MATT: Hello everyone, and welcome to tonight's
episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us
nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play
Dungeons & Dragons. ALL: (garbled) We play
Dungeons & Dragons! MATT: Before we jump
into tonight's episode, we do have some quick
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ASHLEY J.: (laughs) ASHLEY M.: -- or
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(laughter) ASHLEY M.: Let's
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MATT: Okay! (cheering)
(applause) MATT: Well done.
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TRAVIS: Why do you get two? MARISHA: I know there's a through line.
MATT: Because she's the merch person, of course.
TRAVIS: No favoritism. ASHLEY J.: Merch queen!
(laughter) LAURA: I had nothing
to do with it. (laughter) LAURA: They come
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decks will be available in March of next year. That's not that far away. Pre-order them right now
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SAM: That was great. MATT: That's awesome.
LAURA: Yeah. MATT: I'm actually
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Me again, here to tell you-- MATT and TRAVIS: (laugh) ASHLEY J.: -- how our
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SAM: Yay! (applause)
TRAVIS: (whistles) MATT: Thank you so much, Ashley.
SAM: You're a good person. MATT: Thank you, everyone.
ASHLEY J.: (laughs) MATT: Thank you
for your support. And I believe that concludes
our announcements. SAM: Lie!
ASHLEY J.: Woo! MATT: So let's go ahead and
jump into tonight's episode of Critical Role. (excited cheering) ALL: ♪ Critical
(It's Thursday) ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ASHLEY: ♪ One-by-one, we climb
until we reach the top ♪ ♪ Two-by-two, we fall ♪ LAURA: ♪ Will we meet our end
or meet our destiny ♪ ♪ Hold your breath and roll ♪ MATT: How do you
want to do this? ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪ ♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪ ♪ There is ♪
magic and mystery ♪ ♪ Who knows ♪
what will happen ♪ ♪ He might ♪ ♪ But one thing's for sure ♪ ♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪ TRAVIS: ♪ From the healer ♪ LIAM: ♪ To the renegade ♪ MATT: ♪ We all
share the same goal ♪ TALIESIN and MATT:
♪ Adding more allies ♪ ♪ Taking more chances ♪ SAM: ♪ Hold your breath
and roll ♪ MARISHA: You can
certainly try. ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪ ♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ There is magic ♪
and mystery ♪ ♪ From darkness, ♪
our friendship will rise ♪ ♪ But one thing's for sure ♪ ♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪ ♪ Oh, get ready (get ready) ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ (flames crackling) MATT: Welcome back. So last we left off: Bells Hells, as they were
finishing preparations to head on their recon
mission to the red Moon of Ill Omen, Ruidus, had a bit of a
fractured social moment that sent them to the
four corners of Whitestone to figure out how
best they can repair broken trust or concerns about
each other's motivations or whatever dark passengers
they carry from their past. As part of this conversation, Fearne wanted to
recenter herself by visiting her
Nana Morri and was decided amongst the troop
that perhaps a visit to the Fey Realm to try and
reconnect before heading into a very dangerous
unknown was a good idea. Upon asking Allura's help, she transported you all and escorted you to
the Ligament Manor. After a brief conversation, FCG and Nana Morri got
excited about the prospect of a team building exercise
amongst you all. After a conversation,
she wiped your memory of it-- SAM: Ah!
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: -- and sent you
on the first of three. The first one was
an honesty based expedition in which you
all were in a ravine and had to reveal truths
about yourselves and about your experiences
in the world, which allowed you to escape
from this dangerous chasm. Completing that, you were sent
to a test of communication, in which three volunteers
had their sight robbed of them and were sent to walk without
vision across very narrow and ever winding
land bridges-- LAURA: So much fun. MATT: -- with the possibility
of falling into oblivion, which Orym did. SAM: And is dead.
MATT: No, you survived. LIAM: We learned that
Imogen is a horse whisper. MATT: Yeah. No, Ashton,
unfortunately, was knocked off the edge by--
LAURA: So close. MATT: -- wasps.
TALIESIN: Bees. No. MATT: It was Orym that-- MARISHA: (laughing) Bees.
MATT: -- that volunteered for the final round with
real stakes this time as the bridge
collapsed behind him. But you all succeeded
at this second venture. With the second
success behind you, you were brought to
the third and final part of your team building
therapy session. You were transported
by Nana Morri to the middle of a
massive Fey ruin, overgrown with vines
and thorny brambles, faintly glowing
remnants of whatever fey society fell
here long ago, and you were
introduced to two new creatures you
hadn't seen before. These doppelganger-like
fey creatures that apparently can not
just take your form, but have been paying attention
to your personalities, memories, and diving into
your minds and thoughts since these whole number of therapy
sessions began. Here as they step
out, Nana Morri, still standing with you
amongst the central pool-- I'm going to outline
once again what this was at the end of
the last episode. (Morri 1) "Hidden out amongst
these ruins lie three "sections of ivory branch, "blanched pieces
of a white tree "among small altar basins. "You must seek them
out however you wish. "But "two of you will be replaced
by my doppelganger friends. "In this space, where
illusions reign supreme, "they can mimic
the capabilities "that you hold
within yourselves, "your own minds, feeling
the pain psychically "and converting it
to believe it true. "So only through care, "watchful eyes, "and trust in those
you feel you can "will you succeed to bring
these three branches back. "If even one is destroyed "before it's returned,
you fail." TRAVIS: Oh fuck. MARISHA: Wow. TRAVIS: Damn it. MATT: "Be warned, "there are denizens of
these ruins as well." SAM: Oh jesus. MARISHA: Denizens?
TRAVIS: (laughs) MARISHA: Oh wow. TRAVIS: Put the stick in your butt.
TALIESIN: I love a denizen. (laughter) MATT: The mists that
crawl across the floor of this ruin suddenly swell until all of you are
surrounded by a thick gray fog obscuring your vision. For each of you,
you try and reach out-- MARISHA: Oh, wait,
Nana Morri-- MATT: You all--
SAM: (laughs) MATT: The fog fills you.
What do you say? LIAM: (laughs) MARISHA: This seems
counterproductive if we shouldn't
trust two people. MATT: "Learn who to trust. "That's what's important." As the fog fills
your periphery-- Let's figure out
who they are. TRAVIS: Oh my god!
MATT: So we have-- (clamoring excitedly)
TRAVIS: What are we doing? What are we doing? MATT: We have five cards
that say you are yourself and two cards that say
you're a doppelganger. LIAM: Like that game. TRAVIS: Oh, shit!
MATT: So we just need to shuffle these together.
ASHLEY: (laughs) LAURA: Okay wait. Five cards--
MATT: Shuffle them up. MARISHA: I feel like I have
this problem where I'm in nervous laughter.
LAURA: So only one of us-- TRAVIS: You got to poop now?
Now you got to poop? LAURA: There's seven of us.
MARISHA: I'm a nervous laugher so-- ASHLEY: It makes
you look guilty? MARISHA: It makes
me look guilty. ASHLEY: I know.
MARISHA: No matter what. ASHLEY: No matter what. MARISHA: I'm going
to look like a liar no matter what!
TRAVIS: I'm calling it right now. I definitely know
a doppelganger is going to be Sam. SAM: What? How do
you know that? It's random!
TRAVIS: 100% LAURA: I know. I know.
TRAVIS: I just know. Sometimes you get a
peek into the future. MATT: Here.
SAM: Keep them down, Matt. MATT: I'm keeping them down.
SAM: Because we can sort of see under them. MATT: I'll shuffle
a little further. All righty.
LIAM: We all know you're guilty of something.
(laughter) MATT: Who wants to cut this for me?
MARISHA: Maybe that's what it is. ASHLEY: I'll cut it.
MARISHA: I'm always paying for my past sins.
MATT: You'll cut it? All right. TRAVIS: Future Fatestitcher.
LIAM: (mouth fart) MATT: All righty. SAM: You farted
on the internet! (laughter)
MATT: We'll start-- We'll start over here.
TRAVIS: (mouth fart) (mouth fart)
MATT: Now, don't look at it yet. TRAVIS: Don't look
at it, Taliesin! (laughter) MATT: Don't look at it.
LIAM: I won't look at it, but I will touch
it and hold it. MATT: There you go. LAURA: Don't let me see!
Don't let me see! LIAM: That's yours.
SAM: Oh my god. MARISHA: I don't know! I don't know!
SAM: I'm scared, I'm scared. MATT: Don't look at it. MARISHA: Why would I know? TRAVIS: Already giving it away.
MARISHA: Already! MATT: Then-- There you go.
Now, everyone hold it. Quietly. LIAM: Quietly. MATT: Now, when
we look at it-- Don't look at it yet!
Ashley, don't look at it! TRAVIS: Don't look at it!
ASHLEY: Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry!
(laughter) ASHLEY: Sorry!
MATT: It's okay. When you look at it, it'll tell you
if you're yourself-- TRAVIS: Look at her.
She already knows. MATT: -- and it'll
give you an overview of your goals for this. If it says you're
a doppelganger, it'll give you
your separate goals as well as point out one or two traps
that exist on this that can be used
at your disposal. LAURA: So everybody
stare at their card for a long time
so nobody knows who's a doppelganger.
TRAVIS: Do what you're going to do! MATT: There's equal amounts
of writing on both. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: To make sure that you're all reading
at the same pace. LIAM: It's so easy for me to
read Laura's cards and I will. So do we want
to have everyone cover their eyes while--
LAURA: Should we scooch back or something?
LIAM: One at a time? MATT: Sure.
LAURA: What? LIAM: Yes! TRAVIS: You ever
play poker before? Guard your shit.
LAURA: No, I know, but we're just
so close to each other. MATT: Sure.
TRAVIS: Read your stuff and watch everybody--
LIAM: You don't sit elbow-- TRAVIS: -- at the same time.
LIAM: -- to elbow with fellow poker players. TALIESIN: Everybody
close your eyes. MATT: Then--
LAURA: Wait, close our eyes? MATT: Everyone look that way. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: All right and-- MARISHA: Wait, what?
MATT: Yes, yeah. Taliesin, look at your card. MARISHA: Oh, I see. LIAM: Don't look
at Taliesin, Marisha! MARISHA: Wait, we're not
supposed to look at Taliesin? SAM: You're looking
the wrong way! TALIESIN: Okay.
SAM: Look that way! MATT: All right.
MARISHA: But I could-- why? TRAVIS: So fucking--
LIAM: Okay. Taliesin looks that way, you guys keep
looking that way. LAURA: Oh!
ASHLEY: Okay, okay, okay. LIAM: Laura,
don't use the one on the back of your head.
MARISHA: We're overthinking this, I think. MATT: All right,
it tells you who you are, tells you your objectives and then it tells,
for the doppelgangers, it tells you
a couple keywords-- TRAVIS: I can hear your heart rate--
MATT: -- that'll help you with the battlefield.
TRAVIS: -- increasing, O'Brien. MATT: All right,
so Liam, you got yours? LIAM: Yes.
MATT: All right, now you look away from Laura. LAURA: Nobody can look at me.
ASHLEY: That took you a long time to read that, Liam.
LAURA: You look away from me, hubby. MATT: I don't know
whose these are, too. So I'm interested
in reading as well. SAM: I want to peek. (laughter) LAURA and MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: I know! MATT: Now, everyone
look away from Ashley. Ashley, read your card.
ASHLEY: Look away. Look away! LIAM: We're never allowed
to look at Ashley. (laughter) SAM: Riveting television. LIAM: I think
it's pretty good. TALIESIN: This is fucking great.
ASHLEY: Okay, okay, okay. MATT: Okay, now, everyone
look away from Sam. SAM: Look away! MARISHA: Ashley said
"okay" three times. She did three nervous okays. (laughter) TRAVIS: It's not Ashley. LIAM: ♪ ("The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly") ♪ MARISHA: It's Sam, isn't it? It is Sam! MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: I didn't even look! MATT: Everyone look away
from Marisha. MARISHA: Look away from me!
SAM: Oh, sorry. I was thinking. LAURA: (laughs) LIAM: About
doppelganger stuff? SAM: Yes, about
doppelganger stuff. MARISHA: Okay. MATT: Okay, now everyone look away from Travis.
ASHLEY: You already know? SAM: So fast, Marisha!
LAURA: How do you already know? ASHLEY: I feel like
I already know. (laughter) MATT: Okay, all right.
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MARISHA: What? (laughs) MATT: -- standing around--
ASHLEY: What a cool map. TRAVIS: Your nose flares.
MATT: The central ruin. LAURA: (laughs)
SAM: I'm scared. I'm really scared. (laughter) TALIESIN: So we got to-- TRAVIS: You're
awful quiet, Laura. TALIESIN: We got to
toss those branches-- SAM: Yeah, you are.
TALIESIN: -- into the pool? Is that the--
MATT: You have to bring them back to the pool
and lay them in there. TALIESIN: All right. TRAVIS: Oh no,
they're looking at me. SAM: Oh, that was
another weird smile! They're all weird.
ASHLEY: I feel like Liam's being awfully quiet.
LAURA: Everybody knows! LAURA: It's Liam.
SAM: Oh yeah. LIAM: It's me, yeah.
SAM: Liam is pretty quiet. ASHLEY: Yeah, he is.
SAM: Taliesin is also-- TALIESIN: I'm always quiet.
SAM: -- remarkably quiet. TRAVIS: Oh, Taliesin!
MARISHA: Is it that they're being quiet or we're just talking a lot?
(laughter) We're just rambling.
SAM: Are we stoned right now? MARISHA: I think we're stoned, man.
(laughter) SAM: They know!
(laughter) MATT: As the mists--
LIAM: See? Guilty! MATT: As the mists pull away, you see all have now been
translocated around, equally, around this cental pool. SAM: Translocated.
MATT: The ruins around you, the doppelgangers and Nana
Morri no longer in sight. LAURA: (groans)
MATT: You know that two among you are not who you appear to be. TRAVIS: (mouth farts)
MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: Somewhere in this are three branches. Now, you get to decide
the best way to find and retrieve them
and bring them back to place them, by hand,
into this pool. MARISHA: They're on
this map, though? MATT: They're on this map.
MARISHA: Okay. MATT: But you need
to look for them. They're not visually
there right now. MARISHA: Oh, okay.
MATT: You have to search for them and if you succeed
in investigating, perceiving, or uncovering
where they might be, then I will place
them on the map and you will have it at your disposal.
LAURA: We can use all of our powers
and everything to do so?
MATT: Yes, yes. In this place of illusion, the doppelgangers
can still create the image of them using the
capabilities of their friends, and psychically,
you respond to it by believing that it's true. SAM: We're in a fever dream.
MARISHA: Wait, the doppelgangers can make us believe a
branch is not a branch? MATT: No, they--
MARISHA: Or that not a branch is a branch?
LIAM: They can believably do Form of Dread.
TRAVIS: Don't try to throw us off the trail, you
fucking doppelganger. (laughter)
MATT: They can-- (laughs) They can make you
believe that they're casting the spells--
MARISHA: I'm just trying to understand the rules.
MATT: -- that your friend can. Or they can make you believe that they're healing someone and you will respond to it
in this illusory space as if it was true.
TRAVIS: Got it, got it. MATT: So you have all
of your abilities at your disposal--
TRAVIS: It's the Matrix. MATT: -- whether you're yourself
or you're a doppelganger. So, trying to
trick each other into not using your abilities isn't how you suss this out. This is going to be
about communication. This is going to be
about asking questions. This is going to be about
watching what they do-- TRAVIS: Battle royale. MATT: -- and trying to
throw off the scent if you are the doppelganger. MARISHA: Hunger Games. MATT: However you feel like. However, because
of that scenario, because you are actively
working together and against you at
the same time, we will be acting in a
loose initiative order. I would like everyone
to roll initiative. TRAVIS: Whoa.
LAURA: Oh, oh jeez.
MARISHA: What does a loose initiative order mean?
LIAM: Can we get pizza rolls and Cap'n Crunch--
MATT: Meaning, it's not a six-second hardcore battle.
LIAM: -- flown in (laughs) MARISHA: Oh, that was--
MATT: Everyone's taking turns as they go around.
MARISHA: -- fucking bullshit. LAURA: All right.
MATT: You can decide to work together as a group--
TRAVIS: Awesome. MATT: -- as small groups, as
individuals, it's up to you. But do we have 25 to 20? LIAM: Natural 20 for 25. ALL: Whoa. MATT: Orym, up top.
SAM: Orym never rolls that high. (laughter) MATT: 20 to 15. ASHLEY: 18.
MATT: 18, we got Fearne.
LAURA: Ashley never rolls that high.
ASHLEY: (laughs) SAM: That is actually true. ASHLEY and MATT: (laugh) ASHLEY: Well. MATT: 15 to 10. ASHLEY: Throwing you
off the scent. LAURA: 11.
TALIESIN: 13. MATT: All right, Ashton.
MARISHA: Wait, I missed all of that. TRAVIS: Ash, Imogen.
MARISHA: Hang on, wait, so, Orym.
MATT: Imogen. LAURA: Fearne. TRAVIS: Orym, Fearne, Ashton.
LAURA: Ashton, Imogen. MATT: All right, 10 to five. SAM: Seven.
TRAVIS: Seven. TALIESIN and LAURA: Oh.
MATT, TRAVIS, and SAM: Rollies. SAM: 17.
TRAVIS: Nine. SAM: Hey.
MATT: All right. FCG. TALIESIN: Chet.
MATT: Then we have Chetney. TALIESIN: Then Laudna.
MATT: Then I assume Laudna at the end. MARISHA: Three. MATT: All righty. So--
TRAVIS: Sandbagger. MARISHA, TALIESIN,
and LAURA: (laugh) SAM: Did you really
even roll a three? Can we trust anything
that you're saying? TRAVIS: Ah!
SAM: (laughs) MARISHA: Technically,
I rolled a one. SAM: Oh! Liar! MATT: (laughs)
MARISHA: Well, I didn't mention it was plus two. SAM: Oh, okay, okay. MARISHA: These are just rules.
LAURA: That's what they want you to think.
SAM: (laughs) MATT: Indeed, now, as you all look
around yourself, you can hear the various
denizens of the jungle coming alive around you. You now get to figure out
how to handle the scenario. Orym, you're up first. LIAM: All right, Orym is going to flea--
MARISHA: He's smirking. SAM: He smirked.
MARISHA: He's smirking with his eyebrows.
SAM: He smirked. MATT, LAURA, and SAM: (laugh) MARISHA: Instantly started smirking!
LIAM: I've had a long day. TRAVIS: Oh! (laughs)
ASHLEY: He started it with, "Orym is going to--"
LAURA: To be fair-- ASHLEY: -- instead of
"<i>I'm</i> going to." LAURA: Oh!
LIAM: Orym-- ASHLEY: Didn't you?
LAURA: That's true. SAM: Because he's not Orym.
LAURA: He always says, "I." LIAM: Pass the bowl, man. SAM: We are three words into initiative--
LIAM: Orym is going to flea jump up onto the top of that arch--
LAURA: To be fair, Liam's been weird--
LIAM: -- that's right behind him. MATT: Right there?
LAURA: -- since he got here today. LIAM: Yeah.
MARISHA: That is true. LIAM: Right up there, and I am going to--
SAM: Since the 90s. MARISHA: He's sandbagging,
though. MATT: Just for the
sake of its height-- LIAM: Yes.
MATT: -- make an acrobatics check to make sure you can land at the top of that
precipice without tumbling. LIAM: That's an 18. MATT: 18, you land
precariously, but keep it there. TRAVIS: Oh!
LIAM: Okay, I want to fucking look at everybody--
TRAVIS: (laughs) LIAM: -- and see if
anything seems out of whack or out of place. No, you know what?
I don't want to do that. I want to look around and look for likely--
MARISHA: That's exactly what not Orym would want to not do.
LAURA, SAM, and LIAM: (laugh) MATT: This trust exercise
is already going great. (laughter) LIAM: From here,
do I see anything that looks like one of these? Nana Morri said
that the branches would be held inside of--
LAURA: Ashton, look at how quiet. SAM: He's so quiet.
LIAM: -- a what now? MATT: A small basin altar.
MARISHA: (laughs) Taliesin never talks.
LIAM: A basin altar. MARISHA: Taliesin's always--
LIAM: So I'm going to tiptoe, spin around up here--
MARISHA: -- half asleep. TALIESIN: I'm comfortable.
LIAM: -- and see if anything looks like an altar from up here.
LAURA, SAM, and MARISHA: (laugh) MATT: Make a perception check for me.
ASHLEY: Look how hidden he put his card. He put it so far
under his tray. MARISHA: (laughs) ASHLEY: Whereas mine's just out.
MATT: Honestly, hide your cards anyway.
MARISHA: That is true. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: Just to be safe, so nobody ends up knocking it over accidentally.
ASHLEY: Okay, okay, okay, okay. TRAVIS: Do you mean
this card? (laughter)
LIAM: Oh! SAM: Bold. TALIESIN: Freeze frame.
LIAM: Freeze frame. MATT: (laughs) LIAM: They know, they know. 20, that's a 20 perception. MATT: A 20, okay. LAURA: Aw, it's warm.
MATT: Glancing about the space, the fog, it's slowly blanketing the bottom of this ruin, it's making it a little
hard to make out details. You do not, from
your vantage point, see anything that resembles
one of these basins. So you might have to shift or look harder elsewhere.
LIAM: Understood, understood. I'll hold off here. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: That's my opening gambit-- MATT: You got it, next.
LIAM: -- as I lie to all my friends. (laughter)
MATT: Fearne, you're up, what are doing?
LAURA: Where did you go, Orym? MATT: Lept up there.
LIAM: On top of that arch. LAURA: Oh, look at you. ASHLEY: Okay.
LIAM: Look at us. Look at us.
ASHLEY: I'm going to move this way. MARISHA: Look at you, now look at me.
ASHLEY: Far out this way and look around and see if I can
find a branch. MATT: Okay.
(laughter) (laughter)
TRAVIS: (claps) ASHLEY: No, but--
TRAVIS: Easiest save ever! MARISHA: I think it's
Fearne, (laughs) yeah, I think it's just Fearne.
ASHLEY: One of <i>the</i> branches. One of the three.
LIAM (as Fearne): "I'm looking for "Michelle Branch."
MATT: Okay. (laughter) MATT: Make a perception
check for me. ASHLEY: Okay. TRAVIS: Oh my god.
SAM: ♪ ("A Thousand Miles") ♪ LAURA: I'm trying to-- SAM: No, that's not her.
LAURA: No, that's Vanessa Carlton. I'm trying desperately to think
of a Michelle Branch song. MARISHA: (laughs) SAM: I can't think of a one.
ASHLEY: 18. MARISHA: I can't either. LIAM: (laughs)
MATT: 18. LIAM: Sorry, Michelle. MATT: Looking around
this space-- TRAVIS: ♪ If I could just ♪
MATT: -- you do not see any sort of basin or altar-- TRAVIS: ♪ See you ♪
MATT: -- that is what Nana Morri had told you.
LAURA: (gasps) That's right. MATT: You do see that
a lot of these ruins have all manner of
twisting brambles and thick,
thorn-covered bushes that have grown
out of the stonework, that have blocked
some of the spaces. You can see there's
a lot of overgrowth around here entirely. LIAM: Plant pubes. MARISHA: (laughs) LAURA: Orym says.
ASHLEY: Okay. LIAM: Mm-hmm.
LAURA: (laughs) MATT: So you do not see
anything at a cursory glance looking around the space, but everything on here
can be inspected, it can be investigated, it can be searched through,
it can be burned. Whatever you're feeling
you want to do, be creative, the space is
yours to experiment with. ASHLEY: Okay.
TRAVIS: This is a good map, by the way. MATT: I'm excited.
LIAM: Oh yeah. TRAVIS: Stacked.
TALIESIN: It's painful there's so many nooks and crannies--
LIAM: Complicated. Yeah, it's complicated. ASHLEY: I know. TALIESIN: -- for
skullduggery. TRAVIS: There is only one
thing that there are three of. LIAM: I didn't
really find out what was around me.
SAM: Oh, is that true.
LIAM: It seemed like a smart thing to do. ASHLEY: Oh, hang on,
hang on here. SAM: The trees. ASHLEY: Can I go around
and play around with one of those lights?
TRAVIS: (laughs) ASHLEY: They're on the
map for flare or are those in
the environment? MATT: Oh, you mean these?
ASHLEY: The blue lights? MATT: These here?
LIAM: On the blue columns, the glowy bits.
ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: I mean, what you can
see, they're glowing, the dull flicker that occasionally
pulses in and out, yeah. ASHLEY: Okay.
LIAM: Mm. ASHLEY: All right.
LIAM: Blue balls. SAM: It feels like we're in-- ASHLEY: I will keep
working my way towards the bramble over here.
TRAVIS: ♪ Workin' my way ♪ MATT: Bramble here? Okay.
ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: You're at the bramble.
MARISHA: Oh, there they go. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: Okay. LIAM: The audio.
MATT: As you step up to it, you watch it as
part of it (slurping) and then suddenly,
(violent whooshes) the violets reach out--
SAM: Whoa! MATT: -- and wrap around
you. Make a dexterity saving throw for me.
ASHLEY: Hey! SAM and LIAM: (laugh)
ASHLEY: Okay. LIAM: (as Fearne) "Hey!"
MARISHA: (laughs) ASHLEY: Oh no.
LAURA: Oh no. LIAM: You guys.
ASHLEY: Dexterity saving throw. Wait, advantage
against spells and other magical effects? MATT: This is a natural entity in the fey, so.
LIAM: Physical. ASHLEY: Six. MATT: Got it. LAURA: Great roll.
MATT: All right, the vines (whooshes) wrap around
you and entangle you, pulling you into it. The thorns are about three
to four inches long. ALL: Oh no.
MATT: They dig into your skin, painfully.
ASHLEY: Oh no! MATT: You take... MARISHA: Four inches is big. LAURA: It is big.
MATT: You take 16 points of piercing damage.
TRAVIS: Ooh. MATT: And you are restrained. SAM: Ooh, Fearne!
MATT: You are currently held with it. LIAM: That's one doppelganger
we don't have to worry about. (laughter)
ASHLEY: Right? (laughs) SAM: Do we let her die? ASHLEY, LAURA, and SAM:
(laugh) MATT: It's here for you. You are restrained in the
middle of that thatch, right there. Oh god, you keep falling. All right, I'll get you
out of the thatch. There we go. ASHLEY: All right.
MATT: That's going to finish your turn.
MARISHA: Wait, is that a trap? Is that considered a trap? ASHLEY: I think the brambles
are a little grabby. MARISHA: Well, she wouldn't
walk herself into a trap. ASHLEY: No, I would've known
if I was a doppelganger, like Orym is.
MARISHA: Yes. TALIESIN: Ashton.
SAM: She walked so confidently into it, as if she knew it were there.
MARISHA: Which means she's not-- TALIESIN: Just letting them
get it out of their system. SAM and MATT: (laugh) TALIESIN: Okay. TRAVIS: Oh, what an interesting
way to start your sentence. ASHLEY: Yeah.
MARISHA: I agree. MATT: (laughs) TALIESIN: I agree as well. MARISHA and SAM: (laugh) TALIESIN: I'm going to start
heading over to the bramble. As directly as is reasonable, I'm going to head over to the
bramble that's got Fearne. TRAVIS: Reasonable.
MATT: Oh, okay, you can walk around
over to the space. You can try and leap across, but there is a bramble in
the way right there. TALIESIN: Oh, then--
MATT: Not unlike the one that she--
TRAVIS: Is the pool solid or liquid? LAURA: Bramble.
MATT: It's liquid. LAURA: Good name.
MATT: You can see it shifting. ASHLEY: Oh, it's liquid?
TALIESIN: Fuck it, I'll try, and the worst thing
that happens is I fall in the water.
LAURA: Yeah, I think it's a pool. MATT: Yeah, athletics check. TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah,
the water. SAM: Can we bring
those branches into the pool?
TALIESIN: That's 14. MATT: 14, you come up
on the edge, (grunts) leap across, about
a 10-foot gap, no big issue, land. You come up to the edge where
she is currently wrapped. You can see them
pulling and twisting and holding her there.
ASHLEY: Help me, doppelganger. SAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: Do I have
a good angle to hit this thing without
hitting Fearne? MATT: Ah, not so much, but you can try and pull
her free, if you'd like. TALIESIN: I'll do that. MATT: Okay, so to do that, I need you to roll a
strength check for me. TALIESIN: Would raging
help this? It would, wouldn't it?
MATT: Raging would give you advantage on it, if you'd like.
TALIESIN: All right, I'm going to rage. Set my... I'm going to do my
thing, hold on. LIAM: Did you intimate--
TRAVIS: Would a doppelganger care about Fearne?
LIAM: -- that the doppelgangers were able to look
into our heads? MATT: Correct.
LIAM: Or they just listened to us talking? MATT: No, they were able
to look into your heads. LIAM: Oh, okay, okay.
TRAVIS: Yeah, okay. That makes it harder. MATT: As Morri said, they've been with you
since you started this, so they were around for the
honesty portion of this as well. TRAVIS: Told you I needed to
clear that browser history. (laughter) TALIESIN: Let's see
what we got. We got... Hey, fuck yeah, this is a fun one. Got Time, finally. So I've got the red and blue
flicker that starts hitting. Wow, this'll be fun. MARISHA: (laughs)
TALIESIN: So I'm going to make this strength check--
LAURA: He never gets Time. TALIESIN: -- and try and pull her out.
SAM and MARISHA: (laugh) TALIESIN: I never get
the Time one, I'm so excited.
It's so badass. That's cocked.
MATT: That's cocked, yeah. SAM: It's never cocked.
TALIESIN: Strength check is, just standard strength roll?
MARISHA: It's always cocked. MATT: Yeah. TALIESIN: 17.
MATT: 17. You reach over and grab
the edge of the brambles, being careful where
the spikes are, and you pull back
and tear them open, which frees you from
being restrained. This section of bramble is now and defunct.
LIAM: Resilient. MATT: It's no longer
part of the battle. TALIESIN: It's not a creature,
out of curiosity, right? MATT: I mean, it is a creature,
but it's not considered a target, necessarily. TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: I mean, you can target
with spells and stuff, but. TALIESIN: Okay,
I was wondering if my effect would have
an effect on it or not, but that's okay. It would be like
a constitution save. MATT: Nah, because you
didn't kill it, you tore open and
it pulls away and rescinds--
TALIESIN: Got you. MATT: -- and retracts
from the battlefield. TALIESIN: As I do that, I'm going to stop, and why don't we
all stick together, find one of these branches so that we all know
what it looks like and what the mode
of finding it is, and then we can
divide into two teams once we've found one and have been able to
observe all of us together. LIAM: Oh, super reasonable. (laughter) TALIESIN: Can I find
a rock and throw? (laughs)
TALIESIN: No, that's right, I'm not in my house.
MATT: You can pick up a rock, yeah.
TALIESIN: Scoot. (whooshes) MATT: (laughs) (whooshes)
MARISHA: Is there a time limit to this? TALIESIN: You don't know.
LAURA: Oh. TRAVIS: Ooh. MARISHA: Ooh.
