

component to reincarnate their deceased

2:45

client. Last session, you

2:47

recovered from your battle with

2:49

the musically bewitched gazers, but

2:51

as one lay dying on

2:53

your carriage floor, it produced

2:55

an encoded thought strand containing

2:57

the final moments of its

2:59

life. In a well-intentioned

3:02

but misguided effort to hack

3:04

the magical artifacts, Penny ate it.

3:07

Okay, I misread an article about how

3:09

to deal with thought strands, okay? Then

3:12

you headed to an abandoned

3:14

townhouse to explore the headquarters

3:16

of Living in Harmony. Mavid

3:18

scaled the exterior and spied

3:20

a conversation between the wereraven,

3:23

Shadowmancer, and puppet who'd attacked

3:25

you earlier and a

3:27

mysterious woman. As your combatants

3:29

pleaded for their lives, the

3:31

woman retrieved a purple stringed

3:33

dulcimer from a painting, played

3:36

a magical song, and deanimated

3:38

your foes. When the

3:40

room was finally empty, Mavid

3:42

hopped in, stole mostly everything,

3:45

and the three- Most of the stuff that don't matter. And

3:48

the three of you returned home, where

3:50

Penny finally passed the gazer's

3:52

security footage. Improved it

3:54

in some ways, I imagine. Upon

3:57

analyzing the footage, you learned the location of

3:59

the- Genevieve's apartment but also got

4:01

a glimpse of her understudy, Ida

4:04

Belvedere, picking the lock to it.

4:06

You confronted Ida at Genevieve's apartment only

4:09

to have Ida confess that it was

4:11

she who had been sending

4:13

the threatening letters to Genevieve. The

4:16

two were romantically involved and Ida wanted

4:18

to run away together. Ida

4:20

then shared a pile of blackmail

4:22

letters she'd found written not to

4:24

but from Genevieve. The letters were

4:27

written to the head of living

4:29

in harmony, accusing the collective of

4:31

pretending to heal people when in

4:33

fact it turned them undead. Penny

4:35

scoured the letters, found the name

4:38

Trudea, and realized the purple strings

4:40

of the dolcimer were likely the

4:42

unicorn hair Genevieve was after. Armed

4:46

with this information, the three of you

4:48

planned to attend the masquerade the next

4:50

night to steal the unicorn hair. On

4:53

your way home, however, you saw

4:55

Abel Miss Mabel's hut in disarray.

4:57

You found a bruised and repentant

5:00

Miss Mabel who told you Nico

5:02

sent his fists to claim Genevieve's

5:04

body, then saw Penny's blood and

5:07

decided the debt of a private

5:09

investigator was more valuable to him

5:11

after all. That's alright. That's not too bad. I

5:13

guess that could be funny, you know? Yeah,

5:16

it's true. It didn't even sniff my blood.

5:20

I think Miss Mabel forgot she had

5:22

it because I the DM forgot I

5:24

had it. Yeah, your blood

5:26

is like brown, Dad. What's with that? I

5:28

don't know. And that's where you guys are

5:30

now. Frankie, Penny,

5:33

Mavid, you navigate

5:35

the shadowy back alleys to

5:38

your dilapidated carriage house, clutching

5:41

the feathered masquerade masks Miss

5:43

Mabel gave you. The

5:46

eerie twilight of day is dawning.

5:48

We've been out all night. A

5:51

crow the size of a rooster perches

5:53

on a rusty weather vane and

5:56

croaks its morning song. Okay,

5:58

how's it going? Mavid, give him a peanut. No,

6:00

neither my nuts you I am. I do

6:02

like to the crow. gonna give me a

6:04

bottle cap later. Yeah, so we thought that

6:06

amount of the send messages to us or

6:08

something like that doesn't. Make

6:11

discover you're not. Hungry

6:13

requirement or and drop a to say you got

6:16

enough peanuts ravaged by my you know and maybe

6:18

you don't want the as you are not going

6:20

to come another new to it. Were not like

6:22

the allows you feel good enough. David

6:26

seeks out a budget and I have a

6:28

seat. Up you pigs throats duped

6:30

I've seen seriously close to your

6:33

feet. Out gobbles up the nice

6:35

assessed I like. I'm sad. To

6:37

do is that use as and two

6:39

years the last updated turrets has to

6:41

have anything that you would like to

6:43

do before you go to bed. For. Than

6:46

I guess that anybody break and people always

6:48

break even or oh yeah was tech the

6:50

windows he adamantly an. Investigation Insects use

6:52

as did already destroy the mirror

6:54

that could have been a portal.

6:57

Ranger writes good and not a

6:59

great investigation. Were sort of fourteen,

7:01

I got about one. he is

7:03

now I gotta not one penny.

7:06

Their enemies everywhere. Authorities you need

7:08

is a suit. Your fireball Indiscriminate.

7:11

That approach. Was

7:14

enough. for us

7:16

to my boys or maybe got a twenty six them.

7:19

Sweaty mess gave me that it

7:21

you by nature thing ever on

7:23

his out. To get you. Look

7:26

around though and in this

7:28

rare the reprise. You. Do

7:30

feel safe here. You

7:33

do not feel as though anyone

7:35

is lying in wait. A

7:37

bit you want to describe how you feel dizzy.

7:39

See any banger. I'd

7:42

feel. Oddly at ease of exit

7:44

switching less than usual with her life.

7:47

Ah, Yes,

7:49

I did any other coffee. get

7:52

some blue we should all go to sleep as

7:54

we get of leaving the event as as make

7:56

a pot of coffee before they go to school

7:58

absolutely i was like Yeah, just half

8:01

half decaf You

8:04

guys brew half-caf Everybody

8:06

have your caffeine and let's get the bed for a

8:08

little bit We're

8:10

only gonna sleep until one or two because you

8:13

don't want to completely throw off your rhythm. Oh,

8:15

no. No. Yeah This is just nighttime thinking coffee.

8:17

So you all take your half-caf coffee

8:21

And retire to your respective

8:23

rooms. Good night sleep tight. I

8:25

love you. Love you both Yeah, I

8:28

think maybe it actually instead of going to his

8:30

bedroom is gonna go take a

8:32

nice hot bath He's down to sleep there.

8:34

Oh Okay,

8:37

all right, maybe don't leave it on I'm

8:40

gonna leave it on I'm just gonna run the hot

8:42

water for a little bit maybe you step over shattered

8:45

glass Please we could

8:47

teach the crow to pick that up. Honestly,

8:49

you open up the window The crow comes

8:52

in and starts picking up the glass a

8:54

boy and

8:59

I see you crawl into

9:01

this steaming hot bath

9:04

on your forearm The

9:06

bandage of the poultice miss

9:08

Mabel applied screams

9:11

weekly in fact the humidity seems to

9:13

be lessening Some

9:16

of the adhesive qualities to

9:18

it. Yeah, I submerge it

9:20

in the tub You Submerge

9:26

it in the tub with this

9:28

wet bandage clinging to it You

9:30

can see the scar forming

9:32

underneath is sort of

9:34

rough and scaly ridged

9:39

crocodilian I

9:43

Think I pick at it absentmindedly I Probably

9:47

find to just let it soak it doesn't need to

9:49

be wrapped up in a bandage everything It's

9:54

gonna undo the bandage entirely okay

9:59

you rip this

10:01

bandage off and soak

10:04

this wound in the bathtub

10:07

as the

10:09

humidity of the bathtub

10:12

becomes dark and almost

10:15

brackish. Your

10:18

wound tingles with the oxygen

10:20

you are feeding it. You

10:22

hear the crunching of bone and you

10:25

hear, feed me,

10:27

mave it, I

10:30

will make you strong.

10:34

What are you hungry for? Buddies.

10:39

Buddies? No. No?

10:45

I can't hear you. I

10:47

can't hear you super well. God,

10:51

if you can't hear me, it is

10:53

because the connection is distant.

10:56

But with every body you fell,

10:58

it will get closer and

11:00

louder. Wow,

11:03

okay, okay, yeah, yeah. Tell

11:05

you what, you got it. And

11:10

with that commitment, your

11:12

muscles contract and release and

11:14

you feel in your mouth, your

11:18

teeth getting pointier.

11:22

Wow. Almost piercing the inside

11:24

of your lip, you

11:26

now have a bite attack with which

11:28

you are proficient. Holy

11:31

shit, my snaggle tooth grew in.

11:33

It's even longer than before. And

11:36

three times a day you can use it

11:38

to regain hit points equal to the damage

11:40

you do. Okay,

11:43

I turn to the crow and say,

11:45

he's okay in there, right? I don't

11:47

need to worry. Maybe it's fully submerged

11:49

under the bathwater. And

11:52

that's Mavid. Penny.

11:56

That's Mavid, I guess. You

12:00

retire to your bedroom. I'm assuming

12:02

that the bedroom is where you

12:04

have your laboratory. Yeah, it's kind of a communal

12:07

bedroom workspace that there was a model train

12:10

set, but it's been shoved aside. I'd actually

12:12

kind of like set it up to go

12:14

in between all the rooms of like a

12:16

messaging system. Right, but Frankie kept breaking the

12:19

track. Right, yeah, the train would come back

12:21

and the train would be all mangled. So

12:23

it's just collecting dust now. And

12:25

you've mentioned like trying to modernize

12:28

Van Tasmo and Sons investigation. I'm

12:31

wondering like, what do you think

12:33

that you've set up in this

12:35

little DIY lab to help

12:38

usher your father's old

12:40

business into a more modern age?

12:42

Well, I think you know, it's all about

12:44

the fusion of forensics and magic. For me,

12:46

at least, you know, that's a little bit

12:48

of what I learned at community college and

12:50

what I picked up from various periodicals that

12:53

I try to keep up with. So I

12:55

think there's probably a lot of like tinctures,

12:57

powders, stuff for, you know, dusting for prints

12:59

and whatnot. Just trying to keep

13:01

up with the cutting edge. But also, you

13:03

know, there's like books of like runes and

13:05

stuff that can be infused. I think they've

13:07

got like a prototype of the pistol that

13:09

I use that shoots a fireball, things like

13:12

that kind of, you know, trying to synthesize

13:14

magic and investigative techniques.

13:16

Yeah. Well, you return

13:18

to this familiar laboratory. It's been

13:21

a long day, you gave a

13:23

cord of your blood for

13:25

your son, which somehow

13:27

managed its way into the hands of your

13:29

enemy. But you

13:31

also do have this puppet that you

13:34

felt so curious about when

13:36

it attacked you trying to scare your family

13:38

off of Genevieve's trail. Yes.

13:41

Your son so intelligently

13:44

decided to leave it. I

13:47

think I like to pick it up and look at

13:49

it. I hold it almost as if it's a small

13:51

child. You

13:55

try to burp this lifeless puppet. Look

13:57

at you. Wow. kind

14:00

of inspecting the joints and the way

14:02

that they fit together. Okay, so

14:04

as you inspect the joints and the

14:06

ways they fit together, give

14:09

me an arcana check. Yeah,

14:12

I make myself a piece

14:14

of toast to settle my stomach because because

14:17

of all the coffee. Yeah, all the coffee and the lack

14:19

of blood. Oh,

14:22

that's just gonna be a 14. A

14:24

14 is enough. You inspect these

14:26

joints, you essentially perform like a

14:28

small puppet autopsy, sort

14:30

of peeking inside what's going on.

14:33

And inside you see that

14:35

the dolls, limbs and joints

14:38

are held together by arachnae

14:40

silk. Arachnae are

14:43

spider folk from the Feywild,

14:45

and they produce this super

14:47

strong silvery thread that

14:50

can be woven as

14:52

intricately as spider webs. This

14:55

silk is used for coin

14:57

purses, clothing, like healing wounds.

14:59

It's a multi-purpose substance,

15:01

but what it does better than

15:03

anything else is conduct arcane

15:06

magic. So it's an amazing conductor

15:08

for magic. I knew it. I

15:10

knew that that puppet was too nimble,

15:13

even with magical infusions. The fact that

15:15

it was able to move and dance

15:17

like that, there had to be something

15:19

else going on. Yes. Does it seem

15:21

like I could infuse further spells

15:23

or even a small

15:26

amount of life into this puppet? I

15:28

would say that your

15:30

mage hand is probably the

15:33

most innately magical thing that

15:35

you have. And there

15:37

is a feeling that if you

15:39

were to infuse sort of your mage

15:42

hand in this, you might be able to

15:44

animate it in its own right. So

15:47

you're saying that I could basically

15:49

use my mage hand to puppet the puppet?

15:52

Yeah. I think

15:54

I practiced this. I

15:56

insert my mage hand, make

15:58

it dance a little bit. And I kind

16:00

of like put it towards the mirror and I

16:03

think, all right, maybe I'll be going. It's me.

