The Glass Cannon Podcast - Strange Aeons Episode 26 – Monumental Decisions

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

As the heroes finish clearing out Fort Hailcourse, they are attacked by five dual sword wielding Atticuses! It was another wild night in Indianapolis at Helium Comedy Club and the boys were ready to yuk it up from start to finish! Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Grant Berger and Matthew Capodicasa as they tour the country playing the Lovecraftian Horror Strange Aeons Pathfinder Adventure Path. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/N1s9I_oHLXA Recap 16:46 Gameplay 22:37 For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I love Indy. You guys like Indy? There is a magic in the air here in Indianapolis. And by magic, of course, I mean an airborne disease that will eventually claim the lives of all those we love. That's the magic they don't tell you about at the airport.

Oh, I can hear the bells now. Someone just died. They're being claimed from the showroom floor. Teacher says, every time you get feedback... No, there really is a magic here during convention time when you gather a bunch of people together who all love the same thing,

playing games, right? Believe it or not, there was a time in my life when I thought I'd never play another game again. Until one blustery June day, ten years ago, I met a giant-headed, presumably small-penised Irish man. Who shall remain nameless? It only narrows it down a little. Right. Who shall remain nameless? It only narrows it down a little. Right.

I met him on my softball team, and he told me about this upcoming video game called Skyrim. Now, at that point, I hadn't played a video game in over five years, but the fervor with which this barely literate man spoke got me fired up. Then that same openly impotent man introduced me to Pathfinder.

And now gaming is my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. Actually, that's not true. I would have it several other ways. But soon I'll have the money to eventually make those ways happen. And I will burn this company to the ground and do

what I really want. But that's only possible because of gaming and this disgusting out of shape Irishman. So, thank you Irishman

with a micro penis. Wherever you are. How's everybody doing tonight, huh? You having some pops? We're very close to you this evening. This is very different from Atlanta when everyone was really far away,

but that's the comedy club way. How great is this? We're playing Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis. Our first live show was at a game store in Queens that could have doubled as a high school locker. It was so small. And now we get to play cool venues like this. And comedy clubs are very near and dear to my heart.

They always have been, because ever since I did, before I did stand-up, even when I was a teenager, I was obsessed with comedy clubs. Whenever I had two nickels to rub together, I would go see a show, I'd go see Dave Attell every New Year's when he came to Caroline's. And then I started bartending at Caroline's on Broadway and Times Square for a few years,

and I got to meet all the comics, and they didn't know that I wanted to be a comic, and they were cool, and they'd, like, bounce jokes off of me. And then some of them would... And then you stole them all. And then I stole the jokes. I'd repurpose them, but put me as the subject of the sentence.

No one knew. So I went to see my gynecologist today. Thanks, Laurie Kilmartin. That's almost worth a intro bottle cap. Intro bottle cap! Intro cap! Intro cap! All right, you get an intro cap.

Intro cap. That's a first ever. First ever intro cap. Wow. And... So proud. Yet again, it can only be used during intros. Oh, okay. It's the cash equivalent of.01 cents.

Folks, I'd like to introduce you to four men whose children will never be athletes. It's true. Mine has a chance. It could be seven foot tall. Just because they're tall doesn't mean they won't be oafy like you. I was first team all county several times

in high school. What, in water polo? No, actual polo. Actual polo. Land polo, they call it. Land polo. The open fields of Newark, New Jersey. We had quite a good polo program. Paramus Equestrian School.

The Newark Airport Equestrian Academy. It's the largest open space. Folks, up first is a man that went to both NYU and Juilliard. And if you didn't already know that, just talk to him for five minutes and he'll tell you. Matthew Capitacaz, everybody. Funny, that reminds me of when I was at Juilliard.

That's what you sound like when you talk. Maybe that's just what you hear, but it's definitely not what I'm saying. Well, I hear. It's like in the scene in Being John Malkovich where all the Malkoviches are around. Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. But you just hear Juilliard, Juilliard, Juilliard.

Juilliard, Juilliard, Juilliard. Juilliard? He's a braggart. Put simply. Folks, he may be skinny and sober now, but he still carries himself with the grace of a fat drunk. Give it up for Grant Berger.

Dick Van Dyke I asked for an ottoman to be installed here So I could trip over That'd be fun, we should have a little gimmick for you You could just trip over your mustache and fall into the front row I almost did You're really sticking to this thing, huh? I have Thank you

I have the support Of a lot of people here Well the Midwest This is mustache country Up here I gotta say I've been getting So much positive feedback

About my appearance The last year I wanted to throw a wrench In that plan And really balance out The comments So there's a lot of negative That comes with it

I can tell you that much But there is a date That everyone will know It is my last date For this mustache And it's coming up soon The days Well maybe Who knows what mustache, and it's coming up soon. The days are... Well, maybe. Who knows what happens, but the days

are coming up. You should donate the hair to people that can't grow mustaches like Joe. I need to fill out some of these gaps. For just three cents a day, you could give a man like Joe a mustache.

In the arms of the angels. I want the... In the arms of the angels. I'm still planning things with Sarah McLachlan right now, Matthew. I can't tell you the exact date, but it'll come. Folks, on the ones and twos this evening... In the arms of... He's so fast! He's so good. He's so fast!

He's so good. He's so fast! Does your husband suffer from lack of mustache? He's so good. He's on the ones and twos. He's got a bandolier full of candy

and a head full of fear. He loves gaming and hates confrontation. Skidmorev, folks He's the king Skid, everybody Nobody likes confrontation But you truly hate it No, I don't like it

We had to have some difficult conversations this weekend And I was very happy To not be in the room for any of them hate it. No, I don't like it. We had to have some difficult conversations this weekend, and I was very happy to not be in the room for any of them. We were talking, and then at certain points, the kid just left. I was like, alright, plausible deniability. I'm out. Then he'd walk back in and leave again. How are you doing

today, man? Are you excited to be here? I'm very excited. I love Indianapolis. The city reminds me, and I mean this in the nicest way, of a dorky Denver. And I really like it a lot. I always love coming here. And this is the first time being on stage at a comedy club. And I, like you, was a huge comedy nerd, among other types of nerd growing up.

And yeah, this is really thrilling. I love this. Well, we're glad you could make it. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I know you were on the fence. Hey, look, it's that Irish guy I was talking about. Hey! Joe O'Brien,

everybody! Joe! Indy Joe. Indy Joe. Indie Joe. Indie Joe. Indie Joe. Do you remember that it all started with Skyrim? That was it.

That's what got me into it. You were talking about it. I hadn't played video games. I'm pretty sure I didn't pronounce it Skyrim. Do I say it weird? You just over-pronounced it. Skyrim. It was part of the joke.

Skyrim, they say. In the Emerald Isles, they call it Skirim, with an apostrophe. But that's what got my beak wet for RPGs, is when you got me into that, and I sunk 300 hours into that, and then you're like, you want to play this game? And then here we are. And then here we are. Yeah. You kicked out the people in my gaming group you didn't like.

Right, which was all of them. Every single one of them. He's like, listen, I love playing this Pathfinder game, but these dudes gotta go. He's gotta go, he's gotta go. Skid's cool, your friend from growing up is cool. Everybody else is fire. Get rid of the GM, too. I'll do this.

You joke, but that's exactly what happened. I ask for what I want. Folks, we are in a comedy club this evening This is more important for you guys to know So everything has to be funny tonight Even if your character dies Or someone has a heart attack on stage You have to laugh You have to laugh

Those arteries are mostly cheese So Joe is going to be the first one. I love cheese. Did you take your blood pressure meds pre-show? Yep. That's good. That's good. I'm at the age now where I feel like I'm having a heart attack

three or four times a day, and then my wife is like, I don't care until you're actually having a heart attack, because I'll be like, ah, that feels weird. Is that a muscle, or is my heart exploding? My left arm feels numb and she's like, just let me know when you're dying.

Do you have this problem as well or are you not as paranoid as I am? No, I'm not as paranoid. And I don't have frequent chest pains either. I don't think that's paranoia. I think it's an actual problem. Are you saying this is bad? I should get this looked into. I think you should talk to someone. Wait a minute. Are you saying this is bad? I should get this looked into? You should talk to someone.

Matthew, you seem like a real nut. Do you... Are you afraid about constantly dying? Yeah. But from a heart attack, do you feel like, ooh, that's something and then you let it spiral in your brain? No, I have many, many other things to spiral about besides heart disease.

Like what? Share with everybody. We're in a safe space. I often think about when I cross the street, like even when the light is green, I only cross the street when the light is green now. I think about the, like the many, many universes

that exist where I horribly die in that crosswalk. Because they do. Because the multiverse, et cetera, et cetera. And then I think about how weird it is

that there are infinite, there are infinite versions of me that are lying dead and mangled on the street. My God. Every time you cross a street? Pretty much. That's exhausting.

No, I don't recommend this experience. Well, now I'm going to be thinking about it every time I cross the street. On Sundays, and this era, thankfully, has passed,

but it would be like almost everything I did, I was like, all right, I'm going to open the door. Something horrible could happen when I open this door. I could get an electric shock powerful enough through the doorknob that I could just die

right here in my apartment. So you're crazier than I am. Now I feel better. Grant, I know you're a real paranoid. You hate, you're afraid of everything. Oh, I am. Oh, yeah, that's true, Troy. But I like to lay in bed at night, cuddle up with my wife, Angel. All right, we don't need the gory details of your passionate lovemaking with your wife,

unless you want to share them. We have to book a different type of club for that, Troy. But, no, and I often think... No, I think it would be a comedy. You're in the right place, it turns out. Another intro, Pat? That was good, though. That was good.

You fall over an ottoman into her? Is that how it works? Dick Van Dyke. We're having fun. It happens to everyone. It's the Dick Van Dyke position. It's nuclear holocaust I close my eyes and think of nuclear holocaust And I think it's going to happen at any moment

Skid are you You think you're going to die tonight Yeah probably yeah I also have frequent chest pains And palpitations I don't really fear death That much Yeah. Yeah. I also have frequent chest pains and palpitations. I don't really fear death that much. I do fear being tortured to death or going to prison.