SAM: I think Ashton might be right. It might be useful
for all of us to stick together--
MARISHA: To stick together. SAM: -- at least
at the beginning. MARISHA: Then we can all be
accountable for one another. SAM: Yeah.
LAURA: The bramble's gone? MATT: The bramble, once
it was pulled apart, it pulled away and
vanished underground. LAURA: Okay. TALIESIN: Nothing else is
there at the moment? MATT: No.
TALIESIN: Okay. All right, I'm still doing that weird little flicker.
MARISHA: Big sigh. Big sigh from Chetney.
TRAVIS: I don't like it. TALIESIN: You don't like it? TRAVIS: But I don't know why. (laughs)
MATT: Imogen, you're up.
TALIESIN: The group decides. TRAVIS: I want to wander
off and get hurt. MARISHA: (laughs) LAURA: I know, right?
(laughs) MARISHA: "I want to wander off
and get hurt." LAURA: Um. MARISHA: Imogen.
LAURA: Hmm? MARISHA: Do you love me? LAURA: I already
told you I did. MARISHA: Okay.
LIAM: ♪ Do you love me ♪ TRAVIS: Good phrasing. LIAM: ♪ Yes, I love you ♪ MARISHA: All right. I love you, too. SAM: Aw. MARISHA: No matter what
form you're in. SAM: (laughs) LAURA: (laughs) I feel like
you're a doppelganger right now. MARISHA: No, what? (gasps) (laughter) MARISHA: I told you! (laughs) I'm not!
(laughter) TRAVIS: Horrible, horrible. Just leave. LAURA: I feel like
you set me up. You set me up.
LIAM: (laughs) It might as well have been the
"Body Snatchers" moment. (laughter)
ASHLEY: I love you as well. (laughter) TRAVIS: (laughs) Holy shit. You're going to start crying. (laughter) TRAVIS: Here come the tears. MARISHA: I am historically
so bad at my role. (laughs)
MARISHA: This is just what happens. LIAM: Oh god, that's true. MARISHA: Every time. TALIESIN: Every time.
LIAM: She's admitting defeat, she's admitting defeat.
LAURA: Yep, yep. SAM: All right,
we got one already. LAURA: All right, all right,
all right, all right, all right. (laughter) MARISHA: No! You're letting one go free.
LAURA: Oh no. Where are you standing? Where is Laudna? Is she in here? (laughs)
MATT: Oh, over here. SAM: Ah! She wasn't there.
LAURA: She wasn't even here. MATT: Laudna would be
over here. LAURA: Okay.
MARISHA: That had nothing to do with me. TRAVIS: (laughs)
LAURA: Okay, (sighs) I don't know where
these altars are. MARISHA: (laughs) TRAVIS: She's scratching, it's not hers.
LIAM: Also, where are the two real people?
MARISHA: (laughs) LAURA: What are you talking?
TRAVIS: They're watching from the press box.
LIAM: Two fakes are here, where are the originals?
TRAVIS: They got caviar in the press box.
TALIESIN: You're overthinking it. LAURA: You're a doppelganger.
TALIESIN: You are like everybody overthinking.
LAURA: Okay. TRAVIS: Turkish delight.
MATT: Yeah, well, I guess you'll find out.
LAURA: I am so bad at perception. LIAM: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
MATT: Wherever Nana Morri went. LAURA: I'm so bad
at perception. LIAM: Sipping Bacardi, man. TRAVIS: Are you enjoying the show?
SAM: We are two moves into our initiative. LAURA: I know,
I know, I know. MATT: They're watching back
in the security camera room, like, (sips) "Oh my god." TALIESIN: These
fucking idiots. They're just sitting going, "These people."
LAURA: Wait. LIAM: "That one said
she loves her, "and the other one
believed it! (cackles)" LAURA: Okay, what I'm
going to do is-- Okay, I'm going to--
I'm-- Okay. TRAVIS: What? (laughs)
LIAM: Hippity hoppity. LAURA: I'm going to
Misty Step. SAM: Mm.
MATT: Mm-hmm. LAURA: How far can
I Misty Step? 30 feet, up to 30 feet. So I'm going to Misty Step
to this tree. SAM: That's more Odessa.
LAURA: Can I do that? MATT: To this tree here?
LAURA: Yeah. Can I get there?
SAM: She's usually more San Antonio.
LAURA: Well, I didn't want to be on top of the tree. MATT: Okay, so up here,
you mean? LAURA: No, I just want to be
at the base of the tree. MATT: Base of it, all right.
LAURA: What I want to do is search. Although, that's--
MATT: Do you have to see where you can Misty Step? LAURA: Can I not
see right here? MATT: You can peer
over here, yeah. LAURA: Okay. Poof. TALIESIN: Poof.
LIAM: Nice job, doppelganger. LAURA: I want to-- MARISHA: (laughs) She shits
her pants every time. TALIESIN: Exactly what
a doppelganger would say. (laughter) LAURA: I want to--
SAM: Just like Imogen! LAURA: I want to search,
as my action, under the tree. MATT: Under the tree?
LAURA: Yeah. MATT: All right, make
an investigation check for me.
TALIESIN: ♪ Under the tree ♪ LIAM: Imagine if the moves were all real awkward, like.
LAURA: ♪ Under the tree ♪ SAM: (laughs) TRAVIS: ♪ Darling,
it's better ♪ LAURA: Gosh darn it. ASHLEY: ♪ Down where
it's wetter ♪ LAURA: Six. MATT: What is it?
LAURA: Six. MATT: Six.
(laughter) SAM: Do you hate
Michelle Branch songs? MATT: The base
of these trees-- ASHLEY: It's a great line.
MATT: -- it's a heavy tangle of thick roots,
and you can see, there's multicolored green,
purple, and blue moss that grow up it.
ASHLEY and LIAM: ♪ Take it from me ♪ MATT: It's a heavy tangle, and you're not quite sure even where to begin
to investigate. LAURA: Oh.
MATT: You look in some of the nooks and crannies, but it's
a very, very thick cluster, it'll take you a minute.
LAURA: It's not like the mini, because I was picturing
it like an open inside, the tree was hollow. It's not like that?
MATT: I mean, yeah, we'll say it's like that, but I'm saying,
but the roots around it, you look inside and
you don't see anything up inside the open areas
at a cursory glance or searching through from where you're standing.
LAURA: Okay. MATT: Yeah.
SAM: How are we're going to find this thing?
LAURA: Okay. TALIESIN: We stick together
and do a round. LAURA: Okay.
SAM: All right. LAURA: I guess
that's everything I'm going to do.
MATT: All righty, FCG, you're up. Chetney, on deck. SAM: Oh, me, so soon. I thought I rolled real low. I can't see where I am, but I'm going to head over--
MATT: You're right over here. SAM: -- to Fearne. ASHLEY: Mm-hmm.
SAM: Towards Fearne. MATT: Roll over. SAM: And do what I always do, which is heal people. ASHLEY: (gasps) Thank you. LIAM and SAM: (laughs) SAM: I'll touch you
and give you-- LAURA: You wouldn't
heal someone yet. SAM: Cure Wounds.
It's what I always do. LIAM: It's Sam Reich. (laughter) SAM: Eight points of healing. TRAVIS: Healing. So Sam Reich.
SAM: Because I'm a cleric. TALIESIN: Only eight points?
ASHLEY: Wow. SAM: Only eight, friend. LAURA: So now I think
you're not a doppelganger because it's-- Mm, I don't know. SAM: Could be the
double reverse Uno. LAURA: Uh-huh.
That's what I'm saying. (laughter)
TALIESIN: It's really not. SAM: I guess that's my action,
so I can't bonus action perception, investigation check or anything?
LAURA: That's what it is! He's being so obvious
he's a doppelganger-- MATT: Because part of
this is cursory glances you can bonus action search.
LAURA: -- to fake us out. MATT: It's a higher DC
to give a quick glance than spending your whole
turn looking for something. So if you want to and shoot
for a higher roll, maybe. LIAM: Let's go, Scam Riegel.
SAM: Sure, yeah. I'll just search around.
MARISHA: Scam Riegel. MATT: Anything specific? SAM: I'm going to
look, if I can, for magical shimmers
or illusions. TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: Okay. Make an
investigation check for me. SAM: 15.
(laughter) MATT: 15. Interesting. SAM: If I say it like that--
MARISHA: Perfectly above average. MARISHA and ASHLEY: (laugh) MATT: At a cursory glance, first off, the canopy
of this tree you can see--
SAM: The canop-ay. MATT: The canop-ay.
(laughter) LIAM: Just like that,
a new bit was born. MATT: -- of this tree,
the tree itself has some sort of a
magical shimmer to it. In fact, a lot of the brush
around here has a slight sheen that shifts color with the light as
it plays upon it. You do notice that some of the
nearby hanging vines and bushes have a faint
transparency when light and bushes have a faint
transparency when light hits them at certain angles. SAM: Do I tell the others?
Of course I do! I think some of these,
you said vines or branches? MATT: Yeah, the clusters
of green and brambles. Some of these have something
different about them. SAM: Some of the branches,
but not one in particular. Several of them. MATT: You see sheens
here and there and I'll say on the edge of
this column right there-- SAM: Uh-huh.
MATT: -- you can see there's a section of
the hanging vines that looks like it's gossamer and somewhat translucent
for a moment, and then the lights passes
by and it looks solid. SAM: On the post there
and around us, there are illusory vines. LAURA: Is it on all the posts
or is it just that one? SAM: I think I just saw one.
MATT: Just that one, but you see that
similar coloration on a lot of the plants
around here. MARISHA: Is it because this
whole thing is an illusion? LAURA: Maybe. MARISHA: Are you an illusion? SAM: Maybe. MATT: Chetney, you're
up with Laudna on deck. SAM: Oh no, I don't exist!
TRAVIS: Would I still have about 20 minutes of werewolf
form from the previous-- MATT: If you haven't
transformed back? Yeah, sure.
TRAVIS: I haven't. MARISHA: Sends FCG further
into his existential crisis. MATT: You are still a werewolf.
SAM: I'm not a real person. TRAVIS: For my bonus action, can I click my boots
of speed together? SAM: Bewts. (boots)
MATT: Yes, you may. TRAVIS: I would like to-- SAM: ♪ 'Cause you're
everything to me ♪ TRAVIS: Walk backwards--
LAURA: That's what it is. TRAVIS: -- through this doorway?
ASHLEY: ♪ 'Cause you're everywhere ♪ MATT: Through here?
TRAVIS: Yes, just to see what happens. LAURA and ASHLEY: ♪ To me ♪
LAURA: Is it everywhere? MATT: You shift through here. SAM and LAURA: ♪ When
I close my eyes ♪ ♪ It's you I see ♪
MATT: Immediately, there's a heavy bramble wall to the right and a cluster
of those vines suddenly start to unwind
and lash out at you. Make a dexterity
saving throw. TRAVIS: The doorways suck! SAM: (laughs) MARISHA: Wait, did you go
the opposite direction? SAM: He did because
he's fucking Chetney. TRAVIS: Dirty 20.
MATT: Dirty 20. You duck out of the way
and the branches lash out, scrape against the stone
wall, and then recoil. You see them,
they're pulling back and twisting on themselves
like they grab nothing, and you're uncertain
if they're prepping for another one if you
stay there or not. TRAVIS: I'm going
to try a tactic that everyone
should have done. I am not the doppelganger. I'm coming! I'm just
going the back way. Can I hop over? Can I go this
way and head that direction? MATT: Make an athletics
check to see if you can leap over them
and not take any damage. TRAVIS: Okay, fair enough.
That isn't the right one. 17 plus (rapid addition)
26. 25. MATT: Easily enough,
you pounce over the top-- MARISHA: Boing!
MATT: -- landing into this here. There's a spread of elements
in front of you. TRAVIS: Great. I will split. That's going to suck,
but I'll go that way. MATT: Okay. You rush through
that center piece. As you do, you run
past the column and there's a cluster
of purple flowers that have grown on
the side of it, and right as you go by,
you hear (misty spray). SAM: Oh.
MATT: You watch as they spray this
cloud of green that you try and dodge past
that hits your skin and it burns immediately.
MARISHA: Oof. MATT: I need you to make a
constitution saving throw. TRAVIS: I'm making a lot of
saves, a lot of saves. (laughs) 19.
SAM: Oh, that's pretty good.
MATT: 19. Whoops, that was--
LAURA: ♪ N-n-n-n-nineteen ♪ MATT: The dice went away. That's going to be 23
points of acid damage. SAM: Oh.
TRAVIS: Wow. LAURA: Oh shit!
MATT: As it (acid sizzling) burns into your skin and it leaves pockmarks
in it for a minute. TRAVIS: That was just
on this column? MATT: Just in that column there, yeah.
TRAVIS: Really no other identifying thing on that? MATT: So here now--
LAURA: You said that the branches would be on an altar?
TRAVIS: Did it come from a-- MATT: I'm going to
put that there to-- TALIESIN: Some kind of altar. TRAVIS: Did it come from a--
MATT: -- denote where. TRAVIS: Was there a flower
on the side of that column that if I saw again I could
be like watch out for those? MATT: Yup, this purple flower.
TRAVIS: Purple flower. Purple flowers spit
(moans) acid. LIAM: (Lucky the Leprechaun)
Blue diamonds, yellow horseshoes. SAM: (laughs) MATT: All right, you keep moving.
TALIESIN: Purple flowers. TRAVIS: I'll keep
going through that-- I'll go around that doorway. LAURA: They're not seeable--
MATT: Over here? LAURA: -- at all on the map, right?
TRAVIS: More like-- LAURA: Right now?
TRAVIS: I don't know what you have fun house planned--
SAM: Visible is the word. LAURA: To us?
TRAVIS: -- but I'll go that way. TALIESIN: No,
I don't think so. MATT: As you move past the
other group of vines right there in the section, it also lashes out at you.
LAURA: No the branches, or the altars.
MATT: Make another dexterity saving throw.
TRAVIS: Okay. LIAM: I got to the highest
point on the map and look around. TRAVIS: That is a 16.
LIAM: There's a lot of walls. MATT: 16. You manage to
barely duck underneath as it whips out nearby and you
continue to move on past it. LAURA: Sheesh!
MATT: I'll say for your full movement.
TRAVIS: Sheesh. MATT: You can get about
to that through here. That's about as far
as you can get. TRAVIS: Can I scour the
area for my action? MATT: I will say you've done
quite a bit of movement leaping over, checking. You can make one,
but it'll be a high DC because it's a cursory
glance. So you can make a perception check,
if you'd like. TRAVIS: No. 11. MATT: 11. Nothing at first glance.
TRAVIS: Cool. MATT: So you start
looking around, hand on the side of the
stonework as you step out. (sniffing) Glancing,
your wolven eyes do not catch anything
of interest. TRAVIS: Just so you're aware,
purple flowers spit acid, vines on the doorways hurt!
Nothing back here so far. MATT: Laudna, you're up.
ASHLEY: Copy that. MATT: With Orym on deck. TRAVIS: (huskily) Nothing
back here so far. MARISHA: I pull out Pâté. TRAVIS: I'm a werewolf.
MATT: Okay. LAURA: Yep. MATT: (Pâté) "Hey, what we
doing? What's the plan, eh?" MARISHA: Are you
a doppelganger? LAURA: (laughs)
LIAM: (laughs) MATT: "I don't know
what that is." MARISHA: Am I a doppelganger? MATT: "I don't
know what that is!" MARISHA: Do I look like
the real Laudna to you? MATT: "I mean, I hope so." MARISHA: Me too. MATT: "(growls)"
MARISHA: Oh, what? Don't!
LAURA: (laughs) TRAVIS: He doesn't
even have eyes. MATT: "I wasn't even questioning
until you brought it up," "so I guess that's on you." MARISHA: (laughs)
That's fair. TALIESIN: (laughs) True.
MARISHA: All right. We're looking for a white, ivory branch. MATT: "Aye." MARISHA: So won't you
start looking around, helping me out, okay? MATT: All right. MARISHA: Also, if anyone
else looks like they're up to any funny business,
you tell me in my head. MATT: "Funny business,
got it. Okay." SAM: Whatcha
looking for, Travis? Whatcha looking for? (laughter) SAM: Sweat?
TRAVIS: Smelling for a rat. (laughter) TALIESIN: All you're
going to find is leave-in conditioner at
this point, but okay, Travis. MATT: All right.
So you summon him there. MARISHA: Okay.
LAURA: Stop it, Sam! (laughter) LAURA: You're such an asshole.
TRAVIS: (like Laura) Stop it, Sam! MARISHA: Can I skitter over
here to this column? TALIESIN: Oh no. MATT: You're going to skitter over?
LAURA: Don't laugh at him. MARISHA: Then I'm going to
cast Spider Climb and climb up--
oops, oops, oops, oops. MATT: It's okay. (laughs) TRAVIS: Don't fucking touch my mini.
MARISHA: Can I climb up to this one? MATT: That one?
If you'd like to. SAM: (giggles) MATT: Well, you
summoned him, so-- MARISHA: Well, he was
already out and about. MATT: Okay.
I'll say it's fine. LAURA: Damn it,
it still tastes good, and I still want to eat it.
SAM: Just enjoy it! MATT: You Spider Climb, and
you climb up there up on top, and you have this
overview position now of looking at everybody. MARISHA: Then, I'm going
to Quicken a spell. LIAM: This is
a sex-positive show. ASHLEY: You eat this
and you enjoy it. LAURA: You suck on it
and you enjoy it. (laughter) SAM: Suck that!
MARISHA: Cast-- (laughter) LAURA: Okay.
I'm throwing it away. MARISHA: I'm going to cast--
SAM: No! MARISHA: -- Wither and Bloom.
LIAM: (shushing) MATT: Okay. SAM: I don't want
to deprive you. MARISHA: It's a
10-foot situation. Can I do it here to wither
away all of the foliage? Can I do it here to wither
away all of the foliage? MATT: Sure.
TALIESIN: Foliage. LIAM: Foliahge.
TALIESIN and MARISHA: Foliahge. MATT: So, roll--
TALIESIN: What a good idea! MATT: -- 2d6 necrotic damage. MARISHA: It's got
a thing with... (mumbled reading) MATT: Oh, non-magical
vegetation in the area withers. Yeah, you watch--
MARISHA: But I guess I'll still-- MATT: You watch as all of this
turns black and vanishes in the space around.
TRAVIS: Yay. SAM: There's a white branch underneath it?
LAURA: There's a white pillar. A little altar.
MATT: You see. (cheering)
MARISHA: ♪ There it is ♪ MATT: Hidden in this space
right there, completely overgrown,
is a tiny, little basin altar with a little white branch
that sits within. MARISHA: (gasps) I see it! I see it!
Chetney, it's near you. TRAVIS: (deeply) I see it.
Ah! MATT: All right.
That finishes Laudna's go. Then, Orym, you're up,
with Fearne on deck. LIAM: I call out to Fearne. Fearne!
ASHLEY: Yeah? LIAM: When you and I attended the 22nd Annual
Byroden Forever Pageant, what did Cinna Brightbow
throw at me when I was tied up on stage? MARISHA: Yeah, Ashley. (laughter) ASHLEY: I'm going to say... a pie? (laughter) TALIESIN: A dick. (laughter) TALIESIN: I can't remember
what I had for breakfast. I think that's really a--
ASHLEY: It was-- It was-- LIAM: That's wrong, but
I think it's still you. (laughter) TRAVIS: Yeah, the right answer
would be worrisome. ASHLEY: What was it, again? LIAM: Axes! And I leap off
of the arch down into that room behind.
ASHLEY: Oh, that's right. MATT: Here?
LIAM: To look around, and I'll spend an action--
ASHLEY: Shit. LIAM: -- investigating in that room.
LAURA: I think she's just really good at acting.
MATT: Okay. Go ahead and roll an
investigation check. MARISHA: But I don't know! LIAM and MATT: Eight!
LAURA: This guy! MATT: Looking around the room,
you see all the vines growing over the walls and
around the slick moisture that's gathered on the stones
that still stand, the broken stones that
hit the ground around. Nothing of interest in
the immediate vicinity. LIAM: Then, as a bonus action,
I press the button that releases all the crocodiles. (laughter) MATT: Perfect. Got it.
TRAVIS: Please, please have crocodiles. MATT: Fearne, you're up,
with Ashton on deck. MARISHA: But he was asking
if the doppelgangers have all the same information.
LAURA: Not that much information. They only have surface level.
MARISHA: But for extra clarification. LAURA: Yeah, but Matt said it was
only surface level information. SAM: I've narrowed it
down to three. LIAM: It's stuff that
we talked about-- LAURA: It's stuff that
we talked about. LIAM: Focused on here, and
I for sure wasn't thinking about the Byroden
beauty pageant. LAURA: Exactly. It's not-- I don't think.
TALIESIN: I just assume it's still just fucking us.
MATT: I will specify, they got to delve
into your minds. LIAM: I will specify.
MATT: You don't quite know how deep. At a first glance, or surface
thoughts and then deeper. MARISHA: The royal us. LAURA: Wouldn't
we have felt that? MATT: Not in this instance. TALIESIN: Just got to
go with it. MATT: Mind you, it's about
asking certain questions. If you think it helps,
it might. It's up to you to decide. LAURA: We can ask questions
to each other and see. SAM: We can.
LAURA: We can, but we don't know how much
the doppelgangers know. LIAM: We don't know
how efficient-- TRAVIS: If the branch is
returned to the pool, is it safe, or does it
have to be safeguarded so that it remains
in the pool? I love it. Okay. LIAM: But I picked
a question that's not at the forefront of
Orym's mind. He thinks about Will.
He thinks about danger. He thinks about Zephrah. He's not thinking about
the fucking pie contest. TALIESIN: You're working hard
to make this make sense. LIAM: (blade whooshing) (laughter) ASHLEY: My turn?
MATT: Could be. ASHLEY: Me?
TALIESIN: Yeah. SAM: Wow, you've never
been that eager to go. (laughter) MATT: I'm sorry, I'm not
discounting what you're doing. I'm just-- Also be-- SAM: Is it my turn yet?
MATT: You're uncertain of how much information
they have. LIAM: I'm acting in character.
I don't care if Orym's-- MATT: I know. Exactly. TRAVIS: Those are like gills
coming out of your neck. Your carotid betrays you.
ASHLEY: Don't look at my bare neck. MATT: So.
(laughter) ASHLEY: Okay. Is there-- I want to go to
another area where there's a bunch of foliage and
things, like where Laudna took down--
Wait, what'd you do? Did you burn them?
MATT: Clusters over here. MARISHA: I did Wither
and Bloom, like necrotic. MATT: From what you've seen, this is the only area
that's visual to you here and here are the two areas with the most
clustered foliage. ASHLEY: Okay, so.
MARISHA: Yeah, but if you burn it-- LAURA: Yeah.
ASHLEY: Yeah. LIAM: Just Fireball
the whole-- MARISHA: Oh wait, can you
light the branch on fire? LAURA: I know, that's
what I'm afraid of. We might destroy
the branch if... Because I was going to
Lightning Bolt something, but I think I would destroy it.
ASHLEY: But it's already been blanched. LIAM: I didn't ask
where branch is. I said I cast Fireball. MARISHA: (laughs) ASHLEY: All right. So underneath the arch.
MATT: Uh-huh. Here? ASHLEY: I am going to, yes.
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: ♪ (sings) ♪ ASHLEY: Cast Scorching Ray. MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: There. MATT: Go ahead and roll
an attack three times. ASHLEY: Oh no.
Your eyes got big. MATT: No, no. They did not. MARISHA: Matt's
the doppelganger! ASHLEY: That first one
does not hit. MATT: Technically. MARISHA: Yeah. MATT: Your spell
attack modifier. ASHLEY: 19?
MATT: 19 hits. ASHLEY: 12? MATT: 12 just barely.
ASHLEY: Oh, okay. MATT: I'll say it
just barely misses. ASHLEY: Oh, just
barely misses. Okay. Oh, that was
a little bit of... Okay. So only one hits. MATT: Okay. So roll damage. ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: I have to move
because I don't understand how this map works yet. ASHLEY: Eight. MATT: Eight damage doubled
because these things are vulnerable to fire
being brambles. That's 16. (flames roaring) This whole section
begins to burn away. The brambles pull back, and
much of this brush vanishes, which diminishes
that vicinity, but it does leave--
SAM: Never been there before in 80 episodes. MATT: -- now a burning inferno of
burning plants in that area now that closes off
that entrance. LIAM: From behind the fire,
you hear: Um!
ASHLEY: So, I didn't fully think
that through with wood and
fire situation. So... my bad. SAM: Oh, just a mistake, huh?
MATT: Do you want to stay put? ASHLEY: I will, yeah.
I'll back up a little bit. MATT: Which way? SAM: A little bit of
diarrhea just coming out. ASHLEY: Let's go this way.
MATT: This way? (laughter) You step over here.
LIAM: That's the tell? MATT: There's now this clean
section of ruin over here with brambles and overgrowth.
There's the flames this way, and whatever else you
can see in the vicinity. TRAVIS: Matt, check your phone.
MATT: Okay. SAM: Oh! What?
MATT: Oh, thank you. Okay.
TRAVIS: Big wiener. ASHLEY: All right. (laughter) SAM: You just sent him
a big dick pic? (laughter) TRAVIS: It just says
"big wiener." (laughter) MATT: All right. Ashton. (laughter) TALIESIN: Okay, well. (laughter) TRAVIS: All in a text, too.
"Wiener." (laughter) ASHLEY: I'm not sure if you
got my last text, but. TALIESIN: Well, how are
we going to do this? LIAM: That could also
be the way he covered sending a real message.
LAURA: Yeah, I know. LIAM: It could say
"Wiener, secret plans." TRAVIS: Unless I show
the text thread. It's gone?! TALIESIN: Oh, stop it.
TRAVIS: "Big wiener." (laughter) MARISHA: It's "wiener"
and "big wiener." MATT: Ashton,
what you got, buddy? TALIESIN: I'm going
to make a move. Anybody got
a problem with it? LIAM: The clarification.
TALIESIN: Well, here we go. LIAM: Do it, doppelganger.
TALIESIN: I am going to-- ASHLEY: It's really weird
that you're asking us. TALIESIN: I'm just
making my shit known. ASHLEY: Permission. TALIESIN: I'm going to
try and get through this little crevice
right here. I'm going to use Hyper Rage. So I'm burning a Chaos Burst. MARISHA: Hyper Rage?
SAM: That's a real thing? TALIESIN: Yeah.
LIAM: (heavy metal guitar) ASHLEY: Rage.
SAM: Mega rage. TRAVIS: The doorways suck.
Just remember. TALIESIN: So.
LIAM: Man, we are punchy. SAM: It's just we're nervous! ASHLEY: Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah. It's nerves. TALIESIN: So I am going to
try and walk through. I'm going to try and do
a hop and hop to get to that. MATT: Over to whereabouts? TALIESIN: I'm trying to get
over to the white branch. MATT: Or, you're trying to
go over this thing now? All right.
TALIESIN: Yeah, not directly over, but left and right to two of
the easy parts right there. MATT: All right.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: And through here.
Make an athletics check to-- ASHLEY: It's not me. (laughter) TALIESIN: That's not advantage
while raging is it? No. MATT: Huh?
TALIESIN: Athletics check? Wait--
MATT: Oh, no. While raging, yeah. TALIESIN: Okay, yeah.
All right. MARISHA: She can't
make eye contact. ASHLEY: Because then I feel guilty.
TALIESIN: Natural 20. MATT: Natural 20, yeah.
Easy enough. LAURA: Natural 20?
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm. ASHLEY: Nice.
TALIESIN: Can I spend a bonus action to
pick up the-- These nerds. Is it a bonus action
to pick up the branch? MATT: Mm-hmm.
You grab the branch. TALIESIN: That's
my bonus action. MATT: Here you go. This is
an ivory branch fragment. Now, you look at this. Each branch has
three hit points. LIAM: Uh-oh. TRAVIS: Say again,
each branch has-- LIAM: Each branch has
three hit points. So don't let someone with
a branch get burned up. SAM: Or hit it. TALIESIN: All right. I'm going to grab it and I'm going to go right
back the direction I came. MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: I am like a--
I'm the fucking Flash. There's an image, there's a red streak of me that's actually beating
me to where I'm going and leaving a little blue trail behind.
TRAVIS: Sick. Very nice. Cool.
LAURA: That's cool. TALIESIN: I'm going to
head straight for that pool. MATT: All right.
LAURA: Okay. LIAM: The pewl (pool).
MATT: The pool. LAURA: Pewl.
TALIESIN: How far have I gone so far?
LAURA: Straight to the pewl. MATT: I'm going to say going
over there, grabbing it, and getting up
and coming around, that's probably going to
be your movement and your-- TALIESIN: I have 80
feet of movement. MATT: Yeah, going
over rough terrain, which halves it. TALIESIN: If it's
ground terrain, technically I should be
able to walk over it, I believe, with-- I'm going to put this
in, it's Earth Walk, "ignore difficult terrain
made of earth or stone." MATT: Oh yeah, it's made
of stone, so yeah. I'll say it puts you
right up against it. TALIESIN: All right,
I'm tossing it in. ASHLEY: Don't we have to put
them in at the same time? TALIESIN: I'm throwing
it in there, seeing what the fuck happens. MATT: You go to throw it and it bounces off some
sort of invisible barrier. LAURA: Oh, so we have
to have all three. TRAVIS: They got to touch. TALIESIN: Oh.
TRAVIS: They got to come together. LAURA: Got to touch the tips.
TALIESIN: Well, I'm going to then use the rest of
my movement and my-- LAURA: Wow.
LIAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: I'm going to use
the rest of my movement and my action to
grab it back again. MATT: Okay, you have
it in your hand. TALIESIN: I'm going
to try and back up to see if anything attacks
me in any of these. I'm going to try and
taunt any of the moss. MATT: Okay. SAM: Moss taunt.
MARISHA: (laughs) TALIESIN: With the
rest of my movements. Anything? MATT: You back up
into that space. TALIESIN: Yep. MATT: From inside the
nearby cluster of overgrowth, MATT: From inside the
nearby cluster of overgrowth, these little purple
buds (soft popping) (mist spray)--
SAM: Oh no! MATT: -- and release a burst.
SAM: Acid. MATT: Okay, constitution
save for me, please. TALIESIN: Okay, that is not--
MARISHA: Protect the stick! TRAVIS: Oh!
SAM: Oh yeah, protect the stick! Use your body.
TRAVIS: Put in your butt! TALIESIN: Oh, the stick
is not near that. I knew where I was walking.
ASHLEY: Stick it in your butt! TALIESIN: Constitution save? MATT: The stick is
being held by you. TALIESIN: Yes.
MATT: Part of the challenge of this is if you take damage,
so does the stick. SAM and ASHLEY: (groan)
TALIESIN: Shit, good to know. SAM: Protect the stick!
MATT: Depending on the challenge. MARISHA: Protect the
stick at all costs! TALIESIN: Did not know that. Okay, con save.
MARISHA: Unless he wanted it! LAURA: Or he did know it! TALIESIN: That's 19?
LAURA: He walked directly towards the thing that would hurt him.
MATT: 19, okay. So you take only 12 points
of acid damage. TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: The branch loses
a hit point. LIAM: Oh no!