16:07

Even your puppet is practicing conversation

16:09

for your son. Pretty

16:12

cool, huh? Look at this. Hey, why

16:15

don't we go get a burger or something? Yeah.

16:17

As your mage hand

16:20

magic animates these strings,

16:23

it takes hold in a way

16:25

that is its own spell.

16:28

With this, you have now learned

16:31

the find familiar spell. Oh,

16:33

I think I give the puppet the name

16:35

that we would have gone with if Mavid

16:37

was a girl, which is Dolores. As

16:43

you say, Dolores, this puppet, it doesn't really speak,

16:45

but it sort of like clacks

16:47

at you with like a wordless,

16:49

wooden, sounds like a hollow xylophone

16:52

or something like that. And it sort

16:54

of dances for you a little bit. I

16:56

think we're playing music in there. Sorry,

16:58

dad. You'll love him, don't worry. And

17:02

it sort of cuddles up on your

17:04

bed like a pleasant cat. And

17:07

is there anything else you'd like to do? Well, I start

17:09

thinking about tiny clothes to make for the puppet.

17:13

Then I shake those thoughts from my head because tomorrow

17:15

is gonna be a big, big day and

17:17

I wanna make sure everyone's prepared. So I think

17:21

the next thing I would love to do is

17:23

to try and

17:25

improve Mavid's ball bearings. Okay,

17:27

I'm gonna say since Mavid is naked

17:30

in the bathtub, maybe he just carelessly

17:32

threw his clothing outside of the bathroom

17:34

so you can go retrieve the

17:37

ball bearings amidst all the peanut

17:39

shells from his pocket. Okay, nut

17:41

pocket is left, ball pocket

17:43

is right. Okay, yep, they're both mixed. So

17:47

I grab a bunch of ball bearings and I guess

17:49

I wanna try and like make it so that they're

17:51

extra slippery and like the DC goes up or something.

17:53

Okay, cool, give me an arcana check if you

17:56

work with these. Just

17:59

an 11. I would say it doesn't work.

18:02

Maybe it's all the peanut dust that's

18:04

coating them, but you can't seem to

18:06

get through to manipulate these fall berries. You get

18:08

them back to baseline. You separate

18:10

the peanuts from the fall berries. You definitely clean

18:12

all the peanut dust off of it. I guess

18:14

I'm just doing a nice thing for me. I'm

18:16

not improving them. They're covered in dust as soon

18:18

as they go back in the panther. Anything

18:23

else, or would you like to surrender

18:25

to? Yeah, I think I'd probably start to

18:27

pass out from the blood loss. Crawl

18:31

my way into bed next to the

18:33

puppet. Great. And then Frankie.

18:36

I think Frankie does his normal thing, which

18:38

is to tell everybody he's going to bed

18:40

and then leaves the light on and smokes

18:43

his pipe. And you can see

18:45

the smoke coming out from under the door. And

18:48

he also, I'll say almost like

18:50

he's a bad roommate playing

18:52

darts or something. He has a throwing

18:54

knife that he just throws into a beam on

18:58

his wall that has a bunch of

19:00

like slashes into it. And then

19:02

he has another knife that was like

19:04

a dagger that his wife Lynette had

19:06

that he doesn't throw. He keeps it

19:08

perfect. So he's got the one in

19:11

his left hand that's her knife just kind

19:13

of like flipping it and looking at

19:15

it. And then he's got his crappy one that

19:17

he just throws into the wall over and over

19:19

again. As you flip Lynette's

19:21

dagger in your hand,

19:24

the health of it familiar to you at

19:26

this point. You see the health of it

19:28

is decorated with a sort

19:30

of red poppy flower. You

19:33

hear Atticus's words in your head as a favorite

19:37

of your late wife. And

19:42

you feel in your stomach the

19:45

remnants of the little death that

19:47

you took just a dab of. And

19:50

a memory is needling

19:53

at you. I

19:56

dive in. Yeah. I

20:00

probably like if I would have saved the vial

20:02

I'd try to take more Desperately

20:11

try to sit more I don't lick

20:14

it you huff the fumes of that

20:16

little death and You

20:19

return to a moment You

20:23

see in the corner of your bedroom this Vanity

20:26

with a basin where Lynette

20:28

used to take the pins out

20:30

of her hair after a night of dancing And

20:33

you remember a specific night Lynette

20:36

Smiling at you in the mirror as her hair

20:39

Curled by curl falls to her

20:41

shoulders But with some

20:43

mischief in her eyes Hey

20:46

Frank She pulls

20:49

a coin purse from her corset. I I

20:52

think it's time to start looking at places in

20:54

the Feywild She

20:57

tosses you the purse Grinning

21:00

at you it lands Heavy

21:03

in your hand. There's a lot of coin in here.

21:06

I Gotta

21:08

raise Frank We're

21:11

so close. I can taste it you

21:13

me pen. We're

21:15

getting out here She

21:19

Takes the final pin out of her

21:21

hair, which you now recognize is her

21:23

dagger She

21:26

folds it gently into a handkerchief and

21:28

she tucks it into a drawer Then

21:31

she turns at you beaming with a

21:34

hope that is so Infectious

21:38

you Forgot to

21:41

question where all that money came from Lynette

21:45

of course you got a rage in

21:47

the bed. They finally realize your words

21:50

And I pull her in I give

21:53

her a big kiss Such

21:55

a distant Frankie that no longer

21:57

exists. I call for penny Get

22:00

in here, bud. We got great news. What's

22:02

going on? Come here my special little guy

22:04

get over here. Oh God,

22:07

why we just perfect little family? I

22:14

love you my love you dad. I love you, son It's

22:18

so simple I'm

22:21

gonna do a car wheel. Okay. Oh, well look at

22:24

him go Look at

22:26

him go. That's my boy. He can do car

22:28

wheels better than anybody and

22:31

then this beautiful memory

22:34

dissipates like the

22:36

smoke from your pipe and You're

22:40

back here Yeah,

22:42

I Look in

22:44

the mirror and

22:47

see myself looking back

22:50

at me instead of Lynette

22:54

Yeah Throw something

22:56

over the mirror and I guess I'll

22:58

inspect I'll

23:01

give a good look at the knife or

23:04

see if there's anything because now now I'm

23:06

starting to question Everything and

23:08

where this money came from You

23:11

want to give me an investigation check?

23:18

17 holding it in your hand. Do you realize it's

23:20

actually more powerful than the dragger you've

23:22

been using? Which is

23:25

actually kind of suspicious in its own right?

23:28

why would a dancer be packing more

23:30

heat than a private investigator and I've

23:34

added Lynette's dagger to your Character

23:37

sheet. Okay. So this dagger

23:40

is a plus one bonus to attack and

23:42

damage rolls Yeah, it's a

23:44

magic weapon and it has three

23:46

extra properties to it Immediately

23:48

after you use the attack action you

23:51

can enable one creature within 60 feet

23:53

of you to use its reaction to

23:55

make one weapon Attack immediately

23:57

after you take the dash action you can enable

24:00

one creature within 60 feet of you to use

24:02

its reaction to move up to its speed. Or

24:05

immediately after you take the dodge action you

24:07

can enable one creature within 60 feet of

24:09

you to use their reaction to gain the

24:11

benefits of dodge. Sweet. Wow.

24:14

So it's better than the regular dagger you've

24:17

been using. And I think also if you

24:19

are investigating, you look to

24:21

the drawer. Do you think that you've

24:23

gotten rid of her stuff or do you think you've- No, I think

24:25

I'd leave it untouched. Okay. I

24:27

think I don't even usually look at it

24:29

and only this memory is making me be

24:31

like, did

24:33

something happen to her? Was what happened

24:36

to her not natural? You

24:38

look through the drawer. It's a lot of normal

24:41

personal effects, some satin gloves,

24:44

hair ties, her perfume

24:46

that you loved that smelled like

24:48

citrus and vanilla. But there

24:51

is one thing that you don't

24:53

recognize. There's a signet ring with

24:56

a snake pressed into it. I

25:01

take the ring. Do

25:03

I recognize this? Give me

25:06

a history check. Dirty

25:09

20. With

25:11

a dirty 20 you would recognize this

25:13

symbol to be of the Naga,

25:16

which are sort of the snake folk

25:18

that live in a brood on the

25:20

outskirts of town. What

25:26

did you get you something to do? All

25:29

right, I take the ring and

25:33

I stay up all night. Great.

25:39

So Frankie, the next

25:42

morning everyone else wakes up except for you.

25:45

I eventually fall asleep sitting up on a bed.

25:49

And the next morning you guys wake up.

25:52

Maybe you got the floor wet. Yeah,

25:54

well I fell asleep. I

25:56

told you to turn off the water. Give

26:00

me a luck check to see if you ever turned

26:02

the water off. I don't need to

26:04

do that. I did not Maybe

26:06

your skin's all pruny. Oh, come on Soak

26:11

your bandage either yeah, we gotta apply this

26:13

and look at look at this. Oh, that

26:16

does not look very good Yeah, you guys

26:18

barely touched it. This scar is like

26:21

Scaly Oh Well,

26:24

and you see maven snaggle tooth is

26:27

looking Prominent Maybe

26:34

is there anything you want to tell us? No Because

26:39

you're particularly ghoulish this morning, maybe

26:46

Okay, honey bear you do what you need to do Don't

26:49

call him honey bear. He's a nasty

26:52

little guy Did

26:56

anybody get a good night sleep last night absolutely

26:58

not yeah me neither Alright

27:01

boys, let's put on a pot of

27:03

double calf I'm

27:07

realizing now. That's what I put on last

27:09

night. Oh, okay. Yeah, I might explain it.

27:11

I didn't mind it All right,

27:13

let's get put on our

27:15

best which I think we already put on

27:17

to go out last night So let's keep

27:19

the same clothes. We had on last night,

27:21

but put our masks on And

27:26

with the the swan mask

27:29

just you know yeah, just

27:32

be normal, okay Try

27:35

to rein it in You

27:37

got it. I wink and you can clearly see it

27:40

through the eye hole. I poked into the swan head

27:43

And I have a raven mask right raven

27:45

man. What does maven have an owl mask?

27:47

Oh my god Oh Alright,

27:51

maybe Yeah

27:55

the first time you said it was kind of

27:58

amusing There's

28:00

other people that haven't heard it yet. Yeah,

28:02

yeah, yeah, yeah. Who

28:04

is this? Your mother and your stepdad might give you

28:06

pity laughs, but you're not gonna get in our house.

28:08

You gotta be a real comedian, alright? Get

28:10

some actual insight or something. Yeah, yeah,

28:13

yeah. Sorry. So

28:15

you guys suit up anything else you wanna do

28:17

before you head to this party? Uh,

28:20

I guess uh, give me some peanuts, Maven.

28:22

There's none left. I gave them all to that

28:24

freaking party. You gave them all? We said to

28:26

give some and you gave them all away? You

28:28

guys say that the crow is waiting at

28:31

the doorstep, like, as if you've taught it

28:33

that now it can come feed at your

28:35

house. Come on, dude. Now it's obsessed with us.

28:37

Okay. I'm gonna make a mask out of you.

28:40

Okay. It flies away. Okay. Alright,

28:44

let's get going. Yep. So

28:46

you guys head out into the

28:48

night. As you get closer

28:50

to the townhouse, more

28:53

passing through like the nicer parts of

28:55

town, you see that there's almost

28:57

a tide of

28:59

foot traffic and carriages that start

29:01

to be heading in the same

29:03

direction as you. In

29:06

the past, living in harmony was kind of secretive,

29:08

but this is maybe more of a debut. A

29:11

lot of the people that you're walking alongside seem

29:13

like they might be first timers as well. There's

29:15

like a giddiness.

29:18

People aren't wearing their masks yet to walk,

29:20

but you see people holding the masks, see

29:22

people whispering, wondering what's to

29:24

come. Look, oh shit, other people don't have

29:26

their masks on yet. Should we take

29:28

these off or? I

29:30

don't know. It's probably good to... I was

29:32

gonna look weird if I take it off. Yeah, yeah,

29:34

yeah. I looked like I saw them with it off.

29:36

It looks like they're subconscious. Alright, be confident, everybody. Let's

29:38

keep them on it. Maybe they'll put their time. Yeah,

29:40

and hide the ball pit pen making us look weird.

29:42

Why are you bringing that thing? Yeah, why are you

29:44

bringing it all to the party? It's got a real

29:46

bond with it. Don't worry. I'll put a

29:48

mask on the puppet. You got a bond with the puppet? No,

29:51

guys, this is like when people bring a guitar to a party.