So... Are you wanted in any states? No, no. Because I'm making a concerted effort not to be, because I fear those two things so much. Have you ever committed a felony that no one knows about? Not a felony. Because I think I did.

Did you really? I've got to look it up. Remember that thing I told you about a couple weeks ago? Is that a felony? Yes. Wow. I was really upset. Remember that thing I told you about a couple weeks ago? Is that a felony? Yes. All right. Wow. I was really upset. That's my defense, Your Honor. Well, according to U.S. statutes.

I'm not going to actually say what it was, but Joe once told me a story when we were hiking about something that happened in his misspent youth. And I was like, so what actually happened was, and then I said something, and I could just see, like, we were with his family, and he was like, yeah, I guess that is what happened. Then he was quiet for like a mile. I was like, do I have to kill Matthew? We are in the woods.

It wasn't a crime. Do you remember what I'm talking about? No memory. Okay. I'll tell you later. Your Honor. I'll tell you later. I have no memory of the events.

Your Honor, my client has no memory. And, again, I was very upset when I committed that felony. The lawyer's on trial, too? Yeah. That's weird. That's a time-saving measure. To try the lawyer and his client in the same venue at the same time. Our legal system is overwhelmed.

Felonies and secrets. You guys in the mood for a recap? Yes. Grant. We're in Indy. You guys in the mood for a recap? Yes Grant We're in Indy Night one of two Be back on Saturday get your tickets But right now we got some work to do

So let's take it to the recap Recap Dragon it's just so over the top and it just keeps getting crazier and crazier we've seen it now like four times since the sound check, and every time, I'm like, oh my god. I hope like three years from now when we're still playing this AP, like the recap is ten minutes long. Just the graphic. It's like armies. Charging down the 40 million dollar budget.

Michael Bay directed the recap. We can finally afford the rights to Sarah McLachlan at that point Should we set it to Angel? It'll be great She'll be here live You got some good recap music? Ooh, that is good Setting a tone, baby Oh man, you've been working on your recap music

Recap, Indy, night one. No longer are our heroes wanderers in an asylum caught between the material plane and the dreamlands. Nice Chris Farley. Holy shnikes! I gotta sell these recaps. Doing tonight's recap!

No longer are they in a fugue state with no idea who they are or how they got there. Our heroes have left the asylum behind to come to the city of Thrushmore to try and find the man that put them there in the first place and possibly stole their memories.

Count Hazerton Liles. The fourth. Not the third. And certainly not the fifth. How about the sixth? Don't be ridiculous. It's the fifth. How about the sixth? Don't be ridiculous. It's the fourth. The problem is, he's gone.

He's left town, and who could blame him? This place is weird. They're cultists of the king in yellow, kidnapping people to sacrifice them in some ritual involving these two stars to lay monuments in town. They're using the blood of innocents to try and open up portals to the other side to perhaps let Hester, the king in yellow,

come into Galarian. The town garrison, Fort Hailcourse, has been taken over by amphibian scum. The mercenary guards were turned into undead juju zombies, and the magistrate is nowhere to be found. You've all but cleared out the fort after discovering all of this, as well as some finding out some more information about Laos. How he stole some book called The Revelations of

Hali. And how his parents died suspiciously and his mother Namira was sleeping around with an occult obsessed doctor named Climes Pret who was caught, framed, and thrown in the fort dungeon to be tortured to death.

You fought his ghost and you won. Easily. Barely. dungeon to be tortured to death. You fought his ghost and you won easily, barely. All roads now seem to point to the Count's estate at Iris Hill, overlooking the whole town. You saw it last time out through an arrow loop in the fort. It's an estate that's been left in the hands of Lowell's assistant, a woman named Mellie Sen. This name keeps coming up. What do you know about her? You know she turned townsfolk away when they came to Iris Hill to ask where the count went,

why he left town. You know that apparently she was buying sleep-inducing drugs off of some druid that was living in a cave outside of Threshmore. You also know that she was behind the recruitment of these scum that took over the fort and that she must have been involved with the guards' transformation into juju zombies and the cult kidnappings connected to the Star Stelae. That's basically all you know.

So last time in Hotlanta, after narrowly escaping death at the hands of yet another in ooze and two undead atop the battlements of the fort you enter the donjon you enter the donjon when you do you see the constable like worriedly running up the stairs so aldo just zips after her only to find at the top of the stairs, she's gone. But instead lying in wait is another scum and a creature known as a doppeldreck who had altered its shape to look like one of these scum. Scum.

Scum. You defeat them, soundly, and your newest accomplice, and now Sir Julie's squire, Sean McIntosh. He almost died in the battle, but as Sir Julie goes to his aid, he comes to and he points towards Atticus and you all look to see not one, but six Atticae on the stairs.

Five of them smile at the real Atticus and then simultaneously pull out two swords to attack. Roll for initiative. Oh! Roll for initiative! roll ricka roll we're jumping right in nothing better than starting a show with a combat unless the combat drags on and it's boring we make these up as we go uh let's talk a niche atticus i'm gonna save you for last because yours is very, very important. And you are bad at rolling dice.

Which is a luck-based skill. Aldo, what did you roll? That'll be a 14 for Aldo. Middling roll. Somebody, a big 14 fan in the back there. Yeah, someone. Well, are you from 14? You grew up in, where'd you go to high school? He's like, my wife's 14.

Jesus. Come on. That's how they do it in the Midwest. Mustaches and 14-year-old wives. All right. It's a fucking comedy club. Relax. He doesn't really have a, maybe he does.

Sir, do you have a 14-year-old wife? I'm going to hammer this home. Sir Julie, what's your roll? Five. Five for Sir Julie the Dead is what they'll call her at the end of this combat. Sir Julie the Dead. How's your prize?

How's for the brave? Rolled a 10. These are bad initiatives. These are very, very bad initiatives, but it really all comes down to Atticus. 19. Ooh! Liar!

Got a shot. I got a shot. How many spells you got left, Joe? Oh, man, he's smiling. God, I hate his face! Up first is Atticus. Yeah, baby! Okay.

All right, this is good. Let's turn up the intensity here. All right. They pull out these double-edged swords, or these two swords. Atticus is a very smart dude. I want to know what I'm looking at. He's also an illusionist.

He's not as smart as, like, an Aldo, but he's pretty intelligent. So really spell out for me what you want to do here with your lower intelligence. I want to try to get a sense of maybe what's going on here. He has made doubles of himself before. He has made mirror images. He has made silent of himself before. He has made mirror images. He has made silent images of himself. He's seen this before, so he's not too rattled. Okay.

He wants to look for flaws. He wants to look for imperfections. Can I do a knowledge roll to see what this is? It's a spell effect. Yeah, give me a knowledge roll and a perception check. Knowledge arcana? Yeah, go knowledge arcana. Okay, knowledge arcana is a natural check. Knowledge Arcana? Yeah, go Knowledge Arcana. Okay, Knowledge Arcana is a natural one.

Oh, no. Come on! You are 100% sure there are five more of you in this room. There's ten of them! He is going to do that perception check that you mentioned. Here we go.

That is a 11. Oh, jeez. Wish this would have been your initiative. Well, you know yourself. You've looked at your gross face in the mirror. It's rude. Atticus, not Joe.

And you do see... It looks like you're looking at your reflection. My reflection. Everything is, like, reversed. Interesting. Like, if you had a scar on your face, for example, or any sort of imperfection. Maybe a beauty mark.

A beauty mark, if you will. It would be on the other side. It would be on the other side. Yeah. That's all you notice with an 11. Interesting. Do they have mustaches, though? It's not your turn.

Looking is a free action. It is, but they are on the stairs. It's like a mirror, not like a mirror mirror. Okay. Come on, man! No Star Trek fans. I was there for you, Skid. I'd like that bottle cap back, Skid.

That's more of a goatee though Well that's true Alright I'm going to He's going to have my bottle cap back Do you want to hold? No I'm going to get out of there Go ahead and hold

So he's going to stumble back Into the room In fear Because he doesn't know What he's looking at So I'm going to Stumble back And retreat

Into the back corner of the room Retreat retreat into the back corner of the room. Retreats in the back corner of the room, leaving Aldo and Sir Julie all alone. All alone? Yes, all alone for this creature to act. You rolled a 19. No, it looks like they have plenty of company at the moment, actually. You rolled a 19, and I rolled an 18. Yes!

Son of a bitch. I got out of there! Unfortunately, I'll have to take this out on Aldo. So these five rats, hi, here I come. You see they turn the corner and look right at Aldo. Oh. And they swing with their short sword in their right hand. Got brand new

dice from our good buddies at Norse Foundry. Norse Foundry, good to know you. They're here tonight, right? Beautiful new dice. If they roll shitty, you can have them back. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to give these away. Here we go. You can have them back.

Here's the thing, though. Flat-footed AC, 14 to hit. On me? Yes. That is a miss. Yes. That is a miss. All right.

Well, that sucks. All right. miss. Alright. Well, that sucks. Alright. Don't forget, I have shield active, and I've also taken my mutagen, boosting my dex. Yes, you've taken your mutagen, boosting your dex. Always take your mutagen first thing, kids. First thing in the morning.

It's part of a nutritious breakfast. You will have a chance to react because now it is your turn. You see these five images of Atticus come up the stairs and they all move like a second behind each other. So it's just like

cascade of rats all moving in the same space. It's kind of hard to get a grasp on who's who. What do you do? All right. Aldo like flips his goggles up to his forehead and rubs his eyes exaggeratedly and says, oh, I'm seeing double here. Ten eticheses. And he's going to do a knowledge arcana check.

Okay. Oh, that is a 16. 16. That's enough to know that this is mirror image that he's going to cast. Okay Oh, that is a 16 16 That's enough to know that this is Mirror Image Ah, Mirror Image Classic Okay, so I can't remember how this works, although

I'm sure I'll get plenty of help Well, you know what? David Winters is in the audience Oh, that's true! Oh, David! Where is that son of a bitch? David? He left. He left.