(groaning) LAURA: What happened? What?
MATT: If he had failed, it would've lost two.
LIAM: He got acid squirted, and that means that stick lost one of its three.
LAURA: It took one-- TRAVIS: It took one because he
succeeded on the saving roll. LIAM: So they all have
little damage timelines. TRAVIS: If he failed--
TALIESIN: Good to know! TRAVIS: -- it would've
taken two? MATT: It would've taken
two if he had failed. TRAVIS: Of the three.
TALIESIN: Now I figure out who to trust, because I have
to take damage every turn or I lose my speed.
TRAVIS: You can trust me! TALIESIN: So--
TRAVIS: I'm far too casual to be a doppelganger. LIAM: What if you
just took it easy? TALIESIN: If I have
any movement left, I will--
SAM: Is what a doppelganger would say.
TALIESIN: I'll just, yeah. I'll stay near the
bowl for a second. LAURA: (laughs)
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: I'll walk
away from that shit. LAURA: Fuck!
MATT: I'll say you can get about there.
TALIESIN: Yeah, away from everything.
Yeah. Thank you. LAURA: He's a really
good poker player. MATT: All righty,
finishing Ashton's go. Imogen, you're up,
with FCG on deck. LAURA: Okay.
SAM: FCG on deck, okay. LAURA: All right.
TRAVIS: Cool. LAURA: I'm going to
hop up on this wall. MATT: Okay. LAURA: I am going to cast Detect Thoughts. SAM: Counterspell.
MARISHA: Yes! TRAVIS and LIAM: (laugh) MATT: Okay.
LIAM: (laughs) LAURA: Let me see. Hold on. MATT: When you cast
Detect Thoughts, a loud staticky buzz
fills your mind. (groaning)
TALIESIN: Nice try. SAM: Shit, that was what
I was going to do. (laughs) LAURA: Damn it! LIAM: No thoughts for you. LAURA: Well, that would've
made it easier, though. MATT: I know. Trust in this
comes the old fashioned way. LAURA: (sighs)
LIAM: Ooh. Through force. LAURA: (buzzes lips) Okay, well, I can't cast
another spell, so-- MARISHA: You can
Quicken a spell. LAURA: Oh, I have
sorcery points! TRAVIS: You would know
that if you were you. LAURA: Would I? (laughs)
MATT and MARISHA: (laugh) LAURA: All right,
I'm going to Quicken, and I can turn it
into a bonus ac-- No, but--
LIAM: Quick and good. MATT: It has to be a cantrip. LAURA: It has to
be a cantrip. That doesn't do nothing. Okay, hold on. Sorry. Forgive me. I'm going to try to ♪ make my way ♪
over this way. MATT: Okay, so you
jump over that little flat bit of stone
there down this way. flat bit of stone
there down this way. You can get about, I'll
say there with your movement, next to Fearne. LAURA: Okay. Oh! Is there any
foliage around me? MATT: Not directly
around you, but there's
clusters over here with the big old bramble wall
and overgrowth in here. LAURA: Okay,
I'll save it then. I suck. I'm going to,
for my bonus action, look at Fearne and go: Are you the doppelganger? ASHLEY: No, I'm so
not the doppelganger. LAURA: Okay.
ASHLEY: Are you? LAURA: No. (nervous whimper)
(laughter) SAM: A meaningful exchange. MATT: Are you trying to
make an insight check? Is that what you're trying to do?
LAURA: Yes! That is what I'm
trying to do. MATT: Okay. Fearne, I need
you to text me-- SAM: Whenever she eats-- MATT: -- whether or not you're
Fearne or the doppelganger. Don't look at her phone.
TRAVIS: Or text wiener. MATT: Then I'll roll for you. LAURA: She just texts
you "big wiener." MATT: Because I have
your stats right here. SAM: Who are you
texting right now? MARISHA: So wait,
if you roll, then we know she's
the doppelganger? TALIESIN: No.
MATT: No, no, I'm rolling either persuasion
or deception. LAURA: Oh.
MARISHA: You roll regardless. MATT: So this way, you don't
know what the roll is. LAURA: Got it,
got it, got it. SAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: But I'll let you know. LAURA: Okay.
LIAM: Matt's the doppelganger. TALIESIN: Don't look
at the phone. ASHLEY: Okay.
MARISHA: I wasn't looking! I was looking at where
her thumbs were moving to see if I could-- ASHLEY: See what
I was texting? MARISHA: -- figure out--
MATT: What's your insight check? MARISHA: (laughs) LAURA: My insight is--
Oh, I should roll? MATT: You should
roll insight, yeah. LAURA: What was that?
LIAM: What the hell roll was that? LAURA: Shut up. (laughs)
No, it's terrible! LIAM: She rolled a three.
LAURA: I rolled seven! MATT: Seven.
LAURA: No, eight! Well, that's even worse.
So that's good. I'm glad I didn't
use that one. MATT: You're going to
have to base your belief on what she said. Take her at face value.
ASHLEY: It's true. LAURA: Great. I'm glad.
ASHLEY: It's true. I'm being totally honest. MATT: All right, with that--
(laughter) MATT: FCG, it's your go.
MARISHA: Bro. LAURA, LIAM, and MARISHA:
(laugh) ASHLEY: (laughs deviously) SAM: Oh man. Okay. LAURA: Normally
in these games, it's fun to pretend
like you're the one that's the bad guy. For some reason it's fun. But then that's not
the purpose of this. MARISHA: Right, we're
supposed to be trusting. LAURA: Mm-hmm.
MARISHA: This is a trust exercise. MATT: That is the
purpose of this, yes. LAURA: Trying to learn
to trust each other. MARISHA: Uh-huh.
SAM: Yes. LAURA: So we need to stop--
ASHLEY: Trust me. LAURA: -- doubting each other.
ASHLEY: Trust me. Do not doubt, Imogen. SAM: Oh my god.
ASHLEY: What? LAURA: Why are you
always like that? ASHLEY: I am-- SAM: So wait.
Just to recap for me, she just cast a Scorching Ray which set a bunch
of shit on fire. MATT: Over here, and there's
now flames currently burning for the moment in the middle there.
LAURA: Yeah, right next to the fountain. SAM: But you withered some
plants to make them go away. MARISHA: I did.
SAM: And that worked. MARISHA: Yes.
SAM: I don't have any of that. TRAVIS: The plants don't
look like they're receding from the fire, right? Like (cowardly plant moan)
or anything? They're just burning. MATT: Just the ones
that are burning there. They're just (burnt
crumbling) crackling away. SAM: Shit. I'll move towards
Fearne and Imogen and maybe a little
farther if I can. MATT: Yeah, there's this
cluster of bush around there. SAM: I will-- Shit, I can't cast
Detect Thoughts. Shit. LAURA: I know, that
was my whole plan. SAM: I know, right? TALIESIN: Too easy.
SAM: Locate Object. LAURA: I know. TALIESIN: There's no cheating
your way through this. SAM: There's no animal--
Are there animals around? No, there's no animals. TALIESIN: That you know of.
SAM: What do I do? MATT: You hear
creatures all throughout the trees around you, but-- TRAVIS: Yeah.
SAM: Really? MATT: You hear birds
and different critters up in the branches
of the nearby forest. SAM: Do I see any?
TALIESIN: (jungle bird call) MATT: You can make
a perception check. SAM: I look up.
Perception check. TALIESIN: Tackle him
while he's looking up! SAM: 19.
TALIESIN: (laughs) MATT: 19. You glance up--
MARISHA: Loot his corpse! MATT: -- and you see there
are some strange little bird-like creatures up
in the branch up there and you see there's some
little squirrel-like marsupial creatures
that curl away and look back with eyes
that glow out of the shadow. You look down at the
bush in front of you and you see a
cluster of branches and you see a
cluster of branches and twigs and fluff that
has all been gathered on the inside of this bush. MARISHA: It could be in there.
LAURA: Which bush? LIAM: It could be in
there, could be a-- MATT: The one right here.
MARISHA: It could be just a bird nest.
LIAM: -- a trap. It could be a lure.
MARISHA: Or a trap. SAM: I'm going to-- Was that my action
or is this my-- MATT: It depends on what
you want to do next. SAM: Okay, I wanted to
cast Speak With Animals and ask one of the
animals a question. MARISHA: Oh, that's a good idea.
MATT: Okay, you can do that. LIAM: A kwestion. (question)
TRAVIS: Somebody poke FCG, see if he's squishy. SAM: I cast
Speak With Animals and I'll turn to one of the
squirrel-type creatures, and say: Oh,
squirrel friends! Can you tell me--
MARISHA: That's a good point. SAM: -- around this
area specifically which plants you
wouldn't jump on because they're not real? MATT: You see one of
the squirrels curls out and you can see it looks
pretty much like a squirrel except for it has
no mouth here. It has just eyes. As it looks down at you, the middle of its
head splits open. SAM: Oh!
MATT: You can see teeth on each side and it (chittering
growl) curls. But you hear as it speaks
towards you, it goes, "I'm just a squirrel. "I would probably say
maybe avoid the big walls "because they're
really scary. "Also, some of these trees
are a little dubious." SAM: Can you tell
me which ones? MATT: "Uh--" SAM: Oh. TALIESIN: Where does
a squirrel learn "dubious"? MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: "I mean, that one
seems pretty safe, "but it's one of these two, "it's been a little
hard to jump around in." SAM: Thank you. Thank you. What's your name? MATT: "My name is Kenny." (laughter)
MARISHA: Kenny? TRAVIS: Yes, yes.
SAM: Smiley day to you, Kenny. MATT: "Smiley day to you,
too, little metal man." The mouth goes--
(crunching creak) It kind of smiles,
but it looks awful. "(chittering growl)" SAM: Amazing. If I find some
nuts, I'll bring them to you. MATT: "I look forward to it." It rescinds into the shadow, its eyes glowing
in the darkness. SAM: Okay, one of them
trees over there might be-- MATT: You hear,
"He's bringing nuts." (laughter) MATT: A bunch of other
glowing eyes (popping) appear in the nearby trees.
TRAVIS: Whoa! ASHLEY: Whoa!
MATT: There's now two dozen up there that all look
hungrily in your direction. ASHLEY: What's going on?
TRAVIS: (creepily) Nuts. MARISHA: (laughs)
LIAM: (laughs) SAM: Okay. I guess--
MATT: All right. SAM: -- that's all
I can probably do. MATT: With that, Chetney. TRAVIS: Yeah. So we're going, we're going to try
and get to this corner. SAM: Yeah, those trees
over there are dubious, according to
the wildlife here. MATT: Where you going?
TRAVIS: Can I use 80 feet? I'm going to run the
edge of the map, so I'm going to come
along this way and then-- SAM: Oh, other way around.
MARISHA: Other way I think. MATT: Oh, this way?
TRAVIS: Yeah, this way. 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. Yeah. I'll stop here.
MATT: Okay. Then can I touch
the ground here Then can I touch
the ground here and use Grim Psychometry--
SAM: Touch grass! TRAVIS: -- to see if I
get a vibe on anything that has been placed here? Specifically I'd "recall
information about the sinister "or tragic history of
an object or an area." I get advantage on a
history check, intelligence. MATT: Okay. So Grim
Psychometry is a-- The best reads take time
to really suffuse yourself in the space.
TRAVIS: Mm. MATT: If you want to do it
quickly, you can go for it, but it's going
to be a high DC to try and
gather information. But you can give it a shot! LIAM: Nat 20? TRAVIS: Yeah, why not?
LIAM: Let's fucking go. TRAVIS: You only live once. I get advantage on it.
MATT: Go for it. TRAVIS: ♪ History ♪ 21? MATT: 21.
TRAVIS: 19, 20, 21. MATT: Okay. You dig
your claws in the ground and find a bit of
buried ruin there, and as you touch it, you get a quick
flash of the ruins still constructed high up. You can see stones
falling from the sky, smashing into the
sides of walls. You can see robed fey
elves looking around as they're grabbing scrolls, and wordlessly, you're
not hearing anything, you see one of
them giving orders. You see them taking
things and burying them and hiding them in
things around here. You get the sense that they were trying to
make sure things that were important
were not found. TRAVIS: Oh, it's like Krypton
or some shit. Okay. Does that count as an
action, Grim Psychometry? MATT: Yeah, to get that read. TRAVIS: Okay, then
I will go over-- Yeah, I'll just-- Yeah. If that's my action,
I'll just stay there. I'll leave that little area
of vegetation alone. MATT: Okay, that
finishes your go, Chet? TRAVIS: Yeah. MATT: At the end
of your turn-- TRAVIS: Blood Curse of
Binding, Bloated Agony, Blood Curse of Binding. Okay. TALIESIN: Oh no. MATT: Laudna. SAM: (gasps)
MARISHA: W-What? MATT: You, as you're looking
up there on the side, you watch something drop down
from the branches of the tree behind where Imogen
had stepped away. TRAVIS: The squirrel lied.
SAM: (laughs) MATT: Yeah. You see this tiny--
MARISHA: Drop down? MATT: -- maybe foot
and a half tall, hunched, lithe-looking,
humanoid fey creature. Elongated ears, a smooth
front to its face, and it drops down quietly, and it's looking off past
the direction past the stone. LAURA: It's one of those speedy guys.
MATT: It's going to (whoosh) and it runs at
an intense speed, not unlike the speed that
you saw Ashton with. (extremely rapid footfalls) It darts past everybody.
TRAVIS: Oh! Oh shit.
MARISHA: Can I call it out? MATT: Huh?
MARISHA: Can I call it out? MATT: You can in a second. But it's so fast that
it gets right to you and as you're backing
away from this, all of a sudden you
hear (rapid approach) and see it leaping for
the branch in your grasp. TALIESIN: Oh, wait, I may
have a thing. Yeah. MATT: Go ahead and make a
contested strength check. TALIESIN: Okay, hold on.
MATT: Which you have advantage on because
you are raging. TALIESIN I do. I'll also say that because I don't provoke opportunity
attacks, that doesn't help. Okay, contested
strength roll. SAM: Matt doesn't know--
MATT: Yep. SAM: -- which one of us is--
TALIESIN: Fuck. TRAVIS: No.
MATT: I don't know, unless they text me and tell me.
TALIESIN: That's not-- TRAVIS: Unless it's Ashley. SAM: Unless we text you and tell you.
TALIESIN: -- great, a 10. SAM: She was texting. TRAVIS: Yeah, but he told her to.
TALIESIN: It's not great, 10. MATT: 10.
MARISHA: Yeah. TRAVIS: And me.
MATT: (snatch) It snatches the
branch from your hand, and with the rest of its movement--
LAURA: Oh, it got it? LIAM: We got to run! MATT: -- starts darting off this way.
LAURA: Shit, it's fast. MARISHA: I still
can't say anything? LAURA: Oh no!
MATT: Let me see movement here. Oh yeah, it's got
a lot of movement. LAURA: Can we see it?
Do we see it? MATT: You all see this
(rapid travel) scoot by. TALIESIN: Motherfucker!
MATT: "(devious laugh)" Yep, and
it leaps up onto here and then darts down out of
sight for the rest of you. LAURA: Get it, Chet.
MATT: Over in that area. SAM: It's trying to
get our thing before we-- TALIESIN: Grab it!
Don't punch it. TRAVIS: It took it from us.
SAM: Oh, he took it already? ASHLEY: Yeah.
SAM: Shit. TRAVIS: We think.
MARISHA: It's my turn now, right? MATT: Mm-hmm.
MARISHA: I go: We've got a runner! And I-- Shit. TRAVIS: ♪ Get ready, ready,
ready, ready, ready to run ♪ LAURA: You shit?
MARISHA: Yeah, I shit. TALIESIN: I'm calling
that an attack, too-- TRAVIS: ♪ All I want to
do is have some fun ♪ MARISHA: I saw which
direction he went. I'm going to send
Pâté over there. MATT: Pâté can fly how far? MARISHA: 50 feet or 60 feet?
SAM: (like Pâté) Ooh! MARISHA: What is his--
40 feet fly speed. MATT: 40 will get him
up to the top of here. MARISHA: Can I see through
his eyes and see him? MATT: You can, yes. MARISHA: All right.
MATT: (Pâté) "I got him!" MARISHA: Chetney!
TRAVIS: Oh! MARISHA: Chetney, he's right
below Pâté on the wall. MATT: You see Pâté going like,
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" TRAVIS: (deeply)
Okay, it's just my turn. MARISHA: Um. Wait,
I know, damn it. I'm going to,
I still have Spider Climb up. I'm going to jump over
to this other wall. MATT: Over here? MARISHA: Yeah.
MATT: Make an athletics check. MARISHA: Make an athletics check?
MATT: Yeah. There's a little (grunts). LAURA: You can do it, Laudna. MARISHA: Ooh,
it is a natural 19. So--
MATT: Without issue. MARISHA: 16. MATT: (whooshing)
(laughter) MARISHA: I skitter over. (skittering) MATT: 25, 30 gets you there. SIRI: Here's what I found. SAM: Oh, okay.
LIAM: Did you find a branch? MATT: Here's what you found. MARISHA: Do I have him--?
TRAVIS: Michelle Branch. MARISHA: Kind of--
Can I see him? MATT: You cannot,
unfortunately. You can see him through Pâté,
but that's about it. But you've dropped your
vision from him to get-- TRAVIS: What a good
Pâté mini, Matt. LAURA: It really is. MATT: That was a fan
sent one, actually. TRAVIS: Awesome.
MATT: Yeah. MARISHA: Can I-- Shit.
TRAVIS: I don't know, can you? MARISHA: Because
I can get-- Fuck. MATT: Whoever you are,
you're awesome. I'll have to look at
the notes again. MARISHA: Can Pâté dash
to get up to him for his action or something? TRAVIS: He's right above.
MATT: I'll allow it. We're playing loose
with this right now. Okay, so you can, like-- MARISHA: He grabs onto him,
and through Pâté, I'm going to do
Shocking Grasp. MATT: Shocking Grasp,
all right. LIAM: Will it--
TALIESIN: It might hurt the branch. SAM: It's worth it. TALIESIN: It's really not. MARISHA: Is he wearing
armor made of metal? LIAM: Is that a save? LAURA: I thought
that was part of it. That's the teeniest little--
MATT: That's the branch, yeah. TALIESIN: Yeah, you're
going to hurt the branch. LIAM: So if it's a save
and it fails the save, is it going to take two--
ASHLEY: Because it only has one more hit. LAURA: That's true!
LIAM: It's going to be obliterated. LAURA: It's going to
kill the branch. TALIESIN: Yeah, it's
going to kill the branch. MARISHA: Will lightning
kill the branch? TRAVIS: Well, yeah!
LIAM: Is it a save? TRAVIS: Lightning
kills everything. LAURA: If he's holding it--
MARISHA: It's a-- TRAVIS: Paper, rock, scissors,
lightning's a bitch. MARISHA: But then what
do I do with him? TALIESIN: You've
got to grapple. LIAM: You trust your teammates.
TALIESIN: Trust everyone else to handle it.
MATT: I mean, you don't know. It's up to you.
What do you want to do? TRAVIS: Hit him with
that real sticky candy. MATT: What hurt
the branch previously was a--
SAM: Fire. TALIESIN: Poison.
LAURA: It was poison. MATT: -- a spray in an area. LAURA: This is-- I think Shocking Grasp--
LIAM: A spell effect. MARISHA: We don't know!
LAURA: -- would for sure. MATT: We don't know.
What do you want to do? LAURA: I think it would hurt it.
ASHLEY: It's also blanched and petrified already,
so maybe nothing would happen to it.
SAM: How do you know so much about these branches?
MARISHA: I also used necrotic energy around it--
ASHLEY: I don't. MARISHA: -- to melt
the plants, and that didn't hurt it. MATT: True.
TRAVIS: It was in a box, right? LAURA: No, it was on top of the box.
MARISHA: It was on top of the box. LAURA: But that's
necrotic energy. ASHLEY: What's on top
of the box? MATT: What do you want to do?
SAM and LIAM: (laugh) LAURA: Electricity. SAM: What's near the box?
LIAM: (laughs) MARISHA: But it's in a bag. Okay. Well, then-- SAM: Do you trust us? MARISHA: Of course!
SAM: Then put down the gun. MATT and MARISHA: (laugh) (laughter)
SAM: Put down the gun.
ASHLEY: Put it down! MARISHA: All right,
well, I'll tell Pâté: Hold onto him for dear
life and keep screaming until Chetney gets there. MATT: "Okay (strained grunt)" Are you trying to
get him to grapple? LAURA: (grunts like Pâté)
SAM: (laughs) MARISHA: Yes.
MATT: All right. Go ahead and roll a
strength check for Pâté. MARISHA: I guess can Pâté try and grapple the stick
out of his hand? MATT: Sure. To pull
it away from him? Sure. Let's do a contested
strength check. MARISHA: That's even going
to be way more difficult. No. I just want
him to hold on. I just want him to be--
SAM: Hold on! TRAVIS: Or just track him,
I feel. MATT: Sure.
MARISHA: Just track him. I just want him to hold on.
MATT: Sure. All right. Finishing your go. That brings us to Orym,
with Fearne on deck. SAM: I'm just going to finish--
MARISHA: Wait, wait, wait, wait! SAM: -- your turn for you. MARISHA: Wait. But I haven't
done my action, right? MATT: Well, if you're sending him over there--
TRAVIS: Have you not by this point? MATT: All right. So what
are you going to do? MARISHA: Well, I was going to
do another Wither and Bloom to clear some of--
LAURA: Yay. Do it. TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
MATT: Go ahead. MARISHA: Yes. So Pâté is
hanging out and watching him. MATT: Uh-huh.
MARISHA: I'll do another Wither and Bloom right here
to clear all this shit. MATT: Okay. These burn away. This burns away. This burns away. What's
the radius on it? MARISHA: It's not big.
It's 10-foot radius. MATT: 10-foot radius? Yeah. So it burns off
that point there. MARISHA: Okay.
MATT: That stays there, but everything
(flames crackles) opening up the area, making
it safer to pass through, but you don't see
anything in particular that catches your attention
beyond that. MARISHA: Okay. TRAVIS: That's a great thing to do.
MATT: All right. Orym.
LAURA: So Wither and Bloom, that's the best.
LIAM: Okay. I have a passive
perception of 31. So I would like to think
that I saw Ashton go, "Huh," and the little thing zip out that gate.
MATT: Oh yeah, you watched it. LIAM: Through the fire. MATT: Through the flames.
TALIESIN: Motherfucker. MATT: Let's say sure.
LIAM: But I also have a view over there of when it
popped through that door. So Orym sees those spiked
vines. Those don't look good. So I'm going to run and
zip through the flames. I'm going to jump
through the fire. MATT: Okay. LIAM: Do I see a stick in
the fire as I go through? MATT: You do not see
a stick in the fire. You do take--
LIAM: Yep. MATT: -- five points of fire damage
as you leap through the flames. LIAM: But I'm resistant
because I'm a doppelganger. MATT: (laughs)
LAURA: (laughs) LIAM: Then, I'm going to use
movement and action if I have to to bolt through that door.
MATT: This one? LIAM: And chase after
the little speedy. MATT: Okay. You dart through, and you
catch up to him right there. LIAM: I'm actually going
to move past him a bit, five or 10 feet, if I can. Let's say I'm standing
on that stone structure. MATT: Yeah. Here? LIAM: I use a bonus action
to shoot at the stick with Grasping Vine and
yank it out of its grasp. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: With Seedling. MATT: Okay. SAM: He's earning my trust. MATT: All right, yeah.
Sure enough (whoosh) you grab the branch. MARISHA: He's playing the long game.
MATT: That is yours you can hand Liam the sheet.
SAM: Grabbing the branch so he can break it later.
LIAM: Zoink. TRAVIS: Nice. LAURA: Did he get it?
TALIESIN: Yeah. LIAM: Laudna, what dead
animal did you wear at the ball in Jrusar? MARISHA: I think it was a
dead ferret or something. LIAM: Close! MARISHA: Close?
LAURA: It was like a stoat. MARISHA: Oh, no. It was a fox.
LIAM: Yeah. MARISHA: It was a dead fox. LAURA: It was a fox?
TRAVIS: A stoat. MARISHA: A stoat.
LIAM: That's it. End of my turn.
TRAVIS: Stoats are cute. MATT: All righty.
Finishing Orym's go. Fearne, you're up.
ASHLEY: All right. So what I would like to do--
TRAVIS: Confess. (laughter) ASHLEY: I would like to
cast Stone Shape on-- (silly accent)<i>
Stone Shape.</i> LAURA: (laughs)
ASHLEY: Uncut jams (gems). So that whole area of bramble. MATT: Right here?
ASHLEY: Yeah. Yes. TRAVIS: Folding
under the pressure. MARISHA: I know.
ASHLEY: I would like to just so I don't have to
touch any of the vines or the bramble or anything,
just move the stone so it falls away
and just goes away. MATT: Okay.
So this section of ruin here sinks underground.
ASHLEY: So I can see underneath it. LIAM: Whoa.
LAURA: Cool. SAM: Where I was standing? MATT: It sinks underneath you.
MARISHA: Where there's a hidden branch.
LAURA: FCG is gone. MATT: The bush stays there.
SAM: Oh, cool. LAURA: Yeah, it does.
MATT: Because you can't shape the creatures.
ASHLEY: Damn it! MATT: But you do end up revealing
all the ground beneath it, and this area now is
unobstructed beyond the grove. ASHLEY: Well, I cleared up some
space for people to walk through. SAM: Oh, so helpful, Fearne. Thanks.
MATT: As the (gentle rumbles) as it shifts and moves--
MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: -- the bush that was
right in front of you shakes. LAURA: (gasps) MATT: Part of that opens
up as a creature darts out--
SAM: (screams) MATT: -- from within.
LAURA: Oh no. Wings (whooshes) you look up and see what looks to be an
owl, just a regular owl, and it's like (whooshes).
SAM: Oh. Okay. MATT: (hoots) LIAM: Should be fine.
MATT: Up above you. SAM: I don't like birds. MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: Its jaw (creaks)
opens up and a tentacle
(splattery impact) whips out towards you.
TRAVIS, MARISHA, and LAURA: (scream) MATT: I need you to make
a dexterity saving throw. TRAVIS: No! Tentacle owl? Fuck that!
SAM: I'm lucky with those. 14. MATT: 14. It grabs
you, and you are-- ASHLEY: No!
MATT: -- you are restrained, and it's going to start
flying this way. (scrapes) SAM: No!
MATT: That far. It can only get that--
Actually, it cannot get quite that far with its movement,
but it'll get about there. As it drags you, I'm going to put a little thing
here for today. There we go. You get dragged. SAM: (screams)
MATT: (heavy impact) Right over to here, and
it's trying to pull you towards the nearest
bramble cluster. SAM: I'm going to hit it into reverse.
MARISHA: Towards the nearest-- SAM: (whirring) MATT: It's like grinding you. It's tugging and pulling. So with that, Fearne, any
more movement you want to do on your turn? ASHLEY: I will try to
start moving toward-- ASHLEY: I will try to
start moving toward-- Wait a minute. So all
the bramble and everything is still there?
Vines, all of it? MATT: Yeah. It's just
the stone went away. ASHLEY: Okay. I will just move--
LAURA: Your tongue. ASHLEY: (groans)
LAURA: (laughs) ASHLEY: I'll stay.
LAURA: Stop it. MATT: Okay. Fearne stays.
ASHLEY: I'll stay. MATT: Ashton, you're up,
with Imogen on deck. MARISHA: Do we see, with
FCG being grappled, that his what would be
hard metal exterior skids a little bit? SAM: Mm, because it's spongey
because it's not real. MARISHA: Mm-hmm. MATT: Wait. What are
you looking for? LIAM: Does FCG feel hard as metal?
SAM: My illusory body, because I'm not a
real robot, is-- LIAM: Or do they
feel fleshed on? MARISHA: Yeah, is he
soft and squishy like a doppelganger would be trying to pretend
to be a robit? MATT: Make a perception check.
MARISHA: Okay. LIAM: Come on.
Come on. Come on. MARISHA: Come on.
TRAVIS: Ham and cheese. MARISHA: Okay. 20 total. MATT: 20 total?
MARISHA: Mm-hmm. MATT: You have no idea.
MARISHA: Aw. SAM: Whoa, with a 20?
Because I'm so good. MATT: It's heavy fog around,
you're at a full distance, and it's a very minute
detail. You're not sure. LIAM: Oh, I thought
you were feeling. TRAVIS: I've only got one branch.
MATT: No, she's over here. LIAM: Ah, I thought it was a squeeze.
TRAVIS: I suck. LIAM: A Charmin squeeze.
MATT: A squeeze would be different. LIAM: Yeah.
SAM: At least it's just a bird that's got me.
MATT: Or not. Doppelgangers take the shape of whatever it is they're--
SAM: Those aren't bad! MARISHA: (laughs)
LIAM: Don't squeeze the Charmin. TALIESIN: Oh,
for fuck's sakes. I'm going to fucking
shake my head and I'm going to roadrunner
my way over to-- I assume FCG's being
held by a giant tongue? MATT: Like a giant tongue with
a talon at the end of it. TALIESIN: Okay.
I'm going to try and-- Safely, I'm going to try and not provoke any--
Is this provoked attacks, or is this just
setting off a trap? So if I can--
TRAVIS: From the flowers? TALIESIN: -- if I can move
without provoking an opportunity attack, would that--
You have no idea. MATT: Likely, it's not a
creature. It's just a trap. TALIESIN: Okay.
So they're not-- MATT: You would probably gather
if you moved quickly enough, it wouldn't get an opportunity
attack on you or anything. TALIESIN: Okay.
I wouldn't trigger it necessarily if
I was fast enough. MATT: Not that you know of. TALIESIN: Fuck a nut. Okay. How far is this fucking--
LIAM: Guys, we've got one broken
stick. We're doing great. LAURA: I know. We really
need to step up our game. TALIESIN: So I'm going to burn
another Hyper Rage. Fuck this. SAM: (gravely) Hyper Rage.
TALIESIN: There we go. LAURA: ♪ (deep drum beats) ♪
TALIESIN: I am going to, as safely as possible, make my way,
avoiding these things-- MARISHA: He says
new shit every game. TALIESIN: -- including and
then moving between, I think those plants
will attack, so I'm going to try and
go out and around it so that I don't--
MATT: From here? TALIESIN: Yeah, so I don't
hit the plant or the fire. LAURA: I'm going to get
up and walk around because everybody else has.
TALIESIN: Then I'm going to go and I'm going to take a--
ASHLEY: I know. I feel like I want
to do it, too. TALIESIN: -- a bit of a jumping
attack, and I'm going to try and slam that fucking tongue.
MATT: Like running this way and then jumping in
the air towards it? TALIESIN: Oh, no.
I'm going to hit the tongue right in the middle. I'm going to come down and
try and use the sharp end of the hammer on the tongue.
MATT: Okay. ASHLEY and MARISHA: (laugh) TALIESIN: I wouldn't
worry too long. I'm not going to
be there forever. MATT: All right.
So roll an attack. TALIESIN: Reckless Attack.
Here we go. MARISHA: You smell good, though.