29:53

I'll bring a puppet. I'll be the hit of the show. Yeah,

29:56

famously. Everybody loves a guitar guy and

29:58

what they love. More than that is

30:00

a puppy. Yeah, I do

30:03

guys are walking a elven woman

30:05

says you can ease that Can you make it

30:07

dance? Oh can I make it dance? Step

30:10

back step back everybody. Okay, I'm ahead

30:16

There's the good role After

30:18

all of those bad rolls. I got all the

30:20

peanut dust out of my system and I do

30:22

a 26 perform Small

30:27

crowd gather Frankie

30:37

Emotional watching the puppet dance he

30:39

makes the puppet do a little

30:41

cartwheel any used to do All

30:48

right, that's all right, that's not

30:50

bad spider made my

30:52

strings, but now I'm on my

30:54

own Didn't

31:01

sound like a 26 You

31:04

have to treat it like one day you have to

31:07

okay, maybe it weeps openly That

31:13

was good So

31:15

you guys kind of enlist the

31:18

envy of several other partygoers on

31:20

your way with this amazing display

31:22

of puppetry And

31:24

you arrive at the townhouse

31:26

the townhouse is brimming with

31:29

festivity Well dressed

31:31

people sequins feathers Bedazzled

31:34

masks you guys actually feel

31:36

quite underdressed comparatively shit

31:40

They hit an autumnal bouquet

31:42

of what leaves and

31:44

hearth smoke and spiced wine

31:47

candles light every window Singing

31:50

and swooping from the awnings are

31:52

moonweaver birds Which are these like

31:55

shimmering birds the size of Eagles

31:57

that build nests from the web

32:00

silk of giant spiders and

32:02

you can see they're building one hanging from the

32:04

highest eve of the building. Feed the moon weavers.

32:08

Let's get some wine. Alright, I'm feeling very out of place.

32:10

Can we get a bunch of wine? Come on, David. Alright,

32:12

you gotta be nice to all the creatures. Yeah, we have

32:14

to be nice to them. I have to give them all

32:17

nuts. Why do I have to give everything to the creatures?

32:19

You didn't even have any nuts for your grandfather. No,

32:23

we gotta eat by that crow. I

32:25

rightfully take some wine. Yeah,

32:27

I'll say like in the exterior there's

32:29

someone greeting people with some spiced wine.

32:32

Sort of like the event is already

32:34

beginning. You do see some guests who

32:36

kind of look around confused, but

32:39

then one of them will remember the passcode and kind

32:41

of giggle and go, and the

32:43

capo alfine. And then

32:45

the sort of illusion of vacancy is dispelled,

32:47

same as it was for you guys. The

32:50

capo alfine. Capo alfine.

32:53

The capo alfine. And

32:56

you see that there's even a valet

32:58

to park carriages for the event.

33:01

You guys see Ignatius, the

33:03

ticket taker from

33:05

the theater, is

33:07

sort of directing carriages, trying

33:09

to sort of double park them. Oh,

33:12

okay. Ignatius, hey.

33:16

I didn't expect to see you all here.

33:18

I'm sorry, I'm watching the hedges. Sorry, I'm

33:20

on the clock. Okay, yeah, yeah,

33:22

of course, of course. I'm a

33:24

valet. Yeah, no, that's great. That's awesome.

33:27

I'm an owl. Yes. I was going

33:29

to say, who are you? All

33:33

right, all right. We've done enough with the

33:35

puns. We're trying to reinforce what you need

33:37

to come up with a new material. I

33:40

hadn't heard it said back to me before.

33:42

Oh my God. Mavie, you got to take

33:44

after your father a little bit more with

33:46

this genius puppeteering. I

33:48

see what you can do with the puppet. I'll

33:51

never live up to that. Oh,

33:53

my boy. Oh yeah, look at that puppet.

33:55

That's pretty cool. Pretty good. Listen,

33:58

we got a couple people. here

34:00

that we're not exactly friends

34:02

with. And just in case we need to

34:04

make a hot exit, it'd be nice to

34:06

know that we have a friend on the

34:08

outside. You definitely got a friend

34:10

in me, yeah. Alright, well just to

34:13

confirm that, I bet you you're not

34:15

getting paid that much tonight because, you

34:17

know, points to the

34:19

building, these fancy types, they don't

34:21

really value, you know, people like

34:24

us. It's funny you say that

34:26

because honestly I'm doing this kind

34:28

of like an internship, they said I could

34:30

do my fireworks display later. Oh,

34:32

fireworks display? Yeah,

34:35

so I'm doing this so that I can sort

34:37

of try and start my fireworks. So you

34:39

can then do fireworks? Yeah. So

34:42

you're not getting paid for two jobs is what that sounds like.

34:44

I'm not getting paid, but here I am,

34:46

I'm parking some really fancy carriages. Yeah. So

34:49

once you see that there is

34:51

the dowager of the Lunari nobility,

34:54

her carriage is here. You

34:56

see a really exotic carriage

34:58

that is pulled by

35:01

a griffin and it

35:03

hangs a banner from a university

35:07

that is a couple days

35:09

ride north of here. Oh,

35:11

okay. Well, it does feel

35:14

like there are some movers and shakers

35:16

here and I'm not making anything.

35:18

Listen, I mean, if my

35:20

fireworks business were to catch

35:22

the attention of some of these fancy

35:24

people, I might be working a garden

35:27

party or I think I think

35:29

you got a late home place. Bright,

35:31

a bright future. I know you like

35:33

bright future because of the fireworks and

35:35

one. Look, we

35:37

got paid ahead for this job and maybe if

35:40

you want to help us out, we'd cut you

35:42

in and I'm going to

35:44

slip Ignatius a platinum. What

35:48

I need you to do is that

35:50

Christmas moment. I think you dropped a

35:52

platinum in my hand. I did.

35:56

Give me a copper. Yeah. Can

35:58

you break that or something? We're

36:01

not gonna break it. Yeah,

36:03

break it. Give us change for that.

36:05

Hey, Maven, take a lap, right? A

36:07

lot of... Maven shoved his

36:09

hand in his pockets and walked through it. Platinum

36:13

cheese, Louise. God,

36:15

my grandsons, right? You

36:17

don't know. Look, if you could

36:19

park that Griffin Mount a

36:21

little closer to that window, and

36:23

I'm gonna point to the window

36:25

on the side of the townhouse

36:28

to where that office was, where we know

36:30

the unicorn hair to be. As

36:33

you see Ignatius cradles this platinum,

36:35

this is the most money he's

36:37

ever seen in his life. Even

36:40

the little squirrel on his shoulder is reaching for

36:42

it, and he's almost greedily keeping

36:44

it to himself. Give

36:47

me a persuasion check. You can

36:49

obviously do it with advantage because

36:51

of this platinum. Nice. Ooh.

36:54

Pretty good rolls, pretty good rolls. Wow.

36:58

Beautiful. You see Ignatius

37:01

winks and says, you got it, boss.

37:03

Who is the coachman for the Griffin

37:05

because we actually gotta do sort of

37:08

double parking in a different way, y'all? And

37:10

he goes back and he

37:12

starts reorganizing the carriages. Oh,

37:15

and if I... So it was

37:17

a Lunari noble

37:19

that was in

37:21

the room, right? That we saw with

37:23

all the mouths on her neck? Yeah.

37:25

And if some of those carriages were

37:28

to get boxed in with the

37:31

double parking situation... You got it,

37:33

boss. He literally creates a

37:36

puzzle whereby this Griffin mount

37:38

has like an easy exit

37:41

and the Lunari carriages are

37:43

boxed in. Great. This

37:45

is great. And I will say, you know, we're very

37:47

excited to see your fireworks display. If you

37:49

would have set it off a little early, I don't think anybody

37:51

would be upset about that. He takes

37:53

out what you guys see are refurbished

37:56

fireworks. Oh, you've just got them right on you.

37:58

Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna

38:01

need you to be careful Okay,

38:16

yeah, I mean you let me know when you want to

38:18

see show because you're the only one pay me here tonight

38:21

Yeah, yeah, you got it. Yeah, we might

38:23

just you might hear a showin from a

38:25

window or yelling or hear an angry mob

38:27

or something Like that and okay. So

38:29

which of those mean I should you know

38:31

if shit hits the fan Put

38:34

on a fireworks show Yeah,

38:37

he salutes you with a refurbished fire. All

38:39

right, we got one friend two of you

38:41

got the squirrel through All

38:44

right, everybody Remember, we were

38:47

trying to do this with as little trauma

38:49

as possible Right, so we're trying to get

38:51

into that room that Maven was in. Yeah,

38:53

I think we're gonna want to probably go

38:55

to this party I don't think we're gonna

38:57

be able to easily sneak in that window.

38:59

That is a good point So as you gestured

39:01

to the room up there You

39:03

actually see that this townhouse though there

39:05

is all this festivity now and it

39:08

seems very warm and welcoming It is

39:11

on high alert. You see that these sort

39:13

of assassin vines that were running up the

39:15

side of the building are Crippled

39:18

it covering the window in

39:20

a way that you couldn't climb into the window.

39:22

Okay, and you even see Humming

39:26

like a drone around the building.

39:28

They've hired a spectator, which is

39:30

like a security gazer But more

39:32

in turn. Okay, so that's maybe more

39:34

of an escape Less of

39:37

an in you can assume that your

39:39

theft last night Did

39:42

not go unnoticed. Okay, especially

39:44

considering that all you left was the

39:47

urn And likely

39:49

not even on the mantle Okay,

39:53

I suppose we want to make a distraction of some sort

39:55

and then maybe maybe you can try and

39:58

get into that room And use your fast fingers You're

40:00

still me to do everything, Jesus! Be the youngest!

40:02

I'm trying to give you a chance to shine,

40:04

my son! Alright! You've got such

40:06

potential, and I really want to see you do

40:08

your stuff. Yeah, whatever. Hahahaha!

40:11

Yeah, alright. With

40:14

the distraction, everything is very quiet. I

40:16

don't know that we needed... You don't

40:19

need a distraction unless things have already

40:21

gone wrong. So let's go very quietly.

40:24

We just scope it out. We find

40:26

our opening, and then we send Maven.

40:29

And Maven, you get the unicorn hair, and then

40:31

we get out of there. Alright!

40:33

Alright, boys! Alright.

40:35

Sounds like a plan. You guys

40:38

want to head into the party? Let's

40:40

party! Okay. You enter the townhouse. There

40:42

is a string quartet

40:44

playing. The first floor

40:46

is like a ballroom. There's

40:48

a chandelier hanging from the

40:50

ceiling. A bunch of people

40:52

are dancing, sort of a

40:54

stiff looking lunari waltz. One

40:57

thing that you do notice is there

40:59

isn't like the undead contingent here. You don't

41:01

see vampires. You don't see ghouls. You

41:03

don't see zombies. You see

41:06

moon elves. You see deep gnomes. You

41:08

see humans. You see asmr. You

41:11

see fae. But the

41:13

living is what's represented at this party.

41:15

And if it weren't for what you guys

41:17

know, you wouldn't even notice that underneath

41:20

there's an undercurrent of the

41:23

staleness of undeads. That's been

41:25

heavily perfumed. Yeah,

41:27

I was going to say, do

41:29

people have things like this diamond

41:31

that seem to be hiding their

41:33

undeadness? When you look around, you can

41:35

see there's a lot of people who were invited to

41:37

this party. And this is kind

41:40

of their first time coming to this townhouse,

41:42

fraternizing with this crew. The

41:44

people that you see from living

41:46

in harmony are sort of

41:48

like when you first met Genevieve. Caked in

41:50

makeup. Caked in perfume.

41:54

Compensating or obscuring or hiding.

41:56

Got it. So more

41:58

people that bought into this... quote unquote

42:00

cure that turns him undead. Yeah.

42:03

But also everyone is wearing masks too.

42:05

Right. He's sort of feathered

42:07

masks. So there's like, there are some

42:09

people that are kind of like you

42:11

recognize because of certain features. Like you

42:13

see Nvidia somewhere because of her wings.

42:16

Some people are really not trying to

42:18

hide who they are. There's like the

42:21

Lunari Dowager is like speaking

42:23

really loudly, not trying to, she

42:26

likes to be seen. Right. History

42:28

check about the Lunari. Yeah.

42:32

They feel like, you know, we've obviously had dealings

42:34

with them, their movers and shakers in

42:36

Twilight's in Torrum, who I would know a little bit. This

42:43

mold wine is going through my head. That's a natural

42:45

one. You've

42:48

never met a Lunari before ever. What's going

42:50

on with those people's ears? They're so long.

42:53

Elves? Right.

42:57

They really impressed me with the puppet. Don't,

42:59

sorry. You've lost yourself. Does

43:02

anyone want to do like sort of perception? Or

43:04

are you looking for anything on this

43:06

first floor? I'm looking around first things

43:08

first. I'm trying to see if there's

43:10

a path for us to get upstairs.

43:13

And I'm seeing what's in

43:15

our way. And then I also want

43:17

to see, yeah, I just want to see most kind of

43:19

powerful people in the room. And I also want to clock,

43:21

I guess I have the snake signet with

43:24

me, see if anyone from that is here.