Oh, there he is! David! Are you the one with the 14-year-old wife? So maybe he can chime in. What do you want to do? I can't remember whether, and I think it doesn't, but I think area of effect spells do not count as like an attack against

to dispel an image out of mirror image. It's my memory that like, it hits. It hits. It hits. But it doesn't destroy images, I don't think. Okay. Well, actually, either way, like, whoever the true fake Atticus is will take damage. Fatticus.

Fatticus. Faticus. So he is going to... Yeah, God, he's like standing in the middle of this group. So he's going to pull a bomb out of his bandolier. Here we go. And say, Eat this! And throw it at his feet. Hey, actual candy into the crowd.

Snicker to the face. Natural 20. Yeah! Oh, yeah, baby! You really know how to ruin a guy's time. All right, to confirm. That is a 14 against touch. 14 against touch is not a confirmed.

Oh, come on. So close. No, wait. What? No, 17. Sweet. 17. That's a confirmed.

Okay. Yeah, baby! The old auctioneer way of confirming a crit. Critical, critical, critical, critical. Are we going to the fan critical? Is this thing... This is a fan critical. All right, here we go.

Any Indianapolis-based or Midwest-based fan crits? We got something here. Is Skylar from Fort Wayne, Indiana here? Skyler! Skyler! Skyler! Skyler! Skyler! Skyler! Alright, Skyler from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Who? From

Every Orifice. I want to read that one first before you say the other one. There are a lot of orifices here. That's true. There's like nine rats. There's a lot of orifices here. That's true. There's like nine rats. There's a lot of orifices. Orifici. Orifici.

Orifices. I think on the scale of Skid liking to hating Fan Crit, I think he's going to like this one. Okay. Great. The energy of your spell perfectly resonates with the energy flowing through the target's body, bolstering its efficacy and

ravaging their very life essence. Triple damage. Oh! And the target begins bleeding from every orifice, taking an additional 2d6 bleed every round until the

bleeding stops. A successful fortitude save negates the bleed. Wow. Okay, but hereates the bleed. Wow. Okay, but here's the problem. My bomb has to actually hit the target and not one of the mirror images. Oh. This is the issue. That is a bit of a pickle.

But it would take splash damage if it hits an enemy. It'll take splash damage, but it'll still be minimum. You know what? I'll save you the trouble. It has evasion. Oh. So it won't take any damage. It probably won't take splash damage, but it'll still be minimum. You know what? I'll save you the trouble. It has evasion. Oh. So it won't take any damage. It probably won't take any damage.

I will hit the original image. Just roll a D6. Okay. And if you roll a six, you hit him. If you fail... Five. Three. Oh!

One of the Adekai just... Damn. Sorry, Skylar. And this greenai just, Damn. Sorry, Skyla. And this green flame just wraps itself around each of us and leaving five rat people standing. All right. So I'll roll for splash. The reflex save was an 18.

That is a save, yes. Okay, so nothing happens. Full of sound and fury. Reflex save was an 18. That is a save, yes. Save, okay. Zero damage. Nothing happens. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing. It would have been a better show if you had let that hit. That's not the way the game works, Matthew.

That's not the way the game works. It would have been fun if I rolled higher than Joe and killed his character at the beginning of the show, but that didn't happen either. You've done that already. I have done that, yes. That's true. First ever show. Halster Price.

Halster is overwhelmed at seeing his best friend attacked by these images, and he doesn't know they're an illusion. He doesn't know what's going on. He just acts out of passion and runs in to defend him,

saying, keep your filthy, sewer-stench claws away from my best friend! And he doesn't even think about how that might hurt Atticus's feelings. And it hurts Atticus's feelings. Wow. They'll have to talk later. Yes.

Here comes the attack. 24 to hit. There you go. That is hit. Roll a D6. Reroll on a six. It hits on a five. That's a 5.

Oh my god! Are you kidding me? This guy shits natural 20s. 12 points of damage. Amazing. Amazing. Alright, so you step up and you just pinpoint. You don't know what's going on. You're stupid.

You hit him. Takes 12 points of damage, and it is now Sir Julie's turn. Sir Julie, you're right next to this creature. There's four images. Sir Julie has been cradling Sean's unconscious body. Don't go. Exactly. Begging him to cling to life.

She just unceremoniously drops him on the floor. Pre-action. Draws her great sword and takes a swing at the Atticae. Okay. Let's see what you got. Natty 17. Oh, yes! 28 to hit, okay?

28. I'm power attack, et cetera, et cetera. What'd you say? 28 to hit, okay? 28. I'm power attack, et cetera, et cetera. What did you say? 28 to hit? 28 to hit is a hit. And by the way, Skid, you missed by less than five, which should remove an image. Oh, great. Okay, cool.

So there is one less image. He hit. No, I did hit. The image is back. I just didn't get the confirmed credit. They're trying to help you out because you need all the help you can get. Hey, I'm the last person who wants to stop you from helping me. That's not how the game works, Troy.

Give me a D6. Reroll a 6. Hits on a 5. 6. Reroll. 4. 4. Now that image will disappear.

All right, we're whittling down. Whittle and diddle. There's fewer rats. One, two, let me just see. Oh, actually, there's only three left, so I lied. But that's fine. Is that fine? That's not really fine.

Well, let's just rewind the show. That's fine enough. Look at them. They've all just got their hand outstretched. It is now a new round, and it is Atticus's turn. You ran away in fear and wet yourself in the back of the room. Oh, God. What do you do now?

Such an emotional rollercoaster. Yeah. Seeing these creatures, not knowing what's going on, stumbling back in fear, being insulted by his friend Halster. He looks past Aldo and sees them just going at it, and as they're whisking away these images, he's like, of course it is. Of course it's mirror image.

I know it's myself. Why am I not concentrating? I'll do it. I can't help. And he's going to fire off a ray of frost to try to destroy an image through Aldo. So it's going to be a tough to hit here. That's how sharp you're running out of spells.

Natural 20! Oh! To confirm. Natural 20. Oh. Two confirm. Two confirm. 17. Now, with the cover and everything, it's not a confirm.

With the cover, that is not a confirm. Not a confirm critical, but I could still hit it. There's three? There's three, so give me a D3, you'll hit on a three.

So you'll hit on a five, six. Six! That hits. Yeah! And I'll give you exploding dice. Explosions! That is touch AC, too. Six! That hits. Yeah! And I'll give you exploding dice. Explosions! That is touch AC, too, like on the confirm.

Oh, yeah, it was touch AC. Sorry, 17 against touch with the cover, though. That is a miss. Okay. Yeah. All right, then that is going to be... So probably going to be a lot of damage. I could explode it.

I did! Oh! Touch of this. That is five points of cold damage. That was really... Let's get some... That's a cantrip! That's a cantrip! Come on!

That's a cantrip. Bottle cap. 1E cantrip. Five points of damage. Come on, man. I've had just about enough of you. I am going to now swing at Aldo. Come on, man. I've had just about enough of you. I am going to now swing at Aldo. Hold on a second. I want to do

another knowledge check on maybe you won't let me because I failed, but I want to do a knowledge check on like, but why is it Atticus that I'm seeing? The mirror image can be explained, but why is it Atticus? What is that glamour? What is that illusion? Okay. Okay.

Can I do a will save to disbelieve? No, you can't. How about, give me another arcana. Come on, Atticus. Actually, make that planes. Oh, wow.

That is a 13. You are stupid. Hold on. Hold on. So during the way Atticus got all wrapped up in this nonsense is because his dark research led him to a place where he was... In one of these flashbacks, if you remember, he was trying to do this awful spell to a

human where he wanted to mind swap and have a human's body so he didn't have to be rat folk working his way up in the biz. And he ends up during this process being trapped into some sort of limbo with a Yithian. And this Yithian

sort of reverses the spell on him. Swaps his mind with the Yithian mind, and ends up briefly in a place of unbelievable knowledge. And he's left confused, amnesiac, in this asylum, doesn't understand what happened, and is trying to retain that grasp on reality. This gives him an ability, a mechanical ability. Here we go. Formerly mind-swapped.

Once per day, I can re-roll a failed knowledge check. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. So he's blinking through. He's trying to cut through. He feels like he can do it. It's like the mind that was swapped with you has knowledge that you don't have. Yeah.

Like infinite knowledge. Like infinite knowledge. Is it bubbling to the surface? He's trying to access this infinite database of knowledge on Yith, and I rolled the exact same number. Actually, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I rolled what my total was last time. I'm sorry.

That is a 20, adjusted. Oh. Okay. Plains. Alright, I will tell you. I'll tell you some information. Because otherwise you won't know it. And you did roll well.

Well said, Troy. Shut up. You, looking at this creature, and you know what mirror image does, but mirror image doesn't make the creature look like a reflection of you. So you start digging into this, and it just comes into your mind, perhaps from the Yithians, collective unconscious. You're like soul sliver.

Sliver. Soul sliver. This is a creature known as a soul sliver. Soul sliver. Soul sliver. What is it? Where does it come from? So it's an extra planar creature?

Extra planar creature that was probably called here Oh For a job To summon beast A soul sliver I don't know what to do to fight it You're doing well

Keep it up Sir Julie Hoster's useless We'll need you in the end Thank you for your praise It is now the soul sliver's turn It has two attacks The first one will be on Aldo Natty18

Oh no You can run away but you can't hide Skid Where's he? Skid left the stage Did you drop some Skittles? He needs power Oh Listen you can shut down the video all you want. I'm still going to attack you.

That is a 26 to hit. That hits. 26 hits Aldo. Four. Some damage. Oh. Max damage. Ten points of damage, Aldo.

And then the second sword comes down on Halster. Natty 19. Fucking rocks. That's a critical threat. Oh, no. Here we go to confirm against Halster Price. Natty 19 to confirm. Named creature, bro.