TRAVIS: Shit. That's good. LAURA: Do I?
MARISHA: Yeah. TALIESIN: That's a 24 to hit.
LIAM: That can't be Laura. MATT: 24 to hit hits.
Go ahead and roll damage. LAURA: Aah! TALIESIN: That's 19
points of damage. MATT: 19 points of damage.
You bash the tongue so hard and slamming it into
the stone beneath you that it splits and
it (slobbery slithers) pulls it back into
its mouth and (screeching)
SAM: Ah! MATT: Looks like
it's flying angry, but also is injured by it. LIAM: Mister Owl.
SAM: Thanks, Ashton. MATT: You are
no longer restrained. TALIESIN: I'm going to
point at it, and then I'm going to use
what remains of my 80 feet to try and get to the
other side of that wall. MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: So run
underneath it. MATT: (skitters) Through this way?
TALIESIN: Yeah, over there, and see if anything--
MATT: All right. TALIESIN: -- looks interesting.
MATT: You run past the bramble wall. TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
MATT: As you rush past, a tether reaches out to you. Go ahead and make a
dexterity saving throw. SAM: Oh.
TALIESIN: Can I attack it as well since I still have
one more attack? MATT: You can,
but it's going to-- Well, it's going to
reach out for you first. TALIESIN: Reach out first. MATT: Make a dexterity
saving throw and then you can
try and attack it. TALIESIN: I have advantage
on that as well. Yay! A 17.
MATT: 17? Okay. You dart past it without
it grabbing you. Are you going to attack
it or keep going? TALIESIN: I'm going to
say as I'm going, I'm going to take a
swing at it as well. MATT: Go for it.
TALIESIN: As I run by, since I'm already doing that. Yeah, a 25.
MATT: That hits. TALIESIN: All right,
so let's. 18 points of damage. MATT: 18 points of damage.
MARISHA: Just Ashley. MATT: 18 points of damage.
SAM: Just Ashley so far. LAURA: Yeah, Ashley is--
ASHLEY: Me? MATT: You bash the brambles
and part of it splinters and breaks, but it's still
holding firm where it is, but it's taken a heavy
hit. But you can move past if you want.
TALIESIN: I want to move past it. MATT: All right.
You dart over and now land on
the opposite side. TALIESIN: I'm going
to look around for anything
interesting or weird with my bonus action.
MATT: All right. Make a perception check.
TALIESIN: All right. MATT: But the DC is high because
it's just a cursory glance. TALIESIN: That's fine. 13. Eh.
MATT: 13. Nothing at the moment.
TALIESIN: All right. LAURA: I don't think it's Liam.
MATT: All righty. Finishing Ashton's go, Imogen,
you're up, with FCG on deck. LAURA: I'm up.
MATT: Yep. SAM: I was going to show my shoulder--
LAURA: I am going to-- SAM: -- but it doesn't
stretch that much. LAURA: Is that thing
still in the air and going to attack us
if we go over there? MATT: It is. I mean,
it's still in the air. MARISHA: Just her collarbone. TALIESIN: It just has a hurt tongue.
ASHLEY: I know he did it! (laughs) LAURA: Ooh. I have an idea. MATT: Mm-hmm.
TALIESIN: Ooh. LAURA: I'm going to
cast Fly on myself. SAM: (Transatlantic accent)
Fly, see! MARISHA and ASHLEY: (laugh) LAURA: So yeah. I'm
going to cast Fly. Then, I'm going to-- This is dumb. I'm going to fly
towards the creature. MATT: Okay. LAURA: As I get close to it,
I'm going to Quicken a spell and cast
Shocking Grasp on it. MATT: All right. (whooshing) As you
fly towards it in this direction,
roll an attack. LAURA: Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's great. 25. MATT: 25. Go ahead
and roll damage. LAURA: Um. ♪ Do do do do do do ♪ Hm. 15 points of shocking damage. MATT: It tries to fly
away as you reach out your Ruidusborn
arcane talents and rend its body apart with
a flash of electrical energy. (sparks) It turns
to ash in midair and it cascades down
in burnt clusters of stone and dust. LAURA: Awesome. From the air, do I see
anything down on the ground? MATT: You can make
a cursory glance with a perception check,
if you'd like. LAURA: 10.
MATT: 10. Not immediately. But you have at least a
vantage point from up here. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: All right. Finishing your go, FCG, you're
up, with Chetney on deck. SAM: Oh, and with no threats
around me, I will-- Where's Fearnie? She's behind me.
MATT: Fearne is over here. LIAM: She's behind you.
MATT: Yeah. (laughter) SAM: I will cast
Enhance Ability on myself. Now that I just saw an owl, I will grant myself
Owl's Wisdom. MATT: Oh, inspiration
to you. Lovely. SAM: Yes, and then,
I will turn around and go up to Fearne and
say: Fearne, just tell me. It's just you and me here.
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: Can I trust you?
ASHLEY: You can absolutely trust me. SAM: Insight check.
MATT: Make an insight check. SAM: With advantage.
MATT: Okay. (laughs) LIAM: Scanners on.
SAM: Well, that's cocked. MARISHA: Come on.
SAM: Come on. Come on. No. (laughter) SAM: 16. LIAM: That's not bad.
MATT: 16. I mean--
LAURA: She's a really good liar. MATT: What you see
is what you get. MARISHA: Look at Matt's face.
Look at Matt's face. SAM: There's no rolls?
There's no nothing? MATT: I rolled back here for
her using either persuasion or-- ASHLEY: It's not me.
It's not. TRAVIS: Jesus.
You can't even say it! ASHLEY: I'm laughing because I'm uncomfortable.
TRAVIS: Mac and cheese. ASHLEY: It's not me.
MATT: Fearne seems like she's being pretty honest.
MATT: Look at that mouth. SAM: Okay then. I trust you.
MARISHA: Look at Matt, though. Matt knows.
SAM: I trust you, then. If you're saying--
ASHLEY: Can I trust you? Insight check.
SAM: 100 percent. On your turn.
MATT: When it comes back to your turn, you can.
TRAVIS: Oh, defensive. MATT: On your turn,
you can do that. TRAVIS: Defensive. LIAM: (like Fearne)
Oops, all doppelgangers. (laughter) MATT: All righty.
ASHLEY: All right. It's me. MATT: That finish your turn, FCG?
TRAVIS: Mew, mew. ASHLEY: Meow meow.
SAM: Do I have anything else? MATT: You can make
a cursory thing, because to make an
insight check on somebody, to read all their stuff, has to take a moment to
talk and look for them. So that's a pretty big roll. You can have a bonus action,
if you wanted to. SAM: Bonus actions?
Oh my god. Do I even have
any bonus actions? MATT: There's spells,
or you can make a glance at something nearby,
if you want to try and go for a high DC search. SAM: You know what? On one
of those pillars over there, you said that there
was some shimmery stuff. MATT: Yeah.
SAM: I'm going to look for where that shimmery stuff
was and see if I can see anything more--
MATT: Make a perception check. SAM: -- of what I saw before. ASHLEY: Guidance. SAM: Too late. MATT: You can't do that
out of turn, unfortunately. SAM: But I got a 19. MATT: 19.
ASHLEY: See? It's me. MATT: Not bad. You can
see there are a number of vines over here
that are shimmery. You can see that
this bramble wall here is a little shimmery. Those are the two things that
you can catch in the vicinity. SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: It ain't me. SAM: Okay. Imogen, maybe--
LAURA: Hm? SAM: Nothing. Fearne, I think it's one of
those two things over there. ASHLEY: I do, too.
LAURA: Why did you say my name and then you said nothing? TRAVIS: ♪ Say my name,
say my name ♪ SAM: I don't know if it's you.
LAURA: It's me. SAM: How come you spent the
last turn trying to kill an owl and not searching
for what we need? LAURA: Because
I was trying to keep it from
attacking anyone else. Really? Also, I thought
it'd be really cool to fly and attack something
at the same time. SAM: Okay. I believe that. (laughter) MATT: All right.
That finishes your turn. Chetney, you're up,
with Laudna on deck. TRAVIS: Let's see. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. LAURA: It would totally
attack us if we went and searched in that area.
I was trying to keep it from attacking anything
else in the area. TRAVIS: Orym, you got this? LAURA: I was going to search,
but it would attack me! LIAM: The little guy?
TRAVIS: Yeah. LIAM: I'm going to keep
it away from him. SAM: Okay. Okay. TRAVIS: How would
I figure out which one of these fucking trees
is the-- TALIESIN: Are you
a good tree-- TALIESIN and LAURA: -- or
a bad tree? TRAVIS: Can I see the little
creature that he snagged it from? MATT: You can see
the edge of him. He's like "(growling) What?" TRAVIS: Okay.
LAURA: Which makes me think it's not that way.
LIAM: By the way, Chet, what was Eshteross'
best recipe for dessert? MATT: It's not your turn.
Chetney. TRAVIS: He's fine.
He's got this. That was
definitely suspicious. MATT: No, you can ask him,
if you want. It's fine. MARISHA: It was
a cookie reaction. TALIESIN: Kind of half-baked as a question, really.
MARISHA: Roll for cookies. Half-baked? (laughs) TRAVIS: Can I take out a-- LAURA: (laughs) TALIESIN: Smokin'. TRAVIS: I'll come in this way,
and I'll go around the pillar. Can I get on this
side of the pillar, or do I need to come on that
side because Pâté's over there? MATT: You can go under Pâté. TRAVIS: Would I still be
within melee of that thing? MATT: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Great. LIAM: Yeah, I honestly
don't know. TRAVIS: I use my bonus action
to scrape my claws against myself and ignite.
(flames crackling) MATT: Flames? All right.
TRAVIS: Yeah. I'll take three
hybrid claw strikes against the little thing. 27?
MATT: 27 hits. TRAVIS: A 19?
MATT: 19 also hits. MARISHA: Damn. Damn!
TRAVIS: Jesus, 29. MATT: 29. You charge around
and it looks at you. "(surprised growl and hiss)" You slam it once and it
falls limp in your claw. TRAVIS: Oh!
MATT: But you're already-- In the second, the moment
of the second strike, and then slam it up,
and it hits the wall, and spatters and then--
TRAVIS: No problem. MATT: -- burns cinders
across where it was. TRAVIS: Four points
of damage for me. Okay. I still have 35 feet of movement, so I will run up--
MATT: Well, hold on. You moved 50 feet
to get there. TRAVIS: Mm-hmm. Oh,
so 30 feet of movement. because I have boots
of speed up for-- MATT: Oh, that's right!
That's right, you do! TRAVIS: -- 10 minutes.
MATT: So yeah, you still got movement.
TRAVIS: Can I go over to this tree? MATT: Sure.
TRAVIS: Can we say I used two of my
three swipes, and I can use my third one to take a swipe at the
trunk of the tree? MATT: Sure, go for it. TRAVIS: Okay. SAM: Trunk swipe!
TALIESIN: How dare you. TRAVIS: 21. MATT: 21, that hits.
Roll damage. TRAVIS: Okay. SAM: Oh, it hits? TALIESIN: It's a tree.
SAM: Well yeah, but I wanted it to pass--
TRAVIS: Seven and four. SAM: -- right through
because it's an illusion. TRAVIS: 11. 11 points
of damage, four of those being fire! MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Fire! MATT: You strike the tree, and the flames hit
and the whole tree shakes a little bit,
and some leaves fall. Yep. SAM: (sighs)
TRAVIS: It's not this one. SAM: (laughs)
LAURA: (laughs) TRAVIS: That's my turn. MATT: Okay. Finishing that go,
that brings us to-- Well, the guy's dead.
Laudna, you're up. MARISHA: All right.
LIAM: Shoot. SAM: "Laudna." MARISHA: (laughs) Yes, correct. Laudna is going to-- SAM: Wow, this is
a new stance. (laughter) MARISHA: She's going going to--
ASHLEY: Full perch. SAM and LAURA: (laugh) MARISHA: -- once again, go
(rapid arachnoid footsteps) Spider Climbing,
Spider Climbing. MATT: It'll get you
to about there. LAURA: Spider!
SAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: Spider.
SAM: Spite-a. (spider) SAM: Gibbity-gib-
gib-gib. MATT: It's move down,
up, and over. TALIESIN: Hooah!
SAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: Thank you.
MARISHA: Can I do-- TALIESIN: Thank you, drama child.
MARISHA: Wither and, another Wither and Bloom right here?
MATT: Yes, you can. MARISHA: In this chonk?
MATT: (whooshes) MARISHA: And does it
fuck with that guy? MATT: (destructive magic)
TALIESIN: Got some high school drama action right there.
MATT: That all withers away. LAURA: I love this spell! TALIESIN: It's such
a good spell. ASHLEY: It is a good spell. MARISHA: Nothing though?
TRAVIS: Herbal Essences: Wither and Bloom.
MATT: Nothing at the moment, no. TALIESIN: This is like full
contact Minecraft right now. MARISHA: Pâté! MATT: "What, what?
What do you need?" MARISHA: Go fly over to FCG
and see if he's squishy. SAM: (laughs)
LAURA: (laughs) TRAVIS: You going to send
him across the map? MARISHA: Yes!
TRAVIS: That's some sus activity! MARISHA: Yeah, I just--
Oh! Oh! Oh! You mean, for the
one who might be sus? MATT: All right.
(laughter) MATT: As you're both
looking at each other, eyeing each other, you hear, "Geronimo!"
(laughter) MATT: As FCG dive bombs
right towards you. SAM: Another bird! MATT: Go ahead and make
an attack for FCG. (laughs) Or for him against,
Pâté against FCG. MARISHA: But I don't want
him to attack, I just-- LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Do it. MATT: It's an attack roll
to check him. LAURA: Do it.
MARISHA: Okay. SAM: This is the least
trustworthy thing you've ever done to me! TALIESIN: That can't be true. MARISHA: But FCG would--
Son of a bitch. Wait, what is happening now?
SAM: Just roll the dice. MARISHA: Okay, I don't
see his attack modifier. Oh, it's not great. TRAVIS: Probably just
minus two, right? LAURA: Attack modifier is minus two?
MARISHA: No, that's strength. Oh my god. TALIESIN: No.
ASHLEY: (laughs) MARISHA: You guys. LAURA: ♪ Oh my god ♪ LAURA and ASHLEY:
♪ Oh my god, you guys ♪ (laughter)
SAM: Is that a real song? ASHLEY: Yes!
SAM: That's a real song? TRAVIS: Yeah,
"Legally Blonde," right? LAURA: Yeah.
MARISHA: 14. MATT: What's your AC? MARISHA: 14.
SAM: 18. MATT: 18, instinctually,
you pull out of the way, and Pâté scrapes
across FCG and lands. "Oi, I don't know,
I didn't feel anything!" TRAVIS: (laughs)
I don't know! MARISHA: He didn't
feel squishy? MATT: Well, he missed.
SAM: (laughs) ASHLEY: Oh no.
MARISHA: But you know Pâté. He's not just another bird, he's my familiar. SAM: (laughs) Oh jesus!
LAURA: What is happening? MATT: Does that
finish your turn? MARISHA: What?
MATT: Does that finish your turn? MARISHA: Yes!
LAURA: I wasn't sus-- MATT: Orym, you're up.
LAURA: -- of you, Laudna, until that moment. (laughter) LIAM: I have no idea. MARISHA: Laudna
is losing her mind! ASHLEY: You have no idea
what Orym would do, because you're
a doppelganger? LIAM: That's right,
doppelganger. I jump-- (laughter) LIAM: I flea jump
to the tip here, and race over
to these bushes, and search through them.
MATT: Make an investigation check for me.
SAM: Start at the tip, go to the bush? Got it. (laughter) MARISHA: Callback!
(laughter) LIAM: I don't know, it's
not really Orym's MO. (laughter) LIAM: Investigation?
MATT: Mm-hmm. LIAM: Okay. Oh, natural 20.
(cheering) ASHLEY: What a doppelganger
thing to do. MATT: You pore through
the bushes, and-- (laughter) MARISHA: To roll a crit?
(laughs) MATT: You pore through the bushes--
ASHLEY: So sorry about this. MATT: With a natural 20
for a total of? LIAM: 21.
SAM: Lost it. MATT: 21, still,
it's too good. You push through, and
you don't see anything that resembles what
you're looking for, but you do see within there a slightly glowing, a wasp hive of-- LIAM: Cool. MATT: -- very familiar wasps. LAURA: Oh!
LIAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: However, because of
your super high roll, you catch it in time
without disturbing it, and slowly back away.
ASHLEY: Nice. LIAM: (parts leaves)
TRAVIS: Damn it. LIAM: (closes leaves)
MATT: Yep. (laughs) SAM: It's the bush
or the tree? TRAVIS: The bush.
MARISHA: The bush all the way over there. Hmm.
What the fuck? LIAM: Will it
damage this branch if I slide it into
my leather armor? MATT: No.
LIAM: Then I free my hands up, and stick it in.
MATT: You got it. Okay. TALIESIN: It'll
still take damage when you take damage.
MATT: You still have a little bit of movement, I think. If you want to move.
LIAM: I understand, but no one's going to gank
it out of my hand. SAM: Do you want
to move any more? MATT: Do you want to move any more?
LIAM: I think that's it. I mean, was that 30
feet of movement? MATT: 30 feet-- (counting)
LIAM: My action was to-- MATT: Actually, yeah, that was that about it.
LIAM: -- investigate the bush. MATT: Okay. All right.
Fearne, you're up. LAURA: Wither and Bloom
is necrotic? MATT: With Ashton on deck.
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm. ASHLEY: All right.
MARISHA: Mm-hmm. TRAVIS: Don't you
have Locate? ASHLEY: Thank god
I have this prepared. SAM: I do.
ASHLEY: So, the plants and all the stuff--
SAM: I can use it. ASHLEY: -- in front of me that
didn't really do anything with the Stone Shape.
TRAVIS: What a shady motherfucker. MARISHA: A hundred percent.
ASHLEY: Wait, so you-- MATT: But you watched FCG walk through it
and was unharmed, but no one searched them, no
one's done anything to them. They're just there
on the ground. ASHLEY: Okay--
LIAM: So we got one doppelganger here.
ASHLEY: Those over there, I'm going to
Speak with Plants. MATT: Okay. SAM: What a useful
thing to do. MATT: So, you cast
Speak with Plants. ASHLEY: Hey. MATT: "What? "What?"
MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: "Hi!" "Hi!" ASHLEY: Do you have a branch underneath you that
you're covering? MATT: "Not here."
"Not here. You?" "You?" "No." "No, how about you?" "No, not me." "No." "No." ASHLEY: Are you
telling the truth? MATT: "I don't know
how to talk otherwise." "Right, right, me neither."
ASHLEY: Oh. MATT: "Have you lied?" "What's a lie?"
TRAVIS: What is truth? MATT: "I don't know."
LIAM: Lies! MATT: "Yes." "Yes." ASHLEY: All right, can you ask some
friends around, and see if there's any, you know, branch hiding
anywhere within a-- Let me see how far
I can do this. SAM: I think it's just a touch.
ASHLEY: Oh, I can do this for 10 minutes.
SAM: Oh. MATT: Yeah, you can
keep talking to other plants if you want to.
ASHLEY: So I'll walk around, and keep talking to some plants.
MATT: Okay, they're both like, "Well, we only have
a few friends." "We don't get
around very much." "You know,
kind of stationary--" (both plants)
"-- being plants." ASHLEY: Oh.
MATT: "We'll go talk "to the friends over there. "Oh god, they're burning!" (laughter)
MATT: They look over at the plants crackling over here!
(laughter) ASHLEY: Don't look over there,
don't look over there! MATT: (plants screaming,
horrified) ASHLEY: It's okay. Look at me,
look at me, look at me. (laughter) TRAVIS: Their mortality is
suddenly within grasp. (laughter)
LAURA: (plants screaming) ASHLEY: All right. I'm going
to pass through you, if you don't mind.
MATT: (plants whimpering) "It's okay, it's okay." "I just wasn't ready! "I just wasn't ready!" "It's okay.
(gentle shushing)" (laughter)
ASHLEY: It's all right, it's all right.
MATT: As you all wade through, there's the bramble wall
this way-- ASHLEY: Yes, let me talk to
the bramble wall there, may I? MATT: Okay, yeah,
you can walk in there. LAURA: Yeah, that wall.
LIAM: There other side-- ASHLEY: Hey. MATT: "What?" ASHLEY: Whoa.
MARISHA: Oh my god. ASHLEY: That is
some 'tude. Do you have a little branch? A white branch
underneath you? A blanched--?
MATT: "No, "but you look mighty tasty. "Come closer, come on."
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: "Let's give you a hug."
MARISHA: Ugh. ASHLEY: I'll give you a hug,
if you got something in there? Can you move your legs? TRAVIS: Which one is she talking to?
ASHLEY: Your bottom bits? MATT: This one here.
TRAVIS: Okay. MATT: (laughs)
"(uncertain noises)" ASHLEY: Let me just see,
can I peek? MARISHA: Who can be creepiest.
MATT: Do you come forward to peek in? ASHLEY: Sure. MATT: All right, you step up. As you come closer,
it goes, "Perfect, perfect." The vines (whooshing). The ones that you saw
try and reach out, and lash at Ashton
also lash out to you, make a dexterity
saving throw for me. SAM: Fearne, no!
ASHLEY: It's fine. LAURA: (Cockney) She's going
sacrifice herself! (laughter) TRAVIS: Oh my! (laughter) ASHLEY: 11. TRAVIS: No, you cahn't!
MATT: 11. (whooshes)
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: You get restrained again
as the vines wrap around you. ASHLEY: Ugh, rude! MATT: You take-- Okay. That's 22 points
of piercing damage. As it wraps around you,
is like, "Come on, just a hug. "It's good,
we're friends now." ASHLEY: I feel around
with my hoof, looking, trying to feel if
there's a branch underneath. MATT: So,
a cursory branch, so, all right, make
an investigation check-- ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: -- while restrained. I'll say you have
disadvantage on this. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: It's a high DC. LIAM: -- sensitive to touch.
ASHLEY: It's cocked. MARISHA: Mm-hmm. LIAM: Hooves are very
sensitive to touch. MARISHA: Mm.
LIAM: (clicking) ASHLEY: Okay. Hmm. All right. 13. MATT: 13, no idea. ASHLEY: Ugh! All right, that's my turn. MATT: All right. Ashton, you're up,
with Imogen on deck. ASHLEY: It's fine,
just keep looking! TALIESIN: (sighs) It's not my bag! I'm going to turn, and I'm
going to go back up to that, because that's the one
that attacked me, right? MATT: Yeah.
TALIESIN: The one? I'm going to backtrack
just a little bit-- ASHLEY: What?
TALIESIN: -- the way I came. MATT: Yep.
TALIESIN: Just enough to hit it. SAM: I can't look
at her anymore. ASHLEY: Wait, no, what did I do?
LIAM: (shushes) TALIESIN: I'm going to-- MATT: Ah jeez. TALIESIN: I'm going to look at Fearne.
ASHLEY: What? (laughs)
(laughter) TALIESIN: I know this
is weird, are we cool? Are we cool?
ASHLEY: Yes! Now?! TALIESIN: Are we cool? ASHLEY: <i>Now</i> we're
having this conversation? Are you for real? LIAM: Guys, look, the
doppelgangers are fighting. TALIESIN: Okay, it might be you,
and I'm going to take a-- MATT: Take a hit,
roll damage. MARISHA: Oh, whoa!
SAM: A hit on her? TALIESIN: No, I'm taking a
hit on the plant. TRAVIS and SAM: Oh!
(laughter) TALIESIN: If you had said yes,
I was going to leave you. ASHLEY: I'll try to just-- TALIESIN: Yeah, if you
had said, yeah-- ASHLEY: -- get skinny.
TALIESIN: I was just going to drop you then. That's 21 to hit. MATT: That definitely hits,
roll damage. SAM: Hmm.
TALIESIN: Ugh. That's 15 points of damage.
(laughter) MATT: 15 points of damage.
LAURA: What if it's you? You're the one that's trying--
MATT: Slams a second-- LAURA: -- so hard to convince us it's Ashton.
MATT: -- massive overhead hammer blow into the middle
of this bramble, you hear a snapping sound as the central stalk
that holds the rest of this wall
around breaks, the vines go limp,
and the voice, the last thing
you hear is it go, "Oh, your friend's
an asshole!" TRAVIS: (laughs)
SAM: Oh. MATT: As the bramble
wall vanishes, and you are
no longer restrained. ASHLEY: Thank you, Ashton.
LAURA: (laughs) TALIESIN: We'll talk later.
ASHLEY: Yeah. TALIESIN: I'm going to hop back--
MATT: Drop that. TALIESIN: -- and start
heading down this way to see if I see anything
with the rest of my movement, which is just 40 feet. I'm
not going nuts or anything. LAURA: But it doesn't look
like anything is there. MATT: Which will get
you about there. So, you move around
the bit there, there's another bramble
wall, there's a bush, you can see some
other clusters of vines, and the tree there,
a tree there cresting over the ruins. TALIESIN: Just because
I'm curious, and I have the thing
to spend, I'm going to take
a random knock since none of this really
matters, at the arch, before I get up to it.
I'm going to see how-- MATT: Second hit, go for it.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm going to take a
second hit at the-- just to see if it's stable
or if it falls over or anything. That's not-- those are
d6s. Those don't help. That's damage.
SAM: Something's-- TALIESIN: 27. MATT: 27. Wham! Roll damage. TALIESIN: Oh, where's
this when I need it? 22 points of damage. MATT: Crack!
MARISHA: Did you hit the branch-- MATT: The center,
it breaks inward. TRAVIS: Ooh!
MATT: The whole ruin topples. You back out of the way-- TALIESIN: I back up a bit,
I back up a bit-- MATT: -- as it falls down
into a pile of stone ruins around it.
(laughter) TALIESIN: I look around
to see if there's anything interesting
that that triggered. MATT: Nothing immediately,
but definitely cleared some of the space. TRAVIS: Damn it! MATT: All right.
TRAVIS: How the hell are-- TALIESIN: All right,
that's my turn. TRAVIS: Where are these fucking things?
MATT: All right. TALIESIN: Goddamn it. LAURA: Just got to clear
the whole map. LIAM: The doppelgangers--
MATT: Imogen, you're up. LIAM: -- going to find the
sticks and just break them? LAURA: Okay.
MATT: FCG, you're on deck. LAURA: I am going to--
SAM: I am. LAURA: Ooh!
MARISHA: Are you telling us your plan out loud?
LAURA: I have an idea! Wait, can I use two? Can I use sorcery points to
do two different effects-- MATT: Yeah. Yeah.
LAURA: -- in one turn? Okay. MATT: As many-- as long as
you have the points for it. LAURA: Great. I am going to--
MATT: You can even overlap them on one spell
if you have enough-- LAURA: Okay, I'm going to-- What level is this? Okay, I'm going to use
a sorcery point to turn Inflict Wounds
into double its distance. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Because it's a touch, so I can make it 30 feet away.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Mm.
LAURA: I'm going to Inflict Wounds on this
little shrubbery area-- MATT: Right here?
LAURA: Right there. LIAM: A shrubbery!
LAURA: This little shrubbery area--
ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: All right. LAURA: -- with a Twinned
Spell as well. MATT: Okay, roll an attack-- LIAM: Come on.
MATT: -- for each. LIAM: Come on. LAURA: ♪ (hums "Duel of the Fates") ♪ MATT: You technically would have
advantage since they don't move. LAURA: (gasps) Natural 20! ASHLEY: Yeah!
LIAM: (air horn sound) MATT: Awesome.
LAURA: I have advantage on it? MATT: You have advantage on each
because they're stationary. LAURA: Okay, great, then I'll
reroll for this next one. We'll see. Okay, the other
one was a 26, so-- MATT: Yeah, both hit,
so, roll damage. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: Which one is the double? LAURA: Oh, the one
in front of Fearne. MATT: Okay, got you. LAURA: So that's 3d10-- MATT: Okay.
LAURA: -- on each. Hold on, I know what
a 10 looks like. One, two, three (mumbled counting).
MARISHA: I still feel like Taliesin LIAM: ♪ Don't hurt
the stick ♪ MARISHA: -- stepped on the
flowers on purpose. LAURA: 18 points of damage. MATT: 18 points
of damage doubled, or that was the double?
MARISHA: At the beginning of all this. LAURA: No, that's
18 points doubled. MATT: Doubled.
LAURA: Yeah. MATT: Ah, (withering sound).
This one withers away, as the plants curl back
and turn to ash, it leaves-- (cheering) LIAM: I told you,
I told you, I told you! LAURA: You knew it,
you knew it! ASHLEY: I see it, I see it! SAM: It's right
in front of Fearne. TRAVIS: (like Jamie Tartt)
Poop-eh. MARISHA: (like Jamie Tartt)
Poop-eh. LAURA: What about-- The
other one would take-- LIAM: (like Jamie Tartt) That's poop-eh.
MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: That is the branch. LAURA: Would take 11
points of necrotic damage. MATT: Okay. There we go. This one also burns
and withers away. Just (slurps) to the ground.
LAURA: I am going to, for my movement,
can I fly down, and grab it, and fly back up? MATT: Sure. Imogen flies down,
grabs the branch-- LIAM: She's going to
spike it into the fire. MATT: Flies back up. You now have an ivory branch.
SAM: I don't trust her. LAURA: Thank you.
MARISHA: (laughs) SAM: I don't trust her. ASHLEY: One more!
LAURA: Me?! SAM: She's got it--
LAURA: I'm so trustworthy, I'm trying to keep it
away from that one! ASHLEY: What did I--
I didn't do anything! TRAVIS: Oh, Ashley, stop it!
(laughter) TRAVIS: "Little Rascals"
over here. (laughter) ASHLEY: Come on! (laughter) TALIESIN: Okay, it's clearly
FCG. That's fine, anyway. ASHLEY: I just feel like
everyone's looking at me, and it's making me nervous.
(laughter) MATT: All right, so you
still have about, how, your fly speed is 30? LAURA: My fly speed is 30.
MATT: Or 60? Your Fly spell, 30, yeah, so, that's about down and up,
yeah, you're good. Okay. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: That finishes your go? LAURA: Yes, but instead of
flying down and back up, I want to fly down
and back that way. MATT: Down and back this way.
Okay, so you're-- LIAM: She's flying
towards the fire! MATT: All righty, with that, finishing Imogen's go,
FCG, you're up, with Chetney on deck. SAM: Ooh, fuck. So, we got two, and we know
one's over there, probably-- TALIESIN: Well, we don't know.
SAM: In that fucking tree. ASHLEY: In one of the trees,
though, or something? Over in that area? MARISHA: This other one
was also underneath some
foliage stuff. LIAM: Yes.
LAURA: Yeah. MARISHA: Okay.
LIAM: Yeah, under the-- LAURA: It was under
a bramble wall, yours was. SAM: Okay.
LAURA: It was a wall with some bushy stuff
underneath it, so. MARISHA: Okay. SAM: Oh my gosh.