43:27

I'm going to cut. Jesus

43:29

Christ. Natural one. Okay.

43:34

I think the mask is too big. I'm

43:36

trying to look around. I can't see

43:38

a goddamn thing. It's

43:40

just that I know, but it looks better this way. I

43:42

think you need to put your glasses on outside the

43:44

mask. Oh no, that's going to be too much. I can't

43:47

wear my glasses if I wear the mask. If you're not

43:49

wearing your glasses, you're not going to be able to

43:51

see. Goddamn it. You guys never been to a party before

43:53

you kind of blend in. And

43:55

Maven, with all of the confidence of being behind

43:58

a mask, is going to start moving and dancing. very

44:00

bizarrely. Like, your hand's way

44:02

up high, pecking around like

44:05

an owl. Oh no,

44:07

putting his arms behind his back like he's

44:09

flapping me. He's acting and getting really low,

44:13

bobbing around. I'm

44:15

gonna dab my beak at like a cheese plate

44:17

if there's any kind of buffet. You

44:20

may even give me a performance

44:22

check for this display. I

44:25

also, while I'm doing this, I want to see

44:27

if I can clock anybody who's like watching me,

44:29

kind of like, you know, somebody who's

44:31

been tasked with like, hey, just make sure

44:33

everything goes normal. It doesn't go weird at

44:35

the party. Alright,

44:37

so for my performance, I got a 4. It

44:43

does hurt my perception. He

44:45

knocked over the cheese plate. For

44:48

my perception, I got a 17. Okay,

44:51

so you make

44:53

an absolute scene. Everybody

44:57

else is dancing so

44:59

stiffly. Literally, the

45:01

string quartet, one of

45:03

them breaks a string. They're so

45:05

distracted by what you're doing. Try

45:08

to keep up, musician. Oh, he's so

45:10

unique. Dance is to his own beat,

45:12

my son. But with a 17, you do notice

45:17

a high elf mage,

45:19

not from Twilight Singtorum,

45:22

is eyeing you, Maven. Yeah,

45:25

who wouldn't be? And

45:28

I think that with this scene you've put

45:30

on, he's just going to go ahead and

45:33

approach you. This high

45:36

elf comes over

45:38

to you in stodgy wizard

45:40

robes, comes over to you

45:42

holding a mulled wine. Hello,

45:45

boy. I can't help

45:47

but notice that beautiful

45:49

necklace around your neck. How

45:52

do you do, sir? Yes.

45:54

Wow, look at that, a young man with

45:57

manners. Maven bows. I'm

46:01

very impressed with your decorum! May I

46:03

ask, I recognize the necklace around your

46:05

neck. A long

46:07

time since I've seen the more frag on

46:10

the collarbones of the living. You

46:13

don't say! How did your manager so acquire

46:15

such a rare artifact that is

46:18

unusual to be amongst the living? Oh

46:21

sir, I don't think it would be very wise!

46:23

I pointed my owl mask. You

46:27

are absolutely charming! No,

46:32

Penny is crying because of our mood years by his

46:34

son. Has he ever showed this respect to you? Never

46:36

once. What do you say to

46:38

a nut, sir? What do I

46:40

say to a nut? I say, de-shell

46:43

yourself and let me consume you! Why

46:47

not indeed? Here you

46:49

go. Well,

46:51

I have to ask you. I

46:53

come here for work from

46:57

university just a couple days ride north

46:59

of here. You don't say? Since

47:01

you have a knack for acquiring unusual

47:04

artifacts and I have a

47:07

desire to acquire unusual

47:09

artifacts. What

47:12

are you looking for? I

47:15

just wanted to get on your

47:17

radar. If

47:19

you are looking for another revenue

47:22

stream, maybe you

47:24

and I could establish

47:27

a relationship of

47:29

sorts and

47:31

he hands you a business card shaped like

47:34

a dove. Oh

47:38

shantay! David

47:40

kisses his hands. That's the way. Fly

47:45

my son, fly. From the

47:47

nest, leap, you've done it. You walk

47:49

away and the man

47:52

stares after you with

47:55

wonder at what he has encountered. I bob

47:57

my beak the entire way back. Hahaha.

48:01

Fucking humiliating. Maybe it's

48:03

the only one who got any kind of in here. What do

48:05

you hand you? That smartass

48:07

is trying to collect stuff. He

48:10

gave me a business card. He

48:12

said he's looking for objects, for artifacts

48:14

or whatever. Yeah. Alright.

48:17

But like what? I don't know. I asked

48:19

him and he just gave me a card. What's my name? What's on

48:21

the card? Yeah, you read it. Hahaha.

48:24

You got eyes, don't you? He

48:27

says Magnus Thebes and he is

48:30

on the board of Gladehome University.

48:33

Which you would know Penny because you went to

48:35

Twilight Community College. You

48:38

would know that this is the premier

48:40

destination for arcane studies. Oh,

48:42

Gladehome. He's a topsider.

48:44

Alright, hey Mavid. Maybe

48:47

you see if that guy needs anything

48:49

at this party and if

48:51

maybe he has an invisibility or something

48:53

like that, anything that can help obfuscate

48:56

you specifically. But

48:58

the rest of us too might be nice. See

49:00

if he wants anything here. Get a

49:02

little something for him, get a little something for us. That's right, yeah.

49:05

Man, man. Jesus, the way he's got to do

49:07

everything. Mavid clocks his way back into the bag. Hahaha.

49:10

Hey, uh, I was curious. Um,

49:14

I did some stuff around this party that I

49:16

think, uh, if you like this necklace, I

49:19

think you'll be very interested in what I

49:21

can acquire. Really? Yes,

49:24

at your soy vist. You

49:26

know there is a, there

49:28

is one thing that I'm curious about.

49:32

Yeah? Yes, there's this rumor of this painting.

49:36

That sort

49:39

of functions as an extra dimensional

49:41

space. Sort

49:43

of a window into the ethereal plane.

49:46

Oh, sexy. Sexy

49:50

indeed, by the way. Hahaha.

49:53

I couldn't agree. Hahaha. What

49:55

do you think he's saying? getting

50:00

on real well. And

50:03

I'll confess I've been working with

50:05

the Unari, but

50:07

they just keep raising the prices,

50:09

raising the prices. And I'd love

50:12

a contact here who was

50:14

more amenable. Oh,

50:17

yeah, well, if you're looking for somebody

50:19

like that, you know who to call.

50:21

Oh, boy. Jesus Christ, did you

50:24

hear that who? I

50:26

know we made a fucking stupid joke. I'm

50:28

going to go over. I'm going to grab

50:30

him. I'm going to grab him. No, no,

50:32

no, let him work. Let him work. All

50:34

right. He's finally doing something. Fantastic word play.

50:37

Fantastic. God, I'd love to bring you to

50:39

the university. I think you'd be a hit. Oh,

50:42

interesting. Well, if you get your

50:44

hands on something interesting, let me know. We

50:47

pay handsomely. Yeah. Well,

50:51

you know, I might be able to do a little better

50:53

if you can, you know, give me some kind of a

50:55

boost or a boost. Boost

50:58

on all your drugs. Yeah, you

51:00

got any? Yeah, I'm straight.

51:02

I'm straight. Decimations are sorry, except for except

51:04

for mulled wine. Only thing I drink. Maybe

51:08

you want to cast a little invisibility on me

51:10

or something. I could go scoot

51:12

around upstairs. Okay. Okay.

51:15

Okay. Okay. I

51:17

don't think I could do it just directly out in the open

51:19

here, but I think on the second floor there's some. Well,

51:22

this is not really indeed.

51:24

I think there's some sort of like

51:27

canoodling areas. He kind of

51:29

just calls on you privately

51:31

and I could just cast a spell on you.

51:34

I'll be honest. I have a

51:36

wife. There's nothing weird about him. It's

51:38

not like that. I see you as

51:40

a sort of a surrogate son right

51:42

now. I feel that for sure. Yes.

51:45

Don't think he'd yell at this guy. I

51:47

don't know why. They're getting on real well.

51:49

Again, he doesn't respect us like he does

51:51

this random person. Is it

51:53

the clothes? Is it the robes? I think

51:55

he's just a rotten kid. Don't

51:58

say that. Yeah. Okay,

52:01

well, you know, when you want, when you want to, I'll

52:03

make my way up to the second floor when you want

52:05

it. You let me know. All

52:07

right, I'll see you up there. Okay. Okay.

52:11

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

52:14

Bottoms up. Bottoms up,

52:16

okay, yeah, we'll finish it, we'll finish it.

52:18

He chugs his mulled wine at your pet.

52:20

Maybe polishes his off as well. And

52:23

wanders up to the second floor. All

52:25

right, what, maybe you got a new dad? You think you're better than

52:27

us? You told me to go talk

52:29

to this guy. I didn't talk to the guy. You didn't talk

52:31

to the guy. I'm not joking at all. Everybody always tells me

52:33

to do. Everybody's saying, hey, maybe do this, maybe do that.

52:36

Well, I talked to the guy, and yeah,

52:38

he said, he said he could make me invisible

52:40

or whatever. So, so I just

52:42

got to go upstairs to the canoodling area. But

52:44

he said it's not like that. Canoodling. Okay,

52:47

it's fine. He said it's not like that. It's not

52:49

like that. It's not like that. Okay, are you sure?

52:52

I don't know. I don't think it's people like that. We're

52:54

all going to go up to the canoodling area, so we

52:56

know firsthand that it's not like that. Right. Because

52:59

me and Penn got it. Me, my dad, and my grandpa, we

53:01

all got to go up to the canoodling area. That could be

53:03

suspicious if we all go up to the canoodling area together. We

53:05

got to find things. I don't want to go by myself. I

53:07

don't want to go there alone. Yeah, we got to. Look, Maven,

53:09

you go up. You get the spell cast on you. Me

53:12

and Penn will kind of hang out down

53:14

here near a stairwell. We'll run up if

53:16

something goes wrong. And if you could just

53:19

get whatever you need to get up there

53:21

while you're invisible, get a unicorn hair, and

53:23

just like come back down here, and we'll

53:25

make an exit. That's right. All

53:27

right, great. And son, I'll have the message cantrip going. If

53:30

that man does anything on toward, you let me know, and I will

53:32

come right in, and then I will sock him. She

53:35

believes that. We'll sock him right in the door. I'm 22. It's

53:40

a big world out there, Maven. I'm allowed to worry,

53:42

okay? Okay. All

53:44

right. So Maven's going to go to the second floor, but

53:46

you guys are going to stay on the first floor? Why

53:49

don't you sneak around? You're

53:51

still kind of young. You couldn't sneak around? Yeah. Yeah,

53:54

I'm bad at sneaking around. So I'll

53:56

go up to the canoodling area by

53:58

myself as well. you

54:01

do. What are

54:03

you- why don't both of you guys just sneak up there and

54:06

you can meet the guy and get

54:08

the invisibility cast on you, Penn you just hide out

54:10

there and I'll be the only one walking up there

54:12

and it won't be weird. Yeah. Do

54:15

I need to sneak? Are people going up and

54:17

down the stairs? People are going up and down

54:19

the stairs. There's a staircase leading up

54:21

to kind of like a landing that

54:23

goes into almost like a darker more

54:25

dimly lit room that has- it's almost

54:27

like another level to the party. It

54:29

has just a different energy. This is

54:32

very stodgy waltz. You can

54:34

see up there that like cigar smoke

54:36

is pouring out probably more of an entertaining

54:38

parlor sort of vibe up there. All

54:40

right maybe I'll maybe I'll go into

54:42

the parlor and just light my pipe

54:44

and see what I can learn up

54:46

there and yeah I'm gonna

54:48

do what I do best and just go

54:51

to the bathroom upstairs. Send message cantrips to

54:54

Maven. Okay great. You

54:57

guys ascend the staircase to

54:59

the second floor. It's cozier

55:01

like I said. It's like

55:03

an entertaining parlor with tables

55:05

for cards, fringed

55:07

curtains leading to private love

55:09

seats for canoodling. There's a

55:11

sign that says please no

55:14

solo canoodling. It's

55:16

fine I'm just here to talk. Up

55:19

here there is a small stage

55:21

and performers are sort of taking

55:23

turns hopping into jam. There's even like

55:25

a pole that like a few dancers

55:27

are kind of taking turns using. It's

55:29

much more of like a burlesque boudoir

55:32

up here. All manner

55:34

of cigar, pipe, cigarillo,

55:36

rolled tobacco are creating

55:38

this hazy atmosphere

55:41

and the attendees up here are

55:43

younger, a little drunker,

55:45

and the air is kind of

55:47

like more charged with pheromones. Alright

55:50

well I'll play some cards and kind of ruin

55:52

this party by being around all the young people

55:55

but either honestly none of us will enjoy it.