Named creature. It's solely the soul sliver. That's what they call them in the book. Old solely. I just wish the last words I heard weren't Atticus being so mean to me. This is bad news. What if it's like decapitation?

Don't read, just pick. I'm just looking for cities right now. All right, I'm just going to go with Max. This is a melee crit, right? Yeah. I'm going to go with Max from St. Louis, Missouri. Max? Max from St. Louis writes in with Night Killer.

Oh, no. With a K or an F? With a K. You pull your weapon back and unleash strength you didn't know you had, cracking or ripping your target's armor. Double damage and your target's AC is reduced by five until the end of the combat. No save.

Night killer! Qu'est-ce que c'est? That is going to be 13 points of damage. Not that bad. But AC reduced by 5. AC reduced by 5. For the encounter.

All right. Moving on. It is Aldo's turn. This thing has taken some damage, but there are still two images left next to it. What do you want to do, Aldo? Aldo first would like to look for a free outlet. Oh, no. So I can plug in my laptop.

Haven't seen this move from Aldo in a long time. It's been a minute. It's a bold move. It's called strategy. Do you have an outlet on your character sheet? Well, I can look. Let me look over Grant's shoulder here. All right, so I think Aldo, honestly,

I think he's going to try the same thing again. Okay. I think he's going to try to toss another bomb. Another bomb, okay. So I throw another bomb. So I didn't seem to lock it before. That is a 13 against touch. 13 against touch is a miss.

Such a slippery soul, Silva. Now, question. You did this before, and I wasn't paying attention, but that's a ranged attack. Shouldn't that provoke? Thank you. Oh, actually, yes. That does provoke, question. You did this before, and I wasn't paying attention, but that's a ranged attack. Shouldn't that provoke? Thank you. Oh, actually, yes. That does provoke, yes.

Wow, look who got out scot-free without a provoke last round. You can do two if you want. All right, I will. Here we go. First one is probably a miss with a 15. That is a miss. And then this round would have been a 24. Oh, that's a miss, too?

Is it really? Yeah. Dude! Again, I've got the mutagen, I've got shield, I've got a mithril shirt. Like, I'm good at that. Yeah, dude. Don't cheer for that. Don't cheer for that.

If you're a GM, you hate pre-buffing, too. I'm going to outlaw pre-buffing from all Indianapolis based shows. Fuck you, Skid. 24. Phenomenal. It's Halster's turn. Halster, you feel weakened. Wait, does that destroy an image?

No, because I missed. What about the splash then? Well, actually, no. I don't think so. Wait, you missed. Wait, did he miss by five or less on touch? Is it touch AC?

Yeah, so that will destroy an image. All right. All right. Okay, cool. All right, so it's down to two. There's only two left. Two left. All right.

Two images. One real, one false. And it's Halster's turn. What's going through your hand? Halster's thinking back to the moment that we pulled that bag from underneath the dock

and pulled out the items that belonged to each of us. And he thinks about the grim-gloom mail he's wearing that seemed to have some purpose, some sort of evil higher reasoning behind it. And as it becomes damaged, as this night killer crit takes effect, it commands him to take a five foot step backwards. And as a standard action, inflict this creature.

And I guess I still have a chance to miss potentially with the image. I'm not sure with bad luck. Oh, what? So you can do this X times per day. Once per day. And we decided there's no save on it because it's like a limitation of the armor. So it's like disadvantage, basically. It's minus two penalty to armor class, attack rolls, saving throws.

AC as well? My choice. So I'm going to say AC. Whatever you want. Are you okay, Joe? Something to my... Sorry. I want to get that looked at.

All right. So minus two to its AC That's very cool The armor Has taken over your mind It is Sir Julie's turn Sir Julie You have been

Completely ineffective And really You haven't shown up at all For this combat And shown Even though he just Bumped his head on the floor Is looking up at you

And just doesn't know If you're the one. He should follow. So Julie's going to take a five foot step. Ignore the GM's commentary. And swing at the images. You're a failure.

Congratulations. Off the table. I bet. Okay, 21 to hit That's a hit Yes A d4 It will hit the target on a 3 and a 4 It will destroy the image on a 1, 2

1 And then there was 1 Can I do my own knowledge check on a soul sliver? Sure Knowledge planes 15 there was one. Can I do my own knowledge check on a soul sliver? Sure. Knowledge planes. Fifteen. Fifteen, eh? I'll give you one piece of information. What would you

like to know? I don't know. Dealer's choice. Dealer's choice. It has fast healing one. Oh, okay. You shouldn't have let me pick. It is a new round. And it is Atticus's turn. Oh, okay. You shouldn't have let me pick. It is a new round. That's so mean. And it is Atticus's turn.

All right, not knowing with his knowledge check if this creature sees in an earthly way or not, Atticus is going to try to blind it. So he's going to shoot a blinding ray. Nice. Through Aldo again. Through Aldo, this light piercing into the creature's eyes. Does it have eyes?

He shoots it at the Atticus's eyes. It has your eyes. It has my eyes. It has Gary Orbach's eyes. Dude, that is a 21 against Touch AC. Oh, yes. Even with the plus four for shooting through Aldo, that is a hit. Phenomenal.

The creature is blinded for a round unless it has more than five HD. Five or more? Five or more. No. Wait. No. More than five. Six or more, right? No, more than five is five or more, right?

No. No, no. Jesus Christ. You went to Columbia? Don't tell me. Yeah, you spend five minutes talking to Troy, you're going to hear all about Columbia, Columbia, Columbia. It was funny. We were playing one time years ago, like back in Merwin's game,

and like Troy made some stupid mistake, and like Joe says like, that's what you get when you're illiterate. And like Troy's defeated sounding voice is just like, I went to Columbia. It just always stuck with me. It's the funniest fucking thing. I went to Columbia.

Yeah, I went to Columbia. Well, I just crunched some Columbia numbers and it has 6 HD. Oh, no. Okay, it is dazzled for a round. Oh, what a waste. That was nice.

That's a minus one. Oh, but compounded with the minus two to AC, it's still very dangerous, and you've done nothing to it. Fuck. It is now the Soul Sliver's turn. No, no. And looking at Halster. Oh, Sir Julius stepped in the way.

Looking at this pathetic knight, it thinks about what it wants to do. And so it will strike out at Aldo. Great. The easy target. First attack, 13 misses. You know what? The second attack is going to be on Sir Julie. Her AC is lower than his, right?

Don't talk to me about my business. Don't ever correct me in front of the children. 18. Against Sir Julie? Don't say it like that. I'm sorry. I'll rephrase. Is that against Sir Julie, dear Troy?

Yes, it's against Sir Julie. Yeah, it's a miss. All right. Well, aren't we having fun? We're having a good time. Aldo, you're up. Aldo is like, so, now you don't have any identical friends to protect you.

And as a matter of fact, you look identical to my friend, which is a strange quirk of this entire encounter. But nevertheless, I hope that you're ready to suffer some extreme damage coming from a little bit of thunder from down under. I hope you're ready to be thunderstruck, as my fellow countrymates ACDC will say decades from now

in the future from the world from whence I come. That is a 21 against Touch. Yeah, dude! That's a hit. Wait, provokes.

And it does provoke. What do you think? Critical? Critical? Critical? No. I missed. Yes!

Okay. He just wants to play the drop. Yeah. He's just setting up his own drops now. I'm going to send you to the arms of an angel! That's 18 points of damage. Whoa! Whoa! I was shaking up the night.

Could I come again, please? He's so happy. That is what you got. You've been fighting the storm. Yeah, buddy. What kind of... Don't encourage him. Don't encourage him. Yeah, buddy! Don't encourage him.

Why was this taken down on YouTube? I don't understand. Nobody got to see that video. What kind of damage is that? That is fire damage. I thought it was thunder damage, and I'm like, I don't have that on my sheet. Halster Price.

This thing is on the ropes. You know who else is on the ropes? It's Sean. Sean. Sean. Is he unconscious and dying? Do we stabilize him? Yeah, he's okay, although he bumped his head pretty hard when Sir Julie threw him to the ground.

Violently. All right, if I don't need to stabilize him, I'll step into position and swing at this person. Just standing on the body of the dead scum. Scum crunch. Here it comes. That's a miss with a 14. Brutal. Brutes Magoots. Sir Julie, the Pathetic. Your planar

magics will no longer work on me, soul sliver. Well, Sol Sliver. Well, maybe they will. 18. That's a hit. Yes! Power attack, etc., etc.

Max damage. Oh! Box cut! 25 points. Oh! A couple of things are going to happen. As you strike down with your greatsword after missing several times... I hit several images.

That's not what you hit every time. Those are productive times. That's not how Sean remembers it. Sean. Sean. After pathetically missing many times in a row, you swing down and you land what you believe to be the killing blow.

And as your sword strikes it, it changes from Atticus to this glass-like looking creature. Oh, my God. It's a glass cannon. It changes from Atticus to this glass-like looking creature. Oh, my God. It's a glass cannon. It looks... It just looks like it's made out of pure, reflective glass. And when you

hit it, not only does it transform into this glass creature, but the glass erupts. Oh, no! Into a little ability known as Death Throws. Everyone roll a reflex save, including Sean. Oh no!

This could permanently kill Sean. Grant, were you concerned about Sean with that fist pumping? Were you rolling for Sean? It seems like you're inadequately concerned about Sean. I know he's gonna make it,

so I'm really happy. We'll see if Sean makes it. What'd you roll, Sir Julie? Seven. Seventeen? Seventeen. Pass. Joseph O'Brien. We got a tweener. It's a fifteen. It's a pass. Yes. You're not a big DC. Aldo? Yes.

Uh, twenty- Yes. 22. Don't brag. And Halster, you were fist pumping over there. Nat 20, 25. Nice, dude. Nice. Sir Julie, I think it's only appropriate that you roll for Sean. Sean. Give him a plus two to his reflex save.