LIAM: Could be anywhere, this map is so big. SAM: All right,
I'm going to head towards-- TALIESIN: Ah. SAM: Fearne and Imogen. I don't think there's
another one over there. LAURA: Oh, let me--
MATT: You can get over, there's a little gap there
to go through the ruin, or over the ruin,
but otherwise this just comes to an end,
or you can move through here. TRAVIS: Attack the other one--
MATT: Right, you have about 10 more feet
of movement from there. LIAM: The squirrels
in the trees? It would look--
SAM: Imogen! LAURA: Yeah? SAM: If you trust me, drop the twig,
and I'll get it. MARISHA: Ooh?! LAURA: I don't trust you. LIAM: (gasps) SAM: But that's what this
exercise is about, trust. I trust you. TALIESIN: To keep
the stick, right? You trust her
to keep the stick! SAM: I don't think-- LAURA: If you trust me, then
don't make me drop it to you, and it could get hurt. SAM: I don't think
you're the real Imogen. LAURA: I am the real Imogen.
SAM: Are you? LAURA: I am!
SAM: Insight check! MATT: Make an insight check. Go ahead and text me--
MARISHA: Do you still have the Owl's Wisdom?
MATT: If you don't mind. If you are you
or a doppelganger-- TRAVIS: Laura,
stop smiling so much! TALIESIN: Don't look at her text,
don't look at the text. LAURA: Hold on, hold on,
I got to find Matt. SAM: Insight-- TRAVIS: I know where the
letters are on the keypad now-- SAM: 23.
LAURA: Oh shit, wait-- Oh, I almost just texted
some random Matt. MATT: He'd be like, "Um."
(laughter) MARISHA: She's texting
a random Matt, "Deception!" (laughter) TALIESIN: What? (laughter) MARISHA: Oh, it's hard to-- You can't see her far thumb.
MATT: All right. SAM: Her far thumb. (laughs)
MARISHA: (laughs) TRAVIS: You tapped it six times.
TALIESIN: Less. SAM: 23.
MATT: 23. You believe her. Meaning, you don't just think
she's deceiving you. TRAVIS: Laura Bailey.
MATT: You clearly think that she is being honest.
TRAVIS: (laughs) Oh, Laura. LIAM: Did some ex-high school boyfriend--
ASHLEY: I feel like she's telling the truth. I feel like she's telling the truth.
LIAM: -- just get a text that said, "They're on to me." a little while ago?
(laughter) (laughter) TALIESIN: Do you need asylum?
(laughter) SAM: I believe her.
I trust her. Goddamn it, I trust her. All right, is that my action?
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: I'll say that's your
action to get a good bead in conversation on
somebody to read them. It takes a moment to do so,
but you can say what you want. You can do anything quick.
LAURA: ♪ Say ♪ ♪ what you want to say ♪
MATT: And move 10 more feet, if you want. SAM: Then I will bonus
action Misty Step that way as far as I can.
MATT: This way? All right. LAURA: We both can bonus
action Misty Step? SAM: Well, I've got the
Staff of Dark Odyssey.
MATT: 30. LAURA: Oh, right,
right, right. MATT: All right, you appear
on the opposite side of a bramble wall.
SAM: I trust her, goddamn it!
MATT: Ashton, as you destroy this ruin,
the dust settling, you watch as FCG appears
in front of you. You gather yourself.
SAM: So it means you are a doppelganger.
MATT: A nearby bramble wall, all of a sudden--
MARISHA: What, what? MATT: -- lashes out at you. MARISHA: Could be.
MATT: As the 30 feet puts you on the opposite side
of this ruin-- MARISHA: Taliesin's been pretty quiet.
MATT: Right next to FCG. LIAM: So it's trapped. SAM: What happened?
MATT: You teleported on the opposite side 30 feet this way.
SAM: Yeah, yeah. MATT: Right next to
a bramble wall. The vines lash out at you.
SAM: Oh, goddamn it! MATT: Make a dexterity saving
throw for me, please. TALIESIN: I know it was you.
I knew you would find-- LAURA: Me? Yeah!
SAM: Dex? It's just straight 13. LIAM: I know it's Imogen.
MATT: Straight 13. That's a fail. LIAM: Look in my eye.
ASHLEY: (laughs) MATT: The vines wrap around you.
TALIESIN: You don't understand. MATT: Restraining you and you take--
TALIESIN: I coulda been somebody. Coulda been a contender. MATT: 16 points of
piercing damage and you are currently restrained--
LIAM: Instead of a barbarian. MATT: -- and held against this
bramble wall. It's pulling in. You see FCG appears and then
(grunts) getting pulled in while these long thorns
and spine-like brambles pushing into him,
it's (grunts) pulling. TRAVIS: DM--
TALIESIN: In a normal way? LAURA: Where are you?
TALIESIN: Or in a metal-- SAM: I'm further than you towards the tree.
MARISHA: He's behind this wall. MATT: I don't know.
TRAVIS: DM? TRAVIS: When we see
him getting squeezed-- LAURA: (groans)
TRAVIS: -- does he bleed? LAURA: (gasps)
TRAVIS: By the thorny grip. MATT: You don't have a
good view from that point. The mist obscures a lot of this.
TRAVIS: I got a dead line on that view. MATT: If you want to--
MARISHA: You do. MATT: -- try and take a
look, you can next turn. TRAVIS: Okay, okay, okay. LAURA: Plus you would
sniff blood, too. MARISHA: (gasps)
Oh yeah, you could do-- SAM: Ooh hoo hoo,
hoo hoo hoo. MATT: So--
LIAM: Do I see a space-- MATT: That finishes your go.
SAM: Yes, it does. MATT: Chetney, you're up,
with Laudna on deck. TRAVIS: Uh-- SAM: (grunts) I can
taste my own blood! (laughter) TRAVIS: I will--
SAM: It smells so bloody. TRAVIS: I'm going to
climb up this tree. SAM: I can't taste if it's blood.
MATT: Okay, athletics check for me. TRAVIS: I'm going to try
and get to the very top.
SAM: It's a dead giveaway. TRAVIS: Bunch of those badass.
SAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: I'm glad you're
reliving your youth. TRAVIS: 22. MATT: 22.
MARISHA: (laughs) MATT: You climb up this tree towards the very top.
SAM: I should go to sleep. MATT: Interesting
point of order. You climb up and reach
for one branch and (whooshes) your hand goes through it.
LIAM: It's not there. ASHLEY: Oh.
LAURA: (gasps) MATT: You have to
catch another branch and you realize that parts
of this tree are illusory. MARISHA: (gasps) It's up there!
LAURA: Interesting. TRAVIS: Yeah, I'm looking-- LAURA: Oh, I bet it is up in
the tree. It's in the tree! SAM: Wait, why did they
go up that tree? TRAVIS: One of those two trees
sucks according to the squirrel. SAM: Of course, of course,
but you already hit the bottom of the tree, you thought it was real.
LIAM: Fearne, did someone see you-- LAURA: I was up in that tree. LIAM: But there were illusory
parts of that tree, too. TRAVIS: Yeah, can I-- LIAM: I thought that was
described earlier. LAURA: Not in that tree.
TRAVIS: I want to attack the other tree. MARISHA: It's him!
SAM: Uh-huh. MARISHA: We're looking
where traps are, not where
the sticks are, right? TRAVIS: Yeah, do I see a box or--
LAURA: The doppelgangers know where the traps are?
TRAVIS: Anything up here like that? MARISHA: They know where some of the traps are.
MATT: Make an investigation check, if you'd like. LIAM: Only Ashton--
MARISHA: He said that at the top. SAM: You've been listening? That's not like you. MARISHA: He said it at the top.
TRAVIS: 17. MARISHA: That's, wait, what?
MATT: 17. As you're reaching through--
MARISHA: What? MATT: -- you're touching the
edges of where the branches find the top of the actual
trunk as it splinters off into the top parts of it,
and you reach along the wood and your hand (whooshes)
vanishes on the inside and you feel around and
there's a hard surface. LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: And you feel a branch. ASHLEY: Oh! TRAVIS: I pull it out. MATT: You have a third ivory branch.
(cheering) TRAVIS: Awesome!
LAURA: We have three of them! MARISHA: So we got to all
get back to the pool. LAURA: Everybody's got to get
to the fountain and put it in. We got to touch the tips
and put them in the fountain. MARISHA: Uh-huh. TRAVIS: (deeply) Not today!
SAM: How many sticks? TRAVIS: No.
(laughter) MATT: All righty.
TRAVIS: Yeah, let's do it! LAURA: All right.
TRAVIS: That was four. How much would you say
to get up of my 80? MATT: Out of your 80, I'd say
climbing it is half movement so it'd be about, it's
about a good 30-foot climb. LAURA: Where are you?
MATT: So I'd put you-- 25-foot climb, I'd say.
LIAM: Across from this. MATT: So that'll be
50 feet to get up there so you still have 30 left. TRAVIS: Can I be
real reckress (reckless) and try and jump
from this to that platform? MATT: Certainly, yeah. Make
an athletics check for me. TRAVIS: Okay, reckress.
(laughs) ASHLEY and LAURA: Reckress! TALIESIN: Reckress!
TRAVIS: Oh, 27. SAM: Whoa!
TRAVIS: Natural 19. MATT: There you go, so
you reach the edge there, and I'd say you have--
SAM: Oh, oh, oh, he's leaning. MATT: You have five more feet.
SAM: He's leaning. TRAVIS: I'll--
LIAM: Falling asleep. TRAVIS: On the little-- (laughs)
MATT: Make an acrobatics check to try and land on your feet. TRAVIS: I don't have
advantage on that. SAM: Guidance.
TRAVIS: 18. MATT: 18, yeah, so you
impact the ground, the branch in your off hand,
the waters shimmering. TALIESIN: We got one. TRAVIS: Can I put the branch
in the bag of holding? MATT: Sure.
TRAVIS: Okay. MATT: All right.
TRAVIS: Okay. MARISHA: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
MATT: Finishing-- TRAVIS: Just in case one of them
little road runners comes around. TALIESIN: Also, we have two
people who are going to turn. LIAM: Or just in case
he's trying-- MATT: Finishing Chetney's go--
ASHLEY: Sus! MATT: Laudna, you're up.
MARISHA: Hm, hmm-- TRAVIS: What do you do now?
ASHLEY: Sus behavior, Chet!
TRAVIS: You fucking faker! (laughs) LAURA: He's a faker.
ASHLEY: He's a faker! MARISHA: You put it--
TRAVIS: I have a bag of holding. MARISHA: Perfect for hiding
it from the rest of us. TRAVIS: Before I put the twig
in, I take the shard out and I'm like. (screams)
(laughter) (laughter) TRAVIS: See?
LAURA: Okay, okay, okay. LIAM: The stick starts to smolder.
TRAVIS: But my hand doesn't-- MARISHA: Pâté!
LAURA: (shouts) SAM: Oh, that scared me.
MATT: "Hey, what's going on?" MARISHA: FCG is restrained!
Now's your chance! Get a closer look! MATT: "Well, I don't know
where he went!" MARISHA: He's over--
SAM and TRAVIS: (laugh) MARISHA: I--
MATT: You actually have no idea where he
went because he just-- SAM: (screams)
MATT: -- he went this way and teleported and has not
gone into your sight. MARISHA: Oh.
MATT: So you can assume. You've heard some motion, but--
SAM: (bleats) MATT: You're not entirely
certain where he is. MARISHA: I can hear his
weird duck cries. MATT: That's true, that's true.
MARISHA: They're from this-- MATT: So you gather
attention. All right. MARISHA: This direction,
Pâté. MATT: "Oh, okay.
I'll make that way." MARISHA: (laughs)
MATT: He starts flying. SAM: (as Pâté) ♪ I'm makin' that way ♪
MATT: It's 40 feet, you said? ASHLEY: ♪ Makin' that way ♪
MARISHA: 40 feet. MATT: Five, 10, 15--
TRAVIS: I'll be back before the street lights turn on.
MATT: -- 20, 25, 30-- SAM: ♪ Makin' my way downtown ♪
MATT: 35, 40. I'll say he gets
to about there. MARISHA: Can he see FCG?
MATT: He can. MARISHA: What do you see? MATT: "Oh, it looks like
he's made friends "with one of those
spiny plant things." MARISHA: Oh, he was,
oh, so congenial. I look through his eyes.
MATT: Mm-hmm. MARISHA: Do I see FCG bleed? MATT: Make a
perception check. SAM: I look right back at
Pâté with my eyes burning red. LAURA: (laughs) Oh shit!
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I'm so proud of you. TRAVIS: Wild, now give it away.
SAM: We have a whisper sponsor. LAURA: That's amazing! LIAM: Yeah, is that
the first time it's ever been punched?
ASHLEY: Are you trying to cover up? TALIESIN: We have a whisper sponsor.
LAURA: Did you eat all the rest of the candies?
SAM: I think we had one more. (laughter)
ASHLEY: Oh no. (laughter) LIAM: It's really Travis.
LAURA: (laughs) Yeah. MATT: All righty. MARISHA: All right. Hmm-- Hm! LIAM: She's changing shape.
MATT: (laughs) LAURA: He's texting. He's texting Matt.
ASHLEY: Are you texting Matt? I can see. LAURA: He's texting Matt. TALIESIN: Wrong Matt,
wrong Matt! LAURA: (laughs)
SAM: What's it called? TALIESIN: What is happening? LAURA: A guy I dated
20 years ago. (laughter) TRAVIS: Oh, let's try
and feed him metal. LIAM: Oh, my joke was right.
LAURA: (laughs) MARISHA: Okay, well,
I see Orym, right? MATT: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: Uh-oh. MATT: Yeah. MARISHA: I am--
LIAM: She's going to kill me. She's going to kill me!
LAURA: Is she going to-- MARISHA: No! I'm going
to stay where I am. LAURA: No!
MATT: Mm-hmm. MARISHA: Because I have a
pretty good line of sight on Imogen, Chetney, and Orym.
MATT: Correct. SAM: And me through-- MARISHA: And you.
I can see everybody. Where's Ashton? SAM: Where's Ashton?
MATT: You cannot see Ashton. LIAM: If she can see
through Pâté-- MARISHA: Except for Ashton.
But Pâté can see Ashton. LIAM: If she can see Pâté,
that means that Laudna-- ASHLEY: Laudna.
LIAM: I said Laudna. Can't see because
you got that blind. MATT: Correct, so it's
like you're switching between the two of them.
MARISHA: I'm going back and forth. ASHLEY: Like a doppelganger.
LIAM: Oh, it's like left eye, right eye, left eye,
right eye? LAURA: Yeah. Camera A, camera B,
camera A, camera B. ASHLEY: Laudna.
SAM: What's that from? LAURA: That's from--
SAM: "Wayne's World"? LAURA: "So I Married
an Axe Murderer." SAM: Oh, yes. That's
such a good movie! MARISHA: All right,
I'm going to stay. I'm going to stay put
and stay on guard. MATT: Okay. Orym, you're up.
MARISHA: Watching everybody. LIAM: I am going to
double time it. I'm going to run on
a straight diagonal and leap through that
broken window to-- MATT: Yeah.
LIAM: -- end by Chet. MATT: All right, make an
athletics check to leap through. LIAM: That is-- It's a 12 with boots of-- MATT: Yeah, with the boots.
LIAM: My free jumps. MATT: If you rolled
really low it would have been a little rough.
LIAM: Okay. So I'll spring past those
vines, land right next to him. MATT: You have to make
a dexterity check as you move past
the vines directly. You have advantage on this
because you're moving so quickly and it doesn't expect you but it does attempt.
LAURA: You have the hurt branch, right? TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: Yes. SAM: About to be more
hurt when he breaks it. LIAM: That's an 18. MATT: 18, you move past
without issue. LIAM: Okay, I land next to Chet
and look at you and say: No, seriously, if you're my
dad, you really should tell me. (laughter) TRAVIS: (deeply) Not now, son.
(laughter) LIAM: I'll leave the stick
in my chonies. MATT: Okay, finishes Orym's
go. Fearne, you're up. ASHLEY: All right.
Well, we have them all? Did everybody say
we have them all? LAURA: Uh-huh, yep.
SAM: We do. LAURA: We have them all. ASHLEY: All right, I'm going to
turn around and I'm going to go-- SAM: Wait, who? You
have one, you have one. Who has the third?
You have one. Okay, yeah. ASHLEY: I'm going to turn
around and I'm going to go hang out by the pool. MATT: Okay. Over here?
SAM: (laughs) LAURA: You! It's you! (laughs)
TRAVIS: You fucking have. LAURA: It's not me! (laughs) TRAVIS: I'm trying not
to rat you out, but-- ASHLEY: I'll sit on the side of the pool.
LAURA: It's not me. It's you! ASHLEY: Waiting for everybody to come over.
MATT: Right here, just chilling. ASHLEY: Yeah.
MATT: Okay. LAURA: He put it in
the bag of holding. MATT: Are you holding
an action? or are you just standing there?
LAURA: But then how would he have a bag of holding? He didn't-- MARISHA: That's fair.
Wait, do doppelgangers get your stuff?
MATT: It looks like he put something in a bag of holding. SAM: Wait, this is
the Matrix world, so-- LIAM: He really inserted
it into his anus. TRAVIS: (grunts)
LAURA: (laughs) His doppelganger anus.
TRAVIS: Those three prongs are a bitch. LIAM: Which is trying to--
MARISHA: (laughs) ASHLEY: I am going to
hold an action. MATT: What are you holding? ASHLEY: I'm going to cast
Hold Person. SAM: (laughs)
ASHLEY: I'm holding, I'm holding--
MATT: For what trigger? ASHLEY: Uh--
LAURA: (gasps) TRAVIS: Who? LAURA: Does she have to say?
ASHLEY: Chet. TRAVIS: You're holding me? ASHLEY: I'm not going to
do it. I'm just, I'm-- TRAVIS: You're going
to hold it. Okay. ASHLEY: If Chet
does something. MATT: That you
don't approve of, like going to release--
ASHLEY: Yes. LIAM: Like putting the stick
in the hole. MATT: You got it.
LAURA: In the hole. You're going to try
to attack him? MATT: Okay, all right, that--
MARISHA: You don't approve of. ASHLEY: That I don't
approve of. MATT: All right,
that finishes your go. MARISHA: It could go
either way. MATT: All right, so
Fearne's holding that. Ashton, what are you doing?
LIAM: Very carefully worded. LAURA: She's a doppelganger! MATT: You see FCG currently
restrained by this wall of thorns. TRAVIS: It's me.
MARISHA: It might be. (laughs) TALIESIN: It looks like we
got everything. You good? SAM: Leave me.
Go get one of them. One of them will
betray us, so go get-- I think it's somebody
who has a stick. Go. Just leave me. TALIESIN: Only one.
Oh, that works. One way or another.
SAM: I think it's Fearne and one of the ones
who has a stick. TALIESIN: I'm going to--
SAM: (laughs) TALIESIN: I'm going to head
back through that direction. MATT: All right. TALIESIN: Is there
something that I can-- LAURA: Is it you? LIAM: Is it?
(laughter) TALIESIN: I'm trying to see--
ASHLEY: I think I know who it is. TALIESIN: -- if there's
anything I can provoke-- ASHLEY: I feel like I know who they are.
TALIESIN: -- attack of opportunity from that isn't poison. Is there something spiky
that I can hit? LAURA: Is it, though?
TALIESIN: Oh my way in. SAM: It might be.
LAURA: Maybe he's really good. TALIESIN: Actually, technically,
if I take a little fire damage, that'll keep my
rage up, if I recall. No, that's not an attack.
MATT: It's not an attack. TALIESIN: No, I'm going to run
by that little spiky thing to-- LIAM: You're
a doppelganger, bitch! LAURA: You're
a doppelganger, bitch! MATT: This one lashes out at you.
Make a dexterity saving throw. TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
TRAVIS: (laughs) TALIESIN: 16. MATT: 16, all right.
You dodge past, no impact. I will say for
the purposes of this because traps technically
aren't attacks. TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: I've allowed of it to go by when it's active and going towards you, but
for this I'm just saying that it, at this point, the rage
begins to die down. TALIESIN: So am I losing-- MATT: You're losing your
fast speed at this point because now it's like--
TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: -- everyone's gathered the
sticks. There's tension, but-- SAM: Too many sticks.
MATT: -- but there's not-- You're not in a point
where the rage is being maintained, I'll say.
TALIESIN: Okay, okay. MATT: But you do finish your
rage here next to Fearne. TALIESIN: Okay, so it'll die
at the end of next round. Normally, yeah, it would. MATT: For the next round.
I'll say-- TALIESIN: When I start,
it's gone. Yeah. MATT: Yeah, when you start,
it's gone. TALIESIN: Cool. MATT: All right, is that all
you're going to do? You move over there.
TALIESIN: Yeah. I'm going to--
MATT: Hold an action or anything? TALIESIN: Am I going to
hold an action? MATT: Or anything you want to
look for? What do you want to do? TALIESIN: Yeah,
I'm going to-- I'm going to take a look at-- I'm going to try and
get a read on Chet just to have it.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Actually, no.
I'll take a read on Orym because we haven't
been in contact. MATT: How so? Are you
asking a question? Are you just getting
a general bead? TALIESIN: Where's
his hands? And-- MATT: Orym,
where are your hands? LIAM: Just a sword
in one hand. MATT: Yeah.
LIAM: And shield in my other. TALIESIN: So there's not, not
going for the stick at all. MATT: You do not see a
stick on him at all. SAM: Shaft, balls.
TALIESIN: Oh, that's right. There is no stick. I'm looking for
nerves because-- SAM: Nerve check.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Yeah, this is
not something that-- Yeah, just to see what's up.
MATT: All right. Insight check, then. TALIESIN: Nope. You can try
that against that eight. MATT: Orym, text me. LIAM: Oh, what am
I sending you? LAURA and ASHLEY: Whether or not
you're a doppelganger. MATT: Whether or not
you're a doppelganger. LIAM: Oh, okay. I'm going to text my
girlfriend from high school. MATT: Okay.
(laughter) SAM: I really wish things
would've worked out different. MATT: (laughs) LAURA: P.S. It me.
(laughter) TALIESIN: I'm going
to hold a-- MATT: He's hard to read.
LIAM: Check me out now. MATT: It seems like, there's
certainly tension there. TALIESIN: It's hard
to read now. MATT: But you see him,
sword and shield, eyeing everybody else with-- MARISHA: Perception. MATT: -- the typical Orym tension.
TALIESIN: I'm going to hold a, specifically a--
ASHLEY: I didn't do this. That was him.
TALIESIN: I have an attack that-- LIAM: Are you accusing me now?
LAURA: Yeah. (laughs) TALIESIN: To push
somebody five feet. I've got a shove attack. I'm going to
hold it for Fearne. MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: If Fearne does anything I don't approve of.
MATT: Okay. Finishing Ashton's go,
Imogen, you're up. TALIESIN: What's it called?
LAURA: Okay. Do we have to wait
'til our next turn to put it in the water
all at the same time, or--? TRAVIS: I think you have
to hold an action. TALIESIN: Yeah,
so Crusher attack. LAURA: All right, I will--
SAM: Did we say at the same time? LAURA: Does it? Because it-- TRAVIS: Oh, they need to
touch, though. I think we-- MARISHA: Well--
LAURA: Do they need to touch? MATT: The instruction
was to place them all into the pool together. LAURA and TRAVIS: Okay. MARISHA: So I don't think
they need to touch. I think we just have to
all do it at once. LAURA: Do it
at the same time. MARISHA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Dope. LAURA: Okay, so okay,
we're close to that. I'm going to fly up and over
and I'm going to get down next to the pool
on this side. MATT: This side. LAURA: Should I be in between Chet and Orym? I'm going to-- (groans) TRAVIS: The closer the better. LAURA: That's what I mean,
I feel like-- Yeah, okay, I'm going to-- I'm staying where I am. MATT: Okay.
Anything with your action? LAURA: I'm going to be
a little bit closer to Orym because I don't know
how much distance Fearne has on scorchy hands. (laughs) MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: The scorchy hands. LAURA: I feel like
you're going to attack me. MATT: Do you hold an action? LAURA: I am. I'm going
to hold the stick. I have the stick in my hand. I'm going to wait 'til
Orym and Chet are also and so we can all
put it in together so I'm going to hold
that action to put it in. MATT: Okay, you've got it. All righty,
finishing your turn. It's back to top with FCG.
At the top of your turn, FCG, because you are
still bound by it. SAM: Yes.
MATT: It's grasping you tighter and tighter and the thorns
are pushing into you. You take--
SAM: Please don't kill me. MATT: That's going to be 34 points of piercing damage. TALIESIN: Ooh.
SAM: Oh my god. TALIESIN: You're going
to heal yourself, right? SAM: No. ASHLEY: Are you unconscious? SAM: It's for the team. I don't care about me. TALIESIN: Heal!
SAM: I'll cast Divination. TALIESIN: Oh boy. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Oh, it's Chet. It's Orym. It's Chet.
MARISHA: (laughs) SAM: Is that
something I can do? ASHLEY: I wrote it down who I thought it was, but I think I'm wrong.
LIAM: This exercise really increased our trust.
MATT: You can. LAURA: Who'd you write?
SAM: Changebringer, I don't know if you can hear us in this space.
LAURA and ASHLEY: (laugh) SAM: I don't know if you've
been watching us lately. I know that this is
something very silly to bother you with when the world is on
the brink of a calamity, but can you tell me
if Orym is the bad guy? MATT and LIAM: (laugh)
TRAVIS: Oh, nice. Yes or no, right?
ASHLEY: Yep. MATT: You close your eyes
and hold your head upward and you see a
vision up above. Up above, you see the
endless flow of hair. You see the drifting nature
of the many roads of the world and you watch as her
face emerges from it with a smile towards you. Her hand reaches down
into this dark space and lifts up Orym into her
palm and presents him to you. I'm going to come whisper.
LAURA: (gasps) SAM: Don't listen.
MARISHA: Okay! SAM: Blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah! LIAM: (silly devil growl)
TRAVIS: (laughs) MARISHA: You can grow a
really cool beard with-- ASHLEY: (laughs) TRAVIS: We got a whisper thing.
MARISHA: -- with beard stuff. ASHLEY: (waggles tongue)
TALIESIN: You're not helping. MARISHA: There's a code. LIAM: Well, that clinches it.
TRAVIS: It's relaxing. SAM: It was a
little confusing, but I think I got it. MARISHA: She never says
shit straightforward. SAM: It was-- LAURA: Maybe she's mad at you--
MATT: Need me to clarify? SAM: Yes!
(laughter) LAURA: Maybe
she's mad at you. You just said
in the honesty game that you didn't trust her. TRAVIS: Easy, doppelganger. Stop trying to throw off our help.
SAM: Okay, okay, okay. ASHLEY: (sneezes) SAM: Oh, <i>gesundheit</i>-- Stop it! (laughter) ASHLEY: I knew it was coming. SAM: Guys, I think it's Chetney. TRAVIS: What?!
(laughs) SAM: And that's my
turn. (laughs) MATT: Okay.
LAURA: (gasps) Unless you're a doppelganger and you're a doppelganger!
MATT: You hear FCG shout this from
over the hill, in pain, uncertain where he is.
TRAVIS: You're a devious bastard. MATT: Okay, that
finishes FCG's go. Chetney, you're up. What do you do? TRAVIS: Orym's right
next to me, right? MATT: Orym's right
next to you and Imogen's over there.
LIAM: 10 feet away, yeah. SAM: Within melee range.
TRAVIS: I will use my nose to see if I detect the familiar scents of pine, sandalwood, and--
LIAM and SAM: (laugh) SAM: Patchouli. TRAVIS: Patchouli. (laughs)
(laughter) TRAVIS: -- radiating from the Orym that I know.
MARISHA: From Orym? (laughs) MATT: Make a perception
check with advantage because of your wolven scent.
LIAM: Rub that on his armpits and
on his groin every day. LAURA: He rubs you
in his armpits and his groin
every day? (laughs) TALIESIN: Got to keep oiled.
(laughter) TRAVIS: That is a 16.
MATT: A 16? LIAM: Make it happen.
LAURA: (laughs) SAM: Oh, now
what's happening? Oh my god. This is crazy. LIAM: He wants to
know if I smell right. SAM: Guys, whispers. Whispers. Beard oil. Beard Sorcery, Displacer Beast and Mind
Flayer Invasion beard oil. TRAVIS: Okay, I will reach
into the bag of holding and I will take
out the branch and I'll put it back
in the bag of holding and take out the harness and then take out the branch and I'll start to
absorb the branch. LAURA: (gasps)
TRAVIS: No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding!
(laughter) (laughter) TRAVIS: (electrical energy buzzing)
(laughter) TRAVIS: I take the branch out
and I'll hold my action and look at Orym and say: Okay. (beastly) Okay.
TRAVIS and LAURA: (laugh) TRAVIS: Waiting for you. MATT: Okay,
Chetney's turn is done. Laudna, you're up. There are two
branches held out. There are a handful of people
that are holding actions. There are eyes
darting around. What would you like to do?
SAM: I'm so confused now. SAM and LIAM: (laugh) MARISHA: So Orym is
the only one left? LAURA: What if none of
us are the doppelgangers and we all are honest?
LIAM: Oh, wouldn't that be a kick in the patoot? MARISHA: You're the
only one left. LIAM: It's just me.
MARISHA: And you're up next. LIAM: (raspy) Not like this. ASHLEY: Not like this.
TALIESIN: Not like this. LIAM: I'm after--
MARISHA: You're after me. LAURA: After you. Yeah.
LIAM: -- Laudna, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MATT: What do you do? LIAM: It's best
to murder me now. MARISHA: I am going to pull out my
Hound of Ill Omen. MATT: (transformational splitting) LAURA: It's FCG.
MATT: (deep snarling) MARISHA: It's going to sit--
TRAVIS: Jesus. MARISHA: It's going to be--
(laughter) TRAVIS: What the fuck
is that thing? Where has that shit been? TRAVIS: It's been out a few times.
SAM: I trust it. MARISHA: It's going to be-- LIAM: Is that a
new mini for the-- MARISHA: -- right in between--
MATT: That's what I've been using. MARISHA: It's going
to be right between Orym and Imogen. MATT: It hops down.
SAM: The love of your life? MATT: While the two of you are holding your branches
out over this water, you hear this
dark tearing sound. (wolfish howls) The shadow hound lands
between the two of you. (beastly snarls) MARISHA: He's just here
for extra accountability. LAURA: I look over at him. Hi, baby boy. MARISHA: Yes,
that's a good boy. TALIESIN: I'm cool. MARISHA: Then I'm going
to hold my action. MARISHA: Then I'm going
to hold my action. SAM: Everyone's
holding actions. MARISHA: Yes. MATT: To?
MARISHA: To just-- TRAVIS: You son of a bitch.
LAURA: It's all on you, Orym. You're the one.
LIAM: I know. I have an idea. TRAVIS: Divisive-- SAM: No, I genuinely
think you're the guy! TRAVIS: (laughs) Mm-hmm. SAM: Or--
MARISHA: Can I hold a-- No, a Counterspell's
a reaction. SAM: Or Liam's right. MATT: No, Counterspell
is a reaction. TALIESIN: He might be.
TRAVIS: What? There are no doppelgangers.
TALIESIN: That's what I've been working with.