55:57

I don't want to be around them they don't want to be around me but I do like

56:00

playing cards. And

56:02

you do actually see the staircase

56:04

to the third floor. Great. But

56:07

there is a pale woman

56:09

in a taffeta dress sort

56:12

of standing guard. She

56:14

looks annoyed, kind of

56:16

pouting, picking her nails.

56:19

There's a drowish man

56:22

who seems to be chatting with

56:24

a woman she's like

56:26

watching it like a hawk. Oh,

56:30

I think

56:32

I'll approach her.

56:34

Okay. Hey, you

56:36

look a little bored up here. You

56:38

play cards or? Yeah, yeah, I play

56:41

cards. She immediately goes into a

56:43

mode that she's putting on

56:45

a show of trying to flirt with you,

56:47

but it's very performative. Yeah, what's

56:49

your name? My

56:51

name? That's so funny. You know, we don't got

56:54

to do this. It's

56:57

just I'm trying not look, I'm here with

56:59

a bunch of people that honestly, they're a

57:01

bit much. Could you do me a favor?

57:04

Okay, my boyfriend is talking to a girl over there.

57:07

Oh, and if you just act

57:09

really interested in me, and

57:11

maybe do it loudly, maybe I could get his

57:13

attention. Oh, this

57:16

is too much. I'm at my

57:18

post. I'm not allowed to leave. Okay.

57:21

Yeah. Oh, it's been

57:23

so funny. Yeah.

57:26

So you like to

57:29

stand in the hallways generally? I whatever

57:32

I have to do, I have to do. Right?

57:36

What is up? Why? Why don't you just go talk

57:38

to the why don't you just go talk to him?

57:40

Because there was a break in last night. So I

57:42

don't get to enjoy the party. Right. But look,

57:45

let me tell you something. As somebody

57:47

who's been young and in love. Okay,

57:49

and Frankie gets weirdly emotional. She

57:53

absolutely meets you there. You got to chase it

57:55

while you have it because it ain't gonna be

57:57

around forever. And one day you're

57:59

gonna wake up. And you're gonna look in the

58:01

mirror and you're gonna see this looking back at you

58:03

and I pull up my mask and show my eye

58:05

bags And

58:07

everything's gonna be different No,

58:11

well I did but I was sitting up and

58:13

it was not good and we had double calf

58:15

instead of half calf You're

58:18

saying everything I'm feeling but I'm like

58:20

assigned to work this post so I

58:22

would really can't get kicked out Right.

58:24

Let me tell you something as somebody

58:26

who worked really long hours If

58:28

I could take it all back and spend more

58:30

time with my family, I would you

58:32

know, you're choosing your job over your life

58:37

You are yeah And

58:39

it looks it looks like they're getting on really

58:42

well and I could tell you guys have something

58:44

really healthy and nice Why would

58:46

you do? Yeah, no, it's all good

58:48

three weeks. Oh Yeah,

58:51

well if there's already problems now,

58:53

you know, but the roads

58:55

that are bumpy at first You're

58:57

going uphill now. It's gonna be all

59:00

downhill in the future. What downhill in

59:02

that it's easy not downhill Okay,

59:06

look you're gonna let him go and then you're gonna

59:08

you're gonna be standing in the hallways Standing

59:11

guard your whole life, but really what

59:13

you're guarding is your heart And

59:17

you need to be able to give

59:19

it away. Yeah, give me a persuasion

59:21

check Okay Nat

59:25

20 Okay,

59:30

this has to have good repercussions

59:33

Okay, you know what here take this

59:36

she takes from her belt a key Oh

59:39

key ring and just hands it to you.

59:41

I'm fucking done. I'm done. Yes. I'm done

59:43

working I'm gonna enjoy

59:45

the party because it's my party too. All

59:48

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59:50

Of course Yes so much and

59:52

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59:54

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1:03:02

Mavid, get this brown cast on you. Alright,

1:03:04

yeah, I'm going, I'm going. Mavid,

1:03:07

you ascend to the second floor,

1:03:09

you pass through this sort of

1:03:11

entertainment parlor, and

1:03:14

you see beyond the fringed

1:03:16

curtain the distinctive wingtip shoes

1:03:18

of the man that you

1:03:20

made a small deal with.

1:03:23

Guess who? Me.

1:03:27

Me. Come in, come in, come

1:03:29

in. Mavid, this is Penny

1:03:31

on the comms. This is Penny. This is your

1:03:33

dad on the message cantrip. Just letting you know

1:03:35

we're at the party together. It's

1:03:37

about probably close to 10pm. I'm just

1:03:39

letting you know that I'm here and

1:03:42

I love you. Someone's knocking on the

1:03:44

bathroom door. Dude, what are you doing

1:03:46

in there? Take it my time, it's

1:03:48

a party. And

1:03:51

Mavid, as you walk back, okay.

1:03:54

So just be clear, this is

1:03:56

a investment. I cast

1:03:58

invisibility on you. You get

1:04:01

me the painting. Yeah,

1:04:03

no problem. I know exactly where it is.

1:04:06

Fantastic. And he

1:04:09

holds his hand up to cast

1:04:11

invisibility on you. Now, you didn't

1:04:13

specify whether you wanted regular invisibility

1:04:15

or greater invisibility, so why don't

1:04:17

you give me either a luck

1:04:19

check or kind of a persuasion

1:04:21

check to see if this

1:04:24

high-level mage here's

1:04:27

invisibility and naturally goes

1:04:29

for the most powerful kind. You know

1:04:31

what? Maybe it actually is kind

1:04:33

of persuasive. Okay. Make

1:04:35

sure you give me the real thing, sir. That's

1:04:39

a 23. Yeah,

1:04:42

I'm so convincing. This mage

1:04:44

for whom a fourth-level spell is

1:04:47

nothing. He casts that for breakfast. Cast

1:04:51

arcane magic that feels

1:04:53

more powerful than anything you've ever

1:04:55

been around. Whoa! And you fucking

1:04:57

disappear. Holy shit,

1:05:00

man. Whoa.

1:05:02

Good stuff, right boy? Where's that

1:05:04

game from? Maybe this blocks away

1:05:06

like woosily. Maybe

1:05:09

this is your father. Is everything okay?

1:05:11

Everything's great. Oh my god, I never

1:05:13

felt like this before. Oh my

1:05:15

god, I gotta go show Grandpa. And

1:05:19

you can walk over to Frankie. Frankie has

1:05:21

with a nat 20 procured

1:05:23

a set of keys that will

1:05:26

likely bypass whatever other hurdle

1:05:28

might have been in

1:05:30

your way. I'm looking for evidence of

1:05:32

my goon grandson bumping into walls or

1:05:35

something even though he's invisible. Yeah, maybe

1:05:37

like Devil Maycare is stomping over. Alright,

1:05:39

take it. People can hear you. Like

1:05:42

he has an invincibility spell cast. People can

1:05:45

hear you. No, no, no. Don't

1:05:47

get giggled. Stop giggling. What are you talking about?

1:05:49

It's not a silent spell. Who can see me?

1:05:51

No one can see me. They can't see you.

1:05:55

They have no idea I'm over here. That laugh,

1:05:57

it's piercing. It's piercess. Here

1:06:00

a couple party goers be like, is

1:06:02

this townhouse haunted? I like hear

1:06:05

eerie giggling. Boo! Ah,

1:06:07

oh my god, I think it is. You're lucky we're on

1:06:09

the dumb floor with young people. All

1:06:12

right, so what do you want me to do? What

1:06:14

am I gonna do? All right, I got this key

1:06:16

for you, all right? Just go up in the room,

1:06:18

you get what we need to get, and then let's

1:06:20

get out of here. You want anything else? No,

1:06:24

no, no, no, I'm good, I'm good. Thanks

1:06:26

for asking though. Usually you just grab whatever

1:06:28

you want. Look, take

1:06:32

the key. I'm learning. Yeah, go do

1:06:34

your thing. Okay, maybe this is your

1:06:36

father, I'm running the comms from the bathroom.

1:06:39

So if you need anything, if you need any support,

1:06:41

just let me know, I need you to be my

1:06:43

eyes up there, all right? People are knocking at you.

1:06:47

Oh, I'm sorry. Oh yeah, you've

1:06:49

never. This is a party. This is the first

1:06:51

time I've ever had a shrimp. I've never read

1:06:53

shrimp before. The shrimp did this to you. Shrimp

1:06:55

did this to me. I'm using the first four

1:06:57

bathroom. I just cursed shrimp's

1:07:00

name. Shrimp! Shrimp,

1:07:02

how could you? We hear it in our

1:07:05

brains, Pam. Great,

1:07:07

so you palm into

1:07:09

your invisible grandson's sweaty

1:07:12

little fist, the key. And

1:07:15

maybe you walk

1:07:17

up the staircase. I won't

1:07:19

make you roll like any kind of stealth

1:07:22

check because the guard has

1:07:24

been neutralized. And

1:07:26

maybe it's gonna chuckle

1:07:28

very, very fast. Almost

1:07:31

impossible. Chuckling.

1:07:36

All you can hear is this wheezing breath as he

1:07:38

approaches the door. And

1:07:43

yeah, I'll enter this

1:07:45

locked room. Great, you slide

1:07:47

the keys into the lock. No

1:07:50

need to pickpocket. Frankie crit

1:07:53

to persuade this guard

1:07:55

to head away. So

1:07:57

you click it, you

1:07:59

crit. the door open, you

1:08:02

enter and it is the office

1:08:05

that you spied on last night but

1:08:08

it's dark. There's no fire to

1:08:10

light it up and

1:08:13

as you walk in, closing the door behind you,

1:08:15

you hear something

1:08:18

familiar from the shadows. Walking

1:08:28

out of the shadows

1:08:31

is a familiar charismatic

1:08:33

skeleton. However, since you

1:08:36

are invisible, he doesn't

1:08:39

look at you, he looks around

1:08:41

you. I know

1:08:44

someone's here. You

1:08:47

open the door and

1:08:50

he takes his little performing cane

1:08:53

and he swipes it in your

1:08:55

general direction. You know it

1:09:00

kind of bugs me

1:09:02

because tonight is supposed

1:09:04

to be my biggest

1:09:06

performance yet he swipes

1:09:08

it again in your general direction. So

1:09:10

if you

1:09:12

don't show your face

1:09:14

or better yet maybe

1:09:17

just peacefully leave swipes

1:09:19

it again I might

1:09:22

have to call Trudaya up

1:09:24

here. Okay I'm out

1:09:28

of here. Maven runs over,

1:09:30

opens the door and slams it

1:09:32

that stays in the room. Give

1:09:38

me a deception check. That's

1:09:41

a 23. He couldn't

1:09:43

even hit that he got a seven. Yes.

1:09:47

That's right. Get

1:09:49

out of here. And then you

1:09:51

see he goes to an earpiece. Trudaya,

1:09:56

there was something weird up here

1:09:58

but don't worry our handles You

1:10:00

keep working the crowd. You keep working

1:10:03

the crowd. Okay. Mavit,

1:10:06

my son, is everything okay up there? Mm-mm.

1:10:08

No. No, it is not. I...

1:10:14

I am in a room with an alarm skeleton.

1:10:18

The one that you guys, you know, make best

1:10:20

friends with and fight them over to our house. Is

1:10:22

he working on his routine? How does it look? Very

1:10:25

scary. Now that he thinks no one

1:10:27

is there, he's going through

1:10:29

almost, like, actor warm-up. M-m-m-m-m-ma-ma-ma!

1:10:34

Soon enough, Edgar, Trudeia's

1:10:36

gonna dress you in the

1:10:38

flesh, the tools of an actor, and

1:10:41

you won't be dancing and singing

1:10:43

for drunken strangers anymore. You'll

1:10:46

have eyebrows and lips

1:10:48

with which to emote. You're

1:10:50

gonna take the stage, Edgar.

1:10:52

You're gonna take the stage!

1:10:56

Just fully on his side, I don't know what to

1:10:58

say. Jesus, what is that again? Okay, alright. Um,

1:11:00

I'm going to exit the bathroom,

1:11:02

finally. Rendezvous with

1:11:04

Frankie. Something's going on up there.

1:11:06

Do you want to head up? Do

1:11:09

I want to head up? Can

1:11:11

Mavid handle it? I-I

1:11:13

believe in him. I know

1:11:15

he can-he's got what it takes. I'm confident. Well,

1:11:18

I don't know that I believe in

1:11:20

him, necessarily, but I do

1:11:22

think that it's time he tried something.

1:11:26

So, here's the

1:11:28

thing. Your son is loud.

1:11:32

I think if anything went really, really wrong,

1:11:34

He's expressive. I think we would know. Why

1:11:37

don't you kind of sneak past me, and

1:11:41

you can go kind of halfway up there, and if

1:11:43

shit hits the fan, you pop out.

1:11:45

Once I see you go, and I'll go. Alright.