And you need to hit DC 12. Easy DC. Natural 13. You all take three points of damage, which is enough to put Sean unconscious. I will notate that by putting an X over his body. And a net.

And a cock. And a snail. And a wrench And a cock And a snail And a wrench And of course a heart And a skull in crossbones And that's it I think he's gonna be alright though He's got a lot of conditions

Are you alright? He's just We heal him You heal him I don't know how But we do Do we have any healing? Are we all out?

It's been a long day I have a potion You bring Sean to And he says What happened? What happened to that Horrible creature? It's dead Sean

Thank the stars For I do not remember what deity I worship. Your grandfather, Sir Zanzibar McIntosh, worshipped the Dawnflower. Yes, that must be what I worship as well. Thank you, Dawnflower. You have saved us this day. And he straightens his blouse.

Thank you, Dawnflower. You have saved us this day. And he straightens his blouse. Puts his shitty little dagger in his pants. What should we do? What should we do now in this dungeon? John.

Atticus starts looking around the room. You start looking around the room. This looked like a bedroom might have been the magistrate's bedroom maybe uh a higher up here a steward maybe the constable's bedroom you don't see again any sign of the constable but now you start to think atticus more about what do i know about a soul sliver like looking for this information to like hit you, and you think, oh, that was a silent image. This creature must have created a silent image of the constable to run up the stairs,

which is what drew you up there in the first place. And then you think, this is a creature that can take on the appearance of other creatures as well, so there's a possibility that when you came here and the constable was like, get out of here, you were speaking to the soul sliver. They can make a perfect copy of someone. But you never met the constable.

At least you can't remember. So you took it to be the constable when in fact it was the soul sliver. So is the soul sliver in connection with the scum? Were they hired or brought to this plane by Mellie Sen? You don't know. Alright, let's search the bodies of these amphibian

scum. Amphibian scum. You find a wand of cure light wounds. Oh, how awesome. Oh, man. With a Larry Bird's worth of charges. No!

As we are in Indianapolis. Yes. Anybody from French Lick in the house? Nobody from French Lick. Somebody immediately just said no. No. Spoke for everyone in the house. He took a poll upon entry.

Are you from French Lick? Are you from French Lick? I already tried. I asked. I asked no one. 33 charges on that wand of Cure Light Wounds. Sweet, Alistair. Add it.

I'm just going to give you these things. There is a plus one chain shirt. Oh. That could end up in a fist fight. I think Sean is like, I'm very cold. Quiet, boy. That's all right. Quiet, boy. Quiet, boy.

And there is an amulet of mighty fists plus one. He says, I love amulets. It could keep the middle of my chest warm, should you throw it my way. Very well, we shall sell it to you for half price.

So, Julie, I have a lot to learn. And we shall sell it to you for half price Sir Julie I have a lot to learn And we shall put the proceeds toward The Dawnflowers Charities I cannot say no to that, Sir Julie You also find a key ring That looks like it has keys to get into every fucking room in this place Oh, nice

But nothing else in the room You know, there's books. Am I reading? Downstairs you saw some books and shit, but there's nothing really of interest in this room. Like, they've ransacked it. Maybe this guy was, like, one of the leaders of the scum, and he was using this place to, like, direct traffic,

but he had some good shit on him, but there's nothing else in the room. It stinks of briny water. But downstairs you did see some books and other stuff in the reading room, but that's the room that you ran past just to get into the fight with the scum and the doppeltrack. So if you search that room, give me a perception check. Perception. 19 for Atticus.

All right, so Atticus loves books. Loves books. Can't get enough. He's looking through, looking through, looking through, and as you're looking through, a bunch of stuff falls out of one of the books on the floor, and you see several scrolls. Oh.

Which is the best thing a wizard can find There have been like no scrolls In three years of this campaign Sadly when they fall to the ground They land in a puddle of blood No And immediately The ink is unreadable and so i will not tell you what the scrolls are now you got a scroll of blink oh a scroll of cat's grace oh very nice

here's one that may come in handy a scroll of remove disease oh see ya covid uh scroll See ya, COVID. A scroll, if only it were that simple. A scroll of silent image. You know that one. Oh, yeah. Maybe you can teach your friends. And a scroll of one of Skid's favorites, Zone of Truth. Oh, Zone of Truth. Oh, nice.

Shades of Galabras. Yeah. And that's what you find here. If you look at the map, I can tell you right now, if you walk around the battlements to look in the other guard towers, you find some of them are empty, and some of them have more of these juju zombies like propped up on poles that are going right through their...

Yeah, like scarecrows. Yeah, like scarecrows. And their flesh is rotting off their face. Birds have pecked out their eyes. So anybody walking by would think, oh, the battlements are manned, but they're just corpses.

But nothing else of import. Give yourself a round of applause. You have cleared out the fort. Nice! Yeah! All right. And as you're standing atop the battlements, you look out across the city of Threshmore with a keen eye looking for these

star stelae that Shon spoke of when he was overhearing the scum and the cultists speak. And you see them in the town. There's a hill in the middle of town and at the top of the hill

one of these monuments is erected. Cool it. We're all adults. We're all adults here. So this giant erect monument sits throbbingly on this hill. Come on. And then

to the southwest. He's ready to keep going. I know, I can't help myself. to the southwest. He's ready to keep going. I know, I can't help myself. To the southwest on one of the islands is another one of these, just kind of sitting there. Let's go to the map of Threshmore, because I have added them to the map.

To the map. They weren't there to begin with? No, I've added them. Well, I've added the key here, so you see... They rose from the ground overnight?? No, I've added them. Well, I've added the key here. So you see... They rose from the ground overnight? They rose from the ground, yes. They watched Cinemax late at night when they were 13.

Sorry. You see one Reishma, very close to where you are. In fact, well, the stain is very close to where you are. In fact, well, the Stain is very close to Fort Hale, of course, but if you wanted to go back to rest, you could always take a little side track to go climb this hill. And then way over here

to the southwest on this island portion is another one. The cave druid that you dealt with is way over here. Not even on this map. It would be over where David Winters is sitting. That's where the cave druid was. But on this island... Where's David

again? I think he's over there. David Winters, Esquire. But yeah, there are... There's one right kind of in the middle of town, middle-ish on a hill, and then another one there. What do you want to do?

We've been in the fort now for a few shows. Rest. Yeah, we got to rest. I want to sleep. Sean, come. We must return you to your sister. Yes, I have not seen Holisa in over a week. I hope she misses me.

She does. She came to us and specifically asked us to save your life. Yes, well, good. I shall tell you more tales of your grandfather and the world wound when we arrive. Again, I don't think you knew him. For when I stood on death's door, I asked him if he knew you, and he didn't. Although it is possible that he slept with many women, and you were forgettable. Oh, man. Oh.

I shall never forget your grandfather's shapely calves. I shall never forget your grandfather's shapely calves. For I said to him that night in the tent, Sir Zanzibar, your calves are the shapeliest I have ever seen. I would very much like to touch them. His regimen did call him the Calve Knight. Aha, so he didn't know me. Well, here's the thing.

And I... What do I know? I'm just a young boy who hopes to one day be a knight. But it sounds like he meant more to you than you did to him. See, he's trying to bait you, Matthew, into killing him. You know that's what's happening, right? He doesn't want to play the NPC anymore. He doesn't want to play the NPC anymore. He's just trying to trick you into murdering him. Perhaps what you say is true,

Sean. But if you were there in the tent that night... That would have been even more awkward. When he removed his trousers and let me gaze upon his gleaming calves. I feel like this is inappropriate. That's my uncle you're talking about. Or my grandfather. I thought to myself

we must treasure these moments when they last for in the midst of all the horror of the world there exists true beauty like Cezanne Zavar's calves. And whether or not he remembered that moment

I remember that moment. And that is what counts. Sir Julie, once when I was a child, I walked in on my parents in the act of lovemaking. This is worse. We should go rest. And so you head to the stain. Sean just has these awful visions in his head.

He's restless all day. He's like... Caps, caps, caps! And he gets there They were like a musical note On a staff A clef, if you will A clef of a calf Please stop, Sir Julie, please

It's my grandfather you speak of A clef of a calf If he were my grandfather I should hope he had such shapely calves Have you no pride, boy? I need to go see my sister. Good night. And he scurries down the street.

And you arrive back at the stain. We follow him to his sister and get our experience and our fucking money. It's a magical shield, actually. Yeah. Where's the shield? Goosh!

Ah, yes, I recognize the shield. I throw a bomb through the door, through the window first to set the place on fire. Burn their house. Burn the house down,

kill them that way. Holisa comes out like Oh no We're gonna get demonetized Oh no That went too long Stop Stop for fuck's sake

I'm trying to Alright Has this ever Happened before? I don't know what's happening Happens to everyone Oh Lisa comes out Coughing, covered in soot. And she's like, here, take the fucking shield.

And then her and Sean go in the house. It is a mithril-heavy shield. Oh, yeah. Oh! Oh, wait, you're a two-hander. I once laid upon this shield. So, Julie, you're drunk Go home So you sleep soundly at the stain

On the shield Atop the shield Using it as a mattress And the rest of you sleep soundly But your minds are Sw swimming with all this information. You came to town, and we're immediately caught up in this strangeness here. And you know, even though you don't remember everything,

you know that Ustalav is a weird place. There are a lot of cults. There are a lot of people that are dedicated to these great old ones. This is just a town that is steeped in superstition, a country that is steeped in it. But what's going on with the Count? And how is he tied up in all of this? Your only lead right now is Mellyson and Iris Hill. But you wake up and you say, before we go to Iris Hill,

we want to check out the star Stela. So is that... What is that? What is that word? Is that a normal word? Or is that made up in this campaign? No, no, no. It's a steli. It's like a standing stone.

Oh, I never heard that term before. Yeah, it's very common in archaeology. Star Stelae. Do you want to go check that out? Yeah, so unless you want to check in at the Sleepless Detective Agency, update them. You could do that as well. Yeah, I don't want to tell you what to do. You tell me what you want to do.