MATT: You can't hold it. LAURA: That's what I said. SAM: But Liam said it--
MARISHA: Jeez, I don't have anything that's--
SAM: -- in a more masculine voice. (laughter)
ASHLEY: I'm not. I'm not! MARISHA: I don't have
anything that's-- SAM: Therefore it was
much more believable. MARISHA: -- great!
(laughter) MATT: That's so fucked up. TRAVIS: Yeah.
(laughter) LIAM: Everyone is so smart.
MARISHA: I'm going to hold an Infestation and someone's ass is going to
get lit up with some bees, because I don't think
bees can hurt a stick. MATT: But against who? SAM: Everyone.
LAURA: You're attacking me? MARISHA: Anyone, right? TRAVIS: You have to aim it at somebody.
MARISHA: Well, I'll hold it against Orym-- MATT: What's the trigger?
MARISHA: Because he's next. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: If Orym does anything fucky. TRAVIS: You hit him with bees?
MARISHA: Okay. MARISHA: I'm going to hit
him with bees. (laughs) (laughter) TRAVIS: His greatest fear,
a swarm of bees. The fucking--
MARISHA: Because I don't want to
hurt the stick! MATT and TRAVIS: (laugh) MATT: You're going to
"My Girl" him here in the middle of the field.
LAURA: We're all waiting. TRAVIS: He can't see without his glasses!
LAURA: Where are his glasses? MARISHA: Okay.
(laughter) MARISHA: Orym? All right, hey, everybody-- TRAVIS: The trauma
of that movie. MARISHA: -- on the
count of three. LIAM: Orym--
MARISHA: One-- LIAM: -- looks around
at the group and says: I hope I know
what's going on here. He reaches into his chonies and pulls out the
Monocle of True Essence. TALIESIN: Nice! LIAM: And looks
around at the group. TALIESIN: Mm-hmm. LIAM: This is not rules
as written on this, but it fucking says
"true essence" on it. ASHLEY: Yeah, that's cheating.
LIAM: I will try to Detect Magic, I guess, and see if--
TRAVIS: What do you care? LIAM: -- any of my
friends are-- ASHLEY: I think this is about trust.
LIAM: -- glowing all around their person in an aura.
LAURA: Why wouldn't you just put the stick in?
MARISHA: Put the stick in! LAURA: You're wasting your action?!
ASHLEY: This is all about trust! LAURA: You're wasting
your action to look at everybody--
MARISHA: Everybody's holding their sticks! LAURA: -- instead of
putting the stick in? SAM: Orym's not wasting it.
MATT: Well, pause. SAM: He's burning it!
LIAM: Well, if I do that and then I don't
see anything, then we can continue to hold and put the stick in, because this is--
MATT: That's true. LIAM: -- a simulation
of life, not chess. TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: Yes. LIAM: So I use the monocle
and look at my friends with a thing called
Monocle of True Essence. MATT: Indeed.
MARISHA: He doesn't trust us. MATT: As you cast your
Detect Magic spell through it and look through the
lens, you can see small magical essences
emanates from everyone. This whole area has
a weird, staticky feel. We are not getting immediate
directional things, but everyone seems to have varying moving magical
essence about their spaces. The branches that
are being held up have a weird pulsing
magical essence. Specifically, if you
want to use this to try and read someone's
true essence in this instance, I will let you make an
insight check with advantage. LIAM: Advantage, okay. MATT: Who do you wish to
look at to do this for? LIAM: (heavy sigh)
SAM: Oh man. SAM: We were all wrong about Ashley.
LIAM: Her deception's probably really high. TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
MARISHA: (laughs) LAURA and TRAVIS: (laugh) LAURA: But if it's not
Ashley, then who is it? She's the only one we know. ASHLEY: It's not me! (laughter)
ASHLEY: It's not me! LIAM: I do it with Fearne.
MATT: To Fearne? Okay.
LIAM: I'll do it to Fearne. SAM: It could be nobody.
LIAM: I am hoping. I think it's nobody, but-- MARISHA: Oh, it was just--
LAURA: It's nobody. SAM: That's what I'm saying.
That's what Liam said. LIAM: Nine-- TALIESIN: That's been my--
LIAM: Insight, you said? MATT: Insight.
LIAM: 22. MARISHA: It was just to
fuck with our heads? SAM: It's to get us to trust each other.
LIAM: It's to get us to get over our shit.
TALIESIN: Get over the shit. LIAM: It is an exercise. SAM: Whispers. Beard, beard oil.
Whispers, beard oil. TALIESIN: Just why I've been more or less
helping everybody-- MARISHA: Beard--
TALIESIN: -- get out of their shit this entire fucking time.
MARISHA: -- Sorcery. TALIESIN: Until the very end. SAM: Beardsorcery.com/criticalrole-db. MATT: All right. TRAVIS: Get that beard. LAURA: Get that beard!
LIAM: Okay. If we can be loosey-goosey, I will shove the monocle
back into my chonies, chonies are down here, and I will pull
out the stick. MATT: Well, I'll say
because it was your action to do that-- LIAM: (sighs) Yes.
MATT: I'm just saying. We're being
loosey-goosey, but-- SAM: This is chess! MATT: You can pull it out, but I'll say that's the end of
your turn as you pull it out. LIAM: Okay.
MARISHA: He just said it wasn't chess. Is it chess or not chess?
TALIESIN: It's checkers. MATT: So, finishing
Orym's go, Fearne. All three branches are out. ASHLEY: All right. MATT: They're all
looking at each other, there are spells held. You're still keeping your
incantation at the ready. MARISHA: One more confirmation round.
MATT: What do you do? ASHLEY: All right. I'm going to put away
my Hold Person. Can I do that?
MATT: Yeah, you can. You can drop the spell and
do something else instead. ASHLEY: Say again?
MATT: And do something else instead.
ASHLEY: Yes. SAM: Or the same thing again. MATT: Surrounding you, there
are three branches untouched and there is one with
one hit point missing, so. LIAM: So a doppelganger
is not a person. So when we used Hold
Person, it didn't work. It's a doppelganger.
LAURA: (gasps) MARISHA: (laughs)
TALIESIN: I'm, by the way, looking at you right now. I'm not making
a face or anything. I'm just looking. ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: I'm slowly dying. (laughter)
MATT: Yeah, FCG is being crushed
to death over the wall. (laughter)
SAM: It's okay. TALIESIN: Three
fucking healers. LAURA: A whole other round of FCG getting killed.
TRAVIS: (as FCG) I trust you! SAM: It's fine, it's fine.
MARISHA: You do have to die. TRAVIS: (FCG wailing)
SAM: It's fine. ASHLEY: Hey, hey, hey.
Look at me. Eyes. Eyes, everybody. SAM: (choking dramatically) ASHLEY: It's me, Fearne. We're going to take care
of you in a minute. It's me, Fearne.
LAURA: Remember we can't reveal the five.
ASHLEY: I'm not a doppelganger. Okay?
TALIESIN: Okay. LAURA: Okay. ASHLEY: I'm not going
to do anything and I'm going to stand here until you guys put the
sticks in the pool. TRAVIS: That's good, that's a good move.
LAURA: All right, let's put it in then.
TALIESIN: Fuck yeah. MATT: Okay. Ashton?
ASHLEY: That's my move. LIAM: (suddenly dies)
(laughter) SAM: Sniper. TALIESIN: I feel like
y'all got that. I'm going to go get
FCG out of this shit. LAURA: All right.
TALIESIN: I'm going to head over-- TRAVIS: Good play, good play. TALIESIN: -- towards
where FCG is and probably burn another
rage for it, so. MATT: Sure. TALIESIN: Because I'm down.
MATT: Why not? TALIESIN: Back at time, yay. Rolled a three.
MATT: Well, look at that! SAM: As soon as Ashton
gets within sight, I'll be like:
Did they buy it? LAURA: (laughs)
TALIESIN: We're good. (laughter) LIAM: (beep) (explosion) (laughter) TALIESIN: Yeah, if I can
get over to the-- MATT: So you go five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. You can climb up
and land over, if you want to make
an athletics check. TALIESIN: Sure. LIAM: Rocks! TALIESIN: 17.
MATT: 17? Yeah, you climb over and
land on the opposite side. That's going to be
45 feet of movement. TALIESIN: That is 45
feet of movement? MATT: Yeah.
TALIESIN: That's a little further than I have,
unless I-- MATT: Well,
40 feet of movement. No, 40 feet to get the
top and you jump off, which I think I'll allow.
TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: You just have to make
an acrobatics check to make sure you
land on your feet. TALIESIN: Okay, I
can do that, too. LAURA: I only have 30.
TALIESIN: As opposed to climbing back down. TALIESIN: That's 14. MATT: 14. You land. Yeah, you'd be right
next to FCG, who is currently now
being grappled in this. TALIESIN: Then I'm going to take my attacks to-- MATT: The bramble wall? TALIESIN: Yeah, to get FCG
out of the bramble wall. MATT: All right,
roll two attacks. TALIESIN: Okay. SAM: We didn't
trust each other. TALIESIN: 26.
LAURA and MARISHA: (laugh) LIAM: (stick cracking)
MATT: 26 hits. TALIESIN: I'm getting you out.
Shut the fuck up. SAM: No, I mean--
You're great. TALIESIN: 18.
MATT: 18 points of damage? SAM: I didn't trust--
LAURA: Anybody. MATT: You slam into the wall.
SAM: -- anybody. MATT: It cracks a bit
and you can see it's starting to send tendrils
out in your direction. Make your second attack.
MARISHA: I wouldn't say we didn't trust. We were cautious.
TALIESIN: I'm going to fucking-- Yeah, never mind. I'm going
reckless with that shit. ASHLEY: Yeah.
TALIESIN: 17. MATT: 17 hits.
Go ahead and roll damage. LAURA and MARISHA: (laugh) TALIESIN: 17. MATT: You smash
down the wall, freeing FCG from the
clasp of that bramble. MARISHA: There's still
time for someone to turn. I'm just saying.
SAM: Thank you, Ashton. Banishment. LIAM: It's very easy
to break a stick. TALIESIN: I hope you did that.
SAM: No. LAURA: (laughs)
TALIESIN: Because then I'm going to-- You're becoming a
very good therapist. LAURA: (laughs) TALIESIN: Yep.
MATT: That finishes your turn? TALIESIN: That's
my end of my turn. MATT: All right. Imogen,
you're up with FCG on deck. LAURA: I'm still
waiting until-- (stammers inability to act)
MATT: Okay, maintain it. FCG, your turn,
with Chetney on deck. TALIESIN: Heal your damn self.
SAM: Oh, okay. I'll Cure Wounds myself.
LIAM: Physician, heal thyself. MATT: Okay.
SAM: I'll Cure Wounds myself. Just 1st-level. TALIESIN: Really? Okay. SAM: What's this one? What is that? What did I do? Oh, 10 points. Then I want to go see this! So I'm going to roll over--
MATT: Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
SAM: -- towards the pool. MATT: Gets you right
in the middle of this ruin right there,
behind Chetney. You can see the group, branches out, eyes wide,
looking at each other. SAM: This was a good lesson for all of us to
trust each other and know that none
of us will ever-- (laughter)
SAM: Will ever-- LIAM: There's a text to Matt. SAM: Will ever be-- All right, just do it. (laughter) MATT: Okay. All right. Finishing FCG's go,
Chetney, you're up. TRAVIS: Are we all--
MATT: With Laudna on deck. ASHLEY: Yeah.
LIAM: Mm-hmm. LAURA: We're just--
MARISHA: We've got to get all the way back around to Orym.
LIAM: Waiting on Orym. LAURA: We got to
get back to Orym because he's the one
that held it up. TRAVIS: Okay, I'll
continue to hold. LIAM: Yeah.
LAURA: Because he had to look through a monocle.
LIAM: I don the Scarf of Intrusive Intent. (laughter) MARISHA: I put away my bees. (laughter) MATT: (buzzing diminishes) Is that it?
SAM: Holster them? MARISHA: I--
(holstering sound) MATT: (laughs) (succinct buzzes)
MARISHA: (laughs) ASHLEY: (laughs)
MARISHA: And I continue to wait.
MATT: Orym. LAURA: God, I'm not convinced yet.
LIAM: Okay. MATT: It's your turn, Orym. ASHLEY: No, me neither.
LIAM: Chet, Imogen, on the count of three, ready. (laughter) LIAM: One, two-- TALIESIN: Five.
TRAVIS: (whooshes) (laughter) LIAM: Three!
TRAVIS and LAURA: Boop! MATT: You all push through
this magical barrier as the three branches
splosh in the water. The water begin to light up and it pulls them
together in the center. As they all meet, you watch as they
grow into each other, forming a larger,
extended branch. You can see little veins
of silver spit through it, binding them together until it forms one singular
glowing ivory branch. It sits there in the middle as the mists begin to
fill the area around you to where you can just see
the area around the water. The ruins vanish
in this clouded space. You watch as one doppelganger
walks out of the side, another one walks
out of the other, and they both look
at the rest of you. Nana Morri walks out
the opposite end and she goes, "Well done. "Sometimes you have
to trust in each other, "no matter what you're told." MARISHA: Aw. MATT: "So that is a successful
endeavor in this exercise. MATT: "So that is a successful
endeavor in this exercise. "And I believe
you've earned this." She looks around for
someone to reach for it. SAM: Oh. TRAVIS: And as you reach-- (laughter) MATT: She snaps her fingers
and the fog fills the space and all of you feel
this cold rush of air. As the fog fades,
you blink your eyes blearily, and look around as you're
in the warm, comfortable seats you were sitting in, in the middle of
Ligament Manor. The set of tea around
you on the table. You see Allura off to the side
with a tiki drink, going, "Well, that was
rather strange. "Hope you enjoyed your naps." TRAVIS: Oh. ASHLEY: Oh wow.
LAURA: It was all a dream. MATT: And we're
going to go to break. ALL: Oh! TRAVIS: Matthew, that was so good, man!
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KYLE: Mm-mm. (No.) MATT: Welcome back. As you all wipe the odd
appearance from your eyes, you look and see
the tea around you and you see the scarf
curled on the table along with a monocle and a branch that emerges from the side,
the three objects. Nana Morri folds her arms as she leans back
in her chair. "Well, I certainly hope
you're all quite proud." LIAM: Orym checks
for leeches. LAURA: (laughs)
MATT: There is one on your dick. SAM: (screams)
(laughter) ASHLEY: Oh no! TRAVIS: He called you dick. TALIESIN: This is not the first
time I've woken up thinking that a stick and a piece of
cloth were super important based on what happened
that night. LAURA: Hmm! LIAM: Holy shit.
SAM: That sounds loaded with meaning.
ASHLEY: Yes, it does. TALIESIN: I think I
need orange juice. MATT: "That can be arranged." LAURA: What is he talking about?
SAM: Orange juice? TALIESIN: We need to re-up
if we're going to go out. We need to take a nap,
we need to hydrate. This is important.
ASHLEY: Dangerously low. LAURA: We did just take
a really long dream. TALIESIN: I don't think it
counts as a nap, though. ASHLEY: That was really fun, Nana.
MARISHA: Wait. You did not.
MATT: "I'm so glad you enjoyed it." ASHLEY: I feel like we
really learned a lot. LAURA: We did. We did.
ASHLEY: I feel like that was needed. SAM: We did learn a lot,
actually we really did. ASHLEY: Yeah.
SAM: I mean, we revealed a lot about each other. A lot of stuff that I have
follow-up questions about, but we also learned
to trust each other. Shut the fuck up! MARISHA: Sorry.
SAM: We're really together now. SAM and LAURA: (laugh)
ASHLEY: Communication, honesty. SAM: We're really a team. MARISHA: Mm-hmm. MATT: Did you catch all that? MARISHA: What'd he say? SAM: Anyway,
I had a question. Which bits did I come up with and which bits did
you come up with? MATT: "Well, you certainly
provided the seeds "to each of these, and
I just ran with them." SAM: Got it. TALIESIN: Did you-- SAM: Well, I feel like the
lessons might've come from me, at least I hope so, but
the way we got there didn't feel like me, but maybe it was.
MATT: "It was a collaboration, "and I--"
SAM: It was fun. MATT: "-- just got a little
excited in some places." SAM: Sure. MATT: "But, nevertheless,
the work isn't done. "You've just begun the
journey of reforging "the bonds between you, so--" (Morri 2) "Take your time." TRAVIS: Jesus. LAURA: Thanks, Nana. MARISHA: A bit of
a technical question. If we were all dreaming
this whole time, if Orym did happen
to fall to his death, would he still have died? MATT: She looks at you and
realize that the wounds you took in the dream you
still have puncture wounds in your body from the
damage you sustained. TALIESIN: Ow. SAM: It's like
"Nightmare on Elm Street." MARISHA: I was going
to say "The Matrix." Your brain makes it real.
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: Yeah.
LAURA: (laughs) ASHLEY: Uh! Uh! Uh! (laughter) MATT: Pretty much. LIAM: All right.
LAURA: Not like this. LIAM: That really
was effective. Letters, I think that
was a good idea. ASHLEY: Me, too.
LIAM: (shouts) Are you a doppelganger? LAURA: Oh, what is this
shit on your sleeve? LIAM: I don't know.
Is it a leech? TALIESIN: Doppelganger leech.
LAURA: Ew, I thought it was going to be hard
and now it's on me. ASHLEY: Now it's on your finger.
LAURA: Give me a Kleenex, give me a Kleenex!
SAM: That's what she said. LIAM: I don't know. I'm not going to sweat it.
ASHLEY: Maybe mustard or something. LAURA: I think it's mustard.
Wait, why would you have mustard on you?
MATT: Trust. LIAM: I had some
chicken satay in the back of Nana Morri's.
ASHLEY: Oh, that's chicken satay. LAURA: That's what. LIAM: So it could have
got on my elbow. TALIESIN: Chicken. SAM: Thank you so much
for your hospitality. Well, this is the first
day we've been here, right?
LAURA: Yeah. SAM: We should probably take it--
LIAM: Hours. We've been here hours. It feels like we're going
to rest here, right? Probably will spend the night?
SAM: We should probably rest. LAURA: Is everyone all right? LIAM: Well.
TALIESIN: I mean-- How? Like, emotionally? Spiritually?
LAURA: Yeah. Yeah. MARISHA: I think--
SAM: Are you all right, Ashton? TALIESIN: Uh... In many ways, yes? In some ways, definitely not. I'm going to be working
through several epiphanies, sadly, while we are
probably on the move. One thing I have
thought about, because we did just do
this trust exercise, is as the most recent and spectacular
person to fuck up, it's worth acknowledging
that it could've been any of us. We are a collection of
fucking time bombs, and the possibility that
any of us was going to do something stupid and
hurt one of us was real and is still real. And I've been thinking
a lot about that. That a bad day for
you, Chet, or Laudna, or you, FCG, or the wrong
thing stolen, Fearne, or you, FCG, or the wrong
thing stolen, Fearne, or the wrong moment to listen
to your mom, Imogen. SAM: Orym's just great. TALIESIN: Orym's got some
internal shit that, you know. LIAM: I don't know that if I
would've shared everything I did, but I'm glad that we did. I feel like I have
slightly better appreciation for all of you. I did already, but it
feels a little clearer now. LAURA: Oh, if there's anything
any of us can do to make you not lonely-- I'm not offering anything like untoward.
LIAM: I didn't think you were. SAM: No.
LAURA: I'm just saying-- LIAM: I mean, you guys,
you're great. I'm happy to have
you as my family. TALIESIN: Trust, I think, is
just better when it's not easy, is what I'm starting
to realize. Is that the only way
we're going to be okay is because we are all
in the same place of being deeply capable
of fucking up and maybe that's good because
who else would fucking tolerate or forgive
any group of us? This is-- You are the only
people I can think of who would put up
with this shit. LAURA: Mm.
TALIESIN: And I am forever fucking grateful. LIAM: I also don't know if
we can wait for it to click or feel perfect. We got to do something now. The world's in disarray,
everyone's scattered around, got their heads up their
asses and, frankly, we're paying attention. If we can do something,
we should do something. Tomorrow. Hopefully we don't arrive
back and it's a century later. MARISHA: Something
Fearne mentioned, feeling like there's
no way we can do this or save the world. We're walking
towards failure. Perhaps another part of
this is just accepting the little ways in
which we can help. What areas we can control. It does make me
incredibly nervous that even Allura and Keyleth, and all of these
powerful people don't, themselves, feel like
they can do much. LAURA: Yeah,
but they're targets. I feel like if we do it right, we won't be seen,
you know what I mean? Like we're not so powerful
that we'll catch their attention immediately. ASHLEY: I see what
you're saying, I like where
you're going with this. SAM: We're sort of
expendable? ASHLEY: No.
SAM: Well, I guess, in other people's eyes. TALIESIN: Inconsequential,
I think. SAM: Inconsequential. MATT: Allura nods.
LIAM: Who is going to take us seriously? MARISHA: Underestimated. LAURA: There it is.
ASHLEY: I like that word. TALIESIN: Weird as fuck,
every last one of us. MATT: Allura nods and
goes, "To be honest, "myself and many of
the individuals "that you've met and
are part of this "plot to prevent
mass destruction "have been entangled
with the machinations "of the the Ruby Vanguard
for quite some time. "As such, they know us
well, they expect us, "and I believe have
many safeguards "and preparations in
that case tailored. "When you volunteered, and
the things you've done "in the past, I think you're
not incorrect to assume "that your lower profile
puts you at an advantage. "I'm not saying go
too deep into this, "I'm not saying go and
throw your lives away. "But find out what you
can that you think "gives us all an edge
when the time comes "for us to storm
the Moon of Ill Omen. "You won't be doing
that alone, "you don't even have to
come if you don't want to. "The job will, hopefully
by then, be done." LIAM: Honestly, what's
the alternative? Do nothing and wait to
get steamrolled over a couple weeks later? I'd rather give my
all and do something than lie down for it. ASHLEY: Me too. LAURA: Same. SAM: Even if we die. LIAM: Can we get a
round of drinks? MATT: "Not a worry,
I'll get right to it. "Peepers, help your Nana." (heavy impacts) Stomps over towards the
tiki bar and you hear (clicks) Peepers, the strange
rabbit-like creature skitters across the
ceiling and looks down with its terrifying grin and
then darts off after her. Allura goes, "(shudders)." "Just one more night, right?" LAURA: Yeah. MATT: "Very well." LAURA: I mean, this whole
thing about trust, right? I think if we go up-- How would y'all feel if I, if I gave in? SAM: What does that mean?
Give in to-- LAURA: Every time I make
a connection with Ruidus it feels like it's
asking me to connect. And I push it away,
I always have. But what if I don't? TRAVIS: Oh. LIAM: What does your
gut tell you will happen? LAURA: I don't know. But I know I have
the right motive. And I trust y'all to bring
me back if anything did. TALIESIN: Jump into
that fucking lava. LAURA: (laughs) MARISHA: I still say it's
the season of the witch. LAURA: All right. TALIESIN: Find out who the
fuck you are, that's great. SAM: Just tell us before
you do it, okay? LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Yeah, no that-- Yeah.
LAURA: Trust. SAM: Don't just go
off on your own. LAURA: I'm not
the doppelganger. SAM: I know.
LIAM: We know. Fearne is. LAURA: Obviously Fearne is.
ASHLEY: Obviously. LAURA: (laughs)
MARISHA: Speaking of Fearne, are you going to
take this shard? They've told us a few times
the more we hold onto it the more of a beacon
it makes us. LAURA: I'm sorry I said I
was disappointed in you, it's not--
ASHLEY: No, I felt the same. I feel like I've been
scared of something that, in some ways, is inevitable
but maybe not a bad thing. I think I kind of want it. I think I want to try it. And it came out of Ashton, so if it doesn't want to be in here,
then it'll come out. LAURA: Do you think a part
of you wants to be in her? TRAVIS: Hm? ASHLEY: Whoa, Imogen. That is a bit much.
LAURA: (laughs) ASHLEY: My, my, my, my.
SAM: You crossed a line. TALIESIN: That's a
little loaded, but-- LAURA: Sorry. MARISHA: Are you
blushing a bit? ASHLEY: Well, I don't know.
It's just hot in here. LIAM: Aren't we
in a rooftop bar? LAURA: (laughs)
MATT and MARISHA: (laugh) MARISHA: It's muggy in the Feywild.
TALIESIN: For whatever that spell means and whatever it means to whatever fucking thing
my parents screwed up or otherwise, I can't
think of anyone else who should benefit
from it as much as you. I refuse to believe
in destiny, but it seems like
it was made for you. ASHLEY: I feel the same way. I don't like that
whole thing. What do you all think? Yay? Nay?
LAURA: Yay. SAM: If you're going to do
it, I mean, you're home. MARISHA: You should do it now.
ASHLEY: Yeah, it'd be nice to have Nana here in case
something goes wrong. TALIESIN: More lava.
LAURA: Nana would totally be able to help out. LIAM: Yeah, got the Morrigan.
MARISHA: You got the Fatestitcher. LIAM: Right on hand. MARISHA: I think you should
give yourself more credit for having that control
over your future. You're not that dark shadow
of yourself you saw before. You're not your father. ASHLEY: (sighs) Okay. Okay. I mean, let's give it a go. SAM: Like right now?
LAURA: Let's do it. ASHLEY: Right now?
MARISHA: We should. SAM: I mean--
ASHLEY: Yeah? MARISHA: I do think we
should take this thing to the moon.
LAURA: We should do it before we go to sleep,
that's for sure. ASHLEY: Oh, in case we need to--
TALIESIN: I think we are just tipsy enough that
this is a good idea. SAM: By the way, are you
full health and stuff? ASHLEY: No.
SAM: I will-- LIAM: Also, you should definitely--
ASHLEY: I can also heal myself. LIAM: -- have a shot first. ASHLEY: Yes, yes.
TALIESIN: Actually, hold on. LAURA: We're taking
a short rest while-- ASHLEY: A short rest?
TALIESIN: Before we do this-- MATT: I'll allow a short rest.
TALIESIN: Hold on. ASHLEY: Yeah, let's
do a short rest. That's a good idea.
TALIESIN: All right. How do you handle fire
damage, out of curiosity? ASHLEY: Just kind of
like a normal person. LIAM: I avoid it.
TALIESIN: Okay, hold on. ASHLEY: Nothing fancy.
TALIESIN: I'm going to throw you something. Make of it what you will,
but during the short rest, if you have-- Do you have room
for something to attune? ASHLEY: Hmm.
TALIESIN: Or no? ASHLEY: I don't
at the moment. TALIESIN: Okay.
ASHLEY: But I mean-- Let me see. TRAVIS: Damn!
LAURA: Oh, speaking of attunement, what about these
items we got? LIAM: I pull out of my-- Where'd they go?
TALIESIN: Mm. LIAM: -- my armor. TALIESIN: I have a, if you
want to look it up, ring. LAURA: I feel like this
one should be yours, FCG. SAM: What does it do? LAURA: It increases
your attack. You have better
attacks by one. SAM: That's one better. MATT: Spell attacks, yeah. LAURA: And every time you cast
a spell to regain hit points, that person you cast it
on gains an additional 1d4. So it does more healing.
SAM: I heal. That's amazing! TALIESIN: It's a Ring of Volcanic--
SAM: I have to attune to it. That's all right.
TALIESIN: Ring of Volcanic Flesh, if you want to look that up.
LAURA: I am down one attunement, if you want to give
me back that staff, if you don't want what to--
SAM: That staff does amazing things.
LAURA: Okay. Then you keep the staff.
SAM: No, no, no. You can take the staff back if you think you'll use it. We have other items, too,
that maybe you want. LIAM: I don't know how
any of this junk works. I pull out the scarf and
a little green monocle. LAURA: (laughs)
LIAM: The scarf is spooky. Do you want to look at this? MARISHA: Sure! Sure. LIAM: Do you want to
break this lens, too? TALIESIN: Let's take
a look at this. LAURA and MATT: (laugh) MARISHA: "This beautiful
purple scarf--" TALIESIN: I put it down and
I hit it with my hammer. (laughter) MATT: The more things change. LAURA and MATT: (laugh) TALIESIN: I didn't say
I'd never do it again, did I? MATT: This is true.
LIAM: So that's going to fly out of my eye when
I'm flipping around, so. TALIESIN: Who is
this good for? LIAM: Oh, maybe Imogen--
MARISHA: This might be better for someone like you.
LIAM: -- or Laudna, or Fearne, or Letters, or really any of you but me. MARISHA: I mean, I don't have Magic Mouth.
ASHLEY: That is a cool ring. MARISHA: But I
kind of already-- TALIESIN: You can
borrow it, if you like, or you could honestly--
MARISHA: I have fear stuff already. TALIESIN: Up to you if
you want to borrow it for the run, or-- ASHLEY: Borrow it for the--
MARISHA: He's getting the stick I think.
TALIESIN: At the very least. ASHLEY: Let me see. TRAVIS: Fear, oh that's
pretty good-- LIAM: This monocle's good
for seeing bullshit. MARISHA: Fear makes people
run away from you. TALIESIN: Mm.
ASHLEY: Hmm. MARISHA: I don't have-- What is Suggestion again? TALIESIN: This also--
SAM: Inventory! TALIESIN: This awesome feels like
a Laudna or Imogen thing. MARISHA: I don't think
this one's right for me because it already has a decent amount of overlap--
TALIESIN: Switch. LAURA: Here, switch. Look at that one.
TALIESIN: Switch. Switch. MARISHA: -- of things
that I can do. LAURA: This is
a purple scarf? MARISHA: It's a purple scarf. TALIESIN: Let's take a look?
MATT: (laughs) TALIESIN: As we're like, yeah, we're doing this whole--
MARISHA: This could actually work. (mumbling item description) TALIESIN: We've said out
loud what this does, right? LIAM: Yeah, I think we read
it out loud last time. LAURA: Yeah.
LIAM: Suggestion, Magic Mouth, Fear. TALIESIN: Mm! LIAM: Looks fabulous. TALIESIN: This also
feels like either a-- Hmm. Either a Fearne or
an Imogen thing, or-- Yeah, this feels like
a Fearne or an Imogen thing. ASHLEY: Well, I don't
need all that stuff. TALIESIN: I know. ASHLEY: Well, I could
borrow the ring for the-- TALIESIN: Borrow the ring for the thing.
ASHLEY: Just in case. SAM: Matthew, Dungeon Master?
MATT: Yes. Mm-hmm.
SAM: My grappling canon is attuned to me. I can't unattune it! Because it's part
of my body, probably. MATT: I mean, you can-- It won't let you
unattune it, you mean? SAM: Nope! TALIESIN: Interesting. Very interesting!
SAM: But that's okay. We can figure it out later.
MATT: Yeah, I'll figure it out later.
SAM: Or if you want the Staff of Dark
Odyssey back, I can give it to you back. TALIESIN: What does that do? SAM: That's the thing
that teleports us around. LAURA: Yeah.
MARISHA: Mm. SAM: It also has a couple
extra little useful things, but it's mostly
the teleport thing. TALIESIN: I've always got
room for more attunement, so. LAURA: Yeah, I've got
room for one more thing. TALIESIN: I don't
attune nothing. TRAVIS: Yeah, I'll take it. SAM: Take what?