1:11:49

But I think I don't want to- I took over for that lady

1:11:51

over there, I point to the woman having a

1:11:53

fight with her boyfriend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolute

1:11:55

meltdown from everyone. Even

1:11:57

the girl that was being talked to is like a

1:11:59

cro- Being like I'm being hard

1:12:01

of it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So things

1:12:04

are kind of a mess down here and yeah

1:12:07

Here's what I'm gonna do just so

1:12:09

that nobody comes up the stairs as well. I'm

1:12:11

gonna create a little distraction I'm gonna

1:12:13

send Dolores which is the name I've given to the puppet Kind

1:12:17

of similar to your ex-wife No,

1:12:25

no, she's Dahlia this is Dolores it's total

1:12:27

oh I see it now I see it

1:12:29

now. Okay, I'll call her Dory to make

1:12:31

it a little less confusing. Okay, I'm gonna

1:12:34

send Dory the puppet Sliding down the banister.

1:12:36

She's gonna land on the landing and start

1:12:38

doing a little show for everybody But

1:12:41

I'm going to also cast

1:12:43

this snare spell Through Dory

1:12:45

so she can be laying a trap at

1:12:47

the bottom of the stairs in case anybody

1:12:49

comes up while she's putting on this show

1:12:53

Great so you have all

1:12:55

these party goers who are just having a time

1:12:57

of their life because they think that it's haunted

1:12:59

Mm-hmm, and then they see this puppet Lied

1:13:04

down the banister and start dancing Give

1:13:07

me a performance check for Dory

1:13:11

Which she's already impressed some of the

1:13:13

party goers. So that will lower the

1:13:15

Gc Myself included I'll do my bonus

1:13:17

action help action by being way over

1:13:19

the topic side of it I

1:13:22

mean, it's just it's brilliant. It's brilliant How

1:13:25

do you not respect it Dory lands

1:13:27

curtsies and says I used to

1:13:29

be real Haunting

1:13:35

Jesus Christ three and a

1:13:37

four But but I

1:13:40

do add a plus nine to performance.

1:13:42

So 13. It's just middling So

1:13:45

we're a 13 like a couple people

1:13:47

kind of like it But mostly people are like

1:13:50

like a child's toy at an adult's party They

1:13:55

can't appreciate it yet they're in that

1:13:57

window they're in like their 20s they

1:13:59

think they're better than uh, Dory

1:14:02

says, It's not ironic, it's just a

1:14:04

sincere, they don't know how to be

1:14:06

sincere. Appreciation of the Earth. They don't

1:14:08

know how to be sincere, Penn. It

1:14:11

effectively moves the crowd away from Dory.

1:14:13

Okay, that's actually good. Yeah, so Dory

1:14:15

is like doing a little dance, but

1:14:18

secretly laying out a

1:14:20

snare trap. Great, okay, so there's a

1:14:22

snare at the bottom of the stairs. Also,

1:14:24

Mavette, is there anything you wanna do

1:14:26

in there? The skeleton is doing

1:14:28

a theater warm-up, dreaming of his big

1:14:30

return to the stage, thanks to Trudaya.

1:14:34

Can I just like plot out the room? Like

1:14:36

I know that I want this dulcimer with the

1:14:38

unicorn hair. Which is in a painting. Right, which

1:14:40

is in a painting. So I guess I want

1:14:42

this, I essentially want this painting. Does it seem

1:14:44

like something I could grab off the wall and

1:14:46

get out the window, or is it, you know,

1:14:49

large enough that that's gonna be tough? You

1:14:51

see out the window that there

1:14:53

are a bunch of these vines,

1:14:56

so it will be tougher than last night.

1:14:59

You may have to get rid of

1:15:01

some of these vines to get out.

1:15:03

And also the painting is pretty cumbersome,

1:15:05

so you might need two people to hold

1:15:07

it. Okay, is there anything

1:15:09

like a big drapery, something that

1:15:11

I could surprise the skeleton with

1:15:13

and kind of neutralize

1:15:16

it? Yeah, I mean this is

1:15:18

like Victorian boudoir themed. There are

1:15:20

drapes hanging for no reason. I

1:15:23

think Mavette is just gonna wait for the right moment

1:15:26

and try to pounce on this guy,

1:15:28

surprise him, and just wrap him up

1:15:30

in curtain. Like hog tie him with

1:15:33

a velvet curtain. Yeah, just

1:15:35

if you punch him in, that filters resort to a bag

1:15:37

of bones. Okay, great. You

1:15:39

know, he's doing a little dancing, he's

1:15:41

doing a little theater warmup. He's like

1:15:44

walking around, just kind of like

1:15:46

running his cane along a radiator,

1:15:48

just making noise, kind of bored.

1:15:50

So Mavette is just gonna lay in

1:15:53

wait until Edgar goes near the windows

1:15:56

and then he's gonna giggle to himself and say, hey,

1:15:59

Edgar, that's... It's for you. Amazing.

1:16:06

Make an athletics check

1:16:08

with advantage. He

1:16:11

is going to roll his athletics

1:16:13

with disadvantage. Okay. All right.

1:16:15

I'm really going to need that

1:16:17

advantage. My first goal was a

1:16:19

nat one, but the

1:16:21

second, that is a 20. Dirty. Okay.

1:16:26

With disadvantage, his was a 12.

1:16:29

So you successfully throw this curtain

1:16:31

over the. Stuffing

1:16:37

satin and velvet in his mouth. As

1:16:42

soon as he calls for

1:16:44

true day, teleporting up is

1:16:46

crude. Edgar,

1:16:49

what are you doing today? It's the most

1:16:52

important day. Maybe it's frozen. Absolutely.

1:16:54

Frozen. Oh, shit. Do

1:16:57

we hear anything at this point? Yeah. You

1:17:00

definitely hear a scuffling of curtains

1:17:02

and whatnot. Okay. All right. And

1:17:04

Edgar is thrashing around in this

1:17:07

curtain still held by you. Someone's

1:17:11

got me through there. And she looks

1:17:13

at Edgar and she says,

1:17:16

Edgar, I see no one tonight

1:17:18

as a big night. Not just

1:17:20

for me, but for you. You

1:17:22

are my demonstration with which I

1:17:25

will ensnare the money and the

1:17:27

power of other majors. Now get

1:17:29

in line and stop getting caught

1:17:32

in the curtains. And

1:17:34

she goes over to rip off the

1:17:36

curtain from Edgar. I'm going to have

1:17:38

a roan roll initiative. Okay.

1:17:40

Okay. 16

1:17:43

and eight for Maven. Oh, Penny,

1:17:45

get it together. That's a nat one.

1:17:47

Oh my God. You freeze

1:17:49

in, you freeze. And you heard the scuffle and you froze.

1:17:52

Should I let him do it on his own? Should

1:17:54

I like, well, no, now that we had a scuffle,

1:17:56

that was the point. We are a scuffle. He did

1:17:59

his thing. Hopefully whatever. That is. Now I'm second

1:18:01

guessing it! He's not squealing! He'd be squealing if

1:18:03

it was really bad! That's a good

1:18:05

point, that's a good point. Help me! Oh, he's

1:18:07

squealing! He's squealing! Ow! Alright, we're coming, babe! No,

1:18:10

we're coming! What's this thing? Oh, I read this

1:18:12

in a book somewhere. This is you gotta let

1:18:14

them cry it out. When they're children! When they're

1:18:16

children! Wah! Wah! When

1:18:19

they're 22 and they're crying, you go to them!

1:18:21

Hee hee hee hee hee! Yeah,

1:18:23

okay, alright, baby, we're coming! We're coming!

1:18:26

You did a good job! You didn't squeal for a

1:18:29

while! Wah! Alright! Alright, yeah! You should be out of

1:18:31

this! At the top of

1:18:33

the order, tied with Frankie, but

1:18:36

with a higher Dex, is

1:18:39

Trudea. Congratulations, you got more

1:18:41

Dex than a 71 year old man. Hahaha!

1:18:45

She looks at Edgar writhing

1:18:47

in the curtain, and she

1:18:49

says, That is no one here, and I will

1:18:52

prove it to you. She

1:18:54

rips the scarf off of her

1:18:56

neck, revealing these four

1:18:58

sort of stitched on

1:19:00

mouths. And they

1:19:02

are going to begin to wail in

1:19:04

harmony. Crescendoing in a sound

1:19:07

wave of a 30 foot radius,

1:19:09

so it basically hits the entire

1:19:11

room. She can't see you, but

1:19:13

this is something that, even

1:19:15

without seeing someone, it can affect them, because

1:19:17

it just affects an area. Maven,

1:19:20

I'm going to need you to give me a strength

1:19:22

saving throw, as Steve's

1:19:24

stinking mouth is being

1:19:27

in unison. Oh, gross! 17

1:19:30

passes! You

1:19:33

are still knocked back into the desk

1:19:35

behind you for 6 bludgeoning

1:19:38

damage, but you are

1:19:40

not knocked prone. Oh! She

1:19:43

hears the impact of your hot-bellied

1:19:46

body hitting

1:19:48

the desk, and

1:19:51

she looks a little jarred. Well,

1:19:54

perhaps someone is here after all. Show

1:19:57

yourself! And then that is

1:19:59

Frankie's turn. Alright, Frankie

1:20:01

surprisingly dexterously is

1:20:04

going to mimic what he just saw

1:20:06

the puppet do except in reverse. It

1:20:08

just runs up the railing. It's going

1:20:11

to kick open the door. And now

1:20:13

his grandson's in trouble, so he's gonna

1:20:15

use the good dagger. He uses Lynette's

1:20:18

dagger. Ooh, you take out

1:20:20

your late wife's dagger.

1:20:23

And I'm just gonna jump in

1:20:25

and I see the lady with

1:20:27

all the mouths. I

1:20:29

think you're in charge. And

1:20:31

I'm just gonna jump in and

1:20:33

take a swing on her. Great.

1:20:36

Ask these mouths, sing. There

1:20:38

is something bewitching about it. Give

1:20:41

me a wisdom save or you will have

1:20:43

to attack someone else. What? Ooh,

1:20:46

that's fine. Oh,

1:20:49

yeah, 21. Easy. Okay,

1:20:51

you hear this sort of wall

1:20:53

of sound, which at first it was

1:20:56

aggressive towards Maven. But then as you

1:20:58

come in to hit her, it becomes

1:21:00

almost a sweet seductive

1:21:02

serenade. And you are no

1:21:04

stranger to a siren's call. You don't give a

1:21:07

fuck. Yeah, I see where it's coming from. You

1:21:09

got mouths on your neck and that's strange. Okay,

1:21:13

so this is mostly gonna be to set up

1:21:15

Maven. So I don't know where Maven is, but

1:21:17

I'm kind of positioning it to like open her

1:21:19

up because I'm not gonna get sneak attacks. So

1:21:21

this is just me doing a bad job. That's

1:21:23

a 13 to hit. 13 does hit. Oh,

1:21:26

wow. Okay. Wow. If you hit higher, I'll

1:21:28

tell you that you can close up one

1:21:30

of her mouths. Oh, shit. Okay. Which will help

1:21:32

with DC's on save. Okay, so this is gonna be

1:21:34

a pretty pathetic attack. I think I basically just kick

1:21:36

in the door, do like a jumping attack towards her

1:21:39

and get a splash in for a big four damage.

1:21:43

Yeah. Four damage. Oh, who

1:21:46

are you? My name's Frankie

1:21:48

Vantasmo and I'm the watchdog of

1:21:50

Twilight Tank Durham is what people

1:21:52

have been telling me. Frankie, I

1:21:55

thought I called you and you're stupid, brewed

1:21:57

off of this. Frankie, do you even

1:21:59

know? what I am working on? Resuscitation.

1:22:03

I lost

1:22:05

someone I loved too young. Wouldn't

1:22:08

you like to bring someone back too? You

1:22:13

know, I would.

1:22:16

But whatever you're doing, you're going

1:22:18

about it the wrong way.

1:22:21

You know, you know what? I did you

1:22:23

know my wife? Because

1:22:26

it occurs to me that what happened

1:22:28

to Genevieve seems pretty similar to what

1:22:30

happened to my wife Lynette. She

1:22:32

got mixed up in some bad stuff.

1:22:34

They're both dancers. They're both around the

1:22:36

same people. And then all of

1:22:39

a sudden she starts wasting away. I

1:22:42

don't know your wife. But

1:22:45

I would imagine that if

1:22:48

she made the wrong friends in this town,

1:22:51

she could have made the wrong

1:22:53

enemies as well. Okay.

1:22:56

Well then, this isn't personal.

1:22:59

Well, I guess it is personal because you made

1:23:01

my grandson squeal. Mavid, take a shot! I'm

1:23:06

going to use the Lynette ability

1:23:08

to let Mavid take an attack. Mavid

1:23:10

will get advantage because he has greater

1:23:13

invisibility. So he'll also get sneak

1:23:15

attack. Mavid continues

1:23:18

squealing, but this time more joyously. So

1:23:21

it goes from me. He's

1:23:25

such a cool 23 to hit.