It's on the way. Sorry, let's go there first. Let's examine it. We might have more information for the detectives let's go all right well it's kind of on the way because there's sleepless detective agency schmarr and there's star still a schmarr so you head there and you climb up the hill as you get towards the top you approach this semicircular piece of dark stone. It stands about 12 feet tall, right in the middle top of the hill. I'm going to show you an image of it, actually, if you look at your journal.

Oh, journal. Yeah, this is a handout. I had a little extra time today to show to everyone. Do you see it? Oh, I see it. Look at that. That's what it looks like. That is legit. Lots of carvings.

Lots of glyphs. Yeah, a lot of glyphs and carvings. You see a misshapen star etched alongside other runes on its weathered surface. It's mostly cylindrical, but one side, the side that faces the town, has been ground down into a flat surface,

carved with these enigmatic symbols that none of you recognize. However, everyone, with the exception of Sir Julie, is like, where have I seen this before and you realize that you saw it in Zandalus' drawings back on Briarstone Asylum

holy shit now maybe Zandalus spent time in Threshmore before he was committed but your recollections of it that he was there for a long time and that the Count came and took an interest in him.

He should have no memory of this, one would think, and it was an almost perfect replication of this. What do you want to do? Atticus would like to roll a knowledge check on it and see if he can decipher what these things are saying

Is that like linguistics Or is it knowledge It would be knowledge The runes are completely indecipherable to you Try knowledge Arcana Knowledge Arcana I'll try two

Nineteen Right on the line. Oh, Sir Julie got her charisma back. Oh, good for you. Oh, yeah, so did Atticus. You earned it. I just thought you'd like to know. You're getting some very, very, very faint

conjuration and transmutation magic. But you don't know how it works. Does anybody else have Arcana? 20. No. Shit. Damn.

No, you get the sense that, like, there's something powerful here that you just can't tap into. Can I do a perception just to examine, make sure there's no secret doors, something underneath it, perhaps? Yeah, go ahead. Compartments. Yeah, I'll roll a perception just to examine, make sure there's no secret doors, something underneath it, perhaps? Yeah, go ahead. Compartments. Yeah, I'll roll a perception as well.

16. 12. You said 16? You guys want to roll a perception? 19. That is a 26. All right. Aldo being the most intelligent character in the group.

Far more intelligent. Shockingly more intelligent. No, in a different plane, really. You're looking at it again. I'm almost like a different species at this point. I don't mean to laud it over you, but I just want to make it quite clear that you and I, our brains are just function on a completely different level.

It's difficult for me, I have to condescend a bit to even have a conversation with you, like I'm having now. I have to pretend, it's like, what would I do if my IQ was 80 points lower? What would I say to make myself feel comfortable? And that's what I do. But luckily I have a high enough intelligence to be able to know what I do if I were 80 IQ points lower.

He says that while examining the star still. Yeah. While you pick your nose. Watch. I'm going to cast magic missile. Shut the fuck up! Shut up, bitch! Shut up!

While Atticus picks his nose and scratches his rear, Aldo is looking at everything, trying to take it all in. And Aldo, you are completely stymied by this. However, you do see in some of the symbols something very, very small that's not exactly like this, but it's reminiscent of the symbol of the king in yellow that you found on those cultists' bodies.

Oh, wow. It's a rune, or has it been painted on? I'm talking to Skid. Sorry. My apologies. So Skid, you see this just very small thing that looks, it's got that loop to it that it's just very reminiscent of those symbols that you found on the bodies of the cultists.

You see here, this little, this symbol, you see that characteristic little curly Q there? It's quite reminiscent of the same symbols that the servants of the king in yellow had on their bodies. You calling somebody? I don't have my other monitor, so I'm looking

at things on my phone and ordering things on Postmates. Can you get a pizza for after the show? Yeah, absolutely. Do you want pepperoni? No pepper absolutely. That actually would be nice. In all honesty. Do you want pepperoni? No pepperoni. It's at Giordano's nearby, right? We can discuss this later.

I'm looking at my past notes. I have, on the episode you unveiled his drawings to us. You said that he was a prolific artist drawing things.

He couldn't possibly know one of the ancient standing stones in the yard, meaning, I believe, of the asylum. Did we ever approach that stone in person, or did we just never get to that? You really never got to that.

On your way out, I would say, to the rowboat when you met up with Crossbow Jackson, you did see a monument. But you were so in your head about everything you went through at the asylum, you didn't really think too much about it. And it didn't have the same sort of prominence that these do. Well, is this something that town leadership would know about? Or the detective agency? Maybe they could answer questions about what this thing is or why it's here.

Because if it was up to me, we would destroy it right now. Oh, I'd love to tear it down. Burn it to the ground. No, agreed. I'd be the first to attempt such a feat. But I think in either way, they should know, even if they don't. Seems important to me. Yes, it could be the source of all that's happening here.

In fact, we have evidence to support that. Let us speak with the detectives. Can I ask a question now? No. We're going to the detectives. Joe said no. Can I ask a question now? Yes, you can ask a question.

Is it painted on or is it one of the symbols? It's etched into it. So it's part of it. It hasn't been added recently. Yeah, no, it looks like it was always there. We could deface it. It hasn't been added recently. Yeah, no, it looks like it was always there. We could deface it. Perhaps that will strip it of its power. Again, let's just ask first.

To see what it is for. Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. No, I agree. But we could do something to harm ourselves if we don't know what its powers are. Our lives are forfeit. She slices it in half with her greatsword. It's like berserk.

Yeah, it's like berserk. Blood, blood, blood, blood, blood. Guts. Guts. Guts. So it is, eh? So it is, eh? Ah. Gatsu. Gatsu. Gatsu. So desu ne? So desu ne. All right, so what do you want to do?

Let's go to the sleep. Let's go to the sleep. Oh, all right. I don't know why I would use a great sword to cut down a stone monument when we have bombs, but... Yeah, it's much more epic. All right, to the detective agency. You go to the detective agency you go to the detective agency you knock on the door they say ah you're back sorry i was asleep

false advertising wake up you bums but the sign clearly states that... Please, don't tell anyone. We're short-staffed. We're short-staffed. We're short-staffed. The L-E-S-S is like crossed out on the sign. It's hard to find.

So Julie goes and takes her great sword and just etches out the less. Please. Those signs are expensive. What did you learn in the fort? Retailer everything. There was no sign of the constable. There was filthy amphibian scum there. Was there any sign of the royal accuser, Romari?

No. Nothing? No trace? No trace. None we were able to find, anyway. We rescued a young boy who may or may not be my grandson. All right. I would send you to question him, but he

burned to death last night in a house fire. I have further questions about that, but it's a terrible coincidence. He burned to death in a tragic, coincidental house fire. As a matter of fact, we have the insurance forms right here. We do, yes. Now that you mention it. We happened to take out a rather large insurance policy on the house just minutes before the tragedy befell.

I was going to say, these are dated yesterday. They are, no, it really is stagger A little suspect. Staggeringly coincidental. Well, we'll file these away. So Zanzibar would wish it so. Dead people aside, the constable, the magistrate, the royal accuser, nothing. You didn't see anything? No sign of them.

It seems this Mellie Sen had been running the fort through her subsidiaries, those she had hired to do her dirty work. They ran the entire place. They had turned the soldiers, the mercenaries, into juju zombies and set them forth as guards. What their plans were there, we still do not know. Curious. I wonder. I wonder

what the Count had to do with all of this. As do we. One piece of information we did discover from one of the creatures was that there is some significance of these standing stones you have. These carved, beautiful star-stile

in the town. Apparently they are using them to bring forth creatures from another plane. Star-solet? Well, that's strange. I mean, everyone in town knows of them. There are two that stand atop hills in the city. I believe some scholars have studied them, but no one really knows their true origin.

There are actually many that believe they were always just here. So they pre-exist the town. They predate the founding of the city, as far as I know. That's what the records say. These scholars, what are their names? Where do they live? Are they vulnerable to fire? Where do they live?

Are they vulnerable to fire? Like, why are we killing them? Why are we planning on killing them? I don't know. What is their homeowner's insurance like? There is Dr. Butch Dickerson. And of course, Monsignor... Monsignor Blanket Tuttlefuck. And then of course, Father Pinwheel Mahomes.

Please, someone write that down so we'll remember their names. Because sometimes I forget. Important question. Are they actually a Monsignor and a priest or are those literally their names? Well, they're long dead, but they left their stories behind.

Men of the cloth. Men of the cloth, yes. Monsignor. Monsignor. Monsignor. Tattlefuck. Blanket tattlefuck. Blanket tattlefuck, yes. Oh dear.

He was a pious and chaste man. And a great scholar. He would have loved to know that these star soleil had significance beyond what little he discovered about them. We tell her also about the symbol we discovered on them. Oh.

Yes, this is a symbol of the king in yellow. These cultists that you spoke of in the hand-waved recollection of the fort. They were carrying these symbols. A live audience greatly appreciates a hand wave, I'll have you know. I don't like your tone, madam. I'm sorry, it saves time, but... After such a recap, what use

is no hand wave? Did you find any of these symbols at the star's delay? Yes. Yes. We just said that a minute ago. I have a question for you. Yes. Yes. We just said that a minute ago. No, we didn't. I have a question for you.

Yes. So, would you know, are you familiar enough with these symbols, these standing stones? Or indeed, would Monsignor Tuttlefuck have made such comprehensive notes that we could know if these symbols that are emblematic of the king in yellow have indeed been there since the stones were raised eons ago, or if they are a new development. I believe I have Tuttlefuck's early works. I'd love to pass them

myself. I've long I've longed to look at the works of Tuttlefuck, one of the great academic minds of our age. Ah, here it is. Volume two of Tuttlefuck. Oh, volume two. Rarer still.

Yes. This is one of the last copies, actually. It's quite rare, but that's what we do here at the Sleepless Detective Agency. Ah, here, Tuttlefuck writes. of urgency. Ah, here. Tuttlefuck writes.