LIAM: That's not attunement, so it's just stacks.
LAURA: No, this is just a thing. TRAVIS: You use Detect Magic.
TALIESIN: Yeah. LIAM: Stacks on what you got.
TRAVIS: Oh wait. No, that's not right.
MARISHA: The scarf? LAURA: The scarf
is Suggestion, Magic Mouth, and Fear. TALIESIN: Which
actually might work really well for Chet, even. MARISHA: That one's Detect
Magic, See Invisibility, or Arcane Eye. SAM: I put the
harness on Fearne. MARISHA: Both are-- ASHLEY: Oh!
SAM: (laughs) Just in case!
MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: All right, all right. SAM: Just in case.
TALIESIN: We've had that short rest? MARISHA: Yeah, Fear means
people can't get closer to you. MATT: Should be unattuned
for you if you re-- TRAVIS: I need them to be
close to do anything SAM: Refresh!
MARISHA: Yeah. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: All righty. ASHLEY: I have
the ring in there. I'll give it back
to you, Ash. TALIESIN: No worries! Just for the run.
LAURA: I could wear it. I could just keep it for now.
ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: You want to keep it? LAURA: Sure.
MARISHA: Do you want this one? TALIESIN: Yeah.
SAM: We'll figure it out. TALIESIN: Throwing you
the weird-ass ring. SAM: It's gone.
MARISHA: I've got enough spells and shit. TALIESIN: Kick ass.
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: All right,
so you attune to that. In the process of
shuffling this around you enjoy your tiki drinks that have been presented by Nana Morri.
MARISHA: Plus, Chet with a monocle. That's pretty cool.
MATT: She finishes off the tea herself.
LAURA: Chet with a monocle is pretty fun. Laudna with
the monocle, pretty cool, too. MARISHA: You in your velour
jumpsuit and a monocle. LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Don't hate the player, hate the game. MATT: (laughs) MATT: (Morri 1) "Well,
the manor is yours "as much as you need." ASHLEY: Should I go
outside for this? MATT: "For what?"
ASHLEY: Oh. MARISHA: Tee hee hee. ASHLEY: I'm going
to take the shard. MATT: "Really?" ASHLEY: I think so. I think so.
What do you think? MATT: "That's exciting! "Fearne, I'm so proud "and intrigued."
ASHLEY: You are? All right. Can you stay here? Should I do this outside? MATT: "Maybe." She looks up. "Maybe in the garden." ASHLEY: Okay. LAURA: ♪ In the garden ♪ LAURA and ASHLEY:
♪ Hoh, garden ♪ ASHLEY and TRAVIS:
(pant heavily) (laughter) TALIESIN: You fucking-- ASHLEY: All right. All right. I'm going to go out to the garden.
LIAM: Come on, hoes. LAURA and MARISHA: (laugh)
MATT: Okay. Is anyone else joining?
LAURA: Yes! MARISHA: Yeah.
LAURA: Yes! Yes! LIAM: Yes, of course. MATT: Allura falls
behind, being, "I'll be on barrier duty "and whatever else is
suddenly required of me "if things go wrong. "Just, if you need
my help, say: "Help."
MARISHA: Help. ASHLEY: Okay. Okay. We got it. We got it! We got it.
MATT: Okay. MARISHA: You're all
filled up in your-- ASHLEY: I'm all filled up.
MARISHA: -- your healthies? ASHLEY: I'm healthy. I'm ready to come apart
in a million pieces and hopefully back
together again. MATT: Allura stands back, sets some runic barriers
around the outside. You're now standing amongst
all the beautiful hedges. You can see the
fireflies floating by. You can see the slightly
floating candles that drift throughout and above the
gardens out here. There's the beautiful
faintly cloudy sky above and that gentle blue,
purple twilight sense. Occasionally,
a star peeks through. You can see peaks
of the horizon and the nearby valley
in the distance in the area where you once
saw the visage of Ruidus where its brief,
illusory arrival here in the Fey Realm
last you had visited. But here, amongst all the
strange people-like topiaries and sculptures and
fountains and benches and the occasional
sound of skittering, cawing, or other
various creature noises that echo throughout
the nearby woods, you step out into the
central open clearing where there's a good
solid 25 or so feet from any sort of vegetation and some stones
that are laid out to connotate the
center of this garden. ASHLEY: All right. Chet? TRAVIS: Yes? ASHLEY: You want to pop in
the shard into the harness? TRAVIS: Yeah. You're rocking
the harness already, right? ASHLEY: I feel like
you're fast and can get out of
the way if you need to. TRAVIS: Yep. ASHLEY: All right,
everybody good? SAM: Wait, we should
prepare you for this. The things that you
went through, Ashton-- LAURA: It was con saves. SAM: What is that? TRAVIS: Death Ward would be good.
LAURA: (laughs) SAM: Death Ward. Yep. Let me see if I got some--
TALIESIN: Death Ward is a really good idea. MARISHA: Oh, do you have where
you can enhance Fearne? SAM: Some sort of
enhancing of an ability? MARISHA: Yeah, of maybe her-- TALIESIN: Sturdiness.
MARISHA: Her essence. Yes, her constitution. SAM: What's that?
TALIESIN: Make sure she doesn't throw up--
LAURA: Your constitution is how healthy you are.
TALIESIN: -- from getting super sick. MARISHA: Mm-hmm.
TALIESIN: Yeah. SAM: I mean, I can try. LAURA: Wait, I have
this upside down. SAM: Oh, stop the game. LAURA: Shut up. SAM: Sure, I can
enhance her ability. LAURA: Thanks, Ashley. ASHLEY: You need to put
your hand in there. SAM: Give you
Bear's Endurance. ASHLEY: All right. That's a constitution
situation? SAM: That's a
constitution situation, whatever that is.
ASHLEY: Okay. All right. MARISHA: You get
advantage on con saves. ASHLEY: Get advantage
on con saves? Okay. SAM: Let's see
if that's true. LAURA: Or is it checks? SAM: Constitution checks! MARISHA: Checks. SAM: Yeah. Checks.
LAURA: Cool. SAM: Also, you get
2d6 temporary hit points, which I will roll for you.
ASHLEY: Ooh! MATT: Look at that! SAM: Which you get an
extra two and four. ASHLEY: All right. TALIESIN: That item doesn't add an extra d4
to that, does it? SAM: I don't think so
because I'm not healing. TALIESIN: You're
not healing, yeah. Makes sense. SAM: What else?
ASHLEY: I'm nervous. LAURA: You'll be fine. ASHLEY: All right.
LAURA: You'll be great. ASHLEY: Okay. LAURA: I hope. ASHLEY: Yeah, I'll be fine. Nana's here. If something goes wrong,
she can take care of it. MATT: Nana sits
back and watches, and you watch as various
creatures start emerging from the nearby wood
and landing on branches, many strange little
birds themselves with pincers that seem to
emerge from their beaks and the singular set eye
in their forehead, all gather in a
cluster to watch. You see as Bompers, down
from the Undermuck, the weird fur and
oily antlered crocodile finishes a along
steady march up through the tree and emerges. "(heavy panting)"
ASHLEY: Hey, Bompers! MATT: You see he did not like
the ascent through the tree, but comes to
watch on the ground. MATT: (soft growls) ASHLEY: Hey. MATT: "(grunts) (growls)" ASHLEY: I'm going to
scratch him on his chin. MATT: "(happy panting)"
(Bompers settling in) Shakes some of the muck off,
it splatters around. You watch as Sweet Pea,
the sun bear, arrives with his big old
scraggly beard. (Sweat Pea) "I was told
to come watch. "So I'm going to
keep an eye." ASHLEY: All right.
Thank you, Sweet Pea. MATT: The creepy
sun bear stare. You watch as Dr. Nesbitt,
Peepers, all manner of the
beings and creatures that you grew up with all
come to witness this as a circle of friends,
familiar and unfamiliar, all gather
throughout the garden. ASHLEY: This feels like
such a spectacle. Okay. All right, we ready? SAM: Is there
anything you want, like an item,
a good luck totem, anything to give
you strength? ASHLEY: No. Oh, I'm going
to pop out Mister so he can be here, too. LAURA: Oh, that's great. MATT: (monkey chitters)
ASHLEY: Hey, just hang out. LIAM: Do we think this is
going to be just as hard? LAURA: Possibly. TALIESIN: Probably not.
But, you know, maybe.
LAURA: You don't know? MATT: Climbs up your shoulder.
(monkey chitters) LAURA: Maybe you took some of
the kick off of it, Ashton. ASHLEY: Yeah. We got this.
TALIESIN: Maybe. LAURA: I'm going to walk over
to Ashton and hold your hand. TALIESIN: Yeah,
the weird one. LAURA: The weird one. I'm going to lean over and
kiss you on your cheek. SAM: Aw. LAURA: I'm sorry you felt you
had to hide your motivations and your feelings
from us before. TALIESIN: Yeah. It was nothing on y'all. It was just-- Well, here's to old damage. May we all get
the fuck over it. SAM: Oh, I'm going to, if I may, I'm going
to touch you and I'm going to do
a Bonded Blessing, or I'm sorry, a Sympathetic
Binding with her. MATT: Okay.
SAM: Just so I can get you some extra
bonuses as we go. ASHLEY: Okay. All right.
LIAM: Just above table, mechanically, you boosted one of her-- SAM: Con checks, but
it's not a con save, so I don't think it's
going to do much. TRAVIS: Any Death Wards?
LIAM: All right. Well, Orym pulls out a little vial.
MARISHA: Death Ward would be better. SAM: I think I used it.
Let me look. LIAM: I think this'll help. I'm not really sure. Couldn't hurt. ASHLEY: Okay. LIAM: It's a potion of heroism, so it'll give you another
10 temporary hit points right now for an hour, but it also gives you
the effects of Bless. MARISHA: (murmurs game mechanics) MATT: It doesn't stack with the
ones that you put on there. SAM: But that's more.
MATT: But the effects of Bless means that you--
LIAM: That's why I'm saying-- MATT: You get an extra
d4 to any saves. LIAM: A d4 added
to all your saves. MARISHA: Yeah. That's good. That's good.
ASHLEY: Okay, okay. TALIESIN: That's hard core.
SAM: I don't have Death Ward. LAURA: You don't have it?
LIAM: But Fearne, chug it right before you start.
MATT: You memorize it? ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: I didn't learn it today. ASHLEY: Chug it right
before we start. TALIESIN: It's not an
auto mode for your-- SAM: What's it called?
Spare the-- No, what's it--
LAURA: Spare the Dying is a cantrip.
MATT: No, Death Ward. SAM: Death Ward.
LIAM: Oh, never mind. SAM: I didn't learn it today!
TALIESIN: Spare the Dying-- LIAM: It's an hour.
SAM: I thought we were doing a
scavenger hunt. (laughs) ASHLEY: It's all right.
It's all right, I think. TALIESIN: Always have a Death Ward.
ASHLEY: I think it'll be okay. SAM: I know. LAURA: Can you cast--
SAM: Instead, I took Locate Object.
ASHLEY: Cure Wounds on myself? LAURA: Or what was the thing
you kept casting on Ashton? The--
ASHLEY: Oh, yes! TALIESIN: Which?
ASHLEY: Yes. I know what you're
talking about. LAURA: Aura of--
ASHLEY: Yes. (sighs) Okay.
MATT: Aura of Vitality? ASHLEY: Yes.
LAURA: Yeah. TALIESIN: Mm! ASHLEY: Aura of Life.
MATT: Aura of Life. That's what it is.
SAM: Mine is Vitality. MATT: Yeah that's true. Yes.
SAM: Which I still have. ASHLEY: All right.
SAM: I might use. ASHLEY: I'm going to cast
Aura of Life on myself. MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Okay. All right. Yeah? SAM: Yeah. ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: I'm going to
step away from Chetney before he pulls out
the shard and just-- TRAVIS: Oh, you don't
want to see this? You don't want to see this?
MARISHA: No, you dick! ASHLEY: Oh, wait. Can you...
MARISHA: Ah! LAURA: I'm going to go
over to Laudna and I'm going to hug you. You can bury your head
in my shoulder while I watch what's going on. MARISHA: I do that.
LAURA: Okay. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: At least until it's in the thing.
LAURA: Yeah. TALIESIN: Getting into
almost a runner's pose, unless it's something goes wrong.
SAM: Just calm her emotions if she acts up. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: Yeah, Orym is going to kneel 10 feet
in front of you so that you can see him
and he can see you. ASHLEY: Okay.
LIAM: And I'm ready to go. ASHLEY: Okay, I'm going to
keep my eyes on Orym. SAM: Oh, you know what? When I sympathetically
bond to someone, I'm allowed to do it
to three people. MATT: Yeah. SAM: So I'm going to
do you, you, and who has a lot
of hit points? LIAM: I'm the doppelganger.
TALIESIN: I'm fine. LAURA and MATT: (laugh) SAM: No, I mean, like, who
has the most hit points? TALIESIN: I have 113. SAM: I'll take you. I may rob you of some
of your hit points. TALIESIN: That's cool.
I'm fine. LAURA: Oh. TALIESIN: Cool. I'm into it. MATT: Okay. Nana Morri lumbers up behind, you have Orym in
your original sights and this dark shadow of
Morrigan, the Fatestitcher, about 10 feet behind them. SAM: Cool, cool, cool, cool.
MATT: Just looking towards you with this big grin. ASHLEY: Okay. Oh, booties? SAM: Little cozy for her can. TRAVIS: Open up the
Bag of Holding and I take a pair of tongs
out from behind my back. (slurp) Oh. MARISHA: Oh no!
SAM: Where'd you get those? TRAVIS: What?
SAM: Where'd you get those? TRAVIS: It was a
part of my harness. LAURA: Yeah, right.
MARISHA: Suction noise. TRAVIS: What noise? (laughter) TRAVIS: I reach into the
bag, grab the shard. LAURA: There's no
reason the tongs would also be in
the bag of holding. They <i>have</i> to be
up his butt. (laughter) TALIESIN: They're not, they're
squeezed between the cheeks, because that way they
can keep them closed at the same time.
LIAM: You do you, sonny. TRAVIS: Retaining tension
is important. TALIESIN: Dynamic tension.
MARISHA: Occasionally hear a muffled bing.
TRAVIS: Hey, Fearne! ASHLEY: Yeah?
TRAVIS: Catch! (sploosh) MATT: As you pull
the shard out, even just its presence. Laudna, you feel that
like, (reverberating boof), and that voice be like,
(Delilah) "Now's the time." MARISHA: ♪ La la la la la ♪ ♪ Meet you in the ♪
garden, oh garden ♪ MATT: Make a wisdom saving throw for me.
LAURA: I'm going to cast Calm Emotions. ASHLEY: Oh no.
MATT: Oh, and you're casting Calm Emotions?
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah. MATT: You have
advantage on this. MARISHA: Okay. Advantage.
LAURA: I imagine I'd be able to feel her tense up. MATT: Oh yeah. MARISHA: Okay, yeah.
We're good. 21.
MATT: 21. The voice whispers
in your ear, but it begins to fade
into the background as instead you focus on the
warmth of Imogen holding you. MARISHA: Only Imogen probably
hears me go: Shut up, shut up, shut up! MATT: As you say-- And jam the spark into
the back of the funnel on the harness, you
feel it get close. The proximity heat
of it lights up the center of this garden,
as all these now hundreds of faces of
all different sizes, all light up like they're
staring at a bonfire but the bonfire is
the back of Fearne. As the crystal gets placed
there, you watch as it stops about an inch from
the edge of the funnel and begins to slowly turn
as it turns and rotates, begins to brighten
brighter and brighter. The red turns to
a bright orange to eventually a yellow-white. The heat of it begins to
burn your back slightly as you watch the
energy begin to drift into the funnel as it turns. ASHLEY: There's a bit
of a tingle. MATT: You take six points
of fire damage, reduced to three, I believe,
if you attempted to attune that.
LAURA: Are you fire resistant? ASHLEY: With the ring that
I'm borrowing from Ashton. TALIESIN: It's actually
not fire resistant. Well, it might be.
ASHLEY: Is it? MATT: Is your ring fire
resistant that you gave her? TALIESIN: I'm double checking,
I don't-- MATT: Or is it taking
reduced damage? ASHLEY: Ring of
Volcanic Flesh. MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: How much did you pay for it? ASHLEY: Oh, when
I take fire damage, can expend the charge to
reduce the damage by 2d6. MATT: Got you.
TALIESIN: Yeah, you might want to. MATT: So you just
took six that time. TALIESIN: You just might
want to wait for-- ASHLEY: That's fine.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: So keep that in mind.
ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: (laughs) Oh god. MATT: You can feel the heat
transitioning into your chest. It's like you had just
swallowed a warm tea or a hot coffee too quickly
and it burns inside a bit. It's uncomfortable.
ASHLEY: Ow ow ow ow ow. MATT: Yeah,
it's uncomfortable, but not too much. Then it (whooshes)
sears the inside. You take--
TRAVIS: That's different! ASHLEY: Ow! Ow! MATT: That would be
12 points of fire damage. ASHLEY: (grimaces) TALIESIN: This would be a good--
ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: This would be
a good use of the ring. ASHLEY: Okay. TRAVIS: Is it resistant? TALIESIN: No, but you
could, in theory, undo all of that
damage right now. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: Now, I need you to make two concentration checks
because you're maintaining your spell while
you're taking fire damage each time.
LAURA: Oh, right. LIAM: Bless is up, yeah? MATT: Yes, so you have-- ASHLEY: What did you say?
LIAM: Plus d4. MATT: It's a constitution
saving throw for each of these, but you add a d4 to
it because of the Potion of Heroism.
ASHLEY: That's right, okay. Okay. 17.
MATT: Okay. And the second one? ASHLEY: I couldn't
pick them up. Oof, not as good. SAM: That's still not bad.
ASHLEY: 14? MATT: 14's still fine, you
need to roll 10 or higher to maintain concentration
on these until the damage grows
to a certain point. ASHLEY: Okay.
TALIESIN: And you-- well, no. MATT: So, unlike when the
ritual had begun with Ashton, where the body seemed
to be rocked with a conflicting source
of explosive energy, this seems to be a gradual
burning sensation. ASHLEY: (laughs) MATT: You watch as the crystal's
light now begins to dim, you can see a light brightening
through Fearne's skin. ASHLEY: (grimaces) I got
it, I got it, I got it. MATT: It's poked through
where the arms come through the harness
and the neck you can see a glow beginning to
emit from underneath. TRAVIS: Oh shit. LAURA: You all right,
Fearnie? ASHLEY: Yeah, it's like
a little heartburn. It's okay, I got it,
I got it, I got it. MATT: You take 16 points
of fire damage. ASHLEY: Okay.
TALIESIN: Ring? Ring? The ring?
LAURA: Yeah. SAM: I'm going to--
TALIESIN: Any time. If or not. SAM: If possible, Ashton,
you can still help. I will use Scatter Vigor. MATT: Okay. SAM: You take
16 points of damage. TALIESIN: Happily.
ASHLEY: What? SAM: You get 22 points of-- ASHLEY: What?
LAURA: Ooh, this is awesome! ASHLEY: What?
LAURA: What a cool ability! TALIESIN: Or there's
the ring. LAURA: Or stop doing that.
TALIESIN: No, yeah, yeah, yeah. ASHLEY: I'm back up. SAM: Sorry, Ashton--
TALIESIN: No just-- SAM: It feels like good payback.
TALIESIN: She'll figure out the ring at some
point, that's fine. MATT: All right.
MARISHA: Just hold onto it. Holding on.
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: Make another
constitution saving throw to see if you can maintain
concentration on your aura. LAURA: Ooh.
ASHLEY: Ew. That's a natural one. MATT: Natural one, your spell
fades, your aura's now gone. Your spell has vanished.
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: However, the crystal's
beginning to crumble on one side and you can see as the
glow is now filtering through the funnel,
that glow, that dull orange glow
underneath her collarbone and outside the edges of
her torso is now getting to a brighter, brighter
orange and you can see almost the edges of her
hair are starting curl back from the heat.
TRAVIS: Oh dear. LAURA: Oh shit.
MATT: You take, ho. That is 21 points
of fire damage. MARISHA and TRAVIS: Oh!
ASHLEY: I'm going to use the ring, so it's 2d6 minus-- It's a minus eight. MATT: So that would
be 21 minus eight, that'd be 13, I believe.
ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: Two more
uses of that. ASHLEY: Two more uses, okay.
LAURA: Great. ASHLEY: I'm okay, I'm
okay, I'm okay. It's not too bad. MATT: As now the glow
of Fearne is matching the glow of
the crystal itself, you can see that
same bonfire glow on all the faces around as creatures are shifting.
You can see Morrigan seems to have ninja-catted close
to the back of Orym and you can see her neck
is now stretched out to the point where you
look up and her chin is right above yours, Orym. She's looking at you
with a smile, unblinking, just paying attention.
ASHLEY: (pained) It kind of hurts. MATT: "The things that are
important sometimes do, "my dear."
ASHLEY: Okay. Okay. MATT: "Right here."
SAM: Bear down. I don't know,
I heard that once. LAURA: Oh, there's
another one coming! It's going to be bad!
(laughter) SAM: This one looks
like a big one! MATT: Adding a d6
every round. ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: That is going to be 25 points of
fire damage to you. SAM: Ooh, this one's
a big one! ASHLEY: Okay, I'm going to use
a second charge on the ring. MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Six... minus six. MATT: So 19 points of
fire damage to you total. TALIESIN: You need
to hit me again? ASHLEY: Oof.
TALIESIN: Hit me again. ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: I could. TALIESIN: Yep, I don't care.
SAM: Or else I just heal her. TALIESIN: Either way,
whichever's better. SAM: I'll do a Healing Word,
if that's all right with you, Dungeon Master.
MATT: Sure. LIAM: Got that
branch attuned? SAM: Yep, I do.
LIAM: Woo! SAM: So that's
3d4 plus three. MARISHA: Nice.
SAM: That's terrible. Okay. Oh god, eight! (laughs) ASHLEY: All right, all right.
MATT: Heal eight hit points. TALIESIN: Every bit. ASHLEY: Every bit helps. MATT: You feel like
your heart itself is MATT: You feel like
your heart itself is a burgeoning star. As much as it hurts,
it also feels powerful. It feels like a
core of strength you never experienced
before, like holding onto an unmoving rung of a
ladder that's keeping you from falling, but it's inside
you and it's holding firm. It hurts, but it's yours. ASHLEY: Ah. Ah. MATT: You take 28 points
of fire damage. ASHLEY: Okay, I'm going to use
the last charge in the ring. MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: DM, I know we've
gathered quite an audience, can I use the Monocle of
True Essence just to-- LAURA: Ooh, that's good.
TRAVIS: -- use See Invisibility and look around and see
if there are any orbs that are watching or any other entities--
MARISHA: Yes! Yes. TRAVIS: -- that we're not thinking
of that might be watching this. MATT: Yes, you may.
MARISHA: Once again, very Fjord. MATT: Yep.
MARISHA: Fjord's back, baby. MATT: With See Invisibility,
you glance through. You don't see
any glowing orbs, but you do see there are
three winged creatures that are perched on one
of the nearby branches that were invisible
beforehand. These odd, gargoyle-like creatures
that have serpent necks that scoop down and as
it comes up it opens a three-pronged flower and
there's a singular eye peeking out from the inside. They're all looking
at each other and watching this.
TRAVIS: Fun. Oh good. ASHLEY: I rolled in 11. MATT: Rolled an 11, okay,
so you reduced that. It was 28--
LIAM: Mr. Moneybags. MATT: -- minus by 11
would be 17. 17 fire damage. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: You all watch as Fearne, now, the last bit of the
crystal's starting to crumble and it's now this
dull red cinder glow, while now Fearne's
skin above the neck is now turning orange-white. You can see her eyes
are starting to go from the normal colored pupils to
themselves, a bright orange. You can see the light
pouring out of it, her hair--
ASHLEY: It's beautiful. MATT: -- that you thought was
curling back from the heat, is now curling back to
a golden glow itself and she's starting to
lift up off the ground. SAM: Whoa. ASHLEY: Ooh!
MATT: You take-- SAM: Oh no. LAURA: Are you
watching now, Laudna? Are you watching?
MARISHA: I am watching now. Yes, yes. MATT: Not that bad. 29 points of fire damage. ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: I think I'm going to-- Sorry, Ashton.
TALIESIN: I'm here for it. SAM: I'll hit you again. Four, seven, 12,
not as good. 18 points of-- Oh, 18 points of
damage to you, so that's 24 points
of healing to you. LAURA: Nice!
ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: I'm fine.
LAURA: Oh! ASHLEY: Oof. SAM: Uh oh.
ASHLEY: It's all right. It's okay. TRAVIS: Just casually
writing it down. ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. TRAVIS: Give us a number. ASHLEY: I'm okay now,
I'm okay now. LIAM: Okay. MARISHA: Doppelganger. MATT: (laughs) As you're drifting
up in the air, you look up and can see
the sky and the clouds and suddenly the
image of your home and comfort space
around you flickers into a flash of
inferno, then back. (whooshes) Again, almost
like your vision is blurring in flame. Okay. That's 32 points
of fire damage. TRAVIS: Ooh!
SAM: You okay? You okay? Okay, I'm going to go up-- ASHLEY: I have
three hit points. SAM: I'm going to
go up and touch her. MATT: Uh huh.
SAM: For a 5th-level Cure Wounds. MATT: Okay. SAM: So that's-- LAURA: Add a d4 to that.
SAM: Yeah, I already did. So, sorry. Nine, 17, 23. 33 points of healing.
ASHLEY: Great, great, great. TRAVIS: Wow. ASHLEY: Ugh, thank you!
TRAVIS: Wow. TALIESIN: Is there anything-- SAM: That's my action. As a bonus action,
I can do that thing again-- TALIESIN: Do it!
SAM: -- but it will send me into a rage. ASHLEY: Oh no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no. Hang on, hang on.
TRAVIS: I can hold you still. SAM: You can hold me still? ASHLEY: Am I able
to cure myself? TRAVIS: I have a Blood
Curse of Binding. LAURA: Can you do it?
MATT: You can certainly try. SAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: We can try. SAM: I will bonus action. Sorry, guys. TALIESIN: Hold him down. SAM: I'm going to take
from you and give to her. ASHLEY: Oh god. SAM: 12 points of
damage to you, 18 points of healing to you. MARISHA: Oh no.
SAM: And I am berserk. LAURA: Can I try to calm
his emotions at the same time? TRAVIS: I'll use
a bonus action to cast Blood Curse of Binding
on him and I will amplify it. MATT: Okay, so let's do
that roll-off here. TRAVIS: Okay. I need a strength
saving throw. A strength saving throw. MATT: A strength saving throw
from you, FCG. You also, FCG, take 10 points of fire damage
from touching Fearne who is currently putting your
hand in the middle of an inferno. SAM: I rolled a three
for my strength. MATT: So as you reach in
and heal her and pull back, you begin to go berserk. As you do,
the ground beneath you suddenly feels
like it's not moving. Whatever mechanical,
Aeormaton fluid runs through Whatever mechanical,
Aeormaton fluid runs through your constructed body
seems to freeze cold and your legs-- not legs,
you don't have legs-- your wheel now feels
bound to the ground, it will not roll.
You cannot move. ASHLEY: Oh, sorry!
LAURA: Is he taking damage from her, is he so close? MATT: He's just next to her. TRAVIS: You can't take
reactions of it. LAURA: Okay, but I'm going
to use Telekinetic Shove to pull him five feet
away from her. MATT: Okay, make another strength save.
LAURA: So they don't take damage. SAM: Roll bad. Okay, nine, 10. MATT: 10, yeah. You begin to go berserk
and prepare yourself to unleash on Fearne
as your eyes turn red, and suddenly (whooshes) you're
pulled five feet from her and she's just beyond
your physical reach. The heat that would be
burning you subsides. ASHLEY: (groans) SAM: I'll fucking kill you! I'll fucking kill you!
ASHLEY: Oh no! TRAVIS: FCG, no! ASHLEY: FCG!
LAURA: That was a bonus action. Can I cast Calm Emotions
on him as an action? MATT: As an action?
You can certainly try. LAURA: I'm going to try. MATT: Okay. This falls beyond
an emotional state. This is an actual, physical,
berserk rage. This is an actual, physical,
berserk rage. LAURA: Oh my gosh.
MATT: This is less about his thoughts and more about
the build up of tension within in
his own construction. LAURA: Jesus.
MATT: So it has no effect on him at the moment. LIAM: Orym's got
his blade out and I'm going to hold an attack
if he, if they break free. LAURA: Yeah.
MATT: All right. Fearne?
TRAVIS: You fucking bitch, hold it together!
SAM: I'm less concerned with me. Can any of you-- I mean (screams).
LAURA: You might be able to heal her, though.
SAM: Can any one of you guys heal her? MARISHA: I can try.
ASHLEY: I can try to heal myself, too.
TALIESIN: I got options. I got options.
MATT: Your mind is in two places at once,
and as you're looking up into the sky and you're aware
of your friends around you, that burning pain in your
body also feels euphoric. It's like you're connecting
with something beyond yourself, beyond time,
more ancient than anything you've ever experienced. In those moments when your
eyes flash into the flame, suddenly, you have
a moment more and you can see
a landscape of fire, a beautiful, churning,
broken land of flames but each flame has a life. You can see sparks like
children running and playing and merging and vanishing
like their games before there was language. You see a time
before a time before. Then the pain strikes
back into you. You said you're going to
heal yourself. ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: You have a moment of
clarity as the pain strikes in to try and cast
a spell on yourself. ASHLEY: Okay. Let's see how I cast this.
SAM: I'm going to spin up my buzz saw. MATT: (whirring) SAM: You don't deserve this.
TRAVIS: Oh. SAM: You don't
fucking deserve it. You should've given it to Ashton.
ASHLEY: FCG, not now! (laughter) TALIESIN: Yeah!
Oh my god, shit. MATT: You start speaking. As soon as you say
"A--" it goes quiet. SAM: Oh.
MATT: You keep moving, but your lips are
making no noise. You see Nana Morri
still staring at her, puts her finger out and says, "Don't spoil the moment." TRAVIS: Oh shit. (laughter) ASHLEY: 20 points. MATT: Okay, so you heal 20. ASHLEY: I did it
at 4th-level. MATT: Great. SAM: Oh yeah, she can probably
heal a bit with Nana Morri. LAURA: Probably.
SAM: And maybe Allura. LAURA: Yeah.
SAM: Okay, okay. LIAM: We're in
a rooftop garden, right? LAURA: Yeah. MATT: You take 31 points
of fire damage. MARISHA: What are you at? ASHLEY: I'm at 43, I'm at 43.
SAM: She's okay, she's okay. ASHLEY: I'm okay. MATT: You feel now it's
beginning to settle into you a bit as much as
it's still burning. The rest of you watch as Fearne
is lifting up in the air, the reddish glow that's
gone to orange is now going to the yellow-white that the crystal had when
it began to be placed in this position. Her hair is no longer hair, but a wreath
of curling flames. LAURA: Awesome! MATT: You see the muscular,
fur-covered legs are now a texture of
smoldering, curling fires. You watch as they come
together into a singular point that just becomes
a trickle of flame that spirals down
below her legs. ASHLEY: Whoa.