1:23:28

That hit. Yeah. In fact, that

1:23:30

hits and you will take away one of her

1:23:32

mouths. Whoa. You can heal one

1:23:34

of her mouths. Yeah, right on the kisser. Which

1:23:36

one? So that is nine

1:23:40

damage. But then with sneak attack, it's going to

1:23:42

be 24 damage.

1:23:45

Oh yeah. Okay. That

1:23:48

is significant. My boy. And then

1:23:50

I'll also do, I still have a bonus

1:23:52

action, right? Yeah. It doesn't use any action

1:23:54

economy to use my dagger ability. I'll

1:23:56

do a bonus action, help action

1:23:58

on. Penny. Oh, great.

1:24:01

Okay, great. Next

1:24:03

up is Edgar.

1:24:05

Trudea looks completely

1:24:07

rattled by what just invisibly attacked

1:24:10

her and all she can assume

1:24:12

is that you did something. Yeah,

1:24:14

that's right. So she goes, Edgar,

1:24:17

get him and the

1:24:19

skeleton. Oh,

1:24:24

thank God you're here. We needed help. He's

1:24:26

gonna come over to you. You got all

1:24:29

this raw talent. What are you doing? And

1:24:31

try to hit you. You got my boys

1:24:33

over here. He's doing a great puppet show

1:24:35

and you're a singer. Maybe

1:24:38

the two of you could do some together.

1:24:40

His first attack is a not one. So

1:24:42

I think you are kind of convincing

1:24:44

him. That's a nice idea. He could

1:24:46

control it from far away. Imagine a

1:24:48

puppet and a skeleton. It's compelling. Yeah,

1:24:50

it's a nice idea but Trudea

1:24:52

has made promises to me and I'm going

1:24:54

after it. That is a

1:24:57

fucking two. I pull

1:25:00

out Genevieve's letters. The

1:25:02

promises, they're not real. She

1:25:04

says all this stuff. She can't actually back up

1:25:07

anything she's saying. I'm sure she wants to bring

1:25:09

back whoever she wants to bring back but I

1:25:11

don't think she actually wants to deliver anything for

1:25:14

you. No, she's

1:25:16

just Trudea there. Of

1:25:18

course not. Have you not seen

1:25:21

all of the miracles I have worked and

1:25:23

they only get stronger. The more people that

1:25:25

add their voice to this chorus, it only

1:25:27

gets stronger and yes, it started out weak

1:25:29

but it is getting stronger and stronger and

1:25:31

stronger. I am deeply invested in this. I

1:25:34

put this aside to you. Yeah, you're going

1:25:36

to become another mouse on her neck or something.

1:25:38

The puppet lives with us now. The puppet's doing

1:25:40

great. The puppet's switched. The puppet's going to sleep.

1:25:42

The puppet's going to sleep. It's a puppet. I'm

1:25:46

going to build a little bed. Ben's going to build

1:25:48

him a little bed. And then that

1:25:50

is Mavid's turn. See

1:25:52

how you like this chorus? Can

1:25:57

I try my bite attack? Yes,

1:26:01

you can. You ain't the only one

1:26:03

with a mouth! So you use your

1:26:05

strength for your bite attack. Okay, so

1:26:08

that would be a 14. A 14 hit. Alright,

1:26:11

so the bite is a D4? Yeah. That's

1:26:14

a 4. Nice. Yes, and what's your

1:26:16

strength? My strength is plus 3. Plus

1:26:18

3, so you get 7 hit points. Wow,

1:26:21

that's more than I lost. Nice,

1:26:23

and then sneak attack, that's going to be another

1:26:25

11 damage. Okay.

1:26:29

And I also am going to use my fast

1:26:31

hands, and can I run and

1:26:33

grab the urn? Yeah,

1:26:36

yeah, you can. You

1:26:38

grab the urn, and as you

1:26:41

do this, Trudaya loses it. Put

1:26:43

that down! Yeah, yeah, you want

1:26:46

this, huh? You want this,

1:26:48

right? Yes, how dare you go after someone's

1:26:50

loved ones! And then I think

1:26:52

with that, she's going to call down, because

1:26:54

she sees the skeleton is doing jack shit.

1:26:58

She's going to call down, back up,

1:27:00

I need backup, oh shit! And

1:27:02

you hear below, some

1:27:04

of the members of the collective start to

1:27:06

run towards the stair. The puppet

1:27:08

starts dancing in front of them. Where

1:27:10

you going, boys? And

1:27:13

I'm going to roll to see if the

1:27:15

first one escapes the snare.

1:27:19

Come on, Pen. That's another

1:27:21

nat one! Yeah! He's

1:27:25

a puppeteer! He just needed to direct

1:27:27

his focus. It's the one

1:27:29

thing. Haha, I got you on my

1:27:31

strings! One of the people running gets tangled up

1:27:34

in the puppet, a bottle next to the stair.

1:27:36

I'm like, get out of the way, get out

1:27:38

of the way, she can't use us! No, you're going to

1:27:40

miss the show! You want to stick around for this? And

1:27:43

next up is Penny. Okay,

1:27:46

Penny had a minor crisis of conscience, a

1:27:48

little freak out panic attack on the stairwell,

1:27:50

worried about his son, but now he knows

1:27:52

that his son needs him, and he bolts

1:27:54

up there and says, Mary, I'm coming for

1:27:56

you, don't worry, boy! Ah, geez! He's going

1:27:58

to run into the room. Get

1:28:00

a sneak attack in on Tradea if I can.

1:28:03

Great. Yeah, I'm up in the mix with her.

1:28:05

Oh, and also maybe bit her,

1:28:07

so... Oh, Tradea

1:28:09

really, really wants to make it to the

1:28:11

next round so she can cast the spell.

1:28:14

Oh no! You have advantage. I give you the

1:28:16

help action. I do have advantage. Oh,

1:28:19

23 to hit. 23 hit. Okay.

1:28:22

In fact, it takes out another mouse. Ooh.

1:28:24

So now the saves for her spells will be

1:28:26

12 instead of 14. Ooh.

1:28:30

She even ends up having a chance to

1:28:32

cast any. All these nat ones from the

1:28:34

goons is not helping. I'm literally

1:28:36

using a dice. I usually have my own

1:28:38

DM dice, but I just have some that

1:28:41

Murf uses. Ooh. I'm using

1:28:43

a Murf. Oh, Murf curse. I

1:28:45

rolled really good with those the other day

1:28:47

when I was running. This has given me two

1:28:49

nat ones and a two. So that is

1:28:51

13 damage? 13 damage.

1:28:53

She's still staying! Alright. No, I

1:28:55

don't have your breakfast. And

1:28:58

then for my cunning action, I'm

1:29:01

going to reach into my pocket with my

1:29:03

mage hand, grab my multi-tool, and slam it

1:29:05

into the mirror to try and break it.

1:29:08

To break the mirror. Just to make

1:29:10

sure nobody else jumps out. Oh yeah.

1:29:12

Smart, smart. Okay, great. Okay, so

1:29:14

you take your multi-tool, you slam

1:29:16

it, you hear the crash, and

1:29:18

all of these shards come spilling

1:29:20

out from underneath the tapestry that

1:29:23

was covering it. And in the

1:29:25

shards you see reflected this creature

1:29:28

cocking its head with interest.

1:29:32

You're not needed here today. Problem for another day.

1:29:34

Problem for another day. No successful

1:29:36

portal of entry. Alright,

1:29:39

we have a crow that can clean that up later. You

1:29:42

fools! And then that

1:29:44

is back around to Trudea. Mavid, I'm

1:29:46

so sorry. I should have come sooner. Are

1:29:48

you okay? Yeah, great. Whatever. Don't worry about

1:29:50

me. He's so confident.

1:29:52

Look at this. He's got this new phone confident.

1:29:54

He's doing good. He's doing good. He's doing really

1:29:57

good. We're all doing good. I'm a puppeteer! She's

1:30:01

gonna use her highest level so you got

1:30:04

it. The two remaining mouths Begin

1:30:07

quietly at first and then

1:30:09

increase increase increase increase into

1:30:11

a cruel crescendo In

1:30:14

a 30-foot cone at all

1:30:16

of you even the fucking skeleton.

1:30:18

I could not everyone give me

1:30:20

a constitution saving throw Not

1:30:24

my Social-c. Oh, okay. I

1:30:26

rolled a natural 18 though 19. Maybe it

1:30:28

got a 12. Oh Right,

1:30:34

yes because you guys took

1:30:36

out two of her mouths

1:30:38

the DC is actually 12 now wow

1:30:44

What about you I got a 21 oh Okay,

1:30:47

we're in a very thick sweater. All right,

1:30:49

so even the skeleton safe

1:30:53

You all take nine necrotic

1:30:55

damage, but are not Poisoned

1:30:59

that's good. That is now

1:31:01

Frankie's turn. You know what I gotta

1:31:03

keep setting up my little ghoul grandson

1:31:05

here Let me out of I

1:31:08

mean the biting is working for us. I'm not

1:31:10

gonna lie I doubted him at first, but you

1:31:13

know he's fighting his own way if it is

1:31:15

feral Here and my

1:31:18

grandson is a ghoul So

1:31:23

yeah, I'll just take I'll take an attack Can

1:31:25

you guess I miss I got a nine? So

1:31:29

I do a pathetic swipe as

1:31:31

a distraction for Mavids to

1:31:33

use his reaction to take an attack

1:31:40

That is a 22 to hit 22 hey, I

1:31:42

bite her for another No

1:31:47

need to apply your sneak attack

1:31:49

damage she's down And

1:31:53

like a dog with a bone, maybe

1:31:55

it will not unclench it maybe that's

1:31:57

enough. That's enough. She's done, okay Hey,

1:32:00

it's mine! This is really over- This is overkill.

1:32:02

This is for my God! Don't-

1:32:05

wait, my sweet son. Alright, yeah, let's be-

1:32:07

Ugh, God. Let's be a little more courteous, you know?

1:32:10

Respect all the living and the dead. And

1:32:12

you have torn up- I'm torn up about

1:32:15

that. I'm trying to respect the- I'm trying

1:32:17

to respect Frank! He wants- he wants flesh.

1:32:19

He wants- And you don't want to feed

1:32:21

him anything! That's not very respectful, is it?

1:32:23

He's really been thriving since he's gotten the

1:32:25

Frank thing. I gotta be honest, he did

1:32:27

really good today. Yeah. As her blood fills

1:32:29

your mouth. Dripping out the

1:32:31

edges of it, you feel as thin

1:32:33

as their approval. Oh,

1:32:37

God. I did good! And then

1:32:40

I think that Edgar is not like

1:32:42

fully on your side. He is going

1:32:44

to stand in front of the door

1:32:46

and say, We can

1:32:48

work with it! Come on, turn it up, up,

1:32:50

up! And he is going

1:32:53

to just try to attack- He

1:32:56

can't see Mavid. He's just gonna try to

1:32:58

attack Frankie. That makes sense. Edgar, you don't

1:33:00

gotta do this. You've gotta do this. I

1:33:03

want to make it back to the stage. I'm sick

1:33:05

of singing and dancing. I don't want

1:33:07

to be some campy show skeleton. I

1:33:09

want to play Hamlet. The best. The

1:33:11

leader. Well, you're already- you're so good. You

1:33:14

bring joy to everybody that you pass. Yeah,

1:33:16

you could also be the Skull and Hamlet.

1:33:18

That's a big part. That's a huge part.

1:33:20

You want me to be an unspeaking Roll

1:33:22

and Hamlet! Now he's gonna attack Kenny. Hey,

1:33:26

come on! No, we just think

1:33:28

you could do a fun thing with- I keep the hip, Penny! Oh,

1:33:30

that is. Turn to me in the

1:33:32

middle. You can take off your own head. You can play

1:33:34

Hamlet and the Skull. Seven flashing damage. He's gonna

1:33:36

shut up. Seven again. He's

1:33:38

gonna- Better! 15

1:33:41

to hip, Penny. Wow, geez, Edgar, where were you

1:33:43

this whole time? That's his- Oh,

1:33:45

God. Five more

1:33:47

flashing damage. Damn, Edgar, you were

1:33:50

smoking! And he

1:33:52

blocks the door with his body.

1:33:55

Alright, I respect you even more than I ever did. And

1:33:58

that is maybe. Mavid,

1:34:00

you've got this painting hanging

1:34:02

on the wall, you're holding these

1:34:05

ashes, Edgar's blocking the door,

1:34:08

you hear a kerfuffle

1:34:10

downstairs as Truday's minions

1:34:13

get tangled up in puppetry.

1:34:15

Just to clarify for you, the snare

1:34:17

only catches one of them. Okay.