Sorry, I need my glasses. Sorry, I need my spectacles. My reading glasses. Tuttlefuck notoriously cribbed. He has a cribbed style of handwriting. It's quite small, difficult to read. Tuttlefuck.

You cad. He, this is interesting, it seems as if he, his experiments, you'll call them, he would make etchings of the symbols and try to find other

instances of those symbols, and he also spoke of finding symbols similar to what he saw on the stars to lay and like presenting them to the object. But he never quite figured it out. Do you still have the symbols? Yes, I made a rubbing. But do you have the physical symbols that were on the body of the cultists? Yes.

He made a rubbing. I made a rubbing. Well, according to... No, I have the symbols. It seems what Tuttlefuck was trying to say was that maybe perhaps finding a symbol and presenting it to the star still would do something. Oh, I see. I don't know.

Tuttlefuck never quite figured it out. Well, Tuttlefuck is notorious for his... I don't know. Anyway, I think he was right. Let's go present these symbols to the stones and see what offerings we may receive from the land beyond. Is there any chance you could supply us with 12 armed men?

No, as you know, we are short on help. Which is why I was napping. One eye open. We're in supply chain issues. Yes. Go back to sleep. Sorry we troubled you. All right.

Go back to sleep. May. Blanket. Tuttlefuck Pinwheel Mahomes and Dr. Butch Dickerson. Dr. Butch Dickerson. It's so funny. No one ever mentions Dickerson.

Tragically overlooked in many of the... He gets the shaft. Well, he was a poet before he became a scholar. It's his scholarship, though, that really forms the foundation of all Tuberfucks. He was ahead of his time. He wasn't understood then. He was. Dickerson really ties it all together, but they never

quite figured out what you may be on the cusp of discovering. Should you discern something from these, it would be revelatory. Could we, humble, humble group, somehow best the lifelong works of Tuttlefuck and Dickerson? Aldo, I don't want to embarrass you, but I think with your intellect, you could be the next Tuttlefuck. Well, sharp glance from Atticus. Ordinarily. You could be the Mahomestlefuck. Well. Sharp glance from Atticus.

Ordinarily. You could be the Mahomes. I would be quite embarrassed. As embarrassed as Mahomes might one day have been when he came home to find his wife in bed with Tuttlefuck. But luckily, my intellect has improved to the point where I can move past such petty emotions and simply analyze the situation dispassionately. Let us go.

One more thing. You spoke of Namira Laos and Climbs Pret in your hand-waved recollection. Yes, we were very thorough. It's very interesting. Namira Laos is a... Thoroughly hand-waved. The Count's mother. that is the strange case. She was last seen at her husband's funeral 20 years ago,

clad in a black mourning dress, weeping openly. And then she was never seen again. And reports that came out said that she just perished of the same disease that took her husband. As for Climes Pratt, I believe she knew him from her time studying at the Cinco Maggi School of Sciences. He was a cult bookseller or collector in Rosenport. They were old friends from school. I guess you're saying they became lovers.

Well, before you know it, he was accused of treason and thrown in jail. It all makes sense. Everything happened so quickly, though, because Pret was arrested and thrown in jail. Three days later, the Count died, and then the Countess was never seen again. No body. Was there no funeral? No. And what you said was that the brother inquired about this

and Louse the fourth, the man that you used to work for, just said she died and there was no service. I didn't work for her. How old was Louse the fourth when she perished? A child.

A young boy, maybe pre-teen. Who raised him? I think after his parents died, he just matured very quickly. He never took a wife. What? Say more

about this, please. He was clearly still very sleepy. Can I get you some coffee or something? No, no, no. I'm not making any sense. Can I get you some coffee or something? I was up late reading Mahomes. As wise as he was, he drones on. It's true. He put me to sleep. Yes, no, he had to grow up quickly.

He was probably, maybe not preteen, 13, 14, 15, and then he was immediately thrust into the role of Count. Very interesting. Anyways, good luck at the Star, Stiller. And then, is it your plan to go to Iris Hill? Is it your plan to help us? I cannot, unfortunately.

I'm the only one on tonight. It's eight in the morning. I'm doing only one on tonight It's eight in the morning I'm doing a double Well what would happen Would someone come in and ask you for help With oh say Extra planar invasion at Iris Hill

What would you do then No I mean I would love to help but I don't Want to play this character After this scene No, I mean, I would love to help, but I don't want to play this character. After this scene. You understand. Yes, that's fair. Hard to argue with.

Shown as well. Will never be seen again. Well, it's a tragedy. He burned to death, as I recall. He was already low on hit points. It was the smoke, not the fire, that got him. Anyway. All right, to the star stiller. Have fun at the star stiller.

Okay. All right. So you go back to the star stiller, or are you going right to Iris Hill? No. Star stiller. Star stiller. Stella! Stella! to Iris Hill? No. Star Stella. Stella! I'll take a Stella.

Thank you. You climb the hill again. You walk slowly up. And then this erect monument appears calling to you. We make another rubbing. We rub the erect Stella. It almost seems to grow. Vigorously.

It must be a trick of the mind. The faint transmutation magic. This is getting harder and harder the more I rub. By which I mean more difficult. My arm is getting tired. We are children. What do you do? Who does what?

Atticus casts. Mage armor. Okay. First and foremost. Oh, man. And he is willing to present the symbol. If the rest of you will prepare

for a possible encounter of some extraplanar creature, he could have his hands free easily and could be the one to present. Halster is not going to say anything directly to Atticus, but he is behind him with his hands behind his back,

but in one hand is his dagger and his dedication to Phrasma, and in the other hand he's holding the sharp end of the blade, remembering that Shone said that blood was required to open up the portals on the star still a in case nothing happens. He feels somehow driven to do this. The blood of the innocents will power the portal to the other side. You see no bloodstains.

I'm the only innocent here. I've asked around about you and clearly you people are a little bitch. There is nothing... There is nothing innocent about what went on in that tent. Ah. Shit.

It made... Fuck. No, no. YouTube, stop! I don't know what's going on. God. No one will ever see this video. We have very clear licensing rules.

It may not have been innocent, but it was pure. I stayed up all night cleaning that shield. I'll have you know. It's terrible. Atticus will present the symbol. You pull out the symbol

of the king in yellow that you found on the four cultists that tried to knock you out with their saps to perhaps kidnap you so that you would be the next sacrifices to open this portal. The battle got out of hand. They switched to lethal weapons,

and you still were able to come out on top. So you take out this symbol, and you present it, wondering if Tuttlefuck's words hold any weight. And you push the symbol right up to the starstilla and touch it. And at that moment, you are just like... You're like bombarded by innumerable telepathic impressions

that sound like whispers from another world. telepathic impressions that sound like whispers from another world. You almost feel like there's a creature that's part you and part something horrible speaking to you in a language that you don't understand, but yet you still remember. And you look up and all around you, you see a shadowy vision of yourself. But it's not quite you because it has like tentacles growing out of your face at every angle. And a long body with dozens of legs. Give me a knowledge, arcana or religion. Oh, come on. Jesus.

I think someone is using the stars. I think someone is using. You hear these other whispers. Jesus. The voice you recognize. someone is using it. Shit. 20 arcana. 20 arcana.

It doesn't make any sense to you. You feel like this thing that you're touching that was radiating this faint magic is only partially powered. And at full power, it could be quite dangerous but you feel like you have the knowledge to bend reality right now and you don't know what it will do but you feel a power rising in you do you use that power? Yes. Yes. I think someone is using it. And you feel this power and you just unleash. As you unleash, your eyes have become completely white and pupil-less, but Halster and Aldo and Sir

Julie see about 150 feet or so away towards the bottom of the hill on a wall of a building. A portal open on a wall. And as the portal opens, Aldo still, Pupilus,

starts walking from the Starstula down the hill in a trance towards the portal. What do the other three of you do? Sir Julie tries to grab Atticus. You grab Atticus

and Atticus shrugs you off and just keeps walking. That was good. and Atticus shrugs you off and just keeps walking. That was good. I whack him in the head with the butt of my greatsword. It's a critical and he dies.

He keeps walking and you're holding him back but he's just walking towards it. You can see through the portal on the other side, just like yellow mist, but something very familiar. Atticus keeps trying to walk, and you're holding him back. Does anyone walk through the portal?

I think Aldo does. I think Aldo, like, with his increased intellect and lowered wisdom, I think the curiosity as himself, like a traveler between planes, is peaked. And even almost despite himself, he starts walking towards it.

So Sir Julie tries to hold back Atticus. And what is Halster doing? Halster says, I have to follow the next potential Tuttlefuck. And he runs past him to support him in his academic research. And so Aldo and Halster jump through the portal. And they disappear. Sir Julie, while you're holding back Atticus, and Atticus is just like dragging you with a new strength

that he's never shown before. Meanwhile, Aldo walks through and Halster jumps right behind him. And you're just You find yourself in this abandoned, eerily quiet

city. Filled with yellow mist. The buildings seem to go up, up, up, and then bend in a weird way at weird angles, and there's yellow mist everywhere, and it is exactly like the city

you found yourself in at the beginning of the adventure in the shared nightmare. It was a safe city. Except when the Tatterman came out and killed all of you. As you're standing there, up ahead, you see through the mist

another portion of the city of Threshmore. So you step through this portal, and up ahead, through the mist, with the buildings in the distance, you see buildings. You see the other star, Stela. Stela. Oh. On the island. And you realize you could walk through and, like, teleport to the other side of the island.

Aldo, like, kind of looks around, realizes where he is, and he looks at Halister and he says, like, I think we've made a terrible mistake. at Halstead and he says, I think we've made a terrible mistake.

Truly epic. Let's go. Yes, I'm ready to run. Let's go. And we go towards the other Stella. Stella. And you burst out and suddenly you find yourself

on that island in the southwestern portion of the city. You see the other Sarstala standing about 150, 200 feet away. And you come out of a wall of another building nearby. Oh, what? And you turn back, and there's no portal there. and there's no portal there. But instead, one of those gloomy murals that you've seen about town is starting to form in soot.