MATT: Where her fingers are, that blackened expanse of
her claw-like fingers emits red flames that
burn up into a black. SAM: Cool.
ASHLEY: Cool. LIAM: But she dies. LAURA: Ooh.
ASHLEY: But in style. MATT: Okay. SAM: Oh.
LAURA: Oh no. MATT: That is 34 points
of fire damage. ASHLEY: (high-pitched noise)
SAM: Giggity. TRAVIS: Sam may roll another
strength saving throw. SAM: Oh, I might never
ever save from this. Three.
TRAVIS: Okay. MARISHA: This isn't a lot, but I'm going to cast a 4th-level
Wither and Bloom around her. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: So you see all of the greenery from the garden
start to get sucked dry and wither within
it's as if the Feywild reaches up, and vines
start to wrap themselves around your ankles
as you're hovering and that energy gets
transferred to you and you can
roll three of your-- MATT: Hit dice?
MARISHA: Hit dice. ASHLEY: Oh, sick!
LAURA: That's great. MATT: As these vines reach up,
they immediately ignite and these burning vines
curl up to wrap around you to instill you with the
life energy of this garden as they crack and
crumble into cinder. ASHLEY: Okay. All right, I have a 10. Can I cast Cure Wounds
on myself again? MATT: You can before it comes--
ASHLEY: I'm going to cast Cure Wounds. So another 3d8. Oof. Okay. 15. SAM: Hey, that's great.
MATT: Okay. SAM: You're still kicking. LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah. TALIESIN: I am ready.
ASHLEY: (nervous noises) SAM: Really?
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: Okay!
TRAVIS: Oh boy. MATT: You see her horns now where was once
the smooth horn curl is a cracked, molten rock, not unlike the arm that
Ashton now still bears, but bright with red color. You watch as they ignite, much like how the Balrog
flexes in "Lord of the Rings." How the flames
brighten up brighter and you can now see this
halo of fire emits from her. She's now this
being of flame. LAURA: Hot. SAM: I don't like that roll.
MARISHA: ♪ Mm, she the devil ♪ MATT: This is a bad roll,
you're lucky. So far. I still have
a few more dice to roll. TRAVIS: Bad for us
or bad for you? MATT: No, bad like
it is a low roll. TRAVIS: Oh, okay.
LAURA: Okay. MATT: I still have four more
dice to roll, though. SAM: Four more dice? MATT: That could've
been a lot worse. It's 28 points
of fire damage. ASHLEY: Ooh! TALIESIN: You holding? SAM: Oh boy, oh boy. No, she's not holding.
ASHLEY: All right, can I cast Cure Wounds on myself again? MATT: You can,
this is the last round. ASHLEY: All right, I'm going
to do it at 5th-level. LAURA: Yeah. TALIESIN: Might as well
smoke 'em if you got 'em. ASHLEY: Smoke 'em
if you got 'em. TALIESIN: Is this insane?
I don't know. TRAVIS: I think last time it--
SAM: It fizzled. MARISHA and TALIESIN:
Yeah, it evaporated. SAM: You could try. MARISHA: I'll do my last
4th-level spell for another Wither and Bloom. MATT: Okay.
SAM: Maybe if you took the potion and kissed it into her. Just sort of tongued it
into her, it would be okay. LIAM: Aren't you silenced? SAM: I am silenced.
TRAVIS: "Aren't you silenced?" SAM: Yeah, I am. ASHLEY: (counting softly) TALIESIN: And they say
romance is dead. ASHLEY: Okay, that
was a good roll. MARISHA: I'll do my last
Wither and Bloom into you as well. ASHLEY: Okay.
MARISHA: So do it again, you see more
tendrils of vines snapping up to you.
MATT: You watch as the nearby hedges curl to brown and then immediately
burst into flames from the proximity--
SAM: Oh my god. MATT: The dried brush now
igniting from the sheer heat that's blasting
out of Fearne. The rest of you have
to check your eyebrows as they're starting to feel like
the hairs are curling back. You watch as some of
the humanoid topiaries that are crawling up in
their twisted dance poses, the greenery begins
to break away and as they fall,
you can see remnants of bones under the leaves.
TRAVIS: Oh. MATT: Leaving these standing
skeletons in the same position of the garden.
LIAM: Well-- LAURA: (laughs)
ASHLEY: Did you-- 3d8? MARISHA: Another 3d8. ASHLEY: Oh, nice.
MARISHA: These are coming away from your hit dice.
ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: That you would
use for a short rest. ASHLEY: Okay, I got it.
So I rolled six of them. TALIESIN: A long rest
will be very helpful. ASHLEY: Okay. Okay.
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: If we make it
to a long rest. MATT: In this moment,
your vision goes from the flashing imagery
of the sky above, of your friends around you, the crossover of this ancient
time of flame and history to darkness. In the middle of the shadow, you see a flame begin
to rise and expand to an impossible size. To an immense size, a being
you've never encountered of this great construction. You see an entity towering, made of just flames. It seems to flicker
and shift around you, and it looks down at you
like you're a fly. Then it looks at you
like you're an eagle. You feel a sense of sadness, but then also
a sense of legacy. (handful of dice rattling)
LAURA: (nervous noise) MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: That scary sound. SAM: (panting) TRAVIS: Yeah, when the DM's
rolling a pile of gravel, that's not good.
LAURA: Yeah. TALIESIN: Then another
pile of gravel. MARISHA: Enough for a fish tank.
MATT: 20. SAM: I'm making graphic
hand gestures at everybody. MATT: (more dice rattling)
TALIESIN: Jesus, the sound of that! MATT: Sorry. (laughs)
TALIESIN: I don't like that. Oh.
MARISHA and SAM: (laugh) TALIESIN: Grinding my teeth. MARISHA: Everybody stop.
LAURA: Okay, okay, okay. SAM: I think you
have to back me up. MATT: 41 points
of fire damage. LIAM: Oh!
ASHLEY: All right. MATT: You still up? ASHLEY: (laughs) Yeah.
TRAVIS: Two? ASHLEY: I have 12 points.
SAM: She's okay. TRAVIS: Oof.
TALIESIN: Woo! LAURA: Of hit?
ASHLEY: Of hit points. (laughter) MATT: In that moment of connection--
SAM: Of the hit variety. MATT: -- the entity
embraces you. SAM: (gasps) MATT: The rest of you watch
as Fearne has now lifted 20 feet in the air,
her arms curl in like she's embracing herself. In that moment, the light
becomes a bright white and she (surge of power)
leashes her hands out as flames emit
from all sides. The top of the garden
get singed across in a 50-foot radius. All the rest of you take-- LAURA: Oh.
MATT: (laughs) 11 points of fire damage in
the proximity of this space. All of the creatures
immediately scatter back, off to the sides. You watch as Allura puts up a barricade around, a magical energy barricade that prevents it from
burning all the critters and creatures
that were watching. And, in that moment, Fearne, the light begins to subside, the flames begin to
die down, and you slowly lower back into your space. But as you all stand there,
you can see Fearne gently lifting off the
ground a couple of inches. Her hair is still
curling flames, her eyes a bright
orangeish-yellow color with little flicks of
flame licking out of it. Her horns still this
curved, smoldering, red-veined rock-like
formation. The harness itself is
the only dark part across her chest as she seems
to emit light around her. You can see as the flames
flick up her upper arm and the fire that licks
off of her fingers curls into a black
flame at the tip. ASHLEY: Whoa! TALIESIN: No shit.
LAURA: Wow. TALIESIN: (laughs) MATT: You have that.
SAM: Whoa! LAURA: Woo!
TALIESIN: That's a big card. MARISHA: That's so big! ASHLEY: This is such
a big piece of paper! Ooh!
MATT: That should be in your feats now as well. LAURA: Ooh!
ASHLEY: Ooh! SAM: Did she poop
out a little shard? MATT: Just a (plop). Nope. MARISHA: Little raisin.
ASHLEY: Oh my god. LAURA: (laughs) Just a
smaller one each time? (laughter) TRAVIS: (laughs) Oh.
LAURA: (laughs) Is it just amazing?
ASHLEY: Yeah, this is amazing. SAM: Is she in an <i>inFearneo</i>? TRAVIS: Oh! Sam Riegel!
MARISHA: Oh! TRAVIS: Get out of here.
SAM: Sam Reich. (laughter)
TRAVIS: Sam Reich. MATT: He was the
doppelganger all along. ASHLEY: Ooh! LIAM: You okay?
ASHLEY: Okay. LAURA: I want to
read it so bad. Yes!
MARISHA: ♪ Burn, baby, burn ♪ SAM: ♪ Disco inferno ♪ ASHLEY: All right. I'm okay,
I'm okay. I'm standing! LIAM: Do you feel different? ASHLEY: Yes. TALIESIN: You look different. ASHLEY: Yeah?
TALIESIN: Yeah. MARISHA: You look amazing.
ASHLEY: I do? MARISHA: Wait, do a
little flame thing. I think it changed.
ASHLEY: Whoa! Oh my goodness.
MARISHA: (gasps in wonder) TRAVIS: Strength
saving throw. ASHLEY: (laughs) Well-- What's he doing? SAM: 19. TRAVIS: He's free!
SAM: Ah! (laughter) SAM: I'm going
straight for it! MATT: All right,
make an attack. (clamoring)
LIAM: No, I've been holding an attack! MATT: No, I know.
LIAM: I go first! MATT: Yep. All right, so
as soon as he gets free, he starts rushing towards Fearne.
TRAVIS: It's been several rounds, to be fair.
MARISHA: That is true. MATT: Yeah.
TRAVIS: So let's say you hold it every round.
LIAM: Of course! I've been protecting her.
MATT: Yeah. TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah.
MATT: All right. LIAM: Okay, so-- (laughter) LIAM: That is a 20 to hit. SAM: Hits.
LIAM: Pushing attack, towards the edge of
the garden balcony. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: That is-- MATT: You're not doing
damage, you're just trying to hit him and push him back? LIAM: Sure.
MARISHA: Knock him out! You got to knock him out!
LIAM: Yep, yep, I will. I'm going to start thwacking
him with the flat of this blade.
SAM: I really don't know. I think you have to knock me out.
LIAM: So that's eight. Eight points of
thwack damage. MATT: All right.
LIAM: You have to beat my DC of 17. Strength again.
SAM: Oh, strength? Yeah, that's not
going to happen. 18. (laughs)
LIAM: Oh, you beat it. MATT: (laughs) TRAVIS: Oh shit!
LIAM: Attack, it's even higher, it's 24 to hit so
you take another eight points of thwacking. Pushing attack. SAM: Oh great, yes.
Successful. LIAM: Did you roll to save already?
SAM: Wait, what do I do? LIAM: Another save.
MATT: Another strength save. SAM: 14.
LIAM: You fly back 15 feet. SAM: Ah! LIAM: I hit you again,
natural 20. ASHLEY and MARISHA: Oh!
MATT: Dang! LIAM: You take 18 points of
thwack damage. Pushing attack. SAM: Got it, yes. I'm taking it, this is good. LIAM: Beat a 17. MATT: Another strength save. SAM: Strength save. 15. LIAM: You get knocked back
another 15 feet. I don't know if we're
getting close to an edge. Have you had enough? SAM: I can't talk at all.
TRAVIS: Allura! MATT: No, you've been
pushed out of the Silence spell now.
SAM: Oh, okay. MATT: It was in radius there. SAM: Get your fucking hands
off me, you little twerp! (laughter) LIAM: Action surge! MATT: (laughs)
LIAM: (laughs) MATT: (sword slashing)
LIAM: 28. Hits.
SAM: This is all one-- Yes, of course that hits.
LIAM: So you take 10 points of thwack damage.
LAURA: This is all one turn? LIAM: Yes!
TALIESIN: Yeah, he hasn't actually stopped yet.
ASHLEY: Oh my god. MARISHA: Fighter shit.
TALIESIN: (sword flourishing) LIAM: Pushing attack.
SAM: You're going to die alone! MATT: (laughs)
LAURA: (laughs) No! LIAM: Pushing attack.
Beat a 17, motherfucker. MARISHA: I forgot how much--
SAM: 16. LIAM: You fly back another 15 feet.
MARISHA: -- horrible shit he says. LIAM: That's a 16.
Does it hit? SAM: That misses. LIAM: Oh, you're so angry. Last one. 24.
ASHLEY: (laughs) SAM: That hits.
ASHLEY: "Oh, you're so angry." LIAM: Yes, that is nine
points of thwack damage. MATT: At the end of this--
You're supposed to make a wisdom saving throw at
the end of each turn. SAM: Oh, am I?
MATT: Yeah. SAM and MATT: (laugh) SAM: Well, this
is all one turn! MATT: Right, this one is,
but I'm saying after this one, make it again.
SAM: Okay. TALIESIN: Yeah.
LIAM: Beat my strength save. SAM: Okay. That's cocked. Natural 20.
LAURA: Oh! LIAM: Natural 20.
It goes (vibrating twang). (laughter) LIAM: I'm done. SAM: You're done?
LIAM: Are you done? SAM: I don't think I am! Wait, I need to make a
wisdom saving throw now? MARISHA: Were you supposed to be making them--
MATT: At the end of your turn. So, yeah, you shouldn't--
MARISHA: This whole time? MATT: Yes.
SAM: I don't know how this shit works!
MATT: On your turn, you use-- TRAVIS: It's only
the second time it's ever happened.
MATT: You literally-- It's on your sheet. (laughs)
LAURA: (laughs) SAM: I know, I know, hold on. Where does it say?
LAURA: You have a sheet. MATT: Well, first off, when
you reach your stress limit, you immediately gain
temporary hit points equal to twice
your cleric level. SAM: So I get another
22 hit points. MATT: Correct.
LAURA: Wow! SAM: Okay, great. Feeling great. MATT: You have advantage
on all attack rolls, and you move towards
the nearest creature. LIAM: Hey, that's me. MATT: But at the end
of your turn, you make a wisdom saving throw, which is a DC equal to your
current stress points. SAM: Which is 17. MATT: Correct.
SAM: Wisdom save. MATT: Well, first
take your turn. SAM: Okay, I take my turn. Well, I've been pushed
away from you by 15 feet. TRAVIS: 30, I think.
MATT and SAM: 30 feet. MATT: Well, he hit you
and then he closed the distance.
LAURA: He was chasing after and pushing him.
MATT: You're 30 feet from her, but. SAM: So I'm closest to Orym? MATT: Yeah.
LIAM: Yeah, I pressed you back. SAM: Okay,
I will attack Orym. Let's see what I'll do. Oh my god, what do I have? I will--
TALIESIN: Worth it. SAM: Jesus. MATT: You have to make a
weapon attack against them. SAM: A weapon attack.
MATT: Yeah, you're-- SAM: That limits things,
doesn't it? I will attack with
the hand saw. MATT: Go for it.
With advantage. SAM: With advantage! Okay. That is a 20 to hit. LIAM: That hits. SAM: Okay. Seven points of damage. LIAM: Oh, ah! SAM: (laughs)
MATT: (laughs) Plus, because if
you're a cleric, you do an additional d8 divine
weapon damage, don't you? SAM: Oh! Oh, that's right.
You're right, I do. Another six points of damage. LIAM: Ease down, ease down! SAM: I will not! MATT: Now make a
wisdom saving throw-- TRAVIS: Good "Alien"--
MATT: -- with a DC of 17. SAM: That's a 20. MATT: 20, that's a success. LAURA: (gasps)
ASHLEY: Oh man. SAM: So I'm okay? MATT: You're okay.
On a success you lose all stress points,
lose all temporary hit points. LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: So you lose the 22. Well no, the 22 would've
gone away already. SAM: Yes.
MATT: And the rampage ends. LAURA: Yay!
SAM: (gasping breaths) LAURA: You just had
to get it out! SAM: (heavy breathing) TRAVIS: Bong!
SAM: Ah! (laughter) SAM: (sighs)
TRAVIS: Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry! Oh shit! MARISHA: You just,
frying pan. SAM: Congratulations. ASHLEY: Thanks. SAM: You did great. ASHLEY: You did great, too,
you fought past it, and you fought your demons. SAM: Don't worry about me.
I'm just proud of you. ASHLEY: Thank you.
LIAM: It's been a while since we've seen
Sam rage. TRAVIS: ♪ Been a while ♪
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: I forgot how to
do a lot of that. LAURA: (laughs) SAM: Thank you
for hurting me. TRAVIS: Fearne.
LIAM: Let's make that a last time, huh? SAM: Sorry I said
stuff to you guys. LIAM: You didn't mean it. ASHLEY: I didn't hear anything, anyway.
SAM: Maybe I did. I don't know. TRAVIS: You're
literally on fire. Does that mean that we can't
come near you at all? ASHLEY: I hope not. MARISHA: Can you
control this? ASHLEY: Am I still on fire? TRAVIS: I'll walk up to--
(rapid pitter patter) and try and touch her knee. MATT: Do you want
him to be hurt? LIAM: (laughs) MARISHA: ♪ This girl ♪ TALIESIN: I think I know what
that smile says, but. SAM: That was crazy. ASHLEY: How do you mean?
TRAVIS: Say yes. Say yes. MATT: Meaning do you want to
allow him to touch your knee? ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: Yeah. You touch her knee
and it's as hot to the touch as a mug that has very
hot liquid in it, and it doesn't hurt you,
but it's definitely hot. TRAVIS: Oh.
MATT: But it doesn't damage you. LAURA: Wow.
ASHLEY: What-- What do I feel like?
SAM: Is it actual fire? ASHLEY: Yeah.
SAM: I'm going to walk up and hold my cigarette to it.
TRAVIS: <i>Caliente.</i> SAM: Does it light?
TALIESIN: That's not-- ASHLEY: I pull a little
fire out of my finger. MATT: It ignites it
when she touches it. SAM: Yeah, I need this.
MATT: (laughs) TRAVIS: Oh jesus.
MATT: Oh my god. SAM: I was crazy back there.
ASHLEY: Get your cigarette-- TRAVIS: (laughs)
MATT: So yeah, so you-- (laughter) MATT: My god.
(laughter) MATT: So--
TRAVIS: Whoa! TALIESIN: What is the prop guy
doing sitting there? Okay.
(laughter) MATT: So in Fearne's
now neutral form state, she's still, she's
not made of pure flame. She's still Fearne.
TRAVIS: Oh my god. MATT: There's just parts of
her that emerge as flame, the hair and the glow of
the flames out of the eyes, and the tips of the fingers.
LAURA: Is it all the time? She just always
looks like that or she can control that? MATT: Well, you are currently
in a specific form. LIAM: This is the-- TRAVIS: The Grand Poobah.
(laughs) ASHLEY: I think I just need
to learn how to control it. You know, maybe
I have to learn how to dial it
back sometimes. TRAVIS: I've heard
that before. ASHLEY: And bring
it out sometimes. LAURA: Yeah.
ASHLEY: I think it's just there right now, I don't
know how to get rid of it. MARISHA: You know, as someone
who had a fabulous teacher... ASHLEY: Very true. Yes.
MARISHA: -- teach me fire, Maybe I could teach you a little thing or
two about flame. ASHLEY: I think probably.
MARISHA: Mm. ASHLEY: The teacher,
or student-- MARISHA: Becomes the teacher, yes.
ASHLEY: -- becomes the teacher. I love this idea.
MARISHA: The cycle. LIAM: How's Little Mister
handling this new development? MATT: So Mister's been
watching from the sidelines as the flames blew by, like, "(awed monkey chitters)" He's looking up at you
with these bright eyes. ASHLEY: Come, come, come, come.
LAURA: Both of you are made of flame now?
MATT: "(excited hoot)" Leaps up into your arms,
and as he leaps in the air, you watch his body just
(fire whooshing) burst into his flamed form, jumps into your arms
and it looks like a little fiery monkey baby in the arms of his
fiery monkey mom. LAURA: Aw!
TRAVIS: Aw! ASHLEY: (laughs)
That's my buddy. MARISHA: (laughs)
MATT: "(cute chittering)" ASHLEY: Where's my Mister? LAURA: Where's Mister?
LIAM: (laughs) ASHLEY: Oh, there it is. He was on the floor. All right, well. TRAVIS: What happens if you
don't let someone touch you? ASHLEY: What do you mean? LAURA: I'll go up and-- LIAM: You can choose,
I think, to make the fire.
ASHLEY: Oh, oh, oh, I understand. Okay, I'm going to act like I
don't know you're touching me. LAURA: Okay, I'm going
to fly over to her. MATT: Mm-hmm.
SAM: Because you can fly now. LAURA: Because I fly.
I'm going to lift up and be in front of you. ASHLEY: (chomps)
(laughter) MATT: You deal 1d--
ASHLEY: Go ahead, I'm not paying attention. MATT: Go ahead and
roll 1d8 for me. ASHLEY: 1d8? Okay. MARISHA: "Go ahead, I'm
not paying attention." LAURA: Oh shit!
ASHLEY: Eight. MATT: You take eight
points of fire damage. ASHLEY: Oh no. Sorry!
LAURA: Ow! Fuck! ASHLEY: Sorry!
LAURA: That's hot! ASHLEY: Okay.
TRAVIS and TALIESIN: (laugh) ASHLEY: This is something
I got to get a handle on. LAURA: Ow. TRAVIS: This girl-- MARISHA: ♪ Is on fire ♪
TRAVIS, ASHLEY, and LAURA: Is on fire. MATT and ASHLEY: (laugh) LAURA: It looks
really good, though. ASHLEY: Yeah?
LAURA: Mm-hmm. TALIESIN: It's amazing.
ASHLEY: All right. SAM: Wow! ASHLEY: I feel really good. I feel really
kind of powerful. LAURA: I mean, maybe we are
powerful enough to take on. ASHLEY: Maybe we are. Maybe this is--
LIAM: Are you even going to be able
to sleep tonight? ASHLEY: Probably not. LAURA: But wait!
ASHLEY: I'm going to-- LAURA: Wasn't your shard supposed to wake
up your shard? Is your shard awake now? Now that you put
it in your body and then spit it back out? ASHLEY: Oh, that's right. LAURA: Did you feel
like you awoke? MARISHA: Kiss.
TRAVIS: You guys should hug and make up.
ASHLEY: Whoa! TALIESIN: Hey, now.
Hey, now, this is not-- ASHLEY: This is--
(flabbergasted sigh) TRAVIS: Shake hands!
MARISHA: I'm just saying! TRAVIS: Shake hands! MARISHA: The legend was that they were husband
and wife, right? TALIESIN: I feel like that's
a lot of expectation to put onto people right now, especially with a
fucking audience, so. TRAVIS: Yeah, for sure. I was
just saying like a fist bump. Just to bury the hatchet.
LIAM: But yeah, what if you just touch palm to palm.
ASHLEY: I'll go put my hand out. TRAVIS: Yeah.
ASHLEY: Shake on it? LIAM: Just holy palmers' kiss.
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah, yeah. ASHLEY: I shake and I--
(buzzes) MATT: (laughs)
TALIESIN: I'll take it. ASHLEY: Did anything happen?
TALIESIN: No, no. Yeah, throw the fire.
I'm not going to do shit. MATT: So you clasp
the new arm. As your hand touches his, you watch as those little
veins that were once glowing when you first created
the arm in the past ritual that has since gone cold, light up once more. As that orange-ish heat, those veins curl back
through up into your arm, you feel that same--
LAURA: (laughs) MATT: There it is.
TALIESIN: Yeah, fucking go for it. MATT: You feel that
familiar sense of belonging to the ground. When you sat for
a bit in Whitestone, you felt that odd connection, but now it's
overwhelming you. Through your feet,
you feel like the stone in the middle of this garden, you feel in a brief flash, you can feel the
history of the stone. You can feel where
in the ground in the Fey it was carved
and hewn and placed there. You suddenly, in
that moment, hear, even above the tree, not fully connected to the
stone of the realm itself, you see a flicker
of flame in her eyes. Then as your
vision fades out, you can feel yourself
pushing through darkness, like you're burrowing
through sand, but the sand itself
is shale and rock. You are burrowing through
the very earth of Exandria. You are pushing
through the ground, and yet you are one with it. Suddenly, you emerge
like a massive whale breaching from the ocean,
but through the rock itself. You look beyond to an
endless mountain range that is ever growing
and folding on itself. You feel a time before time. You feel where the land
itself was still forming, being made and unmade, where all the elements
swam between each other, and in such creation and destruction was
a singular process. As you come back
to your vision, you feel this strength begin
to fill your chest. The rest of you watch as Ashton seems to suddenly
grow about a foot, two feet. SAM: Whoa!
MATT: You watch as the arm itself
seems to swell and spikes of rock
jut out of it, as around his torso, the bits of his skin
begin to jut out in additional jagged
spikes of stone and rock. You watch as his eyes
begin to shift color into a faded gray coloration. Suddenly, both the
smooth eyes of gray crack in the center, and where they crack, it's a vertical iris
where a dull yellow glow just appears out. As you release your
grip and pull back, the orange glowing
veins subside, but you feel this sense
of strength and sturdiness that you've never
understood until now. You feel like as a being that
spent their life feeling broken and un-whole, for the first time
in a long time, not just because of what
power you found in yourself, but the people
that surround you, you feel complete. SAM: (gasps)
(cheering) TRAVIS: Big paper!
SAM: Everybody gets pages! MARISHA and LAURA:
(excited cheers) MARISHA: So much paper
in this episode! LAURA: Oh my gosh!
ASHLEY: So much paper! LIAM: Oh, I saw one line
and it blew my mind. TRAVIS: (laughs) SAM: You are invincible. ASHLEY: Whoa. TALIESIN: I wasn't ready
for this before. Thank you. This is fascinating. (heavy exhale) (laughs) ASHLEY: Wow. TALIESIN: (powerful exhale) ASHLEY: You look different. TALIESIN: Yeah,
you look smaller. What happened? You all look small-- Oh my! Holy fuck! (laughs)
MATT: You look down, and your legs themselves, they trunk out
towards the bottom. TRAVIS: Ooh, bell bottom! (laughter) ASHLEY: ♪ Bell bottom jeans ♪
LIAM: Got to be, pants have split. (laughter)
SAM: Bootcut. TRAVIS: ♪ Apple bottom ♪ LIAM: No more skinny
jeans for Ashton. ASHLEY: (laughs)
TALIESIN: Oh my god, let's see. Okay, yep, yep, yep. TRAVIS: He's wearing sweats. TALIESIN: Just for fun. I have an idea. I need to see something. I'm going to fall forward,
like face plant, and I assume that I can just
meld straight into the ground? and I assume that I can just
meld straight into the ground? MATT: Well, you watch
as Ashton falls forward, and melds about half
a foot before stopping, because you are
at the top of a tree. TRAVIS: Oh.
LAURA: Oh! (laughter) TALIESIN: Shit! MATT: So it's like
watching someone sink partway into the mud,
but the mud is stone, and he gets a couple, like three or four inches
into the ground before-- TRAVIS: Oh no!
Oh no, I gotcha! Ashton, I gotcha! (straining) MARISHA: (laughs) Tiny Chetney.
TALIESIN: Oh man. I'm trying to think of what-- Yeah. MARISHA: Do you want to go
down to where there is stone? SAM: Fearne, do a trick! MARISHA: Tricks, tricks,
tricks, tricks, tricks! ASHLEY: Hang on a minute. SAM and MARISHA: (laugh) SAM: (as Fearne)
Hang on a minute. TALIESIN: Yeah?
LIAM: I start to do the worm. ASHLEY: Well, I have to
save some of this stuff. SAM: Oh, okay.
TALIESIN: Yeah. ASHLEY: But-- TRAVIS: We're going
to take a long rest. SAM: She's pooping,
she's pooping! ASHLEY: I emit a very
bright light for 30 feet. LAURA: (laughs)
SAM: Out of your butt? LAURA: Yes.
ASHLEY: No, I just like-- SAM: Oh! (laughs)
ASHLEY: I pushed it out and it poofed. SAM: Oh, okay.
LAURA: Poof! SAM: Well, she was doing
the international symbol for-- ASHLEY: Yeah, but I
had to push it out. SAM: -- butt stuff. Okay.
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: (laughs) ASHLEY: Should we
go downstairs? TALIESIN: Race you. Yeah, and I'm going
to fucking-- Yeah. Let's go downstairs. MATT: You watch as these
two freshly transformed and odd gift accepted
individuals begin to-- LAURA: (groans)
MATT: (groan-laughs) TALIESIN: Mah.
LIAM: Wow. The nightmare begins.
MATT: That's terrifying. ASHLEY: No! SAM: It's the theme
of the episode. It's the theme of
the episode, guys. LAURA: Mm-hmm. MATT: You watch as
the two of them, like two children excited
to play a new game, go rushing out of the garden and down into the heart
of Ligament Manor, as all the various creatures
and critters begin to cheer and chitter and scatter off, and Nana Morri
stands back up. "(satisfied inhale) "I always knew she
was meant for greatness." You all glance at each other and look back towards
the two friends. Broken as they both
were recently, finding a little shard
of strength in themselves, and all of you
together finding yet another little rung to
hold onto in each other. Here, as the fireflies
scatter around a bit, the candles floating, a bright moment of
possibility seems to have lent itself
to you in these moments before the journey of
uncertainty lies ahead. And that's where we'll
end tonight's episode. TRAVIS: Oh man!
SAM: Wow! What a trip to the Fey Realm! TRAVIS: Upgrades!
MARISHA: Yeah! TALIESIN: Holy shit, this--
TRAVIS and MARISHA: Upgrades! TALIESIN: We got to trade.
ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: As a note.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: The final effect of
these forms will not happen here because this
is part of the process, but future uses of
this will enact the one penalty per use.
TALIESIN: Yes. TALIESIN: Makes sense
there's a penalty. ASHLEY: There's a penalty
with both, yeah. MATT: But it allows for a-- ASHLEY: But-- MATT: An hour,
some pretty cool stuff. TRAVIS: Don't tell us. ASHLEY: Ooh!
TALIESIN: Damn! TRAVIS: Can't wait to find out.
ASHLEY: Yeah, there's some shit. It's cool. LAURA: Ni-ice! ASHLEY: I'm excited! TALIESIN: Okay,
now I'm really deeply into this shit.
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad we did it. TALIESIN: Yep,
this was worth it. This is amazing. ASHLEY: (excited exhale)
MATT: All righty. LIAM: Bet you're
proud of yourself, aren't you, doppelganger? (laughter) ASHLEY: Still fooling them. MATT: This whole campaign
she's been a doppelganger! ASHLEY: I've been a
doppelganger the whole time. MATT: Good game, y'all. LAURA: Yeah, dude!
ASHLEY: Yes! MATT: Pick up there next time
as we finish your leg of rest and recovery here
in Ligament Manor and on towards what
strangeness lies ahead. LIAM: So much
laughter tonight. ASHLEY: Ah.
LAURA: Hah. TALIESIN: Ah, what a time.
ASHLEY: So fun. MATT: Until then, thank you
all so much for joining us. We love you very much,
and is it Thursday yet? Good night.
(cheering)