1:34:20

So like, more could get up and they're able to repeat the save at

1:34:22

the end of their turn. Oh, okay. So then

1:34:24

let's have the minion repeat the save. Okay.

1:34:28

16 for one of her minions. 16

1:34:31

will pass. Okay. One

1:34:33

of the collective minions breaks

1:34:36

free of the snare and

1:34:39

runs upstairs, kicks in the door.

1:34:42

What do they even have? Fuck

1:34:44

yes! They have a healing word! Oh!

1:34:48

Oh, yes! They are going to... They'll celebrate. Um,

1:34:50

they are going to... Well,

1:34:54

actually they can't get in because the door is being blocked,

1:34:56

but they can open the door to see through

1:34:58

to Truday up and heal

1:35:00

Truday up for... Wow. Six

1:35:03

points. Truday up. Thank

1:35:06

you. And then that is Mavid. No,

1:35:09

nobody asked for an encore! Oh,

1:35:11

Mavid is just going to attack her. Okay.

1:35:15

A 21 to hit? That

1:35:19

also takes out another Mel. He was

1:35:22

just a badass. That's

1:35:24

going to be 19 damage with my sneak attack.

1:35:26

Wow. He's really applying himself.

1:35:28

Truday, I begin to... Thank you, my

1:35:30

faithful. You have brought me back... Oh!

1:35:33

Back down. And then I'll do... I'll

1:35:36

use my cunning action to spill some ball bearings on

1:35:38

the stairs in case anybody else is going to come up

1:35:40

here. Oh! Take

1:35:43

that! Amazing. What

1:35:46

is the save for your ball bearings? It's

1:35:50

so nothing. I

1:35:53

think it's just 10. Oh god! No, it's got to be

1:35:55

12, right? Is it 10? Let me see. still

1:36:00

get up on their turn. I'm going to use silvery barbs

1:36:02

for the one at the top to make them reroll. The

1:36:07

13 is only 10. It

1:36:09

is only 10. She confirmed. Silvery

1:36:14

barbs, I think for Penny, looks like

1:36:17

just kind of some like magnesium strips that kind

1:36:19

of flash in the air. Like

1:36:21

tries to make them distracted and fall down,

1:36:23

but it doesn't work. But he says, okay,

1:36:25

those really good thinking with the

1:36:27

ball bambings though. Maybe that was really smart. My

1:36:29

son, you know what? Hey, you croc. How about

1:36:32

that? You croc because he's

1:36:34

a worshiping a guy. It's too much. It's

1:36:36

too much. Nobody

1:36:38

likes puns. You

1:36:41

won't be, you won't be my sweet. Penny,

1:36:44

it's your turn. It's

1:36:47

not Luke's side of what we came for. Uh, if

1:36:49

she's down, then maybe now's the time. Uh,

1:36:51

I'm going to go inspect the painting. Yeah. It's

1:36:53

kind of like a portal to and see

1:36:55

a serial plane. So I

1:36:58

don't know if you have any way to reach

1:37:00

into the ethereal plane. You would know that hags

1:37:02

can reach into the ethereal plane. They have

1:37:04

something called a heart stone. That is where

1:37:06

they get their healing, but also allows

1:37:09

them access. I think I'll just take the

1:37:11

whole painting. Yeah. I'll like grab it and use

1:37:13

my mage hand to help support my, okay. Help

1:37:16

support the awkward size of it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll

1:37:18

let you, I was going to say it's two people

1:37:20

in need to carry it, but with your sort of

1:37:22

ledger domain, I think that you can balance it. I'm

1:37:24

just kind of like, I like push it into my

1:37:26

gut. Uh, and I'm using my mage hand to hold it

1:37:28

in place. I'm using my other hand to like grab

1:37:30

it on the side. Uh, and then I'm

1:37:32

just like walking waddling towards the window. Okay.

1:37:35

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Next up

1:37:38

is true. Deas. I guess she's going

1:37:40

to start making fucking deaths. Okay.

1:37:42

How about that? That's a mess. Oh

1:37:45

my God. You failed. Oh

1:37:49

my God. Frankie, you're

1:37:52

up next. Oh,

1:37:55

you see Trudy. She

1:37:57

has these unnaturally. ditched

1:38:00

mouths on her. She's

1:38:02

been running essentially a pyramid

1:38:04

scheme of shoddy healing, hiring

1:38:08

assassins, and if you

1:38:10

leave it to chance, her

1:38:12

followers are going to just keep healing

1:38:14

her. Do

1:38:16

you want to finish

1:38:19

this here, or do you want

1:38:21

to have another enemy in this

1:38:23

town? Oh boy.

1:38:26

Frankie's not good at this part.

1:38:29

Maven, throw me to earn. Earn?

1:38:33

Yeah. What do you want it for? Here.

1:38:36

Who cares? Uh... I should

1:38:38

catch it before it can spill everywhere. Some

1:38:41

respect! Maven,

1:38:43

what's the point? She ain't around.

1:38:46

I'm going to take the urn.

1:38:48

I'm going to wrap

1:38:50

her hands in it. And

1:38:52

I'm going to say, I'm

1:38:55

sorry, but

1:38:57

your grief isn't an excuse

1:39:00

to hurt people and

1:39:02

to pass

1:39:05

the herd on. I'm

1:39:07

sorry. I'm sorry. And he'll

1:39:09

take an attack on Trudell. Go

1:39:13

for it. And she's prone to

1:39:15

it with advantage. Uh, yes. And

1:39:19

as you hit, you

1:39:21

see the sort of like

1:39:23

unnaturally stitched mouths. Yeah, I think

1:39:26

I'll stab into like something that's

1:39:29

this sort of like demonic aspect of it. I

1:39:31

think like something that she's probably stolen from someone

1:39:33

or something. I'll stab into like one of the

1:39:35

mouths. Okay. Frankie,

1:39:40

as Lynette's dagger finds purchase

1:39:42

in one of these mouths,

1:39:44

they shrivel up. And

1:39:46

this presence that was so

1:39:49

nefarious fades. And

1:39:53

Trudellia softens into the woman she

1:39:55

was before.

1:40:00

she let her grief warp

1:40:02

her into something cruel

1:40:04

and monstrous. And

1:40:08

in this final moment, clutching

1:40:10

the beloved urn you have

1:40:12

so mercifully placed in her

1:40:15

arms, she

1:40:18

looks more

1:40:20

innocent but also free. All

1:40:23

right. Frankie

1:40:28

looks very, very

1:40:30

emotional and then looks

1:40:33

up, sees a skeleton, sees people trying to bump through

1:40:35

the door. Okay, maybe it'd be a deer and break

1:40:37

the window. What am I gonna do? Everything I'm always

1:40:39

doing. What are you doing? Oh my god, you cannot

1:40:41

have just seen that. You're doing so good today, baby.

1:40:44

You're doing so good. Come on, come on. You got

1:40:46

to try and pam, I'm trying. You're doing so good.

1:40:48

Come on, come on. You got to try and pam,

1:40:50

I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. You're

1:40:52

doing great. You got nothing to apologize for that. All right,

1:40:54

go, please. Maybe for the love of god. He's a weasel.

1:40:56

Yeah, here you go. Look, it's not that hard. This case

1:40:59

has got you between two rods, dad. I saw the whole

1:41:01

thing. Got to. You

1:41:03

sure you don't want to just attack it? Please, please attack it

1:41:05

with your... I bite the window? What do you think? Yeah. Yeah,

1:41:08

I'll swing my rapier at

1:41:10

the window. Hits,

1:41:24

and you're invisible, so you can have sneak

1:41:26

attack. Wow. It's sort of like

1:41:28

a vine that's covering it, which is sort

1:41:30

of a creature, so you can be using

1:41:32

sneak attack. Sick. 17 damage. Okay,

1:41:35

you see that you slash into the

1:41:37

window. The glass shatters and slashes at

1:41:40

some of this vine, and you're starting

1:41:42

to make some headway. But

1:41:46

the skeleton is still here. Oh,

1:41:48

come on. There's

1:41:50

nothing for you in this town, Edgar. We

1:41:53

can work, stop, and act. You and

1:41:55

Dora, Edgar and Dora are on the road.

1:41:57

We're supposed to be my big knights. And

1:42:00

he's going after Frankie come

1:42:03

on hey finally hitting

1:42:05

you wait you beat a 12 You

1:42:08

got a 23. Yeah, they go pretty good That

1:42:12

is eight slashing damage

1:42:15

Gonna take a second attack now. I'm rolling good

1:42:17

21 to hit okay eight

1:42:21

more slashing damage So

1:42:24

hurt I could you you were

1:42:26

burning through every good shred of goodwill. I

1:42:28

have okay You

1:42:30

still believe in this guy you're still gonna give him

1:42:32

a chance You're more such as a

1:42:34

character than me We

1:42:36

don't need to give him a chance, but I do

1:42:39

think we gotta go We

1:42:41

gotta go, okay. We'll kill the skeleton later. I don't

1:42:43

like him anymore either And let me

1:42:45

see so he's blocking the door, but I

1:42:47

am gonna have Uh

1:42:50

one of these versifiers who has made

1:42:52

it up the stairs despite the ball

1:42:54

bearings is going to look

1:42:57

at You Frankie and

1:43:00

cast sleep Oh

1:43:04

shit, okay. I'm just out. I

1:43:06

think that oh eight hp. No,

1:43:08

Frankie falls asleep What

1:43:11

are you doing grandpa? I can't back. No,

1:43:13

he's not the time wake up We didn't

1:43:15

get a good night's sleep last night. He

1:43:17

really slept poorly. You gotta stop sleeping in

1:43:19

the chair there And

1:43:22

then that is mavet mavet your grandpa's

1:43:24

asleep your dad

1:43:26

is balancing This

1:43:28

painting. It's really heavy. The vines

1:43:30

are still obscuring the window You

1:43:32

can see a little bit outside

1:43:34

of there that you do still

1:43:36

have that spectator That's gonna

1:43:39

try and chase you guys down But

1:43:41

you also see ready

1:43:43

for you is the carriage that frankie

1:43:46

secured with ignatius with a

1:43:49

griffin waiting at the

1:43:51

wings to Take off into

1:43:53

the night. All right grandpa. Come on. That's us.

1:43:55

That's all right out there. We gotta go wake up

1:43:58

That is told me not

1:44:00

to wake you up when you're sleeping, but I think you

1:44:02

gotta wake up now. That's true. Mavis, you should wake

1:44:04

up, boys. You should wake up, boys Mavis. Mavis

1:44:07

starts really innocently just poking at

1:44:10

his grandfather with his dagger. Oh,

1:44:12

hey, come on. Come on,

1:44:15

we gotta get out of here. So

1:44:17

then, yeah, Mavis is gonna use his action to

1:44:19

shake his grandfather awake. Great. Come on, let's go.

1:44:21

All right. Oh, Mavis,

1:44:24

is it done? Is it over? Don't say you want to sleep.

1:44:26

Don't you say you want to sleep. You always say, yeah, that

1:44:29

wasn't asleep, but I was down here,

1:44:31

I was getting a low angle so I could go for

1:44:33

like a double leg take down. I'm gonna tackle him. I

1:44:35

know it. All right, all right, I wasn't asleep. Thank you

1:44:37

for waking me up. I know what sleeping looks like. Thank

1:44:39

you for waking me up. You're

1:44:41

very perceptive. True. I remember just

1:44:43

like waking up and he'd be staring at me.

1:44:45

And then that is Penny. Okay, so

1:44:47

I want to communicate to Dory the

1:44:50

puppet and tell her to

1:44:52

run out to Ignatius

1:44:55

and tell him that it's time to light it up. I

1:44:57

think if I'm familiar, you can

1:44:59

telepathically communicate. So you

1:45:01

hear sort of the playful

1:45:03

hollow wooden clicking of your

1:45:06

new puppet familiar. And

1:45:08

you hear her jingly little limbs

1:45:11

as she scurries down to Ignatius.

1:45:13

Put on a show. In an act of

1:45:15

final fury, I am going to cast sleep

1:45:17

on all of the other henchmen in the

1:45:19

stairwell. Ooh. Oh,

1:45:22

interesting. Okay, what level

1:45:24

spell and roll how

1:45:26

many hit points? Okay, so it's

1:45:29

going to be five D8s for first level.

1:45:31

Okay. That's going to be 25 hit points. With

1:45:33

that, you are able to,

1:45:36

even though he's undead, and I think undead technically

1:45:38

can't go to sleep, it's just more fun. You

1:45:41

are able to put to sleep

1:45:44

the skeleton because

1:45:46

he was low on hit points and the

1:45:49

person who is over his shoulder

1:45:51

who casts sleep on your dad. Oh shit.

1:45:53

All right, show's over. Great.

1:45:56

So that kind of takes them out

1:45:58

of the combat. Frankie, it's here. Great,