Oh! Whoa! Leaving an impression of the city you just left. This is almost like a nuclear blast. It's like the people, like the shadows of the people that were there. It's just like Pompeii. Yeah, or, yeah. I think that was probably a nuclear blast. It's like the people, the shadows of the people that were there. It's like Pompeii. Yeah.

I think that was probably a nuclear blast as well. Didn't Pompeii have... Where we go one, we go all, right? I just googled Pompeii. First question. Is Pompeii safe to visit? I love this. I'm telling you, man.

Vesuvius, any day. Yeah. Any day, man. I don't know. What's the frequency of those eruptions? I know. I'm going to... Can I do some kind of knowledge check on the mural as it's formed?

I think Aldo sees it forming, actually seeing one of these things being created. He just puts his hands up. He's like, oh! And is there a knowledge check I can do? Yeah, you can roll knowledge arcana. Oh, no. Now remember, when you fought those cultists before,

you felt like they just jumped out of the wall. They appeared out of thin air to fight you. So now you realize they were using the power, the faint power of the star stelae to move about town. What do you roll? That is an 11 on the die. That is a 24. Thank you to Norse Foundry.

Hey! Norse Foundry. For all your random number generating needs. That's Norse Foundry. So what's the total? 24. 24. You feel like this thing that stupid Atticus couldn't figure out, has great, great power.

It's not necessary. I pity him, in a way. You should. He's no Pinwheel Mahomes. You feel like it has great power that has yet to be tapped. But the one thing that is available right now that you now know how to use,

and you know the cultists know how to use is this dimension door ability. Right. So if you touch the yellow sign up to it, you like take charges away from it. It's a finite amount of charges that you can use to teleport within 200 feet of each star stela. within 200 feet of each starstilla. But when you do, it leaves this impression of that gloomy city on the wall behind you. That's great. So he turns and he grabs Halster by the shoulder.

There's a frantic look on his face. Do you know what this means? No, what does it mean? We've unlocked fast travel! Oh! It's taken three years! We're in Skyrim! It's like three years! We're in Skyrim! It's like Skyrim all over again!

Oh, these scrolls are so elderly. No more random encounters on the road! No longer will I have to walk to the mage's college. Sir Julia, I think, now thinks they're trapped in another dimension. Yeah. Yes. Aldo is, excuse me, Atticus is still

trying to push against you, but you saw Aldo and Halster just jump through. Is the door, the portal closed on our end? No, it's still open. Aldo!

Release it! I'm sorry, now you're not Aldo. Atticus, release it! Let go! Silence! Do not give over. I can find the way in.

She slaps him across the face. He's looking to see, like, with his whatever, otherworldly vision right now, if in this extra plane there is some sort of hidden entrance to Iris Hill. Like, is there an opening beyond the hedges or something? Can we see through the hedges in this upside down into Iris Hill? So did you walk through? Walk through? The portal? The first portal?

Yeah. You're both in the nightmare city now? I assumed we were. I'm a knight. You overpowered me? So you never walked in? You said you thought you were trapped in another plane. I thought they were trapped in another plane.

They just walked through a portal and disappeared. But the portal's still open, so do you walk through or do you wait? Let's say you wait and they don't come out. What do you do? Oh, we should go in after them. Yes, we should. They have found something. There's something in there, Siculi. We must rescue them. Something we need. Yes, we should. They have found something. There's something in there, Sir Julie. We must rescue them.

Something we need. A power we need. You walk through. And he pushes through. Wash. Same city. Swirling yellow mist. Now, Sir Julie,

you came to the party late, but you had these same dreams. You didn't have the sanctuary of the chapel to avoid those horrible dreams. Not in 40 years. so you see this city and and and atticus you're trying to think like is there a way into iris hill and your mind is just that swap with the yithian is coming back into play. And you're bombarded with knowledge that you don't have. And you see the world in a different way, like beautiful mind style.

And you realize that there's one star stela here in the middle of the city. There's one on this island. There must be a third in Iris Hill. And if you look at the map like you're seeing the world in a way that no one else can see, a perfect triangle leads to Iris Hill. Oh, yes! It's there, Sir Julie. Our entrance.

Our way through the hedges. The difference is, there's no passageway there. Something is blocking it. The only way you can go is the way that Halster and Aldo went. All right. But that knowledge alone is worth a bottle cap. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Is that a shadow plane bottle cap?

Yes. You can only use it within a portal. I forgot to bring them. You guys walk out, and Aldo and Halster are kissing. Whoa! What was going on here? Sorry, we were celebrating. I don't...

Got carried away. I was so inspired by the star-stilets. Something about them just... It's rousing. I don't know what's... Something about how erect they are. I don't know. I don't know.

And you're all now on this island to the southwest. You're on a totally different area of town. And it all happened in a moment. Wow. We must make for Iris Hill. Yes, this is clearly how they were moving about. And Atticus shares with Aldo and Halster the triangle. He's like, it is an equilateral right to Iris Hill.

There must be one there. It's probably how they're moving through unnoticed, appearing suddenly out of walls. But the way is blocked. We have to travel in the conventional way. That's very good. Very good. You figured that out on your own.

I'm going to go to the bathroom. Really? Don't go. Oh, that's a great job. Good job, buddy. Great job figuring that out. Really, really impressive. Let us go to Iris Hill.

I'm going to take that headband of vast intelligence off of your dead corpse. I swear to God, I can't. I don't know what city it's going to be in, but they're going to get a show. Honestly, I like my backup character so much that I'm sort of antagonizing you deliberately. So you're going to head to Iris Hill? Iris Hill.

With all haste. With all haste. It's another gloomy day here in Threshmore In fact it's been gloomy since you arrived You feel like it's just Always this way Overcast Gray, dark

You can't even tell what time of day it is Because it's just Sad out So you're walking through town. You see remnants of these murals that you saw when you first came to town and now you have all this knowledge that you didn't have when you first got there.

You're walking. You feel very uneasy. You feel like you're being watched. But maybe you're just paranoid. You underwent a lot of stress in Fort Hale course. But out of the corner of your eye, you just feel like there are people watching you. Or perhaps a person.

Everybody roll a perception check. What'd you roll, Joe? Eight. Why didn't you roll higher? I really wanted to see this one Sir Julie 26 Oh, there we go

Pretty good The rich get richer The rich get richer Sure do Aldo Natural three Thanks guys again Really

Really spectacular work The craftsmanship Just everything you want Out of a die Except the result It's just... It's a beautiful three. It is. It's the best-looking

three I've ever seen. Look at that three. Look at that laser-etched three. I rolled a hideous four on this disgusting plastic die from another company. Awful. Okay. This is a situation I think this is a situation

You're walking You're paranoid You're nervous Probably nervous about What you're gonna uncover At Iris Hill You're still thinking about Like where's the magistrate

Where's the constable Where's the royal accuser What's going on with the count Who is this Melly Sen Scum Juju zombies. Dogs and cats. Never together. Mass hysteria.

And Sir Julie, you're a knight. You've been in the world wound. You have preternatural senses. But the one sense you don't have is the sense to see invisibility. But you turn and you see something that I am going

to randomize. One, two, three, four. For the listeners, he pointed at each of us. Let's each a number.

Come to the show and you'll see it. Well, they can't come to this show. And they can't watch it on YouTube after all the copyright. I know. I'm sorry again. Guess they're out of luck. The state of DMX is going to come down on its heart. Three.

Halster. Halster is a three. Sir Julian, you turn. It's like all slow motion. to come down on its heart. Three. Halster. Halster is a three. So, Julie, you turn. It's like all slow motion. A woman appears out of thin air. Beautiful.

Oh, no. Dressed in a long coat. Do I recognize her? You do not. Oh. However, she has a rapier. And she goes to stick it right through Halster's heart.

Oh, my God. What? A couple things are going to happen. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to roll to hit your flat foot at AC. Man. God. Just start.

Oh, man. Oh, my God. Natty 19. Oh, no. Which, with a rapier, is a critical threat. That's a critical threat. Total? Just want to know the total.

Critical threat. All right. 28. that'll do to confirm 21 excuse me 22 flat footed 21 check it and see

This This is bad Because this person This woman has been studying you Studying you for say The last 18 seconds because this person, this woman, has been studying you. Studying you for, say, the last 18 seconds. What did she think about my calves? Oh, no.

I've been working out a lot. She's not interested in your calves. She's interested in your heart. Aww. Yeah. You're taking one of two ways. She's interested in your heart Aww Yeah You're taking one of two ways Is she upset at me kissing Aldo? She sticks the rapier What a meet cute

Right through your chest You need now to roll I'm gonna throw up You're very nervous, I can see it. You need to roll a Fortitude save against an ability known as Death Attack. Oh, no! Oh, my God! All right, I have a very special request.

Do the Norse Foundry guys have a d20 in their pocket? One of their d20 I can use. Yes or no? No? No. Oh, we got one right here. All right, let me use this one for the crowd. Let's see what happens. This is important.

Yeah! Yeah! Hugely important. What's your name, sir? Jake? Jake. All right, I know who I'm blaming. Here's the thing. And Grant. Here's the thing. If you fail this fortitude save,

you will be permanently dead. Grant's the thing. And Grant. Here's the thing. If you fail this fortitude save, you will be permanently dead. Grant. Are you serious? Grant. Serious. Bottlecap, Tobochico, Bottlecap!

There you go. Tobochico. Oh! All those hours on the bike gave me these cat-like reflexes. Wait a minute, Jake, are you coming on Saturday? I am, yeah. You could get your dye back then.

Yeah, because that's when he's going to roll the save. We'll see you on Saturday. Oh, no! No! Oh, no! Oh, my God. So dirty! So dirty!

That's how we do it! Oh, God. All right. Well, thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. You're the best. Thank you. We've got to come back, Jake!

We've got to come back, Jake! We've got to come back! Good night, everybody!